Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-11-01


The state executive council leased
the meandered portion of Wall Lake
to the town of Lake View, Sac coun-
ty, which desires to improve those
portions of the lake bed lying ada
cent to the town, but rendered use
less 10 the state because of their
meandered condition. The lease has
not vet been drawn up. but it viii
probably provide tor consideration
of not more than five dollars from the
town for the use of the lake bed.
Attorney General! Mullen has rem
Iered an opinion TO the auditor of
state in which he holds that insurance
companies doing business on the stip-
ulated premium plan may do an ac-
cident business the same as level
premium companies. The auditor
asked the opinion of the attorney
general on this subject as Il result OF
an inquiry made by DR.. r. r. Dorr,
president of the Brotherhood Re-
serve Life association, Il stipulated
premium company of this city. The
attorney general holds that section
l.lU Of the code. which. gives TO life
insurance companies organized on the
stock or mutual plan the authority
to do an accident business, applies as
well to the stipulated premium COM
y,anies organized under chapter 65 of
the acts Of the Twenty-eighth gen.
eral assembly.
The executive council has decided
TO appropriate the balance remain
ing in the providential contingent
fund to the Iowa State college at
Amcs for the purpose of aiding 1T to
tide over the recent loss of the eN-
pertinent station. barn and contents.
The sum was found to be S3,o90.42.
About a third of this will be used for
feed and the remainder for putting
up temporary barn.
Fifty applications for new delivery
routes on the rural plan have been
sent to Captain Hull and it is said
that Special Agent Fry has agreed
TO recommend to the postoffice de-
partment that at least 80 Of them be
established in the Seventh district.
Mr.. Fry says he finds the farmers in
central Iowa are making better roads
than in any other part of the state,
using more gravel and coal mine re-
fuse. and that this improvement viii
mean better rural route service.
DR.. J.. !. Gibson, state veterinary
surgeon, mas submitted to the gov
ernor the third biennial report. The
report contains many interesting
features and covers the period end
ing June 80, 1901. The inspection Of
all horses imported into the state at
the point of entry, as a protection
from. CHAMBERS, is one Of the recon-
ment;ations by DR.. Gibson. Wonder
F,.1 tro live ctr
dustry is noted. \ number of yalu
able papers are incorporated into the
report, one of which is by Prof. John
j. Rspp of the experiment station at
.Ames, and combats the theories OF
Professor Koch. announced recently,
that tuberculosis is not transmits
sible to human beings through the
use of the meat or milk of tubercu-
lous animals. DIR. Gibson has been
kept busy during the past two years
in answering official calls and eff
fecting sanitary protection for the
live stock industry of the state. Over
100 official calls have been made up
on the department. during this peri
cd. and the following diseases were
found to exist: ActinomycOsis, abor-
ton, black leg, catarrhal pneumonia,
corn stalk disease. encephalities, en-
s
enxa, mango, Missouri bottom dis
ease, rabies. superative lymphingitis,
: specific ophthalnia. thrust i'll cattle,
and tuberculosis. Tuberculosis, ia b.
les and CHAMBERS largely predomin-
atetd.
The campaign of education which
the fire insurance companies started
out some months ago to make against
the valued policy law has developed
into q different sort of campaign in
which the companies are seeking to
find out the sentiments of the old
members of the Legislature who wild
be returned this winter and to help
men into the legislature who will OPP
pose a va1ued policy bill. A leading
member of the senate who was in
Des Noines recently related while
here that he had been approached by
1,o less than three emissaries of the
fire insurance companies. They were
anxious to sound him as to the val
ned policy idea and to ascertain
whether he would support valued
policy bill If it was introduced this
winter. He replied that he had voted
for valued policy bill in the past
whenever he had an opportunity and
he intended to do SO again this win
ter. 1t is understood the fire insur
ance companies are taking the keen
est interests in the legislative cen
tests and that they are organizing
carefully for a fight against the val
l:ed policy measure this winter. In
addition to the work done through
the literary bureau, an active lobby
will be maintained.
Murder In secoaa Degree.
Iowa Falls. Oct. 28.--"Murder in the
second degree" is the verdict in the
case of the state Of Iowa against NJ.
q. Clemons on trial here for the muir
der Of Will Burghduff. of Union.
Clemens and R,1rphduff had trouble