Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-02-07
1nEnrn = Adams, Decasu-. ~

Dallas, Greene, Guthrie, Harrison. Madi-
son, Shelby, Union.
Tenth : Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee.
Crawford, Ida, Monona, Plymouth, Sac,
| Woodbury.
EIeventh-Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo.
Clay, Dickinson, Emmett, Hancock, Kos
suth, Lyon. OBrien, Osceola, Palo Alto.
| Pocahontas, Sioux.
Interest on State Funds,
Two bills relating to interest on
/ state funds have been introduced.
Representative Secor, acting on the
suggestion of State Treasurer Gilbert
son, proposed a law making the banks
/ OF Des Moines state repositories and
requiring the executive council to de-
i posat state funds in them at not less
IMAM one per cent. Senator Lewis has
proposed to make the banks Of all
cities OF the first class having a capt.
tai OF 100000 state repositories, and
! fixing minimum rate of interest of
two per cent. Both bills provide that
the banks shall deposit with the state
treasurer securities to the amount of
the states deposit, which may be sold
by the treasurer in case the banks fail
I to honor state drafts.
To Investigate Mine Horrors.
| State Mine Inspector John Werner,
of Charlton, has recommended the Gre
alton OF commission of experts to in
vestigate the causes and means of
| avoidable mine horrors such as that
at Lost Creek mine near Oskaloosa,
Ia, recently, in which 81 miners were
| killed by an explosion and two score
others were injured. Mr.. Werner de-
clares that the mining of coal by blast
ing must be changed materially in or
der to insure greater safety of life and
to property.
support for Hospitals,
The state board of control hopes to
see such an enactment made by the leg
islature as will establish the principle
of state support for the insane hos
pitfalls. Under the present laws the
care OF inmates of the hospitals is
charge upon the counties from which
patients are sent at $13 a month per
capita. In the case of Cherokee hos
pital, which will be opened about July
l, it will be necessary to fix the per cap
tia at SIS. If the present system pre-
walls the counties which send pa
tients to the Cherokee institution will
be forced to pay 1924 year more for
each patient than do those counties
for the persons sent to the other three
hospitals. On account of this manifest
injustice the board of control has
urged the legislation to make the
two-dollar excess charge at Chero-
fvsor ~ ~
instead of by the counties, thus reliev-
ing the counties contributory to Chero-
kee of an unjust discrimination. If the
legislature shall do this, the board will
feel encouraged to continue its agfta-
ton an favor of making the insane state
wards whose entire support shall be
chargeable to the state treasury.
School Bills.
Several important bills relating to
the schools have been introduced into
the legislature. One by Representa-
tive Powers provides for the transpor-
I tation of pupils to central schools and
solves the principal problem connected
with the consolidation of school dis
tricts and the establishment of graded
rural schools, which all the educators
SO much desire. Senator Hazelton has
introduced bill providing for the COM
pulsory furnishing of free textbooks
by every district in the state. This
measure is backed by large number
of labor unions and many of the edu-
Gators favor it. Most of the big cities
have free textbooks and the plan Of
furnishing books IS well as black
boards has grown very popular.
Out of the Ordinary.
Among the measures proposed which
are out of the ordinary are the follow
ing: To issue state licenses by state
commission of examiners, to auction
GERS; to punish sale of bogus jewelry
if represented as genuine; to prevent
marriages between white persons and
persons who have as much as 1914 per
cent. colored blood in their veins; to
prevent divorces for causes not sufi-
cient grounds in states from whfchper-
sons seeking divorce came; to pension
district court judges; to reduce coun-
try roads from &c to so feet in width;
to authorize companies to insure
against loss of time on account of
quarantine because of vaccination; to
stop the sale of bottles marked by q
users name by other persons.
Title Registration.
Representative Hawk, of Jasper
county, has introduced a bill for the
adoption of the Torrens land title
record system in this state. He pro-
poses to make theregistration of titles
under it optional. But those who de-
sire to secure an indefeasible title to
their property may have their titles
registered and after the lapse of GER
tain time the title becomes perfect and
in transfers inquiry as to the claims
against the property prior to the time
of registration will be noneffective.
Sunday Ball Playing. !.
Representative Nagle, of Van Buren,
county, has introduced bill prohibit
ing the playing of baseball and football
on Sunday, under severe penalties. He
says that the dissertation of the Sab
bath in Iowa is making the state no.
torious all over the country and he be-
lieves that the police regulations of the
cities against playing ball on Sunday
should be backed up with legislation
that will effectually stopit. r
LEON BROWN. d
It's Possible.
II DON'T think they'll do anything
with Baduns. the policy king, who has
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