Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-12
Operators May Install Lsbor-Saving
Devices at Will.
WILL SOON REOPEN
sheriff WsrrIck of story County and
Lee Alderman % Nevada, Ia,
Are shot by Desperate
FoOt2ad.
lion a sad correspondentl

fOI the IlISt tne OF inc CoHlplcAiui VI NiS
rev wage contract Now there is no doubt
that an agreement will be effected and the
coal Industry in the state will be resumed
within few days
The settlement of the machine question
marked a decided victory for the operators.
BY the new resolution. which is now part
of the new contract. the operators may put
labor-saving machinery into any mine in
the district. The advantage gained by the
miners a year ago, when an arbitration
board gave them a raise in wages in which
the machine scale was included, has been
lost The miners were forced to abandon
their stand that they would make no con-
tract which does not include machine
scale. The new contract will not include
a complete machine scale.
The joint conference of miners and
operators is now in session and will con-
tinue until the finish is reached
FoOtDRd shoots Two.
Sheriff warrick Of Story county and Lee
Alderman a prominent business man OF
Nevada, Ia, we're shot by Richard Dan
es OF Kansas City, holdup man. who
they were attempting to place under ar
rest, after he had robbed d. S. Dlckey
Of Nevada, a harness merchant, of $25 at
the point VI a buhs ANtiNhtl VI Wv -
tired men is seriously hurt.
Daniels was arrested by posse, headed
by Mart Hardes,y, and is now in Jail. Be-
fore he surrendered however, he with
stood a seige in the basement Of barn
at the edge of town.
To Keep Chair of Surgery.
At a meeting OF the state Hahnemann
Medical association steps were taken today
to assure the retention at the state uni
versity of the chair of surgery. The state
Board of Education has indicated that it
viii be abolished and a committee was APP
pointed to 90 before the legislature and
secure a special appropriation. f. f.
Kaufman of Salt Lake city was elected
president and G. \. Huntoon OF Des
Moines secretary,
Dates for County Institutes.
state Superintendent John F. Riggs has
announced the dates for county teachers
institutes in Iowa for the coming summer
as follows:
Commencing May Sl-Decateur. twenty
June 2--Henry county. twelve days.
June 13-Adair Audubon, Benton, Black
hawk Bremen, Butler, Carroll Cass, Clay,
Des Moines Franklin, Fremont. Greene,
Grundy, Hancock, Ida Iowa. Jackson,
Linn, Louisa, Monroe, Montgomery Mus
~
Sac, Shelby, Tama Van Buren,, Webster
and Woodbury..
| June 11--Allamakee.
June 15-Washington.
| June 27-Sioux Kossuth, Dubuque, Clay
! ton
June 2S-Johnson.
July 6-Chicka saw.
July Winnebago Story Mitchell,
Marion jefferson Jefferson Ha Hamilton Hardin
| Warren and Clarke.
August l-Buena Vista, Davis and Emmett.
August S-Buchanan, Cerro Gordo and
August 15-Calhoun. Clinton, Dallas,
Delaware Howard Lucas and Plymouth.
August 2&-Wrieht, North, Mapello Leo;
Harrison, Jasper Floyd Fayete and
| Crawford
! August 29-Page.
The counties Of Adams, Cedar, Cherokee,
Humboldt Jones, Madison, Monona,
Osceola and Winneshiek have held their
institutes already.
switching Case Postponed.
The railroad commission of Iowa was
to have taken up the matter of fixing rules
and regulations for switching cars and
establishing a uniform rate and held a
meeting for that purpose today. The whole
matter had been referred 10 a committee
of shippers and railroad men. but the com
mittee was not ready to report and post
pOnemenl was ndu. IN TACT IL is now
said to be q little doubtful IL any rules
can be established since il is found almost
impossible to satisfy all the interests.
Supreme Court Decisions.
State against Fred Ottley, appellant, Linn
| county, reversed.
! State against a. and NJ. Gustavsen, APP
! pellant, Webster county, affirmed
State appellant, against Charles Delahoyde
and George Marx, Marshall county, at
firmed.
W. T. S. Bear, appellant, against Cedar
Rapids, Linn county, reversed.
! Lillian p. Merrill, appellant against F.
s. Phelps, ct al Winneshek county af-
! firmed.
Peter Sauser against w. S. Kearney APP
( pellant, Dubuque county, affirmed
! Hugh Sullivan, ct al, against Kitty Ken
ney, appellant Jasper county, affirmed.
Ella Knapp against American Goemen,
appellant. Linn county, affirmed.
Lena simpkins against Hawkeye Com
mercial Mems ASSOCIATION, appellant, Mar
shall county, affirmed.
Insurance Question settled.
The Supreme court upheld a policy Of in
surance held by one IL. f. Smpkins OF
Marshalltown. He was an undertaken and
while engaged in embalming a body he
contracted blood poisoning from which he
died. The Hawkeye Commercial Mems as
ISOLATION resisted payment Of the claim on
the ground that this was not a death due
to accident; but the court gives the policy
a broad construction and insists that a
case Of this kind is clearly an accident.
sales of Liquor Legal.
The sales OF liquors under the Iowa
mulct law are in fact legal. So held the
Supreme court today in case from Mar
shalltown, where Charles Delahoyde and
George Marx were acquitted of violating
tho liquor laws The state eontended that
inasmuch as they represented an Iowa cor
poration, and an Iowa corporation can
only engage in lawful business, and sales
of liquor are never lawful in Iowa the
men should have been convicted. The
Supreme court upholds Judge Bradshaw in
refusing to take this extreme view, and
states again that the mulct law does IN
fact legalize the sales Of liquors
As 60 MIX Licenses.
Cedar Rapids got a hard jolt today by
the supreme court In the matter of an
undertaking 10 license milk dealers and to
require the tuberculin test. The court finds
that there was no authority I'm law for ex-
ercising any such eXtraordinary powers by
a city. The matter OF licensing milk deal.
ers is wholly with the state dairy COM
missioner ana the state Veterinarian, Is