Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-27
Numerous Cases of Rabis Among Des
Moine5 CANNES Causes Troube.
UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR EXPERIMENTS
supreme Court Hands Down IN Opin-
ion Affirming validity of sR-
loon Consent Petition
in Polk.


still further confirm the belief that rabies
is prevalent short time ago dog went
down an east side street swapping at every
thing In its way, biting a number of dogs
and literally tearing to pieces a small dog
that was in its way. The dog was killed
About the same time bulldog showed
symptoms Of madness and was caught and
killed. DR.. Hoffman was convinced that
the bulldog was in fact affected and he
proceeded to make an emulsion, out of the
brains of the bulldog and to inject some
of this into a rabbit, which he had in cap
tivity. This was fifteen days ago. Today
he reported that the rabbit is showing un-
mistakable signs of madness and that the
experiment proves the existence of rabies
in the city. A larger number Of dogs have
been affected at this time than ever be-
fore.
Iowa Funeral Directors.
About 200 persons arrived in the city to-
day to attend the annual convention of the
Iowa Funeral Directors association. There
was an address of welcome by Mayor Bren-
ton and a response by Vice President
Hadley of Eldora. The annual address of
President Charles Emerson of Creston was
delivered Reports were read from the dis
trict associations, which are affiliated and
technical papers were presented. The pro-
gram continues tomorrow and closes with
banquet. The next convention will go
| to Cedar Rapids, Dubuque or Des Moines.
Light Sentence Inflicted.
Ed. Puckett, charged with the murder Of
A. Euchre, was found guilty of assault
with intent to commit great bodily injury
and must serve three months in jail. The
| Jury brought in a verdict at 2 o'clock and
Judge Given Immediately pronounced SEN
| tence. The killing was in a quarrel over
a horse trade.
saloon Petition is Upheld.
The action of the Board of Supervisors
in Polk county in canvassing a statement
! of consent for establishment of saloons
three years ago and the district court in
sustaining the work of the board, was
| approved fully by the state supreme court
| today. A petition had been fled but II
was found to be insufficient and the board
let the matter drag along until a new pc
tition was prepared and filed, when the
| first one was withdrawn and the second
canvassed. Objection was made because
the law provides that only one statement
may be canvassed in any one year How
ever, desirable it might be-" said the court
in an opinion by Justice McClain, "as a
matter of public policy that the people
Of the community be not agitated by the
the same year no purpose to prevent such
action is indicated in the language used
The idea seems rather to be that the
board of supervisors is not to be compelled
! or allowed to finally act in such matters
more than once in any one year, and in
view of the difficulties attending the can
vassing a statement OF consent, the pro-
vision seems reasonable and it ought to
be given full force and effect But we
cannot stretch the language to cover
case not within the reasonable meaning OF
the words used. II the first statement
filed is insufficient and before the board
finally acted upon it by making the canvass
necessary TO determine it's sufficency an
other statement which is sufficient is filed
and properly brought up for consdera-
ton we see no reason why the second
statement may not be approved. In this
! respect the action OF the Board of Super
visors seems to have been legal" Tho
court also affirmed the ruling of Judge
Bishop on hearing of the case wherein
he refused to consider the matter of the
genuineness of the signatures because Of
a stipulation in which that was covered
The action OF the court disposes OF a long
fight TO have declared irregular the process
by which the petitions were canvassed in
this county
RehearinEE are Asked.
The supreme court has had an unusual
number of arguments on rehearing the
past week. Today arguments were made
in the case of the Ida County Savings bank
against Seidensticker Judge Wade argued
for a rehearing of the case. One Knepper
was surety on the bond OF Seidensticker. a
clerk in the bank. and when the latter
went wrong the bank sued. II was claimed
| ftaf
cashier and that when the latter responded
TO an inquiry from Knepper in regard to
the clerk the latter was in fact short in
his accounts. Senator Hubbard argued in
opposition to a rehearing. The case OF
Jolly against the Milwaukee railroad was
also argued for rehearing by NJ. r. Nc
; Creary and Judge Cook This is the case
in which jolly sought 10 recover penalties
because the company refused TO redeem
railroad tickets he had bought for the
! special purpose OF bringing suit against
the company. The last of the rehearings
! from the Seventeenth district was that Of
: Cook against Marshall county, the cigar
{ ette mulct tax case. The Tobacco trust is
seeking 10 have the case Teopened, but
there was no oral argument in the case.
Courts Decisions.
! The following were decided by the SUI
, preme court today:
I In the matter OF the canvass Of the sa-
! loon petition in Polk county, from Polk
= county, Judge Bishop; affirmed by McClain
9. r. Hunt, appellant, against William
e Hapley, Cass county, Judge Greene; re-
. versed by Ladd.
Henry Wormley against Mason City &
Fort Dodge Railway Company, appellant
Wright county, Judge Kenyon; reversed By
| Deemer.
G. Il. S. Williams against Iowa Land
: Company, appellant, Woodbury. county
q Judge Gaynor affirmed by the court
George S. StreeteT appellant against A
> M. Gleason, Buena Vista county, Judge
d Bailie affirmed by Weaver.
Il Sarah E. Jelly against Muscatine City
), | and County Mutual Aid Society, appellant
Muscatine county Judge House; affirmed
n William ~ Ross, appellant, against Mod
!. | srn Brotherhood Of America, Buchanan
county, Judge Platt; affirmed by Sherwin.
l. Exciting Experience In storm.
e TERRIL. Ia. May 26.-(special )--stat
Superintendent OF Public instruction r. c
Barrett had exciting experience durin
the storm here last night. He was bile
} TO speak to the graduating class of tn
J. township high school and attempted I
l. drive from Ruthven to this place. Whe
g about two miles from Terril he was over