Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-13
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The D0ings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

the square and for partial grading of
the grounds The court house structure
is two stories and basement in height
and occupies ground space of liz feet
north and south by 1903 east and west,
facing Clinton street. 1t is built from
Berea sandstone, hammer dressed, With
little in the way of ornament.
Fort Dodge.
AT a special business meeting of the
Fort Dodge Telephone company, held at
the offices of the company. the officers
voted to increase the capital stock from
$4,000 to $4,000. The acton of the Of
ficers is an outgrowth a the business
which has crowded in lipHl them until
some such step was mao, II necessity.
The company started Ll;si. IS on the
18th of January. 1898. WITH 24o phones.
From its ncipiency the undertaking has
been o success. The loyalty OF Fort
Dodge people 10 home concerns mani
tested itself until at the present time the
exchange has 7a08active phones.
| Dubuque.
| On May 3lst the first year of inunici-
| pal ownership of the dubuque water
| works ended. and the trustees have
\ made an accounting OF the business for
\ the year. The report Will be read with
much interest, and will. under the cir
eumstances. De appreciated by those
| who favored city ownership. The SER
| vice has been greatly improved. and the
| patrons now find no grounds for com
/ plnint. The quality of water is pure,
land is furnished in abundance. The re-
ceipts Were s32,113.79; operating ex
| renses, S22 061.IS: excess of receipts, $40
/ 052.0l. Most of the surplus was spent
| for Improvements.
Fort Dodge.
| Two of the most repulsive and ugly
| looking animals that ever breathed are
/ being gazed at by the multitudes as
they crawl around in the west window
| of the Berryhill news stand. They are
what are known as CHA monsters, in
4 habitants of the most lonely parts of
the deserts of Arizona. animals with a
/ bite so deadly that the sting of the rat
| tlesnake compares with it as With the
| sting of mosquito. There is no anti
/ dote for the poison which they exude.
When their heavy turtlelike jaws close
they can not be made to loosen their
hold unless the muscles of the jaw are
/ severed. They are about foot and a
ard. but are covered with skin like
4 that OF a rattlesnake or water nocea-
/ sin. Their tails are fat and blunt The
head is that Of a SNAKE. The eyes are
a jet black and dull in color: the tongue
4 is forked Ike that of a serpent and has
a way of sliding out and lowering In the
air that makes one want TO go off and
i play he was sea sick The animals We're
! al, rha
has been trying for year to procure a
4 pair of them.
4 Council Bluffs.
j. w. Dewitt, the Harrison county
farmer charged with the THEFT OF
thirty-five head of cattle. the propert,
/ of Henry Grobe. of Jones township
4 this county was arraigred Tuesday
morning before Justice Bryant He
preliminary hearing was set for next
4 default of which he was committed 10
jail. There will be more trouble
Z for Dewitt before he is free man
Z again. Last Winter he bought thirty
head of cattle from Benton & Under
wood, Of this city, giving mortgage Oh
Il them This mortgage became due last
tEilli. w iiCIi IL " seCuIti ttIi- tAlfli-
sion claiming that the cattle We're no,
. fit for the market. He also secured an
additional loan from Underwood 4
Benton 70 buy corn to feed the cat
tie with. Underwood * Benton
when they learned of DeWitt's
arrest went TO look up the cattle. OF
. which they held mortgage and found
J, they had been sold several months ago
!. and that Dewitt had used the proceed:
OF the sale 70 buy his farm near Logar
with. Whom they learned this they
made Dewitt sign. deed Of the farm L
them. This he did after his arrest
1t was said "Wednesday that relative.
, Of De Witt We're trying TO square mat
ters fos him, ant. that possibly ther.
: might be no prosecution. as Kennedy 4
Co. had their money back and Grob.
had recovered all his cattle