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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-11-29
Gray Itsms

Mrs. Mease was an Audubon Wis
itor last Friday.
Mr.. Lewis Groteluschen was a
Manning visitor Monday.
George Gray and wife spent Sun
day at the John Campbell home.
Miss Ella Forsbeck spent last
Thursday night with Mrs. Creyeling.
Mrs. Elmer Ellis and Mrs. Kittell
spent last Friday with Mrs. Wesley
StetZell.
T. B. Creveling now has his run SO
he can be at home over Saturday and
Sunday.
We understand that Miss Grace
Swanev, of Iowa City, is studying
medicine now.
The school bell is a terror to listen
to, being 80 badly cracked that it
makes fearful noise.
I Mrs. F. Mclaughlin expects to go
to Illinois next Friday 10 visit her
sister who is quite sick.
The rain Sunday and Sunday night
made the roads quite bad and it is
: terrible in the cornfield.
4 Miss Clara Anderson of Audubon
has been sewing at the Audas home
for the past week or two.
Don't forget the lecture by Mr..
Culp next Wednesday night at the
I M. w. A. hall, December 9Th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Switzer, of Mt.
Vernon, spent last week at the Fors-
beck home, and with other relatives.
II Cameron Ross was county seat
visitor Saturday and spent Sunday
s at his fathers home, south of town.
81 Mr.. Todd of Atlantic was in town
II the fore part of the week scoring fan
X sy chickens for the farmers in the
vicinity.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Beems were
Gray visitors last week. She hai
! gone to Audubon to visit and E. E.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-11-29
sussE MUST HANG.
Supreme Court Decides Against Wife

Supreme Court Decides Against Wife
Murderer.
Des Moines.-The state supreme
court has denied Louis Busse, the
Butler county murderer, writ of
habeas corpus. This means that
Busse, after escaping the gallows on
three previous occasions, will have
to hang Friday, December IA, unless
means of delay.
1t has been reported that appeal
may be taken to the United States
| supreme court on constitutional
grounds, but unless such appeal is
possible Busse is now face to face
with death. The last legislature re-
fused to intercede in Buses behalf,
declaring that it had no authority to
commute death sentences, and no
hope exists for an appeal to the COM
ing legislature.
Governor Cummins has three times
fixed the date for Buses execution
after the time set by the district
court had expired. The governors
recent determined stand in the Joseph
Smith case, who was executed April
20, indicates that he will not stay
the death penalty imposed by order
Of court.
| Busse is confined at the Anamosa
peniteniary, where his execution will
take place. Sheriff Henry Parrott of
Bremen county will have to officiate
as the hangman, the conviction OF
Busse having taken place IN his coun-
ty.
The decision of the supreme court
on the last appeal is per curtain,
which means all the judges concur in
denying the writ.
Busse was convicted of one of the
most atrocious crimes ever commit
ted in the state. The evidence shows
that Busse coolly and deliberately set
about to murder his wife at the farm
home June IS, 1901, by first sending
his own children, by former wife,
boy and a girl, away from home for
the day in company with farm
hand. Left alone with his wife, with
whom he had quarreled over money
affairs, Busse beat her into insensi-
bility with chair, crushing her skull.
Then to make sure of her death he
cut his wife's throat with a butcher
knife. Evidently fearing that his
crime would be discovered, Busse
dragged the woman's almost lifeless
body into the kitchen. heaped bed
clothing about it saturated with kero
sene and then set fire to the funeral
pype. He then rushed from the
house, leaving step-child in the
burning building. A brother Of
Busses working in neighborine
field heard his cry of fire and ar
rived in time to save the step-chilt
and the house from the flames. Mrs
Buses body was found in the kit
chen partly burned. To add to the
horror. the flames had burst the
woman's abdomen, revealing an un
born babe almost burned to crisp
So intense was the feeling agains
!, Busse in his home county that ht
narrowly escaped lynching. and hi:
trial was taken to Bremen county OF
change of venue.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-11-29
$4,000 to State University.

Iowa City.-Word has been received
here of the bequest OF over $4,000 to
the state university in the Will of
Whitney Carr of Jordan, j. Y, whose
will has been offered for probate in
Syracuse. Carr made numerous be-
quests also to relatives. His library
and geological specimens go to SYRIA
cuse university.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-11-29
M,FeeIey Held for Murder.

Creston.-"S Samuel McFeeley, lying
dead here, came to his death by a
blow from hammer in the hand Of
Robert T. McFeeley, with murderoua
intention"
Such was the verdict of Coronei
James McKees. The prisoner is now
under arrest for murder, but will prob
ably be first examined as to his san
ity.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-11-29
Greeley Town.hip

Seven cent supper to be given at
Greeley Center. Friday evening,
December 18th, 1906:
On the 7th without fail
Will be held seven-cent sale
BY the tireless ladies of the Meth
odist church.
The door of the house is open
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-11-29

wide
And for &c you may go inside
And every luckiest seventh one
May go in free and see the fun.
There'll be bargain packages
piled up high
And seven round cents YOU,
choice can buv.
For &c you can buy oysters OF
cake
As your mother herself neve,
dared to make
You can buy fine coffee for sever
cents,
So good youth forget all abou,
expense.
AT seven O'Clock on the 18th o.
this present month; come wet o,
dry. Please gather to laugh anc
talk and buy.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-11-29

The hardest word for me to speak
IL "good-Dy." l wish 1t could be ban.
ished from the language.-John BIZ.
lings.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-11-29

vember in the valley to the depth
of two or three feet.
Mr.. Tom Spilker met with quite
au accident Friday evening while try
ing to get a car door shut. He fell
from the car and hurt his good right
foot so that now he has to go on
crutches.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-11-29

Charity, as well as justice, should
,be represented blind; one all heart
the other all head.-osh Billings.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07
COMRADES TESTIFY THAT !
SIDNEY SLOANE IS SANE

81 have tried hard to believe Sid
ney insane, but l cannot do it."
Such was the statement on the wit
ness stand this morning of Josiah
M. Estep, age IS, son of Council
man Estep, and the bosom chum of
Sidney Sloane, now on trial for the
murder of his father.
Mr., Estep was called In rebuttal
this morning by the prosecution
and told all about Sidney's theatri-
cal plans. He was equally inter-
ested in these plans with Sidney,
both having the theatrical craze in
common. They had show on the
third floor of the Estep residence.
They attended almost every per-
Torrance at the Auditorium when
the Bittner company was there.
Sidney had great ideas abou star
ring Matte Choate, the actress.
Both boys weer ambitious to be-
come actors. They were to study
Shakespeare. Each was interested
in the plans proposed by Sidney to
have a large theater erected at
Natatorium park. He once saw
Sidney as super" with the
Wade & Ward Ministries. He al
ways considered Sidney as perfect
ly sane.
Cross examination brought out
the fact that young Estep's opinion
of Sidney's schemes was that they
were merely boyish building of air
castles. He did not think the ideas
crazy. He said he noticed two
things singular about Sidney. He
sucked his thumb even at the age
of IS, and was very lazy. He was
not ferocious in his anger, but
took everything as matter Of
course, and in lazy manner. Sid
ney used to steal things from the
store. Once witness met him on
Second av. and was shown $40
which Sidney told him he had
stolen from his father.
Charles Riemer, a musician, at
tended high school in 1902 with
Sidney. They were classmates in
the study Of physiology. He saw
Sidney at the Washington theater
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07

the same night Mr.. Sloane was
killed. At school Sidney came in
the morning on several occasions
with bloodshot eyes and worn
appearance, explaining that he had
been out late the night before.
There was nothing irrational about
him.
On cross examination Attorney
Robertson attempted to obtain
from the witness the statement
that the bloodshot condition Of
Sidney's eyes was the result of in
sanity, but Riemer said it was not.
Nelson Harrison, age 10, son Of
Postmaster Harrison and another
Of Sidney's chums, said they were
together most of the time they
were not in school and up to 1908,
when Sidney went to Berkeley,
Cal. They had a cave where r. B.
Paterson's house now stands. The
boys had an army of IL and used
to play Indians. At these times he
never noticed anything peculiar
about Sidney's conversation. He
thought him sane.
j. G. Squibb, q driver for the
Sloane-Paine Co., knew Sidney
about three years. Sidney's father
told witness to watch the boy be-
cause he would steal candy and
gum. He never noticed anything
about Sidney that would indicate
insanity.
Geo. Garner, formerly a sausage
maker at the Sloane-Paine Co.
store, testified that he knew both
Mr.. Sloane and the defendant. He
was not allowed to give his opin-
ion as to their sanity, as Judge
Huneke held that he did not quail
fly sufficiently to give such opinion.
B. l.. Sivyer a boy companion
and playmate of Sidney, told how
they had played soldier and run
together. He said
that Sidney was inclined to be
lazy when a boy, was bad and al
ways getting into trouble. Witness
had never noticed anything pc
culiar about his actions and con.
sidered him sane.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07
Proposition to Float Bombs Down River to Post St. Dam
Made to Linemens Union by Mysterious Stranger Who
Was Immediately Run Out of Town Under Threat Of
Il Being Turned Over to Police. aw.sa~

plant and dam of the local com
pany.
When the officers of the union
became acquainted with the OBJ.
ject and purposes of the man they
told him to make himself scarce
and not to let them see him again
or they would turn him over to the
police. The man disappeared and
has not been seen since.
81 believe he was insane" said
Mr.. Allen. "He claimed to be able
to send bombs down the river
which would explode when they
came in contact with the dam or
power house. We were glad to
have him get out Of town, for If
anything had happened we would
have been held responsible for the
outrage. The fellow said he would
undertake the job for SIS
Officers of the company say they
had heard nothing of the dynamite
proposition, but had kept company
property under close watch in
order to guard against any attempt
to cripple the plant.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07
DYNAM|TER OFFERED To BLOW UP
WWP. POWER HOUSE FOR SIS
At CORNELL

Of the building except Nichols and
Schmuck. Robinson, Landrum and
Rumsey remained to pour water
into the windows when the wall
fell, crushing all three beyond
recognition.
The property loss by the fire is
100000.
The body Of S. w. Creel was
taken from the ruins later, burned
almost beyond recognition.
1t is believed several other per-
sons were burned to death. The
fire started at $50 in the kitchen
and gained considerable Roadway
before the students awakened. In
an upper room 27 students found
it impossible to escape by way OF
the halls and windows were sought
as method of egress. Many of
them jumped to the ground and
several were seriously injured.
James McCutcheon died this af-
ternoon at the Cornell infirmary.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07
CONFESSES
CRIME

DAYTON, O., Dec. David
Curtis, age 81, was arrested here
this morning after being traced
down by the Cincinnati Post. He
confessed to the assault and MUIR
der of Dona Gilman. Curtis former
ly worked in the ships of the Ma
tional Cash Register Co. He said
to Coroner Kline:
Il rode with Dona on car.
When she got off | did also.
eboked her to death, dragging her
into the commons when | found she
was dead. Then | fell upon my
knees and cried. knew ! had
done a dirty trick and vowed never
to touch girl again"
The police believe Curtis insane.
He sticks to his statements, vary
ing it with denials of murder. Two
years ago he confessed 10 a crime
and was proven innocent.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07
Ave RAILROADS Combined TO FREEZE ENTIRE NATION
into REPEAL OF THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE LAW

road would soon be crippled by
having it's own rolling stock scat
tered about the country.
But the Northern Pacific, Great
Northern and Union Pacific, whose
lines are supposed to serve the
territory now in the grip of fuel
famine, claim they cannot furnish
the cars. They are not delivering
coal from their own mines.
When three great railway com
panies confess themselves unable
to meet an emergency situation of
this importance there certainly
seems to be something wrong. Per.
haps the Spokane dealer is right
Here is what Nelson Martin, of the
Rock Springs Fuel Co., says:
There has been no change for
the better in the treatment ac.
corded fuel dealers by railroads in
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07

regard to furnishing cars or in de-
livering the shipments after they
were got under way. We have half
a dozen cars on the road now be-
tween here and Billings, Mont,
which have been on the road since
Nov. TO- 1t is just as difficult to
get wood delivered from the north
ern part Of the state. | have 700
cords of wood at Springdale which
| cut last winter that | cannot get
delivered, and Springdale is only 60
miles from here. | have a stand
ing order for the delivery of two
carloads of wood daily but that is
all it amounts to- | cannot get the
railroads to deliver the fuel.
Il have written to Senator Hey
burn for a copy of the last law
passed in which the railroads were
compelled to quit mining coal for
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07

Bombs floated down the Spo-
kane river to the Washington
Water Power Cos. Post st. dam.
where they were to be exploded
with the object of wrecking the
dam and big power plaintiffs is
the danger the company was saved
during the early stages of the line
mems strike by the prompt action
of the local union.
That such proposition was
made the union by a mysterious
stranger was admitted today by
Business Agent Allen, of the cleo
trical workers. Mr.. Allen said that
shortly after the linemen struck a
stranger put In an appearance at
the union headquarters and made
himself acquainted with the strike
committee. He refused to give his
name and evaded all inquiries as
to where he came from and what
his business was.
After hanging around for several
weeks the stranger made his oh.
ject known. He proposed to under.
take to dynamite the big power
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07

ton here would be as acute were
Spokane not saved by the Spokane
international line to British Column
bia.
d. C. Corbin, president of this
line, has assured local dealers that
the road is able to bring in all the
coal needed by this city and
enough to supply the Big Bend, Pa
louise, Walla Walla and Occur
d'Alene districts if the railroad
companies serving those districts
can furnish cars to haul the fuel
from the International terminal in
Spokane.
He is willing to haul cars free to
the mines and bring them back
loaded if the other companies will
furnish the cars. But he refuses
to let his cars leave the Interna-
tional line for the reason that the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07

Patrolman Pike, one Of the po-
licemen laid off pending a hearing
before the police commission on
charges of INSTRUMENTATION filed by
Chief of Police Waller. who said
they refused to buy horses and re-
port for mounted duty, today ac-
cused his chief of conspiring to
have him bounced from the force,
1t has been suspected that old
officers of the department who
selected by the chief and Mayor
Daggett to do mounted duty were
those against whom the admins
tration had grudge. Says Pike:
'My assignment to mounted duty
comes of the chiefs desire to rid
the department of me. The Occur
d'Alene theater people began it.,
When the grand jury was in SEES
sion here | was doing duty in the
redlight district. made it habit
of passing through the Occur
d'Alene barroom several times
each night. One day l received
word that l was wanted in the
chiefs private office. There he
told me that the Occur d'Alene
people had complained of my going
into the place. The chief said they
objected to having any uniformed
mon in there. lie said he was not
at liberty to tell who the com
plainant was. asked the chief If
he wanted me to stop going
through the place and he said
could use my own judgment, which
was as much as telling me hint
was as good as kick. / continued
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07

lar how much business they are
doing and how much to expect
each coming season. They keep
close account of agricultural pros.
poets and industrial development.
They know how many cars will be
needed to handle states crop and
manufacturing products before that
product is offered for shipment.
The railroads own the big mines
that supply this territory with the
exception of the mines in British
COLUMBIA. Disclosures in West Vir-
ginia and other states where SINH
lar conditions prevail have resulted
in the present law prohibiting COM
mon carriers from manufacturing
or producing the commodities they
transport.
Since then the whole country has
been begging for fuel. The condi-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07

(ScflppS News ASSociation.)
ITHACA, N. Y, Dec. six are
dead here as the result Of a fire
this morning that burned the Chi
Psi fraternity house, the richest
and most exclusive society of Cor
nell university.
The dead are:
w. II. Nichols, student, Chicago;
o. l.. Schmuck, student, Pennsyl-
vania: S. w. Creel, New Jersey;
A. S. Robinson, attorney, Ithaca;
John Rumsey and F. d. Landrum,
Ithaca. The three latter were vol
unteer fremen.
James McCutcheon jr.. of Pitt
burg, varsity fullback, and Clar-
ence j. Cope, student, New Jersey,
were fatally hurt while trying to
run the gauntlet of flames in the
hall. Both fell unconscious out
side.
The fire had been brought under
control and everybody taken out
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07
:
SHOT DEAD

CHICAGO, Dec. 7.--Dr. Benia-
min Harris, a prominent physician,
was shot five times and fatally
wounded this afternoon by A. C.
Campbell, of Polar, Wis, in the
offices of Attorney Hayes in the
Stock Exchange building.
Campbell denounced Harris az
having ruined his family. Camp.
bell, according to Hayes, is suing
his wife for divorce, alleging in
timacy with Harris ever since Har.
ris began attending her medically
10 years ago. !.
Mrs. Harris was to fVve appear
ed in Hayes Office this afternoon ia
make affidavit concerning her
husbands alleged intimacy with
Mrs. Campbell. Campbell was ar.
rested. II
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07
WORK STOPS
UNTIL PLANS :
ARE APPROVED

The Home Telephone Co. win So
required to file complete plans Oh
its proposed system in this city,
with the board of public works hes
fore resuming construction work.
This is the decision reached by tho
board at the conclusion of a hearN
ing given attorneys for the CONF
pany.
These representatives offered
partial plans yesterday, but these
were rejected because they failed
to show actual measurements. "
The Home people agreed to subj
NIT complete plans as soon as their
engineers c@ complete them. No
more construction work will be at.
tempted until these plans have
been submitted and formally ap.
proved by the board. ,rAs.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07
TRIAL MARRIAGE
COMES HIGH

Justice Hinkle this afternoon set
his foot down upon trial marriages.
J. B. Strang, waiter at the Rock
away, and Harriet Maxwell, a
bOokkeeper, were arrested at an
cary hour this morning by Patrol
men Pike and Shannon. In court
but soon would be. He was asked
If this was trial marriage and he
answered that it was. Each was
fined SIS and costs.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07
DIGGING INTO
REUF'S RECORD

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1.-The
grand jury reconvened this after.
noon and the part Ruef took in
Sunday night caucuses of the
board of supervisors, the Belvedere
municipal brothel and printing
deal cases weer taken up. The SUI
pervisors wer subpoenaed.
In the Belvedere case, If Eddie
arrest for contempt is likely to fol
low.
Monday was set as the date
when Supervisor Nicholas and
Peter Duffy must plead to indict-
ments charging bribery.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07

Judge Robnert's court and secured
a divorce from James o. Green on
the ground that he had gone to the
Philippines two years ago and
since that time had failed to send
her any money
The same afternoon in the prose.
cutor's office she was united in
matrimony to Charles Daily, a for
mer partner Of her husband.
Upon being asked the meaning
of her sudden divorce and marriage
she declared that is was her love
of music which had induced her 10
accept the second musician when
the first disappeared.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07

public use. am satisfied that the
roads are causing the present fuel
famine in an effort to teach the
people that the law should be re.
pealed or force the government to
buy the mines. There is hardly a
coal mine in the West that is not
owned by the roads, and the mines
that are not owned by the roads
have been refused railway facilt.
ties. -
The fact that the roads refused
to build spurs to mines owned by
private companies brought about
the passage of laws which compells
ed the railways to go out of the
fuel business. The law Is faulty in
that it does not compel the roads
to build spurs into mines owned
by private corporations.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07
SEEK CLEWS
IN CRAVE

CHICAGO, Dec. THE court
this morning ordered the exhuma-
ton of the bodies of the four
Vrzal children and the mother for
examination for evidence of MUIR
der. The body Of Anna, age -, who
died on Thanksgiving day, will be
the first examined.
The police are informed that
Billick, the hypnotist, suspected in
connection with the murder of the
family, travelled extensively and
piled his vocation in San Francisco
long time.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07

Railroads serving western terri.
tory, and especially the North Pa.
cific section, are wiIfully retarding
and preventing shipment of coal
for the purpose Of forcing the re-
peal of the interstate commerce
law forbidding transportation com.
panies to engage in the coal bust
ness in conjunction with their ser.
vice as a common carrier.
Failing in this they intend to
force the government to purchase
the coal properties they now own
at the companies figures or let the
public suffer the consequences of a
fuel famine.
The same policy is pursued in
regard to shipmentsof stove wood
in order to strengthen the coal
situation from the company view.
point by preventing q resort 20 the
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1906-12-07

while in the house this morning,
after a conference with the presi-
dent announced that no new
treaty or modification of the treaty
with Japan is contemplated. He
said he president also wished to
state that the visits Of Minister
Aoki were not made for a discus
sion of possible changes in the
present treaty.
Cullom, senate chairman of for
eign affairs, says a new treaty is
not contemplated.