Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-01
FARcIcAL PROCEEDINGS IN EFF.
FORT TO FIX CRIME ON DEAD
MANS BROTHER.
oNE.THIRD LESS TEACHERS
TAKE STATE EXAMINATION
Reduced Numbers Declared Not to Be
Indicative of Scarcity of Teachers
Riggs Believes in Raising Standard
Schools at Present in Healthy Con-
dition.
pecial TO Times Republican.

LES -hpll1SS, Nov I.-ACtlOn OF the
grand jury in ignoring the charge of
murder against Ben Murrow has again
called attention more forcibly than be-
fore TO the ineNpediency OF putting de-
tectives and newspaper men on coro-
ner's juries. Ii will be remembered that
Murrow was charged with the murder
OF his brother Charles on the dairy
farm just north of the state fair
grounds. The coroner's jury was made
up OF two newspaper men and one de-
tective and on their recommendation
Ben Murrow was held for the crime.
The grand jury has adjourned ignoring
the charge against Murrow
AS matter Of fact the common
methods on which detectives work in
endeavoring TO. ind the guilty person IS
TO suspicion the first person they think
of and then seek for evidence enough
on which 10 hold him. The detective
makes up his mind that a certain per-
son IS guilty and then endeavors 10
convict the man. The processes of his
mind may be conscious or unconscious
but it always works that way He
rarely hunts for evidence and follows
the line of the evidence till it locates
the guilty one. Police reporters usual
" follow about the same lines as de-
tectives
To put detectives or newspaper re-
porters on a coroner's jury is much
like putting the prosecuting witness on
the jury 10 try an accused in district
court. Sheriff Ben Ness is making ev-
cry effort TO find the person who muir
dered Charles Murrow. He is hunting
for every scrap of evidence and is run
ming down the least clues. The murder
of Murrow was peculiar one and
there is seemingly very little evidence
OF any nature thus far uncovered. 1t
was first thought that robbery was the
motive but later it was discovered that
the man had not been robbed. 1t is
likely that the county attorney will
ask Governor Carroll to offer a reward
when the governor returns from the
trip south. These rewards nearly al
ways interest local private detectives
as we'll as the city police and detec-
tives but their work is necessarily slow
and much Handicapped.
| Probably less than 1000 persons took
the teachers examination. Usually the
examination at this time of the year
has been taken by about 5000. Papers
from fifty counties had been received
by Saturday night and the advance
guard of readers had reached the state
house and were busy at work. The en-
tire force vii be on hand Monday. The
force will be smaller than ordinarily,
| ;, 49, oil =,
who took the examination.
This small number Of applicants for
! teachers, does not. however, mean that
there will be a scarcity of teachers
more than there ever is. There are all
ways about certain number of teach
ers embarking on the sea Of matrimony
t and d certain number who drop out and
go off 10 college.
/ Educators maintain that there has
never been such healthy condition in
the schools as at this time SO far as
4 teachers are concerned. Formerly
under me old plan the grade Of teachers
was much lower. The enactment Of the
uniform teachers certificate law made a
scarcity of teachers because any num-
Der failed 70 pass because Of the raise
IN the stndard This operated so that
the rural school directors were forced
n to increase the salaries and this in
crease in the salaries brought a better
grade Of school teachers.
Il is the theory Of State Superintend-
II ent Riggs that there never ought to be
but relatively few more teachers in the
state than there are positions 10 be
filed He believes that the standard
ought 20 be gradually raised as the
number of teachers increases. Direct
ors will then be constantly under the
necessity of increasing salaries till
eventually it will be possible TO get a
very much better grade of teachers in
the rural schools than now.
The ". C. r o. women of Des
Moines and of Iowa will be the sponsors
in the next legislature for the black
plague bill when 1t comes up for pas
sage in its present modified form.
AT the meeting of the city federation
Of the W. C. T. T. women of Des
Nfoines Yesterday afternoon az The
Slavery hotel, the bill in it's modifca-
tons as drafted by its author, DR. ]
Hardy Clark. Of Waterloo, was in.
dorSed, me Dill, i is Claimed Oy thesF
temperance women, was drafted a
their request. Because of the objec-
: tons made against the measure as sub
nitted to the legislature last winter
by its opponents in the Legislature
the present notifications in the bill
were made. Under the provisions o
the old bill all cases of vereal disease
4 must be placed under quarantine ant
the names of the patients must be re