Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-02-07
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. Feb. 6, 1902.

Governor Cummins has announced
the appointment Of DR.. J. III. Sans OF
Clarion, Iowa, to succeed DR.. j. G..
Shrader, of Iowa City, whose term as
a member of the state board Of health
has expired. DR.. Shraded was not
a candidate for appointment. He
is one Of the Oldest and best known
practitioners In the state. He has
served in the capacity of a member
OF the state board of health for seven
teen years past, and now retires of
his own volition: his successor is
identified with the class of physicians
known as regulars, the same as DR..
Shrader. DR.. Sans is comparative
ly young physician, he having COM
pleted his course in medicine in the
state university in 1892. He is APP
pointed for a term of seven years.
arranged that one term expires on
January 81 Of each year.
The board of agriculture has de-
cided to erect a $4,000 coliseum on
the state fair grounds. The building
will contain five rooms and will be an
extensive affair The board has not
the funds to erect the building at
present and Will ask the legislature
to appropriate the amount. 1t is
thought that no difficulty will be ex-
perienced in getting the appropria-
ton. The board also decided 70 build
an addition to the present horticult-
ural building which will be for the
exclusive use of flower exhibits. It
will cost about $1,000. y
The Iowa State Congress of
Mothers elected the following officers
for the e:suing year:
President, Mrs. Isaac Lea Hills, of
Des Moines; first vice-president, Mrs.
vice-president, Mrs. Cato sells, of
vinton; third vice-president, Mrs. J.
w. Cory, of Spencer; recording Sec
rotary, Mrs. Edith Payne Parsons, of
Des Moines; corresponding secretary,
Mrs. E. S. Burgin, OF Des Moines;
treasurer, Mrs. Riggs, of Audubon;
auditor, Mrs. N. Darnell, Of Center
vile.
Four men are now under sentence
of death in Iowa. Governor Cummins
is quoted as declaring that he has no
conscientious scruples against the
death penalty, and indicates that he
will sign the death warrants it the
court shall finally sustain the death
sentences. The four men under SEN
tence of death at the present time are:
Albert Phillips, Lewis Brooks,
marry HOFFMAN and Richard
Williams. Phillips and Brooks
are the two bank robbers who, at AL
bert City, Buena Vista County, on
November 16, killed JOAN Sundbald,
a prominent citizen, and Marshal To-
dinew, who were in posse attempt
ing to arrest the men as being con-
nected with bank robbery at Green
Vile in Clay county few days pre-
vious. Harry HOFFMAN on November
80 shot and killed Florence Porter,
of Cherokee. The shooting was the
ing formerly been Hortman'S sweet
heart Richard Williams, colored, on
Sunday December s, 1901, at Buxton,
south of Oskaloosa, shot and killed
VIM. Sharper, (white). The shooting
was without proyOcaticn. Williams
was flourishing gun at the time and
was endeavoring to hit another man
named Cooper. Brooks and Phillips
are to be executed on December 10,
1902; Hortman on, January %, 1908,
and Williams on March -, 1908.
IT have not yet estimated carefully,
but in my opinion the passage of my
bill reducing the width OF highways
legal sixty-six feet, will save to the
people of the state more than 500, 900
acres of tillable land. This represents
capital asset of $25,000G00, to say
nothing of the value of productiveness
which it represents annually" said
Representative William L arrabeeN in
an interview. Mr.. Larrabee believes
that the chances for the passage of
his bill are reasonably good, and he
expects to press it before the atten-
ton of the committees in the legisla-
ture with all the energy with which
he is capable. He believes that the
proposition is one that will receive
the support of all the farmers of the
state, whose valuable possessions will
be increased to the amount mentioned
and the rights of the public and the
travelling farmer not affected in any
particular. A highway fifty feet wide
is as easily travelled as one sixty-six
feet wide. Mr.. Larrabee's bill is ex-
tremely simple, and provides merely
that the words "sixty-six" in section
1883 of the code SHALL be amended to
read fifty" While the act does not
provide specifically as to the owner
ship of this land, it provides that the
center of the roads now existing shall
be the center of the new roads. This
means III DT1eI that Lue OWuerS dD-
butting on highways will gain eight
feet in width for the length of from.
| tage that they own on the present
highways. AS a general proposition
| it may be said that roads now exist
every half mile in every direction in
this state; that is to say, there are
600 roads running north and south
and 400 roads running east and west.
This makes 100000 miles of roads and
the Larrabee bill gives to the farmers
a strip of land 100000 miles long and
eight feet wide, or practically 500.-
| 900 acres, which at $50 makes $685.
| 100000.
| Representative John Hughes. of
Iowa county, states that he will not
| introduce a two-cent fare bill during
| this session.. He believes that all of