Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-31
PAY OF The CLERKS IS CUT
Census Bureau Determined TO Get Value
for Its Money,
POLITICAL PULL GETS A SEVERE JOLT
Band of Gypsies Held Responsible for
Numerous Robberies Committed
of Late in Des
Moines.
PULL GETS A SEVERE JOLT
cFrom a star correspondent.)


DIES MONIES, July 3O.-Cspecial.) )-Con-
sternation has been among the census de-
partment employees by a large number hav-
ing their salaries cut and being informed
later that the cut was to bring the salary
down to correspond with the amount of
work done. The greater number Of the en-
ployes OF the census department come from
over the state and have been given their
positions through political friendships of
one kind or another. There have been as
high as forty working on the census though
there are perhaps now only about thirty.
But though politics may have assisted In
getting the positions politics is having moth
ing to do with their being retained and a
number have been told that II they were
not content with the cut there were other
applicants ready to take their positions.
The executive council turned the matter
over entirely to Secretary A. II. Dawson
and Mr.. Dawson says there must be less
soldering and more hard work or the ap-
preparation of the legislature will not be
sufficient to complete the work of the
census. The cut in wages only affects
few whom Secretary Dawson claims have
not been giving the state as much work as
they are paid for. AS soon as the cut was
announced holes were burned in the carpet
getting down to the first floor to see IL poll
tics which secured the positions could not
keep the wages from being cut. Then 1t
was discovered that Secretary Dawson was
the car of the census department and that
the only recourse was to work harder.
HurryinE the Decorations.
There seems now to be an accepted belief
that the $4,000 decorations at the state
house will not be completed by the time
the state fair opens. 1t was the intention II
possible to finish the decorations by that
time. The fair opens August 25 and con-
tinues till September l. 1t was announced
that the decorations would be completed by
the first of August Then this was changed
to the middle Of August and now it is
changed to the last of August. 1t is prom
sed though that the scaffolding will all
be removed from the corridors by fair time
so that the public can get in and out Of
the building without danger OF humping
their heads on scantling. There is a posi-
bility too that the supreme court room will
be completed before the state fair but the
house chamber on which Artist Garnsey
has displayed his greatest ability and with
the greatest success will not be completed
A great deal of the Scagiola has not been
put up yet and will not all be completed
for a couple of weeks or more
Sanitary street Cars.
The State Board of Health will look into
the condition of street cars in this state
from a sanitary standpoint as well as the
passenger coaches on steam railroads. In
fact, the street car part of the tnvestiga-
ton, it is learned. is to be the chief part
of the investigation of the board. Tho
investigation is to be done by a committee
of the board working in conjunction with
a committee Of the Minnesota board, and
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other states The crowded condition of
street cars and its effect In transmitting
disease, as well as the matter of ventila-
ton will be the chief point looked into.
Gypsies Responsible.
II is the belief now of the police depart
ment that a band Of twenty or more
gypsies, who have been camping near this
city for the past two weeks are chiefly re-
sponsible for the large number of thefts
and hold-ups that have terrorized Des
Moines. The fact that the contagion of
hold-ups broke out at about the same time
that the gypsies arrived and ceased at
about the same time that they left has
been discovered. The gypsies were incon-
spicuous during the daytime for the most
part, till the last day or two. On complaint
today OF a teamster that two gypsy women
had climbed into his wagon and on a plea
to tell his fortune had crowded close to
him as he was driving through South Des
Moines and relieved him of his pocketboolS
the police investigated and discovered for
the first time that the gypsies were here.
Rife Association order.
Adjutant General w. II. Thrift has issued
orders for the guard state competition and
meeting of the Iowa Rifle association here
August II TO 49, at which time representa-
tives will be selected to represent Iowa in
the national matches at Sea Grit, N. j.,
beginning August "a The shoot will be
under the supervision of Lieutenant Colonel
Thomas F. Cooke. acting inspector of small
arms practice. No one is eligible to enter
the national shoot unless he has done 20
per cent of guard duty, and any company
which has fired 80 per cent of its company
Cbut in no case less than twenty five mem
two or more scores of FIVE shots each at
200 and SOO-yard ranges will be entitled TO be
represented by a team of five men.