The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-26
State Board of Control Apportions
Counties Into Hospital for
Insane Divisions.
BEST COMBINATION TO SAVE EXPENSE.
The State Geologist Says There Is
Neither Oil Nor Gas Beneath Iowa
Soil-Railway Commission May In
vestig,ate the Wreck at Rhodes
Other Notes of General Interest.
Especial Correspondence.l

state into new hospital for the insane
divisions. The following counties I'M
der the new arrangement will send
patients to the different institutions
as designated:
To Mount Pleasant HOSP ital.-Appanoose
Davis Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jasper,
Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa, Mahaska,
Marion, Monroe, Muscatine, Powesheik,
Scott, Van Buren,, Wapello, Washington,
and AS state patients: total inmates S45.
To independence Observation-Disclosures,
Benton, Blackhawk, Bremen. Buchanan,
Butler, Cedar Grundy. Hardin, Howard,
Jackson, Jones, Johnson, Linn, chickasaw'
Clayton, Clinton, Delaware, Dubuque,
Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Marshall, Mitch
ell, Tama. Winnesheik and IS state pa
tents; total inmates, ss&
To Clarinda Hospital.-Adair, Adams,
Audubon, Boone. Carroll, Cass, Clarke,
Crawford, Dallas, Decatur, Fremont, Guth-
RE, Harrison, Lucas, Madison, Mills, Mont
gomery Page, Polk, Pottawattamie, Ring
gold, Shelby, Story, Taylor, Union, War
rem, Wayne, state patients, H6; total In
mates, SH.
To Cherokee Hospital.-Buena Vista, Cal
houn, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee Clay, Dick
inson, Emmett, Greene, Hamilton, Han
cock, Humboldt, Ida, Kossuth, Lyon, Mo-
mona, O'Rren, Osceola, Palo Alto, Ply
mouth, Pocahontas, Sac, Sioux Webster,
Wnnebago, Woodbury., Worth, Wright;
total inmates, $50.
Redistricting was necessary because
of the opening of the new hospital at
Cherokee. The board of control has
had considerable difficulty getting the
institution opened on account of va
rious delays despite the fact that the
superintendent, N. M. Voldeng, has
been on the ground at Cherokee since
April 1 in charge of the completion of
the construction. 1t was thought that
it could be fully occupied by August
20, but another delay occurred. The
independence institution gets n pa
tients now at Mount Pleasant, the
Mount Pleasant hospital gets 144 now
at Clarinda, Cherokee gets 264 now at
Clarinda, and it gets 31S now at indie
pendence.
The purpose of the board of control
in selecting the counties whose pa
tients should be transferred to the
new institution was to find the best
combination to save expense in the flu
ture in transporting patients from
counties to the state hospitals.
Decline to Reinstnte Him.
At the last session of the legislature
law was passed providing that per-
sons convicted of murder in the sec
ond degree might be admitted to bond.
DR.. j. w. Crofford. of Leon, so con-
victed, recently was admitted to bail,
pending appeal of his case to the SUI
preme court. Before he was released
on bond the state board of medical ex-
aminers had voted to cancel and re-
woke his certificate to practice medi-
cine. After he was admitted to bail
he petitioned the board to reinstate
him. At its recent meeting the board
declined to do it. The law was gotten
through the legislature by Col M. l..
Temple, the representative from
Clarke county. DIR. Crofford was his
client and he appeared before the state
board of medical examiners in his be-
half, but the board declined to rein
state the physician until he is cleared
by the courts.
No Oil or Gus.
State Geologist Samuel Calvin, of
the state university, is out in an Off
cial report declaring that there can
be no petroleum or natural gas de-
posts beneath the soil of Iowa at an
available or accessible depth. and urg-
ing persons not to spend money pros
! pecting for these products. He de-
clares that they are geologically i'm
possible for the formations beneath
Iowa soil lack the porous sandstone
which is essential to the presence OF
oil or gas. In his last annual report
Prof Calvin declared that gold and
precious minerals, also, were impos.
sible of discovery under this state fol
the same reason. The gold that is be.
meath the soil of Iowa can be found
only in the corn and the wheat that
grows out of it, says the state geolo
gist.
May Investigate.
1t is probable that the state railroad
commission will investigate the causes
of the wreck on the Milwaukee rail
road at Rhodes, in Marshal county
last week, in which about Is were
killed and about 35 were injured. The
wreck appeared to have been caused
by the neglect of orders by the con
ductor of work train and whose trai1
met that of regular freight con
ductor on sharp curve between
Rhodes and Collins. The commission
has been informed, Indirectly, tina
the wreck was caused by an effort t.
save the expense and trouble of al
extra fagman and the question ha
arisen whether this was due to tn
railroad management or the trainmel
in charge of the two trains. The rail
road commission has not investigate,
railroad wreck for years and ma.
decide not to go to the bottom of thi
one 1t is waiting the verdict of TIL
coroner.
Lay Corner stones.
The grand lodge of Iowa masons ha
been called upon to lay large humble
of corner stones in this state this sun
mer. Last week the officers of tn
grand lodge performed this ceremon
for a masonic temple at Harlan: the
accepted an invitation to off1riate thi
week at similar ceremony for III
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