Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-07
Northern Io1ua Items

here. He has given up his office rooms
and plans to 60 west. He formerly was
a member of the Kenyon, kelleher &
OConnor law firm. He was at one time
a candidate for the supreme court
judgeship.
Clinton.
Harry Carr, former Clinton alderman.
| is facing a $4,000 damage suit at Spo-
kane, Wash, after being pardoned by
the governor for numbering juryman
| in a Spokane court room two years ago.
The suit is brought by relatives of the
murdered man. Carr had received
life sentence for the killing of two
men, One was accidental, while the
Iowan@was aiming at the juryman. He
then made the plea of temporary in
sanity and will make the same plea in
the damage suit The suit was filed at
the time the~pardon was granted.
Sioux, City.
During the summer season the
Misses Effie King and Marie MADISON
will be the guests of Mr.. Hugh Nc
Dougal in the cool basement Of the
court house. They are colored girls di-
lrect from Kansas City. arrested by Pa
trolman Ed Becker who said he found
a white man in their room. Marie ad
mitted that such was the case, but said
she did not know how he got there.
She found him there when she returned
from the Green grocery. She was I'M
able to explain why she crawled under
the bed when the officer came and was
given a year in Jail for vagrancy. So
was her friend, Mrs. c. Cook, colored,
on the same charge.
Dubuque.
While a colored man was making eff
forts to enter several homes on Inde-
pendence avenue Sunday night neigh
bors sat idly by and failed to report
the attempted burglaries until after w.
C. Kohl had returned home and met
the marauder escaping from his home
at 321 Cortlandt street. Mr.. Kohl was
preparing to enter the door when the
colored man rushed ox and escaped.
He Immediately notified the police.
Several people residing on Indepen-
dence avenue were able to furnish a
good description Of the negro. Blood
hounds were taken to the Kohl home,
but it was impossible to pick up the
trail.
Sioux City.
Sioux City creameries are in the
midst of the heaviest cream shipping
and butter manufacturing season Of
the year. Butter manufacturers Satur-
day estimated that, combined, the
creameries of the city manufacture in
the neighborhood Of 100000 pounds Of
, butter during this annual period OF
heavy cream marketing. Practically
all railroads entering Sioux City are
hauling unusual express shipments Of
Il ~tw,k<, - t~.rNr
City are placed at from $500 to 5000
cans. Farmers within a radius Of 200
miles look to Sioux City as a center
where their cream can be marketed.
Shipments are received from az far az
the Black Hills district of South Da-
kota. Manufacturers declare that the
very best butter of the season will be
made in the next sixty days.
Dubuque.
Fifteen years ago when Dubuque
had $50 saloons running at all hours Of
the day and night there were but thir
ty-seven arrests made during the
month of May, on charges Of all sorts.
including intoxication. according to
the figures given out at police head
quarters Saturday there were 165 ar
rests made here during the last month.
or this number there were ninety-four
arrested on the charge Of intoxication.
East Dubuque with its twenty-three sa-
looms and fourteen wholesale liquor
houses is responsible for this. as drink
ers from this side of the river, after
journeying over there probably only
once or twice a week, feel probably
that they must make up for lost time.
For this reason they proceed to drink
much more than is good for them and
when they return to this side they are
inabbed by the local police force.