Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-04-14

Teiatihg TO their commitment and release
mas not been altered, materially, but the
ora, abandoned home for the Industrious
blind at Knoxville has been set aside as n
aetention hospital for this class of unfor-
Inmates! "A new building and 200 acre
iarm VIII be added to the equipment OF
the abandoned institution which consists
of 100000 worth of buildings and about
/ forty acres of land. The inebriates are
now Kept In the insane hospitals which is
extremely unsatisfactory to both the In
sane and the dipsomaniacs; but especially
distasteful to the management of the in
situations.
The sum of 100000 was appropriated to
complete the state historical building. One
wing OF this has been erected, Mt a cost
or SI5,OOO. The department was founded
by Hon. Charles Aldrich twenty\years ago
and he has been curator ever since When
the building is completed the mlscelane-
GUS portion Of the state library will be
added to the historical library In the AID
rich structure. The finished building will
occupy half block of ground to the north
east Of the capitol.
inc legislature appropriated $4,000 adj
ditional for the Iowa exhibit Mt the ST.
Louis exposition, making n total of $145,-
900.
The state board of agriculture was given
1900 with which to erect an agricultural
and horticultural hall on the state fair
grounds.
The sum Of $208,O0 was appropriated to
repair the burned portions Of the capitol
Most of this will be raised by temporary
three-tenths mill tax levy.
The state institutions under the board of
control took $s9OOOO this year. This In
cludes $2o6.OOO to rebuild the school for
the deaf at Council Bluffs whose removal
from that city was proposed, following the
burning of the main building.
An appropriation was made to defray the
expenses OF a commission to Investigate the
advisability of establishing a hospital for
cOnsumptives in Iowa.
law was passed subjecting the estates
and property of non-residents who die to
70 per cent collateral inheritance tax
when the heirs live outside of Iowa except
that when the heirs are brother or sister
the rate shall be reduced to 10 per cent.
bill was passed permitting persons to
change their names by registering the
change with their county clerk, only one
change to be permitted.
The legislature appropriated $4,000 for
state census for next year based on a
regular form furnished by the federal cen
sus bureau. 1870
The legislature adopted resolution ask
ing for a constitutional convention that the
constitution Of the United States may be
so amended as to eprmit the election of
United States senator's by the people.
All companies using the name trust in
their title, or doing business along that
line, are required by new law to incor-
porate and to have not less capital stock
than savings banks.
Reciprocal relations were provided for
by two laws passed by this general assem-
bly,. One permits physicians from other
states to practice in Iowa without passing
an examination, and the other extends the
same courtesy to veterinarians; provided
that the states from which they come ex-
tend the same courtesy to Iowa men.
An act was passed making all bass game
fish, Formerly this distinction was limited
In Iowa to the BLACK variety.
A pardon was voted to Frank Hail. aged
SO. of Pottawattamie county and who is
dying, after thirty years confinement for
confessed wife murder, of a cancer on his
neck.