Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-27
Iowa Items.

A Davenport man has patented harrow.
Muscatine boasts q novelist and nineteen
poets.
The Danish Evangelical Lutheran college is
looking for a location in Iowa,
Iowa City merchants are to form benefit
association for the pensioning of old en-
ployes.
Complimentary tickets for the Sioux City
corn palace, which opens September %, have
begun TO circulate.
A Crawford county youth believes that he
swallowed snake, and complains that it is
growing so as to ''fill him up'' inside.
Atlantic alleges that its prospects for
future growth are better than those of any
other town in the western part of the state.
Wallace Reddlng of Griswold. sold a
forged note on w. H. Brown, of Atlantic for
S7O and was arrested. He had forged the
names of Samuel and William Baughman,
The twelvc-year-old daughter OF a widow
named Mayturn, living near Jamison, Clark
county, took n bucket and started Wednes-
day to gather wild plums. Two hours later
she was discovered lying dead in field near
the fence. AT the corOner's inquest no evil
dence was found concerning the cause of her
DEATH
Says the Iowa Falls Sentinel: An Iowa
Falls boy, thinking that his brother, who Is
absent from home, ought TO have a govern
ment appointment, wrote to President Harrl-
postmaster at this place. He received very
courteous reply from the president. stating
that the matter had been referred to the
postmaster general. This is fact
james Giroy, mine inspector of the What
Cheer district, reports that considerable
trouble is being caused at one of the mines in
What Cheer because of the attempt of the
mine owners to discharge the check weigh
man, an individual selected oy the miners to
inspect the scales of the company and look
after the interest of the miners generally, and
who receives his ray from the miners them
to compel compliance on the part Of the mine
owners with the law and they have been
bound over to the grand jury.
Beyond the Rockies.
Governor Waterman, Of California par
doned seven convicts last week.
Joshua Brown, an Oregon pioneer, died al
Independence last week. He came to C"e
gon In 1852 and leaves an estate of S21O,00t
The people of Ogden, Utah, expect to have
another railroad, it being asserted that the
Denver q Rio Graude Western will build
north from that point to Central Idaho.
Alfred Brazier, the horse wrangler, wiit
murdered Harry Brown near Miles City,
Mont, has been captured in the northwest
territory, having been trailed 1S0 miles by
deputy sheriff.
The Glenn ranch in Colusa county, Cali
IOTnld, Will GntS year yieiu SdChS U
wheat or 20, 900 tons. This is pretty goot
crop for one farm, although once before tht
yield was 500 900 sacks. The market value
| in England, where the wheat will 60, il
| $S00000. The ranch comprises something
over 40, 900 acres.
The largest fig orchard IN the United State
| is about to be set out in Pomona valley, nea
Pomona. 1t is to be the property of syndi
| cate composed of two wholesale fruit dealer
| In Chicago and one in Philadelphia, and th
| fruit growers in Pomona The orchard will
consist of IL, 900 white Adriatic fig trees ant
| 5000 Smyrna fig trees, planted eighty to tn
acre, on 200 acrss.
Mrs George Bonar, Miss Sallie Wibere
| and Mrs. Frank Morgan, of East Portland
| were lost on Mount Hood few nights ag
| and had thrilling adventure. They mad
| the ascent with party, and in returning Y
| camp at the base they wandered down tn
| wrong trail. When their loss was notice
| signal fires were built and fifty men organ
lied into a searching party. Fires wer
| built at intervals of q quarter OF o mile alon
| the southeast and west base OF the mountain
! and the vast lava fields above the timber lin
were secured without response to shouts 0
| gunshots. Shortly before midnight on tn
eastern slope OF the mountain near Whit
| River canyon, the lost ones were found hue
died together upon barren rock 900 fes
above the level of the sea, and chilled to th
| bone from cold.