The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-04-05
DIES MONIES. April d. j

Dies MONIES, April 3, 100.
The settlement of the contest for the.
federal iudgcship to succeed tl,s. late
John s. Woolson having resulted I'M
the agreement by the Iowa delegation.
in congress to recommend the appoint
ment of Congressman Smith McPher-
son of the Nintl, district, nearly a.
dozen candidates for the republican,
nomination for congress have been
proposed to succeed Ii m. The list. at
present consists of Colonel G. q. Saun-
ders, Judge Walter l. Smith, and. sEfn-.
est E. Hart, Council Bluffs; John w.
Foster, of Guthrie county; Senator -,
M. Junkin, Red Oak; Lieutenant-Go Cow
ernor Milliman. Harrison county; Rep
county; I. B. Swan. Cass county, and
ex-Congressman A. L. lager, Adair
county. Ex-Speaker Bycrs is the lead
ing candidate.
The house committee on the compen-
sation of public officers reported for
passage the. bill intended to cut OFF the
salary of the Hon. John Cownie, mem
Der of the board of control, as govern
ment crop reporter. The bill merely
strikes out three words in the present
statute. These words are sin the
state" and are found in the provision
which prohibits members of the board
from holding any other lucrative office
in the state. The Office of state crop
reporter is a federal Office and SO the
law would have to be amended to pro-
hibit the holding of it by q member Of
the board. u.s.
The army post committee will com
mence soliciting funds at once for the
purpose of purchasing the ground
which it Is necessary to present in fee
simple to the government before the
proposed post will be established in
Des Moines. The cost of suitable
grounds will be considerable, but there
is little question but that the people Of
the city will respond literally to the
solicitations of the members of the
committee for subscriptions. It is the
desire of the people of the city that the
post shall be established this wear, il
possible, and to this end the commit
tee will hasten the work of soliciting
After the ground is donated to the
government, nothing can be done
toward improving it for the purposes Of
post until a suitable appropriations
made by congress. The present session
of congress is likely to continue until
well along in the summer, and the
members OF the committee are gantici-
pating the possibility of having the
title to the ground reposed in the gov
eminent in time to have an appropria.
ton made by congress this year.
Mrs. Eldora A. Kirscher has brought
suit in the district court to break the
will of her father, Elijah Jones, late of
Polk county, which has been probated
The estate of the deceased is valued at
about 81, 800 and Mrs. Kirscher seeks
to have it properly divided between
herself and her sister, Mrs. Cornelia
+ Todd. and the widow of the deceased.
Mrs. Eliza Anna Jones. The suit. is !
entitled Eldora A. Kirscher VS., Mrs.
Eliza Anna Jones, administrators, Mrs
Jones and Mrs. Cornelia Todd. The
will which has been probated as the
bequeaths all Of the prop rtn s ~ usI nj l|ah
Jones to his widow. lis o ~. iSals 81
the plaintiff in the suit which has been
commenced that the will is not the
last will and testament, that it has not
been properly signed nor witnessed
and that it was secured through the
lnachinations of the widow.
The senate passed q bill for the es-
tablishment of woman's reformatory
at Anamosa. The new institution
will be under the board of control, and
a considerable number of the inmates
of the girls reform school at Mitchell
vile will be transferred to it,. The
new law fixes instead of years as
the minimum age at which girls may
be committed to either Anamosa or
Mitchellville.
The conference Of the appropriations
committees OF the house and the senate
agreed on practically all the appro-
priations for the session. The total
number of extraordinary appropria-
tions is 81, 2s7, 625. OF this amount
$3ss. 4s3 goes to the support of char
liable and educational institutions and
$3.50, 900 is for the completion and fur
nishing of the new hospital for the in
sane at Cherokee. The other princi-
pal appropriations are state university;3
$4,000; state agricultural college at
Ames, $167, 900, and the state normal
school at Cedar Falls, Sic, 200.