Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-18

| 0u0 to be expended for books. the cit.
| to provide therefor cases as above oes
| crioed, upon condition that the city shal
acquire site for library building am
that there be erected thereon build
ing costing not less than $4,000 for tn
| permanent home of the library. The of
| fer is considered desirable and reason
able
Spirit Lake.
The Spirit Lake Beacon states tina
this has been good year for the farm
ers of Dickinson county. While crop
are not of the bumper variety. there ha
been fair yield all around and market
are good. The fall has been so favor
able for farm work that threshing i
| practically done and most of the corr
is in the crib. Important for the futur'
| is the fact that an unusually large
amount of plowing for the next crol
has been done. Then while our farm
ers have been getting good returns fol
their work in the marketing of grai1
and stock and getting a good start FOL
next season their farms have raised II
value from five to fifteen dollars al
acre.
Sioux City.
c. NJ. Swan. truste for Close Bros. 6
Co, the English promoters formerly ac'
lively identified with this section. has
sued the Sergeant Bluff and Sioux City
Brick Company on a mortgage 10: W.
1925. and asks the court to issue ar
order to sell the brick plant at Sergeant
Bluff and the real estate owned by tina,
company. The mortgage was given IN
1896. and the trustee has paid $l.55l36 in
taxes. Thirty-one deaths occurred
in Sioux City during the month OF Oc-
tober The death certificates filed in
the city clerks office show that of these
seven were deaths from consumption
and seven from heart disease. Poison
ing was responsible for three deaths
and one death accidental.
Iowa City.
G. r. Irish made queer discovery
this week. Up in the air sixty feet
hung white rag with something at
tached to it. Mr.. Irish felled the tree
and found the curiosity to be mlnia-
ture parachute, and to tins was tied the
skeleton of a RABBIT. 1t will be remem-
bered that at the county fair this fall
some rabbits We're taken up in baloon
and dropped, tied to parachutes. 1t was
stated at the time that the little ami
mails were found and liberated. The dis
covery of Mr.. Irish proves this not to
have been the case. The skeleton is
perfectly bare. not a particle of flesh or
fur clinging to it. There the little ami
NAL starved, and his skeleton was evil
IDENTIFY Sfripped hy the birus
Hampton.
OF the seventeen packages of liquor
taken from the Adams Express office.
upon complaint by Rev. H. w. Troy and
TO which reference was made BY the
Recorder last week, fifteen We're return
ed by the officers of the law and the
trial as to the remaining two postponed
until after the adjournment of district
court. The county attorney decided up-
on careful re-reading of the law that
packages of liquor can be lawfully
shipped from outside of the state to
parties inside Of the state for their OWE
use, provided the contents of the pack
age and the name of the consisnea APP
pears on the outside of the package and
the two packages yet held are retained
for the reason that the rsason that the
names of the consignees do not appear
upon the outside.
The Republican states that f. l..
Johnston was up recently from his pos
sessions near Barnes City. He is on the
rural route from this place and
hopes to soon be getting his mail every
day. He has finished gathering his corn
and estimates the yield at fifty bushels
to the acre. He says that he had almost
given up at one time during the dry
SIEGE His corn is filled out we'll and is
Of excellent quality. He says that an
inch in his wagon box make bushel
and in this way he was enabled to make
4 close estimate of the yield. He says
that the most satisfactory way of meas
uring corn in the crib is to multiply the
ength breadth and depth together and
then multiply this by four. He says the
product will be the correct number of
bushels. He has tested this plan by
weight and if the corn is good 1t VIII
not vary much. He says that he ran
INTO this plan by a series of experiments
and has found it convenient useful and
.eliable in great many cases.
lama.
Herald: Since the appearance Ct
smallpox on the Musquakie reservation
here have been thirty deaths among
he Indians. Not all those deaths have
been due to smallpox ana ii l., impo ssh
de to tell what proportion Of them have
been attributable to that disease. The |
condition of the Indians is really pitia- |
lie and 1t is difficult to decide as to
What if anything can be done to amel- |
crate their condition. Agent Malin,
by Drs. Corns S. Thomp- |
on and White, completed the inspec-
ion of the camps last Friday and there
S now no doubt that about sixty of the
indians are sick with the dread disease.
Many of the Indians refuse to be vac
mated and those who are sick refuse
o be placed in a hospital even il one
we're built for their occupancy on or
ear the Indian lands. The authority of
he state over these Indians is very linn
ted and the Indian department 1T
Washington insist that IL mas no funds
o pay for quarantine expenses What
YER is done must be done by the citi-
ems of the neighboring towns.
II is a deplorable condition that con-
ronts the citizens of Tama and neigh
oring towns who would willingly help
! their help would be accepted. But
he condition that confronts the Indians
!; immeasurably worse
Great Luck Of an Editor.
For two years ell my efforts to cure
czema in the palms of my hands
iiled,' writes Editor H. N. Lester, of