Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-09
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Judge Jackson issued a temporary
injunction against ten saloons. Per.
manent injunctions will be prayed fol
in the April term of court.
Columbus Junction is mystif1ed by
the finding of pieces of alleged human
bones in the ruins of the j. ]. Dun
can barn which was burned to the
| ground recently. For a time 1t was
| feared that the bones were all that
remained of the body of Andy War.
rem, a character of that section, who
was missing for several days, but he
| turned up later at the home of rela-
| tive. Mr.. Duncan had the bones ex-
| amined by local doctors, who claim
| them human Other doctors at the
state university said it was doubtful
If they were human.
Judge Bonon overruled the demur-
rer OF the city of Dubuque in the case
of Martin Strelau, who is suing for
recovery on claim of $4,000 debt
contracted by the old water works
trustees for coal and which the city
refuses to pay. The demurrer alleged
that no funds were at hand and con-
sequently the city can not be held
for debt The court holds that the
city is liable inasmuch as the ordi-
nance under which the water works
plant was taken over by the munich
pality provides for the levying of a
special tax to meet expenses, which
was not done.
j. e. Outland. aged 80 years, an old
resident of Marshall county and a
nrDninpnt nitizpn IF or
ship, living one and one-quarter miles
southeast of LeGrand, dropped dead
in the Marshalltown union station,
where he was waiting for the train
to take him home. Outland had been
in Marsalltown on business and had
gone to the station. He was walking
back and forth in the mems waiting
room, and had gone to window to
look out upon the street. He fell to
the floor without warning, gasped
once or twice. and was dead. Heart
disease was pronounced the cause Of
death and Coroner Nichols declared
an inquest unnecessary.
Council Bluffs doesn't want outside
help in enforcing the state laws
against illegal liquor and gambling
JO''''S' NSAiAS VI iho plOlCo-
sional and business men have united
in new society known as the Council
Bluffs Law Enforcement league which
is intended as a protest against the
intervention of outside organizations,
especially the Iowa Anti-Saloon
league, which is making things warm
for the illegally conducted saloons of
that city. Charles M. Harl, promi-
nent attorney and one of the pro-
motors of the new organization, an
nounced at the meeting for organiza-
ton that Council Bluffs could take
care of its own troubles and that It
would proceed to do so. But he added
that the league had no crusade in
mind, but merely reasonable en-
forcement of the law.
record breaking vote at Daven-
port shows the election of George w.
Scott for mayor and almost the en-
tire democratic ticket. The ticket
goes in on the liquor question,
which was made an issue after the
Civic federation had clamped the
lid" on Davenport by electing a
democratic ticket. Davenport de-
clares against the Iowa mulct law,
which regulates the saloon business
in manner most obnoxious to the
German-American communities, such
as Davenport and several other of the
river cities of Iowa. George w.
Scott, the new mayor, has been city
attorney, and is past exalted ruler of
the local order of Elks and president
of the Iowa State Association of
Elks. His eloquence and prominence
in fraternal organizations assisted
largely in causing his plurality.
Although two or three years have
passed since Council Bluffs promised
a street railway line to the school
for the deaf, if the state would hurry
up and erect fine new building for
the institution, the local street rail-
way company has not made a single
move toward fulfilling the obligation.
At recent meeting of the directors
of the company the matter was not
even considered, 1t being explained
that the engineers were not ready to
report. The secretary says that some
time in the future the matter would
be taken up. When asked as to a pos.
sible definite time for beginning con-
struction work, he handed out glitter.
ing generalities, declaring that the
exigencies of the route selected would
probably affect somewhat the time of
beginning, and interfering a few
other 'probables" and "possibles"
and "ifs" and lands.
John Berg, quartermaster's clerk
at the Iowa Soldiers home at Mar
shalltown, bids fair to pay his life as
forfeit of overexertion and expos.
ure in recovering the dead body of
71-year-old Beulah Bandfield from the
Iowa river on March II. Berg Is a
patient in the state hospital, and in
his delirium is constantly struggling
in the icy waters of the river in a
superhuman effort to find the dead
girls body. Beulah Bandfield, a wait
ress In the home, jumped from a row
boat into the river after she had lost
an oar. She was within a few feet
of the shore, and thought the water
shallow. Instead it was ten feet
deep and the girl went to the bot
tom before help could arrive. Berg
was one of the first men on the
ground after the girl drowned. He
was most active in the search for the
body and bringing it to the sur
cold water diving for the body. He
was rewarded by finally locating the
the body and bringing it to the sur.
face. He was chilled through as a
result of his drenching, however, and
is now at deaths door,
Wealthy children of James McCar-
thy, who for twenty years have been
trying to find him, discovered him at
the poor farm at Vinton. Mccarthy
was injured twenty years ago and
drifted into the poor farm losing all