Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-17
STATE BUILDING PROGRAM
Over Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars to
Rs Spent BY Board Of Control
STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE CHANGES
Railway Commissions Orders Great
Western TO Change Pning which
Obstructs Mosquito Creek in
Vicinity of RIums.
(From a stan Correspondents

Ders OF the Board OF Control left today
on an inspection Of state institutions. and
on their return will hasten activities on
the state buildings to be contracted for this
summer. The legislature appropriated
$SO15OO for the state institutions under the
Board Of Control for the next two years
for extra appropriations in the way Of new
buildings, improvements and repairs. OF
this the biggest items are $4,000 for i'm
proving the grounds at the Soldiers home
at Marshalltown; $4,000 for a new heating
and lighting plant at Council Bluffs; $780, 900
for wing for new custodial hall at Glen
wood; $4,000 for water supply for Glen
wood; $4,000 for new cottage at Mitchell
Vile; $4,000 for woman's infirmary at
Mount Pleasant; $4,000 for farmers lodge
at Mount Pleasant; S125,OOO for women's
infrmary at Independence; $4,000 for
womans cottage at Clarinda; 5000 for
new cell house at Fort Madison. Not all
of these buildings will be erected this year.
BY the time the plans and specifications
have been prepared and bids have been
received 1t will be too late in the fall 70
begin building. The tuberculosis hospital
buildings will be erected this year and
some others.
Changes in Agricultural College.
By the action OF the board Of trustees
Of the State Agricultural college, Prof
Warren II. Meeker, associate professor, has
been made successor to Prof. G. w. Bis
sell, who has resigned to accept a place
in Michigan State university. Matters were
adjusted so that Prof. Barrett becomes
owner Of the campus property formerly
owned and occupied by Miss Lizzie May
Allis President A. B. Storms and Prof.
Curtiss were chosen as the delegates to
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Colleges at Lansing, Mich. The building
committee was authorized to receive bids
on the $4,000 machine shop. Leave Of alb
sence for one year was given to Prof. r.
E. Buchanan OF the department of botany
to study botany under Dr. Jordan Of the
Chicago university.
Greeks to Have church.
Three hundred or more Greeks who are
living in Des Moines have organized a
church and have sent to Greece for a
priest. Father Nichola Of Kalama, Greece,
is now on his way to this city 10 take
charge of the flock. 1t will be the first
Greek church in the city.
Orders PiIinE straiEhtened
At meeting Of the railroad commission
today an order was issued ordering the
Great Western to redrive its piling in Mos
quito creek at Council Bluffs and drive
them straight with the creek instead of
straight with the road. The piling as they
are driven now are in line with the bridge,
but are thus across the stream in such
a manner as to obstruct the flow of the
water The matter of the underground
vIaduct and other things Investigated by
the board at Council Bluffs Monday have
not been decided.
New Food Inspectors.
Sigel Van de Bogart Of Perry, Ia, and
Chris Ottensen of Ottensen, Ia, have been
named by the state dairy commissioner and
the appointment affirmed by the executive
council as additional food and dairy in
spectors. There are several applicants be-
fore the council for the position of post
master, made vacant by the death of
Colonel Hubbard Of Council BLUFFS. Jack
Hefiehnger, sergeant alarms Of the house
for several sessions of the legislature, is one
of the candidates.
Want Better Cattle Rate.
President A. Sykes of the Corn Belt
Meat Producers association today held
conference with Henry Wallace, secretary
of the company, in this city relative to the
interstate rate on cattle and the result will
be a request that the Iowa railroad COM
mission take the matter up with the inter-
state commission. A law passed at the
session of the Legislature that just closed
gives the state commission authority to
prosecute interstate determinations before
the interstate commission, The cattlemen
claim that Kansas and Nebraska get bet
ter rates than do the farmers Of Iowa.
Preparing Soldiers Roster.
Captain Thomas L. Stevens Of Glen
wood Ia, record clerk in the Office of the
OH Vara
of the work of preparing the soldiers
roster provided for by the last legislature.
Captain Stevens has been in charge of the
records in the adjutant's office for several
years and from smaking a careful study
of the records is more familiar than any
other person in the state with these records.
Temporarily he will be relieved of his
work as record clerk to take the supervision
of the roster Additional clerks will be
engaged to assist him.
No Money to Investigate.
The executive council has decided that It
has no money available for the investiga-
ton of the prevalence of spinal meningitis
In the southern part of the state, as
asked for by the State Board OF Health.
The board is alarmed at the spread of the
disease and having no funds, asked the
executive council to help it)out. The coun-
Gil says 1t has no funds Today additional
reached DR.. Thomas, Sec etary
of the board, of three additional cases Of
the disease at Polk City, in this county.
1t is asserted this is the first time the dis
ease has appeared in the west and the
board has no knowledge Of the causes of
the disease, but has ordered that there be
no public funerals Of persons dying from
the disease and that all precautions as
taken in other infectious diseases be OBJ
served in this,