Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-22
IOWA LIQUOR MEN MEET
One Hundred and Fifty Of Them in
Session in Des Moines.
WINS 4,o2s TO GOOD
Count on Railroad Commissioners
shows Palmer ana Thorne Are
safely Nominated--New
Point ON Contests.
(From a staff Correspondent.)


DIES MONIES. June 2l-(special Teie-
gram THE Iowa State Liquor Dealers as
ISOLATION began its convention here today
with 15O attending. Colonel Joseph Eiboeck
welcomed them and the response was by
j. j, Klein of Council Bluffs, president of
the association. Little business was done
today, but tomorrow 1t is expected action
will be taken to recommend changes in
Iowa liquor laws. They especially want to
get rid of the law which forbids a liquor
dealer entering his place of business for
any purpose outside of legal hours.
The State Anti-Saloon league today is
sued a statement showing a decrease in the
last year Of 1853 saloons in Iowa in a year
Fires in Restaurants.
Fire on Fourth street, near the Kirkwood
hotel today destroyed two restaurants, the
Chicago grill room and Shields restaurant
doing much damage to the Mills building.
Two firemen were overcome by smoke.
The completed count on governor, made
by the state Canvassing board, finished
| this evening, gives Carroll a majority of
4O2S over Garst. The count on railroad
commissioner is not yet finished, but there
is no doubt certificates will be given Palmer
and Thorne.
Can he No State Contests.
Attorney General Byers today called at
tention to the fact that in the coming state
convention there can be no contesting del
egations, nor can there be any contesting
delegations in the county conventions. In
formation came today from Charlton thai
the courts had been invoked to change the
result in that county, and that Judge And
erson had decided that in cases where
squares were printed on the pastors con
tanning names of the candidates for dele
gates such ballots should not be counted
Such ruling would give the county to the
standpatters. The attorney general was
not advised of the full details of the con
troversy. His office gave a decision two
years ago to the effect that printing the
pastors in this manner was entirely legal
Prepare for state Shoot.
Adjutant General Logan, who last weel
directed the state school of instruction fo
militia officers at, the state rifle range, thi
week commenced the preparations for thu
state rifle contest at the same place, which
is to be held next week. Colonel Smith w
Brookhart of Washington, Ia, will have
charge of the contest Besides the regular
events there are a number of special tro
plies to be contested for in the tournament
and teams from every company in the stat'
will be present to participate.
Express Companies Scored.
At a meeting of the Iowa Fruit Job
tbers association a protest was prepared
and filed with the State Railway com
omission today against an increase In thu
charge by express companies of the car
rying of empty banana boxes TIL
fruit jobbers say that. the bakers hat
similar trouble over the charge for re
turn of empty bread boxes, and THIS ha
been adjusted and they ask the sam
adjustment on their complaint.
p, The State Railway commission toda,
received a protest from Iowa City on tn
location OF "a new Rock Island freigh
depot across Nan B6Feh street on tn
ground that sic" locatfoh VIII proven
the final opening ofrthel street, =, ~ az
Found Petitions for Prohibition.
Much ado was made recently by tn
representatives of the Anti-Saloon leagu
over the alleged loss of a petition SAT-
to contain 100000 names in favor of re
submitting the prohibition amendment +
a vote of the Iowa people. 1t was as
serted it had been stolen and\made us
of by the saloon men and that a searcl
for 1t showed 1t disappeared soon afte
the close Of the last session. of the leg
islature. Today j. b. Hammond, repre-
SeHtlnB the IedBuei anu NeOIBS WllsoI
assistant secretary of the senate, Sc
} cured key to the secretary's room an
found the petition in the pigeonholes o
the secretary's desk, where it was place.
during the session.
Coal Prices Are Higher.
The State, Board of Control toda
) opened the bids on coal for the> state in
stitutions and found. as expected, tina
the cost of fuel will be greater the com
ing year than ever before. The award
have not yet been made. The price o
coal TO the state has been steadily goin
up for number of years.
Attorneys to Meet.
Five hundred attorneys, members o
the Iowa State Bar association and o
the County Attorneys association, wi
convene in Des Moines this week, tn
former, Wednesday, and latter, tomorrow
The annual address to the county att6I
neys will be delivered by former Gov
ernor c. S. Thomas of Colorado.
Suit Against Butler County.
| MASON CITY In June n-(Snacial l.