Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-04
MODERN STRUCTURES TO BE
ERECTED AT VARIOUS STATE
INSTITUTIONS.
TREAT DAIRY COWS LIKE
TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS
Be provided-Best One to Be Erect
Operation at State Farns-Contract
Let For New Machinery Hall.
,eciaI to Times-Republlcan.

Special 10 Times Republican.
Des Moines. MAY 4.-The state of
Iowa is going 10 build some mode!
barns at the stale institutions. II al
ready has some fine ones bu1 the state
board is planning Tor the very finest
at Eldora.
You have to build dairy barn so
that it viii be possible TO give 10 The
cows a care like that for patients at a
tuberculosis Sanatorium, said Archi-
recr Licbbe, who is at work on the
plans. The modern idea OF the dairy
barn is 10 provide for the health Of the
cows by abundance OF light and venti-
Iation."
There are eight silos in operation
on the state farms and the >upeTiTl-
tendents are wondering how IN the
world they ever got along without
these conveniences. II all Of these the
silage has kept thru the winter and is
in use now.
At Knoxville there are two OF these
siios. and Il IS stated that the corn
fodder has fe-mented until it Is almost
:ntoxica ing. but it is being fed TO the
cows and not Inc inmates.
The state board of Agriculture will
proba bly, TO-DAY let the contract for the
new machinery hall of the state fair
and il is said that the building when
erected will probably be the finest
building for an implement exposition in
the country. II is to he made % brick
and iron and concrete.
Assistant Attorney General Lee ar
gued TO the supreme court today an
appeal case which involves Il ques-
ton as to the sale Of stock of western
mining companies 10 Iowa investors
r 6 Mullen was convicted in Wayne
county and sentenced to three years for
sale Of stock in me Southwest Mining
and Smelling Com pany, of New Mexico.
under false pretenses. The fraud con-
value and the condition of the company
and character Of the stock.
Des Noines people are generally in
dignanr over an attack in an evening
paper here upon AR L, c. Kurt. the
new postmaster, and the most extrava-
gaut and slarde-ous statements con-
corning him because Of MS appoint
nenl as postmaster. The attack is in
fact an attack upon Hon. A. b Funk.
who was head of the capitol commits
sion which had charge Of the work of
completing the state capitol. and IS an
echo Of -he patty ISLANDERS that were
started four or five years ago about
the commission and its work. The
story was started that the commission
never made q final report, but when
that was found TO De not true. it was
To print the report. But it turned
out that the commission had no
right 70 print tha report and tina leg
islature four years ago gave authority
for the printing and It was printed
and IS IN the official documents OF the
state. IL Des Moines, where the facts
ara known, and where Mr. KurtZ's
standing is such that no honest man
will attack him wantonly, the publica-
ton OF the SANDERS are regarded as
having no force whatever. Just why
Mr.. Funk and the capitol commission
should have been made the subject Of
bitter attack is not now plain.
6
Senator John T. Clarkson. OF Abba,
leader OF the legislature, appeared be-
fore thu supreme court Yesterday to
argue q case involving an accident in
q coal mine. He was surprised 10 learn
that h;s big bill 10 revise the law as TO
coal mining had not yet been signed
by the governor, but was assured 1t
would be