Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-01-18
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.pes Moines, Jannary Is, 1901.

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.Des Moines, January 1s, 1901. N
Adjutant General Byers has re.l
ccived kilograms from Nebraska ana
Wisconsin saying that the governors
of those states will not be accom-
panied by military escort to the
Inauguration at Washington, but win
have their staifs only. Generall
Byers made this inquiry before asks
ing any of the companies to go. IfS
any of them decide to go at their
own expense they can be mobilizedS
into an Iowa battalion and offered
the committee on arrangements ina
Washington. Sa
The Iowa hotel, the old Aborn, corr
4ner of Fourth street and Court ,ave,S
nue.. was quarantined on the 18th bJA
order of Secretary Kennedy, Of TIL
state board of health. About SEVENTH
five persons, incll ding the hotel en-
ployes, were in the building when tbs
quarantine was ordered. Thirty Oh
these were dismissed by City Physi.S
clan Sbltz, after standing test Of
fered by the physician. They were
required to show vaccination marks,
and to swear before a notary public
that the vaccination had taken effect
within three years. The entire hotelg
building was thoroughly fumigated,s
and all of the inmates of the hotel
except those few who have come in
contact with the patient, will prob.S
ably be released by DR.. Schiltz after
being vaccinated. The patient wills
be removed to the detention hospital
Though not generally realized,
there is more smallpox in Iowa now
than ever before at the same season;
of the year. DR.. Kennedy. in an in. 4
terview, said that since last October
when cases first began to be reported
this year in any considerable nuns.
Der, there had been ut lowest esti.S
mates, 1000 cases. In at least $50
localities in Iowa, there are ansess
of smallpox. The type of the disease
is not considered malignant, yeti
there has been not less than fiftyl
deaths in the state from this caused
since last October. The disease id
most prevalent in hamilton, WebsterS
and Boone counties. The danger toa
the health of the state at large con.
sists in the fact that the contagionl
exists at so many different localities,
each point where person is sick
with smallpox being center from
which the disease may easily radiate.
There is no knowing where the
present widespread attack originated
from. It appears to have been startsl
ed from no single locality.>tl ANel
through the summer there weraAM
few scattering cases In the ST.
In fact, since 1889, when the disc
appeared at Storm Lake, small
has never been entirely stamped
of Iowa. The winter season is
variably the worst time for the
sease, owing to the tendency OF
manity to live gregariously and
doors.
The first section of the survey Of
the Des Moines & Northern r;ilroad,i
owned by Des Moines capitalil I, has
been completed, the ffty-seco1g mils
of the survey haviEs been Nnished,
and the line into Boone fim Dssa
Moines having been .-completed.s
ager Cumming, in charge of the
vey, has taken his corpss
ten men to Britt and begun wor
the stretch from that town tor
neapolis, which is to be the nor
terminus of the road. This, TIL
section of the survey, will be 'cb1
pleted. if the weather is favorabMSI
by February 10.
The tables which have just been
completed for the report of the STATE
railroad commissioners show an in;s5
crease of S4,4S7,1 07.29 in the gross
revenue of the Iowa roads in 1900
For the year ending July I, 1000,
there was an increase of $3,971 ,722.9S
in operating expenses and an increase
of 5,311 men employed on the rail-
roads of this state at an advance OF
S2,956,935.79 in wages paid them. The
passenger revenues were $1,439,679.73
less than the year previous, but there
was an increase of $685. 91.13 ivs
freight revenues. 81
Attorney +. B. Evans has gone toS
Washington, d. G., where he will
make oral argument before the sec-
rotary OF the interior in the matter
of application by Monona county for !;
re-survey of the land along the
borders of Blue lake. Something
like 1000 acres are involved. This
case is similar to other swamp land
cases and involves the title of the
county to certain lands that have
been seized by adjacent property
owners and claimed by rights of the
homestead act. A few months ago
several thousand acres of land were
reclaimed for different counties in
the northern part of Iowa by the
same process that Mr.. Evans is en-
ploying in Monona county.
The Iowa Millers association
elected the following officers: Pres
ident, James Taggart, Knoxville;
vice president, C. L. Mott, Dea
Moines; secretary and treasurer, 7.
F. Rogers, Boone. It was decided to
hold another meeting in July at Ce'
dar Rapids.
Governor Shaw has gone to Beau. !
mont, Texas, along with A. Lang Of
this city, who is interested with the
governor in the Des y ines Rice Land
The property of the com.
pany is four miles from Beaumont