Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-06-10
RANDOM NOTES.

time ago for conspiracy to defraud.
Last week Governor Drake issued re-
QUESTION for their arrest, which Govern
or Tanner refused to recognize. 1t is
said, that these men in their bucket
shop business in number of Iowa
towns have taken over million dollars
out of the pockets of Iowa people.
The people Of Abba. Iowa, have secur-
ed Senator BIZ. Tillman, of South Caro-
lima to deliver the Fourth of July Grafton
at that place.
The Grinnell Herald says: Our COM
pliments to the various pathmasters
throughout the township with the sug-
gestion that when they have worked up
all the stones, clods and rubbish into
the middle of the road with the grader,
to then take harrow and level the mid
die SO a person may travel with some de-
gree of satisfaction. Where a ridge a
foot high is left in the middle there is
absolutely no use of going to Sunday
| 5ClOOl ON6T buCIl d IOdu.
The people of Elgin, Fayette county,
desire to be annexed to Clayton county,
and they state their reasons frankly.
The first reason is that 80 per cent of
the citizens of the township petitioned
to suspend the prohibitory law, but this
almost unanimous opinion is overbourne
by the rest of the county. Clayton
county permits the mulct saloon and Ell
gin wishes to get in anti-prohibition dis
trict. Furthermore taxes are much low
er in Clayton county where there are
saloons than in Fayette where there are
not.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is
planning some very ingenious and use
full experiments in country roads. He
proposes to have steel rails laid and give
the farmers chance to run their con-
veyances on tram road. The plan is
as follows: Lay the rails on the road
much as the street car rails are laid in
the city, but use simpler kind of rail.
The form of rails used in experiments to
be sort of inverted trough with slight
ly raised bead on the inside. The rail
is imbedded in gravel, laid in a trench,
which is well drained. A sample road
track of this kind will probably be con-
structed at the Nashville exposition and
at various other points in the country,
in order to show the people what can be
done.
The federal land Office at Des Moines
has decided one of the O'Brien county
land cases which gives to James Griffin,
a squatter, the ownership of 80 acres of
land in the town of Sheldon. The deci-
sion makes Griffin rich man, the land
being worth S12500O.
Henry Eifert went to Anamosa prison
the other day unattended, booked for a
term of two and half years. Fifert
was banker in Bremen county who
failed in 1894. Eifert was arrested for
defrauding his creditors and when con-
victed was sentenced to the penitentiary
for thirty months. He appealed the
case and while awaiting the decision of
the supreme court lived under bond in
Chicago. Last week the supreme court
affirmed the decision of the lower court.
When Eifert was notified that he would
have to serve the term in the prison, he
telegraphed that he would go to the pri-
son alone and give himself mp to Warden
Madden.
The small town of Farragut, in the
southwestern part of Iowa, has been
greatly aroused to sense of Cuban
patriotism by an original drama, Scuba
Libre," given by the graduating class of
the public school. The play showed
the great work and skill of the members
of the class and was worthy of older and
wiser heads. 1t plainly brought out the
Spanish cruelty as we'll as the consist
ency of the Cuban cause. The people
were SO thoroughly aroused that on the
following Sunday, Decoration day. the
Cuban flag, hoisted beneath "Old Glory
was allowed to float over the heads Of
the G. A. r. procession, led by the banC
and followed by 1.500 people. An effor
is being made to raise company to g
to Cuba.
The Des Moines Register says: "Rev
Sam Jones seems to be attempting his
usual efforts to array the ministers ant
editors against his work in this city
and may succeed. Sam is only anothe
sort of Cherry sister"
Some DeSoto young ladies made ic
cream and by mistake favored it witt
Wards Remedies instead of Vanilla
One advantage of this kind OF favorine
is that in case to much cream is eaten
the remedy is mixed up with it.
The Odebolt creamery paid IL cent
more per hundred for milk during Apr
1867, than for April of last year.