Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-06-26
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines, June 81. 1902.


The board of control of state insti-
buttons announces the appointment OF
DR.. w. p. Crumpacker of Athens, Ohio,
as the successor to DIR. G. h. Hill In
the office of superintendent OF the
state hospital at Independence. DR..
Crumpacker will assume charge Oh
the institution July l. DIR. Hills resig-
nation was communicated to the board
Of control several months ago. He
announced at that time his intention
of coming to Des Moines and estab-
fishing himself in practice here as
specialist in the treatment OF nervous
diseases.
John F. Carter. the ex-policemaD,
found guilty recently in the district
court on the charge of sx,orting "a in
money from Edith Carlson, roomer
at the Goldstone hotrl. was fined 5000
and costs by Judge Church of Jeffer-
son, who tried the case, in the district
court. incidentally Judge Church
read Carter lecture he will not soon
forget, concerning the serious nature
q his offenss. The judge called at.
tention to the fact that when Carter
committed the offense he was a peace
officer and entrusted with the duty of
maintaining the law. His offense for
this reason was the more serious.
The Rock Island fee of $4,000 for
filing the amendments to its articles
of incorporation with the secretary of
state was the largest yet received.
Under the old law it would have cost
the company but $4,000. This law
relative to the cost of filing articles
of incorporation with the secretary of
state has been a matter of rapid
growth. Eight years ago 1t would
have cost the Rock Island but $3.50 to
file it's articles increasing its capital
stock to s15.000,000 That is all 1t cost
any corporation. Under the present
law the Burlington, II 1t filed its ar
ticles of Incorporation as it did about
q year ago, would have to pay $780,
for the privilege; then it paid but
$4,000. 1t is believed that the law will
result in considerable addition to the
income of the state. Another source
of income which Is constantly growing
is the collateral inheritance tax. The
receipts Of the past year will show
$4,000 over the receipts for the aver
age of each of the two years of the
last biennial period. These incomes.
coupled with insurance taxes and fees,
and other fees, would be missed from
the state revenue IL they were Topped
off. Their constant growth leads
students Of economics to believe that
the time is not far distant when all
the state expenses will be paid by
corporation taxes, instead Of general
taxation. For instance, the railroad
tax alone would be about third OF
the whole of the state expenditures. II
paid into the state instead of local
treasures.
The board of control has announced
the reappointment of Superintendent
T. F. McCune Of the hospital for the
blind at vinton. His new term will
begin July 1.
The program of the Midland Chau-
tauqua assembly, to be held at Des
Moines, July 8 to %, inclusive, has
just been issued. II is filled with the
best that can be obtained, including
Rev. Frank Dixon, DIR. Alexander Pat
terson. Miss Sara Wharton Moore,
Miss Ellen NJ. Stone, dorado Taft,
Richard Pierson Hobson. A card to
E. c. Musgrave. secretary, will bring
a program.
The State Register announces the
sale Of the property and plant Of that
paper to George K. Roberts OF Fort
Dodge, director OF the United States
mint. The reason tor the change is
the failing health of r. P. CIarkson the
present editor and proprietor. The
price is not stated, but the transac-
ton. which has been pending for sew
eral weeks past, is believed to involve
sum of money between s125,000 and
$4,000.
The great Wallace shows have COM
pleted all arrangements to exhibit in
Des Moines Monday. June 80. The
Wallace show has advanced rapidly
during recent years until it has reach
ed the front rank of tented enterprises,
and is one of the biggest on the road.
1t advertises greater number Of
features than any other show, and,
judging from the comments of the
press, the commercial travellers and
others who have seen 1t. the Wallace
show produces all it advertises. With
the Wallace shows from six to eight
acts are to be seen at one time in
the three rings. hippodrome track, on
the stage and in mid-air. The man
agement Of a show the size of WAL
laces' does not expect the people to be
able to watch all Of the many features,
but they arrange to have several acts
of various kinds at the same time,
so that the spectator may take his
ph0ice and eniov fhnea that ha ad
mires most. Since peoples tastes
differ, II is necessary for circus the
size of the Wallace show to be cos.
mopolitan In character in order that
all may be pleased, and those who
have seen it know that 1t pleases and
satisfies the most critical The great
Wallace shows will positively appear
In Des Moines for one day only, Civ
Ing two performances on Monday
June 80.
A leather wallet, containing SEQ
which Farmer Densmore of vestch. N.
Y. was about to pay on a mortgage.
was accidentally dropped in his barn
lot. He had reason to believe that
one Of his calves made a meal of the
wallet and its contents, and he killed
and opened the animal. In its stom-
ach he found the wallet and the
money, the latter almost a mass of
pulp. The fragments of $40 were in
q condition to be recognized, and were
sent to the United States treasury for
redemption.
She-"After all, what is the differ
ence between illusion and delusion?"
He-"Illusion is the lovely fancies we
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