Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-07-08
MORE SALOONS
KNOCKED OUT
BY HIGH COURT
Ruling That Withdrawal Of
Withdrawals Illegal Drys
Say Will Chose Bars in
Creston and Oskaloosa.

| LES MOlucS. July i.-I0dlOOH COuScu
petitions in fifteen cities in Iowa nov
in litigation are affected by the de
cision of the supreme court yesterda.
that counterwithdrawal or a with
drawl Of withdrawal from a salool
consent petition is illegal and does no
restore the signer's name to the origi
nal petition. Attorneys for the anti
saloon league made this statemen
here today.
The operation of seventy-five saloon!
and one distillery in ten cities Of lows
rests almost entirely upon this issue
The cities and saloons where the f1gh
is almost entirely based upon the
counterwithdrawals are as follows. &C
cording to the anti-saloon league:
Creston, Union county. ten saloons
Oskaloosa. Mahaska county, twenty
one saloons. one diStil1ery.
Fort Dodge, Webster county, seven
teen saloons.
DEBORAH Winneshek county, eleven
saloons.
Calmar. Winneshiek county. two
saloons. # sa
Fl. Atkinson Winneshiek county,
two saloons.
Castalia. Winneshiek county, one
saloon.
Jackson Junction Winneshiek coun-
ty, four saloons.
Ossian, Winneshitk county, four sa.
looms.
spillville, Winneshiek county, three
saloons.
In these towns, the drys claim, the
petition was held sufficient only on
the grounds that signers who with
drew from the petitions signed with
drawal from the original withdrawal,
an act now held illegal by the court.
Other Supreme Court Decisions.
A widows one.third share of her
husbands estate, as we'll as a life in
terest in any property he may have
left her, is exempt from taxation under
the Iowa collateral inheritance tax
law, according to an opinion handed
down by the supreme court.
The action bringing out the decision
was practically test case. brought
for the purpose of securing basis up.
on which to compute assessments UNI
der the collateral inheritance tax act.
Philip 6. Weiting of New York state
died leaving valuable property hold
ings in Iowa. He gave his wife an
undivided one-third interest in all his
property. made several other gifts and
then provided that his wife should
have all that remained OF his estate
after the several gifts had been made.
The total value of the property in
Iowa was placed at $4,000. Treas
urer of State Morrow sought to collect
the collateral inheritance tax upon
this sum.
Mrs. Weiting, as executor, paid I'M
der protest and an action was immed-
lately begun In the courts by her to Sc
cure a refund of part of the money
paid to the state.
She claimed that her one-third was
exempt, as was her undivided interest
in the residue of the property. &.
The lower court held her position to
be correct and the supreme court up
holds the lower court. A slight modi-
fication in the lower courts decree Is
made by reason Of an error in the
computation of figures.
In all. the supreme court handed
down thirty-nine opinions Few are
of general interest.
The conviction OF Henry Thomas of
Des Moines of murder in the first de-
gree for the killing Of Harry l.. Cook,
June 18, 1910, was affirmed. Thomas
drew a life sentence at the hands OF
Judge Lawrence DeGraff. He stabbed
Cook in controversy over the amount
of time he, Thomas, had put in on
job.
]. E. Gilmore OF Jones county. con-
victed of second degree murder for the
alleged performing Of criminal oper.
alton which caused the death Of Ger
trude Jackson, is given new trial by
the high court. Errors in the admis-
sion of evidence made during the trial
by the lower court, is the occasion
for the reversal. 49,