Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02
euARpsMEN ELECTED TO COM.
MissloNED POSITIONS FAIL
TO PASS EXAMINATIONS.
CONSPIRACY CHARGES REVIVED
IN WARE BANKING CASE
Accusations Reiterated That Ware Was
scapesoat Of Others Higher Up and
That Enemies Are Responsible for
His Return to neutrality-suspicious.
ems to Reveal Their Identity.
Special to Times Republican.

Des Mones, Nov. 2.-For the first
time in the history of the national
guard of Iowa there has been a failure
to pass the examination for a position
as commissioned officer. Guard men
are taking this to indicate that here
after the examinations are to be some
Positions as commissioned officers
are elective. After being elected to the
position, however, the officer elect must
take an examination to determine his
fitness for the position. Heretofore no
one has ever failed at one of these ex-
aminations and consequently 1t held
few terrors in store. When the seven
teen officers elect assembled in the
state house last Thursday for the ex-
animation they found different sys-
tenn in use and instead of being ex-
amined orally they We're given a written
examination.
Under the oral examination the ex-
aiming officers by explaining the
questions really oftentimes assisted the
person being examined in arriving at
the answer. Under the rules of the
written examinat ton none of the cues
tons are explained and if the officer
elect can't answer them he fails. The
result OF the examination last Thursday
which was announced today is that
eleven out of the seventeen passed the
examination and will be given COM
missions. Two failed absolutely and
four others are conditioned and will be
given an opportunity to take part of the
examination over again.
Leroy Ware must remain in the pen
itentiary at Fort Madison till the SUI
preme court meets Nov. 16, when the
writ of habeas corpus will be heard by
the court. Nov. is will be the first day
of the third period of the September
term. The merits of the question of
law raised by Judge Towner's decision
will then be finally determined, viz: AS
TO whether or not the board of parole
has authority TO issue paroles to per-
sons convicted of crimes that were
committed before the state board of pa
role law took effect.
Ware was convicted of the embezzle-
ment of something like s350,000. He
was paroled within year or so after
his conviction on certain representa-
lions, alleged to have indicated strongly
that Ware was not the real culprit
and that his conviction was for the
purpose of shielding others. There was
some opposition to the parole as soon
~ r. H., ~
variously runored that the real Gull
prirs in the wrecking of the Corydon
bank We're back of the scheme to keep
Ware in the penitentiary on the theory
that as long as Ware is at liberty their
own liberty is endangered. Various
threats have been heard concerning
of the Ware people that they propose
to see to it that the others are pun
ished and the others are said to have
threatened that IL the supreme court
decides that the board Of parole has
authority to parole Ware they will
come before the next legislature and
get the whole parole law repealed.
II is harder 10 get repealed law
that gives any indication of being
good law than it is to get it passed in
the first place and there is little
grounds for believing that the board of
parole will be readily repealed.
Judge James A. Howe of the district
court of Polk county has an odd legal
/ matter before him. T, S. McCourtney.
( q street car employe. who was killed
1 N a street car wreck was a foreigner
and had made application for natural
ization papers. He had not been nat
uralized Now his widow and children
would like to become citizens of the
United States. Had he been naturalized
they would have become citizens by
that fact. Now their only means of be-
inS naturalized seems to be by having
the dead man naturalized but the court
is finding difficulties in the way of such
a procedure.
Governor Carroll has been asked to
send one of his shirts to Richmond
Va to be used in the exhibit to be
made there when the National Laun-
cirymen's Association meets there in
october 1910. The governor is not ask
ed to contribute the shirt. He is asked
TO send it by express C. o. d. with the
cost of the shirt attached to the c. o
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