Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-05-17
THE NEWS In IOWA

the cause OF ueatH
! John SherEer, aged u, OF Dyers'
| vile. was thrown from wagon by
| runaway and instantly kllleu. 1ils
mother witnessed the accident ana on
finding the son lifeless dropped dead
/. Capt. Brandt of Des Moines has
/ been appointed deputy auditor o.
j state by Auditor Frank Merriam. The
\ new deputy will begin his duties al
once Captain Brandt has but recent
| ly returned from the Phllpplnes
! where he served as captain IN the
Thirty-second regiment.
! Postmaster, j. Marsh of Zaneta was
! run down by passenger train on the
! Iowa. Minnesota & Northwestern
| railroad near VOORHEES, and fatally
| i'm iured He was walking on the track
| and evidently tailed to hear the warn
| ing, as he did not make any move to
| get away.
| r. l.. Hanson, a banker of Oelweln
was bitten by dog and Il piece about
| three inches square taken out OF the
leg. The dog was killed. 1t is not
| known whether it was rabid, but 1t
| probably was not, although there
| have been several cases of rabld AMI
mails here in the last two weeks.
| The library election at Centerville
| resulted in almost an unanimous vote
| in favor Of accepting eN-GoVernor
| brakes So, 900 library gift and IN ia
ror of 2-mill tax to maintain 1T. The
| vote stood 465 for and 63 against.
| Over $50 women voted. Two thousand
citizens marched to Governor Drake S
home at night and surprised him with
a big Notification upon his lawn.
Through the prompt action of Sher-
if Risely Of Calhoun county and sher-
if Dowd of Fort Dodge Albert Case
was arrested at Duncombe on the
charge of horse sealing. He was
wanted at Rockwell City, in Calhoun
| county. and has been taken there. 1t
is claimed that he rented livery
team in Rockwell City of Wilcox
! Brothers and drove to Somers, ten
miles away. There he sold the team
to a Norwegian for 500 and secured
the money.
The district court of Tama county
IS now trying Mrs. Frances Ntipil,
charged with numbering her husband,
| Vencel Vtipil, near Chelsea last fall.
| He was sick in bed and had been help
less for some time. Mrs. Vtipil says
that while she was out milking he
| got the revolver. which was lying
near, and shot himself through the
| head. The hired man was in town.
1t was claimed that Ntipil was unable
| to raise his hands to his head, but
! the defense has witnesses to prove
that he could.
A young man about 25 years old,
and giving his name as j. Rvs. from
| Calmar, committed suicide in the
Hotel Mealey at Oelwein by taking
| morphine. He came to the hotel and
paid for lodging and breakfast. He
was dead the next morning when dis
covered. He had purchased twenty
grains of morphine of a local drug
gist during the day. In answer to a
message from Calmar, no one knows
! of any such man. His weight is
about 100 pounds, height 5 feet and
s inches, blue eyes, smooth face and
light complexion. .'.
The man whose body was found ~
ing by the side of the track on the
| Winterset branch of the Rock Island
was identified at Des Moines as w.
II. Davenport. A son. who is en-
ployed on a farm in Story county,
saw the published statement of the
| death and suspecting it was his faith
| er, who was known to have come re-
| Gently from Oswald to DeS MOines, he
| hurried to the city. Upon being con-
| Quoted to the undertaking rooms he
recognized the remains. The son told
| the coroner that the home of his
| father had been at Manbeck, where
| his mother and five children now re-
side.
AT the meeting of the grand lodge
| A. 0. U. w. the graded assessment
| plan proposed at the last meeting OF
the grand lodge was adopted. Council
Bluffs was selected as the place oil
holding the meeting next year, anG
the following officers We're elected:
Grand master workman, w. n. Mar
| Wis, Muscatine; grand foreman. w. Fl
Berry, lndianola: grand recorder. 3
Z. Rehkopf, Des Moincs; grand over
seer, j. K. Townsend, Burlington;
grand guide, +. NJ. Connolly: grand re
| ceiver, B. II Carroll, Bloomfield;
| grand inside Waterman. E. Tolman:
| grand outer Waterman, j. r. Haines
! Marshalltown; grand trustee, A
Hartung, Des Moines: supreme repre-
sentatives, w. NJ. Narvis, r. L. Tiltor
and A. w. c. Weeks.
Iowa enjoys the proud distinction o.
being the foremost dairy state in the
union. The butter product of tho
creameries in 1900 amounted to nearl,
SS,0O0,OO0 pounds and it was worth
| over $17,000,0a0 on the market. The
| cheese product of the state. however
amounted to only a little over 1000,
600 pounds and Iowa annually imports
| cheese for home consumption. 1t i
| Nr%r nI.,i
I adapted to cheese making. These con
| ditions have led to careful investiga
ton of the subject of cheese making
at the Iowa. experimental station a
| Ames and it has been clearly demon
strated that practically as goot
cheese can be made in Iowa as in The
! most famous factories of Canada. tn,
products of which have made such :
| favorable reputation in foreign mar
! kets. Bulletin No. 81 of the Iowa ex
| pertinent station gives report of Thu
| work and fl,.pic1roc ;,,e