Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-15


| court, the cases which are designed
to test the question of the extent Il
, which the police power of the state
can interfere with interstate liquo
shipments after they come into lowe
but before their delivery.
| The body of Thomas Howsey, al
employee of the Smoky Hollow Goa
! company at Haynes, was found neal
| the Burlington tracks about a mile
east of Dudley. The coroner's yer
dict failed to throw any light or his
death and it is presumed that he was
killed by one of the early morning
trains, as the body was badly man
gled. Howsey leaves wife.
Robert S. Dollard, who was cap.
tured in Chicago last week, and VINO
has been hunted by officers since De.
cember of 1902, for obtaining money
from the First National bank at
Spencer, had his preliminary hearing
and was bound over to the grand
jury. He is also wanted by the au.
thorities in O'Brien county. and will
probably be indicted by the grand jury
now In session there.
Detmer Detmers of Butler county,
unearthed a dollar bearing date of
1898, while he was blowing one day
last week. The coin was quite badly
corroded. but when cleaned showed
the dates very plainly. 1t has thir-
teen stars on each side and some
words or letters on the edge of the
coin. These letters are uninteiu gible
at the present date Mr.. Detmers
considers the coin a very valuable one
and will keep it.
Miss Lavinia Steele, one of the Ii
brarians Of the university library at
Iowa City, few days ago saved the
life of George E. Hill of Burlington,
one of the best known students in
the university. by pulling him out of
the Iowa river after he had broken
through the ice The accident &C.
Cured just north of the city. Mr..
Hill skated onto thin ice in spite of
warnings, and it gave way under him.
sendlng him into deep water Miss
Steele procured a short sapling and
walked out onto the thin and bending
ice TILL he could reach the pole, and
then pulled him out, though not with
out difficulty and with the greatest
danger to herself.
Inc coroner's jury brought in
verdict that Michael Heddens of
Cnarles City. came to his death by
SUICIDE instead of its being an acct
dent as was at first supposed. He
was alone at his home at the time,
and when his folks returned from
visiting at a neighbours, his body was
round, as told in a previous dispatch,
near the lower woodpile and there
was large hole in his abdomen near
the lower end of the breast bone,
Where the charge had entered his
body There was a stick in his hand
showing that the trigger had been
touched off with it, and other evil
dences lead the jury to return a
suicide verdict
The supreme court of Iowa faced
the dire necessity of deciding that
property owners whose trees are
about to be ruined by the grading of
a parking for the construction of new
sldeWal have no remedy against the
operation OF this discretion by city
authorities, If the latter observe the
Ao anu uo unnecessarily.
TO the person who has planted
trees" says Justice Weaver in rem
dering the decision, cared for them,
protected them against violence, and
has seen them grow and develop into
things of beauty until he comes to
regard them with genuine affection,
this conclusion is no doubt unwe'-
come, but the court must admins, -
the law as it finds it, and the rule we
have stated Is we'll settled"
Storekeepers in country towns
throughout Iowa and dealers in coal,
lumber, live stock and building ma
terials are greatly concerned about
the remarkable expansion of the CO.
operative trading movement in the
state. The tendency to cooperation
is not confined to trading, for the
smaller cities and towns are also
hot water heating, telephone, electric
and gas plants, or buying them from
private corporations, in great num-
bers. The municipal ownership
movement is not new, though it has
never been so vigorous as now. But
the development of cooperative trad
ing, which began in Iowa with the
famous Rockwell Cooperative COM
pany, is going on at pace never be-
fore dreamed of. Recently about
seventy-five cooperative concerns
were represented at a convention at
Rockwell, and as result of the in
spiratOn of this meeting scores Of
others are being organized every
month Another meeting will be held
at Rockwell in February, and it is ex-
pected to have nearly 200 going con-
Germs represented. The Rockwell So
ciety began by handling grain and
live stock. merely aiming to eliminate
middlemen in marketing products.
Later 1t put in lumber. coal elevators
| and big general store. Now it does
! a business of about 100000 a year
| in a village of 400 people. Similar so.
| cietieS have had varied experiences.
| The cooperative creameries have not
| been shining successes. aid some or
the grain handling efforts have failed.
But the farmers, instead Of being
deferred, are going ahead. willing to
pay for experience and confident mat
in time thew will win.
Thomas S. Hamilton OF Hancock
county. an old veteran, who had his
leg broken in the Mason City e Clear
Lake wreck during the Grand Army
week, has sued for $4,000 damages.
This is the third suit. amounting to
$4,000 in all
Benjamin B. Barr OF Creston
and his brother, Jesse G. Barr of st
Louis. were standing in an Office
building at the corner of First ant
Olive streets, st. Louis, when the,
were both jerked ten feet by an ex
plosion which partially wrecked tn,