Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. Jan. 30, 1904.

son of mental anguish and suffering
occasioned by reason of failure to de-
| liver or properly transmit message.
Some of the best legal talent in Iowa
and Illinois was employed by the
| Western Union to indice the supreme
| court to set aside Judgment for
| 1915 obtained by Edith Gown In
| Louisa county. The amount involved
| was insignificant, but the principle.
| IL sustained, meant the accumulation
| of heavy damages in other suits based
| upon similar grounds In years to
come. The plaintiff had sent a tele.
gram to friend in Illinois, telling
him that her husband had died and
.equesting him to notify relatives to
be at the train to meet her when she
arrived with the body. The message
! was delivered, had the name so badly
misspelled that the person to whom il
was addressed could not imagine who
1t wwas from, and could not notify
the relatives. The widow was ac-
cordingly disappointed and pros.
trated. The court holds that the men.
tai anguish she experienced is to be
considered in estimating the amount
Of damages.
Representative Cummings OF Mar.
shall county will introduce a bin
early in the legislative session pro-
viding for redistricting the state Judi.
cially. The details of the measure will
not be formulated until Mr.. Cummings
completes the compilation of statistics
which he has undertaken in reference
TO the work which the district Judges
OF the state are doing. He has re-
ceived responses and tabulated the in.
formation received from about seventy
counties OF the state, and expects to
gather the desired information from
the remaining counties within a few
days. So far as the injury has been
prosecuted it indicates that the Judges
are holding court somewhere in ex.
cess OF an average of 1870 days in the
year. II the statistics from the re-
naming counties do not compel a ma.
terial adjustment in the average fig.
ures compiled, it is possible that re-
districting will require the elimination
OF from ten to twelve of the fifty odd
district Judges In Iowa. 1t is the con.
sensus OF opinion of the judges inter.
viewed by Representative Cummings
that they ought not to be expected to
hold court less than nine months In
the year, twenty days to the month.
Representative Geneva of Keokuk
county has introduced a concurrent
resolution in the house providing for
Joint session February H.. at 10
o'clock a. m, to give former Auditor
Frank F. Merriam a chance to offer
an explanation as to the charges
made against him by the executive
council, and the governor in his mes
sage relative to the collections Of
$ZS,ooo for insurance examinations.
Representative Temple has again
introduced his joint resolution for an
amendment to the constitution giving
each county of the state one repre-.
sentative and those having In excess
OF ratio Of population to be deter
mined one extra one, the total mum.
Der not to exceed lis. This amend
ment has been proposed by Colonel
Temple in two legislatures and has
been defeated heretofore. He believes
that it has chance to win this time.
1t will have the support of the dozen
counties which are districted with
other counties in the state.
The homeopaths have won ont In
their fight against the osteopaths for
representation on the state board of
health. Governor Cummins has an
nounced the appointment of DIR. A. p.
Hanchette Of Council Bluffs to succeed
DR.. Adams of Sac county, whose term
expires at the end of this month.
In order to save the tails of horses.
Senator Young of Washington has in.
troduced bill to prevent the docking
Of horses tails. The bill Is intro
duced at the instance of Mrs. E. L
Rood Of the American Humane So
ciety, who will endeavor to secure
other legislation. Senator Young's
measure Is drastic in the extreme
1t provides that every owner of dock.
tailed horse will have to register tna
animal. After that no one will be-
permitted to buy, use, work, deal in or
race an unregistered dock-tailed horse
and no one will be allowed to dock
an animal In the state nor import one
locked outside of the state. Severe
penalties are attached for violation
Of this law. Mrs. Rood claims to have
secured the passage of similar law
by the Nebraska and Minnesota leg
islatures.
Senator Harper Of Wapello county
has introduced the biennial elections
constitutional amendment. 1t was
sent to the committee, but Is in the
same form that passed through the
legislature Of two years ago, so that
the committee will have nothing to do
but report 1t out for passage. This II
will do. There has been more or less
talk about opposition to the amend.
ment, and there have been hints that
there would be an organized effort Ia
defeat it. Such a movement cannot
be located anywhere in the legislature
That there are those who have voted
Tor 1t who now believe that the prop
osition may be debatable, no one De
MES, but none of this class, even, has
said that he planned to vote against
the measure.
Modesty Is not SO easily shocked 40
prudence.
1t takes considerable drilling TO
make soldier or safe robber.
1t Is quite possible for fellow to
be long winded when he Is short.
Happy is the man who never knows
when he gets the worst of IL.
Sir" exclaimed the injured party,
''you stuck your umbrella into my
eye" ooh, no." replied the cheerful
onender, you are mistaken" "Mis.
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