Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-27
Iowa
REORCANIzE IOWA GUARD
Governor Carroll Issues Order in
Accordance with New Law.
OPINION ON CIGARETTE LAW
Attorney eneraI Byers Holds that
Payment of Cigarette MuIct Tax
IL Not n Bar 90 Prose-
cution,
From a staff correspondent

From a staff Correspondent
DIES MONIES, Ia, June 26.-(special
Telegram) - Governor Carroll today,
through Adjutant General Logan. issued
the order recognizing the Iowa National
Guard on the lines OF the bill passed
by the last legislature, which forms the
four regiments into a brigade and pro
vides for the organization of artillery
and cavalry troops. orders for the elect
ing Of a brigadier general will be issued
in a few days. The six colonels on the
governors staff were honorably dis
charged by the order because they were
appointed under the old law. They will
be reappointed as aides. One Of the
greatest changes is in the reorganiza-
ton OF the medical corps. 1t is expected
to recruit students from the medical col
leges of the state for service on the hos
pital and medical corps. The order will
go into effect July 8.
Opinion on Cigarette Law.
Attorney General Byers today, in an
swer to a letter from Jesse B. Hammond.
gave as his opinion that the payment
Of the cigarette mulct tax is not a bar
against prosecution for selling cigarettes.
Mr.. Hammond Is making plans to at once
start a crusade of prosecution in the
hopes Of stopping the further sale Of
coffin nails in the state.
Mysterious Fire ut R~unneIIs.
A loss Of between 5000 and $4,000
was inflicted on the village of Runnells,
near this place, today by fire of mysteri-
Gus origin, which broke out at $3.50 in
the morning In the store of c. b. Osborn.
Most OF IT was covered by insurance.
Live stock Rate Petition.
Attorney General Byers today mailed
to the Interstate Commerce commission
a petition of Intervention in the suit of
the Corn Belt Meat Producers associa-
ton for lower rates on live stock from
Iowa points to Chicago. The action
means that the state will Join in the suit
in the effort to secure lower rates, which
was the purpose of the commerce bill
which 1t was sought to induce the last
legislature to pass,
six of the big life insurance companies
of this city have prepared a protest
against the corporation tax amendment
and forwarded IT to the finance commit
tee of the United states senate.
Butter and Egg Rates.
II. r. Wright, state food and dairy
commissioners. viii go to New York in
a few days to appear before the rate
board of the railroads to prevent. If pos
sible, any advance in the less-than-car-
load rate on butter, eggs and poultry
from the west to New York. When the
Western Classification board met recently
the big cTeameries asked for a reduction
of the rate from Chicago TO New York,
but the board, instead. recommended an
advance of 10 cents on 100 pounds for
the s-than-carlo rate, which is un-
satisfactory to the small creameries of
Iowa, which number legion. Five hun
I,.l "a ~ .y,nl .,.a.,art,g ava H..
driven out OF business in the last seve.
years in Iowa by determinations. and it
is sought to prevent their further reduc-
tion.
The rate from Chicago to the seaboard
has been 50 cents on 100 pounds, either
in carload or ess-than-carload lots, but
from points west of Chicago to Chicago
the rate on ess-than-carload shipments
has been 6 cents on 100 pounds greater
than the carload shipments. The big
shippers are trying to get the same dis
elimination east OF Chicago.
Commissioner Wright maintains that the
less than carload shipments are gathered
up along the route in refrigerator cars and
reloaded at Chicago with a maximum
weight in a car while the carload shippers
usually ship the minimum weight and
hence the railroad can afford to haul the
less than carload shipments at the sam'
price at least. The matter he considers
one OF vast Importance to the dairy bust
ness of Iowa and the west.
Board Contracts for Carpet.
The state board OF Control today con
tracted for the carpets for all the stat,
institutions for, the coming year of tn
Orchard q Wilhelm Carpet company Of thiI
city, their bid being the lowest.
uHaa-k nvarn Exnunfnutfnn
Examiners from the municipal account
J department OF the state auditors offic
finished the examination Of the account
of the city Of Ottumwa yesterday and toda,
began the examination of Des Moines &C
counts. The report says that the book
of Ottumwa have been very well kept eN
cent that the police court failed to kee
= any record by which Its receipts Of fine
could be checked and that some OF tn
\ resolutions OF the city council directing tn
payment of money were too indefinite.
After Telephone Companies.
The executive council through Secretar.
! Davidson today addressed letters to tn
telephone companies of the state inform
ing them that they must make report a
once to the commission for purposes o
taxation, the time for making such report
being past due.
To Enforce Discrimination Law.
\ State Dairy Commissioned II. r. Wrigh
today mailed TO the creamery men OF IN
state and the county attorneys a copy o
the law against big concerns paying
! higher price for an article in one sectlo
Of the state than in another or sellin
higher in one place than In another in tn
attempt to run out smaller concerns. Tn
law went into effect April Y, and 1t
the duty OF the county attorneys to enforc
the law. 1t Is held that big I
drive out the smaller ones will pay
higher price for cream in ore section wher
a the small concern Is located than the sma
y fellow can pay TIL he is driven out, whe
the price drops lower than formerly pal