Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-13
Southern Io1un Items

in dazed condition and can not eX-
plain clearly just how the accident
happened. Mr.. Harter drives the Wat
kins medicine wagon in this vicinity.
He has a cousin in Iowa City but most
of his relatives live in Missouri. No
fatal results are anticipated.
Des Moines.
Steps, which it is believed by some
city officials will force the Des Moines
City Railway Company into a receiver
ship, were taken by the council this
morning when it passed a resolution
calling upon the city's legal department
to make the necessary moves to cor
rect the evils esulting from poor ser
vice. dangerous cars, unsafe tracks and
insufficient power. In the same reso-
luton the council instructed the legal
department to force the pending litiga-
ton to a speedy hearing. The resolu-
tion was prepared by Assistant Solicit
| tor j. NJ. Parsons, and it was passed by
the council without debate.
Ottumwa.
OFFICER Frank Harris made a big
capture Saturday night when he ar
rested Harry Davis, aged 20 years, of
Peoria, Ill, on the charge of forgery
Davis is now incarcerated in a lone
cell at the police station and will have
his preliminary hearing tomorrow
m orning before Police Judge Laurence
Morrissey Young Davis is accused of
forging the name of E. II. Mather to
several checks and passing them at
three local saloons. The saloons VIC
timized were the George Cline saloon
on East Second street, the Dan Ratlif
saloon 3O1 West Main and the Mike
Brennan saloon on East Main street.
| The checks were for 80 each. When
searched at the police station six other
| checks with the name Mather forged
upon them were found on Davis. The
! police declare they have evidence
enough against the young man to bind
him over to the grand jury. While
4 three Of the checks have already show
! ed up Chief Gallagher Is OF the belief
that several more were passed by Dav-
is who partly confessed to the crime
, Saturday night The finding of the
signed checks on Davis connects him
closely with the crime.
Belle Plaine.
The Belle Plaine Commercial Club
has secured signs for about twenty
flVe miles OF l0e dulo-
mobile route which will soon be placed
Marked improvement has been made
over the stretch of road. and also on
some other highways, especially that
leading south across the Iowa river
| bottoms Arrangements are being made
| for street sprinkling to be done by the
city instead of the system of a private
sprinkling wagon heretofore used. Ma
terial for hitching posts is on the way
and the Commercial Club has pledged
| itself to supply material for hitching
posts and the city has agreed to do
| the work of putting them in place. A
proposition to establish a cotton glove
| factory Is being considered. Also an
| ice company. the present ice service
not being satisfactory, and the rate OF
so cents per 100 pounds being consid-
| cred too high. Mr.. Sheldon, represent
! ing the Burnay Building and Supply
Company. of Toledo. o., was present
at the last meeting with a proposition
for organizing and building a co-opera-
tive creamery here and the club in
dorsed the plan and good progress Is
being made with It. The Commercial
Club now numbers about 100 and the
interest in the work is growing.