Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-01-07
In the district court at Mt. Pleasant


to Van Beek's alleged ineligibility. 1t
is claimed by some of Mr.. Van Beek's
republican neighbors that he is not a
citizen of the United States, that he
was born in Holland and never natural
lied. This discovery was not made I'M
til recently and Mr.. Perine, the sheriff
had already vacated the county build
ing and given up the same to Mr. Van
Beck. Mr.. Van Beck was elected
sheriff last fall over Mr.. Perine, the
present sheriff, who being candidate
at that time, was probably the only one
legally before the people, and in case
Van Beck is ineligible Perine will
serve the county two years.
A notorious character known as
Thos. M. Cummins hired horse and
saddle of one OF the liverymen, at Liv-
ermore, for two days, saying he wanted
to visit VIM. Edison, east of town, and
also go to Renwick collecting
Nothing has been seen of the man or
horse up to this date. Mr., Turner
learned he had been to neither of the
places for which he had hired the
horse, and it is now learned that he is
a man who broke Jail at Livermore
some time ago, being in for theft
Cummins is about medium size and
weight, light compexion, smooth face
and about 20 years old. The horse
was black with two white hind feet,
slim built, They left Livermore going
east and there is little doubt but that
he has stolen the horse and will not re-
appear unless in custody of an officer.
He is also wanted in that county to
complete his sentence for theft.
The Iowa Homestead last winter Of
fered three prizes for the best TIN &c
acres of corn grown during the year
1891. A large number of persons COM
peted, and the results of the ten largest
yields were reported as follows, the
first three getting the prizes: William
M. Hustled, Des Nloines, Polk county,
BAG bushels and G5 pounds; James Penn
BILE, Wapel o, Louisa county, 3l5
bushels and SO pounds; J. w. Rynerson,
Yorktown, Page county, 300 bushels
and pounds; A. f. Whyte, Dewitt,
Clinton county, 20l bushels; Frank
Wright, Anamosa, Jones county, 2s5
bushels and 81 pounds; j. d. Beldap,
Amber, Jones county, PIT bushels and
SIS pounds; A. ID. Zimmerman, Avoca
Pottawattamie county, 277 bushels and
20 pounds; j. A. Irving, Madrid, Boone
county. 27o bushels and ga pounds; J..
A. DeFord, Mount Sterling, Van Buren,
county, PCS bushels and 80 pounds, j.
c. Frazey, Shelby, Shelby county, 262
bushels and IA pounds.
The bogus telegram racket was sue
cessfully worked on Miss Rachel Lunde-
gren. Miss Lundegren has been
working for some time at Argen-
tine, Kansas. Recently a man brought
telegram to her announcing that her
father, S. N. Lundegren, who lives south
of Leon, had suddenly died. There
were charges on the message of S.
Miss Lundegren was greatly excited, of
course, and paid the charges without a
word and took the first train for Leon
She arrived at Leon, and hurried to the
residence of Judge Harvey, where her
sister works Her sister was greatly
surprised when she was told her father
was dead, and they at once started for
home, where they found their father
enjoying his usual good health. The
scoundrel who caused this hard work
ing young lady to pay all the expenses
of a trip home, as well as what was
paid for the bogus message, should suf-
fer the extreme penalties of the law,
but it is very doubtful if he is ever
heard from. Persons should be very
careful about paying charges on tele-
grams unless they are acquainted with
the person delivering the message.
The third session of the Association
of Pioneer Lawmakers of Iowa, has
been called for the 10th and 18th days
of February next. The membership in
cludes all senators and representatives
who served in the legislature from the
earliest territorial days upto 1872; men,
bers of all the Iowa Constitutional con-
vention, members of the old board of
education, body which existed few
years after the adoption of our present
constitution, but which long ago ex-
pired by constitutional limitations;
United States senators and members of
the house, governors and other state
of ind Of hn ~ nd nf1s-
GERS of the state legislature, all of
whom were in the public service of
Iowa during or prior to the date above
mentioned. The coming reunion prom
ises to be one of very deep interest.
Many speakers of prominence will tell
of the doings of Iowa's early legisla-
lures, as witnessed and participated in
by them. The executive committe at
Des Moines consists of Hon. Messrs.
George q. Wright, b. f. Cue, and p.
M. Casady, who will spare no effort in
their power to give all Corners the
heartiest welcome.
Cherokee is just indulging in the mys-
terry of a CHASTITY find and the people
are speculatlng on supposed murder
horror which must have taken place
not many years ago. Cyrus Cavary I'M
earthed portions of human skeleton
on the river bank just above the mouth
of Railroad creek. The bones unearthed
were the left pelvic bone, second verte-
bre of the neck, two lower bones of
the left arm, humerus or bone of arm
above elbow, lower jaw, skull and
femur or thigh bone of left leg. The
thigh bone was in two pieces, having
been amputated Immediately below the
ball and socket hip joint of the left leg.
The bone had been sawed off obliouelv
at an angle of perhaps forty-five de-
grees. According to medical authority
there is nothing in surgery that would
ever call for such an operation. Fur
thermore the teeth marks of the saw
were very coarse, which would natur-
ally give rise to the opinion that the
work was not that of surgeon, but
had been performed by some person
with an ordinary wood saw and by one