Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-08

hltrailk 3llarsl1all tn1't1
be known as the Olympia, with rooms in
the Lane building. 1'hey have gone TO
quite a little expense in fitting up the
rooms and they say there is nothing TOO
good for them. The boys play all kinds
of games and are training with all sorts
of boxing gloves, dumb bells. punching
bags, etc, known in athletic circles.
The most sensible thing the boys have
done is to bar liquor from their rooms.
and on the whole they have a very rigid
set of rules, as stated by the Chief-Re-
porter.
stanhope.
Grant Kent and family went down
to Boone last Friday. where they visited
a couple of days with Grants cousin,
John Hughes who last week met with a
very curious accident. says the Mail
Hughes had opened the curb over the
top of the we'll, and on looking down
saw bubbles rising in the water. he
lit a piece of waste and threw it in the
well, when a terrible explosion occurred.
The pump and platform We're blown
eight or ten feet away. Mr.. Hughes
was thrown twenty-five feet into the
air and his arms, hands and face We're
badly burned. The bricks in the we'll
we're thrown all over the lot. The ex-
plosion was caused by natural gas,
which had penetrated the we'll.
Mt. Pleasant.
Judge Mccoy. the tax ferret, has just
secured an order directing the executors
of the estate of the late William g..
Saunders. to pay taxes for the present
year to this county, on some $4,000 be-
longing to said estate which has on
hand Jan. /, last. The executors. con-
-vention being that since the money was
on deposit in an Omaha. Neb., bank, 1T
would not be taxable here. 1t was 70.
moved from a bank to Omaha about
December 15,1900 and Judge Withrow
held it was taxable here. The tax is
over $500 on this account. The execu-
tors at a previous time of court were
directed to pay over $1,000 on moneys
unlisted by William G. Saunders in his
lifetime. for the past four years, In adj
iditlon to that found due this term.
Sioux City.
All doubts as to whether the Chicago
Great Western Railway Company will
build to Sioux City may be set aside
Work on the line is to be begun within
the next two or three weeks. Grading
gangs will be started on the heavy work
west Of Anthem. Announcement to this
effect was made in Sioux City by John
Marston, Jr., chief engineer in charge of
the construction OF the Sioux City and
Omaha extensions. The grading west
of Anthem will be the heaviest on the
line Mr.. Marston said. and We will
begin on 1t this fall in order that 1t may
be completed next year, concurrently
with the other parts of the road. !"
Camps will be established as quickly as
the men and teams can be secured.
Carroll.
In the district court in the case of j.:
b. Graham VS.. Fred and Hermina.
Peters, plaintiff claimed that he had let
defendant have 500 as part payment
ON some hogs. which We're to be deliX-.
cred to him after they were fattened
and the balance paid on them. Defen-
dants did not deny receiving the money
but claimed it was simply borrowed
money. The jury was not long in bring
ing in a verdict for the plaintiff.
The New State Telephone Company ex-
poets to have the local exchange run
ming the latter part of next week. They
have been putting up very substantial
poles and other work in harmony with
them, their equipment being in every.
respect of the best. They will start on
with over hundred phones.
Dubuque.
The ordinance empowering the city to
employ tax ferrets was passed. by the
council Thursday evening, but It has
not been signed by the. mayor, and the
indications are that 1t will not be for
some time, If at all; at least not until
he is certain that there are no legal I'M
pediments in the way. The mayor says
that the city attorney, in his opinion re-
garding the question whether or not
special charter cities have the right to
employ tax ferrets. says that the ques-
ton whether certain sections OF tne
code are applicable to such cities mas
not yet been judicially determined; and
that the opinion says also that, as the
ferrets are ia stand all costs of prosecu-
ton and are not to get any money until
they have turned in $4,000, the city
would not lose anything by entering into
a contract with the ferrets. With ref
erence to this matter Mayor Berg says
he has consulted with nearly all the
lawyers In the city and that he can find
only four who hold, as the city attorney
does, that the city would be justified in
entering into contract with the fer
rets.
a Fiendish Attack.
An attack was lately made on G. -.
Collier Of Cherokee, Iowa, that nearly
proved fatal. 1t came thru his Kidneys