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The State Loses.
The state of Iowa has been noti-
fed from Washington, D. c., that the
United States supreme court has de-
cided against it in the litigation aris-
ing from the dispute as to who owns
the meandered lake beds of the state.
In 1884 George Pearsons, of Fort
Dodge, received title to Owl lake
from the board of supervisors Of
Humboldt county, from whom he
purchased the property as swamp
land, the government having coded
swamp lands to the state and the
state having coded them to the coun-
ties. The squatters on the land re-
sisted the taking possession of this
land by Pearsons, and the state took
up their fight, claiming that the
land was the bed of meandered
lake and not swamp land, and, being
lake, was the property of the state.
The United States supreme court de-
cided there was no federal question
involved, and therefore the property
was the property of Pearsons as
swamp landowner.
Wants Lightning Rods.
Mr.. w. d. Forbes, member of the
legislative committee of the Iowa
Mutual Insurance association, COM
posed of farm mutuals, has pre-
pared an address to these concerns
urging them to insist upon owners
of buildings and live stock insured
in them erecting lightning rods on
the former and ground wires on the
wire fences surrounding the latter,
to save both classes of property from
loss on account of lightning. Mr..
Forbes believes that one-half the
losses now suffered from lightning
would be obviated by the adoption
of this policy and it's practice by the
farmers of the state. He has gath
cred statistics from Ill companies
which show that rs per cent. of the
losses are due to lightning and a
great majority of these had no light
ming rods or ground wires for wire
fences.
Remake Butter.
There are IA factories in Iowa
which renovate or remake butter.
The federal law, which went into eff
feet July 1, requires the inspection
Of these institutions. M. w. Lang,
of Washington, D. c., is now in Iowa
doing the work of inspecting. There
are certain regulations which the
concerns must follow in their work
to comply with the oleomargarine
law. They pay license of s25 year
and have to pay an internal revenue
tax of one-quarter of cent per
pound. It is said that these compa-
MES are able to make frst-class and
high-grade butter out of poor butter
by the process that they use to
eliminate the broken globules of fat
from the butter. The theory is that
load of wheat is not altogether bad
because a few grains in it are bad;
similarly, mass OF butter is not
bad because a few Of the globuies
are broken up.
Found Their Man.
How love sometimes furthers the
ends of justice was illustrated in
Floyd county the past week. Bert
Hooker was there sentenced to the
penitentiary on an indictment to
which he pleaded guilty, charging
him with stealing team of horses in
1898. He had disappeared from Floyd
county that year. A few weeks ago
q woman in Lynn, Mimi, began maxi
Ing inquiries about his record in
Floyd county for a friend in Farm
ington, Utah. He wanted to marry
girl in the latter place, but her
mother refused to permit it till he
gave an account of himself. He told
her he lived in Iowa, and the mother
wrote to the friend in Minnesota,
who made the inquiries, with the re-
suit that the authorities discovered
their man.
Many Years a Teacher.
Former State superintendent ]. B.
Knoepfer, of the chair of German
in the state normal school at Cedar
Falls, has written to the Office of
the present state superintendent,
giving the teaching record of Miss
Mary Monk, of Lansing. She has
taught for SO consecutive years in the
primary grade of the schools at
Lansing, This it is believed is the
record Of long service In the same
position among the teachers of the
state. It was so unusual that Prof.
Knoepfler thought it should be made
Of record at the capitol.
To Keep Trophy.
An effort will be made by the Iowa
State Agricultural college to retain
the Spoor trophy. This was won by
the team of stock Judges from the
college at the Chicago live stock
show last year. The team for this
years contest has been selected, and
Is composed of Wayne Dunsmore, O,
B. Newcom, Charles Gray, w. j. Will
son and w. A. Linklatcr. They will
attend the show, and Prof. w. j. Ken
needy will accompany them. The
Spoor trophy is q cup given to the
stock judges who do the best work
in contest arranged for each fat
stock show.
LEON BROWN.
Meant the Same Thing.
Lawyer--And. what did the husband
say when you asked him about the
wife's mental condition?
Assistant-He said she was all