Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-12

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1t is estimated that an average OF lOo.-
900 pc; Snds Is being maintained daily.
This of curse is a comparatively smaii
amount Of the entire mail that is
handled 1aily at the transfer, as ~
comprises only that which is either
sent to or received from points pc
tween this city and Ogden, Utah.
Council Bluffs.
Two Omaha detectives, accompanied
by Sheriff McIlvoy, of Sarpy county,
Nebraska, We're callers at police mead
quarters Sunday afternoon. Ihey
wanted the arrest of j. NJ. Brady ana
two companions. The trio had visited
the city of Papillion on Friday night
and got away with q large lot or 1oWls
belonging to C. NJ. Alder. Officers Wler
and White were given the case and IN
short time Brady was in custody. He
refused to return to Nebraska without
requisition.
EsthervilIe.
w. e. Johnston, well-knoWn Es-
therville boy, is developing into quite
a Sampson at the University of Mime
sofa In a recent strong mans con-
test he scored second out of picked
entry from the entire school, Way
burn was noted during his high school
days for having an unusual amount OF
muscles, and brains, as we'll. His room
mate was the only one that scored
ahead of him, and we hope the two
won't get into any trouble. They
would put up bad fight.
Mason City.
Every suffragist in the city knows
Mrs. Beldon who for three years was
president of the Iowa Equal Suffrage
Association, and who two years ago
lectured turnout Nebraska and assisted
lin organizing that state. They will be
interested In knowing that she will soon
leave Sioux City to take up her resi-
dence at Washington. ID. c., where her
husband, Capt. w. S. Beldon, has been
appointed to position in the treasury
department. Mrs. Beldon has been a
national lecturer in the suffrage cause,
and is easily one of the most prominent
women in Iowa.
Waterloo.
The switchmen employed In the Cen
trail yards received an order to be vac
cinated before o'clock Saturday night.
The order stated that all must acqul-
esce or be suspended from the service.
All of the men promptly obeyed. While
the general vaccination order issued by
the company few weeks ago met with
general acquiescence on the part of the
men, there are still a number of en-
ployse who have not been vaccinated.
IN a Of
the disease more or less and 1t is prob
able that all the trainmen will receive
the compulsory order soon.
Webster City.
Judge Richards has sentenced f. ".
Anderson to nine months in the, peni-
tentiary He had been indicted for
breaking and entering the Millett lunch
counter in Jewell with intent to COM
nit larceny To this indictment he had
plead guilty. In sentencing him Judge
Richard spoke Of the necessity of rec
ognizing the rights Of the public In
general with respect to wrongdoers. -
Clarence Squirting and Mrs. Thomas
Hopkins We're each given sentence of
sixty days in the county jail. They
were indicted and had confessed to the
tool house at the cemetery with the in
tent to commit therein crime.
TT. Dodge.
Andrew Belt, superintendent for the
Fort Dodge Light and Power company,
met with an exceedingly painful acct
dent on last Thursday night, which,
altho it has not forced him to discon-
tinue his work, has caused him much
annoyance. Mr.. Belt had gone into
his wood shed on Thursday evening to
get some kindling, and was forced to
grope in the dark under heavy box
which was resting upon the pile of
kindling. In some manner he dislodged
the box, which crashed down Upon his
hand, which was at the time grasping
a stick of kindling wood containing
four ten-penny nails. All four Of these
nails We're driven thru the hand or
fingers, and besides the knuckle bone
was broken in one place.
EstherviIle.
Emigrant cars are passing thru
this town on both roads by the hun
dreds. On the M. & ST. L. sixty cars
went thru Tuesday besides a great
many on the B., c. r. & N. Nearly
every day special trains are put on
made up mostly of cars filled with emf
grant movables en- ruote for the Da-
kotas and northwestern Minnesota
great many are going from Emmet
county, many of them our best farmers
who have sold here at big figure and
bought more land for their children
farther west and north. Their farms
here, however, are being occupied by
a thrifty class from Illinois and south
ern Iowa. and to them hearty well
come is extended. The rush to the
Dakotas has not been so great since
1882 and 1883 as it is this year, says
the Republican.
The auditor of public accounts of
Illinois has issued a permit for the or
ganization of the Fulton bank, OF Full
ton. Whiteside county, with capital
stock of $4,000. The organizers are
Thomas B. Ingwerson, Gustav Grad
ert, T. w. Schroeder and George
Mates.