The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-05-17
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
Dies MONIES, Nav Is, 1900

NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL
DIES MONIES, May Is, 1900.
NJ. j.. Bledsoe, clerk of Dodge town
ship, Boone county, has notified the
secretary of the state board Of health
that there are smallpox cases in twen-
ty-six families in the township. Sec.
rotary Kennedy, who has justreturned
from trip to Decatur county, found
two cases at Lamont and two more at
Leon. Several cases have been re-
ported from Bloomfield, Van Cleve and
the town of Greene.
Governor Shaw has appointed the.
following men curators of the. State.
Historical society: Harvey Ingham
Algona; w. R. Boyd, Cedar Rapids;
Prof. u. w. Parish, Cedar Falls; H. W..
Byers, Harlan; living A. Richman,
Muscatine; Frank W. Biclsnell, Des.
Moines; Prof. Jesse Macy, Grinuell:
Col. H. H. Rood, Mount Vernon, and
Prof. L. w. Stanton, Ames.
Statement of banks to the clearing
house association show the banks that
are members of the clearinghouse have:
Deposits, ST., 227, 76ti. 21; loans, $40, 1884,
81; reserve, IS, O61 ,521. 20; since last
4 report: deposits increased, 81, 1s9, 27O.-
81; loans increased, $500, So. SO; reserve.
increased, $7T2,733.s5.
The dairy commisslonerhas appoint
ed +. w. Bouslsa, of Protivin. Howard
county, as assistant dairy commission
er, the appointment to take effect on
July l. Mr.. Bouska is graduate
from the four-years' course at the
Iowa Agricultural college of the year
1897, and has pursued postgraduate
course at that school and holds the.
degree of master of science He has
held a position as instructor.in dairy
ing at the college, and last winter was
instructor of buttermaking at the
Massachusetts Agricultural College at
Amherst.
The supreme court and examining
board admitted seventy-three candi-
dates to the bar. Twelve were re-
jected.
Prof Frank A. Wilder, assistant
state geologist, will spend most of the.
summer on detail work for the survey
in Webster county. He has already
begun the work, which relates espec-
tally to the gypsum deposits. He con-
cludes that these are far more extern
sive than has been commonly sup
posed, and that when the promoters.
conclude it worth while to go farther
under ground than they are now going
they will have practically unlimited
supply.
| n, odd
one of the tramps who were charged
with delaying the mails because thew
| jumped on the trucks of Burlington
train and occasioned delay of fifteen
minutes while the members of the
4 train crew were engaged in putting
them of, entered plea of guilty and
was fined $40.
The supreme court has decided the
famous John Irwin land title case, in
volving some 10000 acres of northwest
Iowa lands. The case is decided
against the Irwin heirs, and the opin-
ion debars them from redeeming the
lands from tax sales, which were made
many years ago. Irwin came to Iowa
before the war, with great amount
of military land warrants and located,
not only 10000 acres of Iowa lands,
Nebraska lands. To these under his
warrants he ultimately secured patents.
from the government. It would havef
m Thasd e, him ii one Of the richest men inn
taxes. But he invested everything Nh IA
the lands, and was not able to keep up
the taxes. He fought for many years
to save the property, but could not
prevent it from going to tax sale, and
4 1nCf la io1 IN OF 1%s
ninety three, and his heirs undertook
/ to show that he wasEinsane when the
lands were sold. remained SO till his
death and therefore that the heirs had
the right to redeem the lands from the
| tax sale, under the Iowa law The
4 testimony was voluminous, mainly
bearing on the question of his sanity.
1t was finally held in the lower court
that he was not proved insane, and
this is sustained in the supreme court
4 State Architect Liebbe has just COM
pleted the plans for the improvements
that are to be made at the hospital for
the insane at Mt. Pleasant, and has
submitted them to the board of con-
troll. The chief Improvements will be
the addition of a number of workshops
for the inmates of the hospital.
The state auditors office finds itself
with greatly increased duties as re-
suit OF the legislation adopted at the
recent session. The requirement, for
instance, that separate warrant be
issued for every account drawn by
authority of a particular section of the
code increases five-fold the work in
this one direction. Then the new
law for the assessment and taxation of
telegraph and telephone companies
will greatly increase the detail work
of the office. The new building and
loan law likewise increases the work
| in that department.. Despite all these
additional duties, there is practically
no increase in the facilities for doing
| business.
The term of the United States court,
after four days session, was adj
journed by Judge Shiras without date.
This will probably be the last term
Judge Shiras will hold in the southern
district. The indications are that
congress Will adjourn in few weeks
and Smith Mcpherson, who has been
appointed to succeed Judge Woolson,
will qualify Immediately upon adjourn
ment and commence his judicial du-
ties.
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