Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-08-29
IOWA
NEWS

corresponding increase. All employee.
will be allowed for overtime, delayed
and switching time. This was the
biggest grievance of the men agains,
| the company.
A broken fiange caused the ditch
ing Of fifteen cars of an extra freight
train on the Milwaukee two miles
, west of Madrid about o'clock Tues
I day evening. The train was running
around the sharp curves in the river
hills at the rate of forty miles al
hours, when the accident occurred
The fifteen cars were almost entirely
demolished and the track torn VI
for a great distance. Traffic was de
layed until II o'clock the next ay.
Because the Barber Asphalt com
pany failed to complete three jobs OF
paving within the specified time, the
board of public works has held the
company to a penalty Of $528. The
largest job was paving West Fifth
street from School to Ascension
street. They were sixty-nine days be
hind with this and were fined 81 pei
day. A forty-seven days delay on
Washington cost them another large
sum, and jobs on West Twenty-sev
also delayed.
A meeting of the blank book manu-.
facturers of Iowa was held in Des
Moines to discuss the kind of forms
the uniform accounting system which
is being introduced in Iowa counties
and cities will require. State Auditor
B. F. Carroll was consulted concern
ing the desire of the manufacturers
to secure copies of the new form as
soon as possible so that they will
have the books in readiness for ths
introduction Of the new method
Mr.. and Mrs. Packard of Udel, Ia,
win first prize this season among the
state fair visitors for blowing out
the gas. They not only blew out the
gas but went to bed and were not
even annoyed by the smell, although
the whole house was permeated with
it. The affair occurred at the resi-
dence of l.. Hudleston, 81 East
Third Street. The victims were none
the worse for their experience, and
were rescued from almost certain
death by the timely arrival of the
Hudlestons, who smelled the gas and
finally located it in the Packards'
room.
B. F. Allen, for many years lead
ing banker of Des Moines, is accused
of being implicated in the recently
exposed California timber land frauds
by Lincoln Steffens in the September
number of the American magazine
Mr.. Aliens bank formerly occupied
The Register and Leader building
which he then owned. In 1875 he
was forced to the wall by the failure
of a big financial institution in Chi
cago. Shortly afterwards he went to
Los Angeles for his health and was
appointed to the office of forest super.
intendent 1t was while holding this
position that it is said he allowed
the government to be defrauded out
of huge tracts of valuable timber
land.
Straight Brothers. who operate
large pipe and tile plants at Fonda
and Spencer, Ia, and Campaign, Ill.
have made arrangements for the
establishment of a $125,000 plant al
Adel, Ia. For some months they had
been negotiating with Des Moines
parties for shale land north of the
city, their desire being TO locate
there. However, they were unable
to secure ground at what they consid
cred reasonable price near
Des Moines and bought the
land at Abel. 1t is their inten
ton to make the Abel plant one Of
the largest in the state, the extensive
drainage operations in Iowa creating
big market for the product.
The home of w. II. Helmick, In
Webster City, was rihed. Sheriff
Thompson located the stolen property
in a nearby barn. 1t had been taken
by two girls aged II and Is years and
a little boy, aged 5, children Of
neighbors of the Helmicks. The
youngsters had stored it in the barn
carrying dishes, toys, eatables lamps
etc, and gold watch from the house
The parents of the youngsters are re
spectacle people and were amazed
and dumbfOunded to learn of theil
actions. The Helmick family was
away from home and the Gator
children had removed a back window
screen and turned the house topsy
turvey.
James Hale, an employee of the
Great Western Cereal Company Of
Fort Dodge, has just concluded a two
weeks inspection of the oats harvest
in the northern half of Iowa. The
mills in this city last year GROUND
nearly 100000 bushels of oats ant
are consequently very large buyers
hence interested in knowing the quail
ity and quantity of the crop. Mr.
Hale is one of their experienced buy
ers and his judgment is regarded al
good as applying to the crop in gen
| eral. His report to the company. is
that the grain will run from 30 to 8
pounds per bushel,ow to crop con
ditions during the growing season
| The crop as a bulk will he a littlt
under the average crop and what i
| known as fair. The small countr,
elevators are paying at high as A
cents for oats which weigh from 2
to SO pounds. The mill price there i
| "a to 3S cents, according to grade
! JACOB schneider, young German
employed in the West Burlingto
shops, in attempting to cross tn
railroad tracks in front of the Burlins
ton fast mail train, was run down an
terribly mangled, dying in a shor
time.
Bonds, to be known as the Pigeo
creek drainage bonds to the amour
of $4,000 were sold by the count
board of supervisors of Pottawatt;
mic county, at premium of 1921
the William r. Compton Bond an
Mortgage company of Missouri bein
the successful holders.
Will Protest Cream Rates.
Nearly every Lutheran church !
the state of Iowa is represented {
the Iowa district meeting of the Mi