Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-05

river fatalities the law department of
the city government has been directed
by the council TO prepare an ordinance
regulating things along the river and il
has been decided that river patrol shall
be established to keep watch on the entire
river front in the city. Children will be
warned to keep away and assistance will
be given where needed.
First Convict Road Camp. =
1t has been decided that the first con-
Wet camp for road work shall begin op!
Grafton at the campus at Ames college
next week when the Board OF Control
will send twenty convicts there from
Anamosa to engage in road work. The
task will take the larger part OF the
summer.
Jones to He Tried In September.
Earle Jones, the Corning music teacher,
went to his home today after brief eN-
perience at the refoTmatory at Anamosa.
He came to the state house in custody
of Deputy Warden Taylor and appeared
before Chief Justice Ladd. A bond signed
at Shenandoah on June 20 arrived at the
same time and the chief justice ordered
Jones release until September %, when
he is to appear and answer in court on
the habeas corpus case involving the reg
ularity of his commitment for abduction
Mr.. Jones stated that he regards his
victory as practically won and he goes
to his home confident that he will not
have TO serve out any more of the time
for which he was committed. The re-
lease was merely formal as following the
granting of the writ a week ago.
Buildings at the Colleges.
Two more building contracts were let
for the state by the educational board
The new brick fireproof home for nurses
at the state university in connection with
the state hospital maintained there will
be built for sS9, $3.50 by w. +. Kucharo &
Co. of Des Moines. A greenhouse to be
erected an a part of the new plant propa-
cation and investigation work at the state
college at Ames viii be built by the Foley
Manufacturing company Of Chicago for
$l2, 1856. These are new buildings to be
erected by the state out OF the proceeds
of millage taxes, which have been so
roundly denounced in recent months in
the political game.
sterilization Law Works Well.
The State Board OF Parole finds that
the heads OF the various state Institutions
where the Iowa sterilization law has been
applied and made use Of are agreed that
excellent results have followed the ap-
plication OF the law in the case OF many
insane persons and others afflicted. The
parole board has Just visited several OF
these institutions and secured reports on
what has been done. At the hospitals
the law has been -pplied as a help in
the medical work and not In any sense
as a punishment Members OF the parole
board are somewhat doubtful az to
whether the decision OF the federal judges
will prevent the application OF the law
to the inmates OF the hospitals, b the
only question considered by the court was
that Of it's relation to prisoners, on which
IT was agreed the law did not apply.
Corporation Reports Coming In.
The secretary OF state has recently sent
out to the $500 live corporations chartered
under Iowa law the blanks on which to
make reports and already many OF the
reports are coming back. Last year there
were about 800 OF the corporations that
failed TO make their reports and pay
the small fee that Is required prior to
August 1. and on these delinquent fees
were collected aggregating about $500
The attorney general has now In his
possession statements as to a number
OF those that have not yet settled and
further delinquent fees will be collected.
Conference with Traffic Men.
| The railroad commission held a confer
ence today with q number OF the traffic
men connected with commercial organiEa-
tions I'm the cities on two subjects. The
! first was whether or not the commission
should continue to secure further data In
regard 10 the movement OF freight traf-
/ fic In Iowa, as divided between the vari-
GUS classes Of freight. The commission
has secured data from the railroads COW
ering a ten-day period The other ques-
ton is whether or not an effort is TO De