Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-05-29
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL


The supreme court of this state
has once more sustained the tax
ferret law, holding that it is retroac-
tive. The case decided was that of
August Berensheim, guardian, appel
liant, VS.. William Arnd, county treas
urer, and another case. II was APP
pealed from the Pottawattamie coun-
ty district court, o. ID. Wheeler, Judge.
The plaintiff in the proceedings seeks
to have annulled the assessments
made upon the monies and credits of
his record under section 1874. code of
1897, and chapter so. acts of the
Twenty-eighth general assembly. The
district court held that the assess
ments for 1896 anu 1897 were invalid
and confirmed the assessment of
1898, 1899 and 1900. Both parties APP
pealed. The supreme court decided
the trial court erred in not confirm
ing the assessments for 1896 and 1897
and awarding judgment therefore.
Modified in this way the judgment
entered is affirmed. The opinion is
by Judge Waterman.
Luther Hudson, residing with his
family, consisting of a wife and five
children, committed suicide by swal-
lowing a half pint of formaldehyde.
Death ensued in a few minutes. De
cedent was painter and paper hanger
by occupation and suicide was due to
dependency.
A detail of officers. headed by Cap.
cain AL Miller in charge of tne night
shift, descended upon an alleged
opium joint at $40 South West Fifth
street, and captured a smoking outfit
in addition to rounding up three men
and a woman in the place. All the
men, Gus and Jacob Payne and vii.
liam Smith, were armed with pistols,
and it is claimed one of them fired
a shot, accidentally or otherwise, at
the officers when they forced their
way into the house. The trio were
taken to the central station and placed
in jail. Later, having pleaded not
guilty to the charge of being found in
an opium den, they were released
upon each giving bond in the sum of
500 to guarantee his appearance for
trial.
It is claimed in the railroad world
lat the Rock Island has finally sue.
ceeded in securing a direct line be.
tween Kansas City and the Gulf of
-iexico, an object it has had in view
for some time and to attain which il
proposed to build nearly four hundred
miles of road south from Fort Worth
to Galveston.
The Des Moines, Iowa Falls & Nor
thern Railroad company has gotten be-
yond the experimental stage for it has
filed with the secretary of state an
amendment to its articles of incorpa-
ration raising the capitalization from
$4,000, which was used as basis at
the beginning, to Sl,200,000. The COM
pany paid filing fee of S1,150. When
first organized the company had the
smaller capitalization because it was
uncertain whether it would be a go.
but now that large part of the line
is built the stock is increased.
At the nineteenth annual convention
of the Department of Iowa, Women's
Relief Corps, officers were elected as
follows: President, Mrs. Myra. l.. Par.
ker of Des Moines; senior vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. Jennie Whedon of Winter
set; juJIor vice-president. Mrs. r.
Anna Smith of Clarinda; treasurer,
Mrs. Estella Plopper of Winterset;
chaplain, Mrs. Human of Belmond;
executive board: Mrs. Emma White
mack of Waterloo, Mrs. Jessie Mckay
of McGregor, Mrs. Maria King of JEFF
ferson, Mrs. Belle Seen of Fort Dodge
Mrs Mary Huffman of Sioux CITY.