Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-06-27
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. june 90, 1902.

NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
u Des Moines. June 20, 1907.
IN stata Register announces the
sale Of the property and plant OF ina.
paper to George E. Roberts OF ror.
Dodge. director Of the united ota'es
mint The reason for the cnanee Is
the failing health Of r. P. Garrison, the
present editor and proprietor. me
nrica IL not stated, but the transac-
finn which has been pending lot sew
eral weeks mast. is believed to Involve
a sum Of money between $izs'oV' anu
$4,000.
chairman John Cownie of the board
Of control has returned frona Councii
n Bluffs where he and Judge hlhne
nnanad the bids on the temporai!
buildings and made awards. fete'soh
q Rasmussen Of Council BUTTS
ceiyed the award for the buildings
the price being s13,59O. There were
Ave other bidders. J. C. Bixby & SONS
a. Council Bluffs will be given tue
contract for plumbing and steam neat,
ing. the price being $4,000. Inc totai
price of the different contracts runs
IN to $4,000. The board OF controi
has already been advised by the exc
Cutiye council that 1t can nave sZ9'oo"
out Of the proyidential contingent
fund. This is practically all the mon
ey available for the board TO MAKE
the proposed improvements at Couh'
ell Bluffs. Taking out the sum OF the
contracts awarded at Council BUNS
leaves S7,100 available for furniture
and equipments. The temporary build
lngs that will be erected comprise "A
new school building, new dining
room constructed with the use OF some
Of the walls of the main building
not destroyed by fire, storage room
Or ware house, a new Industrial
building, an Office for the superin1en-
dent, toilet annex to the old INDUS
trial building and the fitting up OF Two
rooms in the old industrial bulldlhs
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.
or, who was recently convicted ana
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 well
He is still at the home OF Professor
James e. 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 first. 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
fifty-fiye acres of land just east of the
building at the GREENWOOD institution
for feeble minded, for $1,000, Of P. A
Goyer He asked $500. 1t was de,
cided to erect the two cottages fol-
which the legislature appropriated.
recently, on the east side of the plat
dedicated to buildings for the institu.
ton. It was found that to do this i.
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 a
state asylum. Up to date the institu-
ton has on hand $4,000 brick, made
by the inmates. at minimum cost,
and as one of the industrial features
OF the employment of the feeble-mind-
ed people This represents 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 tor 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-
1yingtOn road thirty-eight miles south
OF Des Moines. The new line will be
little over twelve miles long and will
include a bridge across the Des Moines
river at point three miles east Of
Tracy. The new road will connect up
the Burlington & Northwestern road
extending from Burlington to Oska-
1oosa and recently acquired by the Bur-
3lingtoa company and will afford an
air line between Des Moines and Bur-
Ilington. The Burlington & Northwest
iern is q narrow gauge road, but ar.
have been made for
changing il 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 as
q 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
Starch company up to the time the
property was taken over by the
United States Corn Products company,
is convinced that the Corn Products
company does not intend to rebuild
Its plant in Des Moines and is serious
" considering the organization of an
Independent company to manufacture
starch at this point.