Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-23
Southern Io1ua Items

Buffalo.
A telegram received here announced
death by accident, of Ben Hoffbauer, at
Billings, cMnt. He was a son of Max
Buffalo. He started for the west three
weeks ago.
Des Moines.
Details incident to the closing of
the government land office in the fed
eral building, Des Moines, are being
disposed Of The office has been in
existence fifty years, but is to be closed,
as the demonstrating in Iowa is prac-
tically over.
Des Moines.
State Food and Dairy Commissioner
Wright is hot after seed men who are
selling seeds which are not up to the
standards Of purity required by law.
Saturday he instituted proceedings
against G. r. Briggs, of Onawa, and j.
Lohrmann, of Wheatland, for selling
impure clover seed.
Muscatine.
Because his former employer Satur-
day night refused to lend him more
money Earl Meyers, 81 years of age,
deliberately walked into the street and
heaved brick thru the plate glass win
down in the door of the Iowa restaur-
ant, owned by H. q. Schoenig, and i'm
mediately disappeared, tho he appeared
at the police station next morning and
admitted the offense
Indianola.
Some Of the citizens here have filed
objections against the city's acceptance
of the paving recently put in and also
to their issuance of the statement of
assessment. The city has taken action
regardless Of the objections and has
levied an assessment. The best attor-
neys Of Warren county are interested
in the cases that will result from the
filing of these objections.
conesville.
Burglars broke into the general
store of j. F. Kaufman at Conesville
some time after midnight Sunday
morning, by prying open the front
doors, securing in. loot seven pairs Of
shoes valued at s2S, number of pock-
ct knives, razors and a quantity of
jewelry, making good their escape. as
the robbery was not discovered until
Sunday morning. The total value of the
articles, taken is about 500.
Davenport.
The supreme court Of Iowa has af-
firmed the decision of the district court
of Scott county in the case of Mar
guerite Florence Murray against c. r.
/. & p. Railway company, and new
trial will therefore proceed III the case.
The plaintiff brought suit for damages
claimed from the defendant company
for injuries resulting from having her
hand caught in an iron mangle at the
laundry in this city, and a
jury granted verdict for $17,500.
Davenport.
Frank tMcKenna was caught in the
act of robbing the w. F. Winecke tailor
shop on Brady street. He was trying
on suit of clothes which Mr.. Winecke
had just made for himself. Some one
saw him climb in over the front tran
som about midnight and telephoned to
the police station. "A squad Of men
headed by the night captain surround
ed the shop and the captain went in
and found tMcKenna celebrating over
the proprietor's new suit of clothes.
-Four of the gamblers arrested in this
city Saturday night as the fruits of a
Ediu COuuuClSu NY thO ILo" AIhAOhSS-
ment League and Attorney Betty, of
were bound over to await
the action of the grand jury. Charles
and Lee wiltse waived preliminary
hearing and were Immediately bound
over. John Flick and w. ]. Phelps pre-
scented their cases before the justice
court, however, and were remanded to
the grand jury. All others were dis
missed.
Keokuk.
The Mills -Ellworth bending works,
situated on the canal; the Casino, long
Keokuk's summer amusement place,
and the hay barn Of the buffalo herd
in Rand park, were subjects of an in
cendiary Saturday night and early \
Sunday morning. whose malicious work /
came near causing several of the most
disastrous and costly fires the city has
had in many years. The hay barn of
he buffaloes was destroyed but the
pending works and Casino were saved
,y narrow margin.
Who owns the fish in the Muscatine |
slough when they are alive, and who |
WINS them when they are dead, is a
question that was brought up by AL
lerman Holmes at a meeting OF the |
,ity council. Mr.. Holmes did not seem
o care much about the live ones, but
he dead ones are apparently a ques-
ion of much concern. Mr.. Holmes de-
Jared that II the live ones were re-
moved from the. III Ilscatine slough III
arge numbers somebody might get
,inched for not removing the dead ones.
The Ash have died IN large numbers at
he head OF the slough. and - soon AZ