Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-12-27
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DES MONIES LETTER
Items Of Intereat From Our Correspondent X
| at the State CapitaL y


My information was, that not only
were the saloons run without the
slightest regard for the mulct law,
but that the parties. interested in the
business were openly defylng the
authorities.
Immediately upon receiving the IN
formation as above stated, sent Mr..
G.. W. Lyon and Mr.. George Cosson
from this Office to Davenport to In.
vestigate the situation there and re-
port to me. They were instructed
also while there to consult with you
with a view of securing your co-opera-
ton in an effort to vindicating the
law, and to compel the saloon keepers
OF that city and county to comply
with the provisions of the mulct law.
Upon their return / was very much
pleased to hear from them that you
were ready to do whatever the law
would justify you In doing In prose-
cutting the parties who were disobey-
Ing the law. They reported to me
that saloons were being run as charg.
ed in your city Sundays and nights.
with screens, side and rear entrances,
and some of them with side and rear
| rooms.
To-day am In receipt OF informa.-
ton from your city that no material
| change has taken place in the man,
ner in which the saloons are operat.
Ing there and that the persons inter.
ested In the saloons business az
owners and bartenders propose to
| open their saloons for business on
next Sabbath day just as they have
! been doing in the past.
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and with desire to do that only
which is legal and proper under all
the circumstances, call upon you
ty to take immediate steps to prevent
the further disobedience Of the mulct
law, and would suggest that you
notify the saloon keepers of your city
that they must either comply with the
mulct law at once or 60. out OF bust.
ness, and then follow this notice with
Injunction proceedings and grand Jury
investigation against every man who
falls to heed your warning.
II trust that you will not feel that
] am trying to dictate to you or inter.
fere with your work as county attor:
ney. but that you will receive this
letter in the spirit in which it is writ.
ten.
Il feel that as to Scott county, you
and l are responsible, at least In q
large measure, for the enforcement
OF the laws of the state, and that open
! and fragrant violation OF law that ID
reflection upon both your depart
ment and mine.
II should be glad to have letter
i from yeu advising me that you had
4 acted upon my suggestion, and that
the saloon keepers had promptly r0
sponded to your demand that they
obey the law"
Baseless Charge Against Hospital.
Charges made recently against the
management Of the state insane hospt
tai at Mount Pleasant by an eastern
magazine, Physical Culture, and by
former Mayor James Hourihan Of
Mount Pleasant, have been pronounc.
ed sroundless by the state board Of
control and report to that effect In,
Guiding vast volume OF sworn testi.
mony on the point, has been dled
with Governor Cummins.
The board has carefully stated the
substance of the charge made By
both the magazine and the attorney
q at Mount Pleasant. The former print.
ed an anonymous article chargina
brutality on the part of attendants
toward patients and the diversion OF
presents and property OF patients, MP,
Hourihan made specific complaints oi
tnhuman treatment of woman who
was an inebriate patient, the refusal
to pay for the tools of an inmate
which burned and the retention Of
portions OF the pay of employees under
q system OF fines for intoxication.
4 Reward For Missing Banker.
A reward of $500 has been offered
4 by Governor Cummins for the capture
OF ]. H. Standring of Corwith. the
absconding cashier of the Corwith
State bank. Since Nov. 16 the grand
Jury OF Hancock county has returned
four indictments charging Standrina
with the crimes of forgery and the
uttering Of forged instruments. The
1 reward covers the apprehension OF
Standring and his delivery to the
proper authorities to be dealt with 40
cording to law; the reward to bs
paid only upon conviction; and pro.
vided that the reward shall not b
paid for the. conviction OF any pArson
IN custody at the time the prociSma.
ton is issued."
Republican state Conventions.
Chairman Frank P. Woods Of Es.
thehyille, chairman Of the republican
state central committee, will call the
central committee together ip pea
Moines sometime during the next few
weeks. The date of the two conven,
tons will be left then to the com,
Il mittee. as well as where they shall Be
J. held. Des Moines has been conceded
J one of the conventions. Out Of cour,
(, tesy to the other cities In the stats
4 1t is likely that the other convention