Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-15
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Dies Moines. November 10. 1900.

ploy of the Great Western. has COM
menced suit against the road for,
$4,000 damages on account of the
loss of two fingers while engaged at
his work in Marshalltown in August
The case is of particular interest, as
1T calls into question claim for dana
ages sustained through neglect of the
company in not having all of its
cars fitted with pneumatic brakes, as)
required by the law. Suit is based on
a new proposition, and will be of Pc
ruliar enterest to the railroads of
the country. White alleges because
OF the fact that one of the cars en- q
freight train was not fitted with the
automatic couplers he was compelled
to go between the cars to couple
Their, and that in so doing he had
his finger and thumb smashed.
The state board of control will be-
gin work Immediately upon the
formulation of rules and regulations
governing county institutions in
Which insane persons are maintained,
The last legislature passed meas,
sure giving the board the power to
make rules and regulations, and to-
ENFORCE them, their violation being
sufficient to give the board power
70 remove the patients in the county,
institutions to the state hospitals;
provided, however, that the matter
could be taken to the courts by i'm
terested persons and there adiudi1
Gated. systematic examination Of
me county asylums has been made.
iby the members of tie board. This
work has just been completed. The
Information obtained will be classi-,
fled and the work of making the
rules undertaken this week. The
work may consume considerable
time. Inc board anticipates no par
ticular difficulty in inducing the
county homogeneous to conform to-
their recommendations It is learn
ed, incidentally, that the principal
complaint against the county insti-3
tutions as they are managed now,I
is the paucity of attendants. More
attendants will cost more in salar-
les. move in this direction will
work both ways. The counties
largely, took patients from the state
hospitals to save money; the hir-l
ing OF new attendants will increase
the expenditure on account of the
county insane; but it will afford
more salaried places.
BY the decision of the voters Of
the state of Iowa, at the election
yesterday, the state constitution is
amended to the extent that elections
in Iowa shall be held every two years
instead of every year. BY this de-
c;sion, the district courts of the
state are affected. In the year 1901
there Will be no election, end conse-,
quentiy. according to the provisions
Of the code, there will be no tales
men for jury duty selected. Auditor
! iargrave of Marshall county first
raised this important point. Each
year 500 names are selected from
among the voters and Kept in the tin
receptacle in the office of the clerk
iof the courts, and from these names
the jurors are drawn prior to each
term of court. 1t is the duty of TIA
auditor to apportion these 500 names
among the various voting precincts,
iand the judges of election are re-
quircd to send in the number ap-
'portioned to their precinct. There
will be no election in 1901 and con-
sequently no election board to make
selection of these names. As no
provision is made for either grand
or petit jurors beyond the specified
time, the county courts would be
without jurymen until the next gen.
eral election, in 1902. The point rails
nj will I,f Al
ney general for a decision, and If he
sustains the opinion held by the
above named auditor, the question
will come up before the state legis,
lature, which does not meet until
January, 1902, about the first or see
ond week in the month. In order to
make provision for the iuries, it may
be necessary to call the legislature
in special session, so that the Jury
men may be selected by the first of
January, 1902, as the law provided,
Harry West. owner of the packing
house properties, has received letters
from the eastern gentlemen who will
be associated with him in the forma-'
ton of new company to operate
the plants, saying they will be in Des'
Moines in the next ten days. Tt is
expected that soon after their arrival
arrangements will be completed for
the opening of the house and keep,
ing it in operation continuously. Mr..
West said it would not take week
from the completion of the details
preliminary to opening the house.
He says that it has been kept in first
class repair, and that 80 far as the
machinery is concerned it could he
put in operation at it's full capacity,
in twenty-four hours. if the working
force was ready and there were hogs
on hand to make run. He says it
will take some days to get crew to-
gether and to commence to get hogs
coming to Des MoiDes. He expects
the house to be in full operation not
later than December I