Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-01-31
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines, January %, 1891.

Of A. B. Devoe of Creston, the das0hr
ter Of q mother who, according ~
evidence given in the courts, was an
object of public charity, who worked
as 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 ~, has bees
finally defeated in the legal battls
she has fought for months with the
heirs to the estate. The supreme
court, in an opinion written by Judge
Sherwin, settled the controversy, af-
firming 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 $4,000. Prior to marriage, Mrs
Devoe, or Miss Carrie Seely, as she
was then known, signed an ante-nup-
tiai contract waving her dover right
to one-third of the estate, and m
spite of the fact that but a part Of
this contract was brought forth In
evidence. the page on which the
signatures were written hayin. been
destroyed, the validity of the docu-
ment is fully affirmed.
NC sbbtCItht tnC
ton of the state and savings banks.
OF Iowa, as indicated by reports from
the different banks furnished in nc
.ordancc with the last bank call, has
been completed in the Office of the au-
1itor of state. The reports from the
oanks show their condition at the
.lose of business December IL, 1900.
The statement evidences flourish
ing condition of the banks of tho
state, and a large increase in the vol.
cine of their business since the last
preceding report to the auditor.
There are now 246 savings banks IN
iowa and 1913 state banks, a total OF
lG4, and sixteen more than were re
ported in the last preceding state
ment.
The Iowa State Medical Veterinary
association, which has just closed it's
thirteenth annual session. adopted
resolutions severely criticising the ac-
ton of the federal government for
the alleged indiscriminate distribu-
ton of vaccine among gem
tlemen who do not know how
to properly use it. Officers were
elected as follows: President P. o.
Kato, Forest City; vice presidents. s.
H. Kingery, Creston, and p. Malcolm,
New Hampton; secretary and treas
urer, j. d. Brown, Oskaloosa.
The supreme court decided in a casa
from Winneshiek county that bonds
men of saloon-keepers under the
mulct law cannot be held for penal
ties for sales to minors. The law i'm
poses fine of 500 for each sale to
. minor. Saloon-keepers are required
to give bonds to obey the law. But
the court holds that there is an ex-
eeption in the law providing that only
bondsmen of permit holders, that is,
pharmacists holding permits from the
district court, can be held for penal.
ties for selling to minors. Bondsmen
of mulct saloon-keepcrs are liable,
however, for civil damages to be col.
lected by parents, guardians, ETC., OF
minors to whom liquor has been sold.
The Bonaparte dam case which has
been furnishing food for thought to
the supreme court of the last five
years has been settled for all time
by the overruling of the petitions OF
both the state and Byron f. Meek for
q rehearing. The case will stand ac-
cording to the decision rendered at
the October term in which it was held
that the owners of the dam were not
compelled to provide a fishway. Tho
series of cribs constructed below tho
dam make perpendicular structure
and furnish complete obstruction 10
the passage of fish in the Des Moines
river. The dam was built by the gov.
eminent for the improvement of the
Des Moines river in 1852 and in 1865
after it had been bought by the Meeks
the locks were closed by a wall and
no flshway was provided. As early as
1898 information was filed to abate 10
as a nuisance, but the supreme court
holds that fishway cannot be re-
quired in a non-navigable river. IL b
the largest and best constructed dam
in the state and the case has been
watched with keen interest by all
sportsmen.
The state of Iowa is going 70 re.
ceive two Chinese cannon from the
walls Of Peking, captured by the Uni-
ted States troops when they entered
the Chinese capital to relieve the be-
sieged legationers. In letter just
received by Governor Shaw, United
States Minister Conger says:
II am today starting on their way
to you two Chinese cannon, with thei'
carriages (knocked DOWN., which on.
troops on their arrival here captured
on the city wall near our legation.
They are undoubtedly the guns which
were sending shot and shell into the
legation during the siege. / have
billed them to you, sending on UNI
ted States transport to San Fran
cisco, and have requested that they
be shipped thence to Des Moines by
rail. beg you to accept these guns
for the state of Iowa as a souvenir
of most disagreeable situation in
which some of her citizens were
placed, and from which they were
providentially rescued. i shall be
glad to see them properly mounted
and planted before the new historical
building or in any other place about
the capitol which you may select. I
have found this convenient opportun-
ity to ship them and SO take I'D.
vantage of 1t, not waiting for q reply
to my previous letter to you concern
ing them"
The cannon will probably be moxnt-
ed on each side of the walk leading
to the state historical building.
Battle flags of the Ninth and FIJI
teenth Iowa infantry have been re-
moved from the sealed glass cases
on the second floor of the state house
and will be forwarded at once to Gen.
Grenville N. Dodge at New York City.
who will place them in the tomb Of
General U. s. Grant. The last general
assembly ordered two flags from the
Iowa collection to be sent to Grants