Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-07
STATE FAIR IMPROVEMENTS
More Barn Room Will Be Provided; for
Cattle and Horses.
CENSUS OF P0TTAWATTAMlE COUNTY
Completed Returns show Population
of 81. 1.s77-CounciI Bluffs shows
Decrease of Nearly six
Hundred.
OF PoTTAwATTAMIE COUNTY
rFrom a star correspondentO


DIES MONIES, Aug. 6-Cspecial THE |
Board of Directors of the state fair have
been in session here for the past several
days making arrangements for more barn
room for the cattle and horses and other
stock that will be shown at the state fair
this year. The date for the close of the
entries Tuesday. and after figuring
up all the entries It is discovered that
the capacity Of the cattle barns at the
state fair grounds is 1O2 stalls short and
there will have to be about three good
sized barns built between now and the
opening of the fair. Full arrangements
had not been made when the directors ad-
journed for over Sunday, but carpenters
will be put at work at once erecting the
additional barn room. Last year there
were $40 stalls occupied with the cattle
exhibit. The entries in the horse class
have not been figured up yet, but enough
is known to know that the fair will have
to provide additional barns for the horses
as well. Last year outside pens were
built for the hogs, and the same thing
will have to be done again this year
POttawatta Census.
! The full census returns for Pottawatta-
mie county made public Saturday night
show that the census Of Council Bluffs
has fiuctuated considerably. For the past
thirty years It has been as follows: 1876,
92s7; 1885, 1908; 1885, q 557 1890 q 474; 1896
| 20,1S7; 1900, 25,SO2; 1905, 25 226. The popula-
tion of Pottawattamie county is divided
as follows: Males. 26 AS; females, % 100;
males, foreign born, 4OlO; native born,
22,4SS; females, foreign born, 3,2S5; native
born, % 124.
In the townships and towns the popula-
ton figures are as follows, the figures for
townships not including the population of
the towns in the townships:
Belknap, $50; Oakland township, q33:
Boone township, 96S; Carson township 494
! Carson; 577 Center township, 6O6 Crescent
Grove township 663; Hardin township sol;
McClelland, 4 Hazel Dell township, l. O32;
BUNS Fst EarG Go 5S S&ng sed6nd i82 cq%nS %aTd
45S$ 45S Third ward, $,69s; Fourth ward, Sa87;
| 643; Avoca. 1876: layton township 54i;
Walnut, $751; Lewis township, l,i25; Lin
! 3,S; Macedonia, S55; Minden township. 7S2;
Minden, 4O5; Nicola township, IA; Neola,
| 3l6; Pleasant township, $50; Rockford town
ship, S2; Silver Creek township, 567;
cock. 2SS WasRngt9n 3WsFiP tPwnshiPp s6 SG Wa4e Sq
| land township, 6i4; Wright township, GA;
York township, 6Sl; total, 51,S57.
| Boiler Contract Let.
! The Board of Control has let the contract
for the erection of the boilers for the
Glenwood School for the Predetermined to
| the Sterling company of Barbertown, o.
There will be four boilers of 15O-horse-
power each in the batteries of two boilers
to the battery.
| Wanted at Burlington.
| Governor A. b. Cummins has been invited
| to make an address at Burlington. septem-
| Der 13, at the municipalities convention
| there. telegram received late Sat-
| urday night asking him to hold the date
open and that an official invitation would
| reach him later.
Garry CIearfield Matter Up.
| The controversy over the location of the
| Clearield school will be carried to the SUI
| preme court and will be the first case of
| its kind to be ruled on by that body. The
| history Of the difficulty is this: The people
/ voted 5000 in bonds for the erection of a
school building on a certain site 1t was
the proposition to erect $1,000 building,
| and it was therefore necessary to vote
$500 more bonds. When this proposition
was presented for a vote the people de-
| feated IT, It was shown to Superintendent
! Riggs through a petition that the people in
sufficient numbers would vote the additional
bonds If the location of the school was
| changed. The district court here ruled that
the superintendent could not reopen the
matter after once deciding on the location
Superintendent Riggs found many instances
of former superintendents reopening site
questions. The people interested in the
site being relocated will carry the matter
to the higher court, as Superintendent
Riggs, it is believed, will not accept the
option of the district court and dismiss the
case.
Can't Get Adding Machines.
Because of the failure to get more adding
machines, the census work is greatly de-
layed and It will be the close of the year
before the matter is finally tabulated and
ready for the printer. The department has
eleven machines and some of these are bor-
rowed Ten years ago the tabuating was
not concluded till the end of the year. This
year there has been gathered a great deal
more information, especially in agricultural
statistics. Without adding machines the
work would be an endless task. It is pos
sible that some of this information will not
be used for this census.
Divide Inheritance Tax.
A bill will be presented to the next legis-
lature providing for a division of the col
lateral inheritance tax between the state
and the county in which It is imposed
The plan has the endorsement of State
Treasurer Gilbertson and 1t is endorsed in
his biennial report, which will be issued
soon. 1t is believed that the state law
would meet with better enforcement under
such a provision, as county officials would
, look after collateral inheritances If the
county was 10 get a share-say 25 per cent
OF the tax collected. II is also proposed
TO give the county clerk some remunera-
tion for the work done At present the
clerk must do great deal of work for
which he receives no extra compensation.
Heredity and Intemperance.
The report of the superintendent of the
Mount Pleasant state institution for inebri-
ates shows that of go patients admitted
to the inebriacy ward the fathers OF lis
l were Incorporate and both parents of
eleven were Incorporate. OF the 2S2 the
condition of the parents of 10 were un-
3 known but If the same percentage fol-
lowed considerably over one-half of all the
inebriates admitted to the hospital had