Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-03-31

| SOuAe ~ shC case VI JOIN Wdlhiuo Fo'
! the Iowa Central Railroad company
! with o. H. Mock intervenor, the SUI
| preme court gave a majority opinion
that under the Iowa statutes the con
veyance OF a right of way in fe,
simple to railway company vests the
grantee with the same unlimited
rights in the premises which a similar
conveyance for private uses would
vest in an individual purchaser. Judge
Weaver filed minority opinion, con
CURED in by Judge McClain, in which
he holds that the contrary of this de
cision is true. The case was appeal
ed from Judge G. w. Vermilion, who
decided in favor of the plaintiffs.
The senate passed Senator Dowells
bill, making 1t possible for cities tC
make river improvements to prevent
floods. The bill, was presented as q
result of the agitation of Des Moines
citizens who held a meeting for the
purpose OF formulating plan Of Hood
prevention. The bill provides that
cities may dredge or improve rivers
in the manner that may be necessary
to prevent floods upon petition CT
property owners, and assess the cost
after the manner OF street improve.
mentS.
In response to the alarm call sent
into Washington by State Veterinarl.
an DR.. Paul Koto Of Forest City con
corning the outbreak of maladie du
colt among the horses of Van Buren,
county, in Iowa, E. r. Davidson OF
the bureau of animal industry a:
Washington, has arrived in Iowa and
will look over the situation and re
port to the department at Washing
ton. No attempt is being made 10
disguise the seriousness Of the
trouble. 1t will be herculean task
to trace the animals that have con
tracted the disease, and this will be
the only possible method Of stamping
1t out.
The legislature is face to face with
the necessity of raising the Iowa taS
levy. 1t has been tacitly agreed tC
appropriate 100000 and there Is
only s1,500.000 in sight Either
most stringent pairing down process
will have to be INDUCED in, or tbs
levy will have to be increased.
81 don't see what we are TO do
said Senator Garst, chairman OF the
senate appropriations committee
1--WE have tacitly agreed to appropri
ate two million and we nave only
million and a half in sight,
Representative Mates, chairman oil
;he house committee on appropria
Ions, Is even more outspokeL.
eve are face to face with an i'm.
perative condition" said Mr.. Mates
I'VE will either have to raise the
lax levy or we will have to cut down
che appropriations numerically"
The senate judiciary committee
quietly put an end to the house ex
emption bill, which makes liaule for
Indebtedness a salary in excess OF $40
a month. President Thomas of the
Iowa Grocers' association and others
were present for the purpose of ask.
ing an additional extension of time.
President Thomas urged that the
members of the association had sup.
posed that the matter was to come up
before the ways and means commit
tee, and that the members Of the as
ISOLATION had been getting in touch"
with that committee. They wanted
time to get in touch" with the judi.
ciary committee. The Judiciary COM
mittee believed there was 40 time to
get in touch" like the present and
gave the supporters of the measure
an opportunity to be heard then and
there. 1t was not taken and the COM
mittee voted for indefinite postpone.
ment.
The painters and paper hangers
union voted to call a strike in all
shops which refused to sign the union
scale, agreeing to pay union prices
and to hire only union men. The
shops in which the strike will be de
clared are Holland G New, Buck
Brothers, Jennings Wall Paper com
pany, A. Madole, Miller Wall Paper
company, Belt & Van Sittert Lord &c
Collins and George Thompson. Those
who had signed the scale were
T.. l. Stoner, Iowa Paint and Wall
Paper company, Placeck & Trap, e
F. Whitney, Frank Madole and
others. The employers who have re
fused to sign are hanging together
and say they will hold out and have
the support Of the public in the fight
The business mems association is sup.
posed to be back of them and guaran.
teeing support if necessary.
A substitute for the board o: con.
troll indeterminate sentence Jaw has
been reported out of the senate COM
mittee on penitentiaries and pardons.
About the only change is cor tained in
the section which in the original bill
provided for the control of Hhe parol.
ing POWER by the board OF control.
The amended bill provides for a
board of parole of three members,
two of whom are to be appointed by
the governor, who Is to be ex-officio
the third member of the board. The
indeterminate sentence law as recon.
mended by the senate committee is a
stride in the direction of the object
which the Associated charities last
fall started an agitation to attain.
1t has the hearty approval of the
members Of the board of control and
is advocated by the great majority Of
present day students on penology.
There Is maximum term beyond
which no prisoner can be confined
but it will rest largely with the parol-
ing power to determine when a pris.
Oner shall be released.
1t is the guilty man who is always
afraid Of his shadow"
The smallest fish often inspire the
biggest tales.
When a clock is fast you can regu.
late it but it's different with a young
man.
Even Cupid must be a monopolist,
since there can be no love without
trust Es ..r . .