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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
GENERAL NOTES.

The New York Globe publishes a
copy Of affidavit made by Edwin N.
Barrill. who accompanied DR.. Fred
erick A. Cook at the time he an
nounced reaching the summit Of
Mount Mckinley in which Barrill
states that Cook never reached the
summit and charges the explorer with
forcing him to change dates and fig
ures in his diary. Dr. Cook, at At
lantic City. N. j.. emphatically denies
the charge and says proofs OF his
climb are buried on the summit Of the
mountain.
In the sixth game for the worlds
championship Detroit defeated Pitts.
burg 5 to 4.
Edward Singer. aged 35, of Chicago,
has been arrested for rifling merchan.
disc mail pouches.
The twelfth annual meeting of the
Eastern Illinois Teachers association
is being held at Danville.
A high-salaried appointment soon to
be made by President Taft will be
Panama canal commissioner to sue
coed ex-senator Blackburn Of Ken
lucky. whose resignation is expected
The position pays $4,000 a year.
OF the 2S5 county reporters who re-
port crop conditions to the bureau Of
statistics of the department OF agricul.
ture, 1874 have served in that capacity
more than twenty years. according to
the official crop reporter.
George Shima. the Japanese potato
king of Stockton, Cal. gave his sec.
ond annual banquet to potato buyers
Shima sent his launch. the Shima
Maru. for his guests. He has the
largest potato patch in the world, IA.
900 acres.
Revolutionists are now in posses
sion of seven towns in Nicaragua and
martial law has been proclaimed a,
the capital. Managua.
President Taft has accepted tn,
resignation of Charles r. Crane a,
minister to China, thus UNFOLDING Sec
rotary Knox in the controversy.
Revolution has broken out In Mica
ragua. and in a battle between gov
eminent troops and rebels at Grey
town. 10 of the former were killed.
The seventh convention OF tn,
American Hardware Manufacturers
association was held in Atlantic City
N. J.
Speakers OF national reputation ad
dressed the Congregational Brother
hood OF America at its second nation
al convention in Minneapolis.
Mark Twain has cabled a London
newspaper declining to take an actiy
part in the Kongo reform agitation
because Of the condition of his health
Confederate veterans OF Virgins
opened their twenty second annual re
union at Danville. Mayor Wood we
coined the delegates.
James NJ. Barrie. the novelist. ha
been granted a divorce from his wifi
on the ground of the latter's conduc
with Gilbert Canaan. young author
Six sailors lost their lives when tn
steamer George Stone of Cleyelap,
was wrecked on Point Pelee, Ont. il
upper Lake Erie.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES OF A WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN TENTED
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into a Few Lines for the
Perusal of the Busy Man.
Latest Personal lnfor-
nation.
PERSONAL.

George Wharton Pepper, a prom
inent churchman\ and lawyer of Phila
deIphia, was a speaker at the Brother
hood of ST. Andrew convention in
Providence. r. |.
Mrs. Edith T. Perkins of Burlington.
Ia, has given Harvard university $50.
900 to establish scholarships for Iowa
graduates. in memory of her husband.
who was president of the Burlington
railroad for many years.
George A. Edes. veteran editor. who
in early life was associated with Hor-
ace Greeley and Mark Twain. died at
Oakland. Cal. of cancer Of the throat.
aged 69. His great-uncle was associ'
ated with Benjamin Franklin in the
publication of the Boston News Let
ter.
Charles T. Ripley, graduate Of the
University Of Illinois In the railway
electrical engineering department. has
been awarded the first prize in an
electric car design contest conducted
by the Brill Company of Philadelphia.
The prize is the John G. Brill medal
and $3.50.
Clyde Fitch. the playwright. left no
will and his property will go to his
father, w. G.. Fitch. of Hartford. Conn
BY some the estate is estimated at
$1,OOO.OO0
Samuel Gompers was accorded an
enthusiastic demonstration at Wash
ington in honor of his return home
from Europe.
Representative A. w. Rucker OF
Colorado was injured severely whel
he was struck by the boom of boat
he was sailing in Lake Lano In Min
dinao in the Philippines.
DR.. J. B. Shober reports through the
Journal of the American Medical asso
citation a substitute for radium In
treating disease. 1t Is cocoanut char
coal after 1t has been charged with
current Of air from a solution Of radi
um bromide.
According to Rev. Charles L. Good
ell. pastor of Calvary Methodist church
of New York. old age begins at Il
years, and from that age a man Is in
his decline.
Two sisters. Mrs. Clara Pfeltsen
meier of Chicago and Mrs, Minnie
Lehman of Brooklyn. found long
lost brother at the Hudson-Fulton cele
hration in New York. He Is SECOND
lieutenant in the German navy and hi:
name is Fritz Heyl
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Postal Inspector Discusses Duties.

POSTAL inspector Discusses Duties.
People who lead double lives
those who are possessed of dual per-
sonaities-generally have two postof-
flee boxes and receive their mail I'M
der two names.
The white slave traffic would not
be so great if parents would pre-
vent postmasters from giving out mail
to young girls at general delivery
windows
These are few or the facts which
came out in the address of Postoffice
Inspector Robert B. Mundel before
the annual meeting of the first, Sec
ond and third class postmasters of
Iowa in the county building at Des
Moines.
Inspector Mundel, whose chief
business is the inspection of register
ed mail, was a member of the COM
mittee OF the postoffice department
staff which drew up the new laws re-
garding registered mail His adj
dress was one of the most instruc-
tive talks ever delivered before the
postmasters of Iowa.
When you know anyone named
Smith and he has two boxes and re-
ceives mail under his own name and
the name of Jones, report the case
to the third assistant postmaster gen.
eral," said Inspector Mundel. ain
many cases these persons are practic-
ing frauds and it pays to have an in
vestigation. However, in most cases
1t has developed that these people
are living double lives and have a
box for each life"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
TO IMPROVE RIVER.
Waterways Conference Delegates
to Work for Iowa.
MILLER GOES TO NEW ORLEANS
Prof. Stevenson and Senator Frudden
Also Delegates to the Lakes-to-
the-GuIf Deep Waterway
Association Meeting.

Des Moines, Oct. 16.-At the regu-
lar meeting of the East Des Moines
Commercial league, A. c. Mile: was
appointed delegate of the association
to the annual convention Of the Lakes
-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways associa-
ton to be held in New Orleans Octo-
Der 80 and November / and 2. Mr..
Miller, as chairman of the Iowa State
waterways and conservation commits
sion, had earlier in the day appoint
ed Prof. w. H. Stevenson, instructor
of drainage and waterways subjects
in the state agricultural college and
Senator A. F. Frudden of Dubuque as
the Iowa delegates to the convention.
All three men are members of the
state commission and are thoroughly
interested in the project to open up
navigable stream from the great
lakes to the gulf.
But the special object of Mr.. Mil
Ter and his associates will DE TO OBJ
river as a part of the upper MISSISSIPPI
pi river project. They will do their
best to have this stream included in
the scheme of improvements which
Is planned.
Many years ago." said Mr.. Miller,
the Des Moines river was covered
with all sorts of craft doing an i'm.
mense business in carrying freight.
With proper care and scientific en-
deavor this traffic could be restored
and the city would take it's place as
one of the greatest shipping centers
of the northwest.
las fast as laws governing freight
rates on the railroads are made a
way is found by the shrewd lawyers
to evade them. Were the Des Moines
river opened to navigation such a
formidable competition would be af-
forded that the officials of the roads
could no longer ignore the demands
that their rates be lowered.
Every year in this city there is a
time when the railroads become con-
gested and the shippers are made to
suffer for carelessness. Such a time
Is now on us. Were the river opened
much OF the business would be taken
out OF the hands of the railroads and
the congestion would be relieved
Therefore the whole city should get
behind this movement"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Would Have Courts Rule.

Whether a county superintendent
has the power to prevent school
boards from employing teachers with
out state certificates IS a question
which State Superintendent Riggs
would like to have decided by the
courts. He received a letter from
county superintendent who wants to
know what he can do to compel the
directors in one of his districts to
hire teacher who has certificate.
The state superintendent is vested
with power to compel school boards
to employ only licensed teachers.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Awarded Heavy DAMAGES.

Clinton, Ia, Oct. ia Clinton
county jury has awarded II. f. Britt.
a local carpenter, the sum Of $4,000
damages. Olney & German, formerly
of Clinton, now OF Chicago. are the
defendants Britt. while III the employ
of the firm, lost leg in an accident
and brought suit for S2n,0Up. tie jury
after a prolonged session finding for
the defendant.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Mason City Waterways Delegates.

Mason City, Ia. Oct. l8.-Nomina-
tions for the delegation from this city
to the deep waterway convention to
be held at New Orleans Oct. 30 to
Nov. 2 have been made by Mayor
Kirschman. They are Duncan Rule,
I. A. Potter, ]. w. Keerl. w. F. Muse,
W. E. Brice. }. Z. E. Markley and F.
e. Keller.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Railroad Maxine Money.

The annual report of the Manchest.
er & Oneida Railroad company, filed
with the state railroad commission,
shows that in the year ending June
30,19O9, no passenger was killed or
injured. The operating revenues OF
the company were s22,437.96, and the
expenses were $13,382.63, leaving a
net revenue of $9,055.33.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Convention Comes to pes Moines.

The 1910 Iowa State Convention of
the Court of Honor has been secured
for Des Moines. 1t will be held the
first week in February. A great cam
paign for a class of 1000 for initiation
at that time is now On in full force.
Frank Johnson has been appointed
city manager.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Robbers Loot Minnesota Bank.

Avon, Mimi, Oct. t5.--Three rob-
bers entered the Bank OF Avon and
blew open the safe. Thew secured
$1,700, stole team and drove to the
village of Holdingford, where they
boarded freight train and made their
escape.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Require Parents Consent.

Belle PLANE, Ia, Oct 1S.-The Belle
PLANE school board has adopted ard
published resolutions to the effect
that any pupil in the public schools
must obtain the written consent of
its parents or guardian to permit the
pupil to take part in game of foot
ball
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
BURGLARS in Boone Dental Office.

Boone, Ia, Oct. 18,--The dental Of
fees of DR.. Holmes and DR.. Lutz were
entered during the night by profess
ional burglars, who had skeleton keys.
Two hundred dollars worth of gold
teeth, platinum, ETC., were taken.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
In Hospital Three Years.

After three years of confinement
in Mercy Hospital, Mrs. Christina
Peterson, aged 60 years. died. The
funeral was held at the Swedish Luth.
eran church. Interment was at Wood
land cemetery.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Fairs Get More Money.

Each of ten Iowa fairs will receive
nearly $500 more from the state this
year than formerly, under the new
law increasing their appropriation.
AS amended the law extends the linn
it of the amount Of state aid that can
be extended the county fairs from
5000 to $500. They are paid 40 per
cent of their premium list up to $500
and ten per cent of the total premiums
if they are over $780,, All but two of
the ten fairs receiving state aid were
given increased appropriations this
year as a result of the new law, the
total increase being $297.3S. The to-
tai amount paid to all of them was
$2,200.94. H.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Benefit for Mrs. Delmeae.

mege ana children at the Empire
theatre was a huge success. sle house
being packed. Vocal and instrumental
numbers proved highly entertaining
to the audience, who had come to pay
tribute to the memory of Des Moines'
beloved city detective who fell trying
to enforce the law. From financial
standpoint the benefit proved all that
it's promoters had hoped, as almost
$4,000 was realized, which will be
turned over to Mrs. Delmege.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Attempts Suicide at 7s.

London, Oct. 18.-Emma Rush, a
respectable looking woman of sew
enty-three. was charged at Tower
Bridge police court with attempting
to commit suicide. She was found on
the floor Of her room with her throat
cur.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Widow of Wreck Victim Gets Money

Mrs. Alice McCourty, widow of the
late Peter s. McCourty, the street
car motorman, who was killed in the
collision between his car and an in
terurban train, has received a check
for $4,000 in settlement for the dam
age suit which she was about to file
against the companies. The inter
urban company paid one-half of the
amount and the street car company
the other.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Mrs. Mccourty Administrator.

Mrs. Ann McCourty was appointed
administrator of the estate Of her
husband, Peter S. McCourty. who met
death in the street car collision on
the Highland Park bridge Sept. 20.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
State Library's Books.

State Librarian Brigham has placed
orders for new books for the state
library costing about 5000. They in
clude large collection of current
literature and several works of a
more permanent nature, which are
purchased for reference purposes
only.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Reading Cause Of Crime

Trashy Reading Cause of Crime.
Many of the criminals of the world
today come to lead their lives of law
lessness, of shame and of ferocity,
because in their younger days, they
were given no opportunity to read
the better books by the master minds,
but instead had thrust undes their
noses the vicious t-ash, bound in pa
per and printed IN the coarsest
fiber"
This was the lament uttered by j.
F. Newton of Cedar Rapids, in adj
dressing the members of the librar.
ians' convention in session at the
public library of Des Moines. He was
speaking on the influence which
books have upon the lives of people.
ION the other hand" continued Mr..
Newton, eases abound all down the
ages of young men and women, rear
ed in an atmosphere of crime and Of
vice, who have been lifted above the
limits of their environment by the
chance picking up of some volume
containing the magic words which de-
livered message of truth"
With the passion of honest con-
viction ringing in his voice, he said
that the works of Emerson, of Brown
ing and others of the greater writer's
had furnished the inspiration for
many noble life.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Reunion Of Latter DAY Saints.

Harlan, Ia, Oct 18.-One of the
notable gatherings of the year in
Shelby county will be the semi-centen-
NAL celebration, Oct. 2S and "a, OF
the Latter Day Saints in Galland's
grove, Shelby county, Iowa.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Des Moines Man Honored.

At the state meeting at Keokuk
of the Iowa branch of the Catholic
Knights of America, L. H. Kurtz OF
Des Moines was elected treasurer and
also delegate to the national conven-
tion, which VIII be held in Memphis
Tenn, in May, 1910.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Iowa Diplomat Stricken Student,

Washington, Oct. IA special
cablegram from London has been re-
ceived here telling of the death
there of w. L. Buchanan formerly OF,
Iowa. and later prominent as an
American diplomat.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Files Suit for $4,000 Damages.

Mrs. Florence Hast, 81, has brought
ait for $4,000 damages against her
father-in-law and mother-in-law, Louis
Hast and Mrs. Anna Hast, charging
they alienated the affections of their
son, Louis G.. Hast
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
EIopes With Bankers DAUGHTER.

Defying the opposition Of the
brides parents, Vergil Hunt and
pretty Fannie Vleem, daughter of
prominent banker OF Moravia, elop-
ed to Des Moines and were married
at the home Of the g.oom's uncle.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Fish 20 BE Sent TO China.

Shanghai, Oct. ia report has
been published here of the probable
appointment of Stuyvesant Fish OF
New York as American minister to
China.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Six Deaths In Two Weeks.

Police officials declare that the
present crime wave is one Of the
worst in the history of Des Moines.
Four tragedies, two them costing
two lives each, have occurred since
September 10.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Postal Receipts Show Bio Gain.

Postal RECEIPTS SHOW Big Gain.
Des Moines postal receipts for
September, 1909, were $58,412.49, an
increase of $3,045.58 over the same
month last year. This is gain Of
SD per cent.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Lenora Owens Weds in Secret.

Quietly slipping away to Chicago,
ostensibly for visit, Miss Lenora
Owens of 935 Fourth street was mar.
ried there to Charles C. Branting-
ham Of Washington, D. c.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
VIII Filed.

VIII Filed.
The will of the late ]. r. Hurlbut
filed for probate gives one-third of
the property to his wife and appoints
George j. Delmege executor of the
remainder which is bequeathed to
his son, Horace Hurlbut.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Twelve New Attorneys.

Twelve applicants for certificates
admitting them to the bar and to the
practice of law were successful, ac-
cording to the announcement made
by the state board of law examiners.
The names of the twelve successful
applicants are Agnes TIE Paske of
Sioux Center, E. B. Mount Of Des
Moines, H. r. Mosnat of Belle PLANE,
Edward A. Schmidt of Oskaloosa, L..
A. Mcintosh of Iowa City, George
Durward Long of Lyons, Frank M.
Beatty of Sigourney, Thomas A. e.
Lally of Denison, Sylvan l.. Olson of
Forest City, Arthur ]. Palas of Des
Moines, John Scott Hamilton of Fort
Madison. Clyde c. Coyle of Humboldt
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-21
Alumni Banquet.

The Alumni of GriDnell college will
hold reunion and banquet at the
Chamberlain, November 5, during the
State Teachers association. Rev.
James p. Burling of Des Moines will
act as POSTMASTER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-29
AGAIN THE PULLMAN PORTER
Travelling Men Declare in Favor of
Women for the Job.

CHICAGO, July o9.-A modest shrink
ing from doing anything that might be
incendiary was ali that prevented the
National Travellers Association from go
Eg on record as unalterably opposed to
the Pullman car porter and much in ia
ror Of the Pullman car "porteress.'
Also the members Of the association
had thought something of embodying in
their resolutions words of reproof to the
small town hotel keepers. In the end
however. calmer counsels prevailed. The
resolutioqS passed by the association con-
tain nothlGg singing.
Wilson A. Sprague enjoys the distinc-
ton of being the father of the Pullman
porteress' idea. He was chairman of one
of the biggest of the indignation meet
ings.
Some people travel for pleasure" he
said. We travel to earn our salaries. A
trip across state with about twenty stops
en- route means a loss Of sleep for about
half that number of nights. We travel at
night to avoid having to stay in a barn of
hotel In some small town, and what do
we get on the Pullman coach?
1.-THE porter knows that the average
travelling man when he boards Pull
man coach at night is dead tired. I'm
less he Is we'll tipped he sees to- it that
half the bedding Is not In the berth. You
while you are away he robs some one
else's BERTRAND there you are
1T Is simply case Of handing some
thing to the porter every time you pass
him OF you might as we'll ride in a day
coach at night. If he doesn't get any
thing when he holds out his hand he will
undo more than he has done for you.
1T looks to me that about the best
remedy would be for the railroad COM
panies to employ chamberma ids-women
who have worked In hotels and who knou,
how to fix up bed so that the occupant
is likely to enjoy a nights sleep and rest.
/ have yet to find q Pullman porter who
knows how to fix berth properly"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-29

Gently. being nearly as much as that of
j street itself, and with open windows
the suffering has become almost unbear-
able. The refuse cartmen pay no atten-
ton to regulations, and paper and dirt
are scattered everywhere. and the air is
full of smells. If the alley was less Of a
maze the police could keep a better look
out
Therefore l pray the Commissioners to
make a rule or regulation that all horses
end vehicles of any kind shall not go
faster than walk in the first 100 feet of
an alley entrance or exit, and that no
unnecessary noises be permitted in that
space.
This will not only give comfort to
the inmates of houses built on those
spaces without materially harming the
rights of others, but will increase the
safety of property, limbs and even life. ;"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-29
NO ICE CHESTS IN HIS HE'LL.
Camp Meeting Leader Says It Lacks
Green Tables and Beer, Too.

CHICAGO, July EFF hell was a
place of green tables and ice chests with
beer on tap. you'd believe in it, but the
hell that God tells you about you don't
like, and SO you say You don't believe
in It, said DIR. w. E. Biederwolf at the
Des PLANES camp meeting before large
throng.
IF you find man." he continued, who
goes out of his way to Gecry the judg-
ment of God and keeps his little garden
hose turned toward the other world to
put out the fires of hell, you can bank
on it that there is something wrong in
his life
IF people spent less time in trying to
find out where sin came from and more
time in trying to get rid of 1t. the diff
ference In their lives would make up for
the disappointment in the lack of knowl-
edge. Environment is getting to be the
twentieth century apology for deviltry.
People talk about ethical culture and
sewer gas and ventilation as if all the
rascals lived on the BOWery and all the
ethical models lived 9Th avenue. No
one denies that there is some good in all
these things, but not as substitute for
Gods plan of getting rid of SIM