Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-11-28
;ourt Martial for Captain KuIp.

Davenport company OF the Iowa Ma
uonal Guard will have to stand trial
by court martial.
Adjutant General Thrift said when
told that the fight was carried out as
planned. that an inquiry would be In
stituted at once and the captain of
the Davenport company charged be-
fore court martial.
A dishonorable discharge is the
maximum penalty under the state
military code.
After having wired and written
kaeffff Louis Eckhardt at Davenport
that the law against prize fighting
must be enforced, Governor Cummins
Immediately started a careful, person
al inquiry to determine in his own
mind whether there was concealed in
tentioR to make prize fight out of
what was advertised as a sparring ex-
hibition. This investigation satisfied
hiM that the intent was to have a
prize Rght
Thereupon he called Adjutant Gen.
eral Thrift to his Office and directed
him TO order out the Davenport COM
pany of the national guard and stop
the exhibition or fight.
Geaeral Thrift at once telephoned to
Captain Kulp and ordered him to stop
the fight. He also sent this tele-
gram:
''To Captain o. w. Kulp, Daven-
port. Iowa: BY the direction of the
governor of Iowa, you will assemble
your company under arms at your
armery at the earliest possible mo-
ment and stop the prize fight to take
place in your city this evening. Wire
answer. Thrift, Adjutant General"
Governor Cummins at once wired
Sheriff Eckhardt that he had order
ed out the soldiers to stop the fight.
that investigation had satisfied him
that 1t was to We fight in violation
of the law, and he asked the sheriff's
cooperation with the soldiers in pre-
venting the violation. This telegram
was sent coincident with the issuance
OF orders, personally, by General
Thrift to the soldiers.
An answer was Immediately receiv-
ed by General Thrift from Kulp that
he bad issued his orders, was then on
his way to the hall where the fight.
was to come off and that his company
was assembled at the armory and
would follow him to the hall in COM
mand Of the ieutenants.
Two dispatches sent later by Gen.
erA Thrift brought no answer, and
he wired for an explanation, but this
telegram was also ignored. Kulp will
be court martialed for violation of the
rule requiring immediate replies.
To Try Capt. kuip.
The general court martial board to
try Capt. o. w. Kulp of the Daven-
pert cor oany OF the national guard
fer disobedience of orders has been
selected by Adjutant General Thrift
and the selection approved by Gov
ernor Cummins.
Capt. Thomas A. Berkebile of the
Ffty-thfrd regiment becomes Judge
advocate general under the order
and will present the charges against
Captain Kulp The court martial
board Is composed of seven officers
representing all of the regiments, in
GLIDING the Fifty-fourth in which the
Davenport company is enlisted.
Il has been summoned to sit on the
case of Captain Kulp on Dec 8. Its
members will be:
Col. James Rush lincoln Fifty-ffth
regiment: Lieut.. Col III. A. Allen,
Fifty-third regiment; Mai w. C. Ment-
ger. Fffty-ffth regiment; Maj F. e.
Wetherell, Fifty-fourth regiment; Maj.
7. j. Mahoney, Fifty-sixth regiment;
Maj. e. G. Johnson, Fifty-third regi.
ment; Capt J. e. Williams, Fifty.
sixth regiment.
Captain Kulp win plead that he
obeyed orders and that there was no
prize fight.
Board Must Have information.
Dec. 10 has been fixed by the state
railroad commission for second
conference with shippers and express
company representatives relative to
rates.
At preliminary hearing on the
18th. statements were made by those
asking for reduction and equalization
of rates and by the express company
people. who insisted that their rates
were plenty low enough The COM
missioners informed the express COM
,pany representatives that the board
must be furnished with adequate in
formation concerning their rates and
their earnings and expenses, their
capitalization and the value of their
property.
It was stated during the hearing
that the total value of all of the prop
erty owned by the express companies
In the state of Iowa Is $4,000. But
It was stated, also that the companies
paid the railroads about one-half of
their gross earnings. The railroads
In Iowa received last year from ex-
press companies s1,475,S62. The ex-
press companies therefore earn in
Iowa, according to this statement,
about 100000 year. Their net
earnings have not been disclosed.
Spencer Convicted Second Time.
: Carl M. Spencer was convicted in
federal court on the 21st of making
false entries In the books of the Des
MONIES National bank, where he was
employed as collection teller. After
being out only half an hour the jury
returned verdict finding him guilty
on all ten counts of the indictment
The government proved that on FIVE
different occasion Mr.. Spencer reteiv-
ed checks for large amounts and en-
tered them on the transit ledgea of
which he had charge as 500 lesssshan
they called for, pocketing the diff
ferenee.
First Primary Candidate
The first candidate for nominal
tion under the new prin airy law has
fled his petition or nomination paper
ard his afidavit with Secretary w. c.
Hayward, He Is Irwin p. Gore of
Pilot Mount, Boone county, and he Is
going to be a candidate for represen-
tative from that county. He will be
on the republican ticket and submits
his name m the renuhIJcau nrtr,arv