Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-31
Iowa
COL. PALMER TO RUN AGAIN
Announcement Made He Will Try for
Fourth Term.
FIRST NAMED BY GOVERNOR SHAW
Has Opposition in own City I'm
Person OF Clifford ThOrne-
wilcox Appointed Special
Counsel.
(From a staff Correspondents

(From a staff Correspondent
DIES MONIES, Ia, Jan. 30.-(Special Tel |
egram.) .)-Announcemen was made today |
that Colonel David ]. Palmer of WASH |
ington, Ia, would be a candidate for a
fourth term as state railroad commits |
sioner. He is now chairman OF the board |
and is a veteran member. having first |
been appointed by Governor Shaw. He
was formerly a member of the state SEN
ate for two terms and before that county |
auditor for two terms, so that he has had
practically continuous service OF the pub
lie for thirty-four years. The fact that
Clifford Thorne, attorney, has come out as
candidate and lives in the same town
may complicate matters.
The most important case filed with the
Board Of Railroad Commissioners for the
week ending January 2S was the petition
Of the Iowa Commercial Coal Dealers as
ISOLATION by ]. E. Trotter, secretary, re-
questing a revision of the soft coal rates
in Iowa. There has not been, since the
coal rates in Iowa were fixed by the COM
mission, up to this time any request for
a reduction in said rates. In 1892 and again
in 1894 the railroad companies requested an
advance in the Iowa coal rates, stating
as reason that such rates were unrea-
sonably low as compared with other coal
rates in this territory and that they were
unremunerative, which requests, after ex-
tended hearings, the board denied. Pub
lie hearing upon this question will be had
in the office of the railroad commissioners
at Des Moines on March 9.
Aside from the coal case there were
thirty-seven other cases filed with the
board during the week. Fourteen Of these
cases were for failure to deliver coal
eleven for failure to furnish cars for live
stock and grain. shipments, four were in
reference to delay in transit, two relating
to train service, two concerning telephones
in depots, one with reference to minimum
weight on live stock, one concerning sta
ton service, one alleging discrimination IN
freight service and one being a petition
for lower express rates on currency
wilcox Given Place.
Attorney General Byers today appointed
to the position of special counsel in his
office, made vacant by the resignation of
Charles Wilcox, John Fletcher Of Avoca-
He has been in practice ten years AS
special counsel he will take up important
civil matters in which the state is con-
cerned.
Fight Against Tuberculosis.
A working plan of cooperation was
agreed upon today between the depart
ment of the State Board Of Control, hav-
ing charge of tuberculosis, and the State
Board of Health and the veterinary de-
partment, by which there will be con-
certed effort greatly to increase the work
in ending tuberculosis in Iowa. DIR. Whit
aker Of the Department of Agriculture will
be secured for six months work in the
state inarSAcfipp dairy bardo
Resigns from Byers' office.
Charles S. Wilcox, special counsel in
the office of the attorney general re-
signed today and he will return t6 the
private practice of law. He had been
assistant under Attorney General Byers' for
a little more than a year, having charge
of the civil business Of the office
To Finish Out Year. ~ ,-
Judge Howe, who resigned from the, dis
trict bench, will finish out the present
year, though he had planned to quit at
once. The Bar association passed resolu-
tions highly euloglstic of Howe Resolu-
tions of a similar character were also
passed relative to the retirement of E. r.
Mason from the office Of clerk of the
federal court
1t is announced that Judge Roberts Of
O1hNAA"o VIII dlSO T6llle from the district
bench at the end of his present term.
finishing fifteen-year service
Examine Many for Commissions.
General Guy e. Logan today issued an
order for two military boards to meet at
his office February 10 to examine candi-
dates for commissions in the guard, one
board to examine five candidates for sur
geons and the other to examine twenty
fhrea
captains.
Collateral Tax Collections,
State Treasurer Morrow reports co,ia--
ton of collateral inheritance tax in Iowa
for the present month to be S2O,25l.95
from thirty-nine separate estates
Requisition was issued today for return
to Iowa from Michigan Of Robert Payn
and Edward Haggerty, both wanted in
kossuth county for manipulating an
alleged forged check.
Charge of Determination.
The railroad commission has been asked
to investigate a case of alleged dis
elimination in the matter of switching
charges between Des Moines coal mines
and Valley Junction, the charge having
been raised to IS for a little less than
two and one-half miles for one car. 1t is
stated that there is discrimination shown
Wants Reports on Enforcement.
Attorney General Byers is asking the
county attorneys to make the reports
contemplated under a new law in regard
to the extent OF enforcement of the laws
in various counties. He desires reports
as to saloons, gambling houses and
similar places, and also asks for recon-
mendations as to the law and what
changes could be made to advantage.
Wants Telephone Control.
Governor Carroll, in an address at
farmers institute at Mason City, reverted
to the subject Of commission to have
special charge OF the corporations of the
state and indicated that he would renew
his recommendations. He referred to the
g. 900 telephone systems in the state and of
the certainty Of much merging and con-
sol!dation, but all this without regulation
and control. Adequate laws are needed