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ecretary of the: Big. at Fonday ,drove up’ “Wednes day evening accompanied by Henry. ‘Sullivan: : Thursday fornoon they de corated the business places and bill boards with artistic lithographs, ad vertising the fair to be the biggest thing ever, which is dated for August, 3,4 and 6. Among the attraction at the fair will be several orators of national reputation, although it is not yet known who they will be. *Warrants for the arrest of M. E. Burckhalter and L. L. Lee were issued by county attorneys Heard upon com plaint of John Lilly charging them with the crime of rape on the person of Mrs. Lilly, Monday night, who re sides in the tower addition northeast of a town. The case is on trial in Justice Terry's court this afternoon. As we got to press we learn that owing to the collapse of Mrs. Lilly while testifying the case was posponed until tomorrow. Burch alter being released on a bond of $2000 white Lee’s was 31000. Senator Henry Young of Calhoun county has this to say on the drain age question: ‘I am interested in the speedy completion of the county ditch es, and so is everybody in Calhoun county, for that matter. We have approximately 100,000 acres of land in corn and one fourth of this is bad ly damaged by water, while still more of it is somewhat injured. We raise about 2,000,000 bushels of corn ,where we ought to raise 4,000,000. The re cent investigation made by the state agricultural college of the damage by excessive moisture to the farm lands in the various counties of the state shows that the estimate for Calhoun county is a loss of $435,000 annually, and all for lack of proper drainage. Almost the entire cost of all the ditch es we will ever need could be paid by saving the loss of a single year.” Sheriff Kelleher drove down in Liz zard township last Thursday and placed a young man, Henry Theesfeld, un der arrest on the charge of larceny. On the month of March, Harm Saat hoff, living in Lake township lost a horse, which either strayed away or was stolen and could not be located. Henry Theesfeld was working for Will Walsh, who lives on’see 14 Liz ard township, and as he was suspec teded of the theft of the horse, Mr. Walsh and John Oraig began to in vestigate and by careful questioning, they finally concluded that they were on the right track. The horse was found in Carroll county, having been sold there to a farmer by Theesfield, but he denied the charge of stealing saying he had bought the horse. Thees feld was given a preliminary hearing Saturday before Justice Terry and bound over to await the action of the grand jury, his bonds being placed at $500,in default of which he was placed in jail.
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Pocahontas Democrat
Pocahontas, Iowa, US
Thu, Jul 21, 1904
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