Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1909-02-05

discussing the establishment OF
rest room for out of town shoppers.
Roy Hinkley, OF Charles City. drove
onto a live electric light wire at
Nashua and both his horses were In
stantly killed.
Governor Folk of Missouri and Gov
ernor Hanley OF Indiana are on the
Chautauqua program to appear IN
Harlan In 1909.
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Rev. ]. P. Hargreayes of the First
Baptist church of Iowa City Is :.
with appendicitis. He was operated
on and physicians report that he viii
recover.
Both North and South Dakota have
United States senators who were
formerly residents of Iowa. NJ. n,
Johnson was formerly Of DEBORAH and
Coe /. Crawford lived IN Waukon.
A team used as delivery team by
the Rustic company went through the
ice ON the Cedar river; near Charles
City where they are now crossing on
account of no bridge, and they were
extracted with great difficulty
Claim for the whole of 100000
estate by an alleged adopted son OF
William Patten of Missouri Valley mas
been settled by the man, George w.
Collins, of Ascot, accepting $4,000.
This amount settles the claims against
the estate, both as son and for GER
tain services of himself and wife,
which were to the amount of 800
After desperate fight on Rock
Island train from Winterset to Des
Moines, Louis Hildebrand, who mas
been eluding the police and detec-
tives for ten days, was captured by
Detective c. C. Jackson. Hildebrand
is charged with half dozen bold
burglaries, several of them having
been perpetrated while the poAce
were on his trail.
The greatest damage as the result
of the blizzard at Oskaloosa was at
the southwest corner of the kalbach
lumber yard corner Second avenue
and C street. section Of the lumber
shelter about seventy-fve feet In
length was picked up and scattered,
together with a portion of the con-
tents. The place looked like cy-
clone had been busy.
The lid is down good and hard in
Valley Junction. Gaming devices OF
all kinds have been tabooed Slot
machines relegated to the back rooms.
Shaking dice for cigars invites ar
rest and incarceration in --4e village
rounded out and finished with prose
cution to the full extent of the law.
Mayor Gray is the man who slapped
on the cover.
Tom Mcdaniel, the, Tabor student
who took French leave couple of
weeks ago to avoid service of war
rant for his arrest on the charge of
perjury, has returned and will en-
deavor t. clear himself of the charge.
Mcdaniel was a witness in the Porter
seduction case tried at the November
| term of district court in Sidney. and
is charged with perjuring himself in
the testimony he gave in that trial.
Seventeen boys of the Omega Eta
| Tau fraternity and fourteen girls OF
| the Theta Sigma Phi society at
Council Bluffs were suspended from
| the high school. They refused to
sign affidavits resigning membership
| in the secret societies. The students
we're willing to resign from "active'
connection. but declined to sever their
connection entirely. This is the cul-
| mination of the accident to Tom Har-
vey, who was seriously injured in an
initiation into frat December 26.
The pension bureau has notified
Mrs Mary A. Hughen of Murray that
she has been restored to, the pension
! rolls under the act of March 3, 1901.
Mrs. Hughen was formerly the widow
of the late Robert Graham, who was
u soldier in the Sixteenth United
States infantry in the Mexican war.
| His widow drew pension Until 1851,
after which time, until her marriage
to Mr.. Hughen in 1858, for some rea-
son she failed to receive her pension.
She will now receive her pension due
her from September, 1851, to June,
1853, after lapse Of nearly fifty-six
years.
Men all over the state are Interest
ed in what will probably be the big
gest mems meeting in years when the
Iowa conference of the Laymen's
missionary Movement is held in Des
tMoines, March rs to Is. This move
ment, which has for it's purpose the
interesting of men in missionary
work, is now being extended west
ward. Ambassador James Bryce is
one of the leading speakers on the
| program. William Jennings Bryan is
another. Elijah Halford, formerly
editor of the Chicago Inter-Ocean
! and U. S. Consul Wilbur, stationed at
Halifax, are other men of national
Importance who will attend. Governor
Carroll is actively engaged in pro:
noting the Iowa conference which it
is expected over 5000 will attend.
! Deceased was about % years of age
and had just completed his education
prior to locating here, having studied
in some of the best colleges in the old
world. His pasents are both dead
and he had made his home with his
grandmother in Grinnell. He vas
thought to have been convalescing un'
til he took turn for the worse.