Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-15
Death of Preside mt Beardshear, Of
the Agricultural College, Due
to Incessant Labor.
NEVER FOUND TINE FOR RECREATION.
Gov. Cummins Calls Attention to La
Dor Day-Inorease In Railway As
Observation-Disclosures of tho Fruit
Crop In Iewa-Fever Conyicts at
Anamoaa-Other state News.
opecial Corrsspondsnce.)

Agricultural college, who died the past
week, was a victim OF overwork. He
was too busy 10 take vacation. For
more than six years I've had worked in
cessantly and had not found time to
take even q single day off. He was
widely an demand for addresses and
there were principally written on
trains. He travelled with library. 1t
was his continually entertained inten-
ton, but he was never able to do it..
He slept five and six hours a night. Be-
cause he was elk feet in height and
spare and robust and filled with en-
ergy, he thought he could go on al
ways. When he collapsed with nerv-
Gus prostration five or six weeks ago
it was necessary to finish few things
which he had begun. He was ambi-
tiolls 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 Beard.haw was 50 year. of age.
He was an Ohioan. His father was a Swiss
and his mother q product Of Scotch and
Welsh blood They resided near Dayton
There he enlisted at "A 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
inary. He preached in Summit church in
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lege at Toledo. Ia. going 10 that institu-
ton in 1881. In 1889 he became superin-
tendent Of schools in West Des Moines. In
1891 he was made president of the state
agricultural college. at Ames. In the ten
years of his work there the attendance had
grown from 800 to 1.l00. He vas president
of the State Teachers' association in 1894,
association. He held the degrees Of Has-
ter of arts and doctor of divinity. A large
faction Of the alumni of the state university
worked for his seltction as president OF
that Institution when President Schae f1er
died in 1890, but the regents elected George
Z. NacLean. Of NEeoln. Neb, The uni-
ver.ity alumni hoped by DR.. Beardehear' 8
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 DIR. Beard
shear was making real university.
Imbor Day.
Gov. Cummins has iseued labor day
proclamation 81 which he says that
sin 80 far az poeeible factories, shops,
stores and other places wherein labor
is employed should he 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 essrei.es that may he held there
on" He recommends. al-o, that ''tha
day be observed and celebrated. not
alone by those who are employed but
by thore who employ, and by all who
feel a concern for their country's vel.
fare 80 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, e14 the state execu-
tive council increased the assessment
s4,G41,356. OF this the Northwestern
railroad bears sl.lu0.549 increase; the
Burlington system, s6o5,4s7; the Rock
Island, $554.3lo. including the Burling-
ton, Cedar Rapids & Northern, which
IS 4 part of its system; the Milwaukee.
5000, 1863: the Illinois Central, 1880, 016;
the Omaha & St. Louis, $225, 700; the
Great Western, $3.50, 1873, 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 $4,000. 0DC
over the assessment of 1886. but in
cluded new assessment on: 400 miles
of new railroad, while there were no
new roads, practically. to assess this
year. The per cent. of the assessment
to gross earnings j. 81 per cent. Last
year it was 1913 per cent. The year
befoye it was 90 per cent.
Is Investigating
Gov. Cummfns is investigating the
legality st the reorga nization of the
Chicago, Rock island & Pacific rail.
road with a view to interfering in its
operation under the laws of Iowa, il
possible. The company was reorgan,
lied recently on q basis which made a
company organized in Iowa the con.
germ to operats ting property, but
whose stock was owned by New Jer.
sey corporation. incidentally, also
the new Iowa compans's stock was
$50,000,000 greater than the stock OF
the old company, whose stock 1t takes
up. Thu. is regarded by Gov. Cummin.
as an ntlation which ie not permitted
by the laws of this state. He doubts
whether the company can issue that
additional s5o,0oo,oo0, and he doubts
whether New Jersey corporal ton can
own the stock Of an Iowa corporation
He has sought the cooperation of At.
torHey General Nullan 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 recognizing on the basis
outlined. The railroad attorneys say
that they had fully investigated the
Iowa laws before drawing the articles
Tas Fruit Crop.
Following is the official estimate of
the fruit crop in Iowa, as i.eusd by
Secretary Werley Greene, of the State
horticultural socisty, aud based on re
ports from observers in every county
in the state: Summer apples, IS pc,
cent; winter apples, IS per cent; fall
So per cent; American plums, AZ pei
cent; European, 26 per cent; Japa:
nese, rs per cent; pears; 81 per cept.;
grapes, 80 per cent. In northern anc
central Iowa the apple crop will moi
exceed from to 20 per cent. All OF
the fruits in northern Iowa are very