Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-12-20
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Des Moines. Decsmber II. 1000.

Des Moines. December II, 1900.
DIR. r. +. 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 DIR.
Commit said: "The board members
propose 10 stand by their guns and
protect the public health of this
state just as long as they possibly
can. 1T is true there is 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. / 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 S Northern Iowa
halfway company, Incorporated in
Des Moines recently to build road
north from Des Moines through
Boone and Britt, will build into Des
Moines. President Reynolds and
members of the directory board have
authorized the statement. An engi-
neering corps to run the prelmin-
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 q
iowa Physicians Hospital association
ana intend to establish in Des Moines
"a hospital and sanitarium for the
care ana treatment of cases of tuher-
cuioslS. 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
lair grounds, where the new institu-
ZION is proposed to be located. The
Sanitarium viii be devoted exclusive
~ TO the treatment of tuberculosis.
~ VIII ne operated on broad scien-
tlhc and ethical basis" In the latter
respect the institution will be the
:tates. The physicians say no other
bercuiosis, and that the isolation
treatment is therefore impossible in
them.
The large shippers OF Des Moines
have devised a novel plan to secure
lower railroad rates. The JoDbers and
manufacturers association has de-
clded to form pool in the shape of
transportation company, which will
route all shipments, giving the BUSH
ness to the road offering the best
rates.
AT. meeting of the state agricul-
tural convention Treasurer Ellison
reported state fair balance on hand
OF S2S,616.61. Resolutions were
adopted favoring the creation of a
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,
IL. j. johnson, Humboldt; vice-pres-
ident, j. {. Frazier, Bloomfield; fl
nance committee, II. j. Gibson, Knox
Vile: w. N. Ousler, Humboldt. and
+. L. Smith, Fairfield; directors
first district, j. p Manatrey, Fair
field; second, c. w. Phillips, Mauuo-
keta; third, w. c. Brown, Clarion:
fourth. II. r. st. John, Riceville:
fifth, S. b. Packard, Marshalltown;
sixth, Il. c. Legoe, What Cheer; sew
enth, NJ. j. Wragg, Waukee; eighth,
W. w. Morrow, Alton; ninth, Michael
Mcdonald, Baird; tenth, j. w. Wads-
worth, Algona; eleventh, c. Z. Cam
eron. Alta. At a meeting OF the board
of directors Geo. H. Van Houten was
reelected secretary and G. ID. Ely
son was reelected treasurer.
strong attack on the experiment
stations of the state was made by w.
Nj. Bonberger of Harlan, retiring
treasurer of the Horticultural society
in paper on Correct information
read before that body. Mr.. Bomber
ger said the experiments had absorb
ed $4,000 of the funds allowed the So
ciety in recent years and had given
lne public only prejudiced local ideas.
lie maintained that in all ways the
funds of the society had been improp-
erly used. The treasurer held that
the system of experimenting as car
ried on in the state was not contem-
plated in the law and offered to SUBJ
NIT the question to the attorney gen.
eral but motion to that effect was
ruled out of order.
Swift g. Co., the big pork and beef
packers who have operated a dis
tributing branch in Des Moines for
a number of years, have branched
out in the dressed poultry business
and have about perfected arrange
ments for making Des Moines one of
the big cepters in this department
of their business. They are now
employing 100 hands and picking and
packing as high as 5000 fowls day,
most of them chickens, but many of
them turkeys. These fowls are ship
ped to Chicago, where they are
placed in cold storage until sold.
John r. Sage, director of the Iowa
weather and crop service. has issued
his annual crop report, showing the
average yield per acre, total product
and average prices of staple farm
products in Iowa December l, 1890.
The yield of winter wheat on a re-
duced acreage as compared with
former years appears to be 1,01s,070
bushels-an average of 1913 bushels
per acre. The total yield of spring -
wheat is ,20.2S0,2s0 bushels-an aver
age of 14.3 bushels per acre. The
average home value of spring wheat
is 60 cents and winter wheat GO cents
nor. buSheI ma lSipp tho total IS a.