Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-02
ANOTHER CASE OF SMALLPOX
Young Man at Corning is Victim of the
Loathsome Disease.
AUTHORITIES ESTABLISH A QUARANTINE
Governor aud Adiutnnt General Go to
Washington to Present to Con-
Ercss Iown's War Claims
Victim of Gas.

| DES MONIES, Dec 1.-(Special Tele-
| gram )-Smallpox has not yet been stamped
out of Iowa The State Board OF Health
was today informed that Dean Maltby, a
young man at Corning, Adams county, is a
victim of the disease. DIR. McKlveen of
Charlton of the State Board of Health was
called to Corning by wire from DR.. Salts,
health officer of the town, and upon exam
ination found, he says a real case of small
pox. The local Board OF Health was called
together and established rigid quarantine
at once. There had been several exposures
all of which are quarantined The eX
/, posure is supposed to have been in Storm
Lake, where young Maltby spent night
recently on his way home from Minnesota.
Adjutant Byers was to have gone east to-
night to present to congress Iowa's war
claims, but he postponed his trip. There
are about $4,000 outstanding in claims,
about 100000 OF which will have to be es-
pecially appropriated. The other $4,000
only waits to be explained, by the adjutant
general before the auditor of the War de-
partment allows it. The former includes
guard equipment paid out of the state war
fund and the rental of the state fair grounds
as camp, the latter about $4,000. The $685.
600 covers $1,000 for transportation OF the
soldiers, $4,000 for hospital service and
small bills for repairing and cleaning
grounds, several boardbills, etc 1t is not
anticipated that there will be any trouble
in getting the appropriation allowed but
both Governor Shaw and Adjutant General
Byers will interest themselves personally
in the matter. The postponement of Byers'
trip is so that he may be in Washington at
the same time as the governor when the
latter goes to attend the meeting of the
committee appointed by the president to
arrange for the celebration of the CEN
tennial anniversary of the removal of the
seat of government to Washington.
Iowa Travelling Men.
The Iowa State Travelling Mems associa-
tion meets here tomorrow in it's nineteenth
annual session. 1t is believed that all the old
officers will be reelected. Important
amendments involving the age limit and the
secretary's salary will be considered. The
total losses paid out by the association since
the organization aggregate 1,557. New
members admitted during the first eleven
months of last year aggregated 751, while
this year the new ones number 1,751.
Judge Shiras of the federal court today
rendered decision in the long contested
case Of the federal government against Mrs
Catherine A. Davis Green of Winterset
Iowa. The decision is for Mrs. Green. The
amount in contest was $1,000. Four years
ago Charles Fullen, then United States dis
trict attorney. brought suit against Mrs.
Davis Green to recover $1,000 which the
government had, paid her in small sums of
pension money. The government claimed
that the pension was obtained by crooked
measures. Mrs. Davis Green had been di-
vorced from her former husband, James
Davis, by the decree of a law court in Utah.
Then she came back to Iowa and married
Cyrus Green. a veteran of the civil war.
Green did not live long after his marriage
and his widow was soon drawing a COM
Portable pension. Fullen entered a vigorous
protest. Utah divorce. Fullen argued in
behalf of the government, was not effective
in Iowa. Mrs. Davis Green's attorneys
maintained that Utah divorce was as good
and as binding as one granted in any other
state. The burden of proof was on the gov
ernment. Failing to prove that the divorce
was ineffective the government lost it's case.
Samuel j. Kratzer Of Milroy, Penn, died
at Mercy hospital today as result of blow
ing out the gas in his room at the Graefe
hotel. Twenty dollars in money, a trunk
check and watch were found upon Krat-
zer's clothes The check was over the Rock
Island and had been made out at Omaha
Although parties from whom he had re-
ceived letters were notified regarding his
condition at once no word has been received
from them.