Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-11-09

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by G. S. Robinson and John Cownie
of the state board of control and State
Architect Henry F. Liebbe, were in
Fort Madison few days ago inspect
den N. N. Jones. 1t was the COVER
nor's first visit.
The trial at Marengo, of Erich Won
Kutzleben, charged with wrecking the
Roct Island passenger at Homestead
few months ago, developed bitter
fight between the attorneys over the
admission Of the signed confession
that the defendant made shortly after
his arrest for the crime. The defense
protested against its admission on
the ground that Detective Stiefel re-
marked in Won Kutzleben's presence
that it would be better for him to
tell the whole truth and intimated
that clemency would be granted.
Judge Byington finally ruled that the
confession should be submitted to the
jury and with it the evidence of dur
ess to which Won Kutzleben is alleged
to have been subjected and let the
jurors decide its worth.
Perry Sutton is lying in a critical
condition at Osceola as a result of a
mysterio rs shooting while returning
from Murray. A stranger stepped
from an ambush along the highway
and fired upon MIN, the bullet pass
ing through his body, entering one
side near the shoulder. Sutton is the
driver CT the Standard Oil wagon
and was being accompanied home by
his brother 1t was dark and neither
was able to recognize the assailant
whose only motive seemed to be to
wound Sutton. A peculiar phase of
the case is that a physician was not
called until a day after the shooting.
The brother stated that Sutton did
not think the injury serious at first.
The case will be carefully investIga-
ted.
News comes from Granger that the
largest deposit of gravel in Iowa has
just been surveyed west of Polk City,
and the Inter-Urban, the Northwest
ern and the Milwaukee all have an
eye on it. 1t is controlled by options
held by John l.. Porter of Des Moines
and is 240 acres big. 1t covers parts
of the Murray, Frazier, Cope and
Standish farms, and is a mile and
one-half west of Polk City, near the
location of the old gravel pits of the
Northwestern. The 240 acres have
been tested pretty thoroughly and
cI1 ne hn Honncit IF frnr
twenty to forty-five feet. 1t is clear
gravel without the presence of earth.
The deposit is covered by from one
to five feet of soil, and the farmers
who have been living on the land for
q quarter to a half century did not
know that they were living over a
gold mine. The 240 acres of gravel
are worth practically S45,000. The
supply in Iowa is limited, and the
railroads are always looking for good
quality deposits.
Faculty control of all university
organizations receiving aid from the
university is just now receiving at
tention at Iowa City on account of
the recommendation of the faculty
senate to the regents that they adopt
the following resolutions: Resolved,
That the supervision and auditing of
all financial accounts of all nonath-
letic organizations of students of the
university receiving aid from the un-
iversity be confined to, and all ac-
counts be required to be submitted
to, the board of audit of the university
senate, under such rules and regula-
tions as said board may from time to
time prescribe" This is aimed prim-
arily at the oratorical association,
whose affairs are in most jumbled
up state. 1t is supposed that it will
also apply to the literary societies
and debating league, although all the
help they get is the use of rooms
and free gas. The literary organiza-
tions are now almost independent of
faculty control and WELD almost un-
limited power in university affairs.
1t is thought that they can best be
handled through their pocketbooks.
This resolution will be submitted to
the regents at their next meeting.
A. H. Treat, a prominent business
man of Charles City, while drunk,
shot his wife and daughter. Two bull
lets struck his wife, one in the tenn
pie, the other in the right breast, the
last penetrating the lung. The little
girl was shot through the arm. 1t is
not known at the present time how
serious the wounds of Mrs. Treat are.
After committing the crime Treat
| barricaded himself in room in a
| fiat adjoining the one occupied by his
| family and defed arrest. Sheriff
| Fluent and Marshals Braende and
! Bluhm broke in the door. Treat es
capped to a balcony on the second
| floor. The officers approached at the
rear of the balcony and opened fire
! Treat returned the shots, discharging
| his weapon three times. Whether OF
not Treat was killed by the shots OF
| the officers or whether he shot him
! self is not known, but he was nearly
dead when the officers got to him and
! died soon after. Treat has been in
the marble business for many years
and owns two or three large build
ings. He has been hard drinking
man and was crazed from drink wher
he committed the Geed.
First Broker-"Dropping a million