Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-29
Iowa
WILL INVOKE NEW STATUTE
Jesse B. Hammond Announces Plan
Of Anti. Cigarette Campaign.
THAT OFFICERS ACT
lie VIII Then seek Removal Of
sheriGs and County Attorneys who
Refuse 20 Suppress the sale
of Conn sNaiIs.
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DIES MONIES, Ia. June 2S-(speciai
Telegram )-Jesse y. Hammond, who has
announced a crusade against cigarette
selling In Iowa today disclosed that his
campaign will be to cause the removal
OF every county attorney and sheriff who
fails to enforce the law. Under the de-
cislon OF Attorney General Byers, the
payment Of the cigarette mulct tax Is not
a bar TO prosecution and does not make the
sales legal. Under a law passed at the
last session OF the legislature. public Of
ficials are subject TO removal from Of
flee unless hey enforce the law. Mr..
believes he can entirely stop cig
arctic sales in Iowa, and will do 80 by
forcing county attorneys and sheriffs to
enforce the law. County attorneys and
sheriffs In every county In the state in
which cigarettes are sold are liable TO
removal unless they at once begin to
enforce the law,
ReauisttiOn for Williams.
Governor Carroll today signed extradl.
ton papers for the removal of Thomas
w. Williams to Chicago. He is under
arrest in Council Bluffs. charged with
larceny by baiiee by cashlng a letter OF
credit for 1850 francs belonging to a Chi
cagd woman and failing to return with the
money. s..
school Case IL Dismissed.
State Superintendent Riggs today dis
missed the appeal case from jefferson,
Ia, in which nearly two dozen high school
boys, who were expelled for making a
rough house during school hours, sought
reinstatement. He held that the expulsion
ended with the schoet year, and that the
boys could return when school opens
again.
Complaint from Dubuque.
Dubuque people, through w. b. Martin,
the freight commissioner, nave complained
to the Railroad commission that the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st, Paul railroad has
refused to comply with the commissions
orders lowering the freight rate on con-
~fections. :,.
schIatter AXE TO Clinton.
Schlatter, who claims to be the divine
healer who stirred Denver some years ago,
was taken to Clinton, Ia. today to an
swcr to a charge OF obtaining money un-
der false pretenses in accepting money
and guaranteeing a cure which ne failed
to effect. r. f. Hughes. city ticket agSnt
Of the Burlington. who saw schlatter in
Denver, says this is not the genuine
Schlatter.
Freight Rate Hearing. +
In the rehearing on freight rates granted
by the railroad commission on petition OF
the railroads of the state, the most i'm
portant rate under consideration will be
that on lumber and mill goods. The re-
hearing will be held tomorrow. The lum-
Der rate effects only the across the state
rate.
Lumber men showed to the board that
the Illinois Central was giving a rate
from Dubuque to Sioux City that was less
than the rate liked by the railroad com
mission. The commission at once lowered
the rate on long hauls to the figure the
Illinois Central had voluntarily made. Now
the Illinois Central has Joined with the
others to ask for a restoration Of the old
rate.
Formerly there was but one commodity
rate on lumber and mill goods. The com
mission made three commodity rates, one
on lumber and shingles in mixed or
straight car loads, one on sash, doors and
blinds In mixed or straight car loads, and
one on sash, doors and blinds In mixed
cars with lumber and shingles or lath. The
rate on the first two was made lower for
distances from eco to $50 miles.
Want Track Connection.
The Armstrong Cement works have ap-
piled to the railroad commission for track
connection between the Northwestern and
the Rock Island at Gridley, Ia, In order
that they can ship to certain places on the
Northwestern now barred from them.
Studying Iowa.
T.. NJ. Carver, professor Of economies OF
Harvard university and a former fellow
classmate At Mount Pleasant, Ia, with
Prof. J. F. Riggs, is In iowa to make a
study Of economics here. He was the
guest Of Prof. Riggs TO-DAY and met Prof.
Frank Herriott Of Drake university this
afternoon. His Investigations are made
with a view to offering a new course in
Harvard on farm economies.
Storage Addition.
The executive council today let the con-
tract for an addition to the storage build
ing and opened negotiations for a lift that
will allow the utilization Of about three feet
additional space for storage purposes FOR
paper in the old portion. Insurance secur-
ity bonds in the hands Of the state auditor
were also passed upon.
After Dakota Trade.
That wholesalers east Of Iowa can ship
through Iowa to Dakota points cheaper
than Des Moines merchants can, and that
Des Moines merchants can ship to Sioux
City and reload and reach Dakot points
cheaper than they can by the interstate
rate was maintained before Examiner
Brown Of the Interstate Commerce COM
mission in the federal building today,
Charts and rate sheets and witnesses were
introduced to prove the contention Of Des
Molnes merchants.
Statesmen at Fair,
Arrangements are being made to invite
IowA's United States senators and con
gressmen and all the state officers 10 be
at the administration building Of the state
fair grounds one day during the fair to
meet the people OF the state.
Lawye IL Poisoned.
Attorney John Mulyaney, twice demo-
cratic nominee for congress from the Sew
enth district poisoned himself by acting as
his own cook. He went to the kitchen to
get a lunch and used a saucer in which
Mrs. Mulvaney had placed tartar emetic
with sugar and water 10 kill ants: Mrs.
Mulvaney was away, Feeling sick he had
barely time 10 telephone a doctor OF his
trouble when he tainted and fell to the
floor, where the doctor found him on reach
ing the house. He viii be confined to
his room for several days.