Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-28
IOWA ITEMS.

light and only costs half AZ much as coal oil.
II can he put up In any house and gives per-
feet satisfaction whereveri 1t has been tried. a
stock company has been formed and the new
light Is to be introduced to the public right
away.
A little boy living near Creston was bitten
by a rattle snake one day last week. A physi.
clan was called in but the boy was beyond the
reach Of medical aid, dying in a few hours.
IL Is reported that q quart of whisky was adj
ministered In less than an hour to the child
as an antidote, and it is u question in some
minds whether II was the whisky or the snake
bite which killed him.
In Logan township, Ida county, o delega-
ton of fifteen citizens waited on q family to
inform the man of the house that they had
taken his adopted child to raise because Of his
cruelty to her. The citizens have subscribed
q fund for the support OF the girl.
The Stuart creamery IL making over 800
pounds of butter q day. 1t pays over $4,000
monthly for cream, and more than 81 800 each
month for running expenses. Ten drivers are
constantly employed.
Register: In Iowa within q year 945 moth.
ers have given birth to twins, three 10 triplets
aud one mother went 80 far ~ to produce four
at one time. This win to some extent Offset
the Dakota boom.
BY the death Of an aunt In France, Mr.. G.
n, DCnAUttT, tu1kbT vi lDc INdk ~ NIONe 2
xette, falls heir to o half q million dollars.
He will come into possession in o few weeks.
Tho Jackson Sentinel says that the Iowa
Telephone company has purchased the county
Bell system, and will extend it to Davenport,
Clinton and other places.
The Southwestern lows association of physi.
clans and surgeons, embracing the counties OF
Ringold. Taylor, Adair and Union, met IN
Creston last Saturday.
Large railroad improvements are being made
at Boone. All the machinery from the Gin,
ton shops is being removed there and every
thing is on the boom.
1t is said that Q dcscendent of one of the
presidents of the United States is receiving
poor relief from the tax payers of Dubuque
county.
The Iowa Tribune says that 800 delegates
were furnished with passes by the railroads I,
attend the democratic state convention.
Last week two suits for $40, 200 each wer,
begun against Des Moines for damages sus
tanned In falling over em~bankments.
The Ottumwa syndicate is advised by tn,
expert who was sent to Colorado to at ono,
put in a mill ON the company's mine.
In Ida county a test case has been sent W
to determine whether stock has a right t
trespass on unfenced hay lands.
b 1t is said that the prospect of a creamer,
being operated at West Side, Crawford coun
ty, this season has fallen through.
Over four hundred lodges were represented
at the session of the Iowa Grand Lodge Of Ma
sons, in Cedar Rapids.
The Hamilton county National Bauk, will
a capital of $4,000, has been organized q
Webster City.
The Onawa city council propose to visi
~neighboring towns to investigate the drainag
question
The Monana county soldiers will hold a re
union at Mapleton on September 18th an,
18th.
The new tile works at Fort Dodge ar
turning out about four miles of drain tile pc
day.
The CedarsRapids branch of the brother
hood of telegraph operators has about so mem
bers.
The Maple Valley railroad now has a regu
lar passenger train. 1t starts from Carroll.
The business men of Centerville offer a re
ward of 81, 200 for the dead body of q burglar
B. +. Shaw, fish commissioner, will plan
10000 600 sturgeon eggs in Iowa waters.
The plan Of putting down a coal prospectin
hole at Jefferson has been abandoned.
Keokuk is raising 8 3 1000 to be expended |
a monster Fourth Of July celebration.
Anti. horse thief associations are being o.
ganized i'll some portions of the state.
After July LIST there will be q semi-weekl
mail between Goshen and Marena.
The new M. 4. church at Corydon is to |
dedicated on Sunday, July l.
The Cherokee mineral well is ~attractin
numerous visitors to the town.
Osceola county claims over 30 900 head
cattle within its limits.
The Storm Lake authorities offer a rewar
for the conviction of sinners.
Several incendiary fires have occurred |
Davenport lately.
A new lodge of Knights of Pythias has bee
organized at LeMars.
There are one Thousand less saloons in low
than in the single city of Chicago.
Wolves interfere with the profits of ST
county sheep husbandry.
Davenport has an ordinance against the sci
ing or using of toy pistols.
Logan is having a new elevator built.
Boone has not yet settled on the style
water works desirable.
There is a prospect of a fax straw mill
Sibley.
More fire ~cisterns are being built at I
Mars.
The new normal school building at Cedl
Falls is finished.
Numerous new farms are being opened up
O'Brien county.
&c. A. r. post is to be organized at Cron
well.
Iowa is the thirteenth state in the asses
ment of real estate.
A band is to be organized at Kellerton.
The Onawa creamery has turned up its toe
Atlantic, Avoca and Harlan are to be col
nected by telephone.
Farm Drainage.
The subject of farm drainage, whic
was some years ago much discussed,
receiving a good deal of attention i
states where the need of it is most fel
In II county in West.V Virginia there al
said to be over 800, 900 feet of tile drain,
which have improved the land many fol
beyond the cost of the work. The Ian
lies along the Kanawha, and much of
was almost 'valueless until brought int
productiveness by artificial drainage. /
Ohio and Indiana the good results ,
money expended in this way are every
where seen. Mr.. G. M. Harrison, at
recent meeting of the Ohio Drainage a.
ISOLATION, said that the profit on goo
drainage is from twenty-five to one hur
dred per cent a year. He spoke of on