Des Moines Area News and Police Reports In Iowa
Des Moines police report continued raids on disorderly houses while Atlantic and Carroll report grim discoveries including a decomposed infant head and a mild smallpox outbreak in the south side of Carroll. Debates at Council Bluffs between Iowa and Nebraska deaf schools center on government ownership of railroads. Portland mining suit heads to appeal as James Burns seeks a new trial amid a $600,000 stake. A South Omaha couple wed in Council Bluffs after license issues and a Creston newborn found dead in a gutter prompts coroner inquiry. Farmers form the Farmers Cooperative Elevator Society in Iowa Falls to build and operate a grain elevator.
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Oskaloosa
Peter Keister
Washington
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James D. Edmundson
Mahaska
Mahaska County
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Clyde
Baxter
Jones
Atlantic
Lemon Stottenbers
Carroll
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Gome
Iowa School For the Deaf
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Nebraska School For the Deaf
Omaha
Nebraska
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Lizzie Rhoades
Shenandoah
Laverne Byrne
Sheffield
Wilbur Stickler
North Loup
Hattie Bauman
Concord
Joseph Morehouse
Waterloo
Supreme Court of Iowa
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Portland
A. B. Thornell
James Doyle
Burns
Thornell
Portland Gold Mining Company
James Armstrong
Mise Gertie Myers
South Omaha
Weashbors
Creston
Hicks
Farmers’ Co-operative Eevator Society
Iowa Falls
Mandeville hotel proprietor hurt in fall and more
Multiple Iowa items report accidents crimes and legal cases. Peter Mandeville of Primghar falls in his hotel stairway suffering a leg fracture. A man named Cain is knocked down by a vicious horse at a Lorimer sale. A 13 year old Parkersburg girl dies of heart failure after visiting a friend. A Cherakes boy, 12, crushed as a house collapses during spring rains. Arrests for adultery at Waterloo. Burlington depot office ransacked. Public speaking contest in Grinnell awards $100 total. Wright signs bond to visit his sick baby in Glenwood. A Algona man, 65, commits self harm on railway tracks. Des Moines ministerial group moves against Sunday theater. Des Moines Whitney Bank finalizes $18 000 interest payment after nine year failure.
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Peter Mandeville
Mandeville Hotel
Primghar
Carter Harp
Lorimer
Cain
Matthias Carey
Anna Tlyndman
Parkersbug
Grundy County
Parkersburg
Joan McLaughlin
R. McLaughlin
Cherakes
Emma Allertz
Carl Ixling Ser
Waterloo
Grunidy Center
Lawrence Alleriz
Relbeck
McWilliams
Rebbe
Colonial Theater
Grinnell
R. H. Garner
Ida Grove
J. B. Nyan
van Cleve
A. M. Gay
Sidney
Glenwood
Iowa
Martin Wright
Omaha
Wright
Thel Bowman
Charles Nichols
Algona
Nichols
E. A. Evans
Abadiah Smith
Hampton
Evans
Mutual Insurance
Rockwell
Smith
Des Moines Ministerial Association 2
Whitney Bank
Atlantic
Desperadoes Run Town After Desperate Holdups
Des Moines April 16 A gang of desperadoes terrorized Valley Junction with revolvers and attempted and actual hold ups throughout the day. A woman forced one gunman to surrender at Fairgraves saloon. three gang members were captured by 7 pm and the crowd driven out by a posse. City Marshal W A Lewis arrested George Allen. two others were captured by Frank Woods and Mrs Fairgraves. The gang’s remaining members hid in a nearby camp three quarters of a mile south, out of town jurisdiction, with four hold ups in Saturday’s dawn incident and more arrests pending.
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Des Moines
Valley Junction
Wong
Joan Fairgraves
Henry Olsen
James Dortie
Fairgraves
James Clark
Ed Wagner
Clark
Saloon Row Draws In Politician Versus Bar Owner
Council Bluffs April 13 A defeated Democratic aldermanat large hopeful C H Huber sues Bert Larsen bar proprietor for 500 he spent to win the Danish vote. Larsen counters with mutch law injunction against Edward Sherlock saloon,Sherlock denies aiding Huber. Attorneys seek settlement as saloon war looms.
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Council Bluffs
C. H. Huber
Bert Larsen
Huber
Larsen
Edward Sherlock
Sherlock
Huller
Abandoned Des Moines Brewery Plan After Legislation
Des Moines businessman Prank P. Mattes announced that the Des Moines brewery project has been abandoned due to a new five year renewal petition requirement enacted by the legislature. He cited difficulties securing petition approval through council and courts and indicated the investment was no longer attractive.
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Des Moines
P. Mattes
Floating Body Recovered in Cedar Rapids
The body of Mrs Copp, who drowned in the city Friday evening, was found yesterday morning more than two miles downstream, ending a grim search in Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
M. & St. L. To Rebuild Track From Des Moines
Des Moines April 13 The Minneapolis and St. Louis railway will rebuild its line this spring from Des Moines north to Gmore. The existing 61 pound rail grade will be replaced by 70 pound Talla rails formerly laid by Rock Island during a lease.
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Des Moines
Minneapolia & St. Louis Railway
Gmore
Rock Island
Ttip a pity that reform doesn't learn a lesson from chatty
The fragment hints at reform ideas failing to draw lessons from ongoing chatter and begins with the word hema, signaling an unclear thesis. It lacks concrete entities, dates, or places to ground a fuller summary.
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Hema
Rock Island road proposes new surveys for Des Moines link
Nes Moines April 16 The Rock Island road revived a plan to build a line from Des Moines or Yatley Junction to join its Sbley branch at Gowrie, seeking a meeting with Minneapolis and St. Louis ownership. Surveys to be made in 30 days to select a route promising intermediate business, with two options: extend Four Mile branch toward Maple block coal fields crossing the Milwaukee line near Huxley then to Gowrie, or route from Valley Junction east to Walnut creek bottoms then through Woodward and Ogden to Gowrie. Additional survey work on Guthrie Center to Sioux City extension may occur, but major construction is unlikely for years.
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Rock Islan
Des Moines
Yatley Tunction
Gowrie
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Fort Dodge
Four Mile
Maple Block
Berwick
Douglas Township
Milwaukee Road
Huxley
Boone
Valley Junction
Walnut Creek
Woodward
Ogden
Guthrie Center
Sioux City
Polk County Schools Win Bronze Medal at St Louis Expo
Des Moines April 13 County Superintendent Thornburg receives the bronze medal awarded to Polk county schools for the county wide exhibit shown at the St Louis exposition. Polk was the sole exhibiting county to win a medal among about sixty exhibits. Thornburg feels elated and says the effort over two years paid off.
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Polk County
Des Moines
St. Louis
Polk
Thornourg
Sensation in Sioux City as dry goods thefts unfold
Sioux City reports an unprecedented church era sensation after arrests of alleged conspirators stealing from Pel Latier dry goods. C Waud, a state university graduate, attempted suicide after a warrant surfaced. Coroner Wand admits meetings but denies involvement. Ringleader Mrs Morrell and clerks Shields and Bender are arrested. Recovered plunder totals about $600.
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Sioux City
Big Pellatier
C. Waud
The
State University
Chas. M. Wand
M. J. Morrell
J. W. Shields
M. J. Bender
Price Scale Made for Iowa Miners
Des Moines reports the coal mining price scale for Iowa workers for two years from April 1 1906 is completed. Advances for second third and fourth subdistricts await final figures, with miners nearly certain to win. Further calculations for other districts finish Monday and resolutions begin Tuesday morning. A signed scale, resuming mines by May 1, is highly likely.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Fatal Shot During Drunken Quarrel in Buxton
In Buxton on April 14 a drunken quarrel left a miner dead. Fred Clayton, a colored man, shot and killed a companion, a fellow miner, whose name is unknown. Clayton escaped and is being sought by local officers.
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Fred Glayton
Oskaloosa
Red Clayton
Clayton
No Double Track for Iowa Central Dubuque
April 13. Superintendent F G Harriman of the Illinois Central denies reports of plans to double track from Chicago to Ft Dodge. He states such plans have never been considered by the company.
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Iowa Central
Burglar Uncooperative After Lock Finds Safe Case
The burglar refuses to talk much after discovering the safe is locked. Police report quotes a hesitant suspect, while investigators focus on identifying the thief and securing surveillance footage from the scene.
Governor Cummins Seeks Conference on Direct Election of Senators
Des Moines notes report Governor Cummins plans a conference of five delegates from each state to push a constitutional amendment to shift U S Senate elections from legislatures to the people. Senator Lewis's plan aims for two thirds demand for a constitutional convention. Twelve states remain to reach the threshold. conference may meet late August or early September.
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Gammins
United States
L. W. Lewis
Page County
Lewis
Cummins
Congress
Union
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