Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-17
WESTERNS CLANS
Announcement Made of New Rails
and Shops.
BETTER FACILITIES IN VIEW
Sheriff Ness Returning to Des
Moines without Man Wanted ON
Charge of wife Deser-
ton.
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DIES MONIES, Ia, Feb. 16.-(SpeCial Tele-
gram)-H. J. Slifer, general manager of
the Chicago Great Western. with a party
Of officials Of the road, visited Des Moines
today and it is understood they were en-
gagged in making arrangements to buy ad-
ditional land, with a view to enlarging their
shops here and adding to the facilities for
handling business. 1t also became known
that It is the plan Of the company en-
tirely to rebuild the line through Iowa on
the route from Oelwein to st. Joseph.
Police Hunt for Girls.
The city police have been asked to search
for six girls who left the state industrial
school for girls a few days ago. The girls
were in the cooking squad and slipped
away while at work and have not been
heard Of since. 1t is also reported that
there is general dissatisfaction among the
girls at the school since the change OF
superintendent last year. For the first
time in Iowa history the school has a wo-
man for a head.
Ness on way Home.
Sheriff Ness of this county, is reported
from Texas, to be on his way home, a
fugitive, and having forfeited his bond. He
was arrested there on a charge Of kid
mapping. He had made three trips to Hous-
ton to arrest and return to this state,
George Howald, indicted here for wife de-
%sertion, but owing to the political pull of
Howald's friends, the sheriff failed to get
his man. He tried to arrest him and leave
the state and the sheriff was himself ar
rested.
Ames Presidency Left Open.
The matter Of the selection of a new
president for the Iowa Agricultural college
at Ames Is likely to be left open for a
year at least. 1t is known that although
DR.. Storms will retire at the end of the
school year the plan Is to appoint Secretary
Stanton to be acting president, as he was
once before, and then the board will take
all the time needed for picking a man.
II think we may we'll leave it to the
board" said Henry Wallace today. ."I
understand the plan of the board is to take
plenty of time and look about for the right
man, then to select a man for president
who is big enough to handle the whole job
arc TO be the executive head of the col
lege. Such men are not easy to find. but
Iowa is entitled to the best and will prob
ably get him.. I am Of the opinion that
the president should be someone from an
other state, who has not been mixed up in
any of our small affairs here"
The presidency has not been offered to
anyone. 1t has not been offered to Pinchot,
Wilson or any other person, and the first
meeting of the board at which the matter
will be discussed will be the first of next
month.
Primary Questions Answered.
Two minor questions relating to the
primary election were answered by At
torney General Byers today. In one case
he held that the list of voters, with
declaration of party affiliation, as made
at the last city election, must be entirely
ignored In making the voting lists for the
city and general primaries this year. Those
who had voted only at a city primary are
not, intact, recorded at all. In the other
case there had been a failure to file papers
for nomination for certain offices In
Dubuque and Clinton and 1t was held that
the only way the tickets can now be filled
is by having voters write in the name of
the candidates, but a convention cannot
fill the ticket where there has been no
voting done.
Supreme Court Decisions.
The following supreme court decisions
have been rendered:
State against l.. j. Tjernagel, appellant,
Story county, affirmed.
j. II. McClusky against j. T. Scott, ap-
pellant, Poweshiek, affirmed
Mary Longshore against Chicago Great
Western railway, appellant, Madison, at
firmed.
Peoria Stone and Marble Works, APP
affirmed.
John Schaefer against c.. w. Whitman G.
Son, appellant, jefferson. affirmed.
James Boswell, appellant, against Ella
Buswell, Poweshiek. affirmed.
A. d.. Robey against State Insurance
company, appellant, Taylor, affirmed.
II. ID. Wetmore & Co. against G. d.
Henry, appellant, jefferson, affirmed.
In re estate of S. c. Freeman, Taylor
county, modified and affirmed.
Catherine Moore against j. +. Crandell,
appellant, Mahaska, affirmed.
b, A, Dolan against John Sammons. APP
pellant, Lee, affirmed.
In re estate OF f. NJ. Ogle, appellant,
against l." j. Burmeister, Warren, affirmed.
Samuen Manatt. appellant, against c. o.
Griffith, Washington, affirmed.
Agnes Steaks against Charles G. Steaks,
appellant, Taylor, affirmed.
7. o.. Kinman against J. W. Bolts, APP
pellant, Davis, reversed.
win of Sarah E. Winslow, Jasper, re-
versed.
Estate of W. H. Rice, Mahaska, re-
versCd.