Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-08-22
REDDlRp1ED THE STATE.
State Board of Control Apportions
Counties Into Hospital for
Insane Divisions.
BEST COMBINATION TO SAVE EXPENSE.
The State Geo1ogist Says There IL
Neither Oil Nor Gns Beneath Iowa
soil-Railway Commission May In
vestixate the Wreck at Rhodes
other Notes Of General Interest.
Especial Correspondence


Des Moines, Ia, Aug. 1S.-The state
board Of control has redistricted the
state into new hospital for the insane
divisions. The following counties I'M
der the new arrangement will send
patients to the different Institutions
as designated:
To Mount Plea SAINT Hospital. -Appanoose
Davis. Des Moinee, Henry. Iowa. Jasper,
Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa. Mahaska,
Marion. Monroe, Nuscatine, Powesheik,
Scott, Van Buren,, Wapello, Washington,
and 145 state patients: total inmates, s45
To Independence Observation-Disclosures,
Benton, Blackhawk. Bremen, Buchanan,
Jackson. Jones, johnson, Linn, Chickasaw,
Clayton. Clinton. Delaware, Dubuque,
Fayette, Floyd, Franklin. Marshall, Mitch
ell, Tama, Winnesheik and 6S state pa
tients; total inmates, $50.
To Clarinda Hospital-Adair, Adams,
Audubon. Boone. Carroll. Cass, Clarke.
Crawford. Dallas, Decatur Fremont, Guth-
gomery. Page, Polk. Pottawattamie, Ring
gold, Shelby. Story, Taylor. Union. War
rem, Wayne, state patients. 1875; total In
mates, Sg7.
To Cherokee Hospital-Buena Vista, Cal
houn. Cerro Gordo, Cherokee. Clay. Dick
inson, Emmett, Greene. Hamilton, Han
cock. Humboldt. Ida, Kossuth. Lyon. Mo-
mona. O'Brien, Osceola. Palo Alto. Ply
mouth. Pocahontas. Sac. Sioux, Webster,
Winnebago, Woodbury., Worth, Wright;
total inmates, 5S3.
Redistricting was necessary because
of the opening OF the new hospital at
Cherokee. The board of control has
had considerable difficulty getting the
institution opened on account of va
rions delays despite the fact that the
superintendent, N. M. Voldeng, has
been on the ground at Cherokee since
April 1 in charge of the completion of
the construction. 1t was thought that
it could be fully occupied by August
20, but another delay occurred. The
Independence institution gets II pa
tiente now at Mount Pleasant, the
Mount Pleasant hospital gets IA now
at Clarinda. Cherokee gets 1854 now at
Clarinda, and it gets 31s now at indie
pendence.
The purpose of the board OF control
in selecting the counties whose pa
tients should be transferred to the
new institution was to find the best
combination to save expense in the flu
ture in transporting patients from
counties to the state hospitals.
DECLINE to Reinstnte Him.
At the last session OF the Legislature
law was passed providing that per-
sons convicted Of murder in the see
ond degree might be admitted to bond.
DR.. j. w. Crofford, of Leon, so COM
victed, recently was admitted to bail,
pending appeal of his case TO the SUI
preme court. Before he was released
on bond the state board of medical en-
aminers had voted to cancel and re-
yoke his certificate to practice msdi
cine After he was admitted TO bail
he petitioned the board to reins Ia re
him. At It's recent meeting the board
declined to do 1t. The law was gotten
through the legislature by Col. NJ. J..
Temple, the representative from
Clarke county. DR.. Crofford was hi,
client and he appeared before the stare
board OF medical examiners in his be-
half. but the board declined to rein
state the physician until he is cleared
by the courts.
| No Oil or Gas.
State Geologiet Samuel Calvin. of
the state university, is out in an Off
cial report declaring that there can
be no petroleum or natural gas de,
posts beneath the soil Of Iowa at Ut
available or accessible depth, and urg.
ing persons not to spend money pros.
pecting for these products. He de.
clarss that they are geologically i'm.
possible for the formations beneath
Iowa soil lack the porous sandstone
which is essential to the presence OF
oil or gas. In his last annual report
Prof. Calvin declared that gold and
precious minerals, also. were impos-
sible of discovery under this state for
the same reason. The gold that is be.
meath the soil of Iowa can be found
only in the corn and the wheat that
grows out of it, says the state geolo,
giet-
| May Investigate.
| IT is probable that the state railroad
commission will investigate the causes
of the wreck on the Milwaukee rail
road at Rhodes, i'll Marshal county
last week, in which about Is were
killed and about a5 were injured. The
wreck appeared to have been caused
by the neglect of orders by the con
ductor of work train and whose train
met that of a regular freight con
ductor on a sharp curve between
Rhodes and Collins. The commission
has been informed, indirectly, that
the wreck was caused by an effort to
save the expense and trouble of ar
extra flagman and the question ha.
arisen whether this was due to tho
railroad management or the trainme1
in charge of the two trains. The rail
road commission has not investigated
a railroad wreck for years and may
decide not to go to the bottom of THU
pne. 1t is waiting the verdict of the
| coroner.
Lay Corner stones.
The grand lodge of Iowa masons ha:
been called upon to lay large number
of corner stones in this state this sum
mer. Last week the officers of the
grand lodge performed this ceremony
for masonic temple at Harlan; they
accepted an invitation to officiate thi.
week at similar ceremony for TIM
new Carnegie library building at Mar
shalltown, and on August rs they viii
lay the corner stone Of the masonic
temple and opera house at Creston
w. s. Gardiner, Of Clinton, is grand
master OF the order. The other otli::
GERS who assist him with these popni
Lar ceremonies are Senior Grand War;