Davenport Daily Leader Davenport, Scott co. Iowa Monday morning, February 14, 1859 State Items. Schools - We learn from the Guttenberg Journal that money has been raised by private subscription to keep the public schools per bushel. Indicted - The Grand Jury of dubuque county have found a bill of indictment against Francis Guillick for the murder of his wife - for murder in the first degree. Clayton Co. - A petition, with fifteen hundred and thirty-five names, was presented to Judge Price, of Clayton county, last week, asking for another election on the re-location of the county-seat. Shot - The Decorah Gazette of the 3d, says that on the previous Friday evening, Mr. James Cruson shot his sister in the arm with a pistol. He was carrelessly handling the pistol, not knowing it was loaded. Pottawatamie Co. - One hundred and seventeen citizens of Pottawattamie county have addressed a "petition" to T. Officer, H.C. Nutt, and J.P. Cassady, requesting them to investigate the financial and other affairs of that county. Gross frauds and mismanagement are alleged. M.&C.V.R.R. - The Waterloo Register of the 5th inst., says that Messrs. Douglass, Manson & Hardy, of Waterloo, sub-contractors on a portion of the Minneapolis and Cedar Valley Railroad, have been notified to stop work, and they were then on their way back to Waterloo, with their implements and teams. ---------- The Sun-Herald Lime Springs, Howard co. Iowa Thursday, February 14, 1929 State Board of Conservation The new state board of conservation has been appointed and organized. Capt. W.E.G. Saunders of Emmetsburg was put back on the board, and made chairman; Mrs. Mabel Volland of Iowa City was appointed to fill the place of Mrs. Armstrong of Ft. Dodge; Ex-Senator Byron W. Newberry of Strawberry Point was added to the board, with Mrs. Henry Frankel of Des Moines and J.G. Wyth of Cedar Falls, as the other members. This board has charge of the plans and development of the many state parks, and is a very important board. Like all other boards this conservation board could do wonders if they had the money -- and they are asking for the money now. "Oldest Horse" Records Smashed. Des Moines - "A white mare which was 39 years old last September and owned by Walter F. Lee of Knoxville, Iowa, has smashed all known records for the 'Oldest Horse' in Iowa and probably has established a record that will stand for all time unless she lives to break it," states Carl N. Kennedy, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, who has been collecting records in regard to the length of usefulness of horses. "The dam of this white mare was a Kentucky saddle mare and the sire was a pure bred Percheron. She has hot had the harness on for two years but is still very active." "Another mare which is 36 years old and still retains some of her meanness, is owned by J.W. Zezek of Diagonal. She has been on a pension for a year. This mare holds second place in Iowa records. There are three 35-year old horses reported," states Mr. Kennedy. "One of these is Barney, which is owned by Claus Ehrp of Holstein. He is still used for a saddle horse by the children. Mr. J.R. Shackelton of Boone has another 35-year old hourse that he has raised and still owns, while Henry Walker of Garden Grove reports that he chloroformed his 35-year old mare Queen on January 4th in order that she would not suffer on account of a recent decline in condition."