Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-06-09
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. June 4. 1904.

Polk county's criminal record has
been broken to smithereenes During
the past five months more people
have been sent to the penitentiary
from the county courts than during
any twelve previous months. Since
January / forty-nine have been SEN
fenced to the penitentiary. This does
not include Jail sentences or criminal
fines. The cause for the increase is
matter of considerable speculation.
Some contend 1t is due to an increase
In population in Des Moines; others
maintain it is because the officers
have been more active, and still. 9th
ers maintain 1t is an increase in
crime.
The Rock Island has not given up
hopes of securing the Des Moines 4
Fort Dodge railway, despite the
Hooley interests were in absolute
control of the stockholders annual
meeting in this city. when the three
remaining Rock Island representa-.
tives on the board of directors were
ousted. The fact that the Rock
Island has a card UP its sleeve which
| it hopes to play was shown by the
fact that Carroll Wright did not vote
single proxy of their stock, allow
| ing Norbet Heinsheimer to dominate
the brief meeting The lease of the
Rock Island on the line does not ex.
pire until January l. and while ono.
| ials here who represent the Rock
Island refuse to be quoted, they init.
mated something would be done prior
to that time. II Is a matter of great
| Importance to the Rock Island. one
of the principal things being the con
| troll of the double track system be,
tween Des Moines and Valley juno,
ton.
The state board of health has re.
duced the length of quarantine in
diphtheria cases to seven days when
antitoxin is used in the treatment
of the patients. Otherwise 1t remains
at thirty-five days. BY resolution the
board has amended it's rules and reg.
ulations on the subject of quarantine
in diphtheria cases to conform to the
foregoing statement. This resolution
has been adopted:
"That in cases where a member or
members of a family afflicted with
diphtheria are treated with antitoxin,
and each and every other member of
the same family Is immunized with
antitoxin, the quarantine may be
raised in seven days, it being under
stood that it does not apply to cases
that are not treated with antitoxin."
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voked the certificate OF authority to
do business in this state held by the
Church Federation OF America, an
| organization formed to insure lives or
religious people, and has transmit
| ted the papers in the case to the at
| torney general who, under section
six of the new law will proceed to
ask for a receiver for the concern,
and its liquidation. Revocation OF the
certificate was determined upon be-
cause the company's membership Is
below the legal requirement. The
| new statute fixed the minimum mem
! bership OF concerns OF this character
at 500. Formerly the number had
| been $50. This law went into effect
March 81. 1t appears that the COM
pany never had to exceed 800 men,
bers in good standing.
| Carl Purdy, the United States sol
der who cut the bars of the WINDOW,
knocked down a sentry, and made
possible the escape OF a dozen prison
ers at Fort Des Moines army post
two months ago, has been brought to
L lac al, IT, Oh ILL III.
dangling from the same chain, was
Walter K. Page, another OF the SOL
diers who escaped in the same deliv-
cry. Both were captured by the police
authorities in Atchison. Kan. Purdy,
who did the work that was followed
by a dozen escapes, will be tried by a
court martial soon, and army officers
say that he will in all probability be
given heavy sentence. Page Will
likewise be tried, although his ofrense
| Is less serious than that OF his COM
panion. With the capture OF .PurGy
and Page, only four OF the escaped
prisoners remain at large.
| An appeal to the supreme court has
been taken by the Great Western rail-
way in the suit against them by the
Dorr Cattle company, wherein the
railway company lost its case be-
\ cause Texas cattle ticks were ram
| pant in it's stockyards. The company
contends that it is not responsible
| for the presence OF ticks and there.
fore wants the judgment OF the court
| reversed. a.. &C.,
Louis Probst, of Marshalltown, while