The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-05-29
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. Nav e6. 1909

A detail OF officers. headed by Can.
tain AL Miller, in charge of tine night
shift, descended upon an alleged
opium joint at $40 South West Fifth
street, and captured a smoking outfit
IN addition to rounding up three men
and a woman in The place. All the
men, Gus and Jacob Payne and Will.
nam Smith, We're armed with pistols,
and it is claimed, one of them fired
a shot. accidentally or otherwise, at
the officers when they forced their
way into the house. The trio were
taken to the central station and placed
IN JAIL. Later, having pleaded not
guilty to the charge of being found in
an opium den, they were released
upon each giving bond in the sum of
Slo0 to guarantee his appearance for
trial.
AT the nineteenth annual convention
OF the Department of Iowa, Women's
relief Corps, officers were elected as
Iolows: President, Mrs. Myra l.. Par
ker OF Des Moines; senior vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. Jennie Whedon of Winter
set; junior vice-president, Mrs R.
Anna Smith of Clarinda; treasurer,
Mrs. Estella Plopper of Winterset;
chaplain, Mrs. Human of Belmond;
executive board: Mrs. Emma White
mack OF Waterloo, Mrs. Jessie Mckay
OF McGregor, Mrs. Maria King of JEFF
ferson Mrs. Belle Seen of Fort Dodge.
Mrs. Mary Huffman of Sioux City.
Judge Prounty has decided that
mans wages are personal property,
and as such cannot be assigned to a
creditor without his wife's name at
tached to the document The case
was entitled Thos. Provolt VS.. Eugene
Van Dyck, the party who attempted
to assign his wages to the Des Moines
Credit Company being George F.
Smith. When the case came up for
trial Smiths wife interviewed on the
ground that the wages could not be
assigned without her consent, and the
agreement was therefore void. The
issue of the case depended whether
wages were personal property under
the statute. In the Lightweight Iowa
the supreme court held that they were
not. Since that decision the code has
been revised, however, and the Ian
guage of the section in question has
been altered. Judge Prouty holds
that the decision of the supreme court
does not hold in this case, and that
wages are personal property.
M. M. Kirkham of the Northwestern,
second vice president of the road and
In charge of the accounting depart
ment, appeared before the executive
council few days ago to make Wig
orous protest against the system of
reporting that will be required by the
council under the new rules formulat-
ed under the English law. Mr.. Kirk.
hams objection was that the roads
could not show the operating ex-
penses of any part of the road separ-
ate from the whole system, as the
new rules would require them to do.
While there might be such a division
made. he declared it would be arbi.
trary instead of equitable, and it was
practically impossible to show the
operating expenses of any part of a
road, as that in the state and out of
it, for instance. Mr.. Kirkham had a
long audience with the council, and
there was quite spirited discussion
of the new rules. The council made
no notifications of them. Indeed
Mr.. Kirkham indicated when he was
before the council that he did not ex
pect to get the rules modified, but
was looking to the future, in the hope
eventually of bringing about an ar.
rangement which he deemed more
equitable.
Governor Cummins has received
the Mckinley memorial monument
movement in this state and has sent
letters to representative men in every
county asking them to assume the re.
sponsibility of placing the matter be-
fore the people in their respective
counties, that Iowa may do her share
in providing funds for this purpose.
The state is expected to raise not to
exceed $4,000 of the three-quarters
of million necessary
The board of educational examiners
of the state, after an all day session,
competed large amount of work, the
most important of which was the map.
ping out of the course of study for
schools of instruction of teachers for
the common schools under the Hogue-
KING law. All the members of the
board were at the session and the
courses of study were thoroughly con.
sidered. Three and four year courses
were outlined. These courses are in.
tended as suggestive and as emitting
the person taking them in accredited
schools to an examination for a two
year state certificate. They are in.
tended as the minimum standard of
requirement the board of educational
examiners will exact of accredited
schools under the new law. The
preparation of the courses was begun
at the recent meeting of the board Of
educational examiners following it's
conference with the heads of the col
leges, seminaries and private normal
schools of the state. The three-year
course of study includes all the studies
now required by law for a two-year
primary certificate and number of