Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
Iowa
ASKS BIG MONEY
Iowa Secretary Of State Asks Pull
man Company for Fee.
COMPANY OFFERS THREE DOLLARS
state Omcer Demands over One
Thousand, and Thinks
Amount shOuld he Close
to n Million.
From a staff Corresnondent.N

DIES MONIES, May 2s.-Not only did Sec
rotary of State Hayward today formally
demand Sos. O1S as fees for filing articles
Of Incorporation of the Pullman Sleeping
Car company, but he asked Attorney Gem
eral Byers to investigate with a view of
bringing suit for 800 per day penalty for
twenty-three years because the company
has never done business in Iowa legally.
The company has generously offered to
pay SO to Secretary Hayward as record
ing fee. This amount will hardly be ac-
cepted by the secretary, however. since he
believes the state is entitled to something
like $4,000 instead.
For some reason the Pullman company,
It has been discovered, has never filed
articles of Incorporation in Iowa; hence,
1t has never been legally doing business
here. When this fact was put up to the
company, the latter rendered a copy of the
articles together with a recording fee Of
10 cents per 100 words, or about SO. Sec
rotary Hayward adds this SO to the fill
ing fee of 5000 and bones" the company
for SCOOPS, calmly announcing that he
leaves the collection of the penalty of $780,
500.
Federation Omcers.
At the State Federation of women's
Clubs just concluded in Davenport
Mrs. Julian Richards of Waterloo
was elected president for the ensuing
year. Mrs. J. w. Watzek OF Davenport
was made vice president. Mrs. H. NJ.
Towner of Corning was made recording
secretary and Mrs. Freeman Conway OF
Ames corresponding secretary. Mrs. B..
b. Clark of Red Oak was elected General
federation state secretary; Mrs. Mary
johnson of Humbolt, treasurer. and Mrs.
Pearl Holbrook of Onawa, auditor.
Nebraska-Iowa Coal Men.
Five hundred coal men from Nebraska
and Iowa will be in Des Moines June Is
to is to attend the annual convention Of
the Retail Coal Dealers association OF
the two states. One feature of the con-
Vention will be an inspection by the deal
ers of the coal mines in Polk county.
Inc officers of the association are: Pres
Iueht' George Gregory of Marshalltown.
Ia secretary-treasurer, H. L. Laird OF
Marshalltown executive committee. M
A. Moore of Lemars, Ia; H. T. Folsom
or Lincoln. Neb; w. H. White of pIatts.
mouth. Neb.; C. H. Chisam of Comet
bluffs and w. NJ. McFarlane of Water
loo, la.
Governor Names Delegate,
governor Carroll today named delegates
ana alternates to the third internationoI
conference on state and local taxation 10
De held In Louisville, KY, September u m
"a. These are the delegates: Senator 7 II
jackson, Sioux City; Senator A, q say
age Adair; Charles Mclean. Dubuo,e
Alternates: F. G. Pierce, Marshalltown. r
I. True, Council Bluffs, and Karl John
son, Usage.
The governor also named the following
delegates to the Transmlssissippi congress-
to be held in Denver. Colo, August 1s 10
Il: James A. Dunn, Bloomfield; Austin
Hams, Grinnell; Lamonte Cowles BurIine-
ton; Judge d. j. Lenehan, Dubuque; r p.
Birdsall, Clarion; E. C. Roach, Rock Ran
ids; j. NJ. Anderson, Indianola: Robert
Healy' Fort Dodge; LATE Young, Des
Moines; Frank Simmins, Ottumwa James
A. Smith, Usage; Freeman Conway, Ames.
Jerry Sullivan, Des Moines; Daniel Ham
llton, ~sigourney; Walter 1. Smith, Council
Blutts' and Henry Wallace, Des Moines.
Signs Sheepskins.
AS president of the Board of Regents of
the State university, soon 20 pass into oh
livion, Governor Carroll today signed 600
diplomas for graduates from the State uni
versity this morning. 1t is thought that
the new educational board of control law
relieves the governor from this duty here
after.
Two Are Drowned.
While fishing from a boat on the Twin
Lakes, near Belmond, late yesterday after
noon, Albert c.. Peckham, 1425 Thirtieth
street. Des Moines, a solicitor for the Amer
lean Life Insurance company, and James
Montague, a pool hall proprietor at Bel
mond, were drowned. Their boat capsized.