Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-11-29
NEWS OF THE STATE. 5
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Moines firm was thru this country
this fall purchasing walnut trees. He
paid as high as $40 apiece for the
trees standing, and to James Clarity
he paid 5000 for all the trees on tho
old Miller place south OF town on
which Charles Bateman lives. Some
of these trees are veritable monarchs
of the forest. These buyers took no
part of the tree which was not thick
er than a foot. which made the price
very good. This kind of wood is be-
coming very scarce. A great deal of
it was purchased east of town along
Walnut creek. After being barked in
the timber, and the ends being paint
ed to prevent checking they are ship
ped to Des Moines, where they are
squared off into lengths about fifteen
feet and shipped to Germany, where
they are made into gunstocks.
Sioux City.-Two Smooth bogus
check workers. a man and woman,
have been at work among Sioux City
retail merchants for several days
past, fleeing them out of several hun
bred dollars. They called at a long
list of stores made small purchases,
presented small checks on various
banks, received their change and dis
appeared Their bogus checks in
every instance were signed Win
names that are familiar in business
circles They are not exactly forgeries,
because the initial letters were made
to differ from the genuine names-in-
stead of signing the name of F. l.. Eat
on, prominent business man, the
name was written r. l., Eaton. Prob.
ably a dozen or more merchants were
| yictimized. The pair succeeded in
| getting away.
Dubuque-Fred Irle, who was ar
rested in Dubuque and taken back tc
Missouri to answer to charge OF
murder, escaped from Jail and is al
| large.
Irle, with two young men named
Shelliam and Speth, both of Platte
vile, We're in Dubuque last summer
enroute south. Two weeks later Shell
liam and Speth were found dead alons
/ the track near Savanna, a town about
twenty miles north of st. Joe, Mo.
Irie was missing and suspicion at
tached to him.
/ Oskaloosa-James Dewitt, county at
/ torney-elect of Mahaska county, ha:
la theory that, regardless of an errol
in the Titus amendment, he is under
no necessity of worrying. He say
A county attorneys, now incumbent, are
not included in the list of officers
whose terms, according to the itera
meaning of the amendment, are ex
tended.
A Mr.. Dewitt bases his belief on sec
ton Is of article V of the constitution
of Iowa, which says:
'"The qualified electors of each coun
ty shall, at the general election in 1885,
and every two years thereafter, cleo
a county attorney who sns.-- be res
dent of the county for which he i
elected, and shall hold his office TO
two years and until his successor shal
have been elected and qualified"
Mr.. Dewitt holds this section of tn
constitution is not rendered invalid b
the Titus amendment; that it has
force prior to the Titus amendment
; and that under it a county attorney i
each county had to be and was electe
: in the present year, 1900 whose teri
will begin at the expiration of the tw
year term of the present incumbent.
Centerviie- Considerable surpris
was manifested in all quarters of on
city on learning from tabulated stat,
ment of the United States censu
enumeration of June, 1900, that tn
population of the city was only 5,25
and Appanoose county 25,927. Appa
emily something is radically wrong fc
it is absolutely certain that neithe
Centerville nor Appanoose county
i passing thru a period of retrogressio,
! The last census taken, five years ag
, by the state of Iowa, shows that til
, city of Centerville had population {
1854, and that Appanoose county ha
! a population of $685., a loss of POS
! the city and gain of 544 in the coul
!, ty since 1895, which on the face of
) demonstrates that there is somethin
not exactly right.
i Vinton.-General Dewey, the ba.
: eagle that was the mascot
!. Company G during all of their sc
|. vice of two years in the Spanish wa
9 going with the company to camp NJ
|. Kinley and from there to Jacksonvil
! Savannah and Havana, and has ev,
lsince been an attraction about tt