The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-19
A VICTIM OF 0V[RN0Rk.
Death of President Beardshear, of
the Agricultural College, Due
to Incessant Labor.
NEVER FOUND TIME FOR RECREATI( N.
Gov. Cummins Calls Attention to Ia-
Dor Dny-Incrense In Railway As
innate of the Fruit
Crop in Iowa-Fewer Convicts mt
AnnmOsn-Other Stnte News.
Inmosa-other state News.
Especial Correspondence


Des Moines, Ia, Aug. 11.-William
Agricultural college, who died the past
week, was victim of overwork. He
was too busy to take vacation. For
more than sax years he had worked in
cessantly and had not found time to
take even single day off. He was
widely in demand for addresses and
these We're principally written on
was his continually entertained inten-
ton to take few weeks for q yaca-
ton, but he was never able to do it.
He slept five and six hours might. Be-
cause he was six feet in height and
spare and robust and filled with en-
ergy, he thought he could go on all
ways When he collapsed with nerv-
it was necessary to finish a few things
which he had begun. He was ambi-
tious to deliver the presidents address
at the National Teachers association
meeting at Minneapolis three weeks
ago. He wrote the address. When
the teachers heard it he was tossing on
| the bed from which he never arose.
President Beardshaw was 50 years of age.
He was an Ohioan. His father was Swiss
J and his mother a product of Scotch and
! Welsh blood. They resided near Dayton.
| There he enlisted at IA years of age and
| served in the union army to the end of the
war. He was valedictorian of his class at
Otterbein university. He preached in the
United, Brethren church at Arcanum o.,
and took a course in Yale theological SEM
mary. He preached in Summit church in
Dayton, and was president of Western col
lege at Toledo, Ia. going to that institu-
ton In 1881. In 1889 he became superin-
tendent of schools In West Des Moines. In
1881 he was made president of the state
agricultural college, at Ames. In the ten
years of his work there the attendance had
grown from 300 to 1.10O. He was president
of the State Teachers association In 1894,
and last year was president of the national
association. He held the degrees of mas
ter of arts and doctor of divinity. A large
faction of the alumni of the state university
/ worked for his selection as president of
that institution when President Schaeffer
died in 1900 but the regents elected George
3. MacLean, of Lincoln, Neb. The uni
versity alumni hoped by DR.. Beardshears
election to make the institution at Iowa
City a real university and the college at
Ames an agricultural school, as contem-
plated originally, but of which DR.. Beard
shear was making "a real university.
Labor Day.
| Gov. Cummins has issued labor day
proclamation in which he says that
Gin so far as possible factories, shops,
stores and other places wherein labor
is employed should be closed Septem-
Der /, to the end that every working
man and every working woman may be
given an opportunity to enjoy the holi-
day and participate in the meetings
and exercises that may be held there
on" He recommends, also, that "the
day be observed and celebrated. not
alone by those who are employed but
by those who employ, and by all who
feel concern for their country's well
fare so that the many problems which
seem so difficult may be more easily,
| justly and tremendously solved"
Railway Assessment.
BY fixing the railroad assessment of
the state at $51, 112,s14 the state execn-
tive council Increased the assessment
| $4,041.556. Of this the Northwestern
railroad bears $1.1OO,549 increase; the
Burlington system, $665,457; the Rock
Island. $554,319, including the Burling-
| ton, Cedar Rapids & Northern, which
| is part of its system; the Milwaukee,
$90O,S62; the Illinois Central, $25OO16;
the Omaha & ST. Louis, 1925 700; the
| Great Western, S25O,15S, and the other
| systems the remainder. The increase
| is the largest ever made in an assess
ment except in 1887 when the council
raised the roads more than $5,0OO,OOO
| over the assessment of 1856, but in
cluded new assessment on5 400 miles
of new railroad, while there We're no
new roads, practically. to assess this
year. The per cent. of the assessment
to gross earnings is 81 per cent. Last
year it was 500 per cent. The year
before it was 90 per cent.
Is Investigating.
Gov. Cummins is investigating the
legality of the reorganization of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific rail
road with view to interfering i'm it's
operation under the laws of Iowa, if
! possible. The company was reorgan-
/ lied recently on a basis which made a
company organized in Iowa the con-
Germ to operate the property, but
! whose stock was owned by New Jer-
sey corporation. incidentally, also,
/ the new Iowa company's stock was
! $50,000,000 greater than the stock of
the old company, whose stock it takes
up. This is regarded by Gov. Cummins
as an nfation which is not permit t ed
by the laws of this state. He doubts
whether the company can issue that
additional $50,000,0OO, and he doubts
whether a New Jersey corporation ca n
own the stock Of an Iowa corporation.
He has sought the cooperation of At
torney General Mullan with view to
| deciding whether his position on these
questions is right If he is right he
will go ahead with legal proceedings to
prevent the reoryanizing on the basis
outlined. The railroad ATTORNEYS say
that they had fully investigated the
Iowa laws before drawing the articles
The Fruit Crop.
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