The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-10-17
THE RURAL MAIL routes
There Are Now Over One Thousand
Carriers Doing Service in the
State of Iowa.
THE SERVICE is To BE EXTENDED.
State Library Association to Meet in
Grinnell-Labor Commissioners Has
Stormy Interview in Chicago -
Laws DO Not Conflict-New Inebri-
ute Ward-Other Notes.
Especial Correspondence

DeS MONIES, Ia, Oct. 13.-Ihere are
now 1,G42 rural mail carriers in Iowa.
They are paid every month through
the Des Moines post office. They re-
ceive $62,520 each month. The work
of paying out this money adds largely
to the labor of the force in the Des
Moines office. On January last, when
the rule went into effect requiring pay
ment of salary to the rural mail car
riers through the Des Moines office
there were but 541 of them. The num-
Der has grown so large that the Des
Moines office will probably ask the de-
partment to make some other arrange
ment about paying part of them, at
least. 1t is thought that payments
should be made from the post offices
in the principal towns in each of.the
congressional districts. 1t is thought
that there will be 200 additional routes
established before January i. 1t will
take about $500 to serve the entire
state. The local officials believe that
the routes will be established before
three years have gone.
State Library Association.
The Iowa State Library associa ton
will meet at Grinnell, October $3.50. +.
+. Dawley, of Cedar Rapids, the presi-
dent of the association, will deliver an
address the first evening. Rabbi
Hirsch, of Chicago, will speak in the
evening of the second day. Grinnell au-
thorities will furnish. receptions and
entertainment for the delegates while
they are not in session. Miss Ahern,
of Chicago, will be in attendance. 1t
has been expected that a representa-
tive of the Dewey library school of New
York would be in attendance and adj
dress the Iowa librarians. Miss Ella
McLoney, of Des Moines, may be a cam
didate for president Of the association.
Stormy Interview.
State La Dor Commissioner r. D. Brig
ham has just returned from Chica go,
where he held stormy interviews with
the railroad accountants employed in
the Offices of the auditors of the roads
which come into Iowa. Commissioner
Brigham very much desires to include
in his Forthcoming biennial report a
statement of the statistics of the Iowa
railroads with respect to the employees
of the railways. He wishes the num-
Der Of employees, the time they labor,
their wages, etc. Heretofore the la
Dor commissioner of this state has
been unable to secure this informa-
ton, and has taken it out of the re
port of the railroad commissioner, in
which it has been included in a gen
eral form. Mr.. Brigham decided to try
to get original and complete reports.
He returned from Chicago with the
virtual promise from the railroad au-
ditors to furnish him the figures he
wants.
Laws Do Not Conflict.
State superintendent r. C.. Barrett
has decided that the Laws relative to
the compulsory attendance at school
do not conflict. The compulsory
school law requires the attendance of
all children between the ages of seven
and II at school for 16 weeks in the
year; the vaccina ton law provides that
school authorities may exclude from
school those children who refuse to
be yaccinated. The former law, how
ever. does not prevent the parents of
children from sending them to private
or parochial schools, SO that the two
laws may be enforced simultaneously.
New Inebriate Ward.
The state board of control has found
it necessary to establish new ward
for inebriates, that at Mount Pleasant
insane hospital having become over
crowded. Therefore, ward has been
get aside in the new hospital at Chero-
kee. This will accommodate about 100
patients. The board is somewhat
alarmed because Of the large number
of cases in which advantage has been
taken of the new law requiring the de-
tention of dipsomaniacs and excessive
users of drugs at state expense. 1t is
not unlikely that wards for inebri-
ates will have to be established at each
of the state hospitals. 1t is now
thought that an institution for the
care of this class, separately, will be
proposed in the next legislature.
An Important Case.
An important building and loan case
has been appealed from the district
court of this county to the supreme
court. 1t relates to the validity of the
law under which the auditor Of the
state has been given the power to name
trustee for companies which become
insolvent. This happened to the Home
Building g. Savings company, of Des
Moines. w. II. Bremner asappointed
trustee by Auditor of State Merriam.
Dissatisfied stockholders in the com
pany appealed to the court, attacking
the validity of the law. Judge E. II.
McVey, of this court, decided that the
law was unconstitutional and that the
proceedings to wind up the affairs of
a building and loan association must
be the same as in the case of any other
corporation, by a receivership. He APP
pointed j. ID. Whisenand, the republi-
can state central committeeman from
this district, to do the business, and
he will take charge of the company's
affairs as soon as the supreme court