Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-09
PUZZLE IN MATTER OF STATE
LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION
TURNS UP.
SUM VOTED FOR AGENT
70 INVESTIGATE EPIpEMics
Item Appears in ceiIsss Appro priation
and Board Of Health and College
Board Declare Il Does Not Belong to
Them-stats Prepares Appeal in
eauehn Case.


matter Of appropriations has turned
up in connection with. the plans laid
for combating epidemics affecting
human life. The state board of health
recommended an appropriation of &c.
900 a year for an "epidemiologist" or
one to go about the state and make
investigation Of epidemics The thought
was that whenever any typhoid, small
pox or similar trouble broke out that
specialist should be sent there to
investigate, just as the state veterinary
department sends man to inquire
into the cause Of an epidemic among
cattle or hogs, and to assist in heading
off the epidemic. But after the bill got
thru one house 1t was tied up some
where and lost. But behold, on the
last day. an item turns up-nobody
seems to know how or why-in the
college appropriation bill giving $4,000
additional for an archaeological de-
partment in the State University labor
atory at Iowa City.
Now the laboratory people are in
sisting this is what was intended for
the state board Of health and the state
board says 1t doesn't belong to them.
and anyway in the form in which it
was appropriated it could not be made
useful for the purpose intended without
a severe strain on the situation.
But epidemics among cattle and
hogs and horses are provided for very
carefully.
The board Of control has located the
new building at the independence state
hospital for insane and work will be
commenced soon. The building is to be
first Of it's kind for Iowa. home build
ing for the employees. It will have ca
pacity for $50 persons. One wing will
be for male employees and the other
for female employees and central part
for those who are married 1t will con-
tain the dining rooms and kitchen and
comfort rooms. When finished the
employees and subordinate officials will
all be located in the building and
away from the main buildings where
they now occupy attic rooms and out
Of the way places. The board found
that in most of the big state institu-
tions of the east this system of having
a separate home building for employees
was In vogue and satisfactory and 1t
will be used in Iowa.
Arguments are being prepared in the
case Of the appeal of the state from
the decision of Judge H. X. Evans re-
fusing to remove from office Mayor
Baughn, Of Harlan. The abstract has
been flied showing the testimony and
the order Of the court. 1t Is stated that
in this case the presiding judge so
severely excoriated the defendant in
his preliminary remarks before enter"
ing the order that he went out of the
room believing he had been removed
from office, but later discovered THAI
while the court gave him a fierce lee
ture for his dereilctions 1t entered an
order which indicated he was not guilty
OF anything wrong. Now the evidence
lis to go to the supreme court and that
body is to say whether it was such as
to warrant removal from Office.
Grundy is the first county to make
report to the state executive council on
the actual land sales and the assess
ment this year on the same land. These
show somewhere in the neighDorhood
of about &c per cent of the value is as
sessed. when the sales are eliminated
wherein the price was manifestly not
as stated in the deed.
1t is expected great many OF these
reports from county recorders ana
auditors will be received in the next
ten days. The facts will go before the
council for it's action along with all
other possible information as to actual
value of all kinds of property in the
state subject to assessment.
over 700 applications for automobile
numbers was received In the office or
the secretary of state in one day this
week. Each one Of these applications
must be carefully figured out and
computation be made as to the license
due and in case OF errors there must be
correspondence to correct the same.
The immensely Of this task explains
why the sending out Of numbers Is be-
hind.
E. c. Hinshaw. who has been on
Commissioner Barney's force as state
food inspector, resigned when he was
made state game warden, and MI:
Barney has appointed in his place l..
P. Anderson, of Algona. He has also
named j. 8. Bittner. of Cedar Rapids,
TO be an inspector in his department..
The railroad commission was busy
large part of yesterday with the case
from Waterloo and Waverly IN Which
complaint is made Of the extra 10 cents
charge for passenger fares where the
fare is paid on the cars. The case OF
the application Of the Cardiff Gypsum
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