Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 22, 1909, Page 8

STATE BOARD DOES NOT ACT Educational Body Unable to Agree Upon Organization, GOVERNOR - CARROLL HAS IDEAS Wishes Finance Committee Named Soan--Trewin or Fank Will Be President--Ames Ohjects. He (From & Staff Correspondent.) DES MOINES, April 21 —(Special)~Th mew state educational board met here to- day upen call of governor, all being present, and informally organized No cemplete orgapization was effected it was understood that the members teally agree that the organizu tion and the selection the managing board of three will be until a later date. It is regarded certain that either J. H Trewin or A, B. Funk will be the presi- dent of the bourd. It devoloped today t Governor Carrell i in faver of a selection of the finance commitiec soon. and that he favors the cheice of W. C. McChesney of lowa City, Alfred Grundy of Cedar Falls and elther W. J. Dixon of 8ac City or Ole Roe of Story county. If this division fs made, then each college will be, in & sense, represented on the managing com- mittes. There is serisus disagreement at the col- lege at Ames over the program. The strictly agricultural interests desire there shall not be selected for either of the three positions anyone whe has been Intimately asseciated with the management of either college. This leaves out all of the per- sons named except Roe. The desire of the persons most intimately connected with the colleges is to have the general board organize and open an office, visit the in- stitutiens and decide in a general way upon the policy to be pursued, and thus formulate a plan for the work of the man- ging committee and later select the per- sons for this post The cemmission will have offices in com- mittee rooms at the rear of the senate chamber, at least temporarily, and it Is planned that a trip will be taken very soon to the various Institutions. the and prac- complete af 1t at Cre Are Farmers in central the Jowa weather and crop bureau, have been prevented from sowing their wheat and sats for so long by the wet and coid weather that many of them are abandon Jing the thought of small grain and are preparing their fields for corn. Some few farmers have their small grain in the ground. All the small grain is usually ‘n the ground at this time of the year, and farmers are ready to start their plowing for corn, but thus far not a farmer has been able tp plow except on the high land All farm operations are from ten days to two weeks, behind the usual schedule. Ready to Bulld Representatives of the proposed trolley line from Sioux City to Spirit Lake ap- peared before the state executive coun- cil today to sk permission for the issue of stock in excess of the amount which represents actual cash investment. In such cases a new corporation must secure the approval of the state executive coun- cll before issulng the stock. The ackward, lowa, according to Interurban. com- pany has been organized and a large port | Franchises | of the right-of-way have been secured in Paullina and Hartley. 1f the charter can be secured: in .the .manner desired the company will begin work by July 1 in construction, Court In The supreme court for alleged petty graft and especially for having private offices for the use of the judges In which are located folding beds which may be used on occasion. The criticlsm started because of a decision of the court a few years ago holding that & certain state official had virtually stolen money from the state and that of- ficlal i now “getting back” at the court The members of the court explain that the private offices in the court chambers were provided in the original plan of the capitol and the folding beds were placed there more than twenty-five years ago. With reference to the employment by members of their own famlilles as stenographers 1t s explained that these act in a confidential capacity and really us private secretaries. secured. LeMars, Primgha 1 its Own Defense. An r State Farm Bought. The State Board of Control has just closed a deal for a farm of 207 acres near the state prison at Fort Madison for the use of that institution, paying §7 wn acre therefor. This will glve every institution of the state except the blind college some land for agricultural pur- poses. 1s being attacked | ' Mrs. Boyle Will | ' Not Be Taken Back to Ohio | Efforts of Her Attorney to Have Her | Returned Fail--Woman Well Supplied With Money. was learned of former for Mrs. James H abduction case, to Jurisaict on fallen flat. The to take no action woman's fail Pa., that counsel Whitla courts had expeet the April 211t | MERCER i the effort tonight Judge Miller Boyle in the have (he Ohio the here e claim over Ohio authorities in the unless tion in Penneylvania should Cleveland otficlals desired Mrs. habeas corpus proceedings could been instituted on the ground of the prior indictment in that state. However, the Ohlo authoritics have agreed to let her be trled here first account of the more laws this state returned and woman, convic- Had the Boyle, have on of not stringent Judge Miller understood he witnesees to establish Boyle. Attorney T. C prosecute the Grand jury Boyles turned it is to secure for Mrs who will has is endeavoring an alibi Cochran, cases, said indictments against charging kidnaping will re. Friday morning. The trials will begin next Monday. There will be sepa- rate trials, Boyle being arraigned (first In my opinfon, convictions will be se- cured in both cases At least six witnesses will fore the grand jury on Friday. Mr. und Mrs. Whitla, their son Willle, Janitor Sloss of the Sharon public schoel, who talked with the abductor; Liveryman Thompson of South who rented the horse and busay the and &n unnamed witness from While Boyle is reputed on his relatives for enough stog) Mrs. Boyle is said In luxury It is reported that rich rela- tives have deposited to her credit here $1,00. No one but her attorney, It is sald, knows where it came from, but it is taken as evidence of the truth of the re port that she is from a prominent and wealthy family. That she s best known near 8t. Louls s evidenced by the quan- tity of mall she recelves from there. It Is sald that she gets many letters from East 8t. Louls and that in one which ar- rived a few days ago there was a golden brooch with a heart of gold pendant It i8 a dellcately beautiful ornament and ac- companying it In handwriting indlcating the appear be- They are to abductor Warren, 0. called to buy reveling to have money to be “With heartfelt sympathy. It is expected that the trials will sume several wee NEBRASKA LANDS TO BE con- Secretary of Interior Issues Instruc- tions Concerning Several Small Tracts in the West. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, April 21.--(8peclal gram.)—The secretary of the interfor has approved instructions to the register and receiver at Lincoin, Neb., providing for the sale to the highest bidder for cash of about twenty small tracts of land averaging about sixteen ecach in township 8 north, range 3 west, embraced within frac- tional subdivisions resulting from discon- nected surveys. he sale is to bé held at Mayfield, Neb,, during the datter part of May. The net pro- ceeds are (o be prorated by the secretary | and severally paia or heirs of persons who, on 1908, were owners of land in sections 6, 7, 19, 30 and 3, In the above mentioned township, in proportion to the loss In area sustained by ;!u«'ll persons by r of such discon- | nected survey. The lands are not | sold for less than $1.25 per acre and can- not be disposed of in any manner | than that above mentioned [RIOT IN 10WA STATE ' INEBRIATE ASYLUM | | pleso-dd | $1x Inmates and Three Injured in Fight Knoxville, Tele- Acres to persons, February 13, ason other Attendants at DES MOINES AL the State la., April -In a riot Inebriate asylum at Knux- ville this evening six Inmates and attendants were injured. Twenty mates were returning from work in the fields when seven made a dash for lib- erty. A running fight ensued, in which Guurd Gilson suffered a fractured skull He was picked up unconscious. Among others seriously injured are Cornelius Anderson, guard, and James Berkeley, in- mate, n to education and refinement were the words: | SOLD AT MAYFIELD ! | praisers’ | fictent | the to be | tirree | THE BEE OMAHA, THURSDAY, APRIL a9 1909, HARRIMAN GOES 10 EUROPE Union Pacific Magnate Decides Upon Stay of Indetinite Length. STILL AFTER BIG SMUGGLERS Customs OMicinls Declare Government Has Been Defra Six Million Duty on G Ont of wan, NEW YORK, April 21 Europe for a stay of indefinite length has been decided upon by B. H. Harriman This will be his first trip abroad since he was operated on for appendicitis several years ago and will give him opportunity for a r The recent western trip was intended to be a vacation outing, but his Interests In the reglons he traversed were 50 extensive that he was fairly compelled s activity and the trip was far restful Since his Mr Harriman has been giving considerable at- tention to the affairs of the corporations in which he intercsted and it is now believed that a genuine period of recreation, away from all contact with business matters is necessary to give him the re laxation he would have. He probably will sail about the middle of June. Mr. Harriman tonight denied that his contemplated visit to Europe was by order of his physiclan as reported in some quarters today. “I am going to Europe. because I want to go. If I were under medical orders for rest I would not be spending the day at my office where I am a very busy man. “It is well enough shifting some of my account for the extra have at my disposal. means simply that Instead of golng out to California as 1 did last year, I shall get a vacation this season on the other side of the ocean.” After Big Smugglers Further investigation of the system- atic smuggling of Paris gowns into this port led the custom house officials today declare that the syndicate has prob- ably smuggled in $1,000,000 worth of goods each year for the last ten years, frauding the government out of $600,000 an- nually in customs dutles. Efforts to avold criminal prosecution and to shield from publiclty the promi- nent women for whom the $55,000 worth of recently seized gowns were Intended, re- sulted in the offer by reputable attorneys, representing anonymous clients, of $260,- 000 to the government to drop the investi gatlon A summer trip to to busine from a one return " he said, “simply that 1 That may that 1 shall known burdens. time 1t am Experts Consider Beets, In an effort to determine if a beet is a vegetable or an unmanufactured article, General Appraiser Chamberlain viewing customs experts, scientific men and sugar beet manufacturers at the ap- stores here. The beet has been classed as a vegetable and as such sugar manufacturers have been compelled to pay a twenty-five per cent ad valorem duty on all imports, The Michigan, Sugar company, uses 3,000,000 pounds of hects yearly sixteen plants, ~ontends that as beets suf- to supply the demand are not grown in this country they should be con- sidered an “‘unmanufactured and cnumer- ated article,” and assessed at ten per is which in its | cent. New York Wants Free Wheat. To discuss the advisabllity of asking for removal of export duty on Canadian wheat @ mecting of members of the fiour trade of the New York Produce exchange was called for Thursday afternoon. The present scarcity of wheat and the ex- tremely high prices prevalling for It were glven as the reasons for calling the meet- ing Meeting of Associnted Press. At the annual meeting of the A ated Press held the followlng di- rectors were succeed them selves: here today elected to homas G vune; Victor Plea- Lawson, Chicago Daily News; Herman Ridder, New York Staats Zeltung; Haurvey W. Scott, Portland Ore- gonlan and General Charles H. Taylor, of the Boston Globe. Rufus N. Rhodes of the Birmingham (Ala.) News was elected to fill the vacancy on the hoard caused by the resignation of George Thompson of the 8t. Paul Dispatch. Rapler, New F. Orleans Baried Skeleton at Boome. BOONE, Tla., April 2..—(Special Tele- gram.)—At Fraser, gravel pit workmen engaged in excavating, found the of a human skeleton In perfect condition, The supposition Is the body is that of an Indian. Others advance the theory that a murder committed years ago and the bod; was hidden thus de- | inter- | bones | St. Paul Will Build Line to Winnipeg Fight Will Be Wheat Traffic of Red River Valley. 2.—A fierce war be- orthern and the St | Paul interests is seen by railroad experts as the result of the departure from Chi- cago during the last few days of four or five sufveying parties west over the St Paul. It s admitted by officlals that the destination of all but one of these par- thes Wakpala, twelve miles west of Mobridge on the Pacific coast extension of the St. Paul road. Thelr business Is to survey a line through the Cheyenne Indian reservation. The fifth party is pushing north at Fargo. It is understood that it is the purpose of the St. Paul to extend a line to Winnipeg, along the line of the Red river, thus disputing with James J Hill the great wheat traffic of that region. CHICAGO, April tween the Great N City Elections in Illinois Local Option is Principal Issue and License Wins in Majority of Places. CHICAGO, April | were held today | which the issue local option to drive the saloon were Saybrook Leroy, Hayworth and Weldon. Those vot ing for license include Colfax, Danvers, Antloch, Libertyville, Marengo, Kewanee, Crescent City, Lebanon, Litchfield, Car- lyle, Plano, Naples and Dubols. In Zion City, Wilbur Glenn Voliva's can- {didacy for mayor was defeated. On the | questions of smoking, profanity and liquor | the city voted to remain free from these | vices, The towns of River Forest and Jersey- ville voted dry. The towns of EI Paso, | 8hannon, Reddick, Secor, Minonk, Rush- | ville, Fulton, Nokomis, Bushnell, Carlin- | ville and Canton voted wet MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL IN THE COOPER CASE Al- 21.—-Municipal elections in_ Illinols generally in In most instances was out Arguments on Forty-Six Erre leged by Defense to Be Heard Today. NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 21.—The motion for a new trial in the Cooper case will be argued before Judge Willlam M Hart, in the criminal court here tomorrow and the hearing will be finished Thursday. Colonel D. B. Cooper and his son Robin J. Cooper were convicted of the murder of former United States Senator E. W. Car- mack and twenty years in the penitentiary assessed. as the penalty, Some of the forty- six errors alleged by the defense refer to the admission of evidence, others to the evidence on the part of the dofense, which the court excluded. The defense also ob- jects to portions of the charge of Judge Hart to the jury and to certain requests for charges, which the. court refused to admit. They also clafm that the court erred when he did not, declare the case a | mistrial upon the first report of .the jury. “We find the defenddht, John Sharp not | guiity, but are hopelessly tied up as to the | Coopers.” | BRYAN | | Nebraskan st of Honor at | ner of Young Men's Demo- eratic Club. KANSAE CITY, April 2L—Wfliam J | Bryan was the guest of honor at the first | annual dinner of the Young Men's Demo- cratic club at the Coats hou here to- night. He spoke on ‘‘democracy" after the dinner left for his home in Lin- coln Mr. Bryan dlscussed at some length the cause for his party's defeat and then re- ferred to the possibillties of the next campalgn as follows: “While I hope that my party will not find it necessary to call for me as a presi- dential candidate in the next campaign I | make the emphatic statement that T have | no intention of retiring from politics. I began to fight for democratic principles |long before my party heard of me, and as 1 live I shall continue it as long as I have strength.” Made for Part of Among the citles that voted | TALKS .IN KANSAS CITY | and | Some people fuss and fume and fret over bread making The others Use - WASHBURN-CROSBY'S | FLOUR THE VERY HIGHEST QUALITY [ | | nis tte-long ambition to live to see the work started at least. He did advance the scheme | much |- Colonel . Taylor served through | | to WETS WININ SOUTH DAEOTA Sweeping Victory Generally Municipal Fights on License. the He civil was and Print | 1N | war In the Twelfth Minnesota imprisoned In Andersonville Many Saloons Hit by New lowa Law Ystimates Are That Seventy-Three Liquor Establishments Will Be Put Out in Davenport. LARGE CITIES TAKE FIRM STAND George W. Burnside, First Fal! Elected Mayor of Sioux Again— NEW YORK, April 21.-At t ting of the Assocla day, the following resolutign wa Whereas, & committee of which the Henorable J. R. Mann is chalrman, has spent néafly a y takingly investigating the questic print puper supply and has repor pusly Lo congress in favor -of taritf on ground wood the tax on news print’ puper f $: per ton, and Whereas, the mously uccepted committee of th and duly passed Commission mee! Government D DWOOD. out the Black sweeping victory Tuesday 1A the annual contest over the licensing of saloons. In every town where the question was voted upon, open policy carried. Lead, which it was though prior to election would go “dry,” gave license advocates 330 ma jority, while Deadwood allowed the sa- loons to continue by majority of over 400. Spearfish, Sturgls, Belle Fourch and Rapid City also went wet In Lead the spectacular feature of the day was the parade of 200 school children through the streets asking for school im- provements. The chool bonds in both Lead and Deadwood One man was elected by the socialists and five republicans, Aldermen T and Hursh were re-elected in Deadwood, which also rejected the proposition (o | establish a municipal court Burnside Mayor of Sioux Falls. | SI0UX FALLS, 8 D, April cial Telegram.)—George W. Burnside merly mayor of Sioux Falls for terms, at the election Tuesday, first mayor of the city under veston form of municipal government carried every ward in the city plurality of 201 out of a total |23 The four commissioners | were John Fitzgibbons, Samuel i Henry N. Gates and E. A. Sherman. | License carried by a majority of 890, |ing the grestest majority ever returned in the’ city” for license | Of the 24 towns heard from at a late | hour the returns show that 14 voted for | license and 10 against Falls for lcense with the largest majority | the history of the city, while Mitchell the of year ago and dry Ashton, Doland and | fort, which went wet ago, | dry today. Other g0 dry | Siscon, Ipswich, Milbank Miller Spearfish, Sturgis, Belle F |ana Rapid City voted for license | the other towns to go wet Webster, Groton, Britton, and Redficld D LAKE-TO-GULF Isanc Taylor, Plan, Dies fri Disease. 8. D, April 21.—Through Hills the “wets” won a DAVENPORT, la., April 21.—(Special.) Seventy-three Davenport saloonists will b forced out of business when the new state tiquor law becomes effective on July 4. H, B. Bettu, attorney for the Civic league, | said that every one of the saloon keepers who was recently enjoined would have to 80 out of business whether the Civic league | took any action or not, for if they did not they would be put out of business by the new laws passed by the last legislature. According to the decision these saloons are being operated in viclation of the law. The law provided that no saloon that has once been enjoined can operate after the | law becomes effective. This hits practically every in the city. |EXPERIMENT STATION TO BE STARTED AT SCOTT'S BLUFF | Government Takes Steps to Carry ll-'} all same Feport by the v 18 part w of e members of the annual meeting Resolve, that we respe members’ of the senaie States to carefully read select committee with e vincing themselves of Uhe recommendations 10 the ¢ 1 manent supply of news print pa cured to ihe printing and pabi dustry, which the sevent the United States We further ask ate to consider that move, but represents ! of bath sides in the the ways and means committc result of careful and deliberat: exerciged only after a (Loroug The newspapers believe (liey to have the concluslons of respected amd written idin the Resolved. that a copy t | gransmitted Immediatel to States senator ate, the at_their carried | DEW alder here cber saloon nemhers ¢ thig.is not the una scloct ' | (Spe- foi | Ircigation Work in (ke Dry Reglon. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, * April 21.—(Special.) On or about May IS, representatives of | the bureau of plant Industry, reclamation service and state cxperiment station In | Nebraska and of the Scott's Bluff com mercial club will meet at Scott’s bluff to determine | certain details for an experl- ! ment station to be established near the North Platte reclamation project. The | propored station will be devoted to experi mental work appropriate to that and will Include both irrigated and dry !y, ' land farming. The land will probably [ yoe o cover a quarter section, on which bulld- | .o o ings suitable to the work will be erected. [ ey o Those in charge of the work will include | .ppors a farm superintendent and an assistant | gaqey | superintendent, together With necessary | wage suitable to skilled to work of living; the eight-hou FIVE JURORS _Ffl‘ HAINS CASE‘ laws; employers’ lability ing conditions and the pr Both several cted the 1 He and had a vote of eleeted Hurst, was e o MITCHELL TALKS TO | | a Litersl Wil reoble t or Leader Soyy of Gelden Rnic be Induostricl NEW. HAVEN Mitekell, forimer Workers Yale of th tder f Aw Divinit We | section | C | Sloux oted | in versed vote went a today Frank voted are,” he ‘ald iy unions are the tow Faulkton, 15 to were and ourche Among Aberdeen, Burcka, Plerre laborers the constitutional guarantec free press and trial hy attain these, all other X April ZL—After two | thAt & resort is made . ? cot There 1s RINBOE $0,§0 UEY 101 wages or hours of labor cter C. Hains, jr., for the| William F. Annis at the Bay club last August, court ad- with five men in the jury were secured today examination of prospective apparent that both sides obtain men of advanced four jurors accepted are years of age and men of The defcndant's counsel at Captain Hains would not be called to testify in his own behalf. were Sides Men of Are Striviog Advanced Age for ranel, m FLUSHING, N of tedious noa st and be a loss from a money paint of A great gain in a higher “It T were asked g more |EVOLVE Colonel IDEA nain rder Yacht today Originator Heart [""‘. and . nob journe box During jurors Three the It was striving to The first all past fifty large families lor { intimated today l jurymen Y lite, literal 1 should application | dustrial | vise rule. PEORIA, April 21.—Colonel Tsaac Taylor aged 74, conceiver of the lakes-to-the-g deep waterway ldea, dicd here today from | heart disease brought on by over-exertion | in the recent campaign | While serving the Governor John G. Oglesby evolved the deep waterway idea of werd Take Warnin, Don't let stomach, liver trouble down you. when you down them with Electri le by Beaton Drug Co. on age. city no canal board n under Colonel T Bitters and it was Sold only in Moisture Proof Packages <SP ‘ \v——_/ e ————_—— - EE T R e Buying soda crackers that are not Uneeda Biscuit is buying by guess-work and trusting to luck. To be sure of good luck and good baking, buy no soda crackers but Uneeda Biscuit NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY e Fross, congress, and ays and spresenitatt bill, now pending In tie United Stales Assoclated \imo. committee are {hiis ¢ to propese a of the whola vexed problem of mndern unhesitati the can Dutyon \\'o:x{ Pulp Paper Associated Press Asks Senate to Give Careful Consideration to Report of Select Committee. he._ annua, held o s, adopted ot of lilinoi: car pains o0 Of hews tad tmani- abolihing reducing rom 8 1o anan meRns tarif en Press a8 new e United justice al a tis ing 1 sr t WAL o en A few anid und g t Judg it aufiy 10d n na e ted DIVINITY STUIENTS Applicas atiain labor wok fai ke trike view an may aind hler. sense solution &1y golden ad- T kidney quickly We. For