Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-20

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yves to prevent the reoucrron o,
rates asked by the centralizing plants
on the theory that reduction in rates
would make possible long haul ship,
| ments of cream and milk to centraliz.
ing plants and close local farmers
cooperative ccreameries whose mum,
Der has been reduced from 1000 to
| Slightly more than 600 In Iowa In the
last five years.
EFFORT is now being made before
| the interstate commerce commission
10 erect the same end, the centraliz.
4 ing plants persisting in the effort to
reduce rates in Iowa and Nebraska
SO as TO put out of business the local.
/ concerns which do not ship milk and
cream at all, but keep the price Of
7 butter up.
In the face of the movement in
Iowa and Nebraska to put the farm.
ers co-operatives out of business,
these concerns are now forming gen,
eral associations with view to pre-,
venting the absorptiof1 of all the
business by the big, centralized
| plants Ons Of these general associa,
| lions is the Northeastern Iowa Cream.
cry association which has just held
| a convention at Manchester and has
endorsed the position taken by Mr..
! Wright These district associations
VIII be merged into a general state
| or bl-state association, eventually to
| tight for self preservation.
VIII Open Revenue Records.
! The local internal revenue Office has
| received an order recently issued by
Attorney General Bonaparte, giving
county attorneys access to the records
of the revenue officers. Heretofore no
one outside of government officials has
been allowed to examine these records
and they were prohibited from MAX
ing them public. The order was is
sued for the purpose Of making it
easier for state prosecuting attorneys
to discover and punish violations of
the liquor laws.
| AS far as the United States govern.
ment is concerned any person can
engage in the retail or wholesale
liquor business at any time and at
any place upon the payment of a
! yearly tax of $25. AS long as this tax
tax is paid the government will not
| interfere regardless Of what the state
laws may be.
BY consulting the records of the
internal revenue Office the county at
torneys will be able to learn the
names OF every person who has paid
the government tax and thus viola
tons of the state law will be less diff.
hcult to discover. The payment of
the tax is considered prima facie evil
dence that the person having paid it
is engaged in the liquor business.
Heretofore this evidence has not been
available to the state authorities.
I New Head at EIdora.
w. l.. Kuser has been elected sup.
erintendent of the boys Industrial
school at Eldora by the board of con-
troll =
Mr.. Kuser has been the assistant
superintendent of the institution for
six years. During the last four months
ne mas been In charge Of it, following
the retirement of Col L. D. Drake.
HIS selection as chief of the insti-
tuition for the second time established
the precedent of recognition of assist.
ants at the institutions, and this policy
probably will be followed by the board
/ hereafter
In all, practically fifty applicants
for the Eldora position have filed
thelr papers with the board during the
four months that the position has been
held open. These men resided in diff.
ferent states, ranging from Indian
Territory to Michigan. Some of them
made many visits to the board In
their own interests, and their friends
have been busily engaged presenting
their claims.
cummlns on OIL Fine.
Il can think Of but one objection to
the $29,0G0,009 fine for the Standard
OH company" said Governor Cum
Minis, on his arrival home after two
or three weeks vacation. "That is
that pen1tentiary sentence could not
have been pronounced, instead, under
the law. 1t would have had a better
effect than the money penalty. had Il
been possible to render Judgment
for a time restraining the guilty per
sons OF their liberty. But since thar
could not be done, it is we'll that the
maximum fine was imposed 1t should
pc notlce TO rebaters that their unlaw.
tul practices must cease"
Charged With Grating.
Other Iowa towns have been given.
warning by Lieut.. John W. Downes
Jr., U. S. N. recruiting officer at
Des Moines. in which he says to he
On the lookout for shrewd imposter..
who has successfully worked Des.
Moines, Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa.
The lieutenant's word came to the
police and warns the public against
man who is soliciting funds from
house to house on the pretense thar
ne is deaf and dumb and came to his
condition by an accident while sery.
ng on the U. S. s. Wisconsin.
Endorsed by The County.
''The most popular remedy in otsego
County, and the best friend of my
family" writes VIM. M. Dietz, editor
and publisher of the Otsego Journal,
Gilbertsville, N. Y, sis DR.. Kings
New Discovery. 1t has proven to be
an infallible cure for coughs and colds,
making short work of the worst Of
l than Mo oil l,ao,> :, l.ll1.