Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-07-01
IOWA RAILWAY EARNINGS
Figures Prepared by the Executive
Council Show That They Are
More Than Reported.
NATTER TO COME UP FOR DISCUSSION.
Sale of the, Iowa State Register to
George Nj. Roberts - Insane Hos
pital Has New superintendent
/ Monthly Accounting of State Insti-
tutions-Other Notes.
Especial correspondence.l

monthly Accounting Oh state lnStA.
tutions-Other Notes.
Especial Correspondence
! Des Moines, Ia, June 21.-The state
executive council has had figures pre-
pared which are claimed to show that
fhe net earnings of the Iowa railroads
In 1901 should have been $20,000,000 in
stead of 16,5OO,OOO as reported. This
has been reached by giving to the
credit of Iowa business the same per
cent. Of the earnings of the railroad
systems that the gross earnings IN
Iowa bear to the gross earnings of the
whole system. The council is unable
to see how it comes that the Iowa busi-
ness on any line Is not as great as the
average Of business done on the whole
system and the Iowa operating ex-
psnses of the roads are higher in this
state than the average on the systems.
These matters will be taken up by the
executive council during the week
beginning July Is, which will be de-
voted to hearings upon the railroad
tax question. Three subjects of dis
cussion have been arranged by the
council for debate at this hearing as
follows:
i. What is the relation between the as
sessed value and the actual value of the
taxable property in this state, other than
railroad property?
2. How should the actual value Of railway
property be ascertadned?
8. When the railway property in this state
is part of a system, should the expenses of
q inf nd to Dc, c<ofo
be larger proportion of the entire ex-
penses of the system than the gross earn
angs in the state are of the entire gross
earnings of the system?
Sale of the, Register.
The most important business and po-
htical event in Iowa for many months
was the sale, last week, of the Iowa
State Register, of Des Moines, by the
Elarkson family, to George E. Roberts,
of Fort Dodge, director of the United
States mint. Mr.. Roberts will assume
charge of the paper next week. Mr..
Richard P. Clarkson, sole owner and
EDITOR of the paper for the past IL
years, retires from active business.
de severed his connection of 31h years
with the Register, which he bought, in
conjunction with his father and his
brother, James S. Clarkson, in Deem
Der, 1870. The father, Coker +. Clark
Bon, retired from the paper soon after
1t was purchased and James S. Clark
BON retired in 1889. Since that time
Richard P. Clarkson has been solely in
Dharge of the property. The Register
bias started in Des Moines January ],
$3.50, by L. P. Sherman, brother of Gen.
Bherman and Senator John Sherman,
and whose'brother, Hoyt Sherman, was
!bne of the first postmasters of this
city. The wings induced the establish
ment of the paper to offset the infu-
ence of the Democratic Star, then run
by Barlow Granger, now run under
the name of the Leader. Mr.. Granger
is president of the Des Moines Octo-
genarians' society The paper sue.
cumbed for want of support between
1852 and 1856, when it was reestab-
aished as the Iowa Citizen. Thomas III
Shepherd and A. J. Stephens started
1t and the Register of to-day dates
Itself from that year. A number Of
owners were interested in the prop
erty during the succeeding years
among them James c. Savery, who built
the Kirkwood and Slavery hotels il
Des Moines. and Frank Palmer. the
present government public printer
The daily was started January 10, 1862
by Mr.. Palmer. December Z, 1870. the
Clarksons acquired it. III health re
quired the retirement from the bust
ness of Mr.. GARRISON.
New superintendent.
The state board of control has an
pointed W. p. Crumbacker, of Athens,
Ohio, as superintendent of the state
insane hospital at independence, to
succeed G. H. Hill, who retires from
the institution July / to move to Des
Moines to practice medicine The new
superintendent for independence
graduated in 1882 from the medical col
1ege of Ohio, at Cincinnati He took
several months of postgraduate work
in New York city in 1892. He also took
several months more of postgraduate
work in Dublin, Ireland, and in Edin-
burgh, Scotland, in 1897 and 1898, Civ
ing special attention to neurology. He
was the assistant physician at the
Athens TO- state hospital for five
years, from 1884 to 1889. He was SUI
perintendent of this institution for 2h
years, from 1890 to 1892. Since that
time he has practice6 his profession at
Athens, o., until recently, when, with
his family, he went TO Pasadena, CAL,
on account of his sons health.
The state board has reappointed t.
F. McCune superintendent of the col
lege for the blind, at Vinton
Personal Property Assessment.
Auditor of State Merriam has re-
ceived reports from about half of the
counties covering the 1902 assessment
on personal property. Those counties
show an increase of about two ner
cent. of the total assessment over the
assessment of last year This wear
real estate has not been assessed. and
the figures for it remain the same as in
1901. The first county which reported
mas Lucas, and it showed falling of
in the personally assessment. Not
only were there less cattle, but they
were valued at a lower price than last
year. This showing has created con
siderable interest among the members
of the executive council, because it was
thought that the assessment Of live
stock this year would be much higher
than last year.
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