Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-11-22
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. Nov. 90, 100

49,. 90 iiiu.l insane hospital, which
NC sisl,ed ofncially. While there he
has been discovered on a farm aon
rect from the land owned by The
state in connection with the hospital.
Inc owner OF the property, who. has
already prepared mine shaft. has
begun TO mine coal for the market.
Ihe coal was found at a depth OF
but 6s feet. In all likelihood other
VEINS are in existence below that In
all probability an effort will be made
70 discover it coal is beneath tic
state land. and without question it
IS. II the state can mine it, a saving
Of $4,000 at Clarinda alone would be
effected.
Judge Bishop decided the .'Mose''
Jacobs case in favor of the news
dealer, appointing Simon Cassidy re-
ceiver for the property in dispute.
The controversy between the father
and son as to who owns the property
will now come before the courts on
it's merits. Receiver Casady qualified
as receiver Immediately after the
court announced it's decision. Nose
alleges that he gave his mother his
earnings as newsboy and which
amounted to a sum variously esti-
mated at from $4,000 to $4,000, to be
held in trust for him and that just
before her death when she was not
mentally capable, her husband in
duced her to transfer the property 20
him.
Grain men report that indications
now are that this winter but little
corn will be marketed in Iowa, and
that the little that is sold will be
resold within the state or shipped
west. The short crop resulting from
the drouth, and the necessity of put
ting cattle on corn feed early in the
fall because of the burning up of
the pastures, has developed a condi
ton almost unprecedented in this
section of the country, and grain
men say that it is almost the first
time in the history of the middle
west that every indication pointed to
either the entire consumption Of
the corn crop at home by feeders or
the shipment of the small surplus
west, instead of cast. Already a
number of commission orders have
been placed with Des AIoines dealers
for shipments to Kansas City. Omaha
and to points beyond, and in the
drouth district to the southwest,
where the hot winds worked even
greater injury to the crops than in
this state.
The new State Telephone company,
which has been incorporated in Sioux
City and has asked for franchise in
that city, announces it's intention of
building system of toll lines over
the state connecting about siNty-fve
towns in Iowa, mostly north and
west of Des Moines. It is the in
tention to build line into Des
Moines.
Captain Scott of the local recruit
ing station has opened recruiting
stations recently at Davenport, Cres-
ton, Burlington, Sioux City and OF
tumwa, and another will soon be
opened at Keokuk. The recruits at
the local station and throughout the
state have very materially increased
under the new call by the govern
ment for volunteers for the Philip
pines. The government is also So
Letting APPLICANTS for service in the
hospital corps, which is one of the
best paid departments in the SER
vice.
Governor Shaw has added George
NJ. Curtis of Clinton and Samuel Ma
hon of Ottumwa to the Louisiana
Purchase exposition, making the COM |
now number about thirty. Of
the whole number appointed only two
have fs,51eN 10 Seexs, &. 4. UlGltNs, x {
terville, both of whom have removed !
from the state.
Governor Shaw has named as dele |
gates to the international live stock |
exhibition in Chicago, December ], |
the following three delegates at
large, including Prof. Charles F. CIR
tiss, of the Iowa State college at |
Ames; Arastus A. Harris, of Mar
shalltown, and I. G. Heaps, of the |
Farmers Tribune, Des Moines. The
three alternates include Albert Cool
ey, of Osceola; R. F. French, of In
and c. L. Dolk, of hiron.
Crawford county.
'I have not decided to beqneatl my
biennial election resolution to any
particular member of til, 1egisla-
ture,'' said Senator G. NJ. Titts i'll an
interview here, 'sbut I hope to see st
introduced and passed through in
correct form. / introduced the prop
osition because I felt that we should
have biennial elections, ana believe
that the people voted for it because
they agreed that biennial elections
are better than annual. In Musca-
tine county the political campaigns
consisted Of personal abuse, largely.
They cost vast sums of MONEY, also.
No member Of the incoming assembly
has vet signifed his intention Of ak
ing up the biennial elections resolu-
ton. It is believed, however, that 1t
will be introduced at some time dur
ing the session and will be passed
through without dissent.
An Indictment has been returned
by the federal grand jury at
Des Moines against Max Krus-
kopf, the deputy postmaster