Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
STATE OFFICIALS AND lNsTiTu.
TloNAL HEADS INTERESTED
IN CHARITIES MEETING.
MRS. RouRkE TO TELL OF
WORK AMONG WoRklNGwo OMEN
State Board Of Control Chairman in
Charge Of Conference on Detectives
State Officials Interested in De-
tending Lutsn Bridge Patent Suits
Hold Important Conference.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des .Moines. Nov. 17.-State officials
Whose duties require supervision over
the unfortunate or delinquent mem
beers of society maintained in state in
stitutions will take a prominent part
in the annual conference of Charities
and Corrections to be held at Waterloo
Sunday. Monday and Tuesday of next
week. The members Of the state board
of control, the state board of parole
the state labor commissioner and 9th
ers will attend the conference and d
number of the state officials appear or
the program.
Mrs Ellen NJ Rourke, of the Iowa
state bureau of labor, who has been
spending some time in special in
vestigation Of women employed in
laundries and telephone exchanges
will tell of conditions as she has found
them in these industries
A. L. Urick, state commissioner 81
labor and labor statistics, will tell OF
the work Of the state free employment
bureau. established in connection with
his Office on July of this year
Hon. w. j. Dixon. chairman of the
state board Of CONTROL will have charge
Of the conference on detectives and in
sane which Is held Monday morning
DIR. Max E. Witte. superintendent OF
the state hospital for the insane, gives
n paper on Memories of Caring for
the Insane One-third of Century
Ago" Chairman Dixon gives a paper
on Employment of Prisoners in Iowa.
Hon. D. c. Mott, of Marengo, of the
state board of parole gives a paper on
The Iowa Parole System, It's Advan-
Ia ges and Defects These are only q
few of the subjects to be discussed al
the conference
An important conference on the
Luten bridge patent cases was held in
the office of the attorney general yes
terday. Senator w. s. Kenyon, a
member of the United States sena te
patent committee, was the chairman
Others present were the following:
Judge A. w. Benson, of Kansas. for
mer member Of the supreme court:
W. S. Gearhart. state engineer: and
8. N. Hawkes.. assistant attorney gen.
eral of Kansas: NJ. w. Torkelson, Wis
consin state bridge engineer; G. B
Mccullough and Thomas II. Mcbride
Of the Iowa highway commission: At
torney General Cosson and Henry f
Sampson, assistant attorney general.
The Luten company is claiming in
Engagements on their patents in many
bridges built in various localities. The
company now has case pending ir
Polk county against the Marsh Bridge
Company The United States senate
committee on patents has been in
structed to investigate the Luter
claims. Two members of the commit
tee are now getting evidence in Wash
ington Senator Kenyon will turn over
to his committee whatever evidence is
secured at the present conference.
"We have simply got to win oul
case here in Polk county" said Assist
ant Attorney General Sampson yester-
day in discussing the Luten claim
"If we should lose here it would
mean that the Luten company would
win similar suits in number Of To-
calities. Then the Thatcher interests
also have claims and cases similar to
the Luten company. So there is q
great deal involved in these cases.
The state executive council probably
will get after all of the cities OF the
state which have RENTED taxes to fac
tories and similar business institutions
as an inducement to get them to locate
and insist that the state taxes of
willie no maid nv these concerns The