Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-02-08
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and sth was very severe in Iowa, the
| mercury going down as far as 80 below
in places.
1t is announced that the $40, 900 stake
for a:3o trotters, and $1,000 stake for
a:25 PAGERS, offered by the Horse
Review, to be contested for in June,
1895, will be made part Of the program
OF the meeting at Red Oak, the associa-
ton there having secured them by
making the highest bid. The entries
to the stake will close March l.
A few days ago j. G. ietzer,
president, Isaac Dickerson, vice-pres-
ident, and DIR. n Richards and DR.. G.
$. Montgomery, directors of the Cass
County Bank, We're re-arrested on in
dictments returned by the grand jury.
Each gave bond for 81, 900 A rumor is
current that indictments for conspir-
acy to defraud have been made by the
grand jury against all of the officials
of the bank, but nothing can be learned
about the matter at present. An action
asking that the court fix the liabilities
of the stockholders is now being heard
by Judge Smith. The decision of this
action will decide multitude of
attachment eases on property of stock
holders attached by creditors of the
bank who feared other disposition of
property by stockholders pending a
decision regarding their individual
liability.
The trial of John krewson, Allen
Newport and S. E. Lusha, charged
with counterfeiting, was concluded in
the federal court at keoliuk, the
jury returning a verdict convicting
Lusha and Krewson and acquitting
Newport, who is a country lad. while
Lusha and Krewson are old offenders.
They counterfeited silver and nickel
coin at Ft. Madison. The jury was
remarkable in the character of its COM
ponents, the foreman being Henry G.
Husskamp, the wealthy shoe manufac- !
turer, this being his first jury duty.
Among the jurors were Alias Wheber
the wholesale hardware man, and R.
b. King, the dry goods merchant. S.
V. Sampson, the Agency druggist and
pillar of the church, was fined 5000
and costs, amounting to about $500,
and sentenced to sixty days in jail for
bootlegging.
Sioux City dispatch: The county at
torney and the legal representatives of
the Farmers Loan and Trust Company
have failed to agree on the stipulation
for the dismissal of the county warrant
suits, and it is possible the entire
litigation will be reopened. The
county board and the officers of the
trust company agreed, as they sup
posed. on all the details of stipula-
trust company agreed to release the
county from liability of $1O,O 900 of the
warrants it held in consideration of (;
the payment of the rest. In preparing
the stipulation, the trust company
declines to give up the right to sue the
county officers who were responsible |
for issuing the illegal warrants. The
vhole litigation may have to be
reopened and suits brought on the |
warrants at great expense to the
county.
The city council of Cedar Rap |
ids has passed resolution direct
ing the mayor and city attorney to i'm
commence legal proceedings
to compel compliance with the laws
of the state in making the assessment
throughout Linn county for 1895 and
to prosecute all assessors who violate
the state law The resolution
further directs the mayor to call the
attention of other cities to this action
of the council and request them to
cooperate by similar action. The reso-
luton was introduced by Mayor
through whose agitation city
taxes are now levied on the cash value
assessment plan. He is DESTROYS that
the same plan be pursued throughout
the entire county, and claims that the
one-third value assessment in vogue
throughout Iowa is wholly void and IL
legal and in direct opposition to
statue. An interesting
and bitter contest is looked for in this
city and county.
A recent official report on the condi-
ton of the Iowa deposit and Loan
Company of Des Moines, by ex-State
Treasurer Beeson and ex-Bank Exam
iner Ntzhugh,, who We're appointed by
the state executive council to examine
the affairs of such institutions. shows
the secretary and manager, DR.. E. c.
5pinney. to be short SIC, 963 30 in his
accounts. Mr.. Spinney exhibits
contract with the directory, made in
1891, .y9hiih entities him to all the pro-
its of the toncern after the expenses
ire paid, and under the terms Of the
contract ne is apparently not behind in
lis accounts The committee declared
jhe contract invalid, asked for the sec
resignation. and in its report
legislation to protect ]
stockholders in such associations. A
part of the shortage is $500, paid to
legislative influences to defeat 1egisla-
ion for protection of stockholders in
building and loan associations.
Charles A. Peterson visited the resi-
ence of his divorced wife, near Vii
isca, and applied for nights lodg-
a