Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-11
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. July 8, 1901

urer, which is also the settlement
for the close of the biennial PERIOD
shows a larger general revenue fund
in the state treasury than has ever
| been recorded at this time of year.
| The report just submitted shows
that there is in the general revenue
| fund of the state $1,143, SSS.17. At
the close of the last biennial period.
June 80, 1899, there was in the gen
eral revenue fund s445, 027.37, showing
an increase of $69S,SS5.s0 in two.
years. At the close of the last quar-
| ter, March 80, 1899, there was on
hand in the same fund, $s30,061.97.
| The total amount now on hand in
the state treasury is S1,s36, s64.9s.
There are agricultural college bonds
to the amount of seas. 100 and cash on
hand to the amount of $1,1ss, 764.9S.
In addition to the S1,143,S SS.17 in the
general revenue fund there is in the
agricultural college endowment fund
$6i9,235.s9. in the special agricul-
tural college revenue fund $780,
1891, in the swamp land indemnity
| fund $9,T7S.95. in the special uni
versity fund S61.516.47, in the agri-
cultural college college interest fund
$1.sS3.25 and in the permanent school
fund $63.44.
Mr.. Cownie, of the state board of
control, has returned from the insane
hospital at Independence. "In sim
gle day there the past week." said
Mr.. Cownie, "the inmates of that in
stitution picked 3,70O quarts of in
stitution strawberries. They have
been having Strawberries, during the
season, three times day. They
picked steadily every day during the
season, averaging about 1000 quarts
per day. The lowest picking in day
was 1,5O0 quarts. The institution
farm is in fine condition, the finest
they all say that it ever was in. The
Iowa institution farms are in fine
shape, they are models, and that is
what the board of control wishes to
make them" The largest number of
patients ever in the hospital at Mt.
Pleasant were enrolled last week,
1,001.
Judge Smith Mcpherson has writ
Ten letter, to the United States COM
missioners under his jurisdiction, in
which he calls attention to the prac-
tice OF making arrests for the mere
pittance which accrpes to the officer
from the fees. He condemns the prac.
tice and insists that it shall cease.
DIR. j. +. Kennedy, secretary of the
state board of health, says the hot
weather of the past two weeks has
administered a crushing blow to the
smallpox epidemic in the state and
VIII be instrumental in preventing a
serious epidemic next winter. SMALL
poS has died hard in Iowa, but DR..
Kennedy believes it is dying at last.
Il do not Think" said DIR. Kennedy,
that there is going to be the small
poX epidemic in Iowa next winter
that was anticipated. There is q
good deal in the theory that when il
does not die out during the summer
II is much worse the next winter, but
the number of cases in the state al
ready is diminishing and the hot
weather is not giving it chance to-
spread. i believe Iowa has seen the
worst OF its smallpox epidemic, and
next winter there will be much less.
OF it than there was this year. The
large number of persons who have al
ready had smallpox is one of my rea-.
sons for thinking so. This, together,
with the fact that the chance of new
eases developing during the summer.
is small. makes me think that Iowa
Is not going to have much smallpox
next winter"
S. II. Dawson, who was sentenced
90 Anamosa June, 1896, to serve
ten-year sentence for the murder OF
his son-in-law, Waiter Scott, has been
paroled by Governor Shaw. The ap-
nj Raft sAVU .ss.ls LII 1. L
circulated about three months ago,
and signed by influential citizens
OF Des Moines. DaN son is the invent
or of the celebrated Damascus steel.
The secret which he uses in making
the metal harder than any other me-
taliic, substance is known only to
himself and has been locked up in
the safety vault of the Des Moines
National bank since his commitment
to the penitentiary nearly seven
years ago. Before his sentence n
company was formed with a capital
stock OF nearly half million dollars
for the purpose of manufacturing the
commodity, and it is understood to
be the intention of the promoters tc
go ahead with the plans.
The discovery that Des Moines
milk dealer is using formaldehyde to
decrease his ice bill has stirred the
officials at the state dairy commits
sioner's Office to renewed activity in
preventing the use of the deadly
preseryatives. About year ago
there were four arrests made in Day-
export on the strength of a state
ment made by chemist there to the
effect samples of the milk sold by
these dealers contained weak solu-
tion of tormaldehyde. When the case
was brought up for trial the chemist
was intoxicated and had to be car
ried into the justice court and his
evidence had little weight. The men
were discharged, but the effect was
beneficial just the same, as the au-
thorities have had no trouble with
Davenport dealers since that time.
The supreme court decision in the
Slinker case gives the dairy commits
sioner unlimited authority in sup
pressing authorizations of milk and
the effect has been wide throughout
the state in lettering the quality Of
dairy products.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait won tho
Joint debate at Chautauqua park with
j. A. Boatmar of Keokuk on woman
Suffrage" About 5000 people attend
ed. The sympathy of the audience
was evenly divided, but Mrs. Gait
made much the better argument and
impression. DIR. Bcatman depended
largely on the scripture, which en-
joins wives to ask their husbands,
and making the husbands the head