Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-11

perintendent Shipley, of the Great
Western road and asked him to give
the leaky tank his immediate atten-
| ton. Mr.. Mckee declared that the only
relief would be to stop the pump which
keeps the tank full, but inasmuch as
the road has invested considerable
| money for a watering plant at East
Peru, the officials are hardly likely to
stop the pump. Instead, the tank will
be caulked and prevented from over
| flowing.
Tabor.
j. w. Hunter, Tabor's negro shoe
merchant, took sudden departure early
Tuesday morning for the sunny south,
taking his little children with him, but
leaving his young wife behind in Iowa
Mrs. Hunter recently left husband and
babies, going to the home of her pa
rents in Glenwood. Friday she re-
turned with. July Miles, her father, or
foster father, to get her youngest child,
but Mr.. Hunter, who had been keeping
the children with him in the store
building. refused to let her touch the
baby. Mrs. Hunter returned to Glen
wood Mr.. Hunter had been success
i
years. He is said to have made sud-
den disposition of his stock to a Chi
cago firm, and is supposed to have re-
turned to his old home in Texas.
ottumwa.
Many Ottumwans awaited themselves
last week of seeing the two largest To-
comotives ever built. The engines are
those of the Southern Pacific Nos. 1000
and 4OO1 and are immense oil burners
built by the Baldwin Locomotive
| Works upon the order of Edward H
Hartman, who would reduce the cost
of hauling freight over the mountains
in the far west. The destination of
these ponderous engines is Sacranen-
to, Cal. and they will be used in sery-
ice between that place and Reno in
hauling freight over the tSierras. Be-
cause of their ponderous weight some
roads were not willing to take them as
freight and deliver them over their
lines. The Burlington, however, took
them and is transporting them over the
line from Chicago. The train on which
they are shipped has running orders
not to exceed ten miles per hour ane
l they must be shipped only during day
light.
Knoxville.
David Stittsworth, well known anG
wealthy farmer of the Buckeye neigh.
borhood, five miles northwest of town
is lying in a seriously injured condition
as the result of an accident which hap
pened at the farm. He was riding alone
a muddy path when his horse
slipped and fell, catching Mr. Stitts-
worth's leg under its body. The hors,
instantly regained its feet and started
to run. The weight of the animal haG
driven Mr.. Stittsworths foot so far int,
the stirrup that it could not be extri
Gated, therefore he hung head down
ward while being dragged a distance
of rs or 100 yards. He is terribly
bruised from the base Of the spine tt
the crown of the head and complain:
of constant pains in the abdomen
which suggests that internal injurie.
have been sustained. His body is blacl
and blue from the small Of the back tt
the shoulder points; one knee cap wa,
torn loose; there is a big scalp wouns
extending downward to the forehead
and a cash of several inches length il
one thigh. The animal Mr.. Stittsworrl
was riding is an old family horse 20 O
25 years old that was never befcr
: known to take fright at anything. M.
. Stittsworth is past "a years of age an
the accident is exceptionally serious o.
> that account.