Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-22

Special TO Times Republican.
Des Moines, Oct 22-Trial of the Dig
bleached -four cases will be in the fed
eral court in Des Moines The trial will
be at the November term of court and
Will be one Of the biggest cases ever
held in the federal court here.
At the opening Of district court in
Cedar Rapids the eases We're called up.
The attorney who appeared for the de-
Tense and United States District At
torney NJ. L. Temple agreed at that
time that the cases should all be con-
solidated since the same general facts
are involved in each case. This case
will be heard in Des Moines at the
November term OF court
Millers in all parts Of the country are
contributing to a defense fund which
is being collected for the purpose of
prosecuting these cases in the federal
court and il the millers lose they will
appeal TO the supreme court of the
United States. Oklahoma and Kansas
nillers are sending their contributions
TO W. R. Watson. of Wichita, Kan, and
those Of Nebraska are sending their
money to H. B. Smith, of Lincoln, Neb.
Aillers of other states are sending their
contributions TO [. d Tilton, of ST.
Louis, Mo.
There have been no more seizures of
bleached -four by the government under
directions of the department of agri-
culture and it is understood there will
be none till the courts have been al
lowed 10 pass on the question. The
secretary OF agriculture has turned all
the evidence over to the department. of
justice which has charge of the prose
cution.
The question on which the bleached
-four proposition will be decided is
whether or not the bleaching process
makes the -four injurious to the health
ard whether the bleaching process is in
fact an aduiteration and deception of
the public. The processes are various
and all of them quite complicated.
E. NJ. Wentworth. OF the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. would like TO see a cam
paign started in Iowa to lessen the tres
passing on railroads such as is being
now conducted in the state OF Pennsyl-
vania and which was started there by
the Pennsylvania railroad.
TreSpaSsing on railroads in violation
of law was responsible for the deaths of
47,4lS persons in the United States in
the last ten years. The number has
etc 81, nh,
III 1907, which is the last year for
which there are figures for the entire
country, there We're 5,612 persons who
lost their lives solely because they were
trespassing on railroad right-of ways
in violation Of the law. In the last ten
Years in which there were 47,416 per
sons killed there were more than 30, 900
persons injured in that way
Because Of these facts some of the
leading railroads are endeavonng 10
carry on a campaign to get as rigid
enforcement of the trespass laws IN
America as there is in England where
the number of deaths and Injuries from
trespassing is reduced 10 minimum
and it is nearly impossible to get ONO
The entire point to the matter is
tina. the most of the deaths by rail-
roa7 trains are of persons who we're
walking along the railroad right of
way other than al the crossings or
were about the railroad yards when
they had TO business there, or from
persons Jumping on and off freight
trains and other .tatns while the trains
We're in motion and when they had
no business on the rains. II is claim
ed that every year there ara a large
number OF tcamps killed while stealing
rides but it IS claimed the number
( Of tramps killed IS buc a drop in the
bucket 20 the number Of other per-
sons killed. Many people make :ne
railroad track a sort OF highway. They
take the railroad track to walk to town
/ because il IS the shortest distance and
are killed by being struck by a train
/ The number thus killed now averages
fifteen a Gay.
Especially in factory and mining
districts is the death rate of trespas.s
! ers very great because the workrner
and their wives and children make the
railroad tracks the tlorou ghfares. The,
] Go this because the railroad track is
] always on an ernbankment and always
high and dry and a much better road
than the wagon road, which is either
dusty or muddy the greater part Of
! the time.
! In the past ten years the deaths q
such persons have amounted TO fo,1r-
ffths of the entire death record of the
| Union army in battles during the civil
war and these deaths are all chargej
up to the railroads. This is the rea