Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-16
freight agent. get the liquor. A copy
of one of the blanks is as follows

The federal officials claim this prac-
tice is going on all over the state, and
set up that both the express and the
freight agents are parties to the sale.
The violation of the federal statutes
would hold good with the state laws,
and the result of conviction will be
farreaching. The distillers are enabled
by the scheme to keep the names of
their agent in each town from the pub
lie, as he deals with no one but the Gus
toner. The federal authorities have
been working on the scheme all over the
southern district, and say they have no
doubt but they can get II conviction.
shows DeHcit.
State Auditor Mccarthy in his bien-
NAL report estimates that there will be
deficit in the state treasury of nearly
100000 next June. He explains how
extraordinary appropriations and ex-
penditures have caused this deficit. He
recommends that the state finances be
brought to cash basis; that the legis-
lature increase the tax levy for the next
two years; that the extraordinary APP
preparations be limited, that it be as
certained what further revenue may
be obtained by taxing such property as
does not now pay its share of the public
revenue and that the legislature con-
tinue the work of guarding and, where
necessary, reducing the expenses Of the
state government and the state institu-
tons.
Iowa congressman.
Both of the senators and all of the
Iowa representatives, except Congress
man Clark, of the First district, took
their places in the senate and house Of
representatives in Washington and were
present when the Fifty-fifth congress
was called to order. Congressman Hull
has already introduced the following
bills:
To pension: Barbara Dulin. widow OF
James Dulin, battery /, Seventh Iowa cav
airy at $i2 per month; William w. Wright,
battery E, Eighth Iowa cavalry, at $50 per
month; Selena r. Patterson, widow OF G.
w. Patterson, battery G, First Iowa cav
airy, at $50 per month; Jonathan Ulum,
company II, Twenty-second Iowa infantry,
at $50 per month: Mary Rand Miller, widow
of Col. William IL. Miller, Twenty-eighth
Iowa infantry, at $50 per month; to pay
Josiah M. Dawson $112,1 O5 for property fur
nished the government during the war; to
pay Edmund Schreiner, of Des Mones S342
for quarters furnished during the war;
to restate the account OF Capt. John A.
Olmstead, in accordance with a recent de-
clsion of the supreme court.
school Directors warned.
State Superintendent Sabin has is
sued letter to the school directors and
officials of Iowa warning them against
fake book agents who are travelling
about the state with worthless books,
maps, charts, etc. He says:
''To School Directors and Officers: 1t Is
not the custom of the department OF pub
lie instruction officially to recommend the
purchase of any maps, charts, books or
piece of apparatus for use In the public
schools. ! shall take II as personal favor
IL you will notify me of the name and adj
dress of any agent pretending to have an
Endorsement of his goods from me. While
the board has discretionary power to pur-
chase whatever articles the schools may
need In its judgment, we believe that II
should keep strictly within the spirit as
well within the limits of the law We
think 1t Is wise public policy that no debt
should be incurred for any such purpose
and that sufficient money should be re-
tained in the contingent fund to meet the
ordinary running expenses OF the schools.
The practice of signing a contract for maps
charts, books or apparatus of any kind
presuming upon the ratification of the pur-
chase at a subsequent meeting of the board
is clearly Illegal and should never occur"