Iowa Old Press
Davenport Gazette
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
January 9, 1874
Iowa Condensed
- Sioux City, with a population of 5,000, has 23 hotels.
- Jones county is having a quarrel over the management of its schools.
- Abner Boyles, who started from near Abner, Ill., to go to Blackhawk county, in this state, is missing. He wrote a letter from Des Moines to his brother, which is the last heard from him.
- During 1873, over fifty thousand acres of land were homesteaded in the Land Office at Sioux City, Iowa. Its total operations embrace over 130,000 acres; receipts, only $30,000.
- Cherokee is excited over the disappearance of an old man named Haggerty, who was last seen in Le Mars, in the company of two young men, and with several thousand dollars on his person.
Submitted by: C.J.L.