Legislature Advances Iowa University Affiliation Plan
The Iowa Senate approved a house concurrent resolution to affiliate Iowa State University with the State Normal School and the College of Agriculture under the Carnegie foundation. New Senate and House bills cover employer liability for defective tools, public health rules, election reforms, hotel safety, reform school funding, state audits, Sunday restrictions, optometry boards, and county officer terms. The noting of commissions to survey Iowa rivers for power dams, including Des Moines Cedar and Iowa rivers, with an $10,000 appropriation and daily pay for five engineers.
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Des Moines
Senate
Iowa State University
The
State Normal School
College of Agriculture
Carnegie Foundation
Butler
Hardin
Decatur
Marshall
Henry
van Buren
Tama County
Floyd County
Clarkson
S. F
Township Trustees of Rules of
Local Boards of Health
Moon
United States Senate
Smith
Mitchell
Peterson
Reform School
Eldora
Ss. F
Savage
Ss. FF
McManus
Fort Madison
Adams
Proudfoot
Bruce
State Board of Agriculture
New House
Sankey
Arney
Farmers’ Institute
Hackiler
H. F
Bowman
Boards of Supervisors
District Court
Harding
Moore
Wapello
Iowa
General Assembly
Fort Dodge
Cedar River
Waterloo
Lowa
Iowa City
Thompses
School For the
Vinton
Welden
Brandes
Hickenlooper
County Boards of Supervisors
Boettger
O’connor
State Board of Health
Hackler
Cedar Rivers
Miller
Bremer
International Harvester Company
Hamilton
John T. Hamilton
State Board of Control
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Sanders
Colorado may reclaim Frank Shercliffe from Minneapolis
Shercliffe alias Frank Shercliffe, held on a second degree murder indictment, will not be retried in Minneapolis for a Northern Pacific sleeper coach robbery. County Attorney Smith says Colorado authorities may extradite if proper papers arrive. Minneapolis lacks substantiation beyond a 20 year penitentiary sentence.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Sherioan M. Morris
Frenk Shercliffe
Northern Pacific
al J. Smith
Colorado
Shercliffe
Morris
Miller proposes probes and poem designation in Iowa House bills
H. F. 115 by Miller calls on the attorney general to probe the operations of the International Harvester company for possible prosecution and asks for a $5,000 appropriation. H. F. 116 by Miller designates a poem on Iowa by RE. N. Bailey of Britt as the official state poem.
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Miller
International Harvester Company
Iowa
RE. N. Bailey
Britt
Sheriff Crime Ferrets Bill Faces Senate Scrutiny
State House notes from Des Moines January 30 report Senator Copon's proposal to require sheriffs to ferret out crime file violators and gain investigative authority with pay for extra services met senate opposition and was laid over. Others detail bills on criminal appeals six month limit burial pay and school name change.
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State House
Des Moines
Copon
Senate
Gilliland
Fradden
DeWolf
State Teachers’ College
House
Amy
Koontz
Iowa City
Hickenlooper
Harding
Towa
Rice Cultivation Proves Feasible On Iowa Lowlands
Washington reports that rich bottom lands of the Mississippi and Missouri reach Iowa, suitable for rice. In Lee county Iowa rice from Texas was grown on stored spring overflow with yields from 35 to 100 bushels per acre. Days to maturity run 135 to 145, seed selling at 1.50 dollars per bushel and 1 dollar for food.
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Washington
Missour
Mississippi
Iowa
Lee County
Department of Agriculture
Texas
Fairbanks to Host Consolation Dinner for Indiana Republicans
Representative Watson of Indiana invites Vice President Fairbanks to a consolation dinner for defeated Indiana Republican members. Fairbanks accepts only if his dining room can seat many. the dinner will be held next week.
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Washington
Watson
Indiana
Mairbanks
Airbanks
Iowan Elected Officer of Fraternal Congress
The western fraternal congress closed its session in Kansas City with C. B. Gardner of Dallas named president A R Talbot of Lincoln vice president and William Kock of Des Moines secretary The group protested high rates proposed in several state bills saying they rival old line premiums and threaten member enrollment.
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Kansas City
Western Fraternal Congress
Western Fraternal Insurance Organizations
Baltimore
C. B. Gardner
Dallas
Tex
A. R. Talbot
Lincoln
Neb
William Kock
Des Moines
Parochial Pupils Not Truant, Judge Rules
In Oskaloosa Iowa Judge Clements rules parochial school pupils cannot be compelled to attend public schools. A truant officer had arrested a pupil attending classes in a Dutch Reformed church and the court ordered his release.
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Oskaloosa
Clements
New York Trails Grow With 500 Mile Interurban Network
More than a million residents in the three largest cities outside New York and eight farming counties join a 500 mile interurban system linking Buffalo Rochester Syracuse and Auburn. The public service commission reports several hundred miles added this year expanding farms to markets as through cars begin operating across 165 miles of pasture land and 70 miles north of Syracuse.
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New York
Greater
Public Service Commission
Hughes
Buffalo
Rochester
Syracuse
Orleans
Monroe
Wayne
Cayuga
Onondaga
Oswego
Auburn
Governor's Utility Board
County auditors maximum salary to be increased
Des Moines Iowa January 29. The Iowa legislature reports several new bills and amendments in both houses. Notable items include H F 101 to raise county auditors salaries from 1400 to 3000 depending on county size, and H F 103 extending tax exemptions for farmers telephone cooperatives. Wording covers other measures on roads hospitals parks and fire safety.
Five Iowa merchants fined for selling diluted oyster liquor
Council Bluffs officials report five local grocers and restaurant men pleaded guilty in police court to violating the state pure food law by selling oysters with diluted liquor. Each was fined five dollars and costs. They claimed the oysters were sold as received from the retailer who robbed them. Informations were filed by a deputy state food inspector from Des Moines who had recently visited Council Bluffs.
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Council Bluffs
Des Moines
Old Farrand Couple Found Freezing in Iowa Home
In Manson Iowa on January 29 an elderly couple named Farrand were found nearly frozen and starving despite a large house a fine farm and money in the bank. They resisted burning the coal because they were too impoverished to waste it and had little fuel.
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Manson, Ia
Farrand
Alta Physician Leonard J. Harvey Dies in Alta
Dr. Leonard J. Harvey longtime Buena Vista County resident died at his home in Alta after four years of illness caused by loco motor ataxia. A Civil War veteran, he arrived in Storm Lake in 1870 and moved to Alta a decade later, apart from a five year western absence, and had lived in Alta since. He was 80 years old.
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Alta. In
Leonard J. Harvey
Buena Vista County
Storm Lake
Alta
Railroad Man Dies at Dubuque Prominent Central Agent
Dubuque Iowa January 29 Scott Benson aged 70 commercial agent of the Illinois Central for 50 years is dead here from a paralytic stroke suffered last November He was one of the best known men in the Central system in Iowa He is survived by two sons W J and C W Benson of Galveston
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Dubuque
Scott Benson
The
Tinois Central
Benson
Central
Iowa
W. 3
C. W. Benson
Galveston
Tragic Hunting Accident Ends Life Of 16 Year Old
Des Moines report details the death of Nevis Sanders, 16, near Maryville after he accidentally discharged a shotgun while rabbit hunting. The shotgun, left on a brush pile, was triggered by a box of cartridges, the blast entering his heart and causing instant death.
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Des Moines
Maryville
Nevis Sanders
Galva stock man commits death by own action
Galva Iowa stock buyer and real estate dealer France Lindquist hanged himself with a small card tied to a bed post Saturday noon. He had just bought stock cattle in Sioux City and shipped them home to sell to farmers while ill for days. A coroner inquest found no stated motive. he was about 45 and left only a brother as a relative.
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Galva
France
Lindquist
Sioux City
Des Moines Iowa Law Bills Introduced In Legislature
A list of small bills introduced yesterday in Des Moines includes S.F. 67 limiting post judgment appeal time to four months in criminal cases, S.F. 68 on municipal bond thresholds, S.F. 69 sewer cost assessments, S.F. 70 directing county road tax funds to city treasurers, and numerous others covering roads, weeds, health levies, newspaper subscriptions, outward opening doors, and railroad car deadlines.
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Des Moines
Ss. F
Cossan
S. F
Gillilland
Hunter
Allen
Pocahontas
Burgess
Ss. F. 74
H. F
Grier
Banking Department
Office of Auditor of State
Office of State Treasurer
Harding
Jacobs
Kull
Davidson
Powell to be tried for murder of her sons in Iowa
Rockwell City Iowa January 28 The Calhoun county grand jury convened and immediately took up the case of Mrs A J Powell charged with murdering two of her sons and attempting to kill another and herself at their home nine miles south of the city She Powell is recovering from a self inflicted gunshot wound and guarded. Healy brothers of Fort Dodge have been retained to defend her.
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Rockwell City
Calhoun County
A. J. Powell
Portsmouth Bank Cashier Shoots Self in Private Room
C S Scroggin 65 cashier of the Portsmouth Savings Bank in Des Moines Iowa shot himself in his private room at 6 am and died. Bank Examiner H M Cormany helped find the body and a state banking department order closed the bank pending investigation. The bank Capital stock is 25000 and no irregularities have been uncovered.
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Des Moines
C. S. Scroggin
Savings Bank
Portsmouth
H. M. Cormany
State Banking Department
Scroegin
Capitol dome gilded with real gold leaf confirmed
Des Moines Iowa January 28 Vivian Tuthwell seventh grade pupil in Pierre South Dakota schools wrote Governor Carroll asking whether the Iowa capitol dome is gold paint or gold leaf. The governor replied that the gilding is real gold leaf.
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Des Moines
Vivian Tuthwell
Pierre
Carroll
Iowa Capitol
Winter confesses to Trimble murder in Union Iowa
William Winter admitted to Sheriff Walsh and Deputy Buchannan that he killed Linn Trimble in Union on January 16. He described the robbery and shootings, fled across Iowa, and was captured near Titonka after a chase. Three revolvers and two shotguns were found in his room. his German parents are respected farmers in Garner area.
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Mason City
Walsh
Hardin County
Sherif Buchannan
William Winter
Trimble
Winter
Eldora
Ackley
Schroeder
Iowa Falls
Rock Island
Garner
Titonka
William
Titania
Gar
Murderer Blamed by Confessed Accomplice in Brookings Case
Jesse Finley of Brookings Iowa is named as the murderer of Thomas Read on January 6 1905 in his lonely Brook lyn home. Philip Martin a fellow convict now in Anamosa penitentiary admits they plotted and shot Read to steal 500 dollars hidden in a bed tick. County attorney and sheriff pursued leads, even traveling to Seattle. Finley remains jailed in Montezuma without bail.
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Pal Grinnell
Jesse Finley
Brookings
Thomas Read
Brooklyn
Philip Martin
Anamosa
Martin
Finley
Seattle
Montezuma
Proprieter Disappears Leaving Large Store in Dysart
Manuis Bone witz proprietor of a large Dysart Iowa store has vanished leaving custody to an untested employee. Creditors seek court order to force his involuntary bankruptcy filing as of January 28.
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Dysart
Manius Bonewitz
Truptey
Murderer of Van Wilkes Captured in Kansas
Muscatine Iowa January 28 Harry Jones the alleged murderer of the Van Wilkes family in Fairport in December 1907 has been arrested at Wellington Kansas by Sheriff Benham and will be brought here at once for trial.
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Muscatine
Harry Jones
van Winkle
Fairport
Wellington
Kan
Benham
Postmaster Charged With Embezzlement in Woden Funds
Webster and Gage postmaster at Woden Hancock county was held to the federal grand jury on charges of embezzling 1199.33 from the post office money order fund.
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Fort Dodge
Webster
Gage
Woden
Hancock County
Federal Grand Jury
Mail Clerk Arrested for Pilfering Letters in Route
Davenport Iowa January 28 Edward W Ebey head mail clerk on the St Louis Rock Island run on Burt road was arrested by secret service officers who had shadowed him for some time Ebey aged 50 with a wife and six children has served the line 18 years investigators traced pilfered letters and decoy mail led to Ebey’s arrest in Rock Island.
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Davenport
Edward W. Ebey
St. Louis- Rock Island
Burt Road
Rock Island
Secret Service
Ebey
St. Louis-Rock Island
Winchester
Supreme Court decisions from Des Moines Iowa on January 28
The supreme court handed down several rulings including Johnson vs Cedar Rapids & Marion Railway affirmed in part. Alber vs Dunn affirmed. Paxton vs Paxton Tama affirmed in part and reversed in part. Selberg vs Iowa Trust and Savings Bank Polk reversed.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court
Johnson Vs
Cedar Rapids & Maricity Railway Company
Superior Court
Cedar Rapids
Alber
Dunn
Dubuque
Paxton
Tama
Selberg
Iowa Trus and Savings Bank
Polk
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