Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-23
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ployed by a farmer a few miles north
OF Elkader, was found dead in pas
ture, overcome by heat the day prev
ious.
Guy Graham, who graduated from
the veterinary course at the college
at Ames this spring, has obtained a
position as government meat inspector
in Chicago. He will begin his work
Immediately.
The new coal mine west OF Abba
that the National Coal company is
now 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 a contract for the purchase of 500
box and gondola cars part wood and
| part steel construction, which will be
| delivered about Oct 1. The cars
will all be from 10000 to $4,000
| pounds capacity.
Franz Grey and Jack L. Rich, two
Missouri Valley young men are under
arrest charged with attempted crimi.
nal assault upon Misses Mabel
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
flrl
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 thousand ties We're destroyed
in addition to the contents of the five
cars.
The contract for Onawa's new pub
lie library building has been let to
". j. Merton of Emerson, Neb., for
Sl5,O6o, not including plumbing and
heating. Contracts for these things
and the furnishing will bring the total
cost to 100000 or more, and will give
Onawa one of the finest libraries for
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
hardware store building and stock
| and Catholic church, causing a loss
estimated at $4,000. The Colga river
was flooded by the tremendous rains
Inundated the basement of the hard
ware building, where a large amount
| of 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 sidetracll
at the junction will be finished and
| preparations made for building a
track cut to the mines. The Waulson
mines are the only IRON mines in
this section OF the Mississippi valley.
There is fine deposit of ore at that
| 200 nd jc ir,
10 justify the money that the pro.
meters 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 rough
and picturesque spot.
1 To think that a mite of Child
cnly 212 years of age, could climb To
Tie top OF 90 foot Windmill tower
and there play freely ON a narrow
s-sel only a foot wide, is almost un
believable, but such feat was ac
| oomplished near Story City The little
| tot, a son of Mr.. and Mrs. O. S. Mier
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 had
searched in all the barns and fence
corners, glanced upward to the TOP
OF the tall windmill and there. dumb
founded, he saw the babe perched up
on the platform of the tower. With
his heart almost in his mouth. fol
fear that his appearance might startle
the babe and make it fall, he began
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 preparing
| to climb out around the shelf which
| extended foot out from the ladder
when the father reached the top and
grasped his boy in his arms. How
the mite OF child climbed the tall
ladder, climbed out around the shelf
and reached the platform in safety
no one can understand
| James Phillips AGED % committed