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


Des Moines, Nov. ., 1901.
The state executive council leased
the meandered portion of Wall Lake
to the town of Lake View, Sac coun-
ty, which desires to improve those
portions of the lake bed lying ada.
cent to the town, but rendered USE
less to the state because of their
meandered condition. The iease has
not yet been drawn up, but it viii
probably provide for a consideration
of not more than five dollars from the
town for the use of the lake bed.
Attorney General Mullen has rem
dered an opinion TO the auditor of
state in which he holds that insurance
companies doing business ON the stip-
ulated premium plan may do an 1c-
cident business the same as level
premium companies. The auditor
asked the opinion of the attorney
general on this subject as q result Of
an inquiry made by DR.. L. f. Dorr,
| president of the Brotherhood Re-
serve Life association, stipulated
| premium company of this city. Tho
| attorney general holds that section
| ITO of the code, which gives TO life
| insurance companies organized On the
stock or mutual plan the authority
| to do an accident business, applies as
well to the stipulated premium COM
| panies organized under chapter IS Of
| the acts of the Twenty-eighth gen.
| eral assembly.
The executive council has decided
to appropriate the balance remain
| ing in the providential contingent
| fund to the Iowa State college az
| Ames for the purpose of aiding 1t to
| tide over the recent loss of the ex-
pertinent station, barn and contents,
| The sum was found to be S309o.42.
| About third of this will be used for
| feed and the remainder for putting
up temporary barn.
| Fifty applications for new delivery
routes on the rural plan have been
| sent TO Captain Hull and it is said
that Special Agent Fry has agreed
/ TO recommend to the post Office de-
| partment that at least 80 Of them be
| established in the Seventh district.
Mr.. Fry says he finds the farmers in
central Iowa are making better roads
than in any other part of the state.
using more gravel and coal mine re.
fuse, and that-this improvement will
/
DR.. J. I. Gibson, state veterinary
surgeon, mas submitted to the gov
ernor the third biennial report. The
report contains many interesting
features and covers the period end
ing June 30, 1901. The inspection OF
all horses imported into the state az
the point of entry, as a protection
from CHAMBERS, is one of the recon-
| mendations by DIR. Gibson. Wonder
full prosperity in the live stock in
dustry is noted A number of yalu-
able papers are Incorporated into the
report, one of which is by Prof. John
j. Repp of the experiment station at
Ames, and conibats the theories Of
Professor Koch, announced recently,
that tuberculosis is not transmits
sible to human beings through the
use of the meat or milk of tuberou-
lous animals. DIR. Gibson has been
kept busy during the past two years
in answering official calls and eff
fecting sanitary protection for the
live stock industry of the state. Over
15J official calls have been made up
on the department during this peri
cd, and the following diseases were
found to exist: Actinomycosis, abor-
ton, black leg, catarrhal pneumonia,
= corn stalk disease, encephalities, fer-
gotism, CHAMBERS, hog cholera, infiu.
enza, mango, Missouri bottom dis
ease, rabies, superative 1ymphingitis,
specific ophthalmia, thrust in cattle,
and tuberculosis. Tuberculosis, rab,
les and CHAMBERS largely predomin.
ated.
The campaign of education which
the fire insurance companies started
ont some months ago to make against
the valued policy law has developed
into different sort of campaign in
which the companies are seeking to
find out the sentiments of the old
members of the legislature who will
be returned this winter and to help
men into the legislature who will OPP
pose valued policy bill. A leading
member of the senate who was in
Des Moines recently related while
here that he had been approached by
no less than three emissaries of the
, fire insurance companies. They were
anxious to sound him as to the .va1-
ued policy idea and to ascertain
whether he would support valued
policy bill il il was introduced this
winter. He replied that he had voted
for valued policy bill in the past
whenever he had an opportunity and
; he intended to do so again this win
ter. 1t is understood the fire insur-
ance companies are taking the Keen
est interests in the legislative cen
tests and that they are organizing
carefully for fight against the val.
ued policy measure this winter. In
addition to the work done through
the literary bureau, an active lobby
will be maintained.
: Frank w. Bicknell. for many years
a newspaper man and correspondent
in this city, has been appointed as q
special agent of the department. Of
agriculture of the United States. He
will soon go to South America, where
he will be occupied for two years in
! Investigations for the department..
Would Put Hearst In jail
, Chicago, Nov. 3.--Judge Hanecy
held representatives of the Chicago
, American in bonds to appear before
the court to show cause why they
! sI.ould not be punished for alleged
} contempt of court. Bail was fixed az
: follows: s. S. Carvalho. general man
: ager, and Andrew NJ. Lawrence, man
aging editor $4,000 each; III. s. Can
field, reporter, $1,000, and John G.
Hammond, assistant city editor.
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