Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-15

treasurer's Office by dispensing with
the dozen or more treasurers of state
institutions. All this work goes d.
rectly to the state treasurer now A
thoro examination of the accounts OF
the state officers is being made by a
special board appointed for that pur-
pose. The board recently finished
examinations of the Office of auditor of
state and has now finished on the
state treasurer's office. All accounts
We're found correct.
! Murray.
Murray has severe case of small
poX in consequence of which the
schools and churches have been clos
ed and a portion of the southeast di-
vision of the town is in strict quaran-
| tine. The patient is Miss Stockwell,
who has just returned from Daven.
port, deaconess, and has been work
ing among all classes in performing
her duties there. After returning to
her home at Murray her friends were
anxious to see her and many called.
She attended church and visited some.
creston.
Another serious accident occurred
on the new grade work mile and
half west of Murray, when another
train of five cars was precipitated
down a fifty-foot embankment and
four workmen severely injured. The
accident occurred on the Shorthall
contract at the same point where a
workman was recently killed and sew
eral injured in the same manner.
In loading the dump cars the steam
shovel elevated huge frozen Jumps.
In dumping one of these cars rod
broke which held the car in position
and allowed it to become unbalanced
and go down fifty-foot embankment,
taking the remainder of the train with
it. Four foreign workmen who were
beside the track were knocked down,
one having three ribs broken and his
shoulder crushed. Another sustained
a broken arm and two others escaped
with less important injuries.
CIarinda.
The state of Iowa, thru the board
of control, has now added 81 acres
to its state farm belonging to the in
sane asylum here, and it acquired the
land by condemnation proceedings
against the owner, Mr.. Amman. BY
forcing the condemnation proceedings,
however, Mr. Amman secured a price
of 5000 per acre on what would not
have brought more than $65 or $75 per
acre in the open market. His land
lies just south of the state farm, and
! between the state farm and the town.
The state wanted to buy it many
years ago, but Mr.. Amman, who is an
old settler and wanted the land for
home site. declined to sell.
Webster City.
The Martin Telephone company, of
this city, has adopted telephone
meter and will install measured SER
vice. The system will be as follows:
A regular rate will be charged for
residence phones, the rates allowing
200 outgoing calls per year, no charge
being made for incoming calls. All
calls in excess of the prescribed num-
Der will be charged 30 cents extra.
The Martin companyiis the first indie
| pendent company in the United States
to adopt the system and it is expect
ed that it will largely increase the
list of phone subscribers.
Davenport. 5-s
/ Chief Kessler said that the new
city ambulance would be ready for
use in about three months. The firm
4 OF Mason & Co. is constructing it and
it will cost $3.50, without the baskets
or stretcher. The ambulance will be
| a hooded vehicle with two doors in
! the rear and one on either side, d.
rectly behind the drivers seat. The
! medicine chest will be under the seat.
i The patrol barn will be- slightly al
] tered to contain the vehicle and an
additional man will be added to the
patrol barn force, when the ambulance
is ready for use.
OskaIoosa.
Tony Jeber. boarding with Michael
Hanna, in this city, is charged with
abducting the 13-year-old daughter of
the latter and with stealing $500 from
him. The alleged abductor was caught
at Davenport by the police of that
city and will be brought here for trial,
The girl was with him when he was
arrested, and is said not to have been
averse to going away with him.
Burlington.
The insurance adjusters have reach
ed a settlement with the Schramm &,
Scamieg Co., wholesale dry goods
house, and the amount of 500 900 was
! paw eiiS ioSoi SoiApdHy, III lull SeUCl6-
ment of the loss sustained to their
stock and for the remaining stock, in
the New Years fire.
After careful adjustment, the com.
panies' representatives agreed to pay
$4,000 on the loss and purchase what
stock could be used for $4,000. The
company agreed to this and the
amount was paid over in cash.
Washington.
The January term of the district
court convened yesterday afternoon
and the first business taken up was
the decisions in the two express COM
pany cases. Both cases We're consid-
cred together and We're decided in ia
vor of the express companies. The
petition was an application for per-
manent writ of injunction asking to
restrain defendants from selling or
keeping for sale, intoxicating liquors.
In considering the case the issue TAX
en- was that C. o. d. pack
ages shipped from without the state
the shipping place was the place of sale
and completion of sale. Judge Dewey
held that when the purchaser ordarad