Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-03-26


the former city. The girls were ar
rested. but said they got the goods
from Hans Ehlert, night Waterman in
the Davenport store, who Is under
arrest.
Clarence Tolbert, the young son OF
Conductor Tolbert Of the c. M. & st.
p. railway, met instant death at
Sabula when he tried to board NOV
ing freight, sharing the fate of
young friend who was killed In ex'
actly the same manner and on the
same spot two weeks ago. The boys
homes were in Savanna.
The case of Carl Stemple, accused
by Miss Genevieve Smith, OF Burling-
ton, with being the father of the child
which she confessed to having muir.
dered. was postponed until March %.
He is out on $500 bonds. Rev. K. b.
Smith, the father of the girl, acci-
dentally left the gas jet open in his
nearly being asphyxiated. The girl
is in a serious condition and has to
be watched to prevent attempts at
self-destruction.
BY strange coincidence, two boys
of the same family met with injuries
in runaway accidents on the same
day and at remote points, at Alden
and Popejoy. Albert Idso had team
at Popejoy that got beyond control
and dragged the driver some distance,
until he could extricate himself from
the reins, when the team continued on
its way and completed the demolition
of the rig. The young man was more
or less cut and bruised as result OF
the experience. A brother, n is Idso,
also of Alden, was horseback riding
and was thrown off and seriously in
jured. At first 1t was thought he had
sustained serious internal injury, but
later developments indicate that he
will come out of the accident all right.
While at work on the building st
the farm of E. Turk, two miles west
of Crescent, w. r. Orr was killed in
stantly by the collapse of the house.
Orr had the building lacked up ready
for the placing of foundation and
was working underneath it. The
ground must have been softened by
the recent rains, a slight caVe-in re-
leasing the supports, letting the struc-
ture down upon Orr. He was killed
almost instantly The body was
badly mutilated. The deceased was
AZ years old. He leaves widow anS
five children. Mr.. Turk and Frank
McCampbell were at the place ans
worked frantically to release Orr,
succeeding after a half hours desper.
ate work. Orr was pressed into the
ground.
Iowa's oat crop has been altogether
too small. There is no excuse for it,
according to the opinion of
authority from Ames. For ten years
it has averaged 29.5 bushels per acre.
1t should be at least 40 bushels. How
it may be increased and the result
of the investigation on which the con-
clusion that the yield is too low has
been reached are told in a bulletin
just issued by the experiment station
of the state agricultural college.
There have been at least seventy
varieties of oats grown in Iowa. All
that is needed to increase the yield
from 295 bushels to 40 bushels per
acre, say the scientists at Ames, is
the adoption of better varieties and
more care be given the seed before
planting. There is not enough of the
1907 crop of oats of standard weight
32 pounds per bushel to SOW the
fields that will be planted next month.
1t is therefore important that all pos,
sible precautions be taken to get
most useful varieties and that the
most approved methods of culture be
practlced this year.
Not all the coroner's juries in all
Wyoming could make even one man,
woman or child in Arcadia believe
that its former two well known young
men. William Duncker and Herman
Hansen. committed suicide in the
Manchester, Col, hotel where they
were found dead last week. The yer.
dict says there was no murder, but
| suicide, and supports it's verdict with
| the fact that in each young mans
| hand was found the revolver that had
| ended his life. Friends of the young
men in Arcadia insist that there was
no motive for suicide, while robbery
! furnished ample motive for murder
| Neither of the boys had love affair
| neither was dope fiend or a drunk
ard, neither left note OF explanation
for anybody, both left their own re-
volvers in their trunks at Arcadia
| both had plenty of money when they
| left Arcadia and they had more in
banks in Arcadia subject to theil
| draft, they were both healthy and
stl Jng and had no troubles of any
sort, they were not disappointed, but
clean, hopeful young men in the west
in search of homesteads, they had
ample opportunity to work at home
and if their money had been lost in
the west they could easily have
drawn upon their accounts in Arcadia
and come home to jobs that were
awaiting for them. There are plenty
| of reasons to believe they were muir
dered. They were we'll dressed in 6
rough community; they had never
been away from home very much ant
were ready to give their confidence tc
almost any stranger. 1t is possible
and probable, according TO friends
that robbers who had marked then
as easy victims entered their room
at night, took their wallets, and whe,
surprised shot the boys and then lef
their revolvers behind to allay sus
picion. Strength is given to th,!
theory by the fact that not dolla
of the 500 or more apiece that TIT
boys had taken with them could b,
found Only their watches, which
could be identified easily, were dis
covered.
Because of succession of hare
luck incidents and falling of in grain
prices, the farmers cooperative grain
elevator of Wellsburg cost the stock
holders $4,000 in losses last year A
the recent annual meeting of the com
pany, the stockholders voted I,
assess each share of stock 500 to pu
the treasury in good condition.