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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION.

Without entering into a discussion
OF the various issues involved in the
street car strikes in Kansas City and
st. Louis, it may be in order to ask
one pertinent question.
Are we not in danger OF permitting
too many governmental powers to be
assumed and exercised by our federal
judges?
In Kansas City there is a purely
local business difference between the
street railway owners and their en-
ployes. The latter strike, but federal
court enjoins the union men from in
terfering with the running of the
cars.
All that is necessary to give the
United States courts absolute control
is the placing of few mail carriers
on the street car lines. When that is
done it is a crime of tremendous mag
nltude for anybody to interfere with
these common carriers
In this particular instance the fed
eral courts may be in the right. but
oAoiSlllSo DdChWdIu LUZ d S0ucIdIlOu \
is impossible to resist the conclusion
that these tribunals are rapidly and
Systematically destroying the rights
of the states. paralyzing the agencies
of local self-government, and encroach-
ing in the most deadly way upon the
liberty of the citizen.
The Kansas City and St. Louis cases
must stand upon their own merits, and
be judged accordingly. But what is to
be done about this new evil-govern-
ment by Injunction? Is it subject to
no limitations-are the judges of each
generation to be law unto them
selves?
Never mind about the labor strikes.
The question should be discussed in a
broader way. Are we living under q
constitution which makes presidents,
congresses, governors and state legisla-
lures mere agents, and places the fed
eral judges above all, with practically
unlimited powers?
This will soon become burning is
sue.-Atlanta Constitution
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
The Cuban Scandals.

In it's variegated history the present
administration has been called upon
to face scandals, the outgrowth of it's
political corruption. more than once.
but never before has it encountered
situation of the kind to cause 1t as
much direct concern and alarm as that
created by the -baggers' loot Of
the Cuban treasury. The panic is so
acute in the white house that word
has been passed all along the machine
newspaper line, asking friendly edit
ors to suppress the scandal as much as
possible, not to feature it. and to min
imize it editorially. The effects Of the
disclosures on the fortunes of the
party in power and on the candidacy
of Mr.. Mckinley are keenly feared
Washington Times
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Natural and Corporate Man.

BY killing trusts you are not inter
fering with the natural rights of the
natural man. You are interfering with
the privileges conferred upon a fcti-
tious person called corporation.
Look at the difference between the
natural man and the corporate man.
When God made the natural man
He did not make the tallest man much
taller than the shortest; He did not
make the strongest man much stron-
ger than the weaker
But when man made the corporate
man he made that man hundred, a
thousand, million times stronger
than the natural.
But when God made the natural man
He placed limit to his existence, so
that if he is bad man he cannot be
bad long. But when man made the
corporate man he raised the limit on
age and sometimes the corporation is
made perpetual.
But when God made the natural
man He breathed into him soul, and
warned him that in the next world he
would be held accountable for deeds
done in the flesh; but when man made
the corporate man he did not give to
that corporate man a soul, so that if
tho corporation couldLavoid punish
x,+ h,o ,L~eTES2 - .
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
shocking the Earth.

The revelation of Professor Mines
observatory on the Isle of Wight of the
manner in which earthquakes send
their impulses thousands of miles
through the frame of the globe are a
source Of ceaseless wonder. In Sep
TENDER last Professor Mines instru-
ments detected remarkable tremblings
of the earth on the Sd, 10TH. 18th, Goth
and 23d. Since then he has traced the
origin of the shakings on the first
three days named to Alaska. on the
goth to Asia Minor and on the 23d to
Japan. But every earthquake does not
thus set the globe in a tremble. for, the
shocks at Darjeeling, in India, on Sep
TENDER 18th and 26th were not felt at
the Isle Of Wight, the reason being,
Professor Milne thinks, because those
shocks were due to local iandsltps
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
CHAPTER vi.

Now when the sun began t. sink
toward the west, Namarah called to
her maidens, and arrayed herself in
garments richly wrought and beauti-
full, as one that keepeth great feast.
Her robe was all of white, embroid-
cred with gold and the encrusted folds
fell heavily about the splendid curves
of her most noble figure. In her loos-
ened hair were twisted chains of gold
that wrapped it in and out, and made
"a light and darkness beautiful to see.
About her shoulders, which her robe
left bare, she wrapped a scarf of
golden tissue, through which her
cleaning neck and arms shone fair as
moonlight seen through sunbeams.
And when the maidens and all the
household of Jephthah wondered to see
her SO adorned, she spake, and said
unto them:
Il go to meet my father Jephthah
and his host returning from victory"
And when they asked her:
How knowest thou that he hath
won the day, and is returning?"
She made answer, as the saying was:
"A little bird hath told me-"
And they knew not how true indeed
were the words she spake.
And as the sun sank lower and lower
and it began to draw toward evening
behold, there fell upon the ears of Ma
marah and her maidens the distant
sound of tramping horses and anon
the notes of trumpet
"They be notes of victory; even as
thou hast said" spake one of the maid
ems, while Namarah stood and listened
breathless and half troubled, like ar
image of too perfect joy. And Mama.
rah said:
Il will even go forth to meet them
Whereat her maidens wondered. fol
it was her custom to await her father
within the house, feeling of timidity
ever preventing her from appearing
before the eyes of the soldiers. But
now there showed in all her bearing
very noble pride, so that she looked
no longer shy and trembling maiden
but woman and the daughter of q
conqueror. There was a most rich
hue of roses on her cheeks, and hel
great eyes blazed and sparkled, so thai
Namarah looked that day being Of
such glorious beauty as none who
looked on her had ever seen before.
Go be continued.)
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Pure Bunconbe.

What paradoxical attitude the Re-
publican party will be placed in if the
platform makers manage to get in
plank Of sympathy for the Beers! The
Republican officials at Washington, al
leging expediency and policy, have
been as silent as clans about the
rights and wrongs of the contest being
waged over the little republic in South
Africa. The proposition to insert a
sympathy plank in the platform of
their national convention is the purest
buncombe. The country knows that
Mckinley and his diplomats have
been coyly flirting with the inconstant
Great Britain, and that whatever may
now be said to the contrary, their
sympathies and interests are British.
New York News.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Two Union Men Ar. killed.

Atchison, Kan, June 5.-Two me
were killed in quarrel over the labo
question. w. d. Rainier had recent
taken union mans place as a result
Of strike, and James Burtchett an
Call Outhout. union men, called hin
an uncomplimentary name. Ranie
told the two men that he intended Il
kill them. He walked half mile to.
his home, loaded double barreledt
shotgun, returned and shot both men,
in the face and head, killing them
stantly. He loaded his shotgun /.
and asked several friends of tn 10
victims if they were dead. Beii s.
sured that they were, he went is
home, shaved of his mustacht 4
started for Missouri. A posse foil.
him and arrested him at Rushville.
He was brought back to Atchison
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
49,
Kansas Wheat Weld.

Topeka Kan, June 5-The farmfn~,
of Kansas Ill egin this week to har-
vest the lal lest wheat crop in the his
tory of the state. Secretary Cobur-
of the state board of agriculture ST
THE crop this year will be-
heaviest ever known In 1892 Kt
had 100000 acres of wheat
raised 7O,ooO,o00 bushels an ay.
of eighteen bushels to the acre
year the winter wheat acreas
4.6S5,s19 as estimated by the gre
and the average yield will be (
than that of 1892. If the yield per
is the same as in 1892, the aggregl
yield will be S5,OOO,OOO bushels. The
crop in general was never in better
condition"
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-
were cooling and muttering and CAB
bling as il something out of the com
mon had happened to them, and when
she paused in the doorway and called,
they all came fluttering to her. One
by one she touched them with her
hands and felt beneath their wings.
Ihey were too exactly each like each
10 distinguish among them, but all Of
them came tamely to her call, it be-
ing her habit to stroke and smooth
them as she would. Just as her heart
began to sink with disappointment she
noticed one with broken feathers, and
her fingers touched something smooth
and hard, and 10, there was, indeed, the
thing she sought-a tightly folded pa
per, tied with small cord under the
birds wing. Her hands trembled as
she loosed it, and she hid it hurriedly
IN her bosom. Then she ran swiftly
through the garden paths and back
to her own room, where she shut her
self in, and taking out the precious
paper, pressed 1t to her lips and then
fell upon her knees in prayer. She
entreated God most earnestly that the
tfdings might be good; her heart
swelled with praises to His holy name,
and her faith was strong in the answer
to her prayers, as she opened the pa
per and read. These were the words:
Most Dear Maiden-It hath pleased
the God of Israel to send the hosts of
Jephthah, thy father, complete and
mighty victory, and we be, even now,
upon our way to thee, returning in
triumph and great thankfulness OF
heart. Thou will greet me as thy
chosen and sanctioned husband, Ma
marah. for thy father hath SO COM
mended my bearing in the fight, where
In | was able to render him good sery-
ice, that he hath promised me that
shall choose my own reward, and
have chosen even the maiden Namarah
to be my wife. l have even so spoken
to thy father, feeling sure that at that
moment he would not say me nay, and
he hath even given me his blessing,
and avowed that have found favor
in his eyes. The white bird will bear
to thee those tidings, and before set
of sun we shall be with thee. God
grant to me, o maiden, that thy heart
may reach forth to mine with the same
love wherewith feel mine reach to
thee, as write these lines, to be held
in thy dear hands beneath thy dear
eyes. THY ADINA.''
Now, as the maiden Namarah read
these words, there rose within her SO
great a rapture that her very face did
glow and become radiant with joy
For until her eyes had rested on the
young man Adina, she had known not
what it was to feel the mighty love
wherewith tender virgin loyeth, with
her soul and heart at once, the youth
whose nobleness and virtue command
her worship and devotion, and the ex-
ceeding joy of this moment wrapped
her soul In great wave of ecstasy,
that make the shining of her eyes like
unto the light Of stars. To feel that
Adina loved her, he who was unto her
eyes the very prince of men, and that,
her well-beloyed father looked with
favor on their union was bliss SO
great, that almost she felt as If her
heart within her must burst for very
Joy. AS she sat in her chamber alone.
and read again and yet again the pres,
cious message that the bird had
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

without explanation or argument. Al
though it comes from the treasury de-
partment, 1t reads as though written
by Attorney General Griggs whose
skill in evading the provisions of the
army canteen law won him the de-
served applause Of brewers and casu-
lists. Its effect will be to enable the
trusts to put the screws even more
firmly on the Porto Ricans, and will
be disastrous to the shipping trade of
the United States to boot.-Gainesville
(Fla.) Sun.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
The Worm May Turn.

Pennsylvania Republicans who had
a hand in humiliating and defeating
Boss Quay are now trembling in their
boots from fear of retaliation. They
see indications that the angered boss
will attempt to slaughter some of the
Republican nominees for congress i'll
the Keystone state. Certainly nothing
that he could do would be more nat
ural. If flabby little worm will turn
upon his tormentors. why not a brig
and chief who has stiff backbone
and blood in his eye?- Schenectady
On. Y.) Star.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

e DsSsrriSl Oh. WfSncfaft, in the early
ages, was considered one of the great
est of crimes, as much so as murder,
robbery, or any other serious offense
against the law, and the belief in it
until the latter part of the seventeenth
century. In England, in 1864, two
women were tried before Sir Matthew
Hale, charged with bewitching several
girls and a baby, and they were put
to death, for at that time the evidence
Genoa, 500 people were burned to
death on the charge of witchcraft. 1t
was the proud boast of a noted execu-
toner in northern Italy, at this time,
that in fifteen years he had assisted III
burning 900 persons charged with sor-
Gerry. In Scotland, btween 1860 and
1900, 5000 people were put to death,
an average of 200 year. The last ex-
ecution for witchcraft in England took
place in 1912, in Scotland in 1922, in
Germany in 1749, and in Spain in 1881.
In 1866 Mrs. Ann Hutchinson was tried
before Governor Endicott, found guilty,
and hanged on Boston Common. In
the next twenty or thirty years there
were a number of cases tried, and,
strange to say "a number of those
charged with the crime were acquitted.
John Bradstreet, of Rowley, was ac-
cused of intimacy with the devil, and
sentenced to pay fine or be whipped.
A noted case was that of woman en-
pioyed by the Goodwin family in 1888
in the fact that Cotton Mather took
an active interest in the case. This
woman confessed, thinking that Glenn
hanged" Professor Fiske gave brief
resume of Mather's life, and said that
early historians had not done him jus
tee, and. that his memory had been
held up as that of one who more than
any other man stimulate the delusion
of withcraft This, the speaker said,
was not so, and the first man to do him
justice was the poet Iongfellow, in
1868, and, later, William Frederick
Poole, the latter giving most accurate
view of the case. The speaker then
came to the Salem cases. He said that
in 1892 the circumstances favored an
outbreak of witchcraft. Everything in
Massachusetts was going wrong, it was
believed that the devil was in their
midst, and the reverses in Indian wars
and other affiictions had wrought the
minds of the colonists up to high
n;foh Pccfon Herald 1915
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

brought, suck visions as ever I'LL the
minds of maidens when love is come
in truth passed like pictures before
her. She saw herself meeting with
Adina without the need Of concealment
and she felt again those arms about
her and those kisses on her lips, at the
mere memory Of which she thrilled.
She saw the calm delight upon her be-
loved fathers face, as he blessed her
union with Adina, and gazing further
yet into the future, she saw herself
the happy wife and mother.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

Senator Teller of Colorado declares
the Republican party degenerate. In
an open letter he thus expresses him
self:
THE Republican party is no longer
controlled by its best thought. Men
who have determined it's policies in its
best days are no longer heard in it's
councils. Its policy is determined and
its course dominated by those in con-
troll of great trusts, syndicates and
combines. whose only thought is the
acquisition and protection of wealth.
The interest Of the few Is kept in view,
and while the great principles Of the
part1ane still professsa ION
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Balefnl Hay.

1t must be extremely painful to the
administration to have it leak out that
frosty relations subsist between the
prime minister and several leading
Republican senators. The latter re-
sent the load of Hay which has been
placed upon their party in the matter
of the Mckinley Salisbury alliance
and canal treaty. They declare with
vigor closely approaching blasphemy
that this particular variety of Hay
will certainly poison and probably
kill the elephant. washington Times.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
TRUSTS AND MlDDLEMEN.

Defenders of trusts say that their
chief advantage is the elimination OF
middlemen's profits. Middlemen's
profits are now being eliminated, but
not for the benefit of the consumer.
Jobbers used to make money out OF
the tin plate trade. There are no job
bers now, but consumers pay more
than they did then. The jobbers
profits, with large addition from the
public, go into the pockets of the
trust Paterson IN. j. Guardian.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

herself near to the window which
looked toward the field of battle, and
none knew why it was that she
strained her eyes so wistfully into the
air, as II she looked for and expected
some token in the heavens. Often
her work would fall from her fingers,
and she would rest long time idle,
with no sound escaping her, except the
deep-drawn signs which none knew
how to interpret. The maidens that
We're her companions looked on at
this and marveled. They knew that
Namarah was. ever loving and solicit
tous daughter, but it was not uncom-
mon for her father to be away and
in danger, and this was something
more than her usual concern for him
She had lost heart in her work. also,
and cared no longer for the amuse-
ments and pastimes with which it had
formerly been her won't to occupy her
self. But, in spite of this, her inter-
est was more tender than ever before
in those who were sick or in trouble,
and she spent much time in prayer.
Her chief amusement and diversion
during this time were her doves, and
sometimes, after feeding them she
would place herself on the garden seat
and let them climb and flutter all about
her, and take their food from her
mouth and fingers, and even from the
meshes of her hair. She had told to
no one the secret of her heart, and
these silent witnesses of her meetings
with Adina seemed now the nearest
thing to him that there remained to
her.
At length, one morning, when Ma
marah had grown paler than was her
wont, with long waiting and watching,
she stood at the easement of her cham
Der. and her listless gaze that had been
long fixed wearily upon the distant
scene, became in moment alert and
animated. Far up in the blue she had
seen a flying bird, and at that sight
her heart within her always tremDled.
Perhaps 1t was a skylark, or even one
OF her own pets, wandered farther
than Its custom away from home. Yes,
1t was a dove-a snow-white carrier
and surely, one Of her own, as there
was none like them in that region. She
had never known one of hers to fy
SO high as that before, and the throb-
ping OF her heart grew violent, as she
looked up and saw it pausing and cir
cling above her head. Surely she
caught sight of a tiny object, not a
feather, between its wing and breast,
as the bird swooped downward and
flew into the pigeon house.
With limbs that shook with hope and
fear, Namarah stole softly through the
silent halls and Chambers, down the
garden path and into the nlace .swhsA;e
all her birds were together
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07

Newmarket, Ireland, June .. /.
hundred police We're sent here IL :
press a prohibited United Irish 1: =
meeting. When the police were a: /
James Christopher Flynn, natio: {
member of parliament for y i
Cork, and E. Cream, member TO, J.
Ossory division of Queens co,
slipped in unobserved, addressed
meeting of 200 in the town square a.
burned the proclamation prohibiting
the meeting. The meeting dispersed
amid cheers as the police appeared on
the scene.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
Worse Than Spain.

We are killing more Filipinos than
the Spaniards killed of Cubans and
Filipinos combined. We are killing
them more wantonly and wickedly
than the Spaniards killed them. We
have less color of right than the Span
lard had. We are violating the fund
amental principles of our national
faith in doing what we are doing.
Spain was consistent and, monstrous
as her claim was, was true to her ira
ditions. For less than we are doing in
the Philippines we declared war on
Spain and drove her out of Cuba. The
war begun for humanity and freedom
in Cuba, has degenerated into wan
ton and wicked war of conquest of an
alien and stranger race in the Philip
pines whose only desire is to be free
Terre Haute (Ind.) Gazette.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-07
seamen.s Fight at nm end.

Milwaukee, Wis, June "a settle
ment was reached between the owners
of schooners in the coarse freight car
rying trade and the seamen in their
employ. Both sides claim victory. The.
thirty-fve schooners which have been,
tied up in the Milwaukee river will;
now prepare to sail. According to the
scale kseamen will get the 81 :.
day RAJ which they contended. and
in evs q change In wage condi-
lions 6c&le will be subject to the
g. &c Chicago.
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.t|GHI KILLED IN WRECKS, !
Singular Accident to Freight Train
Near Hamilton, Ohio.
BODIES COVERED BY sHRoUDs.
Cattle and Hogs Killed In Nambers and
Piled High-One Man Killed i'm
Nebraska-Two Dead ca to Lake
Erie & Western In Ohio.

hamilton, Ohio, June 5.-F'ive lives
were put out in the twinkling of an
eye in an unusual accident on the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton and indianapolis
railroad at McGonigle's station, eight
miles west Of this city. The dead:
Tim Mahoney, fireman, 25 years old,
unmarried, Hamilton, head struck,
crushed; John Starkey, brakeman.
% years old, unmarried, Rushville.
Ind, body crushed; Ambrose Smith
81 years old, unmarried, paDermaller.
Hamilton, body and head crushed and
badly mangled; unknown man about
40 years old, crushed between bump
ers; unknown boy, Is years old,
crushed between bumpers. The in
jured: Samuel Glover, engineer, 40
years old, married, Hamilton hand
scalded, back wrenched and right hin
bruised.
A remarkable and startling coiie
dence was an attendant feature OF no
work and has caused many supersti-
tious persons who viewed the scene To
shake their heads in wonderment.
while the fell meaning of the porten
is pointed out by others who beliey
death will soon be again busy wit
those who entered it's ghastly spher
Of influence Lying across the bod
of Brakeman Starkey, whose mangle
remains were the first ones found b
the rescuers, was a new burial rob
ready for adjustment to its last use
and besides the SCARED remnants
the other four victims lay in waiting
similar gowns for the coffin. The acct
dent occurred to east-bound freight
No. SO, from Indianapolis to Cincin-
natl, in charge of Conductor Light
singer of Indianapolis. The momen-
tum of the train pushed several cal
past the engine and piled them UP i
chaos. Eleven cars were derailed, fv
of which contained cattle and hog
Scores of the animals were killed an
many others were wounded and IA
about, believing with agony. Proper
ty loss, $4,000. go.
Fatal Collision Burlington.
Alliance, Neb., June ga dsastrou
rear-end collision occurred on tn
Burlington, three miles west of here.
Engineer Hunting was instantln
killed, Fireman Johnson very ser1 IONS
ly injured and Brakeman EN- bad1,
hurt. Freight train No.2 was run.
ming in two sections1d the second
section crashed ip0 the first. 1t is
thought EngipSf Hunting fell as1ee,
or was un ne to control his e..Y.s %
The prog loss IS / savy
K,lfed, one sadly Hurt
-, s-ASl an east-