Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-02-16


prize for butter was awarded to Jeffer-
son Calvin of Calvin Park. Ills, 81 per
cent, and the second to John Clelland,
Parkersburg, Iowa, 96.S per cent. Clel-
land will protest to the next conven-
ton that Calvin did not show his own
butter and is not a member of the asso.
citation.
The attendance ut the National But
ter and Cheese convention was fully
1000 Papers were read on the butter
inc problem and favorlng rigid govern
mene inspection. President Little of
the Illinois Dairy association, consid-
cred the present law defective. State
Dairy Commissioner Topper of Iowa,
favored placing the enforcement of the
law in the hands OF revenue collectors.
A committee reported set of resolu-
tons declaring that the fraudulent sale
of oleomargarine threatens to destroy
the dairy interests; that the present
law does not restrict the sale; express
ing hearty sympathy with the work of
the Dairymen's National Protective as
socldtlon III iennSylVanla.
Reliable reports indicate that the
fate of the Mason City & Fort Dodge
road is finally settled ami by July lst
the Great Western will be running its
line into Mason City having purchased
of the Iowa Central the nine miles of
road between Mason City and Manly.
A three per cent tax was voted to the
Great Western to build into Mason
City, but tins they did not use. The
report is also to the effect that they
will absorb the Mason City road eX-
tending from Lehigh on to the south
west to Omaha. This would Indicate
that the Winona & South western will
be compelled to look for some other
southern outlet, probably by the way
of Marshalltown,
A Denver evening paper prints
story under n Pueblo date regarding
n. c. Creed, the millionaire, who dis
covered the camp of that name, to the
effect that yong man, said to be
Floyd Harvey, Cree DIS nephew, has
been trying to blackmail Creed. 1t is
told that Harvey said he blackmailed
Creed, by threatening him with muir
der, which Harvey alleged Creed COM
United twenty years ago in Jasper
county, Iowa. Creed, when inter-
viewed, SAID he received several mys
terious letters, and made an unsuccess-
full attempt to capture the writer. He
empEatically denies having had any
trouble in Iowa. A mysterious con-
nection is the sudden death of young
Harvey on train Kansas en- route to
his home in Iowa. His death was
caused by poison, supposed TO be self
administered.
Sam King, of Des Moines, had served
two years in the penitenitary. Hew
regarded as an all around tough and
associated with gang of like charac-
ter. A few nights ago Frank Prouty
and two companions were going home
when they were accosted by the gang
and asked for money for drinks. Prouty
gave first 10 cents and then 50 cents,
but this was not enough and the gang
started to use force. King struck
Prouty, knocking him down. Prouty
got up and with his companions man
aged to escape. Meeting a policeman,
he was told of the affair. A
few moments later the gang came along
and King was arrested. The patrol
wagon was called, but King in response
to the urgings of his gang tried to
escape. The patrolman told him to
halt, but King continued to run and
two bullets were sent after him, both
of which took effect. He was taken to
the station, where he died the next af.
ternoon.
A dispatch from Mexico, Mo-, says:
The news of the reprieve of j. X. Cum
berland, TO have been hanged at Har-
Ian, Iowa, for the murder of James
Robertson and son, has resulted in the
discovery of new Glow to the real
C. ninal, according to story toli by
Cumberland's relatives. Cumberland
married, while III Iowa, Miss David
son, whose brother with Cumberland
worked for the Robertson's. In the
search for testimony to aid her brother,
Mrs. George Boomer, nee Cumberland,
says she secured from William David
son written confession that he and
man named Cristman killed the Robert
sons while Cumberland was absent
from the place. According to the con-
fession, upon Cumberland's return he
searched for Davidson and Christman
and found them IN the barn making ar
rangements to dispose OF the bodies
which lay upon the floor. The two
desperate men told Cumberland that if
he did not join in the plot and assist in
burying the bCdcs they would kill
him. After the bodies were buried in
the bed of the creek, all three men dis
persed, but Davidson and Cumberland
were captured. TO save his brother
in-law Cumberland confessed and Da-
wilson was discharged from custody.
Davidson came to Fulton, Mo-, and
while there he informed his wife he
known and save Cumberland. David
son, it is said, Immediately left the
country. When Mrs Boomer was asked
why her brother confessed to the
crime, she said he was weak-minded
and thought he might as well hang as
his brother-in- law. This is the first
publicity Mrs. Boomers story has had.
Fire in the Continental hotel at Gen.
tervllle, at 4 o'clock in the morning,
burned that structure to the ground.
Mrs. Mckee, the landlady, in her eff
forts to arousc the guests, became shut
off from all other means of egress and
was compelled dump from third story
window. The shock resulted fatally.
One man, name unknown, tried to get
through q window, bu was seen to
fall back into the flames. VIM. Hale,
an ottumwa travelling man, was seri-
ously injured by jumping to the side
walk. Loss, $40, 900