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

OF control has been notified that the
work Is practically completed. and
with just trifie more filling To even
the surface of the ground. the re-
moyal 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
We're 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.
j, w. Gooder notified state Super
intendent Riggs that he would make
an effort to retain his position as jant
tor In the Office of the superintendent
at the capitol under what is known
as the soldiers preference act. Mr.
Riggs, being informed that a 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 II may seem, when the
first report on vital statistics In Iowa
appears after June 80, 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 IL 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 In 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 n surprise, In my judgment. Al
least to those who have been led to
believe that the physicians In the list
have had large practice OF that
character"
1t is not unlikely that a partial ex.
PLANTATION of the extraordinary show
ing will have been due 10 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-opeTated and reported promptly on
both births and deaths, many others
have neglected or refused, In 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
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
years ago and after few weeks
ceased to correspond. Long before
Rice's 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 liz
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 1t is thought that Mrs.
Schulers part, IL she establishes the
claim, will be nearly 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
use of enameled cooking utensils. His
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 for its con-
sideration and the ntterance 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-'T thought so. That's why
| fired her this morning" Boston
Globe.
An extremely corpulent viennese
priest went TO see a friend who, he
neard, 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 lfou, you dare
TO speak TO me of death--you, who
are a walking apoplexy)
The Office that seeks the man is al.
ways more shy and shrinking than the
creditor on the same mission.
Some fellows are always late and
some are too previous.