Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-21
NAY MINE ANEGEC0C
State Board of Health May Yet
Have Physician of Eclectic
School as u Member
DR.. MURkEY SUGGESTED
But Little Interest Was Taken in the
Appointment Until the Governor In
dictated Intention to Appoint "Reg-
uIar"-PIan to Discredit Shercliffe's
Testimony at Logan.
MuRkEY SUGGESTED

| CSIttUOTly ct ~SSa''
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. March 21.--According 10
indications there will yet be an &C.
lectic appointed to the state poara
of health to succeed DR.. Mcklveen.
There were n few eclectics in the dis
trict. but none OF them seemed to care
| to take the position. Then Gov. CUM
MINIS as Stated in this correspondence
decided that he would make no furth-
| or effort to get an eclectic and would
get II regular" Now DR.. Murkey mas
been suggested and may possibly be
appointed. The announcement that
| "regular" would be appointed seems TO
have stirred up the eclectics for the
candidacy of Dr. Murkey was at once
brought forward. Mr. Murkey RESIDES
in burlington and there are two reg
ulars, DR. lIeipsiger and Or. ScroBgs'
| from the same city that are apphcahls
| for the position. DR.. Neal or heokuh
| also a regular is II candidate for the
| position In as much as DR.. Mcklveen
| was an eclectic and was the only one
| on the board IL is understood the gov
ernor will il possible appoint an &C.
| ectic.
| Is there a plan to ensnare Shercliffe
and discredit his testimony at the trial
of Tom Dennison at Logan for the
| ,.t1, In,
| Those who have been interested In the
| Dennison case have been SUSPICIOUS
| that such an attempt would be maae
| and that everything would be Done
| possible to get SherclifIe Out OF the
| road were at once suspicious Wheh 'he
| $1,000 diamond robbery was eommit-
| ted on the East Side Saturday night
They do not think that Shercliife was
! implicated and do not exactly UNDER
stand the deal, but are suspicious.
| Diamond robbers are scare. There are
| few specialists in that line. 1t IS uil-
| derstood that Shercliffe's whereabouts
| at the time of the robbery were, easily
| accounted for and it is In every way
probable that he knew nothing OF the
matter. and the only eXplanation'of the
suspicion is that possibly the opposi-
| ton hoped to cast suspicion on Sher-
cliffe
According to a report made to the
board of control by the warden of the
Fort Madison penitentiary the prison.
ers there are very largely fiction read
ers tho there is substantial number
of books of IA more solid nature read.
| Not an insignificant number Of them
are on religion and theology. There
are 54S prisoners. and an average of
| 1853 books read. In other words each
prisoner on an average reads book
in a little over three days. A total of
$3.50 books were read during the
month of February. They were:
Fiction. 1910; history. las; travel and
description. las; biography, 20; re-
ligion, %: theology, 4 sacred history,
9; character and conduct 10; science.
SO; forestry and agriculture, 2; domes-
tic science, s: political and mental
science, 3; psychology and education,
IT, application of science, 21; lang
uage and criticism, 81; poetry and
drama, 6S; art L; miscellaneous IL.
80
At the meeting Of the state bank
ers' association June IA a petition will
likely be drawn up to be presented to
the legislature asking that all banks
and institutions which receive depos-
its from the people be required to
ltmake regular statements and that
more stringent laws be enacted to pro-
tect the public. The failures of pri-
lvate banks while not so numerous
| have been conspicuous and this is as
signed as the reason. 1t is proposed
to bring all banks other than the ma
tional banks under state supervision.
At the present time private and nation
al banks are the only ones that do not
report to the auditor of state or that
are not subjected to investigation by
the bank examiners At meetings In
ISeokuk and Davenport of two of the
groups of the state association, reso-
lutions were passed appointing COM
mittees of five to present the matter
to the state association and ask that
a petition be presented to the general
assembly. 1t has been claimed that
the private banks are as strong in the
legislature as the railroads and 1t is
| expected they will fight the move
ment. At the same time there has
been very strong movement among
the state banks during the past few
months to incorporate and come under
the state law.
Congressman j. A. T. Hull says the
flags captured from the south during
the civil war will undoubtedly be re-
turned to the regiments from which
they were captured. There Is UNDER
stood to be some opposition to the
move and it has been limited that res
olutions would be presented to the Des
Moines posts against the moves. The
last congress by resolution authorized
the president to return the flags and
he will undoubtedly do so. The move
ment originated when Cleveland was
president. While some Of the old SOL
diers have considerable sentiment in
the matter and with pride over their
capture wish to keep them as war
trophies, Capt. Hull believes the re-
turn of the flags would be a kind thing
to DO and would tend to further heal
the breach between the north and the
south. The south returned long ago
the flags captured by her soldiers from
the northern regiments.