Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-02

Magdalene Theme of Dubuque has
fled suit in the district court asklna
for divorce from her husband, Nicnu.
las Theme. The unusual feature q
the case lies in the fact that the
couple were married in 1871 and live d
together happily until July of the
present year. when the husband devel-
oped the drink habit, brutally break
ing his wife's leg in an assault and
attempting to kill her on numerous
occasions since.
A reward of $500 was offered by J.
w. Susank for the apprehension of
the parties concerned in the killing
of his daughter, Mrs Emma Pashek
near Spaulding, who was recently
found in a corn field near her home
shot through the head. The coroner's
jury was unable to determine the
manner of her death and the verdict
to that effect was not satisfactory to
the father, who will pay for the de-
lection of the parties who shot her.
Susank's home is at Hoisington, Kas.
Il am tired of living. There is
nothing to live for" were the first
words of a letter found in the pocket
of young man named Riley Stahl,
who committed suicide at Maquoketa,
by cutting his throat with a razor.
The letter also stated that he had
poor health and had been driven to
the rash act, and asked everybody he
had wronged to forgive him. The body
was found by James Fairbrother in
the town clock building. The young
man was barber about 80 years OF
age. He was divorced from his wife,
and it is supposed that family trou-
bles and the fact that he was a vic
tim of cigarettes, opium and strong
drink caused the dependency that
led him to take his own life.
The disappearance of DIR. George
w. Jones, president of the Lee Coun-
ty Medical society, wlo left EeokuS
Christmas night for Stockport, where
he had been summoned to perform an
operation upon a man accidentally
shot while hunting, Is the mystery Of
the century so far as. Keokuk and.
southeastern Iowa are concerned.
The doctor bought ticket from Keo-
kuk to Fairfield, got Off the train at
Burlington, where he had to wait
two hours for train, was last seen at
Third and Jefferson streets there,
talking with two men and that is the
only clew any one has been able to
unearth, as since that time he has dis
appeared from public view as COM
pletely as though the earth had swal-
lowed him.
The Moorhead saloon Disc was up
before Judge John F. Oliver in the
Monona county district court on an
application for writ of permanent
injunction. Attorney Collier of Sioux
City appeared for the citizens of
Moorhead and Anderson &c Kimball
of Onawa for Joseph Vance, the own
er of the saloon. Evidence showed
that the owner had sold liquors on
Sunday and violated the mulct law in
other respects. Judge Oliver granted
the writ, as prayed, and it begins to
look as if the Moorhead saloon would
have to go. For the last six months
there has been constant warfare at
Moorhead over the saloon question.
The barkeeper assaulted the local
editor on the street and gave him
whipping and much trouble has en-
sued. The people are much wrought
up over the subject and disposed to
see that the mulct law is strictly en-
forced hereafter.
With the city council of Mason Cry
divided on the subject the telephone
war waged to reduce the price OF
phones to patrons in the city goes
merrily on. Some new blood was in
jected into the question at special
council meeting when Mayor McCon-
logue in addressing the council said
that after reviewing the law, he be-
lieved the franchise of the present
terminated with the passage
of law in 1897 giving cities and
towns the right to elect whether a
telephone company should occupy it's
streets and alleys or not He not only
stated it was his conclusion after
looking up the law but II it was so
the present company, the Western
Electric, had no franchise. Accord
ing to the claims of the company,
their franchise is perpetual according
to legislative act of 1876 and they had
occupied their present territory be-
fore the new law went INTO exec,
after its passage in 1897. To test tie
matter, however, the council ordered
the city solicitor to prepare the pre-
liminaries for custer proceedings
against the company.
Work is well under way on the
county drainage
canal, which will be the biggest
thing of it's kind in Iowa when it
OF
s750,000 with its laterals and cut
offs of the Little Sioux river now
under contract. 1t will drain about
$4,000 acres of land now subject to
overflow and too wet for cultivation.
The ditch is 241a miles in length and
will empty into the Missouri river
just above the town of Little Sioux.
The big dredgeboat working south OF
Oliver lake has gone into winter quar-
.ers now. The contractors, Ferris
Kissel & Co. of Boise City, Idaho,
have had much trouble with the
dredge, which did not seem built to
handle Missouri bottom gumbo sue
cessfully, but for the past three months
have done fair work. Extensive inn
provements will be made in the ma
chinery this winter and it Is hoped
to complete the job next year. The
smaller steam dredges are still at
work and say they will continue until
prevented by frost. The drainage i'm
are regarded as the most
important work ever undertaken in
the county and great interest is taken
by the people, who expect to have
the value of their land largely in
creased.
President John P. White and Secre.
lary Edwin Perry, of the Iowa Dis
trict United Mine Workers of Ameri- f,
ca, arrived home from the conference
In Indianapolis. Mr.. White says
many EXPLANATIONS of surprise were