Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-06
IOWA MS.

Dubuque ia ~organizi & business mems
anti.dead beat society.
Iowa's output of SIT coal last gear was
about four million tons.
Ply mouth county expects to have .
large number Of settlers in the spring.
Cedar Rapids has organized a detective
association with 81, 800 capital.
The Des Moines city library is allowed
5000 per month for maintenance.
1t |. estimated hat Iowa has one-thir.
tieth Of all the cows in the ULited Slater.
The Des Moines pork houses together
are not packing more than LOCO hogs per
day.
All of the gambling houses in Des
Moines were raided on the night OF The
30sh ult.
The glucose factories, of lowe, have In
most cases proved failures and the places
closed up.
S~henandoah's population numt ers 2,270,
which is distributed among AL places OF
residence.
The Clayton county board Of supervisors
At q recent meeting bonded the county for
$l5. 600.
Des Moines saloon men are purchasing
tie city warrants 1t q reou led figure and
then pay ing thtm in as license money.
Ottumwa Is ct present overrun with
thieves and foot.pads. A Number Of heavy
robberies have occurred there lately.
Fire clay of an excellent quality and
paying quantities has been found at the
Cookery coal digging on the Broken Kettle.
The Burlington, Cedar Rapids & North.
ern company's depot at Iowa City was
burned on January 81. The loss was
$4,000.
The old soldiers of Page county are
raising money to erect q monument to the
memory of Page G uuty's heroes of the re.
beilion.
The Hamburg Pow company is turning
out an immsnse quantity OF work in antic-
ipstion of a heavy trade curing ths spring
months.
Des Moines credits her boom to the
building of the Wabash in 1881, and only
hopes of a continuance of prosperity by
having the Diagonal road built into the
city IN 1883.
Clinton's ass essor has yielded to the op.
position on the rart of the heavy tax
payers to his scheme to assess the city pro-
perty at its full value, and Clinton will &C.
cordingly come forth with the usual one
third valuation.
The inhabitants on the west side of Har.
rison county are badly scared over the
prospect of a seige If small pox.. Several
cases lave been discovered on Sandy Point,
in Clay township. The victims are in i'm
poverished circumstances
The following is regarded as a correct
estimate OF I)wa's stock interest: 1900, 600
horses, 1000, 600 horned cattle, 5000, 600
swine OF all ages. This comprehends q
total valuation Of S1CO, 600 600. The dairy
products are placed at IS 10000
A Glenwood paper contains On adver-
tisement from Q man who ~designates him
self "a good p~aragrapher." He will write
political hiss, squi q, items Of wit, wis.
dom. etc, machine poetry and sketches,
at 81 per column" The man is modest,
but shuuld not hide his light in a country
town,
A horse thief recently escaped from Des
Moines, where he had driven a team stolen
in Lost Nation. He sold the team to two
Des Moines r~arties, from whom he each
time at 10 again, and he was just selling II
q third time to a liverymsn when the law
full owner appeared, and the thief imme-
diately skipped.
The grand jury Of Hancock county has
indicted Frank Walker, George Falconer,
M. Carter and A. M. Freelove, of State
Center, for the big cattle steal in Hancock
county fur which Jim Bailey was arrested
in West Virginia. 1t is now claimed that
Bailey Is not to be prosecuted, not having
been indicted; and hat his evidence will be
used by the state to convict the men
against whom bills were found.