Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-11-13
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. Nov. s. 1902.

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Des Moines. Nov. s. 1902.
Clerk of Court Tate has forwarded
his report on criminal Duciness for the
year ending September 80 to the secra-
tary of state. 1t shows there were
forty-three convictions for felonies as
follows: Murder. 3; manslaughter. /
assault with intent to commit man
slaughter. 3; larceny. o; larceny from
build. g, z; breaking and entering a
railway car, 2; breaking and entering,
6; burglary, 2; larceny from the per.
son, /; being a common thief, /; rob-
berry. 81 embezzlement. /; forgery, 4;
keeping house of i'll fame, 2; obtain
ing money under false pretenses, /.
The penitentiary sentences, according
to lergth of time. are divided as fol-
lows: For life, /; thirty years, /;
twenty-five years, 1 twenty years, /;
ten years, Q; between five and zen
years, 8; five years. 3; less tnan five
years, "a. The three murder cases
tried were those of Otis Green, sent up
for life; Albert Smith, sent up for
twenty-five years, and Sarl Roam, sent
up for thirty years. The other heavy
othlChNNo "CIt lhOSt VI lNCAll ytdlS
each for Bob Maize and Sonny Brat
ford. seventeen years for Ike Bradford,
for robbery, and ten years for Elijah
Heathcote, for burglary.
The state board of health has set
down on the practice of many physi-
clans In the state of trying to render
a person immune against smallpox by
the internal administration OF vario-
linum. According to the board of
health, vaccination Is vaccination by
the old fashioned method, and the new
tangled idea of rendering one safe
from smallpox through his stomach
will not be endorsed. Probably a
good many people in the land have
been vaccinated without knowing Just
what IL was they were getting into.
The board of health has just adopted
a resolution which defines vaccination,
and lets the public know exactly what
it is. This resolution says vaccination
is the following:
AN incubation by scari6cation,
puncture or injection beneath the cpl
dermis of a vaccine which PRODUCES,
with some constitutional disturbance,
the typical vaccine vesicle, which
leaves. after the peck has healed, its
characteristic scar"
This definition of vaccination was
recently ADOPTED at the conference of
state and provincial boards of health
of North America, which was held at
New Haven and attended by DR.. Ken
needy, secretary of the state board of
health.
The decision of the board IN this
matter is of the utmost Importance
throughout the state. Hereafter. under
the rules of the state board, which are
the rules followed by local boards of
health, /. person who has been given
varioinum internally cannot be recog-
niZed as having been vaccinated. II is
possible the matter will be brought to
test in the courts.
John r. Prime, inspector general,
has reported to Adjutant General NJ.
II. Byers on the condition of company
H of the Forty-ninth Iowa at Marshall
town and company ID of the Fifty
second Iowa at Hampton. In both
cases he recommends that the com
panies be given until December l in
which to make more respectable
showing before being mustered out
At Marshalltown Prime discovered
that the reason the company was in
such bad shape was that it had nc
drill room. Captain Brown has al
ready agitated the matter to such an
extent that the Commercial club OF
that city has taken it up, and 1t is pos
sible that an armory will be built. II
this Is true the company VIII be re
tanned. At Hampton the trouble has
been that the class of men in the com
pany is not of the right kind. General
Prime recommended that the waste
and unavailable material be weeded
out at once. and this Lieutenant Colo.
mel Parker and Captain McCrillis
promised to do. Both Marshalltown
and Hampton are very DESTROYS Of re-
tanning their companies. These towns
both had national guard companies
before the Spanish-American war, and
the men now enlisted are many OF
them men who saw service in 1898.
In the district court the jury in the
case of the state against Peter Eng.
fish. charged with burglary, returned
a verdict of guilty despite the instruc'
tions OF the court in view of the recent
opinion Of Judge Weaver of the su.
preme court that possession Of stolen
goods Immediately following a burg
larry cannot be taken as presumptive
evidence Of guilty without other testi
mony. The probabilities are that a
motion for a new trial will be fled and
1t is equally certain 1t will be over.
ruled that this case may be carried up
with a view of securing modification
of the Weaver opinion or a clearer
statement of the law than is given In
Judge Viewers opinion. In this case
the only evidence offered was that a
burglary had been committed and that
defendant had the stolen goods In his
possession.
The persons having plats to file OF
new additions, subdivisions Of lands
ETC., have struck upon a way to get
around the new law requiring that alb.
stracts OF title be filed with plats and
that the persons filing pay a fee for
recording them. The old law provided
for plats and official plats. Official
plats are plats called for by the auditor
that he may have the subdivision
record for purposes Of taxation. The
new law was not made to apply to Of
fetal plats, so the parties now sell out
lots In the additions. ETC.. before filing
and this results in request from the
county auditor for the filing of plats
SO that he can divide the property for
purposes of taxation. The first of.
fetal plat since the new ruling was
made by the auditor has just been
lied with a certificate accompanying
70 the effect that the land plated Is
rec from all membranes.
A firm with an odd name does bust.
less on Washington street, Buffalo
The firm name is English & Irish, and
English is an Irishman, while Irish is
Of English parentage.
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