Audubon Republican., 1897-10-07

north the village of the Sacs and Foxes,
who remained there until 1888, when
the country was opened to settlement.
by treaty. They called Dubuque la
Petite Wuit," and this strange device
is borne on the city seal to-day. It.
means "Little Cloud" The association
Dubuque and the two Indian chiefs
buried with him in 1910. Dubuque's
bones will be preserved within the mon
ument.
State Treasurer's Report.
The biennial report of Stale Treas
urer Herriott for the period ended June
&c last shows that the states eticit at
the close of the bienniaI period was
S41O,s27.77, and in explanltion of the
deficit Mr.. Herriott says the under
estimate of the proceeds of the tax levy,
the appropriations of the last legisla-
ture being made due the pasr summer.
the extraordinary and unexpected ap-
preparations for state institutions, etc.,
caused an overdraft on the treasury.
Tue losses by fire and storms at state
Institutions required appropriations of
$113,S3S by the extra session. The total
cost of the new code was $195, 194.S2
The soldiers and sailors monument
required an expenditure of $4,000 dur
ing the past two years, and the change
in the law in regard to allowance of
funds to the insane asylums crowded
five quarters into the last fiscal year,
and thus $107s21 were drawn out of the
treasury in advance of the payment
that would have been made under the
old law. Summing up these and other
extraordinary disbursements during
the past two fiscal years, the report
shows their total to be $626,6 .65-
more than 100000 more than the out
standing warrants at the close of the
fiscal period.
In discussing the situation in regard
to state income and disbursements, the
treasurer says that in his opinion the
payment of taxes can be expedited by
a graduated scale of discounts for the
advance payment of taxes. If that
change cannot be made, he says "the
state should separate the state from the
local sources of revenue, so as to insure
more regularity and provide the treas
ury with steady stream of money.
If either of these plans cannot be real
ized," he says, "but one of two things
remains to be done, one of which is
likely to prove unsatisfactory. One is
to increase the state tax levies and give
the treasury larger balances of ready
funds, the other to cut down appropria-
tions within the states income. The
present way of allowing things to go
on is both unbusinesslike and costly"
Fort Madison Pcnitentiary.
Warden Jones, of the state peniten-
tiary at Fort Madison, in his second BIZ
ennial report to Gov. Drake says:
'I am pleased to state that the prison is
In much better condition than at the close
of the previous biennial term. The i'm
provement of the cell house and the addi-
tion of 40 modern steel cells has added
greatly to the sanitary condition of the
prison The new wall, now nearly finished.
will add about three acres to the jail area
and will add to the betterment of the
prison. About Is or 20 convicts have
learned to lay rocks since the beginning
of the work here in June, 1886, and their
work has been satisfactory. Also 80 or
20 have learned to set cut stone, all Of
which work has been done by convicts in
a thoroughly satisfactory manner and at
q great saving to the state. 1 will add
further that this work has been a great
help to the convicts, who would otherwise
have been idle. They have always been
anxious to work. and when employed have
been industrious and obedient. / make the
following estimate for appropriations
needed during the coming biennial pc
riod: For contingent and repair, $4,000; for
transportation, $1,000: for construction of
a sewer to the river, $4,000; for warden's
house fund.- $500; for new furnace in ward
ems house. $500. / would also recommend
that the sum of S6,447.35, the amount re-
manning from appropriations for construc-
tion of cells, be transferred to an appro-
priation to build a shop l60 feet long, 80
feet wide and three stories high upon the
ground in the new yard. the building to be
used as a shop for employment Of men,"
Home for the Blind.
In the third biennial report of the
Iowa industrial home for the blind at