Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-02
People of Southwestern Iowa Ask
Train from Mount Ayr,
SHENANDOAH ALSO HAS KICK
Governor Cummins Takes LayOn for
Week at Lake Forest, Illinois
Pardon Recommended
Beard.
From a staff Correspondent.)

East DeH mOlntt lOT n bNAAOt NNRSN VI sN~
Bast side the northwestern owa people
were heard but briefly before noon and the
hearing completed in the afternoon.
p. s. Eustis, passenger agent Of the Burl-
inEton, who at the previous hearing had
Promised to better the service reported
that the road had extended the time of one
train from Van Vert on to Togo. The only
thing the people Of that line are asking
is that this train be extended to Mount Ayr,
which is two miles on further from Togo.
Mr.. Eustis claimed that this extension to
Mount Ayr Of two miles could not be ex-
tended without another train crew and the
installation of an $500 turn table and other
expenses because OF the limit Of time train
men can be had for continuous service.
Lewis Miles Of Corydon, former United
States district attorney, appeared to oppose
any further train service, claiming only
that the trains would not pay dividends
and the roads would then have to curtail
some other service.
Mount Ayr Makes Showing.
The petitioners for the additional service
introduced train schedules to show that
the Burlington could give the extra Mount
AYR service without an additional train
crew and very little extra expense. They
showed, too, that they have twenty hacks
a week running between Mount Ayr and
Benton for the benefit of people who wish
to get out Of Mount Ayr for the north, and
being unable to get a Burlington train,
go across the country several miles to take
the Great Western.
The Clarinda and Shenandoah people,
who are also after better and additional
service over the Burlington, but on a DIFF
ferent branch, leading to Des Moines, were
heard this afternoon. They want an ad-
| aast--. N-ata - YAA-1 Ahar An,r, .A-v
They presented arguments to show the de-
mand and the entire question seemed to
be one of whether the traffic demanded
it or not.
state OmciaIs on.
Governor A. B. Cummins left today for
Clinton, Ia, where he will spend a day
with ex-Congressman Curtis, and will then
go on to Chicago, where he will spend a
week or more with his brother, B. F. Cum
minis, at Lake Forest. Mrs. Cummins ac-
companied him.
r W. w Morrow, state treasurer, left today
for his home In Union county. He will at
tend the meeting Of the state central COM
mittee next Tuesday here, and will then
return to his home again, and will spend
a vacation of a month on his farm.
Secretary Of State w. c. Hayward left
today for his home in Davenport, where he
will spend two or three weeks on a vaca.
ton.
State Auditor B. +. Carroll is making hi,
plans to leave for California for a vacation
but has not set the date of his leaving yet
Judge Green a Candidate.
The announcement of the candidacy o.
! Judge Green of Audubon county as a candi
= date for the supreme. court vacancy, while
no surprise to politicians, is the newest ell
, ement In the situation. Judge w. r. Greer
is on the bench in the Fifteenth district
which includes the counties of Audubon
Pottawattamle, Cass, Fremont, Harrison
Y Shelby, Mills, Montgomery and Page 1t 4
one of the largest judicial districts In tn
, state an 1t is claimed that he will nave tn,
solid support of the district, which take
in all of the Ninth congressional distric
. except two counties, Guthrie and Adair, an
/, takes in two counties of the Eighth con
: gressional district, Fremont and Page.
Judge Green is considered a very stronI
lawyer and one of the big judges of Iowa
He heard the celebrated Doyle-Burns cas-
in Pottawattamie county and a number o
> other big cases. He is probably as stronl
a candidate as there is thus far In the field
His announcement was made yesterday 4
the papers OF his judicial district. A stronI
effort is to be made to get the date of tn
= convention set for August q, to be held 4
the stock pavilion at the state fair grounds
Change of Name.
When the clock struck twelve tonigh
the Des Moines, Iowa Falls q Northerl
railroad went out of business and tn
tracks, ears and the like known by tina
$ name became a part of the st. Paul 4
Des Moines railroad. Track is now lai
within a mile of Mason City, and whe
this is finished the road will operat
from Mason City to St Pau over tn
a Milwaukee.
Pardon for Christmas.
James Lane, an old man who is serv
3. ing a term in the p~enitentiary for tn
murder of his wife, will get a pardo
from Governor Cummins for a Christina
d present. The State Board Of Parol
u recommended to the governor that tn
pardon be issued on December 25, 1890
on the condition that Lane go to his SON
home in Minnesota. The governor ma
approved the recommendation of tn
n board. There is no question but the
Lane shot and killed his wife. but bot
were In the habit of getting drunk an
"a quarreling over their children. both ha,
ing children by former marriages an
none OF their own.
The governor approved the recommends
e lions OF the board in each case that h
has examined thus far. A pardon wi
ii be issued to Edward Hanlon, a yout
Wy who is the son OF respectable parents 1
Toledo, o., but who got the wanderin
fever as a boy and turned tramp an
broke into a building. He will be pal
re doned on condition that he return to n
parents in Toledo. The boys real nam
" is Edward Cobb.
"A In regard to Otis Green, who was col
Il. vieted in the Southwestern part Of II
state for the murder Of his wife, n
board that his only excus
is that he was drunk then and is bin
y now.
in The board intimates that Oscar clio,
IL who passed forged checks in ottumw
e Burlington and Cedar Rapids, may son
in time be entitled TO clemency, but n,
r now, and James Burns, convicted in Pc,
d. county OF the murder Of Jerry Corcora
n must stay in the penitentiary. He
in nearly insane. The board omm
that he is as we'll off there as anywhe
ID and ima that 1t considers hi
In guilty OF the crime with which he
charged and convicted.
a had storm at Ida Grove.
ne IDA GROVE. Ia, Aug. L-(speciAl.)
~ One Of the worst storms OF the year
IN this section OF the state passed over Il