Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-13
MORE PAY FOR SECRETARY
Iowa Board Of Agriculture Cannot
Keep Competent Men.
WILL GIVE FARM TO STATE
r. ". Howard Of Marshall COunty
Proposes 60 Make. Gift 10 ne
Used sa = Model
Farm.
From a staff correspondent.

From a staff correspondent ...
DIES MONIES, Feb. 12.-(speclal)-The
state senate will tomorrow take up the
bill to authorize the state board Of agri-
culture to fix a salary for the secretary
In accordance with tie needs Of the board
At present the board is so restricted that
It cannot secure a secretary at all. Sec
Rotary John G. simpson, who has Just gone
to Minnesota on a salary OF 5000 and
house rent free. had been kept here sew
eral years only by straining Of the law
so as to give him more than the limit
fixed by the legislature. Now the state
board demands some leeway in securing a
secretary and paying him enough so that
be will remain. The bill was discussed Sat
urday briefly and the fact disclosed that
there is some political opposition to the
state board Of agriculture and desire to
drag It into politics. The bill was amended
so that the limit which can be paid is
200 and It may pass in that form. The
plans OF the state board are to hold the
matter Of selection of a secretary in abey-
ance until this can be settled.
VIII Give Farm TO state.
The state college at Ames has been Of
fered a fine farm located in Marshall
county by its owner E. B. Howard, for
the purpose Of establishing a model farm
and school thereon. The matter has been
referred by the state board Of education TO
the finance committee to see what money
can be obtained to build such buildings as
suggested by Mr. and Mrs. Howard. The
need for such an institution is apparent
There is no middle school in the state for
taking boys and girls from the grades and
giving them the Industrial education they
desire. Shops, mining, forestry, stone cut
ting are all possibility on this farm.
It has running water which can be util-
lied The board Of education looks favor
ably on the proposition. This farm repre-
sents the earnings of lifetime by Mr.
and Mrs. Howard.
Tabor May Get Normal school,
The proposal embodied in, a bill intro
duced last week, in the Iowa legislature
for the establishment of a normal school
for the state in connection with Tabor col
Iege in Fremont county involves a system
which, It is believed, would result in much
better training for many teachers OF the
rural schools. 1t is. proposed to give state
aid to a normal department for this col
lege, and IL the plan works well to give It
also for other colleges.
Farmers want = hhlAENhUs
Farmers living along the line of the old
Newton & Northwestern railroad, espe-
clally those living In this county some
thirty miles from Des Moines, are seriously
considering a plan for the formation OF a
company to take over the old road and to
have It operated for their convenience. The
two towns on the line, Fsrrar and Loring
will be left entirely without railroad
moved away II the line Is closed out. In
asmuch as the court will order it sold for
mere trifle. as compared with original
cost. the farmers and business men may
organize a company. s.att sta,.s
OppoSe Drastic Anti-SaIOOh. Laws.
Iowa liuuor laws are characterized as
a menace to the welfare of the state
in a petition opposing the so-caled Day
light saloon law and the five-mile limit
law by the Iowa Association Of Turner
societies. which was placed on file in
the senate this morning by Ballun OF
Scott.
Turner societies Of Des Moines, Daven-
port, Northwest Davenport, East Daven-
port, Burlington, Clinton, Muscatine, Hol-
stein, Eidridge, Renbeck, Durant' Key
stone and Buffalo are members of this
Iowa
the "Obere Mississippi Turn Bezirks'
Des Moines county citizens have, on the
other hand. filed through Senator Cowles
a petition with yards of signatures which
favors the five-mile limit law, the law
limiting the life of petitions of consent to
three years and demanding resubmis-
sion of the prohibitory amendment.
To Build New office BuiIdinE.
The joint committee Of the legislature
looking into the needs OF the state with
regard to the state capitol has been urged
to make a recommendation with regard to
the building of an office structure. The
committee will urge the purchase OF add
tional ground around the capitol including
a large tract running from the state house
south to the railroad tracks TO be con-
verified into a park. The committee also
finds that the state capitol Is in bad
state and many repairs are needed. Several
thousand dollars will be expended In re-
pairs on the capitol.
wiz Not ne Candidates.
Although three members of the state
senate have been discussed as possible
candidate for congress In the Ninth dis
trict il is now known that neither one
viii be a candidate. These are Saunders
OF Pottawattamie. Savage Of Adair and
Gnilland Of Mills. II is stated that
neither one Of them viii consider the
matter and that in all probabi - the re-
publican nomination viii be settled by
agreement.
VIII Revise the Mine Laws.
Senator Clarkson Of Monroe county is at
work on a bill desired by the miners and
mine operators for a complete revision of
the laws Of the state relative to mining and
mine inspection. Leaders among the miners
have been here the last week aiding I'm
the preparation Of the bill. II has been
found that while The Iowa laws were al
right when mining was just starting, there
is great need OF some changes and a re-
vision Among other things It win be pro-
posed before the session Is over that there
he one state mine Inspector with several
assistants instead Of the state being dis
tricted.
InvestiERte TubercuIOsis Question.
As a result OF the inquiry into affairs a.
the state college II Is regarded as certain
there viii he some investigation into the
charge that officers OF the college sent to
the International Stock show a steer ar
1lgtad with tuborgutosfa IL ma dtuol,..a