Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-03-26
. 90 q
Exnect Mines to Close.

Expect Mines TO Close.
Des Moines. with the approach OF
the date set for the conference of
the Iowa coal miners, all possibility
of satisfactory agreement between
March 81, the date of the expiration
of the present agreement, seems to
vanish.
Because of the failure of the miners
and operators In the eastern states to
reach an agreement to take effect
April LIST at the expiration of the pres
ent contract, all authorities in the
state seem to feel assured that the
local miners and operators will reach
no agreement. The Iowa miners
have always followed the policies ad-
vanced by the miners in the eastern
states.
The absence of a new agreement
between the Iowa miners and opera
tors means complete shutdown of
the Iowa coal mines April /. This
would mean the throwing out of work
of more than $4,000 miners and the
suspension of work at the mines with
a supply of coal which will not last
longer than thirty days.
Despite this fact, the large con-
sumers are not making any great eff
fort to lay in an extra amount of
coal. The general theory seems to be
that a settlement will be reached soon
after the suspension of work, if not
before, and conditions are not con-
sidered to be alarming.
Probing for Combines.
The grand jury is meeting With
numerous obstacles in its investiga-
tions of the alleged grocers and pro-
duce trusts in Des Moines, it is said.
Witnesses who are in a position to
know of combinations for the purpose
of fixing prices, have testified reluct-
antly, and what they have said has
helped the grand jury but very little,
it is claimed.
Numerous other witnesses have
been examined, and while willing to
disclose all they know, but few of
them have been able to give any
information upon which an indictment
could be based.
1t is said that all testimony any
way damaging has been secured from
persons not engaged in the two lines
of business now under investigation.
Customers and small dealers, it is
claimed, have testified to facts which
do not agree with the stories told by
the officials of the grocers' associa-
ton and the produce companies, but
the grand jury must have stronger
evidence before 1t can return indict-
ments, it is said
However. the investigation has not
been abandoned, and it will not be
until the grand jury is satisfied that
the law Is not being violated. Whether
or not indictments are returned it is
probable that the grand jury will
make some reports of the results of
its investigations before adjourning.
Possession Gives Title.
The importance of one of the cases
recently decided in the supreme
court was concealed in the formal
title of it. 1t was the case of Frank
Bradley against John Burkhart, in
which the latter was appellant. The
judgment of Judge Howe was affirmed
by the supreme court.
The case involved a three foot strip
of ground on one side of Bradley's
lot at GA Fourteenth street. Brad
ley bought his lot about thirty years
ago and the strip in question ran
underneath his house. The surveys
lately made indicated that three feet
of the lot belonged to the owner of
the adjacent property and suit was
brought to test the matter
The courts held that the long adj
verse possession by Mr.. Bradley con-
firmed the title in him and so it was
quoted.
But the important part of it is that
the decision stands for all of the SINH
larly situated property in that section
of the cit. and it is said that there is
considerable of it.