Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-04-20

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The building will be put up on the
ground of Mercy hospital, to the north
ofthe hospital building, and work upon
its construction is to begin at once.
The Manchester & Oneida Railway
Company has fled articles of incorpor-
alton with the secretary of state. The
road will be built from Manchester to
Oneida, both being in Delaware coun-
ity. The capital stock is $4,000. The
new road will give Manchester an out
let to both the Great Western and
Milwaukee railroads. 1t was charged
at Manchester that the Illinois Central
influence prevented the Great West
ern building a spur down to Manches-
ter from Oneida. Oneida is about ten
miles north of Manchester. ,
&Adiutant General Byers plans to
have all of the Iowa National Guard
regiments hold their camps in Des
Moines simultaneously during the
coming summer. He is working on
the project now with hope of success.
He is urging the government to turn
over to the state the tentage which
the Iowa guard is entitled to, and ii
this can be arranged, the arrange
ments for holding the camps in Des
Moines, or near it, can be easily fixed.
II this matter bitches. 1t will be diff
cult to secure the necessary tentage in
.Dcs Moines. 1t is believed that this
will be one of the most enjoyable re-
unions of the guard ever held. Bril-
gade encampments have been held
heretofore but never until the time of
Camp Mckinley were all four regi-
ments modified. Sixty per cent OF
the members Of the reorganized guard
were also members of the old guard
that went into the Spanish-Amerlcan
war The holding of the camps to-
gether will give the veterans UNI
equalled chance for reunions. And
General Lincoln, as senior colonel,
would be in command, to the grati6-
cation of the entire guard.
Auditor of State Frank Merriam is
at Colorado Springs and the depart
ment at the capitol is in receipt of a
long letter from him Conveying the
Intelligence that he is getting along
nicely.
The state executive council, in ses-
sion recently, directed Secretary Davi-
son, of the council, to cooperate with
the auditors department in getting up
the necessary blanks for the reports
:Of the express, telephone and tele.
graph companies so that the proper
ties of these corporations may be as
isessed and taxed by the council in ac-
5cordance with the new laws of the
last general assembly.
Plans for the completion of the
state historical building were ordered
by the council. The legislature APP
propriated SCI, 900 for the completion
of the building. The third floor will
be finished and the necessary furniture
and fixtures will be bought by bids.
A number of cases of small pox have
been reported from Fort Dodge and a
of laxness on the part of the local au-
thorities and asking the board to
intervene.
q The governor has received and in.
dorsed over to the treasurer of state a
warrant on the treasurer of the United
States for S4,311.67. being the amount
due the county of Delaware as inden.
nifty for swamp lands enormously sold
by the government
The auditor of state has sent letter
to the Scott County Savings Bank OF
Davenport saying that branch banks
cannot be operated under the banking
laws of Iowa. The question waa
raised about six months ago when the
Scott County Savings Bank opened
branch next door to the Davenport
Savings Bank because of the strong
rivalry existing between the two. The
matter has hung fire in the auditors
Office for some time, although the Dav-
export Savings has protested loudly.
Finally it said it would start a branch
itself if branch banks were in order.
This called for the decision just rem
dered, that the Scott County Savings
Bank must either capitalize its branch
or close it.
win go to Washington, d. g.. to help
push I11e cldlulS VI Tue lLOllSldud puI-
chase states He will be one of the II
governors, representing the II states
of the Louisiana purchase, who have
been asked to join the delegation from
these states and appear before the con-
gressional committee to ask for an APP
preparation of S5,OOO,OOO for the St.
Louis worlds fair to be held in 1903.
The congressional committee will meet
April 81, and the governors have all
been notified Of their invitations to be
present through Secretary James Cox
of the worlds fair committee.
The executive committee of the State
Agricultural society has selected the
Fifty-first Iowa regiment band for the
state fair this year. 49,
Chicagoans With Beers.
LONDON, April 2O.-According to a
dispatch to the Daily Mail from To-
reno Marquee, nearly half the mem
beers of the Chicago ambulance corps,
when offered Mausers on their arrival
at Pretoria. tore off their Red Cross
badges Adelbert S. Hay, United
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