Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-05-15
TWENTY OFFICERS
LOSE THEIR PLACES
New Legislation Hits the
Iowa National
Guard
MULLAN RENDERS AN OPINION
When Bill Passed Abolishing Certain
Offices and Another Subsequently
Passed Creating the Offices, the
present iucumbents Were ousted.

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present iucumbents Were Ousted.
Des Monies. Attorney General Null
Ian has decided for Adjutant Thrift
that about twenty National Guard Of.
ficers were legislated out of Office BY
the last general assembly.
General Thrift submitted to the at.
torney general the question of the eff
feet Of some of the sweeping provis-
ions of the new military code and
has been advised that the entire medt.
cal staff of the whole guard as well
as the inspectors and the offlcers in
charge of small arms practice etc.
have been decapdtated by action OF
the law.
It was supposed when the seventh
section of the bill abolished certain
Offices and another subsequent section
recreated the Offices, that the officers.
incumbent in the places at that time
would continue In the new Offices.
Not so, says General Mullan.
Acting on this opinion, General
Thrift has notified the colonies of the
regiments that their surgeons are out
of commission and he has asked for
recommendations for appointments to
several of the places which were re-
created by the law. &
General Thrift gives the retiring Of
fcers an honorable discharge, of
course, and directs them to turh over
whatever guard property they may
have to the acting quartermaster gem
eral at Des Moines. Major surgeons
are directed to discharge their men on
account of the act referred to and
forward all military property to head
quarters at Des Monies.
Build New Phone Lines. f
Improvements aggregating $200.UUU
| have been planned for the Western
Electric Telephone company, whose
headquarters are in Mason City. All
the present lines will be rebuilt with
new copper and iron wire, new poles
and new switch boards which
| will accommodate an increase in the
| service Several new lines will be
built, among them being lines be-
tween Burt and Fenton; Spirit Lake
to jackson, Mimi; Rock Rapids and
Estherville; Albert Lea via Mills and
Forest City to Britt. Crews are out
at this time and it is expected the
work will be completed by June 1.
New tolls have been established on
all lines in Cerro Gordo county from
all the sixteen points who have direct
connections with Mason City. a reduc.
ton from 10 cents to IL cents on each
toll. A new equipment will be in
stalled in the head Office at Mason
City.
Ministers Oppose Theaters.
The committee of the Des Moines
Ministerial association on public
morals met to canvass the situation
with regard to the agitation against
Sunday theaters. The question as to
whether or not it would be wise to
continue actively the agitation against
the theaters during the summer or
| to allow the matter to rest and take
up their work with the legislature
next winter was discussed. No def.
| mite decision was reached except
that the committee will not favor any
nagging methods and for that reason
will probably not take up any active
OPPOSITION until about the time for the
meeting of the legislature In the win
ter. DR.. Breeder is chairman of the
committee and its membership In.
cludes nearly all of the downtown as
well as many Of the residence dis
trict ministers in the city, 1t being
quite large committee.
! Want the senatorship.
Grundy county republicans in con-
vention entered formal protest against
the treatment accorded them by Black
Hawk county in the state senatorial
apportionment. Grundy and Black
Hawk counties constitute the senator.
ial district and of course Black Hawk
county has absolute control of the
convention. Ever since the establish
ment of the district Black Hawk
county has taken the senatorship ami
not accorded Grundy what Grundy
calls Square DEAL" The republican
convention passed resolution that
Grundy county be given the senator.
ship one torn in every three, and
should Black Hawk county not accord
the Iowa legislature.
| Governor Cumrlins carried Polk
county In the republican primaries on
May ] by a popular vote Of two to
one and will have about 300 instructed
delegates in the county convention to
80 for George D. Perkins. Mr.. Per.
kins carried number of the pre-.
cincts which Sidney A. Foster carried
againet Governor Cummins five years
ago. The division of instructed dee
gates then was forty-six for Foster
and 257 for Cummins.
Il The terms of United States Marshal
Christian and Dissict Attorney Mile,
expire Jrne 81. but it is possible their
successors will not be appointed al
that time. United States Marshal
Christians last appointment held over
four months before he was reappoint
ed.
Rick diphtheria has broken out tc
suc.' an extent in Sully, eighteen miles
southeast of Newton, that Mayor
Iolasworth issued proclamation or
ering the schools to be shut down
tne churches to be closed, and forbid
}, ding public gatherings of all kinds.
,ISensation May Develop.
u A helper at Evergreen cemetery, at
Vinton, while going through the older
|part OF the cemetery was attracted by
some fresh earth on one Of the lots.
The sexton was smediately notified