Audubon Republican., 1900-12-13
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. December Z. 100,


Des Moines. December 7. 1000.
The state executive council has
concluded the official canvass Of the
votes cast at the last general elec-
tlon Tor electors, state ticket. con.
s.ltutional amendment and biennai
eicction amendement. These Official
ngnres do not vary from the un-
oncial and show that Baldwin. re-
. Piurallty of os,543, the other re-
pupiican elector-at-large, received
pupiican candidates following close.
oenihd. The candidates of other
b. ri, eies received votes as follows;
Elboeck. democrat. 2o9 o65. RnoLart
an, prohibition, $500; Weeks nan-
pies, 613; Fraulson. socialist;c Ia.
DOT, 257; Benkert, united Christian
100; Work, social uemocrat. 74a
AT the annual convention Of IL.
IOWA State Travelling Mems Assoc.
iatlon w. III. Wheeler was Reelected
president without opposition. os
was 4. u. Haley to the Office of see
retary and treasuer.
Judge Robinson of the board ~
control has recently inspected tn.
institutions at Cherokee and :.
dependence. At INDEPENDENCE h..
says the typhoid epidemic Is abet;nn
The are forty persons still sick.
80 nave peen four suspects re-
10y Dut aside frcm these, there
- D:en Oh late no new eases. The
a1uic mas been severe one. The
er if OF male attendants and en-
p;oses VINO nave had the disease il
hteeh' ana the number of female
r., sr, oeiiashts and employees fifteen.
ne NUMBER OF male patients who
nae peen sick is los, and the fe.
MAZE ninety. There is total of "a,
that nave been afflicted. One femaIa
attendant died. fourteen male na.
.iehts and eight female patients
.otai or twenty-three. While in,
Guy water at Independence ia said
70 contain matter calculated ! to fns.
.er germs, no germs have been found
n - lhe water before introduction ~
tne building. For some weeks only
Iteriilzed water has been used in Az
hospital. ~ She
Ahother chapter has been added +o
the court house sqrabbIe bv the a.,
ing OF petition in the district cour.
asking that an order be ;ssnad -
stralning the board of supernisas.
from taking any further sct;on -
.ne court house matter and decIar-
ing that everything done so far wa.
ilile@ai. Mr.. Windsor. who filed m.
Petition, represents the river 'front.'
people. irons
Messrs. Jones and Nav of C,avo
land, the engineer and business o,a,,.
or the Cleveland Interurban EIactria
railway company, who were in Das
Moines last July to look over thS
route of the proposed electric line haD
tween Des Moines and Newton Inv.
neen IN Des Moines again within tbs
last two weeks. They were occor,,.
panied by other representatives Of !
%. llama and the Cleveland canitaJ.
lSCS VINO propose to build the rond
anu MADE another inspection of tbs
proposed road. They came unherald-
eu' either did not register or regis
Iereo under assumed names, and
were IN Des Moines and vicinity for
tnree days at least. The fact that
they were here leaked out throuph
men who have been consulted by
them relative to the project. From
Chem IL was learned that the gentle
men say there is no question but thu
ROAD VIII be built if the necessarN
concessions In the way of franchises
can De obtained. In Des Moines a
franchise will be asked for one line
from the east city limits to the busi-
ness center over some street to he
named. and the towns of Altoona
Mitchellville, Colfax and Newton will
be asked to grant franchises for the
operation of the road through those
towns, and over certain streets. II
was claimed that the franchise oues-
ton will be taken up with the citv
council in Des Moines during tba
winter months, and that buiIdinu
operations will be commenced as
soon as spring opens up if the proper
arrangements can be made.
Immediately after the Easter holi-
days Des Moines will become a sec
city. DR.. McGorrisk, one of the dele
gates to the meeting of the suffragan
bishops at Dubuque, stated yester-
day that he had taken canvass OF
the bishops in attendance and found
not dissenting vote on the ones.
tion, even the Davenport bishop no.
objecting.
State Treasurer-elect G. s. Gilbert
son went to Chicago to be operated
upon for appendicitis. Fletcher How
ard received telegram from him
saying the operation had been per-
formed and he was getting along all
right.
ANTI-BRITISU RESOLUTION
Congressman Suizer of New York t.