Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-13
FARMERS HAVE AN INNING
Deny that Valuation Of Lands for TsIa,iOn
is Too Low.
UNION PACIFIC VALUATION TO Be RAISED
Nose Jacobs, the tNinE OF the Des
MOines NewsbOys, Finally Wins
His suit Against His
Father.
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CFrom a Stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES, July 12-(special.)-A
dozen farmers appeared before the execu-
tive council today and every one of them
agreed that the farms of Iowa in the last
two or three years are not paying more
than about 3 per cent interest and that the
Assessment Of farm lands is too high. This
follows the statement of the railroad men,
who concluded their hearings before the
council this morning, and in which they
universally agreed that the railroads are
taxed higher In proportion than the farms
and other property of the state. They
claimed that for fixing the value of The
railroads 1t ought to be figured in no case
that they pay less than per cent interest,
and most of them wanted the figuring done
at per cent interest. Today ]. j. Ryan,
secretary Of the Corn Belt Meat Producers
association. with Messrs. Goodnow of Sac
county, Thornburg OF Dallas, Dorm of
Boone, Thompson of Greene and others, all
large farmers with farms of 1000 acres or
more each, appeared before the council.
The representative of the Story County
Corn Belt Meat Producers association
showed that farms in that section had ad-
vanced in assessed valuation 46 per cent,
and the Northwestern railroad through that
county only 81 per cent. In the meantime
one farm in question had not been improved
and the Northwestern had built a double
track All of the farmers we're convinced
that the farmers are paying more than
their proportion of the taxation and
Thompson Of Greene county charged the de-
creased revenue of the farms of the state
directly to the railroads and the meat pack
ers.
There is little doubt but that the Union
Pacific assessment at Council BLUFFS will be
raised by the executive council as result
OF the visit OF Mayor Donald Macrae and
other citizens of that city to the council
yesterday. One of the members of the
council said today that heretofore the citi-
zens there had never appeared before the
council and the council did not know the
real condition. THE representatives of the
Union Pacific appeared before us and rep
resented that their road was much in the
condition of the Union Terminal at Sioux
City, which some of us knew personally
was a losing investment They told a hard
luck tale and we believed them There is
no doubt in my mind but that we made
mistake last year In lowering their assess
ment. 1t should be raised
Affirm Jacobs Case.
The supreme court today affirmed the de-
cision of the lower court in the Nose
Jacobs case from this county a case that
has attracted wide attention. Jacobs came
to Des Moines with his father, mother and
two brothers. Nose Jacobs sold papers and
the other two left home before of age Nose
turned his money over to his mother, and
when he was SO years old and about to
marry she returned to him $4,000 Then,
when she died. he sued to recover more, and
sr4NFa
court affirmed today.
The court also affirmed the case of
Jacob Thrush against Brigham Graybill,
from Pottawattamie county, sustaining
the verdict for the defendant in a real
estate deal, The case of Elizabeth Marks
against James and Jerry McGookin, ap-
pellants Of Harrison county, in which she
was given the recovery of real estate, was
affirmed
The case of H. H. sturges against c. c.
Vail Of Crawford county was affirmed.
Both ere publishers of newspapers and
the supervisors selected the paper of Vail
for the official paper against which action
Sturges appealed and won.
State House Accidents.
william Martin and two other decorators
fell from scaffold at the state house this
''s "hu EhaLtlu WAS DaOly injured
about the head. The others were but
slightly injured. A few minutes later a
big derrick used in the erection of the
historical building fell, carrying out a part
OF the wall and inJuring one workman
slightly.
Parole for Atlantic Man,
Governor Cummins today issued a parole
Tor Fred Deems Of Atlantic. who was the
first man sentenced under the habitual
criminal act Deems is serving a fifteen
year sentence in Fort Madison.
Pickets Are Unlawful.
The placing of pickets about machine
shops by strikers who thus seek to induce
new men to quit work and join them is
declared unlawful by Judge Mcpherson of
the federal court in a decision by Clerk
L. r. Mason today.
The court has just handed in his de-
cision In the famous Fort Madison injune-
ton Santa Fe case, wherein four strikers
are accused of contempt in violating a
restraining order. The punishment is not
yet announced.
There is and can be no such thing as
peaceful picketing any more than there
can be chaste vulgarity or peaceful mob
bling or lawful lynching," says the court.
Loses Life for Property.
After saving his wife and 2-months-oId
baby from flames, which were destroying
their home, Samuel E. Howard, a young