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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10

Joseph Vacek, Jr.. aged seventeen
years. confessed to the Chicago police
that he murdered his father. His con-
fession furnished quick solution of
a crime that was discovered when
Mrs. Joseph Vacek, returning to her
residence, found her husband dead
with bullet through his temple.
Vacek was contractor and well to do.
as in the labor cases of Meyer, Hay
wood and Mcnamara, was condemned
in a report presented by the senate
select committee appointed to inves-
tigate the third degree methods of
the police authorities Of the United
States. Senator Borah presented the
report on behalf of the committee.
Charles H. Meyer was reelected
president of the Western Federation
Of Miners at Butte. Mont, by vote
of S07 to 80.
After saving her niece from drown
ing at Coney Island, N. Y. fifteen-year-
old Fannie Westerman lost a fight
with the undertow for her own life.
80
Impelled to suicide through illness
and drink, Lieut.. Charles Edgar Brill
hart of the navy department was
found dead in his room In the Hotel
Astor m New York city.
Admiral Count Togo. the conqueror
OF the Russian feet in the battle of
the sea Of japan, arrived in America
for visit of II days and was re-
ceived by representatives of the gov
eminent. whose guest he is.
deluge Of rain has fallen In the
Prairie Dog valley. Kansas, causing
great property damage. the Interrupt
ton Of railroad traffic and the trans
formation of small streams into raging
torrents.
President Taft has signed a procla.
nation reducing the area of the ma
tional petrified forest of Arizona from
ninety-five to forty square miles. This
reduction is made upon the recon-
mendation Of DIR. George p. Merrill.
head curator of geology of the nation
al museum.
Robert Cole. the iegro song writer,
author of THE Girl With the Dreamy
Eyes" and other popular melodies.
committed suicide at Catskill, N. Y.
The population of New York city
passed the 100000 mark on August /.
according to figures prepared by the
health department.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
Inspector selzes vneaar.

DR.. A. Brown, government food and
drug inspector, has seized thirty bar.
rels OF vinegar made by the Central
City Vinegar com oany Of Peoria and
shipped to the company's local agent
in Des Moines. The vinegar is put
out by the company as cider vinegar
and DR.. Brown declares the label is
not correct. 1t is likely that suit
will be brought against the company
In the federal court for alleged vic.
lation OF the pure food act.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES OF A WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN ITEMIzEp
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into q Few Lines for the
PerusaI Of tho Busy Man
Latest Personal Infer
nation.
Washington

George p. McCabe, solicitor of the
department of agriculture. testified be-
fore the house investigating commit.
tee that 1t was upon his recommended.
ton and not Doctor Wiley's that all
prosecutions for violations of the pure
food law were ordered or dropped by
the secretary of agriculture.
Charles A. White testified before
the Lorimer committee that William
M. Rossel, an Illinois labor leader,
told him In 1910 that he was reliably
informed that ED Hull, was sent a
message to bring $65,000 to Spring
field and that was where the money
came from that was used in the Lori
mer election" White said he was not
permitted to tell this at the first Lori
mer hearing.
President Taft has sent to the sen.
ate the nomination of Capt. Alfred
Reynolds. u. S. N, as rear admiral.
The congressional reapportionment
bill passed the United States senate
by an undivided vote, but the meas.
ure, as 1t came from the house. was
so amended as to safeguard against
gerrymandering of congressional dis
tricts by the state. The measure
gives the house 433 members, an In
crease of AZ over the present repre-
sentation.
In the presence Of President Taft
and a notable company of government
officials. In the presidents library In
the White House, two international
arbitration treaties, designed to end
the possibility of war between the
United States and Great Britain and
the United States and France were
signed. -
The Democratic cotton bill cutting
an average Of 81 per cent. from thu
present duty passed the house, al
the Democrats and thirty insurgents
voting for It. The total vote wal
202 to 81.
The sharpest kind of cross-examina
ton by counsel for Senator Lorimel
before the committee which is in
vestigating Mr.. Lorimer's election a
Washington, failed to shake in an,
degree the story of Charles A. White
former member of the Illinois legisla
ture whose admission that he wa
brfbed to vote for Lorimer brough
about the inquiry.
Standing upon chairs, waving hand
kerchiefs and yelling at the tops o
their voices. Democratic representa-
tives acclaimed Representative Osca
w. Underwood of Alabama, Democrat
&c leader Of the house Of representa-
tves at Washington. when he fred |
verbal broadside at William Jennings
Bryan for criticising his position OF
extension Of the tariff revision pro
gram.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
Personal

Miss Laura G. Smith of Republican
City. Neb., and Alfred d. Adson, a
senior In the medical school at the
University of Nebraska, were married
on Castle rock. $50 feet above the
ground. in Boulder canyon. Colorado.
Rear Admiral Nicholson, chief of
the navigation bureau, has had the
curious and disagreeable experience
Of reading cablegrams addressed to
his family expressing sympathy and
coincidence over his death.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
Sporting

The merchants and manufacturers
$4,000 stake, for 20 years the trotting
classic of Detroit's blue ribbon meet.
was won in straight heats by Anvil.
Pop" Geers driving. 1t was Geers'
fifth M. and NJ. victory Anvil is a
bay stallion. owned by Frank Jones
of Memphis. Tenn.
Miss Stokes, owned by w. E. d.
Stokes of New York, won the honors
in the 3-year-old futurity trot at De-
troit. She lost the first heat but took
the next two, and under the conditions
pulled down $5.400. To justice Brooke
went $500 and to Main Lear $500.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10

Fifty persons are dead In Nicaragua
as a result Of the recent floods on the
gulf coast and In the interior. The
town of Rema was submerged and the
gunboat Omatepe sunk in the Rema
river.
Thousands of deaths have been
caused by the heat throughout Ger
many. One thousand persons have
died from sunstroke, 500 have sue
cumbed to gastritis and typhus and
scores have been stricken fatally with
heart failure while bathing.
The end of the Moroccan trouble
between Germany and France Is In
sight. Jules Cambon. the French am
bassador at Berlin, and Maj. Won
Kiderlen- Waechter, the German for
eign secretary, have found a common
ground of settlement on general lines.
though the details remain to be
worked out.
At the centennial jubilee OF Bres-
lau university, Germany. honorary de-
grees were conferred on President
Emeritus Eliot Of Harvard. Rev. B.
w. Bacon of Yale, President Butler OF
Columbia and Prof. Theobald Smith
of Harvard.
Prolonged hot weather has caused
an Ice famine In London. and the de,
mands of the city and the provincial
centers for Ice cannot be satisfied I'M
I'll the arrival of cargoes from Nor
way.
A girl was born to Mrs. Angelina
Napolitano at the General hospital at
Sault Ste. Marie. Ont. Mrs. Napol
itano was sentenced to be hanged for
killing her husband. Owing to wide
spread interest manifested In her case
the sentence was committed to life
imprisonment.
The loss of eight lives and desper.
ate struggles with maniacs who fought
against rescue attended fire which
destroyed one of the main buildings
of the insane asylum on the side OF
the mountain southwest Of Hamilton,
Ono. There we're 500 patients in the
building when the fire was discovered
The dominion government has taken
the duty from coal imported into Can
ada at all ports between Sault Ste
Marie, Ont. and the Pacific coast te
relieve the coal famine in the west
ern provinces
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
Domestic

Because Robert G. Valentine. COM
missioner of Indian affairs, made
charges against him that resulted In
his removal from the government serv-
ice, Joseph Farr, until recently gen
eral superintendent of logging In the
Indian service. has filed $4,000 suit
for libel and SANDER.
A decree was handed down by the
United States circuit court In New
York city on the mandate of the
United States Supreme court, enjoin-
ing the defendants in the American
Tobacco company case. their agents
and servants. from doing any act
which may further enlarge and extend
the power Of the combination by any
means or device whatsoever.
Owing to great slides of earth and
rock, the famous Culebra cut has
proved to be the most annoying and
expensive part of the engineering
work on the Panama canal. The COM
mission has consequently been obliged
to revise it's estimates and to add
5.257,2S1 cubic yards to the excava-
ton work.
Thomas Birmingham of Robinson.
H.. wealthy oil operator. was killed.
and r. e. Wyland, an oil contractor,
was hurt when an automobile. driven
by Birmingham. plunged over an
eight-foot embankment at Martins
Vile, Ill.
Seven persons, three of them little
girls, were victims OF an aeroplane ac-
cident at the Chicago School of Avia-
tons field, when Frank Bellai lost
control Of big Curtiss biplane and
swooped down from height of 100
feet into crowd of $50 spectators.
s-s
Rev. DR.. Willard Francis Mallalieu,
bishop OF the Methodist Episcopal
church, and probably the Oldest minis
ter in point of years of service in the
denomination, died at Auburndale,
Mass, after months Illness He was
SO years old.
Dorothy Arnold. the missing New
York girl, Is living and safe. according
to a statement made at Biddeford.
Me-, by q woman who is intimately ac-
Quainted with the Arnold family. She
said the young woman would be found
by October I.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
Heavy Penalty Provided.

Hence, If person buys bushel
of potatoes" said Commissioner
Barney, he should not be content to
see bushel basket heaped full--he
should insist on being weighed out
sixty pounds"
The crusade will not be confined
to Des Moines alone, or to the large
cities. but will be general and sweep
ing.
A heavy penalty is provided for .
violation of the weights and meas
ures law. For the first conviction a
fine of from $40 to 500 may be i'm
posed. The penalty for second Of
lenses is not to exceed fine of $500
or Jail sentence Of ninety days.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
New Normal Courses.

1890
The first twenty-three cities and
towns to be assigned as places In
which the high school normal train,
ing course will be established were
announced recently by A. M. Deyoe
state superintendent of public in
struction. A total of forty-one high
schools will be designated as normal
training course schools this year
Next year the balance Of the coun.
ties will be given the course.
The cities and towns whose high
schools get the course are as fol
lows: Newton. Guthrie county high
school at Panora, Northwood, Waiver
ly, Onawa, Spencer, Emmetsburg
Cherokee, Carroll, Osceola, Ireen
field Marshalltown, New Hampton
Maquoketa, Elkader, Hampton, wap
clio, Atlantic, Estherville, Waukpn,
Creston and lie Mars. Each of these
high schools will receive $500 from
the state for the support OF the nor
NAL training course.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
All Are Being Watched.

Sixty immigrants from the cholera
infected districts Of Europe have
entered Iowa during the month of
July. Secretary Sumner has the
name and location OF every one of
them and they are being watched by
local boards OF health.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
Table Of Legal Weights.

The supplement to the code sets
the standards of bushel weights,
which, on common products. are as
follows:
Apples. As pounds.
Beans, 60 pounds.
Beets, sc pounds.
Blackberries, 30 pounds.
Carrots, so pounds.
Cherries, 40 pounds.
Corn on the cob, 20 pounds.
Corn in the ear unhusked, IS
pounds.
Cornmeal, so pounds.
Cucumbers, As pounds.
Currants, 40 pounds.
Dried Apples. "a pounds.
Dried peaches, SO pounds.
Gooseberries, 40 pounds.
Grapes, 40 pounds.
Green beans, unshelled, Sc pounds.
Green peas, unshelled, so pounds.
Millet seed. SO pounds.
Oats, 32 pounds.
Onions, 81 pounds.
Parsnips, AZ pounds.
Peaches, As pounds.
Peas, 60 pounds.
Popcorn in the ear, 20 pounds.
Popcorn, shelled. Sc pounds.
Potatoes, 60 pounds.
Ounces, 4S pounds.
Raspberries, 80 pounds.
Rutabagas, 80 pounds.
Rye, Sc pounds.
Salt. so pounds.
Sand. 100 pounds.
Shelled corn Sc pounds.
Stone coal, 80 pounds.
Strawberries, 32 pounds.
Sweet corn. 80 pounds.
Sweet potatoes, 46 pounds.
Tomatoes. so pounds.
Turnips. IS pounds.
Walnuts, so pounds.
Wheat en- mounds
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
STATE LOSER ON AUTO DEAL
Secretary Of State Says That rs Per
Cent. OF Tax Will Not
Pay Expenses.

Des Moines.--For the present, at
least the state of Iowa will go "in
the hole" in complying with the new
auto tax law. according to Secretary
Of State Hayward.
The first apportionment OF the fund
created by the new law will be made
within few days The sum total
of the fund is little over Sill, 900.
OF this amount the state will get
about $4,000 to defray expenses and
all the remainder will be divided
among the counties for use In build
ing good roads.
The contract price for the num-
bers sold to autoists by the state Is
$4,000. 1t is estimated that 1t costs
like amount to deliver the num-
bers to the motor car owners. Hence,
1t costs the state practically $4,000
to secure the official number plates
and deliver them to auto owners.
Hence, the states share of the
tax is eaten up to begin with. But
in addition to the cost of securing
the number plates. the state must
bear the expense OF postage-which
is heavy-of the additional employees
about the office by reason Of the In
creased work occasioned by the law,
and other incidentals. / doubt wheth-
err the state could come out even IL
the law We're changed SO that 25 per
cent OF the fund could be retained by
the state to defray expenses"
The law provides that the distribu.
ton of the fund be made Aug. l.,
but the state treasurer could not
comply because of the failure of some
county auditors to report to him the
number of townships in their coun.
ty.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
Every city should Have Market.


THE market place is certainly a
good thing for the people of Des
Moines," remarked Justice c. NJ.
Aylesworth. Il was over the other
day and purchased basket Of corr,
two dozen ears for rs cents, and II
was as fine a grade of sweet corn as
anyone would want. II is fine thing
If 1t will drive out the grafters. ]
believe that the man who raises prod
uce should have right to sell II
wherever he chooses. This market
place is good thing, as 1t brings
the producer next to the consumer
and this is the object that should be
aimed at. Anyone who has the i'm
preston that only the common PEG
pie are the ones who desire to buy
as cheaply as possible are mistaken
as the best people of the city are
to be found at the market place with
their baskets and arguing over the
prices. Produce is what the people
want and 1t should be SO they could
deal with the producer direct, and
the middleman should be eliminated.
i believe that every town in the state
OF any size should have market
place, and the council did great
thing when they started this one.
The market place certainly gives the
common people a chance"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
IN STATEWIDE WAR
Barney Declares Crusade After
Conference with Cosson
WILL TEST ALL MEASURES
Commissioner Urges Everyone 70
Buy by Weight Instead Of by
Measure-insists II 10 Most
Equitable.


Des Moines.s-A state wide crusade
against short measures has been an
nounced by w. B. Barney, state dairy
and food commissioner, following .
conference with Attorney General
Cosson. The last legislature made
it the duty of the commissioner to
enforce the weights and measures
law. The first step of the commits
sioner will be to, instruct the depart
ment inspectors all over the state to
make an immediate test OF measures
and scales In all the food handling
shops. The inspectors will compare
weights and measures to see If they
are true and IL they correspond.
House wives and ultimate consumers
all over the state will be advised to
purchase scales and see that here
after potatoes, apples and the like
are purchased by weight instead OF
by measure. Il have made consider
able investigation in this business"
said Commissioner Barney, land l
find that the purchaser will be great
ly benefited If he insists on purchas-
ing by weight instead Of by measure.
1t will be wise thing for the house
wife to have a good set of scales
handy, that she may weigh potatoes
and the like when they are delivered.
The Iowa law establishes how many
pounds shall constitute a bushel of
potatoes. of apples, of beets, of
blackberries. ETC., and II bushel
measure does not hold the number
Of pounds designated by the statute
the dealer must make up the differ
ence.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
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New Iowa Corporations.

Articles for two twenty-year cor
porations each with capital stock
of $4,000 has been filed with the
state secretary.
The King-Gilder Grain Co.. Co
dar Rapids concern, and the Clinton
Manufacturing company. filed amend
ed and substituted articles changing
the name to the Clinton Manufactur-
ing and Investment company calling
for the above amount.
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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
VIII Ask for Reversal.

VIII Ask for Reversal.
Thomas Sellers. attorney for the
saloon interests in Des Moines, an
nounced the intention OF the "wets'
to appeal to the supreme court from
the decision OF Judge De Graf. who
held that the Moon law is intended
to limit the number Of saloons &c
one for each 1000 people ana who
held there may be no more thar
eighty-six saloons in Des Moines
Judge De Gran prevented the city
from granting seven license. q ex
cess Of sighty-six.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
VIII Test All Scales.

Retail grocers Of Iowa are inter-
ested in the announcement of the
state dairy and food department that
the weights and measures law OF the
state will be enforced Immediately.
Within few days the inspectors
Of the dairy and food department will
make tests OF scales in all food hand
ling shops, also all measures will be
tested. Commissioner Barney has
been in Iowa City to confer with the
state sealer of weights and measures
as to the best method of testing
weights and measures.
Plans For Express Fight.
Attorney General Cosson has ask
ed that an examination OF all the way
bills and all the books OF the ex-
press companies doing business in
Iowa be made by his department. He
wants this examination to be a part
of the express rate cases. He says
that when the application for writ
Of temporary Injunction Is heard
August 18th, that most OF the evil
dence will be in he form Of sridav-
its. The real work will be done when
tho merits OF the case are gone into.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
Marko Named as clerk.

Edward Marke, of Des Moines, was
appointed clerk of the new state an.
ti-toxin department by Secretary
Sumner, OF the state board OF health.
This department was created by the
last legislature.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10

A deluge of rain has fallen in the
Prairie Dog valley. Kansas, causing
great property damage. the Interrupt
ton Of railroad traffic and the trans
formation of small streams into raging
torrents.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10

Prolonged hot weather has caused
an Ice famine in London. and the de,
mands of the city and the provincial
centers for ice cannot be satisfied I'M
til the arrival of cargoes from Nor
way.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
Foreign

Fifty persons are dead in Nicaragua
as result Of the recent floods on the
gulf coast and In the interior. The
town of Rema was submerged and the
gunboat Omatepe sunk in the Rema
river.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10
Druggists, Board Meets.

AT meeting of the executive com.
mittee OF the State Pharmaceutical
association In Des Moines. legisla.
tive representative was selected for
each county and plans were made to
extend the membership. Those who
attended the meeting were Frank
Shane OF Eldon, chairman of the ex.
ecutive committee, and @. NJ. Peder.
son of Storm Lake and Milo J. John
of Clinton. members Of the commit.
tee, and President N. F. Reed and
Secretary Falkenharner OF the state
association.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10

The dominion government has taken
the duty from coal imported into Can
ada at all ports between Sault Ste
Marie, Ont. and the Pacific coast te
relieve the coal famine in the west
ern provinces
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-10

Admiral Count Togo. the copqueror
OF the Russian feet in the battle of
the sea of japan. arrived in America
for visit of IL days and was re-
ceived by representatives of the gov
eminent. whose guest he is.
The evening world., 1911-03-04
Too Lddylike.

TIRE CHEF ROBERT q. MESNOR 4 Can
ton will hG e 10 cigarette SmoAtrs among
his f.lcmcn. Cigarette smokers, he claim'.
lack nerve,
Your cigarette smoker" said the sturdy ohi''
to a %IcpoJtrr, 'is too laiyike for fft teltlng.
"nEe If these cigarette-InoEing Fo,fl men lHi
oroasirl az a lar t,t festival u refer % the story
of Jorah.
" iIorah. he said. ia-s,d three dn, aud thr,,
nights in the wrVlCs-or-t the Whale','-
lie hiusltl fur,oue'v agl added:
tie whales ,uyic,y. -Wa.AlrgtOn Star.
The evening world., 1911-03-04

tn Devil may be a Man of Few
Words. but he sure does love to Dlckerl
We used to double-dog-dare Destiny
"a come and muss our halr-but OF late
years we've been canning a lot OF that
kind OF comedy!
\ neauty Specialist Informs MS con-
idontlally hat the Beauty that Is only
Skin Deep often gets Skinned.
Temptation doesn't nave TO get out a
Search Warrant for many Of u.s.
The evening world., 1911-03-04
Held the Winning Hand.

q ENAToR oyERMAN said the other day Of
3 defeated bill:
1T deserved to lie defeated. II was a.
irregular as the tin ran poker game. A man,
describing this game, said:
'Orc-tycl Rore,. On my right, held fcu'
kings ar1 IN ace. Two fingered Schcrmcthoru
on my left. hIl four aces and a king
And you, what dill you holi.'
~, hCinG the Coroner, held the inquest wa
tie IN '-Wa,iin,,on star.