Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-08

1900 1904.
hepuDiicdn -. 80. .3Uo,ozl 1893
Democratic -. ...2O9,767 153,327
PronlDltlon ........ 9,11O II, 1888
SOCIALIST ........... 49,. 1897
Peoples party $50. CTS 1,619
Socialist labor ..... GAG 49,.
United Christian %. 204 .....
Socialist democratic 2,499 49,.
The Temple amendment was car
ried by majority of 6,306 and the
biennial elections amendment by
1928. About 10000 less votes were
cast on the amendment, giving each
county in the state at least one mem.
Der of the hout of representatives
than on the biennial elections amend.
ment. The total vote on the latter
proposition was about 105 900 under
the total vote for secretary of state.
The total vote for and against each
proposition follows:l
For Against
Biennial elections ...199,474 1921
Temple amendment ..171,3S2 165,O76
The. Temple amendment gives
twelve northwestern Iowa counties
each a member of the lower house,
whereas they are Distracted now in
pairs, having six members among
them. These counties are Clay and
Palo Alto, Dickinson and Emmett, Ida
and Monona, Lyon and Osceola, Win
nebago and Worth, Hancock and Hum
boldt.f &c.,.
A term in the penitentiary awaits
both Frank Hodge and Andrew Sor.
enson, convicted by the federal jury
of the robbery of the postoffice at
Van Meter. The case was closed by
a passionate appeal from District At.
tOrney Miles and the charge of Judge
Smith Mcpherson. In his charge to
the jury Judge Mcpherson laid down
the law as applied to the facts bear
ing on the robbery. He said there
could be no doubt OF the fact that the
postofiice in question had been rob-
bed and on the night as mentioned
in the indictment. Further than this
he said that the fact of the jewelry
store being in the same building and
using the same safe for the storage
of valuables as the one used by the
government, gave additional facts for
the jury to work upon. He reviewed
the history of the lady's watch which
in the conviction of the accused. He
spoke of the fact that John Stump,
the farmer, had purchased the watch
of a teweler, one Thompson, at Abel,
in 1895, and had given it to his
daughter then little miss. He re-
called the fact that the girl had taken
the number of the case. This, he
said. corresponded with the watch
found in the house of the man Soren.
son.
M. J. Wragg of the state horticul-
tura1 board has received a list of the
prizes won in the fruits exhibit of
Iowa at the Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position. The state wins grand
prize on the general display of fruit;
five gold medals, thirty-three silver
medals and thirty-nine bronze medals.
Those receiving gold medals as fol.
lows:
F. o. Horington, Williamsburg; NJ.
J. Wragg, Waukee; c. o. Carrot, Has
tie; D. f. Moffit, Corning.
Polk county's general exhibit also
received gold medal.
The remainder of the medals, bronze
and silver, are distributed among the
various counties of the state.
Will c. Whiting Of Whiting, who
had charge of Iowas agricultural ex-
hibit at the Louisiana Purchase expo
sition at st. Louis, has returned with
a list of individual Iowa prize winners
at the exposition. Resides seventeen
grand prizes, awarded to the state as a
whole, individual Iowa exhibitors re-
ceived twelve gold prizes, eight silver
and twenty-four bronze. In Judging
the individual exhibitors, in the agr-
cultural department, the judges estab-
lshed the rule that exhibits scoring
more than 80 points should receive
gold medals; those from 80 to IS
points, silver medals, and those from
IS to 80 points, bronze medals.
Drive the saloons from the state is
the slogan of the Iowa Anti-Saloon
league, whose directory board held it's
annual meeting in the Y. NJ c. A.
building on the I'd. To do this plans
were made to organize every county
thoroughly, to divide the state into
four districts with a superintendent in
each, and to successfully finance the
league so that it can carry on the
work. The success of the past year
furnished the necessary impetus to the
directory board to plan big things for
the coming year. Father /. s. Coffin
Of Fort Dodge, who has been presi.
dent OF the league since it's re-
organization, and who has devoted
considerable time to it, yesterday re.
tired from that Office, but retained his
position on the directory board. Rev.
s. N. Fellows Of Iowa City promi-
nent Methodist minister, was elected
president Rev. I. n. McCash was
unanimously chosen superintendent.
An order has just been issued by the
district conrt Of Kossuth county at
Algona, whereby an assessment OF
$4,000 is made on stockholders of the
State Bank Of Germania, and a num-
Der OF prominent Hardin county es-
tates and business men are included
in the list.
To prevent the spread of contagious
diseases, a tribe in India adopts an
effective plan. The sufferers are at
once put to death.
In every mile of railway there are
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