Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-07-04
leaving home in good health. saying

| the city, but the girl wired from Chi.
| cago. She had no recollection of
| what had happened and had suffered
mental alteration. When she re-
coveredsshe found herself in Chicago.
She has returned home.
John Swata, miner living at Val.
ley Junction, was drowned in the Des
Moines river near Scandal. He was
out in a row boat with two other
men when the craft capsized. One
swan to shore, the other chung to
the boat for over mile before res
cued but Swata went down, being I'M
able TO swim. He was 80 years old
and leaves a wife and three children.
Stealithy sneaking up on the camp
of the Australians at the states ce-
ment plant near Mason City, Sheriff
Holden confiscated car load of beer
and many gallons of whiskey which
had been shipped in for Sunday fes-
tivities. The officer summoned
posse of half dozen men, well arm
ed, and stormed the camp. The
Australians showed some resistance
but no one was hurt though, for
time things were warm.
Because F. B. Garvin, general agent
of the Chicago e Northwestern at
Marshalltown. spat upon the North
western platform he. was notified to
appear in police court when Mayor
Ingledue imposed a fine of s. and
costs, amounting to $685.. The mayor
says he will collect the fine. This
is the first arrest and fine since the
recent signs were placed on the street
corners and at public places, calling
attention to the ordinance prohibit
ing splitting.
At Hancock little Frank Spangler,
who with his mother, Mrs. L. J.
Spangler of Atlantic, is visiting Har-
cock relatives, was seriously injured
by cannon cracker. The cracker
had been lighted but did not explode.
The boy then picked it up and be-
gan blowing the fuse. The spark was
rekindled and the cracker exploded
in the boys face. His forehead was
badly lacerated and his face filed
with powder Just how badly his
eyes are injured cannot yet be told.
1t has become known that there
of the offices of the Sioux City and
northern Iowa divisions of the North.
western railroad, among them being
the superintendent, master mechanic,
storekeeper and others. Eagle Grove
is to be the headquarters, which will
likely increase the force of men at
that place and is likely to hurry up
the new round house which has been
constructed upon paper each year fol-
several years. An increased force OF
men and a modern brick round house
are now probability.
The latest developments in the
fight in the Sioux City and Rock
Springs Coal Mining company, which
is being made by Miss A. 7. Rifle on
behalf of some of the stockholders, is
the appointment Of A. B. Beall OF
Sioux City as receiver of the com
pany's property. The appointment
was made by Wyoming Judge. Mr..
Beall is now in possession of the
mine armed with an order Of court
authorizing him to eXpend $4,000 in
protecting it from deterioration. He
is in Salt Lake City and is planning
to purchase a power pump, which he
will install in the mine. Mr. Beall
was appointed receiver in the dis
trict court of Woodbury. county some
time ago, but opponents of, Miss Rifle
secured a reversal of this order.
Then she secured Mr.. Bealrs APP
pointment in Wyoming.
Louis Jibeau lies at his home in
Sioux City with badly mutilated
face as a result of having kicked
a torpedo, just for the fun of it, as he
was walking down the track in the
Great Northern railroad yards. When
the smoke had cleared away, Jibeau
was looking for several missing teeth
and a part of his lower jaw and con-
graduating himself that his head was
still on his shoulders. He is an en-
ploye of Swift & Co., and is So years
old, old enough to know better. His
excuse is that he did not known what
he was up against when he endeavor-
ed to toss the explosive out OF his
path with the tip OF his boot. Ina
mediately after the accident he made
a quick run for his home, leaving
behind him a trail Of blood. The
blood poisoning is the only danger,
but Jibeau's escape was a narrow
one.
The Poultry Vigilance association,
an organization of farmers which In.
cludes members from Cerro Gordo
county as well as Hancock and Winnie
bago, held their first annual meeting
last week near Clear Lake. The as,
ISOLATION was organized last summer,
after a peculiarly bad year in the
loss of poultry, the organizers esti'
mating their loss at $500 for the five
months prior to that time. The re-
port at the meeting was that not one
of the 200 members had lost single
fowl since the organization started.
The association drew up suitable ar
ticles in which they invited other
farmers to join. The association has
a hired attorney to prosecute all
thieves, no matter who is caught, to
prosecute all suspects, no matter who
they may be, and to watch the farms
of owners and homes of suspicious
persons. The officers elected for the
ensuing year are: President, Lee Car
penter, Clear Lake; Vice President,
c. K Anderson, Ellington; Secretary,
Ed Kellogg, Clear Lake; Treasurer,
Ed Hits, Ventura; Executive commit
tee, William Fankill, A. j. Hennis and
s. E. Rood one from each county.
John Maher and wife, who live at
Atlantic, have received word from
the secretary of the canal commission
at Washington to the effect that their
son, Edward Maher, who was employ
ed on the ca lal work In Panama, was
killed there June 26 on the railroad.
After an address by the Rev. Ern-