Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-01-25
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines, January %, 1901.

to Washington at the time of the
Inauguration of President Mckinley
has been revived by n letter from j.
w. Clark OF Red Oak, formerly COM
lnander of Company NJ, Of the Fifty
first Iowa, and now lieutenant col
onel in the regiment. In this letter
Colonel Clark said the company was
willing to go to Washington and pay
its own expenses. although he asked
Adjutant General Byers if it would
not be possible for the state to bear
the expense of transportation as far,
as Chicago. Judge Smith McPher-
son, who is resident of Red Oak, in
tercedcd with the adjutant general
in behalf of Company M. 1t is I'M
orally are willing to back up the
company, if permission to go to
Washington is given it. 1t is said
there is no doubt that the necessary
fund can be raised. AS the situa-
ton now stands. two companies
have expressed themselves as will
ing to bear their own expenses. 1t
remains for Sioux City and Daven-
port to determine whether troops
will be sent. General Byers gave
the Red OaN company this answer,
that if the four leading companies
he had designated, one Of them
picked company, made up OF men,
bers of both Sioux City companies,
would provide for their own ex-
penses, he would tender their SER
vices to the Inauguration committee
at Washington. He adheres. to the
position he took from the first, how
ever, that if any troops at all are
to go from Iowa, not less than bat
talon should be sent.
Milton Remley, as attorney for the
state board of medical examiners, has
filed a demurrer to the petition OF
C. l.. Parsons. in which Parsons ask
ed for a mandamus compelling the
board to issue him certificate to
practice osteopathy. The board de-
nlurs to the Parsons petition on sew
eral grounds. 1t is declared that it
is not shown that the board has fail
ed to determine whether or not the
school is a regularly conducted col
lege of osteopathy. Until the board
termines this it is declared that Par
sons has no right to demand a certi-
ficate. 1T is further stated that the
petition fails to show that the board
has found the school to be regularly
Incorporated and conducted. Until
this question is determined it is de-
clared that no certificate can be is
sued. Further the petition is demur-
red to on the grounds that it does
not allegc that the board has not
regularly conducted. Finally it is
stated that the act of the Twenty
seventh general assembly regarding
the issuance of certificates to grad
yates of schools of osteopathy is UNI
constitutional because it is in con-
truycntion to the constitution, which
denies special privileges to any par
ticular class 1t is held that it would
he giving the osteopaths privileges
denied physicians of other schools II
they were allowed certificates with
out passing the examinations which
graduates Of other schools are re-
quired to pass. 1t is declared that
to grant certificates to osteopath
would be contrary to the medical
practice laws OF the state, and the
board cannot be authorized to violate
these laws.
Mrs. A. B. Devoe, the young widow
of A. B. Devoe Of Crcston, the daugh-
ter of mother who, according to
evidence given in the courts, was an
object of public charity, who worked
as a servant at the Devoe residence
and who in 1894 married her EN-
ployer when he had reached the age
OF 70 and she was but 81, has been
finally defeated in the legal battle
she has fought for months with the
heirs to the estate. The supreme
court, in an opinion written by Judge
Sherwin, settled the controversy, at
frming the decisions of Judge Town
err of the Union county district court,
and sustaining the claims OF the De-
voc children to the property, valued
at $12O,000. Prior to marriage, Mrs.
Devoe, or Miss Carrie Seely, as she
was then known, signed an ante-nup-
tial contract waving her dover right
to one-third of the estate, and in
spite of the fact that but q part OF
this contract was brought forth in
evidence, the page on which the
signatures were written having been
destroyed, the validity of the docu-
ment is fully affirmed.
The statement showing the condi-
ton of the state and savings banks
OF Iowa, as indicated by reports from
the different banks furnished in ac-
cordance with the last bank call, has
been completed in the office of the au-
ditor of state. The reports from the
banks show their condition at the
close of business December -, 1900.
The statement" evidences a flourish
ing condition of the banks of the
state, and large increase in the vol
ume of their business since the last
preceding report to the auditor.
There are now 24G savings banks in
Iowa and 1923 state banks, a total of
4C4, and sixteen more than were re-
ported in the last preceding state