Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-11-13
Med OF LABORATORY
College meteorological Labora-
tories Lack Official Recog-
nition-Testimony
DISCOVER A DIPLOMA MACHINE
Trial Of Des Moines Doctor at spen-
Ger Reveals Plot Whereby Bogus
Certificates Were Issued by Students
to Other students-W. N. Dearborn
Denies His Election.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Mones, Nov. 13.-The Iowa state
board of health is moving to secure the
establishment of state archaeological
laboratory at the state capital. AT the
session of the board which closed last
evening the matter was discussed thor
oughly and the decision reached tha
the legislative committee should make
a strong effort to have the bill passed
at the coming session OF the legisla-
ture. Such q proposal was before the
legislature two years ago and received
favora BILE consideration, but there were
SO many other calls on the assembly
for appropriations that the appropria-
ton finally failed. 1t is proposed that
a laboratory be established in Des
Moines under the auspices of the state
board OF health where there could be
made analyses of water, minerals,
foods. medicines and all substances,
where a competent analyst could be
reached at any time from any part OF
the state, etc. There are laboratories
in connection with a number OF the
colleges Of the state that are prepared
to do very good work, but complaint Is
made that they are often not prompt
and that they lack official recognition
so that testimony secured from them
may or may not be recognized in courts.
The plan is to have laboratory In
| 1,.hA will hn the
best Of apparatus and competent sci
entists There has been some talk OF
havlng the laboratory at Iowa City en-
larged to meet this demand, but the
desire Of the state board is to have
10 laboratory at Des Moines.
The state board OF medical examin-
ers has discovered diploma machine
In -ais city or rather found the re-
suits OF one now defunct. In the trial
|of Des Moines doctor at Spencer
for some questionable matter In con-
nection with the practice the doctor
flashed two diplomas as proof that he
was entitled to practice medicine. DR..
Kennedy secretary Of the board. was
placed on the stand to Identify the d.
plomas. He could not recall any COL
leges as named. One was the Iowa
Medical College" Of Des Moines. and
the other an Institute Of Medical Sci
ence." On closer examination the sec
retary OF the board discovered that
they were not gepuine diplomas at all
but were certificates issued by students
to other students. In fact, the students
who had at one time been connected
with an electric" college In Des
Moines set out to help each other and
they got up diploma and one set Of
students signed for student and then
they exchanged courtesies In this way
they were all provided with what ap-
peared to be diplomas.
w. N. Dearborn, Of Stone City. whose
name appears In practically all the
lists of legislators-elect that have been
published, was In Des Moines last night
and among other things stated that 1t
was all mistake about his being elect
ed. He was defeated by nearly 200 ma
jority by r. w. Peet. of Springville.
the democratic candidate. Mr.. Dear
born is prominent shriner and head
Of the temple at Cedar Rapids, and Is
very popular. But the old trouble In
Jones county and In the judicial dis
trict including Linn and Cedar, brought
about complications which resulted in
the election of a democrat. The trou-
BILE dates back to the judicial conven-
tion last year when the Cedar Rapids
politicians put up q job to get two OF
the judges Of the district and made
use OF Senator Mofltt to sprevent the
convention from expressing Its choice
There has been trouble in the district
since and the republican candidate for
senator and the republican candidate
for representative in Jones county both
went down. Mr.. Dearborn has been
congra tulated on his supposed election
but he will not sit In the legisla-
ture.
Now Waterloo will have another
chance to crow. Someone in Fort
Dodge, signing himself the commits
sioner of the Fort Dodge Commercial
Club. has written to state official
asking for list of the state senators
lin Iowa, and also a list of "the con-
gressmen in the Fort Dodge district" :"
II there were any enemies Of Senator
Healey at the statehouse desiring to
"queer" him on the judgeship matter.
they would have forwarded 1t to Wash
ington at once. to show to the presi-
dent what kind of people live in Fort
Dodge. But it was suggested. when
the letter was received, that commits
sioner be sent oat to discover which
district belongs to Fort Dodge, ana
then notify the Fort Dodge people that
one Henry Young, of Calhoun county.
is a state senator recently elected by
the republicans of Calhoun county to
represent Fort Dodge and Rockwell
City. The Fort Dodge republicans had
no part in this. But the commissioner
Of the commercial club was merely in
sormed that the list of senator's has
been printed in the papers and that
here is only one congressman in the
Tenth district.
The state of Iowa has ownership Of
many tracts of land, and the state aud
tor few days ago set out to find 4
the records are all right. He found