Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1921-07-21

| were arrested in Waterloo recently.
| Police believe they have rounded up
two Of gang responsible for whole.
sale robbery operations in Waterloo
and other towns.
Dack Coggswell, so, farmer near
Give, was thrown from his horse In
his pasture recently and killed. The
man left hisN house to drive some
| cattle into a barn. When he failed to
return searching parties were sent
out. His body was found by William
Heating in a ravine. Coroner Cliff
announced after an examination, that
the mans neck was broken in the
fall causing death almost instantly.
Herman Bushbon, wealthy farmer
living near Marshalltown, appeared
before United States Commissioner
Judson e. Piper recently on charge
of unlawful possession of liquor. Of
ficers who raided the farm of Bush
bon declare he had thirteen quarts
of Old Heritage whisky concealed I'M
der the floor of his barn. After
pleading not guilty to the charge,
Bushbon was released on 5000 bond.
Quick amputation of his left leg
failed to save the life of Earl Hol-
land, 10, of Oskaloosa. The boy had
been swimming in the big reservoir
just outside the city and attempted
to hop a freight train for ride back
into town. He slipped and fell be-
meath the wheels. He lost his left
leg two years ago through blood pois-
oning necessitating amputation.
Boy companions said his artificial leg
hindered him when he tried to board
the moving train.
A pure bred Jersey COW, Queen,
from the herd of Joe r. Lanes farm,
heads the list of the Davenport Cow
Testing association for the best
showing in butter fat records for the
month of June, according to a re-
port issued by w. A. Burning, official
tester for the dairy association. This
COW produced 1,404 pounds OF milk
during the month, testing per cent
butter fat, and this unusual combina-
! ton gave the COW a record of 70.2
pounds of butter fat for the month.
Seven car loads of outlaw bueking
horses and wild long-horned Mexican
and Brahma steers gathered from
| the open ranges of the west, have
been shipped to Perry for use in the
second ANIMAL roundup, which will
be staged at the Tri-County fair
grounds July 81, 2s, 20. Invitations
have been sent broadcast to all the
larger ranches of the west to cow
boys and cowgirls to enter the con-
tests. Six thousand dollars have
been hung up in cash prizes for the
winners.
Martin Cleveland, a farmer living
near Eagle Grove, was seriously in
jured. when ne was caught in the
sickle of a grain harvester. His
right foot was cut Off just above the
ankle, his left leg badly torn and
cut and his right arm lacerated. The
injured man, who is married, was
working on the machine fixing the
Irvine, which had broken, when his
team became frightened and started
sickle. Unable to move or call for
help, he lay in the field until found
by a neighbor. Cleveland was taken
to the hospital, where he is holding
his own. Doctors say there is a
chance for recovery.
Family difficulties involving a
prominent Iowa family and extending
over a period of years, is brought to
light by the fatal shooting of Mrs.
David c. Oliver by her husband and
his subsequent suicide. 1t is report
ed that Oliver was the brother OF
Judge Oliver of Sioux City and Mrs.
F. NJ. Pelletier, wealthy department
store owner Of that city and the son
of the late Judge Oliver of Onawa,
Iowa. When the administrator of the
Oliver estate at Chicago withheld
payments requested by Oliver trouble
started in the Oliver family which
lead to the suicide, police think. Mrs.
| Oliver was known as Mrs. Ted
Vaughn. wife OF a wellknown actor.
Police now are acting on the theory
Vaughn for awhile.
Iowas state tax levy will be in
creased to 8 mills from last years
assessment of Z and fraction mills,
if no change in public utility and
| farm land valuations are made, ac-
cording to figures furnished by Ray
Johnson, secretary of the executive
council. An increase in valuations of
public utility property, which is an
| ticipated In some quarters, would
leave the state levy at about last
years level; while any decrease in
valuations would cause the levy to
soar above the mill mark. For this
reason close followers of statehouse
affairs anticipate a battle from farm
bureau officials to Illustrate any ac-
ton which will result in a net in
crease of taxation for farmers. Regis
tering strong objections to any raise
in their property violations, telephone
and telegraph companies OF Iowa ap-
peared before the executive council
and asked that their holdings be val
ued upon the same basis as real es-
tate-the 35 per cent basis.
The way is again clear for Dysart's
new consolidated building. The in.
junction suit has been withdrawn, and
the dozen rural school buildings are
to be sold Another election will be
called to vote upon the bond propo-
sition.
John Flamont, "a years old, an old
resident of Pottawattamie county,
committed suicide by hanging him
self in a barn. Flamont went to