Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-30
TWO GLASSES AI
Insane HOSPITAL
Separate Cottage for the Work
ing Inmates Proves an ,Ex-
cellent Feature
WELL EQUIPPED HOSPITAL
State Board of Control Has Just In
spected the Institution and are Well
Pleased With the Institution There
Peculiar c. o. D. Liquor Case
From Warren.
special to s-Republican.

special to IlmeS-HepuDucaH.
Des Moines Nov. 3o.-Members of
the state board of control are enthusi-
astic over the results attained from
the new cottage for the working in
mates at the Cherokee insane hospi-
tall Heretofore the patients who work
ed and the patients who were unable
to work were all housed together in
the same cottage. This necessitated
those patients who were unable to
work getting UP early in the morning
for breakfast as the rest or else those
able to work did not get into the fields
till late in the forenoon. The new cot
tage is having results that were not
contemplated. 1t is two stories and
basement but the basement is but
foot under ground. The basement has
a cemer.t floor and the worklnen COM
ing from the lelds and their work go
to the basement where in one room
they remove outer dirty clothing, put
on slippers that have been provided
them by the state and after washing
up repair to larger room in the
basement where they are allowed. to
lounge about, smoke and chew and
read. They are given liberties here
which it Is an impossibility to- give
them in the other cottages where the
sick patients and those too insane to
work are kept For this reason there
is great anxiety on the part of the
patients to get we'll enough that they
can go to the new cottage. This stiT.-
ulus works wonders in assisting the
doctors to cure patient. For the in
sane anyway it is conceded that the
best agency for cure is light employ
ment and keeping the mind free from
worries. On the floor above the base
rnent there are sitting rooms and bed
rooms and the floor above this Is the
same Those men who do not care to
smoke and chew can use the carpeted
sitting rooms above It is said that
by far the greater majority prefer the
cement floor basement where they are
allowed to do about as they please.
i Cherokee is now the best fixed of all
the state hospitals i'm this regard.
There is now a first rate cottage at
Clarinda but at the other Institutions
buildings formerly used for other pur-
poses are being used to accommodate
the working patients and they are not
the most suitable for the purpose. The
separation of the patients able to work
from those who are not able to work
is for the best interests of both classes
of patients. 1t is the intention and p =
pose to secure buildings at all the In
sane hospitals similar to that at
Cherokee. The cottage at Cherokee
has Just been completed and occupied
and was inspected by the members of
the state board on their semi annual
visit from which they returned yes
terday. It accommodates $50 patients
and that many can be fed at each
meal These patients are given their
breakfast at o'clock and their sup-
per at that hour in the evening. The
patients unable to work do not get
breakfast until or s and are given
supper at 5.
"A peculiar C. o. d. liquor case from
Warren county has reached the SUI
preme court and will be submitted at
the January term Of court. The abb
stract and argument were filed yester-
day. S. Bernstein, a resident OF Des
Moines and travelling for the Simon
Lewis liquor house Of Rock Island was
indicted and arrested for giving away
liquor at Indianola on May %, 1905
The case was submitted to Judge Gam
BILE on an agreed statement of facts and
no jury trial was held nor witnesses
oo hot
Bernstein gave three men small drinks
of liquor and that the men gave him
orders for liquor which he mailed to
the liquor house to be filed. Judge
Gamble sentenced him to sixteen days
in Jail on one charge and to fifteen
days on each of two others. He ap-
pealed to the supreme court He had
sample case with twelve bottles OF
liquor and grip with six quart bot
ties from which the twelve sample bot
ties were replenished. The argument
of the attorney for Bernstein is that
section 1882 of the code SUPP cement
under which Bernstein was found gull
ty is unconstitutional void and repug-
nant to clause 3, section of article /
of the constitution of the United States
in that it makes penal the carrying on
of interstate commerce. The state in
this case admitted that the defendant
would have to be discharged except for
the "Wilson Act" but the defendants
argue that the "Wilson Act" does not
allow state. to interfere with the cam
vassing for orders by a regular travel
ing salesman representing house out
side the state.
State Superintendent j. f. Riggs will
not appear on the program Of the far
mers' institute at Ida Grove. He did
not know that he WAS assigned for an
address till Superintendent Ink of that
city was in the city yesterday and told
him The institute is to be held next
week Prof. Riggs has not received an
Invitation yet to make the address but
at this late day will be unable to at
tend. The biennial report OF the stata
superintendent has been nearly COM