Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-08
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. November s. 1900.

Des Moines. November 8. 1900.
John Cownie of the state board
OF control has returned from Daven--
| port, where he closed the purchase
of bit of land for the state. The
Orphans home, as it is at present,
| Is without garden, and it was felt
| that it was absolutely necessary for
| the state that land be purchased to
keep those capable of working in
that institution busy. For this pur-
pose an appropriation was made by
the legislature. The entire matter
| was placed in the hands of the board.
The purchase made is known in Day--
export as the Tondorff tract, and,
adJoins the Orphans home.
State superintendent B.rrett will
issue circular in few DAYS re,at-
ing to the plan of transporting chill
dren from rural school districts to-
township centers as was provided by
the Twenty-eighth general assembly.
The idea is being used in a number
or places in the state. and has been
adopted with especially fine success.
in Buffalo township, Winnebago.
county, where six buses are run
every day and ninety-eight children
from the country districts are con-.
| veyed to Buffalo Center. The school
| at Buffalo Center is good one, and
six teachers are now employed there.
\ In speaking of the economy of the
| new system as well as of its other
| advantages, Mr.. Barrett said that
| last year in one of the counties of the
| state there were three school dis
| tricts where the combined attendance
| of the children did not average quite.
five. Each of the three teachers was
paid $50.
Among the nctables in Attendance
At State Epworth League convent
were Bishop Isaac w. Joyce of Min
neapclis, president Of the Epworth
| Leag':e; DR.. B. L. Berry of Chicago,
general secretary; DR.. Il. L. Paine of
| Lincoln, Nebraska, and Rev. DR.. j. c.
| w. Coke of Washington, Iowa, mem.
| bcrs of the General Board of Con.
troll; Mrs. Lucy Ryder Myer of Chi
cago, deaconess; and DIR. S. L. Hamil
ton of Los Angeles, Cal, travelling in
the interest of the International Ep-
worth League convention to be held
at San Francisco next July. This
| Eleventh convention was the largest
| an most enthusiastic one in the
| history of the state organization.
at the closing services on Sunday
evening grand revival service was
held and fifty Oh more seekers were
ut the altar. at least helf this nuraber
testifying to glorious experience
In the trial of the peculiar Mary
| Gordon hnfnrn No In.
sane commissic ners an old slavery
lay of the state of Missouri was
quoted to support the contention of
| one of the parties. Mary Gordon is
IL young white girl who ran away
from her home in Missouri and mar
red n colored man. Her father and
other relatives overlook her in this,
city. whereupon she set up the claim
that she had negro blood in her
veins, derived from her mother, and
that her father had abused her and
was pursuing her to get control of
property she inherited from her
grandfather. 1t was shown under
the law of Missouri that colored
person. no matter how slight the
trace of negro blood, cannot inherit
from white person. If the girl is
colored she could not inherit the
| property in question. The father
preferred charges of insanity, and
the court sustained the charges. 1t
is proposed to place her in a private
asylum in Missouri.
The auditor of state has learned of
swindling operation which has
been practiced on the farmers about
| Minburn. III. f. Boyd, a Justice of
the peace at Minburn, informs TIE
insurance department that there is
an association called the Threshers'
/ NationaI Protective associat ton with
headquarters at 531 Wabash avenue,
Chicago, which alleges it is doing
an insurance business. It's represent
| tatives have insur ed number of
threshing machines about Minburn,
| taking notes therefor, together with
| the applications for insurance and
promising to send policies insuring
the machines against fire and light.
ring. None of the policies have ever
been sent. c. f. Miller, president Of
the concern, has sent the notes to
Boyd, claiming he was an innocent
purchaser of the paper and wants
his money. The auditor has sent a
letter to Boyd informing him he vas
right in surmIsing the scheme a
fraudulent one, as the company has
no .egal right TO transact business
in Iowa. The persons who entered
/ into the scheme are supposed to have
| given ordinary Dromissory notes for
which they will probably be held re-
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