Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-03-07

guilty to conspiracy IN 1.-The district
court Saturday afternoon, will be
recommended for parole by Judge w.
G. Sears. ofSthe district court Judge
Sears sentenced all three men to three
years Imprisonment, but announced
they Twill be kept in, the county Jail
here pending action Of the state board
Of parole. sThe men were arrested in
connection With the theft and butcher
Ing several hogs owned by Ward
Baker. a farmer near Sergeant Bluff.
Boone. II
Francis C.. Eaton. aged %, until re-
Gently employed in the office Of the
Newell Mirror, has been taken to the
penitentiary by Sheriff sSkeels to serve
an indeterminate sentence for bigamy.
After six weeks acquaintance he
married Miss Veronica Stager. an
1S-year-old compositor employed in
the same office. It leaked out then that
Eaton had a wife in the southern part
Of the state. He was arrested on the
charge Of bigamy. Wife No. 1 agreed
to a divorce and then Eaton and his
girl wife were remarked at Dakota
City. A few days ago Eaton stole
$170 from his employer. H. c. Carbon
| to pay losses in a poker game. He was
! Immediately arrested, lodged in Jail
and sent to the penitentiary on the
original charge Of bigamy.
Sioux City.
Charles L. Kolb. of near Holstein,
has just purchased a farm between
Sioux City and Sergeant Bluff, con-
| tanning 1868 acres for $36.064 or eX-
actly $3.50 an acre. The farm was pur-
| chased from H. 8. and Anna Eaton
Grindley, Of Champaign. ILL.,, and o. II.
Eaton, of Woodbury. county. Mr..
Grindley Is member Of the faculty
Of the Illinois state university. The
farm~has fair improvements. The
price Is not q record breaker for
Woodbury. county but is far in ad-
vance of prices previously paid In the
same locality. 1t is declared by real
estate men to augur we'll for the 1916
Iowa farm land valuations. The deco
was filed in the office Of County Re
corder F. A. Rogers and contains $36
in war revenue stamps. The farm Is
situated about mile below the Floyd
monument.
| LeMars.
Sheriff Maxwell was notified from
Millnervllle that Jack Webster. a
young man who has been employed on
the farm of Mrs. A. d. Cramer In
Liberty township. had skipped out
! with a horse and had also succeeded In
| raising some money on forged check.
| Webster who is about 90 or % years
OF age, has been working for Mrs.
Cramer on the farm for some time.
On Monday he left on horseback.
| ostensibly to attend sale at the
Beaubien place. 1t was learned later
that he rode to the Millnerville store
| and made some small purchases and
presented check purporting to be
signed by Mrs. Cramer for 1885. The
storekeeper gave him his personal
check for $50 and some nineteen dol
lars in change. Webster then pro-
| ceeded to the Beaubien place and while
there bought a saddle and bride and
some other articles and proffered the
fifty dollar check in payment, receiv-
ing the change. He failed to take the
articles he purchased with him. Web
ster then rode to Jefferson, s. D.,
where the sheriff learned he left the
horse he had taken from the Cramer
place. At Jefferson Webster hired a
iiveryman to drive him to Riverside.
lwherA he boarded street car for
sioux City and that IL the last known
about him. M