Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-22
State Librarian Wants Legisla-
ture to Finish Building
Housing Department
EXPERTS TO -cHEck Booksa
Legislature to Receive Bill Calling for.
Reforms in Methods of Checking
County Officers Books-supervisors
Not Considered Expert Accountants
State Capital News.
Special to Times-Republican.

Des Moines, Dec. 22-For the two
year period ending it required S3O,2S1
to operate the state historical depart
ment, according to figures that have
just been filed with Governor Warren
Garst by State Librarian johnson
Brigham. OF this amount $4,000 was
required in the miscellaneous Depart
ment; s7,205 in the law department;
$9,699 in the historical department and
$4,000 in the archives department. The
remainder was spent in janitor service,
etc.
In his report the state librarian
urges the legislature to make an ap-
preparation sufficient for finishing the
state historical building. The interior
rooms are finished but the halls and
ent yways are not completed. He sug-
gests that besides finishing these there
should be an appropriation for decor
ating the interior of the building "in
keeping with that standard established
in the decoration of the state house"
He further recommends an appropria-
ton for securing busts and statues of
men who have been prominent in the
upbuilding of the commonwealth to be
placed in the inches in the historical
building.
Representative John Sullivan of Polk
county may during the coming session
offer a bill which will ask u radical
change in the method of checking ac-
counts of county officers. Under the
present system books of the various
offices are checked by members of the
board who draw per diem for the work.
These books are kept by expert ac-
tSuntants and 1t is the contention OF
the representative that supervisors
who are not themselves expert account
ants are not competent to investigate
the books to learn If they are properly
kept. 1t is proposed that the county
hire diSinterested expert accountant
to examine the books and make a
statement to the board of supervisors
as to his true findings.s The bill is sug-
gested by alleged irregularities here
recently and the attempt of the grand
jury composed OF men not versed in
bookkeeping, to make an examination
as to whether there was anything
wrong, without asking the aid Of an
expert
Extradition papers have been de-
1nanded o. Governor Warren Garst for
Philip Mouve and c. w. Silvers, un-
der arrest ir Sioux City and wanted in
Lincoln Neb., for alleged theft of VAL
uabie furs. 1t is said they are also
wanted in Omaha, and Des Moines
who were in Des MoinesSat the time
of recent fur thefts. Attorney Will
bur Owen of Sioux City, served notice
that he wished a hearing to resist ex-
tradition and Tuesday is the date fixed
for the hearing.
The charge is that the two men stole
furs from the firm of Miller and Payne
at Lincoln, valued at several hundred
dollars.
This will be the first extradition
hearing to be held by Governor Garst
and the intimation from Attorney
Owen is that strenuous resistance
will be made to taking the men from
the state. The requisition papers from
the capital of Nebraska show the
men are wanted there on an informa
ton signed by the proprietor of the
store from which the furs were stolen.
The men will resist extradition on the
and will insist they should
not be extradited unless the Nebraska
secure evidence enough
against them to warrant an tndict-
ment The Lincoln authority here says
he will have no difficulty in showing
the governor sufficient evidence impli-
eating the men to warrant their extra
1ition.
But three men in the penal institu-
lions of Iowa now wear stripes, the
iress of disgrace. One of these is a
white man and the other two negroes.
All but these have proved ameniable
to kind treatment and have reached
better classes where they wear clothes
stripes and some even in plain
oolored cloth.
Stripes as noy in vogue are indica-
tive of unrule prisoners and those
in discipline.
WOULD HONOR DR.. FRlsslE.