Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-11-10
INTERSTATE RATE RAISED
Railroads Cut Cut discrimination, out Not
in the Manner Desired.
COMMISSION NAY TAKE HAND IN MATTER
No Opposition 60 the Recollection Of
DoIIivcr 20 the Scuate-Hou.
4. n. Funk BecoverinR
from Illness.


vance in the freight rate on cream from
Iowa points to points outside the state
does not entirely meet with the approval
of the Iowa Railroad commission and the
commission may determine that the state
rates should be lowered. State Dairy and |
Food Commissioner II. r. Wright discov-
cred that the rate on a 1OO-pound can Of /
cream from Fort Dodge TO Chicago over |
the Illinois Central was 40 cents and the |
rate on can of the same weight shipped |
on the same train from Fort Dodge to |
Dubuque, only half the distance, was 10 |
cents, or cents more This was a dis |
elimination against the Iowa creamery and
in favor Of the creameries in Chicago. The
same low rates applied ON all railroads to
Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, st. Joseph
and other cities. He laid the matter before
the railroad commission and also before the
railroads with the result that they with
drew the special low rates to outside points
/ and put i'm a higher rate, the rate from
I Fort Dodge to Chicago being now 60 cents.
The position taken by the railroad commits
sion is that while this removes the dis
! elimination as between the creameries OF
| Iowa and those outside the state It places
the farmers of Iowa who have cream and
/ milk to sell at the mercy of the Iowa
| creameries, the higher rate to outside points
cutting off the outside creameries as pos
railroad commission has taken no formal
action in the matter. but it is quite possible
that it may decide that IL the railroads
could afford to take a can of cream from
Fort Dodge to Chicago for 40 cents it ought
ito haul the can from Fort Dodge to
Dubuque, one-half the distance, for about
30 cents. This. they claim, would remove
the discrimination and still keep the outside
creameries as possible customers for Iowa
farmers.
DOIIiver without Opposition.
Senator Jonathan 2. Dolliver will have
no opposition for reelection at the session
of the legislature next winter, according to
Senator Warren Garst, lieutenant governor
elect Of Iowa, and for many years n promi-
nent and leading figure in the senate. Sena-
tor Garst is in Des Moines today. He
said: In most of the counties of the state
the convention which nominated members
Of the legislature instructed them to vote
for Deliver. They will not go back on the
instructions"
Senator Funk Better.
Senator A. b. Funk Of Spirit Lake is
reported to be some better and as soon as
his health will permit he will start for
California, where he will spend the winter
Since early in the summer Mr.. Funk has
suffered from an attack of pneumonia. 1t
now over and that he will continue to
> grow better For q large part OF the time
it has been feared by his friends that he
could not recover from the attack He
is left very weak and It will yet be some
time before he is able TO be. about. SEN
atOr Funk has been one Of the most prom
inent figures in the republican party Of
Iowa. He was at one time a candidate
for governor Of the state and served for
several years on the commission that COM
peted the building Of the state capitol
and did the repairing and remodeling,
Quarter Meter Responsible.
| A quarter meter was probably respon-
sibe for the death by gas asphyxiation
OF two young men in this city yesterday.
1t is believed that the young men went
l to bed and left the gas burning. During
the evening the quarter meter ran out
and another quarter was dropped into the
1 machine by some member of the family
and the gas started again. The quarter
/ gas meter is a contrivance that gives gas
when a quarter is dropped into it till a
, quarters worth Of gas has been used and
: then the flow of gas stops till another
Q quarter is dropped in.
Another superintendent Affected.
!, Mrs. Jennie Huegle of this city is not
Z the only candidate for county superinten'
dent of schools who has an election with
. out the necessary qualifications. Mrs
u Huegle took the state examination but
, failed The republican candidate in
!, Plymouth county, for years a professor
in a college at LeMars, has no state GER
tifcate. certificate was not needed in
i the college and not till a day or two be.
fore the election did he discover that one
was necessary as county superintendent.
None Expelled from Drake.
Drake university students who partlci
pated in the Hisey incident and broke M
the chapel exercises by taking the Tam
county candidate for governor into tn,
chapel hail on election day were thii
morning given q very severe reprimanC
and the matter Is now a closed incident
. It was confidently expected that thos,
\ who broke up the chapel exercises woul,
be suspended at least. The students ar
+ now breathing easier.
PuPsIOw Charged with BIa cISmatI.
4, SIOUX CITY, Ia, Nov 9.-(Special Tele
gram.)-Robert +. Purslow. son OF one o