The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-07-01
Figures Prepared by the Executive
Council Show That They Are
More Than Reported.
MATTER TO COME up FOR DISCUSSION.
Sale of the Iowa State Register to
George NJ. Roberts - Insane Hos
pital Has New Superintendent
Monthly Accounting. of State Insti-
tutionS-Other Notes.
Especial Correspondence.l

pared which are claimed to show that
the net earnings of the Iowa railroads
in 1901 should have been 100000, 900 in
stead of $16,5oo,0O0 as reported. This
has been reached by giving to the
credit of Iowa business the same per
cent. of the earnings of the railroad
systems that the gross earnings in
Iowa bear to the gross earnings of the
whole system. The council is unable
to see how it comes that the Iowa bust
ness on any line is not as great as the
system and the Iowa operating ex-
penses of the roads are higher in this
state than the average on the systems.
These matters will be taken up by the
executive council during the week
beginning July 49, which will be de-
voted to hearings upon the railroad
tax question. Three subjects of dis
cussion have been arranged by the
council for debate at this hearing as
follows:
l. What is the relation between the as
sessed value and the actual value of the
taxable property in this state, other than
railroad property?
2. How should the actual value of railway
property be ascertaineG?
8. When the railway property in this state
is part of a system, should the expenses of
maintenance and operation in this state
be larger proportion of the entire ex-
penses of the system than the gross earn
ings in the state are of the entire gross
earnings of the system?
Sale of the, Register.
The most important business and po-
litical event in Iowa for many months
was the sale, last week, of the Iowa
State Register, of Des Moines, by the
Clarkson family, to George E. Roberts,
of Fort Dodge, director of the United
States mint. Mr.. Roberts will assume
charge of the paper next week. Mr..
Richard P. Garrison, sole owner and
editor of the paper for the past 10
years, retires from active business.
He severed his connection of 31% years
with the Register, which he bought, in
conjunction with his father and his
brother, James S. Clarkson, in Deem
Der, 1870. The father, Coker f. Clark
son, retired from the paper soon after
it was purchased, and James S. Clark
son retired in 1889. Since that time
Richard P. GARRISON has been solely in
charge of the property. The Register
was started in Des Moines January l..
1850, by L. P. Sherman, brother of Gen.
Sherman and Senator John Sherman,
and whose brother, Hoyt Sherman, was
one of the first postmasters of this
city. The wings induced the establish
ment of the paper to offset the influ-
ence of the Democratic Star, then run
by Barlow Granger, now run under
the name of the Leader. Mr.. Granger
is president of the Des Moines Octo-
genarians' society. The paper sue
cumbed for want of support between
1852 and 1856, when it was reestab-
lished as the Iowa Citizen. Thomas II.
Shepherd and A. j. Stephens started
it and the Register of to-day dates
itself from that year. A number of
owners were interested in the prop
erty during the succeeding years,
among them James C. Slavery. who built
the Kirllwood and Slavery hotels in
Des Moines, and Frank Palmer. the
present government public printer
The daily was started January 10, 1862
by Mr.. Palmer. December z, 1870, the
Clarksons acquired it. III health re.
quired the retirement from the bust
ness of Mr.. Clarkson.
New Superintendent.
The state board of control has ap.
pointed w. P. Crumbacker of Athens
Ohio, as superintendent of the state
insane hospital at Independence, TIC
succeed G. II. Hill, who retires from
the institution July to move to Des
Moines to practice medicine. The new
superintendent for independence
graduated IN 1882 from the medical col
lege of Ohio, at Cincinnati. He tool
several months of postgraduate worl
in New York city in 1892. He also took
several months more of postgraduate
work in Dublin, Ireland, and in Edin
burgh, Scotland, in 1897 and 1898, Civ
ing special attention to neurology. HI
was the assistant physician at the
Athens (O.) state hospital for five
years, from 1884 to 1889. He was SUI
perintendent of this institution for ~
years, from 1890 to 1899. Since tina.
time he has practicef his profession al
Athens, o., until recently, when, will
his family, he went to Pasadena, Cal.
on account of his sons health.
The state board has reappointed T
T. McCune superintendent of the col
lege for the blind, at Ninton.
Personal Property Assessment.
Auditor of State Merriam has re
ceived reports from about half of tn
counties covering the 1902 assessmen
on personal property. Those countie
show an increase of about two pc
cent. of the, total assessment over tn
assessment of last year. This yea
real estate has not been assessed, an
the figures for it remain the same as j
1901. The first county which reporte
was Lucas, and it showed falling OF
in the personally assessment. No
only were there less cattle, but the
were valued at lower price than las
year. This showing has created cor
siderable interest among the member
of the executive council, because it wa
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