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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
nAnp FIG HE1se POSSIBLE.
Not Entirely Csftain Beers Arc Ready
}5ss IN Give Hin

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Not Entirely Csftain Beers Arc Ready
to Give Up.
LONDON, June a. Lord Roberts con-
tinues silent regarding Pretoria, prob
ably because he cannot wire of events
from his own knowledge. Lorenzo
Marquee, where all of the news from
the Boer side is re-handled, cables that
communication with Pretoria is now
suspended. According to last reports
a peace party appeared to be in the
ascendant, and as soon as President
Kruger and his cabinet left Pretoria
to organize a new capital, the citizens
committee persuaded the commandants
of the forts to withdraw some of the
troops from the defenses, perhaps with
the view OF keeping order in the town.
1t messengersswere sent to the British
or if the British, being two hours
march from Pretoria on Wednesday,
entered it then or at any time prior to
Friday noon. Lord Roberts would GER
tainly have telegraphed this fact.
Hence it looks as though there was a
Boer force between Pretoria and
Johannesburg. These soldiers trek
king back toward Pretoria, some, of
them fresh from the fight with Gem
eral Ian Hamilton, would have brought
new element into the situation and
would probably overrule the peace
committee, taking the direction Of
affairs out of their hands. If this has
happened. the British may, as the
Daily Chronicle says, see some sshard
fighting before the British flag flies
over Pretoria, for even if the Beers
held only three forts standing close to-
gether on the hills south of the town
they would be in position to stand. a
siege" The Beers, according to a
special dispatch from Lorenzo Marquee,
have re-entered the northeastern ter
ritory of the Free State and are en-
gagged with the British near Venters-
burg and lIarrismith.
PRETORIA WILL SURRENDER,
Beers Will Make Their Last Stand Mt
Machadodorp.
CaPETowN, June "A dispatch to
the Argus of this city from Delagoa
bay says:
Pretoria will surrender. President
Kruger, according to this correspond
ent, is said to be at Middleburg, and.
he adds. it is expected that the last
stand of the Boers will be made at
Machadodorp."
LONDON. June "a cablegram from
Lord Roberts. dated johannesburg,
has been received by the war office.
Ii says:
The occupation of Johannesburg
passed off quite satisfactorily, thanks
TO the excellent arrangements made
by DR.. Kraus, the 1'ransvaal command
ant here. and order prevailed through
out the town.
cdr. Kraus met me on my entrance
to Johannesburg and rode by my side
to the government offices, where he in
troduced me to the heads of the several
departments. all of whom acceded to
my request that they would continue
to carry on their respective duties I'M
til they could be relieved of them.
Johannesburg is very empty, but a
good crowd of people assembled in the
main square by the time the British
flag was being hoisted. A royal salute
was fred and three cheers for the
queen were given"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

Besides water and gas works, two
ferries, street-car line, an abattoir
ana factory for making the uni
forms Of municipal employees, Amster-
dam also operates its local telephone
system. Municipal operation began in
1895, at the expiration of sixteen
years, franchise granted by the city to
me Bell interests, and the long-dis-
lance lines were assumed about the
same time by the general government.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

The South African war is now in its
final rsfaEev and there is no doubt
9(e6ut the outcome. If the Beers were
still to meet with occasional successes,
like the capture of Bethune's troopers,
their ultimate surrender would be
none the less inevitable. Continued
fighting does not serve their great and
noble cause, which is lost already, but
simply prolongs period Of unneces-
sahy, unavailing bloodshed. Many of
their foreign sympathizers who feel
for them in the bitter defeat of their
hopes must deprecate this costly,
fruitless struggle, and there have been
rumors that the Beers themselves
have begun to question it's wisdom.
No one will, however, question it's
business. There are those among
them who would sue for peace, even
though Kruger has declared with char
acteristic obstinacy that his people
will resist until they are destroyed.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

I a writer in the Revue Socialiste as
serts that the chief bar to woman's
advancement is her lack of will The
statement is made that a, woman
spends all OF her life yielding to the
wishes of some man. When child
she is forced to make sacrifices for the
benefit of her brothers, and she learns
to wait on them and concede every
point to the masculine usurper. She
1t is who nurses the sick man and
humors his uncertain moods. This is
good training for wifehood, and as
wife she learns that she has married
her husbands family and must defer
to all Of the relatives she has acquired.
Her husband expects obedience, and
she must wear smiling face when
she is in pain, and must always suit
herself to his humors.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

Satisfaction must be expressed at
the present activity of the historical
societies In the middle west. They
realize that the earlier the work of col
Letting and preserving the early rec
sords Of the states is begun the better
II will be done, and that each year it
is postponed valuable material is lost
The German-American Historical So
sciety OF Illinois will appreciate this in
>, ne work 1t is about to undertake in
tS collection Of information, relative
"a ely settlers Of German ancestry.
The dae which it has decided to
gather will esrow an interesting light
snnon these sturdss pioneers who did so
mnch to build up th>-sniddle west
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

liz AdHus, 10 WHicn ne Is SUBJECT
During the height of the smallpox
scare he entered the office of a promi-
nent physician, who telephoned for
the police, threatening to shoot Ander-
son if he stirred in his tracks. The
latter was hustled off to the pest
house without further examination,
where he naturally contracted the
disease. He now asks substantial
sum for loss of position, time and
clothes burned.
A Des Moines paper says: Charges
of transportation of state fees have
been made against c. T. Jones, clerk
of the supreme court. State Treas
urer Herriott is the originator of the
charges, which Mr.. Jones's friends in
sist are grounded in personal ill-will
toward the clerk. 1t is charged that
Mr.. Jones has appropriated to his own
use something like $4,000 of fees col
lected for transcripts of supreme court
opinions. The law provides that these
transcripts, when furnished by the
clerk, shall be charged for at the rate
of 10 cents per 100 words, and that the
proceeds shall be turned into the state
treasury and fully accounted for. Mr..
Jones admits that lie has not turned
the fees into thetreasury, but explains
that he has failed to do SO simply be-
cause the state appropriation for cler-
ical expenses was not large enough to
pay for making the opinion record, and
the revenues from the sales of copies
have been used to pay for keeping this
record. He claims that the amount
he has received during the four years
and three months involved exceeds the
expenses he has borne by only about
81, 500, and that the legislative COM
mittee on retrenchment and reform.
after fully investigating, agreed to
wipe off the old score, but told him not
to doit again. In order that it should
not be necessary, the committee in
creased his clerk hire allowance 5000
annually. Mr.. Herriott demands that
the entire amount which has been col
lected for these fees be turned over
and accounted to the state, and he has
insisted that no other basis of settle
ment would be sat sfactory to him.
JUDGE SHIRAs. of the United States
court, has sustained E. s. James, ref
cree in bankruptcy in the Christensen
bankruptcy case from Clinton. Mr..
James held that where creditors had
received partial payment on accounts
within four months of the time of go
ing into bankruptcy, they must re-
turn such payments or be ruled out of
any rights in the assets of the bank
rupt. He held further that goods
sold within such time could not be
used as offsets against payments re-
ceived. The ruling was the first mad e
upon that point and was regarded as
an important one.
FIRE at Randall one night last week
nearly destroyed the bank and general
store of Peterson & Chris
hanson. The total loss is estimated at
S25, 900. The insurance is $40, 1000.
A SEVERE rain storm destroyed all
the bridges on Willow creek in the
Of Clear Lake. Considerable
i've stock was killed by lightning.
Rain fell in steady sheet for about
our hours. The lake rose eight
inches. The creek rose four feet. The
Iamage to crops is considerable. The
' age to pEppertfiull2 live
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

j. II. SHANE, q Cedar Falls oculist,
took two-ounce dose of laudanum at
the Jones' hotel in Bristow, which
proved fatal. He had for a number of
years been an opium eater and had
hard work to make living out of his
business owing to this and the drink
habit.
Two boys, one named Brown and the
other Eggleston, We're drowned in the
river at Burlington while swimming.
They were bathing near shore, when
they saw an empty slsif floating by,
and attempted to swim out to it and
\ lost their lives. A number of boys saw
the peril of the lads and tried in vain
to save them.
AT Fort Dodge a few days ago Ray
Phillips, 3-year-old boy, was poisoned
by drinking paint mixed with kerr
osene. His mother was painting and
the child drank the oil the brushes
We're soaked in. doctor was called
and a stomach pump applied, but il
was too late. The mouth and organs
were blistered. He cannot live.
Mrs. EDWARD ABORT, of Dow City,
became tired of her marital relations
with her husband, Edward Abort, and
eloped with the hired man, named Lee.
Mrs. Abort told her husband that she
was going home to visit her mother,
but as the hired man drew his wages
at about the same time, Mr.. Abort be-
came suspicious and had a warrant
sworn out for Lee and the sheriff
started in pursuit.
The remains of man were found
near CaullS's crossing, short distance
west of Mt. Pleasant a few nights ago,
and they We're in such condition
and position as to leave no doubt as
to how the man came to his death.
He had been struck by a train, but
there was no way of telling which way
the train was going. One leg had
been run over by the wheels. and his
head and other parts of his body were
cut some. He had nothing on his body
by which to identify him.
A 6-YEAR-oLp boy named Rolph.
while playing with a wire, was ter,
ribly burned ly electricity from the
trolley wire of the Omaha, Council
Bluffs & Suburban Railway Company
at Council Bluffs. and would undoubt
eddy have been killed outright had il
not been for the fact that the current
does not make continuous circuit tc
the power house at present, but is
''dead ended" at that end of the line
AS it was, the boy was unconscious
and nearly dead when lie was torn
from the wire by one of his older com
paniops. His hands We're burned to
the bone by the electric current.
TIE little town of Salix, a few miles
!, from Sioux City, received a severe
shock, when c. E. Schmidt station
agent for the Sioux City & Pacific
railway, ran out in front of the Memo
rial day parade and shouted: etc
he'll with America The marshal OF
the day at once went after the man.
who ran away and for some time elud
ed his pursuers. Later he concluded
to give himself up. lie was taken tc
the postofiice. and there he made
public ape ~ the forgive
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
COMMISSIONERS HAVE ARRIVED.

Philippine Commissioners Reach Manila
and Are Received by Macarthur.
MANILA, June 5.-The transport
Hancock arrived Sunday after fine
voyage. having on board .the new
Philippine commission. The judges of
the supreme court were the first Wis
itors to the transport, and they were
followed by General MacArthur's staff.
The commissioners landed at noon.
Two companies and the band of the
Twentieth infantry and battery Of
the Sixth artillery escorted them to
the aynntamiento, where they were
received by General Macarthur.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

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Salaries in Postal Department..
HAVANA, June 2.-Acting Director
of Posts Bristow has issued an order
more sweeping than any Of its prede-
cessors, an order practically complet-
ing the reorganization of postal head
quarters. The latest financial reduc-
tions aggregate $500, making total
reduction of expenditures at head
quarters of more than 81, 1000. The
special agents, eleven in number, who
have been getting $4,000 each, are cut
down to six, and their clerical force is
correspondingly diminished, the salary
OF the chief clerk of the bureau being
reduced from $1,000 to $1,000. The
bureau of transportation loses the
services of one $1,000 clerk, the trans
tation bureau loses one $1,4oo clerk,
the salary of the chief clerk being re-
duced 5000, and the bureau of dead
letters is treated in the same way, los
ing clerk, while the salary Of it's
chief clerk is reduced. P. II. Bristow,
chief clerk of the department., had his
salary reduced from 81, 900 to So, 500.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Otis Is allowed to-Land,

SAN Francisco, June 5.-After fi,i
days in quarantine at Angel Island
Major General E. S. Otis, who arrived
on the 3oth from Manila, was allowed
to land yesterday. Several cases Of
small pox on board the transport
Meade were the cause Of the quaran-
tine and General Otis and all on board
had to submit to vaccination.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
NO SAFETY IN CHINA.

Minister conger Cables That tho "Box-
ers' Arc Increasing.
WASHINGTON, June 5.-The follow
ing cablegram was received yesterday
at the state department from Minister
conger at Pelsing:
Outside of Picking. murders and
prosecutions by the Boxers seem on
the increase. The Pao Ting Flu rail-
way is temporarily abandoned. Work
on the Peking and Hang Kow line is
stopped. All the foreigners have fed.
The Chinese government seems either
unwilling or unable to suppress the
trouble and the troops show no energy
in attacking the stBoxers. :,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

MT. McNeally's Long Island hen has
) 2 lively rival for the incubator purse
70 that Rhode Island biddy that lays
= dozen eggs q day. Prosperity has
evidently struck the hen coops.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

Killed Him.
VIeAN, Luzon, via Manila, June s.
Major March, with his detachment of
the Thirty-third regiment, overlook
what is believed to have been Aguin-
aldo's party on May 10, at La Cat,
about 100 miles north of Vigan. The
Americans killed OF wounded an officer,
supposed to be Aguinaldo. whose body
was removed by his followers. The
Americans on reaching the spot caught
the horse. which was richly saddied.
Blood from a badly wounded man was
on the animal and on the ground.
The saddle bags contained Aguinaldo's
dairy and some private papers, includ-
ing proclamations. The officer shot
was either Aguinaldo or his adiutant;
and as the horse was richly caparis-
oned. it is fair presumption that it
was Aguinaldo,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

There is considerable interest in the
Belgian hare. From Kansas City
where, at least as a fad. the breeding
OF these animals began, it extended to
Los Angeles. CAL, where the craze
spread over the whole southern part
of that state. Gradually the boom
spread to San Francisco where Bel
gian hare clubs were formed and the
propagation of the rabbit was given
further impetus. AS fine breeding sup
piled good eating, the fad evolved into
q business which, as hares brought SO
to 81, became very profitable.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

Chicago detectives are much puzzled
70 discover that Bertillon measure
ments taken some years ago when
y criminal was a boy do not fit him now
y az man.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
cossAcKs KILL BOXERS.
Went in Search Of Relief Party spd
Encountered Rebels at TuIi.

Went in Search of Relief Party end
Encountered Rebels at TuIi.
TEN TsIN, June 5.-Two of the par
ty of foreigners who fed from Pao-
Ting-Fu arrived here. One of them is
badly injured. The relief expedition
has returned. A body of mounted
Cossacks, who started in search Of the
refugees, has also returned. They re-
port that they had fight with Boxers
at Tuli, killing sixteen and wounding
many. -Four Cossaclxs were wounded.
It is reported from Pao-Ting-Fu that
eight Americans and three members Of
the China Inland Mission are missing.
The missionaries are in great danger.
No further news has been received re-.
garding the missing refugees.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

of that stream: fhis is supp 80 ito
be due to the denudatton Of the forest
along the head waters Of the river and
to excessive artificial drainage for
commercial and agricultural purposes.
The decrease in the volume OF the wa
ter has become alarming, and in re-
Spouse to the agitation of citizens of
that locality Representative Hit ap-
piled to the Secretary Of Agriculture
for an Investigation. G. F. Schwartz,
I Held assistant of the Division of For
estry. will visit Illinois to investigate.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Conger Reports Arrival Of Troop..

WASHINGTON, June minister Con-
ger at Peking reports to the state de-
partment that the arrival of the $50
guards for the legations of Russia,
France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan
and the United States has had the eff
feet of improving the situation. He
says that Picking is much quieter, but
that the Boxers are still active in
the surrounding country.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

n Japan fashion compels married
women to blacken their teeth, not as
an ornament. but to make them ugly
: ana save them from temptation.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

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them seem awfully anxious to get at
the little sweet corn, and if they do
light on it they will not leave stem
alive. The insects are not content to
eat part of a field, but go after the
whole business, and hope something
will happen to drive them away
Another gardener said he was troubled
with them already, as they were eat
ing the tops of tender vegetables, but
he thought they had not come to stay. !.
Washington school graduated q
pupil this year, Lydia Spieth, who
has not been tardy nor absent for
eight years. She has passed from the
primary through the grades without
missing day.
Dir. J. A. Kennedy. secretary of the
state board Of health, expresses the
opinion that the small pox epidemic
in the state is gradually dying out
He says reports of cases are becoming
fewer. and some Of the most badly in
tfected places are being relieved OF the
pest. For example, Fraser, the town
where the health author ties have
been SO generally blamed for negli-s
gence in detecting tile disease and
qnarantining against it, reports no
new cases and believes it has the dis
case cornered. M. j.. Bledsoe, clerk
of Dodge township, Boone county.
where Fraser is located, says there
are but eight families now quaran- y
tined. and these are quarantined onlyl
for exposure. There have been nd
deaths at Fraser from the disease .eS
cept one infant.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Agile house today agreed to the
70 70 the suhury civil ~ Is Ill,

- QUO, 600 for the Louisiana ,..ss!aa se
sition at st. Louis. The house also agreeh
with an amendment reducing the appropriation
TO Ss,25oGOo ana adding p o.ision for the
preparation OF a comprehensive report on the
sion.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

James j. Corbett, speaking of his
congressional prospects, says: Ger.
tain contingencies may arise which
will put Representative Mcclellan out
OF the race. If that is the situation, 1
shall ask for the nomination in the
18th district" Does Mr.. Corbett refer
to Contingencies" of the solk plexus
variety? If so, Represep Te Nc
Clellan should be on his q
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

At Whalsarewarewa, New Zealand,
there are geysers, hot springs, boiling
pools, mud volcanoes and waterfalls.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Correspondents Liberated.

LONDON, June e.-In reply to in
luiry, United States Consul Hay, at
Pretoria, has cabled to the United
States embassy that Lord Rossyln
Was liberated Wednesday,, but was
allowed tie remain at Pretoria. Lord
Cecil Manners was also liberated.
They were both acting as newspaper
correspondents.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
p 2. =. EuLI.. Publ,sh.r.
That ships cargo Of beer said t
nave been lost in Philippine waters is
suspected OF having run upon a bar.

AZ Paraguay, gentleman is en-
joined by the laws of good society to
KISS every lady to whom he is intro
( duced.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Boer sympathy In old Mexlco,

Cry OF MEXICO, June Eel Correo
Espanole, the organ of the Spanish
colony here, says regarding England's
policy of annexing the Boer republics:
Poor Beers. the world has applaud
ed your heroism, but has not moved. a
finger to prevent the spoliation of
which you are the victims. The nine
teen h century goes out dishonorahle. >,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

Rosn .stigation Of the y, l.shed Of
ne m sntn,s. sss, will soo2phe MA nv
.,nsnt at ~ 6 % cores OF the Depart
i|t ss1G|1Itars tn.dster me the
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
srists haax Lays Az Hen

sWEEPING CUTS I'M CUBA.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

Mrs. Langtry will douht
critics to-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Is Thought Major Marcli's Detachment
Killed Him.

2 % MAY BE DEAD.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Boer Envoy. Leave washington.

WAsnlNeToN, May ao.-The three
Boer ENJOYS left Washington yesterday
afternoon for trip north. They will
go fiEst to New York and thence to
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

4 daring youth of nineteen lately
married bride of fifteen, in Yelling
ton, Kan. To give him adequate cour-
age for the deed, or to show the spec
tators that he was not afraid, he saun-
tered up to the clergyman, carrying a.
cigarette in his mouth, which he was
vigorously putting.
Some people seem to have genius
for doing the right thing in the wrong
way.
Lompoc, in Santa Barba county,
Cal ixSrnia, grows mustard for the
VIII nation. In that region 1000
p no11itivated to the seed, the
ploying about 200 farmers
Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-04-12
ILLNESS IN FLEET.
Writer Tells of Suffering Among Men on
the Philippines Station.
Troops Busy.

BosToN, April 12.-Letters received
in this city from naval officer stationed
at Manila say that great activity is nee.
essary on the part of the troops to pre-.
vent the ravages of armed bands of in.
surgents, who constantly harass the in
habitants at many points.
The writer says that the navy now has
little to do, except to patrol about some
of the smaller islands, and some won.
der is expressed why it is considered
necessary to maintain large squadron
in the Philippine waters.
Sickness among the naval forces, the
writer says, has increased to an alarm.
ing extent, the per cent of those who are
i'll being greater than it should He
says the naval hospital at Cavite is
badly located, and that in many in
stances the lives of men who have died
during the last six months might have
been saved had the necessity for the
change in climate been recognized in
time