Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-03
LARGE LEAD FOR CUNNlNS
Perkins Gets Only Twenty Eight Delegates
in Polk County Under Primary.
NO CHOICE ON SEVERAL OF THE OFFICES
Under Terms of sew Law Convention
Must settle These PIsees-NOney
of Girls Fraternity is
Rejected.
lion a slan correspondentl

CFrom a stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES, May 2-Cspecial) THE
Polk county primary election law. which
was used for the first time in the county
primaries here yesterday, resulted In Civ
ing Perkins twenty-eight out of $50 dele
gates who will make up the county con-
vention which meets Saturday. This is
with three small county precincts not yet
heard from. The popular vote with the
exception Of the three precincts, is. Cum
Minis 6,174; Perkins. $500. The primary
law provides that unless a candidate has
a majority Of all the delegates to the
county convention the delegates from the
precincts may act as though uninstructed,
There will be but few Offices which will
thus be thrown to the convention to de-
eide. Garst has the county delegation over
Raymond by 1854 delegates to ll2 from re-
ports from forty-one OF the ffty-one pre-
oincts I'm the county. There will be no
choice on secretary of state. the returns
for which are almost complete and which
fail to give any candidate majority of
the delegates. Hayward leads with Hites
next and Richards next. For attorney
general, Major Charles Mckenzie won over
Webb Byers with 1893 delegates to Byers'
IS from all but. nine precincts. For rail-
road commissioner, thirty-two out of
thirts-nlne precincts reported gave Colonel
d. j. Palmer OF Washington. Ia, 2l2 dele
gates The same thirty mine precincts gave
W. L. Taton OF Usage IA delegates; Eu-
gene Buttles Of Burlington 100; DR.. Por-
terfeld of Atlantic. IL and S. G. Hunter
of Atlantic, delegates. w. w. Morrow
of Alton carried every precinct but one
for state treasurer against l<retschmer of
Dubuque. Congressman Hull Carried all
precincts except seven for congress The
choice of one railroad commissioner, the
choice OF both representatives from this
county, the choice of secretary Of state
and the choice OF county superintendent
will all be thrown to the convention. the
vote of the primaries having failed to make
a selection, and, one of the four district
Judges will be left to the convention. The
primaries resulted as follows on other
officers voted upon: Senator c. c. Dowell
for senator; county recorder Mrs f. w.
Dodson, the present incumbent; county
clerk, b. F. Coffin, present incumbent;
county attorney, Lawrence De Graf; three
OF the four district judges, Bremen, Howe
and McHenry. present incumbents.
superintendent 1T VJnton.
The state Board of Control today APP
pointed j. d. Vance, county superintendent
of schools of Linn county. to be superin-
tendent of the State College for the Blind
at Vinton. Mr.. Vance will assume his
duties there July /. The present superin-
tendent, who recently resigned, will retire
to private life at that time Mr. Vance
is young man and one Of the prominent
public school men of the state.
Dentists to Form Clubs.
The Iowa State Dental association i'm ses-
vice Of President c. M Work and district
the state into official clubs These various
clubs will be afiliated with the state society
and will meet frequently for study which
will be specialized at the annual meeting
of the state society. Two hundred dentists
attended the clinic today.
Frat Money Tainted.
A gift of SO given for the proposed new
Young woman's Christian association
building by the Kappa Psi. girls
fraternity OF the West High school
has been returned by the West Des Molnes
School board as tainted. The high schools
of the city are contributing to the erection
OF the building, as the school girls will re-
rceive training in the gymnasium OF the
new building. The society gave the $40
to the treasurer of the school board and
asked that II be credited with the rest OF
the money donated by the West High
The board has returned the money to the
treasurer of the girls society with the ex-
PLANTATION that it is considered tainted.
Interurban 10 Ottumwa.
L. V. Ullrey of indianapolis. Ind, rep
resenting a syndicate that invests In inter
urban bonds. is i'm the city and has gone
over the route between Des Moines and
| Ottumwa, with the view of taking bonds
on a proposed line between the two cities
Some of the richest coal mines OF the state
are in the territory between the two CITIES
Dead Man Identified.
! Through a photograph, the man killed
i by the officers at Ottumwa while trying TO
escape from paying for meal, has been
Identified as the man who held up Nose
| Levich, second hand dealer i'm this city
and robbed him of a Colt revolver After
/ refusing to pay for his meal at Ottumwa
| the man ran from the restaurant and was
pursued by officers. He took refuge in an
old building where he was shot and killed
4 while resisting arrest In Des Moines
some days ago the man went into the sec
| ond- hand store TO purchase a revolver and
after fitting cartridges to 1t aimed II at
| the proprietor and backed out of the store
and escaped The mans name is Lorenzo
r. Lewis. and his residence unknown 10
the officers.