Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-05
LOTS OF AIR in
NEW Has{s AL
HOME .,eyoo9 .oNARY VICTIMS
AT IC CITY WILL HAVE
WALLS MOVING ON HINGES
Physicians Believe Home Will Pro-
vide Almost Certain Cure for In
cipIent Cases of tuberculosis
VIII be Opened July 1.

Des Moipes, Jan. 4.-The state board
Of control is having plans made for
the hospital for consunptives at Iowa
City, which will be opened about July
1.
One building, for administrative pur-
poses, will be erected. In addition
what are called "shacks" will be erect
ed in the natural oak grove that runs
down from the north of the land to-
ward the south for the accommo odation
of the patients.
These shacks will be built of wood,
about six feet from the ground, with
all four sides on hinges so that they
may be lifted up and The air allowed
to circulate as freely through the struc-
lures under the roof as If there were
no walls. In addition wide porches will
surround the structures and the beds
of the patients can be run out on these
porches.
The theory of the hospital is to give
regula? diet, exercise them and com
cannot be done in steam heated brick
kind OF "shacks" which have been de-
scribed.
Some of the famous hospitals or
colonies organized for the cure of con-
sumptives use tents, only, for the pa
tients. This the state of Iowa will not
attempt.
With good food and open air living
north of Iowa City the doctors believe
that practically every incipient case Of
tuberculosis can be cured. And now
1000 people die every year in Iowa
from this disease.
Breasted for Senator.
Fred Brasted, who was in the office
of Governor Shaw during the years
1897 to 1900 now practices law in Okla
homa City and will be formidable
candidate for United States senator
from that state when the legislature
meets next winter.
He studied law while in Governor
Shaw's Office and by diligent applica-
ton and foregoing amusements and all
waste of time fitted himself for the
practice of the law. After practicing
for time at Ida Grove, in this state,
he went to Oklahoma City and there
has acquired considerable success.
He is understood to have gone into
banking and to have made large
amount of money He is young man,
not more than 40 years right now. He
is intensely interested In the state of
Oklahoma and at every visit during
the past six years back to his friends
in this country he has insisted on the
| fadt that not only would Oklahoma be
a state, but that it would rival Iowa
| for greatness.
Tracey Garrett, the newspaper writ
er, has just returned from Oklahoma,
where ne had the pleasure of attend
| ing some of the sessions of the con-
Institutional convention.
1T is extremely interesting" he said.
81 met the president, who is said to
be the most interesting character in
the state. He is William Murray and
has been called Alfalfa Bill in his time,
| they tell me. The convention had
sixty days in which to do it's work and
has consumed more than half discuss
ing the preamble. The question was at
first whether the word or the express
sion Divine Creator should go in the
preamble to the constitution and after
settling on the latter motion to re-
1
continues. The fundamental law has
not developed any as yet solely on ac-
count Of this controversy.
"The capital of the state is at Guth-
rie and cannot be moved until 1918, but
it will be as soon as the sun goes down
on the last day of that year. The peo.
pie of Oklahoma City already are talk.
ing fine state house preparatory to
the removal Of the capital there, fgur-
ing On making it habitable when the
year arrives that the capital can be
moved"
One of the things that troubles in the
making of a constitution in Oklahoma
relates TO the question of liquor. The
federal act fixes prohibition as the law
in Indian Territory until 1926 or some
thing like that and the people in that
part of the state are for constitutional
prohibition SO that Oklahoma will be
on the same basis. And in Oklahoma
proper there is a feeling that half the
state should not be prohibition and
half of it liquor and still there are
many who want prohibition left out of
the constitution. 1t recalls the old
Iowa war to Iowans who visit the new
state. Leon Brown.