Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-07
HEAVY VOTE CONES EARLY
Indications Are that eumminI Has Carried
State BY $4,000 N'iority.
CHANGE IN. BALLOT CAUSES TROUBLE
Removal of circle from Ticket Wakes
Il More Dimcult to vote
women Nay Lose Home
stead.

DIES MONIES, Ia, Nov. 6.-tSpeciHl Tele-
gram Eighty precincts gave Cummins
net loss of 2,S27 plurality. The same pro
portion over the state would elect Cum
minis by 5000 plurality.
There was an unusually heavy vote /
everywhere in this city today and the re-
ports that come in from over the state are /
mostly-to the same purport especially in
the northern part OF the static. The re-
moval OF the circle from the ballot neces-
states more time in marking the ballots. |
In this city there is a great deal Of scratch |
ing. but It is mostly confined to county /
offices there being considerable of a /
mixup on juRdes because Of the failure |
of the grand jury to indict street car men |
charged with bribery and a miNup on the |
Office of county superintendent. because /
of the failure Of Mrs. Jennie Huegle to /
pass the state examination. From some /
of the precincts i'm this city, particularly |
the third of the Second, large precinct
reports were sent to the county auditor
early i'm the morning that unless more
booths were supplied some voters would
not be able to get 20 vote because Of
the fact that it takes longer to vote this
year. About five or six minutes to the
voter is not uncommon.
Reports everywhere from Des Moines and
the state as we'll, is OF orderly and bust
nesslike voting. Citizens approach the
polls, take their ballot and vote and arc
away again. There is no standing around
the polls before voting to learn how to
vote. Everybody seems to have his mind
made up in advance Polls everywhere ia
Iowa were closed this evening at o'clock
According to the law the polls must be
closed at that hour and as many as are
inside the polling place are allowed tc
vote, but those on the outside are not
allowed to vote. Almost the entire demo.
cratic organization in this county COM
bined It's strength in an effort to elect John
r. Mulvaney as one OF the four district
judges Reports from over the state early
this evening were that there is a great
deal Of scratching in the Fifth district. It
has been known all along that bitter feel
ing existed in that district but 1t was hoped
to hold It in check. --.-.
state House Deserted.
The state house was deserted today. In
the auditors Office there was no one but
two young women steuographers Tn the
superintendent Of public Instructions office
only Miss Schnell, secretary OF the State
Board Of Education examiners, remained to
keep the Office open. Governor Cummins re-
turned from Dubuque at 10 o'clock ard went
to his office before voting. Only his private
secretary John Briar who lives in nes
Moines, and two women stenographers were
in the Office. The state treasurer's office
was not opened today. neither was the
railroad commissioners office nor the secre-
tary of agrlculture's Office. The only office
that had a full force remaining was the
ONCE of the Iowa Library commission
where all the officials and employees are
women.
May Lose Nebraska HOmestead.
Miss Lvinia Steele of this city a cata-
loguer In the state library, may lose her
Nebraska homestead She was today served
with papers by Sheriff John c. Lopez of this
county in which Robert f. Jt ffreys of
Bassett, Neb., attempts to jump her claim
and alleges that she has not complied with
the homestead laws. He alleges that the
only thing she has done to comply with
the laws was to build building 1Ox12 feet
on the land. Miss Steele gained fame and
notoriety some time since by resculng
George w. Hill. a state university student
at Iowa City, who had fallen through the
! ice, at the risk Of her own life. She was
awarded a Carnegie medal for her brave
| act.
Restores Distance Rate.
! State, Food and Dairy Commissioner H.
r. Wright today received notification from
the Illinois Central railroad that beginning
December it will restore the old distance
tariff on cream from Iowa points to Chi
cago Kansas City, st. Joseph and other
points outside the state. This removes the
discrimination that the dairy commissioner
claimed was being shown to Iowa cream
cries in favor of the larger creameries in
the large cities. special rate had been
lput in so that the freight rate on a l0N-
pound shipment of cream from Fort Dodge
to Chicago was 40 cents and. Tor a similar
shipment from Fort Dodge to Dubuque, half
the distance and on the same train, the rate
was 40 cents Under the new schedule the
rate from Fort Dodge to Dubuque win be
50 cents and the rate to Dubuque will re-
main the same. The special rates to the
large cities are simply to be abolished
The rate cannot go into effect before De
cember s. because notice OF thirty days
must be given through the Interstate Com
merce commission.
steam Road Fight Ihterurbans.
A fight is on between the steam roads anC
the lnterurbans. The Minneapolis & ST
Louis line has announced a cut I'm its rat,
from Des Nome to Perry. Ia, to S1.1O fol-
the round trip The regular Scent fare II
St.Oi for one way. The cut rate meets
rate put in yesterday by the InterurbaI
! Railway company when It opened it's new
b line to Perry. Just such an attempt wal
: made by the Rock Island to fight tn,
interurban from Cedar Rapids to low,
City but the interurban there forced tn
road to abandon the rate on the charg
. that It was illegal unless the road put tn
same rate proportionately in effect all owe
its system I'm this state. The Rock Islam,
made the attempt a second time last yea
IN its Indianola-Des Moines rate. Unles
the Minneapolis & st. Louis abandons it
rate at once the interurban here will carr
7, the matter to the Railroad commission an
= | the courts.
4 FrenehmRn Seeks Divorce.
NJ LeRouex OF Paris has applied 10 tn
a UNITED States courts Of Iowa" for a d
n vorce from his wife. whom he alleges
a living somewhere in Iowa and writing (
him of midnight orgies and late wine sur
n pers NJ. LeRouex's letter Is written /
d French and an interpreter had to be Gale
a to decipher It. IL hardly conforms to III
d requirements OF the law i'm this state an
p hence cannot be recognized. SO far as ca
4 be learned. NJ. LsRouex thinks all Iowa
II a city and SAYS his Charlse was an actre'
and he married her in Paris.
X Small Percentage Pass.
It OF thirteen teachers who took the stat