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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
SMITH HAS HIS
TIME EXTENDED

Des Moines, April 12.-The time for
the execution of Joseph c. Smith for
murder has been extended from 6
o'clock in the morning until noon of
April 20.
A proclamation to this effect was
entered by Governor Cummins yes
terday. 1t is understood that Warden
James or the penitentiary at Fort
Madison suggested that it would be
well to postpone the time for the
hanging until high noon. However,
it is the rule in all prisons to have the
execution with the rising sun.
Smith is said to be more or less
unconcerned because of the proxim-
ity of his execution. Many persons
who are familiar with the case have
expressed the belief that Smith had
been abandoned by the woman whom
he killed and had been tainted about
his misfortune, and that on account
of this and not on account of jealousy
did he shoot her.
The governors proclamation with
respect to the Smith execution issued
yesterday follows:
Whereas, l, Albert B. Cummins,
governor of the state of Iowa, did on
the 18th day Of September, 1905,
enter an order fixing and designating
Friday, April 20, A. D., 1906, at 6
o'clock in the forenoon, as the time
at which the sentence of death of the
district court of Iowa in and for Mon
roe county, pronounced upon Joseph
C. Smith, convicted of murder in the
first degree, should be executed; now,
therefore, l hereby change the said
order in the following respect, name
fly, that the sentence of the said court,
instead of being executed at 8 o'clock
in the forenoon of the said goth day
of April, A. d. 1906, shall be executed
at II o'clock noon on said Goth day of
April, A. d. 1906. In all other respects
the order heretofore entered stands
without change or modification"
! The case of Louis Busse is pending
in the courts. He was to have hanged
a week from tomorrow, but the at
torneys for him have appealed to the
courts to test the validity of his in
dictment, a question which will be
carried to the United States supreme
court, and his execution will be delay
ed until the decision.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
PLATT WILL NOT
SEEK REELECTION

New York, April l4.-The Herald this
morning says:
Seated at his desk in his office in
the United States Express company's
building yesterday morning Senator
Thomas c. Plat declared he would
make no effort to be reelected to the
United States senate at the eXpira-
ton of his term in 1909.
1T is true,'' he said, with touch of
sadness in his tones, that l do not
expect to return to the senate when
my present term ends. | will have
gratiied my desire for public office
by that time
Further than this the senior SEN
ator from New York would not COM
ment on his intenaed action. Asked
whether developments in the insur-
ance investigation had influenced him
in forming his decision, he Withheld
an answer. To friends he said re-
Gently, however, that he had made up
his mind long ago not to seek another
term"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
PRICE SCALE MADE
FOR IOWA MINERS

Des Moines, April 14.-In so far as
the question of prices for labor is
concerned, the scale to govern the
mining of coal in Iowa for the two
years dating from April /, 1896, was
completed yesterday. only the form
atty of figuring out advances for the
second, third and fourth subdistricts
remains before the question of resolI!.
tons is taken up. All advances on
prices were agreed upon yesterday
the miners practically winning out
The figuring for percentages for the
other districts will be completed Mon
day and the question of resolutions
will be taken up Tuesday morning
There is little reason % doubt now
but what scale will Oe signed Wed
nesday and that all mines will resume
May l.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
GETTING READY To
ENFORCE LABOR LAW

Des Moines, April I4-Juiy 4 will
mean the emancipation o. every cash
girl or carrier boy under fourteen
years of age in Des Moines. This
will mean over two hundred children
who will be driven OFT of gainful oc-
equations. The power to enforce mis-
law is left with the state labor COM
missioner, 4. ID. Brigham, who viii
begin an invesL. gaIlcn the very next
day of all mercantile establishments.
Children from fourteen to sixteen
may be given employment, but their
names, age and educational qualifi-
cations must be nspicuously posted
near the entrance door of establish
ment. Des Moines being the center
and city VIII 20 more children are
employed will be the first to have the
law enforced
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
ABANDON BREWERY PLAN.

Legislative Action Knocks Out Pro
posed Brewery at Des Moines.
Des Moines. April 13.-Frank p
Mates announced yesterday positive
ly, that the brewery project for Dea
Moines has been abandoned. The
act of the legislature in requiring
that a renewal of the petition of col
sent must be obtained every five
years made the enterprise toe
hazardous for the investment of {
large amount of capital.
I'VE have considered the matter
carefully since the bill was passed,
he said, and when we consider the
difficulty We had in getting the pc
tition through the council and courts
with its not over large majority
there is not much inducement tc
build"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
BUsSE HAS ONE CHANCE.

Cedar Rapids, April 15--Louis
Busse, under sentence of death foi
the murder of his wife, will hans
next Friday unless the Iowa supreme
court grants him a respite, which IL
not likely. The hearing on a writ O.
habeas corpus was had in the distric'
court here here yesterday and the
writ was denied. An appeal was
taken to the supreme court at once
Busse is the self-confessed wife
murderer of Bremen county, having
slain the woman during a fit Of rage
and then attempted 20 conceal the
crime by pouring oil on the body anC
attempting to cremate her.
Preparations are being made fol
the execution, Sheriff Henry Parrot
having recently been to Anamosa Il
inspect the .gallows.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
GETS BRONZE MEDAL.
Sput. Thornbure of Polk County
Schools is Highly EIated.

Des Moines, April 13.-,County
Superintendent Thornburg has JUS
received the oronze medal awarded
at the st. Louis exposition to the
schools of Polk county. The exhibit
was the set of the work done in all
the schools of the county. There
were at st. Louis about sixty ex-
hibits, but Polk is the only one that
received a medal.
Superintendent ThornOurg feels
very much elated over the excellent
recognition given the schools here
and feels repaid for the labor of pre-
pairing the exhibit during the two
years previous to the exposition.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
Paid After 100 Years.

Tabor, April 13.-After waiting
over one hundred years, descendants
of Joshua Cox of this city have been
awarded damages by the United
States court of claims, for ship de-
stroyed by the French cruiser vic
tory" off the Bermuda islands in
1893. The claimants are Mrs. John
Barbour and William Vinton of Pa
cific City, Sam Vinton of Malvern,
Mrs. James Greig of Hastings AMI
Charles Vinton of Henderson. Each
receives $1,000.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

The only really perfect diamonds
which are to be found on this globe
are those which fall from the sky in
meteorites; all diamonds which are
mined in the diamond fields of the
world are only fragments of gems.
That is a startling statement, but
still more startling one is that all the
diamonds to be found on our planet
have fallen on our earth from the skies
and have not, as most of us thought,
been produced here like coal and other
mineral products.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

In his 90 years at the bar, Lincoln
had no less than 1G9 cases before the
highest court of Illinois, record I'M
surpassed by his contemporaries; he
appeared before the United States cir
cult court and district courts with
great frequency; he was the most in
defatigable attendant on the Eighth
circuit, and tried more cases than any
other member of that bar; he was at
torney for the Illinois Central railroad;
he was also counsel for the Rock Is
land railroad and other corporations
and individuals with important legal
interests at stake.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

Salvatore Vinciano, gallant Ro
man, wooed and won Paolina di Ponta,
a beautiful Roman girl, after the most
ardent, strenuous and desperate court
ship on record. For love of her he at
tackled her with razor, blew up her
home with dynamite, stabbed her with
a stiletto. and then shot off two of her
fingers. Incidentally he spent three
years and three months in prison as
result OF his loving attentions. Such
sacrifice. constancy and devotion at
last conquered the heart of the beau
tsfui Italian girl and recently she mar
ried him. In Rome.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

Edward Crossman, of Ely, Mimi,
owns one of the oldest teams in
America. He has succeeded in the I'M
usual task of breaking pair of moose
to drive in harness. In his sleigh Mr..
Crossman spins about as rapidly be-
hind these animals as if drawn by
prancing span of horses.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

Our idle rich, who have taken up
the fad of scorching autos to furnish
a novelty in lives otherwise doomed
to ennui, have recently made enough
excitement for themselves to satisfy
the most exacting. What with jan
sentence in France, the experience OF
a scion of the noted house of Shep-
pard, and the attacks of an Italian
mob on w. X. Vanderbilt, jr., it would
seem that Europe IS a good place to
be Stunned by speeding autoists.
Here the laws are more elastic, and
five-dollar fines are only an incident
hardly worth noting in the speeder's
diary.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

Perhaps the most remarkable fea'
cure of commercial progress in the
United States is the wealth which its
copper mines are yielding. Last year
the output of American copper mines
was nearly one billion pounds. This
was worth $150,OOO,000. The output
of the copper mines of the country
alone, to say nothing of the gold and
silver mines, was nearly four times
as great as the dividends of the Stand
ard Oil Co., which controls 70 per
cent. of the oil industry of the United
States. Just 81 copper mines paid in
actual profits to stockholders the huge
sum of $30,000,000.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

Cronies from infancy, the Finley
twins have been, and although to-day
beyond the allotted span of life, being
more than four score years of age,
they are as inseparable as they were
when they were playing with the pa
pooses in Southwestern Michigan.
They are William and Archibald Fin
ley, of Schoolcraft, Mich, and they
were 81 years old November last.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

Scotland and Wales are in the mar.
ket for American copper and wire in
huge quantities. Germany also will
greatly increase her purchases. This
year will see all previous records
eclipsed in the demand for copper, Ger.
tainly by millions of tons.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

Leadville kept her record up in 1905,
when $4,000 tons of mineral were
turned out. The value was 11,o0O,-
900. The mineral army numbered s.
500 laborers. The Illinois Steel Co.
has ordered $4,000 tons of Leadville
manganese ore.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

When the steamship Philadelphia
arrived at Boston, the other day, she
brought among the other things in her
cargo a consignment of elephant tusks,
or teeth, as they are called in the
ships manifest. There are about 800
tusks in the consignment, and in
weight they run from about rs pounds
to the weight of an ordinary man.
Few of them are less than a yard in
length, and one is fully eight feet long,
having evidently been the property at
some time of an elephant that would
rival the famed Jumbo in size.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

Emperor William -eceives 100000
a year-the biggest allowance made to
any constitutional monarch. King Ed
ward receives G470,O00 a year, al
though a separate grant of 100000 Is
made to the Prince of Wales, one of
10000 to the Princess of Wales and
another of $500 per annum to each
Of the kings three daughters. The
king of Austria-Hungary figures high
on the list of handsomely paid rulers,
receiving e382,202 year. King AL
fonso, boy though he is, disposes of
G3SS,0OO annually, and even Belgium
spares e132,00O year for the glory
II being a monarchy.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
CAUGHT IN REVOLT ING SHAFT.
Clarence Beeton of Mason City Has
Narrow Escape from Death.

Mason City, April 15.-While in the
act Of stepping over revolving shaft
Clarence Beeton, an engineer at the
sewer pipe factory, was caught by a
knuckle which whirled him rapidly
and beating the ground with his body.
His clothing was entirely stripped
from his body, all that remained be-
ing his socns. His body and face
We're badly lacerated and bruised, the
greatest danger being from a deep
elongated cut under the chin which
may prove serious. Had his clothing
not given away as it did he would
have been pounded to death before
help could have arrived and the pom
derous engines stopped. He has q
lighting chance to recover.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

A great strike was made recently in
Virginia Canyon, Idaho Springs, Col,
where vein of gold ore five feet thick
was laid bare. One-half the vein goes
500, while the remainder is worth $40
Mar TON
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

Cripple Creek has produced in it's Is
gears of life ore worth $160,000,000,
and is good for many more years.
There is money in mining If you hit
the right sDOt w.. ..
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
FAVOR THE DIRECT VOTE BILL
Committee Approves of Election of
Senators by People.

Senators by People.
Washington, April ia resolu-
ton providing for the election of
senators by direct vote of the people
has been favorably acted upon by the
house committee on elections. = The
resolution, introduced by Mr.. Norris
of Nebraska, makes the term of mem
bers of the house four years instead
of two. Both propositions are 70 be
accomplished by amendments to the
constitution.
Reasons why the term of members
should be four years are stated to be
because no party can inaugurate its
policy in two years.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
FATAL SHOOTING AT BUXTON.
Unknown Miner is Killed by Fred
CLAYTON Durinu Drunken Quarrel

S'dytOH DUI ing DTuTINST audTTcTs
Oskaloosa, April 14.-In a drunken
quarrel here last night Fred Clayton,
colored, shot and killed a companion,
also a negro, name unknown. Both
men were employee in the mines here.
Clayton made mis- escape. Officers
here have been not4Aed and are on
the watch,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
Horsea and Mules Burned.

Baltimore, Nd, April 15.-About
300 horses and mules were burned to
death in fire which destroyed the
auction stables of Moses Fox, 318 and
1922 North street, yesterday. Loss
$65. 900.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

French winegrowers are more than
ever convinced that hailstorms can be
averted by the timely firing of cannon.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
A. c. Ross, Pub.

The Chinese always paint an eye on
either side of their junlls' bows, SO that
the boats can see their way.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
GOVERNOR IS
PREPARING CALL
Conference on Election of
Senators Will Be Held in
August or September.
SENATOR DUNHAM RESIGNS
Too Busy to Accept Place on the
Insurance Commission. - Prof.
CALVIN Succeeds Prof. Wilder as
State Geoiogist. - Notes From
the Capital.

Dos Mcines, April lot is said
that Governor Cummins is already at
work on his cali for a conference OF
states at Des Moines on the question
If the direct election of UnlLed States
senator's, The legislature which just
adjourned passed resolution, origi-
nally introduced by Senator l.. w.
Lewis of Page county, authorizing
the governor to call a conference OF
i've delegates from each state, to be
appointed by the governors thereof,
% meet in Des MONIES and adopt a
inform, concerted, aggressive plan OF
obtaining an amendment to the con-
stitution to place the election OF
United States senators in the hands OF
The people, instead of in the province
3f the legislatures.
The plan contemplated by Senator
Lewis, who conferred with Governor
Cummins on the resolution before Of
sering it, is that the conference de-
eide on some method whereby two
thirds of the states will demand a
constitutional convention. Already
twenty-three states have made such
demand, leaving but seven more to
oe gotten into line. Whenever two
thirds (thirty) make such demand,
through their legislatures, congress
mas no alternative hut to call the con-
gention to amend the constitution.
Governor Cummins will devote con-
siderable time to the call for the con-
ference. He is much interested in
the subject and desires every state in
The union to accept. 1t is now prob
able that the conference will be set
for the last of August or early Sep
TENDER,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
Will Introduce Primary Bill.

Senator j. j. Crossley, who for the
last three sessions of the Iowa legis-
lature has introduced and worked for
state wide primary election law,
will introduce another bill at the
session to convene nine months from
now.
Il believe that the campaign from
now on will determine N large mea-
sure whether the next legislature will
enact q primary election law" said
Senator Crossley.
Il will be unable to say what kind
of a bill l will present till see tie
results of the election. l am willing
to make any reasonable compromise
in order to get the law on the statute
books in the hope of later amending
and Strengthening it.
Personally / believe in a state
wide primary election day; all parties
nominating at the same primary; the
plurality selection; the selection &C
the primary Of all officers for whom
the people lie at the election and
also Of United States senator's; the
same judges and clerks who preside
at the primary to preside at the cleo
ton; the primary polling places to
be the same as those of the election
and the hours to be the same.
These l consider to be the funda-
mentals of good election law.
shall incorporate in the next bill
that the delegates to the state con-
vention be selected from those
named at the primary, if it is found
necessary to compromise to the ex-
tent of keeping the county conyen.
tion."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

Queer idea of jerks in advertis.
ing to trade his auto for mule.
wasn't it?" '"There was some logic
in it. He says If it's a case of eternal
swearing, he wants something with
ears to swear at."-Milwaukes Sentr
mel.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
Elnatinn Body Is Renouered

Cedar Rapids, April 1.-THE body
Of Mrs. Copp, the woman drowned in
this city Friday evening, was found
yesterday morning over mile down
stream
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
Soldiers to be There.

SSia'S'S W nc shS'Cs
The request that two regiments OF
the Iowa National guard be detailed
to assist Colonel Thomas Of. the
Eleventh cavalry in making a pre-
sentable parade as an escort for the
1000 members of the National Army
of the Philippines which will meet
in Des Moines on August, was form
ulated at meeting of the local COM
mittee of arrangements and will be
forwarded to Governor Cummins at
once. The plan contemplates that
the date of two of the regimental en-
campments be set for Des Moines on
the date of the big meeting. Action
along that line was taken at the meet
ing of Camp Walter Wagner. Army
of the Philippines. faction was also
taken by the Loyal legion at the
regular monthly meeting to aid in the
big celebration. Among those to be
here are many generals of promin
ence and strong memorial will be
presented to the president to attend
by the invitation committee In few
days. The legislature, before ad-
journing, passed resolution asking
the president to come. Without
doubt, the secretary of war, Jucge
Taft, will attend, according to pri-
vate letters received from Washing.
ton.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19

Fix Course for NEEDLES.
The state board of medical examin-
ers have agreed upon a new schedule
for medical students. Heretofore.
one year of the medical course I'm
Iowa has been fictitious, that is,
credit was given for 1t If the person
matriculating held degree from a
college, or displayed other cause for
being permitted to take three year
course in medicine. But from the be-
ginning of the school year. July !,
1906, it will be necessary that the
full four years be put in. Ii has been
the privilege of the various college
arrangements of the state to divide
the work of their courses as they saw
it, The state board of medical ex-
aminers has never elected, hitherto,
to prescribe the number of hours
which should be devoted to each OF
the branches of the course. The re-.
cent action. however, determines for
the colleges just how many hours
shall be devoted to the various
branches of medicine taught by the
institutions. For instance, $50 hours
Of anatomy must be given during the
four years, and go of general sur
gerry, and IL hours of etiology. The
relative Importance of the different
subjects remains the same, to all in
tents and purposes, as the number of
questions to be asked of persons taxi
ing the examination for certificates
to practice medicine, relating to each
subject, has been left the same as it
was before, by the state board. The
new schedule puts Iowa on a basis
with the other states of the union. 1t
is the maximum requirements, under
state laws, in 1913 different medical
colleges of the United States. 8 will
encourage reciprocity.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-04-19
Durham Tenders designation.

Durham Tenders Resignation.
The resignation of Senator George
w. Durham Of Delaware county from
the legislative insurance commission
prevented that body from effecting
an organization on the 18th, and adj
Iournment was taken for the members
present until such date as agreed upon
after the vacancy on the commission
has been filled. Senator Durham
wired his resignation to lieutenant
Governor Herriott, but the other
members of the commission were not
informed of it until their arrival in
Des Moines. Letters to ,ne members
Of the body from Senator Durham
failed to reach them until forwarded
to them at Les MONIES. Inc senator
found on his return to Manchester
that it would be impossiDie for him
20 give the time necessary to the COM
missions work. His absence from
his law business during the entire
winter and the necessity of accom-
panying his wife to the east this sum-
mer made it impossible for him also
to add the duties of the commission.
Therefore his retirencnt.
The commissioners called on Audi
tor Carroll and he VIII furnish them
copies of the Armstrong report in New
York. The commission did not dis
cuss the scope of it's wor.., however,
contenting itself with inquiry as to
the extent to which the auditor of
state carries the examinations made
by him of life insurance companies.