Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-25
MANY IOWA MEN SWINDLED
Invest in Worthless Texas Lands Through
the O, L. Tsllmadge Company,
PROMINENT ATTORNEY is INDICTED
Asserts Action IL spitework Taken
Out of Revenge for civil Action
Brought ARRInst Com
planning witness.
tFrom a STAFF Correspondent)

DIES MONIES, June 24.-(Special. Fed
eral authorities here believe that Iowa peo-
pie have been defrauded of thousands of
dollars through the c. l.. Tallmadge COM
pany as disclosed in the arrest of Benjamin
II. Tallmadge in New Mexico Tallmadge
had Offices in Des Moines in the News Ar
cade building and failing to pay the rent
the furniture was sold. This was soon after
he had left for the south with a carload
of Iowa landseekers. Homer e. Kent was
the agent here. There is no way of finding
out how much land was purchased by Iowa
people through this agency. According to
the information which has reached here
Tallmadge's plan was to file on valueless
desert land and then claim it was rich, fer
tile, irrigated land, which he sold to Iowa
people for $50 to $50 an acre. Tallmadge
has been arrested on a federal warrant
charged with subornation of perjury.
Candidate Is Indicted.
A. L. Steele, a prominent attorney and
candidate for county attorney, was indicted
today for the embezzlement of s6,1s4.5O from
the Gladiator Mining company. Steele
brought suit against the company some
time ago for wages and secured judg-
ment for about $1,000 The suit was only
one of many brought against the Gladiator
company, which was owned chiefly by c. II.
Crabtree. Crabtree in two suits attempted
to show in civil actions that Steele owed
the company, but failed The books Of the
company, which were kept by Crabtree,
were shown to be in an almost incompre-
hensible condition. The affairs of the COM
pany were variously aired and the indict-
ment Steele claims is merely spite work
on the part of Crabtree.
Insurance Men Free.
Indictments against the four insurance
men arrested for violating the antitrust
laws of the state promised for today did
i not materialize. The men waived to the
grand jury and instituted habeas corpus
, proceedings to get free. 1t is now an
nounced that the indictments will not come
till after the habeas corpus proceedings
have been disposed of.
Washington to Speak.
Booker r. Washington, president of Tus-
kegee institute is TO speak at the Midland
Chautauqua tomorrow. He will reach the
city early tomorrow morning.
After National Convention.
The state good roads convention at Ames
appointed a committee of which T. G.
Harper of Burlington is chairman to Sc
s cure IL possible the national good roads
convention for next year to meet with the
state convention in this city.
Transfers Case.
The arguments on the action filed by the
attorneys Of Carl NJ. Spencer to quash the
indictments recently returned against him
by the federal grand jury will be heard
by Judge Smith Mcpherson at Council
Bluffs July IL. Spencer was indicted fol-
embezzlement from the Des Moines Ma.
tional bank and for making false en-.
tries,
oficial figures given out today on the
census of Sioux City show the popula.
ton to be A,119. a gain in five years OF
7,s9S or 26 per cent. r.'
Good Dairy Scoring
State Dairy Commissioner H. r. Wright
returned today from Mason City where
the monthly inspection of butter wa:
made. The scoring was higher than usual
there being only one tub as low as 80 pei
cent, the scores ranging up to 9S, and SO 1!
considered extra good butter.
Attorney Generals Opinion.
At the request of the state auditor tn,
attorney general today gave his opinion
that the expense of keeping the insane a
the state institutions must be borne by
the counties from which they come, unless
there is a legal settlement in some othe
county in which case the auditor of tina
county should notify the state auditor
He holds that the superintendent of tn,
state institutions must certify to the stat
auditor the expense of keeping the insane
r Celebration at Logan.
y LOGAN, Ia, June A.-(Special )-LoganI
Fourth of July celebration will be feature,