Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-08
PROFESSOR Is BOUND TO We'd
Peculiar Matrimonial N 1up Gets Into the
Courts at Des MoineG
GUARDS DENY DOING THE SHOOTING
Contracts Let for Erection of h
Iowa Monuments on the BattIe-
neIds I'm the vicinity of
Chattanooga.
GUARDS DENY DOING THE SHOOTING
tFrom a star Correspondent,

Chattanooga.
(Fromf IA STAFF Correspondent
DIES MONIES. Ia, April 7.-(Speeial)-A
peculiar matrimonial mix-up turned up In
police court circles today. B. Siegel, a we'll
known business man, called at the county
Offices and complained that his daughter
was about TO marry a man against his
wish. He afterwards advised with the
courts with a view to taking out an in
junction. but finally put the matter In the
hands of detectives. 1t appears that Sic
gels daughter, Minnie, a fine musician and
graduate Of the Des Moines college, had
become infatuated with Prof. +. Wallace
Pike, a musician, who came here about q
year ago. The elder siegel objected TO the
attachment, gbHt to no use. Three days
ago Minnie siegel disappeared from her
home and ity Isl alleged Professor Pike has
been keeping her at his room in the day
and she was staying with friends at
night. Mr.. Siegel alleges that Pike had at
tempted to secure money from him and
had demanded $500 in lieu Of his marrying
the girl. To-day a detective went to the
rooms occupied by Pike and got the girl,
and after she had talked with her mother
she declared there would be no wedding.
Professor Pike makes complete denial of
all the allegations against him except that
he insists he will marry Miss Siegel despite
her parents. All the parties are prominent
and the case has become decidedly interest
ing. Pike was arrested on a charge of
attempted extortion filed by. Siege1 ard
gave bonds to ava trial.
Killed II a Coal Mine.
George Warren, a driver in a coal mine
at Carbondale, near Des Moines, was in
stantly killed at noon today. He was at
work in the mine owned by the Smith
Lowe company and had hitched up the mule
to the train Of coal cars. The animal
started quickly and Warren was thro wn
under the wheels and killed. He leaves a
wife and two children.
The information was received here today
that ]. w. Hill, nephew of James ]. Hill
Of st. Paul, has been appointed division
freight agent of the Burlington lines in
Iowa with headquarters at Burlington. He
succeeds j. NJ. Bechtel, resigned. 1t was
understood an effort was being made to
secure the place for R. A. Bedding Of this
city.
Guards Did Not d. Shooting.
The members of the State Beard of Con-
troll have. received as yet. no official in
formation from Independence in regard to
the escape ,ofsinebElates from the hospital
there. Judge Robinson stated, however.
that 1t must certainly have. been a mistake
in the matter of the guards having dcn
the shooting Which tfosulted in stopping
two OF the sescaphg inebriates. THE
guards at the hospitaLare not allowed to
carry firearms" he said, land 1t is con-
trary to all c~theiatateIHing to ussl' violent
or extreme measureF t4 preventing escapes.
They are not allowed to even strike an
nor do anything that would cause
injury unless yitp should be i'm pure self
defense and that is so rare that 1t is
practically unknown. But the incident at
Independence. illustrates again the neces-
sity for some change in the method OF keep
ing the inebriates."".s ~ u
Monument Captracts Let.
Senator Young Of Washington county was
in the city today and went on to Iowa
City, where he meets with other members
OF the Iowa commission on the monuments
at Chattanooga to approve the contracts
for the monuments. These contracts ere
let some time ago. following a general
meeting of the commission at Cedar Fa,,s,
but the contracts have not yet been
signed up. The work on the monuments
will be commenced as soon as the weather
Will permit. There will be three of them
one in Lookout Mountain, one in Mission
airy Ridge and one half way between and
all will be very fine. The total expendI-
ture will be about $35, 900. 1t is expected
the work will be done this year and the
dedication will take place some time in the
fall or early next year.
Banks and Their, Capital stock.
The state auditor is making an effort to
effect an important reform in the matter
Of incorporation of banks. A few days ago
a bank at Dayton filed an amendment to
its Incorporation papers decreasing the au-
thorized capital stock from SIS, 900 to $780,
900, but at the same time the bank in
creased its actual working capital from
s25. 900 to $4,000. This is in line with the
reforms contemplated 2 by the auditor of
state. 1t is found that many banks IN the
state have authorized capital stock FAR
above their actual working capital and this
operates to give them The right to Increase
their capital stock at any time without any
record thereof withathe auditor of state,
who is supposed to keep close to the trans
actions OF the banks. The new state
auditor insists that the authorized capital
stock and actual working capital should be
the same or approximately so. Hereafter
the banks Will not be allowed to adopt ar
ticles Of Incorporation with such marked
variation between the authorized and
actual working capital,
College Trustees Meet.
Governor Oummins went to Ames today
to attend a meeting OF the board Of trus-
tees Of the Iowa State college. Members
Of the building committee of the board
we're in the city last evening in cOnsulta-
ton with the architects, Messrs. Proud
foot and Bird, with reference to modihca-
ton of the plans for the central college
building so that II can be built within the
limit ixed by the legislature. The build
ing committee plans to change the appear
ance Of the building without altering its
size or destroying it's usefulness. The dome
is to be dispensed with, the large colonial
columns in front are to disappear, some
changes are to be made in the windows and
the interior finishing will be materially
different from that contemplated by the
board when the plans we're originally
adopted. All this will be done with a view
to ultimately having the building com
pleted in accordance with the first plans.
II is expected new bids will be authorized
at the present meeting at Ames.
Miners Cult work.
oTTUMWA. Ia. April 7.-(SpeciaI)-Be-