Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-05-27
RANDOM NOTES.

An Adair county officer recently wit
messed the strange sight of man eating
a raw chicken. The gentleman was 80
exaggerated by being the victim of the
processes of the law that he gave vent
to his feelings by catching a chicken
and eating the meat from the breast.
The incident made the officer nervous
and he hept his hand in reach of his
trusty gun.
There is trouble ahead for the owners
OF certain farm property in Franklin
county, Iowa. 1t is said that they have
been notified Of the intention of the
government to reclaim all swamp land
in the county, for which deeds were is
sued many years ago. The county has
sold the land and it has long beer
farmed, but the claim is made that the
SO called swamp land was not swamp
land at all. It seems strange that any
effort should now be made to raise that
question, for what is swamp land one
year in Iowa may be good farming land
the next year and vice versa. All swamp
land questions ought to be considered
closed in Iowa once and for all time.
Frank Sherman, of Anita, was sem
fenced to eight years. Imprisonment by
Judge Macy Monday, for criminal as
sault of 13-year- old girl, although with
her consent. Judge Macy gave Sher-
man scathing lecture when delivering
sentence, and criticized the action of the
jury for sending in petition asking for
clemency for Sherman. Judge Macy
said the jury was to determine the guilt
or innocence of the accused and that he
was the sole judge and wholly response
BILE as to the time the prisoner should be
sentenced, and that the jury was en-
tirely out of it province in petitioning
for clemency after finding a man guilty.
The Cedar Rapids Times proceeds to
quiet apprehensions about that city be-
ing unable to take care of the republican
state convention as follows: There is
no question but that Greene's opera
house is the largest auditorium of the
OF the kind in the state. The first floor
has 600 seats. The stage is 40 by 60 and
seats 400. The first balcony has 400
seats, and $50 chairs can be placed on
the lower floor, with room left for press
seats and tables and lodges and boxes
for ladies. The second balcony and gal
lery, which will seat 800, will be reserved
for visitors. The city has fourteen
hotels, some of which are we'll equipped
to care for the visitors. 1t is estimated
that not more than 1000 will remain
over night. Rooms in private houses
will be engaged, and committees will be
at all trains and at the hotels day and
night, to see that all have ample &C.
commodations. Nobody needs to stay
away from the convention for fear he
will not have ample opportunity to sleep
in a good bed and step up to three
square meals a day.
The Anita Tribune reports that Seigel
Hendricks and A. G. Gochanhour, living
near that town have recently been
plucked by lightning rod swindlers.
Hendricks was touched for 800 and
Gochanhour for something more than
500. The newspapers have been full
OF warnings against buying rods of un-
known peddlars, but they still continue
to find suckers.
TIL contract for the erection of the un-
finished portion of the administration
building in the group belonging to the
state for the care Of the feeble minded
at Glenwood, which building was des-
troyed by fire last August, was let to the
Northern Building Company, of Mime,
apolis, the amount of their bid being
$4,000 The structure is to be four
stories and an actic high, and built of
brick with itone trimmings.
An exchange says: "Dost love man
who always kicks, no matter what you
do-who kicks with most prodigious
ease the whole long season through;
who kicks if anything goes wrong, and
kicks if all goes right; who kicks be-
cause he likes to kick and kicks with all
his might? We know some awful kick
ers on this wicked mundane sphere, who
came on earth by accident and kick be-
cause they're here; they make themselves
uncomfortable and other people sick;
they drive themselves to suicide and
still they always kick. We know a
man who kicks ard kicks the blessed
livelong day, and if there's naught to
kick about, he's kicking anyway. At
times when things are going right and