Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-12
WYLIE HAS RATE KICK
.Des Moines Shipper Complains Of
Iowa Grain Charges.
SHAKEUP OF POLICE KEEPS ON
Ounci susPends Agent for Health
Department and Reprimnnds DIR.
Losh - Navigation of
River.
tFrom a Sad correspondent.l

BIdmJ-ln ne STATE railroad commission TO-
day received from e. @. Wylle. a shipper
Of Des Molnes, application for a general
reduction In the rate Of grain within the
state. TIL case will come up next month,
when II Is expected express, coal and other
rates will be considered. Mr.. Wylie claims
that the Interstate rates are In many cases
so ranged that the markets outside Iowa
have an advantage over Des Molnes and
other cities Of the state. He asks that the
local rates be cut to correspond to the
lower rates made by outsiders.
City Hall scandal.
Another turn was given in the city hall
scandal today, when the council suspended
for thirty days, James Morgan, agent Of
the health department., aud repr.manded DIT.
Losh, head Of the department. orders were
also issued for no further assignment of
police for special duty and arrangements
were made for the adoption Of formal rules
and regulation for the health office. At the
same time the grand jury began investiga-
ton Of the office of the humane officer,
accused of improper actions In a kidnap-
ping case.
Navigation of Des MOines.
A call has been issued for a meeting at
Ottumwa. February Is, to form an ~assocla-
ton OF the various cities along the Des
Moines river to consider plans for effective
navigation as soon as the river is made
navigabIe. The survey Of the river is now
assured.
John A. Pope, a negro preacher, who has
been for some time engaged in soliciting
funds for a negro Industrial school to be
located here, was arrested today on a
charge OF forgery. He had been making
use Of letters signed by various persons
who say they never saw him and know
nothing Of the letters.
GnscIene Use f. Growing.
According to reports OF the oil depart
ment of the state the use Of gasolene is
rapidly growing. Last year the inspectors
had reported tc them a total Of 264,560
barrels of g~asolcne and S44, S7s barrels of
kerosene were approved. Ten years ago
the g~asolene was 1O9.5S2 barrels and kero-
sene 2S2,S97 barrels. Last year the fees
collected amounted to S61.a1S.SO. a net profit
to the state OF $s4,447.45.
German Farmers Insure.
The secretary OF state today received the
reincorporation articles of the German
Farmers Mutual Fire, Lightning and Tor
nado Insurance association Of Woodbury.
and Monona counties. headquarters at
Mapleton, after twenty years Of business.
The Agaunico Mine Development COM
pany of Dubuque filed articles with $4O,-
900 capital.
Military Boards Convene.
Two military examining boards in the
Iowa National guard convened today under
orders from General Logan to examine
candidates for commission in the guard.
A board especially to examine doctors is
headed by DR.. Fairchild and the other is
headed by General Lincoln of Ames. About
ptwenty candidates were present for exam
nation
MRcLeRn May Leave Iowa,
In addition to the rumors which are
prevalent as to the probable resignation
of DR.. A. B. Storms as president of the
State college at Ames there is a rumor of
Impending change at the State university
to the effect that DR., MacLean may also
close his work with the present school
year. There appears to be little more to
1t than rumor, but the belief is prevalent
that there is something doing and that not
only these but other important changes
Will be made during the present year.
BIeRk1y Makes Announcement.
State Auditor Bleakly announces today
that he will again be a candidate for state
auditor. In his behalf It is claimed that
the office has never been SO we'll admin
istered and that by reason Of the excellent
record he has made he deserves reelection.
He will not have opposition.
Evidence Was Not Good.
The supreme court did the unusual in
not only reversing a criminal case but adj
vising the prosecution that II there is no
other evidence to be disclosed the defend
ant should be released and the case dis
missed, This was the case of DR.. f. w.
Sells Of Clarke county, convicted OF as
sault upon a young woman at his sani-
tarium at Clearfleld. The case turns solely
upon the evidence and the court declares
that the whole story as told by the prose-
cutting witness was so improbable and so
at variance with all human experience that
it would have to be very strongly corrobor-
ated. This was not done, nence the court
decides squarely that Sells was wrongly
convicted upon the evidence.
The Carson college of Ps~ychic-Sarcol-
ogy" OF Missouri received a hard bump In
supreme court when conviction Of one OF
It's graduates for Illegal practice OF the
healing art was affirmed. The court found
that l. M. Adkins. prior to attaining his
majority, had led a bucolIc life" and after
three years at this college had secured a
diploma emitting him to cure everybody.
He turned his attention naturally TO the
appendix and became its staunch defender
against the surgeons, and advertised his
great healing powers by natural laws"
The court found that he ought to have
demonstrated his familiarity with the hu-
man body and secured a state certificate,
but he did not try to do so.
Clifford Thorne. candidate for railroad
commissioner, won a case in supreme court
today. that OF Maxwell against Mccoll,
involving a right Of way for road purposes
across some land. The case was compli-
Gated, but the decision of the Washington
county court upheld,
Might OperRBOr shot.
CRESTON, Ia. Feb. M-(SpeciaI Tele-
gram "A shooting affair took place at