TIIK0fAiTA SUNDAY BEF,: AFIUTi 2.
Council Bluffs
Minor Mention
The Council Bluffs Office of
The Omaha Bee Za at IS Scot
fetreel. Both Faonaa 43.
I'avts, drugs.
CorrlKuna, under! akers Phones 141.
For Fale-fi-ronm house. "23 Sixth Ave.
FAUST BEKR AT ROGERS' BUFFET.
Woodilna. I'ndrrtnklnif company. Tel. 339.
Lewis Cutler, funeral director. I'hone 7.
r RK aoLU wkddinq kings lef-
KERT H
Hunters, take notice! Pee J. J. Klein
Co. for pi:re whlsiy
Have your spring framing; done now.
Fauble All Slop, Xkl Hroadway.
tee the rew 1911 nail paper pattern at
Horwlck a. .11 South Main street.
Oculists' prescriptions, actin atoly filled
the iimi day at i.ef tert s Big Jewelry
fctore.
Have your glasses fitted or repaired by
J. W. Terry, optician. 411 liroadway.
office with (Icorgo (iciner.
Uhlo Knox has returned from an extended
trip through Nehraska and Colorado look
ing after hid own private interests.
1 he 8. A. Pierce & Co. shoe aiore Is now
open for business at 'lull ntw location,
112 West iiroadway. between Pearl and
blxtb streeta.
Excelsior lodge No. 269, Ancient Free
and Accepted Masons, will meet In apodal
communication this evening at 7:30 o clock
for work on the third degree. All master
Masons are Invited to attend.
Airs. Lucy Kimball, mother of City Solici
tor Kimball, la aerloualy 111 with pneu
monia, bhe has passed the critical point
of the disease, however, and her friends
anticipate her speedy recovery.
Nearly every school teacher In Council
71luffe went to Atlantic yesterday to take
part In the meeting of the Southwestern
Iowa Teachers' association. Attendance Is
not compulsory, but the teachers get cred.ti
that are desirable.
Captain I.. U. Cousins will have for
Washington, D. C, tomorrow to resume
his duties as one of the doorkeepers of
the house during the approaching extra
session. He has charge of the special gal
lery reserved for the families and friends
of the members.
Miss Maggie Sherman, for many years
one of the most faithful and efficient mem
bers of the public library force, has re
signed her position to take a more de
sirable one elsewhere. Miss Sherman did
her laat work at the library last nlgnt.
There are several applicants for appoint
ment to the vacant place.
Thomas Kelley, more than 60 years of
age and In a seriously Impaired physical
and mental condition, was sent to Jail for
ten days yesterday by I'ollce Judge Sny
der. He was not asked to plead to the
charge of Intoxication. A continuation of
the protracted drunk be was Indulging In
plainly meant death. It Is doubtful, how
ever. If the Jail sentence will save his life.
A heavy sale of tickets for the play,
"Paid In Full," at the Dohany on Monday
night Insures a substantial addition to the
benefit fund for Mrs. Clarence Wool man.
Manager Mooney has agreed to donate 10
per cent of the proceeds. Sheriff McCaf
frry and other friends of the dead officer
are boosting the sale of tickets and the
probability Is that the excellent play wil;
be presented to a crowded house.
Mrs. Stuart McCall has returned to the
home of her relatives at Macon, Mo., with
the Intention of making a lengthy visit.
The handsome home of Dr. and Mrs. Mc
t all on Oakland avenue has been advertised
for sale. Dr. McCall bought the property
from VV. F. Bapp last summer and expended
nearly H.0O0 In remodeling It, and It be
came the first home of the young people
following their marriage less than a year
ago.
Frances Elizabeth Brock, aged 4 years,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Brock, died
at their home. 2220 Leavenworth street,
Omaha, Thursday night. The body was
brought to this city yesterday and taken
to the home of the grandmother, Mrs. Fran
ces Smith, 206 Washington avenue. The
death of the little girl followed an acute
attack of bronchitis after only two days'
Illness. The funeral will be held Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the residence
of the grandmother. Rev. Edgar Price will
officiate. Burial will be in Walnut Hill
cemetery.
SATURDAY SPECIALS Hams! Hams!
Diamond C hams, per pound, 16c. Lrge
. sweet oranges, regular Wo size, today, 3uc.
1 Fancy red apples, per peck, 90c. Fresh
tomatoes, per iound, 10c. New spinach, per
pound, lliVtc Whole cheese, little daisies,
rer pound. l'Vic Full cream white New
Ycrk cheese, per pound, 20c. Early Ohio
seed potatoes, per bushel, $1.35. Can apri
cots, peaches and pears, per can, 15c. Do
your own baking. Flour la cheap. Waah-brrn-Crosby
Gold Medal, per sack, $1.60.
I Ureen's I.lly Cream flour, nothing better,
per sack, 11.35. Once used, always used.
L Green. i:H Broadway. Tel. 324.
THE PORT OF MISSING MEN." a play
from Meredith Nicholson's exciting novel
of the same name., Is easily one of the
most delightful romances that we have had
In any day. A story that does not pretend
to be historical, but that none the less
shews us the way 'in which modern his
tory may be made, and probably sometimes
Is made. The hero Is John Armltage, a
young Austrian wno has become Ameri
canized and the owner of a western ranch.
From Europe to Washington to Vlmlnia
one follows Armltage, and there unon Vir
ginia soil the last battle Is fought for a
r.uropean tnrone. one Is uncertain to the
very last who Armltage really Is: the action
Is quick and decisive. In this age of prob
jems anc psyenic siuoy, a clean, nealtnv
play like this, where right la painted whlto
and wrong black, and people live and work
with certainty In their minds. Is refresh
inn. "The Port of Missing Men," with
Hugo H. Koch In the part of John Armlt
bk. will be seen at the Dohany theater
r-upday matinee and night.
Drink Budwelaer, King of Hottiia Beera
TRANSFER Fa1l0N RECORD
j
fall Off la Middle of Month and Do
ot Mel the Kx peeled
Mark.
County Recorder Barghausen was con
siderably disappointed when the real estate
transfers began to fall off after the middle
of the month and made It certain that
March, 1911, would not set a new record
for number and consideration of filings,
leaving March, a year ago, still the banner
month.
There were 354 Instruments filed for
record dining the month with a total con
sideration of $1. 4,331.6, while for the same
period laat year the total filings amounted
to 401 deeds, involving the transfer of
$2,171,547.17 worth of property for the month.
At the beginning of March this year the
transfers ranged around the $l0u.0u0 a day
rite regularly, frequently being mure than
twice that amount, but the last halt of
the month there was a decided and perma
nent drop.
The sales of city property were heavy
throughout the month, but the big trans
actions were all In Pottawattamie county
land, the average prl?e of all the sales
being far above $1U0 per acre.
Following Is the report of the transfers
of yesterday made by the Pottawattamie
County Abstract company:
Alma Sheets and husband to Charles
L. Bolton, e. 60 acres nwV i;-74-
. w. d $ 6.S00
V. C. Ixugre and wife to J. W. Tlm
beiman. kits i and In block 24 in
Kiddie a aubd. In Council Bluffs, w.
d I.0UO
Lillian 1. Slaughter and husband to
Carroll W. Kimball, lot t In block 2
in Squires' add. to Council Bluffs.
- w. d LOuO
Manila S. tioold and husband to
Charles Horn, lots 1 and 2 In block (
In I. vans' second add. to Council
Hluffe. w. d MM
Andrew Knudsen and wife to Walter
Knudaen. lota 1 1 and I in block
2." In Benson s first add. to Council
Bluffs, w. d 400
F. J. Duerr and wife to Isaiah Hoosa,
lot in block 12 In Everett s add.
to Council Bluffs, w. d I IM
N. F. l Jenkins and wife to Sophia
E. Thompson. e"- 24-74-44, w. d. 1
F U Jenkins and husband to Sophia
i; Thompson. nl seV and n. 16
acres sw seV 24-74-44, w. d I
Total, eight transfers
.$10.S6$
K Y Plumbing Co. Tel. :50. Night LrlTOt
Council Bluffs
EARNINGS ARE ESTIMATED
Engineer Williams Make Hypotheti
cal Draft for Water Court.
QUESTIONED ABOUT RIGHT RATES
Declares Karnlna Xufflctent on Pur
chase at 700,MM to Make Im
provements .Needed and to
Cnrrr fiances.
For the purpose of showing the earning
value of the city's water plsnt nnd In
cidentally to encourage the advocates of
municipal ownership. Engineer Benezette
Williams submitted to the condemnation
court yesterday morning a hypothetical
statement of the earnings of the plant
during the next year If taken over by the
city, If the city pnld the price of $700.ooo
for the plant as It stands today and then
spent Uto.ooo In making Improvements and
additions.
Mr. Williams spent many hours In prepar
ing his statement and told the court that
he would stake his reputation as a
hydraulic engineer upon the soundness of
his conclusions and the correctness of his
figures. Mr. Williams' statement, now n
part of the official record of ttie case, fol
lows: YEAR 191L
Private revenue $ 5.0n0
Service city buildings 4,500 $ 99,500
Interest on $7u0,ti00 at 6 per
cent 35,000
Operating expenses 44.1)
Depreciation fund 3.000- 82,000
Surplus $ 17,500
YEAR 1912.
Private service revenue $100,000
Service city buildings 4. 50 $104,500
interest $700,000 at o per cent 3ft.ooo
Operating expenses 45 000
Depreciation fund 3,000 83.000
Surplus $ 21,600
YEAH 1913.
Private revenue S107.5X
Service city buildings 4.600 $112,000
interest $I,OjO.Oi0 at 6 per cent 62.500
Operating expenses 60,090
Depreciation fund 4.600 107,000
Surplus $ 6,000
TEAR 1914.
Private revenue $115,000
Service city buildings 4.500 $119,600
Interest $1,060,000 at 6 per cent 62.600
Operating expenses 60.000
Depreciation fund 4.6oO 107.000
Surplus $ 12,600
Totals surplus for four years. $55,600.
In not exceeding six years, the surnlus
will amount to $25,000 per annum, an
amount which If set aside every year at
interest oi 4 per cent will In twenty-five
years equal the whole capital sum of
11.060,000.
Mr. Williams was on the stand all day
yesterday and was closely questioned about
the proper rates to be charged when the
plant becomes municipal property. He said
his statement was based altogether on the
rates now in force, and Included the free
use of the fire hydrant service, water for
street flushing and sewer cleaning, and
all of the public uses now enjoyed. It
also Included the interest on the necessary
amount of bonds to buy the plant at a
valuation of $700,000 and enough more to
make the required extensions and Improve
ments, and that at the end of the first
six-year period it would yield a profit of
$26,000 to the city annually.
The estimate created a great deal of
Interest and will undoubtedly have con
siderable effect upon the pending negoti
ations. Drink Budwelaer, King of Bottled Beera
NEWSBOY ESCAPES WITH LIFE
W. A. Jonea Jolted Off Train and Car
Wheel Strikes Head Glancing;
Blow.
W. A. Jones, a well-known Burlington
newsboy, residing at 700 South First street,
hud a thrilling narrow escape from being
killed Instantly by a Burlington train at
an early hour yesterday morning. The es
cape was so close that the brim and side
of his hat were sheered off, together with
several tuftt. of hair from the sido of his
head.
The accident occurred on the Burlington
main line between Eleventh and Sixteenth
streets, when Jones fell from the train In
some unexplained manner. He has been
In poor health for some time and had quit
work for the purpote of going to Excelsior
Springs, Mo., for a short rest. None of
the train crew saw him leave the coach
of the train which pulled out from the
transfer at 11:16 o'clock. He was not
missed and nothing was known of the acci
dent until he was found lying by the aide
of the trsfks at 12:30. The city ambulance
took him to the police station, where he
received such excellent treatment that he
was able to walk home. He sustained a
number of painful bruises about the head
and face. He said that he fell from the
platform as it swung around the curve
and he rolled toward the track and stopped
with his head partially on the rail. The
wheel struck only a glancing -blow, shov
ing his head away and smashing his hat.
DAVENPORT MAN SENDS
LETTERS THINKING IT SAFE
V. C. Stelnhnnser Admits tain Mails
to Make Threats Aajalnst Mayor
of City.
DAVENPORT. Ia.. April l.-(Special
Telegram.) "I admit It. but I swear I
would not a done It If I'd knowed I would
get ketched." This was the confession of
Vincent C. Stelnhauser, a Davenport tailor,
arrested today for sending obscene and
threatening letters to Mayor Alfred C.
Mueller of this city.
Mayor Mueller turned the letters over to
Postal Inspector C. E. Stewart of Iowa
City, who traced the missives to Steln
hauser. I'nlted States Commissioner A. O.
Push bound Stelnhauser over to the federal
grand Jury.
PRIZES GIVEN TO SPEAKERS
Jndg-ea Make Awards to Contestants
at t.leoiTood Uerlninatory
Meetlaar.
OTJCNWOOD. uT, April 1. -(Special
Telegram.) Prises were bestowed by the
Judges tonight In the declamatory contest
that took place between participants from
Adair. Afton. Anita. Casev, Corning. Glen
wood. Garden Grove. Greenfield. Grlswold.
Outhrle Center. Malvern and Valley Junc
tion aa follows:
Oratorical-First. David C. Caasat. Corn
Uon feC"n''' Flor"nc Heath. Valley Junc-
Dramatic-Flrst. I.ulu Applegate. Outhrle
Center: second Cella Wagner. Anita.
iiunioroua rirst. t.ypsv Alexander. Grls
wold; second. Grace Butler, Afton.
GOVERNMENT BUYS NEW SITE
sernrea Lot nt Bnffalo, W;o on
Which to K.rert Sew a 7,000
Pnstof flee.
WASHINGTON. April l.-(Speclal Tele
gram ) The secretary of the treasury ha
selected the site for the public building to
be erected at Buffalo, Wyo., located at
the northeast corner of Bennett and Main
streets. The owner Is Fred U. 8. Hess and
the price paid la $7.0u0.
Railway Mail School
Raided on Charge of
Defrauding Students
Prominent Railroad Officers on List
of Directors of Concern Which
Advertises Jobs,
NEW YORK. April I. Detectives, act
ing at the Instance of postofflce Inspectors,
raided the offices of the Hallway Educa
tional association In Brooklyn this after
noon and arrested Georpe W. Baker, presi
dent of the enterprise, on a charge of using
the mails to defraud. Paul J. Gallagher
and John A. Jenkins, secretary and direc
tor, were arrested later. Baker was re
leased under $.ri.0i hall and his colleagues
were paroled for examination Monday.
Baker issued a statement late tonight
saying that a banking firm of international
repute and many railronds were stockhold
ers In his company and endorsed his work.
The object of his association, he said, was
the instruction by mail of trainmen anil
men about to enter railroad service, espe
cially firemen and engineers.
Baker also made public what he says Is
a list of the directors of the association,
which includes J. J. Held, master mechanic
of the Missouri Pacific railway, and sev
eral road foremen and engineers of the
Vandalla, Baltimore & Ohio and New York
Central railroads. The corporation direc
tory for 1910 confirms this list and gives
other well-known railroad men as direc
tors. Postofflce Inspectors confiscated nearly
hlf a ton of advertising matter and 540
letters. They allege that the concern ob
tained students by advertising for brake
men at $0 and firemen at $100 a month.
The association had also opened what It
termed recruiting offices, the Inspectors
claim, in Chicago, St. Paul. Denver De
troit, Boston and Milwaukee.
Lobeck Picks His
Washington Office
Congressman from Second Nebraska
Selects His Headquarters at
the Capital.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, April 1. (Special Tele
gram.) Representative C. O. Lobeck of
Omaha arrived In Washington today, ap
peared at the capltol and has esconced
himself In No. 120 house office building.
Senator Brown today called upon Presi
dent Taft to pay his respects. The senator
is himself authority for the statement that
Mr. Taft took him somewhat Into his con
fidence, explaining reasons for action In
mobilizing troops along the Mexican fron
tier. Mr. Brown, while not feeling at lib
erty to repeat all the president had said,
admitted that he had been thoroughly con
vinced that the president had taken a
course that, when the time to publicly pro
claim thla delicate situation arrived, would
meet with hearty approval from everyone
without regard to political divisions. Sena
tor Brown Is making an effort to Induce
the committee on committees to give him
an assignment upon the Judiciary com
mittee and expresses himself aa being very
hopeful, of success.
Farmer's Wife Falls
Heir to Half Million
Mrs. 0. A. Edg-ar of Avery Will at
Once Benefit from S&vings of New
York Bank Clerk.
EDGAR, Neb., April 1. (Special Tele
gram.) One-fifth of the fifty-years' ac
cumulations of Charles F. Hoffman, who.
during a half century, was confidential
cWk of Brown & Co., bankers of New
York, will go at once to Mrs. O. A. Avery,
wife of a well-to-do farmer, near here.
News has been received that Hoffman's es
tate of $2,500,000 has been ordered divided
by a New York court and Mrs.' Avery's
eldest son will leave early next week for
New York to place proper proofs of his
mother's right. She Is 60 years of age and
has a family consisting, besides her hus
band, of four sons and one daughter.
Hoffman was a cousin of Mrs. Avery.
Police Get April Fool
Little Ahead of Time
Wild Chase After Supposed Murderer
Proves to Be with Little
Foundation.
The police had their first of April sprung
a few hours ahead of time last night when
M. F. Boyd of 2939 outh Twenty-eighth
avenue telephoned that three Italians had
killed a boy at Twentieth and Hickory
streets.
Captain Dempsey, with a squad of police
end reporters, rushed to the place to find
the supposed victim, K. Sinclair, 2073 Castel
lar, ready to tell how It all happened.
Sinclair is a youth of 17. Walking down
Twentieth street near Hickory he met Miss
Fssle Nelson, with whom be passed the
compliments of the evening. A Jealous
Italian, he said, lurking near resented his
favor in the woman's eyes and made a
vicious attack. M. F. Boyd, a passing rail
road man. saw the attack and his fears
magnified the Irate Italian into three black
handera. When the police arrived the
Italian had disappeared. Sinclair says he
would know the man If he saw him again.
ANIMALS NOT INJURED IN
FIRING AT THESAN MARCOS
Secretary Meyer Replies to Protests
from societies for Prevention
of C'raelty.
WASHINGTON, April l.-Protests hav
ing been received by Secretary of the Navy
Meyer from the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals because live chick
ens and cats were aboard the old battle
ship Texas during the recent target prac
tice In Chesapeake bay, the secretary has
replied that there was no cruelty to the
animals.
The chickens and cats which were on the
San Marcos, as the Texas is now called
were carried off after the filing by blue
Jackets from the various vessels of the
fleet. They are being honored as heroes
who have gone through the thick of a big
battle and won glory for themselves.
There was considerable rivalry among
the various ships, each being anxious to
obtain one of theae valuable mascots.
Secretary Meyer also replied to a com
munication from Senator Perkins of Cali
fornia, chairman of the senate naval af
fairs committee. In which the latter s.ii.1
he had been receiving protests because the
San Marcos, formerly the battleship Texaa.
had been used for experimental purposes
Mr. Perkins asked if this was not a waste
of money.
Secretary Meyer told Senator Perkins in
his reply that the San Marcos would have
been nothing better than a "death trap"
If It bad been put into an actual battle.
The vessel, he sa d. was obsolete In design
and the experiments. In his p:nin. Mere
I VI lr B " uvj irittn COUIll
have been accomplished in any other way.
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FINAL RUSH ON IN IOWA
Legislature Getting Ready to Close Up
Its Work.
SENATE GETS SIFTING COMMITTEE
Two lloasea at Deadlock Orer Method
of Appolntlnst Commerce ((inn.
el Cdnnt Innal Ap
pointees Confirmed.
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
1KS MOINES. April 1. (Special Tele
pram.) The senate made a start for the
conclusion of the legislature this afternoon
by authorizing the appointment of a slft
lns committee to be named by the president
tomorrow afternoon, this committee to "take
over all unfinished business and report
Mils at will.
The five-mile limit bill and a bill to
abolish the offices of printer and binder
Wfre made special orders for tomorrow.
The senate and house have locked horns
o i the manner of appointment of a com
merce counsel for Iowa to take charge of
all rate cases. The office Is to pay $5,000
a year and the house wants the appoint
ment to be made by the railroad commis
sion, but the senate Insists upon appoint
ment by the executive counsel. A confer
ence committee was ordered today.
The senate this afternoon confirmed the
appointments of Messrs. Funk, Foster and
Pnker as members of the State Educational
board, which appointments were made some
time ago.
Appropriation Fat I ma tea.
Senator Mattes, chairman of the commit
tee on appropriations, today placed upon
the desks of members of the senate a
statement as to the appropriations asked
and the available funds. The total of ask
ings In the various bills was $3, 720. 688. 0.
This Includes the estimate on some of the
bills where the exact amount that would
be used is not known. The funds a rail
able aggregate only $1,600,000. The com
mittee has already recommended out bills
aggregating $299,006.65. Then there has al
ready passed the two houses bills which
did not go through the hands of the ap
propriations committee which will aggre
gate $94,700 of expense.
Change of Superintendents.
Miss Garrison, superintendent of the
state industrial school for girls at Mltchell
ville, has been superceded by Mrs. Lucy M.
Slckels of Milwaukee. Miss Garrison was
in charge of that Institution at the time of
the outbreaks of two years ago which
resulted in having the character of the
institution changed and made more of a
penal institution. It was largely through
her that Chairman Cownle of the board
was deposed. Some time ago a committee
of the legislature planned for an Investiga
tion, but was Induced to wait under prom
ise that she would not remain long.
Will Not Pay Convicts' Families.
The bill by Senator Smith of Shelby, to
require that the state make provision for
paying to the families of prisoners in the
penitentiary 60 cents a day while they are
employed and In case the prisoners are con
forming to the rules of the prison, was de
feated by the senate today. The bill re
ceived only sixteen votes. Objection was
made because of the expense Involved and
the necessity for a large appropriation.
Senator Smith urged it as a measure of
Justice to the families of the prisoners.
The railroad committee of the senate re
ported a substitute for the bill to so ar
range It that the switching ' charges at
terminal points of railroads . will not be
Interfered with by the mileage tariff rule
of the state. The bill leaves it within the
power of the railroad commission to auth
orize deviation from the rule within or
without terminal yards for a distance of
ten miles.
Will Not Shot Off Bills.
The house today discussed one phase of
the early adjournment question. It came
up on a resolution to require that after
tomorrow no bills of any kind, except
legalizing acts, shall be proposed In the
house. Attention was called to the fact
that two years ago some of the most Im
portant bills of the session came In during
the last week, also that the omnibus ap
propriation bill and others cannot be pre
pared until next week. The resolution was
defeated.
Five-Mile Bill Reported.
The senate committee on suppression of
Intemperance made Its report this morning
on the five-mile limit bill. The report
was to the effect that the bill be amended
so that Instead of applying only to Iowa
City It will apply to every city In which
there is a higher educational Institution
and that when so amended the bill be In
definitely postponed. The report was
placed on the senate calendar to await fu
ture action. Members of the senate are
receiving letters and telegrams galore in
regard to this bill and especially since It
has been amended so as to affect Des
Moines, Cedar Rapids, Sioux City and other
cities It will be bitterly opposed.
Passed ( larkson .Mine Hill.
The senate gigged back In Its attitude
toward the miners of the state and passed
the Clarkson bill for general revision of the
mine laws. The bill had been defeated by
a narrow vote and when Senator Oe Wolf
called up his motion to reconsider It was
adopted, after which the bill was passed,
33 to 14. The bill completely revises the law
as to coal mining.
House Committee Work.
The house flourished the meat axe this
morning and killed fifteen bills. During
the same half hour it placed on the calen
dar twenty-three bills, thus accomplishing
the largest morning's work of the session.
Among the Important bills that went the
guillotine route were Fraley's trade school
measure and Dabney's anti-lobby bill, upon
the latter there being a minority report.
Fletcher's bill for changing weights and
measures was put to sleep. Findlayson's
bill to create a commission to draft all the
bills was killed In committee and later by
the house. Senator Ream's plan of giving
tho supervisors power to "farm out" county
prisoners at day labor was rejected, and
an Important alteration waa made In Klay's
bill to create three additional supreme court
Judgeships. The bill waa altered to pro
vide for the election of three new Judges
In the 1912 elections Instead of appoint
ment by the governor. A substitute bill
for Bowman's bank examiners measure was
offered, under the terms of which the head
examiner will receive $2,000 per year and
each of the examiners will be expected to
show proof of five years' practical experi
ence In the banking business.
The senate discussed at length the Allen
bill to create a separate board for osteo
paths. It was urged by him and Van Law
and others as a measure to raise the
standard and to give the osteopaths a legal
standing and recognition in the state, lirs
Bennet and Chapman opposed the bill, and
it waa declared that the sole purpose of
the osteopaths Is to secure a board that
will cut out some of the requirements now
imposed by the State Board of Medical
Examiners. The adverse report of the
committee was defeated, after which Ben
net offered a substitute which had come
up from the office of the State Board of
Health. The whole was then made a spe
cial order for next Tuenday.
The senate placed un the calendar with
out recommendation fron the lurilclnrv
committee the various bills fo" tit lities and
public service commissions and .r ater
power to cities, by Senators Van l aw. J
Sammls. Francis and Htilllvnn. nnd it
agreed they may he considered In the order 1
of their numbers The committee was un-
willing to recommend anv of thesf bills. '
Hnslnea Mm Ornanlse.
The business men of the cities, cspcc nlly
of eastern Iowa, are planning for nn as
sociation to look after the manufacturing
and business interests of the state. Robert
Carson of Iowa City Is at the heiid of the
movement and several preliminary confer
ences have been held here the Inst two
weeks, and a general meeting will be held
before the close of the ses.-ion. About
twenty were here yesterday and save the
matttr some consideration. Their plan Is
to work along non-purtlsan lines for the
purpose of securing the election to the
legislature of good, conservative men who
will consider all Interests fairly.
('hnna-cB front on llltl.
The house took it all back on th lllcken
looper bill to require that nil miners who
shall hereafter come Into the state shall be
certified by a mine board as competent.
The bill was passed some dnys ago and
today reconsidered, nnd on the socond roll
call was defeated. The bill was attacked
as tending to form a monopoly bv the unl. n
miners in control of the mine woik In thc
state.
BLOOM SAYS SAW SPARKLER
Relieves Nfro Tried to Sell 11 Int.
Valuable tiem for "mall
Som.
Smith Haines, a negro railroad porter, of
Fourteenth and Cass streets offered what
appeared to be a steel blue diamond Worth
$750 to Max Bloom for $10. Bloom, who
keeps a rooming house at 614 North Six
teenth street, believes he knows a diamond
when he aees one and struck by the con
duct of the negro he notified the police.
Haines waa arrested at Thirteenth and
Davenport by Officer D. C Rich. When
searched at the station the diamond was
not found on him. The police will Institute
an Investigation.
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Labor Questions
Before Mass Meeting
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Number of Speakers Present Union
Problems to Large Gathering in
Lyric Theater.
Oetained In the south. Samuel (Jnmpers,
president of the American Federation of
lwlor, was unable to address the labor
meeting held last night at the Lyric
j theater.
I Addresses were made by C. M. Felder,
j national organiser of the American Fed
j eratlon of Labor; T. W. McCullough. Rev.
3. A. Jenkins. S. K. lleherllng, first inter
1 national vice president of the Switchmen's
union, nnd Rev. D. K. Jenkins. George F.
j Norman, president of Central Labor union,
president.
C. M. Felder spoke on the necessity of
labor organization In the I'nlted States.
He said the children In the southern mills
were worse than slaves and pictured
economic conditions In the darker shade.
I Colonel T. W. McCullough spoke In de
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He explained to the audience Just what
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men profits were Increased enormously
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With a message of hope to the struggling
labor unions the speaker closed In a round
of applause.
The lighter numbers of the program were
composed of some tomedy sketches by
Jack McKenna. The Misses Martha and
Jennie Brltton, two young Scotch lassies,
delighted the audience with their rendition
of the highland fling and the sword dance.
They were accompanied on the bagpipes
by George McOougall. The Nonpareil
quartet closed the meeting with some old
negro melodies.
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i TWENTIETH CENTURY
FARMER.
DttJL-0MA1IA' NHU-
METHODISTS PLAN CHANGES
Would Do Away with the District
Superintendents.
BIGGEST MOVE SINCE WESLEY
Laymen Join Hands with tn York
Conference In Keeking to Pot
Thronah Proarnm Involving;
Radical Developments.
NEW YORK. April 1 The Laymen's
ass. Hist Ion of the Methodist Episcopal
church of New York. meeting simul
taneously with the New York conference,
voted by a large majority this afternoon
to petition the general council to establish
diocesan bishops, abolish district superin
tendents or presiding elders, rearrange
conference boundaries throughout tha
I'nlted States, give Iny members repre
sentation In annual and general confer
ences and extend the terms of pastorate
from two to five years.
This program It Is understood, embrace
the most radical changes confronting
Methodism since the days of John Wesley,
and marks, it Is said, the beginning of a
far-reaching campaign in which the sup
port of every similar organization and an
nual conference prior to the general con
ference In Minneapolis In May, 1912. will b
sought. Each conference will be asked
to Join In the petition.
"The office of district superintendent I
unnecessary, expensive and a thing of the
past," reads the resolution adopted today.
DR. CYRUS NORTHROP RETIRES
President of t'nlverslty of Minnesota
Makes Farewell Address
to 'Indents.
MINNEAPOLIS. April l.-Cnncludlns)
his valedictory to his students with prayer
and In tones that faltered from deep emo
tion, Or. Cyrus Northrop laid down the
mantle of president of the University of
Minnesota today and became president
emeritus. Dr. Northrop was presented by
the students with a silver service. lr.
George Edgar Vincent, the new president,
will arrive tomorrow.
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