Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-12
ON The INTERURBANS
Portions Of Lines Within Cities 70 Be
Assessed BY State Board.
BOARD MEMBER CANNOT COLLECT BILL
County Attorneys Ask that LeEisla-
ture Enact Antitrust Law that
VIII Hold In Courts and
Promise Action.


supreme court To-Day oeClueu lndN al lhtti-
urban railway is more than the line from
one city limits to the limits of another
city and that the assessment therefore
made by the executive council can cover
trackage used inside the city limits. The
opinion was rendered in the case OF the
Waterloo & Cedar Falls Rapid Transit com
pany which operates an interurban, while |
the same corporation owns the street rail-
ways in both Cedar Falls and Waterloo. |
The executive council assessed the property |
and certified 1t to the Board Of Supervisors.
The company brought suit to enjoin the |
supervisors from forcing the collection of
the taxes. The supreme court today holds |
that where one corporation owns all the |
properties. both that used as street railway |
and that as interurban, the executive coun- !
ell shall assess as interurban the property
inside the city limits that is used as an
interurban
HarrisOn County Case.
The supreme court today affirmed the
case OF Harrison county against e. F. Og-
den, county treasurer, and George f. Reiff
and others in which It is held that Reiff
cannot collect for work done for the county
by himself. Reif is. or was, a supervisor
and did some work for the county while he
was supervisor. He also bought at a dis
count warrants against the county for
work done by others. Action was started
to restrain the county from paying the
claims The district court granted the in
junction and the supreme court today af-
firmed the decision.
In the case of J. 7. Beeks against Dick
inson county the supreme court today de-
cded that Beeks could not collect from
the county for damages which his crops
suffered while he was quarantined for
smallpox, 1t turned out afterward that
neither he nor members of his family had
smallpox. He sued for damages on the
claim that the county officers had promised
to care for his crops.
County Attorneys After Trusts.
At the closing session of the County
Attorneys association today the legislative
committee was instructed to ask the
legislature to enact an adequate antitrust
law. Resolutions were passed to that eff
feet County Attorney Jesse Miller of this
city said that Des Moines has an ice trust,
coal trust. an insurance trust. a laundry
trust and several others. He intimated
that he would act II the laws were strin-
gent enough 1t was asserted in the reso-
lutions that every effort on the part of
county attorneys to fight the trusts has
failed by the Judges deciding in favor of
the corporations and against the consti-
| tutionality of the law,
Scandal I'm Golf.
An investigation was started today in
the Iowa golf tournament a result of a
caddy finding card on the green which
gave one player a considerably larger score
than, the Official score gave him and en-
titled him to a position in the state cham
pionship playing. A committee is Investi-
eating the matter.
Three to Have Gold Medals.
Adjutant General w. II. Thrift, Colonel
James Rush Lincoln and Colonel William
H. Evans are each TO be presented with
gold medal in honor of having served
twenty-five years and over in the National
guard. The medals are to be given by the
state and a committee of Guard men is
now working on the selection OF the design
| of the badges, which will be valuable
medals. The law which gives them the
badges provides that every member of the
Guard shall have a bronze badge at the
end of Ave years service and a bar for
each additional five years and that on
the conclusion OF twenty-five years service
shall be given gold badge. .s-'.-,..
Hull. Names DeleEates. ~
| Congressman Hull today announced the
| selection of 'seventy-two delegates from
Polk county to the congressional convention
at Perry, July 10, Captain c, l.. watrous
was selected for the head of the delegation.
Report L. Held Up.
| The grand Jury, after preparing a report
u have been submitted yesterday, with
| held IL and took a recess until August J.
Information had today from persons who
saw parts of the report are that II charges
| wholesale graft on the part of some city
oficisls anc policemen and furnishes a
| considerable amount of evidence. Whether
the report Will be made public August
or not is a question. 1t is understood that
the recess of the grand jury was the re-
suit Of a compromise in favor of those
who wished to give the police chance to
clean up the city
No Fight over Union Pacific.
There was no spectacular fight over the
assessment of the Union Pacific railroad
property in Council BLUFFS before the exec
utive council this year there was last
year Citizens of Council Bluffs reached
| the city yesterday afternoon, but made
little or no statement, except that they
we're opposed to any reduction of this
Union Pacific assessment. Mr.. Scribner
for the Union Pacing. reached the city to-
day and he stated to the council that he
would gladly answer any questions or
give any additional information, but had
no statement to make. Last year there
was a debate of some hours between the
Union Pacifc's attorneys and the citizens
of Council BLUFFS.
EX-COnvict Robbed.
Frank Hart an ex-convict at Fort Mad
ison. today caused the arrest OF Wallace
Scott. a Des Moines saloonkeeper. ana
William Watt, an ex-city detective. He
charges that they stole $500 from him.
Hart earned the money by working over
time at Fort Madison. He got his draft
for the money cashed by Watt endorsing
f.. Fearing that Scott and Watt were
about to take IL away from him. he left Il
at restaurant and now charges that
after he left they went there and induced
the restaurant man to give them the
money
sherims Elect Omeers
Al the closing session OF the Iowa sher-
ins association here today the following
ofiicers were elected: President, c. W
schnurr of New Hampton; vice president.
A. w. Coquilette of Marion; secretary ana
treasurer, w. ]. PuIlen Of Baskerville.