Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-12
NEW LAW CREATES TANGLE
Fees Of Board Covered into treasury aad
No Way to Fay Expenses
MEDICAL EXAMINATION PAPERS LOST
Noung Wan Swindics Aged Couple
out OF Their Home by Paying
Them with worthless
cheek.
IFrnm q Stan Cnrresnnndenl-l

tFrom "a Stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES, Oct n.-(Special) -Until
the legislature meets To straighten out
tangle, the payment OF about 500 in bills
contracted by the state Board Of Health
In the examination or embalmers and
undertakers must go unpaid. The board
has been examining candidates Tor licenses
as embalmers for the last i've yeats and
collecting in each case a Zee. OF s. and
another tee when the license is renewed.
Attorney General Mullen has now ruled
that the board has no legal authority to
make such examinations and collect fees
for st. The executive council consequently
cannot authorize or approve the payment
Of the bills from the money IN the state
treasury though there is about 81 200 there
from such fees The tanslc all came about
by the recent enactment OF the law re-
quiring that all fees OF every kind be
turned into the state treasury and dis
bursed from there instead OF only the
balances being turned in after the expenses
were paid.
Examination Papers Lost.
Examination papers on two subjects from
twenty-one students who took the examns-
/ ton before the State Board OF Medical
examiners last week have been lost or
stolen and until they are found the board
| is in a dilemma and tho twenty-one students
are also. Following the examination of the
/ twenty-one would-be doctors the papers
were sent to the various members OF the
state board for examination. Two sets OF
papers, those on materla medioa and medi-
cal practice. were sent to Or. Commit OF
Sioux City. When the papers failed to be
returned promptly Or. Kennedy. secretary
OF the board. communicated with Or. Con-
! niff and received a reply that the papers
/ had never been received there. Or. Ken
nedy has the express company's receipt for
the papers and a tracer has been sent
! after them. II is the first time such a
! thing has happened in the history of the
department and there is no precedent by
which to be guided should the papers fail
to turn up.
Burkett's Dates Fixed.
| 1t was definitely arranged today for Sena-
tor Burkett of Nebraska to speak in Iowa
on two dates. One is arranged for Sioux
City for October q, and the other at shen-
andoah for october %. 1t was at frs,
intended to have him the 26th and 27th. but
II was desired to have one OF the speeches
delivered at Sioux City and a hall could
not be secured for any other date thar
the 23d.
KeOkuk swindler Here.
The youth who swindled an aged KeokuE
couple out of 500 worked the same scheme
in this city yesterday and secured $500 from
Mr.. and Mrs. william Gillespie OF 81 Fiji
teenth street. He bought their residenc,
for 1900. giving a check on the Des Moine'
Savings bank. where he had never deposited
n dollar with the deed and abstract h,
went to the Century bank and borrowed
s40e, giving a mortgage on the property
| When the aged couple presented theil
check the next day they were told it wa
worthless. The young man who worked
the scheme gave his name as Sam James
The property stands In his name and
against it is the mortgage, which legally Il
valid. and which the aged couple must pay
Selecting Hospital site.
After being busted for months attending
TO other duties and visiting sites the Stat
Board of Control settled down today to tn
work of selecting a site for the tuberculosi
hospital for which the legislature appro
priated $4,000 at the last session. The tasl
is q difficut one. There were about f1ft,
sites offered and none Of them exactly com,
up to the idea as determined by the board
The board will be in session for some day
at the Offices in the statehouse and will
likely also before parting make the ap
polntment OF warden at the Anamoss
penitentiary to succeed Warden w. \
Hunter. A score OF applications are in thei
hands for the position, but almost all ar
from ex-sheriffs or sheriffs now In office.
EarIham Couple Married.
Clarence Hodges and Clara Beehtel o
Earlham. Ia. were quietly married yester
day by Judge James A. Howe at the cour
house in this city.
StrfSebreakers Gone
The fifty. strike breakers have been sen
back to Chicago and the street car troubl
Is at an end. Yesterday afternoon tn
officers of the employees union met tn