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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

Mason City, Aug. 14.-Word comes
from Denver where the national con-
vention Of the Modern Brotherhood
of America is in session that the
convention voted to expend 100000
at once in erecting national head.
quarters here.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
plant VIII be Rebuilt.

Spirit Lake. Aug. 1.-THE West
ern Packing company. which was de
stroyed by fire last week, will com
mence Immediately to rebuild s25,
600 structure here and will be op
Grating full blast again within few
months.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
pauahters o. the Revolution.

Baskerville. Aug. 14.-For four
days the Daughters of the Revolu,
ton will hold celebration here.
August 81 to September 3 at which
time a shaft will be dedicated in
honor of old Fort Defiance. pioneer
land mark.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Official Under FIre-suleides.

Cedar Rapids, Aug. I4.-Returnins
from the national meet of park sup.
erintendents at Kansas City to find
that the city council was Investigate
ing charges of immortality against
him, Park Superintendent Sam Woods
today shot himself. dying instantly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
War On Fake Scales.

The eleven inspectors OF the state
food and dairy department will be
equipped next week with scale and
measure testers. so that they can
begin the work of inspecting all
scales and measures in the state.
Each inspector will carry small
sample case, which will contain the
testers. They will visit every deal
er in the state, as they make their
rounds looking after food and milk.
The office of state sealers of weights
and measures cannot be moved to
Des Moines from Iowa City until aft
er the next legislature convenes and
amends the law. Commissioner Bar
ney of the food and dairy depart
ment has been trying to get the Of
fee moved to Des Moines to facilitate
the work of his department, but he
finds that section of the code stands
in the way.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Sues Town Of Charles CITY

Charles City, Aug. 14.-Adsms
stoehr filed claim against the city
for $4,000 for injuries he is alleged
to have received from falling into
sewer ditch.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
browns In River.

Dubuque, Aug. 14.-Dr. Hartbeck,
prominent veterinary surgeon OF
Colesburg, was drowned while cross.
ing q swollen stream near his home
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Motorman Shoots Himself.

Clinton, Aug. 14.--Arthur Phillipa
a motorman on the Clinton Street
Railway lines, shot himself in what
is believed to have beer an attempt
at suicide.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Domestic

Many persons were injured. but
none fatally, when nitroglycerin.
placed under the rails. exploded with
terrific force as Pittsburgh, Butler
& Harmony interurban car filled with
passengers, homeward bound from
business at Pittsburg. Pa. ran over
the mine.
James Dugan, cab driver, ate fifty
seven ears of corn at the annual corn
eating contest given by Tammany in
New York. He won the 1911 cham
pionship and purse of gold coin.
To find $50 witnesses in the Nc
Namara dynamiting trial at Los An
geles. man and woman detectives are
securing the country.
Too much poetry, too many kisses,
too much love, too many smiles and
too little work made Wentworth Car
ter of Kansas City an unfit husband.
Mrs. Carter told Judge Porterfield
recently and the Judge was convinced
enough to give her a divorce.
Congressman Ollie James Of Ken
lucky, DR.. Harvey w. Wiley and Col
Henry Watterson have been asked to
act as jury to decide controversy
between Albert Small and s. H.
Jewett, New Workers, as to the prop
er method of making mint julep.
Thirty tons of antiquities dug from
the ruins of several ancient Egyptian
cities were unloaded in New York
from a German freighter. The ship
ment was consigned to the Metropolis
tan Museum of Art and represents
several years work.
A speech that went far toward sub
duing antagonism to the methods OF
the department of the interior-an an
tagonism shared by no small faction In
Colorado-marked the visit of Secre.
tary of the Interior Walter L. Fisher
TO Denver.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
VIII Ask New Holiday.


The 1912 session of the state legis-
lature will witness statewide ef.
fort on the part OF the Knights OF
Columbus to have October 18th set
apart as a holiday to be known as
Columbus Day or Discovery Day"
and to be celebrated in commemora-
ton of the discovery of America.
The state delegates who attended the
national convention. held last week
in Detroit, decided upon this move
ment. Several states have already
made this holiday.
TroubIe at Muscatlne.
The Muscatine button workers are
again involved in difficulty according
to a message received by A. l.. Ur-
lick, president of the Iowa State Fed.
Grafton of Labor, from Samuel Comp
ers Of Washington, d. c., in which
Gompers requests Mr. Urick to pro-
coed to the scene. Llr. Trick is ad-
justing the difficulty. The street car
situation in Des Meines. Mr.. Urick
says, prevents his going to Musca-
tine. He has so wired Mr.. Gompers,
who probably will send another rep
resentatiye thither
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Plan to Improve the River.

Plans for cooperation are being
made by the Des Moines River Pow
er company and the United States
government, according to A. c.. Mill
er, who has just returned from De.
troit, where he attended conference
of representatives OF both. Plans
of the government call for twenty
three locks and dams between Keo.
kuk and Des Moines and the power
company plans to build dams along
the same stretch. 1t is thought that
the company will be allowed to build
its power plants and Improvements In
case il Is found that the ints-~sts OF
the people can be protected and the
water power at the same time put
to use by the company. Plans fol-
company Improvements will, oil
course, need to be approved by the
government"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
DEs MONIES GETS NOTHING
Capital City Does Not Share In Dis
tribution Of Funds From the
Auto Tax.

Des Moines.-Despite the fact that
1t owns more automobiles than any
other city in the state. Des Moines
will receive nothing rs its share of
the new automobile road tax. This
feature of the new road law was dis
covered by County Auditor Harry b.
Erase. The law provides that all the
money derived from the tax on auto
mobiles shall be spent in the coun'
try and none of it goes to the incor.
porated towns and cities in the
state. According to the new revision
each township in the county will have
$50 as Its share of the automobile
tax to spend on the roads.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

| Judge John r. Hazel In United
States district court at Buffalo. N.
Y, held that the Standard Oil COM
pany must stand trial at the next
regular term on an indictment Of 143
counts. charging acceptance of re-
bates from the Pennsylvania Railroad
company and the New York Central
Railroad company on shipments OF
petroleum from Olean, N. Y, to Bur
lington, VT, in violation of the Elkins
law.
Attempting to escape after being
remanded to jail for examination,
Martin Shadowens shot Justice of the
Peace James Mannon, City Marshal
John Stakinrider and spectator and
cut Deputy Thomas Mackey. Mackey
shot and killed Shadowens, whose
brother Charles fell from second
story window and was probably
fatally hurt. The shooting occurred
at Christopher. ILL.,
Eva Geronimo. twenty years old,
wife of Fred Good-Lee-Ay and last of
the children of Geronimo, the famous
war chief of the Apaches, who died
at Fort Still three years ago, died of
tuberculosis at Geronimo's village in
the military reservation at Fort Still.
Okla,
Angelo Marine. six years old, for
whom the Chicago police have been
searching for week, has been re-
turned to his parents. Nine men and
three women, all Italians, to whom
the boys father said he paid $500.
were arrested. Most of them were
relatives of the Marine family.
The hundredth anniversary of the
opening up of the Pacific Northwest
and the founding of Astoria. Ore, by
John Jacob Astor's expeditions. is be-
ing celebrated at Astoria by a festi-
val that will last one month.
The peach crop in Connecticut will
be SO large this year that special
train will be added to the Hartford
New York schedule during the har-
vesting season to carry the daily out
put to the New York markets.
The highest price paid for milk in
Milwaukee is soon to be established.
Arrangements have been made by a
dairy company to purchase all the
milk from Pauline Wayne, President
Taft's COW, for five dollars a gallon.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Personal

1t is announced that ZAP Hayman,
for twenty years one of the most i'm
portant financial figures in the Ameri-
can theatrical world, will retire from
active business and henceforth make
his home abroad.
w. J. Calhoun. American minister to
New York on the steamer Kronprin
zessin Cecilie. Passengers on the
Olympic sailing for New York includ-
ed ]. Pierpont Morgan.
William N. Moore, a millionaire
orange grower of Redlands. Cal. and
stove manufacturer of Joliet. ILL.,, died
in New Zealand. Heart disease was
the cause Mr.. Moore had been Ill
only two days.
The fortune left by the late John
w. Gates, who died in Paris. France,
was estimated at being thirty and
forty millions of dollars. probably
nearer the former than the latter fig
ure.
Vice-President Sherman, whose son
Capt. Thomas M. Sherman, is on duty
with the militia at Pine Camp, N. ".
has offered to ship two carloads of ice
a day from Utica at his expense to be
distributed among the troops.
Mrs. Ida Nelson, mother Of Battling
Nelson. one-time lightweight cham.
pion Of the world, was killed by a
fast mail train at the Burnham sta
ton near Chicago. She stepped from
a train at the depot just as the mail
train passed.
Miss Florence Hopwood, a Mime
apolis girl, is to become the wife OF
Charles G. Gates. son of John W.
Gates, American millionaire, who died
in Paris.
Miss Julia Steele French, daughter
of Amos Tuck French of Tuxedo and
Newport and niece of Mrs. Elsie
French Vanderbilt, former wife OF
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, eloped
with John Edward Paul Geraghty. a
chauffeur of Newport, r. !. The couple
were married In a village in Connects
cut
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
"6oshv Says Hayward.

0OSH Gays TdyWdTu.
Secretary Of State Hayward brands
as false the story In the Webster
City Journel that he cost the state
$4,000 by sending the auto number
plates by express instead OF mail.
THAT fellow. doesn't know what he
is talking about. His statement is
all bosh. AS a matter of fact ! sent
those number plates by express in
stead of mail to save money to the
state. We get an average of from
one to two cents cheaper rate by ex-
press on those plates than by mail.
Taken all in all, counting the whole
number of plates sent out it will be
found by the actual charges made by
the express companies that the sum
total will be less than II the plates
had been sent by mail AS to sending
those single plates by freight, this is
worse than bosh, that 1t absolutely
silly"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

Miss Florence Hopwood, Mime
apolis girl. is to become the wife OF
Charles G. Gates. son Of John w.
Gates. American millionaire. who died
in Paris.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
HAPPENINGS
Of A WEEK
sa@s #
Latest News Told
in Bricfcst and
Best Form.
Washington

Washington
President Taft has received @
watermelon weighing 104 pounds to
help him keep peaceful during the
dog days" between now and the time
congress adjourns 1t came from
Texas
A story of 'inquisitorial methods
in the department of agriculture and
of "humiliating experiences" to which
officials in the bureau OF chemistry
were subjected by Solicitor McCabe
of that department was recited to
the Moss committee of the house oil
representatives.
The deadlock between the house
and senate was broken and the wool
bill probably will be passed finally
by both branches OF congress. The
wool bill, as agreed upon, was SC
amended as to require that the pro
posed law shall take effect October
I instead of January /, as provided
in the senate and house measures
IL bill introduced to the senate
by Senator Cullom Of Illinois is en-
acted into law, the national capital
will become the center of wheel OF
seven great national highways pass
ing through every state in the union
With the cooperation of the bureau
agriculture the bureau of Indian af.
fairs is squirting the Indians to follow
agricultural pursuits and incidentally
is teaching them how to farm their al.
lotments with profit.
Senators and representatives no
longer will have the pleasure of seeing
their speeches grace the front page OF
the Congressional Record. A rule has
been adopted and put into force where
by the Regular senate proceedings
must have first place in the record.
The battle ship Michigan is the
champion of the navy. The vessel was
awarded the battle efficiency pen
nant for the highest combined final
merits in gunnery and engineering
for the year ended June 80. 1911.
The greatest decline In the condi.
ton of crops during a single month
since 1901--a general slump through
out the country, due to drouth and
intense heats indicated in the gov
eminent crop report for August. pub
lished by the department of agricul
ture.
Declaring that the smashing of the
Standard OIL was red flag and dan
ger signal to every big corporation
in the country. George w. Perkins
Of the steel trust urged upon the
Stanley steel investigating committee
at Washington the necessity for radi.
cal changes in the antitrust laws.
President Taft received dispatch
from the emperor Of Japan thanking
him for the cordial reception Of Ad.
miral Togo by the American people.
The state department processes to
believe that the arbitration treaties
will SO grow in public favor that the
senate will be obliged to ratify them
If not now. at the regular session
of congress in December.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

the same stretch. 1t is thought that
the company win be allowed to build
its power plants and improvements In
case il IL found THAI the int..-~sts or
the people can be protected and the
water power at the same time put
to use by the company. Plans for
company improvements will, oil
course, need to be approved by the
government"
Strike Of Button Workers.
Reports of threatening situation
among the button workers in Musca-
tine has occasioned a sudden trip to
the river town This week by State La
Dor Commissioner e. w. Van Duyn.
Advices from the seat OF trouble
are meager. But little information on
the subject was given out in the Office
of the state labor commissioner.
All that is known at this end is
that the Mckee & BIeyen factory has
discharged number of employees.
This action has stirred the ire of
members of the button workers un.
ion, IL is stated. with the result that
a general strike is being talked of
unless the discharged employees are
reinstated.
Mine Conditions Will Be Probed.
Secretary Sumner charges that the
sanitary conditions in the mines of
Iowa are the worst possible. This
week he will make formal demand on
the mine owners of the state to
change this condition or stand prose.
cution. He charges that In many
mines the men are compelled to work
under the worst possible sanitary
conditions. He declares that this
condition must end, and end at once.
In company with State Mine Inspec,
tor Sweeney, Secretary Sumner will
visit every one of the mines of Iowa,
and after a personal investigation of
the sanitary conditions. he will pro.
mulgate a set of sanitary rules for
use in the mines of the state.
Marke 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.
Go For BIG Game.
F. C. Hubbell and W. o. Smouse
leave this week for Alaska, where
they viii hunt big game. They will
join each other in Seattle and sail
together from that port. They will
bear credentials from the state OF
Iowa to the Canadian government
and to the officials OF Alaska, asking
that they be permitted to kill Ger.
tain big game protected by the laws
in case the pelts are preserved and
given over to the Iowa state muse
UNI.
Hlodgett Appeals Irritats cosson.
The application of ID. T. Blodgett
for release from the state reforma
tory at Anamosa is being heard by
Judge Walter l. Smith OF the United
States circuit court. The attorney
generals department has mailed a
copy OF their brief and argument
against Blodgett's appeal. The state
mas been put to untold expense
through the continued action OF
Blodgett IN appealing first to one
court and then another for release.
The Attorney General thinks Blod-
gett should be stopped.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

William N. Moore. a millionaire
orange grower of Redlands. Cal. and
stove manufacturer of Joliet. ILL.,, died
in New Zealand. Heart disease was
the cause. Mr.. Moore had been Ill
only two days.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

Pope Plus X. is resting more COM
fortably and there has been de-
cline in his temperature as a result
Of slight operation, his knee being
punctured and quantity of thick
liquid drawn therefrom by DR.. Andrea
Amici. who had been called in to as
sist the ponuff's regular physicians.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

Reports from Angola. Portuguese.
West Africa, say the natives have
risen at Lunca HULA and other places
and attacked the European settle
ments.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

The battle ship Michigan is the
champion of the navy. The vessel was
awarded the battle efficiency PEN
nant for the highest combined final
merits In gunnery and engineering
for the year ended June 80. 1911.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

London is in great peril of food
stuff famine unless some step is taken
to prevent the tieup which has re
suited from the great dock strike ac-
companied with frequent sharp col
lisions between the strikers and the
police.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Foreign

Fire on the Queensland docks at
Antwerp. where cotton is stored, did
damage amounting to $1,000,000. I'm
mense quantities Of saltpeter were
destroyed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

The greatest decline in the condi-
ton Of crops during single month
since 1901--a general slump through
out the country, due to drouth and
intense heats indicated in the gov
eminent crop report for August. pub
lished by the department of agricul-
ture
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

In explanation of the summary ex-
ecution of twenty-six men on the bat
tleship Numancia, the Spanish gov
eminent says the mutiny was part Of
republican plot.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

The highest price paid for milk in
Milwaukee is soon to be established.
Arrangements have been made by a
dairy company to purchase all the
milk from Pauline Wayne, President
Taft's COW, for five dollars gallon.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

Declaring that the smashing of the
Standard Oil was red flag and dan
ger signal to every big corporation
In the country. George w. Perkins
of the steel trust urged upon the
Stanley steel investigating committee
at Washington the necessity for radi-
cal changes in the antitrust laws.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

Fearful of the Asquith threat to
swamp the ountry with newly Gre
ated peers the British house of lords
passed the veto bill by a vote of 131
to ia. The resolution to pay mem
bers of the house of commons $4,000
annually for their services was car
ried by a vote of 256 to 159.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

The state department processes to
believe that the arbitration treaties
will SO grow in public favor that the
senate will be obliged to ratify them.
II not now. at the regular session
of congress in December.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

Senators and representatives no
longer will have the pleasure of seeing
their speeches grace the front page Of
the Congressional Record. A rule has
been adopted and put into force where
by the Regular senate proceedings
must have first place in the record.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

President Taft received a dispatch
from the emperor Of Japan thanking
him for the cordial reception of Ad-
miral Togo by the American people.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

The peach crop in Connecticut will
be SO large this year that special
train will be added to the Hartford
New York schedule during the har-
vesting season to carry the daily out
put to the New York markets.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

To find $50 witnesses in the Nc
Namara dynamiting trial at Los An
geles, man and woman detectives are
securing the country.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17

The hundredth anniversary of the
opening up of the Pacific Northwest
and the founding of Astoria, Ore, by
John Jacob Astor's expeditions. Is be-
ing celebrated at Astoria by a festi-
val that will last one month.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-08-17
Mine Conditions viii Be Probed.
Marke 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, 1911-08-17

James Dugan. cab driver. ate fifty
seven ears of corn at the annual corn
eating contest given by Tammany in
New York. He won the 1911 cham
pionship and purse of gold coin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-01

Lows:
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3sHYlt except Monday. Portland
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bee: 80 A NJ. Brunswick,
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NJ, Portland: 1915 +. NJ. Lewiston. Bath,
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GOING EAST-L30 a NJ, Skowhegan,
Bangor, st. John Halifax, Aroostook Co
sunday morning docs not connect beyond
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NatervilIe. Skowhegan and Bangor
SUNDAYS LEO y. NJ. 500 a. NJ. for Ban
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Trains leave Augusta for HaIloweli.
Gardiner and South Gard;3.-, at SIS 9 20
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days a.i9 \. NJ. 81 T. NJ. 1915 p NJ. For
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Monday: for Hallowell and Gardiner 30l
r. NJ.
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MORRIS MCDONALD. vice-Presiaent
& Gen'i Mgr, Portland. Me,