Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-28
CAR SITUATION IN IOWA
Railroad Commission Making Efforts
to Have Traffic Move.
TROUBLE EAST OF CHICAGO
railroads Have Not Sufficient Cars
orkPowcr 60 Move business offered
Iowa Suffers Less Than
Other states.
nrom a stsff corresponaentl

Trom n staff Correspondent.)
DIES MONIES, Feb. T.-(Spsclal.)-Ths
car situation In Iowa remains practically
unchanged. The commissioners race an
otEer trip to Chicago 10 endeavor TO com
pei moro prompt movement Of grain AMI
live stock, but report that the conditions
a9zt OF Chicago are sam so bad that de-
sblta the efforts OK railroad officials, It Is
impossible to move grain and live stock
with the ~promptnesz that they should.
With the acquisition Of the new locomo.
tives tina are now arriving It Is not be-
ueved the strinGenoy can long continus,
There has been some disposition to blame
the railroad commissioner for conditions
Is they exist, but could tho critics see
Ehe car reports from all over the United
States they would find that Iowa Is not
suffering so much as many other looali-
ties. The board cannot compel the i'm
possible, and II railway companies. no
matter for what reason. do not possess the
motive power or cars sufficient to move
the business, that must end It for the time
being. Railroad companies oAn, and win,
be compelled. however. TO provide equip
ment for their needs, but this must oil
necessity require time, as cars oannot bs
bought In the market like coffee and sugar,
but must be ordered months In advanoS
Of the time for delivery. No one can fore.
zee conditions as they have arisen this
Oginter and, despite critioisms, the board
believes it has done and is doing every.
thing within its power to aid the Iowa
shipper.
Put Off Express Hearing.
Upon request of the Iowa State Manu-
facturers' association and others the ex,
press hearing scheduled for March, / hai
been postponed until March Is, at 10 o'olooA
a. M, In the office of the board.
Twenty-three new complaints were fileC
during the last week. Twelve wero fol
failure and delay In furnishing cars FOL
grain. hay and stock shipments, -Four con,
cerned delay to coal shipments. Two arr
applications for changes In rates, one 4
petition for a better depot at Valley Juno
ton, one complaint on account of confis-
cation OF GOAL by a railway company, on,
complaint In regard to delay In express
shipments. one complaint referring to stop.
ping OF interurban car at q certain sta,
ton and an application OF A. Sykes Of
Des Molnes for an order requiring rail
wayH to move i've stock at certain speat
within this state.
Fina DOay ia Ola Barn.
A dead body was found In the loft OF
barn az tho p9Hidenoe OF L. ". Andrew
In Des MOtnSs yesterday, ThS body ha,
svtdoatly lain thara all winter. InvestiSa
ton ahoNOd Il to be the body Of DennI
FORBES, who was we'll known to the polio,
"a a tramp and shittlasa stroller, who oftel
vSnt to JNn Cor drunkenness. An ihdioa
tons point to suicide,
JamtesoA as u Delegate.
The Iowa WOnaaR's Suffrage association
has designated w, d. JAMESON, demo
orAtld congressman from Iowa, as one o
their deleGAtOs TO attend thsj national con
vontion OF Huffruglsts At Washington IA
April Just before Jameson resigned a
a state senator to become a member o
congress he introduced a woman suffrag
N~msndment In the Iowa Legislature an,
SevsRai blll5 looking to that end.
Want More for Colleges,
Prof, @, #, CUrtIss Of Ames went T.
Washington this week to attend an execu
tive meeting OF tho Association Of Agricul
tnral colleges, where plans are to be lai
Tor Inducing congress to make larger pro
vision for the support Of the land gran
colleges OF the country. 1t is Representa-,
hat the support from the federal govern
men has been but iitue increased, Will
the needs of these colleges has becom
much sSeater. They also oppose the Civ
Ing Of federal aid to a private college 1
the District OF Columbia, on the groun
that 1t VIII detTact from the government
interest In the state colleges.
Irregular I~naurhnce Business.
State Auditor Bielhly has discovered tina
under the guise OF organizing owl clubs
in this state some persons in Indiana ar
really violating the state laws as to In
surance business. The clubs are being OF
ganized and then when the correspondent
Is taken up with tho organizer at the HON
office 1t develops that there are 'funera
benefits conhected herewith and imila
schemes Of a. distinctly Insurance charac
kter. The state auditor has as yet discovere
Nno way to stop The Violation Of the insui
Anee laws in dlis manner SIS the soicit!n
IL o~Btenslbly done on a dlfferent basis tina
tho business.
New County superintendent.
Henri L. Smith has been appointe
county superintendent Of schools for d.
buque county to succeed 4. H.. Shrade
who resigned to 90 into business in Wi.
oRfsin. The state superintendent receive
nNice OK the change today.
Nomination blanks were sent out toda
for Representatives Ide Of Union and DaN
son OF Cherokee. who desire reelection a
members Of the Iowa house.; also for Ea.
Ferguson OF shenandoah who will run Il
railroad commissioner.
Dairy Lecture Train on Burlington
The most successful Of many special traI
schemes for interesting farmers in ne