Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-07-23
IOWA
NEWS

oloyed by farmer a few miles north
Of Elkader, was found dead in pas
.ure, overcome by heat the day prev
lous.
Guy Graham, who graduated from
che veterinary course at the college
1t Ames this spring. has obtained a
position as government meat inspector
n Chicago, He will begin his work
Immediately.
The new coal mine west Of Abba
hat the National Coal company is
COW opening, has about fifty men EN-.
ployed now. The company is erecting
the derrick and doing the other work
incident to the opening of the mine.
The Iowa Central railroad will soon
let contract for the purchase of 500
box and gondola cars, part wood and
part steel construction, which will be
delivered about Oct. /. The cars
will all be from $4,000 to $4,000
pounds capacity.
Frank Grey and Jack L. Rich, two
Missouri Valley young men are under
arrest charged with attempted crimi.
nal assault upon Misses Nobel
Thompson and Mary Mamie Strang
both of Council Bluffs. The alleged
attack was made in Missouri Valley.
Owing to poor jail facilities at
West Union, Judge Hobson has order
ed Walter Whiteback held for the
murder of his father and Santo Fan
cuillo, and James P. Burns, other Of
tenders, transferred to the Clayton
county Jail at Elkader for safe keep
ing.
A car of gasoline exploded on the
Rock Island at Give, causing destruc-
ton to five cars of freight and a
stretch Of track. The fluid was pour
| ed over the cars and fire finished the
wreckage. No one was hurt. but
over a thousand ties were destroyed.
in addition to the contents of the five
cars
The contract for Onawa's new pub
lie library building has been let to
| w. ]. Merton of Emerson, Neb, for
| $4,000, not including plumbing and
heating. Contracts for these things
and the furnishing will bring the total
cost to $4,000 or more, and will give
Onawa one of the finest libraries for
4 city of its size in the west Work
On the building will begin this fall,
but it is very doubtful if it can be
completed before March or April
Fire resulting from a flood at Little
port completely destroyed large
| ho I'd or hni
and a Catholic church, causing a loss
estimated at $4,000. The Colga river
was flooded by the tremendous rains
Of the past two days, and its waters
inundated the basement of the hard
ware building, where large amount
Sf lime was stored. After the lime
was soaked with water it soon set
| fire to the wood in the building and
the fire in a little while was beyond
control.
Work at the iron mines and ore
reduction plant at Waukon junction
will be resumed at once, and con.
struction will be finished at the earli-
est possible date. Everything in the
! line OF Machinery has been ordered
including dynamos, crushers, etc, and
will be delivered at once. In the
meantime the grading for a sidetrack
at the junction will be finished and
| preparations made for building a
track out to the mines. The Waukon
mines are the only iron mines in
this section of the Mississippi valley.
There is fine deposit of ore at that
| place, and it is found in quantities
to justify the money that the pro
motors of the mines are spending up
! on their work. The chief handicap
so far has been the inaccessibility Of
the mines, but this will soon be over
come. They are located in a rough
and picturesque spot.
To think that a mite of a child
only 2l2 years of age, could climb to
| the top OF a 60 foot windmill tower
and there play freely on narrow
shelf only a foot wide, is almost un
believable, but such a feat was &C
complished near Story City. The little
tot, son of Mr.. and Mrs. o. S. Wier
son, had beeA playing in the yard by
| himself for some time when the
mother missed him. She looked
around for the babe and then called
the father, who, after both haG
| searched in all the barns and fence
corners, glanced upward to the roI
of the tall windmill and there, dumb
| founded, he saw the babe perched up
Ga the platform of the tower. Witt
his heart almost in his mouth, TO
fear that his appearance might startlt
the babe and make it fall, he begaI
to climb the ladder as rapidly as he
could. The child noting the approach
of the father, in his childish manner
assured him that he would make the
descent himself and he was preparin.
TO climb out around the shelf, which
extended a foot out from the ladder
when the father reached the top ant
grasped his boy in his arms. How
the mite of a child climbed the tai
ladder, climbed out around the shell
and reached the platform in safet.
no one can understand.
James Phillips, aged %, committe,
suicide at Oskaloosa by taking cal
bolic acid and died in the count
jail, where he was taken after bein
found in an alley. Officers though
he was intoxicated.
A new record price for Web. te
county land has been set in tn
negotiations now on between tn
Superior Clay Works company an
Henry Engholm, owner of fiftee
, acres. twelve acres of which are ur
derlaid with seventy-ive feet of tn
finest shale. The price named i
papers which will be signed in tn
transfer is $4,000.
The executive council of the SaIoo