Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-12-23
WAR MONEY DUE 10 IOWA
Adjt. Gen. Byers in Washington to
Secure Claims Growing Out Of
Spanish-American Strife.
The AMOUNT DUE The STATE IS s24,o 900
Insurance COMPANIES Are Opposed to
Uniform Policies-Election Certi-
Acate Protest Filed with the Gov
ernor-Farmers Urged to Raise
Stock-Other Notes.
ESPECIAL correspondence.1


Especial Correspondence
Des Moines, Ia, Dec. %15.-Adjt. Gen.
Byers is in Washington, d. c., trying
to induce congress to liquidate the
$4,000 bill which this state still has
against the government on account of
the equipment of troops for the Span
ish- American war. The four Iowa
National Guard companies were sent
into that war by this state and during
the time of enlistment they were quar-
tered at Camp Mckinley, at the state
fair grounds. The state expended
about 100000 in their care during that
period, and all but about $4,000 OF this
has been liquidated. Gen. Byers be-
lieves that the additional claim will
easily be included in the new appro-
priations by this congress. While in
Washington Gen. Byers will work for
the Dick bill, which is designed to make
the national guard organizations of
the states reserve for the regular
army, to be called out in case OF war
Immediately upon need of soldiers af-
ter the regular army forces have been
exhausted.
Oppose Uniform Policies.
Insurance companies doing business
in Iowa will hold meeting here in
few weeks to confer with the auditor
of state and the adjutant general with
reference to the uniform policy which
these officers have been trying to pro-
mulgate in Iowa. The insurance conn
panies protest against the policy as un-
fair to their business. 1t compels them
not only to insure loss but to insure
against failure of other companies
which also carry risks to pay their
part of the loss. About so of the told
line" companies doing business in the
state formerly have withdrawn on ae-
count of the law which compels the ap-
thorized companies to bear the totel
loss in case of fire, not only the share
ut which their policies are written but
the share which unauthorized CONS
panies are carrying. For instance. a
property worth $4,000 burns. The
owner carries $4,000 insurance in an
authorized company and $4,000 in an
unauthorized company. The state law
and the uniform policy compel the au=
thorized company not only to pay Its
own $4,000 loss but the $4,000 loss
owed by the unauthorized company il
it fails to pay it's share.
File = Protest.
A protest has been fled with the gpy:
ernar against issning certificate Of
election to n. i. Wade, recently elected
to congress in the Second district. The
ground of the protest is that he wa,
judge on the district bench at tn,
time of the election. The constitution
provides that judge may not run TO
another office while on the bench. 7
was held in the ease of Lot Themas il
the Eleventh district that this coul,
only apply to state Offices and could no
apply to federal Offices such as con
gresham: On this theory Gov. Cum
minis will issue the certificate, and tn
national house may wrestle with thu
question. The theory is that the lowe
state constitution cannot control tn,
election of federal officers.
stock Raising.
The tendency of the state agricul
tural meetings here the past week wa
!; to discourage the farmers of low;
, from giving up stock raising. Prof
Kennedy, if the Agricultural college
. read vigorous paper in which h
pointed out that land worth $500 al
acre Hast be farmed carefully an
stock raising must be carried on j:
] connection with its cultivation to pre-
serve the soil and make the investmen
profitable. He pointed out the his
tory of the worn-out farms of the cas-,
where stock raising was given over TO
the raising of agricultural crops from
the laltq' esxcln'.ssji,yely. The result wa
q deterioration il tie yalhe Of thk lang
This result, it was predicted, would az
tend the abatement in Iowa of stocl
raising.
The Indian Agency:
Congress is figuring on abolishin
the Iowa Indian agent located a
Fama. A bill abolishing 10 or "a of tn
agencies Is now pending. Among thos
named is the one Of the Sac and Fo
variety in this state. Congressman
Cousins, in whose district the reservu
tion is located, is i'll in Chicago, and no
being on the ground when the bill wa
prepared his agency was put in tn
list to be demolished. It is though
. that the measure will be so amended a
J to save the Iowa agency. 1t is tn
, theory of some of the congressme
that most OF the agencies are super
fluous, that the Indians can get alon
quite as well without an agent as wit!
one, and that the agent is superfiuou
, officer holding sineeure,
Coal Mining In Good shape.
Coal mining in Iowa is in bette
shape now than at any period in recen
e