Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-23
HIS BODY FOR SALE
Des Moines Man Wanted to Sell
His Corpse to a Medical
College.
Said He Needed the Money
to Pay For a
Divorce.
Iowa Insurance Companies Pay
ing Their Taxes.-I The D. &
N. o. Road.

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Special TO Times-Re publican.
Des Moines. Jan. 23.-One Des SIoines
man who thought it would be very nice
to sell his body to the doctors for dis
secting purposes realized before the
bargain was made that such fate
would not be nice. He gave the name.
or Walter Latham. and as he and
companion drove to the rooms former
ly occupied by Drake Medical School.
but now a part Of Freeman Conaway,s
printing shop. his cnrnpanion went in
ant. asked for the dissecting room.
When asked what he wanted he said he
had q subject for dissection out N the
buggy. Cnnaway looked out and saw
the subject calmly smoking a cigar.
He explained that the college had been
removed and that a sale might be ef
fected at the Still College of y)steo-
pathy- The couple went out 10 the
Still Colleg@ and called on Secretary
Ben Shaw He talked business to them
4 for a time and then proposed TO show
them thru tine dissecting room. The
man who wanted to be disseetesi and
his friend calmly looked at fhe various
knives and saws used in dissectirg and
when they reached the door they made
q hasty departure without fixing a
price for the body when i was to be
ready for the knife and saw Latham
had previously explained that he want-
ed to get $50 out of the sale for the pur-
pose of paying for defense Of himself in
s.t,it ,;sxy,,roa f.s
Inspector Grots. Of West Side. who
I has charge Of rural mail route irspec
ton in Iowa. was in Des Moines yestsr-
day and went to Council Bluffs this
morning TO act as arbiter in serious
Conference of opinion between Postmas
ter Trevnor and the school for the deaf.
The school has been receiving the mall
regularly four times a day by city car
| rer 1t is now proposed that the rural
4 mail carriers shall deliver this naa,l, as
4 1t is outside of the corporation. This is
satisfactory. hut there is a Gisa gree
.nent as to just where the mail shall
i be delivered The patrons Of rural mai
routes get their mail in boxes at tht
gate TO the highway Th. deaf school
mail has been taken into ,h@ building
ard get the delivery started right.
4 The Mutual Life and Trust Com
pany. of Des Moines fls,d Its annual
meeting and election of officers yestsr-
/ cay. with the following result Pres-
dent, f c. Spinn.y Omaha; vice pres
/ idents. Gecrgv Nj. Craig Allison, and
lC. ID. Miller Des Moines; secretary j.
/ johnson. Northwood George Allyn.
/ Mt. Ayr; d. c. Chase, Webster city;
H. a. sharies, Des Moines;; c. d. Anles.
Davenport. o. H. Dawson, Des Moines,
and Eugene Secor, Forest City.
II do NOT know what the Iowa de-
partment. G. A. r.. will DO about the
national encampment, said Assistant
4 .Adjutant General Newman today We
Iwiil have 10 wait until we see what the
trouble is between the executive COM
mit.ae and the Denver people. The facs
that the next encampnlent was located
at Cleveland BY only three Votes looks
bad The executive committee cor sists
l.of Sven and tbs. officers have vote.
We will await the explanation from the
lexecutive COMMITTEES aud do nothing
| hastily.
their taxes in Iowa. They pay 2ls per
cent on their gross receipts from bust
ness in the state. The heaviest tax
payer among them is the Northwestern
Life of Milwaukee, and the next ia the
New York Life. The latter has just
sent check for sl1.0ssl7 This indi-
lcates something of he enormous
amount of money being taken out of the
state every year by the big insurance
companies. The Iowa companies do not
pay aa heavily and have some other
important concessions.
The newsfrom Nevada in the Times
Republican that the promoters of the
Duluth & New Orleans railroad had not
under considera ton any proposition to
/ get out of the way OF the Iowa Falls
company, was a surprise in Des
Moines. The promoters of the Iowa
/ Falls line have been very active here
and have held out the idea that al the
proper time the other company Will get
| out of the way and give the Iowa Falls
company a free field. Mr.. Ellsworth
was here last week and confided that
his company IL to go east of Nevada
unless the New Orleans people get out
of the way in Nevada. There is no
doubt that substantial interests are
back of the Iowa Falls project, but the
hope is that there shall not be such a
conflict between the two enterprises as
to prevent either being contaminated.
$50
In the case of the American Book
Company against Gates, in the federal
court, Judge Mcpherson yesterday ruled
on some of the motions of the plaintiff
and somewhat cleared up the issues on
which the trial will in due time proceed
| In two respects the defenses offered by
| the defendant are declared to be irregu-
lar and will not he heard. One of these
| is to the effect that the alleged libelous
i lrtterances of the defendant did not re-
late to matters which We're of he legiti-
mate business of the plaintiff company.
1 The other line of defense which the
court will not hear is that the paper
read at Oskaloosa was privileged under
| the statutes and that the statements
complained of were legitimate discus
sions Of matters of public interest and
that the defendant had a right to be-
Ilieve they were true. The court holds