Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-15
SURVEY TROLLEY TO OMAHA
Work Will Start in Few Days Which May
Connect Two States.
c, o. D. LIQUOR CASES ARE APPEALED
Depraved Man of Good Family
Charged with AssauItinE six Lit
tie Girls May Try to Es-
tabIish Insanity.
CFrom a STAFF Correspondent

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DIES MONIES, June A-(Special.)-It Is
planned that a survey party shall start
west from Des Moines in a few days to look
over the ground for the route of the cleo
trio railroad from Des Moines to Omaha.
The organization of the company that will
build the line has been perfected. j. A.
Nash of Audubon is president and II. II.
Polk Of this city general manager. Mr..
Polk is the president of the interurban line
that runs from Des Moines to Colfax. The
executive COMMITTEES of the Western Iowa
Inter urban company has been authorized
to direct that the preliminary survey be
made at once. The company will expend
about an average of $1,000 a county in this
survey and upon it the estimates of ex-
pense will be made. 1t is understood that
all arrangements are made for financing
the road in case the route is found feasible.
The survey will begin here and run north
west into Dallas county.
Express Cases Appealed.
The case of the State of Iowa against the
Adams Express Company, from Madison
county, that was last December decided in
favor Of the state, will be appealed to the
United States supreme court and will be
submitted at the same time as the case
against the American Express company
from Adams county. ]. w. Willett of Tama
has been engaged the past week in perfect
ing the appeal in the Tama county case
and John A. Guiher of Winterset In the
other case. Both cases involve the ques-
ton of the right of express companies to
transport liquors on the c. o. d. basis.
The Iowa court holds that this is contrary
to the state laws and to so hold Is not In
violation of the interstate commerce law.
The Adams company's case has some fea-
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company's case and both will be appealed
together. A firm Of attorneys in Cincinnati
representing brewery interests will argue
the case in the higher court.
Depravity is Disclosed.
A sad case of depravity which is agitat-
ing East Des Moines will soon be aired in
the courts. One ]. w. Donovan. aged 81
years, of excellent family, but broken down
with drink. is alleged to have been enticing
children into his barn for immoral pur-
poses. There are six warrants against him
involving accusations made by Stella Han
sen. aged 10; Bordella Hansen, aged O.;
Minnie Hansen, aged 8; Ella Bergstrom,
aged 10, and Hazel ~Bottenheld, aged Z. The
last named child made complaint and re-
vealed the state Of affairs. Donovan was
in the State Hospital for Inebriates at one
time, but was returned and for some time
is said to have been misleading little chill
dren. 1t is expected an effort will be made
to have him declared insane to prevent his
punishment in the p~enitentiary. He lived
at 1116 East Sixth street.
Dying Felon Declares Innocence.
Christina Behrens, the Davenport woman
who hanged herself in the state prison at
Anamosa, always claimed tina she was en-
tirely innocent and that she was the victim
OF another's crime. She was sentenced to
life imprisonment by Judge Waterman,
who had afterwards expressed the belief
that she was more sinned against than
SHINING. She claimed she had been terribly
abused by her worthless and drunken hus-
band until she was compelled to make her
own living, and that afterwards, under
promise Of doing better he induced her to
return to live with him, but returned to
his old life. She claimed thai a man who
had been indicted jointly with her was
wholly responsible for the poisoning of
Behrens. But her case has been at one
time presented to the legislature and the
committee that investigated reported ad-
versely to her plea. She had become de-
spondent under her life sentence and her
death was no surprise.
Governor Appoints
Governor Cummins has named his dele
gates to the republican state convention,
who are also in part selected by Chief JUS
uce Bishop. The chairman of the delega-
ton is Senator c. c. Dowell. This county
Is entitled to forty-one delegates. ]. s.
McQuiston, deputy state treasurer, is on
the delegation, but 1t is said he will not
be a candidate for member of the state
committee, but Polk county will support
W.. p. ~Fitchpatrick of Story county.
Split Among the Democrats.
AT the county convention of the demo-
Gratis of Johnson county, held at Iowa City
yesterday, there was a split on the cues
ton of in%structing the delegation to vote
as a unit on all questions. This was re-
garded by the free silver men as an effort
to throttle them and they withdrew from
2 the delegation Congressman M. ]. Wade
was placed at the head of the state dele
cation. The republicans in convention AT
Estherville sent a delegation to the sena-
torial convention favorable to the renomI-
nation of Senator Bachman. and 10 the
representative convention favorable to the
, denomination of Representative Robinson.
Calls Death Accidental.
The inquest over the remains OF Della
Guthrie, who died Saturday morning after
taking poison, today showed that she prob
ably took the morphine herself. She was
greatly addicted to the drug and had called
on a doctor to get some in the evening. II
is supposed she was too drunk to know
what she was doing. Others who were with
her were exonorated from all blame.