Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-01-04
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
DIES MONIES, Dec. 30, 1899

lem in answer to question as to the
of offering quail for sale dur
Ing the open quail season in the state.
Section 1851 of the code provides that
during the open quail season, between
November and January 1, quail may
BE- killed, providing not more than
twenty-five per day are killed by any
one hunter, and that none are trapped.
or taken for purposes of traffic. The
state fish and game warden has had
trouble with the buying and selling OF
this species Of game, and believed that
the persons doing SO violated the stat
utica. The attorney holds that, how
ever guilty the one who kills the quail,
there seems TO be nothing in the law
the buying and selling Of
che sAme during the open season after
&c Is caught. even though the hunter is
prohibited from trafficking.
Il IL probable that the subject which
will create the principal interest and
result in the widest range of discussion
1t the coming session of the legislature
will be proposals to change the system
Of caring for the insane of the state.
There are three branches to the pres
emit system: Counties care for their
insane either in asylums or in poor
houses; private institutions care for
insane; and the state at its state hospi.
tails cares for and cures the insane.
The board of control Is against the
county system and 1t would favor the
enactment of law preventing further
investment In county asylums, and
requiring the removal of all insane
patients in counties having no asylums
or hospitals to the state institutions.
This means the removal of about 600
patients, sufficient to fill Cherokee,
about. In view Of this possibility the
board asks for $780, 900 to finish the
Cherokee hospital. The board does
not recommend the removal Of patients
from county asylums to the state hos
pitfalls, but would stop the extension of
county care further than the present.
Secretary Kennedy, OF the state
board of health is in receipt of reports
from further outbreaks of smallpox in
the state. One case Is reported at
Jesup, Buchanan county; another is
In Washington township, buchanan
county, and third has been re-
ported at Independence. The reports
Indicate that the best quarantine
measures have been adopted, but do
not state whether the cases are of q
malignant type. Another new case
was reportel from Monroe county.
Several have previously been reported
1t Coalheld, and yesterdays report
locates case in Mantua township
II has been quarantined. Previous to
this, cases have been reported at four
places in Buena Vista county, at
Storm Lake, Marathon, Sioux Rapids
and In Providence township. Then
there are cases in Northwood. Worth
county; in Silver Lake township,
Worth county; at Alvord and Doom.
Lyon county, and at Corning, Adams
county. In all, fifty-seven cases are
now known to exsist in the state,
most of them convalescent. There
have been three deaths. This years
outbreak proves more malignant. In
1928 there were $50 cases reported in
the state and only twoJeaths.
A dispatch from Houston, Texas,
reads as follows: An Iowa syndicate
headed by d. b. Hurd and A. II. Nc
vey. Of Des Moines, secured options
ON 10,424 acres of land in jefferson
county. for which they agreed to pay
SIS. 900. The same parties also secur-
Cd ninety-day option on another
tract, which makes the total transac.
ton amount to q purchase Of l4,264
sores. which is to cost them $225.OO0.
The gentlemen act as trustees for
syndicate now being organized in Iowa
20 20 into the rice business on large
asale. This syndicate is projected
with . paid up capital of $500, 900. and
IN addition to raising rice, 1t is to be
Be- cleaned and graded on the farm.
The plan has progressed SO far that
ths trustees say options on the land
were necessary to q completion Of the
organization. Farmers from Iowa
ere to be brought to Texas to do the
work. and they will be stockholders.
Certified checks have been deposited
for per cent of the purchase money.
Governor Shaw will submit to the
legislature the cases Of but four con.
vlUts asking for pardon. They are:
Thomas Kelly, sentenced In Lucas
county in 1885; John Bellew, sentenc.
ID in Dubuque county in 1878 and Jas
per Mason. sentenced in Dallas county
II 1875. Twelve or fifteen life convicts
petitioned for executive and legisla-
tive clemency. Among them were the
Hamburger brothers who were sent
70 prison from Marshall county, and
concerning whose expected effort to
secure pardon from the legislature
much sensational matter has been
printed. John Wesley Elkins was also
another petitioner. He Is the boy
Who killed his mother and father when
he was IL years old. These and the
other petitioners, except the four
named, Governor Shaw determined not
70 present to the legislature. A Curl
GUS looseness Of expression obtains in
the law relating to the pardon of life
convicts in Iowa. 1t provides that
The governor shall not pardon such
convicts until their petitions are re-
ferred to the legislature. Every gov
ernor has construed this to mean that
the governor cannot pardon until the
legislature recommends to him that
those whose petitions are submitted to
IL shall be pardoned. But the law
plainly does not require the executive
either to await the recommendation of
the legislature or to observe its recon-
mendations; nor does it prevent the
governor from pardoning persons
whose pardon the legislature refuses
20 recommend. 1t is probable that an
effort win be made to have the law
made clearer.
The Iowa Mexican Plantation COM
pany. New Jersey corporation that
desires to do business in Iowa, has
Aled amendment articles Of incorpor-
alton with the secretary of state. The
The concern 10 capitalized at 81. Os7. 800.
The fling fee amounts to 81, IO6. 10.
This corporation Is the one that took