Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-22

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Moines viii be the direct result of the
sweeping decision OF the interstate
commerce commission in favor Of the
Greater Des Moines committee in Its
complaints against the Rock Island
Lake Shore and New York Central
lines. The commission ordered a re
duction in the through proportional
rate, which win mean a saving 10
Des Moines jobbers and manufactur
ers OF 20 per ZEN in freight charges
from the Atlantic seaboard and inter
mediate points.
There will be no Goodbye. Dollie.
must leave you" stunts pulled OF
by members of the Iowa National
guard when they go into camp for
ten days with their regiments dur.
ing the next W. months. Regimental
officers are planning the establish
ment OF ladies' camps" near those Of
the state troops, where officers and
p~riyates' wives may live and enjoy
ten days OF marches and sham battles
in which their husbands will partici.
pate.
Reports that the saloon men and
liberal city o~ficials are TO fight the
ir Interpretation Of the Moon law, which
is TO the effect that all resolutions Of
consent passed since the act was APP
proved on April Is are absolutely
void are not worrying Attorney Cen
eral II. W. Byers in the least. Mr..
Byers has takea the stand that IL
the city officials make the fight they
will nullify the law and violate the
intent Of the legislature.
AS the result OF the explosion of an
oil testing apparatus in the hands of
o. X. Olsen, newly appointed assist
n oil inspector, in the tank yard Of
the Standard Oil company's plant at
Des Moines, Manager Milton Storer
Of the Iowa division of the oil COM
pany has issued orders to the effect
that no government inspections may
hereafter be made on his company's
premises unless the inspectors are
experienced men.
/ That the plan OF Mrs. Mary Ide
Of Chicago to place confirmed drunk
ards and wife heaters i'm a penal col.
ony for life Is much too severe is the
opinion of Des Moines men who have
thought much on these problems.
While prominent Chicago judges and
ministers are looking with approval
On Mrs. Ide's plans Des Moines judges
and ministers frown upon it.
One hundred and fifty dollars
worth of cream was totally ruined
at the ~Fontannelle station Of the
Blue Grass creamery, thought to be
the result of malicious mischief. A
quantity of kerosene had been intro
duced into a vat holding nearly four
hundred gallons of cream, the odor
making the butter totally unfit for
use.
Mrs. Vera De Mole, the actress re-
Gently arrested in Seattle upon a
charge of fraudulently bringing into
America, $4,000 worth of Chinese
furniture, has been identified as a
former Iowa girl. She a the daugh.
ter of Mrs. Higginbotham, who mar.
ried Newton Searles, a plasterer at
Maxwell, Ia, in 1893.
Iowa prisons and reform schools
are to have a branch of the Society
for the Friendless, a religious organi
cation affiliated with the Christian En-
deayor society and already operating
in Kansas and Missouri, where thous
ands of ~ex-convicts have been placed
in good positions by the society.
j. Il. Bishop, former editor Of the
Grand Army Advocate of Des Moines
would have the capitol at Washington
ID. c., removed to the center of thu
United States, at Des Moines. He i.
now preparing the manuscript OF 4
book setting forth completely his
views upon the matter.
That Iowa and Des Moines manufac
turers could secure plenty of girls |
they paid Giving wages is the state
ment of State Labor COMMISSIONS
Van Duyn, who declares that the av
erage wage for factory girls is no
enough to keep soul and body togeth
er.
Maurice Lynch, known from New
York to San Francisco as a sporting
man, Is dead. He succumbed to tn
effects of an operation in Mercy hos
pital.
\ Chester E. Edwards, the ~23-year-ol
son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Edwards 0
Lorimer, died at his home in tina
city as the result of typhoid fever.
: Senator Jonathan p. Dolliver ha
; been invited to address the annua
D dinner of the Union League club O
i Chicago on W%ashington's birthday
February %, 1910, and has accepted.
Voluntarily incarcerated in a cel
( at the Des Moines city jail, DR.. Ale1
ander Hauseman, for twenty-one year
one of the leading practitioners c
medicine in northeastern Iowa, |
I making a heroic fight to free himsel
+ from the letters formed upon hi
mind and body by the demon mo
phine.
Because Henry Williams is allege
to have accused Miss Alice Sebert
of perjury, she filed suit in the di'
trict court against him for slandeI
l. asking $4,000 damages at Des Moine'
Madam Myron Is suffering from
d dislocated shoulder caused from tn
premature folding of a bed. The hu:
band escaped with slight injury The
reside at Creston.
Ida Frances Lyon, who says she
the daughter of Queen Anne of SEQ
q land and was a messenger during tn
Y, | civil war WAS adiudpad insane b