Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-09
Iowa
WOODARD GIVEN A PARDON
Had Served Five Years for Alleged
Poisoning Of His Wife.
LEGISLATURE WAS FAVORABLE
ardOned Man Must Live in Iowa,
Keep Away from saloons and
Never Touch IntOxicat-
ing Liquor.
CFrom a staff correspondent

DIES MONIES, May ~s.-(Special1 lin con-
formity with the recommendations of the
last legislature. Governor b. f. Carroll
has signed a pardon for c. II. Woodland
of Decatur county, who was convicted and
sentenced for life five years ago for the
alleged murder of his wife. The pardon
Is on condition that he return to Decatur
county to live and that he do not leave
that couny or the state without permission
Of the chief executive of Iowa. 1t is fur
ther stipulated that he never use intoxi-
eating liquors or even enter a place where
they are sold. He is required to conduct
himself as an ideal citizen. II he fails to
meet any of these restrictions be is to be
recommitted. Mr.. Woodlands father, with
whom he will probably make his home.
is one Of the wealthiest men in Iowa. hav-
ing made a fortune in the gold rush OF
40 to California.
Young Woodland was convicted OF Civ
ing bis wife %strycnnine. Il was claimed ne
gave It to her at their home and then
took her in a buggy to go to the home of
her mother, several miles distant, but she
was taken sick and went into spasms be-
fore she reached her mothers home. The
testimony was all circumstantial The
pardon of woodland was the only one
recommended by the Legislature, though
there were SOM dozen applicants.
Carlisle Burned.
The town of Carlisle, twelve miles
southeast Of Des Moines, was prac-
tIcally burned To the ground last night
with a loss Of about $4,000. rhe opera
house and all the business houses were
destroyed.
Club Women to he shown.
Iowa club women, when they gather at
Davenport for thei rannual state con-
vention this year, VIII be shown now
they are cheated in the purchase of
kitchen sundries. especially extracts
They will be given this interesting dem
onstration by state Chemist of the Pure
Food Department J. r. Chittick. He has
been gath ering all kinds of extracts sold
on the market and will demonstrate
their strength to the women as well as
show them how, by pannelled bottles,
they are deceived into thinking they are
getting a large quantity, whereas they
receive but little.
New Board to Make ChanRes
It is persistently rumored that when
the new state Board of Education, which
has charge of the three educational in
situations, gets down to work it will en-
force the policy that every person EN-
nloyed as an instructor for the state
must devote all his or her time to the
duties of the school and accept no other
remuherative work whatever.
Board of Parole AdjOurns.
The state Board Of Parole yesterday ad-
iourned until July, when the next quar-
terly meeting will be held. The board
recommended a pardon for Robert Glyndon,
who has been a prisoner thirty zone years,
having been convicted of numbering a
young girl in Grundy county. He has al
ways protested his innocence.
RepresentatIve's Unique Birth.
Considerable curiosity was evidenced at
the office of the secretary of state when
the deputy compiling the Iowa Red Book
received the official biography of Repre-
sentative Schee. Mr.. Schee's biography
read that he was born an orphan. In
vestigation showed that his father died be-
fore he was born and the statement from a
legal standpoint is considered correct-that
he was born an orphan, having but one
parent.
Court Reporters Flee.
BY a decision of the Iowa supreme court
handed down today the fate of dozens Of
important appeals now being perfected in
various counties of the state is made de-
pendent on the health of the court reporter
and his ability TO tTanscribe his shorthand
notes.
Reversing the lower court in the impor-
tant Sioux City river front case, in which
the state of Iowa was a defendant to-
eether with twenty-six owners of land, the
supreme court holds that Judge Gaynor
had no authority to grant a new trial be.
cause Court Reporter w. f. Cody died
before transcribing his notes and no other
shorthand writer could decipher them.