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Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29

The towns Of Avoca and Walnut in Pot
tawattamie county are for the time being
dry" AS a result of permanent injunc-
tons secured by County Attorney Hess in
the district court at Avoca where Judge
w. r.. Green is presiding five saloons in
Avoca and four in Walnut closed their
doors yesterday or more correctly speaking
did not open them yesterday morning.
The saloonmen offered no resistance to the
issuance of the injunction and will, It is
expected. arrange to reopen under con-
ditlons which will be IN accordance with
the provisions Of the mulct law.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
RHFERENDUM PETITIONS SLOW
But Two Has Been Filed with Secre-
tary of state 10 Date.


tary of State 10 Date.
PIERRE, S. D., May 2~s.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-Chauncey L. Wood Of Rapid City,
states attorney Of Pennington county, this
evening filed with the secretary of state
a petition bearing over 1000 names TO refer
chapter 107 of the legislature OF last winter
to the people. It being the one allowing
the governor power of removal Of minor
officials.
Up TO the present but two referendum Pc
tition has been filed in the office OF secre-
tary OF state, II being that which refers
the electric headlight law TO the people
culated and will have to show up at an
early date II they get upon the ballot at
the next election. The people who are
circulating the petitions for referring the
removal law" claim to have enough
names on their petitions. Freeman Knowles
claims that he will be able TO make a suf-
ficient showing on the militia law and the
congressional district law has secured
enough names and will be filed within a
day or two. State Game Warden +. w.
Bancroft was here from WATERFOWL to-
day and he reports that the men handling
the petition TO refer the new game laW
are yet far short Of the required names,
with the chances very much against their
getting in by the time limit. The petit
lions to refer the law which abollshes the
state Board OF Embalmers appears 20 be
languishing and the chances are against
its coming across the line within the time
limit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
DAVE. drugs.

Davis. drugs.
CoRR1GANs. Undertakers Phones las.
Lewis Cutler, funeral director. Phone s..
Woodring Undertaking company. Tel. 3S9.
FAUST DEER AT ROGERS BUFFET.
When you want reliable want ad advef.
tsing, use The Bee.
Wanted-Girl for general homework; good
wages. ls Harrison street.
BAIRD. LONGENECKER q ROLAND.
Undertakers. Phone l22. il n. Main st.
Or. ". W. Magareil. pptometrist, moved
70 a6-0s City National bank building.
Pictures and Art Novelties for Gradua.
ton gifts. c. E.. Alexander. sa broadway.
ELKS' QUARTET TONIGHT. FIRST
CSC.
TO George Stilen for a one-story frame cot
tage at Fourth avenue.
A marriage license was issued Yesterday
TO Josef Majer. aged %, Of Albright, Neb.,
and Vincenne Jelenek, aged %, of Omaha.
Arthur Slack Of South Sixth street Is
expected home today from the Iowa state
School for the Blind at Vinton to spend
the holidays.
disposed person had stolen his baby buggy
from the porch Of his residence.
Guy Leavitt. was yesterday elected edl-
Echoes, with George Spooner as business
manager and Helen Hetrick as local edi-
tor.
Report was made to the police thai a
Milwaukee freight car standing on a side
track In the Illinois Central yards had been
broken into and a sack of sugar and other
goods stolen.
The annual banquet OF the Delta Tau
and Philomathian Literary societies will
be held this evening In the gymnasium Of
ne 9Ig sehool The guests VII include
association. Covers will be laid for 80.
Hans Clausen reported to the police yes
terday morning that a burglar had entered
his saloon at 1920 West Broadway wednes-
day night and taken S. from the cash
drawer together with a bottle of whisky,
Entrance was effected by prying open a
side window.
An information charging Mrs. Joseph
Hoeldobler. living at Twenty-sixth street
and avenue p with being mentally de
Dor. Mrs. Hoeldobier is said to be a pa
rolled patient from the asylum at Norfolk,
Mrs. Regina Hall filed suit in the dis
trtct court yesterday for divorce from Will
in the summer OF 1855 and from whom she
cruel and inhuman treatment and asks 10
children.
The condition Of George w. Jensen, the
at the ogden hotel Monday night of last
week, is but little changed. Although par
italy conscious at times, he is as yet un-
able TO speak. The attending physicians
still hold out hope of his recovery.
The annual meeting Of the Iowa Swedish
Baptist Ministers association which pre-
coded the regular convention closed yes
terday noon with the election OF the fol-
owing officers: Chairman, Rev. A. r..
Norberg, Govrie; vice chairman, Rev. Paul
Hallin. Council Bluffs; secretary. Rev. G.
Q. Bensstrom, stratford; treasurer, Rev,
L. Johanson.. Sioux City. The convention
proper opened yesterday afternoon and will
last over Sunday Last evening Rev, A,
Lagerduist Of Kiron delivered the annual
sermon, the services being in the Swedish
language. as are all the proceedings OF
me meeting. At the afternoon session
Rev. Paul Hallln of this city delivered tho
address OF welcome. The regular business
of the conference Will be taken up at the
morning session today.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
Iowa News Notes.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. day will be OBJ
served here Monday, May 81 Rev. ), Ar
thur Edward of the Methodist ehuFch VIII
deliver the address.
OSKALOOSA-While lying alongside of
the rails of the Iowa Central track IN a.
drunken condition, Gerhart Eich, a miner
OF Lockman, a mining town south OF here,
was killed by an Iowa Central freight train
early this morning.
CONGRATULATIONS at the Method
ist Episcopal Church P5i Charles e s. a6 Msds
entitled intellectual Nobility" to the sew
enteen graduates of the Esthervtile High
school at the commencement exercises.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES day will be cele-
brsted here saturday. July 8 Arrange
ments are under way for the biggest cele-
bration ever held in Monona county, in
which the entire county will participate.
No other celebration will be held in the
county.
oNAwA-Earl Collision, son Of Thomas
Collision, living west OF town, was badly
he was riding, and had his leg badly torn
In the machine. II proved to be only a
flesh wound and the boy Is getting along
nicely.
engaging in the liquor business cannot hold
office legally, Calendar residents have in
sisted that Martin and .AXel Gustafeson
constable. Attorney Grosenburg has at
tended to the matter and the two men have
sent in their designations.
ONAWA-Ine Bdkhe Snoe STORE was en-
tered by burglars and S6S In cash was
taken from the safe. The money drawer
was also opened and a small amount was
taken from Il. The burglars also broke
into the Howard & Bake grocery, but
got nothing for their trouble. 1t is sup
posed to have been the work OF local tai
ent. though no clue 10 the depredattons
has been found.
FORT DODGE-Division No. % OF the
Illinois Central order OF Railroad Telegra-
pliers met here this week In a regular
meeting called at 10 p. m. TO give all teleg-
sions time to get here. Fully forty-tive at
tended and the meeting was presided over
BY the general chairman OF the entire sys-
TEN, Mulhali of Mounds, Ill.,, and local
chairman, p. w Hill Of Aurelia.
ESTHERVILLE-A ladies' auxiliary to
beer organised at Esthervflle by Mrs. MARY
Cornell OF Denver, Colo. The following
officers have been elected Lille Buckley,
mistress; Laura Scharfenberg. vice mis-
tress: Gertrude Robbins, secretary Minnie
Nurse. treasurer; Mary Reese, conduetress;
inside guard; Fern FTizzel. outside guard.
FORT DODGE-Fort Dodge automobilists
have issued a call 20 all autoists In the
city to attend a nesting for organization
Friday night and at last such a club Is to
be a reality here. The elimination Of
about by the fact that the Glidden tour
route lies through here and concerted ac-
ton Is necessary for preparation for their
entertainment There are by actual count
s-eventv-eight automobiles IN Fort Dodge.
FORT DoDGE-one hundred candidates
iumbus lodge here on June % and elaborate
/ plans are under way for the event. Dele
| eations from many Iowa cities will attend
the ceremonies and banquet
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
Council Bluffs
NISHNABOTNA WORN VOID
Work of Assessing for Ditch is to Be
Done Over.
SUPERVISORS OVERLOOKED A LAW
Arrangements Are Complete for the
Memorial Day Exercises at
FaIrmount Park on
sunday.

The supervisors Of Pottawattamie county
sitting as a drainage board. yesterday dis
covered that the work of assessing dam
ages along the route OF the proposed
Nishnabotna ditch would have TO be all
done over again. This results from the
fact that the board overlooked a new law
governing such matters. Under the law
previously in force, the county auditor APP
pointed the three appraisers. The new
enactment provides that the engineer In
charge must be one Of the appraisers.
The law that makes fresh action neces-
sary went into effect by publication. 1t
was stated, on April 10. The action Of
the board relative 10 the Nishnabotna ditch
was taken on April Is. It was only a day
or so ago that the supervisors learned Of
the change in the law.
The board by resolution yesterday d.
rected County Auditor lines to make the
appointments in accordance with the new
law and later i'm the day he announced the
appointment of r. V. Churchill and C. J.
Stllwell, two of the former appraisers and
County Surveyor J. Harley Mayne, who Is
the engineer In charge OF the construction
Of the proposed drainage ditch.
Attorney Frank Shinn of Carson, rep
resenting a number OF owners Of land who
are opposed to the proposed ditch, filed
with the boari yesterday morning a petit
ton asking that the proposition of the
establishment Of the drainage district be
submitted to a vote of all the persons af-
fected. The board declined to take any
action en- The petition and there is some
talk of the DIRECTORS taking the matter
into court.
Engineer Mayne reported that Contractor
w. A. Smith had completed the construc-
ton of the Fenaler ditch and that he had
inspected and approved the work. The
special committee consisting of Supervisors
Baker, Johns and Spencer also reported
that the work had been done in &C
ordance with the plans and specifications
and recommended that the contractor be
paid the final stimat
Further consideration Of the Nishnabotna
ditch was deferred until June II, when the
I supervisors will meet as a drainage board.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
HUSBAND SUES FOR BIG SUM
Follows Wife's Divorce Case with
Demand for 900 from Center
Willie Business Man.

MARSHALLTOWN, Ia, May 2s.-Cspe-
cial. JAS a sensational sequel TO the Grant
divorce case, which was tried in the dis
trict court recently, when Judge Parker
denied the petition of divorce filed by the
wife. Mrs. Fannie Grant, against her hus-
band, James Grant, there has been filed
in the Appanoose county district court at
Centerville a suit for $4,000 damages
brought by James Grant, the husband,
against Robert Baker for alleged aliena-
ton of the affections Of his wife. General
statutory reasons are set forth in the hus-
bands petition. Baker is a prominent bust
ness man OF Centerville and is ex-audltor
Of Appanoose county. Mrs. Grant was
formerly Miss Fannie Daily, a dressmaker,
OF centervilIe. She married Grant in this
city in July, 1907. Mrs. Grant is much
younger than her husband, he being 70
and che but 35.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
Iowa
BAR AFTER BODY SNATCBERS
Lawyers Considering How to Uphold
Ethics of Profession.
CONTINGENT FEES ALSO D1sLIKET
Bishop Berry Lays Cornerstone OF
New wing of the Methodist
Hospital, and Banquet
Follows.
(From a sad Correspondent.l

DES MONIES, May %-(Special.) -An in
teresting question that will probably be
discussed at the next meeting of the
State Bar association by the lawyers
OF Iowa is how to abolish the contingent
fee evil. It is complained from many
quarters that the profession is being
brought into disrepute by a class of men
who are called ambulance chasers." This
means the man who, when he hears of an
accident, establishes communicated with
che injured person and offers to take his
case against the corporation, IL one be
responsible, on a contingent fee, or a
stipulated percentage of whatever the judg-
ment may be.
1t has been suggested that a law might
be enacted forbiddihe contingent fees. But
such a statute could easily be evaded by
sum from his client ana then filing an
attorneys len on the judgment. One
method that is being distressed with some
favor BY the legal fraternity lie to create
a law giving the Judge of the court In
personal injury cases the power to fix the
fee for the attorney for the plaintiff. In
this way, 1t is urged, the real injured
party would be assured Of a reasonable
compensation out of the judgment and the
practice OF extorting from clients large
and outrageous contingent fees would be
at an end.
Another practice that Is Objectionable to
courts and taxpayers may be considered.
That is the practice Of some second rate
lawyers to lobby jails and get requests for
appointments in cases where the defend
ant has no means to hire a lawyer. The
state pays these attorneys. often these
lawyers, who can secure no other clientele,
will appeal unmeritorious cases to the SUI
preme court and they draw pay from the
state for perfecting appeals in these cases,
which are quite universally affirmed. 1t
10 sought to give the court some power
to direct wherein cases of this nature may
be appealed.
Board Completes Inspection.
The State Board Of Control is Just com.
pleting its tour Of inspection of the state
Institutions. The board will meet here
soon and decide upon any changes to be
made at the Institutions and discuss any
new features TO be taken up. At that
meeting will probably be definitely settled
the question OF removal of superintendent
Fitzgerald OF the Mitchelville Girls Indus
trial school, against whom charges OF mis-
conduct were recently made. Evidence
against him was taken and he was given
opportunity by the board to refute this.
His reply IL is understood and evidence
is with the board and final action will
soon be taken.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
MEMORIAL PROGRAM COMPLETE
F~RirmOunt Park to BE the Scene of
Exercises, Permitting.

FRirmOunt Park to BE the Scene of
Exercises, weather Permitting.
Arrangements for the Memorial day exer-
cises at Paramount park Sunday afternoon
were completed yesterday. The exercises
will begin promptly at 2 o'clock and will
be held at the band stand. General Gren-
vile M. Dodge will preside. In the event
OF Indictment weather the exercises will be
held in the auditorium.
Sunday morning appropriate exercises at
tendant on the decorating OF the graves in
Fairview and Walnut Hill cemeteries will
be held by the children. AT Fairview the
children will be addressed by Rev. S. j.
Carter and at Walnut Hill cemetery by
Major w. II. Spera, Committees have been
appointed to accompany the children to the
cemeteries to decorate soldiers graves.
Captain L. B.. Cousins, j. S. Davis, Will
liam Roper and H. S. Alexander comprise
the m for Fsirview cemetery, while
J. n. Cooper, James Hoon, Theodore Cult
tar, Charles Warner and Captain D.. Maltby
will act in a similar capacity for Walnut
Hin cemetery.
These committees will report at the
Dodge Light Guards srmory Sunday morn
ing at 9 o'clock. at which time the children
who intend participating in the decorating
of the graves, will also assemble. The pro-
cession 10 the cemeteries will start at 10
o'clock.
The on flowers consists OF
| Councilman James McMnlen and the mem
bers of the Woman's Relief corps, with
Colonel e. J. Abbott and r E. Williams
as a special committee to present bouquets
to veterans who may be unable 10 attend
the exercises. The members of the wom-
ans Relief corps and the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance union will meet at l
o'clock this afternoon at the Dodge Light
Guards armory to begin work on the
wreaths and bouquets. Donations of flow
ers are requested to be left at the armory
as early as possible on Saturday morning.
The following is the program Of the
exercises at the park:
Music-Covalt's band.
In~vocation-Rev. o. o. Smith.
Vocal Music-MiKe Quartet.
Address-Judge Lee Estelle.
| Vocal Music-Male Quartet.
Mtsic-Band.
Grafton on the Unknown Dead-Rev. s.
Grant Lewis.
Vocal Music-Mixed Quartet.
Taps.
Benediction-Rev. @. W. Snyder.
BY direction OF the national officers En-
campment No. 8. Union Veteran legion and
Auxiliary No. Il will assemble at the en-
campment's monument in walnut~Hn
cemetery Sunday afternoon at 3 O'Clock
and there hold appropriate services in
memory of their departed comrades.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
mugLc by the assembly: benedIc-

college, music by the assembly; benedic-
tion.
Class Dsy Program, Tuesday, June l,
s P. M.-Music, Lullaby, Frank Belknap,
by the senior chorus; class history, by
George Msyne; class prophecy. by Clare
McAneney; music. solo by Miss Laura
Robinson; class play; presentation OF class
gift, by Chester p. Dudley; response. by
Mr.. Harry Boyne, president junior class;
class song: class yells.
Commencement Program, Thursday, June
8, Sis p. M.-Processional, graduating
class: invocatlon. music, Invitation to
Dance senior class; address. Prof. r. n.
Starbuck, state university Of Iowa; music,
May Day" Miss Grace Barr; presenta-
tion OF diplomas, by Emmett FINLEY, presi-
dent of hoard; class song, by senior class;
henedlctlCn.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
Charlie. City Notes.

CHARLES CITY, Ia, May 2S.-(Spe-
cial.)-About 100 of the students Of Ames
college as is their annual custom will come
here next week and will work during the
summer In the Hart-Parr factory.
Ted Greene, manage of the focal ball
club, has signed Pitcher Isaacs, who was
connected with the Three-I league last sea-
son. He is a crack pitcher.
The earthquake shock was distinctly felt
here and the school children in the stone
school house thought ar explosion Of the
furnace had occurred.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
Eighty-S Six Pelts
in Roosevelt Bag
Ex- president Accepts Invitation to a
Public Banquet to Be Given
Him in August.

NAIRoBI, British East Ffrica, May 81
Theodore Roosevelt, who is at present the
guest of Governor Jackson of Nairobi, has
accepted an invitation to a public banquet
to be given here in his honDr August 3.
The results Of the expeditions hunting
trips have been assembled. Mr.. Roosevelt
has obtained eighty-six specimens OF game
of twenty-five different varieties. with the
exception OF six specimens they are all
for the national museum at Washington.
The naturalists of the party have obtained
about 1000 specimens Of birds. mammals
and snakes
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
Iowa Newspaper Traded.

IDA GROVE, Ia, May 2s.-(Special) y
NJ. Miller of Petrolia. Kan, for many
years, editor OF the Carroll Sentinel and
later of the Boone Democrat, and always a
prominent politician, has traded land in
Kansas for the Ida Grove Record Era, but
he has no intention of running the plant
himself and will sell. S. l.. Frisbie, editor
of the Sloan Star and one OF the most
prominent democratic editors in the state,
was here today looking over the paper.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
Fifty-sixth to okoboji.

FORT DODGE, Ia, May 2s.-(Speciai)-
Decision was made that the Fifty-sixth
regiment encampment will be at West oko-
boji, North end, near Hayward bay, August
IT to q. The plans in the regiment now
are that Cherokee be mustered in as Com
pany NJ next Tuesday by Adiutant General
Logan and Colonel Chantland. Cherokee
falling in qualifications Lemars will have
a chance at the place.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
LEAN EAGLES FLY FARTHEsT
Plenty of Fun and some Money for
Creche Made at Ball Game.

Plenty of Fun and Some Money for
Creche Made at Ball Game.
While there was a good attendance, II
was not found necessary to extend the
fences to accommodate the crowd, which
witnessed the ball game yesterday after
noon at Hustlers' park between the fat"
and lean" teams Of the Council Bluffs
aerie Fraternal Order OF Eagles, for the
benefit OF the Associated Charities creche.
1t is expected, however, that this deserving
institution will derive a neat sum from tho
game, as a great many more tickets than
were presented at the gates were sold by
the committees in charge.
As had been anticipated the leans de.
feated the fats, but they had to work to
do 1t. as the men OF avoirdupois succeeded
in scoring seven runs against the thin
fellows ten.
Mayor Maloney started the game as
umpire, but the leans objected so strenu-
ously to his decisions, which seemed TO
favor the heavy weights. that he soon With
drew In favor of Hodge, a semi-pro-
fessional player with the Outlaws. The
leans objected also TO Street Commissioned
Tim Flood, acting as official scorer and
that official was forced to take a back
seat on the banks OF Pettibone ditch, while
Harry NJ. Brown, clerk of the district
court, kept the tab.
Wesley and Swaney comprised the bat
terry for the fat birds, while Jones, Van.
derioo and Mabaugh made up the battery
for the thin fellows. II was rumored about
the park that Pa Rourk was present in
cognito with a view to picking up some
timber for mis- team, but left after the third
inning, satisfied there was nothing there
that he wanted. This is the score by in
nings:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
Pastor Wedn on SIx.

WHITTMORE, Ia, May &.-(Special.)-
At Merrill, Ia. yesterday afternoon was
celebrated the marriage OF Rev. Harry
Branton, pastor of the Whittemore Metho-
dist church and Miss Minnie MRude Allen
OF Merrill. Rev. Mr.. Branton's friends here
were not advised Of his intentions to
marrying and the news OF it was a distinct
surprise here.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
PHILADELPHIA TRACTION
MEN VOTE TO STRIKE
Employees of Rapid Transit Company
viii Quit work mt Cell of
Executive Committed.

PHILADELPHIA, May 2s-In a largely
attended mass meeting Of motormen and
conductors OF the Philadelphia Rapid Tran
sit company held here 1t vas decided
TO strike at any time the executive
committee OF the national organization
deems II advisable.
The hall where the meeting was held was
crowded. When one speaker suggested
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM.

The following is the program for COM
mencement week at the high school:
Sunday, May 80, 3 P. M.-Baccalaureate
sermon at the high school auditorium.
Tuesday, June l, S p. M.-Class day pro-
gram at the high school auditorium.
Wednesday, June 2, s r. M.-Junior re-
ception to senior class at Masonic temple.
Thursday, June 3, Sis P. M~.-Graduating
exercises at the high school auditorium.
Friday. June I, 8 p. M.-Alumni recep-
ton.
Baccalaureate Program, Sunday, May 80,
8 p. M.-Singing by the assembly; prayer;
music, Jerusalem" Parker, by senior
chorus: address, "The %Stsndar of a Man"
by President H.. H.. Seerley, State Normal
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29

gunny sack containing bundles of kindling
soaked in kerosene and four bottles Of oil
and other inflammable material was found
standing against the front door. The
kindling had been set on fire and was
partly burned, but the gunny sack, falling
in on top of it, had smothered it and put
it out. ..t. -.t.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29

KEOKUK, Ia, May REORGANIZATION
NJ. Meigs and two assistant engineers left
today for New Boston, Ia, where they
will enter the Iowa river in the government
launch Hornet for the purpose of maxi
ing a survey of the river and taking sound
ings, both in it and the Cedar river, for
the purpose of reporting TO the government
whether either or both streams are naviga-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
RertmentaI Camp az Charlton.

CRESTON, Ia, May 2s.-(Special.)-The
Fifty fifth regiment, Iowa National Guard.
of which Company I of this place is a
part, will camp at Charlton this year, the
dates having been fixed from August 5 to
Is, and 1000 members of the guard are
expected to participate in camp life. A
delegation of prominent business men went
to Burlington yesterday to secure a lease
of grounds from the railroad company for
campmen purposes.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-29
Taunts Drive 70 Suicide.

NEVADA, Ia, May 2S.-Cspecial.)-De-
~spondent because OF the taunts OF the peo-
pie who apparently disliked her, Christine
Larson, aged 20 years, the daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Rasmus Larson, la what
will probably prove a successful attempt
to commit suicide last night by drinking
concentrated I've. The attending physician
believes that the girl cannot live.