Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-28
Northern Io1ua Items

affect the work IN Sioux City. as here
tofore one Judge has presided over both
district and circuit courts. After Jan.
the court will be in session only as a
district court.
Iowa Falls. i.
S. A. fisher, a former railroad man
of this city. has, received a letter that
was mailed to his. address eighteen
months ago. Mr.. fisher Is now engaged
in the hotel business, in Denver. On
Feb. 2. 1910. a brother in Seattle. Wash.
mailed a letter to him. The brother for
county. The letter was delivered last
week. The long delay was due to the
fact that the letter lodged in a mail
chute and was discovered when the
building in which the chute was located
was being torn down.
Sioux City.
News of the death. Of Willis Gaylord
Clarke, formerly a Sioux City Justice
of the peace. county attorney OF Wood
bury county and member of the leg
islature from this district. was received
In Sioux City Sunday. Mr.. Clarke died
OF nervous prostratioa at Carl Junction
Mo, his home. Mr.. Clarke was born il,
Newport. Maine. June I, 1853, Of an old
colonial family. His mother, Arvesta
Clarke. was a descendant of the Lewis
who gave his name to the famous
Lewis and Clarke expedition to the
northwest.
Waverly.
Chicken stealing has been going on
In Waverly and vicinity with great
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fine birds have been taken. The
thieves have a liking for thoroughbred
stock, and persons having fancy breeds
have been the greatest sufferers. But
chickens OF common stock have not
escaped. The thieves do not always
work at night, in several instances
having operated in the day time and
various means for securing the birds
have been resorted to. But the latest
| is the use Of baited fish hook. which
the stray chicken picks up and is then
hauled in.
Sioux City.
| ]. II. Bolton, clerk of the federal
court, has received orders from Judge
Henry T. Reed, that he must approve
the personal bail bonds of Hoy Stan
ton. John Stanton and Charles Dun
KEEL. ali charged under the federal laws
with the illegal sale of liquor at Spirit
Lake last summer. They are now hello
in the county Jail and will be released
as soon as the. clerk of the fedora
court takes action. The men have
been in Jail since November 3. The
action of Judge Reed Is taken because
the next term Of federal court will
not sit in Sioux City until May 1912
and it was thought that to hold the
men until that time would be an un.
| just hardship.
Storm, Lake.
I Citizens Of this place have petitionet
the city council for better system o
| water supply. The present system o
using water from the lake here doe.
not meet with tho approval Of tn,
| people. They insist upon pure spriI,,
water for washing and drinking pur
poses, the lake wtaer to be used on II
the case Of fire. The city council ar
cues that if the people would refuse t
use city water In their homes In TIL
future it would be Improbable to con
tinue pumping station. DR.. D. H
| Nusbaum has come to the aid Of tn
people by offering to allow them to pip,
the water from the mineral springs
owned by him to the homes in THU
F! city, :. distance OF nearly two miles
This the council will not allow. Thu
only feasible way to procure a waite
supply satisfactory to ell would be t
install new alter bed 20. the LAX
water, thereby making it as pure a
spring water. The council is now ad
lvertising for bids for this filter.