Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-02-25


certain date for the commencement
Dorothy. Mr. Kittleman proceeded to
ask for a writ of certiorari which
vermillion denied, but the supreme
court has reversed the decision and
holds that Kittleman was entitled to
the job until removed according to
the soldiers preference law.
The court does not hold az to
whether the board had the power to
abolish the office altogether. But as
long as 1t exists and as long as no I
cargo of incompetency or dishonesty
applies to Mr.. Kittleman the board
cannot discharge him, according to
the decision of the highest court. The |
board supposed that as Dorothy was
an old soldier, also, he could be sub
stituted for Kittleman.
The court holds that as between |
veterans of the war appointing officers
may select at discretion without
formal investigation or finding as to
their respective qualifications, that
only being required when civilian
and veteran apply for the same
place. But no soldier can be removed
from position of unfixed or indefinite
tenure except on trial as provided in
the soldiers preference law, even if
another soldier apply for the place
as in the case of Appanoose county.
All phone Lines Must Pay Taxes.
Attorney General Byers of Iowa has
obtained an order from Judge ELS
worth at Cedar Rapids which settles
the mooted question as to whether
purely mutual telephone companies
are amenable to the tax assessments
levied by the state executive council
A writ of mandamus issued by Judge
Ellsworth at the behest of Second
Assistant Attorney General Cosson re-
qufres that the board of supervisors
certify to the assessments in all
cases. This ends the defiance of the
| Linn supervisors.
The case in question was that oil
| the State VS.. Fuhmeister ct al, the
board of supervisors and the auditor
| of Linn county. 1t was represented
| that some 200 telephone companies
| to pay the taxes assessed by the
executive council, as was their duty.
Taxes were not paid in 1902, 1903 and
Il
4 the spH levied in 1904, the state fail.
ed to receive approximately $4,000
in taxes in the three years,
The case had been pending for sey
efai years and was watched closely
| throughout the state, it being the
hope Of many of the smaller eom
panies that the contention of the Linn
county farmers would be upheld, The
farmers commended that they should
not be compelled to pay taxes as tele
phone companies when they represent
only band of neighbors with private
telephone connections. Nearly every
county has from so to 100 of these
smaller companies. AS rule all
have met the levies, with the excep
ton of the more than 200 Linn county
i associations.
Atlantic Saloon Men Hit.
Saloon men at Atlantic received I
black eye from the supreme cour,
when the celebrated census case was
decided and the injunction against
the work of Charles w. Needles, cen
and fraudulent.
an fraudulent
The injunctions against the execu
tive council and secretary of state pro
hibiting them from publishing
Needles false figures remains in force
There were ten saloons in Atlantic
and about 5000 population. If there
was over this number of Inhabitants
1t took only so per cent of the voters
to secure petition of consent to put
the mulct tax in operation, if under
this nunher 50 per gent; Needles
padded the returns and showed a pop
Mlation of 5,131
Examiners Work Together.
National and state bank examiners
have devised new system of examin
ing institutions where there are state
and national banks under the same
management. They have arranged SC
that they will examine the state and
national banks in these cases stimuli
taneously, the state bank examiner
inspecting the state institution and
the national examiner the national
institution. This system was arranged
to prevent possible transfer of Sc
curities from one institution to the
other and thus perhaps conceal the
true condition of the institutions.
Drug Stores Enjoined.
Forty injunctions We're issued by
Judge Brennan restraining that mum.
Der of druggists from the illegal sale
of liquor in Des Moines. The injunc
tions will remain in force until Sent
Z, 1909.
At that time If representatives Of
the Anti-Saloon league can show that
hn drrrcr tricfc hor xyi,1o ~. ~.
) order, then the injunctions will be
made permanent.
This action of Judge Brennan was
on an agreement between the drug.
gists and Attorney Odell for the Anti
saloon league.
Island Subject of Litigation.
Los Angeles, Cal, Feb 1.-THE Is
land of Alcatraz, in San Francisco bay
which some years ago passed from thu
ownership of the state into that of thu
national government. is the subject o
q suit in the superior court, In which
A. x. Moropoulos and others seek Il
secure the return of valuable papers
concerning the island from Attorne.
Edmund Burke of Los Angeles Til,
case came up Saturday
Road Agent Murdered.
Birmingham, Ala. Feb. 1S.-Special
Agent j. H. Crawford of the Southern
railway was shot by unknown persons
and the body placed on the tracks al
Twenty seyenth street. where it was
run over by an incoming passenger
train. No clew has been found as tc
the perpetrators of the crime