Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-12
Northern Io1ua Items

His body did not reappear on the sur
face and a search was not made fo.
1t at the time. Blakes came to Sioux
| City from Yankton, S. d.. about a week
| ago. He was a baker by trade and had
worked here " short time prior to his
last visit in the city with friends.
! Mearns says that Blakes was born in
London and. after attaining his ma
jority. Joined the English navy. After
several years of service. 3lakes was
honorably discharged. He had in.
tended to go back within short time.
Britt.
Injuries that We're pronounced from
the first certain TO prove fatal We're
inflicted upon Andrew E.dmonsen, age
about CO. ancinmate of the Hancock
county farm, and hospital about 10
o'clock Thursday morning, when he
was struck by Milwaukee time freight
81, west bound. near the depot plat
form at Duncan. a small station four
miles east of here Engineer Frank
Brose whistled several times after no
saw the old man. but the blasts We're
unheeded. and he was unable to stop
in time to save him. Conductor j. A.
johnson was in charge of The train.
WaiIinsford.
One of Emmett county's oldest set
tiers passed away last Thursday at
his home north Of Wallingford with
out uttering word to his remaining
brother who caught him in his arms.
Paul Paulson and his brother Ole
Paulson and sister have lived on
their farm near Walingford for many
years. On the day of his death he
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usual health. After the meal the two
brothers went out in the yard to re-
pair some machinery. They had COM
menced the work when without warn
ing or the utterance Of single word
Paul fell backwards into his brothers
arms.
Usage.
wellington Lewis ownar of large
farm and prominent stockman near
here. suffered heavy loss early
Wednesday morning when his silo
which he had Just finished filling the
evening before, collapsed and toppled
over, part of 1t falling on one of his
large harms. tearing ,,iY the corner and
badly damaging the whole building.
The silo was built last summer at a
cost Of about $1,O0 1t was twenty
feet in diameter and siXty-tw feet
high, and was considered one OF the
best and largest In the county. 1t re-
quired more than forty acres of very
heavy corn to fiji 1t. and on account of
the difficulty in, taking care of 1t "a
large part of the silage now spilled on
the ground will be a loss MIR Lewis
estimates his loss at $4,000.
Sioux City.
Ranks of the migratory hobo have
been thinned beyond belief by the ar
rival Of cool weather, according to
railroad detectives. Charles II. Gar
side. special agent for the Omaha and
railroads. declared that
hundreds OF tramps are passing thru
Sioux City daily bound fer more ia
vorable chimes. Whenever the wealth
e. gets so hobo cant keep warm in
his travelling clothes, he's going to
warmer country" said Detective Gar
side. Practically every tramp and So
called harvest hand is on his way
south. Only the real harvest hands are
remaining in the north. These will
stay until cold weather ends their
work, when they too Will set out for
the south." Police have oeen posted
near the railroad yards to see that the
migratory workers do not stop in Sioux
City. Having In mind the difficulties
the department was made to face by
the passing Of the army Of harvest
hands, Chief of Police PIERCE has taken
steps to keep the travellers moving.