Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-04-17

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ness to comply with the law, and few
places where it is willfully disregard
ed. Of the latter he expects to mako
examples.
Contracts Signed.
The Iowa commission on the erection
of monuments to Iowa soldiers at
Lookout mountain, has signed the con-
tracts for the erection of the marble
pillars. These will be surmounted by
a soldier standing at parade rest, .
figure which the stone journals Of the
country have severely criticized. The
commission will have three monuments
to erect, one on Missionary Ridge, one
on Lookout mountain and one halfway
between. The work will begin just as
soon as the weather permits. This
plan of erecting monuments to the
Iowa soldiers was brought up in the
legislature nine years ago, and went
over because of the lack of funds and
the hard times. In the last session
ct the legislature the appropriation
bills were passed without difficulty.
Oleomargarine Case.
A jury in an oleomargarine case in
Des MONIES the past week disagreed
as to the guilt of the Armour Pack
ing company in selling what appeared
to be a yellow butterine. The butter
inc was bought by the state dairy COM
missioner, who started the prosecu-
ton. 1t was of yellowish cast. The
attorney for the Armour company pro-
duced billiard ball to prove that the
oleomargarine wasan ivory white. The
state contended that the law intended
a white ivory and not a yellow ivory,
such as n billiard ball. The law says:
ut shall not be yellow or like but
ter" The state contended that the
yellow ivory ball was not convincing
proof that the butterine, though like
it in color, was legally white. The
jury didn't know what to do, and disa-
greed on the guilt of the company.
The firkin was labeled all right, and
there was no intention to deceive, but
the state merely objected to the color
OF the article. The case will have to
be retired. 1t will furnish a test for
other cases in the state.
superintendent Removed.
The instability of the tenure of Of
fee was illustrated in Des Moines the
past week when Amos Hiatt, superin-
tendent of the East Des Moines schools,
was displaced to give his office to
young man. Mr.. Hiatt had been SUI
perintendent of the schools for 10
years and it was supposed that he
would continue indefinitely, for in
years he is yet young man himself.
But former students of the school who
had been opposed to some of his poll
cies got into politics, carried politics
into the school election, and board
OF young men was elected which
promptly decapitated Mr.. Hiatt At
the same time an effort to cut off Miss
May Goodrell, who has been principal
OF the East Des Moines high school for
two years, was unsuccessful, but will
be renewed.
Want Eplleptic Colony.
The Muscatine County Medical So
ciety has renewed the interest in the
establishment of an epileptic colony
in this state. It passed memorial to
the legislature recently asking that
such colony be established. There
are more than 1000 of these unfortu-
mates in this state. DR.. F. M. Powell,
of the institution for the feeble-mind-
ed, where number of the epileptics
are inmates, started the agitation in
favor of the colony three years ago,
in the legislature, and if there had been
sufficient funds it would have been
established, the state board of control
believing firmly that such an institu.
ton should be provided for in Iowa
It will take the form of the Craig col
ony in New York, when it does come
It will be place to which epileptics
can go voluntarily if they see fit.
Valuable Pearl.
d. B. Smith, penniless button cut
ter in one of the pearl button factories
at Muscatine, last week discovered a
pearl valued at $1,000 adhering to the
interior of a mussel shell. It was sub
mitted to experts, who at once pro-
nounced it extremely valuable. It is
being polished, and when ready will
be sold by Smith, who claims it by vir-
tue of discovery, although the shells
he was handling at the time did not be-
long to him but to the factory in which
he was working. # this were contest.
ed it would make pretty point in law
which the attorneys are now discuss
ing. The pearl is said to be the larges,
ever found in a Mississippi river shell
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Former Congressman Joe r. Lane
of Davenport, has been made regent
of the state university, in place Of
George w. Cable, who resigned recent.
ly. The appointment was made by
Gov. Cummins, and Mr.. Lane per.
formed his first service as regent dur.
ing the past week. He has son in the
college. The legislature at its next
session will elect him for six-year
term.
LEON BROWN.
Blast Does Damage at New York.
New York, April 15.-Much havoc
was caused in The Bronx by blast
fred in the work of cutting One Hun.
dred and Seventy-second street
through from Third avenue to Full
ton avenue. The blast broke the win.
dows of more than score Of houses
in Third avenue and partly wrecked
one house, and the shock knocked
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