The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-06-26
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Mnines Inna % IL

Inc State Register announces the
sale of the property and plant of that
paper to George E. Roberts of Fort
Dodge, director of the United States
mint. The reason Tor the change is
the falling health of r. p. Clarkson, the
present editor and proprietor. The
price is not stated, but the transac-
ton, which has been pending for sew
eral weeks past. is believed to involve
a sum OF money between $1250OO and
$150,000.
Chairman John Cownie of the board
81 contsol has returned from Council
Bluffs, where he and Judge Kline
opened the bids on the temporary
buildings and made awards. Peterson
q Rasmussen of Council Bluffs re-
celVed the award for the buildings,
the price being $13,590. There were
hve other bidders. j. c. Bixby & Sons
OF Council Bluffs will be given the
contract for plumbing and steam heat
Ing, the price being $4,000. The total
price OF the different contracts runs
up to $4,000. The board of control
has already been advised by the exc
cutlve council that it can have $25, 900
out OF the providential contingent
fund. This is practically all the mon
ely available for the board to make
the proposed improvements at Coun-
Gil Bluffs. Taking ont the sum of the
contracts awarded at Council Bluffs,
leaves $7.100 available for furniture
and equipments. The temporary build
1ngs that will be erected comprise a
new school building, a new dining
room constructed with the use of some
walls of 1,1i1
not destroyed by fire, storage room
or ware house, new industrial
building, an Office for the superinten-
dent toilet annex to the old indus
trial building and the fitting up of two
rooms in the old industrial building
for dormitory purposes.
The board of control has received
advises from Warden Jones of Fort
Madison to the effect that he is hav-
ing trouble in disciplining Matt Hunt
er, who was recently convicted and
sent up from Ringgold county for the
crime of killing Homer Holland. Hun
ter is proving extremely refractory. He
refuses to work and says he was not
sent to prison to work and he refuses
to exert himself. Warden Jones has
put Hunter in solitary confinement
and is feeding him on bread and water
Warden Hunter of Anamosa says
Wesley Elkins is getting along we'll.
He is still at the home of Professor
James d. Harlan and is finding plenty
OF employment. He may enter Cor
nell college in the fall. Warden Hunt
er says Elkins was extremely reticent
at fret, but he has been kindly treat
ed and has been invited to the So
cieties Of the college and other gath
erings and is gradually losing his
shyness.
The board of control has bought
ffty-fve acres of land just east of the
building at the Glenwood institution
for feeble minded, for 5,400, of p. A
Goyer. He asked $500. 1t was de.
cided to erect the two cottages for
which the legislature appropriated,
recently, on the east side of the plat
dedicated to buildings for the institu,
ton. 1t was found that to do this it
would be necessary to secure addition.
al land. Therefore, the purchase
The legislature appropriated $4,000
for land at this place and more will
be purchased. The additional cot
tages are to be built this year. They
are necessary to wholly separate the
girls and the boys in the institution,
and this is absolutely essential in
state asylum Up to date the institll,
ton has on hand 535 600 brick, made
by the inmates, at a minimum cost,
and as one of the industrial features
OF the employment of the lensina-
ed people. This represents a value
of about $4,000. The brick Will be
used in the construction of the cot
tages referred to, the contractors tax
ing the contracts on condition that the
state furnishes the bricks on the
ground. The enormous saving to the
state is at once apparent.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
company has commenced the purchase
OF right of way for new line between
Oskaloosa and Tracy and will com
mence the work of construction at
once. Tracy is located on the Des
Moines and Abba division of the Bur
lyington road thirty-eight miles south
of Des Moines. The new line will be
a little over twelve miles long and will
include a bridge across the Des Moines
river at a point three miles east of
Tracy. The new road will connect up
the Burlington & Northwestern road
extending from Burlington to Oska-
loosa and recently acquired by the Bur-
lington company and will afford an
air line between Des Moines and Bur-
lington. The Burlington e Northwest
ern is a narrow gauge road but ar
rangements have been made for
changing it to standard gauge one
week from today Material has been
distributed for this work and one rail
along the entire distance will be NOV
ed over to standard gauge on that day.
June 80 the operation of the road DIS
standard gauge will be commenced.
With the completion of the twelve
miles of road from Oskaloosa to Ira
cy the line between Des Moines and
Burlington will be operated as the
Des Moines and Burlington division OF
the Burlington road.
T. w. Jones, VINO was manager of
the Des Moines plant of the National