Omaha daily bee., 1899-02-18
SEVEN FEETOF PAVING STONE
Street Car Companies Must Furnish that
Amount Along Their Tracks.
NEW ROAD MAY BE BUILT TO NEWTON
Iowa Central and santa Re Will Thus
he Given Entrance TO the city
Five Well Equipped Companies
of National Guard Formed.

DES MONIES, Feb. 17.-(special Tele-
granular important decision was rem
dered in the district court today relative
to the amount of paving street car COM
panies must pay for. The property owners
on Ninth street here insisted that the com
pany must pay for seven feet instead or
five and in a test case on the matter the
court go decides. The court holds that the
intent OF the legislature was that the street
car company must pay for paving the space
between their rails and for a foot on each
side. The case will be carried to the su-
preme court. Every city in Iowa having
| paved streets and street cars will be in
terested.
Fifty-seven undertakers appeared before
the State Board OF Health today to take
the examination for certificates provided for
in a law passed by the last session OF the
legislature.
The project to build a line from this city
to Newton, there to connect with the Iowa
7 Central and give both that road and the
Santa Fe entrance to this city, will be the
business before the next meeting OF the
Commercial exchange. There seems to be
no question but that the Commercial ex-
change will take a favorable view of the
situation, enlist the newspapers and people
in the project and push 1t to an end. 1t Is
probable that moneyed men of the city
will become interested in the project and
that a railroad company comprised OF local
people win be organized. The line rs to be
thirty-three miles in length.
Already the citizens Of Ottumwa have
taken a step in the matter and have or
! ganized a local company to project a line,
sixteen miles in length, to connect Wright
with Ottumwa and give them the Iowa
Central. 1t is also thought that the North
western can be induced to build a spur into
Wright and take trackage over the line from
Wright to Ottumwa. With this connection
the Fort Madison line (the Santa Fe) would
have g line through Newton and from there
would come over the projected line into this
city.
New National Guard Formed.
Adjutant General Byers has returned from
Washington, Ia, where he mustered in a
company Of the new national guard. He
has completed the organization of five com
panies and next week will muster in others
at Ottumwa, Fairfield and Fort Madison. The
five companies of the new guard, together
with their officers, are as follows:
Company E of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
men, thirty-eight being volunteers; Henry
C. Haynes, captain; Carleton w. Bradley,
first lieutenant; Glenn G. Haynes, second
Company H of Chariton-Forty men, ten
being volunteers; John s.. Howard, captain;
Israel N. Bowen, first lieutenant; Horace
G. Lorimer, second lieutenant.
Company c of Observation-Disclosures men
forty-two being volunteers; F. W. Bishop
captain; J. l.. Smoonk, first lieutenant
Charles Track, second lieutenant.
Company B Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS men
, all volunteers; d. C, Dalzell, captain; j. M
McManus, first lieutenant; Julius E. Pur.
meister, second lieutenant; all old officers
Dalzell was captain of the company in the
old guard and captain of the volunteer COM
pany and was unanimously reelected.
Company d of Observation-Disclosures
men, thirty-five being volunteers; Smith w
Brookhart, captain; James d. Glasgow, frs
lieutenant; Stanley Miller, second lieuten'
ant.
The State Board of Control went to Knox
vile this morning to investigate the charge:
that have been made against Superintendent
Culbertson of the Home for Feeble Minded
in that city.