The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Mrs. John Bosch, aged GO. n promi-

self because of suffering.
Geo. Ashworth. mate on the VERNE
Swain, running on the Mississippi,
vs. shot in the leg by Engineer
Wheeler of the same boat, while quar-
reling. Ashworth is in the hospital
at Clinton and Wheeler left with the
boat.
Sioux City has been refused .e-
count by the government census of
flee. 1t is rumored that the official
count will give Sioux City about $4,000
inhabitants. The people are much
disappointed. The town has been
claiming a population of $4,000. The
census of $50 gave Sioux City popu-
lation of $4,000. That of 1895 gave
it $4,000. 1t is admitted now that TIE
1890 census was padded. The Sioux
City Commercial association applied
through Congressman Thomas for
new count but the request has been
rejected.
New interest was aroused in the
$4,000 express robbery case at Bur-
llngton by the return of the detectives
and express officials who had left
town. They are accompanied by a
number of other express men, and a
work of tabulating list of all the
employees of the company, past and
present, who have known anything
about the combination of the car
safe in which the $4,000 package
was carried, is in progress. Detec-
tives have been in Abba, Iowa, Night
Clerk MERGERS 70. mer home, investi-
eating his history.
Papers lave been filed at Charlton
hi $4,000 damage suit against j. M.
Harrison and Joe Ballou, railroad de-
tectives for the Q, Eli Manning, sheriff
of Lucas county, and the c., b. & Q.
railroad for false imprisonment and
degradation of character. Charles L.
Essex is the plaintiff, and the suit
grew out of a trial for attempted
train wrecling last March. An at
tempt was made to wreck the Burling-
ton fast mail No. s, and Essex was ar
rested and charged with the crime.
The first trial resulted in his convic.
ton, but he secured a new trial and
was acquitted, as he was also in the
federal court on the charge of OBJ
structing the mails, and he now seeks
redress in damage suit.
William Schaedler of Iowa City,
through Louis Schaedler. sues the c.,
r. i. & p. railway for $4,000, alleging
that. through the carelessness of an
engineer, he was severely injured
while employed as a fireman between
Malcolm and Grinnell, where the track
was undergoing repairs. The plain
tiff charges that June 1S he was at
his post, and that passenger train
approached at a high rate of speed
and while tagging the train plaintiff
claims he fell exhausted from sun
stroke, his body lying across the
tracks; that the engineer did not
slacken speed, and that he was thrown
from the rails by the pilot of the en-
CINE, sustaining severe injuries.
A Fort Dodge dispatch says Fort
Dodge's prospects for securing sugar
beet factory were never so excellent
as the present. President Theiden of
the Minnesota Sugar company, whose
mammoth plant is at st. Louis Park,
Mimi, spent last week in the city and
his talks with local capitalists gave
great encouragement to the promo
tiers of the Fort Dodge beet sugar
company. Mr.. Theiden says that the
soil of northern Iowa is ideal for the
culture of the sugar beet, and so we'll
pleased is he with the crops pros
poets in Webster, Hamilton and
Wright counties. that he has decided
that the harvest shall begin on Sep
TENDER 20. 81 have made close ex-
animation of the beets of Webster
county," said Mr.. Theiden, "and the
result is most gratifying. The beets
here are of excellent size and shape
showing careful cultivation, and will
no doubt give equally gratifying re-
turns when their sugar analysis is
made. The beets grown near Badger
are especially worthy of notice.
They will be shipped to ST. Louis Park
as soon as harvested and there CON
verified into sugar. The growers will
be more than pleased with the re-
suits" About 800 acres are in sugar
beet cultivation there, and as the
farmers are finding that the work of
caring for the beets is far less than
they at first supposed, the acreage
will be increased many fold next year.
The republican congressional com
mittee of the Tenth district met at
Fort Dodge q few days ago to take
action toward filling the vacancy on
the ticket created by the appointment
OF Congressman Dolliver to the senate,
and to provide for the nomination of
a candidate for the fraction of his
present term, which remains untitled.
Every county in the district was rep
resented. After a conference mo-
ton was carried by unanimous vote
to issue call for Il convention to be
held in Fort Dodge on September IS.
The meeting was attended by seven
prospective candidates and number
of their friends. They We're Senator
Garst of Carroll, Judge Connor of
Crawford, Harvey Ingham of Kos
suth. ex-senator Kamrar of Hamilton.
ex-senator Ericsson of Boone, Hon. M.
r DeWolf of Pocahontas and Hon.
NJ r. Wiehman of Hancock. The.
other avowed candidates in the dis
trict, Hon. ID. C. Chase of Webster
City and NJ. L. Brown of Palo Alto,
were represented by friends. The
field is SO divided that no estimate
of the ultimate strength of these can
didates is possible. Green and Cal
houn counties are likely to be con-
tested by Garst and Connor. Hum
boldt and Winnebago are likely to
go to candidates in the north part
OF the district. II is apparent that
the convention will be very inter-
esting one and that it may be tied
up in a long contest.
The democrats of the Second dis
trict met at Maquoketa and nomin-
ated Henry Vollmer of Davenport for