Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-15
Iowa.

Marshalltown wants beet sugar factory.
There is talk of starting q cotton factory at
Clinton.
The Ames agricultural college will open on
the 9th inst.
mysterious veilcd woman in black is
mystifying the Dubuque police.
The rolling mills are to be removed from
Burlington on account of city legislation that
proprletors don't like.
The North Des Moincs school board has
decided to establish kindergarten schools as
a part of the school system.
Energetic steps are being taken to organize
a commercial club in Fort Dodge, to look
after the cty's business interests.
The Catholics in the eastern part of Web.
ster county will organize a church and build
fine new building at Dunconbe station in
the spring.
Mrs. Peter Jennings, one of the oldest per.
sons in the state died recently aged ninety
five years. She was the mother of Hon.
John ID. Jennings and DR.. Charles Jennings,
of Dubuque. She had been resident of
Dubuque for the past thirty five years.
The Chronicle says; at is quite evident
from the way that things are coming to light
of late that Fort Dodge is sadly in need of
some other prohibition than that we now
have. On Friday night a baby boy was born
to a highly respectable waman living in the
southeast part of the city who has been a
widow for eight years. The woman has re
her talk is of a nature that would impcate
a highly respected business man of the city,
Wyoming.
The coal mines at Casper are developing
nicely and the vein charging as work pro-
greSSeS
The citizens of Carbon are urging the
county commissioners to sink an artesian
well at that place.
The mining outlook in Wyoming was never
more promising and every indication points
to boom in the spring.
The catholic ladies of Cheyenne have or
ganized ST Marys relief society to aid the
needy, visit the sick and comfort the afflicted.
The Caspar Mail prints a long story about
the mythical town of Boutwell, and entities
it Boutwell, as a Home or the Townste
Agents Revenge
Rev. DR.. Huntington, has resigned the rec
torship of St. Thomas church at RawlinS
and accepted a call to the church of Heavenly
Rest at Saratoga Springs.
The Pacific Short Line has unofficially
asked what Douglas will do with regard to
terminal facilities in and right of way
through the city, together with ground for
depOtS and repair shops.
1t is stated that an effort is now being
made in New York city to form a syndicate
for the construction of a pipe line from the
Wyoming oil fields in the Big Horn country
to point near the Northern Pacific railway.
The Sundance Gazette says that lib colts
and young horses have been killed in few
weeks time by wolves, in the neighborhood
of the Belle Fourchc. The ranchmen are
getting up petition to the next legislature
to have bounty placed on wolf scaips, if
they have any stock left when it meets.
A herder on Seven-Mie creek, near Lara
mie, recently visited the corral and found
twenty dead sheep. He looked around in
wonder, as u ten-foot fence enclosed the
sheep, and he couldn't understand what had
done the mitchell While he was looking
around a mountain lion came out Of the hay
stack, dropped to the ground and clearing
the fence at one jump was off and away
The herder was petritied with surprise and
horror at his narrow escape.