Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-15
WATSON WILL CASE SETTLED
Young Man Now Serving in the Philippines
Left Without Cent,
ESTATE GOES TO COLLATERAL HEIRS
Former Candidate for Governor on
the Prohibition Ticket Lnnguishes
In Jail-Report of state
Dairy Commissioners.

court today The decision affirms a
! judgment against an alleged ilegtimate
son, who claimed an interest in the estate
Of S27O, 600 left by Mott Watson, who died
in August 1895. The Watson case attracted
state wide attention when 1t was tried in the
| district court. 1t is doubtful IL such an
array OF legal talent was ever made in any
| other case in Iowa as that which contested
for and against the rights Of this alleged
ilegtimate child, who is at present serv-
ing as captain in the Twentieth Kansas
regiment and doing good work as a soldier.
The contract between him and his attorneys
was a bonus OF $15O,0OO should the estate of
$4,000 be won. Now that 1t has gone
against him there will be an individual loss
Of thousands of dollars which have been
spent by his attorneys. According to the
decision the estate goes entirely to collateral
heirs.
The days decisions were; Leslie c.
Watson against Richardson ct al, appellees,
ana a6G GGie9rEe Nilss Watson appellant Jack
lin district, affirmed; o. II. Johnson ct al,
appEeliasnts,, against James singleton, Keo;
Marshall, Keokdk dytrict dismissed; ;
Walter A. Wood Harvester company, ap-
pellants, against c. Aultman & Co and
the Aultman Company. Franklin district,
affirmed
Prohibitionist In Jail.
Elias Doty, once candidate for the office
OF governor of the state OF Iowa on the
prohibitonist ticket, now languishes behind
the bars Of the county Jail in this city.
1t seems from the evidence that Doty con-
Quoted photograph gallery in Linn county,
this state He claims that two women
entered his place of business and asked that
their photographs be taken. After he had
l Rnic nod %A,,,
pictures be taken when nude. He complied
with the request. 1t is charged that after
wards he sold their photographs for 25 cents
! each and that one OF the sales took place
within the walls OF the courthouse OF the
county of Linn. The district court found
him guilty of selling obscene literature. He
carried the case to the supreme court and
that body affirmed the decision of the lower
court. Doty, not satisfied with this judg-
ment, filed petition for a rehearing. This
argument was saturated with insulting lam
guage toward the court. AS a result Doty
was commanded to appear before the SUI
A preme court October IA. Sheriff Stout went
A to Cedar Rapids and brought Doty here
Yesterday he made his appearance before
! the court, but Judgment was deferred until
II this morning. Sheriff Stout was sum.
\ moned by the chief justice and upon the
formers arrival sentence of $50 fine or fir.
4 teen days in Jail was rendered against Doty
Being unable to pay his fine or refusing /
is not known which, Doty was placed in Jail
\ State Dairy Commissioner Norton filed his
! thirteenth annual report with the governor
this morning. 1t shows prosperity in The
dairy interests throughout the state and il
\ filled with statistics of interest to dairymen
The report includes several articles, de.
I nouncing such dairy fakes as the tin car
n separator, butter increases and preservatiye,
for milk and cream. The commissioner an
1 peals to the dairymen to work for tn,
\ passage of national legislation that will keel
4 all oleomargarine off the market excep
4 when labeled for what it is The repor
Shows the following comparative figures 70
I the past two years:
Average price of butter per pound, 1898
\ 1871; 1899, .2064; number OF creameries
4 1898, 1893; 1899, 779; number of cheese fac
\ tories, 1898, 81; 1899, 50; average value O
4 creameres, 1898. s3,O24; 1899, s3,145; nun
\ Der of pounds of butter made 1898, ST 56S
4 Gil; 1899, S7,S59,540; consumed in lowe
\ 1898, 6,7 per cent; 1899, 10 per cent; pound
4 of butter per COW, 1898, 139 1899, 140.
Word from the Transport
A special from San Francisco says: 9TH
4 chief of transportation, in the quarter
masters department in this city, receive
4 this morning a cablegram from Yokoham
1 with regard to certain supplies to be fur
nished transports which may arrive at tha
I port in the future Appended to the cable
/ gram was the announcement that the low
1 troops on board the Senator departed froI
4 Yokohama on October T. This was a de
cided surprise to all concerned and eve
I to the government officials. The Senate
was supposed to have left on the straigf
stretch for home on October 2 or at tt
/ latest. The quartermaster says that IL tt
l Senator had the best of luck and did NJ
l meet any storms or bad weather on II
| homeward journey that it could not arri,
earlier than the 23rd Fifteen days has bee
the quickest that the trip from Yokohan
has been made by a government transpor
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