Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-23

Iverson, while the family were attend
ing the funeral of a neighbor. He
took a piece of strong cord, tied IL
around his neck, hung it over hook
back of the stove, and knaeling down
strangled himself to death. Andersen
was well-to-do, well known and univer.
sally respected
The Humboldt Mutual Insurance
company held its annual meeting at
Humboldt few DAYS ago. The
amount of risks in force is almost
two and half million dollars;
yet the losses paid during the year
1907 were only $1,000. This is only
about one-h2lf the cost of insurance in
the average company The company
has done large business in Hum
boldt county for about twenty years
and has not had single lawsuit with
policy holder or ether person, and
1t has no lawyer and no use for a
lawyer.
An audience that more than filled
the First Presbyterian Church at
Council Bluffs listened to an address
by Attorney General w. II. Byers
upon law enforcement in general and
in Council Bluffs in particular After
showing that the officers Of the law
everywhere were responsible for the
leniency shown law breakers and that
public sentiment and personal inter
est were responsible back of them, Mr..
Byers related what he personally knew
of conditions in Council Bluffs, dwell
ing at length upon the open gambling
houses.
He told of number of instances
of men who had lost large sums of
money in these houses, who had writ
ten him seeking his aid in recovering
money lost. He told of having writ
ten the county attorney and of the
reply he received, which he described
as discouraging. But he said that the
county attorney and district judge, to
whom he had also written asking that
the laws be enforced had given him
their promise that in the future the
laws would be enforced, and he asked
that the public give them the chance
to make good, which he personally
pledged they would do.
Matthew Claussen, aged IS, farm
hand, who has been working in Clin-
ton county for the past year, ended
his life by firing 22-calibre bullet in
to his brain, on the farm Of Eugene
Hansen, nine miles northwest of Gin
ton. Claussen came here from Ger
many, and has no relatives on this
side of the Atlantic. He left note
in a pocketbook, giving his birthplace
and age, and the information that a
bullet would end his life. Standing
behind straw stack he discharged
the pistol, the bullet entering his
brain, producig instant death. Claus
sen had borrowed money and could
not pay 1t back. This is assigned
to he the motive of his act.
The friends of Capt. oliver w. Kulp,
who was recently court martialed and
reprimanded for disobeying orders at
the time of the Davenport prize fight,
have announced him as candidate
for major of the Fifty-fourth rogi-
ment. Their purpose, they declare. is
to secure a viadication of their cap
tain. The announcement has been
sent to various companies of the regi-
ment and is creating a sensation al
most as great as the captains arrest
and subsequent trial. Much interest
Is expressed in Davenport in the
probable attitude of the national guard
headquarters at Des Moines toward
the candidacy. Captain Kulp is can
didate to succeed Maj. Frank E. Weth-
erell of Des Moines, whose term eX-
pires March 16, 1908.
Mayor Duncombe of Fort Dodge. |
voted against granting himself and
brother saloon permit. William Con-
nelly asked the council for license
to run bar in the Duncombe hotel, |
belonging to the Duncombe estate, of |
which the mayor is heir and brother
proprietor. The vote in the council |
was tie and the mayor voted against !
the license. Fewer salons and bet |
ter ones" was the sentiment express
ed in the council meeting when the
matter was taken up. Two men |
Joseph Impoff and William Connolly |
asked for saloon permits When the |
vote came on the question it was a
tie. Mayor Duncombe wanted the
whole matter postponed whole week,
but the vote on that question was
tie, and the mayor voted in the mega
tive. The motion was then made to
reject the applications. The tie re-
suited again, and the mayor settled
uldttClo ., oCCllilSly NOlcu dSdlHSl
himself and his brother when he cast
an affirmative vote ON the proposition
to reject.
Father and mother appeared as
prosecutors of their sons In the crimi.
nal action brought at Abel against
James and Aleck Shaffer, principals
in the bloody family fight on the Shat.
fer homestead recently, in which aged
Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Shaffer were seri
ously hurt, the former sustaining
dislocated hip. The two sons are
charged with assault to commit great
bodily injury. They were taken be.
fore Justice 2. N. Fiddler. They furn.
ished bond and their cases were con.
tinued for two weeks. The sons in
turn filed charges of assault with In.
tent to commit murder against their
brother, Levi Shaffer In the fight
Levi was originally attacked by James
and Aleck and in defending himself
resorted to knife with which the
assailants were badly slashed Mr.
and Mrs. Shaffer are somewhat re.
covered from their injuries, received
while interfering to prevent the fight
among the boys. Mr. Shaffer is suf.
fering severely, however, for he Is SO
years old.
William A. Mcclure and Oscar
Glow, the two forgers of the checks
who cleaned up dozen saloons nj
Burlington and were arrested In
Cedar Rapids, squared their accounts
with the saloon keepers by paying
back the amounts of which they were
fieeced. The men will be tried for
the crime just the same.
w. l.. Eaton of Mitchell county was
elected chairman of the state board
of railroad commissioners at it's first
meeting in January. This was ON the