Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-15
ACCEPTS BID OF $1so,soo FOR CON.
srRucTloN OF DENTAL
BUILDING.
WILL STAND PAT ON
VALUATION AWARDS
Owners Of Property Condemned by
state Threaten 10 Appeal 10 'C;s.-:c.
Court-State Legal Department Pre-
pared to Defend Several Important
Criminal Gases Pending.
Special to Times Republican.


Des Moines, Sept. Is. The state
board of education yesterday awarded
the contract for the new dental build
ing at Iowa City to Charles Franklin
of Iowa City, on his bid of $780, 500
This is exclusive of the heating anG
plumbing contract. Work is TO bt
started at once and the building is tc
be completed by Dec. 10, 1915 Eleven
contracto submitted bids.
The board expects to stand pat on
the valuations fixed by the condemna
ton jury for the property which is tc
be used for the dental building and
the isolation hospital. Altho the Iowa
City property owners whose property
has been condemned allege the prices
fixed are fai too low and that they will
appeal to the district court, the mem
bers of the hoard of education declares
that the prices are altogether fair
The state beard of education Will de-
post with the sheriff of Johnson coun-
~ the $3.50 offered for the various
sites and buildings and will then be a
position to take immediate possession.
The law allows the state to proceed at
once after the property has been APP
praised ami condemned if it deposits
the money allotted TO the owners. The
owners on the other hand may appea'
to the district court to set aside the
action of tie appraisers as unjust or
Illegal.
The law providing for outside ap-
praisers to be appointed for the pur-
pose of condemning property for state
purposes was enacted at the time the
capitol extension act was passed to
prevent any hold up on the part of
Des Moines property owners on prop
erty needed in the capitol extension
tract. II is the first time Its provi-
sions have been taken advantage of to
buy properly for the state university
buildings and some of the educational
board members say il is the first time
the board has been able TO buy prop
erty for the state university at fair
price.
Assistant Attorney General John
Fletcher is now working on a large
number of criminal cases which will
come before the supreme court the
coming term. Court convenes Sept. Il
and there will be nine or ten criminal
cases before them during the first
period.
Among them will be the case OF
Mrs. Addie Minella, Of Monroe county
who was sentenced to eighteen years
in the leformar DRY at Anam ,sa for the
killing of her husband. The testimony
in this case declares that she admitted
to the officer who arrested her mat
she shot her husband but did so to
defend her son, Charles Tovrea, whom
her husband was threatening. The
case has been appealed on the grounds
that the court erred in its ruling on the
admission of testimony and also IN Its
instructions The murder occurred on
June u. 1914 and she was indicted Tor
the offense Sept. %.
Another case is that of Harrison b
Lewis who was sent to Anamosa IN
connection with the robbery and as
sault of Joseph Dunleavy, hotel keeper
ct Fairfield,
Articles OF Incorporation were flee
today with the secretary of state by
the Miller Neipert Company. of Sih-
lev. Osceoia county, to do genera