The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-02-24
MUST PUBLISH
PRECINCT VOTE
Railroad Rates VIII Be Below Ma
tionai Educational Association.
THE STATE MILK INSPECTOR
Reports of Iowa Railroad Commission
Being Enthusiastically Two Ras-
sensers, but Many Employees
Killed During Year.
Bureau Iowa Evening Press.
Des Moines. Feb. 81.


/. today in the case Of ]. ]. Clark
against w. H. Lake, county auditor
of Taylor county, is distinct victory
for all the papers which have the Of
fetal printing y for the county. The
decision is to the effect that boards
of supervisors in making a canvass
of the vote at an election must make
an abstract of the vote in each pre-
cinct of the county, this abstract to
be published in the official paper of
the county. In the case at bar, Lake
declared that all that had to be pub
lished was an abstract of the total
vote of the entire county taken to-
geher and not by precincts. This
plan would materially reduce the
amount of printing which the county
would have done. He pleaded that
his reason for giving out the print
ing in this way was the fact that the
papers were charging more than the
statute allowed and that the custom
had prevailed for some time. The
court holds that such a plea is not
justifiable, that the law provides
that the abstract must be of each
separate and distinct precinct of the
state and that the printer can only
receive the amount allowed by stat
ute no matter what the custom of a
particular county may be. The de-
cision means a considerable sum of
money to every official county paper
In hn cfo hn Of IN
ton Mr.. Clark was editor of the Bed
ford Times-Republican.
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AS a result of the war now being
fought by the eastern railroad COM
panies over the rate TO be put in
force for the annual meeting of the
National Educational Association,
which will be. held in Boston next
July, Iowa teachers who are expect
ing to attend the convention will
reap the benefit of rates lower than
ever before promulgated for the
meeting of the association. The fun
started when the Grand Trunk rail-
road company announced that it would
make rate of one fare for the round
trip, the tickets to be issued under
the certificate plan. The officials OF
the New York Central railroad COM
pany have retaliated by threatening
to make an open rate of one fare for
the round trip. To this threat the
Grand Trunk replies that it is salts
fed II the Central wants to kill its
New York business in this manner.
Under the certificat' plan it costs
the ticket holder two dollars to have
his ticket certificated by the officials.
This, however, gave the ticket hold
er a membership in the association.
Under the certificate plan it can only
(help) over the one fare rate and
turned the. money over to the asso.
citation. The Interstate Commerce
commission declared this to be lille.
gal and then the certificate plan was
put in operation. Under the Centrars
threat there will not even be the 81
extra and If the railroads get to
cutting rates the pedagogues will
have an easy time getting cheap tick
cts to Boston during the time of the
convention.
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The state dairy and food depart
ment and the state board of health
are planning to cooperate this spring
in an attempt to prevent epidemics
of contagious diseases. To this end
Commissioner Wright, of the food
department, appointed and the exec
utive council confirmed DR.. o. p.
Thompson, of Allison, as state food
inspector. Dr. Thompson will divide
practically his entire attention to
the problems of milk inspection and
the inspection of the milk supply of
the state. The state board of health
through Secretary Sumner declares
that much of the contagious disease
found in the cities comes from impure
milk and that the people should
therefore exercise the greatest care
in handling milk. 1t is to give force
b to this proposition that DIR. Thomp'
son has been named as feed inspec'
tor with instructions to give his time
and energies to the milk problem.
The state authorities beiive that
rigid milk inspection covering the en-
tire state will do as much to pre-
vent epidemics of contagious diseases
as any one force. DR.. Thompson is
expected TO begin his new duties at
once and will first make a tour OF the
entire state. ......s--. r.. ..... 49,
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Only two passengers on trains In
Iowa met death as the result OF ac-
cidents during the year ending June
80. 1909. Only 212 passengers were
injured in that time. a. II
The annual report now being COM
piled by the state railway commits
sion from the yearly reports OF the
railway companies show these fg'
ures. nc W5
Counting employees of the railway
companies and others killed on cross
ings or ON the right of way, but who
we're not passengers, the total num-
her of deaths was 229.
The number of persons injured who