Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-22
FINDING A HOSPITAL SITE
Board Of Control Bound to Locate Tu ber-
ouloIis sanitarium This Week.
NECESSARY CONDITIONS HARD TO MEET
Democratic Claims of Control of the
Legislature Arc Not Giving the Re-
pubIicans Any Uneasiness-
BiE shortage OF Cars.
CFrom a staff CORRESPONDENT

find a site for the state tuberculosis hos
pital. 1t is more than likely that the
State Board of Control will determine on
a site this week as there are indications
that the difficulties OF transportation and
water are about to be overcome. Chair
man Hamilton OF the board said today
that the board will start out Monday morn
ing to revisit some of the sites that have
been offered to the state and will explore
some sections Of the state In which no
sites have been offered, hut where the board
is I'm the hone OF discovering something
that might do. Almost the entire week
just passed has been spent by the State
Board OF Control I'm consultation at the
state house discussing the problem OF a
site for the tuberculosis hospital. The
members OF the board have about agreed
unanimously that an ideal site cannot be
had i'm the state OF Iowa The ideal site,
meaning that the view and elevation be
ideal but at the same time accessible for
railroad switch and for street car trans
portation for the general public and at the
same time furnished with on abundance
of good water and possibilities of drainage.
It is also desired that the site he CEN
trally located The board would probably
like better than anything to locate the in
stitution near this city If the site could
be found Indications now point to the
selection OF n site five miles out from Iowa
City IL nothing better is offered. This
site is known as the Cline farm. 1t has
the south slope that is 50 much needed
and is wooded. 1t is reached by the in
| terurban and affords opportunities of drain
| age. It is a beautiful site. but the water
is an INFESTED problem. The only objec-
ton is the uncertainty OF water and the
| fact that it Is not in the center of the
-ftp fe hob hat
ter than that OF almost any other insti-
tuition except the Soldiers Orphans Home
! at Davenport. and il selected would prob
ably be approved generally. The board
will put i'm this week on the problem that
| has thus far baffied the members and will
then make selection. There is one thing
certain. and that is that the transporta-
ton facilities must be provided. Every
member of the board has declared that he
would not vote for site where the sup
piles could not be set out on the sidetrack
on the institution grounds. Chairman Ham
ilton said today that since he had come
| to the board in May the state had spent
hundreds of dollars for demurrage charges
! for failure to unload cars where the freight
/ had to be hauled by team sometimes
far as five miles to the institution.
No Fear of Democratic Control.
troll OF the next Iowa legislature are some
what subsiding since the time has been
taken to figure the matter up. There are
los members in the house and fifty in the
| senate The full membership OF the house
is to be elected next November and twenty
two members of the senate. The democrats
have four members 81 the senate who arc
holding over They had eight members in
the last senate and twenty-one members
In the last house. There are 1876 members
Of the house and senate to be elected in
November. On joint roll call it will take
eighty 10 make majority in the next
legislature. The democrats have four sena-
tors who hold over, and will therefore have
to elect seventy-slx out of the 1876 to be
elected. This will be 1fty-one more than
they had in the last legislature on joint
roll call. Even those who concede that
the democrats are likely to have more
members in the next legislature than i'm
the last do not claim that they can elect
as many as seventy-sX out of the 1856 to
be elected next month.
Big Shortage in Cars.
Every line that runs through Iowa is
short of cars. The report has been made
to the railroad commission that they
cannot get the cars to move the grain
crop fast as 1t is being offered FOR
|
Railroad Commissioner N. s. Ketchum
made a trip over the state with a num-
Der of railroad officials and he kept them
: in sweat the biggest part of the time,
, pointing out elevators to which the farm
ers were hauling grain, but by the side
of which there were no boxcars to haul
! the crops away. In despair. Official
l told him they were 1900 cars short in
J their Iowa territory alone. Elevator men
all over the state are making a "holler''
for cars and the complaints are coming
in to the railroad commission. During
the summer Commissioner Ketchum made
an appeal 10 the people OF the state
in behalf of the railroads to move all
the freight that II was possible to move
then at time when the cars were not in
use. and in order to relieve the pressure
e when the grain began to move. but the
appeal did. seemingly. little good. Since
y the grain started moving the car short
{ age has been growing worse.
Comes Long Way to Vote.
1 Hon. p. l.. Prentis of Vancouver, British
= Columbia, will probably travel farther to
vote in November than any other voter
\ in Iowa His home is in Mt. Ayr Ia
and his friends have received word that
v he is coming home to vote. Mr.. Prentis
: is stationed at Vancouver in the immigra-
tion service He is under the civil service
4 and so is excluded from active participa-
ton in politics but his republican loyalty
: is such that he cannot stay away from
0 the polls in November.
Kenyon 20 Chicago.
Judge w. s. Kenyon of Fort Dodge viii
!, move to Chicago within few weeks, anC
e there Will then be removed from low
!; one OF it's strongest attorneys and at on,
< time one of its most conspicuous poll.
& ticians. The decision to remove to Chi
y cago 10 live follows the appointment Of
: last week as general attorney OF the Hi
! nois Central promotion from the posi-
ton of Iowa attorney Judge Kenyon will
y be succeeded in Iowa by Hon. Thomas ID
n Healy of Fort Dodge. The position o.
general attorney of the Illinois Contra
was offered to Judge Kenyon some month";
: ago. Since that time more or less of hi,
$ time has been spent in Chicago at tn
IS head ofices in legal consultation.
Judge Lindsey 10 Address Teachers
= Judge Ben T. Lindsey of Colorado. TN
- author Of the Juvenile court law Of tina
Is state, is to address the Iowa State Teach
a h.