Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-15
Pearl Button Makers Want Re
lief From Railway Tariffs on
Waste Products
FEATHER MENsALso AsKsFoR AID
May Gel, No Relief Because Of Pecu-
liarAty 81 conmodity-More Deaths
From Spinal Meningitis in Polk
county-lowa Official Register to Be
Issued Next Week.
pec,al Il Times-Republican.

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Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, May 15.-Pearl button
factories on the Mississippi river want.
the railroad commission to give them
1 better rate on the refuse of the fac
tories. The mussel shells are cut up
into, round pieces for buttons, There
is a considerable amount of shell left,
and this is ground into fertilizer aud
chicken feed. The-value of the refuse
is only Is or 80 cents, a ton, and the
present rate on a seventy five mile
shipment is A cents per hundred
poundsi The rate is prohibitive. The
want the soft lump coal
rate, which is $500 Of cent on 100
pound shipment seventy five. miles.
Another application for a specially
low rate liz from the feather men. They
now haVe{to pay two and a half times
the ffrst-cIass rate If the feathers are
not MACHINE compressed II they are
machine compressed they pay the first
class rate. They want the first CLASS
rate when not machine compressed and
less when compressed. Since feathers
are bulky and OF little weight there is
considerable question whether they can
get q reduction in the rate
More cerebral spinal meningitis cases
have been reported to the state board
of health, and the disease seems to be
about as prevalent as ever. There
were some new deaths in Rolk county
resulting from the disease reported to
the board yesterday. It is the hope Of
the board that hot weather, may have
the effect Of checking the spread of the
disease,
The new Iowa Official Register will
be issued probably next week. The
Register. this year appears for the first
time IN its enlarged form authprixed
by thu Thirty-first general assembly.
Its pages will be the same size as the
various state reports, and the book will
be considerably larger. In addition to
the regular election statistics, the con-
stitution Of the state and nation and
the official register of the state officers
and clerks and employees, it will contain
tho pictures of all the elective state
officers, the first compiled statistics on
the mulct law, and the cigaret mulct
law. the Biographies lof the state Off
cials and members of both houses OF
the legislature and Iowa congressman.
1.-the primary election law and articles
on the celebration OF, the anniversary
of the adoption of the constitution "a
Iowa City, the state and national pure,
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ments on southern battlefields. and the
vention.
( Representative George G.. White, bf
Story county, does not believe that the
farmers who are members of co-op-
erative grain associations in northern
iowa are in state Of Reconsideration on
account OF the Stillrnan grain law, as
stated IN q dispatch from Spencer, Ia,
yesterday.
It,was said that they feared the law
which goes into effect July 4 because
they have been providing in their ar
ticles OF Incorporation for a penalty"
for selling grain to other concerns than
the one to which the producers be-
longeds
aInf6rnaatio FOR the dispatch evil
IDENTIFY was FURNISHED by one who has
been party In the famous Iowa Grain
Dealers Association said Mr.. White
yesterday in Des Moines. The farm
ers, thru their cooperative associa
lions, have broken the back OF that
combination and added from one to
five cents per bushel to the prices paid
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where they have been organized,
/ AT present there are about $50 Coz
operative grain companies in Iowa
with about 10000 stockholders, These
companies have been the only factorin
Iowa, during the past six years, in
promoting competition or protecting
the Interests OF the producer in fixing
a fair and honest price for grain.
H The Iowa Grain Dealers Associa-
ton was the creature Of the big line
elevator companies. They compelled
the Independent dealers to join their
association. They then adopted the
methods of Standard Oil. BY. the case
cards they fixed the price to he, pads
for grain and killed competition. BY
threats OF boycott they were able to
prevent the commission merchant at
the great markets from selling for the
farmer or irregular dealer, and placed
the grain grower in position where
he was compelled to sell to the mem
Der Of the association at a price fixed
by the Cereal club at their weekly
meetings IN Des Moines. This club
was made UP of grain dealers and
members % the iowa Grain Dealers
Association.
These facts were developed as re-
suit of the investigation of the inter-
state commerce commission into the
methods and practices Of the Iowa
Grain Dealers Association, at their
hearing in the city of Des Moiues
about the first Of last November"
Between s2,oO0.OO0, and s2,5oo,ooo
worth OF binding Irvine has been or
dered to harvest the grain crop in
Iowa in 1907. This represents between
10000, Oc0 ard $4,000, 900 pounds, cl1,-
500, 100000 feet or 21.7So.s03 miles Of
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