Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-23
MINERS SELECT OFFICERS
Annual Election for Iowa Takes
Pisoe Throughout State.
MEETING IN APRIL
Daring Robbery OF Mails at Des
Moines, when Sack H. Taken
from Truck on Plat
form.

DIES MONIES. Ia, Feb. 22 -(special Tele.
gram.)-The annual election Of officers IL
the Iowa organization of miners was held
today but as the local unions are rcat.
tered over a large area the result will not
be known for some time. 1t is expected
however, that John p. White Of Oska.
loosa has been reelected president, which
will insure a conservative handling Of the
affairs Of the union in a district with
nearly 1000 miners.
The annual convention to fix the wage
scale will not be held until in April, Blu
at the various meetings today plans were
laid for the delegates to attend. There is
no doubt that the miners will demand a
number Of changes in the schedule OF
wages.
Sack Of Mail stolen.
A daring robbery Of the United States
malls occurred at.the Rock Island depol
last night when q saek of mail was taken
from the mall truck on the platform by
some person who escaped. The mail sack
was found this morning in an alley by q
maj on his way to work. City detectives
are working on the case. Postofflce au-
thorities have inspected the mail and be-
lieve nothing is missing.
New Parole Clerk Named.
II was announced today that within a
few days the new clerk Of the parole board
would be Installed in place Of b. w. Gar
rett, who resigned to make the race for
clerk OF the supreme court. The new man
Is Sam De Wood of Greenfield. who has
been a reporter Of court under Judge Gam
BILE and Is well known in the western part
Of the state. The parole board will meet
In a fovy ~ - ard ol..A NJ. - A..
Motives of Railroads.
A coal dealer at Reinbeck complains to
the State Railroad commission about fail
ure to get cars Of coal from West Liberty
and Cedar Rapids and asks: Are the
railroads doing all they can to get this
coal forward, as they say they are, or are
they holding 1t that they may conflscate
1t for their W use?" The railroad com
mission declines to answer the question d.
rectly, as it is purely psychological, and
they are unable TO say what Is going on
In the minds of the railroad managers.
Very many such complaints are received.
IOWA Boy Is Advanced.
State Superintendent Riggs today received
from Commissioner Brown of the federal
bureau of education, notice tina Harlan
Updegraff, formerly Of Knoxville, has been
made chief Of the bureau of statistics at
Washington and that he will soon visit
Iowa on a tour of the states. He will call
upon the various state departments to as
certain the methods Of compiling statistics.
He has recently been in charge in Alaska
State Flag L. Returned.
% The only Estate flag" Iowa ever had has
just been returned to the military establish
TmAuf at has MAinae n haa haan ~ the
rooms of the Iowa society of New York
for several years and has Just been sent
back. In fact General Logan was unable
today to find out when the flag was made
or what the significance of it's peculiar
form, 1t is SAID to have been made for
one of the governors some years ago. 1t
is a blue and white triangle with stars Of
silver and gold and deliberately hand
painted.
Fee Was Turned Down.
Because the Corn Products company Of
New Jersey only rendered s5.75 for filing
Its articles Of Incorporation, Secretary of
States Hayward refused TO make the filing.
He did write the glucose trust attorneys
that unc he Iowa law a fee of $50, 0i5. 75
will enable him to make the filing, The
difference -betw cen them may be the SUBJ
ject Of a lawsuit. ;"
slow SendinE-iD Reports.
NJ. J. Tobin, collector of internal revenue
for the northern district of Iowa, states
that the heads OF corporations have been
very slow in sending in their reports as re-
quired under the new federal law. Their
time limit is March l, and a very large
proportion are still delinquent, and he be-
lieves that a great many penalties will
be affixed for failure TO make the reports
for taxation.
. Will RemOv County Attorney.
1t is probable that very soon steps will
be taken by the state, IL the local authorl-
ties do not act, to see whether or not the
county attorney OF Henry county should
be removed under state law. Most positive
statements have been made and published
as to his delinquency in office, so that he
has been at times unable to transact the
business of the office. The court has not
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