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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05
THE NEW H0MEsTEAos.

Homes on government land and
homes in a government town are to be
offered to homeseekers on May % and
"a at Powell, Wyo.
On May % the second unit of the
shoshone irrigation project, in north
ern Wyoming, will be thrown open to
homestead entry. and on the oath the
lots in the government town of Pow
will be sold at auction to the highest
bidder
The first unit of the Shoshone pro-
ject was opened only a year ago, but
so rapidly were the farms taken up
that it was necessary to rush work on
the canals so that additional land could
be made available this spring. In the
first unit eight farm houses or more
to the mile have been built along the
main highways. There will never be any
isolation or loneliness among the farm
grs here The soil is exceedingly fer
tile, the climate delightful. and the
transportation facilities good.
The farms are obtainable under the
homestead law, subject to the charges
of actual cost of supplying water to the
land This charge has been fixed at SAC
per acre, payable in ten annual in
stalments, without interest. The annual
cost of maintaining and operating the
system amounts to 5 per acre.
The principal crops are alfalfa, su-
gar beets, cereals and hardy fruits, and
vegetables. Potatoes yield from 200 to
400 bushels per acre and are of fine
quality. Wheat yields from 40 to so
bushels per acre, oats average so
bushels, altho the yield has in some
instances exceeded 100 bushels per
acre. The small fruits that have been
grown are very prolific and possess a
fine flavor, and it is believed that ap-
Piles will be a profitable crop
| The influx of a large number of set
tiers to this region has created a de-
mand for all sorts of supplies and all
sorts of industries, and the towns on
the project are growing rapidly.
The new town of Powell already pos
sesses a graded school, a state bank,
drug store. blacksmith shop hotel. lum-
Der yard and store, and church services
are conducted regularly. The Chicago
Burlington & Quincy railroad has a
station at this point and it will be one
of the chief shipping points for the
farmers as we'll as one of the chief
sources for supplies.
The vast tracts of land that are now
being reclaimed by government irriga-
ton will be distributed to combine viii
lage with country life Towns are being
plated and every purchaser of LAND
also buys a town lot to be improved TO,
a residence. Streets, waterworks
churches, schools, theaters, postoffice
and banks will be concentrated in the
residence district of farmers who will
reside in the town and cultivate thei1
nearby farms. Railroads will facilitate
the transportation of the agriculture
products of the farm and the husband.
men will be surrounded by an up-to-
date village with modern improvements
. and all the advantages of rural life
In other parts of the world this sys.
ITEM of combining village and rural life
is being exploited to solve the problem
of farm help.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05

pie. There is nothing Impossible in all
this. The fact is that only few things
are impossible compared with the many
things that are improbable.
Human nature is human nature. We
can't get away from the axiom. The
suspicion that attaches to the political
leader who makes his home and friends
among the enemies of his party and
his faction is part of the tendency of
human nature toward introspection and
the judgment of others by ones judg-
ment of self. Most men feel that they
can not accept favors from others
without feeling a sense of obligation.
The attorney who has Farmer Jones'
side of the calf case knows better than
to board with the other party to the
litigation and spend his nights and
Sundays at the home of Farmer Smith
who claims the calf. Human nature is
suspicious because human nature
knows it's own weakness. Federal
judges may be immune from the COM
mon weaknesses of human nature but
it is hard to make Missouri congress-
men and a lot of common people be-
lieve it.
1t is quite possible that the Missouri
ian is barking up the wrong tree. No
one desires to believe the Judges any
but the most trustworthy and capable
of jurists. But it must be confessed
that men go not forth to pluck figs of
thistles and that shagbark grove is
a good place to hunt squirrels.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05
Outside Point of View

VIII the development of aeroplaning
end in the abolition of the custom
house? That Is the point raised by
Major F. G. Baden-Powell in the cur
rent number of the National Review,
The writer thinks that in about four
years we may reasonably expect to be
able to say that flying is common.
Most we'll lido people will then have
made a trip thru the air and many will
own machines and make daily runs
Then, of course, smuggling will become
the easiest thing in the world, for even
supposing, the author says, that it
were not practicable to convey large
cargoes of goods-and there is no good
| reason why this should not be done
some day-still it would undoubtedly
be possible to carry parcels of 100
pounds or So
Airships could be employed contin-
ually going to and fro over the frontier,
and so transporting large quantities of
dutiable goods. Frontier guards would
be almost useless, even IL they We're
posted at every few hundred yards
along the entire frontier, which in it,
self would be an impracticable propo-
sition in most European countries
Altogether it would seem impossible
to enforce any law as to machines be-
ing compelled to descend at a frontier,
and this according to the writer i'm
plies that customs in the main will
have to be abolished. Tariffs, he con-
| siders, will have to be framed with due
regard to imports like wheat and lum-
Der. which are not likely at first to be
affected by aerial transport, and a tax
on such commodities would seem to be
the only solution to the difficulty Of be-
ing unable to continue the duties on
| lighter articles.
The heaviest import duty now in
force in the United Kingdom is that on
saccharine-14 cents an ounce. Next
comes cigars, which pay SLAB pound
| to the customs. Other dutiable articles
which could be conveyed more or less
easily by aeroplanes are wines and
spirits. tea, coffee. cocoa. sugar, tobac-
co, dried and canned fruits, jam, mar
malade, condensed, milk, chloroform,
collodion, ether, backing and playing
cards.
| Commodities such as coal would nat
urally present serious difficulties to
the aerial smuggier. altho aeroplanes
may be developed to such an extent
that in future the ocean greyhounds
will have counterparts in aerial levi
athians able to carry weights now UNI
dreamed of.
| The above is the English point OF
view. Here is this country where just
now we are wrestling with the tariff
much of the present labor in congress
is a waste Of time and energy, IL sin
four years flying is common" Think OF
the possibilities along the Canadian
border lines. If flying is common" in
four years. only the size of the aero
plane will determine what we smuggle
in or out. With every man having his
own wireless telegraph or telephone
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05

the outside whose very names are un-
known to u.s."
Now all that is plain enough. It Is
true. That is the system. Cummins
said it. Cummins knew it. Dolliver
says 1t. Dolliver knew 1t all the WHILE
1t is good to hear him say it now when
the insurrection has become a revolu-
ton; the regret that he did not say it
sooner may be set aside. It is well to
see Butcher break into the horizon
after battle is Joined.
One statement made by the senator
in his speech should not Tn justice be
passed unnoticed. He said his course
was In pursuance Of a contract entered
into with the pepole of his state nine
years ago when he was first elected
to the senate. He read from a speech
made by himself at that time which
he said was written in the bed cham
Der Of his former colleague, Senator
Allison," and approved by him as
WoioS worthy 10 De spoken on Inat OC.
casion. This statement is valuable to
the Strengthening out Of history which
seems to have been tangled during the
gubernatorial and senatorial cam
paigns of A. B. Cummins. 1t appears
by the contract that Cummins was
right; that his demands upon the con-
gressional delegation were just de-
mands and that Iowa senator's were
convinced of the necessity and homes
ty of tariff revision while Cummins
and the men who rallied about his
leadership were being read out Of the
party. 1t is only just to note Senator
Delivers statement as to the contract;
it need not be noted as an II told you
So" when bygones are supposed to
be bygones but, keep history straight,
keep history straight.
Dolliver is out on the firing line. Let
him stand firm. It is a good place
for one who Graves leadership to stand.
And Dolliver, when he actually peels
his coat is a splendid fighter
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05
DoLLiyER,s SPEECH.

Senator Dolliver made an aston
ishing speech in the senate yester-
day. Had La Toilette or Cummins
made the same speech and inter-
changed defiances with Aldrich none
would have been surprised or aston
ished. Dolliver said the things, many
of them, that Cummins, La Toilette
and the other leaders have said and
who have been called tariff rippers"
and upon whom contumely and re-
proach have been heaped for the say
ing by a faction that once existed in
the republican party. But Delivers
speech while astonishing, was ex-
tremely satisfactory. It was Dolliver
free from restraint, Samson in his
regained strength cutting loose and
shaking the pillars, any illustration
that comes to mind of strong
man waking up and getting busy. And
we ara told in the press reports-let
us hope that Lafe and Uncle George
WIZ Jul sANC tuC SllOSh-ludI I0 WAS
warmly congratulated especially by the
insurgent element Of the Iowa con-
gressional delegation and, worse yet,
seemed to like 1t.
| The senator warned the senate that
| it must take heed of the convictions
and desires of the great Mississippi
valley. He told the senators and the
country that the protective tariff has
nothing to fear from Iowa and the
Upper Mississippi, but he gave them
plainly to understand that the voice of
this great section is loud for down.
ward revision and a square DEAL He
asserted that enlightened public opin-
ion is charging presidents and con-
crosses with responsibility of govern
ment," explained the difference in con-
ditions that existed in 1897 when the
present tariff was builded, and the
condition that exists today when the
silent factories Of 1897 are clam orously
busy and combination has conferred
the great industries in the hands of a
few and protested against the orders of
few leaders OF the party when they
SUNNI on their followers to practically
reenact the tariff OF 1897 under the
conditions which prevail today, and
when men are derided because, 1lav-
ing helped to frame that law thev
seek to have 1t re-examined in the
light Of present day experience" and
dashed the system so profitable to the
special interests and so expensive to
the people OF senators sitting IN this
Ichamber. putting their individual
judgment into seryitude to persons on
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05
jim GOODS MILE STONE.

The decision of the state supreme
court in the Cedar Rapids gas case es-
tabGshes a principle in law which
should hereafter save millions of dol
lars to the residents of cities in the
bills they pay for public service. Its
Importance is not so much in the rate
Of 80 cents per 1000 cubic feet of gas
as it is in the principle that the rate
fixed by city ordinance must be tried
for a reasonable length of time before
it can be declared unreasonable or con-
fiscatory.
The trouble always has been that the
public has been kept in the dark as to
actual earnings upon public utilities.
City councils have been denied access
to the books of the business and have
been compelled to guess at what rates
would be reasonable. AT Cedar Rapids
lawyer appeared who bought stock in
faraway gas company, donned over
alls and entered the gas works as a
SOI1l1ilVL1 idOOI SI III To STUDY lQ6
gas business. He learned what was
necessary to know about the business
to fix a reasonable rate and then when
his ordinance was attacked by in
junction he was good enough lawyer
to secure an order of court to produce
the books from which he was able to
satisfy a district judge that his rate
was reasonable.
The supreme court now declares that
the new rate must be given a fair trial
before the, company can enjoin st. This
is in harmony with the federal courts
decision in a New York case and SIM
liar to court decision as to 2-cent
railroad fares. n GREATER city councils
can have apparently reasonable rates
tried out with the books in court be-
fore they can be estopped from estab-
fishing reduced rates for public util-
tiles. Jim Good has planted mile stone
in the progress of public utility re-
form.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05
Where Germ. Breed.

The waving hat feather is said to
be a good breeding ground for NH
crobes, and for this reason those who
are afraid of them are discarding all
flowing ends Of this sort. On the
other hand, 1T is stated in the millinery
journals that Paris has the feather fad
worse than ever, and that in the
spring the tails win reach half yard
or more from the hat Persons who
wear such hat ornaments should not
ride in street cars. because the pro-
jecting plumes are an annoyance to
those who sit behind them, and also
because there is much moro danger
Of the willy germ seeking them out
as good roosting places and then
breeding consumption, typhoid fever.
diphtheria and other equally unpleas-
ant diseases. There is also the fear
that the oriental rugs are responsible
for much promiscuous germ breeding
in this country, and buyers are de-
handing that they be made pure be-
fore sold.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05
THE LODGES.
MASONIC NOTICES.

X MASONIC NoTIcEs.
x(visitors always welcome.
/vNHau over 1857 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE los A. F. & A.
NJ, work on third degree Friday eve
ming, May 9TH. II. q. Hoeck. w. M.
NJ, H. s.. Lawrence, Secy.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. SO, r. A. M.
Stated convocation Monday. May Il.
8 p. m.
@. a. Bosgie. n. p.
I. 8. Willard. secy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL. r. & 8.
M.-Stated assembly Monday. May II.
p. M,
A. D. Meeker. =. I. M.
I. T. Forbes. Rec.
ST. AGDGuAIAR CoMsdA7JDGRY
No. 80, Z. Especial conclave Mon
day evening. May 10th at 1880 sharp.
Order of the Temple.
Fred M. Wilbur, N-E.
Fred Wallace, Recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81, o. >.
s.-Regular meeting Wednesday, May
10. p. m.
Mrs. Geo. Downing, W. NJ.
Edna G. Fularton. Secy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05
MAKE THE MIGRANTS WORK.
[Sioux City News.1

| Sioux City, like all other cities, IS
troubled with Migrants. But Sioux
lCity seems to be entertaining more
/, than her share-at least, the police
| reports show that too many are before
the police judge every day, receiving
from five to thirty days-sometimes a
year-in Jail, where they eat and sleep
at the county's expense.
| Isn't there way to rid the city Of
those idle, shiftless specimens of hui
manity? II tTamps must be with US,
why not make them work-make them
do something for the city. Sioux City
| has street cleaning and other work
that could be done by "yags" Per-
haps the city in time would find the
greatly depleted If the members of
the sons Of rest" were obliged to do
something.
| The hoboes should be compelled to
work or leave the city. During the last
winter there was an abundance of pet
ty crime. In the matter of holdups,
burglaries and other crimes, Sioux
City seems to have established new
record in the last six months. This
may not be the fault Of the police de-
partment.
+, There is no excuse for tramps in
Sioux City today. Work is plentiful.
Building is being promoted in all Sec
lions Of the city and contractors are
! finding 1t a difficult task. to get men
| for ordinary work such as mixing NOR
tar, wheeling brick, lifting timbers
and driving teams.
| The police should comb Sioux City
for hoboes. Then give the tramps their
choice of working or getting out OF
town-and getting out in a hurry.
Let's start May with general
"house cleaning" Of the city. Make
Sioux City as safe as possible from
the low-browed bandit with the threat
ening manner and the stale breath,
as we'll as the fellow who does not
work and will not work.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05
TAKE AWAY THE GUNS?
TOska1oosa Hersid


A young man at Lyman accidentally
shoots himself while asleep. He kept
a gun under his pillow. At Correction
vile young man loses foot, owing
to the reckless manner in which he
handled an automatic gun. And SO 1t
goes day after day and week after
week, turnout the state If accurate
figures were obtainahe there would
be found very long list of happen
ings Of this kind in Iowa, all Of which
might have been avoided. The right
OF the people to carry arms shall not
be gainsaid. 1t is guaranteed them in
the constitution. But it would be just
as we'll, and in fact much better for
the vast majority, II they quietly
waived that right or tacitly agreed not
to avail themselves OF the privilege
expressly reserved for them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05

takes about ten minutes to learn how
give it the right numbers, it will re-
turn the correct answer. The Bur
roughs is no mind reader however,
tho it has often been credited with
q fair equipment of brains-and it adds
only the numbers actually listed. If
you list 1855 when you mean s13.75,
the former amount is the one whicS
figures in the total. Hence the OPP
portunity for the contest.
Remarkable speed is often attained
by persons operating Burroughs Ma
chimes daily-speed such as seems al
most incredible to those accustomed
to the old system of writing figures by
hand-and there is often friendly rival
ry between employees of the same con-
Germ or of neighboring concerns, over
their ability to run the machine with
greatest speed and accuracy. Thus it
came about that speed contests have
been organized in various parts of the
country, and prizes offered for those
who excel in the manipulation of the
machine.
1t is interesting to see a group of
men, each equipped with a wonderful
instrument such as the Burroughs,
striving with all their energy to finish
first, listing amount after amount with
bewEdering rapidly, and touching the
very limit of their ability without ever
approaching the limit of the machines
capacity. Five hundred items of from
one to six figures each, listed in a
fraction over six minutes-a column
over six feet long-and with one final
stroke of lever, added instantly and
correctly! The part played by the ma
chimes in contest of this kind is a
matter for interest, if not for wonder.
Possibly it is even more of a marvel
than the skill of the operators, for it is
q great triumph of human ingenuity
to make a machine mere combina-
kfon Of inanimate material-wich will
perform what has so long been pure
iy mental process far quicker and
Surer than the human mind can do 1t.
If you viii sit down and try to write
five hundred amounts in six minutes
and-a-fraction, you will begin to have
respect for the Burroughs. And then;
Just try to add them up, and see how
long it will take you to do what the
Burroughs viii do in a traction OF a
second.
The champion adding machine oper-
ator Of the world is Mr.. L. e Spauld-
ing, member of st. Louis Chapter
American Institute of Bank Clerks. Mr.
Spauading on April 26, 1907 listed and
added on Burroughs 500 checks of
varying amounts in minutes, Is sec
onds. Mr. W. j. Crowley, Dallas, Tex.
listed and added on a Burroughs. a5o
checks of varying amounts, total $685.
A3S.62, in four minutes and 16 seconds
Five hundred checks totaling 1896.
&1607 were listed and added on a
Burroughs In minutes and 80 sec
onds. by Mr.. Harry Reynolds, of the
First National Bank, Chicago.
These are records, of course, and the
average operator of Burroughs ma
chimes can not make such speed, nor is
such speed desired. But even the
vertest tyro. the rawest office boy who
can read plain figures. can list and add
correctly on the Burroughs with ia,
greater rapidity and accuracy than the
most adept mathematician.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05
sehIsm. That seem Small.

Two religious sects who hated one
another bitterly were found by Sven
Hedin in Tibet. Searching for the
cause Of this aversion he found that
one Of the sects believed that the
prayer wheel should turn to the right.
while the other was convinced that the
wheel should turn to the left. In the
region Of the Bramaputra he found q
mountain which Is so sacred that who.
ever walks around 1t 10 times has all
his sins forgiven. The result OF this
belief is that criminals from far and
near infest this region. When Sven
Hedin started to ride around this
mountain on his horse the pilgrims in.
formed him that that would do him
no good.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05
Msa1eze
Iona Newspapers
MUST BE DRAGGED?
[Traer Star Clipper.]

lL1dcI oIdr SllppeT.l
Some Of the trustees of Tama coun-
ty do not seem to understand that by
the law recently passed in Des
Moines, the substance of which we
printed three weeks ago, they are re-
CURED to have all main travelled roads
dragged after each rain. There is no
choice about 1t. The law says it shall
be done. Trustees are to contract
with farmers owning land next to the
road to do the work for as far as pos
sible. and shall pay fifty cents per
mile. They are required to expend
forty per cent Of the road funds in
this work. We trust the township
trustees, who take oath to obey the
law, will do SO without the action OF
the county attorney, grand pury or
any other citizen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-05
Contest of a
Novel Sort
Mind and Body Trained for Quickness
and Accuracy by Means of Speed
Contests on The Burroughs
Adding Machine.

1.-THE games have all been played"
How often have you heard that, or the
similar plant that the stories have all
been written or the songs all sung?
While 1t may be true that there is
nothing new under the sun, in ectual
substance, there is certainly an in
finite variety of new" things, in form.
The Burroughs Adding Machine Com
pany OF Detroit is supplying the nee
essary opportunity and material for a
new sort Of contest.
The adding machine, as you know,
is machine which will add correctly
the sum of any series of amounts with
out the possibility Of error. The
Burroughs Adding and Listing Ma
chine not only does this, but also writes
down each amount in the series of a
strip OF paper, and prints the correct
total instantly, underneath the last
item. The answer is correct: it has
got to be. and you never have to wait
for It.
Burroughs Adding Machines are used
by business men all over this country,
and in many other parts of the world
any concern which receives and pays
out money, or handles goods in quanti-
ties, has use for the machine which
will instantly tell how much. Now it