Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-18
TO SURVEY The RIVE.
Des M6ines Falls Three Hundred Feet
in Two Hundred Miles.
LOCKS AND DAMS HELD FEASIBLE
Albert ROwse on Scene 20 Make
Survey Of water Course-sheriff
Ness Back from Texas
Trip.
(From a staff Correspondent.j

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DIES MONIES. Ia, Feb. 1~7-(Special Te,e-
grsm)-Albert Rowse Of Sterling, Ill. APP
pointed by the government to make tho
survey Of the Des Moines river. prepare
tory to making it ~navigable. arrived In the
city today and announced that he will
Start out with an engineering corps at Keo-
kuk about March Il. He says the preiimi-
rary survey shows there is now plenty of
water in the river to make a lock and dam
canal feasible to Des Moines and that II
will be an easy matter to do so. In the
300 miles the fall Of the river is 800 feet.
The survey is to be finished during the
next year.
Ness Back from Texas.
Sheriff Ness returned from Texas this
evening after his exciting getaway from the
Texas officials who tried to hold him for
kidnapping a fugitive from Iowa. He de-
clares there is nothing in the kidnapping
charge and he left the matter in hands of
lawyers to dispose Of.
Brown Not Candidate.
j. II, Brown, president of the Farmers
Grain Dealers association, and endorsed at
the associations recent convention for the
position OF state railroad commissioner will
not be a candidate for the republican nom
nation. He made the announcement to-
day.
Delegates 10 Road Convention.
Governor Carroll today received lists OF
delegates from Abba, Indianola, Perry,
Rockwell City. Corning, Carroll and other
towns, indicating that there will be a very
large attendance at the highway confer
ence in this city next month.
Complaint ms to Depot.
The mayor of Walnut makes complaint to
the State Railroad commission as to the
condition of tho depot at Walnut. He
states that while they give the railroad
coed police protection and have four sa-
looms in the town they rave only one wait
ing room and the depot is so bad that the
rats eat up the freight. He wants a new
depot, which will be furnished.
Retirement OF a Democrat.
The announcement made in Washington
today that Congressman w. d. Jameson,
democrat, representing the Eighth Iowa dis
trict, will retire at the end of his first term.
caused no surprise. 1t is known that he
has not been at all pleased with the office
he holds and has animated several times
that he would not care for a second term.
His retirement probably makes it certain
that the republican nominee will have an
easy time.
Supreme Court Decisions.
T: r, Davis, applt, against Iowa Central
Railway company, Mahaska county. Re-
Will Of Henry Van Houten. Mahaska
county. Reversed.
State Savings bank, applt.. against w L.
Miller, Lucas county. Reversed.
James Brown, applt.. against ]. L, Brook
hart, Washington county. Affirmed.
George w. Potter, applt. against Jennie
Hourlgan, woodbury. county. Affirmed.
Insanity Case Ruling.
The supreme court holds that the iudR-
ment in an insanity hearing is proper evil
denceSins~h will case. One Henry Van
Houten, who died at the age OF 96. made a
Will and two years later his sanity was
questioned in a guardianship proceeding
and he was ad1udged to be sane. The will
was attacked because he was insane when
1t was made and the judgment in the other
proceedings was excluded. The case was
reversed on this ground, the court holding
that a hearing for insanity is an adjudIca-
ton of the matter and is entitled to some
weight.
Sale OF AtIantic Paper.
w. H. Wiseman and Frank Moorehead of
this city today purchased the Daily Allan
tic Telegraph OF f. L. Anderson and Mr..
Wiseman will go to Atlantic to assume
charge the first of the month. Both men
have been in the newspaper business for q
good many years and they announce the
paper will be continued as an aggressive
republican paper.
Veterinarians i'm Session.
The State Association of Veterinarians
held a convention here today and gave a
program Of interest chiefly to the mem
bers, concluding with a clinic at a local
hospital for animals. One matter much
discussed was the outbreak OF anthrax in
northwestern Iowa and the methods taken
TO bring it to an end. The association de-
cided upon making an effort to secure more
stringent legislation in Iowa to prevent the
introduction of diseases of animals in herds
brought to the state.
Lake to BE Drained.
The report of the state drainage engineer
on the condition of Wall lake, in Wright
county, made today to the executive coun-
Gil, shows that the lake can easily be
drained. This will reclaim over 300 acres
OF land which is now largely a swamp and
useful only for hunting and fishing. An
effort is being made In that county TO
preserve the swamp for the benefit of
hunters.
LOBan-MaRnOlia Debate.
LOGAN, Ia, Feb. 17.-(Special)-A joint
debate between the debating team OF