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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
IMPORTANT RULING
Fourteen Tracts of Webster County
Land Involved,

Des Moines, August 29.-The farm
ers of Webster county who were in
fear of losing fourteen tracts of land
in that county only to see it go to a
scrip dealer in Omaha named Moses,
have taken a fresh breath as result
of the decision of the secretary of the
interior at Washington received in the
Office of the local receiver yesterday.
The secretary of the interior has
overruled the decision of Commission
er. w. A. Richards, stating that the
land was non-swampy in character,
and denying them hearing to deter
mine in the courts whether 1t was
swampy or not Fearing that they
might lose their precious farms the
claimants appealed to the secretary
Of the interior through Attorneys
Frank Farrell and B. J. Price. The
result was yesterdays decision.
The date for the hearing before the
local register and receiver has not yet
been set. The land involved, If found
to be Of swampy character, will settle
the title once for all. If found to be
non-swampy at the time of the United
States grant of swamp lands in Iowa
to the counties, it will revert to the
United States. The land was origin
ally sold by the county of Webster
as swamp land to r. p. Hunter and
others. 1t has been filed on as nom
swampy land by Mr.. Moses of Denver.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
INSURGENTS ARE BUSY.
Three Towns Report an Equally Unsat
isfactory State of Affairs.

isfactory State Of Affairs.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Aug. 31.-Dispatches
received from Constantinople, Salon:
lea, Monastir and Adrianople, reveal
an equally unsatisfactory condition in
Macedonia From Salonica come re.
ports of new risings. At Monastir the
insurgents are said to be masters OF
the situation. kilograms from Adrian
ople declare that the insurgent bands
are continuing their ravages.
At the moment that the porte is
asking Belgium to supply officers for
the Macedonian gend'armerie the
Swedish ambassador at Constants.
nople has notified the Turkish govern
ment that unless they receive their
pay Immediately the Swedish officers
now at Uskub will leave the country.
The Dnevnek says the Servian diplo-
matte agent has notified the porte that
two divisions of the Servian army
have been modelled without any hos
tile intention as regards Turkey, but
they will be sent to the frontier to pre-.
vent Albanian incursions into Servia.
A new outbreak is reported to have
occurred in the environs of Salonica,
and several skirmishes have taken
place, both sides losing heavily. In the
district Of Kastoria and Florina, south
of Monastir, the insurgents have de-
stroyed all the fortified residences of
the wealthy beys.
According to the Dnevnik, the hodja
(teachers attached to mosque), In
the vilayet of Kossavo, are preaching
that the time for holy war has come,
and that the people must be ready to
kill the Christians in the vilayet. In
surgent bands are said to be in COM
plete control of the districts Of Demir-
hissar and Kitschevo, and the chief
mountain passes in the vilayet of Mon
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
HAPPENINGS IN
HAWKEYED0M.
What Has Been Going on
During the Past
Week.
HELD FOR MURDER OF MEADE
Enoch Shafer Placed Under Arrest
at Chickasha, I. T., Because He
Claimed to Know About the Muir
der-Now Says He Was Joking.

Chickasha, I. T.. August 31.-Enoch
Schafer, IL years old, an employee of
the Rock Island eating house here,
was arrested Tuesday, charged with
being an accomplice in the murder of
Arthur Meade at West Liberty, Iowa,
May IA. He is held awaiting the ar
rival of deputy with papers, when he
will be taken to that place.
Schafer insists that he knows moth
ing about the murder, and did not even
know Meade. He says his home is in
Quincy, ILL.,, with a sister, where he
stays when not ION the road" He
claims his arrest was caused by a jok-
ing conversation with the cashier at
the eating house, who is from West
Liberty, and who asked him If he had
heard about the murder. He says he
replied in the affirmative and pretend
ed to know all about the particulars.
The young woman Immediately wrote
home of her conversation with Schafer
Instructions were forwarded to Mar
shall Madsen, and his arrest followed
Des Moines, August 31.-Sheriff
John Wiley, Of Muscatine county,
reached this city Friday evening and
secured requisition papers at the Of
flee of Governor Cummins for John
Doe" accused Of the murder of Arthur
Meade, leaving the same night for
Wichita. He is expected to return with
his captive this evening.
The murder of Meade caused a SEN
sation at the time when it was COM
mitted on May 14th, of this year. 1t
was designed after the Jesse James
pattern, which has become so nearly
obsolete.
Meade, with six or seven compan-
ions, was standing in the restaurant Of
Tom Mccarthy, in West Liberty, when
man, wearing an overcoat and a
mask, entered and called upon all in
the room to hold up their hands. All
obeyed except Meade, who, exclaiming,
Il know you" advanced on the
stranger. The robber called on
Meade to keep off, but he persisted in
advancing, and the highwayman shot
him dead, escaping in the confusion in-
cident to the shooting.
The stranger disappeared, as COM
pletely as If the earth had swallowed
him. Governor Cummins offered a re-
ward of $500 for the arrest Of the muir
derer, lately raising it to $500, but all
the efforts of the officers failed to re-
veal single clue. The case had been
given up, when the news from Indian
Territory gave the officers new hope.
Several suspects of the murder had
previously been arrested, but all were
released on account of the lack of suf-
ficient evidence.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
STATE FAIR MADE MONEY.
In Spite of Rains the Fair Was ri
nanciai Success.

III oPltS OF Mains the FdIF was Ff
nanciaI Success.
Des Moines, August 29.-The Iowa
state fair of 1903 indicated what it
might have been with prop.tious
weather, by turning out the biggest
Friday attendance on record. In spite
of the fact that large per cent of the
rural visitors had returned to their
homes, 1900 people passed the turn
stiles.
In spite of the continuous rain,
which cut into the biggest days, the
fair has made money. Just how much
cannot as yet be definitely stated, until
all expenses have been met, but the di-
rectors are more than confident that
they will have a comfortable margin
of profit The amount on the right
side of the balance sheet will not be
as heavy, however, as in 1902, when
the receipts were little greater and
the expenses not quite so heavy.
Nothing but words of praise are
heard for the management of this
years fair. Every detail had been
foreseen and looked after, the judges
secured were the most competent in
the state in their several departments
and the smoothness with which the
fair passed off is a tribute to the
efficiency of the arrangements.
The fair is notable for the high
class of live stock exhibits, which set
4 standard hitherto never attained by
any Iowa fair. All the other depart
ments were fully up to the standard of
other years. Had the weather been
favorable, the 1903 fair would have
been a record breaker from every
point of view. AS it Is, it will be re-
membered as the fair which was a
success under the most adverse cir
cumstances.
John Cownie, one of the most active
promoters of the fair, stated Friday
that in his opinion good weather on
Wednesday and Thursday would have
brought the total receipts up to $780,
300, which would have made this
years fair the greatest in history.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
SHAMROCK LOST IN HAZE.
In a Contest Declared No Race Reli-
ance Gained Big Victory.

New York, Aug. 2S.-With Reliance
less than third of mile from the
finish and Shamrock Ill. hull down on
the horizon, fully two miles astern of
the gallant defender, the fourth race
of the present series for the Americas
cup yesterday was declared off be-
cause of the expiration of the time
limit of five and one-half hours, as
happened on Thursday last: Although,
officially, it was no race, the defeat adj
ministered to the challenger was so
ignominious that whatever lingering
hope remained in the breasts of the
friends of Sir Thomas boat vanished
into thin air. Reliance's victory was
in every way more decisive than that
Of last Saturday. Outsailed, outpoint-
ed and outfoooted, it was procession
from start tn finish
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
Six Of panviIIe Rioters Guilty.

Danville, ILL.,, August 31.-The jury
in the case of eight persons charged
with completely in the riots of July
25, when Sheriff Whitlock successfully
defended the jail, brought in verdict
finding six of the men guilty. William
Redwine and Clay Biddle, the latter q
16-year-old boy, were acquitted. II is
thought the sentences of the convicted
rioters will be the same as that passed
upon their leader, Winfield Baker
namely, an Underestimate sentence Of
from one to fourteen years in the peni.
Tertiary.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
MAGELSSEN NOT KILLED.
Was Fired at in His Carriage, But
Not Touched

Constantinople, Aug. 29.-It trans
pires that the report that Vice Consul
Magelssen was killed is incorrect An
unknown individual fired at him, and
the bullets passed close to the vice
consul, but did not touch him.
The vail of Beirut afterwards visit
ed Vice Consul Magelssen, expressed
his regrets for the outrage and ordered
measures for the arrest of the perpe-
traitor.
The error in stating that Vice Con-
sui Magelssen had been killed arose
from a mistake in a cipher telegram.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
POWERS DEATH SENTENCE.
Jury Finds Him Guilty of Murder Of
Governor GoebeI.

Georgetown, KY, August S1.-The
jury in the case of ex-Secretary of
State Caleb Powers, charged with con-
conspiracy to murder Governor Will
lam Goebel in 1900, found the defend
ant guilty and imposed the death
sentence.
Powers was sentenced to imprison-
ment for life in his former trials for
completely in the conspiracy. 1t was
on this motion that he secured the new
trials each time. The verdict caused
great excitement among the friends
Of other defendants in these cases.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

The San Francisco earthquake and
the eruption of Mt. Colima, following
the outburst from Vesuvius, afford am.
pie evidence that the disturbance in.
side the great round ball on which we
live has not been settled yet.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

That man in Mount Vernon who let
his wife compel him to sleep for
month in the chicken coop has shown
unconsciously that it takes a wife to
measure accurately the dimensions of
Ter husband.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Some immense waterspouts have
been seen in Nome, and it has been
hailing blocks of ice in Colorado, but
not a solitary sea-serpent has shown
up at any of the seaside resorts this
summer. The sea-serpent liar must be
taking a vacation this year.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

"H you are bitten by rattlesnake,"
, says an authority, "and can't get
whisky, eat tobacco pound if nee
essary. 1t will cure you" Life is
sweet, and there are men, doubtless,
who would pay even this price for it.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

The Toledo Blade says: Miss Fairy
Titmarsh has pair of calves that can
not be beat in this section of our
glorious republic" Perhaps somebody
will write poem about them, as
somebody did about Mary's little
lamb.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

"The sheep which were imprisoned
in the turret of the French cruiser
Suffern"-that's just what they were
doing, even if they were not seriously
injured.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

There is a man at Laurel, L. l., who
claims that in the sixty years of his
life he has eaten $1,000 pancakes.
Some people don't seem to have any
sense of shame.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Representative Baker of Brooklyn,
who will neither accept railroad
passes nor appoint cadets to Annapo.
lis, must have got into politics by mis-
take.-Buffalo Express.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
Wrioht for Governor.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. 26.-Gen.
Luke e. Wright of Memphis, Tenn,
will succeed Judge Taft as governor
general Of the Philippines when the
latter becomes secretary of war next
January. in succession to Elihu Root.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

1t is generally known that potatoes
contain large percentage of alcohol
but are we to infer that this is most
generously liberated in the process of
MASKING?
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Jamaica should be a good market
for cyclone cellars during the next few
months. a..s
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
Macedonians to Appeal to Powers.

Sofia, Aug. 27.-An immense mass
meeting of Macedonians took place
here today. The proceedings were
most enthusiastic. 1t was resolved
that memorandum should be pre-
scented to the representatives of the
great powers at Sofia, urging their
governments to take action.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
DELEGATES TO GO TO OGDEN
lowa's Representation at the National
Irritation Conuress Named

loWa's Representation at the National
Irrigation Congress Named.
Des Moines, August 29-Gov. Cum
minis has named the following dele
gates to the national irrigation con-
gress at Ogden, September 10:
Wesley Greene, Des Moines; Fred
s. Robinson, Oelwein; W. r. Orchard,
Glidden; p. A. Smith, Scranton: Chas.
Stallcopp, Brooklyn; T. ]. Bray, Grin
nell;S. w. Searles, Iowa City; d. III.
Logan, Washington; P. T. Wolf, Fair.
field; Thos. d. Murphy, Red Oak; C.
F, Saylor, Des Moines; s. s. Scull,
st. Anthony: S. NJ. Greene, Charlton +:
VIM. G. Howell, Keokuk; L. e. John.
son, Abba; T. G, Ferguson, LeMars
George Wright, Eagle Grove; Harry
Wallace, Des Moines; Allan Dawson
Des Moines; A. III. Grissell, Guthrie
Center; w. w. Morrow, Alton; Pro.
fessor Kennedy, Ames.
Some men are born businesslike, my
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

In these days of trading stamps and
mark-down sales, it is a strong minded
woman who does not come home from
q shopping tour with the idea that
she has been finding money.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

If man will only keep on making
love to a woman after he has married
her they can keep on fooling them
selves Indefinitely.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

How would it do for the nations, be-
fore further increasing their naYies,
TO have a few of the rocks dug out
of the oceans, so the boats will have
room?
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Live shells were fired at a French
warship without any apparent effect
upon it. However, Dewey's men were
not behind the guns.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

A Chicago professor has undertaken
the task of writing six large books
about money. That's his scheme for
getting money.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Literary people should live as near
as possible to nature without getting
too far away from the publishers
Puck.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Unfortunately the people the
world would like most to be rid of are
never the ones who get mixed up in
those tunnel accidents.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

The British government has increas-
ed Poet Laureate Austin's pension. II
this is the price of silence in the fu-
ture we can understand the raise"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

California regrets to report that she
has not prunes enough this year to
create trouble in even the Hungarian
diet.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Lawrence. Kas., had a wind storm
the other day that made some of the
old settlers think for the moment that
Quantrell had come again.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

A New York lady who weighs 367
pounds fell from a third-story window
and escaped unhurt. Fortunately. al.
so. there was no one underneath.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

A st. Paul girl tried the old reli-
able test to discover if they were
mushrooms or toadstools. 1t worked.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Perhaps if they had allowed Mr..
Corbett to take an ak into the ring
with him the result might have been
different
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Apparently Mount Vesuvius grudge
against the existing order of things
Is deep and lasting.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

1t would be well worth going many
miles to see Mr.. Jeffries and a good
swift red devil collide head-on.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Prof. Langley should not be discour-
aged. If his machine will not fly per-
haps it will be a success as a sub
marine boat.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

II sleep like babe" says Corbett.
What poetic language these hardest
ed fighters use!
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Thomas Cooksey Ward, THE Sage
of Maryland" is dead at the age of
Ill. 1t takes a sage to reach that age.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

The new college of journalism is
primarily intended, however, to pro-
duce newspaper men.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Geronimo probably has confessed
that he was an old chief of sinners.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
HELD BACK A MOB.
Two Men Keep Eighty From Lynching
an italian.

Davenport, August 31-By the I'M
armed Intervention of George Cook
and Harvey Lillard, hired man on
he Cook country place eight miles
rom this city, Gus Teros, a Greek
'aborer, who had used revolver in a
quarrel with other section men, was
saved from lynehing at the hands of
eighty of his Infatuated compatriots
Saturday afternoon. They drove him
into a building on the Cook farm
where the two men interfered and
stood guard over him until officers and
possee If citizens summoned by tele-
phone arrived from Buffalo, couple
Of miles away.
The hunted man In fear of his life
was taken to Buffalo and placed in
Jail. Young Cook, whose GOODNESS and
nerve saved the mans life, is profess
sor at Leland Stanford university, and
author of Frederick Taliaferro," one
of the popular novels of the year.
Bob Strickland, charged with rob-
bling Sam Johnson at Centerville, was
arrested at Ottumwa. He was found
In Smoky Row." and when searched
sS7755 was found on his person.
Strickland was taken to Centerville.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Undoubtedly Russia and Japan are
merely bluffing. Neither has begun
to invest in Missouri mules.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Coal has been discovered in John
son county in Jefferson township not
far from Iowa City. The discovery was
made on the Crowell estate, farm Of
forty acres. The "black diamonds"
were found on the surface, but work
men digging well also passed
through vein of coal on the same
farm. J. M. Files, prominent retired
farmer, brought numerous specimens
of the coal to Iowa City and the local
experts pronounced it the real stuff"
Prospecting will follow as soon as ar
rangements can be made.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03
Beird Is Not Guilty.

Ottumwa, August 31.-After being
out seventeen hours the jury in the
case of c. G. Beird, on trial in Keo-
sauqua on the charge of having MUIR
dered Captain w. A. Dundy in Keo-
kuk, returned verdict of not guilty.
The case was brought to Van Buren,
county from Lee county district court
on a change of venue, and has been
watched with much interest. Captain
Dundy was shot and killed in KecIuk
in 1901.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Sultan Dosoon should have his name
changed to Toosoon.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-03

Some men are born businesslike, my
dear. the same as they are born bow
legged.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-12
The Scotch Thirst

Archdeacon Sinclair told the Semi-Tee-
total Pledge association of the diary oT a
Scotch shepherd. which read Sunday
Up in the morning at Ga dram (whis-
ky). Went out TO see the sheep--a dram.
Came home to breakfast dram.
Looked round the house, dram.
Washed and dressed for church--a dram.
Took brandy before going to kirk. lest
| should smell of whisky in the horse Of
the Lord!' The name of the association
was responsible for the archdeacon's own
experience. He was once lunching alone
in the house OF friend confined to his
room by an accident. The housekeeper
brought up tray OF good things. and
asked the arehdescon what he would have
to drink, for, she said, 1--WE 'erd you're
not temperate gentleman"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-12
FORESTRY IN NEW MEXICO.
Timber Lands on Big Cattle Ranch to
Be Put Under Management,

A panty of foresters from the bureau
of forestry, under the direction of A.
l.. Haws, has been employed all sum
mer on the William H. Bartlett ranch
in ColfaX county. n. NJ. The field work
ministration for the lands is now in
preparation.
The Bartlett tract lies at the southern
extremity of the Rocky mountains in
the Narmejo river valley and includes
210.000 acres, part of an old Mexican
land grant. The owner of the tract, who
resides in Chicago, uses it in part as a
cattle ranch and summer residence.
The former owners of the ranch retain
the right to cut the timber for definite
period OF years, and it is Mr.. Bartlett S
desire that young forest of the best
possible qualify cover the tract when
these cuttings shall have ceased. Much
of the pine land has already been lum-
bered, though in most parts a sufficient
number of seed trees remain to insure
reproduction. About fifty years ago ex-
tensiye fires swept over the mountainous
parts of the tract which were then COW
cred with mixture of spruce and fir.
These burned areas have since grown up
in most cases, there is good reproduc-
ton of the native conifers.
The bureau will recommend that fire
patrols be established and fire lines be
constructed; that those parts of lands
covered with young reproduction be
fenced in so as to keep ont the cattle
and that considerable tree planting be
done, chiefly of western yellow pine.
The plan will be accompanied by a
map showing the location of forest types,
proposed fire lines, areas TO be planted,
etc.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-12
SISTER MoLLY'S BEAU.

Is children got t be as nice
As ever was, an when we go
f. answer at doorbcll, we got
f. make n lite bow-jess so!
An Of it's at big mustached man
At came from heaven t'other day
7 call on Molly. we must put
Our incest manners on an say
Jess walk right in"
An en- we got { go upstairs
As quiet as we ever knew,
An say Z Motley: Sister dear,
\ gentleman's T. call on YOU
Cause eff he'd hear us say: 'Oh, Moll,
At guy 18th whiskers jess come i'm
Way, ere would he a nawful row
An we'd get spanked by Moll, like sin,
Cause he's her beau,
Selrcc Mo-ly's got bean, they can't
Nobody give her any sass,
Ncg tell tn man at Mol jess stands
All day by at lookin' glass:
We got t. make out like she looks
Like at all times. cause she nd slap
0ar heads right off, eff we I'D tell
Him how she looks in her old wrap
When he amt there!
visit at they'd stop spoonln so.
A-sittin' on tn sofa-say!
7 saw him put his arm around
Moll's waist, / did, las Saturday!
wisht at they'd get married, an
We wouldn't have T. primp up So
They amt no fun in Twin now
Sence Sister Molly's got beau.
AT whiskered man.
Baltimore News.