Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-11-23
CoNDESsED ITEMS.

According to dispatches, any of the
great frauds at the opening of the
Cherokee outlet are coming to light
but the greatest has just been unearthed
in a trial before the government town
site trustees. To be entitled to enter
land or town lots it was necessary to
go to the government booth before the
day of the opening and secure GER
/ tiicate. One of these booths was
located at Orlando, and there most of
the certificates for securing lots in
Perry were secured The trial brought
/ out the fact that a lawyer from Guthrie
obtained the friendship of d. Lecallett.
| the man in charge of the government
/ booth at Orlando. got him drunk and
| got from him a valise full of certificates
without the Formally of going to the
booth, and sold them at from S25 to
800 each. 1t is said similar frauds
We're perpetrated at the other nine
booths.
Editor James Liddle, of the Preston
Times, who killed himself near that
city, as it develops, did not commit
suicide in . fit of temporary despond-
ency. He had been contemplating the
act for nearly a year. Before taking
his own life he wrote a brief but
graphic description Of his deed, as if it
had already occurred, even to writing
display heading for the article He
then, after drawing check in favor of
his mother, and another in favor of
his partner, Hicks, to cover the balance
of his funds in bank, wrote brief but
touching note saying he was worn and
weary of life and asking the care of
all for his mother and sister. After
his mangled remains were found his
he had written for their paper He
leaves mother and sister at Ames and
hosts of friends.
Burlington dispatch: One boy dead,
man badly injured, and ST., 200 worth
of property destroyed, is the record of
the wcrst fire Burlington has had for
five years. The fire occurred in the
Boston store on Jefferson street, owned
nv r Rent G. sons r. w.s cansad Nv
the carelessness of two bundle bows.
who dropped a lighted candle into a
lot of cotton batting. which burst into
flames, suddenly filing the entire base
ment with sitting smoke. One of the
bovs escaned Int the other Oswald
Pistorus, was overcome and persisted.
Mr.. Bentz, in attempting to save the
boy. was badly burned about the face.
BY the time the fire department had
reached the scene the entire basement
was in flames and everyone had been
driven out of the building by the
smoke. The fremen could not enter
the building on account of the dense
clouds of smoke, and were compelled
to fight the flames from the outside.
1t was slow work, and not for several
hours was the fire under control.
Every vestige of stock in the building
was destroyed by fire or water and
smoke. The fine Photographic parlors
of Nonterford & Hill, situated above
the Boston store, We're badly damaged
by smoke and water. Neighboring
buildings were slightly damaged by
smoke and water The loss is estl- |
mated al slo'ooo Win insurance 70 the
amount OF sSo,ooo'
Hansen's Radical cough cure, lmme-
date relief and cures when others fail. |
Shirts to order. agent calls twice
each year. W. Tilden, Des Moines.
For farm loans write to the Security
Loan s. Trust Co.. Des Moines, la.
Aseries of crimes of nameless charac-
ter, committed by John Turner, late of
Racine, Wis, has come to light in Du
buque. Forty or fifty little girls are
witnesses against him before the grand |