Pocahontas Democrat (Newspaper) - June 29, 1905, Pocahontas, Iowa Is an automobile so BS when John Barleycorn Is acting as Now York millionaire lias with a But if she can't the THE NEWS IN is the time to buy real on Wall You can get an square inch of it for Pennsylvania church pays its reni with a Juno It's lucky the rent doesn't lall in Montana man has Invented a vineless Now lot some genius got and invent a dogless Is inclined to disconsolate a scientist has predicted that the volcano will go out of business before long. 4 to know which nation Is his truest the sultan of Morocco will see which responds to a entered Shop at Carroll between Saturday night and Monday morning and helped themselves to tools valued at about The Swenders bloodhounds e put on the but too limo had elapsed and the dogs gave up the There is no but It is thought that the work was done by local body of O. a farmer and stock man living near was found by members of the family in a water tank on his and whether his death was accidental or with suicidal Intent known but it is thought that he fell Into the tank by and being a was unable to get Winnebago Indian was drowned In the Iowa river at the Tama reservation a few days Rumors are rite which seem to be corroborated by the Intense among the that there was foul play in the It is very rarely that an Indian drowns they are all expert swimmers from their early W. author of who will speak at the Fairgrounds in Missouri on July 12, in a telegram received advertise that during my talk I invite questions and replies from and and if I do not successfully answer them their friends may hang me to the first As this Is the only city in Iowa where Lawson will it Is expected that thousands of people from all over the state will are likely to throw open to settlement a million worth of Iowa's richest land have been started in O'Brien county by the Of the 322,OOU acres in Iowa included in the old land grant to the Sioux City St. Paul railway about 12,000 acres are still in the hands of those who purchased from the Though these farmers have been in possession of the land for the past to twenty years they are threatened with loss of their homes and all their improvements by proceedings citing them to show cause According to a Russian in within sixty days patents Admiral namo Is | purchased from the railroad with the accent on the | not bo the land with the new After bumping against the world for a few weeks ho will discover his order to be on the safe side Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia should hire n trustworthy understudy to keep watch at is announced that the postal this year will be about The authors must be getting fewer manuscripts hundred automobiles were destroyed by fire in New York a day or two but you will not bo able to notice any had so many other casualties In actual experience It was no novelty at all for the battleship Texas to be sunk Can you manage are made to exterminate the but the odds are that the news Isn't causing a boom In mosquito life insurance of America's famous men wrote to an Iowa schoolboy that secret of success is real hard and eleven of the twelve were Alfonso made friends while he Vas in but there Is no authority for the assertion that King now familiarly calls him A has been asked to resign his pulpit because he uses an The dispatches do not say whether he inherited his money or married New York man was lined the other day for catching a trout that was less than six inches long. But the judge ought to have seen the one that got are many forms of misfortune in this but none quite so peculiar as that of the Chicago man who brought suit for an injunction to keep his wife from Bonaparte of Baltimore says he has no use tor the man who tries to live on his grandfather's it's quite a distinction sometimes to have had a chair once owned hy President Washington has been sold td the Mount Vernon association for but a seat in New York's stock exchange costs a good a freckled girl for a says Dr. girls are invariably more And they never get old enough to be the doctor might have New York man has asked tho police to help him find his 16-year-old who is missing from her and as she is six feet the police feel that they have some prospect of A N. alderman wants damages because he was accused of soliciting a An man who is courageous enough to carry his case Into court ought to have the in Massachusetts a man of 35 Js engaged to be married to a woman who Is 84 years We shall refrain from congratulating him until we hear that he has eluded the lady's fashion writer declares that In het tho' wUl not In getting a foothold In this country we should hope the dear girls win be able to keep their Uttle feet from getting tangled up In the the wIU come when Bian who borrows hls lawn mower send over hJg boy some day to wante to If you will bim ter thla to the absence of Judge Wheeler from the city of Council a march was on the county boards of Harrison and Monona counties by tho Issuance of a second injunction to restrain them from with the construction of the joint drainage ditch for those Attorneys for Florence M. owner of 700 acres of land in the ditch came to Council Blutts from Logan and secured the injunction from Judge Scott of tho superior This action is brought in conformity with a ruling ot Judge who dissolved an a week secured by W. A. Smith Wheeler held that only a taxpayer in tho drainage area could complain oE the awarding of the which went to three other construction tho annual of the stockholders ot the Newton Northwestern railroad held in the general offices in Boone a few days Homer Loring of Boston was elected to succeed Hamilton who has been elected president of the Belvidere Elgin Mr. Loring was also elected president of the Boone Coal and Mining Company at the meeting on the same The result ot the annual meeting would indicate that the eastern men havo control ot tho Newton but no statements to that effect were given It could not be learned that chafes in. the object or management road wore in It has been known for some time that the Rock Island has been anxious to secure the Newton Northwestern railway to replace the Des Moines Fort which was wrested from them a year or so ago by Edwin Hawley ot the Iowa Central and the M. St. executive council has fixed tiie dates for the railroad assessment hearings this The railroad representatives will bo heard on July 10 and 11 and other property interests will bo heard July 11. This includes - the special car lines and All of the figures covering the business ot the lust year have been compiled by the secretary of the council and are ready for the consideration of the In general terms it is found that the railroads had eighty-five miles more lines past year than the vear that their gross earnings were about less and that their net earnings were about The main lines of the trunk roads never havo showed so large Members of tho council have not yet given the compiled figures any No such thing as a prediction as to whether the assessment will go up or remain is at this It is certain that it will not go The incoming assessment reporta of the counties show that there will be no falling off in real and personal property values this C. of a well known dealer and a travel Ing salesman for an Implement shot himself through the temple with fatal ency was the He was In his usual health during the although a trifle He to his house In the afternoon and tired to his Shortly a shot was and with a bullet crashing through his he fell to the floor He had sided In ten or twelve years vas a man iS yeara of Mary aged 83 Has been living on a farm ol Ida has boon insane and committed to the asylum ai Cherokee by tho county 5-ycar-old son of Jake widi two little were swimming in a small creek near the boy got beyond ins depth and was drowned in spite ot the efforts of kis sisters to sava a 9-roar-old Davenport was drowned in West Davenport slough while trying to pick lilies from a She fell Into the and her body was soon efforts to her were in election to vote a 3 per cent tax for tho Des Iowa Palls fc Northern railroad extension carried at Hampton by a vote of 2.'!,') to 8S. It is a small vote for tho Thee 3 be It Is that work on tho road will be at secured an entrance into the Hardware store at and succeeded in getting about worth of They took 75 1 and The window was leaving it easy for them to get at tho There is no the police several local A reward of is offered for their S. Jones a colored miner at in No 3, near received what will probably prove fatal A explosion knocked down a heavy prop which hit upon tho top of his ing the Pieces were removed larger than a dollar and every attention possible given to the injured but his chances for life are very C. a well-known resident of Council was badly injured in a fall from a street crossing the Missouri river and he narrowly escaped death by falling into the Passengers on differ as to how the accident h Some of them say to jump while others declare ho He has been 111 poor president of the City bank of Boone and a prominent Mason and Odd died suddenly of a bronchial He was out in his flower garden in the best ot health when the attack He managed to get into the house and died a minute later In the arms of his Mr was a pioneer railroad mon Boone and was once chief conductor of the National Order of Railway He leaves a large The university year which has just closed at Iowa City has been char by an absence ot class Outside of the annual contest over the rag baby or milk bottle was the latter in there has not been a single outbreak during the whole school The September which usually lasts for three was ended this Ume in less than half an no one was and since then peace and quiet have reigned This record has been equalled by the Iowa City for only two stovies scraps have been sent out during the an infant m lier Mrs. Maggie formerly of Sioux was crossing the Missouri flc tracks at St. en route to the morgue to identify the corpse of man named Brown as her who disappeared two months when saw hei 5-j^ear-old who had walking behind hei hurled bv a locomotive He was picked up unconscious with both legs broken and internal Injuries He was to the city Mrs. Brown riding with him in the She is at bis her vigil now being the anxious one ot trying to bring him to while her thoughts are on the missing husband and dead body in the Physicians fear the boy cannot a who killed Charles also a as the result of an old now 3 cell in the county captured by an armed White made bis escape immediately alter the murder and hid in the A number of armed posses In the of Argyle were on the trail immediately after the killing was and extreme efforts were made to capture the The posses surrounded the dense where White was known to have and finally came upon He ly took to his heels and ran from his Refusing to a shot was flred at He fell and was immediately covered with Winchester rifles and at this ho The killing was result of a grudge over money White having of It was shown at the inquest that White threatened to kill Lewis on previous Occasions The verdict did implicate saying resulted from a gunshot Ballard of a freight brakeman on the was killed at was the youngest boy of the and a widowed two sisters and two mourn untimely aged a well-to-do resident has been missing since the 22d. His friends assign a motive for and fear foul When he said not look for me aea me He was a anri worked for C. a tor a quarter a a farm was found dead on the Rock Island tracks near his tody being almost to a He was about 50 years the body wao sent to in J. Galloway of Who married a Fort Madison a tinie to avoid prosecution fjr seduction while having a wife anu children at pleaded guilty to and sentenced to one year in at hard ot Otho went to Fort Dodgo to enjoy the double circus event and has not been seen The last trace ot tho missing man was on tho night of the 2'Uh, In company with three lie made hia way to the The companions lost track of him in tho and no clew of Ins whereabouts has since been an Inmate ot the Pottawattamie county poor to the board of supervisors recently decided to continue the allowance of a- which ho had been accustomed to receive for several lias received news of the death ot In Germany at the age of 10-i HIa father was also an Inmate of an institution for tho caro ot is highly elated over the prospects for improvements this The Y. M. A. building fund has the which means that the Northwestern will subscribe a like and a new or 515,000 Y. M. C. A. will be Tho late Frank made a provision in his will donating largo sum ot money for a new which will cost in the neighborhood of an 11-year-old was drowned In an abandoned clay pit at Mason City as a result ot companions mistaking his cries tor help as a Howard was bathing with a number of companions near American Brick Tile factory and they had been playing ruses on each other during tjie It IS thought that he was overcome by as he was a good Howard was an orphan and lived with a brother and 2-year-oId child of S. C. living miles west of was struck by a through freight train on the Chicago Great Western and thrown twenty feet from the Much to the surprise of the train crew the child was not killed and is still Tho doctors found several bones broken and the child badly but say that It can The child with others was playing near the and as it was struck by the train this one was to cross a It was on tho track and was struck by the cow catcher and thrown out on the right ot No part of the body was and its escapo from instant death is little short of The train was going at a rate of about miles per aged 15, of Lake kidnapped her two little aged 3 years and 3 and left for parts money for the trip being secured from her mother's After a long It was discovered that she had gone to and ' was to the home of her Mrs. at It seems the girl got into a spat her older the two having been sent out to pick She left the patch and went to the where she secured the babies and took the money from her mother's At she told several that her mother was and that she had cared for tlie children for several She claimed her father treated her cruelly and that she was enroute to her grandmother to make her The city marshal at Perry notified to arrest her and bring her but she had already departed for fatal accident occurred at in which Sam Steel was instantly killed and Dr. one of the was badly and narrowly escaped Two men were riding on the Northwestern track in a little gasoline propelled car operated by Dr. The doctor employs the car In running to and from tho mines attending to He was returning to Buxton from one ot these trips and Steele was riding with They were running quite rapidly in order to clear the time of a train that was They had almost reached the end ot their when a- curve the train The men did not a They had not heard the whistle of the engine and their car went into the engine at Dr. Wood shouted to his companion to jump and save and he suited his action to tho IIo slid off the car to and aside from being rolled over a number ot times and gathering a number ot bruises on account of con tact with the he escaped Steele was not so He seemed to lose his presence ot mind and attempted to jump in front of the The cross beam of the pilot of the which was now fairly upon the flying struck him upon the killing and his body rolled oft to the a limp mass of The accident happened in the yards at Immediately back of the company's 11 Years May Die of Her ARE UP IN On Trail of Tramp Who Committed the May Ensue if He Falls Into tho Hands of Posse Who Are Pursuing June 26.--MInnie tho daughter of John a Riggs was criminally assaulted and then robbed by a and may die from her The girl was her way homo from when met by tho who Is described as 30 years on the railroad She was seized and overpowered after a furious Tho assailant escaped after accomplishing his purpose and robbing her of a small sum of money she girl was found unconscious an hour later by her Later she was able to give description ot tho who was seen going in the ot have organized posses and are engaged In hunting the country It tho man is caught lynching will no doubt MEN LOSE IN Out Petition After Bitter Fight in Juno 23.Judge has Iowa county shall stay In a decision down he reversed the findings of the board of supervisors of Iowa which held to be a statement ot general consent tor tho sale of intoxicating liquors In that the case being entitled C. H. F. Bohstedt vs. Board of Supervisors of Iowa petition was signed with an indelible and in the frequent handling of the petition the writing became almost The names plainly discernible were as were those where tho were transposed or where a nickname was used instead of tho proper Many of tho signers ivere who were unable to sign their own and tho canvassers signed for permitting them attest tiie signature by marking an below or above it. The in many did not spell tho names and this caused more concluding his Judge from tlie foregoing that the finding of tho board of supervisors Is set aside and and the ment of consent herein is held Costs taxed to Jolin B. To all of which John first came into use In the eleventh Before that time it was to swathe the is profitable In Houghton Mich. The county has raised the bounty td the State for each - The step was be cause farmers in the thinly settled southern portion of county ace suffering many losses of the of which have become and extremely TWO Mountain Limited In Ditch Near ' Iowa June 25,No,. 42, tha Rocky Mountain the train on the east and west line the Rock was wrecked at 12:15 yesterday at five miles east of this train was minutes having left here at 12:03:, and was going at a high rate of s An extra freight had run onto the siding and when the brakeman tried close the switch It went half way and Whilo the with it the passenger train hit forty miles an hour and up tho for 200 Barnhart of Rock Island was Instantly Brakeman 0. D. Morse of the same place had his leg hurt and his wrist and man Frank Higins was lightly skinned but sustained no serious None of tho was air though all were given a good shaking The fireman was found under the baggage with Its weight resting on Ho was dug out and walked unaided to the engineer or was thrown from the train before the engine completely turned and he met Inr stant although it is not known exactly in what The was completely and lies cross ways In tho Tho and baggage car and the Urst sleeper followed It and Ho on their Another sleeper and the dining car the but did not turn The chair car and smoker on the the speed of the train it is remarkable that tho wreck did not pile up In the None of the cars were badly except that the baggage compartment of the first oar was smashed up east bound track is but the west bound was not obstructed at ami trains were not dead engineer leaves a wife and throe children at Rock The train was in charge of Conductor Moines Chautauqua Is a Complete Juno 25.Thousands of people have been crowding Midland Chautauqua Park the past few days since the June 24th. It looks like old times to see newly painted new laid and an air of prosperity about the whole All Des Moines Is nulling together to make this Chautauqua a The street railway has Improved their the Commercial Board of Public Works and all others been helping along and the general public has been liberal in its Is estimated 8,000 people - were on tho grounds Sunday last to hear Booker T. Next Sunday Sam Jones will appear at 3 p. and Gov. W. Folk of will the address at tho monster celebration July 4th. The grounds are and inviting and will hold the big crowd but all indications are for a record breaker on Sunday for Jones and on the for Admission to tho grounds costs but 25 of Calhoun Farmer la Being Juno 27.lA sensation was sprung here yesterday by the authorities stopping the funeral services ot Cryus Pratt and placing the wife of the deceased and the hired Will under arrest tlie charge of The wood church near Yetter was filled with of famly when the body was In charge by tho coroner and the stomach will he to the state chemist for It is suspected that Pratt's death was due to he having v ed Saturday after a brief authorities are working on the theory that Pratt and Kersing fell in lovo with each atod means to got the husband the It is claimed that purchased poison twice at the Tetter drug store signing the register on both and Mrs. Pratt were married Dickinson county about fifteen years was a woli to do ing is a young man and good Pratt is prepossessing and r the attentions shown her by Kersing havo been a matter of comment the neighbors for some Results From June 25.A tragedy resulting In the death of Fred a 10 year old boy hero While he and a companions were returning at a late hour yesterday afternoon from swimming a friendly altercation arose in which a chance blow on tho chin struck by Roy a 16-year old resulted in a dislocation of the at the base of the Death was assistance was at once and restoratives but they were of no BY SACRED Received Strange Gift from Dowager June 23.The charmed jewel that has been worn constantly for thousands of years by tho Chinese rulers is now In ot Mrs. Edwin Conger and is worn in like manner around her neck It was torn from the neck ot the Empress Dowager at the audience given Mrs. Conger by In her deep and sudden pulse of sadness and concern her welfare in her journey It was the highest tribute the empress give her at the parting and meant attending guidance of her gods the successful was this little stone that had carried her through her flight from and made possible her return to the was a most affecting said Mrs. Conger yesterday morning at the homo of Mrs. Harry where she Is rwas a loss to know what to I easily appreciate tho value of the ' charm hut It was not until later I knew the true history of Grafter June 27.^The mysterious book agent who has practically cornered the old school books ita Charles City by offering prices ho could not pay has been He was before Justice Hayen and was released upon payment of costs and promising to return the books he has The agent gave bis name as D. B. to Blow Up June 24.An attempt was made on Thursday night to blow out the dam at the outlet at Clear lalce with The terrific and was felt In the town a mile were thrown a quarter oi a mile and big one Farmer hen a breach was made in the dam and no damage from overflow If the attempt had been successful a large farm and a portion ot Mason City been DROWNS TO W. Young and Son Find Watery June 27.C. W. Young Britt was by waves while swimming in Cedar river near San SoucI park Sunday His son Ross went to sistance and both were Young and the boy might have made their escape but for a passing lire steamer which caused both to en volar ed In buffeting 47 years of age and the 16;:; Both were members of a private Ing The bodies have not been i MIckelson of Slater June 24.^The state board of pardons granted a here yesterday to who has eighteen months of a four year sentence blowing a safe at bpard said that the the Iowa man was a justice and that the without a scintilla ot young man owes his toj tha of his 8t
