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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1913
Page
2
A jumbled item list from Range City’s Sioux County Herald covers Napoleon relics at Saint Helena, a Belgium robin weaving yarn, a bear fight tradition, a steel hydroplane, a 6 foot clock in Carlisle driven by earth electricity, Egyptian irrigation gains, soda fountains numbers, port elevators capacity, and varied global statistics on industry, transport, and science.
Iowa report outlines military preparations for a potential Mexican invasion. Col N P Hyatt notes plans, maps, and troop transport arrangements exist in Washington and nationwide rail systems. Guardsmen anticipation and public interest mark the era of emergency readiness across states and the regular army.
Mason City Iowa November eight. Friends discuss how to divide the Stevens estate after Mr. and Mrs. Grafton Stevens died in a Wilmette Illinois fire and were buried in Charles City Iowa. If Stevens died first the property goes to Mrs Stevens relatives. if she died first it goes to his relatives. Common law presumes the wife died first when spouses perish together.
Burglars last night visited Button Elevator Co and Farmers Elevator in Alton. They failed at Button but opened the Farmers safe, taking $13 in cash and papers. They left with no clear clue, suspected to be transient burglars. another note says $16.50 found, but funds were reduced. The tale shifts to a separate note on a wedding of former classmates J Truman Smith and Miriam Sylvia Ross in Larimor, Ia.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled in favor of Kunz Grain Company of Wesley Indiana against Bf and Si L, finding excessive carload rates from Hanna Indiana to Wausau Wisconsin. Reparation awarded to Kunz Grain. Weber Kirch Manufacturing of Keokuk also complained against Burlington and other roads over stamped ware rates, including thickened coops, seeking nearly $400.
Des Moines officials contest Rowley’s supplemental reply on the capitol extension case now before the supreme court. Attorneys for Rowley file two more arguments with references to attacks on the attorney general and ground ownership by 246 individuals, while denying charges of a Des Moines real estate deal connected to the $2,600,000 appropriation.
Mason City Iowa reports Senator George W Henderson of Pocahontas county arrived in the city to claim he dug and inhabited a cave found during excavation for a Decker packing plant. He recalls arriving in 24 and recalls using the cave as shelter from winter blasts. He dismisses murderers and counterfeiters legends about the cave. He is described as still well preserved.
In Mosan City on November 7 the auditor and county attorney debated how to treat delinquent poll taxes. The law sets a $3 tax with a $4 penalty. delinquents may have the sum certified to the county auditor for levy against property, but questions remain if proper notice was not given. Opinions differ on enforceability and whether any amount can be collected without proper notice.
In Des Moines Iowa for the first time the state acts as mediator under a new arbitration law to resolve the Oskaloosa street car strike. J H Strief of Sioux City and Governor Clark discuss the inquiry and the formation of an arbitration commission with representatives named by both sides. The McKinley interests may be questioned as the dispute proceeds.
Des Moines reports Rev. Charles Parsons, connected with a national prisoners work group, attended the national prison congress in Indianapolis. He notes Indiana has had a women’s reformatory for 40 years, a modern facility with individual rooms for about 20 inmates, unlike Iowa’s dormitory system.
Des Moines, Iowa, November 6. Judge Charles A. Dudley ordered the reinstatement of Flor R. Thurber as janitor at the state capitol, after a July discharge by custodian W. A. Duckworth. Dudley and Judge Hugh Brennan align on reversals, with veterans predicting the supreme court will uphold the rulings that Thurber and M. M. Harrah were discharged contrary to soldiers' preference law.
A person found in the road near Cumberland two hundred dollars worth of stamps stolen from the Cumberland post office. The robbers fled in an automobile after dropping the stamps as explosions were heard by Cumberland citizens who mistook them for gunfire. It is believed the same men who attempted the New Market Savings Bank robbery last week were involved.
Pierson Iowa Nov 5 hardware dealer James Bowers narrowly escapes a third serious accident in a year when his car left a bridge near Pierson while returning from Holstein. His son Ralph is badly injured, Laverne unhurt, and Bowers himself badly hurt. A farmer neighbor Charles Reinking broke his collarbone. The same car was involved in a fatal hit and run between Kingsley and Pierson last year.
A Nov to May controversy in a city led to the arrest of Mayor Bender and City Commissioner amid disputes over removal of unsightly structures on Main Street. The street and building alterations drew municipal spending and a contested legal opinion on council powers. Justice McLean delayed action after warrants were waived. next grand jury to decide.
Ottumwa Iowa November 5 Judge Louis McPherson of the federal court says the Mann act targets men who transport women across state lines for immoral purposes rather than mere commercial profit. In charging juries he urges indictments where women are moved between states for noncommercial gain.
Two civil cases arising from the 1912 Rock Island gravel train crash at the Rock Island crossing near Eagle Grove have been settled. A $2,500 judgment plus costs is entered for one matter and $260 for the other against Rock Island. A laborer, Jesse Wella, was found dead near Anamosa after electrocution while working on road leveling, with 42,000 watt high tension lines nearby. Remsen votes on Moon law implications. saloons anticipate closure within six weeks and possible single establishment in Plymouth County.
Morrison Bank of Morrison Illinois won a 40000 verdict against former banker W R Jameson of Waterloo in a suit over alleged false statements in a letter of credit to E A Boggs of Central Town Granite. The bank had loaned Boggs 62000 and an appeal will be filed by Jameson.
Safe robbers tried to force the office safe at Dr. F A Happe in Dubuque Indiana last night drilling a hole partway through the outer steel. Dr Happe fired a revolver at the men as they fled. No clues or arrests yet.
Rev. Father E. T. McNally, longtime pastor at Maurice and Struble, has been transferred to Sibley to succeed Rev. M. J. Hetherington, who moves to Early. McNally moved his belongings to Sibley this week and will be joined by Rev. Father Flach of Remsen in the Maurice and Struble duties for now.
Plymouth Clay Products of Fort Dodge filed a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission challenging rate charges by the Fort Dodge Des Moines and Southern railway. Receivers Horner Lering and Parey Sheldon, plus the Milwaukee and Pututhazet lines, are named in the action seeking reparations.
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