Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-01-27

bandits near Chihuahua, Is believed
to have been former Iowan and the
brother of G.. S. Adams and Mrs.
Stephen Schuessler of Iowa City. The
last work received from Adams came
three months ago when he was in
Chihuahua, He was interested in
mining ventures and had been in
Mexico fifteen years. He was in good
financial condition and was one OF
the best known mining men in north
ern Chihuahua.
Anti-saloon forces in East Du-
buque, the oasis of Dubuque thirsty
persons, since the mulct law repeal
became effective, have secured the
necessary signers to a petition to
close the saloons there. The question
will be voted on at the April cleo
ton. The liquor interests recently
installed extensive supplies in East
Dubuque, the number of wholesale
houses there increasing from two
to twelve. There are ten saloons in
the town, all doing big business
since Dubuque went dry.
w. r. Button, postmaster at FIRE.
donia, Wapello county, is held for the
federal grand jury on charge of hav-
ing embezZled postal money order
funds. The preliminary hearing was
before United States Commissioner
Miller Button conducts a general
store at Fredonia, in which is locat-
ed the postoffice. 1t is alleged that
as postmaster, he would fill out money
orders to pay for goods he had pur-
chased for his store, then keep the
profits.
Papers were signed by authorized
representatives of the state and the
Fort Madison Chair company where
by the state becomes owner of a
tract of land near the prison, front
ing 250 feet. The ground had been
used for storage purposes by the
chair company and 1t is likely the
state will use it for similar purposes
for the new chair factory which the
state Is installing at the prison, and
plans to have in operation within the
next few weeks.
Word has been received in Ne
vada of the awarding of hero med
al and pension to the widow of Ray
Watson, formerly of Stanhope, who
lost his life two years ago in an eff
fort to save man from suffocation in
n well. The awards were made by
the Andrew Carnegie hero commits
sion. Mrs. Wilson will receive an
allowance of $25 during her life and
IS a month additional for each OF
three children until they are 16 years
ola.
Preachers and teachers throughout
Iowa will urge kindness to animals in
line with a movement begun by the
American Humane association. May
81 will be designated as Humane
Sunday" and all ministers will be ask
ed to deliver fitting sermons. The pre-
ceding week will be designated as
Kindness to Animals Week." during
which time every school child in Iowa
will be told of the Humane associa-
tons work and urged to, cooperate.
Solving the high cost of living as
II refers to winters meat supply,
thieves accomplished an out Of the
ordinary stunt near Algona, when they
visited the barn OF w. e. Kahn in the
night, and butchered one Of Mr.. Kain's
finest heifers. No one in the house.
hold heard any disturbance, and the
crime was not discovered until the
following morning, when Mr.. Kahn
found portions of the carcass in the
barn lot.
Thousands of dollars that formerly
went into the tills of the saloon men
are now going into the savings banks
to the credit OF the men who worked
for the money, is the statement Of
bankers Of Sioux City. Figures for the
first two weeks of the new year, under
the "dry" law, show that savings de
posits alone have increased more
than $4,000 above the same period
for 1915.
Neat Srass plates, signifying mem
bership in the Iowa Automobile Pro
tective association, will supplant the
old pasteboard cards which have
been in use. Several thousand Of the
new plates were received by Presi
dent John Griffin for distribution
They bear the following inscription:
"Stop, thief! This automobile is pro
tected by the Iowa Automobile Pro
tective association"
To be confined in a hospital room
from which she could obtain view
of the funeral cortege that bore the
body of her husband to the cemetery
was the experience of Mrs. Letha
Thomas, of Fl. Madison. She had
been taken to the hospital and only
two days afterward her husband
Ralph Thomas, was killed in rail
road accident.
Edwin T. Haase, son of Louis c
Haase, Of Mason City, was one Of
the nineteen Americans massacred by
Mexican bandits in northern Chihua
hua according to word that has just
reached there. Young Haase was 9
civil engineer and, had been in Mex
leo and southern Arizona for several
months.
The hearing OF the mulct law re
peal test case. brought by Phil Nick
ell, Keokuk saloon keeper, was post
poned.S No new date for the hearing
of the case has been set, and it is
believed now 1t will not come before
the Supreme court before March.
Mayor Jack Bruce of Perry. who
recently lost about $1,000 worth OF
hogs following the administrations Of
a hog cholera serum, plans to see II
he has any recourse. He has com
menced legal action against serum
company and the veterinary who ad
ministered the serum. He asks for
$1,000 damages. half of 1t for the loss