Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-25
Local Affairs III Hundreds Of Iowa Towns Of
Interest to the General Reader.

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They were seen by a lady shortly after
leaving the wall; who reported the dis
covery to the officials of the institu-
ton. and inside OF ten minutes all
available guards with guns were in hot
pursuit. They followed the trail to the
farm OF Nick Pranger. about four miles
northeast Of the city, where they
jumped upon Ferris in a cornfield.
In the meantime the report of the
escape spread among the farmers OF
that section and they turned out en-
masse. knowing that fifty-dolar re-
ward awaited the man who made the
capture of either OF the escaped prison.
ers. As soon as Ferris saw that his
captors were near he took to his heels.
Attic some distance away Guard May
sent, who was armed with a doubled
barreled shot gun loaded with buckshot
called for the fugitive to stop. He paid
no attention to the command and kept
on running when Maysent fired three
shots after him and following these
shots Walter Gregg, a farmer of the vi
clnity, also armed with shot gun
opened fire with small shot and the
man stopped and Mr.. Gregg was the
first man to him. The prisoner had a
bucksilot wound in the arm and other
smaller wounds. none OF the serious.
Ferris still Wore his stripes.
The other man was nowhere to be
found. The search was renewed but
night came on without discovering his
whereabouts and he is still at large.
Ferris is a long time man, having
twelve years yet to serve and has now
forfeited all his good time.
Ferris told his captors that the
Kid left him in corn field while the
former went to a farm house to get a
drink OF water, but did not return. 1t
Is supposed that he took this ruse to get
prison garb. The kid" had only five
months more to serve.
The Kid is a small man with red
hair and managed to get pair Of blue
overalls to cover up his stripes, and
wore a straw hat, He is slippery fell
low and may elude capture.
The escape caused considerable ex-
element in the city, and quite num-
Ser of citizens went out to Join in the
chase.
"A report came from the X. line
agent at Viewer this afternoon that
there was q man on the afternoon
freight coming this way about 1880, an
swering the description OF the escaped
man. but there was no one on the train
when 1t reached the depot. 1t is posi-
BILE that he sur1nised that the trainmen
We're cognizant OF his presence and he
left the train before it got into town.
IOWA EVIDENCE OF PROSPERITY.
Waterloo Reporter.l
The manifold evidences of prosperity
on every hand have failed so far in con-
ivincing the Bryanites there is any such
thing In existence. Report of business
failure, strike. shut down, however
Temporary, is ssized upon with aNidity
az proof positive there is no such thing
as prosperity and never can be under
the wicked gold standard, the Ubiquitous
tarif, the ghost of alleged imperialism
which is preferred to expansion, and
other principles and policies which the
republican party Is In favor of. Despite
these heroic but abortive efforts to
prove that mercenary motives exist and
that actual facts are only dreams of
partisan rawlings affairs continue to per-
yersely go contrary to democratic pre-
dictions, and every community is over
flowing with evidences of 1t.
Here in Waterloo the bank statements
recently published under call of the
Icomptrollersf for a showing of condition
at the close OF business June Goth, fur
nieh q few sample facts that can be
duplicated to greater or less extent in
any Iowa town. The truth made plain
by these sworn statements is that Wa
terloo and Blackhawk county people
have nearly q quarter Of million doll
lars more than they had on June Goth.
1899. The statements show the follow
ing fgures compared with the exhibit
made In the reports called for the close
OF business. June 80, 1893.
First Mathis 476,1o7. So s SCI, 6240l
Com. Nat'l....... 45l.3ss,45 517,75665
L.. & j.. Nat'l.... 362,47o.Os AL. ses.27
Total 81, 2S9, 917.19 81, 521, 27S.93
The increase In deposits in one year
amounts to s2sl,sol.74. 1t is impossible,
of course. 10 trace the source OF this
I q all tuS IIdluTt the
banking business may be accepted as
an indication of a large increase in the
number Of deposltors as well as an aug
mentation of deposits made by custom
ers While this section Of Iowa 10 one
OF the most productive 1t has not yet
been able to grow money on trees or in
the field except in figurative sense.
Nature has been kind and the elements
ipropitious for the farmer and husband
man and Increased prices have been re-
celved for their products The skilled
mechanic and laboring man have been
employed at remunerative wages and
no man seeking job has been com
PEELED to wear out his shoes or injure
his eyes looking for work. This is the
condition that Is responsible for the
showing made by the bank statements,
the institutions merely rejecting the
situation which business, agricultural
and mercantile. and labor is In at the
present time.
With this object lesson in plain view
OF all who wish to gee. what hope or
prospect Is there In changing the policy
OF the country by electing Bryan and
esta blishing the principles OF, free coin-