Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-13
STICKNEY TO TGLk ON RATES
Railroad Pr,Iidsst on Program Ofthe State
Farmers InSiituts,
OTHER PROMINENT MEN ARE TO APPEAR
Fifteen Life Term Murderers Have
Filled Petitions Asking the Leg
isIature 60 Grant Them
PardOns.


ttTOm stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES, Ia, Nov. 12-(SpeciaLr-A.
B. suckney, president OF the Great Western
RAILROAD, will tell the farmers at the state
instintute in this city next month about the
intricacies OF rate making and how he would
simplify the matter 50 that anyone could
understand a rate and determine the cost
of his shipment without getting an expert
TO figure It out for him. President Stick
ney is to be one of the biggest drawing
cards at the state meeting.
Arrangements for the program for the
State Farmers institute and meeting of
the State Agricultural society. and the
meeting OF the Iowa Corn Belt Meat Pro-
ducers association were nearly completed
today. The principal attractions are to be:
President A. b. sdckney, who will speak
on freight rates.
c. G.. Meserule OF Gowrio. who will talk
on farmers cooperative associations.
/ Judge Cowan OF Texas, attorney for Ma
| tional Cattle Breeders association.
Mr.. Emboden OF Illinois, cattle feeding
expert.
! The farmers institute opens Tuesday
morning, December Il. and the Honorable
Lafe Young will deliver the address OF well
/ come, and the response will be made by
/ Senator Byron w. Newberry Of Strawberry
/ Point Following the talk by c. G. Meser-
ole, Captain r. Miller, county superintend-
| ent of schools of Keokuk county, who has
made "a success of teaching agriculture in
I the schools and has gained a national rep
utation by so doing. will tell what his
methods are. Don L. Berry OF Warren
county will talk on the benefits Of county
! farmers Institutes Prof. W. J. Kennedy
Of the state college will talk on pure bred
draft mares on the farm; Prof. Curtis
Of the State college will tell what the State
college is doing for the boys and girls of
Iowa; Mrs. HARRIET w. Ashton will talk
on poultry on the farm.
Wednesday there will be the meetings Of
the State Agricultural society, with the re-
ports of the president and secretary and
( a talk by Governor Cummins. a talk by F..
A. Larson, secretary of the Montgomery
county fair, on the "Up-to-Date County
Fair" and a talk by w. G. Swallow on
Does It Pay to Exhibit Hogs at the Iowa
State Fair?" Mr.. Swallow has exhibited
hogs at the state fair for forty years, and
ought to know. He regularly acts as judge
of hogs at the American Royal show al
Kansas city.
The election of president vice president
and directors from the even numbered con
gressional districts will be held Wednesday
afternoon.
The Corn BeB Meat Producers meetings
will be held Thursday. and during the same
week the State horticultural society and
the State Foresters society will meet.
Supreme Court Assignments.
In the entire assignment Of cases foi
oral argument and submission to the SUI
preme court for the period opening this
morning there is but one case that has
attracted any attention over the state
That is the case OF the state against Leor
\ Loser, charged with swndling in a foot
race.
This period Of the supreme court /,
chiefly important because OF the case
! which the court has before it and which
may be determined at this session. The
case of LATE Young, charged with over
charging the state to the amount of sew.
eral thousand dollars; the case of the
state against the Amana society 20 dis.
solve the society. and the case involving
the question Of whether or not the Des
Moines Street Railway company has any
franchise have all been submitted to the
court and decisions may be handed dowr
/ AT this ppriod