Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-02
HAWKEYE NEWSLETTER
Official Canvass Of the Vote at the
Recent Election.
Fish Commissioners Wants More
Money Soldiers Home Affairs
Increase of PrisOners-State Aid
Wnnted-Other Notes.
Especial correspondenee.l

TallrOaQ commissioner. Inc vote on
governor and lieutenant governor, in
accordance with the new law, will be re-
ferred to the legislature and officially
canvassed by that body. The following
are the figures:
Plurality. Majority.
Waterman .3S,046 1864
Barrett ......................5S, lSodo
Davidson .....................S7,644 1887
The vote received by the candidates
for state offices as canvassed by the
council are as follows:
Supreme Judge = Waterman, 226,64;
Kline, 1SS,60S: Lowenberg, 5.655; Babb,
4,132; Hellver, 7,605; .Kollmetz, $40.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Barrett, 226,627; Rinehart, 1888, S04; Carter,
Sab; Knoepfier, 4,469; Durham, 1861; Rind-
Ter, 904.
Railroad OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 225,-
BOG; Crane, 1SS,262; Griffith, 5,44S; Dey, 4,617;
Coates. 7,464; Travis, 91S.
In this summary the candidates are
given in the following order as to
party: Republican, democratic. peo-
pies, national democratic, prohibition
and social labor.
Wants More Money. 81
In his biennial report to the governor
Fish Commissioner Delevan explains
the need of a larger appropriation tor
carrying on the work of the depart
ment, and gives figures showing how
meager is the sum appropriated by
Iowa when compared with the large
sums expended by neighboring states.
He asks for an appropriation of $4,000,
of which $4,000 is wanted for gathering
fish at Sabula and restocking the rivers
and lakes of the state, $500 for the i'm
provement of the fish ponds at Sabula,
$500 for an assistants salary, $10,00U for
the protection, distribution and repro
duction of fish during the coming two
years, and $500 for the protection of
game and the payment of deputies.
The report shows that large num-
Der of public and private bodies of
water in the state have been stocked
with fish, and that many millions of
fish have been gathered from the
bayous of the Mississippi river at Sa-
bula, carted over the state in the COM
missioner's care and dumped into the
rivers and lakes. Over 100000 fish
were turned into the Des Moines river
at Des Moines and equally large con-
signments were placed in dozens of
streams all over the state.
Commissioner Delevan reports that
during the biennial period over 500
poachers have been arrested and fines
aggregateing Sc, 45S have beencollected
and turned over to the school funds OF
the different counties. He calls atten-
ton to the fact that the fines collected
by the department have aggregated
$45S more than the entire sum paid by
the state during the two years for the
maintenance of the department.
In More Trouble.
The officials of the soldiers home ut
Marshalltown have more trouble on
their hands. They were of the belief
that the new law entitled them to sup
port from the state for the total MEM
bership, but Acknowledgement Remley
has submitted an opinion TO Auditor of
State Mccarthy in regard to the matter
in which he holds that the home can
only obtain support for the members
who are actually in attendance at the
home. 1t means q difference of some
81 500 or $1,000 in the support OF the
home.
The home is given ten dollars per
month for each member as support.
The requisition for September stated
that there were GA members. The Off
GERS distinguish between the word
member" and the word inmate" by
stating that the inmates are those who
are constantly in attendance at the
home, while the members are on the
roll, but are not at the home all of the
time. The Encouragement does not
see that the new law makes any change
in the support and he holds that the in
stitution can receive support for none
but the members who are in the home.
Increase Is Felt.
The regular winter increase in the
population of the state prison at Ana
mosa is being felt. The count the other
day stood at 623, closely crowding the
high water mark of last June when 632
convicts were quartered within the
walls of the institution. The district
courts throughout the state have not
yet fairly gotten in their work, but that
nj increase over last June's high water
mark will be experienced is denoted by
the arrivals since November 1. Up to
The middle of this month nearly so con-
signments were received while the dis
charges were but slightly above the
normal in number. 1t seems to be safe
to predict that by next June the popu-
lation of the prison will have eclipsed
NIL former records.
Want state Aid.
1t is reported that movement is on
foot among the mutual insurance COM
panies operated by the farmers of the
state to induce the next legislature to
pass bill placing the state behind
farmer insurance policies. The plan is
similar to one being agitated in Kan
sas. 1t proposes that the state shall for
a stated sum, never more than cost and
not TO include interest, insure prop
erty. This is to escape the high rates
charged by old line companies. 1t is
said the farmers organizations will
work hard with the different members
10 get the plan through.
The farmers mutual companies are
very numerous in the state-4S of them
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