Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Nroine.. Nov. %. 1904

i IL is Deleyed mat the next move on
the part of the prosecuting witnesses
in the Letson Ballet case, will be for
the recovery of $500 which is now
On deposit in Des Moines, and was to
have been used for the defense of the
| late mining promoter in the federal
| courts. q. II. Stuller, secretary OF
the White Swan Mines company of
| Ba err City, Oregon, is now in Des
Moines and has brought the books of
| the White Swan company with hiIS
| and proposes IT, show that Ballet has
| credited himself on tho books of the
company with the amount now on de-
| post in Des Monies for his defense.
1t is also clsimed that over 10000
has been expended by Ballet of the
funds of the company and stockhoid.
ers in his defense in former prosecu-
tons, anC that the books will show
this expenditure beyond any question.
DR.. Charles A. Hoffman has COM
pleted the examination of the stomach
of the late Anna Anderson, whose
body was found in the Des Moines
river near the Center street dam
about three weeks ago. No traces of
poison were discovered. The evil
dence is that death resulted from
heart failure, which came as the re.
suit Of the shock of jumping into the
water. This explains the fact that
there was no water on the lungs and
no evidence of death by drowning.
1nnumerable applications for posi-
tons in the offices of the secretary of
the state executive council during the
compilation of the state census next
spring and summer have been filed
with Secretary Dawson. While the
council has not fixed the compensa-
ton of the. assistants who will do the
clerical work of compilation of the
statistics, 1t is probable that a rate
little II any above 50 day will b.
offered for the clerks. stenographers
and accountants. The state has
$4,000 to eXpend in this work and
while the printing and schedules and
the publication of the census after it
is compiled does not come out of this
$4,000 appropriation, the council
must figure closely to bring the ex-
pense within the sum mentioned.
which is way under the cost of the
census or 1898.
Ex-Attorney General Remley be-
lieves that when the test is carried
to the supreme court, the Titus amend
ment will suffer the fate of four years
ago. He has examined the amend
ment and gives it as his opinion that
the defect of leaving out the words
of Iowa" will be fatal. Mr.. Remley
states that the error seems much more
serious to him than when the court
decided against the amendment in
1900.
A campaign will be commenced at
once by the fire department against
the property owners of the city who
have not complied with the law pc,
tanning to the erection of fire escapes
and will prosecute those who have not
paid attention to the repeated notices
which have been sent out by the de-
partment. The first prosecution was
started before Judge Mathis, when
G. H. Ragsdale, proprietor of the
Iowa Printing company and owner OF
the building at 1l8 and 120 West
Fourth street, was arrested and
brought into court on an information
filed by Warren Taylor, assistant
chief of the fire department. The in
formation charges him with violating
the state law regarding fire escapes
and refusing to take cognizance of
the notices which were repeatedly
sent to him. Mr. Ragsdale appeared
and was allowed to sign his own bond
of $500. The penalty attached to the
violation of the state law is extreme
ly severe, and in case the prosecution
continues and other arrests follow,
then there will be a lot of fines paid
into the city treasury. The law de-
clares that the penalty shall be
minimum of $50 and a maximum of
800 for each week after the notice
of the fire department has been re-
ceived.
From one mendicant who wan
'ered into Des Moines forty-two years
ago has developed generations of pau:
pers until there are now 122 descend
ants of this one man, nearly all OF
whom are more or less dependent ON
charity, according to John Boards
ley, former secretary or the Asso-
ciated Charities, who spoke before
the meeting of charity workers at the
Roadside Settlement house. This
case was cited as an illustration of
the DEVELOPMENT Of pauperism in
single family and came about through
the indulgence ofthese people in their
pauperism by the public, in the opin.
ion of the Associated Charities man.
From this he argued that dependent
people must be. educated ont of the'r
dependency and charity organizatio
which lost sight of this point en-.
couraged. rather than discouraged,
pauperism.
New articles OF Incorporation, a
new constitution and a new Set of by.
laws were adopted at the meeting Of
the Iowa Humane society held few
days ago. The meeting. which was
held in the Office of Secretary e. d
Jones, was called for the purpose o!
making it possible for the societys
constitution. articles and rules to con.
form with the wishes of James Gala.
han as outlined in his gifts of $4,000
TO this society
: On account of the prevalence OF
diphtheria at Low Moor, Clinton
county, the public schools have been
ordered closed. Five pupils are suf
fering from the disease.
A new cartridge in use by the
French army, will propel a bullet halI
mile without any perceptible rise
or fall. g.. ~
An, undertaken in the British mo.