The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-07
At THE STATE CAPITAL
Des MONIES, Nov. S, 1901.

Al The STATE CAPITAL
Des MONIES, Nov s. 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 adja-
cent to the town, but rendered Use
less to the state because of their
meandered condition. The lease has
not yet been drawn up, but it will
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 dong business on the stip-
ulated premium plan may do an &c
cident business the same as level
premium companies. The auditor
asked the opinion Of the attorney
general on this subject as result of
an inquiry made by DR.. +. L. Dorr,
president of the Brotherhood Re-
serve Life association, stipulated
premium company of this city. Tho
attorney general holds that section
1110 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
we'll to the stipulated premium COM
panies organized under chapter IS of
the acts of the Twenty-eighth gem
eral assembly.
The executive council has decided
to appropriate the balance remain.
ing in the providential contingent
fund to the Iowa State college at
Ames for the purpose of aiding it to
tide over the recent loss of the eX.
pertinent station, barn and contents.
The sum was found to be $3,O9O42.
About third of this will be used for
feed and the remainder for putting
up temporary barn.
Fifty applications for new delivery
sent to Captain Hull and it is said
that Special Agent Fry has agreed
to recommend to the postoffice de-
partment that at least 35 of them be
established in the Seventh district.
Mr.. Fry says he finds the farmers in
central Iowa are making better roads
than i'll any other part of the state,
using more gravel and coal mine re.
fuse, and that this improvement will
mean better rural route service
DR.. j. /. Gibson, state veterinary
surgeon, mas submitted to she gov
ernor the third biennial report. The
features and covers the period end
ing June 80, 1901. The inspection of
all horses imported into the state at
the point of entry, as protection
from CHAMBERS, is one of the recon-
mendations by DR.. Gibson. Wonder
full prosperity in the live stock in
dustry is noted. A number of valu-
able papers are incorporated into the
report, one of which is by Prof. John
y. Repp of the experiment station at
Ames, and combats 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 tubercu.
lous animals. DR.. 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
15o 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, er.
gotism, CHAMBERS, hog cholera, infu.
enza, mango, Missouri bottom dis.
ease, rabies, superative lymphingitis,
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
out 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
anxious to sound him as to the val
ued policy idea and to ascertain
whether he would support valued
policy bill if it 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. Biclsnell, for many years
a newspaper man and correspondent