The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-01-31
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IOWA ITEMS.

Gen. Carl Schurlz lectures at Des Monies
shortly.
The city of Clinton rejoices over posses.
sing a new steam fire engine.
The I,es Mones Register SAYS that . |
man arrived in thas-eisy- Thursday evening
who had leit Denver City, Colorado, the Sun |
day preceding !. The Register says that among
the names Of soldiers in the out coming Adj
jutant General report, is that of True |
Love Sparks" It calls attention TO il, and
says: just think Of commencing nice lit
tie billy -doozy with Ny Darling True Love-
Woudn , il be sweet Des Moines is put
ting on metropolitan airs 10 the matter OF SUI
icides. The Register chronicles one tha, oc-
Cured there Friday. The distressed indiyid-
ual poisoned himself.
The Register illustrates the beauties Of
travelling in Northern Iowa. ave UNDER
| stand that this road is now in running order
from Booue to the Mississippi; but between
Boone and Council Bluffs. FIVE engines are
frozen up as tight as cold thermometers can
make them. The Boonsboro stage, which
left here 90 Friday morning, didn't reach its
destination until Saturday night. They shov-
eled four hours in one snow drift, and then
had to throw up the sponge, and dodge
around X.
| The Register say chap recently doing
business in this city, gathered up himself
his wife and traps generally, turned bis face
from the place last Sunday night and left
| He left several unredeemed scraps Of paper
| as rememherances.
Some S220 worth Of goods we're stolen
from two Moline runners, at Des Monies
Saturday night They had left their goods
boxed up on sled out doors. See Register
| The Newton Free Press says: 'Satur.
day last an Irishman was detected stealing .
horse at or near kellogg, was arrested and
brought TO Newton about 10 o clock at night
by the officers, but their papers for his COM
mitment being worthless, the Sheriff declined
to receive the prisoner. After several in.
efectual efforts TO get new papers made gu,
here they returned with the prisoner to
kellogg.
i Dubuque and vicinity, paid about 5000,
600 last year for imported fruit........ The re-
cent Burns Festival at Dubuque, was lively
affair. See Times.
, The Des Moines Register says: "In a
conversation with some intelligent gentlemen
who arrived in town from Denver a day O,
!. two ago, We learn that the Thirteenth Infant,
| ry, which recently passed through this STATE
: on the Northwestern road, is now in camp or
the North Platte, about forty miles from tn,
terminus Of the Pacific road. Their condi-
ton is said to be deplorahls one. Withou
: adequate protection, unused to mountain life
and great many of them mere BOYS, the
!. are dying of by scores. Should the weathe
!. prove AS terrioly severe as it did last winter
it is ferred the whole command will freeze b
; death. When they passed through this Stat
,e they we're all out of money, and the suite
Il footed all the bills. While at Council Bluff
- paymaster from Cincinnati overlook ther
d. with his iron box full of meney, but owing /
in some difficulty, not known to the public, b
Of suddenly went back, money and ALL Nearl
\, all the officers, and great many of the me,
ia have their wives with them. These pentl,
or men, who have been in the mountaina e;pt
Mt years, laugh at the idea of the Governmer
sending such troops on foot to fight Indian,
1t they were well mounted they would be Il
: tally inefficient for, being entirely ignora,
h. Of INDIAN warfare, they would only end di
4 aster q every step. Tho indiana eouipmeu
~ complete, and when mounted On H.
AaEdy ponies, tAsy will do, a. they did : 8
he massacre q Fort laramie ride round -
r. round the defsnceless infantry and nsrc;les
V. ~ shocs thsm I'll down. The mountainee
re Ill think there + no doubt bat the Sioux, A
b. sapahoss, and other tribes, hAva 6ity thou
lend vAzsisW " sssdy - - was yaiA ~