Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-06-29

this being the second shipment of
trout TO that place within the past
few weeks. The fish are to be dis
tributed in the streams near Waukon.
A shipment of fish was recently sent
from the Spring Beach fishery to the
Portland exposition for use in the
fishery exhibit.
AS soon as the Sac City institute
gets $4,000 it will be favored by a
large gift from John ID. Rockefeller.
The great Standard Oil man has
promised that if the institution can
raise this amount Of money by the
first OF September, he will donate
the college $4,000. Rev. ]. d Collins
has announced that he has already
procured $40, 900 of the amount neces-
sary to secure the gift.
The Shepard estate litigation was
amicably settled at Sigourney by the
six children agreeing to divide the
property equally among them. Mr..
Shepard was a wealthy farmer near
~Thornburg, and left about 5000 0
worth Of property. In his will, Shep-
ard cut off some of the children with
a small sum. Litigation was started
or threatened, but the children finally
agreed to ignore the will and divided
the property equally.
Boone is highly elated over the
prospects for improvements this year.
The Y. M. c. A. building fund has
passed the S., 1000 mark, which means
that the Northwestern will subscribe
a like amount, and a new $4,000 or
$4,000 Y. NJ. c. A.. building will be
erected. The late Frank Champlin
made a provision in his will donating
4 large sun of money for a new Ma
sonic Temple, which will cost in the
neighborhood of $4,000.
Nathan G.. Rosa, aged rs, of Bor-
der Plains, the oldest postmaster in
Iowa, died suddenly of heart failure
a few days ago. The deceased had
served as postmaster from Lincoln
to Roosevelt, a period of thirty-eight
years, and was influential in politics
in pioneer days hen the stage line
ran between Dubuque and Sioux City.
The attack came while he was walk
ing in the yard. but he managed to
get into the house, where he expired
before physicians could be summoned.
The 2-year.old child of 9. c. LETTERS,
living three miles west Of Hampton,
was struck by a through freight train
on the Chicago Great Western and
thrown twenty feet from the track.
Much 10 the surprise of the train crew
the child was not killed and is still
alive. The doctors found several
bones broken and the child badly
bruised up, but say that it can live.
The child with others was playing
near the track, and as it was struck
| by the train this n was attempting
to cross a cattle guard. 1t was on the
track and was struck by the cow
catcher and thrown out on the right
of way. No rart of the body was
mangled. and its escape from instant
death is little short of miraculous.
The train YVES going at a rate of about
thirty miles per hour.
Edith Brown, aged Is, Of Lake City,
kidnapped her two little sisters, aged
3 years II 3 months. respectively,
and left for parts unknown, money
for the trip being secured from her
mothers p~ocketbOok. After a long
search, it was discovered that she had
gone to Perry, and was enroute to
the home of her grandmother, Mrs.
Clarke, at Minburn. 1t seems the
girl got into a spat with her older
sister, the two having been sent out
to pick strawberries. She left the
patch and went to the house, where
she secured the babies and took the
money from her mothers purse. At
Perry, she told several that her mother
was dead, and that she had cared for
the children for several months. She
claimed her father treated her cruelty
and that she was enroute to her
grandmother to make her home. The
city marshal at Perry was notified to
arrest her and bring her back, but
she had already departed for Minburn.
Farmers in the vicinity of Munter-
vile, a little station about eight miles
south of Ottumwa, are searching the
quarter acre owned by John Nelson
for a treasure believed to have been
buried by him on the grounds sur.
rounding his little shack. Nelson,
who was a hermit, and who had lived
near Munterville for the past thirty,
years, was found dead in the front
door of his shack a few days ago by
Charles Burnstedt, a farmer. The
last seen of him alive was or June
IL, and when the news OF his death
reached the little town of Munterville
farmers from all sections of the vi
cinity came to the little shack of
the dead hermit and a search for his
treasure began. Years ago Nelson
was a prosperous jeweler in an I'LL
nois town. His mind began leaving
him and he left, coming to Iowa. He
located near Munterville, was looked
rron by the farmers as harmless,
and they gave him a quarter of an
acre of ground on which to live.
Thus he has spent his life during
the past thirty years. At times he
was perfectly rational and often dur
ing his rational periods in converse.
ton with others he would claim to
have q large amount Of money and
valuable jewels. Every year when
the taxes would become due Nelson
would go to some neighbor and give
him the money with which to pay
the taxes. Aside from this he was
never seen to have any money. He
barely raised enough to keep himself,
and often in the winter was compelled
to go to the neighbors for food.
Stockings first came into use in the
eleventh century. Before that time it
was customary to swathe the feet with
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