Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-01-11

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Strengthened. This action was de-
termined by the members Of the Mont
gomery county board of supervisors
in session at the court house in Red
Oak this week. The drainage dist
riot will be created as petitioned for
with the exception that the river will
be Strengthened only up to the south
line of the j. P. Mayhem farm instead
of running farther north. The work
will In all probability be commenced
within few months.
Only one Iowan has a net income
of more than $250.000 a year and no
lowan has an income of 100000,
according to the 1916 reports to the
internal revenue collector. There are
twelve with incomes of more than
100000 and about 1000 with in
comes of more than $4,000. Collector
Murphy says there probably are sew
eral thousand others whose incomes
are, above $500, but who pay no in
come tax because part of their in
come is from dividends which are
taxed because they are issued.
A largely attended mass meeting
of citizens of Montgomery county
was held at Red Oak Monday to dis
cuss plans for further efforts to run
down the murderer of the Moore fam
lily at Villisca in 1912. This meet
ing was addressed by J. N. Wilkerson
of Kansas City, the detective who has
been working on the case for several
months, and others. The general
desire was expressed that the coun-
Ity board appropriate the necessary
funds to place all available evidence
before the grand jury at it's session
next month. A number Of those pres
ent, including relatives of the MUIR
dered persons, pledged funds to aid
further investigation.
F. F. Jones, former state senator,
who recently lost an action for libel
against Wilkerson for circulating of
alleged rumors connecting the for
mer senator with the murder of six
members of the Moore family and
two visitors at the Moore home Tues
day issued a statement in which he
said the mass meeting at Red Oak
was an attempt by Wilkerson and
others to fengender a mob spirit that
will overrun law and evidence and
thus reach results that cannot be OBJ
tanned in an open and square fight.
Previously Jones had declared that
he would aid in finding the Moore
murderers that his own name might
be cleared of all suspicion"
The jury in the case Of Frank
Heinz VS.. Jess Ropes at Onawa for
$4,000 damages for personal injuries
found for the defendant. The case
grew out of controversy between
the parties at the city electric and
power plant last summer. Heinz was
employed there and Ropes went over
to see what was the matter with the
power. Heinz claimed that Ropes
hit him and knocked him against one
of the boilers, seriously burning him.
This Ropes denied and claimed Heinz
started the trouble. The parties are
well known in Onawa, and Reps was
on the city council for ten years. The
case was widely attended and the
courtroom was crowded when the at
torneys made their pleas to the jury.
Through his attorney, Austin Laf-
ferty. of Burlington. Saturday filed
suit for $4,000 damages against B.
F. Waggener, also of that city. the ne
tition charging the defendant with
alternating the affections Of Leila Laf-
ferty, wife of the plaintiff in this ac-
ton. The petition states that the
plaintiff and his fife were married
in the year of 1906. and that they
lived happily together until some
time in April, 1916, at which time,
the petition alleges. Mr.. Waggener
paid attention to Mrs. Lafferty and
has since that time caused the plant
IFS wife to desert him. The plant
iff further alleges that the defendant
willfully and wrongfully contrived to
deprive him (the piaintiff) of his
wife's love-