Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-09-18

Ed Carnes, who September / shot and
fatally wounded Sheriff Strain OF
Monona county. The shooting took
place at the farm of John Upton, two
miles west Of Whiting, the evening Of
September 1. There had been fight
mong the members OF threshiug
crew. and Carnes started out with q
shotgun to get revenge on one Of the
number who had worsted him. Strain
endeavored to arrest him was shot
fatally.
The Des Moines Union company has
! large force OF men working on the
Coon river bottoms raising and broad
ening the grades upon whicn its num-
erous switch tracks are laid. Ihe pur.
pose is not only to get the tracks high
enough SO that traffic over them will
not be INSTRUCTED by a recurrence u
the food of last July, but to make
them serve the purpose of levees 20
protect the big property holdings Il
has In the district. The tracks are 80
located that by raising them to a GER
tain height and Strengthening them
most of the river bottom east Of
Twelfth street will be protected.
Prof. s. r. Macy Of Highland Park
college was injured In a gasoline ex.
plosion last June. In lighting the fire
one morning he used gasoline thinking
1t was kerosene. The Great Western
company had short time previous 10
the accident insured the professor
against such injuries. A prompt set.
Element was made. Now tie accident
company has brought suit against
Cline Bros, grocers, who sold the
gasoline to Macy, to recover the
amount Of the policy. which aggre-
gated $4,000. II is claimed the gro.
cerymen had violated the state law in
that they failed to properly mark the
can containing the explosive. The
state law provides that gasoline should
be carefully marked before delivery.
The claim is made by the accident
company that the can used by Prof.
Macy to light the fire had no marking
whatever and that even q chemist Is
liable to just such a mistake as Macy
made.
II will be several days before the
question of the powers of the state to
prevent the Rock Island railroad re.
organization is disposed of. governor
Cummins, when asked about 1t. said
ne could make no statement about 1t
Tor the present. There are various
surmises as to the outcome OF the gov.
ernor's inquiry into the matter. It ia
known that Attorney General Mullan
has taken the question up and when
he has looked into the law and facts
an opinion to the governor will doubt.
less be forthcoming. What the tenor
OF this opinion will be cannot be fore
naQtan AZ
different opinions, and some hold that
the state by quo warranto proceedings
can check the reorganization scheme.
1t Is known that Rock Island attor.
neys are anxiously awaiting the result
OF the governors investigations. II II
pretty generally known that Governor
Cummins is inclined to think he has a
foothold for a successful attack on the
plan In the courts and this fact is
causing the railway officials wop
riment.
A. U. Swan, assistant secretary of
the executive council, has Just COM
pleted the certif1cation OF the tele-
phone and telegraph assessments Cor
the present year to the auditor of
state. and for the first time a record
Is being kept OF the assessments by
line and by counties and 1t has been
possible to secure accurate footings
OF the assessment. BY this II Is found
that the total value of the telephone
and telegraph lines of Iowa for tho
year was $1,542.s27.44.
State Labor Commissioner e. ID.
Brigham, who has Just returned from
keokuk and Fort Madison, where he
was engaged in factory inspection
last week, says he met with a general
disposition among factory owners to
comply with the laws of the state
governing the management OF these In.
situations. The most serious omission
which Mr.. Brigham found was the
lack OF fire escapes, but wherever
owners We're notified of this failure
they expressed a willingness to comply
with the law. Some sanitary improve
ments were recommended, and owners
were advised to discharge all child
employees after being assured that the
child labor and compulsory education
laws Of the state would be enforced
to the letter.
Recent events of more than passing
interest have directed the eyes of the
nation in this direction. and Iowa"
and "Des Moines" are names very FIRE.
quently heard. In fact Iowa is an In
teresting state, focal point, SO to
speak, and In no one particular is she
more prominent than in her Life In.
surance institutions. This is emmi.
nently true of Des Moines, the Hart.
ford of the West" whose progressive
companies are pushing rapidly to the
front, the most remarkable being the
National Life and Trust Co, now do
ing business In twenty states. The
phenomenal business done by this az.
gressive company is exciting the won
der of the life insurance world. The
agency forces have been augmented
by the addition Of a large number Of
the most successful life men In the
country, and their presence is already
felt In a marked increase Of business.
Deputy Sheriff John Tucker has
brought back ]. w. Laswell, the III.
nois stock man who, it Is charged, OBJ
tained something like $1,000 from the
Lee County Savings bank Of Fort
Madison under false prstenses some
time last summer. and landed him in
Jail. Laswell obtained this moray on
a mortgage which, It is alleged. proved
to be a second mortgage on several
thousand head Of cattle.
Mrs. Eva Devoe. OF East Syracuse.
N. Y. is an up-to-date girl, although
she Is 100 years old. She wants bi.
cycle, as she hates to be behind the
times. MY family" she says. seem
to think I'd better not have one, and
maybe 1t would look queer to see the
mother OF a 72-year-old girl whirling
on q Wheel"
A laundryman in Paris cleanses fine
linen and other fragile fabrics with
out using soap or other chemicals. In.
stead OF these he uses boiled potatoes,
which be rubs into the goods and then