Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-08
STATISTICS OF IOWA STOCE
Assessors Find Over Million Horses with AZ
Average Value Of SOFA
THREE AND AHALF MILLION OF CATTLE
Railroad COmmtssiOner Ketchum
FINDS Elevator Capacity In NoFth-
ern Part Of state IL Ne
low Requirements.
CFrom a stan correspondentD

(From a stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES. Aug. 7.-(special)-The
state auditors Office today completed the
tabulation Of the assessors returns on live
stock According to these figures Iowa has
l.OSl. I24 horses OF all ages, OF an average
value OF 1914 and a total adjusted value OF
So, 2o5. rs; S5tS1S2 cattle OF all ages. OF
total value of |73,5SOS5O and an average
value Of $40 rs; 4232.sOl swine, Of an average
value OF Sb64 and a total value OF t23SI9,-
Ts 5SsO9S sheep Of an average value OF
1914 and a total value OF SS5S.O90; 1888
goats OF an average value Of S254 and a
total value Of SS2,7lS The total value Of the
live stock in the state Is sls6, al, 691 This is
a very substantial increase over the value
OF last year. t.T' .-
That the live stock interests are coming
to the front in Iowa is furthermore shown
by the entries at the state fair. There are
$50 head Of horses entered this year and
the capacity Of the horse barns Is but 80.
This will be the largest horse exhibit the
fair has ever known and the increase is
entirely in the heavy horse class. There
are over $50 head Of cattle entered, which
will make the cattle exhibit fully up TO
that OF last year 1t will allow the use OF
some of the cattle barns for the extra
horses. The swine pens are more than full
ana some OF the entries nave Dttn itAhntd
because Of lack Of space in which TO house
the swine.
Pharmacists In Horny. 'r
class Of seventy-hve today took the
examination before the State Pharmacy
commission. September II there viii be
held an extra examination at which It 10
expected the largest class ever had will
take the examination. After October four
years actual experience instead of two In
drug store is to be required by law and
college graduates with diplomas must take
the examination after that date instead or
being given a certificate on the diploma
For this reason the number TO take the
| examination at the special examination will
! the largest the commission has ever
| handled.
Elevator Capacity short.
N. S. Ketchum, state railroad commits
sioner, after making an extensive investiga-
! ton through the northern part OF the
! state has discovered that the complaint
! from that section OF scarcity Of cars in
which to ship grain comes primarily from
the fact that the capacity OF the elevators
is wholly inadequate. There are a great
many elevators, but Mt Ketchum has
/ discovered that they are all small. Where
| towns OF corresponding size in the southern
! part Of the state have elevators OF a
capacity Of 10000 bushels those in the
northern part Of the state have but 5000
! bushels Because Of this fact the elevators
are quickly filled and grain must then be
| loaded direct 10 the car, or practically that.
| Mr. Ketchum. after concluding his In
vestigation. has called the attention Of the
management of the railroads that traverse
the northern part Of the state to this fact
and has asked them 10 induce the elevator
| ., nd In
asked that a rigid rule be enforced to
allow no elevator to be erected that has a
minimum capacity. Of less than ,25.0o0
bushels. Many elevators In the northern
part OF the state now have a capacity OF
hut 5000 to 10000 bushels. All the conn
plants Of scarcity Of cars and demand for
a reciprocal demurrage, bill at the last ses-
sion Of the legislature came from the
northern part of the state. where the eleva-
tors are small.
| shiloh Dedication Dates
The members Of the iowa Shiloh COM
mission met today at the Chamberlain hotel
for the purpose OF discussing the arrange
ments for the dedication OF the Shiloh
monument in November when the monu-
ments on southern battlefelds- will be dedi-
Gated. November 10 to Is has been tenta-
lively agreed upon as the dates. 8. p.
| HunDeTl OF Nne Iowa MOuuIltlll Nulllllle-
sion has given out statement at his home
at Cedar Falls relative TO the dedication
Of Iowa monuments at Vicksbure, Arder-
sonvllle, Chatta nooga and Atlanta. A rate
Of l cent per mile has been secured from
all Iowa points and the Iowa party will
start from Chicago November H. The
maker of the dedication address has not
been chosen. neither has the Iowa band
been selected TO furnish the music. Three
lays will be devoted to the dedication with
one intervening day, which will be spent
at Atlanta.
Fed Prisoners Poor Grub.
Indictments issued by the grand Jury In
cluded one against City Jailer Joe Willis on
a charge of feeding the city Jail prisoners
poor and inferior food.
Corn Five Per Cent Better.
The crop bulletin, issued today. says, that
the condition of corn at this time 10 per
cent better in this state than It was Al
this time last year. ...,..
$500 to New York City and Return.
MUS 81 .0O, from Chicago, on August % and
20, via the Nickel Plate road, with return
limit Of September 4, leaving New York
City. Three trains daily. with modern
equipment. Individual club meals. ranging
In price from S5 cents 10 500; also a Ia
carte and midday luncheon. 30 cents. served
in Nickel Plate dining cars, Call on OF
address John Y Callahan, general agent
No. 107 Adams street. Chicago.
LeDeF IL IsOlaIed.
WASHINGTON Aug. LIN tent on
! bleak mountain side in Randolph county.
West Virginia, not far from the town OF
Elkins, George Rossl, the Syrian leper
, about whom there has been 30 much con.