Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-06-12
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL


Edison Light company must pay the
estate of Charles Downs. a young man
employed by the Mutual Telephone
company as lineman, $500 for caus-
ing his death. Downs was engaged IN
repairing a wire on a pole jointly &C.
cupied by the street railway, the Mu-
tual and the Edison companies. The
telephone wire lay across the Edison
wire. The repair was being made at
nine o'clock a. M. an hour when the
Edison was not expected to turn on the
street lights. Ii nevertheless turned
on the power without warning and
Downs was electrocuted. The jury
awarded verdict CT $4,000. The
Edison company asked for new trial
on the ground that the verdict was
exorbitant. Judge Holmes gave the
estate the privilege of accepting $500
or a new trial. The administrator ac-
copied the $500. The Edison com.
pany appeals from the judges decis
ion and loses.
The state board of control has just
let the contract tor the tobacco supply
for the state institutions. There was
| about 81 100 worth. The Amana So
| ciety at South Amana secured the
contract for Spear Head chewing, and
| Sprague-Warner company of Chicago
| the contract for smoking tobacco.
| There are $500 pounds of chewing
and 900 pounds of smoking toba, 90.
| The board tried to sop the tobacco
habit in the institutions. but conclud-
| ed that il was subyersive of discipline.
The state treasurer has received
1928 in checks from DR.. A. NJ. Linn.
| president of the state board of health,
this being the product of the sale Of
the residue of blankets left after sup
| plying the Tama Indians out of the APP
preparation made by the last general
| by the state amounted TO $1,000.
| Superintendent Barrett is sending
out to various firms the suggestive list
o books for school libraries, as pre-
pared by the state board of education
| al examiners. The object is to obtain
| proposals from book concerns as 10
the lowest figure for which they will
1 furnish these books to school libra
| ries. Firms will be given until June
| 20 to bid. There are about 500 books
| adopted by the examiners to supple
ment the old list of suitable books.
In the district court Judge A. II.
| McVey rendered decision in the case
of Muller, administrator. VS.. the Nat,
ional Life Insurance company of Min
nesota, which il sustained by the su-
preme court, will be of vast import.
ance to the insurance interests and
those carrying life insurance. Muller,
who was a chemist and lived in Valley
Junction, committed suicide about two
years ago. Some years before mis-
death he took out policy for $4,000
on his life in the Federal Life lnsur
ance company of Davenport. This pol
| icy, unlike most life insurance poll.
cies, did not contain a cause reliev-
ing the insurance company Of liabili-
ty in the event that the insured took
his own life. Later the Federal went
out of business and reinsured all its
business with ne National. The poll.
cies of tie National contain a suicide
clause. When Mui!er's administrator
made application for payment of the
policy, the insurance company refused
to pay. claiming that the insured had
violated the suicide clause. The ad.
ministrator claimed that in reinsuring
the business of the Federal, the Ma
tional had placed itself in the posi-.
llOu Vi lut 4 tuSIdl anu was DOuuu "
carry out all promises made to FEEDER
al policy holders, and sued. The court
held that by reinsurance the National
could not escape the liability of the
Federal: that il assumed all promises
of the Federal. and ordered that judg-
ment be entered for the full amount
of the policy.
The Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad company, through F. H. Reg
er of Denver, has commenced suit to
secure title to lands in Sac county
valued at about 100000, having filed
its claims with Registrar Howard of
the government land office in this city.
The railroad company claims title TO
the lands through grant made to as.
sist in the building of the Cedar
Rapids & Missouri River railroad,
since acquired by the Northwestern.
When the Northwestern, or Cedar
Rapids road was built, in the early six
ties, it was given a grant of alternate
sections along the proposed line of
road to assist in building the road.
1t was provided tha- IL the lands with.
in the distance prescribed by the
grant were not sufficient to fill out the
allotment that then the company
could go beyond the limits of the grant
and in the next nearest townships
take lands there to I'LL out the allot.
ment. Prior to the making of this
grant the federal government conceded
certain lands to the state and the
state granted these lands, under the
swamp land act, to the counties for
tine benefit of the permanent school
funds. IL was provided in this grant
that every tract of forty or more
acres, 80 per cent of which was swamp
land. should go to the counties. Sac
county sold its grant to the Ameri.
can Emigrant company and the lands
in dispute and which had been claim.
ed by the railroad were in this convey.
ance. Later the American Emigrant
company sold the land to settlers. The
Northwestern road claims now that
the lands were not swamp lands
within the meaning of the grant and
that therefore, could not be convey.
ed and that its selection is prior to
the claim of the present owners. The
lands are all located in the vicinity
Of Wall Lake, in the south part OF
Sac county.
The best lubricant for the organs OF
the throat is pineapple juice. II is
said that people living in countries
where the cone shaped fruit is grown
never suffer from bronchial affections.
A diet of goats milk and daily exer.
else on the mountains of Arizona
cured Robert Williams of consump-
ton. He had the disease in a bad
form when he went to Arizona. two
years ago. Now he is a well man, and
mas doubled in weight Every day he
drank pint of goats milk at break
fast, and the same quantity for supper,
with a half pint of the same beverage