The Maurice Times from Maurice, Iowa • Page 3

IOWA STATE NEWS Late Happenings Throughout the Commonwealth There is a shortage of uetweeu 000 and 8,000 freight cars in Iowa now according to figures submitted to the state railroad contmjssion at the demurrage hearing by At W. Rotchford of Chicago, a railroad'staticJan. Thru- out the country as-a whole the short- in March amounted 60i- 000 cars, it is the worst ever known in the railroad businesSi he declared;" Mr. Rotchford stated that held on an. average of 11.65 days quoting figures showing that some shippers were holding them much longer than this.

He said that A charge of murder in the first de- If i DeS Moines twenty-eight cars were Sree was filed against Ben Dudi and a tOtal of 2 4 days in on ten Anna Dual in the municipal court bv were held S88 day6 aD TM Wa- terl twenty-five cars held a total of 425 days. The supreme court has overruled a petition for a rehearing in the case of Hunter vs. the Colfax Consolidated Coal company involving the constita tionality of the Workmen's Compensation act. The court passed on case several months ago and declared Anna Dual in the municipal court by Coroner Claude Koons of Polk County Dud! and his wife are specifically accused of permitting their six-weeks old baby, iRoae, to die by willful neglect. The body of the Dudi baby was found on a southeast street dump in Des Moines.

The couple, are supposed now to be in Authorities wired for their arrest. Information feVought to the po- fi lice that Dudrhaa Checked his trunk to 2254 W. 18th street, Chicago. Mrs. Hose Barton, 916 Allen street, she had seen Dudi mark his belongings to tat address.

The Dudi family had been living at Mrs. Barton's home previous to their departure. ghe.sayg'the father and mother quarreled constantly -and the father was threatening to leave his wife unless she disposed of -the child. The long fight against the foot-and- mouth" disease' is over. The secretary agriculture has issued an order removing all foot-and-mouth quarantines restrictions against the ship- nient-and movement of live stock.

The order signed specifically removes quarantine from a small territory in Christian county, Illinois, the last area which was under suspicion. Al-oag with the removal of the local quarantine, the various federal orders restricting shipment of cattle rescinded, so that dealers -can now ship their cattle as before the first -quarantine was imposed. -The Swanwood Coal company must -3ay, for the loss of a human life In its -mines. A jury in Judge Dud- the law to be constitutional. The high court also denied a petition for a rehearing in tne case, of Sophia Porter vs.

Grace -Heischman. The supreme court passed on this case, last October ruling that the verdict of tfce Grinnell court which Mrs. Porte? was awarded for the alleged alienation her husband's affections was excessive and remanding the case for a new trial. Hardly had the clerk of courts at Council Bluffs finished copying the inventory of the estate of the late Gen. Grenville Dodge when a suit was the county, asking judgment from the estate for' delinquent taxes amounting to nearly $1,000,000.

It is alleged in the petition the inventory of the estate shows a large amount of property has not been taxed. Attorneys say it will be obligatory" upon the administrators of the" estate to show that General Dodge acquired this vast estate during the last year of iiis life, in order to release the estate from delinquent taxes back to the year fixed by the statute of limitations. Many sections of New York are far -more "back woods" than Iowa, declared H. W. Byers, attorney for the rural telephone, lines, in statements Telephone Hearing Telephone interests sprang a Bar- prise in the telephone transmission hearing at the state house before the n- Iowa railroad commission filing a Otate UJVideS AUtO Tax Money HenrySiiwbld's ruling Among Ninety-nine Counties EACH TOWNSHIP GETS $632 This Huge Sum Would Go Long Way on Permanent Road Fund--Legislation Looking to That May Be Asked.

a j. iy Lii juuge i-cicimuue. lines, in statements ley s-court returned'a verdict for that! ade at the close of-the telephone amount in the 116,000 damage suit in- transmission hearing before the Iowa sbtuted by. Elizabeth Mitchell, admin- railroad commission. He showed the commission that Iowa has more rural telephones than New York and that the type "of rural telephone- astratrix of estate of-Stanley killed- by a fall of slate 8, 1915.

-The company voluntarily-rejected of the work--men's compensation Plaintiff ta jriamEiir ai- iuwa waer.e r.ri uso if the Because of the coal te jmorfextensive than-In-many east- law i states; The '-arm in- question, the burden of proof rested upon its to disprove the aegligencfe actions made of Humboldt county's "seed corn" taken at the annual con- representing 110,400 -bushels of the of the Evangelical "uo uo. me tion; in the east is no better than that of lowavhere th The -comifssiOn -will -fix final agreement in the One hundred and eight tests were of the United assembled in conference at Marshalltown, was the formation -of the Ministerial Benefit society. The purpose of this organization ia to provide for disabled and superanu- ated ministers. Also the widows and Afghans of ministers. The Men's Bible class at Marshalltown presented a check foVllOO as the first fund of the society.

Clinton has just- recorded the first a convicted man paying- the costs of his own prosecution -under the new law. The man Is Rudolph Kettleson, now serving a sentence at Anamosa for larceny. The clerk's office at Clinton has just received- a check for $15 taken from Kettleson's earnings at fcfce reformatory. At a recent meeting- of the Black Hawk county board the "question of submitting a bond-issue for permanent road improvement-vwas discussed. Widespread sentiment has been created to? graveling" 18o miles in the county road'system in the next four years.

It. is proposed to issue bonds for Stickler lived in Atlantic for three He is survived by a widow aiid months. 1914 crib corn. Over 41 per cent of corn located tested satisfactorily. Eighteen thousand and fifty bushels tested over-.

70 per cent, 36,000 bushels over 50 cent and 30,900 bushels 20 per cent. Of 821 bushels of old selected seed, 43 per cent tested six kernels strong. Nine hundred and seventy-five bushels-- of 1915 seed were tested with an average germination of 47 7-10 per cent strong. Violation of the terms of parole resulted in the arrest Of Harry Trapp and his return to Logan. 'Trapp is SO years old.

He was Implicated, with others, in an auto theft from the streets of Woodbine last fall and was later apprehended and brought back to Logan by the officers. Trapp was given- five years in the reformatory and paroled. It is now charged that he has violated the parole. Amos Fox, aged 84, of Humboldt, the first man admitted to membership in the Iowa soldiers' home at Marshalltown on the first day It was opened December 1, 1887,. died in the horns hospital recently of bronchial pneumonia.

Fox had been member of the home continuously ever since he was admitted, for twenty-eight years and five days lacking four three children. Despondency is assigned as the cause for his "act. North Central association of colleges and high schools has notified Iowa Wesley an -college that the school been placed on the association's accredited list. WMtlach died at her home in Ta-iiana township, eight miles southeast of Knoxville, at the age of S3 years. She was born in Ohio in and came to Marlon county with fccr husband In 1S4T, and lived until fcer vlsath near the place where they took a claim upon arriving here.

A shortage of approximately $2,500 has been found in the accounts of Roy W. Clark, superintendent of the David Mason of Knoxville celebrated. Ms eighty-fifth birthday anniversary. He was surprised by his children and grandchildren. He lived In Illinois when a boy and when he was 22 years of age he had the honor of having Abraham Lincoln win a.

law suit fort him. Mr. Mason is probably the only man in Iowa who hired Lincoln to plead a ease la court for him. This' happened at Bloomington, in 185S. After working an hour, three Sioux City physicians gjfve up trying -to locate Mike Ertniann's heart.

Ertmann was taking a physical examination for the office of collector for port of Sioux City. The state food and dairy depart tes -The state treasurer of Iowa has arranged for the semiannual "distribution of the" state automobile fund among the ninety-nine counties of the state. The total sum to be apportioned is $1,041,670. Counties will 'receive for eacn township. The automobile fund totalled 1 1,157,411, from which 10 per cent is tafcen to defray the expenses of the auto registration department and the state highway commission.

This amounts to $115,741. The melon this year Is much larger -than the one produced in 1915. April 1, the total sum anportioned was $693,343. This divided: on the basis of $422 -per township. There are 1,646 townships in the state.

The counties -do not receive benefits from the automobile fund in proportion to the population, or the number of automobiles owned, but on the number of townships. From now. on the state automobile department will add 10 per cent penalty to all "registration fees to be paid oh all' old cars. The new law provides that 'the fees become delinquent on April 1. This may prove an expensive April fool joe on the auto owner who has neglected to secure a new number plate.

However, the auto department will honor all drafts and checks which were placed 4n tire mails before midnight April 1st. The books show that oars have been registered for 1916 so far. A'bout 65,667 -more autos were registered by April 1 than were "registered up to the same date' last year, the report of W. S. Allen, secretary of state, shows.

This is considered a -remarkable record for the' registration department. Tne department now has 19,600 more plates, on hand to supply the" plates have been at the rate of a car load a week. The department has Weglstefed this year nearly as many cars us were registered during tlie entire twelve months of 1915. The following table shows the growth of the automobile Industry in Iowa: No. cars Pees Year registered collected 931 799 1,022 1447 3,158 978 1,313 7,020 20,380 36,347 259,736 648,468 1,040,135 1,533,053 By this decision the Oskaloosa Traction and Light company is ordered to -pay to rebuild rural telephone lines which were'put out of business by the construction of a transmission line along the same highway occupied by the telephone wires.

The question before the railroad commission is whether electric companies, when receiving franchises, should agree or be ordered to pay the expense of rebuilding rural grounded telephone lines which might be put out of commission by the construction of electric lines in the immediate vicinity. Governor Clarke Aids Cleanup Week, "I desire in this public way to call the attention of the people of the state to a movement by the Federated Women's clubs of Iowa to institute what may be as "Clean-up week" beginning April 24. Sixteen, thousand women are behind the movement and are inspired only by an unselfish devotion to the public welfare. "I hope the people the state will cooperate with these women and help them In every way possible. "It would be very helpful if the -mayo'rs and newspapers of the -cities and towns of the state would-call special attention to the week to be devoted to said purposes and urge that meetings be held in that behalf and also if the" women of the state would see to It that the purpose and value of the movement be not lost in any community." Rule Out Blanket Insurance.

E. H. English, state insurance commissioner, has ruled that "group" insurance cannot be written in Iowa. Group insurance is a new eeheme by the large insurance companies of writing insurance on the employes of a concern without regard to age or physical condition. The Iowa law prohibits the of insurance unless there is a physical examination of the applicant, Must Register for Siiff Election.

The assistant attorney general has ruled that in. towns w.here voters register reeietra'tion will be re- 5 j-v-nju. u.iirj' uyyari' reek railroad, according to merit reports its first experiences with I I hV i a 3 AV. TV an announcement by officials of the road. Clark been missing from His borne several days The body of a itx-weeks-old Infant, tared on the dump of the Salvation Army Rsacue home, in Dea by Bert Paymaster, who Had employed to fetal tome robbiah from tke JMmie, ctty directory of Odar city a poxwlatJon of the Des Moines Municipal court resulted in fining two peddlers $10 and costs for short weighting, Within sight of fifty persons, H.

G. Strickle of Atlantic, mounted rail of the Missouri river bridge in Council Bluffs, took off his overcoat, aa5 vest, placed a revolver to his breeat and fired. HU body dropped to the sixty feet below. A dual between QrlnneH and Belolt Kaa been arranged far Aitrit U. 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 28,154 1912 45,715 1913 71,794 1914 105 413 1915 The money collected from auto taxes can be used by the counties only for road work.

And the next legislature may be asked to amend this of law so that automohile tax monies may be expended only-for permanent road work. Men Will Lose. Car lot rates, for dairy products advocated by the big centralizers and vigorously fought by the small creamery men at an interstate commerce hearing just closed in Chicago will never be granted by the commission in the judgment of W. B. Barney, state food and dairy commissioner, was one of the witnesses examined at the hearing.

Dairy commissioners from Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa appeared at the hearing and fought the car lot rate. They declared that such a rate would give the big centralizer creameries an advantage of from 550 to $10 per car in railroad rates because the smaller shipper could not take advantage of such a rate. Commissioner Barney attended a meeting of the Holstein-Friesian association at Syracuse, N. and succeeded in getting the association to increase its premium offering at the Waterloo dairy show from $430 to $S13 and at the Iowa state fair five per cent. Send Out Auto Tax Checks.

The state automobile registration department fs mailing out checks for the automobile tax collected up to April 1. The tax totals ll.loT.lSS.OO. i The U-x is divided on the basis of townships. Polk county has 22 town- Xossuth and Pottawattamle each have 28 townships, and will receive $19,4.00. The amount per town.hlp ia $70100, tae largest total ever collected up to this of the Registration: is not required for the primary, according to "the law.

But the vote on the amendment will 'be a special election, for which registration will be necessary, the attorney holds. State Board Sends Out Treatments. In the past three months the state board of health has sent out to physicians over the state 227 Immunizing treatments treatments for 'diphtheria, eleven tetanus antitoxin treatments, sizty-eight typhoid fever treatments and 140 smallpox vaccinations. These are furnished to physicians at wholesale rates. Cuts Down Expenses.

The state board of control is economizing this year in the matter of sending superintendents of state institutions to national conventions. Last year, 19 men were sent to conferences, many of which were located on the Pacific coast This year but seven will be sent. Issue Court Reports. The state Is now issuing volume No. 169, Iowa Supreme court reports.

It contains the opinions of the January, 1915, term. The -copy for volumes 170 and 171 is in the hands of the printer. The court reporter expecta to have the reports up -to date in a few months. STATE NEWS Because a postoffice inspector had checked him short $18 In his accounts in the Waukon Junction post- office. Otis Johnson, the postmaster, fired a bullet through his head with a revolver.

F. L. Roper, veteran railroad conductor, died at his home in Ft. Dodge recently at the age of 69 years. He was the conductor on the first train to run between Ft.

Dodge and Mason City. The baby has been identified by social workers as the child whom they rescued in March from the home of Ben BudI, 916 East Allen street. W. H. Blakely, principal of the high school of Fort Dodge, has received a letter containing 95 cents, supposed to be conscience money.

A JoO.fMM) school building will be mr this summer, for use a new consolidated district voted. At a dairy stock sale recently helc in Kalona one two year old calf brought $182. When Elmer Furet, of Ft Madiaos fourteen old. kfUed a blsw he flaed fft cotta. IN WESTERN not Fear Oppressions.

"He Who Will and Does Work Wilf Not Want." As in the United States it said, that tho Mennonites In Canada ara very much oppressed; and have to suffer from a great deal (on account of the War in Europe) and I have been requested to write something about this, I will do so. I came with my parents A. D. 1874, from Southern HUB- Bia to America, South Dakota, anf A. D.

1907.1 with my. family here to Western Canada, here we have found a healthy climate; the acre yields on an average more-and: wheat is better than in South Dakota. What concerns the Government, up.to we have had a good one, have been able to live according to our creed-and have not been oppressed in any way, jand I believe: All Mennonites, who live according to the fundamental beliefs of the Mennonites and to God's word, as their guide, will agree -with me. He. who, here in Canada, will and does work, will not want.

So much as an answer. Remain your friend, (Sgd.) DDBDRICH GOOSSN. Very few farmers cultivate the habit of keeping careful accounts of their receipts and expenditures, showing at the end of the year a balance, either lor or against. The farmerof Western Canada is no exception to this. It la felt if more careful book-keeping were resorted to there that much better suits would be obtained and shown.

There is the case of the. Crowfoot Farming: of Crowfoot, Alberta. It has Just Issued a certified statement of its for the years 1312, and 1915. This Company has had for the past few-years about 1300 acres In wheat and between 200 and 250 in oats. Tne total operating and general expenses for 1912, including interest at and were for 1914 $29,804.43.

acre of land In crop ivas in in 1915. Total re- lE91S inl914, and $62,520.28 in 1915. The percentage earned upon capital invested was in 1912, in 1913, 23 1-3 in 1914, and in 1915, In which year it paid a cash dividend of The Company's statement shows that the average dates of finishing seeding was April 20th; the averaga date commenced cutting was August Statistical Statement Shows a Divi dend of In 1915. The Contrary Case. ''Did Jiggers bag the "No; she gave him the sack." FRECKLE Now la the Time to Get Bid of These tTgly no longer eligbtest ot reeling ashamed ot your freciclea, pregcriptlon othine--dottbla guaranteed to remove these homely spoto.

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fered -with kidney trouble and my case was so severe I began to lose hope oi ever bemg cured. I found that Swamp- Root was highly recommended and decided to give-it a trial and to nay 7 deHsht after using: cme bottle I imd improved so much I felt encouraged to get more and continued its use until I used sit bottles, at the end of which tirae I felt no of kidney trouble. MRS. J. GRUB County of Okmulget Subscribed and sworn to befoce me.

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