Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-11
Des Moines Rivers Caprice Helps
State In Matter of Bona
parte Dam
REMOVED THE DAM COMPLETELY
This Was What the State Tried to
Have Done But FaiIed-Efforts to Sc
cure Fishway Were Also BaIked-
Advantage Now Seems to be With
State Authorities.
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| Des Moines, July 1.-THE recent Des
MONIES river flood accomplished what
the legislatures and courts and the
game warden and the fish and game as
sociations all failed to do. in the mat
/ ter of removing obstructions to the
travel of fish up the Des Moines river
| from the south. Permanent results
are now believed possible from this
good work. Careful investigation is
being made of the laws of the state
and the condition of the Bonaparte
dam, and good lawyers have reached
| the conclusion that the Des Moines
high water has given the state a decid-
| ed advantage in the long contest with
the owners of the dam, and that now II
VIII be entirely impossible to force a
settlement in the matter of the re-
moval of the dam or construction of a
hshway. When the state sought to
condemn the dam. and have it de-
Istroyed. the owners went into court
with claim that as for the dam in its
then condition, an adjudication had been
made IN the courts and the state was
powerless The supreme court upheld
this view. The state tried to buy the
dam, but failed. The next step was to
have special act passed to provide
for condemning for a tishway over the
dam. The jury of condemnation said
1t should cost the state $4,000 to fix up
a run for the fish to climb over the
dam. The state was baked again.
now the dam has been washed out and
the owners are planning to construct
what will be practically new one. OF
new material and better construction.
But leaders in the movement TO give
the fish free run of the river. have look
ed up the law and find that dam cam
not be constructed or reconstructed
without fshway. They believe an
injunction would lie against the own
;ers of the dam If they attempted re-
tconstruetion without first having had
the game warden approve the plans for
a fshway. According to Jury of Van
Buren county property owners fish
way would take away $4,000 from the
value of the dam. Such being the case
and since a new dam could be made
for less than half the sum. it is believed
the owners may be persuaded not to
rebuild, or at least to come to some
agreement with the state authorities
on tishway over the dam.
About hundred workmen are en-
gagged on the Iowa state capitol at the
present time under various contractors
and the work of repairing and improy-
iS n, I'll CT hn
up in most of the Office rooms and the
floors are being torn up in all directions
for the placing of pipes for the heating
system. The old registers have all been
taken out and new ones placed In the
same locations. The work on the ele-
vators has commenced and the new and
modern elevators will soon be in place.
The major portion of the repair work
for the year will be finished long before
fall. The roof will be completed in
few weeks as the contractors have been
|hard at work. Some work is now be-
ing done on the new warehouse for
state supplies, which was delayed for
material. The foundation indicates this
is to be very substantial building.
Forty-seventh district is called to meet
in Spencer, July %. The district is
composed OF the counties of Kossuth,
Clay. Palo Alto. Dickinson, and Emmett.
There are forty four delegates and
three of the five counties must combine
to nominate. There are several can
didates. A. d. Clarke, of Algona, has
the thirteen votes Of Kossuth county
~ III .,-t
in the race. But Mr.. Kinney, of Palo
Alto, while not avowedly a candidate
for senator has control of the senator
ial delegation. DR.. Bachman of Emmett,
has the delegation from that county.
1t is expected that if Mr.. Kinney is ID
candidate for senator he will get the
vote of Clay. This will leave the de-
cision of the matter to Dickinson
county.
The denomination of Senator James
A. Smith, of Usage, for second term
by acclamation, gives great pleasure
here. Senator Smith is an experienced
legislator. He served In the house in
the Twenty-second and the Twenty |
third general assemblies, and has been
in the senate the past two terms. He
is a plain business man, who affects |
no airs, but goes about his business in
the legislature In practical way. and
has the reputation of accomplishing
more than some of those who do more
talking. Senator Smith was unani-
mously renominated at Northwood. At
the same place Andrew Miller. of For |
est City, was nominated for Representa-
tive in the Whine bago Worth district.
Carl S. Relyea, assistant secretary of
the state department of agriculture, has
purchased the Winnebago Summit, at |
Forest City, one of the older newspa-
pers in northern Iowa, formerly owned |
by G. S. Gilbertson, treasurer of the
state, and about the first OF September
will take possession. He will remain
with the agricultural department until
after the state fair next month and
Ray II. Cook, the present owner, will
remain in charge of the Summit. Mr.
Relyea was formerly connected with
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