Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-25
COUNTIES ARE LINING UP
Most Of Conventions Up to Date Have Beer
in Northern Part Of State,
CRAWFORD DIVIDES VOTES EVENLY
state Insurance Commission Meets
saturday TO Commence InvestiEa-
tion Of Companies and
Insurance Laws.
(FrUm a stat correspondent.y


DIES MONIES, Ia, April a-(special.)-
fReports received in this city on the action
OF the republican county conventions over
the state arc that Palo Alto instructed for
Cummins for governor and E. A Morling
| for attorney general; Chickasaw instructed
for Haugen for congress but gave no in
structions for governor; Fayette endorsed
| Governor Cummins; Sac county instructed
| for Cummins: Madison instructed for Per
| kins; Crawford endorsed Conner for con-
| gress Garst for lieutenent governor, Nor
| ling for attorney general and divided the
| fourteen delegates to the state convention
evenly for Cummins and Perkins; Floyd in
structed for Cummins.
County conventions were held today In
| Monona county at Onaws, which went for
Perkins, caucusses i'm Humboldt county out
side OF the city Of Humboldt, where they
were held Monday. Congressional and
| judicial delegates were selected in Jasper
county today; congressional delegates in
Boone county and congressional delegates
in Hamilton county and Webster county.
Occupy Court House Soon.
It was stated today by the county super
visors that the doors to the vaults in the
! new court house would be put on next
| week and that Immediately thereafter the
new building would be used and the ofices
moved from the temporary court house to
IT, The new court house has been in course
| Of construction three years.
COmmIssIon Meets Saturday.
| The insurance investigating commission
will meet in this city Saturday morning at
a. m. to organize for the work Of investi-
eating the insurance companies and insur-
ance laws Of the state. Senators Jamison
and Bleakly and Representative Kendall,
Jones and Clary form the commission.
Farm work Progressing.
According to the weekly crop bulletin
made public today by Director John r..
Sage of the United States weather and crop
service, the seeding for grain in the south
ern part of this state is practically con-
cluded and is nearing completion in the
northern half. The temperature for the
past week was from to degrees above
normal The acreage Of oats and spring
wheat is a little less than i'm former years.
Teachers Meet to Fix Arrangements.
The executive committee of the Iowa
State Teachers association will meet in
Des Moincs, May s. to select the place
for the annual convention, which is held
the holiday week between Christmas and
a New Years. Des Moines has had the
convention every year, but there is con-
siderable sentiment each year for taking
it elsewhere, notably Cedar Rapids
Lye-ThrOwinE Case.
A petition for a rehearing in the famous
lye-throwing case was filed today with the
clerk of the supreme court. Jerome "
Brown was convicted ofnconspiracy to in.
jure Mrs. Parmala Ramsey OF Allison II
Butler county. He had sought her hand ir
marriage and been rejected. Smarting un
der the rejection. it is alleged that he con
spired with a fellow-townsman who had
been rejected in similar love affair with
another woman of Allison, to throw lye II
the women's faces. They traded places e
avert suspicion and brown failed to keep hii
part of the bargain. though his fellow
townsman threw the lye in Mrs. Ramsey
face after calling her to the door ostensibi!
to receive a telegram.
Many Conventions.
The Iowa State Association OF Traine,
Nurses will meet In this city at the Cham
berlain hotel, June II and II The Stat
Association of Opticians will meet June /
and 10 and will be followed by the jeweler
June IA and Is. The Iowa State Dental as
sociation will meet at the Chamberlain
May l. 2 and s.
Fear Daughters safety.
Members OF the Fifty-hrst Iowa regiment
which went to the Philippines and en- rout
was entertained 50 lavishly at San Fran
cisco, are worrying over the safety OF Mis-
Flora Uri OF that city was especiall
showed kindness to the boys during thei
stay there and was adopted as the daughte
OF the regiment All efforts to get wor
from. her have failed
Bankers Life TO Build.
The Bankers Life association of this cit
has purchased the Martindale property
quarter block at the southwest corner c
Sixth and High in this city, and will SEQ
begin the erection OF building for a HON
ONCE for the company.
MOnOnR County for Perkins.