Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-03-06
Property As.e..ne.t.

ecutive council expects to do line of
if the policy is maintained.
Gov. Cummins, on his return to the
city will issue a letter to assessors in
regard to these matters.
Physical Examination.
Judge g. S. Robinson, of the board of
control, in an address at Sioux City,
was quoted as saying that he believed
that the legislature would do we'll to
investigate the question of compelling
persons who desire to marry to take a
physical examination. Such a law is
of more Importance than compulsory
education measure, in the opinion of
many of the persons interested in cor
rections and charities in Iowa. An eff
fort will be made to enact it in the
next legislature. An effort also will
be made to enact law Furnishing hus-
bands for desertion. Judge Robinson
said that more children in the feeble
minded institute trace their detective
ness to weak-minded parents and pa
rents who use intoxicants than to any
other cause.
a.n. New Railway Route.
IA STRENGTHENING corps is being or
ganized by. the Des Moines, Iowa Falls
&. NoEthern railroad, which will be put
tsIMork. north of Iowa Falls early in
March surveying route for 40 miles
in, the direction of La Crosse, Wis,
which is the protective terminal of the
ROAD 1T. has been supposed that Min
neapolissor St. Paul was the objective
point, but La Crosse is said now to be
it,,lt is the. iRtention.to build 40 miles
north of Iowa. Falls this year. The
road Wasf finished into Des Moines from
IQWas Falls and the general Offices will
Big. removed to this city within a short
time from Iowa Falls. r. S. Ellsworth
issat. the head of the company.
.es ~. Climate. Of Iowa.
J. R. Sage, of the Iowa weather and
cror,service, is preparing the manu-
scgipt ,ofsa book on the climatology of
Iowa. In. this. .data going back to 1922
Will be, included. An. edition of this
kind was issued about 20 years ago, but
it..eentained no records back of 1892,
and. the, statistics prior to 1871 were
very. meager. Mr.. Sage has collected
a very great many additional data-all,
indeed, that are thought to exist-and
theseswi4f make the new book much
more valuable It will enable a definite
compaF ison of the changes in Iowa eli
mate during IS. years, to be made.
About $4,000 copies of the book will be
issued by the state.
VIII Favor a Change.
It is. stated at the capitol building
that,Gov. Cummins, in his message to
the legislature of the winter of 1904,
wfll.recommend decided changes in the
law.fof Incorporation, such changes as
Will give the attorney general and the
executive council the power to refuse
tozreeord the articles of Incorporation
whiEifsdo not meet with their approval.
This is now.the case with building and
loan.association and insurance COM
panies, but without additional law the
secretary of state is powerless to re-
fuse to issue certificate of incorpora-
ton to any company, however frandu-
ASAo AZ 1AoJ oPpSo4 IOOS
To,.Act as Aides.
Adjt. Gen. Corbin, Of the war depart
ment, has written to Gov. Cummins re-
questing him to detail member of the
national guard to act as one of the
aids of Gen. Corbin, who will act as
marshal of the grand parade to be held
on April &c. on the occasion of the dedi-
cation of the buildings of the ST. Louis
exposition. 1t is expected that there
wilfsbe sharp competition amongtth
guardsmen for this place of honor.
The marshaPs aids will be made upiof
detailed guardsmen from every state
and territory in the country and will
form brilliant retinue.
Gone to Work. -
Some of the inebriates at the state
institutions have voluntarily taken to
working. At first it was impossible to
get; any of them to work, and they
spent their time IN the buildings play
ing cards and pursuing other amuge.
ments, or trying to escape. Some Of
those confined the longest have found
that they cannot stand incarceration
without work. Therefore they have
volunteered to. go. to work. One
Of them is shoeing all Of the
horses at the Mount Pleasant
institution. But the lawyers, insur-
apce agents and others of that kind of
occupation have nothing to do, and the
board of control says it can hardly dis
nnvar IN Hrl1rI1 yuNrk f0r than
Children Cared For.
More than 2,1O0 children are being
cared for in the six state institutions
devoted to the care of detectives. It
requires 434 employees to manage the
institutions, the total number of in
mates of which is 2,522, $50 being
adults. The number of children and
adults in each of the children's insti-
buttons is as follows: College for the,
blind, Vinton, 1853; school for the deaf,
Council Bluffs, 1854; soldiers orphans
home, Davenport, $50; feeble-minded
institute, Glenwood, GAG; boys indus
trial school, Eldora, SOC; girls indus
trial school, Mitchellville, 2O3.
soldiers' Monuments. ),
S. B. Humbert, of Cedar Falls, has
been elected superintendent of con-
struction of the monuments to- the
Iowa soldiers to be erected at the batl
tiefelds of Lookout Mountain and Mis-
siopary Ridge. The contract for these
monuments were let the past week,
They will cost $4,000. The lastlegisla-
ture appropriated $4,000 fop these
monuments. The appropriation was