Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-08-31

Remember Angels Comedians will
be at the Opera House all next week
Watch for further notices of this first
class company In our future issues.
Fred Erler, wife and daughter re.
turned Friday from an overland trip
to Plymouth, Iowa, visiting there and
intermediate points. They were in
Alta Vista the morning after the re-
cent railway collision, before the
wreckage had been cleared away and
report it a bad smash up.
The Catholic order of Foresters
held their State court at Cedar Rapids
last week, and from what the Cedar
Rapids Gazette says OF Its doings, it
was brilliant affair in music and
oratory. John M. Cannon, of this
place, made happy and felicitous
response upon the call of the toast
master of the occasion. He also de-
livered the principal oration, his
mastery production in Eulogy of
Gladstone for his defense of the right
of home rule for the people of Ireland.
The address appears in full in the
Gazette, and in the near future we
may give it to the readers of the
PLAIN DEALER. 1t will be fresh, new
and good at any time. 1t is one of
those rare productions that will ever
be fresh it the love of civil and re-
ligious freedom remains factor in
the worlds progress and civilization.
At an examination before Judge
Fellows held in bank at Decorah
for the purpose of discovering
property supposed to belong to the
estate of his uncle, DR.. +. w. Daubney
testified to having $1,000 in money
which his uncle as gift previous to
his death in September last, gave to
him as his favorite nephew. Four
months after this, according to the
Republican, assessor McMasters called
upon him to give in his property for
assessment and taxation. And the Re-
publican says this is what the assess
ment list show:
horses, valued at .$24
8 vehicles (his buggies) valued at ......... $50
Taxable house hold furniture. e...............s $40
Total Of all personal property $4
If Mr.. Daubney owned this $1,000
at that time and failed to have it listed
he in swearing to his property as all
he owned of personality, was guilty of
perjury. If he would swear falsely to
avoid the payment of taxes on his
$1,000 claimed as a gilt from his
uncle, he would swear falsely before
the court to retain its possession. But
if when the assessor called upon him
he had lurking suspicion that the
~ 900 belonged to the estate of his
deceased uncle, it was duty enjoined
upon him by law, to have had itlisted
for assessment and taxation. If that
$1,000 belongs to the estate and not
to DR.. F. w. Daubney, then he adds
theft, robbery of the estate, to tie
crime of perjury. Whether it belongs
to him or to the estate, withholding it
from assessment is robbing the state,
the county, the public schools of the
just proportion of taxes it should pay
and imposing its burden upon the
farmers and taxpayers whose property,
land and cattle is of such nature
that it is found and assessed. The
question as to the rightful ownership
and possession of this 81 900 has not
been settled by the examination had
before Judge Fellows who in his de-
cision said: '.There is in these pro-
ceedings no adjudication of the case as
between the parties" Do the farm
ers. the honest taxpayers of this dis
trict; of Howard county, desire such a
man to be their Senator?