Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-02
SINGLE TAX DISCIPLES |
Anew Meet in Des Moines to
Observe Anniversary Of
Single Tax Idea.
Two Women Serving Sentences
for Murder Appeal to the
Supreme Court.
Cummins' First Speech at AT.
lantic September l4-.Daily
After October l.
pecial to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Sept. 2. - The Henry
George school of political economists
held meeting here on Sunday and in a
quiet way celebrated the 62nd anniver-
sary of the birth of the great advocate
of taxation of land to the exclusion of
personally taxation. Their meeting was
held in park and speeches We're made
! by a number of persons, including F. G.
Lockwood, AL Moore, William Morphy
and Judge S. r. Davis. There was mu-
sic and a picnic in connection Herewith.
The Henry George Club has been kept
we'll organized by the few faithful adj
herents here, altho their activity has
not been of the kind that was so con-
spicuous a few years ago when they
were going into the newspapers on
every possible occasion with arguments
and pleadings. 1t has recently been
stated by one close to Governor Leslie
M. Shaw that the governor is single
taxer, and that he is so much taken
with the theory of taxation of these re-
formers that he is almost persuaded to
publicly announce himself as one of the
Henry George followers. However, as
he is candidate for president on the
republican ticket this would not do, and
/ his leaning toward the single-tax idea
will be kept carefully hid from view.
The single-taxers. as they call them
selves, used to carry on one of the most
effective and peculiar campaigns known.
Their work was directed toward inter
esting newspaper editors in their propa-
ganda. Whenever any newspaper con-
tanned an article, either an editorial,
news item or communication. concern
ing the single-tax question. local MEM
bers of the society found out who was
responsible and sent word to single-tax-
ers in distant parts of the country.
These distant members of the society
made 1T point to write personal letters
to the newspaper man and thus seek to
Interest him in the controversy. There
was this constant. exchange OF work
4 among the different societies and every
member was expected on call to become
q letter writer and an advocate of the
/ single-tax idea. And the scheme worked
well.
There is striking similarity in the
| two murder cases in which papers have
just been filed in the supreme court for
appeals. They are the cases of Mrs
Margaret Hossack. from Warren coun-
ty, and Mrs. Sarah Kuhn. from Keokuk
county In both cases the appellants
are women serving life sentences for the
murder of their husbands. Both of the
crimes were committed the latter part
OF last year, Kuhn dying on Sept A and
lHossack on Dec. 2. There is this diff
ference. however, that whereas the Hos
sack family We're deeply religious and of
good breeding. the contrary is true in
the case from Keokuk county. The
Kuhn case did not attract the attention
of the Hossack case when tried before
Judge Clements, but is interesting. The
kuhns lived at Delta. He was little
/ German shoemaker who had been Grip
pied in early life by illness. He was
much older than Mrs. Kuhn and they
did not live happily. They had q violent
quarrel only a few days before his death
and she upbraided him for marrying her
and he left the room in anger The day
following Labor day last year they
drove to What Cheer to get case of
beer and on the way back they drank
some. The bartender testified that the
! beer was put into their buggy just as it
came bottled from the brewery. The
/ bottle first opened by Kuhn proved to
be bitter, but he drank some of it. She
also took drink. AS they passed a
! farm house Kuhn called out that he was
dying and farmer came out and drove
them back to Delta, but before he
reached a doctor Kuhn was dead. Kuhn
1 Frequently, before he ceased to talk. de-
clared that Mrs. Kuhn had poisoned
him and that he knew he should die.
She denied this. She took enough of the
beer to make her very i'll. There was
strychnine in the beer. The real cues
tion seems to be whether the poison was
put in the beer by Kuhn or his wife.
/ Mrs. Kuhn protested her innocence in
a vehement manner when sentenced. 1t
is expected the pleas in both of these
cases which will be made orally will be
very fine. In both cases there is a close
question about guilt.
Two interesting liquor cases have Just
bobbed up in the supreme court One is
that of Eugene Lutz VS.. the Sioux City
Brewing Company, in which a WELL
known German lawyer seeks to shut up
the big brewery built in Sioux City some
years ago. He was beaten in the lower
courts and will now seek to have the
supreme court say brewery in Sioux
City is illegal. The other is the case of
John Hamilton VS.. the Schlitz Brewing
Company. from Linn county. in which
4 the plaintiff does the remarkable thing
of suing brewery company for the re-
covery of money he has paid the com
pany for beer on the ground that the
sales We're illegal and therefore he
should not have paid them. The amount
involved is s513935. This claim was evil
Z IDENTIFY set up as an Offset to claims of
the brewery company for unpaid bills.
Hubbard, Dawley & Wheeler are attor-
neys for the brewery people and a
feature of the abstract as printed by the
lappellant is a humorous opening speech
Ito the jury by Wheeler.
II A notable accession to the ranks of
Il Cummins supporters is that of Judge w.
Il A. Spurrier who late Saturday after
4 noon gave out a formal statement of his
Intention of working for; Cummins.