Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-05-18
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. May Is. 1905

his assets less than $4,000 His heav-
lest creditors are out of town liquor
dealers although two Des Moines
banks We're caught in the net. The
Des Moines National bank has an ac-
count against the man, while the
Peoples Savings bank holds accounts
against him of $4,000. His former
private secretary, Miss Belle Hum
phrey, is allowed bill of $500 and
e. t. Morris, his attorney. $3.50. The
state of Iowa and the federal gov
eminent are both claimants against
the estate in mulct and liquor taxes
to the amount of $495.46. The only
assets of the former large holder of
Des Moines liquor saloons are his
interests in the half hundred saloons
which he now holds. His household
goods have been attached by Helm &
Co., the brewers of Kansas City, but
were recently released.
broken. paroled convict has APP
piled for readmission to the peniten-
tiary. His request has been granted.
Joseph Buck is his name and he is
only % years of, age. He was sent
to Fort Madison from Polk County
for three years for robbery That
was on April 5, 1904, and he was
then II years old. He is unmarried.
The sentence was suspended by Gov
ernor Cummins, Buck having been a
model prisoner, on April II, 1905. A
half month of freedom was more than
Buck could stand. A telephone mes
sage from Warden Jones at Fort
Madison prison on the Sth notified
the executive Office that Buck was
there pleading for re-entry behind the
stone walls. His request was granted,
His sanity will be investigated.
Without any discussion of the case
the supreme court affirmed the con
viction of Frank Baird, the confessed
partner of "Bill' Richards in the
Sullivan robbery at Hamilton. Baird
was sentenced 10 eighteen years in
the penitentiary and began the SER
vice of his sentence at Anamosa
March 2, 1908. Though his case was
appealed to the supreme court. no
extensive arguments were made be-
fore the higher court in his behalf.
The Iowa Mutual Tornado Insur-
ance Association of Des Moines is
doing by far the largest business of
any Insurance Company in Iowa. The
Secretary, j. B. Herman, is receiv-
ing $50 applications a day, while the
Association already has over S10S.-
100000 in risks and 10000 members
in the state.
The Association sustained total
losses of buildings in the storms OF
the 9th. 10th apd 18th in fifteen diff
ferent counties. representing all parts
of the state. and partial losses from
twenty other Counties, all of which
will receive prompt attention and
payment.
This is said to be the largest,
cheapest and best cooperative In
surance Company in the World. II
has been in operation twenty-one
years and only assessed its members
nine and one-half mills in that time
and has paid in losses nearly One
Half Million Dollars. The Associa-
ton will have a good cash balance
on hand after settling all the recent
losses.
tien with the Farmers Mutuals and
has about the same agents
Any one wishing this class of in
surance can find nothing better in
Iowa.
4 child cannot be held to be guilty
of contributory negligence, in the
judgment of the supreme court OF
Iowa, which by a majority of the
| justices so decided an important dam
age case. The next friend of Marion
| Fishburn of Washington county,
| 6-year-old child, sued the Burlington
| e. Northwestern railroad for damages
because a panel from a snow fence
along the right of way of that road
had fallen over on the child and in
jured it seriously. The road tried
to show that the panel which had
fallen on the child had been lying on
| the ground and that it had been set
up against the fence by the child be-
| fore it took a tumble and hit him
| This raised the question, directly, OF
whether the responsibility or negli
| gence of the railroad ceased when the
child had moved the piece OF lumber,
and whether by that act the child
became guilty of contributory negli-
gence and caused its own injury
| The supreme court says that it was
| impossible for the child to have
relieved the railroad of responsibility
by it's act, If it did set the board mp
against the railroads fence. The
negligence was the railroads, in the
| first instance, and the act of the child
was not an Independent and inter
yening cause relieving the original
negligence of the railroad of its ac
tionable quality. OF this theory the
majority of the court affirmed the
decision of the lower court in award
ing judgment for damages to the es
tate of the child.
1t is the expectation of the street
car and interurban officials to com
mence running cars on the line &c
| Westover about June ], although
much depends on the weather neces-
sary to complete the work. A special
car was run to the Judge Nourse
farm to accommodate a company OF
business men few days ago.
Governor Cummins has set new
precedent for Iowa in offering a
heavy reward for the discovery OF
the whereabouts OF a banker. alleged
to have embezzled large sum OF
money before his disappearance. E.
Z. Snyder, who was the whole thing
in the bank of Olin and disappeared
Lotto last wear leaving creditors hold