Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-09-28
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines, September 20, 1900.

NOTES FROM The CAPITAL
Des Moines, September 80, 1900.
The articles OF incorporation Of the
southwestern Railway Company have
been received at the secretary Of
states Office. The articles provide for
the organization Of railway COM
pany and construction of line
from Pella to Howell, distance Of
about eighty miles. The line will con-
meet the Wabash at Pella and the
Keokuk and Des Moines division Of
the Rock Island at Howell. The COM
pany is to be capitalized at 100000.
The state horticultural society is
being furnished with collection OF
the fora Of the state. The plants are
being donated by Professor Pammel
of the botanical department of the
state agricultural college at Ames,
and mounted by him, the state having
to pay for the paper and materials
used in mounting only. Over 200
specimens have already reached the
office of Secretary Wesley Green.
Heretofore the state has had no col
lection of the state fora. Professor
Pammell has also provided a number
of specimens showing fungus dis
eases of fruits. Another collection
that is being made up in this depart
ment is that of the fruits of lowe
preserved in acids.
E. S. Ellsworth of Iowa Falls, who
is the president of the proposed Des
Moines, Iowa Falls & Northern rail
road, was in the city meeting with
some of the promoters of the Duluth
& New Orleans road relative to the
retirement from the field of the lat
ter company. "The Des Moines d
iowa Falls road is a certainty at any
time that we are confident that the
other road has been given up" said
Mr. Ellsworth. ''It would be impos-
sible to do anything with the bonds
of our road while the other road was
being planned and work was being
done on its construction. No east
ern bond house would take the bonds
with the possibility of any trouble
arising. The consequence is that we
have lost all the best of this year,
while the Duluth &, New Orleans
company has been going ahead and
spending money continually. I I'M
derstand that about $1,000 per month
has been expended on the work that
has been done. II they are now
ready to give up the road we will go
right ahead with ours, and will have
some of the work done before win
ter stops US. A corps of engineers
was kept in the field all last year,
but nothing has been done this year
and nothing will be done unless we
are definitely assured that the other
road is out of the way"
Representatives of two voting ma
chine companies are in Des Moines
trying to induce the county board of
supervisors to adopt their respective
machines for use in this county. They
are the Climax company, represented
by E. E. Miller of Franklin Grove,
Ill, and the Standard company, rep
resented by Mr.. Gillespie of Atlantic.
The Climax people feel confident Of
selling their machine, if the board
decides to purchase machines for the
county. The voting machine commits
sion appointed by Governor Shaw last
winter inspected the Climax at Cedar
Rapids about a week ago, and de-
clared that it fulfilled the require
ments of the statute: The Standard
has not been passed on, but it will
probably be submitted to the com.
mission shortly.
The Bonaparte dam case will be
heard from at the coming session Of
the supreme court, the case having
been advanced upon the calendar by
request. The Bonaparte dam case will
be remembered as case against
Meek Bros. of Bonaparte, owners of
wooden mills operated in that city,
which were run by water power Sc
cured from the dam on the Des
Moines river. Fishermen in the
neighborhood of Bonaparte and up
the Des Moines river to Des Moines
complained that the dam obstructed
the free passage of fish up the river,
and the Iowa Sportsman's associa-
ton began an action to compel Meek
vide fshways adequate and suitable
lot Inc TlVeF. 1Ae StdIe VI Iowa
joined with the plaintiffs, and the case
was bitterly contested. A verdict in
favor of the defendants was secured
in the lower court and the plaintiffs
at once appealed the case. The re-
cent advancement means that it will
receive early consideration at the
October term.
GEN. PALMER DEAD.