Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-30
BLOCKS TELEPHONE SALE
Court Holds Treasurer Took Wrong Course
to Collect Taxes
PROGRESS ON IOWA BUILDING AT FAIR
Monument Commission in Doubt About
RecastinE BrOnses for Monu-
ments on Shiloh Battle
heId.
PROGRESS ON IOWA BUILDING At FAIR
tFrom a stan Correspondent

(From a Stan Correspondent)
DBs MONIES, May 29-(Special.) THE
sale OF the property of the Des Moines
Mutual Telephone company for taxes did
not occur as scheduled today The county
treasurer had levied upon the company's
property and taken possession of the same
and advertised a sale TO be held today to
secure claim OF 5000 on account of un-
paid taxes and special obligations due the
city and county. The company has been in
hard lines for several years. 1t has
changed managers several times and
whereas the stock was originally held by
large number OF the business men of the
city out of a patriotic desire to provide
cheap phone service for everybody, II has
been gathered up by a few persons and n
mortgage Of 10000 stands against the prop
erty. The taxes had been unpaid several
years and the county treasurer has under
taken to force matters to a elimination.
The mortgage holders intervened today and
asked for an injunction to prevent the sale
and It was granted by the court on the
ground that the property of the company
should be regarded real property and
the manner Of collection of taxes should
be that provided for realty, and this has
NV DSSl LOAlOMtu ny luS county OHClalS
This allows the company to continue in
business, but it is a question whether or
not the mortgage holders win not now in
sist on foreclosure. Efforts are being made
to effect some reorganization and to secure
concessions from the city, but these have
thus far failed and it is regarded as pos
sible that the company will fail and its
property so into the hands of the Iowa
company
Progress on Iowa Building.
w. T. Shepherd of Harlan, member of the
building committee of the Iowa Exposition
commission, and Architect Proudfoot, who
is superintendent of the construction for
the Iowa building. returned today from St.
Louis, where they inspected the work be-
ing done on the Iowa building. They will
| make report to the Iowa commission next
week that will indicate that the work on
the Iowa building is proceeding in salts
/ factory manner and that no state of the
union has made the progress that has been
made by Iowa. In fact, the Iowa building
| is the only one of the state buildings that
! is under construction at this time The
| state commission will meet here next week
The work of the commission has all been
| divided up and superintendents have been
elected for most of the work
May Not Recast Iowa Bronzes.
, The unveiling of the Iowa monuments
erected on the battlefield of Shiloh was to
have taken place today and the Iowa COM
1 mission had prepared for a program which
included addresses by General Weaver and
| Governor Cummins on that occasion But
the event had to be postponed because of
i some trouble over the bronzes that were
cast for the historical inscriptions on the
monuments. The commission found that
| the bronze used was not of the quality
that was ordered. The contractor declares
that it is more durable than the bronze
that was ordered The commission at first
considered the necessity for having these
bronzes recast, but the latest proposal is
that they be subjected to chemical test to
determine their durability, and IL 1t is
found that they are durable they will be
! placed on the monuments as they are. If
this is done the unveiling of the monu-
ments, will occur in the fall, but II they
are to be recast the event will occur April
Z next, on the anniversary Of the battle
| The commission is considering this question
now and will decided in few days
l To Build an Interurban.
The secretary of state today issued q
charter to the Cedar Rapids & Iowa City
Railway and Light company of Cedar Ran.
Ids company organized with 81, 100000 cap.
ital to build an interurban electric line te
iowa CITY and in other directions from Cedar
Rapids 1t Is organized by s. L. Dows ant
others. The Hawkeye Land company Of
Sheldon has been Incorporated, capital $780,
700, by J. l.. McLaury and others
The mining and geological departments D.
the Iowa State, college at Ames will estap
hsh camp near Coalville, in Webster
county on tho Des Moines river, where tn,
classes of students in those department.
VIII receive practical lessons during tn
summer. The same departments main
tained similar camp last year and fount
1t so successful it will be repeated.
t POttawattRmie Court Upheld.
The supreme court in deciding the cas-
OF the state against M. ]. Higgins, from
Pottswattamie county, today upheld tn
J code in making a division of the count,
for judicial purposes The defendant sough
to escape the penalties for infraction of Law
Q by claiming that the Juries are flegalI
drawn at Council BLUFFS in that they are al
I taken from the west half of the county
The court held that the legislature whicl
revised the code did not intend TO distur
r the division of the county as 1t was mad
in 1884 and that the division remains tn
same as before and the juries have bee
- legally drawn.
: The court decided the following cases to
+ day:
: State against Adams Express company
e appellant; Madison county; Judge Apple
70 gate; affirmed by the court.
State against NJ j. Higgins, appellant
Pottawattamie county; Judge Wheeler; al
5 frmed by Bishop.
d Susanna Bottorf against Samuel Levi,
4 appellant; Reokuk county; Judge Scott; re
L Citizens National Bank appellan
- against d. F. Harris; Polk county; Judg
Bishop; reversed by the court.
c w. NJ. Brunk against Moulton Bank ar
:. pellant; Polk county; Judge Holmes; re
y veTsed by McClain.
!. Isaac Battles against Robert Roberti
u appellant; Polk county; Judge Holmes, al
II firmed by McClain.
,t b. F. Merrill, appellant, against J. n
TimbreH, Mahaska county; Judge Scot
dismissed by the court.
Des MOines Does walking.
IA The street railway system in Des Moine
N resumed trafic in part today. the compan
- putting up temporary dynamo and engin
- suficient to run about dozen cars I'm N
off Ia nfo