Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-01

LII AhJul ASs suSIdlHsu upon Lnom, but
1t would be slow town indeed that
could not keep UP with rotting wood
unreasonably slow. and that needs
waking up In some way" Judgment
for plaintiff was affirmed.
INTERFERENCE WITH BUsl-
NESS. A wealthy banker, prominent
In his locality, in Minnesota village
set about to monopolize the BARRIERS
trade, and to collect the gleanings
from the harvest of growing whiskers
into little hair lined mattress of his
own. In Tuttle VS.. Buck, 119 North
western Reporter, GAG, the complaint
alleges, in substances that defendant,
banker, and man Of influence in the
community, maliciously established a
barber shop, employed a barber to
carry On the business, and used his
personal influence to attract customers
from the plaintiffs shop, not for the
purpose OF serving any legitimate in
terest of his own, but for the sole pur-
pose OF maliciously injuring the plain
tiff, whereby plaintiffs business was
ruined. In deciding whether such al
legations state cause of action, the
supreme court of Minnesota lays
down the general proposition that to
divert to ones self the customers of a
rival by the offer Of goods at lower
prices Is, in general, justiflable as fair
competition. But when man starts
an opposition place Of business. not
for the sake of profit to himself, but
regardless of loss to himself, and for
the sole purpose Of driving his COM
petitor out of business, and with the
intention Of himself retiring upon the
accomplishment of his malevolent pur-
pose, he is guilty of wanton wrong
and an actionable tort.
DIMINUTION OF EARNING CA
PAC1TY OF TRAMP. One of our
American leisure class, with rowing
proclivities and distaste for toll,
having met friends, was regaled with
intoxicants. Resuming his travels, no
had progressed about two miles along
the railroad track, when he was over
come with lethargy and drowsiness,
and, having seated himself on a cross
tie, soon lapsed into Inconsistencies
While so seated he was struck and in
jured by an engine, the operatives OF
which had discovered him in full time
to avoid the accident The trial Judge
charged the jury that he would be en-
titled to recover just as much IL lie
were tramp as II he were a man a
great deal different. The court of
appeals of Georgia In Central Of
Georgia Ry. Co. vs.. Moore, SO South
western Reporter, 642 held that the
fact that defendant was tramp was
material, not only on the question of
his credibility as a witness but also
in measuring his damages.
SALE OF LIQUOR AS CONTRARY
TO WORD OF THE BIBLE. In tho
endeavor to defeat the granting of a
liquor license, appellant urged that the
sale of intoxicating liquors to be drunk
as beverage at the place Of sale was
destructive to the public health and so
Inherently immoral that no law uphold
ing 1t was valid, either under the fed
eral or the Connecticut constitution.
he further contended that as the peo-
pie of the state, in the preamble of
their constitution, gratefully acknowl-
edge the good providence of God In
having permitted them to enjoy free
government, this is a recognition of
God as the source Of that government;
that the Bible contains the Work Of
Cod: that 1t condemns the sale Of
intoxicating liquors as beverage;
and therefore that the state cannot
permit 1t on any terms. In appeal OF
Allyn, II Atlantic Reporter, 794, the
Connecticut supreme court Of errors
held that even when, In the eerly his
tory Of the state, the Bible was rule
Of political government, it was never
considered to contain any absolute pro-
hibition Of such business as that for
which the license now in question was
granted.
ORDINANCE PREVENTING USE
OF RENTED PREMISES. Promises,
including corridor, Office, bar, barber
shnp ctpar stand opd bill;ard roo,D.