Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-22
IOWA WATERWAYS COMMISSION
PREPARING FOR NAVIGATION
ON DIES MONIES RIVER.
DISCUSSING WIDTH OF LOCKS
AND SIZE OF STEAMSHIPS
Not Waiting For Little Matter. Of
IN Appropriation of Few Millions
in coin-ouarre May Be Costly to
Des Moines SaIoonists-Farcical End
Of the Walter Weaver Case.
Special to Times Republican

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Nov 2c-The report of
the Iowa waterways commission which
will soon be printed Will contain vas;
amount of information FOR the public
regarding the rivers, lakes and lands OF
the state. The commission has extend
ed its inquiry insc great many chan
nels. Primarily the work has TO do
with the rivers that may be made navi-
gable or thst may be used for extern
sive water power. The rnea,bers ot the
commission held q session las week
with Major Riche of the United States
army, who mad charge Of the survey
work along the Des Moines river ana
much time was taken up IN deciding
whether the locks in the thirty or more
big dams to be built in the Des Moines
river are TO be 80 or So feet wide Thi.
depends up3t7 rhe size Of the steam
ships that arc ~ come TO Des Mones
from keokuk. In addition 10 the da ms
and locks there viii have 10 be a grea.
many dikes built 10 protect the bottom
lands from overflow, and there Will be
great deal Of work done IN straight
ening the rive channel. Partial COM
pensation TO- t,l.s ~iI be fo@na n The
improvement OF the farms along Jhr
rivers. 1t is found that thousands OF
acres of land along the Des MONIES
river are subjscl 20 overflow and the
work which the state proposes will be
helpful in preventing this overflow
thus increasing The value OF the land
The repor- OF the commission viii also
touch upon drainage and lake reSer-
vors and similar matters
The quarrel between The makers OF
cigars in D9s Moines and the vendors
of drinks may have serious effect on the
future OF the saloon business n pes
Moines; in fact, this with other and
sundry matters which have appeared,
indicates that il IS not bad guess
that the capital city OF Iowa will go
dry next season L. seems that the
saloon men and the cigar makers have
had a working agreement which in
cluded the pushing OF home made c'-
gars in preference TO others. bul il is
claimed that this has not been done
and the cigar trade has languished in
Des Moines. Now the cigar men are in
a position 70 command something from
the saloon men and expect TO secure a
better working agreement or the cos
ing of the saloons.
Altho the state supreme cour. held
that Judge Albrook erred in declaring
that the indictment against ". l.
Weaver, OF Hardin county, was defec-
tive In that it failed TO state TO whom
the forged instrument in controversy
was uttered. the wayward son OF the
supreme justice Will not be further
prosecuted, as ne has b-en before the
law acquitted. The court divided on
the question. both Deemer and Sherwin
taking the same view as Albrook but
Mccain, Evans and Ladd held against
the lower court. The case had been
appealed TO the higher court for The
purpose OF having the court determine
what is necessary in an indictment %
this kind. This is the case which near
ly two years ago raised an Interesting
question as TO how 70 get an accused
person out of the navy and into the
custody Of state officials 4 reouisf-
ton was asked for him while ne was
on United States ship at Seattle but
nobody was able 20 state jus. how he
was 10 be taken by the state authori-
ties; but before the problem was set
tied he agreed to voluntarily come
home and stand trial which ne did
having received the permission Of the
naval authorities 70 60 so