Omaha daily bee., 1902-03-10
IOWA MINERS WAGE SCALE
Conference in Des MONIES to Decide on
Terms Of Agreement.
STATE MEETING or THE UNrTARANs
Bill Ready for introduction an Begis-
Iature 60 Abolish the Trustee
system for Control of
Education.
nrnm a star Correspondent

NENONn u 90 SbAAtcH0I1Nh@N
DIES MONIES, March 9.-(SpeciaLl-
President Mitchell OF the United Nine
workers Of America is expected in Des
Moines tomorrow to attend = conference OF
the miners and operators to consider the
mine scale OF wages. The convention Of
miners has been In session the last week
and will be resumed on MoBday, there
| being about $50 delegates present, and
much detail work to be done. A confer
ence committee OF miners and operators has
| utterly failed to agree ,on the wage scale
because Of disagreements as to some minor
matters, and this will necessitate the TAX
ing up Of the question directly by the con-
~veption, which represents the entire dis
trict. The operators will convene here on
Tuesday. They have a compact organiza-
tion. The miners have Endorsed the move
meat to secure legislative action to require
inspection Of blasts In the mines and to use
other safeguards for the miners where shot
firing IL INDUCED In. A committee will be
named to act as an advisory committee N
matters Of legislation. A committee has
also been appointed to attend the state
federation meeting and complete the deal
for the reafnliation of the miners with the
state federation.
Conference 81 UnItarians.
A state meeting Of Unitarians is to be
held In Des Moires this week, commencing
Tuesday. The program includes q paper by
Judge @. 8. Robinson Of the State Board OF
Control, addresses by j. d. o. Powers OF
Sioux City, Margaret OImsted of Cherokee,
A. J. williams of Rock Rapids, Abram
Wyman OF Topeka, Kan, E. NJ. s.. Hodgin Of
Humboldt, Elizabeth Padgham Of Perry. D.
J. H. Ward OF Iowa City. Marion Shutter Of
Minneapolis. w. II. Pulsford Of Chicago,
Adolph Rossbacb Of Keokuk. johnson Brig
ham Of Des Moines; N. A. Haskell Of Du-
buque. Marie H Jenny of Des Moines, r. c.
southworth Of Chicago and H.. H. Grifith
of Des Moines. 1t is expected that Gov
ernor Cummins will also be present and
speak.
To Control the Colleges.
The bill has been prepared and is ready
for introduction in the Legislature to abolish
the trustee system for control OF state edu-
~cRtional institutions and place all OF them
under one board OF education consisting Of
three members, who shall be placed on .
salary. At present each Of the three educa-
tional institutions is manag by a board
consisting Of one member from each Of the
eleven districts, and some Of the boards
have exofncio members. so that about forty
persons have something to do with these
institutions. Inasmuch as the greatest
work Of these boards at the present time 10
in the matter of directing the building ana
rebuilding operations there is much COM
plant that the lawyers and scholars who
compose these boards are not competent TO
direct building operations. The work Of the
new Board Of Educational Control will be
along the line OF that Of the present Beard
OF Control. 1t has also been suggested that
the School for the Deaf and the College
for the Blip1 should be taken from the
group Of penal and charitable institutions
and be placed with the new board.
Killed I'm the Philippines.
According to a letter which Mr.. and Mrs.
Benjamin Bedford OF Sabula have received.
thsir son, George Bedford, was killed in
the island Of Samar, with fifteen comrades,
while bravely fighting the Fihpinos. The
last heard OF young Bedford he was in
San Francisco, and wrote home that he
intended to enlist in the army and go to
the Philippines. Nothing more was heard
Of him until the letter came from the War
department informing the aged parents OF
the death OF their son, who was a member
Of Company z, Ninth United States infantry
Gypsum Trust Wins.
Tue attorney general OF Iowa decided that
the secretary of state could charge the
United States Gypsum company only 81, 900
for fling its articles Of incorporation in
Iowa, holding that inasmueh as the articles
were in fact filed before the bill taking
of the limit Of fees had become q law, the
larger fee OF $500 could not be exacted.
II the bill had been handled promptly the
state would have been enriched by IS, 500.
The secretary OF state did not accept the
articles until after the bill had become a
law, on account Of a defect In the same.
Dies az Soldiers Home.
Alfred B. Cox. aged II years. and an in
mate OF the Soldiers Home, died at Mar
shalltown as the result OF consumption.
Mr.. Cox was born in Lafayette. Ind, July
16, 1880. He came to the home from
Shelby on June %. 1891. He served in Com
pany c, Sixteenth Iowa infantry, from No
Vember 81. 1851. to November 20, 1864. He
has q family, but their whereabouts is
unknown. when application for admission
to the home was made he gave in
struction to notify his brother. d. NJ. Coz
Of Shelby. A telegram to the brother al
that place Was returned with the explana-
ton that he had been dead for two yearR.