Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-19
TROUBLE OVER LAND TRADE
State Fair Board Wants TO Exchange Goal
Land for Level Ground.
PROTEST ON DRAINING TWO tAMs
MOnument Commission Meets snd
Completes Arrangements for
Dedicationa in NO
vember.
Grom a stan Correspondence

vember.
From stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES. Sept. ls-(special.)--
| fights developed today before the executive
council. One was over the trading of a
lot OF the state fair grounds back In the
| hills for land down on the level that Is
| suitable for the fair and the other over the
draining of Gin Barrel slough and South
lake up I'm the northern part OF the state.
against which the duck hunters protest.
The directors have arranged a trade for
land between. the Rock Island tracks and
the state fair grounds For this they pro-
posed to give thirty-nine acres belonging
to the state fair grounds. but never used
| for any purpose. 1t Is back of the present
grounds and so rough that 1t is OF no
value whatever except the coal that is
under 1t. The deal is being opposed by
some who assert that the state should use
the land for botanical gardens and sh41
the coal under It makes 1t of greater value
than that the state lie getting.
J Recently a number Of farmers who de-
sire the extra land for farming presented
petition to the executive council to drain
| Gun Barrel slough In the northern part Of
the state. To do this II Is necessary to
drain Twin lakes or South lake. Today the
petition was discovered by the duck hun
ters OF Des Moines and a counter petition
fled protesting against such drainage The
case was heard this afternoon by the execu-
tive council along with that for the trade
Of state fair grounds. which must have the
approval OF the executive council before
the transfer can be made.
IS For Defeating Monuments. S'
Meetings of the four monument commits
sions we're held today with Governor Cum
Minis at the state house for the purpose of
completing the plans for the dedication OF
the monuments southern battlehelds.
The dates finally fixed are as follows:
Dedicate monuments at Vicksburg, No
vemoer II and Is; at Andersonville, No
vember IS; at Chattanooga, November 20;
at Shiloh, November 20 and g. The special
train will carry Governor Cummins and his
stan and the members of the monument
commissions and their wives and the per-
sons participating In the program. Ar
| rangements haye been made to secure a
rate OF l cent: mile for all old soldiers
and members of their families who wish to
| accompany the party and II the special
train cannot carry the entire crowd a sec
ond train will be made up for the purpose
After meeting with the governor the mem
bers of the commissions met again at the
slavery this afternoon and completed. the
arrangements for having printed a circular
giving each program and the full details
tof the arrangements for the declarations
Rev. A. L. Frisbie of this city will act as
chaplain at each dedication and the gov
ernor In each instance will receive the
monuments and turn them over to the
government. Colonel Clarke of Cedar Rap
ids, N. K. Kendall and General. Weaver will
be the principal speakers.
Supreme Court In Session.
After long summer vacation the SUI
preme court met today for the first pe-
riod of the September term of court. The
case involving the franchise rights of the
Des Moines Street Railway company was
advanced on the docket and oral argu-
ment waived and the case submitted. A
decision Is looked for at the next period.
| The case OF the state against DIR. j. w.
Crofford OF Decatur county. appealed from
the district court Of Clarke county, on a
charge OF murder by criminal operation,
was continued. The case has been before
the supreme court on another occasion,
in which a new trial was ordered, and at
the trial Crofford was again convicted.
The case against Erick Won Kutzelben,
who was convicted in the Iowa county dis
trict court OF murder by wrecking a Rock
Island train near Marengo, was continued.
The case against Willard Buck OF Jasper
county on charge OF murder was sub
mitted without oral argument. The case
against Matthias Blades of Sioux county, a
murder case that has attracted consider
able attention, was continued till the next
period Of the court
Exhume the Body.
: To overcome what is claimed was a far
cical coroners inquest In this city over the
remains, of Miss Irene Blydenburg of Ell
, dora, the girls body was exhumed at Ell
dora today and an inquest made there by
the coroner of that county. Physicians
made an examination and II is pronounced
the death was due to a criminal operation
4, The verdict of the jury here was peritonitis
in the face of the confession by DIR. Gadd
. Rev. Z. T. Coyle. the minister who fur
, nished evidence and was the first to notify
: the relatives and authorities OF the real
cause of the death, and who later mysteri
ously disappeared. has again been discoy.
, cred and is furnishing the police all the
information he has. Late today H. b
Dickinson. who is under arrest on a charge
OF. murder in the second degree In this
! case. was able to furnish the 5000 bonds
required when he was bound over and was
released The bonds were furnished By
Robert King and Betsy Ryan OF this city
: No "Frats" I'm High school.
, After hearing the boys and girls of the
high school In defense Of the fraternity
system the West Des Moines Board of Ed
ucation has ordered that the order agains
fraternities shall be enforced and that nC
I member of a. fraternity shall partake II
: school athletics or literary society work Of
Z be eligible to other honors. The fraternit,
4 members today withdrew from the ath
/ letic and literary society organizations
I The best material of the athletic and lit
1 erary society activity OF the schools is IL
d the fraternlties. This material having with
: drawn from those and chung TO the fra
I ternities. the problem is as far from solu
: ton as it ever was.
his Suit ThpOwa Dat.
y In the district court today the big Nil
? lion dollar damage suit of C. II. crabtre
was thrown out as being monstrosIty
crabtree is interested in a gold mine In tn
Black Hills which has been the cause O
4 endless litigation. the hrst suit being b,
R one A. L. Steele, an attorney here. who Sc