Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-21
BRIBERY CASE Goes OVER
Action Taken 70 Give Grand jury = Chance
10 Investigate Matter
OFFICERS LOOKING FOR THREE TRAMPs
Rob Two of Their Fellows and
Throw Them from a MOvinE
Freight Train Near
waterloo, lows.
CFrom a stan Correspondent.l

DIES MONIES. July 2O.-(special)-At the
hearing OF General Manager George Hippee
Of the Des Moines Street Railway com
pany and A. NJ Hadley on the charge Of
bribing Alderman Hamery to vote for the
street railway franchise held In Justice
Roe's court thfs afternoon at o'clock, ar
rangements were made to postpone the pre-
lifninary hearing TIN August at o'clock.
The grand jury will meet August l and It
Is understood the friends Of Alderman
Hamery count on securing ansindictment,
while the friends Of Manager Hippee be-
lieve the grand jury will ignore the charge
at that time. The preliminary hearing be-
fore the justice may not be held The
hearing developed that the four men whom
Hamery asserts saw the money delivered
are John J Hamilton, formerly editor of
the Daily News here and now connected
with the Iowa Homestead; Mack Olsen. a
real estate dealer; DR.. Clarence Webb, a
physician, and e. Paul Jones, music
dealer. They we're present at the justices
once this AFTERNOON to testify at the pre-
liminary hearing.
Tramps Mistreat Fellows.
Rock Island detectives and oficials along
the line OF the Rock Island between Cedar
Rapids and Waterloo are endeavoripg to
locate three tramps who last night threw
from a boxcar two Of their crowd while
the freight was under full speed. Four
tramps and a boy of Is years, Roy Emler'
we're in the boxcar Near Shellsburg they
ordered the boy to jump out or be thrown
out. After he was thrown out three OF
the number attacked John Linger, fourth,
and after beating him up, robbed him OF
81 and then threw him out of the car.
Linger crawled to Shellsburg and notihed
the authorities. Messages sent ahead re-
suited in the arrest OF James Smith at
Waterloo, whom Emler and Linger identi-
fed as one OF the three. Another answer
ing the description is under arrest at Clln-
ton. -,tt
strikebreakers Imported.
A number Of structural iron workers are
sta toned at the Graefe house in this city
to take the place of strikers here. They
were escorted to work this morning Under
police protection. 1t is asserted that the
men are brought from Chicago.
Sioux City Extension Fails.
President A. b. Stickney of the Great
Western has announced that the proposed
extension of the Great Western from this
! city 10 Sioux City has been abandoned
The line was: surveyed and II was the firsi
! intention to build II this year. According
to President stickney, the line will cos
$4,000 mile and this is the reason for itI
being abandoned. the cost being considered
too great
VIII DispOses of $1,000, 900.
The will of the late Martin Flynn, who
committed suicide Tuesday, was filed il
probate court today and disposes of al
estate amounting to over 100000, The will
provides for the completion Of, the Flynn
block and divides the estate evenly betweeI
the widow and eight children.
saving to shippers.
Changes in the classified lion of various
articles will save the people of Iowa $4,000
this year II the tonnage is the same as tina
OF last year. The State Railroad commits
sion has made changes IN the classification
of numerous articles. changing from
higher classification to a lower.
DIR. Emmert Candidate Again.
1t is understood that DIR. EmmeFt Of Cas-
county will again be the. democratic candi
date for senator in the Cass-Shelby district
DIR. Emmert served during one term of fou
years as senator and in the next electioi
was a candidate with Senator Bruce o
Cass county. the republican candidate.
contest resulted, the face on the return
on the first report giving Emmert tn
election by one vote. In the contest in tn
senate Bruce won. With the same me
candidates again much interest will attaci
TO the campaign and election