Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-23

| from some unknown cause. There
was some insurance, but the exact
amount is unknown.
While enroute from her former
home in Tomahawk, Wis, to the home
of her daughter in Fonda, Mrs. Grady,
a woman rs years of age, suddenly
went insane on Great Western train
and was taken off at Mason City apJ
placed in the hands of the sheriff. The
woman developed violent tendencies
| between Mason City and Austin, Mimi,
| and had to be controlled by the train
men, with the aid of passengers.
Marion Jones, employed on the st.
Paul & Des Moines grade at Mayne's
grove, northeast of Iowa Falls, was
almost instantly killed by being crush
ed under a steam grader. Jones lived
at Maynes grove and has been farm
ing in a small way. Finding work
slack at home he had engaged with
a grading gang in charge of a Des
Mones contractor, and was working
on steam grader. He had gone
under the machine to adjust some OF
the machinery when a chain broke
and the elevator fell on him. He
crawled from under the grader and
announced that he was not injured,
but five minutes later he was dead.
He had been caught under the heavy
machinery and injured internally, be-
ing crushed across the chest. Jones
was about 40 years old and leaves
wife and large family of small child
rem.
The recent appointment of Supt.
George S. Dick of Red Oak to place
in the mathematics faculty of the
Iowa State Normal makes the fif-
teenth graduate of the institution to
be called by the trustees to a position
in the faculty of their alma mater
and when the fall session opens on
Sept and the roll of the faculty is
called the official roll will show that
the faculty for this year will number
eighty, of which nearly one-fourth are
graduates of the school they are now
teaching in. Those who are now teach
ing in the institution and during some
time in their life have attended this
school and received a diploma for hav-
ing completed one of the several
courses are w. II. Bender, G. w New
ton, Charles A. Fullerton, Henry G.
Cummins, Misses Sara Riggs, Eliza
beth Hughes, Ida Fosenbeck, Mamie
Hearst, Laura Bowman, Emma Lam
bert, Alison AitChiSon, Lulu BOrquin,
Elizabeth Kaye, and Bess G. Streeter.
The last two named are new on the
faculty and will do their first work in
the institution this fall.
By the passing of an ordinance by
the city council, Fort Dodge accepts
the terms of the Great Western road,
and what at one time seemed to prom
Use a long and hard fought legal bat
tie has been settled without further
costs. Years ago when the Mason
City & Fort Dodge road sought term
inalS in Fort Dodge the road was pro-
vided with land for round house and
shops and the right to a street, which
permitted it to locate its yards and
station in what is now the center Of
the city. 1t was a condition that the
road or it's successors should maintain
this provision as related to shops and
division point. When the Great West
ern bought the Mason City & Fort
Dodge road it soon after moved the
division and shops to Clarion. The
removal caused much feeling upon
the part of the business men of the
city, and pressure was brought to
bear upon the executive body to sue
the road for nonfulfillment of the pro-
visions of the ordinance granting them
terminals. President Stickney was
appealed to repeatedly to adjust the
matter, but did nothing This aroused
bitter feeling against the road in
business circles, and when the Watter
was recently brought up for settle
ment there were many who insisted
that the city should begin suit for
damages, no matter what the cost or
the consequences. The agreement re-
sulting in the passage of the new or
dinance was reached, however.
The attention of the telephone world
is being called to the wonderful prog
ress which Iowa has made in develop
ing Independent telephone lines and to
the extraordinary number of rural
telephones in operation all over the
state. The development has all taken
place practically in the last ten years.
The state of Iowa has % per cent of
the rural telephone lines of the United
States and more farmers are using
telephones than in any one state in
the union. In the 1902 report of the
! United States census bureau it is
shown that the state of Iowa has 10
exchanges, 68 of which are Bell and
642 independent. The figures submit
ted to the executive council for taxa
ton purposes for the year ending July
81 1905, show that there are 13S,S1S
independent telephones and 27,260
Bell telephones. The independents
reported 5,056.40 miles of copper wire,
while the Bell company reported Glib
9S According to figures compiled re-
Gently by George T. Hewes, manager
of the telephone clearing house, the
Iowa farmers are among the largest
users of telephones in the state and it
was through their demands for tele-
! phones that the great service devel-
| oped. The twenty-four companies
which are patrons of the clearing
house have total number of 173 ex-
! changes and 329 toll stations. The
| population tributary to the lines is
| 6S1 $50. There are 5S,S07 Independent
| lines 81, 1873 rruril lines and 21,3S0 Bell
lnies. Many of the rural and independ-
! ent lines are doing considerable re-
! building this season and by fall Iowa
will be still further covered with tele-
! phone lines. The old lines are being
! put in much better condition than they
have been in many instaces.
Burglars entered the Eldon post.