Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-08-08
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. August 5. 100

puDllshes a statement that the al
legged interview with Minister Conger
before his departure for China was
written in the Capital Office during
the absence of the editor. Mr.. Young
expresses deep regret at the occur
renee.
Major Mckenzie of the firm of Nc
Kenzie & Ryan has arranged with
Judge Holmes tor test suit to be
brought in the district court to de-
termine the right of Iowa veterinary
surgeons who are now said to be
practicing without having registered
and who failed to avail themselves of
the provisions made in the state
veterinary law which went into eff
feet January /, 1901. The point in
controversy, and of which the state
termine the rights of Iowa veterinary
board is very much in doubt, is
whether or not these practicing ply
sicians have the legal right to regis
ter at this date when in fact they
have been practicing illegally since
the first of the year, or when the
new law went into effect.
as there are more than 200 who
failed to register at the beginning
of the year, through ignorance of
the law compelling them to do so, the
result will be awaited with a consid.
cradle degree of interest.
The report of the collections of tho
port of Des Moines has been made
public by Collector Redman. 1t is for
4 ha HGnol
shows collections amounting to $780,
1908 for the year. Des Moines is a
port of delivery, where customs are
collected on imports. Only few
Des Moines people have occasion to
pay duty on anything that they buy
and have shipped to them. The prin--
cipal collections are upon tea and
queensware.
A considerable quantity of the
goods received in Des Moines come in
free of duty. The Iowa Seed com
pany annually imports a. large guam.
tity of seeds and bulbs, ON which
there is no duty.
During the year 119 different con-
signments passed through the office
Duty was paid on 100 of these; and IS
came i'm without duty. The remain
ing one was simply entered to be re-
warehoused. The total duties
amounted to sa3.O72 OF, and the fines,
penalties and forfeitures amounted
to $9S.72, making total of 500, 1903.
The expenses of the office amounted
to $sO9.05. Last year the duties were
$25,t45.1S.
A clever gang of coanterfeiters is
working Des Moines and has thus
far baffied the detectives. The graft"
is the raising of 81 bills to ''fves.r
The Home savings bank was the first
victim to report the operations of
the gang to the detectives, but it is
believed there are other cases. The
person or persons doing the work
is clever and is evidently educated for
his style of crime. So far as has been
learned he has confined his opera
tons to the raising of one-dollar bills,
but there may be larger counterfeits.
The figure Il" in the upper left hand
corner of tine bills is covered by
delicate green paper, the shade of the
bill. Over this is stencIled n figure
IS" The same process is followed on
other corners of the bill and in the
center is stenciled large letter 'V."
The one way of detecting the bogus
nature of the bill is in the print ed
word zone dollar" which is not al
tered by the coumterfeiter. This is in
small type. however, and not one per-
son in a dozen wIll detect it unless
expecting something of the kind.
"The negro pro lem in the south
is not yet settled. In less than three
years there will be another mighty
CONFUSION. Already 1 can hear the
low rumblings i'm the distance. The
south is going to disfranchise the ne
gro and do ii at any cost. They are
doing il now. South Carolina has
begun the movement and other states
will follow as rapidly as possible
The north is standing idly by and
saying, Go ahead, disfranchise the
negro il you can do ii lawfully, and
if you can't do it lawfully, do it any
way" The above utterances were
made by Senator benjamin X. Till
man of South Carolina in his COM
mencement day address to the gradu-
ates at Highland Park college. His
subject was THE Race Problem from
a Southern Standpoint"
Secretary G. II. Van Houten of the
state department of agriculture has
written a letter to the Orange Judd
Farmers. in which he gives asummary
of his observations on the crops of
the state. Mr.. Van Houten's esti-
mates are based on close observation
in his extensive travelling about Iowa.
He estimates that the yield of mer-
charitable corn for Iowa will be 40
per cent of an average crop. Pas
lures. he says, are in the worst condi.
tion they have been in since 1894.
Members of the state board of con-
troll have returned from Cherokee,
where they have been inspecting the
work on the new hospital building be-
ing erected at that place. They are
much pleased with the character of
the buildings and report that the out
will rival in beauty the main
structure and that this institution
will be one of the best hospitals for
the insane in the United States.
There are now over 200 men working
on the buildings and $50 are stopping
at one boarding house which has been
set up on the grounds. The board.
is anxious to hasten the work and
will employ all the men it can get.
Governor Shaw has made the award
of money offered by Gov. Francis M.
Drake in 1907 for the capture of the
murderer or murderers Ga Mary Gil
film, who was killed in Clarke county
on December &c, 1896. The case has
been hanging fire on account of the
claims of several parties for the mon
ey offered for the reward. The gov
ernor divided the $3.50 between the