Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-10-02


to ask the legislature for the following
appropriations this winter, for extraor-
binary purposes during the ensuing two
years:
Vinton, college for the blind..........$ 5000
Davenport, soldiers orphans home. 5000
Clarinda, insane hospital. 135 900
Independence insane hospital........ $500
Mount Pleasant insane hospital..... $500
Marshalltown, soldiers home....... $500
Eldora, industrial school. ........... 5000
Mitchellville, Industrial school...... $500
Fort Madison, penitentiary...... 5000
This represents total of $610,500. II
the other three NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
Council Bluffs and Glenwood-which
have not estimated the cost of the inn
provements for which they have asked,
are an average of the ten here given,
the total amount asked of the legisla-
ture. which meets here in January, will
be about 100000. This is approximate
ly the sum which the last legislature ap-
propriated.
Banquet in a Sewer.
Mayor Martin, of Waterloo, is ar
ranging for the most notable event in
the history of public improvements in
this state-a banquet in sewer. Will
liam Horrabin will have completed in
few days what is known as the Dry
Run sewer in Waterloo. Really it is an
overflow through which, in times Of
heavy fall Of moisture, the excess floods
may run into the river, draining the
city streets At the meeting of the Iowa
League of Municipalities in Waterloo
October IA, banquet will be served in
this sewer. The mouth of the sewer is
IA feet in diameter and it is % feet un-
der ground. It is figured that one block
of the big end Of 1t can be utilized to
put in table and hold a banquet before
+ the sewer ever is used.
The Mulct Law.
Judge Howe has decided that the
mulct law does not require saloon keep
ers to obtain the consent Of all owners
Of property within so feet of the build
ings they occupy. but only those on each
side of the room occupied by their sa-
looms. This will protect thousands of
these places in the state which other
wise would be compelled to close. The
decision is to the effect that If 1t were
construed that all persons who owned
| property within so feet of the building
occupied by the saloon had to consent, 1t
would prohibit saloons in every large
| structure. But when the consent is only
required from those within so feet of
the saloon room itself, 1t is reasonable
regulation.
One of the Finest.
Adjt. Gen. Corbin, of the United States
army, has recently visited the new army
post in. Des Moines. He pronounced 1t
i one Of the finest owned by the govern
ment. While in the city. Gen. Corbin
was entertained by Congressman ]. A.
| T. Hull, chairman of the committee on
| military affairs in the national house,
and Maj. Turner, who is the quartermas-
ter in charge of construction Of the
post. The government is spending
about 100000 on it, and 1t will be
ready for troops at the beginning Of No
vember. The Fifteenth regiment will
occupy the post. 1t comes from the
Philippines, and Is in command of Col.
Wallace.
Col. John Scott,
! One of Iowa's former lieutenant gov.
ernors died last week. Col. John Scott
was his name, and he served the state as
| lieutenant governor in 1868 and 1859,
He was elected on the ticket with Gov,
Samuel Merrill, of Des Moines, Col.
Scott lived at Nevada, in Story county
for many years. and removed to Des
Moines about ten years ago. He was a
close intimate and confidential friend
of Gen. Cassius M. Clay, Of Kentucky,
who died recently after sensational ca
reer. The two men were prisoners OF
war together in the Mexican war. Col
Scott often had visited Gen. Clay, and
when the latter died, he wrote an ex.
cellent defense Of his character, denying
the stories that were printed about the
Dora Brock affair. Col. Scott had mis-
information from Gen. Clay himself
Anti-Snloon League.
The Anti-Saloon league convention in
Des Moines, October 1914, promises to
be better attended than the managers
OF the affair thought probable at first.
n. II. Russell. Of New York; P. H,
Baker, of Ohio; w. G. Hubbard. Of
Michigan, and c. H. Crawford, of Min
nesota, all state superintendent of
anti-saloon league work. will attend the
convention in Des Moines. On Sunday,
OCTOBER II. every church pulpit in this
Guy II the pastor of the church does not
oD'ect, VIII be occupied by an Anti-Sa-
loon league orator. Frank Loveland, of
Vinton. and other prominent state work.
ers are on the programme.
The Marriage Law.
A movement has been set on foot in
Des Moines to secure an amendment to
the laws relating to marriage which will
cumpsl the publication Of Ill marriage