Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-07
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
pes Moines. Sept. .. 1870!

arisen with respect to the river bed
law which was passed by the last gen.
eral assembly, and which has been
severely criticised by Secretary Of
State Martin Despite the fact that
Secretary of State Martin has no use
for the law and believes that it was
conceived for the purpose of defeating
the rights of bonafide settlers upon
lands to which they should have prior
right1, he is forced under the law, and
Attorney General Mullan. is forced
to cooperate with him In it, to de-
fend the procedure under which claim
ants to river beds are now trying to
secure title to land by virtue of law
which the secretary denounces vigor-
ously as bad. Attorney General Null
Ian has just been at Council Bluffs to
confer with Jacob Sims, said to have
been one of the authors or promoters
of the passage of the Objectionable
law, with reference to the suits which
have been begun at Council Bluffs
to keep Mr. Sims and his associates
from acquiring title to about ZOO
acres ofyvaluable land under the law
In question. This land is said to be
worth about $4,000 and under the
law G. r.. Hannah and Mr. Sims and
their associates will secure title from
the state for about $4,000, If tho
river bed law is not sooner repealed.
Several factories and factory sites are
located on the ground in question and
part of the Illinois Central railroad
yards and tracks. Seven suits in
volve the property They are brought
in the shape Of iniunctions against
the state to prevent 1t from selling
the site to Hannah, Sims and others.
This the state must do under the law
which Secretary Martin has criticized
even If the land be worth a hundred
times more than the money the first
claimants have put up.
Rev. j. Mad Williams, minister Of
the Church of Christ, a professor at
one time in Drake university, and
lecturer, has been wrought up to an
exceeding high pitch DR.. McNash.
his fellow minister. found his name
on the brewery petition. Williams
lost no time in making an affidavit
that he did not sign the petition and
officers of the anti-saloon league filed
information against the man who cir
enlated the petition, P. Johnson,
charging him with forgery AS yet
Mr., Johnson has not been appre-
hended
State Auditor Carroll has started
an investigation of the affairs of the
Northwestern National Life Insurance
company of Minneapolis for the pur-
nf LOTT inf MI hot
pany meets the conditions of the
stringent Iowa insurance laws. f.
T. Wilmington, e. J. Dawson and r.
M. Haines, all competent actuaries,
insurance men and financial experts,
left for Minneapolis and will begin
their active Investigations. The ques-
tions which will be looked into arc
the same as have been raised by the
old policy holders in a suit brought
by former Congressman Butler and
others against the Northwestern Ma
tional Life asking for receiver for
the old Northwestern Life and Saw
ings, whose headquarters were form
erly in Des Moines until absorbed by,
the Minneapolis concern. Rumor has
it that the investigation will result
in sensational discoveries, in that
number of employees of the company,
who were asked to resign by Auditor
Carroll and Insurance Commissioner
O'Brien of Minnesota year ago,
have been given desks back in the
Office from which they were forced to
retire. aI
The ffty-frst Iowa state fair was
tremendous success. The fair assoc
iation took in over $4,000 and more
than 100000 people saw the fair.
Though the attendance and the re-
ceipts of the fair this year were
much larger than ever before, the ex-
penses of the exposition were larger
than those of former fairs. The man.
agement contracted to give the PEG.
pie of Iowa entertainment far in ex-
cess of that warranted by the small
entrance fee charged. And their con-
tract was kept, to the letter. The re-
suit is that though the receipts were
about $4,000 larger the net revenue
from this fair was not much larger
than that of last year when the sur
plus was found to be about $4,000.
1t is believed that the net earnings
of the fair of 1905 will be about $780,
900; so that the fair management will
have on hand, in the vaults of the
treasurer, G. ID. Ellyson, president
of the Marquardt Savings bank, be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000, when all
the accounts for the exposition of
1905 have been balanced and disposed
of. In ten years the receipts of the
Iowa fair have grown from S209S1 to
about $4,000, or about 400 per cent.
The premiums offered for this fair
this year exceeded by almost 100 per
cent the total receipts of the fair of
1894. This marvellous growth is in
part due to the prosperity of the
state; but efficient management had
much to do with it. 1t is thought now
to be unlikely that the fair managers
will ask the legislature to appropriate
funds to, build a steel grandstand
costing $4,000 The legislature may
also be asked for improvements as
follows, or, at least, for part of them:
Swine pavilion ..............$ $4,000
building $3.50. $4,000
Walks, drives, etc .......... $4,000 .
Horse pavilion $3.50. -. $4,000
Exposition building ....... ;. $4,000
F t.ase
'Tve Just found pair of gold-fram-
ed spectacles," said the smooth-spok-
en-, well-dressed young man, exhibit
ing them: they are of no use to me.
Would they be worth dollar to your"
young feller," responded Uncle 81,
every hair in his beard bristling with