Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-09-11

but the result of his injuries will not
be known for two days or more.
DR.. Barthel, a physician of Poca.
hontas with large practice, is test.
Ing the merits OF the starvation
theory for stomach trouble. DR..
Bathel has not partaken of solid
food for thirty days, and appears to
be thriving. He looks after his pa.
tients, mows his lawn and goes about
his business as a man would with a
full stomach and good digestion.
Unable to find unemployed men In
Des Moines, Contractor Charles
Christy hired laborers out OF the city
Jail SO he could continue work on
the sewer contract on Terarce Drive.
Christy says the unemployed in Des
Moines are scarce and lie. had to get
Judge Stewart hold the mittimi on
some ,aborers in order to give Chris
ty the men he needed for his con.
tract.
The Rev. Francis Wesley Evans,
one of the oldest pioneer Methodist
ministers in the state, died at hs
home, 1919 East Ninth street, Des
Moines, on Sept. Ord, aged 70 years,
following a severe attack of appen-
dicitis. The Rev. Mr.. Evans was not
only one of the oldest members OF
the Methodist conference but was
charter member in the Odd Fellow
lodge in the state and a pioneer
Mason.
The annual old settlers picnic oc.
a big dinner and a programme Of
pioneer "reminiscences. Several hun
dred people participated. Among the
guests of honor were three survivors
of the first settlers in the county.
Mrs. Patrick Hughes, Mrs. Thomp-
son and their brother Mark Owen,
Who was the first white child born
in the county. The next meet will
be held in clear Lake.
R. A. Ely, the Marshalltown con-
tractor, has been awarded the con.
tract for building drainage ditch No.
S near Iowa Falls. The proposed i'm.
provement starts on the north side
Of the J. B. Parmlee farm just east
Of town, and runs northwest two and
one-half miles to the Fred Raske
place. 1t is to be tile ditch COM
meaning with ten inch tile and end
ing with eighteen inch. The contract
price for the ditch Is $4,000, and work
on the improvement will commence
at once.
Gen. Granville M. Dodge, whose
residence Is in Council Bluffs, but who
is known and loved throughout Iowa,
led the Hawkeye veterans in the
great parade of the Grand Army of
the Republic in Toledo. The Iowans
were proud to march behind the dis
tinguished soldier and all the state
will be proud to learn that General
Dodge's health would permit of the
long march. Unmounted, he walked
three miles at the head Of tie Iowa
column and was as fresh at the end
as when he started.
Mrs. May Hartzinger OF Lincoln,
Neb., who claims to be the common
law wife of ]. H. Peters, telephone
lineman who recently came to Story
City with another and a younger
bride, attempted to shoot him
here. She arrived on an early traia
from her Nebraska home and i'm
mediately hunted him up and asked
to speak with him. Upon his re.
fusal to have anything to do with
her the woman fired on him, one OF
the bullets grazing his arm as he
ran. The others he escaped entirely
by lodging into nearby alley.
When the woman was arrested she
gave her name as Mrs. Mary Hart
Finger and her home as Lincoln, Neb.,
where she keeps a beading house.
She says she picked Peters up when
he was down and out, staked him for
$500 of her hard earned money and
lived with him for three years as
his wife, though she had neglected
going through the legal ceremonies
Ruth Hoover, so years old, trained
nurse and companion to Mrs. S. David.
son, 1925 Oakland avenue, Des Moines,
tried three times to kill herself and
was finally taken screaming out of
the water on the south bank of tho
river at the foot of Fourth street at
2 o'clock in the morning. For two
hours the woman had been arousing
people by her shrill screams. Seem.
ingly, she had tried to drown herself
in the old Zoo lake. She had taken
most of two ounce bottle of chloro.
form. And she had finally waded into
the river, fully clothed, and struggled
down stream for 200 feet before her
clothes caught on the brush at the
edge of the river and kept her head
out of water She declared that she
was tired Of living and resents the
efforts of the police to save her. Miss
Hoover has been a housekeeper and
companion for Mrs. s. Davidson for
nine years. She has suffered from
stomach and nervous troubles for
several weeks, and Mrs. Davidson be.
lieves that her sufferings alone were
responsible for her attempts to kill
herself. Miss Hoover left the house
early in the evening and she was next
seen by the men who pulled her from
the river.
Several OF the participants of the
fight were arrested, tried and fined.
Among the number overlooked at the
first haul of the officers were Mr..
Wander Zalm, formerly justice of the
peace. On the End he was arraigned
and fined SIS, which he refused to
pay into the hands of Justice Stauffer.
intimating he would pay it to some
other person. Mr. Stauffer insisted
and in attannt to oat Mr. Naa,do.