Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-26

consuming 1t entirely and burning to
death a fourth horse. Thirty-fye
tons of hay, twenty-five bushels of
corn and $50 worth Of harness were
also destroyed. The total loss will
be $1,000. There was about 5000 in
surance, this being on the barn alone,
which was worth about $1,000.
Judge G.. w. Burnham of Benton
county imposed probably the shortest
term in the Iowa state penitentiary
ever given in the state. He senten.
ced Edward Frondel and John Lang,
found guilty Of obstructing the right
Of way Of the Rock Island railway
to one day each in the state prison
at Anamosa. The sentence was the
minimum fixed by law. One day SEN
fences in county or city jails are not
infrequcnt, but to have man senten.
ced to the state penitentiary for such
short period Is rarity In Iowa.
Creditors Of E. H. Whiteside, mer-
chant who left Atlantic recently with
bankruptcy proceedings hanging over
him, have raised an unusual point in
order to get possession Of $500 in per-
sonal property on which he claims ex-
emption. Whiteside was out of the
state for several weeks. but has re-
turned, and is fighting to save as much
property as he can. His creditors
maintain that when he left Atlantic
he intended to go to another state,
where the law exempts only SIS worth
of property, This, they claim, made
him virtually resident of that state,
and 1t Is contended that he is no long
er protected by the Iowa law, which
is far more liberal to debtors.
Natural gas was struck in paying
quantities on the farm of d. c. Gros-
jean, ten miles west Of Muscatine, a
few days ago. The drillers were for
a Kansas company, who thought that
gas existed in that locality. The gas
was found at depth of 100 feet. A
small well there FIVE years ago was al
most abandoned. The gas comes
through an eight inch pipe with
strong pressure. The well was cap
ped, and out of a two inch pipe threw
a flame -orty feet high. 1t is the in
tention OF the company to drill fifteen
wells and pipe the same to Muscatine
to supply the city. Manager Holt,
who is drilling the well, says that the
gas is in paying quantities and pre-
diets a great future. The company
has franchise to light the city at 35
Thousand n
has gas leases on $500 acres of land.
There is great excitement among the
farmers and townspeople.
That Iowa is a good manufacturing
state is demonstrated by the analysis
which State Labor Commissioner E.
ID. Brigham has just completed of the
census of Iowa manufactures made
by the census bureau of the national
government. This analysis which
will be inclu.ed in the commission.
er's forthcoming biennial report,
shows that on the investment in
manufacturing industries in eight of
the larger cities of the state, profit
of from S.75 to 1880 per cent was
made during the year 1904. Com
missioner Brigham also has comput-
ed the per cent of net profit based on
the cost of manufacture and the value
Of manufactured product for the year
and has found that while the level is
not quite so high as the net profits
on the capital invested, yet the fig
ures are extremely gratifying as
slrSwing that not only is Iowa good
manufacturing state in the matter of
relative cost of production, but it
also is a state from which to do Gus
iness-that is, Iowa made goods, evil
IDENTIFY, are popular.
An Iowa Central freight double
header went into ditch inside the
limits of the town of Seaton, ILL.,,
few days ago. The train struck a
COW lying upon the track while run
ming twenty miles an hour. After
dragging the animal 250 feet the head
of the engine left the rails and plung-
ed down an embankment, pulling the
second engine and eleven cars OF
grain and lumber after it. The wreck
age was piled into space of three
car lengths. The dead are as follows:
George A. Cafall, engineer, Oskaloosa;
Harry Summers, engineer, Oskaloosa;
Harry Barr, fireman, Oskaloosa; l..
H. Briley, fireman, Monmouth, H.;
P. T. Morgan, head brakeman, Oska-
loose. Three men were killed in
stantly. The engineers, fatally hurt,
pulled themselves out from under the
debris. Summers was cooked by
steam till the flesh fell from the
body when his clothing was removed.
He died after few hours of suffer
ing. Calall, with skull wound. his
legs broken and disemboweled, dug
himself out of grain pile alive, but
was soon unconscious. He died in
short time A relief train, with ply
sicians, was sent out Immediately.
Relatives of the dead men were taken
to the scene of the wreck by a spec
ial train from Oskaloosa. All were
dead before the train arrived. The
wreck was the worst in recent his
tory of the road. All the victims ex-
cepting Briley were married. Fire
man Barr was a son of Marquis Barr,
general claim agent for the Iov.- Cen
trail and Minneapolis e. st. Louis.
Conductor Ed Mable, who had charge
of the train, was also conductor of
the wrecked train at Richmond three
months ago, when four men were kill.