Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-29
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Des Moines. Oct. "a. 100;

les MONIES, Oct. "a. 1908.
| All Der Moines Is looking forward
TO and anxiously awaiting the coming
81 the peerless soprano Melba and her
great concert company. who appear
here in the Auditorium on the evening
oI November 10th. This Is her first
and only appearance in the state, and
the event is looked forward to as the
most important musical event In the
history of the state. The price of
,'ckets has been placed at from 81 90
70 $2.5O. Chas. Johnson, secretary OF
the \. M. G. A.. has charge of the
TICKET arrangements. An open rate OF
fare and one-third has been secured
On all railroads, good to return on the
18th.
The secretary Of the state execu.
tive council has just completed the
footings of the expense accounts of
the various state Offices and depart.
ments for the biennial period closed
July last. These items include All
expenses Of every kind, including
salaries and supplies. Some of the
leading items Of expense are: Elk.
~SoSA'S a1RoA SAhCht, ol,SOO.oOs St,CT6s
tary OF state. $6<,102.34: auditor, &48,.
1892; treasurer, s22,5s2.66: attorney
general $17,40S.69, board OF control,
s57.1so.21; clerk Of supreme court,
$l5.618-37; adjutant generals depart.
ment. 1857; superintendent Of pub.
lie instruction, $32,339; custodian of
state capitol and grounds. $62, 10;
ranroad commissioners, $36,379; SUI
,t..Sl
general assembly, $751; ,5T9.
Books. including some fare and val.
liable works, have just been ordered
by the state library board for the
state library, the law library and the
state historical department, In all
costing about $4,000. Among the val.
liable books purchased was complete
set Of 'Hansards' parliamentary de-
bates. These books are to the English
parliamentary proceedings what the.
Congressional Record is to legislative
proceedings of the United States Har-
sards' contains the English parlimeIf-
tary proceedings from early in the sew
enteenth century. 1t is the first COM
plete set which State Librarian John
Sch hdo otCu OhCACu LOi SAW
for some time. 1t contains 400 vol.
umes and the cost is $500. The board
also subscribed for the Victorian his.
tory of Wales by counties. This is
supplementary to the Victorian his
tory Of England by counties, aud when
completed will cost $4,000, making
one Of the most expensive works in
r,- n -
manager at Lamont. sentenced to
twenty years in the penitentiary on
conviction Of murder In the second de-
gree for the death of Miss Maud Stone,
has secured a new trial from the SUI
preme court. The chief ground of re-
versal is that one of the jurors had
expressed such an opinion in regard
to the guilt of the defendant that he
should have been excluded from the
Jury. There was also error in admit.
ting letters written by Miss Stone to
Ira Hammond several months before
the alleged collision between Ham
mond and Crofford for the perform
ance of criminal operation on the
young lady at the sanitarium. Crof-
ford has been out on bail pending the
appeal to the supreme court and en-
gagged In practice, though the state
board Of medical examiners refused to
restore to him his certificate that was
revoke ed on his conviction. The case
has attracted much attention, be~
cause the defendant Is wealthy and
put up hard fight and his sanitarium
had become well known all over the
southern part Of the state. 80.
Attorneys for William Lucas, accus.
ed and convicted Of murder at Ciar.
linda. argued for the liberty of the
liberty of their client before the JUS
tees Of the supreme court. Attorney
General Mullan prosecuted. The story
Of the brutal crime of which Lucas
vas convicted was retold in all of its
nauseating details. 1t occurred near
Clarinda, May Is, 1902. Section men
on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,
entered little shanty beside the track
and found within the body of Miss
Emma Moore a 1s-year-old girl, cold
and stiff In death. In her hand was
a revolver and bullet had penetrated
her breast. The sheriff examined the
revolver and swore there were no un.
loaded shells in the chambers. The
Testimony showed that Lucas had been
neen with Miss Moore that evening
end admitted having left the shanty
Ia which her body was found In the
| morning The testimony showed the
| two had had quarrels. Lucas defense
was that the woman had committed
suicide. The trial Of the case awaken.
! ed intense interest and finally cul.
minated in the conviction OF Lucas
The appeal was made on the basis
Of insuffic!ency of the evidence to con
vict. ..
The rye judges Of the Iowa SUI
preme court will hear the story OF
! how Nose Jacobs for twenty-five
years cried the sensational news
stories in Des Moines to earn for.
| tune, and will then decide IL he Is
entitled to his harvest or il 1t shall
go TO his father, who claims to be
| entitled to 1t through his wife's will
| A notice of appeal In the case OF
| Nose Jacobs VS.. Charles and Mary
| Jacobs has been filed with the clerk
Of the district court, that court haV
| ing decided that Nose was entitled
| to have restored to him $4,000 of the
money which he had turned over to
his mother, Leah Jacobs, now de
! ceased, who buried 1t in the cellar.
where large share of 1t remained
until dug up by the father.
Casey-"Shure. they do be tellin'
| me that Big Moike Monohan wor
| knocked down be an autymobile, yis-
| terday; wor there any bones broke, !
dnnnn2" Conley-"Troth an there