Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-09-06
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. September 3. 1900.

| The middle-of-the-road populists
| held convention at the court house
| or the 2Sth, but owing to the small
| attendance no ticket was placed in the
| field. The state central committee
was authorized to nominate a ticket
and after the adoption IF resolutions
the conference adjourned.
The Fidelity and Cas,,.,lty company
| of New York was for erly author
| lied to do personal ac lent and EN-.
| ployers' liability busine' in this state.
| The management of the company did
not see fit to comply with the re-
| quests of the auditor of state. and lis
| certificate of authority, which ev.
PRED March 1, 1900, has not been re-
newed; therefore this company now
has no authority to legally transact
any kind of tLsiness within the Dor.
ders of this state. The auditors Of
flee is no.s in receipt of information
to the effect that the company is
now eLdeavoring to Illegally place its
poli~.es with citizens of Iowa direct
from the home Office by correspond
| emnce. thus evading the requirements
| of the Iowa laws.
One patient only remains at the
smallpox hospital in this CITY and
unless the unexpected happens the
hospital will be closed next week.
About seventy cases have been cared
for at the hospital, all of whom have
recovered. Not a single death has &c.
Cured from the disease since it first
appeared in the city last winter.
With receipts amounting almost to
$4,000, and with the prospects good
for surplus of nearly $4,000, tho
state fair has come to close. In
the forty-siX years in which annual
state exhibitions have been given in
Iowa, the magnificent success that
has attended the exposition Just
closed has been without precedent.
President II. j. johnson of Humboldt.
head of the state board of agricul-
ture, says he believes the surplus will
be nearly $4,000, after all expenses
have been paid This will mean a
much larger net profit than last wear,
when the surplus was $16,39S.74. With
large surplus in the treasury. it is
the unanimous sentiment of the di-
rectors that improvements at the
grounds should be made, and that in
so far as possible, permanent build
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state, should be erected. One of the
most potent causes for the success
of the exhibition this year in a finan-
cial way has been the fawless
weather for the past week. Good
management and excellent attrac-
tons, however, have had much to do
with it.
In an opinion filed in the Iowa VS..
Day controversy, Judge Prouty holds
that the amendment to the collateral
inheritance tax law is retroactive and
that it cures the defects in the orig
inal law. The opinion not only lie
cided that the state is entitled to tho
recovery of the inheritance tax i'm
the Day estate, but sets at rest all
doubts as to the validity of its claim
to other taxes.
VIII the state claim possession of
he 100000 surplus which the state fair
management now has on hand? The
management is worrying little about
1t. This is due to the ambiguity of
the new agricultural department law
Under it all the bills of the fair have
to go through the hands of the state
executive council like other bills. and
while the law says the state shall
have no interest or responsibility in
the state fair the directors incline to
the belief that the money on hand
may be claimed for the benefit of the
statetreasury, while no debts would
be assumed by the state. ''The Law is
very ambiguous" said Director NJ. j.
Wragg. 1--WE discussed the matter a
little and while we hope that we will
not be interfered with in the improve
ments we vii plan, still there may be
some difficulty about whether that
surplus belongs to us or to the state
The board of control has awarded
the contract for Il years supply of
Hour for the state institutions. OF
the large number of bidders four only
were successful, and it is particularly
gratifying that these are all Iowa
firms. The Mystic Milling company
of Sioux City was awarded the con-
tract for furnishing 300 barrels of
flour for the College for the Blind at
Ninton. The Marshalltown Roller
Mills 600 barrels for the Iowa Sol
diers Home at Marshallltown. The
Centennial Mill company of Avoca Sc
cured the School for the Deaf at Coun-
ell Bluffs, the Institution for Feeble
Minded Children at Glenwood. the
Hospital for the Insane at Clarinda
and the Industrial School for Girls
at Mitchellville, aggregating 1855 bar
rels. Shannon & Mott of Des Moines
secured the award for the Hospital
at Mt. Pleasant, the penitentiary at
Fort Madison, the Iowa Soldiers Or
phans' Home at Davenport, the peni-
tertiary at Anamosa, the Industrial
School at Eldora and the Hospital at
independence. The amount required
for these institutions is $500 barrels.
The price at which the awards were
made was not given out by the board.
but it will aggregate from $4,000 to
$4,000.