Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-27
Iowa Items.

| Prairie fires are dong much damage in
| Pocahontas county.
| Jefferson has decided to invest Sc, 900
| in an artcSian we'll
Outstanding state warrants are within
S74i of 81 l0O0,000
A Carroll county farmer saved eight
out of "a drove of 300 hogs attacked by
| cholera.
| The care of the patients in Mount
| Pleasant hospital the past three months
cost the state $29, ,977.
Delaware county farmers claim that
the past has been the best season they
have had for many years.
A f. Whitney, deputy marshal of the
| Anamosa pententlary, has resigned on
account of i'll health. Carl Barr will sue.
| ceed him.
The Minnesota & Northwestern rail.
| road have began the erection of their
| depot at Dubuque, 1t is TO be q two
story brick, costing $4,000.
A bald headed citizen of Cedar Falls
| is having his wife, who IS very skillful
with Il brush, paint spider on the top
| of his head to frighten away the flies.
A Pclla four-year old girl nearly broke
| up meeting by coming to the church
door and hallooing to her sister,
"Mollic, Mollie, your baby is a.fussin' -
Webster county has but one patient in
the insane hospital at Mt. Pleasant, while
Polk county has thirty-two. Webster
county has less insane patients than any
other county in the state.
| The Des Moines base ball management
| has signed several of the best players of
the country for the next season, and they
are worry liable to bring the northwestern
| pennant of 1887 into Iowa.
| Notwithstanding tho latoness of the
season the packet companies in the Mis-
| sissippi river are doing q good business.
| Naturally the passenger trade IS light,
but the consignmeuts of freight offered at
| the different Iowa points are large for
| shipment.
Miss Puma Calklns, young lady llv-
| ing in Algona, who for several years has
been totally blind, had her sight sud
denly restored to her recently through
| the agency of the "faith cure.' She says:
81 prayed God to cure me; l had faith in
! his power, and now see."
A stranger sold span of horses in
Dubuque on the 21st inst. for $125. The
| horses were worth at east $500. The
and caused the mans arrest. recovered
| about $50 IN money, and lodged him in
| jail to await developments. 1t was soon
| discovered that the horses had been
| stolen that morning from a farmer living
near the city, and that the stranger was
pTOleSSlOHal nOTSCUnlcI.
Dakota.
The school debt of Aurora county has
been reduced $4,000 in the last two
| years.
Over 70, 900 pounds of wool have been
| shipped out from the vicinity OF Dead
| wood this year.
The Black Hills Pioneer association,
consisting of over sixty pioneers of the
ui n af tTH hoe hann niuaH
The Homestake has declared its Sep
| tember dividend of $4,000, or 40 cents
per share. The total dividends this year
amount TO about $500,O00
The Watertown Insurance company
has been Incorporated with O capital
stock of 800 900. all taken IN that city,
and will be ready for business Novem-
ber l.
Real estate in Lead city is becoming
active and advancing; houses to rent are
not to be found. New and rich mineral
camps are being opened there. and on
the whole 1t is believed that Lead has
permanency that no other town in the
Hills can boast.
Watertown has five railroads and
sixth building, thirteen manufacturing
establishments, sixty-one retail stores,
lhirty-three private offices, four banks,
five loaning institutions, three news
papers and printing Offices, fonr saloons,
three billiard halls, eleven hotels. SIX
restaurants, four lumber yards, four grain
elevators, five grain warehouses, four
livery stables six blacksmith shops, six
church edifices, three large school build
ings, $4,000 court house and United
States land Office.
Wyoming.
Laramie had its first sn ow storm last
week.