Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-08-17
IOWA SOLDIER DIES
Frank Small First Trooper to
Die on Border.
OVERCOME AFTER LONG HIKE
Taken to Army Hospital Where He
Underwent Operation for Appendi-
citis-Death Comes Suddenly
Body Sent Home.

Des Moines.-The first fatality OF
the Iowa guard in its 1916 mob
ilization occurred when Private Frank
Small, 20 years old, Company G, Third
infantry, of Oskaloosa, died at the
Fort Brown hospital following an OPP
Grafton for appendicitis.
Small dropped from the ranks Of
his company when 1t returned to
camp from five hours hike.
Comrades helped him to the hospi-
tai. They say he complained of a
pain in side.
At first the guardsman refused to
allow an operation.
Later he consented and was remov-
ed to the fort hospital from the camp
hospital.
Physicians were surprised by the
sudden death. The operation, they
thought until shortly before the end,
was successful.
Small's father is a veteran of the
civil war. The boys mother is dead.
Small enlisted in the Iowa guard
June 20. Members of his company
say he had appendicitis before enlist
ing, but was discharged from the hos
pital without an operation.
Shortly after going to the border
Small was sent to the field hospital
with an attach of stomach trouble.
The body was sent home for burial.
A military escort from his company
accompanied the body to the train.
Capt. Hird Now a Private.
Fred S. Hird, former captain on the
staff of the Third Iowa, and champion
army rife shot of the world, is now
SIS month private in the Des Moines
Machine Gun company.
The war department order abolish
ing his Job as inspector of small arms
practice is costing him $1S5 month,
that being the difference in salary.
However, Private Hird is doing ex-
actly the work that he did before. He
has been detailed as ordinance Off
Ger and the responsibility Of looking
after all the ammunition and the arms
of the regiment is his.
Private Hird is observing all the
regulations prescribed for the behav-
ior of privates. He says he is going
to be a good one while the job lasts
Oppose Releasing Student Soldiers.
Colonel BARLEY, commander of the
First Iowa infantry, opposes the re-
lease of college students from the
Iowa national guard to permit their
return to school.
He says he will refuse to approve
an application for such release, con-
sidering it as unfair since there are
men in his regiment who have given
up positions paying them from $500
to $4,000 a year to go to the border
and protect Uncle Sans territory for
SIS a month.
1t is estimated that there are 200
students in the Iowa national guard.
Iowa Officers Resign.
Lieut. Thomas B. Lacey, supply Of
ficer of the Third Iowa, and Second
Lieut.. William c. Rathke of Company
l, Third regiment, have resigned and
returned from the Mexican border.
Both live in Glenwood. Lacey wishes
to resume his post as physician at the
state home for feeble minded. Rathke
says the bank in which he is inter
ested is short of help.
Capt Jacob Koenig of Company X,
Second Iowa, was called home to lie
Mars by the death of his mother.
Would Pay Guards Fare.
Having in mind the Iowa national
guardsmen now on the border who
have left behind them dependent fam
lilies, and who, by recent order Of
the secretary Of war are exempt from
further service patroling the American
boundary in the south, Congressman
Green of the Ninth Iowa district has
introduced a. bill in the house provid-
ing for the payment home Of the rail-
road fare of all honorably discharged
guardsmen on the border.
Many Iowa Homes Mortgaged.
Iowa homes are valued at 1884,
131, 698, according to the report of the
state census department. The incum-
brance on these homes amounts to
$425,791,173.
The returns show that 80 per cent
of the Iowa homes are mortgaged and
that the per cent of incumbrance is
14.2 per cent.
Center Of Population.
The center OF population OF Iowa,
according to the 1915 census, is In
Story county, about three miles north
OF the south line of the county and
within a mile of the eastern county
line. It is a few miles east of the city
of Nevada.
Buys Cattle For State.
Senator A. M. McColl, member OF
the board of control has purchased
two car loads of feeding cattle for the
state. He reported the purchase of
twenty-five steers to be placed on the
lands of the epileptic colony at Wood
ward. The purchase price was $3.50
per hundred or $1,964 for the load. he
also purchased twenty-six head for
! the Flynn farm, at total cost of ST..
| 779. The first car load averaged 1,024
/ pounds in weight per animal. The
second averaged 800 pounds.
Pure Food Inspectors Busy.
The state dairy and food department
is increasing its efforts to prevent
bad eggs from being sold, as the hot
weather continues. Inspectors are re-
porting many additional arrests for
failure to observe the law