Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-08-29

= Special Iowa State col
lege revenue ........... 31,295.96'
Agricultural college addi-
ton endowment ...... 25,000.00
Swamp land indemnity. 10,71s.18
Special university revenus 2,3s4.74
Permanent school ........ 1894
| Total -. :. :. :. ....$1,774 ,655.49
| Assistant Attorney General Van
Week has rendered an opinion to j.
Il. Hungerford of Carroll. one of the
board of trustees of the Iowa State
College of Agriculture at Ames. to
the effect the trustees must pay their
own expenses il they go on a trip to
eastern educational institutions. IL
appears the trustees had planned a
junket and concluded to go east to
look over the buildings of eastern
colleges and universities and gather
| inspiration for plans for the new
| building that will be asked for at the
next session of the legislature.
The Hawkeye Insurance company
has commenced suit against the board
of review demanding that the assess
ment against it be cancelled on the
| grounds that when it was made there
WAS no law for it, and further, that
the liabilities of the company were
| not taken into consideration by the
assessor as an offset against the
property. According to the petition
the company was assessed at $4,000.
| The company claims that this prop
erty is offset by liabilities, and that
it has already paid to the state sum
amounting to l per cent of all the
premiums that 1t had received during
the past year. The statute which de-
clares that all property belonging to
insurance companies shall be assessed
after the liabilities of various kinds
Including policy risks) are deducted,
is cited as reason that the assess
ment is illegal. 1t is declared that in
asmuch as an amount sufficient to
pay the taxes which the company is
required to pay has already been paid
into theistate treasury, that the pres
ent assessment, if enforced, wild
really be double taxation.
A fine life-size oil painting of Mrs.
Pauline Given Swain has been hung
in the art gallery of the State His
| torical building. Mrs. Swain. her
mother, Mrs. Given, and her daughter,
Miss Nina, We're present when Cura-
tor Charles Aldrich superintendent the
ceremony. Mrs. Swain has not yet
determined definitely upon the legend
to be engraved on the name plate,
but she is being urged by Mr.. Aldrich
and other friends to inscribe- her
lame and the words Iowa Jorunal-
list" on it. The portrait was painted
in Montevideo, Uruguay. by an Ital-
ian artist who is living there. Mrs.
Swain has spent about three years
in that South American land and in
travelling. Her husband, Col. Al
Swain. is United States consul at
the port named. They have been
spending the summer visiting Iowa
friends.
Ida NJ. Street, daughter of the ia
,mous Gen. Joseph NJ. Street, who
lies buried at Agency, has been spend
ing the past week at the State His
torical department building, mount
ing the immensely valuable letters
which her father left at the time of
his death, and whose immense worth
as historical matters led her to pre-
sent them to the Historical depart
ihent. She has also gone with the
mounted and prepared manuscript to
Chicago, where it will be pound under
| her personal direction. The letters
left by her father and given to the
state of Iowa contain many import
ant epiStles written by early promi-
nent men of the state in relation
to Gen. .treet's continued efforts
toward Outstanding and civilizing
the Indians of the territory.
J. F. Mason, who is interested in
the new company forming in Des
| Moines to manufacture paint from
the Jasper county iron and silica de-
| post. has sent 400 pounds OF the
mineral to Chicago, where chemists
will analyze and experiment with it
with view of ascertaining the
| cheapest and most effective manner
of separating the minerals. The de-
post is composed of GO per cent of
| iron and 40 per cent of silica. The
| iron is used in making paints for
exterior use and the silica for max
ing paints for inside use. Hereto
| fore blowers have been used for sep
arating the minerals, but with this
| system the waste was enormous and
reduced the profits very materially.
| 1t is believed that the experiments
now in progress will develop plan
of separating the minerals by float
| ing them in a combination of oils.
IL this can be accomplished, about
20 per cent of the raw material can
| be saved.
The board of control has determined
in view of the unusually high price OF
potatoes to feed the inmates of the
institutions on beans, corn and hon.
my to a considerable extent this
year, providing potatoes once day.
a years supply of navy beans for
the state institutions will be OBJ
tanned. Awards have been made on
contracts for years supply of navy
beans for the institution. Specifica-
tions for beans were sent out some
time ago, as soon as it was ascer-
tanned there would be a shortage in
the potato crop. The aggregate
amount of beans provided for was
1000 bushels, though more can be
obtained under the contracts il need
ed. Contracts for dried apples were
also awarded for some of the institu-
tions where fruit is scarce on account
of the drouth and hot weather.
Chairman Spence of the republican
state central committee, has closed
contract with the management Of
the Equitable building for headquar-
ters on the third floor of that build
ing. The north end will be used, in
all probability. Partial arrange
ments for opening them will be made
at once.