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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-03
PAVING BRICK.
First Report Ever Compiled of the
Product In Iowa.

The first report of paving brick sta
tistics ever compiled in Iowa, just COM
pleted by Prof. Foster Balm, assistant
state geologist, shows that nearly co.
100000 paving brick were made and sold
in the state during 1897. The average
price was little more than $3.50 per
1000, the total value being 100000.
Des Moines plants produced about one
half of the entire amount. The most
important new industry in this line
was at Sioux City, where the North
western Sewer Pipe company turned it's
attention to paving brick. The highest
prices brought were ten dollars per
1000, and the lowest four dollars per
900
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-03
Killed In n Wreck.

A terrible railroad wreck took place
Mt Hubbard. Two heavily loaded freight
trains collided on the switch, demolish-
ing two engines and killing Engineer
l.. Hollander and Fireman w. Il. Os-
born, OF Eagle Grove, and Will Cross,
brakeman. The property loss will ag-
gregate $4,000.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-03
Murder Is Suspected.

Horny Groehman, living near Elvira,
was found dead on his farm. The story
was given out that he had been kicked
by vicious horse. As no horses on the
place arc shod, murder is suspected and
nm inquest was in progress. When
found his head, one arm and one leg
were badly cut.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-03
Election Contest Ended.

In the district court the Woodbury.
county election contest for sheriff be-
tween w. c. Davenport (rep.), and John
Gambs (dem), was decided in Daven-
ports favor by 16 majority. Davenport
claimed the election, was beaten by
Gambs before u contest court and won
In turn on appeal.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-03
VIII lie Made Commodore.

Washington, Feb. 2S.-After being
pronounced physically unfit for promo
ton by one naval board, too sound to
be retired by another, and physically
qualified for promotion by third
board, Capt. Henry ID. Robson, COM
mandant of the Portsmouth IN. H.
navy yard, has at last been recommend
ed to the president for promotion and
will succeed to the vacancy in the grade
of commodore to be created by the re-
tirement this month of Admiral Self
ridge.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-03
IOWA STATE NEWS.


Apparently crazed because his re-
quest for days time in which to GO
hunting was refused Richard Clausen,
. 15-year-old boy in the employ of Fred
Foght, a farmer near Cedar Falls, fatal
ly shot the sister of his employer and
hanged himself. Clausen asked his en-
ployer for use of shotgun and was re-
fused, Miss Minnie Foght telling the boy
he was too young to use firearms. Soon
after he secured a gun and shot through
the window at Miss Foght, the bullet
taking effect in the back Of her head
and lodging in the brain. Clausen then
went to the barn and hanged himself.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-03

The Van Houten pure food and drug
bill, which prohibited the sale of patent
medicines in Iowa, has been killed in
the committee of the legislature.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-03-03

deeply interested. They say that it will
be difficult to secure enlistments unless
it is certain that men who are injured
in the service will be taken care of.
Revenue Estimates.
The ways and means committees in
both houses have prepared, estimates of
the revenue for the next two years,
showing that levy of three mills on
the valuation of 1898, to be collected
in 1899, would give little over $4,000
surplus after paying all debts. For the
year 1900, the debt having been paid off,
a levy made to yield $1,2oO,O0O would
meet expenses alone, not taking into
account extraordinary appropriations
made by the Twenty-eighth general as
sembly. The committees think that
while three mills will be required in
1899, 21s may suffice in 1900; but what
ever appropriations are made by the
present legislature must be taken care
of by a levy probably in excess of three
mills, probably 31a mills for the first
year. There will be some savings on
account of reduction in support funds
III biC Ndiiouo StdtC lhSptutiolS anu
some other economies. The falling off
in assessed valuation on account of the
operation of the new revenue law will
not affect the state revenue, because a
fixed sum is to be raised, and the levy
must be large enough to produce that
sum. The counties in large majority
of cases will find themselves with are
duced valuation, and the maximum
levies will hardly be sufficient to pro-
duce the needed revenue.
F.w. BICKNELL.
The record-union., 1898-01-23
An Editorial hIisapprehension.

The mislortunes Of y. Savage Ian
Dor, who made SO plucky an attempt
to penetrate into Thibet, have clearly
been a sore trial TO at least one Austria
liam sub-edtor. The native-born jour
nalist has evidently never heard OF
the well-known artist and spec
ial correspondent. and he has been
struggling in vain attempa to
discover what manner Of strange
beast savage landor" might be
His paper announced with much grav
ty that "a savage landor' had at
tempted to invade Lhassa. and went
on to say that the landor himself was
captured by Thibetans. who tortured
him with redhot ircns. and he mar
rowly escaped with his life. The eX-
ecutioner was about to put him to
death when the Grand Lama interpos-
ed The landor's life was spared, but
he was horribly tortured on the rack
for eight days prior to being released"
Savage Landor certainly did not de-
serve thfs-St James Gazette.
The record-union., 1898-01-23

cause to utility only, is that of the gull.
which is blue and white. and is there
fore generally allowed to be OF protec-
tive value. But for the first three years
Of their lives several common species of
gull have brownish, spec;led plum
age. which is totally unlike that OF the
older birds. on which fact Mr. Beddard
remarks. IF one color be advantage-
Gus. the other must be the reverse. and
three years is either a considerable Pc
riod or it is not long enough"
Another rerpiexing part of the sub
ject is the color of deep-sea animals 1t
IS an established fact that marine ami
mais can and do live at the enormous
depth of more than five miles below the
surface of the water. 1t is also certain
that the sunlight dees not penetrate to
that depth, so that the animals that ex-
ist there exist in more than midnigh.
darkness. Yet the fact is that brilliant
coiorations are generally found in them.
Of what use can it be? How can natu-
raj selection or sexual selection have
anything to do with il? 1t is true. in
deed. that there may be phosphorescent
light emitted by the animals them
selves; and of this there are many evil
dences, but though the deep-sea fish
may be guided TO It's prey by a series OF
natural "bulls-eye' lanterns. the color
of its prey could have no protective ef-
feet. but exactly the reverse.-Our Ami
NAL Friends
The record-union., 1898-01-23
FELIX PYRTLE DISCHARGED.
DISTRICTATTORNEY BELIEVED
HIM INNOCENT.
Supposed Mistaken Identity in the
Case of the George G. NC
Mullen Robbery.

Felix Pyrtle. the man who WAS
charged with having held up ana roo-
bed George c. McMullen near Brighton
junction on the 18th of December was
discharged yesterday by Judge Hart,
on the motion OF District Attorney
Ryan.
County Detective n. p. Fisher had
been assiduously at work on the case,
and while there were some clrcum-
stances that at first seemed to war
rant the belief that Pyrtle might be
the man who robbed the ex-Sheriff, stlll
there was a lack of positive evidence
to that effect. Indeed, the District At
tornay had been led to the belief that
Pyrtle bad been mistaken for another.
Detective Fisher was called on by the
court, after the motion for Pyrtle
discharge was made, TO explain the re-
suits of his inquiry. The officer said
that, to begin with, Pyrtle is very deaf,
and it would have been practically inn
possible for him to have carried on the
conversation which Mr.. McMullen re
lates as having occurred between HIM
self and the highwayman. Pyrtle, he
said, was a vagrant and petty larce-
mist but was hardly the man to rise
to the magnitude of a highwayman.
The detective further explained that
although Pyrtle wore shoes with iron
heel plates, such as would correspond
with the imprints found near the scene
of the robbery, he had seen other men
waling alone in the same path wearing
shoes of the same size and with just
such heel plates. One man in partic-
ular resembles Pyrtle, and, like the
latter, leads the life of a nomad. He
even wears a short beard like that Of
Pyrtle.
Mr.. Fisher said he had thoroughly
traced up Pyrtle's doings for several
months prior to the McMullen hold-up,
and enumerated the amounts that Pyr-
tie had earned doing odd jobs. He
gave a list of the names of persons for
whom Pyrtle had worked. The fact
that the man had 60 cents in his pock-
ct when arrested was easily accounted
for.
In justice to Detective Fisher it must
be said that he in no way attempted
to withhold any facts Which might tend
to establish the prisoners guilt.
Assistant District Attorney J. Charles
Jonas, addressing the court, said he
fully coiEcided with Detective Fishers
views on the case, and that in his opin-
ion Pyrtle was innocent of the crime
with which he stood charged.
District Attorney Ryan concluded by
asking the court to discharge the de-.
fendant. Mr.. Ryan said:
In asking your honor to discharge
this defendant, / wish 10 say that
do not ask it because there may be or
may not be enough evidence against
him 20 convict. but because /, like Mr.
Jones and Mr.. Fisher. believe this is a
case of mistaken Identity"
The Judge then ordered the defend
ant discharged. Pyrtle was too deaf 10
understand the order of the court, and
was deeply affected when his attorneys.
G.. c. Holl and S. L. Howe. informed
him Of his good luck. With tears in
his eyes. the man who had up to that
The record-union., 1898-01-23
WHY ONE GIRL IS HAPPY.
She Locked. She Stopped. She
Bought. but Didn't Spend Cent.

There's a girl on the South Side who
is patting herself on the back and men
tally doing highland filings, just 70
work off supertluous joy.
oh, il was great scheme" she
pipes. and my economical soul re-
joices and grows glad. Think of buy
ing any number 6f Christmas gifts
and not feeling SO poverty stricken
that you envy the thrifty, beskirted in
dividuals who sell gum on the street
corners. | haven't yet got through
throwing my French toque up in the
air or cracking my heels together
have quite convinced myself that / am
entitled to be called a woman of re-
markable resources.
Do you remember that sterling silver
curling iron which has been taking up
good room on my dresser for long years
past? Silly little Teddie Smith gave it
to me ages ago. Of course l hadn't
the slightest notion where he had
bought it. but l put on a bold, brave
front and my best hat and marched
off downstairs with it. At the first
jewelly store they treated me right
royalty, but said it was Jones or some
body else's make l strai9htway trot-
ted over to Jones, and they walked all
over me-said it was not customary
to exchange things of that sort and
made a great and uncomfortable fuss.
But they directed me to Browns.
Brown thought l hadn't been abused
enough. so finished up where Jones left
off. l was SO thoroughly ard emphat-
ically sat upon that ! didn't dare to
talk back, as is my usual custom. AT
Browns they pleasantly remarked that
their store was not q junk shop, and
when / crept away my self-esteem was
dragging on the sidewalk like lopsid-
ed bell-skirt
Pack ] went to the first place. Oh.
such an appeal as | made? You'd a
thought / was a widow with eight
small children and a three months
gas bill. The man looked at the curl
ing iron and to my great JOY turned to
a clerk and said: Credit this young
lady with 81 90. Then he actually ask
ed me if that was enough. Oh, me-.
/ haven't been so tickled since the cleo
trio car to Lagrange broke down and
The record-union., 1898-01-23
TIE Bishop and the Cabby.

The Irish Ecclesiastical Journal tells
this story: Last week an irish Bishop
was driving home to his hotel in the city
from a suburb Of Dublin with lady
and one of the Junior clergy as his es-
eort. 1t was late at night, dark, windy,
and rainy, and the cabman drove away
merrily, but after some peculiar turn
ings, and ten minutes driving. the cab
was returning whence it had started.
The wherefore was evident, as the cabby
was drunk. However, home had 20 be
reached, and his Lordship, q man of ac-
ton, jumped out of the cab, mounted
the box, and drove at a good round pace
into town. On reaching his destination
the right reverend prelate said he
thought he ought to be paid, sentiment
in which the cabby acquiesced with the
utmost good humor, but pocketed mis-
fare Notwithstanding. ITO be driven
home by Bishop on a cab" adds our
contemporary, falls not to the lot Of
many curates. and is surely worth re-
cording."
The record-union., 1898-01-23
Color in Animals.

Observation and experiment go to
snow how large an influence food has
in determining the color of animals.
Everybody knows how easily the color
of a yellow canary may be altered to
an orange red by mixing cayenne pep
per with its food though it is true that
the color change may be produced only
in very young birds whose feathers are
not completely matured. 1t is also a
matter Of experiment that all varieties
of canaries are not equally susceptible
to the influence of the pepper, and it is
very curious fact that il the pigment
that causes the red color of the pepper
be mixed with the food OF the birds,
without the other constituents. yellow
colored canaries are not In the slightest
degree affected by it, while brown birds
or the brown feathers of yellow birds
become distinctly lighter in hue
Here is another interesting expert
ment: The large tortoise-shell butter
fly normally feeds upon the leaves of
the elm, While the small tortoisa-shell
is addicted, to nettles, but when some
fnagoes of the large tortoises shell wefe
bred from caterpillars that had been
found upon nettles they showed a Won
derful similarity to the smaller Species
though the color was nearer to that Of
the larger. Quite in the same line is
the observation that the thorn moth
exhibits variations in color according
as the larva is fed upon oak. hawthorn.
lime or lilac. Many other experiments
have shown a similar effect of food in
modifying or completely changing the
color of animals.
Among changes Of color that are most
perplexing, If one would refer their
The record-union., 1898-01-23
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
BY Meme"

copyrighted by Dave & Tabor)
STRENGTH THROUGH CONFLICT
Out in tie sunny valley a leafy elm-tree
grew,
It's branches spreading gaily to every
breeze that blew.
The mountains high
A shield supply.
And it laughed when the sounding STERN
Stanch ard stiff
On q rugged cliff,
A pne-tree bold faced the bitter cold
Holding its post on the shelving crust
Gainst the wanton winds in their cruei
lust,
And when the blast
Was over-oassed.
Deeper and deeper it's roots were thrust.
There, came a day when the earthquake
Tortured the valley and rent the rocks.
And the elnl-tree fell at fortunes frown,
| With its tender twgs and its sunny crowa,
But the pine tree, safe in tis Geep-set bSo'
Still reared high it's oft-Scarred mead
Look to the bicycle and learn, thou
striving and painting one, The swifter
the progress, the greater the resistance;
the rider makes his own breeze, holding
back in a measure but tanning his
brow meanwhile. Rejoice in the pres
sure ahead. you who exert yourselves;
il means that you are moving, progress
ing forcing some real resistance TO one
side. Lie down and rest in your tracks
supinely, and all resistance will vanish;
no one will find in you then cause for
fear, and therefore no one Will oppose
YOU Look again at the bicycle and be
wise, Descent is ever easier and swifter
than ascent Years may be given 10
~, fo
ing-a moment may undo it all. Never
mind though your progress be slow: let
it be upward and upward only. That
is the way man ought 10 go If he is
to be true to the history Of his whole
race, which has had an ascent OF toll
some length and blood-stained steps.
To love the easy, slothful, backward
ways to violence and vice is to be
traitor to our record
The nerveless soul, softsteeped in sensual
Slotil--
Whose idle humors with their fungus
growth,
Have ever rusted since the world began,
The iron case that makes a man a man
Looks longing from his lounge with hat-
closed eyes
To where some dazzling Ell Dorado lies;
And OH he signs, Tor some ceieS'iai
Some magic charm to watt me thus afar---
So might ! gather gems and garner goa
To deck my youth in semblance as OF old.
And dreaming, longing thus he waits ana
grieves
While Incidence fresh cobweb-fetters
weaves
Till, like poor Gulliver, his strength is
bound
With light and trivial chains SO thickly
wound
That in the welded strength he may not
fight,
But yields him to his myriad conquerors'
might.
Yet had he but aroused himself at first,
And from his gath'ring trammels brayely
burst.
Taking whatever ship might help his
quest,
Pointing it's Prov towards the Golden
West,
Still faring forward spite of wayward
blast
Columbus-like he might have won at last
And with his trembling banner never
furled
Seeking an Ell Dorado, found a world!
The record-union., 1898-01-23
AuGthec Globe Trotfer.

DR.. l.. Dufay, the French physician
who left Paris last summer, clad in q
paper suit, bent on a tour of the world
on foot. arrived in the city yesterday,
and is the guest of A. Flores of 300 L
street. DIR. Dufay claims that if he
completes the journey as laid out ana
returns to Paris by January l. 1899,
he viii receive S40,O09. He is a pic
turesGue individual, and reminds one of
Schlatter. the self-Styled Messiah
The record-union., 1898-01-23
AS TO THE POLICE COURT.
The Heating Case Taken Under
Amusement by Judge Hart.

The habeas corpus case of j. w.
Kea-ing, who was convicted in the Po-
lice Court cf selling liquor without a
license was argued before Judge Hart
yesterday and by him taken under ad-
visement.
long argument was made by El-
wood Bruner in support of the de-
PENDANTS contention that there is 10
sucn tribunal. legally, as the Police
Court of the City of Sacramento" and
numerous authorities We're cited to that
effect.
Judge Hart took the matter under
Amusement, and will investigate the
case.
The record-union., 1898-01-23

time believed himself to be without
single friend in all the wide world
waikedHp and offered his hand to Judge
Hart. He was met With a hearty
grasp. Then turning TO District At
torney Ryan and Detective Fisher. he
thanked them again and again for the
fairness he had received at the hands
of the prosecution
The record-union., 1898-01-23
ChiIdren'S Gretchen
Long Coats.
Reduced to So OS,

a mixed lot Of ChiIdren's Long
Coats, Gretchen style, for children
aged 10 and l2 years. Just the
style Tor school wear to keep the
little folks warm and also they're
protection from dampness, made
from variety of mixed cloakings,
all good serviceable garments
which formerly sold for SO SO, 50
and as high as SIP. All go at the
remarkably low price, So 90.
The record-union., 1898-01-23
Silks at Reduced
Prices.
SOC and 75c yer yard.

We have gone through ouv great
stock and picked cut about 10
pieces OF fancy silks. mostly dark
colors, beautiful com bi-lations for
making full costr-aes CT those
smart silk waists. These silks sois.
for 75c. 81, 81 25 and 81 50 Per
yard, according to grade and style.
but we want to close them out be-
fore stock taking aud have made
but two prices on the lot, Soc ard
Use per yard for a choice.
The record-union., 1898-01-23
Advertisement Filed.

James A. Elder and John Mayden
have filed in the County Clerks office
their inventory and appraisement of the
property of the estate of John Rich
ards, deceased, in Amador County,
which consists of an undivided five
eighteenths Of a vein of quartz valued
at So .rll %
The record-union., 1898-01-23
His Naturalization.

An Irishman was naturalized the
other day in Philadelphia, and after the
ordeal was over and expressed his sat
isfaction as follows: Its not so aisy
fur a mon of little education 10 an
swer all the Jpdge's questions, but O
did it, begorya, and, thank God. Dim
now a natiye-horn American citizen
New York Tribune.
The record-union., 1898-01-23
A LEGAL HOLIDAY.
Freight Office and Business Houses
70 Close.

The wholesale houses and the freight
department of the Southern Pacific
Company have agreed not to transact
business on Monday, Golden Jubilee
day.
The downtown business houses will
therefore be closed, and the usual
freight shipment dispensed with
While there will be no local celebra-
ton, t will be legal holiday, and
many citizens will go to San Francisco
to witness the celebration there. The
city schools viii also be closed on that
d1V
The record-union., 1898-01-23

He was born December 26, 1851. and
IS the eldest son OF the late August Bel
mont II graduated from Harvard in
lSI2, taking special honors in history
and political economy, and was admit
ted to the bar in 1876 He proved his
ability by his work before the Court OF
Appeals and the United States Supreme
Court. He was elected 10 represent
the First District Of New York in Con-
gress in 1850 and was reelected in
1882, 1854 and 1856. During his last
four years in Congress he was Chair
man of the Committee Of Foreign Af-
fairs and in 1855. while occupying that
position, was appointed Minister 10
Spain by President Cleveland While
u member of Congress he received from
the French Government the decoration
OF Commander of the Legion of Honor.
The record-union., 1898-01-23

left me out in the wilds of an Illinois
prairie. thought stick pins and spoons
and thimbles AM hatpins, and even bib
holders, and when l got through had
g regular jewelry shop of my own.
ut was little bit wearing, but it
paid. And next year"
But she always stops there.--Chicago
Times Herald.
The record-union., 1898-01-23
Black Brocaded Silks
at O8C.

Handsome Black Brocadcd Silks,
splendid quality, rich scroll and
figured designs, and also some
handsome Satin Figured Moire
Valour, will make rich full cos
tunes or separate skirts. Reduced
to 96c per yard.
The record-union., 1898-01-23
Shirred Silk 85C yd.

Shirred liberty silk FOR separate
dress fronts. A much-used garnI-
turc TO evening costumes in deli
cate colors, lemon. pink, light blue,
lavender, IeIiotrope, purple, green,
royal blue and cardinal. Sale price.
Soc per yard.
Also co1ors corn, pink, blue, law
cndcr and white neat accordion
plcated silk for separate fronts,
etc., reduced to Csc yard.
The record-union., 1898-01-23
Yolo poo1room Gases.

Next Thursday George X. Rider and
others. who We're some weeks ago
charged with conducting an Illegal pool
room III Washington Yoio County. will
be tried in,the Superior Court at Wood
land
The record-union., 1898-01-23
fitted waist Innings and well made.
9Sc.
Women's Wrappers.
Reduced to ST 4S.

Women's House Wrappers, made
from heavy neeced Aannelette, in
medium, light and dark colors, all
new. neat patterns, 81 rs and So
values, prcttfIy and well made.
trimmed with fancy wash braids,
fancy ruffled yoke effects, etc. Now
81 4S.
The record-union., 1898-01-23
And Now a Divorce.

Laura r. Crouch has begun suit in
q San Francisco court for divorce from
II. r. Crouch on the ground of failure
to provide. They We're married n this
county and have relatives and friends
here.
The record-union., 1898-01-23
Shoe Reductions.

Odd sizes and
$ h o r t lines
which we have
reduced to close
out in our clear
ance sale that
their going shall
make way for
n e w S p + in Z
stock already