Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-09
supreme Court Decisions.


r. c. Hartshorn against Evans. Judge.
certiorari. Appeal from Wright county.
Edward Porter against N. O. Whitlock
appellant. Appeal from Monroe county.
Nellie Cooper against Scott Company, ap.
pellant. Aoaeal from Oel*ein superior
Henry Bennett against Valley Mining
Company, appellant. Appeal from Linz
r. A. Romans against D.. :. Thaw. an
pellant. Appeal from Crawford county.
Reversed.
D. Fitzgerald against olof Tvedt. appel
liant. Appeal from Emmett county. Re
NJ. A. Manning against r. Berry. ap-
pellant. Appeal from Linn county Re
Estate of C. R. Blackman against Baxter.
Reed q Co, appellants. Appeal from Ida
county. Reversed.
NJ. salzman. appellant, against Machinery
Pottawattamie county. Affirmed.
DeLavai separator company, appellant
tawattamie county. Affirmed.
State against Eli Harden and Will Carter.
appellants. Appeal from Polk county.
Board of Education.
Governor Carroll sent to the senate today
the names OF his appolntees on the new
State Board of Education to handle the
three state colleges. They are for the term
Of two years:
A. B. Funk, republican, Spirit Lake.
George i. Baker, democrat, Davenport
T. d. Foster, democrat, Ottumwa.
For the term OF four years;
p. X. Holbrook. republican, Onawa; c. Il
Brenton, republican, Dallas Center; ID. ID
Murphy, democrat, Elkader.
For the term of six years:
j. II. Trewin, republican, Cedar Rapids
Roger Leavitt. republican, Cedar Falls
f. p. Schoentgen, democrat, Council Bluffs
Tho members are regarded as ~satisfac
tory and probably will be confirmed to
morrow without controversy. There hal
been some criticism because the list wa.
held back until the last days of the senate
session so that It will be impossible I,
make any investigation such as con
tempiated in the law.
Messrs. Funk ana Trewin are forme
senator's and we'll known in the state
Baker, Foster. Murphy and schoentgen arr
the democratic members. Holbrook wa.
on the university board. Leavitt on tn,
normal board and Brenton. the agriculture
college board.
Giving Away State Property.
The senate passed the joint resolution
giving TO the speaker and president of tn,
senate the chairs and gavels they hav,
used. President Clarke excused himsel
while this was done and so as not TO EN-
barrass Gillilland when he repeated hi
speech in opposition to this procedure
Clarke is and always has been opposed Il
doing this. He received a chair and gave
he used when he was first speaker. HI
compelled them to leave it out the secon,
time he was speaker, but somebody pushe,
through a resolution giving him his desk
He instructed the custodian TO leave tn
desk IN the speakers room and 1t is Their
yet. At the same time the house vote
that each member should take home hi
chair, but this was never done.
Former Detective Must Go To Prison
BY a decision of the supreme court toda
Eli Harden, former chief Of the Dies Moline
detectives must serve a three years sen
tence In the Iowa penitentiary. HardI
was convicted of getting witnesses In
land fraud case out OF the state. This (
the first time in the history OF the stat
that a man has been convicted OF hi
crime. Hardin appealed from the decisio
OF the lower court
Detective Goes TO Prison.
Ell Hardin, former chief OF detectives O
Dies Moines, must serve three years in In
state penitentiary at Fort Madison. Tn
supreme court today affirmed the eonyic
ton found by a lower court on the charR
OF being a party In = conspiracy to pre-
vent certain witnesses giving testimony il
a case against $ n. Gartner. Hardin ma
disappeared. but search is being made 70
him
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