Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-07-12

oats for Mr.. Dan Mack, living tire,
miles south of St. Ansgar. The
amount Of loss is estimated at abou
$4,000.
Reports from the Des Moines colony
at Twin Lakes is to the effect thai
the fishing record there was broker
Sunday by James III. B. Woodroffe
of Des Moines, who caught seventy
three pounds of pike and silver bass
in seven and one-ha'f hours off shore
from "The Orleans" A number OF
good catches for the season have
been made, but this Is thus far the
best catch known In recent years.
Delegates to the state meeting OF
the Ancient Order of Hibernians at
Emmetsburg the middle of August,
were chosen at the meeting Of the
lodge yesterday afternoon at the Yeo-
man building. Des Moines. The dele
gates from the regular lodge are as
follows: Thomas r. Hardiman, r. F.
Keny, John Buckley, John Murphy
and James Gillispie. Those from the
ladies' auxiliary are: Misses Mary
Ryan, Mary Burke and Mary Griffith.
BEG pardon, but have you seen
Evelyn Nesbit? I'm up against 1t
and she can help me out. Help me
find her, old man, will you?" Accost-
| ing pedestrians on the street and
pleading with them in a pitiful man
ner to help him find the Nesbit girl,
a man giving the name Of Robert Ben
nett roamed the streets of East Des
Moines all day Monday. In a daz-
ed mental condition, either from
drink or drug, Constable Sunberg
placed him under arrest. He was
later taken to the home of friends.
A Mount Vernon llveryman is on
the lookout for a genteel and oblig-
ing horse thief who hired rig of
him last Saturday. This morning he
received a card stating that the horse
and buggy would be found in the
Hawley livery barn in Iowa City,
and expressing the gratitude of the
writer for the use of the rig. The
man had driven TO Iowa City and
| put the horse up for the day, saying
| he would be back after 1t. He then
wrote to the Mount Vernon man and
nothing has been seen of him since.
Fish or cut bait" is the ultima
tum delivered by the school board
of Iowa Falls to the Fenton company
at Cedar Rapids regarding the heat
ing plant now in the Central High
school in this city. This plant has
been the subject of litigation and
dispute for the past year, and the
| courts have declared that the con-
tract made by the board with the
Fenton company is null and void.
The board made the company an
offer a few weeks ago to remodel the.
plan and install a steam pant IN,
place of the vapor heating system,
but the company declined to accept
the terms. The latest movement is
made by the board, which has Civ
en- the company the choice of re-
equipping the plant or having it set
out in the street. Ten days is the
time limit set by the board.
DR.. Paul Shekwana of London,
Eng, professor in the department of
bacteriology at the State university,
was probably fatally injured by be-
| ing struck by an interurban car while
crossing a high trestle over the Iowa
river at Iowa City. Professor Shek-
wanna was walking over the trestle
when car came up suddenly behind
! him. The motorman did not see him
until the car was almost upon him,
and then shouted a warning. The
professor started to jump, but the car
| nit him as he did SO, hurting him to
the rocks several feet below. One
arm was broken, and he is suffering
| from hemorrhage of the brain. The
| attending physicians do not believe
that he will live. DR.. Shekwana was
! preparing to start for his home in
ENGLAND within day or two, having
resigned his position at the university.
A largely attended meeting of Iowa
county farmers held at Holbrook de-
veloped the fact that the community
| Is ready to give with the utmost lib
crafty in the interest Of the inter-
urban between Iowa City and Monte
yuma. There is some rivalry shown
over the location of the proposed
! line. An old railroad survey runs
about a mile north of Holbrook
! 1t is suggested that the interurban
follow this survey, but farmers living
south of town are trying to get it to
| cross their lands. On either route
the residents offer to donate every
inch of the right-of-way and the
stock subscription offers average
from $500 to $1,000 for every farm.
George Hummer of this city, who
recently returned from trip through
Iowa county, believes that the sub
scriptions will amount to $4,000 for
every mile of the right-of-way.
A special election has been called
at Cedar Falls for Monday, July 30,
at which time the electors of the
city will vote upon amending the gas
| franchise, now held by the Citizens
| Gas and Electric company, which
amendment grants them the privilege
of piping the gas from the plant at
Waterloo to the city of Cedar Falls.
At the present time the consumers
are paying at the rate Of S1.35 per
thousand feet, but if the citizens see
fit to grf@,t the company the right to
run a pipe line from the Waterloo
plant to this city the company viii
give the consumers at Cedar Falls a
rate of $120 per thousand feet, which
Is the same rate paid by the Water
loo consumers. Should it carry at
the special election on July 80 the
reduced rate becomes effective on
the first day of August, just two days
after it's passage.
AT Lake City Harry Preston's g.
year-old son, Warren, was badly burn
| al IN bio hndv and limbs a rana ran