Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-06-17
Commissioner Brigham Will Soon
Begin the Work of Gathering
Facts for His Report.
new LAW GOES INTO EFFECT ON JULY4
Interesting Criminal Case Decided by
the state Supreme COurt-PoIitical
Conventions to BE HeId-GrinneI
Seeks Another College Other
Notes OF General Interest.
Especial correspondence.l


gin the work of gathering statistics
for his departmental report early In
July. The new law relative to his Of
fee and respecting factory inspection
will go into effect July 4. The infor-
nation gathered will be of much
broader scope than in former years.
Eight different schedules and blanks
have been provided for the convenience
of the department in ellciting and clas-
styling the information secured from
| labor-employing Industries of the
state. Assurances are given that this
information will, in individual cases,
be treated as confidential, by the COM
| missioner. And the statistical infor-
nation secured will merely be tabu-
lated for general information. The
most interesting schedule in connec-
ton with this inquiry is that relating
to the condition of the individual wage
Garner. The following questions are
asked each laboring man in the state
with reference to his employment:
| Do you work with or around dangerous
machinery?
State in detail Separately If desired) Civ
Ing number and character of accidents from
| any cause, coming under your observation,
| where labor is employed during the past
| two years.
| Are fire escapes or proper means of egress
| provided on buildings where you are en-
ployed?
Are sanitary conditions healthful where
you are employed? If not, state any de-
fects
Are separate water closets provided for
both sexes? Are they kept in a clearly
| condition?
| Strikes and Iockouts.
Work begun last year of securing in
| formation as to strikes and lockouts,
will be continued by Commissioner
| Brigham. The schedule respecting fac
tory inspection is exhaustive, The
| questions asked relate to means of en-
trance and exits. ventilation and sani-
tation, safety and power, employees, in
Guiding number. and, if children.
whether under IA years of age, and if
children under IS are employed in OPP
Grating dangerous machinery. The
blanks provide for information as to
accidents and for statistics of the EN-.
ployes in factories and business houses
Another schedule relates to new in.
dustrieS established in Iowa since 1900
and profitable locations for new In.
dustries. Schedule No & has reference
to manufactures and is calculated. if
the blanks are filed out properly,
to give exhaustive information as
TO the status of manufacturing in
Iowa. Another schedule is 4
blank for the gathering of wide
information as to railroad EN-
ployes in the state. The information
obtained and compiled will relate to
the number of employees in the differ
ent crafts of the railroad service, the
number of hours worked daily. the
number of days worked during the
year. the rate of wages. the tota'
amount paid for wages the last fiscal
year, etc The compilation of infor.
nation of this scope has never before
been attempted in the state. Another
schedule relates to labor organizations
in Iowa. 1t is to be filled out by secre.
taries of labor organizations.
Interesting Case Decided.
The most interesting criminal case
which has been decided by the su
preme court for several years was
decided at the term which has Jus,
adjourned and was an affirmation o
the Judgment of the Keollull count,
court convicting Mrs. Sarah Kuhn o
the murder of her crippled husband
and her sentence of life imprison
ment, which she has just begun, a
the age of 81 years, in Anamosa Til,
remarkable and interesting featur.
about the decision of the court wal
the dissenting opinion of Justice s
N. Weaver, who wrote an opinion il
wi.ich he said that. as he viewed TIL,
decisit>a of the other five judges. they
had established a new principle il
Iowa jurisprudence, to wit: that the
accused must Prove that he is limo.
cent, rather than that the state must
prove that he is guilty Justice
Weaver said that the woman had no
been proved guilty and that sh'
4 should not have been convicted be
cause of her inability to prove he
have been rumors that tho womal
has confessed that she killed her hus
band and implicated a young MAJ
with whom she kept company 81
What Cheer before she married Kuhn
Warden Hunter. of Anamosa prison
: however, says that he knows nothins
of any such confession. and if it hac
been made it would have had to gt
, through his hands.
Political Conventions.
The principal political parties o
the state have selected the places TO
! their state conventions and two o
! them have selected the dates. TIL
democrats have just fixed upon De
Moines as the place and Septembe
as the date for their convention
The republicans had selected De
Moines and July so as the locatio
and date for their state conventio
several weeks ago. The prohibitio
party has selected Waterloo, but ha
. not fixed a date. These three pan
" ties will get their tickets on the OF
!, fetal ballot by certifying the non
e nation papers OF the candidates (
5 the secretary of state. Never, here
: tofore. has more than the democrat
and republican tickets gone on tt
ballot without petition. The dem
Gratis have selected H. C. Taylor,
young man and attorney at Bloor
: field, for temporary chairman
4 theif convention. The republican
il have selected Congressman Walter