Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-24

MRS. REYNOLDS IN DEMAND
Works Same Game in Other Towns
as in Des MOines.
WORKS HOUSES FOR JEwELRY
Attorney General Of Indiana Inter
prets Similar Law Just ne Byers
Did the Moon Law Regard
ing Saloons.
cFrOm a staff Correspondent,

CFrom a Staff Correspondent
DIES MONIES, Ia, Aug. 23-(specisl.)-
Mrs. Nellie Reynolds, the actress who is
under arrest here for stealing many hun
dred dollars worth Of diamonds, which
she did by entering a house and finding
no one at home, ransacking 1t, is also
wanted at Manhattan, Kan, and Perry,
Ia. for the same oftense. Police here
received kilograms TO this effect today.
Agrees with Byers.
Word was received here d that the
attorney general Of Indiana his inter
preted a law in that state similar to
Iowa's Moon law exactly as Attorney Cen
eral Byers interpreted the Moon law here,
holding that saloons could not be Included
between the passage Of the bin and the
time 1t went into effect.
Coming to smiths Reception.
Every state official in Des Moines has
an invitation to attend the welcome to
be extended to Congressman Smith of the
Ninth district at Counci Bluffs, August
q, and a large number Of them will at
tend and accept the Invitation to speak.
Senate A. b. Cummins, who has been in
vited to attend and speak will not at
tend, as he decided to accept no Invitations
to speak till after September 10. in order
to rest up from his work in congress. He
is also busy at this time preparing some
bills dealing with the Interstate Com
merce commission, as he was invited to do
by President Taft. Attorney General
Byers, who has an invitation to attend the
reception and speak, has written that he
has a previous engagement.
Are After Corporations.
Secretary of state Hayward today sent
out $500 registered letters to corporations
of Iowa which have failed to make re-
port In accordance with the law passed
by the last legislature. The letters are
the second notice and are registered to
make certain that they are delivered. I'm
less the corporations report by September
l hey are subject to a fine Of 81 for the
first month, "a for the se,B nd, IS for the
third, IS for the fourth and $40 q month
thereafter till they report.
For writing Bad Letters.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Bidwell, Sunday,
arrested Harry Gilbert in Marshalltown
on a charge Of sending obscene letters
through the mail. Gilbert is a freight
conductor on the Iowa Central and lives
in oskaloosa. The letters are alleged to
nave been sent to Mrs. Jennie ]. Tabbert
of Newton. Ia. whose husband, August
H. Tabbert, e~ndeavored to have them in
troduced as evidence In a divorce suit
against his wife some two years ago. He
secured the decree, though his wife de-
MED the letters had been written by Gill
bert.
Plan Big Hotel.
Representatives of a New York hotel
syndicate are in Desi Moines negotiating
for property on west Walnut on which
to erect a hotel that viii be larger and
finer than anything Des Nome has at
this time,
Exempt WOrLrmen's Homes.
At a union tent meeting Of the downtown
churches Sunday afternoon General Byers
advocated exemption from debt and taxa
ton the homes Of those who work for a
living and have no other property. The
talk was on civic improvements. He also
urged trade schools for boys and girls
free, free street car rides to the parks
once a week for the poor people, and a
laboring mems exchange or club main
talned at public expense.