Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-02
HORTON FOR ANOTHER TERN
Board of Control Reappoints 0%Ommandant
Of the Soldiers Home,
WOODWARD MAN SHOT At A CHARvARI
Conference on Religious Education
Commences at Ames Friday
Packing Company Has
Debtors Arrested.
tFrom a stafr correspondent


DIES MONIES, Dec. 1-(Special)-The
State Board Of Control today reelected
for a four-year term as commandant Of
the state soldiers home at Marshalltown
Colonel G. c.. Horton, who has been in
charge Of that home for about six years
and has given eminent satisfaction. The
terms are for four years and the present
term expires with the year. Colonel Horton
was in the city today and with members Of
the state board was engaged In buying fur
niture for some of the new buildings at
the home which are now nearly completed.
Owing to unusually favorable weather, the
work on the new buildings has so far pro-
crossed that all will be occupied this month
or next and the work will not be delayed
by the winter.
New corporations were chartered today
at the office of the secretary of state as
follows: Farmers and Merchants Telephone
company OF Washta, capital $40 900, by
James Robertson; Hill Siding Lumber COM
pany of johnson county, capital SIC, 900, by
Joseph Walker and others; Brooklyn Heat
ing and lighting company Of Brooklyn,
capital $4,000, by j. F, Hatcher and others;
Evans Car Coupler company of Burlington,
capital s25, 900, bu NJ. S. Evans and ]. M.
Viewer.
shot at n Charivari.
M. Burkhart of woodward, Ia, was
brought to the Methodist hospital here suf-
fering from a bullet wound in the hip. He
had received the wound while anticipating
in a charivari after the wedding Of his
sister in Woodward. 1t was not discovered
who fired the shot, but 1t was accidental
and there will be no prosecution. He sub
mitted to an operation here for the removal
Of the bullet and will get well.
Julius Baker of Sioux county has been
paroled from the state hospital for inebri-
ates at Cherokee, the third to be paroled
from that institution.
Failed and Arrested.
A representative Of the Agar Packing
company Of this city is in Perry, where he
filed information against w. A. Case and
F. A. Liddle, accusing them Of obtaining
money under false pretenses. They were Of
the firm of w. A. Case & Co., engaged in
the meat trade in Perry, and failed on
Saturday. They owed the Agars $247. Late
Saturday night some unknown person made
an attempt to burn the store building in
which the failed firm had lately been doing
business, but the fire was discovered and
no harm done.
Conference on Religious Education.
The program is out for the iowa confer
ence Of religious education at Ames, begin
ming next Friday. President MacLean of
the state university will preside. There
will be an address of welcome by Mayor
Farley Sheldon. Among those on the pro-
gram for the three days are J. e. Gilbert,
secretary of the American Society of Re-
ligious Education; Rev. George L. Cady OF
Iowa City, Dr. Jennie McCowen of Daven-
port, c. M. Heard Of Minneapolis, Rev. j.
z. Gilbert of Washington, d. c., and Profs.
Dan F. Bradley Of Grinnell, George D.
Adams Of Des Moines, c. summerbell of
Palmer college, S. B. Mccormick Of Coe,
B. e, shepperd of Drake, F. w. Hinitt of
Parsons, ]. e. Bookwalter of Western col
lege and c. F. Cessna of State college.