The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-18
AT THE STATE CAPITAL
Des Moines AMI, 10 ,oo,


Des Moines, April 16, 1901.
Since the board of control issued
the rules for the government of coun-
ty hospitals, patients have been trans
ferred from the institutions in Davis.
Monroe, Warren and Madison coun.
ties, and the institutions closed so
Tar as the keeping of insane is con-
cerned. The patients from Davis and
Monroe counties have been sent to
MT. Pleasant. Those from Warren
and Madison counties have been sent
TO Clarinda.
On the other hand, the board is
transferring patients to the Dallas
county asylum from Clarinda and to
the Fayette and Linn county asylums
from Independence. Steps have also
been taken to transfer patients to
Hancock and Winneshiek asylums
from the institution at Independence.
The latter hospital is the only one of
the state hospitals that is now in an
overcrowded condition. 1t has 100
more patients than it should have.
Not all of the overplus can be dis
tributed to the county hospitals that
have applied, and Independence will
still be crowded when the board Of
control gets through sending state
patients to the county hospitals al
ready mentioned.
Governor Shaw and the other Des
Moines men interested in the owner
ship of 3,4OO acres of rice farm lands
ten miles from Beaumont. Texas,
have received an offer of about $685.
600 for the land. The offer was made
4hr011r1, tho
ground to look after the Des Moines
capitalists interests. 1t will not be
accepted, probably. T. NJ Walker,
partners with Governor Shaw in the
some time Messrs. Walker, Lang and
Harris, with Governor Shaw, have
been considering the erection of an
the beginning of the extensive pros
has been submitted by one of the
owners looking to the organization of
a shock company for the purpose of
the oil bearing qualities of the land.
Govarnor Shaw owns half of the 3,4oo
acrqs, Mr.. Lang one-fourth, Mr..
Harris one-siXteenth.
The State university has been refus-
ed payment of three unpaid appropri-
ations by Auditor Merriam. 1t is eX-
.pected the outcome of the refusal
will be an action of mandamus begun
by the regents to compel payment
of the amount asked. The requi-
sitions which were sent in by Lowell
Swisher, treasurer of the board of
regents, and which the auditor re-
fused to honor, called for three
nlnpaid appropriations made by gen
eral assemblies before the new code
went into effect. The question of law
1nvolved is whether the acts making
the appropriations We're repealed
when the new code went into effect.
The regents made requisition for
$4,000 due the last quarter Of 1887
in accordance with an act providing
for the endowment and support of
Isa-ooo.5o, "a part of the an
nnal appropriation for endowf1sllle
and support made by the Twenty
and support made by an act of the
fTwenty-fifth general assembly; and
for $1,041.67, a part of the annual APP
preparation for endowment and sup
port made by the 1wenty-sixth
general assembly. The total amount
asked for is $S,125. All these sums
were due in the last quarter of
1897, according to the old acts in
force prior to the new code. They
could not be drawn before October
A., 1897, the time the new code went
into effect, however, under the old
acts. After the new code went iato
EFFECT the old acts We're superseded
by section 2643 of the code which
provides for the endowment and sup
port of the university. The regents
We're then shut out from claiming
anything under the old appropriation
measures. The view taken of the
acquisitions of the regents in the
auditors Office, is that the board is
seeking to extract double what is
due from the state. The arpropria-
fions made i'll section 2643 of the code
State Architect Liebbe has COM
tmeDced work on preliminary sketch
es for new medical building to cost
100000 for the State university to re-
place the building recently burned.
1t is expected that work on similar
sketcHSs lor main DulldlnS Tor the
A Agricultural college, to cost $500, 900,
will be commenced shortly. The pur-
pose is to have the plans ready to
submit to the legislature next winter
in order to get appropriations for
their erection.
The state will advertise for bids for
the rental of the dry beds of mean
dered lakes. A resolution has been
adopted by the executive council di-
recting Secretary Dawson to take
this step. According to the opinion
given last year by Attorney General
Remley there are 100000 acres of
such lands thought to belong to the
state. An effort is now being made
to have congress enact measure
classifying meandered lake beds as