Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-07
Iowa Items,

Iowa has 100 newspapers less now than it
had last year.
The Iowa State Druggists association will
hold their annual meeting in Dubuque, June
4, 5 and g.
The eleventh annual tournament of the
Iowa State Fremen's association will be held
at Council Bluffs, June II, II, l3 and ii.
S. Masters, q Burlington architect died
suddenly Friday night, and left strong sus
pcion that morphine took him Oft. No in
vestgation was made.
There are about one hundred and six miles
of railroad in Wright county, the assessed
valuation being S332,00O, which represents
an annual income to the treasury in the way
of taxes of about $4,000.
Kate Shelly, the heroine of Boone, who
crossed a wrecked bridge at that place to
save u train, Is lecturing at different places
in the state to raise money to pay off the
mortgage on her mothers homestead.
The report Of the Iowa hospital for insane
at Independence for the month of April
shows that there were 752 inmates at the
close of the month, against 745 month ago,
! an increase OF seven during the month.
A. j. Green, stock dealer, living in Lee
county, some miles west of Keokuk, has
shepherd dog that he refused TO sell for $500
The animal is as near human in intelligence
as animals generally get TO be. 1t drives
large herds Of cattle with perfect ease an
without the slightest assistance.
Melchor Mueller who resides near Belle
vue, county of Jackson, bears the distinction
of being the father of one of the largest
families on record. Twenty-eight children
have been born TO him, eighteen of whom are
dead and ten liWng. In this number there
were three pair of twins. He has had two
wives.
About three miles north of the township of
Dows, on the Rowen road, there lives in a
one-story house one of the most remarkable
families on record 1t consists of father
and mother, MIR. and Mrs. William Marks,
with twenty-five girls and one boy. The
oldest child is only twenty-four years of age; I;
| the youngest an infant of eight months
In an ancient mound on the Cedar river
near Floyd, the skeletons of five persons
evidently a family, have been found in a
| good state of preservation. The tomb was q
bowl-shaped excavation, the bottom of
which was macademzed with gravel and
limestone The skeletons were in a sitting
posture, and had evidently all been en-
tombed at the same time, suggesting an
epidemic or sacrifice.
Roundabout the Rockies.
Montana has no public debt. She has gold
and silver in her treasury as well as in her
hills
The authorities of San Francisco are fight
ing the electric motor poles and wires in the
courts
| Nnety-seven cars of bullion, lead and cop
| per ore were shipped from Salt Lake City
| last week.
Smallpox has broken out in Provo, Utah.
| 1t is said to have been brought from Mexico
| by the Mormons.
The new placer diggngs in Jefferson
| guch, Montana, are the richest on record.
| The dirt yields from S25 to $50 a pan. The
| locality is forty miles northwest of Helena.
| Wild hogs are very numerous and savage
| in the willow thicketS near Woodland, Cal.
| One old sow was killed last week whose
| tusks measured seventeen inches in length.
| There have been over thirty thousand
! acres of land entered for settlement IN Bing-
| ham county. Idaho, since April |. On April
20 nearly 1000 acres were entered. These
settlers are principally Mormons and for the
| most part hail from points in Utah.
The Pelican Dives of Clear Creek county
| is worked prohtably by lessees. This is the
once famous bonanza mine of Colorado,
| which is said to have produced $4,000, 900,
| and over which the first great mining law
| suit in the state took place, and murder was
| committed
| Californias wheat crop is reported to be
| in splendid condition and full of promise for
| the harvest approaching in that state, II
| the weather proves favorable for the next
| mouth or two, the prospect will be equally
| favorable in the great winter wheat bolt on
| this side of the Rocky mountains.
| In parts of Montana it is dryer than ever
| before known since the settlement Of the
| territory. Vegetation is backward for want
of showers and warm sunshine. There is
time enough yet for rains and a good season
but anxiety is naturally growing. Taking
the country generally, and the prospect OF
good crops and a favorable season were
never brighter.