Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - April 3, 1906, Waterloo, Iowa BONA OF ANY PAPER IN WATERLOO Chicago April fair tonight and cooler FIFTEENTH WATERLOO IOWA TUESDAY EVENING APE 11 NO 4775 LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDINGS Sharp Skirmishing on the Long and Short Haul Warm Fight Developed Franchises Wise of Black Hawk Lined Up Against the DCS town April history was at tension yesterday I'll child labor hills bones nl contention for through as without enough opposition 10 raise ripple on the that had scaled upon he solonK Oil was ed the to make all ephone franchises ed inul the and short haul was passed lailer was productive of a it od skirmish that threatened for a lime the proportions of an all along the line The representatives of the steam railroads were backing it and had cleverly in- the leader or the Cummins faction Senator Smith into fathering the measure It went through the senate like proverbial greased ni UK it was about through Hie house in the same manner when the representatives of tin electric in- railways discovered thai it was Ina ded and the load was intended for A dozen of them swooped down upon senators and representatives and demanded an ion is is intended to permit the steam railroads to drive us out of they explained If it be- comes a law it will retard if not prevent fun her development of systems Under the ent law the steam railroads cannot cut their or freight rates 10 meet our competition unless they cut their rates all over the state ing every locality the benefit of the rale even if they are not points at which there is tion This is clearly designed to permit them to meet our rate where we into competition and hold up their rates elsewhere at the same lime The Island might for example cut its rales in two to meet I lie interurban competition between Dos Mollies and without be- ing compelled to give a few miles beyond the benefit of the reduction The steam railroad lobby tried at first to save the and took the ground that the ought to he will ill's to compete on equal grounds They thought existing con- ditions unfair They explained ever thai this was purely incidental to the proposed legislation and that what they really sought to accomplish was to enable rival si on in roads to charge the same rates between com- points the longer line being to meet rale of the shorter The lobbyists contended thai if this were true the steam road lobbyists should consent to have the amended so as to apply only In sleam railroads The latter ror consented Senator Smith accordingly secured the recall of his from the house the senate amended it in this manner and the house then took it up wiihoni sition The was a special der for the house at 1 o'clock was anticipated that the standpat forces would make an effort to heat it Instead they accepted it without finest ion and it was passed in short order the only changes from the inal being that it becomes effective July instead of and in- cludes federal officials in its scope der to publish the names of Hie house members who thus went on Healer of Cedar Rapids Freeman of Council Frudden of Dubuque of Verne Temple of ola and Wise of Cedar Falls wero the immortal seven Indications at this time are that the base ball is dead be- yond all possibility of recall and that the hill closing Sunday theaters will meet a similar fate at the hands of the sifting committee The appropriations for the state Institutions were adopted in the house yesterday after considerable wrangling on the part of those who had been angered by their attitude toward the board of control and sought to have the appropriations re- A last effort was made to revive Uie state marshal yesterday ity of the appropriations committee making a report in favor of the The radical members ported the minority hat I hey were overwhelmingly The rival camps of or temperance workers were divided as to merit of this measure The senate providing for the publishing of a roster of all soldiers sailors and marines living in Iowa was killed by the bouse It had ed the senate unanimously of funds resulted in this action In the hope of adding a year to the revenues of the state the senate committee on ways and means is considering a which would re- quire every corporation doing business in Iowa to make a comprehensive re- port of its condition to the secretary of state each year to pay an an- fee of from to to the capital stock Two bills were taken up yesterday that not disposed of One ed to tbt right of women to vote for presidential electors and the other proposed to permit cities at their op- tion to omit party names from cipal ballots hills were after some discussion and made special orders for today are that the pardons committee will decline to grant any relief to and Smith the derers who are sentenced to be ed April 20 and that the executions the first in eleven years in this state will take place according to schedule one in each penitentiary GRAVE CHARGES AGAINST Claimed that He Favored amy In His Teachings Formal Charge May Be Preferred Against First Wife and Child Bitter Against Husband and Father NASHUA YOUNG A Charge of Rape Brought By Former School Teacher Fellow Claims the Girl Willingly Came to His Room Tho child labor was modified by joint conference committee after I wo weeks labor and passed both bruises without serious opposition The vole in the house was 01 to ij In the original il prohibited the employment of children under toen with or without compensation anywhere during the lime school was in session The as amended and passed was not so does not keep farm boys from working during school so long as they attend school the prescribed number months a year and specifically prohibits their employment as elevator boys In tories places where power is used such as mines and or in cantile establishments wherein more than eishi persons are employed This is aimed at depart men t stores The especially permits ment of children in mini in ft factories providing they are used in busking sheds or oilier places where here is no machinery The amended requires tfi post in a place i be and of I children employes The original was more drast ic The proposal to make all telephone franchises permanent was in in- of the Independent Un- der the existing law all phones have perpetual in cities which such franchise prior to H was lo give the dents an eiiual chance tho hill was introduced It opposed on the ground that il would simply work additional injustice The senate Killed ll and Instead a ibai Kelt franchise lines only already MI use and requires a now franchise In order lo extend their lines iu any city in which I hoy already have franchises Thin law also plies lo independent phones but in meets the greater part of the In view of fact that it brave man to vote against the under Ing conditions it may not be out of Iowa April Special A sensation was created here Saturday which involves a young woman a for- mer rural teacher in this county and a young man from and has caused considerable comment and dis- cussion tipon our streets A fiance was given hero Friday evening to which both these young people were present and after its close several of the young people went to DeNoyelles hotel and among them were the mentioned couple The young man took a room and it seems that soon afterwards ths night clerk had reason to suppose that he was not occupying it alone Acting upon his convictions he went lo the room and insisted the door being opened and in a short time it was and as he had supposed the young woman was also in the room They left the hotel together On Saturday the affair was made lic by the young woman's causing the arrest of tho young man charging him with having committed rape A pre- liminary hearing was given Saturday afternoon tho young man claiming that the young woman willingly came to Ills room The girl claims that the young man threatened her by drawing a revolver upon her However no disturbance was made at the time Tho case will be tried this morning and considerable interest is manifested however it is thought by some that the case will brought to trial after county attorney arrives A reliable young man at this place went the fellow's bail but later that lie had loaded up on booze instead of returning to his home that evening he asked to and that the Waverly man be put in Tlis er was communicated wilh and agreed to be responsible for the boy's bail and he was released by II O Potter going his bonds That same morning after dance a young girl who has been on friendly terms with the other young woman was found in one of the other rooms and as she said upon being Waiting for someone after being discovered she left the house and later was seen to hoard the early morning train with an Osage man and go north Her be- came acquainted with the fact ami feel very badly over her bad behavior which however is not the first time that she has brought sorrow to their hearts Chicago April of the last vestige of spiritual and temporal authority penniless in Mexico and broken in mind and body John Alexander Dowie is now wilh grave charges ing with his private character The prophet who had ruled Zion City and people with an iron hand was silent yesterday so far as his people heard No word came to Zion from tho village where ho is trying to mend his shattered health A message may como today but its purport can have no weight His elders and deputies united yesterday to drive him from power to take over legally the property of Zion and last of all to warn that any sign of resistance ou his part would result in exposure of crets of his private life In these actions not only the ers and the host of followers join bul Mrs Dowie and Gladstone Dowie i horn selves ing Confirms Action A of tho in tho Shiloh temple last night was con- of the sentiment expressed Sunday evening and throughout terday All are agreed that Dowie lias run his race Tho leaders asserted that the old man would be cared for until the end of his modestly a ward of the church and not us its leader During the afternoon the name of famous bold signature John torn from all the dead walls of Zion City was not done so much with a purpose of showing spite against the Elijah as to protect the from legal tangles that might follow an effort on part rehabilitate himself in power to Charges The charges dealing with private life are being held over head by Voliva and other leaders am will be made public if Dowie to accept quietly his repudiation his The charges are being prepared by Voliva together witl Overseers H D Bracefield 1 G and H E Cant well will be based on certain made to them by Mrs Jane and Gladstone Dowie the son The least of these charges it was learned will be that dealing with pri vate advocacy of polygamy His re lations and would-be relations witl other women than his wife according to open tall at Zion will be revealed There will be exposures of his man ner of initiating women into hi church Gladstone yesterday said that th charges if it came to a last resort would appear over the signatures o his mother and himself He not give the details but he said they would be sensational The names of several women have been linked wilh The woman whom Mrs Dowie most objected to was Ruth Hofer tho Swiss heiress who came lo ica and to Zion in 1 0.0 I Agnes ro the Scotch singer was another woman of whom Mrs Dowie was jealous Mrs Emily Ware and her daughter have been mentioned in connection with Dowie but Gladstone said that they were entirely innocent There is no desire on the part of Dowie her son or Voliva to scandalize the name of the deposed loader but tho charges will bo made it is said and substantiated if fights Xo Furt her Word From Xo message was received from Dowie during I ho day This lack was explained by the remoteness of the small mountain town where he is staying He is away from ic communication His letter which ho sent with his famous telegram is expected to arrive on Thursday or Friday by special and was willing to pay 00 for tho privilege A famous whom he met at tho Hotel ceil suggested that MISK interest Karl Spencer Karl proposed to the king that an be granted to Dowie but he king Miss ver received as her fee for ig Karl Spencer according to lie report In addition gave er a harp it IK asserted in with an appropriate verse Mizpah There was a good eal of talk at the Motel Cecil about liss Munro and Dowie As to advocacy of my now that the ban of silence has ecu lifted it is said that he argued I in season and out of season to of the church to his and on and to every one he came in with His arguments were a of his own ideas with those f Mohammedan and Mormon law Ivors His initial argument always that everybody should have as children as possible This ar- gument used with young married it is said was sometimes at ariance wilh the of iage as usually understood THE CHASSELL MILEAGE House Passes It After a Sharp Fight Today RESULTS OF THE ELECTION It Is Believed the Democrats Won Constitutional in Russia Counting of the Ballots Is Now In Progress General Political Amnesty Decree Expected at Easter Wise of Black Hawk Led the way Opposition job themselves It Is disguises were given rebates an age claims readjustment of revenue overcharge returns and the like The funeral of Mrs O Harrle was held this afternoon tit 1 o'clock from the home of the deceased and at from the Walnut street tist church the Ladies of the attending the funeral In a body was at terv James T Duncan and Leon Lewis organist and concert tenor are In the oily and have been asked to give concert at Crace M 10 church on Wednesday evening of this week These gentlemen grtve a conn Saturday night dar Tl in Appropriation for State tion Hospital In Prospect Dcs Moines la April Chassell family mileage passed the house this morning de- spite the strenuous opposition of the railway lobby wilh but fifteen ing votes Twenty other members had promised to vote against it if were apparent they could thereby de- feat it Seeing they could not pre- vent passage of the hill the railroad representatives advised them that it would do no harm for them to vote for the and thus estrange none of their constituents The railroad then transferred the field of endeavor to the senate Chairman Wise of com- made a fight against the The senate killed the appropriation for a steel grand stand at the fair grounds but appropriated lifty and dollars to complete state building The understanding is it will also pass the for a con- sumption hospital The senate passed the each for the rescue home and the House of the flood Shepherd ami a similar for three similar institutions at Sioux City and three times as much for the Benedict Home at Des Moines conditioned that the amount shall be available in lesser sums scattered over a period of four years and thereafter lue legislature shall no lunger for such institutions Preside ill's Secretary Thrown orso Last f Associated Washington April thun Loeb Jr secretary If the dent was thrown from a horse evening while riding and so shaken up to be unable lo he at singer the Mouse today No botins with were Most of the charitable persons at City say that Dowie only paid a hit more than the proper attention to Miss Hofer She and the apostle first became acquainted in 1000 Dowie met her again in on his trip abroad At that time she companied him and Mrs Dowie back to Zion City She was reported at that time to be worth a million and likely to endow the community She entered Zion college but never ied much She was young and at- tractive Mrs and her daughter riet came lo Zion City two years ago from York Tho daughter is 25 and Mrs Ware is 15 years old Mrs Ware was assistant editor of the Leaves of Healing and her daughter was the star in the choir Mrs Ware complained of ment of herself and her daughter and was excommunicated by who first forced her to deny that he had Insulted her or her daughter Mrs Ware Is now writing a book on Dowie that will with his alleged secret teachings of polygamy Met in Curious Way last met Agnes iu in She was a famous Dowie became hor in a curious way I n L I he at to moot King Invitation lo President fBy Associated 1 M nines Iowa April today forwarded to President an invitation to come to owa in 1000 to attend the convention of Philippine Veterans MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS L Heavy Vote Registered in cago Today Other Contests Associated Chicago April Mild ike weather existed today while ing for and municipal was iu progress A heavy vote was registered early Municipal tions are also in progress at Kansas City St Joseph Mo Milwaukee and Superior Wis in St Petersburg St Petersburg April was parent late yesterday afternoon that the constitutional democrats wero tined to scoro a decisive victory in the elections to the municipal convention here and which in turn will elect six members to the lower house of parliament Their organization is in- finitely superior to that of the so-called Block ticker or of candidates supported by the economists law and order and trade and industries whose failure lo publish the names of their ultimate candidates for election to parliament has created mistrust in the minds of the voters Many leading the strongest faction In the block openly boast of bolting the ticket and voting for constitutional democrats on count of their distrust of their con- allies Prof Paul JU koff the leader of the constitutional democrats told Associated last night that his party had carried every ward of the city with tho ble exception of the admiralty quarter the residence section of and members of high society Not a single instance of disorder has been reported The edition of tho HUBS published yesterday was confiscated by the lice owing to the publication of a sacreligious of the Lenten prayers written by M the famous who was ex- to Siberia in owing to his publication of a pamphlet reflecting on the imperial family and who was subsequently amnestied A General Amnesty St Petersburg April is mored that Emperor Nicholas Raster gift to his people will be a tion granting general amnesty to prisoners In the midst of the present repression however it is to understand how it is possible to open the doors of the prisons -An Machine Turkestan time infernal machine was exploded yesterday iu the vestibule of the ernor general's residence shattering part of tho wall and blowing a gun which was mounted on out side of the flit ranee across the street but injuring no one Considering the fact that of the voters exercised the right of citizenship for the first time In their lives there was little confusion The great majority appeared with their ballots already prepared at home ply presented their certificates ling them to vote and dropped their ballots into the sealed boxes Great precautions were taken to disorders and possible bomb throwing A cordon of police rounded each polling place and no one without a certificate was permitted to outer Not a single instance of der has been reported At several polling places peasants attired in old Russian costumes costed voters and pleaded with them to the accompaniment of many signs of the cross not to turn out the em- Vote for and or was the burden of their appeal The general impression was that they were stage peasants picketed rtt the polls to influence the lower classes in favor of the conservatives The exact resuli is not definitely known electoral commissioners with Russian unconcern having sealed up the ballots and the count until today A sweeping victory for the constitutional democrats is however generally con- ceded INSURANCE CONVENTION Third District Congressional Com- Meets Here Today Decides to Hold Next Convention in Waterloo May 3 Early Date Was Favored by of the Committeemen Albany N V first of the ten bills proposed by the special investigating committee as the result of its investigation of life conditions is now a law Governor has his signature lo tho hill which postpones until Nov 15 the annual elections of tho four purely mutual lifo insurance companies in- under tho laws of this slate It does affect Life Assurance society which is a stock company One of most important effects of tho act is that it invalidates every proxy hitherto secured whether by the companies themselves by Thomas of Boston or any one elso Jury Instructed New York April at the impaneling of the April grand jury in the court of general session instructed the jury to up ance matters Recorder Goff in charging the jury said that tho insurance matters hart been culled to his attention by Judge Sullivan who presided tho March grand jury He said it to him that the March graild jury had been properly instructed by both Judge O'Sullivan and District Attorney ome that there was reasonable ground for the belief that there is available evidence showing that crime had been committed in the insurance matter instructed tho grand jury hat it powers mailer as it saw fir republican congressional com- of the Third district met at tho Irving house this afternoon for tho purpose of fixing the time and of holding the next congressional con- vention All members of tho tee wero present at the meeting which was harmonious short and to tho point The committee Is composed the Georgo Wright chairman Eaglo Grove T secretary Hampton S Morgan M Thompson Independence Van LaPorle W Tyrrell Waverly Frank o J Furry Alden to act in tho J K A C C M II J Manchester After a brief conference elded to hold the next convention Waterloo May at eleven o'clock iu in Other cities made bids for tlie con- vention but on of UK location and tho easy access by way Waterloo was chosen by mous vote when it came to a decision There are 158 delegates in the Third district convention apportioned as lows among the nine counties ing tho Black Hawk Brenner Buchanan Butler quo Franklin Wright 27 15 27 15 PEOPLE VOTE NO CHANGE Result of Special School Election Just Made Known Butler County People May Into Deep Water Get Total A feature of the present al committee is the fact that out nine members of the committee of them are newspaper men Messrs Kami Purcell Tyrrell Furry and gan being engaged In that line of ness T H Leavitt arid Attorney J TO Williams of this city met with committee and assured a proper re- ception of the convention In this city in May and would be properly entertained and tho convention made as enthusiastic us r possible n A Loss of York Today fRy Associated Buffalo Y April Tire day destroyed the lOvening Times building Tho loss is fully insured CASKS TO Indiana's Convicted Auditor Mis Long Term Associated Indianapolis hid April David 13 auditor of state con- of embezzlement and sentenced to 21 years in prison was taken to Michigan City this afternoon A Fanner Suicides Rapids Iowa April Schenken a farmer suicided by ing today Xo cause for act Is known A Parkerslv.trg man was in the city today searching for his son about leen years of age who has ed from He made a search hero with but failed to any trace of him Indictments by tho Federal lury at York York X April is learned al the federal building but it was not announced that In- dict hail been found against ho New York Central anil Hudson River railroad ami the American Sugar company for to give company rebates in various forms on all its through west hound freight individuals so far have been indicted The federal grand jury It is ed found tho indictments time ago all hough have not been for- mally handed down They will con- their deliberations today and will then RO into the transactions be- tween the trust and eleven other roads named in the complaint filed by William U Hearst at Washington These proceedings it Is said will lead to indictments against other roads The Xew York Central railroad was accused with other roads of giving the American Sugar company rebates of from 7 to I per cent on its through west bound tonnage This amounted to from Li lo cents per pounds to Chicago The rebates were paid it is charged in the form of and trucking to J F superintendent of American Sugar company's eries In although fiO per cent of Die sugar was dumped directly in Die company's refineries Oilier forms of rebates taken wore charges paid to Knwell M mer The although paying the trusts for the lighterage did the Allison lown April The county board of supervisors terday canvassed the ballots at a recent special election lo determine whether there should be a In texi books In Butler county and whether county uniformity should be destroyed and Kive place to and district uniformity The lust proposition was lost and on the for- mer there were voles cast of which were for no change ami for a change The special election was the out- oC dissatisfaction on part of the representatives of the can Hook company and some of the public who thought expense of a change in texts would he too great to justify it II will remembered that the county board of education last winter awarded contracts for the ply of about three-fourths of iho hooks for the next five year period to The American Rook Co had been providing nearly that centage of the texts the live years and the awarding of the tracts lo t o makes il sary far many of the parents lo get new books for heir children The of the American Rook Co it is said went quietly the ple and Issued notices for a special election at which the patrons of the schools were lo register their wishes as to whether they desired a change in texts or not The county tendent who Is a member of tho county board of education claims that the election was not legal as no- tices were not properly issued The effect of votes of the rons of schools of the county as shown by vote which was yesterday would on the face of it appear to abrogate and annul the awarding of the contracts for books Just what result of tills situation will he can only he at Some have that it will mean the precipitation oil one of the legal battles in this part of the country Tt is pointed out that Jinn attorneys will con- tend that the county hoard of tion had full power and right lo say what texts would be used that no subsequent vote of th people could overturn this Tin other baud The American Book will contend that the people are sovereign and their wishes must obeyed The public ns shown by the vote is ed and the end certainly Is not yet Developments will be watched with Interest Decision Washington D C April the of Aguedo de la Rama vs do la Rama the action of the supreme court of the Philippine Islands was reversed This was an tlon for divorce ami alimony ed by de la Rama against her husband on charges of infidelity The Philippine courts decided neither entitled to a divorce and the wife brought the ease to tills court The Important question decided was that of jurisdiction Justice Brown who delivered the opinion of tho court admitted that to he a delicate point but held that as he property involved In the case exceeded in value court is justified In con- Hie question Justices White Holmes and ed The case of the stale of Wisconsin vs Secretary Hitchcock involving the claim of the national government to dispose of the school sections in tho La Pointe Indian reservation in consin was decided by the supreme court In favor of the government The opinion was by Justice and dismissed the application for a writ of enjoinder Tho case involves acres of land valued at Withdrew Hond Associated Rock Island III April adoption by tho city council last night of a repudiating the act of mayor O tu tearing up railroad tracks two bondsmen of the mayor today withdrew their names from bond Tho Tide of at he opera house tonight 10 20 and 30 cents Tho Deposit your savings in a Savings Bank Waterloo Savings only Bank on west side Have You XP Wall Papers At HENDERSONS Don't give up in despair because you can't find what you want for your parlor per but look at the new terns for 1906 that we have in stock Papers you can't buy elsewhere and patterns that were selected to please you HENDERSONS
