Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-15
TAxPAYERS OF STATE Paw AN.
NuALLY TWO AND ONE HALF
MILLION poLLARs.
JACKSON COUNTY LEVY
HIGHEST, DUBUQUE Lowest
De Moinss Postal Bank opsns-For-
sisnsrs Signify Intention Of eseom.
ing Patrons Capital City May
Create Commission to Investigate
Vice, Which 10 Still Fiourishins.

Des Moines, Sept. 15.-The taxpayers
Of Iowa are annually paying over ST.
100000 on the bridge tax levy. The
opportunity for lsakages is greater in
this fund than almost anywhere else.
It was because Of this fact that GER
tain we'll meaning members of the leg
islature, who got only sneers for their
pains, sought TO have the Iowa legis-
lature few years ago, make law
requiring that every piece Of bridge
work costing $500 or more must be
done on contract let to lowest bidder
and made Of record. The lobby frown-
ed upon this attempt at restriction and
called the legislators "reformers" in
quotation marks.
The report of the state auditor shows
that under county bridge levies for the
year 1908 the total of bridge taxes
levied, as reported by county auditors,
was $2,1So.3s1.
The next year, 1909. this had in
creased to total Of s2,563,1s3
The report for 1910 has not yet been
published. 1t will not show any re-
duction in the bridge taxes levied and
collected.
According to the report Of the state
auditor Polk county levied s2s,725.sO
h. 1908. and s29.4s741 in 1909. But
FoiA county daia &c: levy 3. much as
some other counties.
Woodbury. county collected in 1905,
$40.43S. and in 1909. s27,50e
Mar4hau county in 1908, S26,001; in
1909. 3S1.7s7.
3Is,0s4
Dubuque county, 1905. s1s,sss; in
1909, S1s.s4s.
Pottawatammte county. 1908, s34,o3s;
in 1909. s3s.6ss.
cerro Gordo, 1908. s24,454; in 1909,
$29,5s2.
Tama county. 1905, ,s5,25s: in 1909,
346,542
Carroll. 1908. s11.45s: in 1909, ss4,ssl.
Jasper county. 1908, 1891; in 1903.
$34,1ls.
webster. 1908, ,ss.7s7; in 1909, $751;
314.
The bridge tax levies vary from Is
mills In Dubuque county to SIS mills in
Jackson county.
The total Of all taxes collected in
Iowa 10 over $50, ooo, 900 annually.
The vaults oS the postoffice in Des
Moines VIII be specially guarded to-
night. The cash taken in on the first
day Of tho postal savings bank viii
Z all be kept IN the postoffice vault for
the present. unless orders are
received to the contrary be-
fore the close Of banking hours The
order Of the department is that every
cent received shall be in cash and all
shall be kept in the postoffice and not
under any circumstances be deposited
in any bank until the department desig-
mates = depository The order to open
The bank has been received but no
bank has as yet been selected for keep
ing the funds.
Postmaster Kurtz does not anticipate
a big business at the start. tho many
inquiries were made Some of these
inquiries have come from persons liv-
ing outside the city and county. and OF
course deposits will not be received
from any one not a regular patron of
the postoffice. Il is question whether
or not deposits can be received from
persons living IN the small mining
camps near Des Moines. Some of the
expected depositors express disappoint-
ment when told that they can deposit
only 500 at a time, or not more than
800 in any one month. One woman
stated the other day she had $500 she
wanted to deposit the first day. She
was told how she could put in 800
each month until she had $500, then
buy $500 bond and start over again.
A great many OF the foreigners living
in Des Moines have signifed that they
will use the postal bank. They have
been accustomed to doing business
with the government and think that is
the only way.
Postmaster Kurtz, who Is a thorough
business man, has prepared TO take
care OF the banking department in
the best possible way and to make
it popular There will be much inter-
est In comparison of results here
and in the smaller cities of the state.
The interest aroused in the case Of
the two Florida members of the Shaker
Society accused Of killing a girl who
was dying of consumption, reviyes
recollection Of the fact that a few years
ago a certain prominent member Of the
Iowa house introduced in the general
assembly q bill to make 1t legal for
doctors and nurses to shorten the lives
Of patients to get them out Of their
misery. The intent was to make it
possible to chloroform persons fatally
injured or suffering from incurable
diseases. The bill caused much discus
sion but did not get very far in the leg
lslature, and the statesman never came
back.
Mayor Hanna Is in favor Of a COM
mission to investigate vice in the
"spotless town" which is the capital
city OF iowa, AMI Councilman Poe be-
lieves that It would be well to have
vice commission to report on conditions
that have been left following the abol-
ition Of the segregated vice districts Of
the city. To all outward appearances
the city has been kept fairly clean in
recent years, and at least the Haunting
Of vice In the faces Of the public has
been put to the bad. But the police
records from time to time disclose that
It has not been possible to make the
city - clean a. II should be. The ac-
tivtty of the men In the Men and Re-
ligion" movement has started some
thing and It Is probable the city COM
mission win move to have the city
made better than Il ID.
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