Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-05
ANANA SOCIETY IN COURT
Decision Expected Soon in Euit to Dissolve
the Society.
ASSOCIATION Won N THE LOWER COURT
Kansas City Man, Arrested for Inn
personatinR rated states
Marshal. Makes Attempt to
Escape from Court.

DIES MONIES. June A--Cspecial)-T
supreme court convenes for the June pc
riod Of the May term tomorrow morning
and the case for the dissolution OF the
Amana society In Iowa county, one OF the
biggest and most interesting cases ever
brought before the courts of the state,
IL to he orally argued, Judge Wade OF
Iowa City appears for the society and
Attorney General -Mulsn will appear for
the state. The Amana society IL In pos
session OF thousands OF acres Of the best
farm land Of the state 1t is religious
organization. living in the most rigid sim
plicity. Suit was started on the order
of Judge Byington of the district court
to determine whether the society should
not be forced to incorporate, 81 being as
serted that It has ceased to be an
eeiemosynary institution and thst"it did
exist for pecuniary profit, and hence un-
der the laws should regularly incorporate.
In the district court the Amana society
won. 1t is alleged that the value Of the
property owned by the society amounts
to over 100000 The land is located In
the northeastern corner of lows county
and on It IL situated four villages, Amana.
South Amana. North Amana and Home
stead.
Impersoaated United states Mnrshal.
Bryant Biggs OF Kansas City, who came
to Des Moines yesterday on an excursion,
arrested a Pinkerton detective and three
| or four excursionsists representing that ne
was United States marshal. He was
arrested himself when he reached this city
and sought to turn his prisoners over 10
| the police, and today when being arraigned
in police court made a bold attempt TO es-
cape the custody OF the officers. On the
! train coming from Kansas City passen-
| ger announced that he had been robbed
OF 500 Bggs said he was United states
marshal and at once arrested the Pinker-
ton detective and three or four other pas
sengers In police court today Biggs acted
maniacal and threw his arms around a
police ofloer's neck He was finally over
powered and placed IN cell. The Pinker-
! ton detective arrested was A. B. McJames
Of st. Paul and the Kansas City passen-
ger arrested by Biggs was Attorney f.
r. Wright OF Kansas City. All the per-
sons arrested by Biggs were released here.
Grand Lodge MasOns Tomorrow.
The lowe Grand Lodge OF the Masonic
order will open in this city tomorrow morn
ing at O'Clock and 1000 Masons will be
in the city. An elaborate program for sew
eral days has been mapped out. This is
the first time in many years that the lodge
has met in this city. There will be a three
days school OF instruction. The local lodges
will assemble at the Chamberlain hotel. the
headquarters Of the grand lodge tomorrow
morning and escort the grand lodge to the
auditorium. where the three days school
will be held. During the three days. in ad-
! dition to the school OF instruction the
lodge will visit the army post, where a
| special drill OF the Eleventh cavalry has
been arranged with full review at p. m
| Wednesday afternoon officers will be elected
for the ensuing year and in the evening
the entire seating capacity Of the new EN-
pire theater will be given to the visitors
to witness a vaudeville production.
GOthemburE Mayors Son on Trial.
4 Henry Otto, the alleged son OF the mayor
OF Gothenburg, Sweden, who was arrested
as a participant in the bold hold up al
Valley Junction, will be on trial in the
district court here tomorrow for attempted
murder.
Council Bluffs Bids Tomorrow.
The State Board Of Control will tomorrow
open the bids for the construction OF the
big $4,000 building for the School for this
Deaf at Council Bluffs.
This Weeks Conventions.
Republican county conventions are beinl
held this week as follows: Monday, Worth
Tuesday. Hardin and caucuses in Mus
catine; Wednesday. Montgomery; Thursday
primaries in jefferson; Friday, caucuses II
East waterloo and Newton; Saturday, pri
maries in Jasper and conventions in Cas-
Story, Black Hawk. Muscatine and Jeffer
son.
II IL understood here that Governor Cum
Minis has abandoned his program for Thu
week and will spend all his time in Blscl
Hawk and Jasper counties.
IaFoIIette Not Coming.
Senator LAFollette will not come from
Washington to take part in the Iowa cam
paign in the interest of Governor Cummins
Governor Cummins today received lette
from the senator stating that his dutie
in Washington prevented his leaving there
worked ON symDathies.
A man giving his name as Boyle o
, Omaha canvassed East Des Moines for ali
today. claiming that he had Just como frou
, the soldiers home at Marshalltown an
was veteran OF the civil and Spanish
, American wars. Through telling differen
story at each place he was detected, bu
the police failed to make an arrest. in
man learning Of the suspicious and maxim
his escape.