The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-07
IOWA
BUTTERMAklNG FALLING OFF
~ Less creamerIes and Stations In Iowa
Than in 1900.

nan IN 1Suu.
DIES MONIES, IOWA-The sixteenth
annual report of State Dairy Commits
sioner Wright has been filed with the,
business. pertaining to butter making In
the year ending May l, 1902. The total
number of creameries and skim milk sta
tions In 1902 was 900, or "a less than in
1900. Ninety-seven creameries were closed
in the year. The number of patrons OF
creameries declined from 81 AIT in 1900 to
1882. In 1901 there were 1886. The
number Of cows tributary to creameries
has declined in about the same proportion.
There has also been a falling off in the
production of creamery butter. The av-
erage production per creamery In the
state in 1901 was 105, 491 pounds; In, 1902,
104.152 pounds. The price Of butter, how
ever, has been the highest in ten years,
the average for the year being slightly
over "a cents. One of the interesting fea
lures of the report shows that renovated
butter Is being palmed off on the people
Of Des Moines in large quantities. There
are twelve renovated butter factories in
the state and three Of them in Des Moines.
They made 4,53O,3SS pounds Of the reno
waited product in the year, of which about
a million pounds were sold in Iowa, main
ly in Des Mones. 49,; 49,:
Mr.. Wright says little oleomargarine is
sold In the state, but he, points out that
In view of the large sales of Iowa but
ter outside the state, it Is important for
Iowa butter makers to see to it the oleo-
margarine laws are enforced strictly.
The state board of health has defined
vaccination and thus settled the much
NOTED question of whether the admins
tration of variolinum internally is a
proper substitute for vaccination or
equivalent for it. The board holds that
vaccination must be by incubation Of
vaccine virus beneath the epidermis The
board will not recognize the other method
and consequently local boards of health
will not The internal method has been
extensively practiced in the state. The
board anticipates an effort will be made to
test the matter in the courts.
HARLAN, IOWA-One Of the heaviest
suits ever brought in the district court
of this county has just been instituted
against Colonel John T. Jack, mortgage
and loan broker worth anywhere from $780,
900 to 100000. The plaintiff is P. F.
Cold, who, the petition alleges, owned in
1897 many hundred acres of land in Shell.
by county, all Of which was encountered
to the amount of SO an acre. The COM
plant alleges that Colonel Jack agreed tc
take mortgage on the land in return fol
lending Cold enough money to satisfy
| taxes due and unpaid and to pay off the in.
terest and principal Of the encumbrances
until such time as Cold could realize or
sales in the regular way to save his
equities. Cold alleges that defendant
knew of the danger involved if the encum
| ORANGES and taxes were not paid; that sucf
| a mortgage as Jack demanded was sub.
| mitted, but that default was made by the
| latter and the lands lost by forced sales
| for taxes and encumbrances, since money
could not be had elsewhere. Within the
a ChnlI II,
preciated in phenomenal way and thu
| petition alleges that the reasonable diff
| ference between the present value Of tn,
land and it's value at the time of it's los
| is $4,000. This amount is therefore de-
manded. In addition demand is made TO-
| $4,000 which the petition alleges the de-
| PENDANT has converted to his own use il
the shape OF notes and other collateral.
LIE GRANDE, ~IoWA-The friends q
Palmer college are not ready to accep
as truth the statement sent from New
York that Banker Palmer, for whom tn,
! college was named, died a compare tivel
poor man and has left no bequest to tn
institution here. as was his expressed in
tentlon. About year ago Palmer donate
$1,000 to the college on condition tina
$4,000 more was raised, which was don
and the money was received. 1t was the
given out that Palmer had expressed hi
intention to provide literally for Paine
college in his will. A New York lawye
| who is supposed to have drawn up Palm
er's will says that Palmer was worth .onl
$4,000 when he died, instead of $4,000, 90
as was popularity supposed, and that he lef
no money for education or charity.
SIOUX CITY, IoWA-J. Ham Lewis
the former congressman from Washing
ton, now resident of Chicago. is in tn
city, attempting to affiliate the Sioux Bee
Syrup company with the Great Western
Beet Sugar company, the Oxnard corpora
tjon.-A benevolent looking man. g1vin
the name Of Hathaway, who said, '"Go
bless you, my boy" met Virgil Kline O
O'Neill, Neb.. on the train into siou
City, and said he was going to. O'Nei
Later they CHANGED to meet on the stree
and afterward Hathaway wanted s22 TO
a creditor who could not make change
Kline bit. He's looking for benevolen
men now.
HARLAN, lOWA-Court opened her