Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-04-02
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. March 40. 1908.

| are printed by county auditors in &C
,ordance with the new law which re-
lures that complete financial state
| nent of the years transactions shall
De printed In pamphlet form each
rear. The fact is developed that only
! few of the county auditors have com
piled with the law, and the further
TACT has been made known that this
cefusal Is in accordance with secret
understanding arrived at by the mem
Ders of the boards of supervisors OF
the various counties that they would
| .efuse to comply with the law. The
facts will be secured and laid before
The next legislature. The supervisors
at their state meeting decided they
would try to secure the repeal of the
law.
Frank Novak will make an effort to
secure pardon or parole from the
Anamosa penitentiary He is serving
life sentence for the murder of Ed.
| ward Murray at Walford. He was
found guilty of having robbed and
murdered Murray and then burned the
body in his store which he fired. The
case was a sensational one in many
respects. Novak disappeared after
| The tragedy and was tracked to Alaska
and brought back.
| Professor Thomas Nicholson OF
Mount Vernon, who has been named
by Superintendent Barrett as chair
man of the committee of the duca,
tional council of the State Teachers
association, having in charge the topic
OF teachers compensation, has worked
out plan for the investigation Of this
topic, which promises to result in
arousing the greatest interest on the
subject Of teachers wages, the pen,
sioning Of teachers, better support for
the schools, and like subjects. Pro
lessor Nicholson Is sending out let,
ter to members of the committee Oh
the council in which he urges that
in the first place the topic should be
taken up, handled vigorously and dis
posed of in one year, instead of being
dragged along for three years, as has
been the custom. He urges, too, that
the topic is of sufficient breadth to
| employ the energies of all the 81 mem
bers of the committee, and that the
chairman should not be compelled to
do the major part of the work. He
then outlines his plan for securing
complete data on the subject of sal
aries of teachers. He says tables
should be secured making compari-
sons with the wages of teachers in
other states, England and Canada. He
says the average term of service of
! superintendent and principals should
be obtained, and an inquiry should be
made why strong men like Cooper,
| Warner, Sessions, Willard and others
leave the state or leave the profes-
| sion" 1t Is suggested that an investi-
| cation should be made to bring out
a comparison of teachers salaries
with the wages paid skilled me-
chanics. clerks, lawyers, doctors and
ministers. Inquiry, he says, should
! ing of the teacher here as compared
also be made as to the social stand
with other countries.
| Major Turner and Congressman Hull
have been in consultation and Major
Turner stated that he would have the
post ready by September to accommo-
date two companies and by October
for two additional companies. It il
understood that the secretary of war
will send the companies as soon as the
post is ready. No provision has yet
been made for riding hall but Major
Turner will take this matter up at
once and provide for a structure that
will accommodate two companies Of
cavalry to be stationed at the post to
drill at the same time. The building
will be the largest under a single roof
in the state and will be provided with
gallery from which the spectators
can witness the drills. The first
squadron will be housed at the post
by November and bids will be taken
IN July for the quarters for the second
squadron. 1t is thought that as soon
as the soldiers are stationed at the
post the matter of a suitable road
from the city and viaduct will be
taken up and provided for.
| Advices received by the officers of
the State Federation of Labor are to
the effect that the boilermakers of
the state ere prepared to attend the
next convention of the State Fedora
ton of Labor in strong force. They
will urge ON the federation the neces-
sity for a competent boiler inspec-
ton law, and will probably bring be-
fore the federation the copy of law
which they wish enacted. This, it Is
expected, will be patterned after the
New York law, or the laws of one or
two other states that carry out
boiler inspection successfully. The
cooperation of the federation in car
rying on the campaign in the legisla-
ture and getting the bill passed will
be sought.
| The Bank Of Irwin, correspondent
Of the Des Moines National, has won
| in notable action against the Amer
lean Express company, tried at Har.
Ian, Shelby county. The controversy
was over the $4,000 in currency stolen
in transit between the Des Moines Ma
tional bank and the bank at Irwin
last fall, and the Bank of Irwin has
obtained judgment against the ex-
press company for the amount, with
interest and costs. October 20 of
last year the bank of Irwin ordered
! $4,000 in currency of the Des Moines
National bank. The currency was at
once prepared for shipment by the
bank here and delivered to the Amer
| lean Express company for convey
ance to Irwin. When the package sup
posed to contain the money reached
| the bank of Irwin, the clerk In charge
of the bank opened it and found 1t
contained nothing but brown paper
| The attention of the agent of the ex-
press company at Irwin was called to
! the condition of the package, and de-
.ectives of the express company at
! once began an investigation. The Of
fcers after looking into the matter,
| charged that the package had contain
ed brown paper from the first, that
| Is to say that the Des Moines National
bank had put brown paper into the
| package instead of currency The