Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-05-15

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Adjutant General Byers will go 10
Maquoketa to look at the site offered
there for the encampment of the
Forty-ninth regiment He will also
visit Dewitt, which is likewise seek
Ing the encampment. Waterloo is
said TO be candidate for the honor,
as well as Dewitt and Maquoketa.
The Ames Commercial club held a
meeting, at which Adjutant General
Byeis was present, for the purpose of
considering the location of the en-
campment of the Fifty-first. General
Byers looked over the proposed ground
on the college farm. The committee
of the club that was named to look
up available grounds assured General
j. r. Lincoln. colonel Of the Fifty-first,
that he would be given full control
Of the site, so that he might prev6fs.
teams in camp and the erection OF -.
freshment stands.
A. L. GfLio OF Alta. chief expert &C.
countant, named by the executive
council to examine the state house Of
ficers and departments, is ir the CITY,
together with his assistant, G. o.
Clement. of Marengo. Messrs. Dino
and Clements will at this time COM
plete the examination of the offices.
begun last winter. The insurance Sc.
curities in the office of the auditor of
state will be checked over first. The
pharmacy commission accounts viii
also be examined. The fiscal year of
the commission did not expire until
April %, and hence the accounts in
that office were not examined when
those OF the other offices were. The
board of control accounts will not be
checked over for the present. The
last examination made was up to the
beginning of July. 1901. and year has
not gone by since then. The next ex-
animation of the boards accounts will
not be made until after July /.
Two jurymen voted for conviction
and four for acquittal of J. |. Houston
on the charge of violating the fish and
game law. Trial was had before
Justice Duncan. Houston was ar
rested for alleged catching of four
wall-eyed pike. The states witness.
Carl Quimby. stated that Houston had
the fish in his possession and refused
to throw them back into the river.
The attorney for Houston said that
beef was so high priced that his client.
could not afford to buy 1t, hence was
compelled to catch fish for a portion
of his menu.
The ministers OF Des Moines are
sadly at difference IN regard to White
chapel. its adjustment or continue
ton. There are two factions or classes
among the preachers. one headed by
DR.. II. o. Breeder. of the Central
Christian church, who believes that
the abolition of the Whitechapel dis
trict is the best thing that has hap
pened to Des Moines for years and
years; and the other headed by Rev.
+. j. Van Horn, OF the Plymouth Con-
gregational church, who is not sure
but that Whitechapel Is preferable TO
disseminated social evil population.
1t is asserted that the Des Moines
detectives have the club with which
the Peterson children were killed.
Aged criminal (who has just got a
life sentence)-"Oh. me lud. | shall
never live to do it," Judge (sweetly)
Never mind. Do as much of It as
you CAM"
do you speak English, madame?o
inquired the interviewer Yer IeetP."
replied the operate celebrity. smiling
sweetly; only zis: How l lofe Amer.
ica!'"
.O-o-o-h-h!" II is the wife who
shrieks thus. What is the matter?'
calls the husband. Baby has swal.
lowed tack Nervously the hus.
band seeks his copy OF First Aid 10
the Injured" Quicker yet is the wife.
See! She is feeding the baby tack
puller
From early youth Ambrose s. Ottey.
OF Cecil county, Nd. has been an at
tentive reader of the Bible. He has
read 1t from beginning to end 1T
times. and informs us that II contains
1,189 chapters. 31.19S verses, 773.697
words and 3,566.4S0 letters.
1t is customary. at the continuous
performance theaters. for the man
ayers to send on the stage. toward the
close OF the afternoon, some of the
most wretched actors. These are
called "chasers," and they are in
structed to do their best-which ia
their worst-to weary the patrons. and
chase them out Of the house, to make
room for the night audience