Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-27
REWARDS FOR CRIME
MOVEMENT ON FOOT TO HAVE
STATE PROVIDE FUNDS FOR
APPREHENSION.
SHERIFFS MUST PUT UP
OR LET cuLPRlTs ESCAPE
County Attorneys Agree With Sherffs
That Reform in Methods is Needed
State Law Librarian Small Delegated
With Important Work-Ames Man
Gets State Job in Texas.
Special to 1imes-Republican.

t4if'I iowa sliouIu intake an appfopf1a-
ton for the purpose of experimenting
criminals and the sheriffs of Iowa are
all in favor of such an appropriation.
Under the present arrangement a
sheriff has to go down into his own
pocket for the funds with which to
Iapprehend a criminal. IL the man is
convicted the sheriff is recompensed
but if the man gets off the sheriff gets
nothing. After a criminal is caught in
some other state the state will pay
the expenses and per diem of an agent
to go and get the man and bring him
back to Iowa but it pays nothing for
the expense of searching the country
over to lind the mans hiding place.
Some years ago a crime was COM
mitted in the state OF Iowa and the
perpetrators of the crime are as vet
unpunished tho their Whereabouts is
well known because there are no funds
either county or state, for securing the
evidence. If the criminals are caught
the state sometimes gives a reward
but bhe best detective agencies will
not work with the hope of capturing a
reward only. They insist on being paid
for their work at the close of each
week whether the criminal is captured
or not
In the case of a bank juggling deal
some time ago the wherea bouts of the
guilty party was disclosed only because
the sheriff went down into his pocket
for the expense money without any
assurance whatever that he would
ever get it back and the supervisors
refused to guarantee him in advance
that they would o. K. his bills.
County sheriffs and attorneys are
alike agreed that there should be some
more convenient and less bunglesome
way of going after criminals and they
may ask the next legislature to make
provision either by state appropria-
ton or by requiring the supervisors to
set apart a fund for that purpose. I'm
der the present arrangement the SUI
pervisors could if they wished but US
ually they are so engrossed in keep
ling down the tax levy that they don't
wish.
A. j. Small, state law librarian. has
been selected by the American Assoc
citation of Law Libraries, of which he
was the organizer and first president,
/ to prepare a photography of the Am
erican statute law. The Iowa library
/ is probably more complete on statute
1 law than any other library in the
4 country. The task of preparing the
/ photography down to date is one of
considerable magnitude and it is a
mark of appreciation both of the abil-
ity of Mr.. Small and Of the resources
of the Iowa law library that he was
selected for the work.
Mr.. Small has also been elected liz
brarian of the Iowa Bar Association
and the books and journals coming
| into the hands of that organization will
hereafter be kept at the state library
building.
| The law library of the state has re-
Gently been enriched by the addition of
a number of new and valuable works.
| Many of them are of the first edi-
lions of noted and rare works. "Testa-
nents and Last Wills" by Henry
Swineburne printed in 1928, is one of
these. Others are institutes of Hindu
Law printed in 1746, Aristotle on the
Athenian Constitution, Voltaire's es-
say on Crimes and their Punishment
and the Hindu law in the original
Hindu language.
A copy of the public acts of Eng
land of the last session of parliament
has been received by the Iowa library
1t is bound in the very finest leather
and is a work of the highest book
binding art. For this the state ex-
changes its session laws bound in
skiver. If the Iowa legislature should
be asked to have the Iowa laws bound
in the style of the English work some
of the members would probably faint.
f. w. Mally, q graduate of Iowa
State College of Agriculture at Ames
and q native of Iowa, has been made
state entomologist of Texas by Judge
kone who is secretary of agriculture OF
that state. Professor Mally went to
Texas to take a position in the agri.
cultural college at College Station
Texas. In this new work he will work
in harmony with the entomologists OF
the state agricultural college and the
state university. In Texas the question
of insects is one of the most important
the state has to deal with. The climate
is especially favorable to insects as the
freezes over much of the state are moi
sufficient to kill the bugs.
1t is understood that the entire south
part of Texas from Houston along the
coast to Brownsville is rapidly develop
ing into the orange industry Sam H
Dixon, assistant secretary of agricul.
ture, recently made the statement thai
the had seen oranges grown in this
raornr 6f fo, 1,<
last forty years. 1t is now being de-
veloped into a commercial industry. Il
is that part of Texas that is getting sc
much of Iowa's money and will con-
tinue to get more. 1t is because of the
fact that the orange industry is de-
tveloping so rapidly down there THAI
the department of agriculture has seer
fit to appoint Mally ITO travel about tt
watch for insects.
The whole economy Of nature is be.
ing upset in that country. Where fol
centuries there has been nothing bu
deer or cattle to Craze over the country
there is now being grown domesticatet
plants and these are so much nicer fol
the bugs to live on that they are in.
creasing very rapidly dn numbers
much more rapidly than are bird
, which feed upon them increasing. rh,
result .is that the chronological inves
legations are just now the most I'm
portant there are in that country an,
the selection Of Mr. Mally is a hagl
compliment to his ability.
! J. F. Riggs. state superintendent, vii