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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Road of the CRATER.

Tne road of the CRATER is not an easy
one. The temptation to graft Is in
sidious, and men who mean to conduct
themselves with honesty and dignity
may be betrayed into it, Modern
business methods" is a sufficiently
euphonious term to fool brisk and am
bilious man not too much given to re-
Election or self-examination. And all
goes we'll for time. The bank account
increases, the man feels himself to be
shrewd and influential; he is able to
put his family eat the top of the heap"
honors come easily to him, and young
men are fattered to be associated with
him in business. Then, says The Read
er, the exposure comes. Those that
have trusted him know him for what
he is; his own specious plea of the
modern business method" sounds
strangely inadequate even to himself.
His name, which he hoped to see as
ISOLATED in the minds of men with great
enterprises, and which he expected his
sons to use as sort Of open sesame"
becomes, suddenly, the synonym for
dishonesty, greed and failure. The
CRATER has, perhaps, thought himself
hardened. He finds, to his dismay,
that he is not. Shame awakens; con-
science no longer sleeps. The dreams
of his ambitious youth come to haunt
him. He would give his fortune, many
times duplicated, for the innocence and
Integrity Of his early manhood. He is
not bad mamie can suffer, he can
be ashamed, he can long for innocence.
Perhaps, on reflection, there are no
bad men. At any rate, the CRATER has
shown himself capable of dying broken
hearted or of going, a melancholy luna
tic, to the asylum for the insane His
career requires stern metal. Let him
who enters it be sure that his con-
science is dead, his family pride buried,
his self-respect quenched, and that he
is obdurate to the reproachful tears Of
the women who love him! Having
made quite, quite sure of all this, one
might adopt grating career in an
eXpectant spirit.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
BUSINESS IS RUINED.
Inability to Get Cars Destroys Com
pany's Trade.

Philadelphia - Several interesting
developments marked the closing ses-
sion of the interstate commerce COM
missions investigation into the alleged
discrimination by railroads in the dis
tribution Of cars in the bituminous
coal field.
Testimony of sensational character
was given by F. Albert Won Boyneburg,
general manager Of the Reakert Broth
ers company, coal operators, with Of
fees in this city. He stated that with
in the last two and half years his
company's car supply had been so in
adequate that the business had been
practically ruined. He declared that
other companies had been favored in
the distribution of cars ana said he
had no doubt that Gis;rimin alton had
been practiced against hts company be-
cause it had failed IN make gifts of
stock to the railroad officials. He gave
it as his opinion that President A. j.
Casastt was responsible for the dis
elimination.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Stimulating Reading,

We cannot help living in some de-
gree the lives of heroes who are con-
stantly in our minds. Our characters
are constantly being modified, shaped
and nodded by the suggestions which
are thus held. The most helpful life
stories for the average youth, says
Success Magazine, are not the meteoric
ones, the unaccountable ones, the as
tonishing ones like those of Napoleon,
Olived Cromwell, and julius Caesar.
The great stars of tie race dazzle most
boys. They admire, but they do not
feel that they can initiate them. They
like to read their lives, but they do
not get the helpfulness and the en-
enlargement from them that they do
from reading the lives of those who
have not startled the world so much.
1t is the triumph of the ordinary abil-
ity which is most helpful as an in
spiration and encouragement The life
of Lincoln has been an infinitely
greater inspiration to the world than
the life of Napoleon or that of julius
Caesar
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
FORCED TO SELL MINE.
Shortage in Car Supply Compels own
ers to Quit Business.

Philadelphia. - Additional evidence
of discrimination by the Pennsyl-
vania railroad in the distribution
of cars in the soft coal field was
presented to the interstate commerce
commission Thursday. John Lloyd,
banker and coal operator of Altoona.
who is one of the members of the
banking firm of Cassatt & Co., testified
that the Columbia Coal company was
forced to sell the Alexandria mine be-
cause of the shortage of cars. and
George E. Scott, of the Puritan and
Crescent Coal companies, declared that
he paid for the use of railroad cars
when he failed to secure his allotment
and that during a period of % days
the railroad had furnished him with
only one car. He also asserted that
Michael Trump. general superintend-
ent of transportation had told him
the company had intended to protect
the Berwind White company at all
hazards.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
COAL STOCKS GIVEN AWAY.
One Official Presented with Shares
Worth S3O7. 900,

Phila aelphia. -Further revelations
concerning stockholdings in soft coal
companies by officials of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad were made Wednesday
when the interstate commerce COM
mission resumed its investigation into
the alleged discrimination by railroads
in the distribution of cars.
Three high officials of the railroad.
First Vice President John P. Greene,
Third Vice President Samuel Rea and
William A. Patton, assistant to the
president at Philadelphia, were the
important witnesses of the day. The
persistent questioning of Attorney
Glasgow for the commission, brought
out the fact that Mr.. Patton had ac-
quired stock. the par value of which
is 1907 900, in various coal companies
without cost to himself He explained,
however, that he had signed notes OBJ
ligating himself for his share of the
losses and declared his belief that it
was proper for him to accept the stock
under those conditions,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
CASH FROM UNKNOWN PARTIES
Interesting Testimony at Kansas City
Rebate Gases.

heDate cases.
Kansas City, Mo.-Members of half
a dozen large business firms admitted
here Thursday, at the trial in the fed
eral court of George H. Crosby, the
Burlington traffic manager, George
l.. Thomas, the New York freight
broker, and the latter's clerk, LIB.
Taggart, that they had received thou
sands of dollars in commissions from
unknown sources" All of the firms
had hired Thomas to attend to the
shipping of their goods from the At
lantic seaboard to their stores in st.
Louis and Kansas City, but none of
the witnesses would say that these
sums of money had come from
Thomas.
w. e. Emery, a member of the En-
yBird-Thayer Dry Goods company of
Kansas City, who admitted receiving
from $1,000 to $4,000 a year, said he
did not know who sent it, but sup
posed it came from Thomas" Not
withstanding the large sums thus paid
in commissions, none of the firms had
kept any record of the amounts. ac-
cording to the witness. All payments
were made N New York.
The government introduced as evil
dence a contract entered into by
George c. Smith, now dead, for the
Smith McCord-Townsend Dry Goods
company, of Kansas City, and Thomas
1t provided, in addition to a commits
sion of 215 cents hundred pounds on
incoming shipments" and guarantee
of $500 a year, that Thomas Should
route all shipments except those that
were prepaid and on which no rebate
or allowance can be held"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31

Report on Fire Insurance.

Report on Fire Insurance.
Des Moines.-The annual report Of
State Auditor B. F. Carroll on insur-
ance business other than life done in
the state of Iowa shows that for the
year ending December 81, 1905, there
was almost double the amount Of
losses paid compared with the year
before. The losses paid in 1904 were
$3.50, 662, 247.S3 and in 1904 S355,565,-
~. The enormous increase is ex-
planned by the state auditor in his
report as being partly due to the big
fire loss in Sioux City in December,
1904, the losses of which were not
paid till January. 1905. The amount
of losses paid by, insurance companies
only increased from $2,245,623.71 in
1904 to $4,112, 690.25 in 1905. The fire
insurance risks written in 1905 were
1898, 662.247.S3 and in 1904 $355,565,
06433.
In his recommendations Auditor
Carroll strongly urges the enactment
of uniform policy for fire insurance
companies and calls attention to the
failure of the last legislature to pass
committees on insurance. He recon-
minds that chapter of the code re-
lating to assessment associations is
too limited in it's scope, as there is
no limit to the amount for which
holders of policies can be assessed,
and further no limit to the expenses
such companies can incur.
The report states that since the
United States supreme court upheld
the constitutionality of the Blanchard
act prohibiting companies combining
to fix rates, there has been no COM
plants to the auditor of violations OF
the law.
At the session of the legislature in
1903 law was enacted requiring the
auditors department to make an ex-
animation of all insurance companies
doing business in the state and having
their home Offices in the state at least
once every two years. The report
states that owing to the fact that
many of the Iowa companies have
never been examined the work will
not be completed till July this year.
at the end of the two-year period.
The report shows that there are us
fire insurance companies in the state,
not counting 153 county and ineteen
state mutual companies, which bring
the total to 200. The report shows an
increase in fees paid to the auditors
office of S54,095.70 in 1905 and $780,
9S9.21 in 1904. In 1905 the companies
paid in taxes to the state $2S7,9O3.92
and in 1904 S267,326.62.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31

Robert A. Smith. who has just been
reelected mayor of st. Paul, Mimi,
has served six or seven terms in that
office, FIVE of them consecutively.
Mayor Smith Is rs years old, not a
youngster as mayors go, and as be-
sides his various terms as mayor he
has filled other offices a good part of
his life has been ofticeAoldmg. Half
a century ago he gave up one Office in
Indiana to take one in Minnesota. In
1866 maleontents used to talk about
the continual office holding OF "this
man SMilA. |,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Earthquake in Utah.

Ogden, Utah.-An earthquake shock
was felt at two o'clock Thursday after
noon at West Weber four miles west
of Ogden. Buildings were shaken and
much excitement prevailed, but there
was no damage.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31

When Kansas was suffering from
the visitation of grasshopper the
whole country united in raising
money and contributing food and
clothing for the sufferers. Many a
mean man was developed then. The
contributions were so generous that
opportunity was afforded for graft.
And more than one man now rich laid
the foundation of his fortune in the
cash or goods which he stole from the
relief fund. Much the same thing has
been noted in smaller scale in the
San Francisco case.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Engineer Killed in Collision.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Engineer A. Boyer
was killed and three trainmen serious
ly injured in a collision of two Balti-
more & Ohio coal trains at Blue Lick
cut. near Meyersdale, Pa. The coll
lision was caused by the heavy fog.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
clarovman Is Murdered.

Riga.-Rev. Mr.. Green, pastor of a
German church at Ervalen, Courland,
was shot and killed Thursday by a
revolutionary band while he was on
the way to ofiiciate at confirmation
ceremony.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Summer Residence Burned.

Brewster, Mass.-The summer resi-
dence of Roland C. Nickerson, of New
York, one of the finest on Cape Cod.
was burned Thursday with its valuable
interior furnishings. paintings and
bric-a-brac The loss is $200.000.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Workman Is Killed.

Pittsburg, Pa. = BY the collapse
of two-story brick structure on
Baum street that was being re-
modelled, one man was killed and five
were more or less seriously injured.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Cinnamon Enter Canal Zone.

Panama. When the steamship
Chill left La Boca last week she
carried Sc Cinnamon bound for Callao
from San Francisco. but off San Jose
rock 26 got on boats landing in the
canal zone.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Sympathy for stoessel.

Toxic, "A painful impression has
been created here by the rumor that
court-martial has sentenced Gen.
Stoessel to death for the surrender OF
Port Arthur"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Celebration at Tuskegee.

Tuskegee, Ala. - The twenty-fifth
year of the Tuskegee Normal and
Industrial Institution closed Thurs
day. One hundred and seventy-six
academic diplomas and industrial GER
ificates were awarded.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Want Tuberculosis Hospital.

Want tuberculosis Hospltai.
To date, sites for the state hos
pital for consumptives have been Of
fered to the board of control at
twenty-five different cities and
towns as follows:
Des Moines, Algona, Cedar Rapids,
Summerset, Earlham, Sioux City,
Goodell, Riverside, Ogden, Strawberry
Point, Jefferson, Madrid, Tama, Mon
tezuma, Toledo, Mason City, Forest
City, Fort Madison. Newton, Creston,
Camanche, Polk City. ..
At some of these places several
sites have been offered by different
persons. At Des Moines, for in.
stance, dozen offers are on file.
Judge Robinson is in the east
where he will visit some Of the in
situations devoted to the care and
treatment of tubercular patients.
Mr.. Cownie and Mr.. Hamilton have
been making a semi-annual tour of
the northern Iowa institutions.
Upon the return of the members
to Des Moines they will at once take
up the question of selecting site
for the new hospital The require
ments have been listed heretofore.
On account of the establishment of
the general rules referred to, it will
be possible to limit the number of
sites which it will be necessary to
visit. The visits will be paid within
the next few weeks and a choice
made in all probability.
The movement to fight tuberculo-
sis in Iowa started at Fort Dodge
and Des Moines. Fort Dodge has not
asked for the hospital. Des Moines
will offer number Of very desirable
sites. The large number of physi-
clans here hope that it will be To-
Gated near Des Moines.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Has General Jackson's Cane.

Has General Jackson's Cane.
Rev. C. c. Potter of Des Moines has
in his possession quite curiosity in
the shape of General Jackson's sword
cane. The sword is over two feet
long and is thought to be Of Damas-
Gus make The cane is a fine piece
of workmanship and is made in
imitation of southern cane and ia
made of hickory.
The history of the cane is this.
The Rev. M. Potter's grandfather
was one of the electors the first time
General Jackson was elected president
and when Mr.. Potter went to Harris
burg. Pa, to cast his vote he met a
cousin of the general, who presented
him the cane as from the genera,
The old cane has the honor or dis
honor of knocking down Tom Benton
Missouri's great statesman, and the
sword or spear of piercing the side
of General Coffee, Benton's best
friend, when the three were mixed up
in free for all fight. From the OBJ
stinacy of his will as shown in the
war of 1872, General jackson receiy.
ed the well known sobriquet Of cold
Hickory" General Jackson was a
Presbyterian and the Presbyterian
Historical society at Philadelphia.
Pa, requested the Rev. Mr. Potter to
allow the cane to be on exhibition
there for a month.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Memorial Day Proclamation.

Memorial Day Proclamation.
Governor Cummins memorial day
proclamation is as follows:
"Forty-one years have passed since
the war of the rebellion closed with
an inseparable union and enduring
peace The lapse of time serves only
to reveal in their true proportions
the issues involved in the mighty con-
fiict. The passage Of time but in
creases our veneration and dcepers
our affection for those who fought
the battles and won the victories OF
this unequalled war.
1.-THE day is approaching that long
ago was set aside as sacred to the
memory of the union soldiers and
sailors who have passed to their re-
ward upon the other shore.
Now therefore. l. Albert B. Cum
Minis, governor of the state Of Iowa,
do earnestly request all the people OF
the state of Iowa to look upon We'd
nesday, the Both day of May, as day
to be devoted, in solemnity, to me-
mortal for the heroic dead l ask them
to forsake their ordinary labors and
pleasures. and join in rendering a tri-
butte to these valiant souls, whose
courage and patriotism preserved the
institutions which make citizenship
in the republic the highest honor that
mortal man can enjoy. In recalling
with tender thought and in loving
speech what they did, we will not only
do justice to their fidelity but will
increase our own"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31

The programme has been issued for
the forty-irst annual convention 30
the Iowa Sabbath School association
which is to convene in Council Bluffs
June 10 to %, in conjunction with
the sixth interstate district institute
including the states of Missouri Kan,
sas, Nebraska, and Iowa. The four
days will be given over to the reading
of several important papers, ADDRESSED
by we'll known Sabbath school worl,
ers, and sectional meetings deyoted -
the discussion of affairs pertaininy =,
Sabbath school and institutions. 49,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
METHODS OF THE OIL TRUST.

Unfair Means of Standard to Crush
Competitors.
Cleveland, ON two protracted
SESSIONS Thursday the interstate COM
Members Prouty and Glenn
ents in attendance, heard evidence
bearing upon the business methods of
the Standard Oil company. The ses-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Want Their Own Board.

The State Osteopathic society
passed resolutions asking the legisla
ture to provide an independent ex-
aiming board for Osteopaths. Off
GERS were elected as follows: "P.esi-
dent, U. M. TibDets, Grinnell: First
Vice. President Della B. Caldwell, Des
Moines; Second Vice President S. /.
Wyland, Charlton; Secretary, t. B.
Larrabee, Anita; Treasurer, l.. O..
Thompson, Red Oak.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
AAH%
I DeS MOineS Letter
= Items of Interest from Our Correspondent
\ at the State Capital
Big insurance Policies Paid.

Big Insurance Policies Paid.
During the year 1905 Des Moines
ranked sixty-frst among the cities OF
the United States and Canada in the
amount of life insurance paid on
death claims, S373,432 being received
on policies held in all companies, ac-
cording to the annual statistics pre-
pared by the Insurance Press.
According to the ngures gathered
by the Insurance Press, the total dis
tribution during 1905 to life insur-
ance policy holders in the United
States and Canada amounted to over
$400000,000, but this included an esti-
mate of $10O,0o0,0O0 in payments to
foreign policy holders, annuitants,
dividends, and surrender values. The
actual sum paid for death claims
amounted to $3O9,O19,972, of which
Des Moines' share amounted to almost
100000. New York City ranked nrst
with $26,785,797.
In Iowa the amount of claims palu
during the year was S3,87S,52l, an
increase of about half million dol
lars over 1904. Des Moines ranked
first among the cities of the state
Dubuque being second with S199,2I9.
Davenport third with $190,59O, Cedar
Rapids fourth with $145,376, Council
Bluffs fifth with $14O359, and Bur-
lington sixth with $130,936. No other
city in the state received payments
amounting to more than 100000.
The largest payment made during
the year on policies held by any indi-
vidual in Iowa. was to the estate OF
B. F. Ebert of Des Moines, amount
ing to S10S.022. Others on whom
payments of over $4,000 were made,
were J. B. Morrison of Des Moines,
100000; William S. Potter of Burling-
ton, $4,000; Fred w. Faulks Oh
Cedar Rapids, $10.872; James ID.
Lamb of Clinton, $35,600; Charles
Henry Stephen of Council Bluffs,
$4,000; Peter e. Roddewig of Daven-
port, $1,000; Marshall M. Walker OF
Dubuque, $4,000; Austin S. Gillette
of Glenellen, $4,000: Warren Beck
with of Mount Pleasant. $1,000 and
Lot Thomas of Storm Lake, $4,000.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Policemen on Motorcycles.

Policemen on motorcycles is tha
new feature of the Des Moines police
department. Officer Penn has boor
patroling his beat in the western nor.
ton of the city on motor wheel II
is expected that other mounted no,
lice officers will soon follow his ey
ample. Officer PENIS work is nrjn.
cipally on Grand avenue. For sayer
al months the police have been trou-
bled by fast auto driving on that
street With the motorcycle Penn can
cover forty miles an hour with ease
Few automobiles can run away from
him.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Monument on Prospect Hill.


At meeting of the Iowa synodical
committee and committee from
the general assembly headed by DR..
A. B. Marshall, arrangements were
completed for the building of men,
orial manument on Prospect hill,
Sioux City. The committee reported
to the general assembly, and recon-
mended that the body appropriate
funds for the erection of this monu-
ment. The recommendation was
adopted. The building of this
monument on the summit Of
Prospect hill, Sioux City, is of espec-
ial interest to Iowans. 1t Is to be
erected in memory of the time when
the home missionaries, Rev. DR.. Shell
don Jackson, Rev. DR.. Thomas H.
Cleland, and Rev. DR.. John C. Ell
lott, surveyed from this eminence
the great valley Of the Missouri on
April 20, 1869, looking across into
Nebraska and South Dakota and far
out toward the great plains of the
west, and dedicated themselves to the
development of the church in that
western country.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
Presbyterians altar Smoot.


Just before final adjournment the
womens board of home missions of
the Presbyterian church sent a tele-
gram to Senator Doliver Emporium.
ing him to vote against the continu-
ance Of Reed Smoot as a member of
the United States senate. The tele-
gram was as follows: ''The Presby-
terrain women of the United States
assembled in annual meeting beseech
you to cast your vote against Reed
Smoot continuing as a member OIL the
United States senate because he is a
representative of Utah and the Nor
mon hierarchy"
The commission of the capitol i'm
provements commission expires July
1. Practically all of the important
business of the commission has been
completed. The hanging of the
Diehlman mosaics in the arcades
above the main panel in which the
painting of Blashfield, can not be
done for several months, probably.
The commission had hoped to have
this out of the way before the end
of their term, but 1t is believed now
that It will have to go over into the
hands of the council. 1t is the only
matter which will fall to the coun.
ell to do.