Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-12
Southern Io,ua Items

ordered her placed in the county poor
house. Secretary Young promised the
aged negro woman % Bet her back TO
her plantation home where she be-
iieyes there aee few 9fzheF kin living
Secretary Young will ask the miners at
Enterprise 10 put aside portion of
their pay this month to buy her a
railroad ticket -Aunty' Wade has
been north bur Ave years.
0aveapert.
While the family OF DR. n l. Let's,
1915 LeC.aire street. Davenport was
away from home. burglars entered the
house and took jeweIry valued at sew
erai hundred dollars escaping at the
conclusion of their search and leaving
no clue by which they may be traced.
Entrance 10 the house was effected
! by cutting the screen in the rear door
and turning the lock with skeleton
key. The burglary was committed some
time before s:25 o'clock, when the FAM
lily returned 10 the home and discovered
the entire house had been ransacked.
The police were Immediately notified.
BIT. could discover no trace Of the in
truders. A partial list of the missing
articles has been furnished the police.
and includes the following: Lady's
watch. engraved "B. n. H.; lady's
watch. engraved &c. H; two gold
necklaces. gold cross and locket. one
/ turquoise and pearl ring one tur-
quoise ring, one diamond ring. one
plain gold ring. one platinum chain.
/. twenty cigars. $3.50 in change
+; Wapeilo.
An injunction which restrained Wa
pello parties from securing sand along
the Iowa river IN the proximity to the
Keck place was virtually dissolved
when Judge Hale upon an inspection of
the premises ruled that the sand bar
! in question was the property Of the
/ state rather than the heirs of the Keck
/ estate as had been contended by them.
The Keck property bordered on the
/, Iowa river. Along the shore line q
! sand bar had formed and thus was Wis
tied by many persons daily and a con-
F. siderable amount Of the substance was
removed. Lewis and John Keck sought
an order OF court restraining other
parties from trespassins upon what
they claimed to be their property. AS
sistant Attorney General c. A. Rob-
bins and County Attorney Charles W.
Briggs of Wapello. became interested
in the case in which they scored a
victory when the court found that the
boundary line of the Keck place did
! not extend TO the waters edge but
rather to the original bed of the stream
The ruling places the bar ia the pos
session of the state.
Davenport.
y Mr.. ard Mrs. E. Hute, 2l11k West
Third street, narrowly escaped death
Tuesday when the automobile driver
by the former was caught between two
street cars at Third and Warren streets
and totally demolished. Neither OF the
occupants was hurt, altho Mrs. Huts
lis suffering severely from nervous
shock The crash occurred about {
o'clock Tuesday morning as Mr.. and
Mrs. Hute were starting for Dubuque
in the five passenger Studebaker cal
; owned by the former They had come
north on Warren street to Third stree
and turned west on Third Betten
dorf extra was standing tt the switcl
while Third street car was just pas
sing the cross-over. According to re
ports, Hute was driving the car at
Y high rate OF speed and was caugh
!. ! between the two street cars as the.
n passed. The car was completely wrecke
d and it took almost an hour to clear tn
n wreckage from the car tracks so tina
9 traffic could be resumed Officials c
I. the street car company immediatel
e began an investigation as to the caus
9 1f the accident