Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-08-17
NOTES FROM The CAPITAL
Des Moines. AUGUST 10 100

DE MONIES, August IL, 1905.
Within a short time the various
Methodist conferences of the stats
will be in session and the work for
the coming year In Methodism in Iowa
will be outlined. For the most part,
the annual conferences are being held
earlier this year than usual ty a week
or W weeks.
Bishop H. w. Warren Of Denver,
one of the young bishops of the
church, will preside ove the Des
Moines, the Iowa, and the northwest
Iowa conferences, and Bishop Wilson
of Chattanooga, Tenn, will preside
over the upper Iowa conference.
The dates and the places of meet
ing will be.
Des Moines conference at Osceola,
beginning Sept. lS, Bishop Warren
presiding.
ming Sept. &, Bishop Warren presid-
ing.
Northwest Iowa at Sheldon, begin
ming Sept. 81, Bishop Warren presid.
ing.
Upper Iowa al Hampton. beginning
Sept. "a, Bishop Wilson presiding.
It was disclosed at the executive
offices that Josephine Collett as wen
as William Nagle, who are accused
of a murder done north of Muscatine,
served time in the penitentiary at
Fort Madison for horse stealing. The
man was paroled; the woman served
her term. The couple now are. under
arrest at MHscatine charged with
numbering a resident of an island
whose boat and cave they coveted.
They charge each other with commit
ting the crime. Illinois has juris-
diction over the island in question
and the Illinois authorities want Ma
gle and the woman. The woman
they can have, but the sheriff Of Mus,
catine county rather thinks that
Maggie might go back to the peniten-
tiary to- serve out his sentence.
Superintendent Voldeng in his BIZ
ennial report respecting the inebriates
housed at the state insane hospital
at Cherokee makes the statement
that he is convinced that hereditary
influences are responsible for a
much larger percentage of the inc
briates in that institution than APP
pears on the surface from the reports
made from the answers Of inmates
elected by inquiries. The hereditary
influence is d%iscernible in at least so
per cent of the cases as IL stands;
and doubtless is responsible in many
others. superintendent Voldeng rec
ommends that a longer period be pro-
vided for the effecting of cures, at the
new and separate hospital for inc
briates at Knoxville. There should
be longer terms of treatment than
have been accorded, heretofore, prior
to issuance of paroles. The chances
then are that the patients will not re-
turn so quickly. A majority give
company" as the reason for their
return to the use of the liquor or
drugs. Fifty per cen of those treat
ed at the Cherokee institution during
the last two years have been 40 years
of age, but 80 per cent began the
habit before they were 90. This is
the thing which leads to the belief
that heredity cuts more figure as an
influence to excessive use of drugs,
narcotics and liquor than any other.
But if hcredity is the real cause as
sociation appears to be the chief i'm
mediate reason given for taking TO
drinking. II is given in a vast major
| ity of the cases in all of the three in
situations which chiefly cared for the
i%nebriates during the last two years.
No suggestion has been made by the
Institution superintendent relative to
anti-treating statutes to meet this
difficulty.