The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-10-19
|ODAY'S SESSION
|OF FEDERAL court
k,and Jury Made its Report at Noon
Returning an Indictment
Against West Point
Man.
bTHER CIVIL MATTERS

H1THER CIVIL MATTERS
#n.murrer to Cross Bill In important
n Telephone Case Was Filed and
i VIII be Argued Tomorrow
Morning.
The grand jury for the October
term of the United States district
oourt completed its session at noon to-
n day. at which time report to Judge
Smith Mcpherson was made. An in
dctment was returned against Gus
4 Kaldihiter, hotel proprietor of West
Point charging him with selling liq-
nor without government license, to
which the common term of bootleg
q gingy is applied. The defendant has
entered a plea of guilty to the charge.
Two cases, one against William Brock
and another against Mike Mcdonald,
we're continued The grand jury was
discharged Judge Mcpherson ran
through the criminal docket and found
that there was nothing that required
a Jury trial, so he was at liberty to
dismiss the petit jurors at noon, also,
many of them being able to depart
for their respective homes on the
early afternoon trains.
Would Seize ketchup.
Marcellus l.. Temple, United States
attorney, has filed libel against 225
CAGES of ketchup, put up Tor Biklen,
Winzer Grocery Company OF Burling-
ton, Iowa, and shipped to there from
Indiana. 1t is charged in the libel
that the commodity is Illegally held
4 within jurisdiction of the court for
the southeastern Iowa district, and is
adulterated in violation of the act of
congress, approved June 80, 1906 An
order for the condemnation of this
goods is asked The United States
attorney asked court this morning to
transfer the case to Des Moines,
which Judge Mcpherson did, making
an order that the marshal publish and
4 give notice as in an admiralty pro-
h ceedings
$40 to Conscience Fund.
Judge Mcpherson is wondering who
the person is who sent him $40 in
currency with bare instructions that
the money be added to the conscience
fund.- The cash came from Tulia
Texas, or at least the letter was
postmarked there. The $40 bill was
attached to sheet of note paper be
low which was written Conscience
Fund" The letter was addressed to
Des Moines and was forwarded tt
Judge Mcpherson. The bill in the
letter was brand new and was one o.
the issue of the First National bank
OF Tulia, Texas. Judge Mcpherson
was not sure whether the sender in
tended 1t as payment by some per
son who had at some time touched
MIN personally, or whether it was in
Tended to make good some speculation
from the government, but he decided
10 send the money to Washington
that II might be credited to the gov
ernment's conscience fund which Is
open to all contributions of this kline
and no questions asked.
Demurrer in Ewers Case.
IN the federal court this morning
GEORGE B. Stewart, assistant United
states attorney. and w. j. Robert.
VI thls city argued demurrer IL
he case Of Frank j. Ewers VS. H. o
"ever, as collector of internal rev
ehte The suit is brought to recover
sio6 upon the allegation that an il
iesal tax and penalty was collected
ron him on the ground that he wa.
wholesale dealer in oleomargarine
Inc demurrer raises the point tina
10 appeal was made for the abate
nieht of the tax. The government viii
aiso attempt to show that the loca
eutcher was wholesaler of the
commodity The circumstances are
novel Frank J. Ewers, as butcher
ran out of oleomargarine and borrow
gu What Is known as an unbroker
package, this containing a sufficien
quantity to class him as wholesal
o. IL was not purchased, however, fol
w money changed hands and later al
IDENTICAL package was returned tx
MS brother from whom the origina
poffowing was done. The plaintiff
Aao paid retail tax ting to 81
year. The wholesale tax is 5000 ;
sear' or 500 for six months, and this
WIN five per cent fine for tel
uay $ delay in paying and one pc
vent for the following month wer
.oliocted, under protest from tn,
butcher Following the argument
~ me case was submitted to Judge Nc
Pherson.
Telephone Case
me attorney for the Mississippi
'aiiey Telephone COMPANY has file,