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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
PERSONAL.

President-elect Taft, amid great hi
farity was initiated as a member of
the Knockers" club in Cincinnati.
The object of the club is to knock
everything detrimental to the city.
Congressman Thomas D. Nichols OF
Scranton, Pa, resigned as president
Of District No. l, United Mine Work
ers of America, an Office he had filled
for II years. Ill-health is given as
the reason.
President Roosevelt, in addressing
delegates to the conservation confer
ence, spoke for worldwide co-opera
ton in saving resources.
Mrs. William ]. Lemp, wife of the
millionaire St Louis brewer, was
awarded divorce decree anu $4,000 q
year alimony.
w. w. Ramsey, former president Of
the German National bank of Pitts
burg, was found guilty as indicted in
connection with the recent graft ex
posures.
President-elect Taft was made q
Mason lat sight" in Cincinnati in the
presence of many distinguished Off
GERS and members of the order.
Senator Smith of Michigan has
blocked the efforts to ratify the Cana
dian boundary waterways treaty fol
the reason that his state is the Loser
under the pact
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
NEWSN0TES.
FOR THE
BUSY MAN
Most Important Happen
ings of the World
Told in Brief.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Commissioner of Corporations Smith
in a report to the president, urges an
investigation Of the American To
bacco Company, the trust which con
trolls four-fifths of the output of each
kind of tobacco in this country.
The house finally settled the tangle
which threatened to prevent Senator
Knox being secretary Of state in the
Taft cabinet. In the senate Senator
La Toilette and Senator Panrose had
a wordy war over the committee ques'
ton.
The naval bill appropriating $780,
100000 for the United States navy was
passed by the senate. Senator La FOL
lette criticised the methods of the
navy in speaking on the measure.
President Roosevelt in message tc
congress, accompanying the report
made by the engineers who went with
Taft to Panama, approved the locK
type Of caanl.
Presidentelect Taft announced thai
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania will be
secretary of state in his cabinet, say
ing the action of the senate and house
had removed the constitutional bal
raised by the senator's vote to in
crease the salary of the office.
The senate wants the president tc
keep one-half of the United States
warships in the Pacific to guard the
western coast of the country from ar
attack The suggestion is made in ar
amendment to the naval bill, which
also was changed to block Roosevelts
plan to put the marines on land.
The Burke bill requiring all ocean
going steamships carrying fifty OF
more passengers to be equipped with
wireless telegraph apparatus, was
passed by the house of representa-
tives The bill prescribes a penalty OF
not to exceed $4,000 or Imprisonment
for not to exceed one year or both for
violation of its provisions.
President Roosevelt in a special
message to congress urged the estab-
lishment of a federal bureau which
will protect hayward and dependent
children.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
GENERAL NEWS,

A report from London said Austria
had served notice on Servia that I'M
less that country disarms before next
Saturday the Austrian army will cross
the frontier and begin war
In one of the hardest battles ever
witnessed in the country. Jem Dris-
coll, featherweight champion of Eng.
land, had shade on Abe Attell, cham
pion of the world after ten rounds in
New York. Experts are agreed that
nothing short of a 25-round contest
will settle the question of real supre,
macy between them.
President Roosevelt announced that
a call will be issued for a conference
at The Hague next September to con,
slider worldwide conservation of the
resources of the earth.
Gov Marshall of Indiana in a special
message to the legislature announced
that the state treasury is bankrupt
and has only enough money to pay
the states expenses during March
Unless action is taken at once, he
says, the institutions may have to be
closed
The fishing interests of Puget SounC
will carry To the state department in
Washington a protest against the re
ported seizure by the Canadian gov
eminent of Hecate strait and Dixor
entrance. This action is said to be-
IN attempt to extend Canadian power
beyond the three-mile limit.
The health officer of Gary, Ind.
found a man, his wife and children
living in single room with team Of
horses, mule, a cow and calf.
Fires which We're fatal TO five per
sons occurred at Golfers. w. Va. ano
Iakeville, Pa. Chicago had s235,
900 factory fire,
|. w. Cunningham of Chicago cam,
near meeting death In Omaha, Neb.
when big kite which he uas fiyin,
picked him mp from the top of a ten
story building, and but Tor comrade
who grabbed him and prevented hi
further ascent, would have droppe.
him into the street below.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Peaceful Picketino Not Irseua,.

Oakland, Cal.-It is not illegal for
union labor organization to picket
place of business that has been
declared unfair" If the picketing is
done in peaceable manner, accord
ing to the decision of Judge Els
worth, in the case of Joseph Davis,
local restaurant man, against the
Cooks and Walters Alliance
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
A Former Judue to Prison.

Chicago.-Former Circuit Court
Judge Abner Smith and Gustav F.
Sorrow, under a decision of the su-
preme court at Springfield, must go
to the penitentiary. They were con-
victed of wrecking the Bank of Amer
lea ten days after it had been open
ed for business, the stockholders los
ing $175,000.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
TO GET SALARY
WOULD GIVE SUPERVISORS $1,000
A YEAR.
BILL INTRODUCED BY HUNTER
All County Supervisors Of the State
Would be Placed on
Salary Basis.

Des Moines. Making the salary OF
the Polk county board sum of 81.
900 a year instead of the present
compensation, of a per diem for the
number of days given to the county
in the course of a year is aimed at
in bill fathered by Hunter of Polk,
On Salary Basis.
1t places all the county supervisors
of the state upon a salary basis, be-
ginning at $500 for counties with less
than 10000 population and ending with
the $4,000 for the counties of the
state having more than 100000 popu-
lation.
All Paid.
This wofild give each one of the
supervisors in Polk county a lump
sum of $500 a year and each one OF
the supervisors in the smallest coun.
ties in the state a compensation of
500 month.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Saloon PiIIaged.
New Search for Mrs. Guinness.

Laporte, Ind.-A bill will be intro
duced in the legislature the coming
week to permit county commissioners
to offer rewards of $4,000 for the ap.
prehension of murderers, with assur-
ance of it's passage. The commits
stones of this county then will be
petitioned to appropriate $4,000 to
start new search for Mrs. Belle
Guinness, whom the attorneys for
Ray Lamphere, recently convicted Of
her murder, declare is still alive.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
KILLED IN RIOT
RIOT OVER GREEK WHO KILLED
POLICEMAN. -
HOUSES AND STORES WRECKED
Lawless Element Controlled After
Three Hours Battle With Police
Fierce Attack on Foreigners.

Lincoln, Neb-Gov Shallenbarger
stated that If 1t seems necessary he
will call out the state militia at
Omaha. and would himself go there
II deemed advisable. He also notified
Adjutant General Harrington to hold
himself In readiness for service, IL the
rioting continued.
Omaha, Neb.-Following a haran-
que at massmeeting at the city han
In South Omaha, at which two mem
bers of the state legislature and an
attorney were the principal speakers,
a wild mob of 800 to 1000 men start
ed for the Greek quarters to avenge
the death of Patrolman Edward Low
cry, who was shot and killed Friday
night by Greek whom he had placed
under arrest. Before their thirst for
blood had been satisfied two boys
were shot and at least eight persons
injured by heavy missiles which the
crowd used as weapons, and not less
than thirty buildings were partially
demolished
The injured boys are Frank Swery
and Joseph Gamble, each about Is
years old, who received part of the
contents of shot gun fired into the
crowd by the maddened Greeks The
other persons injured were all foreign
ers. A crowd of perhaps 5000 or
1000 quickly gathered to augment the
size of the mob and general assault
was begun on the homes and business
places of the Greeks. The maddened
crowd begun its work of destruction
by throwing stones and bricks through
the windows of stores and houses
known to be occupied by Greeks. Ia
a very short time havoc was made
with the fronts of these places and
the stocks of the stores were quickly
laid waste.
Try to Lynch Greek.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to lynch the Greek who killed Pa
trolman Lowery and this was followed
by call for massmeeting to take
some action with regard to the
Greeks. Nearly a thousand people
attended the massmeeting which was
addressed by two state representa-
tives.
Fifteen arrests had been made In
connection with the riots up to mid
night.
Saloon PiIIaged.
Another crowd smashed the front
of saloon and several daring spirits
attempted to pillage the interior,
when a squad of police charged the
crowd and prevented the mob from
securing the liquor.
The members of the mob assault
ed many Italians and Roumanians,
who were mistaken for Greeks The
lawlessness lasted for three hours be
fore semblance of quiet could be re-
stored
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Trails and Kills Woman,

Seattle. WASN'T. III. Bennett of
Eureka, Cal, following his arrival
here. shot and killed Mrs Minnie Col
vile, wife of T. H. Colville, and then
killed himself Prior to coming here
Mrs. Colville had lived with Bennett
at Los Angeles for seven years
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
A FIy PAPER Bill,

AS the pharmacy board has ruled
that grocers and promiscous dealers
in general merchandise should not be
allowed to sell fly paper and other
household preparations containing pot
ash and concentrated I've, Senator
Saunders has introduced a bill pro-
viding that others than registered
pharmacists may handle these pro-
ducts.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Love Went Wrono.

Denver, Colo.-Cecil Lynn, the IA
year-old daughter of e. w. Lynn, a
railroad man who lived in Des
Moines until last July, jumped from
the viaduct intending to end it all.
She had been disappointed in love
affair, but the doctors say she will
racoypr
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Ask $4,000 for the Deaf.

A bill asking $23.9OO for the School
for the Deaf at Council Bluffs has
been introduced in the senate by Sen
ator Saunders. The bill carries $751;
600 for the purchase Of additional
ground. The remainder is for the
completion of hall and other i'm
provements
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Harvest for Bond Companies.

Bonding companies in Iowa will
reap a harvest If the legislature in
dorses the action of the house judi
ciary committee, which decided to re-
port for passage bill requiring the
state. counties and cities to pay for
bonds Of their public officers.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Compel Education of AffIicted

The senate has passed the Whip
pie bill compelling the parents of
children who cannot see or hear well
enough to attend the publis schools
TO send them to state schools for
blind and deaf. A penalty for viola
ton In the form of fine of SIS or a
term of, eight days in jail was pro-
vided
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Bill for Fire Marshall.

A state fire marshal, who shall
guard carefully against fires, make in
spections, enforce building laws, ETC.,
is provided for In bill which Repre-
sentative Harding will introduce in
the house. The bill calls for $4,000
for the work, to be paid out of the
funds paid into the state treasury by
the fire insurance companies.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Right to Raise Rates.

- Power to raise freight rates will
be conferred upon the state railroad
commission by bill prepared by
Chairman Eaton. At hearing the
right to raise rates and the proposed
amendment will remove all doubt on
this score.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Girl to be cninaman,s Bride.

Walla Walla, Wash.-Bessie Under
of this place will be married to Frank
Loo, Chinese doctor, who practices
in the local oriental quarter. The
girl is only 16 years of age and her
mother, Mrs. Sarah Lamb, has given
her approval to the marriage
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Negroes Fight Hardina's Bin.

Negroes who belong to secret so
cieties are up in arms over the Hard
ing bill in the house of representa-
tives which is designed to prohibit
the wearing of lodge emblems by
those not lodge members. s. Joe
Brown and other negro attorneys Wis
tied the state house to work against
the measure. They say that the law
provides for the elimination Of all
secret societies which take the same
name of previously organized lodges.
This, they say, would put every ne
gro lodge in Iowa out of business.
The Harding bill is having hard sled
ding. Opposition from girls who wish
to wear their sweethearts' frat pins
and wives who wish to wear their
husbands lodge pins has resulted in
the bill being sent back to the COM
mittee chamber.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Age Limit Raised.

A bill which provides that children
may be admitted to the state re-
formatories at Eldora and Mitchell
Vile at the age of Is was passed by
the senate. The present law makes
the maximum age 16 years
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Kick on Roads Proposition.

Rural constituents of Representa-
tives Sullivan and Hunter are voicing
their displeasure at the bill proposed
to permit cities to spend that portion
of the county road fund which is col
lected on city property. The bill has
been introduced in both the senate
and house of representatives and is
causing tumult. Sioux City is the
hacker of the bill. ..
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
To Raise Jurors Pay.

Jurors pay was voted increased by
the senate when it passed the judic-
larry committee bill, H. F. 179, rails
ing the per diem of jurors in courts
of record from 50 to $3.50, and CIV
ing them 10 cents per mile. No mil
cage, however, is to be paid jurors
in justice courts. The raise in pay,
if made law will apply also to the
veniremen
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Regulate Bucket Shops.

The lower house of the general
assembly has passed a bill which
will regulate more closely than ever
the bucket shops in the state 1t
was introduced by Representative
Sullivan, who made a scathing de-
nunciation of the operator of the
bucket shop. The bill was drawn by
County Attorney DeGraff and greatly
strengthens the present law.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
House Endorses Allison Shaft.

The house of representatives by a
unanimous vote passed the senate bill
providing an appropriation up to $780,
600 for a pedestal for a monument to
the late Senator Allison. Represen-
tative Holmes of Kossuth spoke for
the bill. He stated that March 2 is
to be devoted to raising funds
throughout the state and particularly
amongst school children.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Kansas Man Reform Marriage La

Topeka. KAMA bill providing that
persons who desire to be married
must publish notice fifteen days be-
fore the date of the wedding was
recommended for passage in the
state legislature.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Cut Cost of Office Seekinq.

No candidate for office either at
the primary, municipal or general
election will be permitted to spend
more than one-fifth of the office sal
airy for year, according to bill in
troduced in the house
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Too MANY Wolves.

Although the state of Iowa is sup
posed to be civilized, there are so
many wolves in the southern part of
1t, that Senator Seeley of Henry
county has introduced into the Iegis.
lature a bill raising the bounty on
captured wolves to five times the
present amount paid The bill
allows bounty of $25 for full grown
wolves and S. on cubs. The present
law allows only 50 on cubs.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Receiver For Auto Firm.

Springfield, O.--Application for a
receiver for the Oscar Lear Automo-
bile company has been made by
Harry C. Downey, a stakeholder. Liza
bilities are $303,000; assets $144, 140.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Talk Without Extra Pay.

Klay and Davidson have introduced
bill forcing telephone companies to
make 1t possible for patron to talk
over another line without paying ex-
ira tolls.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Millions Are Asked

Chairmen of the legislative approp-
Ration committee have been doing
some figuring, and the result is the
discovery that the total amount asked
OF them is approximately 1851, 900
up to date. The estimated income of
the state, not appropriated is $1,500.-
900. The state educational institutions
want $1,436,OO0. The board of con-
troll institutions want s443,OO0. Mis-
ceaaneous appropriations asked total
s742,OO0. If the appropriations were
all given, an increase of $3.50, 500
would show in the state expenditures
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
[. Young Case Is LeoaIized,

The Smith bill, allowing the attor.
ney general and the executive coun-
Gil to compromise claims of the state
against citizens and corporations has
passed the house
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
White Slave Bill Passes in HURRY

Senator Saunders bill to free the
white slaves passed the senate in rec
ord time after being in official exis-
tence only forty-eight hours. 1t was
passed five minutes after 1t was
called up by it's author without any
explanation or declaration in favor of
1t. The bill prohibits the detention
OF any female in any place for I'M
lawful purposes against her will
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Three Killed in Explosion.

Steubenville, O.-Three persons
were burned to death and four fatally
injured by an explosion of a keg of
mining powder in ID coal miner's
home near Golfers, w. Va.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
White Slave Bill.

Ihe white slave traffic will be pre-.
vented in Iowa If the bill introduced
by Senator Saunders is enacted. II
is modelled upon the Illinois law
winch has been most successful in
Chicago, Springfield and other cities
OF that state. 1t fixes a sentence of
from one to ten years as the punish
ment for violation of the law, and
provides that it shall, be unlawful to
detaln any female for immoral pur.
poses against her will The bill was
recommended some months ago by
Assistant States Attorney Clifford G.
Roe OF Chicago when he came to Des
Moines at the time of the closing of
the red light district" Mr.. Roe
helped to frame the Illinois law,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Work May Be In Vain


Charles Miller, and his fight on the
physicians trust of the state, seems
to be fiourishing in the Louse, but
there are definite indications that the
senate is only waiting for some of the
house bills to come before them, to
apply a delicate, but decided frost.
Miller seems to have a large part of
house with him, and the radical leg
islation he is fathering has had the
best of support, but these same meas
ures will get little sympathy in the
senate, and there are many indica-
tiops that the quarantine laws of the
state will remain as they are. With
In few days, bills will be introduc-
ed into the state, which are much
more favorable to the board of health
than would be possible to get past
the house. In case the two bodies
come to loggerheads on the PROPOSE
ton, the present laws will remain in
force and Mr.. Miller will have his
work to do over again.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Memorial Bill Defeated.

Allred's house bin to prohibit
sports on Memorial day was killed
by the senate committee on military
and was reported for indefinite post
ponement.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Must Be Registered.

Penn of Fremont hes introduced a
bill which prohibits any doctor from
filing a prescription unless he Is
registered pharmacist.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
To Publish Roster.

Anderson's bill to appropriate $12.-
600 to complete and publish the ros-
ter of the Iowa soldiers and sailors
has been passed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
No More Dope for the Fiends.

No more dope for the dope fiends
may be sold under the law as pro-
posed by the committee on intemper-
ance OF the senate in recommending
the passage of the Hammill bill, S. F..
10. Under the present law inebriates
are sold the drug to which they are
addicted while out on parole and
even while held in the various asy-
iums for their cure The amendment
to the law makes this sale a crime
and 1t protects not only inmates of
the state institutions but also those
fends who may be taking private
liquor and drug cures.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25
Strict Primary Law Proposed.


Scratching of primary ballots IL
eliminated in bill introduced in the
mouse of representatives by Balluff of
scott county. His bill provides that
instead of voting for all party candi-
dates ON one blanket primary ballot,
each party shall have a separate
ticket and all shall be fastened to-
gether. The voter votes the ticket
ne wishes, hands it to the Judge and
the other unused tickets are destroy
ed The bill makes it impossible for
voter to vote for some of the can
didates on one ticket and some on
another unless he writes the name on
the ticket he votes of candidate on
another ticket. The bill provides
that counties shall pay the expenses
OF primaries. Koontz of Iowa county
introduced an amendment to the pri-
mary law making it possible for VOC
ers to vote a primary ballot on vot-
ing machines.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25

A Jury at Council Bluffs found
Arthur Edmunds guilty OF enticing
girls TO a questionable resort and
will receive a term in the penitent-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-25

1
Morgan, one of the most notorious
bank sneaks in the country for the
theft of $4,000 from the First Ma.
tional bank in Milwaukee. He con.
fessed saying he had four accomplices
| Replies were made in the house at
Washington to Representative Rainey's
attack on the purchase of the Pana,
ma canal route. President-elect Taft,
his brother Charles P. Taft and viii.
liam Nelson Cromwell were defended
by Mr. Lowering.
&c. NJ Garnet" who attempted to
blackmail Lawrence M. Jones, Kan.
sas City (Mo) merchant, out of $1,000
by threatening to blow him to atoms
with a bomb, confessed that he is
Robert Benjamin Bledsoe and that he
lived on a farm five miles north of Dial
las, Tex He has a wife and two chill.
dren.
Geronimo. the Apache Indian chief,
after being in prison 20 years, died at
Fort Sill, Okla. The old Indian was
one of the most savage of his tribe
and fought for years before he finally
was run down and captured by Cen
Miles men.
Capt. Mogg and five men who set
out IA months ago to explore the arc.
tic regions and were given up as lost
have been heard from. They are at
Point Barrow, according to message
received at Port Townsend.
Three lives were lost in the wreck
OF an Illinois Central train near Muir
physboro, ILL.,, and about thirty per
sons were hurt. A broken rail caused
the crash.
Thirty lives were lost ia the col
lision of the Belgian steamer Aus
tralia and an unidentified vessel in the
Mediterranean. 100 miles from Glib
raltar.