Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-05
Directors Have Made Arrange
ments For Many Improve
ments This Year
CATTLE BARN BEING BUILT
Large Number of Other improvements
Are Being Made to the Ground and
Buildinss-state tuberculosis Hos
pitaI to Be Erected This Week
Capital Comment.
Special to Times-Republ!can.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. June 5.-Thc directors
of the state department of agriculture
have work already under way in the
construction of the new brick cattle
barn. the ground cleared for the four
new brick dining halls, and the con-
tract for the erection of the building
will be let June IA, contracts have been
let for a lot of dust proof cases for the
exposition building, for glass refri-
gerator for the dairy exhibit and for
1,400 reserved seats for the amphithe-
atre. In addition. the directors have
caused 1000 loads OF cinders to be
walks about the grounds and with
these improvements all completed the
fair will have made as great improve
ment this year as at any time in it's
history in spite of the failure of the
Legislature to make an appropriation
for its benefit. The dust proof cases
for the exposition building will cost
over $500, and will have over $1,000
worth of plate glass mirrors in their
construction. They will he used for
exhibiting hand painted china and
needle work The reserved seats are
of the pattern recently purchased for
the big steel amphitheater at the Ohio
state fair and will be utilized for the
steel amphitheater that it is hoped
will be erected for the Iowa fair some
day. The plan is to have something
over 1000 of these reserved seats, pos
sibly as many as 1400, and to desig-
nate them only for the row and Sec
ton.
The supreme court, which convened
today. will hear oral arguments on
one of the largest and most important
cases ever brought before the court,
the case of the state against the Am
ana Society, In which 1t is sought to
force the society to incorporate as any
other organization for pecuniary profit
is forced to do. The argument is as
signed for Friday of this week and
Judge Martin j. Wade. of Iowa City,
will appear for the society, and Attor-
ney General Mullan for the state. The
suit against the society was brought
on complaint of citizen of Iowa coun-
ty with permission from Judge Bying-
ton 1t being alleged in the petition
that the society had become one for
pecuniary profit, no matter what It's
intention at organization, and that 1t
should pay taxes and be amenable to
the laws of corporations. The society
has over 100000 worth Of property
in northeast Iowa county, consisting
of land on which there is situated fous
besides other improvements.
In the district court the society won,
and the test before the supreme court
will be important, as it will test i'm
portant laws of the state bearing on
such institutions aside from disposing
of peculiar and important society ex-
listing in the state.
The state board of control today
opened the Bids for the erection of the
$4,000 building at Council Bluffs for
the school for the deaf and as soon
as the figures can be verified and gone
over the contract will be let which will
likely be tomorrow.
The state board of control hopes to
have erected this fall the building pro-
vided for the state tuberculosis hos
pital. The plan of the board is not on
ly the cure and treatment of patients
at this hospital, but that the hospital
shall be source of information to all
people of the state on the treatment
of such patients. Judge G. S. Robinson
of the board, who has just returned
from the east where he has been
studying conditions in eighteen differ
emit institutions said today that the
principle question was one of educat-
ing the patient to care for himself
The outdoor treatment with certain
other requirements it is claimed is the
for the disease and this can be
given outside of a hospital as well as
at the hospital if the patient has the
advice of physician who understands
the disease and will follow instructions.
At Saranac Lake.. in the Adirondacks
there is a population of about $500
people and the chief business of the
people of the town is furnishing rooms
for tuberculosis patients. The ply
sicians of the town are all specialists
in the treatment of the disease and
practically every house in the place Is
erected with a porch on which the pa
tients sleep or else with board shacks
with open sides. The difficulty in To-
wa it is alleged is that most of the
are not familiar with the
treatment of the disease and many of
them fail to recognize a case of tuber-
culosis till too far advanced. hence the
must be educated as we'll as
the people. Aside from sleeping out
doors the treatment consists in proper
care of the person, in dieting and in
burning the sputum to prevent the
spread of the disease.