Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-09-30
EXPENSES INCREASE
Cost of Running Iowa Cities Is
Shown in Report lust Issued
MORE MONEY REQUIRED NOW
Many Cities Spending More Than 10
Paid In BY Taxes-Pavlns and
Other improvements Account
For Much of Increase.

Other improvements Account
For Much of Increase.
Des Moines.--Municipal expendi-
lures in S5l cities and towns of Iowa
increased s2,255,0O0 during the fiscal
year which ended April l, 1915, COM
pared with the year previous, accord
Ing to the report which is being pre-
pared by George Gallarno, chief clerk
OF the municipal accounting depart
ment OF the state. In the same per-
Tod receipts increased s1,742,000.
Taxpayers paid $17,O09.000 for the
support of municipal government in
s51 cities. The expenditures totaled
s17.0S5,000.
For the year previous the receipts
were s15.267,000 and the expenditures
s14,S30,000
The main feature OF the report is
the fact that municipal expenses
have increased little more than Is
per cent in the last fiscal year.
Heavy investments in Improvements
account for much Of this increase, it
is said. During the last twelve
months several hundred of the small
er cities Of the state have put in paw
ing. Some of the cities had never
had improved streets. One of the
small places put in sixty-ive blocks
Of paving.
Many Deaths On Highways.
Eleven persons were killed and
more than $50 were injured in high
way accidents during the month end
ing Aug.'4, 1915, according to the re-
port of the state highway commission.
or the eleven ieaths, six were due
to automobile accidents.
The bulletin of the highway COM
mission says: "All told the press
carried news stories telling OF forty
eight serious accidents in the state
during the month, in each of which
there were from three to seven per-
sons badly hurt. There were other
accidents which were not reported in
the newspapers.
Unsafe speeding, reckless and in
experienced driving of automobiles,
is as usual the cause of a great ma
jority of the accidents recorded" says
the bulletin. "The flooded conditions
of creeks and streams which resulted
in the undermining of bridges and cul-
vert approaches, took an unusually
heavy toll.
Game Warden Arrests Guard.
Adjutant General Logan has asked
State Game Warden Hinshaw to in
struct his deputies to let national
guardsmen alone, no matter how they
are armed. The request grew out Of
the arrest of Rev. E. c. Chambers of
West Union by a deputy game war
den. Mr.. Chambers belongs to mil
itary organization affiliated with the
Iowa national guard. He was headed
for the rifle range at the time with
his gun. The game warden arrested
him on the charge of breaking the
hunting laws. Mr. Chambers was
cleared in court but the game warden
said that he would arrest every one
he found under the same circum-
stances. An appeal was made to Gen.
Logan and he has taken the matter
up with Mr.. Hinshaw.
An Important Case.
The question whether the state or
the county has jurisdiction over in
sane patients in the state hospitals
will be presented to the supreme
court for settlement. Washington
county supervisors recently asked the
Mount Pleasant hospital authorities
to return thirteen insane patients to
Washington county to be cared for
at the county farm. The hospital SUI
perintendent refused. The supervis-
ors took the case into the district
court and secured decision that the
commission of insanity from each
county retains jurisdiction over in
sane patients when sent to state in
situations. The state authorities OBJ
ject to the finding and have appealed
the case.
Barney's Market Brings Results.
w. B. Barney, state dairy and food
commissioner, has already received
a number Of letters from farmers hav-
Ing graded cattle to sell, as the result
of his announcement few days ago
that his office will serve as an in
formation bureau between farmers
wanting to sell and others wanting
to buy graded cattle. He believes that
big cattle market can be built up
in this state.
Corn Crop In Danger.
Not more than FIVE per cent OF the
Iowa corn crop is safe from injury by
a killing frost, says Geo. M. Chapel,
section weather director.
The crop is very backward and not
more than 20 per cent OF 1t is dented.
Desertion Case Reversed.
The supreme court reversed the
Story county district court in the case
against Walter A. VIII, charged with
wife desertion. The court says there
was such total failure to prove the
charges that the jury was not war
ranted in convictng.
VIII was a laborer. He gave his
wife $500 he received from the sale
of claim. He also divided his wages
OF $50 a month with her. However
he was afraid he would take the pei