Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-12-20
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. December II, 1900.

interview that the board would use
every means to keep from issuing
certificates to graduates of the Still
College of Osteopathy. At it's last
meeting the board postponed action,
giving for its reason that there was
too much other business on hand to
consider the osteopaths, but DIR.
Commit said: "rhe board members
propose to stand by their guns and
protect the public health of this
state Just as long as they possibly
can. 1t is true there is law under
which the board is required to issue
certificates to osteopaths. but there
are also provisions which allow the
board to provide qualifications that
must be met before persons can be
admitted to the practice of osteop-
athy i am convinced we should
make every effort to keep them from
practicing. They have begun man
damus proceedings against us in Polk
county and threaten us with Jail for
contempt of court. but we are will
ing TO let that come if necessary"
The Des Moines G. Northern Iowa
Hallway company, Incorporated in
Des Moines recently to build road
north from Des Moines through
Boone and Britt. will build into Des
MONIES. President Reynolds and
members of the directory board have
authorized the statement. An engi-
neering corps to run the preIimin-
aries and finally to locate the line
between Boone and Des Moines in
now being organized ana will take
the field at once.
a number of the leading physicians
of Des Moines have organized tbs
Iowa Physicians Hospital association
and intend to establish in Des Moipes
a hospital and sanitarium for the
care and treatment of cases of tuber-
culosis. They have secured an option
on the Hyde Park sanitarium. about
three miles east of the state house
ana a half mile north of the state
lalr grounds, where the new institu-
non is proposed to be located. The
sanitarium will be devoted exclusive
~ TO the treatment of tuberculosis.
IL VIII be operated on "broad, scien-
tire and ethical basis" In the latter
respect the institution will be the
states. The physicians say no other
institution makes n speciality of tu-
berculosis, and that the Isolation
treatment is therefore impossible in
them.
The large shippers of Des Moines
nave devised novel plan to secure
lower railroad rates. The Jobbers and
manufacturers association has de-
cided to form pool in the shape of
transportation company. which will
route all shipments, giving the bust
ness to the road Offering the best
rates.
At meeting of the state agricul-
tural convention Treasurer Ellison
reported state fair balance on hand
or S2S,616.61. Resolutions were
adopted fayoring the creation of a
national park at the Headquarters
of the Mississippi river and the con-
centration of the control of the gov
eminent forest reservation under the
department. of Agriculture. Officers
were elected as follows: President.
X. j. Johnson, Humboldt; vice-pres-
ident, j. c. Frazier, Bloomfield; f.
nance committee, T. j. Gibson, Knox
vile; w. N. Ousler, Humboldt, and
Il. Il. Smith, Fairfield; directors
first district, j. p. Manatrey, Fair
field; second, {. w. Phillips, Maquo-
keta; third. w. c. Brown, Clarion;
fourth. II. II. st. John, Riceyille;
fifth, ). b. Packard, Marshalltown;
sixth. I. c. Legoe, What Cheer; sew
enth, NJ. j. Wragg, Waukee; eighth,
W. W. Morrow, Alton; ninth. Michael
Mcdonald, Baird; tenth, j. w. Wads-
worth, Algona; eleventh, c. L. Cam
eron. Alta, At a meeting of the board
of directors Geo. III. Van Houten was
reelected secretary and G. ID. Ely
son was reelected treasurer.
a strong attack on the experiment
stations of the state was made by w.
Nj. Bomberger of Harlan, retiring
treasurer of the Horticultural society
in paper on Correct information"
read before that body. Mr. Bomber
ger said the experiments had absorb
ed $500 of the funds allowed the So
ciety in recent years and had given
the public only prejudiced local ideas.
lie maintained that in all ways the
funds of the society had been improp-
erly used. The treasurer held that
the system of experimenting as car
RED on in the state was not contem-
plated in the law and offered to SUBJ
'ii' Niit VI w tllC dLtOTHtI gen.
eral but a motion to that effect was
ruled out of order.
Swift e. Co., the big pork and beef
packers who have operated dis
tributing branch in Des Moines for
a number of years, have branched
out in the dressed poultry business
and have about perfected arrange
ments for making Des Moines one of
the big centers in this department.
of their business. They are now
100 hands and picking and
packing as high as 5000 fowls day,
most of them chickens, but many OF
them turkeys. These fowls are ship
ped to Chicago, where they are
placed in cold storage until sold.
John II. Sage, director of the Iowa
weather and crop service. has issued
his annual crop report. showing the
average yield per acre, total product
and average prices of staple farm
products in Iowa December /, 1890.
The yield of winter wheat on re-
duced acreage as compared with
former years appears to be 1,01s,070
bushels-an average of 14.3 bushels
per acre. The total yield of spring
wheat is 20,2S0,2s0 bushels-an aver
age of 14.3 bushels per acre. The
average home value of spring wheat
is 60 cents and winter wheat 62 cents
per bushel, making the total of the
wheat crop S12,799,371. The care
fully revised figures made last June
showed the area of corn planted this
year to be S,61S,660 acres. The re-
turns of the harvest show remarka-
BILE uniformity in the output of the
crop in the different sections of the
state, the average per acre for the