Upper Des Moines-Republican (Newspaper) - July 26, 1905, Algona, Iowa UPPER DES year THE year THOMPSON OWNS TO THEFT Sends for County Attorney and Vol the Story of His Sad Story of HI Treatment by His Mother and Long Term In the Reform Jailed for Ed Thompson is In the county jail as a regular boarder till the September term of he having been held to the grand jury Wednesday for his offense being the theft of a watch from Ed the night clerk of the While Reece was out of the hotel for only a few minutes about five oclock one morning it is stole a watch from the pocket of his vest He went out and hid the watch and returned to the when Reece accused him of the Thompson went to and Marshal Switzer learning his and finding that he had offered a watch for had him by City Marshal and Sheriff Mc Donald went up and took him in When arrested he had no watch on his but soon after it was found in a livery stable where he had The hearing was had Wednesday be fore Justice Thompson has been tiling and working as a farm hand in this Volunteers Full Ed who is in the county jail awaiting the sitting of the grand has confessed to having stolen the watch of Ed Reece as charged against After having consulted Justice Taylor on Monday he sent for County Attorney and the with Sheriff McDonald as a visited him in his Thompson stated that he had con cluded to make a clean breast of and would do so hoping that the consequences would be made as for him as He said that he happened in the Durdall office on the night in question and saw the watch in the vest of young He was without money and was and the temptation was too strong for He gave the county attorney some thing of an account of his past j saying that he was born in Wisconsin and that his father died when he was only four or five years His mother became very anxious to the man who offered her the chance did so only upon the condition that she get rid of her The moth er was able to give the girls but the only way she could get rid of him was to prefer a charge against him sent to the reform which expedient she He ac cordingly spent most of his life till he was twentyone in the reform and he had been out only about seven He had drifted up here and had work ed at various places in the He had worked for his grub some time in Sherman When he was asked by the county attorney if he drank he said he did When asked to explain why he had been lying around town all sum when the farmers were trying to get men to he demurred to that statement of the saying that on account of the wet weather work was hard to The fact appears to be that Thomp son was aware of the fact that his con viction was the chain of evidence being Harring ton asked Thompson whether he knew that the watch had been and he responded that he was aware of The identification of the watch found was It had been bought of Bowyer by Reeces father and on application to him the number was The warrant for Thompsons arrest at Burt specified the number of the watch and directed that Thompson be searched for its Thomp son had a warning of what was coming and so hid the but on following his trail it was easily Thomp son had tried to sell the watch at Burt but did not When re a locket also capable of identification as one attached to it was still with The legal procedure in Thompsons case will be the same as if no con had been The case will go to the grand upon whose action the prosecution must But time may be saved in case the pleads guilty to the indict as it is presumed he will them to the barn the following Satur day night he would be The nets were in their place the morning after the night The party is or should be very grateful for the leniency with which he was treated and should show his appreciation and good judgement by leaving COUNTY NEWS p and wife of Burt have gone to Portland to see the Miss Esther Newell had an opera tion for the removal of enlarged glands of the which was Seymour and Charles Wart heard Lawson at Albert They considered the speech exceedingly Some parts of the county are hav ing their run of Up in Port Kieth lost a harness and Graham 200 chickens to the light The Fenton mail carrier tried to carry the mail on his wheel one day but when 11 miles from home his wheel broke down and he had to carry his mall to with the ther indicating 95 degree In the shade The Swea City Herald says Rohlin finished the largest grade of his contract on the road east of Eagle on Tuesday and will let the other go until after Eagle Lake has been opened since and far mers on Mud Creek can bid farewell to their hay along the creek for the lake will give out about four feet of The Ledyard writer for the Ger manla Record credits the Ledyard creamery with being a great and being a money maker the year During the year 1904 the creamery handled pounds of pounds of pro ducing pounds of which sold for and this after deducting running which amounts to per hundred pounds of has been paid out to the farmers of the INSPECT DEAIN NO Supervisors Go Over Drainage District to Adjust Drainage July board of supervisors met pursuant to adjournment at with the following members present John John and Ogren and spent the forenoon viewing portions of Drain Motion made and seconded to ad journ to 1 One met pursuant to adjournment with the following mem bers present John John Smith and Ogren and continued the viewing of portions of Drain Motion made and seconded to ad journ to tomorrow Car Tuesday July Board met pursuant to with all members present except and again proceeded to Tiew Drain Motion made and seconded to ad journ to 1 for dinner at Swea One met pursuant to adjournment with all members present except and proceeded to view some portions of Drain The work of viewing now being com That the county auditor be authorized and directed to draw warrants for all bills allowed and the following mileage and per John 2 92 miles John 2 104 miles 2 83 miles 2 65 miles Ayes Hall and Og Noes Motion made and seconded to ad journ sine die County Man Pleads About two weeks ago Alonzo it is had a pair of horse nets stolen from his Clark satisfied himself beyond doubt who had taken the nets and went to him notified him if he did not return JULY 3 THE CRESCO SCHOOLHOUSE State Superintendent Renders His Decision Sustaining Town ship Decision is In Line With Those of County Superintendents who has been repre the school township of in its litigation with has received notice from the State Super intendent John that the de of County Superintendent Bel napp in favor of the township has been The decision which is sustained was adverse to a petition circulated by Pooch asking the moving of the schoolhouse in number The matter Is of such interest to the people of the neigh that we give in full the state ment of the case by the state superin tendent Charles Pooch School township of from Kossuth This case is of long It originated on the 21st day of Sep when Charles et presented a petition to the board of directors of the school township of asking that the school house in District 3 be moved one mile south and one half mile east of its present After due consideration the board sustained a motion to lay the petition on the Appeal was to the county who heard the case on the 24th day of but he does not seem to nave any record of the testimony On the day of November the county superintendent made the following entry on the records I have this day rendered decision in favor of the Appeal from this decision was taken to the superin tendent of public instruction on February remanded the case for a new since the transcript was The case was heard by county Superintendent Belknapp on April and decision rendered affirming the action of the From this decision Charles Pooch appeals to the superintendent of public The plat and testimony submitted in evidence show the following facts District 3 is of irregular comprising all the of sec tion 29 and the i of sections 18 and all of sections 30 and The plat shows 12 houses in the i and i in the 4 of the To move the school house to the location asked by the petitioners would put all the residents in the i at a greater distance than at One of the residents in the i of the is a few rods less than li miles from a schoolhouse in a neighboring district the evidence his children attend their tuition being paid by the school township of The children of Riley must travel a few rods over H miles those of Pooch a few rods less than li and those of Baker li miles to reach the school house in sub district 3 as at present But it is that the three families who be brought nearer to the school house were it moved as asked in the have twice as many children of school age as all the other families of the These children are not at an unreasonable distance from and a part or all of the half dozen houses in the north part of the district where there are no may in the very near future be occupied by families with children desiring school Further settlement in the south part of the district may at some future time necessitate a readjustment of district within the town ship and the removal of the school house in sub district 3 to the east and south of its present but the reasons for this course are not at the present time sufficiently urgent to compel such The decision of the county superintendent is John Superintendent Public Des July The costs amounting to about are assessed against FAIR FUND IS GROWING Contributions Reported by Myron Schenck Swell Total Some of the People Who Have Been Seen and Who Have Friendly Feeling for On Monday Myron Schenok of On ion township handed In the following list of contributions for the fair Most of the subscriptions have been 100 1 00 1 00 Black 10 00 Walker 1 00 100 200 100 2 00 Lloyd 1 00 I 00 John 5 00 50 Harry 5 00 Joe 5 00 5 00 25 00 Zanke 10 00 10 00 Wilder 10 00 10 00 10 00 Joe 5 00 5 00 Newman 1 00 250 5 00 and William 25 00 10 00 William 10 00 ALGONA BEATS BANCROFT In Hot of Baseball But Hamp ton Proves Too Much For the Version of the Bancroft to Play Here Next The Hampton ball team came up last Friday and took the home nine into camp to the tune of 6 to The defeat was due to some eight errors and very poor stick Algona only con for five hits and no two of these in the same The errors were made by old from whom such actions were entirely Four errors and a hit gave Hampton four scores in the second and two a wild throw and a hit in the fifth presented them with the other Not an earned run was It was surely an day for the Salisbury was in the box for Algo na and although he has not been pitch ing much this showed up in good holding the visitors down to seven well scattered Had he re proper support the result would have been R H P A E 0 0 2 3 2 0 0312 0 0 10 0 2 0 0 9 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 r f 0 1 1 3 2 0 5 27 13 8 R H P A E 1 1 4 2 0 1 2 11 0 0 1 5 0 r 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 I 9 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 7 27 14 3 Summary Two base Shaffer and Jones bases on by Salis bury by Luke 1 struck by Sal by Luke 8 time County Superintendent Algona The game with Bancroft at that place Sunday resulted the score being 4 to 2 in Algonas Only part of the regular team went up but it was a good game Ban croft had three players from Swea City Including their famous Van Nice and The secretary of the Bancroft team umpired the game and shut the Algona boys out of a couple of scores they should have but as long as they came out ahead anyway the exact score was of minor Jake Lays Defeat to July Freeh Special The baseball game between Bancroft and Algona Sunday after noon drew a large crowd from the country and surrounding towns as the day was an Ideal The game was very close and Interesting and was a tie but through the error of the umpire Algona secured 2 scores on a batted ball which was a foul by not less than 6 and the Algona play ers admitted that It was a This gave Alzona the game by a score of 4 to Both sides played a good game and no one could tell the outcome un til the last man was out In the ninth Bancroft had three men on bases in the ninth but failed to get scores on Two Algona men made scores on the foul hit that was called Algona made G base while Bancroft made Van Nice struck out 11 men and Evans struck out Algona had 5 stolen bases and Bancroft had Bancroft has no kick coming even though they did lose the game through the umpires and all we have to say is that Algona cannot defeat the team they played with with the same team they had here Sunday on any neutral diamond In the Garner Comes The Garner team will play the locals here next Tuesday At the last contest between these teams Gar ner shut out but our boys are now in better shape and a fine contest is sure to SPOILING THE and Creeping Charley Are Chickweed has become a serious pest on some Algona has become so overrun with it that he is employing extra ordinary measures to get rid of He is using salt and with good The lawn as a consequence shows dead grass In but the salt kills the root and and the blue grass Is to take Its Ingham says he has used up two barrels of salt already and has begun on the third The Is identified by its little white Another weed that has entire possession of a number of Algona lawns is the creeping It has driven out every sign of every other green Perhaps salt might save the lawns where it has taken It Looked Like a Down on the other day a struggling crowd was observed about in front of Brownes shoe It certainly looked like a fight but turned out to be merely peaceable citizens trying to get at the bargains offered at Brownells Get Away It was furious while it lasted and the door had to be They have more help now to handle as many as come ana bigger bargains than COMPANY F GUARDS AT THE ANNUAL NEW LAWS CALLED FOR County Dewel Speaks for Practical Measures of Fraud In Obtaining Marriage Li censed Cant Be Administrators Asked County Clerk Dewel made the principal speech of the county clerks convention at Dubuque last its delivery taking an hour and fifteen Hia subject was Needed and most of the changes proposed related to the running of the clerks Dewel favored changes in the law governing the issu ance of marriage which he said was a jumble under which no one could properly be convicted of fraud In obtaining a Dewel declared that the ap proval by most Iowa courts of final reports of executors and adminis was a farce in that most courts approved said reports as a matter of course without examination upon their mere presentation by Interested per He urged the adoption of a law requiring the court to appoint the clerk a special with a small to carefully examine and report to the court upon the regularity of all the previous proceedings and of the final report in question before the approval of any such report was He recommended that the legis lature legalize the records made in many counties of ap and reports so that such records would be In evi He urged a law for the appointment of public administrators with small but did not at least for the a requirement mak ing it compulsory to employ such pub lic As the employ ment of public who would be specialists In such be come he said that there would be a great Improvement in the pro bate HOLMES ASKED TO Unanimous Desire by Cou Great interest was last by the news that Holmes had received a call to the first Congregational church at Mus and that he had gone there to spend the did settle and nothing so far as the public Is ia settled Holmes says that the church Is pressing Its and a decision will be necessary within a few An expression was made by the church last Sunday favorable to his remaining was remarkable for its At a meeting of the congregation called by chairman of the board of trustees at the close of the morning a resolution ap pealing to the pastor to remain was adopted by a unanimous rising The pastor was called before the when he responded in a brief Death of who was called to Col Springs by the critical illness of his Charles ar rived home Sunday The brother passed away Tuesday of last He had been sick with losis for six two years of which time were spent in Colorado Springs and the rest of the time with his John In San He was visiting at the home of his sis ter in Colorado Springs at the time of iis last illness and was buried He was born in LuVerne township ia and was only twentyeight years old at his The case is a sad one and our townsman and the other members of the family will have the heartfelt sympathy of this com Was Posted About Chicago Manchester Democrat A certain newspaper man in Iowa relates an ex that might shed some light on the mail order He was at the town depot and saw a farmer riend receive a set of harness He attempted to prove to he latter that he was making a mis as any ofthe local would urnish him the same or better goods ust as and the profit would be cept at the far mer this is the first time I have heard there ia a harness shop in fois I have your paper for five years and have never seen a line of advertising ia it about au ia in all that But you the Chicago house has kept me in Water f Elmore Eys A little two year old child of Miss who resides near wa ea in a water last The remains of the little one were taken to for burial Miss went up to Lake Crystal 909 pf the ardent and
