Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-07-21
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
nes Moinen. July 10. 1oo4

| phone companies are now being re-
| ceived at the state house after fash.
| ion which indicates that these corpor,
| atoms will have furnished the council
with the information needed by it be-
fore the time for making the assess
| ment has arrived. "One of the chief
| difficulties of the work OF gathering
| the reports of the companies has been
| the failure of those which have
changed their names during the past
| year TO report the name under which
| they We're assessed last year." said Mr..
| Dawson. THE result of this failure
on the part OF the companies has been
that In some cases concerns which
have reported are classed as delin-
| quent with their reports, and they
| have been appealed to strenuously 1t
| Is necessary to ask the companies to
file statement, now, as to the name
under which they were assessed last
year."
The supreme court has sustained
what Is known as the Griswold law,
regulating building and loan opera.
tions by co-partnership and individ.
uals who do not come under the reg,
ular building and loan law. This act
was passed by the Twenty-ninth gen,
eral assembly. 1t was drafted by
Attorney General Mullen. It's validity
was attacked before the governor, who
was urged not to sign but to veto 1t
Its constitutiona1ity was assailed be-
fore Judge McVey In Des Moines,
hn hn1 N hn Oh fnt nj
The supreme court reverses Judge
McVey and sustains the act as vali(
and constitutional Thus being made
enforcible, it effectually shuts out o.
Iowa varied class of investment
concerns which cannot comply with
its provisions In protection of they
Iowa investors--an object sought by
General Mullan in drafting the meas
ure.
It is expected that IT'S men, with
like number of mounts, will be read,
for the inspection OF Gen. Adna y
Chafree when he visits Fort Dea
Moines during the first week In Au.
gust or the last in July. Although his
inspection will not be critical In the
least, 1t will show the condition of the
new fort and the men who have lately
returned from hard campaign In the
Philippines.
The wholesale meat companies, In.
Guiding Agar Packing company,
Swift & Company, Armour, and all
other representatives of large con.
Germs in Des Moines refuse to give
any particulars concerning the mar
kets on dressed meats. The only sat.
isfactory information obtained IL
from retailers who announce advance
in prices on pork from one to two and
a half cents. A few markets deny that
their prices to the consumer will be
changed within week, but the ma
jority admit, that II the strike Is not
ended before the end of the week,
prices will be soaring toward start.
ung figures.
The supreme court has refused to
direct new trial In the case Of Louis
Busse. under sentence of death from
Bremen county, and it Is left for tho
governor to re-sentence him and have
him hanged. Louis Busse lived on a
farm in Butler county, and three years
ago he killed his wife. hired man
had been sent away from the house
to shoot robins, taking two children
with him. He saw Busse and his wife
quarreling, was sent away a second
and third time, then coming back
saw Buses brother coming from the
house carrying an infant child In his
arms. The house was on fire. Mrs.
Busse had been killed, her body GOV.
cred with feathers, saturated with oil
and set fire to by Busse. He con.
fessed, and in his confession declared
that she had struck him and In his
rage he had killed her and then sought
to cover the crime. The feature of
the case that Is remarkable Is that
this will probably give Busse all that
he desired. The appeal which was
taken by Busse's attorney, Hon. E. A.
Dawson, state railroad commissioner,
was for the purpose of securing
penitentiary sentence rather than a
sentence of death. The date for the
hanging has long since passed and II
Busse Is ever executed 1t will be when
a governor fixes date for execution
The experience in the past Is that
lowa's governors have not been hasty
in fixing dates for hangngs.
The supreme court, in case from
manning, decided that county treas
urers have not the right to go behind
the assessors returns as passed up.
In by the boards of equalization. The
stock Of the German Savings bank
of Manning was assessed at 1872, 800. |
and its real estate at $4,000. It's cap
ital stock was $4,000, and was worth |
par. The law provides that the stock |
Of savings bank Is to be assessed to |
the BAN, on its actual value. The
treasurer Of Carroll county, when the
assessors books came to him. in
creased the assessment to the Man.
ming bank, therefore, from $4,000 to
SAT 200 for stock and $4,000 for real
estate, for two years, an increase of
$147O0 year. This the court, u. A.
Church, sustained The supreme court
reversed the decision. II held that
county treasurers have not the whole.
sale power to revise the assessors
lists. Section 1874 only gives them
power to list property when 1t has
been withheld. overlooked or from
any other cause not listed or as
sessed
The COW that swallowed a stick of
dynamite was good story--once.
Russell Sage declares he never had
a vacation. Well, look at him!
Be humble and you will never want
Tor guidance.--Mrs. Craik.