Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-12-06
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les MONIES ecsmber i. 1910.
Joseph S. Trigg. editor of the Rock
ford Register, who is famous in lows
as an agricuiturist writer and edi-
torial philosopher, is announced as d
candidate for secretary of the board
of agriculture to succeed George III.
Van Houten. The state agricultural
convention will be held in Des Moines
December 10, IL. IL and 10. lhls con
vention elects the directors and the
directors elect the secretary.
The city's share of the mulct tax
on cigarettes, which is now uue from
every dealer in the city who has been
handling cigarettes since October
will amount to between $4,000 and
$1,000. ihe city receives one-half OF
the tax collected II is estimated
that 500 retail dealers in the city
have been handling coffin nails" and
each one will be asked to pay the
quarterly SIS.
1t is announced by attorneys rep
resenting the saloon and antiYsalooR
interests that mutual agreement
has been reached in the statement of
consent decision and appeal from the
board OF supervisors, and the matter
VIII not come up until the January
term. This practically prevents
EFFORTS toward closing the saloons
again until the middle of January.
when 1T is expected the case will be
Locketed. a representative of the
anti-saloon forces says, however, the
matter will be pushed with all yigor
vt the January term.
w. b. Martin, secretary of state.
elect, has decided to appoint ID. A
Hites as his deputy. thus insuring
the retention of Mr.. Hites in the
office he now holds under Secretary
Dobson. At the same time G. s. Gil
bertson, the treasurer of state elect.
announced the appointment of John
McQuiston of Des Moines. county
auditor of Polk county, as his dep
nty.
DR.. Lewis Schooler, chairman of
the general army post committee.
mas sent word to Captain j. A. r.
HUI that the committee has selected
site for an army post and has Sc
cured The money necessary for its
purchase. The site selected is the
DrIsco-Denny property, located about
three and one-half miles south of the
business center of the city. The next
step toward securing the post will be
the appointment of commission by
the government to visit this city and
decide if the army post committees
proposition is to be accepted. No
one anticipates that there will be
any objection. On the other hand.
everyone who has been associated in
any way with the movement expects
the spring of 1901, or at least the
early summer, to see an army post.
composed of regiment of cavalry,
completely established and in full
operation within walking distance of
Des MONIES. In establishing the post
In this city the government will prob
ably begin with an expenditure of a
little less than $1,000,000. After it il
established the money spent in it's
management will amount to over
$4,000 month.
The official figures show that the
proposition to hold a convention to
revise and amend the constitution
was lost by 555 votes. The nrst
rough draft of the official figures
ShS"Cu lilC convention nelu Deen car
ried by narrow margin. But when
the abstracts were checked over il
was found there had been errors in
transcribing the returns from the
abstracts for the purpose of getting
at "F7"ial results. The chief source
OF trouble was in the returns
from. Tama county. This had been
credited with 1000 too many votes
for the convention, '2" having been
mistaken for 49," The total vote
cast for the convention according to
the official figures was 1851 and the
total vote against it was 176,S92. The
official figures on the Titus amend
ment 90 not alter materially the
semi-official figures given out, the
majority for the amendment being
upwards of 10000.
Two handsome pieces of marble
statuary, the busts of Ex-Governor
William Larrabee and Mrs. Larrabee.
have arrived at the historical build
ing. They are the gifts of the eS-
governor to the historical depart
ment. Their arrival was an entire
surprise to Curator Charles AIdrich.
who is highly pleased at receiving
them. They will occupy prominent
places in the art room. The figures
are of life size and are of the purest
Partisan marble. They were sculp-
tured at Florence, Italy, the sculp-
tors being Pugi Freres, artists of
that city All those who have seen
the figures agree they are striking
likenesses of Ex-Governor Larrabes
and his wife.
TaE PLAN A FAILURE