Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-19
CONTEST DOWN TO FINALS
Attorney General Asked How to Pro-
coed in Hull-Prouty Case.
CONVENTION IS DUE TODAY
Dallas County Returns Not in and
Court Injunction Their
Being Certihed-NO Appoint
ment of Judge.
frrom a staff Correspondent,


gram.)-The executive council discussed the
Hull-Prouty controversy in executive ses-
sion till late in the afternoon and then
submitted the entire matter to Attorney
General Byers for his opinion. When the
congressional convention meets tomorrow
1t probably will adjourn till Thursday, the
latest day on which it can meet, to await
the action of the council. Guy Brewer,
who was sent from the secretary OF states
office to Dallas county as a messenger for
the returns, as required by law, returned
without them, but brought a mere state
ment from the supervisors and the auditor
to the effect that they have not been
certified.
Convention Must Nominate
When friends of Judge W. H. McHenry
Of this city called upon Governor Cummins
today to urge the governor to appoint
Judge McHenry to the vacancy on the
supreme bench the governor Informed them
that he believed It possible under the law
to reconvene the state conventions Of the
four political parties and that the parties
could then nominate a candidate. He said
furthermore that II that is done he would
appoint for the time from now till the
November election the nominee Of the re-
publican party.
The governor intimated that while II Is
perhaps not definitely determined that the
state conventions can be ~reconvened, ms
leans very strongly to that position and
that he proposes to so notify the central
committees Of the various parties.
II has been known for some time that II
there was any way Of getting party nomi-
nations made the governor was In faVor
of doing so, but the supposition has been
| strong all along that there was no means
for recovering the state conventions ana
that the central committee had no au-
thority to make nominations.
The governor has made no official an
nouncement as yet of this attitude out the
knowledge that he propose to nave the
conventions meet will probably stop Iur-
ther nlRrimages to his office in behalf
of candidates. Delegations in favor OF
Senator w. H. Berry Of lndisnola have
also been before the governor and many
letters and petition have been filed with
him IN the interests Of various candidates.
Attorney General II. w. Byers today
nubliely announced that he Will not seek
the place and while approaching the sug-
eestIon of his friends. he withdraws his
name from consideration because he feels
that he should continue the Work OF en-
forcing the corporation laws which he has
begun.
DeIuEe of Trouble.
Deaths from accident staoplhg aIlrSys
and trouble generally delused Des MONIES
during the last twenty-four hours. Car
ence Burns, a negro. went insane aNd Win
a revolver walke down the main street
last night intent on killing some imaginary
enemy. He was finally overpowered by the
police and put in jail without any one
getting hurt.
Leonardo Talarieo, an Italian, was found
at his home today with his head bruised
and his body badly cut. He says that two
strangers tried to rob him on the F1fth
street bridge last night.
Walter Johnson, a negro with the Ring
ling show, was run over by an Interurban
car at East Eleventh and Grand avenue
at l1:O last night and killed.
Walter Harris, a farmer 20 years old, liv.
ing at a little town on the Interurban, west
Of his city. went to sleep on the track
some time last night. His dead body wai
found at 1880 this morning.
stovoneln zanur. a young Russian, was
found at midnight lying across the Scott
street car tracks with a strand OF telephone
wire about one foot, electTocuted. One foo
was burned off. II is supposed that he got
~sntangled in a live telephone wire while re-
turning TO his home, and, crossing the
tracks made a connection with the rail.
Appeal for Low Rates.
Secretary Botsford OF the Commercial.
club today sent a letter to the genera.
passenger agents Of the railroads running
through Iowa appealing to them to give
Iowa advantage Of the same low excursion
rates that It has given TO other states thai
have not passed the 2-esnt fare law. The
annual a hafug nada IN hahalf Of thu Touya
state fair and the farmers institute at