Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-28
CRUELTY TO A HORSE.

CRUELTY TO "A HORSE.
LWaterloo Reporter.l
This morning Henry Tardy was SEN
fenced to fifteen days in the county
jail on conviction before Justice Kern
OF cruelty to horse. The offense for
which Tardy will be punished was COM
United yesterday afternoon. He took
an old family horse belonging to his
father from the stable and hitched III
up. he asserts. with the purpose of go-8
ing to see his wife. who Is It or near
Hudson. He prepared himself for the
trip by getting a goOd-sized jag
aboard and drove about town for some
time before starting for Hudson.
His driving was reckless in the ex-
IRENE and collision With another ve-5
hicle before he got out of Waterloo
resulted in a broken wheel. He again
fixed up the rig and drove out OF the
city by West Fourth street. Even be-
fore leaving town his brutal Treatment
OF the horse which he drove had att
Stracted attention. He whipped the AMI
mails Numerically and jerked at the
Hines until its mouth was torn and
bleeding. Finally when little beyond
1.-The Kendall place he got out OF the
buggy and began beating the horse
loverthe head with the butt of the whip.
This was continued until the poor beast
was bleeding at the eyes, when some of
1.-The farmers near by interfered and
\ compelled an end to the brutal scene.
They took the horse out of the shafts
and turned 1t into pasture. made a pris-
Toner Of the driver and telephoned TO
4 police headquarters in Waterloo send
an officer after him. Marshal Wetlau-
fer drove out and brought Tardy to
town.
WESTERN IOWA LAND VALUES.
TOnawa Democratic
The past four years have seen Il
I!wonderfuls advance in much of the land
1of this valley. There has been steady
advance in every part of the county,
hut the greatest has been on the lands
4 on the Missouri bottom lying between
4 the Sioux City e. Pacific railroad and
4 the Sioux river, or bluffs. Twelve years
4 ago, aside from the Whiting settlement
A and the Oliver settlement. there We're
4 but few really good farms in all that
i country covering n territory of more
\ than SO, 900 acres of land. But there has
leone a change over the country
drought about by several causes
4 among the most potent Is that tbs
country is becoming much dryer. Then
too, cheap lands of northwest Iowa are
4 OF the past and this has led Investors u
\, this valley. Large Illinois landholder:
who by former experience have beer
a able to comprehend the possibilities o.
these land have made large invest
al3ments and feel safe in doing so. Ths
Hand that twelve years ago was selling
4 for IS or S. an acre is now selling u
from 800 to $50 an acre. 1t has becam,
valuable. This better valuation Is call
ing for improvements which are bein.
made in various localities. But TIL
best OF these improvements will be tn
s. big ditch ordered by the court las
q week. II Will convert into farms al
the land between the West Fork an,
1.-THE BLUFFS east OF Whiting. The town
s can boast OF their adNancements, blu
good and worthy as they may be the!
" lean not compare with the improve
ments that will be made rapidly In tn
country named-improvemen tina
can not and should not be lonse
checked, for they are of such worth a
to not only enrich Its own locality bu
the entire country as we'll. Another 20
tent factor in developing these lands !
the building OF road grades, for each
S these serve the double purpose OF build
Ing road and making ditch. Nor
! road building should be encouraged
means much, but this Is now well un
derstood and the people are united o.
lit. 1t is not far distant when the terri
TORY spoken of will take rank with tn
very first of the county.