Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-05-05

A dispatch from Humboldt, says
about two years ago two headed calf
was born on the farm of Matt Sample,
near that town. Some one suggested
that they ought to make something out
of it, so they had the animal killed and
properly mounted. Then l.. L. Sample,
son of Matt, went about the county
with little tent, showing it. Finally
they addeu four legged rooster. The
enterprise prospered and filed the
young mans head with visions. of the
glory of Barnum falling to his lot.
Last fall he married girl in Kansas
who had some wealth and with the
proceeds of the calf and rooster show
they organized one ring circus. They
gave their first exhibition at Humboldt
few days ago and surprised people
with what they had gotten together.
1t is really meritorious little show.
They now start ont for tour west in
to Dakota. And all from two head
ed calf They are good, respectable
people and everyone wishes them well.
president of Penn college as Oskaloosa,
has been appointed secretary of the
American Arbitration and Peace society
and in few days he and his family
will remove to Boston, where he will
assume the duties of his new position.
In view of this fact, Mr.. and Mrs.
Trueblood were given reception at
Penn college chapel by the students
and citizens generally. The attend
ance was very large, showing the high
esteem in which he is held. Mr.. True
blood delivered short but very touch
ing address, reviewing his work and
life in Oskaloosa, and expressing the
gratitude of himself and family for
the manifest good will of the people.
Not only Oskaloosa, but the state, ex-
periences a great loss in the removal of
DR.. Trueblood, for he ranks high as
minister, scholar and educator in Iowa,
and even beyond her borders; and it is
earnestly to be hoped that the tide of
time may some day bear him back to
us again to renew his residence here.
In the case of Hopper & Mcneil
against the Chicago Milwaukee & st.
Paul railroad at Sioux City, the jury
rendered a verdict giving triple dam
ages against the company. The suit
raises the whole question of the valid
ity of the rates established by the Iowa
railroad commissioners in 1883 and it is
the first case of the kind. For year
the companies refused to accept the
commissioners schedule and demanded
the old rates, which were higher.
This case was to recover the difference
of 5000 on shipments during that time.
1t was on trial for week and was
hotly contested. The company raised
the question of the unreasonableness
of the commissioners schedule and put
on the witness stand many high rail
road officials, among them the traffic
managers of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul and the Chicago & North
western and other companies, but they
were unable to show that the rates
were non-compensatory. The case is
really test, as there are thousands of
similar cases in this state. The COM
pany appealed from the verdict and
will fight to the highest court.
Articles of incorporation have been
| filed with the secretary of state by the
| following: The Davenport Cooperative
bank with capital stock of $4,000, 900.
The first directors are r. Kraus, M. L.
Marks, f. j. Babcocls, j. S. Wylie, L.
I'll. Miller, IL. V. Seippert, j. ID. Brock
man, w. III. Fernald, Charles n. Voss
and G. a. Roster. The Iowa Fire In
surance company of Des Moines with a
capital stock of 500, 900. The incor-
porators are f. T. Campbell, James N.
Miller, George f. Henry, Theodore +.
Gatchell, NJ. Ii. Langon, j. Tone, Phil
lip Schaller and Simon Casady. +. Il.
Campbell is president and James n,
Miller vice president. One fourth of
the capital stock, s25,0O0 has been in
investigated by the auditor and found
to be all right and the company is ready
for business. The Josselyn Taylor
company of Cedar Rapids, to do an
stock of S25, 1000 The Hawkeyc Clerks
association of Des Moines. The incor-
porators are Horace seely, b. II.
Barnes, r. L. Chase, w. A. Call, C. w.
Domback and these gentlemen consti-
tute the first board of directors
1t is probable that some of the inside
workings of at least ono of the great
Sioux City boom companies will soon
be aired in court in such Il way as to
reflect no credit on some of the leading
citizens A petition has been filed in
the district court of Woodbury. county
in the case of Walter III. Thompson VS..
+. C. Henderson, VIM. Gordon, Geo. w.
Felt, d. Il. Hedges, c. II. Hammett
and Henry II. Hill, who were the pro-
jectors of the Leeds company. This
company has grown rich in building
the town of Leeds in the suburbs of the
city. The plaintiff alleges that he
bought thirty shares of stock in the
Leeds Company, paying their full par
value of 500 share, that the company
had an authorized capital of 81, 500, 900,
of which it was asserted by the defen-
dants that 81, 200, 900 was fully paid up,
but in fact, that the million dollars in
stock simply represented the alleged
value of 613 acres of land which had
become the property OF the company.
AS the capital stock had not been paid
up and his shares of stock are now
worthless, Thompson wants back the
s., 900, which he claims, was paid be-
cause of the Misrepresentation. The
trial of such case is likely to expose
the methods of land and improvement
companies in building "boom" towns
on wind.
Fatal Powder Explosion.
BRISTOL, Tenn, May by an cx-
plosion of three kegs of powder at Big
Stone Gap, near here, Zach Wells and
his nephew, Tom Darnell, were fatally
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