Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-01-24
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines, January 81, 1904.

Dos MONIES, January u, lSuAs
The tables which have just bees
completed for the report of the ststs
railroad commissioners show an In
crease Of $4,4s7,1o7 in the gross
revenue of the Iowa roads in 1909
For the year ending July 1, 1900,
there was an increase of $3,971, 1895
In operating expenses and an increase
Of 5,311 men employed on the rail.
roads of this state at an advance OF
$2,956, 935.79 in wages paid them. This
| passenger revenues were $1,439,67s.7s
less than the year previous, but there
was an increase of Sl,S5s,391.13 In
| freight revenues.
Attorney +. Il. Evans has gone tc
| Washington, ID. g., where he viii
make oral argument before the sec.
rotary OF the interior in the matter
of application by Monona county for
a re-survey of the land along ths
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
| o"HcTS TlpHtS OF tHc
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, Des
Moines; secretary and treasurer, 7.
T. Rogers, Boone. 1t 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 Moines Rice Land
company. The property of the COM
pany is four miles from Beaumont,
where oil has been discovered. The
Des Moines Rice Land company is
considering the project of sinking
shaft for oil on its own land.
The movement to send Iowa troops
to Washington at the time of the
| Inauguration of President Mckinley
has been revived by letter from j.
w. Clark of Red Oak, formerly com
mander of Company NJ, of the Fifty
| first Iowa, and now lieutenant col
onel in tine regiment. In this letter
| Colonel Clark said the company was
| willing to go to Washington and pay
its own expenses, although he asked
| Adjutant General Byers if it would
not be possible for the state to bear
the expense of transportation as far
as Chicago. Judge Smith McPher-
| son, who is a resident of Red Oak, in
terceded with the adjutant general
In behalf of Company M. 1t is un-
| derstood that Red Oak citizens gen.
orally are willing to back up the
company, if permission to go to
Washington is given it. 1t is said
there is no doubt that the necessary
| fund can be raised. AS the situa-
ton now stands, two companies
have expressed themselves as will
ing to bear their own expenses. II
remains for Sioux City and Daven-
port to determine whether troops
will be sent. General Byers gave
the Red OAK company this answer.
that If the four leading companies
he had designated, one of them
picked company, made up OF mem
bers of both Sioux City companies,
would provide for their own ex-
penses, he would tender their SER
vices to the Inauguration committee
at Washington. He adheres to the
position he took from the first, how
ever, that il any troops at all are
to go from Iowa, not less than bat
talon should be sent.
Milton Remley, as attorney for the
state board of medical examiners, has
fled demurrer to the petition of
C. L. Parsons, in which Parsons ask
ed for a mandamus compelling tho
board to issue him a certificate to
practice osteopathy. The board de.
murs to the Parsons petition on sew
eral grounds. 1t is declared that 10
Is not shown that the board has fail.
ed to determine whether or not the
school Is a regularly conducted col
lege of osteopathy. Until the board
termines this it is declared that Par.
sons has no right to demand certi.
ficate. 1t is further stated that the
petition fails to show that the board
has found the school to be regularly
Incorporated and conducted. Until
this question is determined it is de-
clared that no certificate can be Is.
sued. Further the petition is demur-
red to on the grounds that it does
not allege that the board has not
regularly conducted. Finally it Is
stated that the act of the Twenty.
seventh general assembly regarding
the issuance of certificates to grad.
yates of schools of osteopathy is I'M
constitutional because it is in con-
travention to the constitution, which
denies special privileges TO any par.
ticular class. 1t is held that it would
be giving the osteopaths privileges
denied physicians of other schools II
they were allowed certificates with.
out passing the examinations which
graduates of other schools are re-
quired to pass. 1t is declared that
to grant certificates to osteopaths
would be contrary to the medical
practice laws of the state, and the
board cannot be authorized to violate
these laws.
CULLOM RENOMINATED.
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