Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-12
IOWA ITEMS.

West Union has q new 800, 900 bank.
Webster county mined $500, 900 worth
OF al in 1882
Iowa r ailroads killed 165 persons snd in.
jured 655 in 1882.
The new opera house at Fort Dodge will
be opened ON the 18th inst.
Toe Waterloo saloon license Is to be
raised to $500 Per annum.
Warshalltown will issue $40, 900 worth
Of bonds for school purposes.
Columbus, Junction claims to be the
best horse market in Il sstern Iowa.
Cedar Rapids il to have q furniture
mandatory with a capital of $4,000.
The lowest tea ,hers' salaries paid in the
state are said to be those of Du luque.
Iowa will be entitled to Is delegates in
the next republican national convention.
The eff ort is being made to establish
machine shops at Dyersville, with buildings
to cost $50, 600.
The fire department Of Creston has In
troduced q N electric alarm system In their
engine house.
A New York capitalist Is negotiating
for ., 1000 acres Of land in Lyon county,
upon which to raise fax.
The electric light company has forty
lamps in position at Des Moines, and will
room set the engines to work.
The city council at Burlington will make
An eff TT to raise the saloon licenses Ia that
city from $75 to 5000 per year.
Four Dss Moines girls masqueraded az
men the other night. They were recognized
by some young men who gave them away.
There Is q horse ia Cedr r .pids that
goes out on a tear with the boys. It enters
the saloon and drinks beer with the best Of
them.
A woman with six children wal robbed
Of her purse containing q ticket n $50 at
the Dubuque Central station on the night
of the 9th.
The Musquakie Indians are leaving the
reservation and begging Ia surrounding
towns. They are inyeterate thieves and
beggsrs.
A patent medicine factory In Cedar
Rapids have such O prosperous trade that
the pr prietors are enlarging the capacity
OF the works.
The surviving members of the Ninth
regiment Of INV volunteers will bold q re-
uuicn at Independence on the s.h. 7lh and
| 9th of March.
John G Jeues was admitted TO practice
in the state courts last week at Daven.
port. He is the first oolored man ever ad.
mitted to the bar in Iosa.
The number of manufacturing establi' h.
ments in the state ia 6, 1923. with an sgRre-
gate capital of 1913, $50, S8j and producing
81, 045, 8 6 worth Of material.
The manss ement Of the Keokuk opera
house have published a card, in which they
declare their right to exclude all persons
whom they may deem Objectionable.
The Des Moines police have ~insugurated
q war on the gamblers Of that city. They
made a second raid on Saturday night, the
3D. inst, and pulled In q number Of VIC
TINS.
Harrington and Hendrick, the youthful
desperadots of Iudepen5ence who distin.
guished themselves by burglaries a short
time ago, have been captured in Wisoon.
sin.
Edna S~heriden, q young lady OF Usage,
was found In q cemetery, badly frozen,
about q week ago. She had become insane
from illness and had wandered away from
home. Recovery is doubtful.
Under the head Of Notes and News"
The State Leader publishes the following
interesting matter: "Hello! Is this the
central oficef Give me No. 1000. Hellol
Helloli Heilo!ii' It Is certainly very In.
PERTAINING reading and Q brAiny man must
have written II.
Wilton had . lively matinee the other
night. A crowd Of boys who had boon 10
' . dance undertook TO look the marshal mp