Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-09-19
DES MONIES LETTER !
| Items Of Interest From Our Correspondents /
at the State Capital.
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Boxers Barred From Escaping.

1oollng with the inebriates at the
Knoxville institution. and has con-
tracted for bars for the windows In
order to keep them from escaping
and to save hiring men to watch
them.
When the board was considering
the subject OF how to control the sots
for whom the tax payers of the state
have built marble palace at Knox
vile. Massachusetts authority came
out and lectured to the board and the
superintendent Of the institutions,
suggesting that a long experience
with that class Of people had led him
to the conclusion that the nearer a
prison an inebriate detention hos.
pital was the more effective 1t would
be.
The inebriates always resented tho
idea OF having been housed at the IN.
sane hospitals OF the state and 1t was
thought that their fine sense OF self
respect and pride was responsible
for their repeated and successful at
tempts to escape In lunches OF from
five to twenty at time. SO the
board OF control contented itself with
constructing very fine institution at
Knoxville, one attractive in every
way and provided with all of the con-
veniences--this was under direction
OF the legislature, of course-and do
cided to pay no heed to the recon.
mendation from effete Massachusetts
But escapes have continued. An
effort to prevent IL has cost the state
extensively for guards. Now bars
Will be put up at the windows. A
sample OF the bars was at the ONCE
of the board yesterday Steel wires.
about a quarter OF an inch In dia-
meter, running In strands of two
wires each, criss crossing each other
so that apertures in the shape OF
diamonds result, the junctures of the
crossing strands being tied with wire.
make the screen. IL Is thought 10
will be handsome and effective.
Many Millions In Iowa Banks.
For the first time In the history
of the state the deposits In the state
and savings banks have gone above
$200,0000O0. They did II at the close
OF business, Aug. %, according to the
official statement compiled from re-
ports made by the banks on that date
Including the deposits In the trust
companies of the state. the deposits
increased between Sept. 4, 1906, aud
Aug. 20, 1907, In the sum OF 100000
81.
The average reserve In all banks at
the close OF business Aug 90 last
was 81 per cnt, which Is about the
average OF the last half dozen bank
statements.
In the state and savings banks and
In the trust companies I'm the form
OF deposits there now are $2l9,441,.
COO In the private and national
banks there are about $t50,000,00O
more. IL Is believed there Is about
5000 per capita of bank deposits In
Iowa. This Is practically 800 per cap
tia more than In the banks of Kansas,
for instance.
Twelve new state and savings
banks have been organized In Iowa
within the last five months. There
have been ffty-nlne In the year past.
The capital stock had Increased
about $476.000 on account of the
organization OF The twelve new banks
during the last Ave months. There
now are $50 savings and $50 state
banks in low There are fourteen
trust companies IN the state.
In the savings banks there are
$140,770,318 in deposits in the state
banks, $62,435,4S7 and in the trust
companies s6,235.433, making $2l9.-
311,24S altogether
After Big Corporations.
Secretary Of State Hayward has
referred to the legal department OF
the state the evidence gathered by
II. I. Saberson, corporation clerk In
the Office OF the secretary, relative to
the corporations which are doing
business in Iowa without having fled
their articles OF incorporation. The
legal department will bring suits In
the court. In all probability, to com
pei the corporations to file their arti-
Giles and pay the incorporation fees
which they owe to the Office Of the
secretary.
A large number of corporation are
effected. Some of the railroad, tele-
graph and telephone lines are inter-
ested. The action contemplated win
compel these corporations to fae their
articles with the secretary OF state
and pay the fees under the law which
existed at the time the articles should
have been filed Many thousands OF
dollars will be involved. The law
contemplat:s a penalty of 500 day
during the time of failure of the
companies to file their articles The
accumulation OF the penalty would
amount to millions, and of course no
idea is entertained that the full pen
atty can be recovered, even II the law
points In the case are decided In
favor of the state and against the
corporations. There are fine points
of law involved In the statute which
remain for the courts, even to the
United States supreme court, to set
IT,.
The supreme court convened I'm
Des Moines on the 10th, after two
months vacation. One of the first
cases to be disposed of will be the
Dubuque saloon injunction, In which
outside persons, not party to the suit.
sought to intervene to ask for writ
Of certiorari to review the decree of
injunction issued by Judge Robert
Benson II is the theory of the saloon
men that only the original parties to
an. action can appear In certiorari
proceedings. This and the Erick Won
Kutzleben train wrecking case are
the two cases of general interest In
the supreme court at this term.
c. III. Crabtree, who gained consid-
cradle notoriety in Des Moines as a
result of controversies over Black
Hills mining properties and later by
instituting libel and SANDER suits for
large sums against various individ-
uals, Is in jail at Kansas City pend
ing a hearing on two charges alleg
ing forgery and uttering a forged in
strument. His attorney, ]. M. Par