Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-10
RELICS FOUND I'm INDIAN
MOUNDS AT BOONE PROVE
INTENSELY INTERESTING.
BULLETIN GIVING DETAILS
WILL BE ISSUED SOON
School House Site Controversy at Per-
ny to Get Into the courts-Hish
School Located in One Edge of Town
and People Charge Real Estate Man.
ipulation-Shippers' Case Presented.
special to Times-Republican.

Des Ioines, Sept. 10.-A bulletin is
soon to be issued on the finds from the
Boone Indian mound. 1t will be one of
the most interesting documents yet
terial will likely be used in an issue
of the annals of Iowa, issued quarterly
by the historical department. Not UNI
til recently has the material taken
from that mound been properly CLASH
fed and arranged in cases in the
museum department of the historical
building. There was a wealth of ma
terial, all of which is very interest
ing. All the fragments of pottery are
very similar to fragments and entire
vessels of pottery taken from many
other mounds all over the world. Up
in Allamakee county some mounds
were opened that disclosed entire YES
sells of pottery.
One of the things of special inter-
est found in the Boone mound was
chunks composed OF gravel, bone and
other material held together by sort
of cement. The chunks are some times
as large as ones head and seem to in
dictate that the builders had a knoWl-
edge of the use of cement even in that
prehistoric day. Photographs of the
mound before and during the eXcava-
tions are being hung in the museum.
The cases in the museum depart
ment at the historical building have
all been rearranged and reclassified
because of the many additions of spec
linens since the last arrangement. The
Ilmuseum now is one of the most COM
plete on Indian relics of the west there
4 is in the country.
/ A case of considerable interest is to
be made out of the fight at Perry, Iowa,
over the location of the new high
school building in which one of the
chief claims of those who oppose the
action of the school board will be that
the location was in the interests of real
estate in the location where the board
picked for site. One of the exhibits
in the case when it reaches trial in the
district court will be big hand bill
which it is alleged was circulated the
next day or two after the decision of
the school board advertising the part
a desirable residence section.
Citizens of Perry who are fighting
for relocation have employed an at
torney of this city to present the case
in court The town of Perry is two
miles one way by three miles the othe1
on the city limits lines. The presen
high school building, which will b.
used for a grade school when the new
+ school is built. is about in the center
Il of the city. The new site selected i:
within a quarter of a mile of one cor
ner of the city and it is claimed will
l put the high school SO far away from
\ the center that some pupils will hav
two and a half miles to travel and will
virtually prohibit them from attend
ing.
One of the claims against the old sit
was that it is too noisy but the citizen
fighting against the new selection
claim it is not as noisy as locatio
j selected by the board a year or so ag
4 for grade school. They claim to
\ and will attempt to show in court tina
the board for the new site bought tw
blocks when one would be ample an
: is the limit of the provision of tn
law authorizing the purchase.
People Of Perry have taken sides
the matter quite extensively. One {
} the newspapers printed an editoris
deploring the action of the citizens i
contesting the selection of the site i
the courts.
The Corn Belt Meat Producers AS
. ISOLATION presented its case to til
interstate commerce commission
Chicago Wednesday and will preser
l further evidence on the return of Com
missioner Prouty from the west TIL
1 association case was presented b
Clifford Thorne, of Washington. AS
sistant Attorney General Cosson repre-
sented the state of Iowa which is a
intervenor in the suit.
Some time ago the association pre-
sented "a case before. the commissic
in which it asked for lower rates {
livestock from Iowa points to Chicae
on all the trunk lines in Iowa. tt
commission decided in favor Of the a.
ISOLATION. Now the association CLAIM
that the rates put in by the railroa,
do not conform with the decision of II
commission and the case has been r.
opened with the hope on the part of Il
Corn Belt Meat Producers to pro,
that the railroads have not compli,
with the order.
III Lon BoydstoT1, enc Of the veter.
newspaper men of the state, is nc
exchange editor on the Des Moin
Daily News.