Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-06-11

| eHSlHeeI Oh the NORTHWESTERN last
mail, were summoned by the police
to appear in court and answer to a
| Violation OF the city ordinance gov
erning the speed limit of trains. The
| traias pulled into the union station
side by side going from twenty to
thirty miles an hour, and one man
narrowly missed getting hit.
Entering a plea OF guilty to the
charge Of having Incorporated
the funds of the Odebolt postofice,
Of which he was assistant postmaster,
Frank w. Stratton has been leniently
treated by Judge H. T. Reeves Of the
federal court Stratton, who is a
cripple because of the ravages OF
rheumatism, threw himself upon the
mercy of the court Although he
was fined on two different counts and
sentenced to six months in the Wood
bury county Jail on another, the court
to certain extent nullified the gen-
tence by ordering the mittimus be
not issued until further orders of the
court. This means that Stratton will
not be sent to Jail.
A judgment for $11,404.41 was
ordered entered by Judge Smith OF
the district court against the bonds
men of the defunct Bank of Corwith
In favor of Hancock county in the
first case tried of the number which
have grown out of the sensational
bank wrecking escape of ]. H. Stand
ring, cashier of the Corwith bank. The
case was tried in Winnebago county
on a change Of venue from Hancock
county. A. B. Sawyer, county treas
urer, appeared as plaintiff, and E. l..
and 0. III. Stilson, j. III. Standring,
jefferson Yeakel, C. r. Wood and w.
O. Gaskill as defendant. The bur-
den OF the judgment will fall upon
Messrs. Wood, Gaskil and Yeakel.
The Stilson brothers are in bank.
ruptcy and Standring is not to be
found
The board of directors of the Iowa
sanitarium met with the executive
committee in charge of the donation
fund for the erection of a sanitarium
at Nevada this season by the Iowa
Adventist association. The final
papers were drawn up and all ar.
rangements made for closing the
deal. The site for the building has
been staked out and the contract
closed for the sinking of deep well
at once. The clearing of the grounds
has already commenced, and 1t will
be but matter of a few days when
work will also begin on the new
double cement arch bridge across
Indian creek. The building to be
erected is to be about 60x1O0 feet
and will be four stories in height.
Besides this there will be erected
this season private heating plant
and a number of other smaller build
ings necessary to the sanitarium. The
building is to be of colonial style.
Harry Smith, well known resi-
dent Of Council Bluffs, and at one
time a prominent bicycle dealer, was
found dead sitting upright in a sheo
in the west end of the city. A
revolver lay at his feet and a bullet
hole in his. head told how he had
died. Smith had been drinking and
at the suggestion of his wife's fam.
lily was staying at the home of his
mother. During his spare time he at
tended a tract of ground planted tc
vegetables, on which he had erected
a shed for his tools. He had tele
phoned to his wife, asking permission
to return to her. Mrs. Smiths father
had urged that he separate from his
wife for six months, to which he is
understood to have replied that he
could not live that long without her
Mrs. Smith took her husband his
dinner and supper to the vegetable
garden and did not dream of his con
templating suicide. He had been
dead several hours when found. Smith
was "a years old.
A sensation was sprung at Fort
Dodge few days ago when Council
man ]. w. Kline, through his attor,
ney, filed suit against the city of
Fort Dodge and its officials asking
the court to grant an injunction re
straining the mayor and councilmen,
from supplying the needs of the city
in the purchase of supplies. Not only
the city but specified members of
the council were included. The suit
is brought in the name of the tax
payers. DR.. Kline asks in his petit
ton that the injunction be made per.
petual and states that specified mem.
bers of the council have been guilty
of furnishing supplies to the city
while acting in an official capacity.
which is direct violation of the law.
Both the mayor and some of the coun
cilmen are owners of newspapers
and have run legal notices and fur
nished printed supplies. 1t also al.
leges that certain bills now pending
payment for goods furnished by mem.
bers will be paid for by a majority
vote unless the injunction is issued,
| preventing it. The mayor when serv.
ed with the notice was greatly sur
| prised and termed it piece of spite
| work. The doctor claims that it has
| been the custom of certain members
| of the council to favor certain n.em
| bers as we'll as the mayor in the
SiAShoSS VI SuppiiCS' nc pldlHtlH
has secured a well-known firm of at.
torneys and bitter fight is looked
! for.
According to the directory count
just completed Centerville has a popu.
| lation of 1913 as against 5,967 in the
! 1905 state census. About 1000 of this
growth has been due to the extension
| Of the territorial limits of the city,
but the remaining 1000 represents
! the actual growth in population.
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