Omaha daily bee., 1906-06-24
FIERCE CONTEST IN IOWA
Only Four Counties Remain which
Have Not Chosen Dele
gates.
CFrom a staff Correspondent


(From a STAFF Correspondent
DIES MONIES June 2S.-(speciai Tele-
gram.)-The contest for control of the re-
publican state convention in Iowa is rapidly
drawing to a close and with the county
conventions held today. there are only
four counties remaining to select delega-
tions The campaign has been the most
strenuous Of any pre-convention ever held
in Iowa and the prospects are that the seats
OF $50 delegates or more will be contested
when the convention meets. Up to tonight
the standpat list, which includes the dele
gates instructed for George d. Perkins and
! Captain S. w. Rathburn, numbers 1856 del
| egates. The Cummins delegates number
| 49, leaving sixty-two delegates to be Sc
| lected in the four counties yet to hold
| conventions. The figures above given In
clude all contested delegates on both
| sides.
In Dallas county today Governor Cum
Minis carried the Dallas township caucus
with FIVE delegates to the county conven-
| tion and Perkins carried the Spring Valley
township caucus with Ave. Perkins total
in Dallas county ffty-three Cummins nifty
nine, with five delegates to be selected
from Walnut township next week.
Cummins carried Allamakee with four
teen delegates. Winneshiek with eighteen,
Howard with ten at county conventions
today, getting instructed and uncontested
delegations. In Carroll there was stiff
contest for control and contesting delega-
lions were selected, and contestins delega-
tions were also selected in Audubon
county. Carroll has twelve delegates and
Audubon ten. The claim Of the Cummins
men to date is as follows: Cummins. in
structed, 7p6 Perkins. Sal; Rathbun. %;
contested, l61; delegates to be selected
from Dallas. Marion, Buchanan and
Shelby, SO.
Senators by Direct Vote.
| Governor Cummins today mailed to the
governors OF all the states the call for the
| convention OF five delegates from each
state to be held in this city to further
| the matter OF securing a constitutional
amendment for a direct vote of the people
on senators. The call fixes the date for
September 5. and the convention will
likely be in the hall OF the house OF rep
resentatives at the capitol.
Insurance investigation.
The Iowa legislative insurance commits
sion is considering recommending legisla-
ton that will prohibit anyone starting an
insurance company or managing an insur-
| ance company who does not have sufficient
knowledge of insurance matters. II may
be decided to recommend that persons who
wish to engage in insurance business pass
an examination just doctors, lawyers
and teachers have to pass examinations
A study Of the business in the state thus
| far leads the commission to the belief that
a great many insurance companies are
being conducted by persons who have no
using the peoples money because OF ignor-
| ance OF proper and economic ways in which
| to conduct insurance.
The commission has now cotton we'll
started into the investigation and Attorney
James p. Hewett. legal director OF the
| National Life Association, was before the
commission today TO give the first testl-
| mony that has been taken in short hand.
| An investigation of the National will be
continued Monday, when the commission
will meet at o'clock, and ex-President
Henry Pyle of the National will be ques-
toned on the conduct OF the company.
Operation on the Count.
| Physicians were today summoned TO the
home Of F. M Hubbell to perform an
| operation on Count Carl Axel Won Wacht-
| meister, son-in-law to Mr.. Hubbell The
| count is connected with the Swedish leEa-
| ton at Havana II Is stated at the Hub
bell home that the operation was q minor
matter and unworthy OF mention.
Mother seiEed with RemOrse,
| Mrs Ida Lang went to the home OF Mrs.
Ira williams, 800 West Fifteenth street,
| today and claimed 10 be the mother OF the
baby which was taken there a day or two
ago and showed into Mrs. Williams arms
| Mrs Lang admits that she took the baby
| there 10 get rid OF II, but now says that
she has been seized with remorse and
! cannot longer bear TO be away from her
infant Mrs. Lang lives in Lamont, Ia
and left for that place today with her
child After being given the baby at the
Williams home she went 10 the home OF
friends in this city who feared that she
would again desert II and so called HUI
taken to the station, but declared there
was no occasion to suspect her again and
today left for Lamont.
AIBers Returns TO Nicaragua.
! William c. and Louis Albers. two Des
Moines men. who were arrested and inn
prisoned on the charge Of slandering a
mayor in a little town OF Nicaragua and
| whose Imprisonment threatened to involve
| the United States in war with Nicaragua
/ have decided 10 return TO that country
/ They conducted a tobacco plantation and
| some syndicate had been given a monop-
/ oily on tobacco. The government sWooped
down on the Albers plantation and con-
nseated all the supply OF tobacco Louis
Albers resided In Des Moines and his
brother near OskaloOsa. They were thrown