Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-10-18
NOTES FROM THE CAPITA,
sDes Moines. Oct

les MONIES. Oct. Is, 100,
Ihe Polk county board of sun.,...
ors has voted pass to Ireland =, ~
Kane, formerly of l:lkhart to,,.,,,l .. ~
now an inmate of the CONT !, !, up,
Kane will 60 to his old ho,ns =, e.
interior Of Ireland. Seven va,r,' me
Kane made his first applicatior aso
the pass. His request was loot, ior
on as a joke. The FOLLOWING naa up
made another application. Tb;s" ne
refused and the same thing hann. vas
another year His requests war' led
peatedly ignored until recently Ne re-
the board began to figure. If m';m
cost So per month to keep Kan -.
the farm. That is equivalent ia SEQ
per year lie Will live at leas, fya
years longer. which would mean nm
expenditure of $500. A ticket 49, 'h
land will cost the county 1sss ~ re
$50. The idea of transportnt;, ,nah
looked upon with favor bv the hn.. -
and dependents who desire to ~
to their native land to die NAV ba ~.
commodated with a free pass by tho
county. ''e
In the biennial period, 1s9o-1ooo
there were GAG cases of smalInox :,
Iowa, according to the report of SEQ
rotary J. +. Kennedy. of the stoto
board of health just filed with Gov.
crnor Shaw and Alas cases in tho
biennial period 19OO-19O1 In the first
period there were deaths in twelve
cases and thirteen deaths in the Inca
period. Altogether there were i ~os
cases and % deaths. Secretary Ken
nedy is of the opinion that the small
poN OF this winter will not be more
extensive or more deadly than that
OF the last two years. But six conn
ties in the state escaped epidemrs
OF the disease in the last four ye,rs -
They were Delaware, Grundy. Jack
son. Mills. Louisa and Warren. Ham.
ilton county suffered the worst drr-
ing the quadrennium. having 432
cases: Appanoose had 395: Guthrie
22S; Webster, 204; Boone ZIG: A[o,
mona. ISL; Wapello, 1877: Humboldt
1856; Marshall, 116; Benton, 1875: Cass
10Y; while none of the other counties
had to exceed 100 cases. Deaths Or
Cured as follows: Lyon county. 4.
Cass, Jefferson, Poweshick. ? each.
Appanoose, Benton, Buena Vista. Ger
TO Gordo, Davis. Fremont. Henry
Lucas, Marshall, Monona, Plymouth
Scott, Story, Wright, l each.
Ihe Des Moines, Iowa Falls and
Northern Railroad company has filed
q trust deed to the Colonial Trust
company of New York, conveying its
property to secure a bond issue. This
is the company that is now engaged
in the construction of a railroad be-
tween Des Moines and Iowa Falls. The
deed natures in thirty years and pro-
v1des for an issue of bonds at the rate
Of $16,OOO,OO0 per mile, the bonds to
be delivered by and the money turned
over to the railroad company as fast
as the road is completed. 1t is UNI
derstood that arrangements have
been made for financing the entire
road, together with extensions that
may be made beyond Iowa. Falls in
conformity with the plan Of the com
pany to build eventually to Usage,
The company has now completed and
has in Operation a line ten miles out
O. Iowa Falls and will be operaNahg
trains to junction with the Mil S1.yaf
kee road this fall. Next springG it is
intended to complete the road to& Ber-
wick, from which point trains wi1hbe
operated into Des Moines over the
Chicago Great Western tracks until
such a time as the company can Sc
cure an adjustment of differences en-
countered in securing right of way
into Des Moines.
The annual report of the civil engI-
neer, Charles Francis, to the state
board of health has been filed with
Governor Shaw. 1t says that ST.
Louis can have no complaint. against
Chicago on account of the sewage
that passes by ST. Louis via the canal,
the Illinois river ana the Mississippi,
for st. Louis is emptying her sewage
into the Mississippi to be carried ON
down by other cities. He asserts,
however, that such a method of dis
posing of sewage is wholly wrong
and, as it is entirely unnecessary in
that section, 1T is very nearly GRIM
inal' Engineer Francis predicts that
eventually cities will be compelled by
federal statutes to keep their sewage
out Of rivers. His solution of the
problem would be the establishment
OF filtration plants. For Davenport,
a typical city of 10000, which disposes
OF its sewage by sewers entering the
Mississippi and her garbage by dump
ing it by boat into the current of the
river, he would buy 100 acres Access
sible and at reasonable price. liz
sixty acres he would establish eight
filter beds of seven and one-half acres
each. This would enable each bed to
work one day and rest seven. The
plant would filter and dispose of the
sewage of a city of $4,000 people in
definitely. The effiuent from the beds
would be almost pure water. The
other sixty acres of the farm he
would irrigate with the rich sewage
and use for truck gardening, the reve-
nues from which would support the
sewage disposal plant.
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Stuart, Oct. 17.-Osborn w. deg