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protection of their interests, to be presented to 

 the next Legislature 



Hallway*. The assessment of railway prop- 

 places it at $44.364,542, a decrease 

 of tVV.lU from the valuation of ls!M. 

 .r assessment is reduced also. 1 

 rwas>18e,088, and this year it is $1 



The doping can are assessed $4,000 each, and 

 the UN "Uted according to the number 



,* the cars run in Iowa, 



The round! is also required to classify the 

 railway* for the purpose of fixing their charges 

 for passenger fares, and a this classi- 



fication two roads were changed from Class A 

 ,-s K and allowed to charge 3$ instead of '.'> 

 cents a mile, and two others were allowed to 

 charge 4 cents instead of I 



in January the Railroad Com- 

 misrioners refused to allow an increase in rates 

 for freight, as petitioned for by the companies. 



Education. Tin- annual statistics of the 

 schools include the following: Number of 

 ungraded schools. 12,456; rooms in graded, 

 4Q00: numU-r ..f male teachers employed, 5,281 ; 

 female, 22.782 ; average monthly compensation, 

 male-. $38.19; females, $31.60; total average 

 attendance, 331.408; average tuition per month 

 per pupil, $1,89; trees set out on grounds and 

 in thrifty condition. 190.095. 



The department of college professors adopted 

 resolution-, with one dissenting vote, declaring 

 -that we hereby agree to suspend all intercol- 

 legiate games of football in our respective in-ti- 

 1 the accepted rules and safeguards 

 of the game shall have been so modified as to 

 make it proper to be played by gentlemen." 



Danish Government made an appropria- 

 tion for the Danish t'niversity, lately founded at 

 Dee Moines, endowing a chair with 2,000 crowns 

 annually. 



The income and the cost of the professional 

 departments of the State University for the past 

 three rears are as follow : Medical department 

 disbursement*, $41,985.85; income. $24,060.09. 

 The number of students during that time was 



-disbursements, 



$l i j."il I.V. ; ineome, $8,697.64. The number of 



students in this department was 203. Law de- 



";.::;; disbursements, 



$29,538.6?; attendance. 6'Jn. Dental denart- 



- ..;:.<>;: disbursements. $28,- 



816.11; attendance. 448. Pharmacy department 



113,008108; .li-bursements, $8,254.54; 



attendance. 171. 



The Vd.liei-' Home. There has been acon- 

 stant increase in the number of inmates in the 

 home at Marshalltown. from 140 the first year 

 (1888} to 516. the average enrollment for 1895. 

 In all. 1.396 hare been admitted. 



Monument at Spirit take. The monument 

 Offered by the twenty-fifth General Assembly 

 i* in place at Spirit Lake. It is to the in- 

 of the victims of the Indian massacre there in 

 1857. when 88 pioneer settlers were murdered 

 ami 4 women were carried into captivity. Two 

 of dfttss were rescued later in the year, and 2 

 were murdered by the Indian*. Two members 

 ^lition WPP* fr ath on 



U* return marrh. Thirty -thr who 



1 from the attack on Springfield, Minn.. 

 * by this expedition. The monu- 



ment i- a -haft <>f Minnesota granite, ' 



"f alternate rough and poli-hed 

 Dg on bron/c talilets the name- of I 

 tuns ami those of the re-.u, -,1 iiml mem: 

 the relief expedition. The cost wa 



hull. Ill I. .linl-. Ill refelVlire t< 



their lands in Tama C.-unty l.y 



in Sep'l. I''.. 1- 



the opinion that it is illegal. I i 



lands were purehascd l.y the Indian's with Hinr 



own fund 'ion. TiB 



Were permitted to l<H-ate in |n\\ii ! 



the Li-u'i-latnre giving them -pe.-ial 



to do. The title to the lands u.,, |.,| v ,.,, 



name of the (iovenior of the State as ^^H 



for the Indian-." 'I'he lease was e\< 



Tinted SU 



ral is of opinion 1 1. 

 I'nited States would have no aulli. i 

 land-, and he find- that the rental is gp>- 



adequate, 



>I JIM i -' \--ocialion. 

 principal mining <-. l ni|>- in the Slat* 

 their union, Nov. 21. under the naim |.,wj, 

 Mine Workers' Proteetn. . wift 



drawing from the Di-tn 

 Mine Worker- of America, \\hieli ii. 

 mining territory in Mi>-oiiri. 



The in -w organization will h.r 

 fund attachment, and will take upm. 

 of the forms and plans of a lodge pr\; 

 sick benefit, a death benefit, and a benevfl^B 

 fund for the families of miner- in 

 will affiliate with the Mine Worker- of As^B 

 ea and the American 1-Yderation of Labor, hut 

 will have power for independent action. 



Coal Operators. The coal oprr. 



State met at DCS Moines, Ma\ -,'::. and f-n 1 



an a-sociation, the object of which i- 

 general improvement in the coal t>u-ines- 

 State by equalizing wages and doing away wttl 

 certain'unfavoralile condi' 



The Mulct Law. The Supr 

 cided, April 2, that this law i- -on-tit 

 Justice Kinne alone dissenting. It 

 there is iii the act no delegation of the 

 tive power, and that it doe- not e..nfi-r "n 0V 

 in unities a so-called pardniing j.o\ver for viola- 

 tion of the prohibitory law. Cases a: 

 it have been in the" courts during the vmr. 

 Fourteen druggists were indicted for st^K 

 liquor illegally by the grand jur 

 County. A convention of tho-e opj.o-e.i 

 law was called to meet at Davcnpor 

 the Liliera f Iowa was formed 



thori/ed d n attendai 



Political. A deci-ion adverse to t! 

 of women to vote at school and munirip. 

 tions was rendi-n-il. April 10. in I!H' distr 

 court at Cedar Hapids. An eh--ti 

 held to choose directors and to \ 

 division of the district. Tin- election v 

 ried ly the partv fn(iosed to di 

 of the v<,tes of aoout 30 women. Th. 

 held that their votes were illegal, and 

 the district divided. The opinion .i 

 the Iowa statute granting women i 

 vote at school and municipal elect jo: 



OS involving the expenditure of n,' 

 levying of taxes is unconstitutional, bee;: 



