Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-02-09
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A meeting of Fort rodge capitalists
was held recently for the purpose OF
organizing a company to build q line
of railroad from that city to Story
CITY or stratford. As soon as the or
panization is perfected, preliminary
surveys will be started and the road
built the coming season to one OF the
two points mentioned.
A head.end collision between a pas-
senger trim and a freight train occur
red on the Calmar division OF the Chi
caro-. Milwaukee & st. Paul at Donnan
Station, twenty miles north OF oel'
vein. Fireman Humble of the pas
senper train was killed. Engineer
Schaefer of the passenger was badly
scalded. S. C. Wyman, of Waucoma,
had a leg crushed. Several others sut-
fered injuries, but none seriously.
Both engines and several cars were
wrecked. The mishap was due to
dense fog.
A price war between Chicago and
Iowa grocers seems imminent. othcers
of the Iowa-Nebraska Wholesale
Grocers' Association met in Sioux City
behind closed doors few days ago for
a conference with local wholesalers
over the accu sation brought by Chicago
houses that Sioux City dealers are de-
moralizing the sugar business In the
northwest by cutting prices. Chicago
gave the association warning that un-
less the alleged cutting ceased soon
fight to the finish would be inaugu-
rated in Iowa and trans Missouri ter
ritory, not only along the sugar line,
but on other prices as well. The Chi
capo houses demand restoration of
legitimate prices, as they term them.
Fred Sitter, a young man living in
Mingo, who on October IL last, while
in the act of robbing Alex Elliott's
drug store, shot Elliott in the left jaw,
was captured and taken to Newton
and lodged in the county Jail to await
the action of the grand jury, which is
now in session. The shooting caused
quite sensation at the time. Sitter
had always been known Us disrepu-
table character and had been in trouble
before, besides being suspected OF
many depredatiops that could not be
proved against him. On the night OF
October IL he entered the drug store
and was discovered by passerby.
Elliott was informed at once and went
to the store to assist in his capture.
Later the same evening, when sur
rounded in cyclone cave in his own
yard, Stier shot the town marshal,
who, aided by a posse, was attempting
to arrest him. Since that time moth
ing has been heard of Sitter, although
a quiet search has been in progress
ever since and resulted in his arrest ut
Hot Springs, Ark.
Following close upon the decision OF
the supreme court in the case of Wal
rod vs.. Webster county, which affirmed
the decision of the lower courts and
gave to the plaintiff a verdict of
Sc, 900 against the county, comes an
other damage suit of $4,000 against
the county. The suit is instituted by
A. w. Hively, administrator OF the es-
tate of the late John c. Hively, near
Evanston. During the summer of 1897
Mrs. Hively started to drive to Clare,
town fifteen miles northwest of Fort
Dodge. At point enroute, three
miles from the city, the team refused
to cross q culvert which was approach
ed by high bank on either side. The
horses became unmanageable and
backed the buggy and its occupants
over the high embankment and all
landed in heap at the bottom. After
time the horses were gotten free
from the wrecked buggy, and it was
found that one of the children had been
killed. Mrs. lively calls upon the
$4,000 damages for the death OF the
child.
The largest mortgage ever filed In
Blackhawk county went on record a
few days ago in the Office OF the coun-
ty recorder. 1t is for SO, DOC, 900 and is
given by the Iowa, Minnesota & North
western Railway Company to the
Farmers Loan & Trust Company, OF
New York. The railroad property of
the mortgager is the security named In
the papers for the gigantic wealth ad-
vanced. The Iowa, Minnesota &
Northwestern railway is the line built
TO become q part Of the Chicago &
Northwestern railway. 1t has sur
veyed lines Of railway aggregating 1876
miles, and extending from Blue Earth,
MINI, to Belle PLANE, Iowa. Grantors
of this mortgage propose to issue bonds
for the construction and equipping Of
modern railway along the route sur
veyed. The issue of bonds is not to
exceed sec, 900 for each mile, or an ag'
gregate Of s., 100000. A market was
found for the enormous issue Of bonds
with the Farmers Loan s. Trust Com
pany, for which this mortgage Is given
in surety. The bonds bear 81 per
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