Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-14
WAR ON PEONACE OF CREEKS
Representative Of Hone Government Takes
a Hand in the Matter.
OUNHAH FOR THE sTANOPAT CANDIDATE
wabash Grants Grain Elevation
Allowance at Des NIoines and Effort
Being Made to Induce other
Roads to Do same.
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DIES MONIES, May Is.-CSpecial.)-A rep
resentative Of the government OF Greece
Is In Des Moines arranging for breaking
up the trust that has been importing Greek
boys and holding them In bondage till
their transportation has been paid by their
labors The plan of securing the release
of tho boys contemplates the government
paying the remainder OF their ransom and
their prohibiting the operations Of the trust
in the future. The representative of the
government is here to arrange the condi-
tons of the financial transaction. The
boys have been brought over in colonies
and their earnings held till they paid for
their transportation Sometimes other MEM
bers Of the family are brought over later
and the boys are held longer to pay for
their transportation. The boys are dis
| tributed about the country by a sort of
trust and are worked mostly In boot black
ing establishments.
Durham for Governor.
limitations are being made from stand
pat sources that Senator George w. Dun
ham of Manchester may be a standpat
candidate for nomination for governor on
the republican ticket Mr.. Durham has
served several sessions in the senate, He
was out Of the state during the last cam
paign, when there was so much heated
discussion, on a tour in Europe that he
had long planned to take. All factions of
the party recognize in Senator Durham an
able man. 1t is claimed that the stand
patters are turning to him naturally and
that he is not active himself in furthering
his candidacy.
More Meningitis.
A Meeting Of the Gtata Tloor5
Will be held tomorrow, at which Il is ex-
pected the various members OF the board
VIII make reports upon the prevalence
OF cerebral spinal meningitis in their dis
tricts. The secretary of the board has
received reports that more cases in Polk
county have succumbed from the disease
within the last few days. The hoard Is
hoping that the warm weather will put
stop for the time at least to the spread
of the disease.
Cases Argued Tomorrow.
Polk county cases will be submitted to
the supreme court tomorrow and the next
day Among these will be the Jennie
Huegle case, involving the legality of the
new state teachers certificate law; the
John Walker case, the conviction being
for the murder of Isaac Finklestein the
Charles Thomas case for the murder of
Mabel Scofield, and the LATE Young case.
for alleged overcharging the state for work
while state binder. All but the Jennie
Huegle case are arguments in support of
petitions for rehearing.
Petition for Commodity Rates.
Petitions have been filed with the secre-
tary Of the State Railroad commission for
the making of commodity rates on refuse
mussel shells and feathers. The button
factories along the Mississippi river, which
use the mussel shells for making buttons,
desire to use the refuse shell as fertilizer
and as chicken feed. They claim that the
rate now Of AZ per hundred on a seventy
hve-mile shipment is prohibitve. They
want the soft lump coal rate OF IS. The
feather men now have to pay two and
half times the frst-class rate when the
feathers are not machine compressed and
the first class rate when machine COM
pressed. They want the first class rate
when not compressed, but in bags and
bales.
Only One Contractor Bids.
There was only one contractor on the
ground today when 1t came time to open
the bids for the erection of the wing to the
custodial cottage at Glenwood. Where
few years ago the advertisement OF a con-
tract to run into the thousands of dollars
brought many anxious contractors an adj
vertisement nowadays brings only two or
three at the best. The legislative appro-
priation for the building at Glenwood is
$4,000.
Des MOines a Grain Center.
Dies MONIES Is recognized as a grain
center by at least one railroad. The
Wabash has published an announcement
that it will allow grain elevation here on
the same terms that is done at Omaha and