Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-07-09
Name State Earm Manauer.

farm 100 additional acres OF land
were purchased last fall. He will be
placed in charge of all of the states
property at Woodward. There are eco
acres in the tract purchased by the
state.
Although the board originally nam
ed Dr. NJ. n. Voldeng, superintendent
Of the Cherokee state hospital, to be-
come superintendent OF the epileptic
colony July /, the date of making
the change has been postponed indef.
nitely. DR.. Voldeng will probably not
take charge of the new institution un.
til spring. The transfer Of DR.. George
Donohoe, superintendent OF the inebri.
ate hospital at Knoxville, to the
Cherokee hospital to succeed DR..
Voldeng also will be postponed.
The board finds that it will be more
economical to postpone the changes.
DR.. Voldeng is in the pay OF the state
and he will advise with the board dur
ing the coming months with regard
to plans for the epileptic colony, with
as much efficiency as IL he were to
be at once relieved of his work at
Cherokee, II is said.
Owing TO this arrangement the
board will not be in a hurry to
choose a new superintendent for the
inebriate asylum at Knoxville.
The board has completed its work
Of considering advances in salary to
employees of the state institutions, to
become effective July /, or later II
so designated. The board once each
year goes over the payroll and makes
such promotions as 1t feels should be
made.
Important Laws Effective.
Three laws of great Importance to
the people OF Iowa, passed by the
Thirty-ffth general assembly, went in
to effect on the first day OF this
month. They are the workmen's COM
pensation and employers liability
measure, the state insurance commits.
sioner act and the teachers institute
law.
The most important OF the three
laws is the workmen's compensation
act, for it protects every worker In
the state, with the exception OF the
farm hands and persons employed in
purely clerical capacity. In the flu.
ture persons when injured will draw
half salary when laid up due to In
jury, or If the firm is not protected by
industrial insurance, the employee may
file suit for damages and the firm
will be deprived of the usual defenses.
Emory Fl. English, newly appointed
insurance commissioner, has taken
charge OF the state insurance depart
ment. John L. Bleakly, auditor OF
state, will turn over the office force,
all records and all securities to the
new officer Mr.. English for the
present will have desk in Governor
Clarke's office and the insurance force
will remain in the auditors Office I'M
til the executive council is able to as
sign new quarters to the department.
There are $56,601,000 in securities to
be turned over 10 the new corr mis-
sioner. The insurance department in
the last year has collected a half mil.
lion dollars in fees and during the
remainder OF the year will take in a
quarter Of million more, II is said.
The third law is the teachers in
stitutel law, which relieves the teach
ers of the state of attending institutes
during the summer. II institutes are
to be held, they must be conducted
during the school year and the teach.
ers will draw their regular pay while
in attendance.
Fear Bubonic Plague.
Lafayette Higgins, sanitary engin-
eer for the Iowa state board Of health,
sent kilograms to the boards OF
health Of cities along the Mississip-
pi river requesting them to take i'm.
mediate action to exterminate rats
and to make meteorological examina-
tons of rats captured owing to the
development OF babonic plague at New
Orleans. There is, fear that the
rats carrying the plague germs will
make their way north by means OF
the steamboats,.
The warning to the state board OF
health came from DR.. Rupert Blue. OF
the national board of health at Wash
ington. He asserts that two cases
suspected Of being bubonic plague
have been taken in charge at the
mouth Of the Mississippi river. He
advises that all river cities at once
begin a campaign to get rid of the
rodents. 1t is his idea that action
should be taken at once to prevent
the disease spreading.
Insist On Black Plague Reports.
The state board Of health, displeas.
ed with the failure to enforce the
black plague law generally throughout
the state, is sending to all boards of
health copies OF uniform blank for
reporting such cases.
Physicians will be supplied with
blanks which shall be filed with local
boards of health and the boards will
be required to report to the state
board once each year.
Iowa Leads In Farm Loans.
Life insurance companies carry
nearly twice as much money In farm
loans in Iowa as they carry In any
other state, according to figures com.
piled by the American Bankers asso-
citation.
The figures show that seventeen
United States life insurance compan.
les carry a total OF more than $685.
100000 in farm loans, which is dis
tributed among forty-two states and
Porto Rico. or this great volume OF
money nearly one-ffth, or s100,119,.
913. is invested in Iowa.
Inheritance Tax Upheld.
The supreme court upheld the deci-
sion of Judge Clyde in Mitchell coun.
ty wherein the state collected collat-
eral inheritance tax on the estate Of
Mrs. Ann Anderson, the residue OF
the estate going to collateral heirs in
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