Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-04-06


structure will have passed. The board
of control has been notified that the
work Is practically completed. and
with just a trifle more filling to even
the surface of the ground. the re-
moval of the building and the restora.
ton of the grounds in their primitive
condition will be achieved, Out OF
the salvage the board of control saved
for the state institutions eighteen
carloads of material. Four of these
were of fixtures and furniture. The
remainder were OF material saved out
of the building as II was torn down.
The board had an appropriation OF
$4,000 to eXpend In this work and the
work was completed well within the
appropriation.
]. W. Gooder notified state Super.
intendent Riggs that he would make
an effort to retain his position as janr
tor In the ONCE of the superintendent
at the capitol under what is known
as the soldiers preference act. Mr.
Riggs, being informed that case test
ing the validity OF this law was pend
ing In the supreme court, and whose
decision would not be delayed beyond
May, voluntarily notified Mr.. Gooder
that he would make no effort to dis.
place him until an adverse decision on
the law should be made.
Curious as Il may seem, when the
first report on vital statistics in Iowa
appears after June go II will show
larger number of deaths than births
In this state during the current year
Secretary J. +. Kennedy of the state
board of health, who is director of the
bureau of vital statistics, Is authority
for this statement, which will appear
In the forthcoming number of the
board of health bulletin.
This will be reversal OF the re.
suits as obtained heretofore I'm Iowa"
DR. Kennedy will say, in commenting
on the subject, "and will be quite diff.
ferent from the showing made in other
states. The publication OF the names
Of physicians who have had no births
In their practice during the year will
be a surprise, in my judgment At
least to those who have been led to
believe that the physicians In the list
character"
1t is not unlikely that partial ex.
PLANTATION of the extraordinary show
ing will have been due TO the failure
OF the physicians TO report births. The
history OF the legislation relative TO
vital statistics passed by the last
legislature has been discouraging.
While the majority of doctors have
co.operated and reported promptly on
both births and deaths, many others
have neglected or refused, I'm some
instances. Possibly the showing that
there have been more deaths than
births, which means that the state
must depend on immigration to In.
crease it's population or that race sui.
eide Is prevalent In lowa-which no
one believes--will be due to the neg.
lect of physicians in the matter OF
making reports of births coming under
their notice.
Mrs. J. j. Schiller OF Highland Park
Is endeavoring 10 establish her claim
to the estate Of millions left by Will
liam Rice, the eccentric individual
whose murder four years ago fur.
nished New York one OF the greatest
mysterious ever known. Lawyer Pat
rick, Rice's attorney, Is doing life
sentence at Sing Sing for the crime.
Mrs. Schiller, who Is 81 years old,
claims to be sister OF Rice's Ac.
cording TO the story told by her friends
who are pushing the claim for her,
she and the brother became separated
va aft
ceased to correspond Long before
Rices tragic death, the couple had
lost all trace OF each other. Mrs.
Schiller, who Is 81 years old, lives with
her husband in a modest home. II is
claimed that she has ample evidence
to show that she is the sister OF the
man in question, the family having
been reared In Pennsylvania. There
are a number OF other heirs to the
property, but II is thought that Mrs.
Schuler's part, II she establishes the
claim, will be nearly a million.
J. l.. Loring OF Dallas Center has
written to the state board OF health
to suggest that the prevalence Of APP
pendicitis is due to the more general
theory is that the utensils fake off
and the flakes are carried into the
system with the food. This suggestion
he asks Secretary Kennedy to pre-
sent to the board Of health fer it's con-
sideration and the utterance OF Off
cial opinion.
The raft spider is so called from the
fact that 1t builds raft OF dry leaves
and other light materials, united by
threads OF silk, in order to pursue it's
prey in the water
A favorite dish with the Eskimos IL
Ice cream made of seal oil, into which
snow is stirred until the desired con-
sistency has been obtained; then froz-
en- berries OF different kinds are add.
ed.
Mrs. Wise-"How DO you like the |
new nurse girl?" Mr.. Wise-"Great"
Mrs. Wise-'1 thought so. That's why
| fired her this morning" Boston
Globe.
An extremely corpulent viennese
priest went to see friend who, he |
heard, was dying, and warned him to
confess his sins and receive extreme
JUNCTION, as death might not be far
away The invalid, resenting the ad.
vice, said: Comment vous, vous osez
me parler de la mort--vous qui etes
apoplexie ambulante tfou, you dare
to speak TO me of death-you, who
are walking apoplexy)
The Office that seeks the man is al.
ways more shy and shrinking than the