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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1903
Page
2
Iowa receipts for the last biennial period totaled 6 177 859 dollars with 317 000 in secretary of state fees and a civil war bond refund near half a million. Des Moines plans no present to the cruiser Des Moines, corn prospects look favorable, and social, educational, and industrial notes fill the column.
A rural free delivery route is established at Percy Marion county with one carrier covering 20 miles in 16 square miles serving 410 people and 12 houses. Donnelson Lee county will start August 15 on routes 1 2 and 3 covering 66 miles 564 square miles 1460 people and 209 houses. September 1 additional routes are Norwalk Warren county 21 miles 15 square miles 453 people and 105 houses and Pacific Junction Mills county 25 54 miles 36 square miles 515 people and 103 houses.
The state board of control faces a serious coal supply issue for next year. Historically the board buys mid summer to ensure fall delivery, but bids this year show advances from 50 cents to one dollar per ton. With 75,000 tons needed and fuel appropriations capped, the higher prices create a troublesome constraint.
At the Iowa commission executive committee meeting on June 17 1904 the Iowa Day selection was reported favorably but final action was postponed awaiting more details on railroad rates to attract visitors to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Frenchman's Bay Maine Aug 3 The mobilization of the greatest fleet of warships in American waters is under way with a month of maneuvers along the New England coast and Long Island sound. Portland harbor serves as base as Maj Gen Adna Chaffee sets headquarters and Rear Adm Barker directs operations.
A Morrison street bridge over the Willamette River gave way Friday afternoon. More than 100 spectators watching a river swim fell into the water. At least three people drowned and many were injured, with several falling from boat houses and timbers. Names given include Minnie Raymond 18 and Lottie Cameron 16. one 15 year old boy remains unidentified.
Chicago August 3 Adolph Kuhn was convicted of larceny of 15000 dollars in a speediest banker trial. Forgeries of real estate titles and deeds were alleged and further indictments are set for September.
Washington action withdraws 2,800,000 acres from entry to establish the Warner mountain forest reserve in Oregon. The order, issued by the general land office, affects vast private and public holdings and marks a major federal conservation move.
A sudden blast at the United States Cartridge company magazine on the Concord river in South Lowell kills over twenty and injures about thirty. By July 31 the death toll is 15 with nine missing and one supervisor Clarendon Goodwin in critical condition after attempting to fix a leakage involving nitroglycerin.
Washington reports the interior secretary revokes a May 26 1900 order suspending adjudication of claims by minor children of deceased soldiers filed since 1880 after they reach age 16. The decision contrasts Commissioner Evans's 1879 pension act interpretation with views supported by Commissioner Ware and senior interior officials.
Lawrence Murphy former treasurer of the Journeymen Stonecutters union was imprisoned for five years and six months after being convicted of grand larceny for embezzling union funds. The judge condemned his riotous living and noted total thefts of twenty seven thousand dollars.
The first biennial report for the period ending June 30 1908 calls for an extraordinary appropriation of 815 00 0 to meet needs at Cherokee State hospital. It lists major items including infirmary expansion fire department and water works.
Special correspondence reports the state board of control delaying the Fort Madison penitentiary hospital project due to lacking a usable foundation. Borings show no bottom found after extensive prospecting. The plan locates the hospital beside existing buildings with a glassed day room offering views of Mississippi river steamers, a privilege for good prisoners only.
Special correspondence reports $5,500 appropriated by the last legislature to reimburse funds deposited with the late Superintendent Gilman at the Mount Pleasant state hospital. The board has refunded about $3,000 and plans to return $2,500 to the state treasury, covering amounts owed to former insane patients from 50 cents to 100 dollars.
Iowa plans dedicate Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga battlefield monuments in November on the battle anniversary. Lookout base 15 feet high and 50 feet tall with a color bearer statue, granite markers, on Missionary Ridge and at Chattanooga field. The season's late wet spring strains farmers who work corn, hay, and oats crops.
Geneva near Hampton will hold its annual Bean Day celebration on August 14. The harvest festival draws large farmer participation with prizes for best grain and vegetable samples and for farmer wives fancy work, reflecting strong local agricultural tradition.
Iowa Falls businessman Lanning has developed a corn harvester claimed to be practical. The invention will be marketed this summer and fall to demonstrate its viability for widespread use.
A severe hailstorm swept across about 40 miles of western Iowa causing extensive crop damage. The storm entered from South Dakota and hit Lyon Osceola O'Brien Cherokee Monona Warren Greene Shelby Polk Crawford and Cass counties with losses likely reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Iowa Bankers association closed its seventeenth annual convention in Davenport and voted a $1000 standing reward for arrest and conviction of any bank burglar in member banks. A $500 reward is offered for information leading to arrest. Officers elected: President L. F. Potter Harlan vice president Frank Y. Locke Sibley treasurer David A. McKee Mediapolis secretary J. M. Dinwiddie Cedar Rapids.
The Floyd monument, built three years ago at a cost of 15000 to honor Seret Floyd and the Clark and Lewis expedition, was praised as west of Chicago’s finest. It had been slated for reproduction at the St. Louis world’s fair after securing 5000 from the national government and 10000 from Iowa’s legislature.
The Washington Weather Bureau weekly crop report for Iowa indicates generally dry and warm weather with harvest nearly complete. Hay and grain are in excellent condition, thrashing started in the south and harvesting well advanced in the north, wheat and oats quality improving, corn making good progress but needing more moisture in southern districts.
The Rev Henry Mensing recently graduate of Concordia seminary St Louis wed Miss Augusta Wilmer in Webster City. They bid farewell to relatives and depart for Australia where he is to begin pastoral duties preaching in German Danish and English.
A fast passenger train struck a buggy at Cole crossing, instantly killing Mrs. Roxie Lounsberry, 45, and her son Frank Lounsberry, 17. The buggy was completely demolished and the couple perished at the scene.
William Liard killed his 16 year old son Charles in bed after he refused to rise. He then chased a younger son to a neighbor's home attempting another murder before fatally shooting himself driven by alcohol addiction and marital separation.
A roundup of Iowa deaths and incidents reports several fatalities from trains and rivers, including Elizabeth McCutcheon in Keokuk and Zora Murphy near Scranton. Other items note robberies at Rudd post office, a large dam age suit by May Scott against Sioux City firms, drownings at Leon and Sibley, and a Taylor county pioneer killed in Council Bluffs. The Third Iowa cavalry reunion is scheduled during Necoknk street fair.
At a trustees meeting at the Agricultural College Ames changes include Dr. John J. Repp resigning as station veterinarian and pathology professor. Dr. C W Gay elected to succeed him. Miss Mary Sabin resigns as head of domestic economy with Miss Merritt temporarily filling. Prof Homer Price resigns horticulture chair to become dean at Ohio State. Erwin to head horticulture after Sept 1. A new farm mechanics professorship is created and Prof Zeinoth of South Dakota Agricultural School is elected.
Curator Charles Aldrich with Judge George C. Duffield and E. R. Harlan traced the exact site of the old town Iowaville on the Des Moines River near Eldon. They found the grave of Blackhawk marked by a pile of stones and urged a permanent state monument. Only two or three old houses remain of the once thriving river town about 214 miles from Eldon.
National prohibition committee members including F W Emerson J L Sizer and M J Scanlon campaign in Iowa aiming to double the vote. Scanlon Emerson and Sizer have held national roles and planners will expand through the year. Warren County Iowa reportedly has no liquor sales no saloons permits no bootleggers and no drugstore licenses.
Attorney General Mullan warns the Iowa state board of medical examiners over a February resolution barring nonresidents from obtaining itinerant physician licenses. He says the board lacks power to discriminate between residents and nonresidents entitled to licenses under Iowa law. The annual $250 license for itinerants stands.
State costs reach about 2000 dollars for calling the militia to protect Dubuque street car properties amid a strike. Warrants totaling 1838 dollars have been drawn for the adjutant general with executive council approval. Gov. Cummins ordered troops on request of the street car company and helped broker a settlement. The same issue notes Iowa’s first atlas since 28 years prior, by Iowa State Atlas Publishing of Davenport, aimed for a 1904 St Louis World’s Fair completion after over a year’s work.
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