Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-01-13
State Insane Institution at Cherokee
Has Not Room to Accommodate
All Who Need Care.
SUBSTANTIAL ADDITIONS ARE NEEDED.
THE x-Ray Treatm emit for Cancer Has
Been Adopted-Cost of the Tele-
phone Strike In Des Moines-An
Ice Controversy-Coal Famine In
the state-Other Notes.
Especial correspondence.]

CROWDED ana the OodFu VI CoAe1 VI -
compelled to resort to Encouragement
of matters in order to accommodate
all of the insane who need care at the
state institutions. The Cherokee build.
ings as erected were intended to &C
commodate 4SO persons. Now there
are 64S there. OF these 62 are inebri-
ates. The board of control has estab-
lished a third ward for the care Of in.
ebriates, this time at the state hospital
at Independence, and some of those at
Cherokee will be transferred to the
new ward. However, it is expected
that the congested condition of the
hospital at Cherokee will be expe.
rienced again within short time. 1t
is probable that the board will find it
necessary to ask the legislature next
year for enough money to build SUBJ
stantial additions to all of the hospi.
tails, with a view to having them
ready for the reception of additional
insane within the next four or five
years, when additional accommoda.
tions will be imperative.
x-Ray for Cancer.
The "X-ray" method of treating
cancer has been adopted at the Iowa
state institutions. The state board
of control has received proof of the
cure of one cancer patient at the
hospital at Clarinda, where Assistant
Physician Boody has been expert,
menting with this method of curing
the malignant disease. Another pa
tient has been improved by the use
of the ray treatment. AT Clarinda
insane hospital there are now ses
inmates, and this is almost the limit
of the capacity of the present insti,
tuition. The board of control has not
vet established ward for inebriates
at this hospital, having limited them
thus far to the other hospitals, but
it is believed that the board will find
it necessary by next summer to set
aside a part of Clarinda, also, fos
the housing of the victims of narcot-
les and drugs, who will number 300
by next July, it is estimated.
Cost Of q Strike.
The cost of the recent telephone
strike in Des Moines was $7,S6s, to
the trades and labor assembly OF
unionists Of the city. All OF this
money has been raised and paid
There are about 1000 unionists in
Des Moines, so that the average was
not much in excess of 81 head. Tht
Iowa Telephone company, in the fina
adjustment of the strike as to it,
lines, paid $1,000 of the fees of the
attorneys who represented the labor
ing people in the courts in the in
junction cases brought by the tele
phone company. The fees of thu
lawyers amounted to $500. Thu
unionists paid the striking girls ant
linemen their regular wages during
the entire strike, which lasted si1
months as to one company and abou
month as to the other.
An Ice Controversy.
An interesting controversy ha
arisen in Des Moines as to the contro
of the ice on the river. The last legis
lature gave the park commission ce1
tain apparent rights over the rive1
Under this right the commissio
staked out parts of the ice for
speed way, parts of 1T for skating an
turned the rest over to the ice me1
The ice men proceeded to pay no al
tention to the signs erected by tn
commission and began cutting ice o
the speed way and the skating rink!
The park commission applied in
mediately to the district court for a
Injunction to restrain the ice me
from cutting ice at all. This wi
be tried out with a view to determil
ing whether the state has any powe
over the ice in meandered stream
Short of Coal.
The switchmen's strike at the tow
Of Marshalltown interfered seriousl
with the coal supply for the soldier
home at that place during the pas
.. week. The members of the board {
control We're compelled to keep th
wires hot to keep the veterans {
the home from getting cold. AS
i happened the institutions supply I
9 coal was nearly exhausted at IL
time the strike was begun, and whe
> 1t was found that no cars would
4 switched by the Iowa Central strike
!. from the town to the institution tt
. board was compelled to make 9th,
} arrangements and make them rapid
a A coal famine has been reportt
\ from many sections of the stat
! This is due to the inability of IL
= Iowa coal operators to supply Il
!. demand. This inability is due to Il
= sudden coming of cold weather, Il
= lack of the hard coal supply usual
on hand and the fact that the minel
of the state have been SO prospero,
it has been difficult to get them
y work during the holiday season.
Won the Banner.
= Jasper county republicans won Il
y Tippecanoe club banner for maki1
: : the largest republican gains in Il
= election last November over the ye'
y preceding. The banner will be pr
q sented to the county managers f
the party at NESTING to be held
Des Moines February 0. This Gu
p tom of presenting banner to &
r county making the largest gains ea,
. year has been followed for Is yea
:. and has been encouraging to Il
. party workers throughout the stat
Isaac Brandt, of Des Moines. form'
deputy state treasurer, is the pref
: dent Of the Yppecauoe club, whie
y Ia formed Of men who took part
!, thu Hsrrtson campaign Of 1870.
Address Unknuwn.
:, j.. A. Stiles has been elected men
:. Der Of the house Of representative
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