Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-01
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines, Sept. se. 1908.


taken on the matter, some of the local
lawyers and judges have been discuss.
ing a new law governing marriages in
Iowa. AS shown by the divorce petit
lions In the district court, there have
been a good many mismated people be-
cause of hasty marriages. One man
pleads he only talked with a woman
twice before he married her. and then
two days afterward discovered she
was insane. Another married an in
sane woman and two children were
born. Both of these men are asking
DEGREES. Many Of the stub leaves In
the marriage license record at the
court house bear written in bold let
tiers Don't publish" In some instan-
ces this admonition is observed by
newspaper reporters and Ia most II is
not. Some legal authorities maintain
that IL there was a law requiring the
publication OF marriage licenses at
least three or four days or even a week
before legal ceremony could be per-
formed, society, which is so much in
terested In the contract, would have
an opportunity to raise a dissenting
voice IL the union Of the two was re-
oeaNSN 80 INTERCHANGEABLE.
Robert Fullerton of this city, who
was recently appointed to supervise
the disbursement of the appropriation
Of s5.0o00c0 OF government money
which wiz go to the st. Louis exposi-
ton, VIII receive one-tenth of l per
cent OF the sum he pays out. About
$5O0.0O0 OF the appropriation has al
ready been spent for souvenir coins,
and Mr.. Fullerton will receive his pay
for the disbursement of the remaining
$4.50O,0OO, which will make the com
pensation received by him for the
work, about $4,000 of this amount.
However, he will be Obliged to pay
about $1,000 for his bond, making
total amount which he will receive
about $4,000. II is expected that Mr..
Fullerton will enter upon the duties Of
his new position this week.
w. s. Foster, who was defeated In a
suit for $12.125 damages against the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail-
way company. has taken the case to
the supreme court The case comes
from Cass county, and was tried be-
fore Judge N. w. Macy. Foster was
employed as q section hand on the
Rock Island. at Wiota, and was injured
by fall from hand car. which he
claims was both overloaded and of de-
'ective construction. He states in his
petition that he was dragged for some
distance beneath the hand car, and
chat his left leg was broken above
he knee, that six ribs were broken,
md the fractured ends penetrated the
lungs, that his collar bone was frac-
cured and dislocated, his cheek and
law bones were broken, and his spine
was injured in such a manner as to
cause partial paralysis. The case
was brought up for trial during May of
this year. and after the evidence for
the plaintiff had been submitted.
Judge Macy sustained motion by the
defense to dismiss the case. The rail
way company claims that Fosters in
iuries were due to his own negligence
Among discharges in bankruptcy
signed by Judge Mcpherson is that of
Fred l.. Barnett, United States inspec-
tor of immigration. For ten years he
has been a resident of Des Moines.
but recently moved to Ell Paso to take
up his duties He listed his liabilities
as $6,042s4. A large number of Des
Moines concerns are listed as credi-
tors, principally among which is the
Peoples Savings bank, which held a
judgment for s592.50, the Brother
hood Reserve Life Insurance company
of Des Moines, and II. Z. Teachout,
who held note for $4,000. A number
of other concerns are mentioned. His
assets, which are all exempt, amount
to $11,715. over S11 900 of which is In
life insurance.
Figures which have been collected
by State Labor Commissioned Brig.
ham and his assistant, A. T.. Holder,
from the reports of employers to the
state labor bureau. show that during
the past year there were sixty strikes
in the state of Iowa, but in no instance
have they reported that there was
violence or a threat of violence. The
Office sent out 1000 blanks to employ
ers over the state, receiving satisfac-
tory returns from 1,627 of them, while
573 sent acknowledgements and the
remainder, or As per cent failed to re-
port. Commissioner Brigham Is now
at work on chapter of his report
which is new departure and prom
lses to be of more than usual interest.
II gives a report on the new Industries
of the states which have been started
since 1901, and names the different
localities possessing natural and ac-
CURED advantages for the location OF
new industries and producing plants,
and the special inducements offered by
localities to prospective investors.
Commissioner Brigham says that he
knows OF parties who are only wait
ing for the publication of this state
ment to decide between different
places where they are planning to es-
tablish industries. The chapter gives
an ANALYSIS Of the product. expense
and profit of manufacture and mechan-
ical industries In eighteen selected
counties. and a similar analysis of
thirty-five leading manufacturing and
mechanical Industries of the state. and
makes special water power in IOWA,
embracing unusual and undeveloped
water powers in twenty-four localities
over the state.
II. l.. Weather, who was convicted
OF stealing eight sacks of sugar from
wholesale grocery house at Fort Dodge.
was sentenced to eight months in the
penitentiary. Anton Smeby. who was
convicted of larceny from a building,
having stolen two watches from Frank
Easley's home. was also sentenced to
eight months servitude.
Galvanized iron is merely iron dip
ped into molten zinc. The coating is
not electrically applied, as the word
galvanized seems to imply.
Eight little trout. each less than six
inches in size, were caught near Nc
Michaels. Pa, by Redman Wister. II
is illegal to capture such little trout,
and Mr.. Wister had to pay fine of
dnllnra for nanh Rah- al