Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-02-16

A head end collision on the Illinois
Central mile west of Manchester OF
two freight trains resulted in big loss
of rolling stock. The tram crews
jumped and thus saved their lives.
The cause was installing an order.
Prof. r.. A. Warwick, of the Garfield
school, at Montezuma, who had occa-
sion to chastise one of his scholars a
few days ago, was arraigned before
Squire Bechley. The court rendered
decision in favor of Mr. Warwick.
John Fisher, Sioux City gambler,
who was shot and instantly killed at
Ell Reno, Oklahoma, a few days ago,
after exchanging nine shots with Har-
ny Dunbar, was fugitive from justice
in Sioux City, for whom the sheriff has
been searching for the past six years.
This is the first known of his where
abouts. His former home was at Fort
Dodge and his brother has gone to
bring the remains of the young man
to his former home. Fisher had been
convicted of robbery and was SEN
fenced to serve two years in the pen
itentiary. The case was appealed but
the lower court was affirmed, and then
Fisher jumped his bond, which had
been signed by his old mother.
Alfred B. Hughes. about 80 years Of
age, enronte from Burlington to Ere
mont, Neb, committed suicide at st.
Bernard's hospital in Council Bluffs by
shooting himself through the head a
few minutes after he had been taken
to the institution by Rev. Father
Smythe, pastor of st. Navier's church.
Hughes got off the train at Council
Bluffs and appealed to the priest for
protection. Father Smy the took him
in carriage to the hospital, intending
to turn the case over to the commits
sioners. The young man, while being
conducted to the insane ward of the
institution by one of the attendants,
suddenly drew revolver from his
overcoat pocket, and before the at
tendant could interfere. sent a bullet
crashing through his brain.
Another murder has been added to
Sioux City's already long list in the
death of Tom Haas from knife wounds
he received at the hands of Elsie Gard
ner, his former mistress Haas and
the Gardner woman became involved
in quarrel in a Third street resort
while getting ready for spaghetti
supper. The woman was under the
influence Of liquor, which so added to
her madness that she cut Haas vicious
" in the abdomen several times with
sharp butcher knife. Haas rushed
from the house upon the street, where
he called for help He was discovered
by hickman and taken to hospital.
where he kept growing weaker until
his death. The Gardner woman was
arrested several hours later She says
she will kill herself if she gets
chance.
A dispatch from Des Moines says: A
body blow was aimed at the building
and loan associations of Iowa in the
introduction by Senator lealy of
measure proposing to regulate the bus
mess of these corporations. The bill
is the outgrowth of the existing senti-
ment that the building and loan bust
ness has much in it's methods savorins
of injustice and bordering on robbery,
and is aimed primarily at the alleged
root of the whole evil, the method OF
making fixed charges to defray the
expenses of these corporations. Itpro-
vides that the expenses of the building
and loan associations must be paid out
of the earnings of the association, strik'
ing out the provision that fixed charges
may be made. The second object OF
the bill is to remove the temptation
for keeping a large number of high
salaried men on the pay rolls of these
associations, by providing that no asso'
citation shall have more than two sal.
aricd officers, neither of which shall
draw more than $4,000 annually.
Judge A. r. Dewey, of the Jasper
county district court has just given an
important decision on section 1874 OF
the code. being the new section relating
to back taxes. Suit was begun against
several parties at Newton by the Iowa
Tax Investigating Company. The de-
PENDANTS filed demurrers, claiming
that the law was unconstitutional and
not retroactive. Counsel on both sides
submitted exhaustive arguments and
the demurrers were overruled by
Judge Dewey, who declares the
law to be both constitutional and
retroactive. Under this decision,
which is the first to be made on the
points involved, taxes may be collected
for five years prior to the demand by
the county treasurer. Many thousands
of dollars will thus be saved to the
state, as the system has been adopted
by many counties throughout the state,
the Iowa Tax Investigating Company
having contracts with a number of
counties.
In the district court of Polk county