Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-17
during all his life there has ,eve
broken a rule.


conference of institution heads this
week, states that there are about forty
persons in the insane department at
Anamosa now, that they are constant
ly coming and are kept there as long as
they are insane. There are persons
there whose term Of commitment long
ago expired, but they are kept because
they are insane. They cannot be sent
to the state hospitals until after their
sentences have expired. In all he has
sent to the state hospitals about 200
insane persons persons from the peni-
tentiary.
An effort to get the amendment to
the compulsory education bill thru the
senate developed that it is measure
OF some difficulty. The educators had
it all fixed UP that there should be "A
weeks instead of II of compulsory
school attendance and that these weeks
should be at the beginning of the school
year But the formers Immediately OBJ
jected, because it is the custom on the
farms for the older boys to help with
the fall work and begin with the winter
term. Just how to fix it up so as not to
met Will Tie OPpoS!lioii VI tHe ldtiileIo .
was regarded as quite problem.
The bill to compel the railroads to
have track scales at various points
along their lines was Withdrawn be-
cause the coal dealers association re-
ported that the railroads have made
concessions that satisfy them. The
reason advanced for the bill was that
in shipments of coal there are heavy
losses from stealing or otherwise. and
the retail dealers, especially in north
ern Iowa, have to stand all the loss, be-
cause the only weighing is done at the
initial point. But delegation went to
Chicago and saw the railroad managers
and reported that they wished the bill
withdrawn.
The legislature will probably make
an appropriation for the making of a
great map of the state to become the
property of the state and to be placed In
the capitol or historical rooms but to
be also loaned to- the Iowa commission
for exhibition at st. Louis. The finish
ed portion of the map which is now on
exhibition by the publishers of the new
Iowa atlas. shows that If it is completed
it will be one OF the handsomest things
in the map making line ever prepared.
Iowa is a beautiful state to be mapped.
and the work on this Is unusually fine
and modern. The map will be about II
by is feet in size and in colors. This
company expects to complete the work
of the atlas in June. A unique feature
is that the Iowa photographic stone is
i'm actual in the lithography, and the ar
tists report that 1t works very well.
The plan to have the scientific work
Of the state hospitals and other insti-
tutions, especially the laboratory work
and the collection and compiling of
statistics, concentrated at the state
university has been approved by the
conference of heads of institutions and
will be given trial. The system is in
operation in Michigan and works we'll.
The thought is to have a vast amount
of this work done under guidance of an
educational institution and to relieve
the heads Of the state institutions of
all but the mere furnishing of primary
data. Prof Patte rson who was called
from Iowa to New York few years ago
to become head Of the statistical de-
partment in the great reform work un-
der Mayor Seth Low, has returned to
the state university at Iowa City and
much of the work viii be under his
p,1idance