The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-12-27
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL

Des Moines. December e5. 1900.
Adjutant General Byers, who has
just returned from Washington, says
that the war department will not fur
nish the Iowa national guard with
Winchester rifles, but has promised.
to supply Krag-Jorgensen rifles at
government expense within six
months, SO the guard will be COM
pletely equipped before the annual
camp next August. General Bycrs.
announces that these camps will be
of two regiments each, one in the
eastern end of the state and the
other in the west. The guns will not
come out of the states allowance.
from the government, but will be
extra.
Governor Shaw has received word
from Minister Conger that he has Sc
cured one of the cannon with which
the Chinese sought to destroy the
foreign legations and would give it to-
the historical department of Iowa
The governor was asked whether the
state would pay the freight from
San Francisco and replied that II
would. Minister Conger says the
cannon was one which was on tho
wall of Picking during the seige and
has been very much sought.
Local Belgian hare raisers and Des
Moines poultry fanclers have joined
hands in an effort to secure for Del,
Moines the permanent location Of the
annual shows of the Iowa Poultry
and Pet Stock association. Several
f1sa ho
arranged to contribute $500 to a
guarantee to secure the show for
Des Moines and the Belgian hare peo-
pie accepted u proposition to con-
tribute like amount provided the
poultry men will make up another
5000, making the total guarantee to
be expended for prizes, medals, ETC.,
$1,000. This proposition was accepted
and committee will attend the an
nual meeting of the society next week
and submit the proposition. Iowa
has been deficient in the display Of
its poultry and pet stock resources
in the past and the shows have as Q
general rule been of local char
acter. There is q state association,
but it's shows have nearly all been
held in small towns and they have
attracted little or no attention, while
the number of exhibitors has always
been small. 1t is the belief of the
local promoters of the project that
if the show can be secured for Des
Moines the association can be put
on it's feet and will also absorb the
smaller or district associations and
result in the giving of annual exit
billions in Des Moines of character
sufficient to attract the best display
from all parts of the state as well a.
from neighboring states.
The state board of medical examfn.
ers has refused to grant certificates
to practice to graduates of the Still
Osteopathic college of this city. The
| board claims the college does not
meet the requirements of the board;
that its instruction is only elemen-
tary, especially in anatomy. The col
lege management claims that it does
meet the legal requirements, but that
the board, composed of physicians, is
prejudiced and will always keep the
requirements beyond its reach. A
suit is now pending to compel the
board to recognize the college. The
law permits osteopaths to practice
without certificates, as there is no
| penalty. Members of the board ex-
| pect it will be held unconstitutional.
as it is class legislation.
| Adjutant General NJ, Il. Byers an
nounces that he has determined upon
the three Iowa cities which will get
the vacant company positions in the
Iowa national guard. They will be
Atlantic, Winterset and Abba. JUST
what companies will go to these
towns lis yet undecided. The three
places vacant are Company A of the
Fiftieth Iowa, which was formerly at
Keokuls; Company G of the Fifty
first Iowa, formerly at Creston, and
Company FL of the Fifty-frst Iowa.
formerly at Des Moines.
The surrece court has sustained
the constitutionality of the medical
practice act on the very point where
in it was supposed to be weak, and
on which two district judges have de-
clared against it. In the case of the
state VS.. Blair. from Audubon county.
Judge N. w. Macy discharged the de-
PENDANT, an itinerant physician who
had not paid the state license, hold
ing that the medical practice act re-
quiring this license was unconstitr-
tional, because it granted certificates
to practice to physicians who had
practiced five years in the state.
three of which were in one locality.
The supreme court holds that an itin-
Grant physician is usually wanting
in honesty and too frequently char
latan or quack."
Fifty-six opinions, the largest numbe,
ever handed down in single day by the
supreme court, were filed December 22d.
Among these was an important decision
in the case of the state of Iowa. appellant.
vs.. B. r. Schlenker. appellee. This was an
appeal from the Polk county district
court and decision of Judge G. A. Bishop
in a case in which the defendant, Des
Moincs milk dealer, was accused of the
crime OF selling milk adulterated with
boracic acid. The court did not hesitate
to speak in terms that reflected severely
on Judge Bishops decision. The decision
OF the supreme court. written by Judge
Deemer, was complete victory for the
state and unfolding OF the constitutions
atty of the statute. In the district court
the defendants motion in arrest of the
judgment, based on the proposition tho
statute was and is unconstitutional, was
sustained and he was released. The STATE
appealed.
ATEIKAEDERs IN REVOLT.
Cape Colopists Along Orange Rive,