41.; 



IOWA. 



Ingelow's roost famous poen Hii:i 



Tide on the Coast of Lincoln*!: 

 so widely copied in the popular HI.: ..at it 



Besides the books already men' M has 



j.ttbl: ther foIuOMt 



works, among w 



told to a 

 Child" (two series, isftrt mi.! I87i 



: .ps the : 



be Free'* 

 <1875); w -Don John mb de Be- 



|H\\ \ lilted to tli> I'liion 



,'8,1*46: are*. 56.025 square miles. The popu- 



i decennial c. ! 



.-.dmiirm. wan I'.^li h : l.'.'i:: in 1860; 



618 in isso: .-,n.l 1 .'.111,896 

 .to census of 1895 it was 2,058,- 

 060. Capital. Dt Moines. 



iiH-iit. The following wl 



officers .iunnj the year: G> i'rancis M. 



Drake: Lieutenant Governor. Malt 1'arn.tt : Sec- 



KMA- DRAKE, GOVERNOR OF IOWA. 



^ r e L. Dobson ; Treasurer, John 

 Bertiott: Auditor,* rthy; Attorney-Gen- 



eral, Milton Kemlcy; I Jail road ('omit .(?.W. 



IVrkin-. C. I.. Dartaaon, and K. A. Dawson; Super- 

 ient of Instruction. II. H. Sabin : Adjutant 

 aUI.H.Wrig 



\. Campbell. J. \V. Miller, ami 

 Morgan Thomas : Ba -t. Kli (Jriim -: Labor 



Comn)isM..n-r. W. K. O'Bleness; Iairy Coiiiinis- 

 sioner. W. i an : Ki-l, < 



' :h.- Supn-nir Court. I., (i. 



Kiu: M. IjiiM. ( . I". 



Granger. 11. I. D . All a: 



pabttoans, exce] Kinne, who j, n D.-u, 



Flnanr^. Acconliuu- to th.- l.i.-nnial n-j-ort of 

 the A .!..!> 1. ivi:,. th.-r- wa- a cash bal- 



ance of general revenue in tin- tn-a>nry amounting 

 During th.- l.i.-nnial term i-nlin- 

 W, 1897, there was fiaid into the treaMi: 

 account of general n-v.-mi*-. ^.|.1<- hi< li 



made a total of |M1^284JB6 nvailal.le for current 

 expenses. During the same (>eriod the Treasurer 



redeemed warrant - amounting to xi \:md 



liai.l . 



..n iiaml - 

 are Warrant > ou .lit in^ r to s 



Dg a nrt tl.-lu-ii 



mat* :hr iii-\i biniiiial ; 



3?-l.(M ..'licit 



i-y th Auditor \v r,- the .i.-i-rra>i- in the assessed 

 valuation of tin- State, \\hirh fell fr 



(897; the mrnaHiig de- 



litiqiirnry of som.- c..iiiih.- in ihc t-ollrd ! 



taxes anil in the remittance of <ln<- to tin- - 



the !>alanc" ovcnliicon account >l 



havii. in $({54.a' - ,644.06 



in I Mi 7. \v hi lr the amounts overdue from 



account of State institutions have also increased 



more than half in the same time: the 



iU institir ij.jH.rt an-. 



Undent e\ -tie large appropriation, to the 



institution* for lniililini;> and im] 

 the cost of the special session of the I.cgi>:. 

 and printing of the new << 



The State Treasurer made a statement to the 

 Assembly ?lio\\ -mparis..n \\ith e\pendi- 



ai i he finances of Iowa 

 ha\e not i a^antly managed. 



I <lne;i1ion. l',\ the t.iennial report for L89< 

 it is shown that "the enumeration of | 



D the ages of five and tu 

 an increas. L The enrollment is :.};.- 



p-iin of lo.orJ: and 1 he average attendance reported 



The numlier of school houses is 1 

 if which *J41 were built during the past \ear. 'I'he 

 value of the schoolhouses is 1 16,855,842, or $71 

 more than in 1" 



The enrollment of the Normal School in 1897 

 was 1,441, a gain of more than 2." per cent, in two 

 years. A new Imililing was erected in 1895, yet 

 the demands of the school for more room are as 

 urgent as before it was built. 



The report of the State University in November 

 showed 1,331 students enrolled, an 'increase of 40 

 per e'iit. since js'rj. In .lum- the library was 

 burned, with an estimated loss of $82,000." The 

 income of the university for its support for the bi- 

 ennial period amounted to s . of which 



$113,775.83 was from tuition and fees and $82,- 

 ? from investments. The remainder was from 

 the State treasury. The expenditures for the same 

 peri.nl amounted to $27<U;-j.ir,. of which | 



.'' Was the cost of the collegiate department. 



The Agricultural Colle-e graduated ."i."i MDion in 

 iiber and conferred the degree of 

 ilt ure on I'nitcd States Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture Wilson. During the biennial term 105 were 

 graduated in 8 courses: $132,879 was expended in 

 the operation of the college, $30,292.14 on account 

 of the experiment station, and $74,rJ*.7'J in repairs 

 and improvements. 



A Baptist educational conference was held at 

 Marshalltown. !>. 'Jl. to consolidate the IVlla and 

 Des Moines i-ollejr.-s. A vote was taken on the loca- 

 tion of the institution, which resulted in 

 .Moines against 'J<i for IVlla and Hi for other places. 



The ('..liege of Law graduated w this year. 



Pharmacy. By the annual report of t lie Board of 

 Coinr "f Pharmacy it is shown that th'-re 



are 1 .."i(>() drug stores in Iowa; that at no time have 

 there been so few complaints of the violation of the 

 pharmacy law: that there have been ; ,sse^ed in 

 -. iolations of the law $8,850, of which 

 $6,0*'*'.' paid into the county school funds: 



ami that while the Ix.ard has raised the standard of 

 the pharmaceiiti'-al examinations, the p< 



fill applicants has with- 



standing this fact, at no time since the passage of 

 the law placing the sale of liquors in the hands of 



