Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-29
CONTROL BOARD
NAY RAISE B[ET%
Proposal to Have Boys at the
Industrial School Care
For 100 Acres
WOULD BE SHIPPED At wAvERLY
Commerce Commission to Hold ses-
sion at Cedar Rapids soon-state.
Commission Will Attend the Hear
ing-unversity Visiting Committee
Will Ask Much for school-New Bills

Will Ask Much for School-New Bills
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Jan. 29-The STATE o.
Iowa has been offered a chance to en-
gage in the most profitable farming
known. The board of control has been
invited and urged to enter into an
agreement to cultivate 100 acres or
more of sugar beets at the state indus
trial school for boys at Eldora. Inc
state has already demonstrated uhat
the soil in that part of the state is ad-
mirably adapted to the growing VI
sugar beets A new factory IS oelhs
built at Waverly, and the promoters
of that industry have written to the
board of control offering the usuai coii-
tracts for beet growers. The only
thing in the way is the race Ohat tue
state has not the land to devote TO
this. Only about 200 acres of the state
land at Eldora is good tillable land ana
this is needed for other things. But II
the state had the land it would be an
easy matter to cultivate at least 2oo
acres of sugar beets, for the time tne
most work is needed Is when practcal-
ly all the boys at the school coulo pe
used for this field work As the prof.
If per acre could easily be from $23 10
$50 the state might thus secure con-
siderable income. The matter Is pe-
ing considered.
Sneaker Kendall is i'll and was un-
able to attend the sitting OF the mousse
TODAY The bill by Polk county mem
here to regulate "baby farms" and to
provide that it shall be illegal for one
to manage a lying-in hospital without
a eertificate from the state poaro OF
health. was introduced. 1t Is severe IN
its penalties and would prohibit irreg-
ular hospitals of this kind,
Representative Offil introduced his
fire cracker bill Weeks introduced
bill to reform the method of drawing
Jurors by requiring that list OF tales
men shall be drawn from the entire list
of voters of the county. after those
ineligible have been discarded.
Dearmand introduced in the senate
a hill prepared by John Helmick, of
Davenport, providing for a general ols-
trict court to sit in Des Moines, to have
jurisdiction over the entire state IN
certain classes Of criminal cases.
Jamison, of Page, introduced two
bills to affect the express liquor busl-
ness, one requiring express companies
to keep an open record of all deliveries
of liquor, the other to forbid the re-
moval from an express office OF any
package of liquor by any other than
permit holders. Other bills introduced
in the senate:
BY Mates, bill to provide for the
election of insurance company direc-
tors by minority of the stockholders
BY Frudden, to put in the bill to
make the law as TO- police matters ap-
ply to special charter cities.
BY Newberry, bill to raise the sal
aries Of deputy and assistant dairy
commissioners.
Two bills amending the exemption
laws to exempt 80 per cent OF
months salary, but exempting for
ninety days the earnings of members
of family other than the head, were
introduced In the house.
Sullivan introduced q bill providing
for the preservation of testimony be-
fore coroner's juries in counties of
of $4,000; and for the ap-
"a efn r,oar and Mo.
Alister a bill providing for a roster OF
Iowa soldiers.
It became known here today that
Offil will be candidate
for congress in the Sixth district in
1908.
The interstate commerce commits
sion is to have hearing at Cedar
Rapids very soon, and the members of
the Iowa railroad commission are ar
ranging to attend in a body and hear
the statements made and to give what
ever assistance they may to the inter-
state commerce commission. 1t has
been several years since the Iowa COM
mission had any business which CALL
ed them directly into contact with the
interstate commission.
The visitation committee which in
spected the educational work at the
State University is likely to make re-
port that will cause the appropriations
committees to think awhile. They
were Impressed with the idea that
while the askings for the State Univer-
sity are large, that all is needed that
has been asked for and that If the
state can possibly do so there must be
a great increase in expenditure for state
work. I'VE found an in
crease of 600 students at Iowa City,
said Senator Newberry. "and every de-
partment and room crowded to the linn
it. In fact there is much getting along
with makeshifts in such way that it
is a disgrace to the state. We are in
viting these young people to come to
our institutions; 1t is our duty to care
for them. The university was never
more prosperous. Let us keep It So"