Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-10
NEW POINT IN WILL CONTEST
Peculiar Belief Regarding Future Life
Does Not Invslidate Document
PRIAcHER READY FOR BLkCKRAn TRIAL
Report OF state and Savings Banks
and Trust Companies shows
Large Increase of Money
on Deposit,
(From a stnn Corresnnndent-l

that a departed husband will show dis
pleasure when he is met in the future
world is not undue influence In the mean
ing Of the law as applied TO the making Of
Wills. according to the supreme court in
a decision given today.
The case is appealed from Cedar district.
Before bis death the husband Of Jane Pow
ell exacted a promise that she would deed
the property to his relatives She did so.
She died June 30. 1905, and her relatives
objected to the filing and probating of the
will on the ground that II was the result
Of undue influence.
They asserted that she had a hallucination
that when she met her departed husband
in the next world he would be displeased
If she did not keep her promise and that
she herself would suffer for breaking her
promise. They argued that this hallucina-
ton that her promise was binding amounted
to undue influence The supreme court
holds differently. 1t holds that such an
article Of faith is not the result Of a
diseased mind, but argues that nearly
everybody has some belief OF existence in
another world and the beliefs vary. and
that the person who acts on such belief
is not acting under undue influence
Swift Ready for Trial.
Rev. ]. II. Swift OF Winterset arrived in
Des Moines today to prepare for his second
trial on the charge of attempting to black
mail a winterset banker The case will
ha tried In the district court, where the
first Jury disagreed.
VIII Test Consolidation.
Opponents of the proposition to CONSOLE
date into one school district all the terri
tory inside the city limits Of Des Moines
in accordance with a bill passed by the
last legislature have employed John New
burn an attorney, to carry the fight to
the courts on a quo warranto proceeding
and have induced c. M. Arbuckle, a mem
Der Of the Walnut Hin school district, to
start the court proceedings.
New Board Organizes.
Members of the new board of parole
were in the city today and this afternoon
we're in conference with Governor Cummins.
The board will enter on its duties and
begin work July 1, but there is consider
able work to be done before that time in
the matter of preparing blanks and forming
an organisation. The board met here today
for that purpose. The members, all Of
whom were at one time members Of the
legislature, are w. H. Berry of Indiapola,
Dr. J. W. Emmert of Atlantic and P. A.
Smith Of Scranton. The board elected B.
w. Garrett pardon clerk. in the ONCE Of
Governor Cummins, to be secretary Of the
board. and Miss Hickman Of Norwalk. Ia.
clerk. The secretary's salary was fixed at
1880 per year
State Contracts Let.
- foaa 81 "a l.
tracts for new engines and new generators
at Glenwood, Clarinda, Marshalltown and
independence. The contract for the engines
went to the Murray Iron works of Bur-
lington, the contract for the generators to
the Westinghouse company. The total OF
the two contracts is about $4,000.
Raid on Sioux City.
Omcers of the Iowa Anti-Saloon league
have arranged TO make raid on Sioux
City Sunday next. All the leaders in the
movement will be taken TO that city Sun
day and will appear in all the leading
churches OF the city. A mass meeting VIII
be held that afternoon. Following Sioux
| City, Marshalltown is scheduled to have a
visit from the anti-saloon forces.
p. f. O. Reception.
The brilliant social event of the gathering
of the p f, o. in this city came tonight
when Chapter Q was hostess to the visiting
members OF the order. Many elegant gowns
were seen at the reception, which was held
| at the Chamberlain hotel from to IL.
First Time for Trusts.
! For the first time the report on the de-
posts in trust companies OF Iowa figure ir
| the report of the state auditor on the de-
posits The old law affected state and
savings banks. The consolidated report
shows the total deposits In the state.
The report as made by the auditor shows
| that there is on deposit in the 81 savings
| banks, 259 state banks and twelve trus
| companies at the close of business April
10. 1907, a total of 500 1858, 3si.S2. The same
statement shows that the deposits in stat'
and savings banks alone as compared will
the statement at the close of business
January %, 1907, has increased by N2,lH
/ 1850. The deposits OF the various classe'
OF institutions is as follows: Trust com
panies S57I7 2S7 81 state banks, $50, $50. 100 81
savings banks. 1870 1851. The compare
tive statement shows that for the stat'
and savings banks over the statement Of
January 90 there has been decrease Of
S2S5, $50 in the amount due other banks
an increse Of 81, $4,000 in the capital stock
a decrease OF S16l 51S in the surplus and ar
increase OF 81, 1872 in the undivided