Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-02-23
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
nes Moines. Feb. 11. zoos.

Des Moines. Feb. IL, 1905.
Adjutant General Thrift has an.
oounced the appointment of Guy E.
Logan of Red Oak to be assistant
adjutant general of the Iowa National
Guard. 1t Is stated that the appoint
ment meets the approval and indorse-
ment Of Governor Cumins. This APP
continent, under the new law. goes
to the executive for approval and the
officer holds, as does his chief, dur
ing the pleasure of the governor Cap
tain Logan will assume the duties Of
MS new position within a few weeks.
depending on arrangements made
with Major Hume. for whom General
Thrift has the highest esteem. It is
supposed. that the change will be ef.
fected about March I.
informed by the attorney general that
members of the guard do not have to
pay poll tax. This decision he has
transmitted to the company command.
ers in the guard and to the county
auditors of the state and hereafter
poll tax will not be collected from
guardsmen. Heretofore they have
paid thousands OF dollars In POLL tax,
extending over many years. Indeed
until General Thrift raised the ques-
ton with the attorney general ID had
not been given consideration. In
some counties the tax was not coll
lected from the guardsmen, but in
most of them the boys paid 1t with.
out objection. The captains of the
companies have been asked to furnish
the military department with a list
of the men who would be subject to
the tax were they not In the guard.
The impression prevails among men
informed on the subject that the re.
versal of Michael Conroy's case by
the supreme court on the 9Th, means
that he never will be convicted of the
Fay burglary at Clinton, again. Not
only does the decision, which excludes
certain important testimony from the
case, indicate that 1t would be diff
cult to convict Conroy under the re-
! mainder of the evidence submitted,
but it is regarded as extremely doubt
full IL Burrier, the states main witness,
would again go on the stand and
swear away the liberty of his former
friend.
1t is believed that Burrier is very
badly disappointed at the failure to
secure parole from the governor re-
Gently, and that he will refuse TO aid
the state any more in the prosecution
Of the members Of the gang with
which he declared he was connected.
1t was on his testimony that several
men have been sent to the peniten-
tiary. The man turned states evil
dence on his own motion. but 1t Is
thought that he hoped to secure exc.
cutive clemency by helping to send
his companions over the road. When
1t was denied him 1t Is understood
that he decided it was fruitless to try
to curry favor with the state and con.
cluded to observe silence.
The Conroy-Burrier matters In east.
ern Iowa bear close connection to
the Dennison-Shercliffe cases in ives.
tern Iowa.
Indications are that the question OF
taxing mortgages will come before
the legislature of next winter in ear.
nest. IT is a subject which arrives
for consideration on an average OF
every other session of the assembly,
starts out with a flare, but gradually
diminishes into insignificance and for.
getfulness as the session wakes older.
Just now, however, there are signs
that 1t will be pressed on the next as.
hi
have begun discussing 1t.
Governor Cummins has appealed the
case of the veterans of Shiloh from
the war department at Washington to
the president of the United States,
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. In let
tiers to the acting secretary of war,
Robert Shaw Oliver, who has sus-
tanned the national battlefield COM
mission of Shiloh in a most fragrant
injustice to the veterans of the Fiji
teenth and Sixteenth Iowa regiments,
and to the president, Governor Cum
minis forcibly expressed the disap-
pointment and spirit of the Iowa sol.
diers and voices their demand for
justice. While the state commission
has not been convened, and its official
attitude cannot at present be known
absolutely, 1t Is believed that the com.
mission will appeal their case to the
congress of the United States and ask
for an investigation of the national
Shiloh commission, If 1t turns out that
the president does not wish to take
up the case; and in any event, on an
adverse decision. Indeed, 1t is said
that movement to this end Is already
on foot by the initiative of the Army
Of the Cumberland.
Theaters and playhouses will now
have free rein so far as city restric-
lions are concerned. the city couLeil
having rescinded the ordinance gov
erning theaters. No ordinance was
enacted in it's stead so that the Sun
day theater and performance will only
have the restriction that the managers
may see fit to exert. City Solicitor
Bremner states that there is no re-
striction now that the city officials
can exercise over the theaters. The
state law is said to be very lenient in
regard to the Sunday theaters, the
enactment of regulations being left
to the city or town. 1t is likely that
two shows per day will be given each
Sunday at Des Moines play houses,
an afternoon matinee and evening
performance.
Hair dye Is deemed so injurious to
health that Paris insurance COM
pany refuses to insure the lives of