Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-06-15

IL Ii reported that Thomas Burger
and william Hanson, who live on 4
farm near Dies Moines, purchased thres
|buffaloes, ! bull, - COW. and . cali
for which they paid u, 600. The an ~
mails were raised 1t Cochranc, Wis. by
: Arm that makes business Ct that
industry. The new owners expect g
engage In the same business. II VII VII
pay them, undoubtedly, IS the supply
Is quite limited and the demand good,
The twenty-sixth annual encamp'
ment 81 the, Grand Army Of the Repub.
lie, department Of Iowa, recently held
= meeting At Davenport, had ], 2oo
soldiersiin the parade. The following
officers were elected: Commander, n.
b. Davis, OF Sioux City: senior vice
commander, I. e. McCardy iHazelton;
Junior vice commander, Lawrence
{ Schoonover, Anamosa: medical direc-
tor, 4. D. Mccoy, Algona; chaplain,
Rev. p. j. West. Magnolia. The mex
encampment will be held at Dubuque.
Congressman w. P. Hepburn was re-
nominated by reclamation by the
Eighth congressional district republi-
can convention, held at Creston. Com
plete harmony was the special feature.
The convention resolutions unqnal-
iiedly endorse the administrations OF
President Mckinley and Governor
Shaw, recognize the merit and ability
OF Allison, Gear and Hepburn, and
hope that Deliver will be McKinley's
running mate. closing with an enlo-
CYSTIC tribute for Colonel Hepburn and
the Nicaraguan canal measure.
Charles Rinehart, of Odebolt, who
recently murdered his wife of two
months and then tried to kill himself,
finally succeeded in taking his life,
cutting his throat with a razor. The
deed was committed in his own home.
The nurse and w. c. Arthur, who were
attending him, had gone to breakfast.
Rinehart had been left in charge of
Constable Barley, who stepped out OF
the house for moment, leaving Rine-
hart alone Although suffering from
two bullet wounds inflicted by his own
hands, he had strength enough to run
up stairs, unlock a trunk and take
razor therefrom, with which he severed
his jugular vein with one sweep. He
died in q few moments.
Attorney General Remley, in an
opinion transmitted to the state aud
itor. holds that insurance companies
must maintain the legal reserve with
the auditor in the form of fully valid
securities. They cannot lawfully
withdraw securities on reinsurance
and they cannot maintain securities at
the auditors office which have been
partially or in whole liquidated. It
has been the custom OF some COM
panies, it is said, to receive payments
on notes and mortgages in the posses
sion Of the auditor. maintaining the
full face OF the paper in claiming see
entities on deposit. The attorney
general says that II is an illegal way
to do business and that persons paying
on notes not in the possession OF the
company lay themselves liable to col.
lection second time by the state for
the protection Of policy holders, iftllat
course becomes necessary. The opin-
ion is of vast Importance to every in
surance company OF this character.
Organizing and running . theatre
cal syndicate proved costly experi-
ment to Samuel Pickett Of Sioux City,
who was sentenced by Judge Oliver
P. Shiras OF the federal court to one
year and one day in the Anamosa peni-
Tertiary. The charge against Pick
kett was fraudulent use of the malls,
He was the organizer of a theatrical
trust which operated in Iowa, Mime
sofa, Nebraska and the Dalxotas and
did big business during its
brief life. The headquarters were in
Sioux City: Pickett appointed agents
in small towns, who were to have
charge Of shows and to be remuner-
ated in commissions on the net box Of
fee receipts The scheme worked
like q get-rich-quick concern and
agents were secured galore. Pickett
required bond as evidence of good
faith, but as bond was cumbrous,,
he later required casl, deposit. He
garnered a harvest of gold from un-
suspecting people, but the shows
failed to appear, the cash deposits to
reappear and the federal officers