Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-06-10
IOWANS TO GO IN LARGE NUMBERS
State Will Be we'll Represented at Republican,
National Convention = Situation Be-
tween Rairoa DIS and Stock Men
Is More Satisfactory.
Especial Correspondence

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The governor and adjutant general
have decided to allow the national guard
soldiers to go to the st. Louis exposition
under the auspices of the state, provided
they go in battalion or regimental or
CARNATIONS, properly Differed and
amenable to all the rules and regulation
of the military discipline. In a sense.
as long as they go as guardsmen and in
the uniform Of the state, they will rep
resent the state. This being the case
the executive determined that they
should go with all the responsibilities
incident to their service as guardsmen
and subject to the same penalties for vi
olation of regulations as if they were
in military service. The Fifty-fourth
Iowa started the movement, southeast
ern officers first calling 1t to the atten-
ton of the adjutant general with re-
quest to be permitted to go in the fash
ion suggested.
May Sell Lake Beds.
The new law requiring the executive
council of the state to survey and sell
lake beds in Iowa, if they deem the pub
lie welfare not to be injured thereby.
provides that so property owners in the
county among whom shall be 20 prop
erty owners in the township in which
the lake bed sought to be sold Is situated,
shall petition the council, before it may
proceed in the matter. The question
early arose as to how it should be de-
termined whether the so signatures re-
ceived were in fact Of frecholders in the
county and township. 1t has been de-
cided to require the affidavit Of three
known residents the townshipin which
the lake is situated to the effect that
the signatures to the petition represent
property owners located as described.
1t also has been decided not to employ
local surveyors in the county In which
the lake is situated, to survey 1t.
Commission Is Filled,
Gov. Cummins has filled the state vot-
ing machine commission by the appoint
ment of David B. Lyons, of Des Moines,
as the third commissioner, to succeed
s. B. Osborn, OF Tabor. Mr.. Lyons inn
mediately assumed the duties of his Of
fee, and with the other two commits
sioners at once examined voting ma.
chine which Is competing for the busi-
ness that the city of Des Moines and
Polk county is preparing to give to some
house, having decided to buy 10 ma
chimes for this city. The other members
of the commission are H. M. Belvel, OF
Des Moines. and William lake, Of Straw.
berry Point. Mr.. Osborn has been out
Of the city for two years and Mr.. Belvel
has been acting for him. The commits
sioners get $3.50 each for each machine
examined, and their expenses, and the
company owning the machine pays the
bill.
A Pressing Need.
Already 1t has been discovered that
the state needs an additional document
| house. At an expense of about SIS, 00t
the capitol improvement commission re-
Gently erected large stone building il
which to store the documents of the
state which have not been distributed
Formerly they were piled up indiscrim,
inately in the basement and attic of the
state house. They have been removed
to the document house now, and fill II
to overlooking. II the state goes OF
printing books and not distributing
them 1t soon will require a building
about as big as the state house itself tt
hold them. It is probable that the mex
legislature will undertake to cut dow,
the number Of the books which are to b.
printed. Sometimes thousands of docu
ments are printed never to be distrib
uted.
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