Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-23
Inmates of Iowa Institutions
Have on Deposit Total of
More Than $4,000
CREDITED WITH $4,000
Record Of Monies Belonging to State
Wards and Deposited With institu-
ton Officials Compiled for the First
Observation-Disclosures Arc custod-
ians-General News.
Special to Times-RepuDllcan.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov, Estimates of
the state institutions Of Iowa have
1913. 1880 on deposit with the super
intendents of the state institutions.
This is the first time that the total
amount has been complied. The
amounts at few Of the institutions
have been known, but not all. At one
time, under the trustee system, there
was no attention paid to these deposits
and inmates some times lost their
money. When the board of control
came in it asked the legislature for
an appropriation of $1,000 which was
made with which to reimburse in
mates for money which a superintend-
ent had defaulted.
Under the board of control every
superintendent Is required to give a
bond for $4,000 which covers these
deposits, the state holding itself re-
sponsible Tor the faithfulness of the
superintendent. The board has ruled
that this money where the amounts
are of any size, must be kept in banks
on deposit so that the inmates may
have the best use of their money, the
interest on the deposit going to the
inmates. One twenty-fve-year prison.
er now in the penitentiary has in 1.-THE
neighborhood of $1,000 which he has
saved from wages made by working
overtime at the penitentiary in the
factory the compensation for over
time going TO the prisoners.
The larger amount on deposit is at
the Soldiers Home, where the old SOL
diers receiving pensions have a source
of income. The various amounts at
the various institutions is as follows:
Soldiers Home. $12,S24.9S; Fort Madi-
son penitentiary, $6,150.07; Anamosa
penitentiary, $3,523.32; Independence
insane hospital, $2,206.76: Mt. Pleasant
insane hospital, s2,16s.4O; Clarinda in
sane hospital $2,13S.52; Cherokee in
sane hospital, $1,935.69; Knoxville In
ebriate hospital s1,02S.9s; Eldora boys
industrial school, $462.68; Glenwood
school for feeble minded, $353.S1: Dav-
export soldiers orphans home, $193.35;
Mitchellville Industrial school for girls,
$15S.24
At the schools for children the only
source of money for the children is
that sent by their parents or relatives
or friends. Many of the insane In
mates or prisoners have money on
their person when committed. At the
penitentaries the prisoners are as
signed tasks in the work shops. When
the work of making butter tubs was
taken UP 800 tubs was assigned to
twenty-five men as days task. 1t
was with difficulty that they could get
that many made. BY steps the num-
Der was raised to 750. The demand for
tubs was so great that the contractors
agreed to pay the prisoners in pro-
portion for as many as they made over
the days task. The state gets 90 cents
a day for the time of the prisoners
and many of them finish their task by
noon and duplicate it in the afternoon,
making SO cents a day for themselves.
DR.. g. A. Newman, of Cedar Falls, IS
out again after serious tho short ill.,
ness, which has left him decidedly
weak. He does not anticipate any OPP
position for reelection to his old po-
sition as, secretary Of the senate, es-
pecially in view Of the good work for
the republican ticket in Black HaWA
county this year by himself and his
friends. Newman has been chief sec
rotary of the senate for number OF
sessions and is certainly one of the
best readers that ever held the position
George Wilson, second in line in the
senate, will be a candidate for his old
place and probably will have no OPP
position. Cecil Dixon, long the journal
clerk for the senate, will again be
candidate for that place.
Senator E. K. Whine, Of Humboldt
county, was in the city yesterday He
had charge of the campaign for the
republican ticket in his county and
feels gratified that they were able to
give the ticket bigger vote than ever
before and a fine majority. II believe
there were fewer boilers in our coun-
ty than any other in the state" he
said. Senator Whine will be missed
from the senate the coming winter, his
place being taken by Joseph Allen, an
OluST UIlSiI lildil VIII S1SSHS
possibilities. Allen made great race,
tho as a matter of fact he did all his
running on pair Of crutches which
he will have to take with him into the
senate, due to a broken ankle.
One of the pilgrims on the southern
tour of Iowa people returned from
vicksburg and declares that the speech
of Governor Cummins there was the
greatest grafton of its kind that has
ever been delivered. He declares that
the southern people were captivatee
beyond all measure with the speech.
Governor Eardaman, who has a pen
chant for overriding the thing occa-
sionally, appeared to be so much taken
with the eloquence of the Iowa COVER
nor that he became very tame himself
and delivered a speech which was
model of propriety.