Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-12-16
Auditor Of State Barrett Makes Near
~ a Clean Sweep in Clerical
Force in His Office.
ONLY TWO OLD EMPLOYEES RETAINED.
Retiring Pension Agent Anxious to
Cash Outstanding Checks = Bust-
ness of Iowa Acknowledgement
Against Army Omcer Does Not
Hold-Other State News.
Especial Correspondence

retained fOr the present. NIL. DIdAOt
remains as deputy auditor. This was
an arrangement made at the time of
the state convention and followed be-
cause Mr.. Brandt, who was candidate
for the nomination as auditor with
drew from the race. Mr.. Lewis re-
tains his connection with the insurance
department. Ole o. Roe, of Des Moines,
replaces Frank Paul, of Manchester,
at the head of the insurance depart
ment; C. L. Pennington, of Bloomfield,
displaces Max Beehler as state insur-
ance examiner, and the new bank ex-
aminers are d. s. Mckee, of Mediapo-
lis; S. NJ. Germany, of Woodbine; Fred
w. Thompson, of Thompson; M. A.
Buchan, of Dixie, and George w. Phil
lips, of Bloomfield, become state bank
examiners. A. K: Lofkin, of Newton,
has been appointed building and loan
examiner, taking the place of NJ. n.
Robertson, who goes into the United
States pension agency. The new force
takes charge Of the Office the first Mon
day in January.
Important Decision.
The state courts have decided that
city may incur an obligation for the
erection of waterworks plant and
pay it off with the two mill special levy
ms provided by the Berryhill law. The
federal courts have decided that city
cannot. An effort is being made to
get the courts together on the question
On the basis laid down by the state
courts, The matter is of Importance to
Ottumwa and Cedar Rapids, particu-
larly, although affecting every city in
| the state,
Wants. Checks casAed:
The retiring pension agent, 2. F.
Sperry, desires that all the checks is
sued by himself from the Iowa-Ne-
braska pension agency here be cashed
Immediately, so that the ACCOUNTS of
the agency can be closed when the
new agent, Richard p. GARRISON, takes
his Office, about January /. About
$4,000 of the checks issued the last
quarter remain uncashed and the agent
asks every veteran who has one to see
to it that it is turned into money at
once, so that the check may find its
way back to the agency and the books
for the year be closed when he goes
out of Office. Mr.. Clarkson will take
possession as soon as he is confirmed
by the senate, as he becomes pension
agent by that act, but it is thought
that that will not be effected till to.
yard the close of the year.
~ Iowa Railroads;
L THE e{o%ni ro31roo5 o,pp,{cciop he g
made it's annual report covering the
business of the railroads of Iowa for
the past year. Summarized the in
formation of the report as compared
with the same items in the report Of
last year follows: =,
u..eass ,.,,....... s,s 5slsi s' 49,:
:s:s,s?: & !; 1 'Iiss}
Net. earnings per -, -,
:'s "a Az; So $ Es'3
Persons injured -. 1oS6 VI
| Number OF en-
aea iaSbss ; cars 49,, snsSs sS S:s
Not Liable to Arrest.
it vas decided in the federal cour,
here the past week that the work Of AZ
army officer cannot be retarded or in
terfered with by writ of injunction
Maj. Turner was arrested in the state
courts for violating an injunction is
sued by them charging him not to con
etruct a certain sewer which he Il
building for the Des Moines army pos
on government land. The federal cour,
released the major and announced thu
decision given. The Des Moines arm,
post Will be enlarged by the additio,
Of 100000 of buildings. The superin
tending engineer has received wort
from the war department that thu
army bill will carry this appropriation
This will make the post large enough
to accommodate seven troops of cav
airy. It will make $s50,000 appro
priated and spent on the project be
fore year from the coming fall.
I New Sewage Plant.
The Mitchellville institution for girls
which is maintained by the state, ha
sewage disposal plant, the frs
erected at the. state institutions o
Iowa. It is doing its work satisfac
torily to the board of control. TIL
board has been erecting similar plantI
at Davenport Soldiers Orphans home
and at the insane hospital at Noun
Pleasant. The one at Davenport will
be ready in about week. The waite
which is the result Of the sewage dis
tributed among the tanks and beds O
the plant at Mitchellville is as pure
apparently, as that of any water sup
ply and tests will be made ofit TIL
board will erect plants at all the stat,
institutions if the ones in course o
construction prove to be satisfactory,
il all particulars.
Names Changed.
The national guard regiments O
Iowa have received new designation
by an order issued by the governor tn
past week. They become the. Fifty
Third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty.ffth AM
Flfty-sixth regiments instead of til,
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty,irst sul
Fifty-second. The last numbers were
those under which the regiments went
into the Spanish-American war. After
they returned the reorganization wat
effected as national guard companies
and regiments instead of as volun'
teer soldiers Of the government the
veterans asked that the names be
changed. The matter hung fire for q
year, but it hes been yeoched finally
ra,;e ,.as,,,.tr A.