Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-02
Joint Rate Order Issued.

total minimum charge Of 40
cents instead of rs cents for each |
shipment over two or more railroads
has been fixed by the state railroad
commission.
1t was understood at the time OF
the joint rate hearing that the mini
mum charge to be fixed would be rs
cents. This has been the minimum
for interstate shipments and Iowa
shippers asked the same rate for
themselves. Hitherto they have been
compelled to pay 25 cents to each
carrier If minimum shipment were
handled my three roads it cost Is
cents, while the interstate shipment
was but % cents over the same lines
and mileage.
1t was stated at the hearing that
the interstate minimum charge would
go to SO cents soon, but 1t has not yet.
In its joint rate order the commits.
sion announces that the continuous
mileage rate shall govern in joint
shipments when the joint rate OF 80
per cent Of the sum of the local tar,
IFS amounts to less than the contin,
uous mileage rate
Eighty per cent Is promulgated aa
the joint rate for the state. But there
are cases in which 1t would amount to
less than the continuous mileage rate
would be on the distance involved.
For instance, the first class rate for
325 miles is $50 cents per 100. But
the rate for five miles is IA cents
and for 800 miles 1t is 81 cents or II
cents combined. Eighty per cent OF
this would be 56.S cents. or less than
the continuous mileage would amount
to. Hence, the continuous mileage in
such case would furnish the actual
rate.
Fraud Is Suspected.
Five teachers in Kossuth county
answered examination questions SO
similarly that the suspicion Of the
readers who went through these pa,
pers recently was aroused and an
investigation was begun.
They referred the matter to the
head readers, who were county super.
| intendents, and they decided that
| there was evidence. at least, of fraud
and collision among the teachers,
| and perhaps others, in the prepare.
ton Of the answers to the questions
| State Superintendent Riggs accept
ed the view of the readers and notified
the county superintendent Of Kos
suth county of the situation. He ask.
ed the county superintendent to make
definite inquiry into the reasons why
the papers were SO nearly Identical
incidentally they were very nearly
perfect, markings In all of them be.
Ing from 81 to 80 on all subjects:
especially the advanced subjects were
| perfectly understood by the teachers
The superintendent of Kossuth
| county did not cotton to the letter
that the state superintendent sent
him, and wrote back heated reply,
To this the state superintendent re,
| Piled. suggesting that the teachers
take the examinations which are about
to be written by the teachers In the
| different counties, which would give
! them an excellent and easy means Of
! demonstrating that there was no col.
fusion, and that they did not have &C.
cess in advance to the questions sent
| out for the June examination,
Mr.. Sage Says lite Wrong.
Director ]. r. Sage of the Iowa
crop service takes exceptions to the
estimates of corn acreage published
in the July Reporter issued by the
department OF agriculture The Re,
porter gives the acreage for Iowa as
! 9,544.000 and Illinois 9,521,000. Tho
4 figures for Illinois are manifestly in
correct, says Mr.. Sage, as the state
crop bureau estimates the total acre
i age for the state at about 7,5eo,0o0
The state crop bureau has much bet
ter facilities for securing accurate fig
ures than has the department Of agri
culture according to Mr.. Saae.
Mental Medicine.
A somewhat eccentric physician who
recently died would order patients to
take walks. say. daily, on the left side
of the street, returning by the other
side; another he would order to arise
each morning at certain hour and
eat cheese with ginger beer; another
to take supper precisely at midnight,
and eat only apples; or he would In
struct the patient to put just so many
i, grains of salt on the egg he was to eat,
and part his hair in different way
each day. His object was to get the
mind OF the patient on something else
than symptoms, and this scheme
worked well in many cases. especially