Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-14
|ONABOARD Of A[A[IH|
It Will be Represented at Ma
tional Conference to Con-
slider Plague Question
euBoNlc PLAGUE in CHINATOWN
There Have Been Seventy Cases in
Chinatown, San Francisco, and the
Local Board Of Health Is Charged
With Neglect of It's Duty-WilI De-
mand Rigid Quarantine.

With Neglect OF It's Ousy-"'"
nand Rigid Quarantine.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Jan. 1i.-The Iowa state
hoard of health will be represented at
the national conference of boards OIL
health of the states ind territories at
washington next week, called for the
purpose of considering the plague ques-
tion. Secretary Kennedy was notlnea
Some time ago Of this important meet
ling. The Iowa state board at It's last
meeting passed resolution strongly
lconiemning the action, or inaction, OF
the local board at San Francisco. II
appears that there have been upwards
|of seventy cases of the bubonic plague
lin Chinatown, San Francisco, and tnat
for a long time nothing could be learned
OF this save strenuous denials by the
San Francisco board of the existence
OF the plague. Boards of health in sew
|eral states have taken action stronger
than merely to condemn. and now
general conference is to be held to de-
|rnand rigid quarantine and strict regu-
liation Of affairs at San Francisco. They
say that there is imminent danger OF
spread of the disease unless measures
lare taken at San Francisco to prevent
1t. Just what action will be taken Is
mot known by members OF the Iowa
board, who are prepared to join with
Iother boards in demanding that all shall
be done that is possible to prevent any
infection coming this way.
Secretary Kennedy, Of the Iowa
board, has just sent out to all township
clerks and town clerks and others
charged with the duty OF keeping a
record OF infectious diseases in Iowa
the necessary blanks for the annual re-
ports. These clerks must send In to the
state board annually full report OF the
number of cases of cholera, diphtheria.
Ileprosy, measles, puerperal fever, scar
tlef fever, smallpox typhoid fever and
|whooping cough in their respective
|townships and localities. These re-
ports form the basis of an extensive
report on the conditions prevailing in
the state, and as these facts accumulate
from year to year they are becoming
valuable.
The famous Richardson case has
come to the supreme court at last from
Shelby county. It involves an unsolved
mystery of long standing. Frank Rich
|ardson had lived in Shelby county
twenty years and owned about 1900
acres Of land in that county and Audu-
bon. He had engaged in money lend
ing, but was one Of those peculiar
geniuses with an aversion to banks and
lawyers and he did all his own business
and confided in nobqy. In 1880 his wife
secured divorce from him, after which
he lived around with Danish farmers.
and continued loaniag money at high
rates of interest. In August, 1896, he
disappeared and has never been heard
of. and it is regarded as certain he was
murdered. He probably had a large
amount of money on his person at the
time of his death. He was regarded as
worth $15O,00O at the time of his death.
An administrator was appointed and
in order to get track of the estate had
to so around among all the farmers and
make personal inquiries. Some of them
actually confessed debts to the estate
for which the administrator found no
evidence. His notes We're found scat
tered about among the farmers. At one
time an enterprising assessor got after
Richardson and by making inquiries Of
every farmer he asked found out how
many of them owed Richardson and
thus assessed his credits. Richardson
kicked on this and had the notes taken
up and made out in the name of distant
relatives, this to avoid taxation. This
caused the administrator lots Of trou-
BILE. The case which comes to the SUI
prerne court is that OF a land title case
involving some land which Richardson
took in on a mortgage without proper
proceedings.
Gen. Byers, adjutant general OF Iowa,
went to Washington today to look after
some matters pertaining to Iowa. His
chief concern is for the refund of certain
moneys paid out by the state of Iowa
for Quitting Iowa volunteers for the
Cuban war. OF this amount about ST.
900 may be obtained thru the auditing
department. of the treasury Office, as 1t
was merely held up by the proper OFF,
GERS to secure further evidence. This
has now been forwarded and 1t is prob
able that the state will get the refund
without much trouble. The remainder
of the $4,000 claimed will have to be
secured by direct appropriation bill,
as there is no proper evidence Of this
claim. Gen. Byers will do a fine line of
lobbying at Washington for this bill.
and as he has wide acquaintance he
will be an effective worker for the re-
fund.
The state fair grounds will be made
more beautiful. When they were laying
out the grounds some twenty years ago
or less the fair management had set out
a number of catalpa trees in straight
rows running over the hills. This meth
cd of ornamentation has proved a fail
ure. Now the fair management Is ar
ranging to have large number of trees
set out-and they will be mostly native
trees. The executive committee, has ar
ranged for planting about 800 trees.
The failure of the fair management to
ornament the grounds caused the state
agricultural society to suggest that the.
members donate the trees to the fair