Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-05-19
VALUABLE PRIZE OFFERED.
Rare Chance for Young Men to Sc
cure a Free Scholarship at State
Agricultural College.
MUST Be soop JUDGE OF LIVE STOCK.
dedication of Monuments at Shiloh
Indefinitely Postponed-New Road
Law to he Tested--Inebrintes I'm.
der Lock and Key Mt Cherokee
Other News of Interest.
Especial correspondence.l


Other News of Interest.
Especial Correspondence
Des Moines, Ia, May 1.-THE state
department of agriculture of Iowa has
male very important announcement.
1t is the offer of a $500 scholarship in
the state agricultural college at Ames
to the young man under 81 years OF
age and resident of the state of Iowa
who shows himself most proficient
among all contestants in the Judging
of live stock and corn. The depart
ment has secured the cooperation OF
Des Moines business men in the matter,
and the Utica Clothing company has
offered $25 worth of clothing, and the
w. L.. White Shoe company the best
pair Of shoes in its house to the sue
cessful youth. It means that half OF
the yearly expenses Of the young man
who secures the prize will be paid for
him for the entire four years course.
The conditions Of the contest will be
made known to all who desire to take
part in the competition. John Simp-
son, secretary OF the department, and
who receives his mail at Des Moines,
will furnish the details of the contest
| to all who desire to enter. This con-
test is not open to those who already
have matriculated at the agricultural
lcollege.
Hndeanitely Postponed.
The dedication of the Iowa monu-
| ments at the battlefield of Shiloh has
1been postponed indefinitely. 1t had
been fixed for May 30, and this was ex-
|tremely unsatisfactory to the yeter-
ans who fought at Shiloh, and who
wanted the dedication on the anniyer-
lsary of the battle. The commission
did not consult the veterans, and fixed
May 80. It is now given out that the
treason for the postponement was nof
the dissatisfaction expressed by the
VETERANS generally, but the fact that
the bronze tablet manufacturers did
mot satisfy the letter OF their con-
ltract, and the tablets will have to be
Imade over. It is now probable that
1.-THE commission will bow to the ex-
pressed wish of the veterans, and fix
Inext April and 2 for the ceremony Of
dedication.
VIII Test the Law.
The new road law will be tested in
the courts. It is claimed that it makes
a double levy Of taxation for this year,
and this, plainly, is illegal. The law
has given great dissatisfaetto ion among
1.-THE farmers Of the state. It compels
them to pay their road tax in money
INSTEAD of working it ont" An eff
fort will be made to repeal it in the
next legislature. The good roads as
sociation will resist this. effort. The
|author of the law, j. NJ. Anderson, Of
4 Warren county, was defeated for q
third term nomination the past week
because Of the law, In part.
4 Insurance Money.
| During the past year the sum Of So
i 1884 was paid out in Iowa to the
owners Of property which burned and
which was covered by policies OF insur-
lance by the fire insurance companies
ldoing business in Iowa. Mutual as
sessment companies paid additional
Hoses amounting to $734,5o6. Last
4 year the insurance companies doing
business in Iowa paid into tie state
Treasury s45,00s in fees and 1921, 567 il
taxes. Since, and including 1922, thss
companies have paid in 1891 1924 infess
altogether, and s1,s15,921 in taxes
The number Of concerns writing in
surance in Iowa last year was abou!!
42s.
Under Lock ana Key.
The authorities in charge Of the IN
j lsane hospital at Cherokee have adopt
led the plan Of keeping the inebriate'
There confined under lock and key
This is the only means of preventing
Them from escaping, it is claimed, bu
lit is plan which the state board o,
control has condemned in the case 0.
1.-THE insane. There is no restraint il
the hospitals, as they are managed
with reference to the insane, and tn,
friends Of the inebriates deny the RICH
OF the state to treat them more Sc
lverely than the insane persons witt
whom they are incarcerated. It is no
& known that the board Of control ha
advised superintendent Voldeng, o
the Cherokee institution, against tn
lplan, which is more drastic than tina
ut any Of the other hospitals.
Change Of Venue.
WA. Richards, former deputy Unite
!. States marshal, charged with com
!. lplicity in the robbery Of the sullivani
: at Hamilton on New Years eve, ha
d been granted change Of venue frpE
q Marion county, where the robbery Ios
Cured, to Warren county, which
> the county adjoining. He pleaded, i
motion for change Of venue, that ther
Was q deoiasd prejudice against him !,
Marion county. This prejudice IS gis
S ing way, at this time, in view of
e statementmade by Mr.. Richards that b
!. lean prove complete abb, and sho,
Q that he was not at Hamilton the nigh
: of the alleged robbery. His was til
x>,k 4.