Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

u per cent; COPYRIGHT, giving farmers
Institutes 500 each, instead OF $50; Hobart,
to create a complete new system Of work
ing roads, making the county the unit;
Hopkins, to repeal the law on teaching
music in public schools.
House ~Bills-Moore, increasing military
appropriation from $4,000 to $4,000 and
allowing $3.50, instead Of $3.50 for rent Of
armories; Keagey, approprtating $4,000 for
the Rescue Home at Dubuque; Sweeley, In
relation to conditional sales Of personal
property; Calderwood, allowing counties OF
10000 population or more to pay as high as
81, 1000 to county recorders; Buchanan, re-
ducing fee for itinerant physicians from
$3.50 to $3.50 a year; Buchanan, increasing
weight of bushel Of milletseed from fifty
eight to sixty pounds; Kolthoff, giving pay
to district agricultural societies; Langan Of
Clinton, q bill for a barber board and re-
curing that BARRIERS must be licensed;
Teachout, raising compensation Of county
supervisors from $3.50 q day to "a; Warren.
revising rules governing industrial schools.
Notice was given In the house that the
vote on the bill abolishing days OF grace
would be ~reconsidered. Both houses sd-
journed Until Monday. the house until 2
p. m. and the senate to 10 a. m.
uprem Court Decisions.
The supreme court today rendered the
following decisions:
D.. H. Talbot. appellant. against First
National bank Of Sioux CITY; Woodbury.
county &. S STass W W aI sSains sfn P ; Kelli-
her. appellant; Sac county, Judge Elwood;
HawEeye Insurance company against D.
p, Huston. appellant; Polk county, Judge
W. :. Newton, appellant, against J. F:
Templeman; Cass county Judge Sreehe'
J. T. S. Brown g Sons, appellants. against
:; u W SuSFs E 81 90; a reePRersed as I to Ge-
PENDANT, affirmed as to plaintiff.
Ldbbie Fink, by his next best friend, p Up,
County, Judge Holiness; affirmed.
Florence boucher against City of Sioux
city. appellant; Woodbury. county Judge
w a. smith and s. Cochran. appellants.
against Thomas; Harrison county Judge
Ellen Burlison against william Grunewalt
ct al. appellants; jackson county Judge
Cedar Valley Manufacturing company
against Frederick Standard. appellant;
Blackhawk county, Judge Plat; affirmed.
J. 8. Bockus against Henry LaT6augh:
appellant; Guthrie county, Judge sample
affirmed.
Pay Dear for Quail.
Two Lima county young men, Frank and
Henry Schultz, were arrested in Iowa county
for violation Of the game laws Of the
state, In that they were found with quail
in their possession which they had Just
killed. They were prosecuted by the state
game warden and were fined $3.50.
Dead ut Soldiers Home.
James L. Heaton, aged 6s. died at the
State Soldiers home, where he had been
but a few weeks. He went to the home
from Marion county in order to receive
treatment at the hospital as he was i'll from
what proved to be an enlargement Of the
liver. He was a member Of Company A.
Thirty-third Iowa infantry, and enlisted
at Knoxville in 1852. He leaves a son
az Marysville, Marion county; a son, Charles
'Heaton, in Jefferson county, Nebraska, and
a daughter, Mrs. Amanda Smith Of Omaha.
Form Corn Carnival Circuit
A peculiar association was formed at a
meeting held in Oskaloosa this week, being
en- association for a corn carnival circuit.
The cities represented were Oskaloosa, Ma
son City, Peoria and others, chiefly along
the line Of the Iowa Central. The cities
that leagued together nave been having
corn carnivals and found that their dates
often conflict so that they ind 1t hard to
secure proper exhibits. They will have a
circuit and arrange for attractions for their
carnivals In the fall. ALI the cities repre-
sented promise at this time that the next
caruivals will be perfectly clean and re-
spectacle. Fort Dodge, Burlington and
some other cities will join the associa-
tion.
FouAd Dead with Throat Cut.
J.. H. Moore Of Luther, Ia, committed
suicide in the Goldstone hotel In this city
last night. He was found by the police
on the street In a state Of intoxication and
they induced him to go to the hotel.
Nothing 10 now OF the mar and he = sup
posed to have nothiHg and to be without
property. This m~orning he was found dead
In his room with his throat cut with q
razor.
Mast Recognise OsteOpaths.
The State Board Of Health was directed
in an order by Judge Holmes OF the district
court issued today to issue a certificate tc
practice osteopathy to G. L. Parsons, a stu
dent Of Still college OF this city. The board
had refused to issue a certificate to Parsons
and another on the ground that the college
was not maintaining a course OF study up e
the requirements OF the board. The court
decided that the college was shown to have
come up to the requirements.
Foreign Companies Begin Suit.
Foreign insurance companies doing bus
mess in Iowa today began proceedings t.
influence the legislature on the bill to re
move discriminating tax on their business
They now pay 1 per cent more than the
domestic companies and 2 per cent more
than the Iowa companies. Today when ter
Of the foreign companies paid their taxei
TO the state treasurer they gave notice tina
they reserve the right to bring suit to re
cover the amount so paid. The state audi
tor refused to accept their certificates o
tax payments under such conditions and no
/ tined them he would not issue certificates
This will lead to a suit test OF the matter
The senate has a bill under consideration
to remove the tax discrimination and max
foreign companies pay the same as thos'
in the United States.
To Check SmalIpOx Epidemic.
The State Board of Health. in session a
the statehouse today. adopted a sweeping
r..oiutfon Swing fa committee appointel