Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
Northern Io1ua Items

there are many similar points in mine
and mill explosions, but the true re-
: lationship never has been learned. Mr..
/ Price today declined to discuss his
visit to Cedar Rapids or how long he
would remain in the city.
! Boone.
! A very important lawsuit is on trial
in the district court here in which 1856
is involved. Last summer five cows
belonging TO John Brady. near here.
entered the field of his neighbor, NJ. H.
Hannigan, and benevolently assimi-
lated some corn. Hannigan discovered
the cattle and drove them into his own
barnyard, where they remained day
or So Brady soon charged Hannigan
with cruelty to animals in not milking
the cows and had him brought into
the Justice court, where Hannigan
proved he had MIXED them and was
found not guilty. In retaliation Hanni-
gan brought suit against Brady for
81 &c in payment for the corn the fve
I COWS ate while in his field. And this Is
/ to be tried this week. Hannigan, how
! ever. was today fined s. for carrying
concealed weapons. as charged by
/ Brady, when the latter went to the
| formers barnyard to get his stock.
Cedar Rapids.
A local physician says that one
/ weeks operation of the rigid federal
law restricting the sale of habit form
! ing drugs has found the dope fiends"
with no cocaine, morphine or heroin
and that they already are appealing to
physicians daily for shot in the
arm or a dose of cocaine. The num-
Der of appeals increase daily as the
craving grows more intense and physi-
clans are experiencing difficulty in
Kidding themselves Of the unsought
patronage. Many victims, particularly
among the transient population, are
suffering torture thru deprivation OF
drugs. Some physicians say that they
are using the needle to quiet the
rawlings of the more seriously enslaved
! and perhaps to save their lives. Others
| allow them to suffer. and in some in
stances the victim visits practically
every doctor in the city before he finds
one who will consent to administer the
drug. The physicians give only
small quantity, and it is only short
time before the slave to the habit is
Obliged to begin making the rounds
again.
Sioux City.
Plans are being prepared for extern
sive improvement in the r. Hurni
packing plant and the construction OF
a large addition at an approximate
outlay of $4,000. The capacity OF
every department Of the packing house
will be greatly increased. The work
will be done this summer. In expand
Ing his business NJ. Hu-ni has closed
negotiations for the purchase OF the
old James Puck farm, just south OF
the Floyd monument on the lower
Sergeant Bluff road, where the packer
will establish an experimental feeding
farm for hogs and cattle. The proper
ty consists of 142 acres of choice land
!: which were purchased from ]. G
Lockin, of Cherokee, Iowa, for con-
sideration Of s23,512.50. Mr.. Hurn
, will make extensive improvements or
i. the farm and will himself direct the
, experimental and feeding activities Of
|. the place. It will be established dur
{ ing the approaching summer season
! Plans for the packing house addition
: are still of an indefinite nature. The
addition win be on the present plant a
: 613 South Chambers street. A concrete
r structure will be built. 1t is Mr.. Hurni'.
I plan to raise a great percentage OF In,
hogs and cattle to be slaughtered il
t the new plant.