The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-04
1898 t1a,.ap proves more malignant. M
tbs O st .nele were .os x'eported in
sAe state and only tvs deaths.

a dispatch from Houston, Texas
ia h heads as follows: Al Iowa syndicate
W ueaaea by ID. B. Hurda and 4. III. Nc.
10y. c OF Des Moines, secured options
1870 AZ .v,4s4 acres of lAd in Jefferson
s,as ~ 1or which theyagreed to pay
- 0o,oo: The same pa:ties also seasr-
= ninety-day option on another
t: .act, which makes The total transac-
.aD n amount to purchase of 14,264
It's es. winch is to cost them 1925, 900.
gentiemen act as txustees for
w t3li!is ~ oinal<1l llnfzed in Iowa
20 go into the rice business on a large
scale. This syndicate is projected
with q paid mp capital of $500. 900, and
IN addition to raising rice, it is to be
be cleaned and graded on the farm.
The plan has progressed SO far that
the trustees say options on the land
were necessary to a completion Of the
organization. Farmers from Iowa
are to be brought to Texas to do the
work. and they will be stockholders.
Certified checks have been deposited
for per cent OF the purchase money,
Governor Shaw will submit to the
legislature the cases of but four com
vlcts asking for pardon. They are:
Thomas Kelly, sentenced in Lucas
county in 1886; John Bellew, sentenc.
4 ed in Dubuque county in 1878 and Jas
per Mason, sentenced in Dallas county
M 1875. Twelve or fifteen life convicts
IAtitioned for executive and legisla-
tive clemency. Among them were the
RaiA sbarger brothers who were sent
~ pkison from Marshall county, and
conc@rning whose expected effort to
secure pardon from the legislature
much sensational matter has been
printed. John Wesley Ellkins was also
another petitioner. He is the boy
who killed his mother and father when
he was II years old These and the
other petitioners, except the four
named, Governor Shaw determined not
TO present to the legislature. A curi-
ons looseness of expression obtains in
the law relating to the pardon of life
convicts in Iowa. 1t provides that
the governor shall not pardon such
convicts until their petitions are re-
ferred to the legislature. Every. gov
ernor has construed this to mean that
the governor cannot pardon until the
legislature recommends to him that
those whose petitions are submitted to
1t shall be pardoned. But the law
plainly does not require the executive
either to await the recommendation of
the legislature or to observe its recon-
mendations; nor does it prevent the
governor from pardoning persons
whose pardon the legislature refuses
70 recommend. It is probable that an
effort will be made to have the law
shade clearer.
The Iowa Mexican Plantation COM
pany, . New Jersey corporation that
desires to do business in Iowa, has
He'd amendment articles of incornor-
stion with the secretary of state. The
The concern is capitalized at 81. Os7. 500,
The fling fee amounts to Sl.1O6. 10. i
This corporation is the one that took
exceptions to the secretary of states
ruling in the matter of fees. but finally
decided to comply with the REQUIRE
ment in every respect and through its
local attorney put an end to the con-
troversy that had been going on for
some time by presenting its check for
the amount demanded by the secretary.
German Steamer war PRICE.
4 LORENZO MARQUES, Dec. s1.-The
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