Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-04-20
FAIR PREMIUM LIST
Schedule of Awards Arranged
for State Show Winners.
IMPORTANT CHANGES MADE
Total Of $78,362 VIII Be Paid In Pre-
miums-Two Prominent Horse En-
tries Which Held Important
Place Are Eliminated.

Place Are Eliminated.
Des Moines.-Among the important
changes made in the premium list of
the Iowa state fair for 1916 Is the
dropping of the $1,000 saddle horse
stake. The class for American car
riage horses also is eliminated from
the classification.
The state fair board offers $7S,362 in
premiums for the fair, which will open
Aug. 26. The offerings in each depart
ment follow:
Horses. s14,ss5; National Draft
Horse Breeders futurities (estimated)
$4,000; Speed events, s14,250; Cattle,
s1S,l25; Swine, $685.; Sheep. s4.O19;
Poultry, s2,1S1; Agriculture, s7,O95;
Pantry and kitchen, s73S.5O; Honey
and bees. s497; Dairy, s697; Horticul-
ture, s2,109; Horticulture, $1,6Os; Tex
tile, china, etc, $1,322; Graphic and
plastic arts, $637; Educational, s1.4O4;
Baby health department. $500; Boys
Judging contest (scholarships). $500;
Total $7S,36250.
The feature of the horse department
will be the National Draft Horse
Breeders futurity for yearling stallion
and filly foals of Percheron, Belgian,
Clydesdale and Shire breeds. The es-
timated value of these futurities is
$500.
c. E. Perkins OF Burlington offers
500 prize for the best stallion suit
able to sire cavalary remounts.
In the cattle department special
class has been provided known as the
Iowa boys baby beef feeding contest,
in which prizes of 5000 will be given.
National associations in cattle and
swine divisions offer special premiums
in addition to the prize money posted
by the Iowa fair.
Premiums on sheep have been in
creased. A special feature of the
sheep show will be shearing contest
in which 800 prize money is offered
by the Iowa Retail Clothiers' associa-
ton and the Sheuerman Wooden mills.
May Revoke Insurance License.
Emory X. English, state insurance
commissioner, and A. B. Funk, indus
trial commissioner, may revoke the
permission granted the state to car
ry its own industrial insurance.
1t has been discovered that the
state has no appropriation to pay
compensation Of S. a week to the
mother Of James H. Green, member
of the Clinton artillery battery killed
last August at Sparta, Wis. The state
requires employers to pay compensa-
ton damages Immediately, yet can
not do the same itself.
Cancelling the right to carry its
own insurance will have no real eff
feet for the state cannot be sued. All
matters OF this kind must wait the
attention Of the legislature.
Report on Iowa Deaths.
OF 2,370 deaths in Iowa In Deem
Der, 1915, 126, or 5 per cent, were due
to violence, according to the report
issued by DIR. G. H. Sumner, secre-
tary of the state board of health. Nine
persons were killed by automobiles
and seventeen by trains.
Influenza, or grip, had $50 victims
in December and pneumonia took
toll of 254. heart disease 235, tuber-
culosis, 107. Two persons died OF te-
tanus, of alcoholism and l of Excess
sive cold.
Polk county had 113 deaths in that
month OF which 10 were due to pneu-
monia.
Expect New Telephone Legislation.
H. w. Byers, attorney for Des
Moines In the case contesting the
claim of the Iowa Telephone COM
pany to perpetual franchise. has re-
ceived word that business interests
of Boone will support him in fight in
the next legislature for an act cutting
Off all telephone franchises. subject
to local agreements. Other cities will
join the movement. It is said.
Work Being Rushed.
Contractors for the state epileptic
colony at Woodward reported to the
state board OF control that they are
rushing work. Twenty-Five brick-lay-
ers are now employed and the force
will be increased. So much time was
lost last fall owing to unfavorable
weather that the work on the insti-
tuition is somewhat behind contract
time.
Sampson Resigns.
Henry Sampson. assistant attorney
general, has resigned his position in
the attorney generals Office. Ross
Mowry of Newton will succeed him.
Mowry has been county attorney of
Jasper county for two terms and has
practiced law thirteen years.
Forced to Release Prisoner.
NJ. L. Bickham. whom prison auth
critics at Anamosa refused to release
on March 2Sth, when his time was out
because 1t was charged he took part
in the riot at Anamosa last winter,
was granted his liberty ON habeas
corpus proceedings by Judge Milo p.
Smith at a hearing held recently at
Marion.
Steele's good time was taken away
from him following the riot, and after
hearing the facts in the case Judge
Smith ruled that the punishment was
too severe.
Muat Fly U. 8. Flag.
Adjutant General Guy Logan is go
ing to see that the United States flag
In unflrled to the breeZes every day