Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-12-26
DIES MONIES DOGS DOOMED
City Physician Orders Them Killed
Because of Prevalence
Of Rabies.
FIVE PERSONS ARE ATTACKED


DIES MONIES, Ia. Dec. 2.-(special |
Telegram.)-The Christmas time proved |
unlucky for a lot OF dogs In Des Moinea |
for the city physician today ordered
general slaughter Of all stray CANNES |
found in the north part OF the city. This |
was because OF the prevalence OF rabies. |
Five different persons have been at |
tackled recently and three persons who |
were bitten by a dog which afterwards |
developed acute rabies are being treated
at the hospital at the University of Iowa.
Must Pay Compensation.
A hearing was held today In the Office
OF Industrial Commissioner Garst on the
Martin Walker case. walker was killed
white working In the Dss MONIES Union
roundhouse some six months aGo. Com
pensAtion has been claimed By relatives
under the workmen's compensation act,
but the railroad takes the position that
It IL not liable under the workmen's COM
pensation act. as II II engaged in inter
state business. This has been the posi-
ton Of railroads in simliar cases hereto
fore. but yesterday II was ruled by the
arbitration committee In the Salvatore
Mole case against the Rock Island that
railroads were liable In non-negiigent
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ton law,
Divorce Makes children Criminals.
Judge c. A. Dudley of the district
court declared In refusing q divorce the
! other day that the divorce courts OF this
country are making criminals by separat-
ing parents whose children are thus do
prived of proper training during the
formative period OF their lives. He scored
the lower courts for their laxity with
reference to divorce matters. Recent
opinions OF the supreme court have. a.
I have read them. been very severe re-
Dukes TO the lower courts OF this state
In granting divorces" said Judge Dud-
ley. I'm fact have sometimes been Of
the opinion in reading the higher courts
rulings that there is no such thing as
securing a divorce through the higher
court. have been sitting in criminal
court for a year and during this time
have had occasion TO consider some di-
vorces and some criminal mattere-mat-
tiers which send people TO Fort Madison
and younger ones to the retormatory at
Anamosa. / have had TO consider cases
involving inebriate husbands and their
children and cases where recruits were
secured for the underworld. ! want to
say that in large per cent OF those
cases where young men were sent to the
reformatory and where young girls had
gone wrong. ] learned they were the
children OF divorced parents."
No Trains, Coal Famine. I
With no trains on the Chicago, Ana
mosa Northern railroad since Novem-
Der 20, and an abandment of the north
ern half OF the line since early in Sep
tember. several of the towns along the
road are suffering for coal. The road
is in the hands OF q receiver. but permits
sion was granted this week to run some
coal trains so that the coal famine could
be relieved. Other business such as
grain and lumber. in these towns, has
been paralyxed and the citizens are pray
ing TO the railway commission for re-
lief. Assistant Commerce Counsel Dwight
Lewis returned yesterday from Dubuque
where an Injunction case IL being heard
In Judge Reeds court In connection with
this road. The injunction was granted
, at the request of q. Il. Farmer, receiver
, for the road. The court, however and
those interested In the road are tryina
: to discover some way in which II maS
be financed and operated. The Meyer
, Brothers Construction company OF Chi
cago is the principal owner OF the road
Towns on the northern half of the road
which have been without train servic,
, since early in September are Quasque
ton' kiene and Robinson. On the south.
ern half Of the road are cogEon. Prairie
burg, Jackson. Chicago & Northwestern
junction and Anamosa. The road Il
thirty-six miles long.
/ The State Normal school Is aow carry
Ing on normal extension work in ninety
five counties OF the state, accordins
, 70 the statement OF President II, IL
seeriey, who was In Des Moines toda
. attending the meeting Of the State Ruard
OF Education More than 1000 teachers
are enrolled In the work and about 10
persons constitute the teaching staff
Glasses are conducted in the smaller
towns Of the county In elementary nor
NAL work for the benefit OF the rural
and small town teachers more especially
: The work was started two years ago b.
: the State Normal. but this last legis
' lature fixed an appropriation for 4
: which has permitted the work to b,
enlarged. President Raymond A. roar.
son OF the Iowa State college at Amei
n told the board that the services OF o
c. simonds as landscape gardener ha.
: been provided for next year through IN,
generosity OF l.. w. Moves OF Chicago
2 an Ames alumnus. This will be the sec
ond year Mr.. smonds has worked a
a Ames under this plan. He is considered
y one OF the foremost landscape artists n
the country and the Ames campus viii
:, be developed into one of the most beau
tiful In the country under his direction
u Il Is believed.