Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-01-31


weather which has characterized the
winter up to the recent blizzard, made
the farmers lax about preparing for
old-fashioned winter weather.
Judge Hustled, of the Dubuque coun-
ty district court, has created sensa-
ton on the manner in which probate
law is administered in Dubuque coun-
ty. He said Dubuque county was in
this respect the worst in the state
The occasion was the presentation OF
a claim for 81, 700 by the administrators
of a certain estate, in which only S77O
could be accounted for as actual ex-
penses. Hereafter administrators will
be held to strict account.
Charles Smith, of jefferson, who was
placed in the county Jail at Boone in
October for shooting man in Ogden
named Mccall, and who in making
successful attempt to break out of jail,
brutally beat the jailer's daughter, and
who was subsequently recaptured IN
Des Moines' was brought before the
Boone county grand jury and indicted
for attempting to commit murder in
the Mccall case and assault for beating
the jailers daughter He was tried
before the petit jury, but that body
disagreed. They were out twenty-four
hours and the vote stood eleven for
conviction and one for acquittal, and
Smith is granted new trial.
Detectives and police at Des MONIES
have unearthed a remarkable system
of robbery in the heart of the city.
Eight or ten children are implicated in
it and are the offenders. They form
Jesse James gang of Indian fighters,
and none of the members of the re-
markable company has fifteen years on
his shoulders. A little colored fellow
gave it all away to the police, and when
the other boys confessed they were ar
rested also. They had been robbing a
storage house on Second street, the
lower floor of which had been occupied
by the Union Mercantile Company, but
which is now vacant The boys found
out about the storage rooms above and
began a systematic looting of the
goods contained therein. They had
stolen more than two wagon loads of
the goods, and had disposed of those
they had stolen.
According to Sioux City dispatch,
a cattle dealer who operated extensive
ly in the Union Stock Yards market,
by the name of H. G.. Pratt, several
months ago bought from fifteen to
twenty cars of cattle in Sioux City and
turned them over to feeders and farm
ers, taking from them notes for the
value of the cattle, secured by chat
tie mortgage on the cattle. In return
he agreed to take the cattle off the
hands of the feeders at about this
time, after they had been fed, at "a. so
per hundred. Lately the notes and
mortgages have turned up in the hands
of third parties, who have foreclosed
mortgages and take n the stock. AS q
result the feeders are out the time anG
feed and are losers all the way from.
5000 to $1,000 according to the n l.
Der of cattle they took, Nearly all the
feeders are residents of the southern
part of Woodbury. county and Monona
county.
Elmer Dustin was received at the
Anamosa penitentiary a few days ago
to begin his third term in that institu-
ton. His first term began September
8, 1888, and expired March 20, 1889. In
/, 70 1n on
again for three years for stealing cat
tie, and went out July 8, 1898. He has
now begun his third term for cattle
stealing again. He went to the farm
ers' yards and drove their cattle out
and sold them. When he went out the
last time Warden Madden told him he
wanted him to be good boy and
bought him some tools, among them
square, and Dustin said he was going
to keep his life in that square. When
he returned he told Warden Madden
he was doing nicely and lived by the
square until some one stole it, when
his luck changed and ne went to the
dogs. His wife is an only child and
they are comfortably situated and there
is no need of his stealing.
Sioux City dispatch: w. A. Kifer
ex-treasurer of Woodbury. county, who,
it is alleged, was short in his accounts
by reason of retaining fees of his
office not allowed by the supervisors,
and who is under indictment for inn
bezzlement, as well as called on to de-
fend civil suits brought to recover the
amount of the alleged shortage, has
made proposition to pay the county
So, 600 and all court costs to date, pro-
vided the cases are dismissed. The
proposition has been accepted.
The Farmers Loan and Trust COM
pany, which holds over 800, 900 of the
county warrants tied up by injunc-
tons secured by the citizens commit
tee on the ground that they are fraud
ulent, has offered to stand loss of
$4,000 on the warrants if the iniunc-
ton be dismissed and the warrants
bonded, and to drop suits brought to