Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-12-14
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Des Moines December IA, 1900.
State Treasurer-elect G. s. Gilbert
son went to Chicago to be operated
upon for app endicitis. Fletcher How
ard received q telegram from him
saying the operation had been per-
formed and he was getting along all
right. s.$-,s
John r. Sage, director of the Iowa
weather and crop service. has issued
his annual crop report. showing the
Il average yield per acre, total product
and average prices of staple farm
products in Iowa December /, 1890
e Ihe yield Of winter wheat on re,
duced acreage as compared with
former years appears to be 1,O1S,O7(
busheis-an average of 1913 bushels
per acre. The total yield of spring
wheat as 20.2SO,2s0 bushels-an aver.
age OF 14.3 bushels per acre. The
average home value of spring wheat
rs 90 cents and winter wheat So cents
Per hnshel, making the total of the
wheat crop $12,799,371. The care
FULLY revised figures made last June
showed the area of corn planted this
year to be S,61S,66O acres The re-
I turns OF the harvest show remarka-
Die uniformity in the output of the
crop in the different sections of the
state, the average per acre for the
several counties ranging from thir-.
i.Sty-hve to forty-three bushels. There
are slxty-three counties. credited
4 with an average yield of forty-three
bushels per acre. The total product
OF the state is 345,055,040 bushels.
The average yield per acre is 4O.3
bushels for the state; average price,
= cents, and the value of the crop
az that figure is 500. 104, $50. Fully
three-fourths of the crop will be
consumed within the state.
DR.. r. E. Commit OF the state board
OF medical examiners admitted in an
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 DR..
Commit said: 'The 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 a 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. l 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 &, Northern Iowa
Railway company, incorporated in
Des Moines recently to build road
north from Des Moines through /
Boone and Britt, will build into Des |
Aoines. President Reynolds and |
members of the directory board have
authorized the statement. An engi- |
neerlng corps to run the prelimin-
aries and finally to locate the line
between Boone and Des Moines is
now being organized and will take
the field at once.
A number of the leading physicians
OF Des Moines have organized the
Iowa Physicians Hospital association
and intend to establish in Des Moines
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 half mile north of the state
fair grounds, where the new institu-
ton is proposed to be located. The
sanitarium will be devoted exclusive
~ to the treatment of tuberculosis.
1t viii be operated on ''broad, scien-
tific and ethical basis" In the latter
respect the institution will be the
states. The physicians say no other
institution makes a speciality of tu-
berculosis, and that the Isolation
treatment is therefore impossible in
them. yl8s- ~
At meeting of the state agricul-
tural convention Treasurer Ellison
IcpOTtcO d SLdUe 1d1r balance On hanQ
of $2S,616.61. Resolutions were
adopted favoring the creation of
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,
r. j. Johnson, Humboldt; yice-pres-
ident, j. c. Frazier, Bloomfeld; fl
nance committee, T. J. Gibson, Knox
vile; w. n. Ousler, Humboldt, and
e. r. Smith, Fairfield; directors
first district, J. P. Manatrey, Fair
field; second, C. w. Phillips, Maquo-
keta; third, w. C. Brown, Clarion;
fourth, r. 7. st. John, Riceville;
fifth, S. B. Packard, Marshalltown;
sixth, T. C. Legoe, What Cheer; sew
enth, N. j. Wragg, Waukee; eighth,
w. w. Morrow, Alton; ninth, Michael
Mcdonald, Baird; tenth, J. W. Wads-
worth, Algona; eleventh, G.. E. Cam
eron, Alta. At a meetin~ of the board
.of directors Geo. Fl. " Houten was
reelected secretary md G. D. Ely
son was reelected treasurer.