Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-02-26
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
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Des Moines. Feb. 80, 1904.
The state board of health has placed
chickenpox on the BLACKLIST. Doctors
will be required to report It like
other contagious diseases and to pla-
card 1t and the local boards of health
will keep families infected in quaran.
tine. This action is due to the fact
that reports have been coming into
the state board and TO the members
that smallpox has been creeping into
sAe schools because of so many cases
diagnosed as chickenpox. Doctors
either ignorant!y or through desire to
shield influential patients call the
smallpox chickenpox and thus expose
many to danger. At the regular meet
ing OF the board DR.. Alexander M.
Linn, OF Des Moines, resigned as pres
ident, and DR.. c. B. Adams, of Sac
City, was elected president. 1t has
been customary for the board to have
the senior member as president. As
DR.. Linn has just entered upon a new
term which places him as the junior
member he resigned and the present
senior member was elected president.
Both the retiring president and the
new president are homoeopaths, the
only two on the board. DR.. Commit, of
Sioux City, was elected to be delegate,
from the board to the next meeting Of
the United States public health and
marine hospital service in Washing
ton. q.
The prohibitionists Of Iowa viii
meet in state convention at Marshall
town on May 81 and % for the pur-
pose Of placing in nomination a full
state ticket. Last years convention
was held in Waterloo and the one
two years ago in Des Moines. The OBJ
ject of the early convention is to make
it possible to secure better field Or
ganization. Malcolm Smith of Cedar
Rapids has resigned as chairman of
the state committee and w. D. Elwell
is now acting In that capacity.
There Is little doubt now but what
the Newton & Northwestern road will
be operating trains into Des Moines
in another year. Negotiations are on
looking to the acquiring by that COM
pany Of trackage rights into the city,
which will probably be closed before
the work of construction south from
Boone Is we'll under way. The New
ton & Northwestern was incorporated
less than six months ago to build
line from Newton, on the Rock Island
road through Cambridge, Boone, Fra
ger and Gowrie to Rockwell City. The
company bought the Marshalltown C
Dakota road, extending west from
Frazer through Pilot Mound to Cow
rie, distance Of twenty-one miles.
and 10 IN or
work. The line has been located
from Gowrie to Rockwell City and
from Frazer to Boone. The distance
from Frazer to Boone is eight miles
and from Gowrie to Rockwell City 1873
miles. Contracts for the construction
Of these two sections of the road have
been awarded to H. F. Balch & Co. Of
Minneapolis and the building work is
now in progress. South from Boone a
corps of engineers, under an enginee<
named Turner, is at work locating
line. This line will not come into
Des Moines but will probably cross
the Chicago Great Western near VAL
aria and pass through the Douglas
township coal fields to a point at or
near Cambridge and run from that
point to Boone.
1t has developed that General J. B.
Weaver is not at all disposed to jump
into the governorsnip campaign and
Is not candidate for the democratic
nomination for the office of governor.
Within the last few days letters hav.
been received from General Weaver
by prominent democrat and a close
personal friend of his in Des Moines.
These letters set forth his position
as to the governorshIp very clearly.
In them he declares ne is not a can
didate and says all the talk over his
candidacy has come up since he left
the state and went South to look af-
ter the interests of the oil company
of which he is president. General
Weaver says that while he entertains
sympathy with the coming Jefferson
Day banquet and hopes to be present,
he wants it understood he does not
come to the banquet as a candidate
and that he will not take the nomina-
ton unless it Is absolutely necessary
for the party welfare.
Ex-Auditor Frank F. Merriam, who
has been looking after mining inter
ests in Joplin, Mo-, out has recently
returned, denies that the Des Moines
insurance companies that it was
found recently were using duplicates
of the seal Of the auditors Office and
duplicates Of the auditors autograph
for the printing Of policy certificates
and certificates for agents, had any
authority from him. In speaking of
the matter yesterday. Mr.. Merriam
said he had never seen any of the GER
tificates and that he was not aware
they were being used while he was
auditor. He denies that he gave per-
mission to the representatives of any
printing company to duplicate the
seal of his Office or his autograph
for the purpose of printing the Ger.
tifcates that the law requires shall
be issued from the auditors Office.
Charles Dennison Kellogg, who will
lecture twice before the Des Moines
Chautauqua assembly next summer,
is frequently called the Seton-Thomp
son of the bird world. What Seton
Thompson Is to the world of animals
in general this man is to the feather
ed f1ocks. But he Is more. His en-
tertainments are said to be the most
marvelously unique and delightful of
any on the platform today. This
comes of the fact that he not only
lectures of the birds, but he reprodu-
ces their songs and their cries. Re
production is the correct word, for