Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-20
REPAIRING STATE CAPITOL
Commission is Hnrrying Forward the Work
Assigned to 1t.
BOARD OF HEALTH STARTS A CRUSADE
Judge Given Decides that Restaurant'
Have a Right 10 Purchase and
serve Liquors 20 Their
Customers.


DES MONIES, Feb. 19.-(Speclal.)-Ihe |
state capitol commission, charged with the |
duty of completing the state capitol and
repairing the same, is in session In the Aty |
and will be tomorrow and Saturday. Messrs |
A. B. Funk Of Spirit Lake and c. p. Shoent-
gen OF Council Bluffs arrived this after
noon. The commission received the per-
fected plans for the new state warehouse
which is to be built on ground owned by the
state near the capitol and to join the heat
ing plant for the state capitol. These plans
were prepared in Cedar Rapids and contem-
plate a building sufficiently large for the
storage Of all the vast amount Of paper and
supplies for the state printing and binding
and the use Of the state officers and many
OF the unused public documents which row
cumber the various rooms OF the state cap
itol. Work will be commenced on this very
soon. The commission is also preparing to
greatly add to the force engaged in making
repairs on the building and to push this
work rapidly. The commission will also
lay plans Immediately for the general dec
grafton of the building.
Board of Health President.
At the meeting Of the State Board of
Health today A. NJ Linn of this city re-
signed as president, ana was succeeded by
c. e. Adams Of Sac City, the senior mem
ber Both are homeopaths. r. E. Commit
of Sioux City was selected as delegate from
the board to the American public health
and marine hospital service convention in
Washington. The board decided that
chickenpox should be placed on the list OF
those diseases which are regarded as In
| fectious and must be reported and quaran-
! tined. This was due largely to the fact
that many complaints had come to the
board Of doctors calling smallpox the chick
| enpox, and thus exposing school children to
| the contagion. The board reported that in
the past year certificates we're issued to
23s physicians and 300 to osteopaths. At
the last examination forty-seven were ex-
| amined, and all but eight were today
granted certificates.
Prosecuting illegal Doctors.
The secretary OF the State Board of
Health has commenced the prosecution Of
w. H. Hale and Charles e. Montague Of
this city for practicing without having Sc
cured certificates. Both are young men.
Hale Is connected with British medical
institute and Montague is engaged in spe-
cial practice. Neither have secured certi-
icates from the board emitting them to
practice. Complaint was filed with the
board against DR.. e. B. Fulliam Of Musca-
tine to the effect that he had failed to re-
port smallpox and he has been cited to ap-
pear before the board and make explana-
tion of his failure so to do. The board has
deliberately entered upon a policy Of maxi
ing It warm, for. ali who fail to secure
certificates and those who refuse to comply
fully with the law and numerous prosecu-
tions have been commenced here and else
where.
UphOIdF the Wine Rooms.
For some time there has been a deter
mined fight made in Des Moines to break up
what were called the wine rooms, Arrests
were made OF persons found IN restaurants
where liquors were being served to guests
where there were women present. II was
claimed that restaurant managers were not
allowed to dispense liquors to women.
These restaurants sent out and purchased
the liquors ON individual orders and served
them to customers like other things. To-
day in the district court Judge Given de-
cided a test case in favor OF the defendants,
holding that a restaurant keeper has u
right to serve liquors to customers when
, the same have been purchased regularly at
q licensed saloon. This decision will put
, a stop to the crusade against wine rooms.
, whitechapeI Sold at Auction.
large part OF that district in Des
Moines known as "Whitechapel," from the
E fact that an effort has been made for many
years to concentrate the wickedness of the
city there, was sold at public auction this
: morning Naturally the auction attracted g
large crowd to see who would buy such
property and quite as naturally the prices
obtained were not very startling. Most OF
} the property was purchased by Mich
Disalvo, an Italian fruit vendor, for specu
lative purposes, but a number OF the
houses and lots were purchased by work.
ingmen who expect to occupy them al
8 homes. The district is being crowded of
i the map by the warehouses and factories.
- Considering FraternaI Matters.
= The executive committee Of the lows
fraternal congress, consisting OF Messrs
e. G. Corley OF Des Moines George Al
berts OF Marshalltown and John d. Dent
/ son Of Clarion, is in session in Des Moine;
n to consider the work OF the fraternal con
n gress. This is the first meeting OF tn,
d committee since its appointment few
e weeks ago. The congress has before 1t
number of matters relating to the laws o
Iowa and the development OF fraterna
companies and the committee is engaged IL
:. taking these up.
70 Murder Cases Go over.
In the district court today the cases o
the State against the two BaTiesas o.
= Aarons and against Beveridge and Burns
. all for the murder OF Jerry CorcOran, wer,
taken out of the assignment and will b.
e tried later in the term. The attorney TO
Burns showed thPt only today lad he com
into possession OF the alleged confession
Of the BaTiesas In the case and that h,
knew of important witnesses who coult
k' not be secured He claims that he will b
le able to show that Beveridge alone wa
rs responsible for the murder. The confes
a sion in the case has been made by MI
and Mrs. Aaron, who went under the nam
| of TQaT