Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-08-17
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Des Moines. Aug ust II. 1900.

Des Moines, August II, 1900.
The annual report Of the Iowa Sol.
diers' Orphans home for the year
ending June 80, 1900, has been sub.
mitted to the board Of control by the
superintendent, NJ. I. Goss. The in.
mates present July l, 1899, were 445,
and July 1, 1900, We're 4a4. There are
children in the home from u of the
80 counties of the state. The sup
port fund balance July 1, 1899, was
$S,4S4.17. July /, 1900, it was $S,010.6S.
The falling off is accounted for in q
large expenditure for a new herd of
cows, increased farming utensils and
other expenditures pertaining to the
operating of large farm, some mark
ed improvements in the premises and
q better food supply. An account
is given of the work done in the
dressmaking and tailoring depart
ments, and of the products of the
farm and garden. Besides these in
dustries there is cabinet and car
penter shop, a paint shop, engineer
ing department and pipe shop.
Through these, the report says, q
repair and betterment of the home
Attorney General Remley has SUBJ
mitted an opinion to Warden Hunter
of Anamosa penitentiary in reply to
query from the warden. He holds that
it is not necessary for prisoner to
be confined in solitary punishment
before good time can be deducted
from the sentence. Mr.. Remley says
that if prisoner were sentenced to
the penitentiary for one year and
should, by reason of the violation OF
the rules of the prison. spend ten
days in solitary confinement, he could
rot claim his discharge from the peni-
Tertiary until year and ten days had
elapsed. But any violation which
justities a punishment Of any kind
whether by solitary confinement or
other kinds of punishment, works
forfeiture according to the schedule
of forfeiture laid down in the code.
The attorney general does not wish to
imply that every infraction of the
rules and regulations of the prison
works a forfeiture of good time earn
ed, only that which demands punish
ment.
Secretary Wesley Green of the State
Horticultural society says the blight
sweet peas, morning glories and other
plants in Iowa. is not due to the great
heat and drouth, but TO the red spi-
der, which comes under this condi-
,tion of the atmosphere. This spider
is minute insect which works on
the under side of the plant leaves.
Mr.. Green says if the under side of
the leaves are sprayed with water
once or twice day the insects will
disappear, as water is as destructive
to it as any fluid which might be
used.
The board of examiners for mine
inspectors was in session at Abba al
most a week for the purpose of con-
Quoting an examination to deter
mine the competency of mine fore
men, pit bosses and hosting engi-
neers, and to grant certificates to
those capable of performing such
duties. The examination at Abba is
the first one conducted under the
new law which was enacted by the
Twenty-eighth general assembly. 1t
resulted in granting certificates to
siNty-one applicants out of total of
ninety-fve, about one-thind of the
candidates being turned down as in.
competent.
eve expect that iowa mills, exclu-
kively, will furnish the 10,OS5 barrels
of fuor required by the state insti-
tutions for the year beginning with
October IT, says Mr.. John Cownie,
of the state board of control. ''There
is no reason why the millers of this
state cannot get these contracts.
The wheat crop in Iowa this year
has been exceptionally fine. We eN-
pect that there will be no necessity
of sending the orders for this prod
uct out of the state. There will be
anywhere from $4,000 up in it. The
bids will be opened September 1. The
millers can before that tell the ex-
tent of the crop and figure the price
of the product during the ensuing
season easily and correctly"
Prospects are good for the early ter
mination of the canvass of the COM
mittee for funds with which to pro-
vide a site for the new army post.
The committee in charge of the
work has agreed with the park COM
nlissioners on terms for the acquire
ment of Wayeland park for portion
OF the post site and has reached an
understanding with number of the
members of the city council and par
ties interested by which it will be
possible for the committee to secure
the Ingersoll cemetery tract. Unless
these plans miscarry, this double
tract will undoubtedly be the site
of the new army post and military
park. It is expected to take the mat
ter up with the city at once and try
and get it in such shape that the
land can be transferred and work
commenced on it this fall.
It is stated at the office of the state
dairy commissioner that milk dealers
throughout Iowa are being carefully
watched for another discovery of
milk diluted with formaldehyde. Just
now the milk inspector in Council
Bluffs is watching the outcome of the
cases in Omaha courts. against sew
eral firms which are charged with
having embalmed the milk they put
on the market. Among these firms is
one with headquarters in Council