Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-01-26
NEAR HALF MILLION IN FEES

NEAR HALF MILLION IN FEES
Report Of Secretary Of State Show
$4ss,o74.2e Was Collected
During Past Year.
Des Moines.-Nearly q half mil
lion dollars in fees OF all kinds wa:
turned into the state treasury
through the Office of the secretary Of
state last year. The actual sum was
e4ss,07426.
Fees for the licensing of motor We
hicles made the largest item, $259,
1860. Of this amount $232,440.50
was the revenue Of the new kulp law,
e27,296, the revenue from the old
automobile license law.
The Kulp law provides for the dis.
tribution of IS per cent OF the fees
collected among the counties twice a
year, April l and Aug. l, to be used
in improving roads. At the time of
the first distribution last year the
sun Of 100000 was at hand. On
April /. the first big distribution to
the counties will be made.
II all of the licenses for 1912 have
been secured before April / and Mr..
Hayward is going to put forth a
strenuous effort to insure that the
licenses are all secured, more than
$4,000 will 10 the share Of tho
counties.
This means that each county will
receive more than $4,000 to be ex-
pended in building up the highways
Of the state.
Freight Rates Not Clear.
Letters have been mailed out by
the Iowa state board of railroad
commissioners within past week re-
the several midwestern states 70
join in an investigation of the new
freight classification issued by the
western classification committee, to
take effect Feb. Is. The rate experts
In the employ of the Iowa commission
have examined the new classification
and md that there are 1000 chang
60 An 1&ICS SA1 lOdu d.
focting interstate traffic. OF this
1umber S52 changes are increases
and sos decreases. This simple nu.
morical summary gives an incomplete
and inaccurate impression Of the act
nal effect of The changes. The in
creasss may be SO large that they
will far more than Offset the de-
ereases; or, the decreases may more
than Offset the increases: or. again,
the increases may be on articles
which move extensively, while the
decreases may be on traffic which
does not move''
Assessors Start This Week.
Two thousand assessors of the
state Of Iowa start out this week to
AZ valuation on personal property of
Iowa people.
A letter received at the office of
the state executive council indicates
that county auditors and assessors
are still little In the dark as to
what is their duty. The writer ask
ed, in substance, to know whether or
not the letter Of instruction sent out
TO county auditors on this matter,
really meant what it said, whether or
not in case the assessments are actu.
ally made at actual value the council
will reduce the same or if made too
low will be raised. The letter of in
Btruction merely quoted the law,
which declares plainly that assess
ments must be At actual value.
Wants an Epidemiologist.
The Polk County Medical society
agrees with DR.. G. Fl. Sumner, secre-
tary of the state board of health,
that Iowa needs state federal cpl. !
demiologist to investigate causes for
outbreak Of various epidemics in To-
calities of the state.
DR.. Thomas F. Duhigg, secretary |
Of the county society, wrote to the |
federal public health and marine hos.
pital service for the services of a |
permanent officer in the state to in
vestigate diseases, especially those |
diseases of transmissible nature. |
In the reply received from the feder-
al department it was stated that |
there were no officers who could be
assigned to duty in Iowa at present,
but when an officer could be released
from duty he would be sent.
Calls Down Health Board.
A man in Spirit Lake writes the
state board of health that they are
criminals in the sight of God because
you are killing the germs which he
put on earth. My bible teaches me
that God intended that there should
be but one child to every marriage.
Your board and our local boards are
doing all in their power to carry out
The Roosevelt idea by helping to con.
Berve the people. And by killing the
germs Of disease. God only made one
person, Eve just happened and he
cause He did not make her, woman
has no soul Believing in this com.
plete oneness of human life, hone
10 live to be that one, living in lux.
Try In garden of Eden with twelve
Ewes to wait on me-"
Railway 10 Incorporated.
The Keokuk, Nauvoo & Fort Madi.
'On Electric railway company has in.
,orporated to construct railroad
rom Keokuk through Hancock coun.
y, ILL.,, to Fort Madison, Ia, with
branch lines to the towns of Nauvoo
md Carthage. III. The Apital stock
s S65O,OOO.