TIIE OMATTA' DAILY KEE: MONDAY. FERItUATtY 27. 1903. v 3 CURRENT NEWS OF IOWA COUNCIL BLUFFS DOCTOR DROPS OUT OF SIGHT Hisses Train and Telegraph! Hie Mother . ' at Douglas, Wjoming. NOTHING HAS BEEN SEEN OF HIM SINCE Friend Take tp the Search, Aided r the Police, hat tp to Present Jloor Discover No Clae to Hli Whereabouts. , After sending a telegram from Council WufTs fo his mother In Douglas, Wyo., on the afternoon of Sunday, February 19, stating that he had missed connection! and could not leave for home until the nct day. Dr. Jpsurhm. surgeon for the Northwestern railroad In Wyoming, dropped completely out of sight. Ills rela tives and friends are much concerned over his disappearance and fear that ha has either met with an accident or, as It is known he generally carried considerable money with him when traveling, that he may have met with foul play. Dr. Jesurhrn had been east on a trip and on his way home left Des Moines Sunday, February 19, at noon, the train being . four hours late and on reaching Council duffs wu unable to make the train, connections h had arranged. It Is known that he sent from here a telegram to his mother at Douglas stating he had missed his train and would not be able to leave here until the next day. Inquiry falls to show, however, that he registered at any of the hotels In this city unless he did so under an assumed name. In vestigation In Omaha also disclosed the fact that ha did not register at any of the hotels there. Ills trunk, however, was re checked from the transfer depot here, but . not to Douglas, which makes the matter all the more myBtlfylng. While the em- i ployes of the baggage department at the transfer are positive that the trunk was not rechecked to Douglas, they are unable to state' Its destination. Dr. Jesurhrn Is about 48 years of age and Is unmarried. It Is said that when absent from home he never misses a day either writing or telegraphing his mother, with whom he makes his home at Douglas. Besides following the practice of his pro fession. Dr. Jesurhrn is a large stock raiser and ranch owner. When Dr. Jesurhrn did not reach home at the time expected his mother com municated with friends in Des Moines and they In turn wrote to Chief of Police Richmond. II. C. Blackburn of the Iowa National bank at Des Moines, a particular friend of the missing doctor, arrived in the city yesterday, but he was unable to learn anything more than the police al ready had. From here Mr. Blackburn went to Omaha, where Dr. Jesurhrn was well known to a number of the members of the medical fraternity, to continue bis search. money on the defendants to such an extent that he became financially Involved and In a moment of desperation committed the crime for which he Is now serving a long sentence In the penitentiary. August Olderog Is proprietor of the hotel In Treynor where Karrer remained In hid ing the day after committing the robbery at the bank. Woman's flab Calendar. This Is the calendar for the women"! clubs for this week: Mondsy Art department, Council Bluffs Woman's club, club rooms, 7:30 p. m. Tueadiir Ideal club, home of Mrs. Met calfe, 2:30 p. m.; Atlas club, home of Mrs. Clifford, 2:5o p. m.; Tuesday club, home of Mrs. Cleaver, 2:3) p. m. Wednesday Woman's club, home of Mrs. Wright, 2:31) p. m. ; t'nlverslty club, home of Mrs. Forent Smith, 2 p. m. Thursda v Kvery Thursday club, home of Mrs. Wright, la. m.; household economics department Council Bluffs Woman's club, club rooms, 2:30 p. m. Friday Oakland Avenue Reading club, home of Mrs. Miller, 2:30 p. m. mior MF.xmoy. I MORE MOXEV FOR POLICE FORCES Three Thousand Dollars More Asked by Chief. When the city council makes the appro priations for the new fiscal year, beginning April 1, Chief of Police Richmond will ask that $18,000 be allowed for the maintenance of his department. This will be $3,000 In excess of the appropriation for the fiscal year now; closing. i ne neea oi ao.inoreaea appropriation la explained by the fact that - nhl.f Vlknin4 will nnlr that thu nav eif the patrolmen be Increased from $60 to $65 a month. The latter. Major Richmond con tends,, la small enough compensation when the strenuous duties and long hours of a patrolman are taken Into account. When the pay of the members of the fire depart ment was raised a year or so ago an effort waa made to raise that of the police de partment, but It failed. Major Richmond Is also of the opinion that the number of the force under him should be Increased and this Is generally conceded. His plans contemplate one ad ditional patrolman and two additional plain clothes men, one for day duty and one for 'night The extra patrolman will act as a sort of emergency officer and will make hl3 headquarters at the police station to be on hand to respond to a "hurry up" call for an officer in any part of the city. As the force now Is, It Is seldom that an officer Is available at short notice when an emerg ency call comos into police headquarters. The need of a large police force Is gen erally conceded by the business men and It Is likely-that an Increased appropriation for this department will be made this year. It la understood that Mayor Macrae and a nurriber of the aldermen are fully In ac cord with the plans of Major Richmond. , ' For Rent. An excellent office location at 10 Pearl street Only four doors from corner Broad way and Pearl street. Centrally located on ground floor and a nice large show window. Call at 10 Pearl street. Bee office, Council Bluffs. Ro6ms and cafe.. Ogden Hotel. UK FOR ' Ill'SBANIVS DOWNFALL Mrs. Karrer, Wife of Bank Robber, Asks aso.ooo. Mrs. Anna Karrer, wife of Karl Karrer, the Treynor bank robber, who Is now serving a sentence In the penitentiary for the crime, has Hied notice of suit against August Olderog, his wife and daughter, Mlnne, for $20,000 damages. Mrs. Karrer alleges that Olderog, his wife and daughter are responsible for her husband's downfall In that they alienated his affections from her and his family. She further alleges that Karrer, by reason of his Infatuation for the defendants, neg lected his home and family, lavished his CANKER. SOKES Obstinate cases of Cancrum Oris ham bsen relieved after three or (our applica tions of SOZODONT LIQUID A complete cure has been effected within a i week from three applications a da. It Is a wonderful dentifrice. Nothing to equal it, IT CLEANSES, HEALS. PRESERVES. S FORMS j LtfyJTD, POWDER. PASTE, CHATTEL LOANS A. A. CLARK A CO. troMway Vila 4U. r !' a ti ni beHTtiw tMUit oa, aattla. ora4, kauaakat furniture r may caatui aacurtty. fay-uaata aaa ta bu4 oa ariwlmi at tltaa lo autt aWTawar, ana tataraai r4uc4 accor41alf. All bualaMa avaadaatlal. Lanaat rat a. Orloa vary avaaiaf till 1 M; Saturday avaalas till I f LEW 1 8 CUTLER V I MORTICIAN I I 28 PEARL $T."' Lady Attendant If Desired. J J Davis sells drugs. I-iefferfs glasees fit. Btockert sells carpets. Plumbing and heating. Blxby & Son. Drs. Woodbury, dentists, 30 Tcarl street. For rent, modern house, "23 Sixth avenue. New picture mouldings. C. K. Alexander, 333 Hroadway. Tel. 3K6. Mrs. Charles 8waine of 119 North Eighth street Is seriously 111 with pneumonia. Duncan, 23 8. Main St., guarantees to do the best shoe repair work. Give him a trial. Our new style of wall paper will tickle your taste, if. Uorwiek. 211 Main. Tel. S.-3. The Indies' Aid society of St. Paul's Epis copal church will meet this afternoon with Mrs. H. W. Starr at the rectory. 1 have about B,UJ0 split red cedar posts. Just the thing for grape posus. Must mov quick. At 9 cents each. C. Hafer. 'Phont 2u2. The Flower mission will meet Tuesday afternoon at the home of the president, Mrs. Itay Hlxby. Officers for the ensuing year will be elected. Cyril, the 5-year-old son of Prof. 8. L. Thomas of the high school faculty, has been quarantined at his home, 2WS Fourth street, for smallpox. Missouri oak dry cordwood, $6 a cord, cobs 11.75 per load, shell bark hickory $7 per cord, delivered. William Welch, Is North Main. Telephone 128. Presiding Elder Griffith of the Methodist church and Kev. A. E. Burlff of Trinity church, conducted services yesterday In I)enlson In the morning and In Dow City In the evening. J. P. Cullen of the firm of Winchester A Cullen, who are building the Carnegie library, has returned from Wisconsin, where he has been for several weeks su perintending another contract. Chester Jawson of this city, the railway mail clerk who was Injured in the wreck on the Milwaukee at Melbourne, Is still In the hospital at Des Moines, and it will be several days before he can be removed to his home here. Among the Council Bluffs people sojourn ing at Hot Springs are Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Fogarty, Paul Shephard, Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Burgess and Antonio Flxa of the Grand hotel. Thomas and Timothy Henly of Avooa were due to reach there Friday evening. Walter Relmer. the 19-year-old son of F. W. Kelmer, 345 Scott street, while hunting in the vicinity of Big lake Saturday after noon, was shot in the chest by the acci dental discharge of a small rifle he was carrying. It is not thought the wound will prove serious. Paul Blackburn, a colored crippled news boy, and Ben Gallnskl, two gallery gixls, became Involved In a fight at the New theater, which was continued on the street. Oiillnskl used a knife, nearly severing Blackburn's ear from his head A warrant has been issued for Callnskl's arrest. H. V. Battey, clerk of the district court, has declined to fix the amount of the su persedeas bond which James F. Burns will be required to file In the appeal taken from Judge Thornell's Tilling: denying the motion to transfer the Doyle-Bums suit from the law to the equity docket. It will now be up to the court to name the amount of the bond. Frank A. Celley, aged 46 years, died last evening at his home, 2930 West Broadway, from pneumonia, after a week's Illness. He leaves besides his wife one daughter and one son. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at St. John's English Lutheran church, conducted by the pastor, Rev. G. W. Snyder, and the body will be taken Wednesday morning to Slater, la., for Interment. Deceased was a mem ber of Omaha camp No, 120, Modern Wood men of America. Leon Loser, arrested late Saturday night on an alleged chnrge of perji.ry In connec tion with nls examination as to his prop erty before Judge Thornell, secured his re lease from the city Jail a.lxiut 4 o'clock yes terday morning A friend put up a certified check for $920 as bnll for nls appearance In the superior court this morning. When be fore Judge Thornell Saturday afternoon Loser claimed to have only $5. HO, but when searched at the city Jail the officers brought to light $30.15. A $20 bill fluttered out when linger was required to doff his nether gar ments. Superintendent C. F. Applegate of the State Hospital for Dipsomaniacs at Mount Pleasant, nas notified the authorities here of the escape from that Institution of G. L. Mayne. Mr. Mayne came here from Sioux Falls and was engagori in the business of life Insurance for about two months, when he suddenly left town. As he was not com mitted to the hospital from this city by the proper authorities It Is presumed that Mayne went there of his own accord. Mayne formerly lived In Lemars, and while here was known to be In financial straits. FORECAST OF THE WEATHER Fair Monday, with Colder In South east Portion of Nebraska, WASHINGTON. Feb. 2fi.-The forecast: For Nebraskiv-Falr Monday; colder in southeastern portion. Tuesday, fair. For Indlnna and Illinois Snow In north, rain and colder In south portion Monday, Tuesday, fair; fresh northeast winds. For Missouri Rain and colder Monday. Tuesday, fair. For Kansas Fair and colder Monday, Tuesday, fair. For Colorado Fair In south, rain and colder in north portion Monday. Tuesday, fair. For Wyoming-Fair Monday and Tues day. For South Dakota Fair Monday and Tuesday. For Iowa Fair In west, snow In east por tion Monday. Tuesday, fair. Loral Record. 'OFFICE OF THE WEATHER BUREAU. OMAHA. Feb. !. ( llli.lal record of temper, ature and precipitation, compared with the corresponding day of the last three enrs: 1!. 1904. 1903. 1902. Maximum temperature ..63 29 33 (S Minimum temrature ..,'37 Yl III 41 Mean temperature 4fi 2.) 32 M Precipitation T T ,P3 .CO Temperature and precipitation departures from the normal at Onittlia since March 1, and comparison with the last two years; Normal temperature , 7 Excess for the day V .... jg Total deficiency since March 1 27$ Normal preoipltatlon 113 inch Deficiency for the day 03 inch Precipitation since March 1 27.25 Inches Ieflclency since March 1 t.iik Inches Excess for cor. period, 190. .3. ... 1. 33 Inches Deficiency for cor. period, 19"3... 1.09 inches Reports from Stations ai T P. M. Maximum Tern- Tim- Station, and State perature tiers- of Weather. at 7 p. m. . ture. Rain fall. .u2 Bismarck, part cloudy.. 32 34 l heyenne, clear 34 44 'f Chicago, cloudy '.'8 3J .00 Davenport, snowing . . So 38 ,0J Denver, cloudy 44 52 ' T Havre, dear 48 54 .(1) Helena, cloudy 4i 5'' .ml Huron, part cloudy ,. 2h si .12 Kani City, char M M .w North l'latirt. pt. cloudy i 64 .11) Omalia, part cloudy .. 43 ii T Rapid City, clear S2 46 T St. 1-ouln, cloudy 41 50 .00 HI. Paul, clear 3D M . .1.1 Halt Ike City, clear.. 62 54 .(0 Valentine, cloudy .... H) 4H ,nj Wlllixton, clear 40 4 .00 X lutik-ales trace of precipitation. ' A. WELSH, Local Forecaster. CAPTAIN IS OUT OF OFFICE Military Board Takes Action Regarding Commander of Toledo Company. UNABLE TO COLLECT CORPORATION FEES Work of Repairing Fire Damage at Capital Progressing Alomlnara Being; Ised In Decorating; Dome. (From a Staff Correspondent) DES MOINES, Feb. 28.-(Sneclal.) The position of captain of Company K of the Fifty-third regiment has been declared vacated by Adjutant General Thrift on the recommendation of the Board of Military Examiners. The recommendation is that while he may have the ability and compe tency he has not the qualifications and the efficiency. Beginning last year General Byers addressed several letters to Captain M. O. Ehert at Toledo calling his attention to the rules and statutes of the state re quiring a report at certain Intervals. There are a number of different kinds of these reports and none were turned In to the adjutant's office. After repeated let ters his attention was called to the stat utes In particular and he was told that the board of examiners would be asked to Investigate. Finally he was notified that the Inquiry would be made on a cer tain date. He was notified by telegram of a change to another date. Not a line or sign of a response was ever received from him. The examining board which met last week Inquired Into his case and found him Inefficient. He hadn't even gone to the trouble to draw the money to which his company was entitled. The recom mendation that the place be vacated was approved by the governor and the colonel of the Fifty-third will order an election soon to fill the place. Can't Collect Fees. No fees will be collected from corpora tions doing business in Iowa with a less capital stock named than they actually have. It Is discovered that under the Iowa laws there is no way of getting at such cases. The matter has been considered In the executive council before and out of the situation may grow a demand for better corporation laws at the next meet ing of the general assembly. . Leaves for Washington. Governor A. B. Cummins and Mrs. Cum mins left Saturday night for Washington to attend the Inaugural ceremonies and will attend the cabinet dinner to President and Mrs. Roosevelt given by Secretary and Mrs. Wilson, Tuesday evening. Adjutant General Thrift left the sanie evening, but will stop at his home in Dubuque. Deny Visit Is Political. 8. X. Way and Tom Way of Wesley, ard ent supporters of Governor A. B. Cummins, were in the city Saturday and called on the governor. They denied that their visit had any political significance and that It was business purely. Tom Way was the agent for the governor in the sale of some land near Wesley. Pnt oil Alumlnnui. Aluminum Is being put on the inside of the dome of the statehouse. The alumi num will be treated with raw s-eneca, and It Is claimed will deepen Into a rich gold and will last as long as gold leaf. The contract with Artist Garnsey calls for the dome to be covered with gold. Whether this means with a gold color or with gold leaf Is a question for the Capitol commission to settle. Prof. Charles A Cummlng, one of the members of the Capitol commission, says he understood the dome was to be covered with gold leaf. There will be a difference of several thousand dollars In the cost. The work of restoring the house chamber from the damage done by the flames has progressed to the state where the plaster will be put on Inside of the next few weeks. The celling, which Is all of firerrooflng. Is suspended from the roof of the building. In the center is a large celling light. Sixty five tons of steel and concrete are In the celling of the house chamber. The plan Is very much the same as formerly so far as the celling Is concerned, except that It is more modern and artistic. Three rows of electric Incandescent lights around the cell ing enhance the beauty. All the window casings, which formerly were of wooden construction, will now be of a material that hardens like fnnrhle. The steel lathing Is In place everywhere ready for the plaster. Violate Game Laws. C. A. Pugsley of Esthervllle has appealed to the supreme court the case In which he was convicted of unlawfully killing musk rats out of season. He entered the plea that they were a nuisance, but the district court sustained the decree and he has now appealed to the supreme court. The fines and costs already have reached $175. I. N. Salyers of Esthervllle has also appealed the case wherein he was convicted of hav ing five fish In his possession out of season. Fight for Consolidation. There Is to be a concerted effort on the behalf of the school men of the state to In fluence the legislative committee In favor of a board of control for the state educa tional Institutions. . The committee will meet soon at Ames and the school men of the state will argue before the committee that the strife between the state Institu tions could be done away with under a board of control to the benefit of all the colleges of the state, both financially and otherwise, and especially to the benefit of the state schools. It Is claimed that a fifth year's work at the State Normal was put on as a protection and defense to the argu ment of Brown of the State university, who inspected the high schools, that only State university graduates should have positions on the high school staff. that can be found of him. His second wife Is still In Portland. She Is In desti tute circumstances and Is being looked after by acquaintances. Masons of Portland first Interested them selves In ascertaining the whereabouts of the missing man. and now members of the organisation throughout the United States will be asked to take up the search. Donates Doctor Disappear. DOrai.AH. Wyo.. Feb. . (Special Tele gram ) Dr. Mortimer Jesurun, a pioneer and former mayor of this city, Is missing. He was returning from Des Moines and wired his mother from the Union Pacific depot In Council Bluffs, la.. Sunday after noon, February 19, and was expected home Tuesday. Since then all trace of him has been lost. Sickness or foul play Is feared Parties in Omaha and Council Fluffs are searching for him. A reward of $100 has been offered for Information as to what has become of him. His mother Is sick with nervous prostration. Deep Snow nt Aberdeen. ABERDEEN, 8. D.. Feb. 16. (Special Telegram.) About eight Inches of damp sr.ow fell here this morning. The weather Is mild. Grain will be greatly benefited. Some seeding has been done during the re cent fine weather. EXTENT OF INDIAN SCANDAL (Continued from First Page.) DISAPPEARS WITH LARGE ROLL Prominent South Dakota Mason Takes Train for Omaha and Is Not Seen A grain. SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., Feb. 26. -(Special.) Members of the Masonic organization throughout the United States have been asked to aid In the search for Nlcalous Krebs, for years one of the most prominent business men of South Dakota, who mys teriously disappeared last September. When last seen he had the sum of $7,500 In cash In his possession. His Immediate friends and relatives have endeavored to get some trace of him and had about decided to give up In despair, when It was believed that an appeal to Masons throughout the country would aid In locating him If still In the land of the living. The missing man Is a prominent Mason. He Is a member of Cmistantlne commandery of Salem S. D., of El Rlad temple of Sioux Falls and of the consist ory of Scottish Rite Masons of Yankton. Krebs, who was a widower, was married to his second wife In February of lost year. In May last himself and wife do parted for Oregon for the purpose of look ing over the country with a view to locat ing there. In June Krebs returned to South Dakota, closed up his business af fairs and on July 1 returned to Oregon, where he rejoined his wife, she meeting him at Portland, according to Instructions, which she received In a letter written from South s Dakota. They lived In Portland until August 31, when Krebs disappeared from that city. Several days later 'his friends at Salem, who did not expect to see him in South Dakota again so soon, were surprised at his appearance there. He reached that place about 8 o'clock' on the morning of September 6. Going) to a local bank where he had his money on. deposit he drew out the full amount, something over $7,500. At 1 o'clock that afternoon he boarded a southbound train' on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad, having purchased a ticket for Omaha. That Is the last trace the county Judge these ringleaders have been appointed the guardians of minor In dians, and the shameless robberies that took place In this line would be a revela tion to the world. "Jim Davis, an Indian, is In the peniten tiary. His afflicted mother signed a note of $1,000 to one of the speculators, who promised her that he would get him out. Ho got him out on parole lately and made him work and cut his winter wood. This Indian woman was made to sell her heir ship land, and this same speculator bought it. He then returned the Indian to the pen itentiary again with a promise to get him out again If his mother would sign another note to balance with the price he gave for her land. "Indians who are unwilling to give up their government checks are kept prisoners in the agency buildings until they are will ing to hand them over. "What effect, then, has the arrest and the conviction of saloon keepers and boot leggerswhat good does it doT Little at all. They are the tools of the ring. This ring will and must get others. If the offi cers were sincere and had their work at heart they would study the Indian situa tion, analyze the disease and apply the proper remedy. "I made a thorough study regarding these Indians and their situation, and It seems strange that In the prosecution of these saloon keepers' cases my evidence waa not needed. It seems that the head of the viper was not wanted; they only wanted to cut off a piece of the tail that would grow on again the bootleggers. Volumes could be written about these Indians and their scandalous abuses, but I feel satisfied that President Roosevelt and the New In dian commissioner, F. E. Leupp, will see that all scandals cease and that the offi cials will earn their salaries, and there will be no room for speculators, saloon keepers or bootleggers." TEN MEN INJURED IN MINE Gaa Explosion In Pit at Sonth HcAlester, Indian Ter ritory. SOUTH M" A LESTER, I. T.. Feb. 26. An explosion of gas in Sample mine No. 2 of the Great Western Coal and Coke company here Injured ten men, one of whom probably will die. The Injured are; John Murphy, pit boas, face and body burned and head scalded, probably fatal; J. L. Sample, head and arms burned, serious; Domlntck Farqulno, body burned; Bud Robblns, head and body burned; Grant Hare, hands burned; Jim Cristy, slightly burned; Frank Martin, X. 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