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DISTRICT COURT
NEXT MONDAY
September Term Will Open Here on
the 18th With Hon. Judge
Springer on the Bench.
LARGE NUMBER OF
CASES ON CALENDAR
Eight State Causes Are Noted.
Jurors Will Appear Tuesday,
September 19.
The September term of the district
Court for Winneshiek county opens
here next Monday with Hon. Judge
Springer, of New Hampton, on the
bench. ✓
The court calendar contains *a
large number of cases this term, 61
probate causes, 65 old causes, 53
new causes and 8 state causes.
The state cases on the calendar
are:
- State of lowa vs. Claire E. Mc-
Kinney.
State of lowa vs. B. F. Knees
kern, motion for new trial.
State of lowa vs. B. F. Kneeskern.
Indictment.
State of lowa vs. Peter H. Forde.
Preliminary.
State of lowa vs. Peter Johnson.
Preliminary.
State of lowa vs. George Lakin.
Preliminary.
State of lowa vs. Clyde Brown.
Preliminary.
State of lowa vs. Leonard M ddle
brook. Preliminary.
The following causes have been
noted for trial:
In probate: Matter of final report
and petition for discharge in the
estate of Julius Hoffos, deceased.
State causes: State of lowa vs.
Claire E. McKinney.
Civil causes: —Conrad & Kuihn vs.
Morris Meyer, appeaJ from, J. P.
court.
—Mww-Mwef-VN: A. Er-C<wwa^.—
E. W. Cutting vs. J. J. Daly.
E. W. Cutting vs. Karoline Kippe
and Einar Kippe.
L. E. Eaton vs. Curtis Miller.
F. H. Nagel vs. Wm. Larson.
Nels Nelson vs. Gunder Tinderholt.
The National Bank of Decorah vs.
W. A. Robison.
Ruth Mott vs. Claire E. McKinney.
J. H. Logsdon vs. H. J. Beatty.
> T O COLD WEATHER THIS FALL
Indians Predict An Open Winter.
With Nice Weather Until
December.
A Selkirk, Manitoba, dispatch dat
ed Sept. 1, says: “An open fall with
no cold weather until late in Decem
ber was predicted today by Harry
Prince, a grandson of the great Ind
ian Chief, Peguis, who spoke with all
confidence of a man who knew what
be was talking about. He based his
opinion principally on the position
and movements of the stars and de
clared the dipper is exceptionally
slow in its turning movements this
season.
“This fact, he stated, is an un
failing sign of a long continuance of
waim weather. Other signs, not so
infallible in themselves, but taken in
conjunction w:th the stars, in his
opinion, clinch the matter. They are
the exceptionally cool nights that
have prevailed this summer; the fact
that ducks are later than usual m
coming back from the north and the
late hatching season.”
Abolit on of the office of township
assessor and substitution in place of
the present scheme a plan whereby
even person would submit his owii
fax return is under consideration y
the legislative tax committee of the
thirty ninth general assembly says
the Pes Moines Reg ster.
The finding of the committee on
the matter is to be presenter! to
the next legislature.
The plan would make it obi (r»-
lory for every taxpayer to send to
the county auditor a !'• 0
property and the valuewhe
“ The'otrice of county «««•' ' vo “''
pot be discontinued under the plan
under consideration, however.
When >ou come to know bat
densely populated the earth
"suckers," and how dense these
"sucker," are the wonder »
that so few men are honest, but tha
so many aie.
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Vol. XXVffl. DECORAH, WINNESHIEK COUN 1
May Abolish Office of Township
Assessor
KNEESKERN CASE
DECIDED SOON
State’s Resistance to B. F. Knees
kern’s Motion for New Trial
Now on File.
FILED SATURDAY
BY ATTY. J. A. NELSON
The Public Will Await With Inter
est the Outcome of This Fam
ous Case.
The state’s resistance to B. F.
Kneeskern motion for a new trial is
now on file. It made its appearance
at the county clerk’s office late Sat
urday evening, being filed by the
county attorney, J. A. Nelson.
The document is a long one and
is filled with many interesting epi
sodes.
The claims made by the defense
are taken up in order and every
point is either denied or explained.
From a hasty examination of the
bundle filed it represents a great
amount of invest gation and work.
The claimed misconduct of the jury
is answered by affidavits from all
twelve jurors, explaining that the
rulers used, were not vital in their
conclusions and that there was no
prejudice to defendant. Their re
lease before the close of the trial
Is justified by express consent on
the part of the defense and that
neither side asked to have them kept
together during the trial.
Attys. Sayre and Houck show how
their employment came about and
that their hand in the case did not
jeopardize the case, as they never
were attorneys for the defendant.
That one of the jurors had formed
an unqualified opinion is denied by
the juror in question and the re
cord of the examination is referred
to and made a part of the state’s
resistance.
• The newly discovered evidence is
taken up piece meal and lit is
claimed as to every item that if
used would not change the result.
Most of it is deni ed as being untrue.
The Christmas dinner at the cabin
in 1920 is given its former place as
the witness who changed his testi
mony, makes an affidavit for the
state that he was confused by par
ties approaching him, but that his
statements as given at the tiial were
,true.
Nels and Ward Duff are given
certificate to the effect that they
were at their home in Canoe town
ship and not at the cabin at the
time of the murder as claimed by
them.
Mrs. Fred Rice, the stepmother of
Irene, the murdered woman, was in
Decorah, where defendant could have
used her as a witness during the
trial.
That Geo. Moore and Elmer Van
Brocklin brought no gun to the
Charles Moore home the day before.
That Geo. Moore had no reloading
tools.
That the Tatros’ claim of finding
a place on Dec 28, 1921, where there
had been digging, and where they
stirred the earth is attacked by af
fidavits Ci others who were there
that day and saw no such people,
and the weather man gives <tbe con
dition of the weather as being an
exitremly cold day and the ground
frozen.
Hozen Rice, a step brother of
Irene, recites h's experiences as a
spy for the defense at the Van
Brocklin home, and thinking he was
not doing right, he quit his job and
gave’ the state a recital of the ev
ents that lead up to and transpired
during the weeks he served as a de
tective. John Mullaney, of Mason
City, is frequently mentioned in his
affidavit
The above appear to be the prin-
cipal points, others have their place.
The judge who sat at the trial, Hon.
H. E. Taylor, will pass upon the
motion, sometime after
which is the time for filing de*.
fendant’s reply to the state’s resis
tance. Meanwhile the public will
await with considerable interest the
outcome of this famous case.
The joy-ride is sp called because
it so often ends in a gloom ride
with friends of the victim walking
slow behind.
Old-fashioned women speaks of
them as bobbed heads,” instead
of ‘ bobbed hair.”
ESKIMO STAR
AT THE STAR
“Nanook of the North,” Pathe Pic
ture to be Presented at Star
by Revillon Fr'eres, Ik
Masterpiece.
ONE DAY ONLY
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
Special Matinee Will be Given at 3:30
Six Big Reels of a Great
Picture.
Manager R. J. Relf of the Star the
atre has booked another great picture
for Friday, Sept. 15, only, with a
special matinee at 3:30, shown at
regular price®. The picture is “Na
nook of the North,” and one that is
full of interest from start to finish.
The New York Journal has the fol
lowing to say about it.
Education and entertainment along
the most liberal lines are joyously
blended in “Nanook of the North,” at
the Capital Theatre this week. There
is stark tragedy visible in every foot
of the film from one viewpoint;
there is continuous mirth, from an
other aspect, and under it all there
is a profound, sociological and philo
sophical basis.
All this is in six reels that show a
day in the life of an Esquimau hun
ter and his family of four. They
solve the housing problem when lost
in the snow by building a snow hut.
The heating question doesn’t trouble
them because there is no heat. Do
they pay doctor’s bills? Never, for
there aren’t any doctors and the
children literally weep for that old
fashioned panacea, castor oil! Yes,
they lick the spoon that feeds them!
Whether the parents indulge in a
daily bath is not revealed, though
the visible evidence is against it, but
the kids get theirs every morning,
when their mother polishes them off
in the same fashion that primitive
fruit peddlers put a high gloss ©w
apples.
Walrus hunting and the landing of
a monster, seal spearing through the
ice, fishing with a fly of ivory, sled
less belly-whopping down steep hills
—these are a few of the peaks of
this film of which the spectators feel
themselves sitting literally on the
top of the world.
MtAdoo For President
New York, —William G. McAdoo,
former secretary of the treasury, is
an avowed candidate for the demo
cratic nomination for president in
i 924, William C. Lyons, o*f Denver,
a former Colorado state senator and
sergeant at arms at the last three
democratic conventions declared here
today.
“What man has done, man can
do,” according to the pld copybooks,
but that does not mean that what
any man has done, any man can do
as the teachers tried to make you
believe.
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OPINION, DECOEAH, IOWA
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W'j Play Golf With Dollar Bills
a succ* e latest now is “Office Golf,
have looks like the mania for th
ber of will spread, especially amon
rears gallows who might have a fe l
team a j°^ ar bills. The game is tol
iatiged: V the following:
ette Wer t^ie “b° ss ” tramping ove
W leaving the rest of the foie
earifca ~ ‘ ** - ~ |
Captain Bauder, Algyer and Hen-,
ning form the nucleus of a fast, J
shifty buckfield. Johnson, Sheel,
Stevens ami Buenneke are among
those who are fighting it out for the
other position.
The addition of Haslip, Bollman
Ramlo, Olson and Hagen to thi
squad has greatly bolstered up the
line and with Thorson, Peck and
Grant all veterans should give the
Red and Blue a strong forward wall.
Viste from last year’s baekfield has
the edge on the other wing position.
He is fast, experienced and clever on
receiving passes.
With the opening of the season
but two weeks away the high school
authorities are now busy laying plans
for the distribution of season tickets.
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A cat harm a mouse as
long, as Me mouse keeps out of the
Everybody is a mouse
fojvSome cat.
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A lot of “bathing beauties” ain’t
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j Notice to Parents, Directors and
1 j School Patrons
! Any person having control of any
g
vv J child of the age of seven to sixteen
(1 | year inclusive, in pioper physical and
j mental condition who has not com
:r J pie ted the eighth grade shall cause
« i-uch child to attend schooj for at
j The words "of ail three were fistf neu j
to with much interest, and the stock- j
j holders were all well pleased with the
1 result of the meeting. If oil or gas c
is struck here it will be the biggest i
thing that ever happened around *
here, and all those owning a little (
share of stock, can be satisfied that s
they will be able to buy plenty of
coal this winter.
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“In no event, should an accused 1
criminal be sentenced to death except
upon the most convincing evidence.
There should not be a shadow of
doubt of his guilt. Then when it is
sure that he took a human life with
premeditation and malice he ought to J
lose his own,” declared the Webster
City Freeman-Journal. “He is not
fit to live among men, and society
has the right to purge itself of his
presence. However, like all great
union problems, there are two sides
j to this question.”
You can’t have much sense with
out a sense of humor.
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NOTICE
The following will be voted upon
v Monday, Sept. 18, at school house
No. 3, Glenwood township from one
a
o’clock to five.
Shall the Bard of Directors of
■ Glenwood Township, Winneshiek
e County, lowa, issue bonds in the
,t: sum of $1,000.00 for the purpose of
aTuf tfteyan* die' tfrfcrlo tk fbuflU
in this section of lowa.
Collie dogs is another big feature
of this farm, Mr. Logsdon having
raised them for years for sale. They
are beautiful animals and are in big
demand from customers from all
sections.
DECORAH-CALMAR ROAI)
Bin Meeting Held Before Board
Yesterday. Will Establish Road.
A large delegation of people, num
bering about 75 appeared before the
board of supervisors yesterday in
the small court room in regard to
the Decorah-Calmar primary road.
Representatives from Calmar, Fort
Atkinson, Ossian, Castalia, Spillville,
Festina and several other places
were present. The people from the
southern part of the county want
the road pushed through.
The board has now decided to go
ahead with the work. The road wiH
be changed entirely, and will cut
through various farms. Of course,
these farm owners will be awarded
damages. They are Mary Lambert,
John Remta, Rose Remta, Mary
Krysan, Bergan Nesvik, A. J. Moen,
Geo. W. Wheatman, Lars Grobel, R-
J. Novotny, John Krysan, E. R»
Blount, Edwin G. Vick, and Geo.
Vine. The claims put in by these
people amounted to $35,000. The
board, though, awarded damages?
amounting to $8650, and also award
ed some cattle and horse ways. Of
course, there has been objections
raised about the amount allowed by
the board, and this matter has not
been settled yet, and will have to be
threshed out later. . *.
lowa Murderer Hung
Last Friday at the state’s prison
at Fort Madison Ira Pavey, Sioux
City gunman, paid with his life for
the murder of Claude Letner. He
mounted the step to the fallows with
a smile on his lips. “So long p ' *
erybody” he said as they fixed the
mask over his face. “Warden tell
my mother good-bye.’’ Pavey as
tounded those who watched the
hanging by his iron nerve. None of
them had ever seen an exhibition like
it before.
The gallows on which Pavey was
hung will remain in place until next
Fr day, when Eugene Weeks will
hang for the murder of George Fos
dick, Des Moines grocer.
A good many women who thought
they wished to be men’s equals, get
pretty mad when men treat them like
equals instead of like women.
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