Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-10-07

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against the American Surety Company,
/ Of New York, in the sum OF $50,25O,
| which is $3.50 more than asked. This
case was on the bond OF Fl. s. Hubbard,
treasurer of the district, who had
$50, 900 Of school money deposited in
the Home Savings Bank, of which ne
j was cashier at the time of the banks
failurelast spring,
The mulct law fthe state of Iowa
has been invoked against a large num-
Der of the Sioux City drug stores. The
assessors refused to assess these stores
the same as saloons, but the law pro-
vides way. III three persons OF the
1 county will make request to the aud
itor, the assessment can be made just
the same. This was done by the resi-
dents of the little town of Salix, and
the full liquor tax was placed against
nearly every drug store in Sioux City.
1t will cost each one 5000 per annu m
As the children of John P. Hall, of
Shell Rock, were going home. from
school few days ago half-witted
neighbor boy overlook them with his
wagon. After getting them in his
wagon he concluded to give them
good scare by running the team and
| pretending that he could not hold
them. The boys became frightened
nd he told them to jump. One jumped
- o~I lso1 in q few
hours. The other jumped but escaped
injury.
Dubuque has the youngest horse
thief in the United States or the world.
His name is Clyde Wise and he has
attained the ripe age of seven years.
He was arrested few days ago for
his second offense. A week before
this seven-year-old boy jumped into a
rig and drove it off. He was gone sew
eral hours before being captured. A
few days later he jumped into DR..
Bigelow's rig and drove furiously
away. The doctor saw his horse dis
appearing, and, procuring another
rig, gave chase. The boy was finally
captured at Center Grove, four miles
away. He admitted the theft of three
bicycles in two days, besides the two
horses. The child seems to be beyond
his years in knowledge, and appears
to know he is doing wrong, as evil
denced by his question: what are
you going to do with me? am too
young to be punished.
Some time ago DR.. E. R. Perkins, of
Des Moines, was arrested in Knoxville
for having violated city ordinance.
The case came up for hearing before
Judge Gamble in the district court
The particular charge against the doc
tor was that he was practising dem
tistry without city license. The
court after listening to the argument
of the attorney for the doctor dismissed
the action, and stated that as long as
dentist had license from the state
authorities he had the right to prac-
tice when he pleased and where he
pleased in the state, and that the pas
sage of an ordinance requiring a spe-
cial license from city was an abridge
ment of the rights of a dentist which
were guaranteed to him under the
state law.
Daniel o. Eshbaugh, president of the
New England Loan & Trust Company,
which went into the hands of a receiv-
er week ago, is dead. On the morn
ing of the Goth he called at the New
York Office of the company, 80 Nassau
street, conversed with Receiver Ban
nard for a few moments, and disap-
peared. From that time nothing was
heard of him until the 1st, when his
body was found floating in the North
river at the foot of West Tenth street
in Hoboken. Whether Eshbaugh COM
mitted suicide or was the victim of ac-
cidental drowning is not known. for
there was no evidence to be adduced
either from the condition of the body,
articles found on it, or letters or other
means. Eshbaugh was an Iowa man.
He was graduate of Grinneil college.
He began his business career in Des
Moines as an employee of the New Eng
land Loan & Trust Co. Ten years ago
he was elected president of the COM
pany and went to New York to con-
duct its business there.
Articles of incorporation have been
| filed with Secretary of State Dobson
by the Boyer Valley Railroad Company,
with its principal place of business at
Cedar Rapids. Its capital stock is
placed at $4,000, and it cannot incur
an indie btedness to exceed half that
amount. The incorporators and first
board of directors are Marvin Hughitt,
NJ. M. Kuckmer, J. NJ. Whitman, J. b.
Bidford and H. R. McCulloch. All of
these directors are officers of the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad, and it
is understood the proposed road is to
be simply branch of the Chicago &
Northwestern through what is consid-
cred a rich territory. The proposed
line is to start from the Chicago &
! Northwestern at or near Sac City and
run to point at or near Denison on
| the main line of the same road. a dis
| lance of twenty-five miles. It is also
| proposed to run line from a point at
| or near Stockholm, in Crawford county.
on the proposed Sac City Denison line
westward and southwark through
! Monona and into Harrison county, to
end on the Sioux City & Pacific at or
| near Modale. The total length of the
proposed lines is 100 miles.
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