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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-02-19
Extra.

Mrs Fred Delahoyde has been quite
i'll for the past week.
II. L. Wissler has an aunt visiting
him from Winterset.
Work in the third degree at the
Masonic hall next Saturday night.
Born on Tuesday, Feb. 10 to Mr..
and Mrs. George McLain daughter.
Mrs. w. S. Jones is suffering from
a felon on the thumb of the right hand.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. Phip-
pin, who live east of town, a boy last
Thursday.
The X. p. banquet next Thursday
evening will be served by Caterer Al
Andrews.
T. Vickery has purchased the build.
ing he occupies as harness shop oil
Mrs. Kate Ridgeley.
John /. Hensley will build q big
barn on the Deerfield place he pur.
chased some time ago.
James Clement Andrews will lecture
on 'Fool in Politics" at the opera
house Friday evening.
Mrs. Peter Delahoyde, of Audubon,
has been at the bedside of her brother
w. w. Brown for the past week.
Chas. Kopaska and fanny, of Au.
dubon township, moved to Beedle
county, South Dakota, Wednesday OF
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Wilde have
rented the Mrs. Peters house on north
Park street and expect to move i'm
mediately.
John Connrardy, Andy Baylor, DR..
Oldaker, Claude Andrews and Chas.
Scharff attended Masonic lodge in
Audubon Tuesday night.
The Extra high school graduating
class consists OF Roscoe Nichol, Grace
West, Grace Hunter, Earl Smith,
Life Jones, Lille Hunt.
Rev. Hartsough will preach his
farewell sermon Sunday morning. He
and his family will move to North
Dakota about March LIST.
Cashier John MCGUIRE, af the Farm
er's Exchange bank, went to Audubon
on business Saturday evening re-
turning Sunday morning.
The X. o. T. NJ. lodge added four
new members to its order last Monday
night and will help nine more over
the rough road next Monday.
Mrs. Laura Delahoyde and daugh-
ter Mollie went to Audubon Friday
evening to visit relatives and attend
the Swedish Ladies Quintette.
Ebbe j. Hansen received a patent
this week on Hat iron heated by gas
oline and they say it is hot thing in
the way OF a household article.
Miss Lowene Van Gorder and
friend Miss Hasker, of Chicago, were
down from Audubon Wednesday and
Thursday visiting the Delahoyde's.
Tuesday being Andrew Miller's 64th
birthday a reunion party was held at
his home, consisting of III. s. Ratten-
borg and wife, of Atlantic, Hans Han
sen and wife, Alfred Miller and Thos.
Lohner, OF Extra.
Peter Lund, the gentleman who was
robbed of his watch at Avoca, re-
covered the same this week. Jeweler
Christensen had the number of the
watch and the officers found IL in a
pawn shop in Omaha.
7. H. Ericsson has sold his bakery
and restaurant to Earnest Voss and
Clarence Campbell, of Anita. Mr..
and Mrs. Ericsson expect to visit in
Audubon short time and then take
their departure for Dias Greek, N. Y,
where they expect to make their future
home.
Whitefeld w. Brown, after an i'll
ness of only few days, passed away
at $3.50 Tuesday morning. He had
been troubled with the asthma and
took the measles. He was born Aug
ust q, 1885, came to Iowa in 1871 and
settled in Greeley township, moved to
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-02-19
Ross.

Mrs. Knowles, of Extra, visited at
the Dewey home last week.
c. J. McCuen was in the county
seat Tuesday between trains.
Harry Northup and family visited
at the John Rutherford home last Sun
day.
Al Miller departed for New Orleans
Tuesday. AL says this country is too
cold.
John Rutherford went to Carroll on
Tuesday night returning Wednesday
morning.
John CAMPBELL of Havlock, Poca-
hontos Co. is visiting at the Hitler
home this week.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-02-19
COLDS ARE DANGEROUS.

How often you hear it remarked:
SITS only cold," and few days
later learn that the man is on his
back with pneumonia. This is of such
common occurrence that a cold, how
ever slight, should not be disregarded.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy coun-
teracts any tendency toward pneu-
monia. 1t always cures and is pleas
ant to take. Sold by A. H. Roberts.
If you are in need of any sale bills,
horse bills, or anything in the print.
ing line do not fail to see US.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-02-19
Notice of Probate of VIII.

Distrlct court In and for Audubon County.
State OF Iowa, m
Audubon County, %
TO all whom 1t may concern;
Whereas on the I1th day of February, A ID. 1903
paper purp' ring TO be the last will and tes-
lament of George W. Clark, late OF said county,
deceased, was filed in my office, and was by ME
opened and read; and the 10th day of March,
1908, appointed and fixed as the time when the
same will come before the court at the March
term thereof then to be held, for final proof
and probate as the duly executed last win and
testament of the said George W. Clark deceas-
ed, at which time all persons inteIt sted may
appear and show cause why the same should
not be admitted to probate.
Dated this l1th day OF February, 1903.
l. J. Hill,
7w3 Clerk OF District Court
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-02-19
A LIBERAL OFFER.

The undersigned will give free
sample of Chamberlain's Stomach,
and Liver Tablets to any one wanting
a reliable remedy for disorders of the
stomach, biliousness or constipation.
This is new remedy and good one.
A. H. Roberts.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-02-19

Extra about five years ago. The fun
eral was held at the home at two
O'Clock yesterday.
The following is the program for
the services at the Congregational
shurch next Sunday evening
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-10-03
LOOKING for TeamSterS.

G. H. Bayley, the Modoc county
stockman, was an arrival here
Thursday. He has contracted to
furnish Stone Bros, who have the
contract to construct the large irri-
CATION canal in Churchill county,
with I2o head of horses TO be used
in the work. He reports that men
who can handle teams are scarce,
and many are needed. Transfers
for scrapers get 81 per day, those
who drive -four horses, S2.25 and
hose who handle six-horse teams,
$3.50. Eight hours will constitute a
days labor. Board at the company's
ctmps will be $3.50 per week, or rs
cts. per meal.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-10-03

State could soon be brought
under a high state of cultivation
and inducements to home-seekers
would be such that in a short
time our large uncultivated
tracts would be cut up into
small farms and prosperous,
pleasant homes be built upon
them.
We believe, also, that Miller &
Lux, the plaintiffs in the suit
now pending, would be the first
ones to lend aid to such an
undertaking. Their interests are
large here and a shortage of
water is as much to their detri-
ment as it is to anyone else.
Another point in connection
with this matter is that the
government is taking interest in
irrigation in this State now, and
in the near future might prob
ably be induced to operate in
this section, should it be shown
that the people here were in a
shape to assist and not retard
government work in this line.
Certain it is the government will
not step in to reclaim our valley
lands while the people are tang
led up in lawsuit about prior
concentrations. etc.
AS this seems to be the ques-
ton of most vital interest to
this community, we invite any
and all to discuss the issue, and
tender them the free use of our
columns for this purpose.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-10-03
Contract to Run Tunnel.

Tom Rooney struck out Yesterday
with load OF lumber, provisions
and mining implements for the East
Walker mining section. He has
ia ken a contract from Joe DIETRICH
10 run Ioo-toot tunnel on gold
claim known as the Examiner, sit
uated about one mile from the Web
ster place. Considerable prospecting
and some development work is being
done in this southern section now,
and there is n good chance to dis
cover some valuable mines, AZ the
entire country is very highly min.
eraliZed
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-10-03
Gained Forty Pounds in Thirty Days.

For several months our younger
brother had been troubled with indi-
gestion II tried several remedies
but got no benefit from them. We
purchased some of Chamberlain 5
Stomach and Liver Tablets and h"
commenced taking them. Inside OF
thirty days he had gained forty
pounds in flesh. He is now fully
recovered. We have a good trade
on the Tablets. -HoLLEY Bios, Mer-
chants, Long Branch, Mo. For sale
by NJ. f. Leavitt.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-10-03
Many Mothers of a Like Opinion.

Mrs. Primer, of Cordova, Iowa,
says: zone of my children was
subject to Group OF severe type,
and the giving OF Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy promptly, always
brought relief. Many mothers in
this neighhorhood think the same as
| do about this remedy and want no
other kind TOR their children" For
sale by NJ. Il. Lcavitt.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-10-03
ABOUT OUR WAFER SUPPLY.

ldlu Ill w dSOH dllSN, DlOuSHl
suit against the balance of the
farmers and ditch owners in this
valley, Smith Valley and Ante
lope Valley for the purpose of
making each and every appro-
priator of water from the Walk
er River establish his rights and
perpetuate record of the same.
The suit has dragged along for
a number of months now and
the question is no nearer a settle
ment than before the suit was
begun, and up to date we can
see where no one has been bene-
fitted in the matter.
The situation in this valley is
that during the Spring and early
Summer months of each year
there is sufficient water for
everybody who takes head out
of the river, but along toward
the latter part of the season
there is no water for anybody.
Soon after the suit by Miller &
Lux was brought the defendants
in the case organized an asso-
citation to devise the best means
and ways to meet the plain tiffs
in the suit. 1t was at one time
thought that a compromise
might be effected, but this plan
fell through, and to-day the
shortage Of water is just as
great in the latter part of the
Summer season as ever. Under
the present condition of things
it will make very little difference
who is the winner in the suit.
No matter what the decree of
the Cont, no more water can be
obtained unless providence steps
in and fills the stream.
In the meantime the farmers
are frittering away their hard
earned money in conducting a
defense in the suit.
The only way to dispose of all
this legal tangle and settle the
water question equitably for all
time is to secure water enough
for all hands concerned at all
times of the year. This can only
be done by concerted action and
the building of a reservoir at or
near the headwaters of the
Walker River which will i'm
pound the great quantity of
water which now goes to waste
during the early part of each
season.
In the lower portion of Ante
lope Valley, partly in California
and partly in Nevada, lies Alkali
Lake, a natural reservoir. 1t
has been estimated by the gov
eminent surveyors who have in
spected this site and made meas,
urements of the water in the
river at different seasons of the
year, and who have also esti-
mated the number of acres of
land in this valley and Smith
Valley which can be put under
cultivation by irrigation, that
this lake at a small expense,
comparatively, can be converted
into a reservoir which will hold
water enough to irrigate the
entire area of over 100000
acres in the two vallies men
toned.
This being the case. is not this
the plan to be adopted to settle
all water difficulties between the
appropriations on this stream
1t seems to us that by forming
a company, in which all owners
of existing water rights would
have an interest to the extent of
the value of their lands and
water holdings, the formation
of district and the bonding of
the property in said district for
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-10-03
Broke into His House,

S. LeQuinn, OF Cavendish, VT, was
robbed of his customary health by
invasion of Chronic Constipation.
When DR.. Kings New Life Pills
broke into his honse, his, trouble was
arrested and now he's entirely
cured. They're guaranteed to cure.
25c at NJ. K. Leavitt's, Drug Store.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1903-10-03

For a pleasant physic take Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
Easy to take. Pleasant in effect. For
sale by NJ. K. Leavitt.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-12-31

contour map in few moments to what
is called profile map" of the exact
portion which he wishes to traverse,
this map showing the high points that
must be cut away and the low places
that must be filed in to make his road
easy and practicable
In actual service the surveyor would
seldom so any further than the draw
ing of his map but the Tech" student
for the completion of his knowledge,
must usually reproduce the contour in
a pasteboard model The making of
these models is comparatively simple,
the thickness of the pasteboard repre-
sentiug each advance of the imaginary
tide and each successive contour being
superimposed upon the one preceding,
Such model looks in miniature very
much like an original plan upon which
nature has yet to build up her decora.
ton of trees and shruhbery and hu.
manity to erect its houses, fences,
factories and public buildings.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-12-31
SNOW FAIRIES.
By EARL SYLVESTER.

stopped their work, their stints were
done, With a soft tluttering of wings.
they went into the next room from
which they soon returned dressed In
long coats and caps for the Journey.
Each hanging a basket OF snowfiakes
on his left arm, bowed gracefully TO the
king and started TO leave the palace,
The second group of fairies" said
the king, will take a snowstorm to
the home of the Mortal Child, and my
eli will guide thee thither, Thy visit
has been pleasing, and gladly would
We longer keep thee"
Ruth did not wish to leave, but she
hid the king good-hy and started on
her journey back 20 Garth. Down
down they loated, the wings Of the
group of fairies with whom she flew
films the air with gentle murmur
At last they reached the e6go of the
clouds from which the earth was Wis.
ible, Pausing Just beneath the surface
W the clouds, each fairy filled its
hands with snowilakes and circling
around the spot II aimed it at, let fan
a snowflake which floated gently down
with the circling motion the fairy's
movement had given II.
Ruth and her attendant fioated down.
ward still till near the surface of the
earth, then the fairy, waving his wand,
murmured softly;
Fairies wise from the skies
Bid thee take thy natural sige,
Bid thee see with mortals eyes.
He then left Ruth, who, as she drew
nearer md nearer the earth grew
larger until once mere In the garden
she found herself her natural size.
She stood long watching the silent
fall of the snowtlakes, thinking of tho
dainty group up in the clouds, When
the last flake had fallen she knew the
fairies baskets were empty and they
were flying toward home like flock
of white doves. but men only said:
The storm has stopped"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-12-31

black and white spaces have a plain
mathematical meaning and the young
man who squints through the tele-
scope knows the exact distance of the
black and white pole according to the
angle of his instrument and the num-
Der of alternate spaces between two
parallel lines running horizontally
across his field of vision. Under the
telescope and in the same perpendicu.
lar plane is ruler and by following
this ruler a number of inches CORES
bordering to the exact distance of the
pole, he can mark on his white ocean
a spot corresponding exactly with the
spot at which his fellow surveyor has
started the contour map.
AS the man with the pole, who might
be taken for perambulating barber,
but who is virtually the ocean by
proxy, moves from one place to an.
other in the distance the man at the
drawing board is thus able to locate
each place at which he stops by a
pencil mark cn the growing contour
map What the man with &e pole is
doing is actually marking a series of
places where the edge of the water
would be at mean half tide and what
the man at the drawing board Is doing
Is registering, on whatever scale he
has decided to make his map, these
same stops on his piece CT paper.
Now when line is drawn running IT.
regularly through all these dots and
taking into consideration the charac.
ter of the country which they cover,
the result is a jagged outline that rep
resents that portion Of the base OF
our hill as it would look If the ocean
had converted it into an island The
student, of course, has to locate many
such spots to make his map even In
such simple problem as our hill
would represent TO practicing sur
veyor. The expert topographer, on
the other hand, becomes so skilled in
filling in a contour that his work re.
quires the exact data for only a few
salient points and would nevertheless
stand the test of he pole, telescope
and horizontal ruler at practically
every point in the outline. The same
process repeated from a point ten feet
higher gives the outline II the tide had
risen another ten feet, and SO On until
the summit of the hill has almost van.
ished. The combined results Of this
curious series Of jagged outlines, un.
Ineligible as it might appear to the
average citizen, produces much the
same effect to the eyes Of a surveyor
as would birds ere view Of the hill,
or downward glance from balloon
suspended directly over It. II he
wishes to run road across any part
Of the territory he can reduce the
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-12-31
BENCH MARKS
Il FOR GOOD ROADS
Modest Starting That When
Seek Heights Above Levetiow Young Sur
veyos Technology Use Them
to Find So-Called OF HUB.

{ Boston, Dec. 27.-Did you ever see
the mysterious letters B. NJ. perma-
nsntly inscribed on tablet, post, or
doorstep somewhere within the circle
OF your daily wanderings? Probably
not. unless you are a surveyor, and
even then not unless you had some
special reason to look for them, al
though the Bench Marks, for which
the letters are an equivalent, are
Nldely scattered all over the United
States and are of first Importance
Whenever a surveyor wishes to locate
the exact altitude of any given spot
either above sea level or, in many in
land cases, above that of the nearest
Important body of water, A knowledge
of these attitudes is of so little con-
Sequence to the average citizen that
he may even have a bench mark on
his own doorstep without knowing it,
but themodest bench mark is an i'm
portant member of society whenever
the growth Of his city demands new
but the modest bench mark is an i'm
mediate vicinity, to say nothing of the
solution of many other engineering
problems In laying out new road,
for example, the engineers must first
know the elevation of the different
adjoining points of country which it is
to traverse, and this can obviously be
done most easily if one can draw on
paper a small but accurate picture of
Of hn
geography along the upper edge of
which the proposed road is to facili.
tate travel
To obtain this perpendicular slice
of local geography is one of the most
interesting problems of the modern
Surveyor, as well as the very begin
ming of nearly every form Of modern
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-12-31
Illuminating both"

both"
Concerning the developments re-
garding the much.discussed radmm
and uranium, Mr., Kunz said, Prof,
Alexander Hamilton Phillips, pro,
lessor of chemistry at Princeton uni.
versity, has examined quantity of
carnotite, an ore OF uranium. which
is being mined by the Welsh.Lofttus
uranium company of Buffalo, which
is at present ondeavoring to furnish
radium from an American ore, Prof,
Phillips analysed % pounds OF the
Colorado mineral, and obtained from
II one gram az radium,barium chloride
OF an activity OF 1900, He made
photographs of keys and other oh.
iectS proving It's aetinic properties,
Tho radioacttviN was finally de.
termined by Prot Adams, of the
physical department of Princeton,
who measured the activity,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-12-31

sons and under different Conditions,
On opposite sides of the isthmus or
Panama, for example, there is differ
ence of several feet in the level OF high
water, but the mean half tides are
identical. Now if the base Of cur hill
were surrounded by water at this mean
half tide level, our hill would obvious
ly become an island, its shore present
ing a distinct outline. If the tide rose
ten feet our hill would be a smaller
island with different outline, every
point of which, however would be ex-
actly ten feet higher than the level at
which we started; and so on until, the
advancing flood covering the top of it,
it vanished completely and we with 1t.
The first step in reducing this i'm
aginary condition to the terms of a
map is the establishment Of the exact
altitude of sevral different points, us
ing as a starting point the single
bench mark already established, the
surveyor climbing the hill with an
instrument that enables him to set up
HIS SUCCESSIVE NO Wy SUMMING,
through it at tall pole held upright
at the initial bench mark, These
points rearbitrarily established and
then comes into requisition a peculiar
SOFT of drawing board with a small
telescope and ruler on top. One sur
veyor stands at this drawing board
which is thus equivalent roughly
speaking to the unruffled surface Of
the ocean if it extended to that part
of the earth's surface, and another at
some point not more than mile dis
tant holding a tall pole evenly divided
into alternate black and white spaces
AS viewed through the little telescope
that swings at any necessary angle
above the distant drawing board these
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1903-12-31

'Nleal estate improvement, and 1t is
also enc of the problems that the stu.
dent of surveying must learn by actual
practice. Boston, for example, with
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
snology hardly stones throw from the
\ public library, has probably been more
thoroughly examined by these useful
student surveys than any other city
In the country and whoever obtains
E Permission to accompany a party OF
students in their field work obtains
| Giso a very clear impression of many
of the first steps necessary to the lay
hing out of public works which we all
Isee so constantly in various stages of
completion. Making a contour map,
as it is called-a map that reveals the
I altitude of every spot included in it
INST as an ordinary map shows us the
Instances in a straight line from enc
lplace to another-is an especially in
Eeresting process for it not only neces-
lsitates the use of delicate instruments
HUT requires something Of the same
skill in sketching as is possessed by
khe landscape artist.
To make one of these maps demands
Grst of all an established starting
pint In a populous city like Bos.
bn these starting points, the bench
Narks already referred to, are num-
fous, having been definitely settled
" many previous surveys, sometimes
4 the city surveyors, sometimes in
bnnection with the making of road
the development Of system OF
swage disposal, and sometimes by
e national government in the series
coast and geodetic surveys that
I've now included the entire United
htes seaboard. The directions by
Nlich these marks may be located in
Ne records of the surveyors Office are
the uninitiated almost as hierogly-
fhic as those by which the pirate OF
I'D romance indicated the burial spot
n his hidden treasure. "R. o. G. l..
s. s. followed by the number OF a
blouse in the fashionable district of
he city becomes easily ineligible,
however, when translated Right outer
Fsorner lower stone step" the corner
of the step being chosen because 1t Is
seldom If ever stepped upon and there
fore remains permanent once its exact
Height above sea level has been ac-
tquired.
A contour map, taking a hill as an
Example, has a base the outline that
would be produced If the Hill were
Surrounded by water at half tide, or
o be more technically accurate at
Nnean half tide for the mean half tide
Is a fixed quantity while the actual
measurement Ct the extremes of low
bnd high water varies at different sea.