Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-02
QUITS DEMOCRATIC TICKET
q. N. Bartlett Pulls Out az Candidate for
Supreme Court Reporter.
GEORGE HARNAGLe, TAXES VACANT PLACE
Final Balance of the state Fair
Expected to show About Forty
Thousand Dollars on Right
side of ledger.
CFrom a STAR Correspondent)

DIES MONIES, Ia, Sept. l.-CSpecial Tele-
gram.)-H. M Bartlett, nominee on the
democratic state ticket for supreme court
reporter, has withdrawn and George Har-
nagle of Des Moines. nominee on the Polk
county democratic ticket for district Judge,
has been selected by the democratic state
central committee for the position. John
Mulvaney, who two years ago was the
democratic candidate against Congressman
Hull In the Seventh district has been put
on the ticket for judge in place of Harnagle.
John N. Smith of Altoona, was today
nominated by the democrats of the Seventh
district, for congress against Congressman
j. A. T. Hull republican. Smith Is a
farmer.
BiR PROFIT in Fair.
Preliminary reports of the receipts from
the 1906 state fair show 500, i91 as the total
receipts for the week but this sum will be
augmented some by about 5000 or 1900 OF
receipts from sources that could not be
computed definitely for some days. This
is $4,000 more than the receipts of last
year. The profits from the fair cannot be
figured up as yet, but will probably come
in the neighborhood OF $4,000, all Of which
will be put In on improvements for next
year. A large per cent Of the exhibitors
left today for the Lincoln. Neb.. state fair,
which is next In the circuit
At the meeting of the fair directors last
night It was voted to bar Frank Iams of
st. Paul. Neb.. from exhibiting at future
Iowa fairs unless he makes satisfactory
| amends for refusal to obey the orders of
| the judges.
G1enwood Contract Let.
The Board of Control today let the con-
| he OF he hal l
| for boys at Glenwood, to F. X. White OF
Eldora, Ia, for the sum OF s45.4A. The
| contract includes the building with electric
wiring, but not the heating and plumbing
4 The contract will be made out at once and
the work of starting on the building will
be made IL once. probably next week, in
order to get It enclosed as soon as possible
The highest bids were in the vicinity OF
$4,000.
| Argue Tor BaIdes.
The argument for Matthias Baldes
| charged with the murder OF his wife and
now serving a life sentence for the crime
! has been filed with the clerk of the su.
preme court. The case is on the docket
for the September term of court. Blades
| and his wife lived eight miles south oil
Hawarden in Sioux county. The testimony
! of the 14-year-old son and 17-year-olc
daughter is that the father attacked the
mother and that the children, taking thI
mothers part tried to fight the father ava,
and prevent the murder, but were unsuc
cessful. The argument OF the attorney fo
I Baldes is that the sentence of life i'm
prisonment is too severe and that II Is no
Established that the Hght betwe5.
| he husband and wife is wins
caused her death, and Furthermore
not proven that Blades purposely kille,
her. lis argued that this was his frs
quarrel and that nothing in the evidenc,
shows that the attack was such as coul,
cause death.
Rain Helps the Corn.
Rain, which Director John r. Sage Of tn
crop service said was needed for the corr
crop, came this morning 1t amounted 4
a half inch here and was quite genera
over the state.
Two Candidates for Clerk.
Rev. A. e. Kepford Of Ida Grove. who wa
reading clerk of the house AT the las
session of the legisls ture, and Denu
o'Leary OF Council Bluffs. who was journs
clerk, are said to be candidates for chic
clerk OF the next session.