Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-03
Raise Live stock Values.

| notoc 1.-Two otOCk values.
In the adjustment OF the values
on livestock for taxation purpos-
es for 1916, the state executive coun-
Gil has ordered general advance.
Hogs are advanced from $3.50 to $40
a head. Mules will be taxed at 500
instead Of $50 as in the past Sheep
will be valued at $3.50 each for taxa
ton. raise Of 81 head over the
1915 schedule.
The council has fixed the following
values on livestock for taxation:
| Colts, year old, $50; colts, years
old, SIS; horses, $50; stations, $500;
mules, 800; cattle. $40; heifers.
year old, $22; heifers. years old, S2S;
cows, $50; steers, year old, SIS;
steers, years old, $40; steers, years
old, $4S; bulls. s4s; swine, 6 months
or over, s10 sheep. $3.50; goats, s2.75.
The order Of the council raises the
value of hogs in every county in Iowa
except Pottawattamie. That county
reported swine at $40 head. Some
of the other counties reported hogs
as low as $3.50 each. The average for
the state was 1888.
The report of w. H. Williams. rev.
enue clerk OF the auditor of states
office shows 4,243,767 head Of hogs
reported for taxation in 1916. The
value Of the swine is given as $751;
956,372. The raise ordered by the
state council will bring the value OF
the swine to $42,243,767.
Although there were nine counties
which reported values of real estate
lower than the adjustments ordered in
1915, it has been discovered that the
adjustments were made and the audi
tors in question did not send the cor
rect figures to the state council. The
council will soon certify to the coun-
ties fixing the state tax levy at As
mills-the same as last year.
State Banking Department Report.
The biennial report OF the state
banking department, which is now be-
ing prepared, shows that thirty-five
private banks have organized under
state supervision in the last two
years. These institutions have com.
bined capital of $1,115,000 and depos-
its of more than 100000.
| With the ranks of the private banks
thinned by thirty-five, state bankers
believe It will be possible to over
come the opposition in the next gen.
eral assembly and enact law provid-
ing for state supervision over all
banks.
There are now 1919 state and saw
ings banks in Iowa under the super
vision OF the state banking depart.
ment. There were lis new banks or
| ganized In the last two years. Eight
state banks nationalized and two
were consolidated with others, SO that
the net gain in number of banks in
the biennial period is los.
The report Of the state banking de-
partment will be issued at once, under
a ruling of the state document editor.
He has allowed the bank report to
be published independent of the state
auditors report. This will permit the
bank figures to be issued within sixty
days. The auditors report will not
be issued until several months later.
The bank report will be shrunk from
| 500 to 100 pages, without cutting out
any OF the information usually found
in such reports.
State Needs New Building.
The next state legislature will prob
ably have to decide whether a state
office building shall be erected on the
capitol grounds or a temple of justice.
The lawyers and members of the SUI
preme court wish temple of justice,
while many of the state officials de-
sire an Office building.
In either event the legislature will
probably have to make an especial
appropriation for the building as the
council is now practically out of funds
or will be when 1t takes care of the
payments it has to meet on the new
bridge over Court avenue south Of
the state house. The tax money which
will be coming in next season will
have to be expended on the grounds.
A. H. Dawson, secretary of the ex-
ecutive council, favors an office build
ing. He says building which would
meet the needs could be erected for
100000.
Many Criminal Cases.
The report of Woodbury. county to
the state board OF parole on criminal
business for the year ending July
shows that county arraigned ninety
seven persons in the District court
and the cost of prosecution reached
$4,000. This included the famous Ford
gang-ten members of which were
sent to the penitentiary.
Parole vioIator Captured.
George Griffith, paroled counterfeit.
er who fed from Iowa last March, has
been located by the federal authorities
at Winnipeg, Manitoba, according to
word received recently by the state
board of parole. He will be returned
to the Anamosa reformatory to serve
two years remaining on a three year
sentence.
Flags Cost More Now.
The preparedness movement has
caused the cost of American flags to
advance. When Harry Shropshire,
purchasing agent for the state board
Of control asked for bids for flags for
state institutions, he found rates up
20 per cent. Flags SKIS were pur-
chased for $12 each.
6ureau Places Much Help.
The state free employment bureau
OF the labor commissioners office, or