Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-01-16
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tive Council, is going through the census
bulletins to discover what towns will
have to become cities. The following un-
der-the State census of five years ago had
less than 1000 inhabitants but counted
more than 1900 under the Federal count:
Waukon, Storm Lake, New Hampton,
Colfax, Sac City, Corning, Bloomfield,
Monticello and Glenwood But the CEN
sus shows that in the last three towns
the census was taken by wards, which i'm
dicates that they are already cities Of the
second class. Secretary Davidson was
unable to discover any record of this fact
in the ordinary town and city incorpora-
tion record. Formerly towns could take
special census at any time and if there
We're more than 1000 persons could Sc
cure entry into the list of cities. In the
new code there is no provision of this
kind. Several towns took special census
es and became cities since the census of
1890 and before the new code went int6l
effect The Glenwool investigation shows
that 1t become an Incorporated city under
special charter in tie sos, hence will not
be affected by the census. Monticello is
also a city and has been many years.
Special elections will be held to select
Aldermen in the various wards, after the
present town councils have created the
wards. All this can be done in time for
the regular spring elections this year.
Iowa now has forty-siX colleges, ac-
cording to the last directory OF education
al affairs, just issued by the superintend-
ent of public instruction. Iowa College
of Grinnell and the State University
We're both established in 1S47 and others
of the older institutions are: Amity Col
lege, at College Springs, 1852; Central
University, at Pella, 1858; Iowa Wesley
an, at Mt. Pleasant Lenox at Hopkin-
ton and Western College, Mt Toledo, 1856;
Cornell College, at Mt Vernon, Epworth
and Upper Iowa University, Fayette,
1857, and the Iowa State College, at
Ames. 1858. The State Normal School
at Cedar Falls has the largest attend
ance, having 2,O14 pupils Inst year High
land Park College, Des Moines, had 1000
students. Drake University, at Des
Moines, had 1893 The State Univer-
sity, ut Iowa City, enrolled 1,i3s. The
largest faculty is at Drake University,
with a total of seventy. There are forty
six in the faculty at the State Univer-
sity, but the university has tifty-six 9TH
err teachers. The State Normal School
stands head and shoulders above the 9TH
er colleges of the tate when it comes
to students "actually engaged in college
work" The Normal has 1,757 students
in college work, the State College ut
Ames $50, the State University 1888. Cor
nell College has 1862, Grinnell 300 and
Drake 1872. Highland Park College re-
fused to report upon this matter. AS to
the number of graduates last year the
State University had 26O, the State Nor
NAL 205, Highland Park College 1872,
Drake University $50, State College 10,
Grinnell -, Western Normal College 81,
Cornell GO.
If the Supreme Court holds the Titus
amendment valid it will fall to the lot of
State officers, who will serve the greater
part of their time under the Governors
successor. In other words, the next Gov
ernor will hold his office for approxi-
mately eighteen months without appoint
i've power. The term of l.. G. Kline us
member of the Board of Control will ex-
pire April 5, 1902, and if Governor
Shaw's term is extended one year, as it
will be under the Titus amendment, he
will appoint his successor during the SEES
sion of the Legislature in 1902. This is
the only one of the appointments to be
made in 1902 which must be confirmed
by the Senate, but several other import
ant ones are to be made. The term of
B. p. Norton, State Dairy Commissioner,
will expire April 80, 1901. A Commits
sioner of Labor Statistics. State Veterin-
airy Surgeon and Custodian of Public
Buildings will also be appointed in 1902.
The terms of the fourteen oil inspectors
expire June 80, 1902, and il the Titus
amendment holds good, their successors
will be appointed by Governor Shaw. The
terms of the mine inspectors expire April
i, 1902, and the terms of the inspectors
Of boats May 6, 1902.
The milk inspection law was sustained
by the Supreme Court in decision re-
yersing the action of the District Court
Of Polk County. The law is held to be
constitutional because the Legislature has
the right to pass laws for the protection
of the health, comfort and safety of the
people, and unless there is n plain nsur-
patton Of power the discretion of the
Legislature must be upheld. In the case
at bar the defendant, Schlenkcr, put bo-
racic acid in milk which he sold to pre-
vent it from getting sour. The court says
people have the right to assume that milk
is pure and will go through natural pro-
cesses of oxidation and fermentation;
that it is dangerous to permit milkmen
to adulterate milk so as to change its
chemical properties. 1t is not enough to
show that the milkman did not intend to
defraud. The Legislature saw fit to re-
quire milk offered for sale to be absolute
ly pure, and it had the right to do so.
Two opinions We're given to the Board
of Control the other day. One was to
the effect that only children between the
ages of and 81 were entitued to admis-
sion to the State school for the ,deaf and
dumb, and that even though it might re-
quire some years beyond their majority,
all pupils We're entitled to receive an edu-
cation. The attorney general also held
that even though the government grants
pensions for minor children under 16
years OF age, that the Board of Control
cannot interpret the word minor to mean
other than its usual Interpretation in
withholding onc-half of the pensions re-
CelNeu ny luhutcS VI tue oOlulerS nome
for the wife and minor children of such
soldier, but adds that in some cases it
might be impossible to give such money
to the minor children, and that nothing
impossible is contemplated by law and
that the spirit should govern.
Judge Prouty, in the Polk County Dis
| trict Court, has rendered decision hold
ing the so-called tax ferret" law valid,
which, if sustained by the Supreme
Court, will enable Iowa counties to col
lect several hundred thousand dollars
back taxes. Under the law back taxes
for five years with penalties may be as
sessed against personal property conceal
ed from the assessors. The retroactive
feature of the law was especially attack
ed, but is sustained. Judge Quarton of
Kossuth County has held this feature of
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