Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-20
Northern I01ua Items

Each car contained about $3.50 pounds
Of timothy seed. The seed brought
various prices according to quality. 1t
came from farms in the vicinity of
Cedar Rapids The seed prices con-
tinue sky high. and Cedar Rapids deal
ers pay 10 cents a pound for fine quail
ity stun and as low as 10 cents pound
for inferior quality seed
Sioux City.
F. zimmerman who operated In Sioux
City about week ago as representa-
tive of Harper 4 Bros. magazine pub
fishers. collecting a considerable sum
In bogus subscriptions. is wanted for
grand larceny at Fonda, n. Y. accord :
| ing to advices which have arrived since
| zimmerman left the city. He left the
West hotel at which he lodged, Oct. 10
zimmerman is alleged to have secured
over 81, 900 within the past few weeks.
posing variously as representative OF
| Harper's. Of Judge and of Leslies For
nerly he was a bona fide representative
of IIarpers thus familiarizing himself
| with soliciting methods.
| Boone.
a man calling himself "klondike
arrived in this city from the west Mon
day evening and left Wednesday morn
ing toward his destination which is
Washington. u. c. The dogs are hitch
ed to wagon weighing about 1000
pounds when loaded with all the lug
gage composed Of wolves and foxes
from the far north which he exhibits
and a tent and u cooking outfit. He de-
lvered Il lecture and then sold picture
post cards of the outfit. This is the
way he pays his expenses. The man
is walking from Klondike to Wash
F; ington. y. C.. on a wager and is said
| to have already been on the road for
over year.
Nc Gresor.
\ curious phenomenon OF the food
stage Of the Mississippi AT this place is
the havoc it is making with the hordes
of IA hhitS that have their homes on the
islands For the last two years the
| water has been 50 low the animals have
been left in uudiSputed possession of a
wide range of high dry islands. Here
! they have increased in enormous ntin-
| hers The back water nf the Wisconsin,
| has turned the river between Mctirero,
and the confluence of the MisSiSSipp.
! and Wisconsin rivers three miles below
into great lake and only the high
places on the islands are above water
To these the rabbits have fled unit. IL,
some places the ground and stumps Of
trees literally are grey with them. They
are suffering wanton slaughter at the
! hands of hunters. Thousands Of them
have been shot and cluhhcd within the
n.
sands more have been drowned or
| starved
Cedar Rapids.
w. H. Miner. OF this city. has rc
Gently accomplished splendid work
in getting out valuable history ~,
the Iowa Indians. Mr.. Miner has re-
published Fosters monograph on an
exhaustive Introduction and announced
the work as well. Such volume
touching a tribe that for long time
, Inhabited the plains and the river
hanks of the vast stretch OF country
which later took the name OF Iowa II
Of special interest TO every lover OF
Indian lore The Iowans or Ioways are
are a tribe OF American Indians be-
longing to the Algonquin family. They
were first spoken OF by Father Louis
Andre who met them at Green Bay
while he was stationed there from
1G71-1sS1. They moved westward TO
the rivers in Minnesota about the he :
ginning of the nineteenth century and
later were either driven south or pre-
ferred the banks of Iowa for the shade
Of the hills of Minnesota Thus the
Iowas came into what became Iowa
about the same time with the whites.
Later this tribe was removed to Kan
sas and Indian territory. where only
between 400 and 500 remain Of a once
mighty and powerful tribe Of red men
who can count In their long line Of dis
tinguished ancestors many mighty
chiefs and fearless braves.