Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-26
ABOLISHINC GRAND JUREES
County Attorney Would Leave Matter
Optional with Judges
INSURANCE POLICIES IMPROBABLE
Secretary shaw Buys Des Moines Res
idence PROPERTY and starts spec
ulation ~ to His Future
Intentions.
(From a STAN correspondent

DIES MONIES, June 81 SpeciaD-1he
! County Attorneys association of Iowa,
which meets the two days preceding the
State Bar association convention, will con-
slider the abolition Of the grand jury system
| as recommended by the Law reform commit
tee. The question has been before the
State Bar association and failed. II will
now be taken up by the county attorneys.
! Jesse A. Miller OF this city is chairman
/ of the committee and today gave out the
report that will be made to the associa-
| ton. The committee will recommend that
judges OF districts courts be empowered
to call a grand jury to meet whenever they
| deem il necessary, but for the ordinary
run Of cases, where information has been
filed or where the defendant is bound over
from justice court, the recommendation
Will be that trial be had on the Information
or action of the Justice court.
The committee will also recommend that
the method of compensating county at
torneys be changed and that attorneys be
paid for each case or by the day for the
time put in. They are now paid salary and
fees. This will be opposed by the county
attorneys from thinly settled counties for
| the reason that there is little business
there. The commbtee will also recommend
change in drawing petit Jurors requiring
/ district judges to appoint commissions of
| three 20 make the selections
The association meets in this city, July
10 and Il.
More You Pay. Less You Get.
r. H. Cooper Of Winterset. prominent
banker. has started suit against the Con-
servative Mutual Life Insurance company
OF Los Angeles for a settlement OF his poll
cies, aggregating 5000, on the claim that
under the present conditions the more he
pays in the less he will get in the end.
| Cooper was policy holder of the old Con-
| servative Mutual of Marshalltown which
sold out to the California company. This
| company has now sold out to the Pacific
| Mutual of San Francisco Cooper has
started his suit in the Madison county
district court, stating that the transfer
to the Pacific annuls the contract and de-
mands a settlement He asserts that the
| Pacific Mutual is claiming that the dlvl-
bends do not warrant the fulfllment OF the
policies and so s placing liens on the poll
cies and charging interest on the liens, and
the liens and interest are greater than the
payments, hence the more the policy holder
pays in the less he will get at the end.
FIrecracker Sales spoiled.
The impression that has gained circuls-
ton over the state that the last legislature
passed a bill prohibiting irecrackers has
spoiled the sale of the noise-malkers in this
state The bill passed the house, but not
the senate. Wholesalers say the trade this
year is less than half what It formerly
was. because OF this mistaken impression.
Shaw Buys Des Moines Property.
Secretary Leslie NJ. Shaw has purchased
a number of lots in this city and tract
l.,
Greenwood park and close to the fashion
Consideration named in the deeds hied with
the county recorder today is 1920 Whether
the purchase is for investment purposes
or for residence for the secretary can
not be learned.
J. s. Polk slightly Better. g.
The condition Of j. S. Polk, president of
the Des Moines Street railway, was today
reported to be slightly better.
WOrkmen Wait for Rates..
The failure of the railroads TO make ra ties
to the wheat fields of Dakota and Kansas
is preventing the workmen of Iowa from
responding TO the demand for workers. The
demand for men is being made in this city
and IL is asserted 5000 men are wanted in
Dakota There are plenty of men in Iowa
ready 10 go, but the rates are too high
and there has been no word passed about
as yet to let them ride free on frelghts
Slot Machine Crusade stiII On.
Justice Livingston of Sayorvie declared
today that he would still prosecute his
crusade against the slot machines If any
put in an appearance. Cigar store mer
and druggists, who have had the machines
say they will have them all back soon
The public is, therefore. waiting to see
which will keep its word. No machines
have appeared thus far
Labor Federation I'm Politics.
A. l. Trick, president of the Iowa Fed
Grafton of Labor today stated that the
federation is going into politics. He said
In pursuance of requests from the Ameri.
can Federation of Labor and it's national
officers in Washington, and following Out
the program agreed to at the last annua
meeting of the Iowa Federation of Labor
union men throughout this state are going
into politics"