Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-03-26


and killed laborer named Ernesto
Reyes. Reyes and number of other
Mexicans had been discharged by the
company, but for a week or more had
refused to le4e the bunk cars. O'Neil
went TO the car and told them to
leave. Reyes and another Mexican
are claimed to have seized an ak and
spade and started for O'Neil, who
Jumped from the car and fired at the
men as they came to the door, killing
Reyes. O'Neil was acquitted by the
coroner's jury.
Many experimental stations will be
established throughout the state by
the agricultural college at Ames, If
plans for the renting OF tracts OF
twenty acres at each of the state in
situations can be carried out. PROBES.
sor Stevens of Ames placed the mat
ter before the board OF control. In
addition to experimental work he
agreed that the college authorities will
assist in teaching the inmates at the
institutions the principles Of modern
farming.
The optometrists and jewellers Of
Iowa win hold joint convention at
the Auditorium in Des Moines April
Is and 16, There will be big exhibit
of diamosds and an exhibit OF moving
pictures OF one Of the big watch fac
tories at local picture house. There
are about 1900 members Of the As
sociation in Iowa, and the attendance
viii be large.
After waiting fifty years for a pen
sion, John p. Wagner, aged 70, a mem
Der of the soldiers home from Ottum.
wa, soon will be on the pay roll OF
Uncle Sam as a civil war pensioner
In 1864 Wagner failed to salute Gen
eraa Anger, his superior officer, re-
sultdng in Wagner being dishonorably
discharged from the army.
An unidentified man was killed in
stantly and his companion, Frank
Carlinski, a Pole, was seriously injur-
ed when they were struck by Rock
Island train at the Chautauqua
crossing, east of Council Bluffs. The
men were on the track, watching the
passing OF Milwaukee train on
nearby track, when run over.
Former State Senator o. B. Court.
right, an attorney, is defendant in a
trial before Judge Plat at Waterloo
in which William ]. and Theodore NJ.
Graham seek to have set aside be-
quest in their sisters will by which
Mr. COPYRIGHT was given $4,000. 1t is
alleged that undue influence was used.
District No. 13 OF the United Mine
Workers reaffirmed its confidence in
Its officers by refusing any change In
o. ssl4sitii1 ss-the scale COM
mittee. This action was regarded as
a victory for the administration be-
cause seven Of the thirteen members
of the committee are district officials.
The News-Tribune of Muscatine has
made its appearance as an evening
paper. During the many years of its
existence it has always been a morn
ing paper but the management feels
that its greatest opportunity as pa
per lies in the evening field.
4. A man supposed to be Albert Dali
ton OF Creston, Ia. was murdered on
the 20" street viaduct in South Oma-
ha. His body, with the throat cut,
was found by an officer, but there is
no trace of the murderer. Dalton was
a railroad man about 40 years old.
j. C. Williams, one OF the oldest
residents of this county, died last
week while on visit in Illinois. Mr..
Williams was of the firm OF Eckert C
Williams of Lake Mills and North
wood, large dealers in agricultural
implements. ~
David Krebiel, plaintiff in the case
OF Krebiel VS.. Henkle, on trial at Fort
Madison, occupied the witness stand
throughout an entire day. The suit
rs for $1,000 for damages claimed to
have accrued from the yongful suing
out of a search warrant.
B. o. Aylesworsh, state organizer
for the progressive party, spoke to
full house of enthusiastic progressives
at Oeceola. After the regular meet
ing conference was held for the
purpose OF arranging for full county
ticket.
The body of John II. Janke was
found floating in the river at Burling-
ton. 1t was identified by papers found
In the clothing. Janke disappeared
Nov. "a, 1913. He was a member OF
the fraternal order OF Eagles.
At a meeting of the directors Of the
Cass County Fair association 1t was
decided TO hold the fair this year
Sept. IA to IS. Audubon will hold
It's fair the following week.
''Grandma' Gould, who retired from
the hotel business at Raymond when
80 years old, after conducting the
place for forty-fve years, has just
celebrated her ninety-ffth birthday.
A cash dividend of IS per cent on
the paid up capital was declared by
the Fernald Grain company Of Fern
aid ION March IL. Those who less
man year ago paid $50 for one share
in the company received a check for
$47.50 and the company reserved a
balance OF 100 per cent profit of the
business for working capital.
w. j.. Young. managing editor OF
I the Cedar Rapids Gazette, who has
been connected with the paper for
twenty-five years, les dangerously i'll
at his home in that city. At con-
sultatlon OF physicians it was declar-
ed he may not recover.
Charles w. Loc}zard OF Wadena was
taken hack to the Fort Madison peni- |
Tertiary after losing a habeas corpus
Gaze Lockard had served several |
months in the penitentiary Lockards
contention is th0t HIS attorneys per-
suaded him to consent to plea OF
guilty IN order 70 get light sen.
tence.
Mrs. katherine Korab, the mother
OF Paul A. Korab. cashier Of the Iowa
City State bank, and one Of the frs.
Bohemians to come to Aferica, died |
recently at Western. She was So
years old. She and h3r husband
came from Bohemia In 1854.