Waterloo Daily Reporter (Newspaper) - December 31, 1898, Waterloo, Iowa WATERLOO DAILY REPORTER THIRD YEAR WATERLOO IOWA SATURDAY DECEMBER 81 1898 NO 946 THE YEM IN FIGURES Statistics Regarding Governmental Affairs During 1898 GUSH COLLECTED FOR TAXES Story of Misdemeanors and Crimes as Seen at the County Jail Money Put Up for Regular and Special ness in County Business on the Consumption of Water It is with considerable trepidation we present six columns of type that have nothing but statistics to recommend them but we earnestly hope our reapers will entertain no such temerity about perusing them The endeavor has-been to prove that figures are not always dry How well we have succeeded we leave our readers to decide The questions treated are of ance to everyone residing within the boundaries of beautiful and bountiful Blackhawk county They show the of the efficient corps of officials in whose care the affairs of the county are intrusted It has taken nearly a week to compile them and our reportorial feelings would be painfully wounded should our readers pass them by as only so much mathematics and turn to the on the seventh page But of this we have little fear as it cannot but prove of interest to read of the sidelights of tender passions reflected from the record of marriage licenses the crimes and misdemeanors of our citizens as re- lated in the sheriff's criminal calendar and the deeper thinkers will want to know the amount of taxes paid aud whether business with the county re- corder has been sufficient to pay that officer's salary The year of 1898 has contributed its full share of matter that will go into the history of Blackhawk county that will be read by the natives in years to come The statistical and historical as gleaned from the county records are not so prosaic and esting as their time worn covers would indicate They serve a purpose in interesting one in the every day of his own time and it is to aid in preserving for the future as well as to revive recollections of the present that a representative of the REPORTER moistened his fingers and struggled through countless pages of bare figures to get the recorded happenings of the year What was found hereafter set forth in the hope that it will inter- est a sufficient number of readers to at least recompense for the time spent gleaning the information improvements Payments were made bv months as follows in 1898 1898 516 53 February 835 50 March April May 32489 June 610 96 July 22499 August 60 67 September 518 55 October 995 95 November 138 85 December 1897 49 44272 62 2692 48874 33540 339 29 88805 94329 2794 971 46094 85 40 Mulct Tax The mulct tax brought into the county treasury a greater amount of money than ever before ana all of it was derived from Waterloo business houses with the exception of the alty collected against a blind pig operated contrary to the law Nine places were running up to the first of June and since that time ten have been in operation The payments were made in the lowing January 800 April 300 September 300 November 300 HOW IT IS DIVIDED in TAXES COLLECTED Revenues Realized by Mouths During the Year There can be few counties in Iowa in which a smaller percentage of quent taxes exists than can be found in Blackhawk The total amount of lar tax listed on the books for collection during 1898 was and it will all be realized with the possible tion of a few hundred dollars a very small fraction of one per cent being delinquent With the December col- lections conservatively estimated the Citizens Put Up in for Government Expenses The of taxes to the several funds show in the aggregate that Blackhawk county citizens paid for running the state and local ments the sum of 99 during the year 1898 The expenses show a gradual increase The amount for the same purpose in 1897 was and in 1896 it was in 1895 it was The increase has been growing at a rate of five or six thousand dollars per year and a jump of eleven thousand in the last year The several funds in which this money was expended 50 State 70 University 796 58 County 05 School 68 Poor 68 Bridge 68 Insane 34 County road 796 58 Soldiers relief 12 i Teachers and 58 j School house 82 Corporation 73 Dog 50 Delinquent road 02 Total 99 MORALS MENDED What tne Force Has Done to Correct tue Bad People The immorality of the county for the paid taxes have amounted to pac The total tax collections from all j with prosperity There may have been just as much bad blood in our makeup as in former years but it failed to crop more than a quarter of a million dollars Of this amount comes from out to such an extent that taxes and is realized from i services were often made necessary mulct tax all the special taxes being drawn from Waterloo except one ment to the mulct tax made by a Hudson man who was found guilty of illegally selling liquor The total tax collections last year were and in 1896 it reached a total of i jail 118.67 By months the regular tions were made as Regular taxes 07 February 66 95 April 34 May 66 June 15 July 11 August 14 September 63 October 00 December 00 88 The sum of was contributed There were more imprisonments for ceny than there have been for a number of years but in the majority of cases the prisoners were ot an itinerant class and the thefts were of a nature that re- manded the guilty ones to only short sentences after which they were clearly convinced their presence was no longer a necessity in these parts On the whole there were less commitments to the county jail than there have been for two or three years past Arguments in support of the building of a new jail would have little weight when the ords of the year are taken into ation There were in all 69 persons com- to the jail and the proportion of I aggravated cases for which penitentiary sentences were imposed is very small There was not a case on the docket and in only one instance was filed the charge of attempt to kill This is the case of state vs Wilson who is charged with attempting to kill M F Potter of Waverly and is still ing in the court of Justice Kuhns The V A 1 pj vuw v w U LI HO JL by Waterloo pay for paving case was continued to ascertain the extent of the prosecuting witnesses injuries and in all probability the case will never go further than the justice's court and the defendant escape with a light jail sentence The crimes for which commitments were made are summarized Intoxication 7 Burglary 7 Abduction 1 Assault and Illegal Obscene 3 Prostitution 2 Gambling 4 False Carrying concealed weapons 1 Attempted rape 1 llape 1 Embezzlement 1 Disturbing the peace 3 Highway Attempt to kill 1 Vagrant 1 Violating injunction 2 The sheriff's record shows the ing disposition of prisoners in his charge during the Taken to Transferred to Buchanan county 2 Served jail Out on Taken to hospital for insane 1 Taken to reform Paid fines awaiting commitment or NO BAD EFFECT Business in County Office Not Decreased by Revenue Law Never was the position the county recorder so responsible as in the last six months since the war revenue went into effect Since that time Mr Santee has been a regular bureau of tion The majority of papers filed for record required stamps of various de- nominations to be affixed and hardly had an hour of the time passed that he has not been called upon to air his knowledge of the law To many people the requirements of the law were as a hardship but explanations were so gracefully made that the volume of business transacted rather increased than diminished Uncle Sam will have no tion from the amount of revenue re- from Blackhawk county Any statistics given of the amount rily will be as an estimate but con- given it will aggregate a week or per month which for the been jn effect will amount to Business in the office has been better than ever before The number of papers filed was against 3.156 in 1897 and in 1896 Dis- throughout the year the volume of business was as 1898 1897 January 316 201 February 284 251 March 375 327 April 302 276 265 June 262 288 July 216 218 August 261 267 September 305 269 October 292 289 264 235 December 301 270 December 23 equaled any other day in the year It is very unusual for twelve months to roll by without some licenses being returned unused either from the of one of the contracting parties or by reason of a desire to have the nuptial ceremony consummated in some other county The year 1898 has proved an exception Every license issued was to parties in earnest for in all cases they were used In nearly every event the ages of the bride were such as not to be a cause for comment Very few girls of indiscreet years fulfilled marital ambitions there being but one fourteen two sixteen and nine seventeen year old brides The youngest grooms were eighteen and twenty years old there being one of each age In twenty-four instances the bride acknowledges a seniority of years over the groom the disparity ranging from one to twelve years The usual number of queer matings ages considered are shown on the records The following combinations illustrate the ages of some of the couples married during the year the bride's age appearing NEW AND THE OLD Increase and Decrease of Population By Births and Deaths Although the introduction to this page makes an apology for the amount of figures presented regret must be expressed that the amount not be increased with the number of births occurring during the year and the number called to their heavenly homes These are facts all would be glad to know but under the new code which into effect over a year ago township assessors instead of ians are to make returns of these and their figures are not avail able Druggists however report the usual amount of sales pt malted milk and baby foods and it is judged from their observations just as many inno cents have been brought into the world ad in former years As far as deaths are concerned observation again ling the basis of the estimate the is not so large as last year or in any one year in the history of the county before has a corpse been the ob- ject of contention with the undertakers WATER WE USED Total..................3449 3156 MATINGS Records Show No Fixed Season for Mates In the springtime the birds mate build their homes and take up their lives of happiness but human beings if Blackhawk county records may as a criterion are watchful for suitable matings at all and the marriage license book shows they have no pre- ferable month or season A able portion of the licenses however are taken out immediately preceding legal holidays such as labor day dence day but more especially giving Christmas and New Years The natural conclusion is that Cupid develops greater animation in times of idleness but it is more probable that industry rather than idleness causes the flames of love to burn more brightly The people fully appreciate the value of time and so take advantage of the holidays for wedding days And there is no more appropriate occasion for than Thanksgiving Christmas and New Years the three days of the year when all America is bursting with gladness For an illustration of the number of licenses such a time the present month of December is taken Of the number of licenses issued a dozen or nearly half were secured during the three or four days prior to Christmas and it has been ascertained that nearly all of these were made use of on eve or Monday the day observed as Christmas The records show the total number of licenses issued for the year to be 256 against 249 in 1897 and 245 in The licenses were issued by months as 1897 January 26 13 February 20 24 March 22 18 April 19 17 May 12 19 June 26 21 July 10 13 August 10 14 September 22 22 October 27 26 November 25 83 December 28 29 Total................256 249 The largest number of licenses in any one month was during December when 28 applicants were awarded papers and the largest demand for licenses was on December 24 when seven were issued Wort at- the Pumping Station for Gallons There was not much of an increase in the amount of water consumed the past year by Waterloo citizens It is not to be inferred from this fact that our zens have found something better to drink On the contrary Dame Nature supplied more moisture this year than has been her custom for some time past and despite the fact that several big fires occurred this year at which reds of thousands of gallons of water were used the total output of the water company is only a trifle in excess of last year estimating the quantity for De- cember 1898 to have been as heavy as in the same month in 1897 The greatest month's work ever done by the pumps was in July this year where consumers were furnished with gallons The smallest amount used in one month during the year was in April when the figures were gallons about lons larger than the smallest month in 1897 By months the record for 1898 stands as follows compared with the figures for 1898 1897 January February March May June August October November LEAVES THE BANK After liong Service J W Krapfel Retires From First National With the close of today's business at the First National Bank J W Krapfel withdraws from its service He came to Waterloo in May 1871 taking a tion with C A Far well then operating bis private bank here He was not in- experienced in the business then for he had been in the employ of a Dubuque bank since September 1867 After the removal of the First tional Bank from the west side Mr Krapfel started in there and filled re- the positions of teller assistant cashier cashier and vice president making a term of continuous service with the exception of three and a quarter years as cashier of the German-American National Bank at St Paul The news of the resignation of Mr Krapfel will be received with general regret He has been so long such a prominent part of the management has been so genial and courteous in the transaction of the routine of business so capable in every department he will be greatly missed The resignation however does not mean we are glad to say that he will seek a new location Waterloo will still be his home He has not settled on any future business policy but for the present will rest up and look after some private interests With the entire community we can wish him good luck in whatever he undertakes Henry Kilpatrick the genial clerk at the Irving is taking a day off and has gone with his family to Jesup to visit friends BARGAINS Clothes Wringers and J Washing Machines to A little shop worn at a price to close them out before to we move Call early if you wish to take to advantage of the low prices to xfc to to to CUTLER HARDWARE CO i WATERLOO IOWA OVER PER CAPITA A Total ol Demanded to Maintain Our Local Government the Largest Item Costing County Auditor Foote has completed the footings of the tax lists of 1898 from which the taxes will be collected in 1899 and the books will be Shoemaker's with the opening of the new year There has been but a slight increase over the amount for the previous year and this increase is more than counterbalanced by the larger of the property in the county The total taxation collected during the year now closing amounted to 3.17 per cent upon the total assessed valuation while that to be raised next year will be only 3.09 per cent on the assessed valuation More than of the increase in valuations is in the assessment of personal property and most of the re- maining fifth is upon town lots road assessments have remained sub- the same and there been but slight increase in the valuation of farm lands The number of polls has increased from reported in to The following table will show the comparative valuations of the different classes of 1898 Lots Personal Railroad 1897 599.135 It is curious to note that there has been precisely the same per cent of in- crease in total valuation from 1897 to that there was from 1896 to 1897 The increase shown in the table above is while during the previous year it was the per cent of in- crease in the one year being 5.9 and in other 5.8 The moral to be drawn from this is that the growth of values in Blackhawk county is not due to any momentary or spasmodic influence but is the of a steady and constant in- crease in the actual wealth of the com- munity By funds the taxes to be collected the coming year are as Poll 50 University 842 County 91 School 34 Poor Bridge Insane 62 County Road 842 72 Soldiers Relief 842 72 Teachers and 84 School House 34 Board of Health 9380 Dog 1.359 00 Delinquent Road 15 58 Every item in the above list shows a small but nearly uniform increase over the same fund for the previous year except the soldiers relief fund for which it was not found necessary to make so large a levy as had formerly been made TOWNSHIPS The following table will show what each city and township is to pay in 1898 tax compared with 1897 1898 1897 76 5.974 03 Bennington 39 Mount Vernon Washington SO 04 Union Poyner 34 64 Falls 96 01 East Waterloo 32 49 Barclay 3.937 66 06 Waterloo 4.11256 Fox 5.957 98 Cedar 02 Orange Blackhawk 90 Spring Creek 83 Big Creek Eagle 5.386 79 Lincoln 25 43 65 23 5.634 43 20 06 4.824 07 17 Total 66 37 CITIES Cedar 579 41 East Waterloo 52 West Waterloo 18 Hudson 2.270 41 Laporte 37 83 96 35 61 87 89 62 Of the total tax to be collected by the county treasurer the cities are expected to contribute and the try districts Of the 59 increase over the tax of 1897 the sum of falls upon the cities while the country has to contribute but increase Of the amount contributed by the cities and town Waterloo will put up The two divisions of the city will pay corporation taxes as follows in East side West side corp 54 60 Water Light 37 13 Sewer 3.849 88 53 03 ool Taxes The money impended on the public school system of the county is almost one-half of the total sum raised by taxes The total amount devoted to this pose is 63 It is divided as lows and compares thus with last 1898 1897 County school 34 88 Teachers and contingent School house 44 82 62 28 MADE OUT Iowa Has a Claim Against Uncle House News DES MOINES Dec Clerk Wilson of the adjutant general's office yesterday footed up for the first time all the claims of the state against the for tne expense it incurred in fitting out the Iowa volunteers in the recent war with Spain The amount is That includes every dollar expended by the state for the war the tion of the extra help required to handle the increased business in the adjutant general's office said the chief clerk The work of dividing the claim into sections to comply with the system adopted by the army will be begun at once As soon as that is finished the claim will be forwarded to the war de- for its consideration Speaking with regard to the amount expended the adjutant general stated yesterday that he expected an diate allowance of at least upon Iowa's claim The balance would have to be included in the deficiency and fight its way through congress before the state secured what was justly due it The war department has funds on hand to pay certain expenses incurred by states State Auditor McCarthy yesterday figured up the amount of fees his office had collected during the year The sum is a trifle over It is the largest in amount ever received by the office since its organization Of the entire amount came from building and loan institutions The governor has fixed the bond of the state at Mr Merriam has already secured enough sureties and will file his bond for proval on Monday when he will take charge of the office He has selected according to the information given out at the state house yesterday Miss Frink of Des as stenographer of the office Miss Willis is the present stenographer jug Explosion HUBBARD Dec L Elliott had a narrow escape last night while at- tending to an plant The gas ignited from his lantern and an sion followed He was badly burned about the face and hands The plant was not damaged
