Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-01-16
GRIM REAPER TH|NS
| RANKS OF VETERANS
Makes Heavy Inroads on Men
in Soldiers Home.
.l73 PASSED AWAY LAST YEAR
Since Opening of institution in 1883
There Have Been 8,555 Soldiers
Cared For and of These
1884 Have Died.
D. A. DONOVAN,
Special Columbus Correspondent.

Special Columbus Correspondent.
Columbus, Ohio.
~ EATH is making heavy inroads
on the veterans at the Sandusky
Soldiers home. The report of
Gen. W. r. Burnett, command
ant, shows that 173 died at the institu-
tion during the past year. The aver
age age of the, soldiers is 72 years.
There is one Mexican war soldier at
the home. Since the opening of the
home in 1888 there have been 1855
soldiers cared for there, and of these
1854 have died at the home. The
need for the installation of additional
hre protection is mentioned in the re-
port. A tubercular hospital is also
recommended. There is an average of
10 tubercular patients in the hospital
all the time.
Sees Quick Action on Code.
| The school code will be passed the
first week of the special session, ac-
cording to Speaker Charles L. Swain
OF the house. This will be the biggest
proposition before the legislature, and
| II it can be disposed of in so short
time the others of lesser Importance
should not take much time. There will
be public hearings on the 10 bills pro-
v1ding for the school code legislation,
and these will start the day after the
session starts. The house and senate
committees will meet in Columbus
Monday to consider these measures.
| They will spend as much time as is
needed to iron out any defects which
may be found in them. When the ses-
sion begins the Monday following the
committees will be in a position to
recommend what they think should be
done.
Cox Addresses Auditors.
In an address to the auditors and
ex-auditors who are here grading the
papers of the applicants who took the
civil service examination for positions
as assessors Gov. Cox urged that they
complain either to the state civil serv-
ice commission or himself il they
found any signs of partisanship in the
filling of these places by the deputy
state tax commissioners who make the
appointments. These experts were se-
lected by the commission to go over
the papers without regard to their pol
itics. The men who conducted the
civil service examination included
judges, lawyers, clergymen, legislators,
members of the constitutional conven-
tion and other citizens of high stand
ing. I'VE tried to get the best talent
obtainable for this examination, and /
think we have succeeded" declared
President S. A. Hoskins of the COM
mission. Such men as Judges Kibler
of Newark, Taggart of Wooster, and
Worthington of Cincinnati, John l..
Zimmerman of Springfield, Prof.
George w. Knight of the Ohio State
university and ex-Representative
Frank W.. Woods Of Medina were in
charge of the examination, which was
held at each county seat town.
Mine Operators Protest.
A protest against the abolishing of
the screen method of paying wages
was made to Gov. Cox Tuesday after
noon by the Ohio Coal Operators, who
met here to arrange for the Indianap-
oils conferences with the miners over
the wage scale for the next two years.
The report of the special state mining
commission recommends substitution
| of modified run-of-mine system for
the screen method.
$4,000 900 for Good Roads.
Ohio will have between $4,000, 900
and s7,000,000 for good roads this
year, according to an estimate
made by State Highway Commits
sioner j. r. Marker. This will be
more money than has been expended
for road improvement since the state
made provision for state aid in road
building 10 years ago. Most of the
large sum that will be at the disposal
of the state and local authorities for
this purpose will be raised under the
new Hite law, which provides for a
half mill levy on the grand tax dupli-
cate of the state. For every dollar so
| raised the county must raise dollar.
In addition to the money so raised
| there will be the receipts of the auto
mobile license law, which will be used
for road improvement, and the use of
penitentiary prisoners on the public
roads, and the service of the latter,
measured in money value, with the
sums to be obtained from the two
other sources, will yield the state the
amount given in Markers estimate.
Eighty-five counties have applied to
the state highway department for
state aid for road improvement this
year. Sixty-one Of them have asked