Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-03-21
NUMGRoUo VILLAGES or STATE
PaocEEo,No TO ,NcoR.
PoRATE.
sEvERAL OLD TOWNS
ADOPT SELF GOVERNMENT
Move Made by Some in Order to Es.
tahIish Saloons Under MuIet Law
Twenty-Five Incorporate in 1919
0inieultiss in Applying State Parole
System.
Special to Times Republ,can.

SpeCAaA 10 InneO-HepubliCdn.
Des Moines, March 21-There are
now 767 incorporated towns and 101
incorporated cities in Iowa. New towns
are being made rapidly. whether the
population OF the state is decreasing or
not. In 1912 there were ten towns re-
ported to the state municipal account
ing department. Since George Galla1ne
prepared the last report he has all
ready got track Of twenty-five new
towns. Not all were incorporated in
the last year and q half but all report
ed their Incorporation in that time.
Probably there were few that
dropped their Incorporation. For in
stance. in the Incorporated town Of
Foster. they simply abandoned the
election of town officers and the town
is in fact dead one. Some of the
newly incorporated towns are among
the oldest in the state. One reason for
Incorporation in q number of cases has
been that the village might better take
advantage of the mulct law and issue
licenses for saloons. The following
are the newly reported towns.
Avenarius, Dubuque county.
Bertram. Linn county.
Berlin, Tama. 4
Cotter, Louisa.
Floris, Davis.
Gruver, Emmet.
Joice, Worth.
Leighton. Mahaska.
Linn Grove, Buena Vista.
Long Grove, Scott.
Lattners. Dubuque.
Luxembourg, Dubuque.
Lockridge, Jefferson.
'Melcher, Marion.
North Liberty, Johnson.
Orchard, Mitchell.
Richardsville, Dubuque.
Sheriff.. Dubuque.
Spragueville, Jaskson.
Vining. Tama.
Wallingford, Emmett.
Boxholn, Boone.
Arkansas has a sort Of white slave"
,aw Of its own, and It is up to the gov
.rnor Of lows to decide offhand Wheth-
r it can b made to work out. A sher-
if from ono Of the western counties
is here with a requisition for the TAX
ing back from Marion county. Iowa. OF
a man and woman accused Of "pander-
ing, under the Arkansas law. The
proofs appeared to be rather weak and
he may not get his man, as there is
resistance. AS the woman has hus-
band living and 1t is rumored the
couple were married to avoid. the fed
eral white slave" law. 1t may be, that
a bisamyS case fs also involved. S&Be-
tweef, the federal and state laws the
men who plan to go wrong and skip
across state lines have a difficult time
keeping out Of prison.
Illustrating the difficulties in the
way OF applying the parole system of
any state an incident happened this
week at Fort Madison that throws
light. One Willie Jones, colored lad,
picked@ up In Des Moines two years
ago. had promised to go to. Texas and
made q fine showing Of ability to care
for himself and the parole board was
on the point of giving him his ticket
of leave. But before anything definite
was done Willie committed breach
OF discipline and found himself as a
third grader with no liberties at all.
Hence no communication Of sentence
inst now. He is a versatile fellow. and
his alias is 1.-THE Broadway Queen" and
his specially was to do the robbery act
while dressed as woman.
Members Of the highway commission
had q consultation yesterday with the
attorney general regarding the defense
If the. bridge business from the pat
ents Some Of the big suits involving