Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-17
LAXITY CHARGED ON STAND
Chief of Police Yeager Upon Grill in
Des Moines.
CROWDED COURT ROOM HEARS
Number OF witnesses Testify RED
Light District Has Reopened and
saloon Closing Laws
violated.
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From a staff Correspondent
DIES MONIES, Aug. 16.-(Special Tele-
gram.)-In effort to prove its charges OF
naladministration in office brought against
Chief of Police George Yeager. the Iowa
Anti-Saloon league opened it's case in
crowded court room today with testimony
to show that the administration had al
lowed Des Moines to run wide open In
dictments'of neglect on the part Of officers,
detailed proof of violations Of saloon clos
ing laws and allegations that the old red
light district had feopened were brought
by the prosecution.
]. II. Thomas, an insurance collector,
went on the stand for the prosecution to
declare he knew of over twenty houses of
prostitution which were operating in Des
Moines. DR.. Paul Gilbert, another wit
ness, declared that he had been an eye
witness to violations of the saloon closing
law.
Testimony was also introduced by the
prosecution to prove that efforts to secure
warrants from police to take intoxicated
men from saloons had ali failed.
Some stir was created when 1t was
learned that Art williams, chief witness
for the Anti-saloon league, had been
thrown in Jail on an assault and battery
charge.
The police court room was crowded to the
doors when the trial opened and many
curious ones drove vehicles beneath the
open windows and endeavored to see what
was going on by climbing to their wagon
seats. Had It not been for disagreement
between Mayor Hanna and Councilman
MacVicar the trial would have been ad-
journed to the Coliseum, where seating ca
pacity for 1900 people would have been pro-
vided! w. c. Barber of the Anti-Saloon
league is conducting his own examinations,
subpoenaing his own witnesses and will
conduct his own rebuttal.
Receiver Satisfactory.
Simon Cassidy of this city. who was APP
pointed by Judge Mcpherson at Kansas
City to be receiver for the Agar packing
plant, is a prominent banker long resi-
dent here, and his appointment to handle
the property here will satisfy all creditors,
Boys Accused of Murder.
playmate quarrel resulted in the death
here Of ''Monko" Carr a 13-year-old Italian
lad. Vernon Morris Frank Sayler and Her
man Van Cleve are held for numbering him.
The fight took place last Wednesday.
DIR. shltcr Dead, - q.
Dr. william Slater, aged SS. the last OF the
Iowa band" Of eleven missionaries. who
came to Iowa in the autumn of 1s43, is dead
at his home in Burlington, after forty-five
years,of service in a Burlington copgrega-
tional church.
Senator CIapp Visits Cummins.
Senator Moses Clapp of Minnesota stop
ped off here today on his way home from
points in the west where he had been filling
the ehautauqua engagements fer Senator
Cummins which the latter was compelled
to give up because Of i'll health He re-
ports tina 9the chantauqua season In the
western circuit has obeeht Very. good and
that there Is the most intense interest lin
the cause of the !progressKes.,~ -sY; r
Danger from Railroad Fires.
The state Railroad commission today re-
ceiYed from S. H. Eaton Of Adair county,
complaint which indicates that the farm
ers living along the DISQUALIFICATION
oranch of the Burlington are having a
serious time preventing the burning Of
their crops from sparks falling from To-
eomotives He reports that his farm has
been on fire several times and that one
day recently five fires were started from
one passing engine.
Farmers Cutting Their Corn.
Messrs. Bannister and Wade of the
Board of Control, on their return from
northeastern Iowa, report that many of the
farmers have been cutting their corn the
last week for fodder because the extreme
dry weather. has made it impossible for
the corn to fill out and make a good crop
of grain. Very great damage has been
done Iowa crops by reason of the dry
weather. Today there was rain over much
OF the central and northern part Of the
state.
Carroll on Iowa Good Roads.
Governor Carroll today made the follow
ing statement in regard to the journey of
himself and some others across the state
last week on road inspection business:
Our trip over the river-to-river road was
much more satisfactory than had antici-
pated. We were met at the various places
along the road with large and enthusiastic
audiences and the people generally seemed
building. We found the road'to be in good
condition throughout most OF its length
but that does not mean that 1t could not
be improved. Some partsNof the road have
simply been smoothed up by dragging, but
are not properly graded, so that when the
rainy season comes on, that part Of the
road will prove disappointment The por-
lions OF the road winch have been con-
structed or reconstructed this year are
in good shape and win stand unfavorable
conditions much better. This was found
TO be especially true of the western part
OF Guthrie county and the eastern part OF
Audubon The purpose Of our trip was not
simply to view the Tiver-to-river road, but
to try, II possible, TO create a general in
terest in road building throughout the en-
tire state.
The most scientifically constructed road
that we saw any place was off of the river
to-river road in Poweshiek county, where a
properly graded road has been built from
Montezuma to Malcom and from Malcom
TO near Brooklyn, and is now being ex-
tended to Grinell. This road is being built
out OF the one mill levy, the expenditure
of which Is under the control OF the Board
of Supervisors, and no portion of the road
fund under the control of the trustees Is
being used for the contraction OF this high
way.
Better Feeling Exists.
l believe there Is a better public feeling
todaX with regard 10 hlRhWaYs than has