Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-29
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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Montour, May 2s.--An adjoining town
that has been favored with a few cases
of smallpox. quarantined for good and
sufficient reasons one of its young men.
The young man promptly secured n
horse mounted 1t. secured a parrot.
(which he placed on his shoulder. and
thus armed and equipped With u quar-
antine sign hanging from his horses
bride. rode thru the principal streets,
| the admired of all admirers, "the cyno-
sure of all eyes, as ii We're. Now the
grand jury is so interested in his case
land distinguished display that his
i5triumphal procession is likely to cost
more than his usual one on the Fourth
OF July.
Judge Burnham. in sentencing the
the young colored man of Toledo 10
twenty years in the penitentiary for
lsastempted rape, receives the approval
OF all good citizens. This case deserves
the study ofall Interested in the negro
question. This young brute was
brought from the south when "a Kid .
has had all of the advantages OF en-
vironment. Yet his history is a term at
the reform school, and two attempts
at rape. While in jail waiting for trial
his time was occupied in wood carving
tand he is a natural genius in this
line), but the objects Of arr he produced
Were OF the most obscene character. 1t
speaks well for the law abiding citizens
of Toledo that Judge Lynch did not
hold court. in either case. soon after his
attempted rapes. But il is foolish
sentimental condition of affairs that a
few men insthis community did not by
the aid of scientific surgery on the first
attempt of rape by this young brute
make an absolute impossiblity Of its
repetition Had this been done, or could
our judges have added such surgical
Operations as part OF the sentence, it
would be much safer TO parole" him
ten years from now. when some kind
hearted governor will do 1T at the re-
quest of many kind hearted citizens.
$50
Tama is feeling good Everything
l5po!iits 10 the erection of a new big de-
I pot by the c. & y. w. The owner Of
I THE land, north of the track south and
a little west of the Clifton house sold
his property sometime n go3t to the Tama
and Toledo Electric Car Company, but
when the deed was made out. it was
seen the G. & y. w. railway was the
real purchaser. Since holes have been
l3dug by the railroad company, evidently
prospecting for foundations. 1T may
mot be built this year but its coming.
! by the way. the e. & n. w. railway,
J with its new depots at Cedar Rapids.
Belle Plaine, Marshalltown, Jefferson
land Carroll. and the handsome appear
4 lance Of the surrounding lots, with flow
ers and close cropped lawns, must give
1.-the foreign travellers who go thru
9Iowa over this line. an idea that they
/ have arrived down cast There's
4 not.iing wild and woolly" about them
/ Down In Bagley. George NJ. Smith
runs general stock store. There's
5Enothing strange about that. Man.
.jSmiths run stores. Hut no other Smith
in Iowa has a we'll in the back room OF
t his store from which he can pump ker-
Isosene oil. IL Was put down and uset
FOR years as a Well for water, but ont
4 day there was a scum on the water de,
4 cidedly 'oily. And a lighted mater
4 caused II to burn. And today one car
u pump oil and water out OF II. II vii
8 be remembered the gas wells OF Hern
don are only a few miles away. but thi:
is a bored Well only twenty seven fee
4 deep. Envious competitors say that al
there is in it. that Mr.. Smiths kerosen,
ron tank, only few feet from th,
pump. leaks and thus supplies the We'll
But the tank does not leak. never hal
i Kerosene costs too much to fill III
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