Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-11-30
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Del, Moines. November 80. 1900

officers say that John Cline Of Col
fax who has held for illegal sales, Is,
suspected of consplring to get
Slaughter out of the way as q wit
ness against him in whisky case.
Joseph S. Trigg, editor of the Rock
ford Register, who is famous in iowa
as an agriculturist writer and edi-t
torial philosopher, is announced as ~
candidate for secretary OF the board
of agriculture to succeed George j.
Van Houten. The state agricultural
convention will be held in Des Moines
December 10, II, IL and Is. This con-
vention elects the directors and the.
directors elect the secretary.
The city's share of the mulct tax;
on cigarettes, which is now uue from
every dealer in the city who has been
handling cigarettes since October Il
will amount to between ST., 600 and
$4,000. The city receives one-half at
the tax collected. It is estimated
that 300 retail dealers in the city
have been handling "coffin nails" and
each one will be asked to pay the
quarterly SIS. N, q 81.
It is announced by attorneys rep.
resenting the saloon and anti-saloon
interests that q mutual agreement
has been reached in the statement Of
consent decision and appeal from the
board of supervisors, and the matter.
will not come up until the January
term. This practically prevents
efforts toward closing the saloons
again until the middle of January,
when it is expected the case will be
.ocketed. A representative OF the
anti-saloon forces says, however, the
matter will be pushed with all yigOr
at the January term.
w. B. Martin, secretary Of state
elect, has decided to appoint d. Al.
Hites as his deputy. thus insurings
the retention of Mr.. Hites in the
Office ne now holds under Secretary
Dobson. At the same time G.. S. Gill
bertson, the treasurer of state elect.
announced the appointment of John
McQuiston of Des Moines, county
auditor of Polk county, as his dep
uty.
DR.. Lewis Schooler, chairman of
the general army post committee,
has sent word to Captain j. A. II.
Hull that the committee has selected
a site for an army post and has SEE
cured the money necessary for it's.
purchase. The site selected is the
Drisco-Denny property, located about
three and one-half miles south of the
business center of the city. The next,
step toward securing the post will be
the appointment of commissionSby
the government to visit this city Ind
decide il the army post co1nmittets,sA$
proposition is to be accepted. No
one anticipates that thepE win be
any objection. On the Other hand
everyone who has been asst ociated IL
any way with the movement expeaf
the spring of 1901, or at least tt
early summer, to see an army post.
composed of a regiment of cavalry,
completely established and in full
operation within walking distance Of
Des Moines. In establishing the post
in this city the government will prob
ably begin with an expenditure Of a
little less than 81 900, 600 After it is
established the money spent in its,
management will amount to over
$4,000 q month.
The official figures show that the
proposition to hold convention to
revise and amend the constitution
was lost by SIS votes. The first
rough draft of the official figures
showed the convention had been carr
ried by Il narrow margin. But when
the abstracts were checked over it
was found there had been errors in
transcribing the returns from the
abstracts for the purpose of getting
at official results. The chief source
of the trouble was in the returns
from Tama county. This had been
credited with 1000 too many votes
for the convention, a's2" having been
mistaken for 49," The total vote
cast for the convention according to
the official figures was 176,337 and the,
total vote against it was 176, 1892 The
Iofficial figures on the Titus amend
ment 90 not alter materially the
'semi-official figures given out, the
majority for the amendment being
upwards of 10000. i,s
q /, /. 3 &
Two handsome pieces of marble
statuary, the busts of Ex-Governor
William Larrabee and Mrs. Larrabee,
have arrived at the historical build
ing. They are the gifts of the cx-
governor to the historical depart
ment. Their arrival was an entire
surprise to Curator Charles Aldrich,
who is highly pleased at receiving
them. They will occupy prominent
places in the art room. The figures
are of life size and are Of the purest
Partisan marble. They were sculp--
tured at Florence, Italy, the sculpI
tors being Pugi Freres, artists sbf
that city All those who have seer.
the figures agree they are striking
ikenesses of Ex-Governor Larrabee
and his wife.
Germany Defies the Sultan.
Constanlinople, Nov. 27.A diff