Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-11-20

he election of Congressman Babcock
If Wisconsin as speaker OF the house
% succeed General Henderson. In an
Interview Congressman Hull made his
position plain.
TIE Hawkeye Telephone company is
stringing 500 miles of copper wire cir.
,uit from this city to surrounding
towns on four different routes. OF
his line, 400 miles is to be used by the
Hawkeye company. The other 400
miles will be leased by the Weare Com.
mission company and is being con-
structed for that concern. The latter
will be Independent service, serving
offices which the Weare company will
open in twenty-four towns surround
Ing Des Moines. 1t will be direct line
from those towns into the Des Moines
Office of the concern. The Hawkeye
company secured the contract for the
construction of this 400 mile line be-
fore fully determining upon its own
plant tapping the twenty.four towns
referred to. The Hawkeye line will be
in connection with the Mutual 4 ele
phone company Of Des Moines and all
OF tie other independent toll lines of
the state. The plant will be COM
pleted in two weeks. 1t takes about
100000 pounds of copper wire, which
costs in the neighborhood of 10000.
This Is but part OF the investment
represented. Probably $4,000 Is in
volved in the improvement.
Pardon Secretary B. w. Garrett of
the governors Office, who returned
from visit to Anamosa penitentiary,
says Sheriff Parker of Buena Vista
county was at the prison while he was
there and was looking after some of
the preliminaries of the executions of
Albert, G.. Phillips and Lewis Brooks,
the Greenville bank robbers. The ex.
ecutions are set for December IS, and
much interest attaches to the question
OF whether the supreme court will
grant the defendants a new trial, when
1t meets for the adjourned session OF
the october term, December 16. In
case the court denies them a new
trial. the hangings may or may not be
postponed. and Sheriff Parker is get.
ting preparations perfected so that he
can execute the men on short notice
IL necessary. While at Anamosa he
went over the grounds with Warden
Hunter and practically settled on the
location Of the gallows. These will be
loCdteu Wltuln the SlOChaC6.
A summary OF the reports from
county and district fairs has been
made up In the office of Secretary
Simpson Of the state department of
agriculture. On the whole, 1t shows
the year 1902 was rather more sue
cessful for fairs than the preceding
year. There were but seventy.eight
county and district fairs that reported
this year and eighty-four the year
preceding. However, the seventy
eight fairs show larger balance now
on hand than the eighty-four that re.
ported in 1901. The following are
some comparative figures for the total
number reporting in 1902 and 1901:
Receipts ...... .$241, s03.71 s24l .62s 20
Speed premiums 69033.69 1880 81
Premiums paid. 63,29372 4S,403.16
Disbursements 241, S08.71 241 ,629. 90
Balance ....... 12,973.17 1b,702,21
The report of Colonel James Rush
Lincoln. Of the Fifty.frst regiment on
the annual tour of duty of his regi-
ment has been filed with Adjutant
General Byers, and contains large
number OF recommendations. First In
importance Of these is one to the eff.
feet that one Of the regiments next
year be ordered to take q practice
march instead of spending a week In
camp. Colonel Lincoln requests that
his regiment be allowed to undertake
this innovation. Discussing the ad-
visibility Of practice march. Colonel
Lincoln In his report says weu-ditched
tents with canvas floor cloths and
straw ticks will give comfortable &C.
commodations and cost no more than
the lumber paid for each year. the
floor cloths after being obtained an.
swering for many years. He says
transportation could be restricted tc
only such impediments as would be 70.
quired In actual service.
Another recommendation made by
Colonel Lincoln is that the camps be
not located in the vicinity of towns
Others are that an officer Of each regi.
ment be appointed as instructor in
guard duty and that officers so ap.
pointed be assembled for instruction
before camp; that companies unable
to take 75 per cent of their member
ship at least to camp be disbanded
and that officers be excused from
camp service only for sickness; thai
prevented from locating less than q
mile from camp.
A well dressed man of middle age
asked to see cloaks at Harris Emery's
He said his wife was i'll at the Savery
and could not come over and he wish |
ed saleswoman to go out with him |
with $3.50 seal which he picked out |
to show his wife This was N 0resa,l tr
and the man and Miss Mary Hasty and |
the cloak went to the hotel, from
whence the man took them to the |
Sabin house, claiming he had made a
mistake In the name of the hotel. not
being familiar with Des Moines. Al
the Sabin he took the salesworran and
the coax into the parlor, picked up
the cloak with the remark that he /
would show 1t to his wife. stepped into
the hall and ran out Of the front door
and disappeared. The police are look
ing for him.