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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
New and Rare Mineral.

Deputy Langley has arranged in the
bureau of mines an attractive exhibit
Of one of the newest, as well as rarest
Of minerals. 1t is called cornotite, af-
ter French mineralogist, M. Adolphe
Sarnot, who determined its position in
the mineral world. 1t occurs as a
yellow crystalline powder or loosely
cohering masses, mixed with a quart
zose sand.
The only deposit in this country. or
in the world, as far as known, is
N the Yellow Bird group of mines
n Montrose county, this state A
recent analysis made by Geologist Hill
lebrand demonstrated the presence of
Uranium to the extent of 52.2S per cent
and ranadium 1880 per cent, both be-
ing rare and valuable The ANALYSIS
also disclosed potassium, 5.32; sodium.
o.; varium, 3.21; magnesium, IL and
iron, 1856.
The Yellow Bird group of mines was
at one time the property of Gordon
Kimball but they have recently
passed into the hands of a French
syndicate; which is erecting plant
for the treatment of the mineral
Denver Times
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
made the hits off real pitchers and
earned most of what he has made.
DIAMOND DUST.


In thirty games Jennings made but
one error on first base for Brooklyn.
The New Yorks have yet to play an
errorless game. They are easily last
OF the league clubs in fielding.
McGraw says his club is not out OF
the race by any means. st. Louis is
likely to put on great squirt at any
stage Of the game, according to the
little scrapper. With Young and Pow
ell back in form there is ample cause
for his opinion.
& President Hart. has offered to raise
$4,000 to be divided among his play
ers at the end of the season should the
team win the pennant. OF this the
club will contribute $4,000 and the
public $4,000. There is small likeli-
hood of the players sharing this fat
purse.
Players nowadays don't stick in the
game as they used to-" declares Catch
er Robinson. why, there was Harry
Stovey, one of the greatest base run
ners that ever wore spike, and he
was a man with very poor legs. In
almost every game he would break
down, yet he never thought of such a
thing as sitting on the bench"
The Chicagos are very anxious to Sc
cure Lajoie. Lajoie is in trouble with
the Philadelphia management, and
President Hart would give many thou
sands for the big Frenchman and there
Is still faint hope of getting him.
Lajoie and Flick have maintained an
armed neutrality since their fight, and
La1oie has practically demanded the
discharge of Flick, so one or the other
may be turned loose. Either one
would be winner for Chicago.
The longer stay in base ball the
more Impressed am with the fact that
it is most uncertain game" says Sc
lee. When we went to New York on
our last trip we expected to have a
very hard time of it. for the Giants
had been doing good work against the
Phillies. However, it was very easy
for us, we outplaying them at every
point 1t is always that way. When
you expect to have hard time they
come easy, and when you think you
have easy game you find that you are
up against it good and strong.'
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
BOUND HEAD DOWNWARD IN A
Q PIT, TO BE STUNG TO DEATH
BY REPTu. ES.


of the breast, now an arm. Suddenly
the last cut is made. 1t is straight at
the heart and the weapon cuts it out
and ends the sufferings of the wretch
ed man. But the spectacle is not ended.
The eXecutioner now has to dismember
the corpse, and this he does with
passes of the sword, each carefully
studied and done accordingly to regu-
larly laid out rules, till there is alb
solutely nothing left on the cross and
only pile of terrible fragments lies
at its base.
When Ling-Chee is to be long ope-
ration, and the victim is to die only
after long torture, the slicing some
times is done so slowly that half day
elapses before the condemned man
dies. The executioner knows just
what to cut without killing and he
goes to work as carefully as would a
surgeon Muscles and tendons and
flesh are stripped from the body with
dreadful framework remains that
still has awful life in it. And at this
terrible spectacle the Chinese gaze
sto,idly, without an expression either
of pleasure or loathing.
Another ingenious torture that is
much used is to suspend the con-
demned man with his head down in a
pit At the bottom are snakes, toads
and all kinds of loathsome reptiles,
which writhe within few inches Of
the victims face. Here ne is left until
the torture of the position, hunger,
thirst and reptile bites kill him.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
Obtruding Ears.

The Disagreement of outstanding
ears should be checked in early child
hood, otherwise it is apt to be an OBJ
stinat4 matter to overcome. Various
simple little eXpedients may be re-
sorted to in order to accomplish the
end fSfned at. For instance, a broad
elastic strap or webbing band passed
from the lower part of the back of the
head obliquely across the ears to the
top of the brow will help to conquer
the disagreement. This band can be
worn all night or for an hour or two
during the day, or. as an alternative,
there is the special ear cap which has
been invented with the object of en-
couraging the ears to lie close against
the head. The muslin caps which
years ago babies used to wear acted
in great measure as preventives
against obtruding ears
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
AS to Queer Names.

As to Queer Names.
The man from Punxsutawney, and the
man from Kokomo,,
Discussed the Chinese troubles, and
the first said: Don't you know,
think these Chinese names are queer
enough to stop clock"
That's right" replied another man
from Gair Caucomgamoc.
The man from Kokomo observed:
By ginger, that's fac
That's what my brother says-he lives
down here in Hackensack.
And still another stranger said the
mans comment was true,
And added with smile of pride: My
homes in Kalamazoo"
Another man took up the strain:
Now, down Skowhegan way
And up at Ypsilanti we speak of it
every day.
The names are all undivided and hea-
then in their ring.
That's what l told my uncle yester-
day in Ishpeming."
"Hohokus is my native town." an
other stranger said,
And think all these Chinese names
the worst ever read.'
Quite true" agreed a quiet man
they're certainly uncanny.
That's what my friends all assert, in
Tail Holt, Indianny."
Baltimore American
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
Two Farmers Want Wives.

r.
Postmaster Gordon is in receipt OF
letters from two residents of the rural
districts asking him to assist them in
getting Chicago girls for wives, says
the Chicago Tribune. One of the APP
plicants for 2 helpmate lives in Wis
consin, has dark hair and blue eyes,
and does his own cooking. His letter
reads as follows: Vaughn, Wis, June
17.-Postmaster, Chicago: Please pub
fish this in a good daily newspaper:
Wife Wanted-A good looking girl, not
taller than feet inches, not older
than % years, not heavier than 145
pounds. am farmer, have 100 acres
of land. good team, and do my own
cooking. l am 23 years OF age, 5 feet
Z inches tall, weigh 100 pounds, and
have dark hair and blue eyes. My adj
dress is Will Meyer, Langlade county,
Wis. Postmaster: Should there be
charges, please have it published and
send me the statement andsI will send
it by return MALL The other appli-
cant bars girls with red hair, and stip-
ulates that any woman who expects
to go to his country home in Michigan
to become his bride must have at least
$50 in cash. This letter reads as fol-
lows: Portland Michigan, June 1s
1900 Postmaster, Chicago = Wife
wanted, but not with red hair, over 25.
with good moral character and mile
dispision. When you have answered
this letter tell the public that any lady
That answers this letter must have $50
on arrival. I am sober and indus
trious man. but half to work for my
living. Yours truly, G. w. Fisher"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
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A SPEEDY RUNNER.

- So j.
James T. sheckard. the substitute
outfelder Of the Brooklyn club. is one
OF the speediest runners and best
sthrowers in his profession. Up to and
Including July 5, he stole 16 bases in
the %. games he had taken part in,
earning him the best percentage of the
year, .571, Doyle ranking next with
.4S0 stolen bases. Last season he led
the National League with 76 stolen
bases to his credit. He also excels in
returning the hall rapidly and accur-
ately from the outheld, and his great
throwing often cuts off runs at the
plate. Sheckard was sent to Baltimore
from brooklyn on the amalgamation
of these two clubs and his career as
an Oriole attracted attention to him.
Several National leagie clubs have
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23

vegetation down
shovel is formidabie
pared with the expense of thSA
work where tracks are ballasted with
good quality of gravel. For many
years western roads have resorted to
numerous experiments for killing veg
citation. with machinery, the most
successful of which has been the
scheme of subjecting it to scorching
heat produced by burning crude pc
troleum under a shield carried a few
inches above the track. Machines of
this description are used on the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul; Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe and Chicago
Great Western roads. In the construc-
ton of this weed burner use is made
OF an ordinary fiat car, on the front
end of which las it runs in service) is
mounted an upright thirty horse-pow-
er boiler and pair of engines. BY
means of sprocket chain connection
between the engine shaft and car axle
the car is made self-propelling. After
some experience it was found neces-
sary to connect the second axle OF the
truck with the first, CIR that driven by
the engine, by means of a sprocket
chain, in order to overcome slipping
due to the looping of long weeds over
the rails. BY this means of locomo-
ton a speed of from, ten to twelve
miles per hour is easily made, as
when running for stations to meet
passing trains. The water supply for
the boiler and for extinguishing fires,
which may be set accidentally, is car
ried in a wooden tank in the center
of the car. On top of this tank there
are two air reservoirs, and inside OF
the forward cab there are two air
pumps for creating the air pressure
necessary to spray the Oil into the
burners. The burner rigging is sus-
pended from rear platform, built
upon four Trails The shield and
burners are hung from the outer end
of this platform upon bell cranks, and
an old reverse lever and quadrant are
used to adjust the burners to the de-
sired height from the rail. The burn
ers are easily taken down when it is
desired to couple the car in with a
train. The oil tank for supplying oil
to the burners is located inside the
rear cab or just in rear Of the water
tank.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
RESPONSIBILITY Of Roudx,.m.


The cowardly magnates, who decry
and denounce rowdyism, are respon-
sfble for Its continuance. Fear of
freedman may prevent the punish
ment OF a player who knocked down
an umpire during the progress of a
championship game. If the offense Jack
4 Doyle was guilty of at Cincinnati is
eondoned, and the probabilities are
that it. will be for the reason given
above, g premium will be put on an
archy and toughism. Patrons should
soycott the game and in this way rid
4 OF the hypocritical and incompetent
men in control Of it. Here are the facts
ind the law applicable to them. Doyle
secame incensed at Umpire Emslie for
ealing him out on a play at second
Dase during the afternoon game of
July at Cincinnati. He made for the
umpire and after an interchange Of
words felled him with a blow, and had
not the PROSTATE official held his legs
until lIl the arrival Of assistance, the in
fuftated player would have jumped on
hip. Doyle insists that Emslie made
an oner to strike him and that he
scted In self-defense. This the official
denies. According to Pittsburg news
paper Doyle claims that while protest.
Ing 70 Emslie against the decision, the
umpire jerked around and his elbow
hit the player and when the latter fell,
he pulled the umpire down with him.
Now for the law. Section 2S of the
National League constitution reads as
follows:
Sec. %. The president of the league
shall have power, upon proper proof,
to suspend for definite period and to
impose a fine not exceeding 5000, upon
any league manager or player guilty
OF cross behavior, including intoxica-
ition, fighting, quarreling, indecency, or
other scandalous conduct, whether on
or OF the playing field, during the sea
son, where the same lis, in his opinion,
calculated to bring disrepute upon the
National League or the national game.
Such fine can be permitted only by the
board Of directors upon an appeal duly
prosecuted"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
A RELIABLE TWlRLER.

One of the pitching corps of the
champion Brooklyn team is John
Dunn, whose picture is presented here
with. Dunn was born in Meadville,
Pa, in 1872. His first professional en-
gagement as ball player was with
the Binghamton club in 1895. He play
ed with the Torontos in 1896 and after
that season went to Brooklyn, where
he has since remained. Last season he
did some fine work and the manner in
which he holds on with the fast team
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23

in the Avenue Trocadero Maharajah
Kapurthala is there, too, and is sim
ply devoted to the young Chicago girl.
Miss Sharp is still in her teens. Last
week he bewildered all Paris by the
magnificence and sumptuousness of
dinner he gave in honor of the girl.
1t was spread at Elysee Palace Hotel,
and the affair was the most elaborate
and costly even Paris could afford.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
IN THE GAGE

the real performance, which is moth
ing less than slicing him to death with
diabolical skill. Therefore the man
who is to suffer Ling Chez generally
is bound to the cross. Then there ar
riyes the executioner. An executioner
skillful at Ling Chez is viewed with
high respect in the empire, much as a
successful bull fighter is viewed in
Spain. To bungle in Ling-Chee and
to slice too much from the victim early
in the game that he faints, or, worse
still, dies before he has suffered all the
slicing that has been decreed, would
blacken the executioner'sn name forever,
and might even make him the next sub
jeGt for Ling Chez.
The executioner is received with a
little murmur OF appreciation, for his
record is as well hept in mind as is the
record Of an athlete Ii America or Eng
band He bows to the highS dignitaries
land then takes one Of his swords from
3 sword carrier Sfo l. nlpwed
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
A Protest Settled.

President Clarence Saulspaugh has
received letter from Ban Johnson.
president of the American League, no.
tifying him that the game protested
by the Minneapolis club in May be-
tween the locals and Milwaukee will be
given to Minneapolis While the an
nouncement Is not an official one, it
amounts to as much. as Mr.. johnson
sayss;in his letter that the matter will
be SO stated in his next PRONUNCIATION.
Taking itSfor granted that the question
will'be officially settled in favor Of the
Minneapolis club, the Times standing
of the clubs has been changed accord
fngly. The game in question was that
played between the Millers and Brew
.ers the fore part of May. With Davis
at third and Perry Werden at bat.
Pitcher Wheeler was in the act of pur-
posely passing Werden in order to get
a weak batter up. In tossing the balls
to catcher Yeager, Wheeler stepped out
of the pitchers box, and raised his
arm to deliver the ball, but remem-
bering that he was out of position.
drew his arm back. holding the ball
and walked over to his position. Ac-
icording to the balk rule, Wheeler's ac-
tons allowed any runner to have a
oases and. as Davis was at third, he
came home. Umpire Mcdonald. how
ever, claimed no balk had been com
nitted and sent Davis back to third
Minneapolis Times
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
THAT CHICAGO GIRL.

Another Chicago girl has fascinated
Maharajah Kapurthala, the Indian po-
tentate, who, is just now doing Paris
and the rest of the Continent. Kapur-
thala has revelled in all the splendors
of the Orient for a lifetime, and has
tasted of the joys and Injuries of the
more modern civilization that obtains
in the gay European capitals. Kapur,
thala is the Prince, he of untold
wealth, who became so devoted to Miss
Daisy Letter of Chicago while she was
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
Indian Relics on Golf Course.

An Indian ak and several stone ar
rowheads We're unearthed today on
the Jersey City Golf club grounds by
DR.. William Pyle and other players;
they,.w SO near the surface said
some who did not find any relics, that
"schlaffed" stroke was all that was
needed to unearth them. The links
is located on low land in the western
section of Jersey City and is believed
to have been the stamping ground.
for the HackengesacKy Indians.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
NIaude Adams, New Ro,e.

Maude Adams is to play in RIOS
lands Sarah Bernhardt piece '.L'Ai-
glon" during the coming season. All
gossip about Miss Adams being in con-
sumption is nonsense. 1t is true that
she is very slender and weighs only a
hundred pounds, but she is strong
untoSgreat edurance and the possessor
OF as sound a pair of lungs as John
y. Sullivan's.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
lIryine,s Next .Treat !.

Sir Henry Irving will use as the
most prominent play for his next
American tour an English version Of
the old German drama, 1.-THE Blood
Marriage" which has the massacre OF
st. Bartholomew Day as the founda-
ton for its plot. It is to be first acted
in London next April.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23

visiting her sister,
Lady Curzon, vice.
refine of India. But
later he met Miss
Claudine Sharp at
a dinner given by
an American in
India. Miss Sharp
is the daughter Of
M I. a n d Mrs.
James Sharp of
Chicago. >
Miss Sharp is
now in Paris. They
L
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
The SECRET Process. y

Miss Kate Brigham Molony, of New
York, has written q comedy entitled
"The Secret Process. 2 1t has been
pronounced by experienced judges of
manuscript plays a--renarlxable work
4 points Of originality. humy +, char.
irritation and literary SPARKS.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
Izipompolo.

Izipompolo is long name for the
little fellow that builds the famous
anthills. These hills are from eight
to ten feet in height and are either en-
tirely made of pulyerized clay GEM
ented by the formic acid secretion
from the bodies Of the ants. or else OF
e composite Of stray, twigs and earth.
nthills are - strong, be-
By the sun elmost
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
SUCKED THE BOTTLE.
Young Pachyderms Take kindly to a,
Artificial Form OF Nursing.

ARTIFICIAL Form of Nursing.
owned some young elephants which
had lent to a Snowman on the Bow
cry. On going to see them one day
noticed a man holding his finger in
the mouth of one of the smaller ones.
placed my finger in the mouth of an
other and found that the creature
seemed to derive pleasure from the ac-
ton of sucking. Immediately l sent
out for an ordinary infants nursing
bottle. The young elephant drained
the bottle as if 10 the manner born.
1t was nss to another IS
the infant Ella Finally they Tough
in the mos ino escribably conlical man
ner for possession of the bottle Then
l fitted a large glass jar, holding a
gallon, with rubber tubes, so that all
could use it at the same time In
variably they would empty this bottle
before loosening their hold on the nip
pies. They had doubtless been taken
from their mother when too young, or
perhaps she had been killed at the
time when the young were captured
So effectively did they appeal to public
interest and sentiment that by dint o.
skillful advertising the celebrated
sucking baby elephants made quite
a fortune in a single season They
would be led into the ring, where they
would take their nourishment like
human babies, their overgrown size
making this infantile operation very
comical and absurd The sight capti-
waited the heart of every woman who
attended the show.-Saturday Evening
Post.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
Talle.t Royal woman.

Among royal women Queen Amelie
of Portugal and the Crown Princess OF
Denmark are the tallest, their height
being nearly six feet,
Daggs"I think Miss Hinote's vocal
solos sound better when one q some
ufrs.s Wages Undoll1
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23

District Where Consumption Has Increased
In writing Of the terrible scourge
of consumption in Norway, United
States Consul Victor e. Nelson, locat-
ed at Bergen, says: In November of
last year DR.. Claus Hansen, of Bergen,
delivered lecture before the Storth-
ing, at Christiana. on the causes of
tuberculosis, and the fight against it.
He stated that during the thirty years
of his own experience consumption
had increased il the Bergen district
eighty per cent. In the year 1896. 54.5
per cent Of all the deaths between fif-
teen and thirty years of age were
caused by tuberculosis, and statistics
show that about 1000 of the i1lfabi-
tants of Norway die every year of this
disease. In England he continued,
they have succeeded during the last
fifty years in reducing one-half the
number of tuberculous cases, aud
physicians attribute this TO the IN.
creasing cleanliness in English home
life and the erection of consumptiye
hospitals The foremost endeaVors in
lighting tuberculosis should be 20 ass-
tate for greater cleanliness in general;
particularly should efforts be directed
against the habit Of expectorating.
Statistics of consumptive sanitariums
in Germany show that 66 1-3 per cent
of the inmates were able to work the
first year after the cure, SO per cent
after two years, As per cent after three,
and 35 per cent after four years. On
an average, it is estimated that SO per
cent of the patients in sanitariums
haze their ability to work heightened
by one year The advantages of public
sanitariums fer consumptives are so
great that the German invalid-insur-
ance companies erect thess institu-
thong simply for reasons3of economy.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
Death of Public Benefactor.

Dr. Henry D. Cogswell died recently
at San Francisco, aged 80 years. He
was the founder Of the polytechnic
college in that city which bears his
name. but Xil. be remembered chiefly
the
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
A Had Year for sluggers.

This is a bad year for. the sluggers
Of the league. Burkett, Clarke and
many others are down in the lists.
These big hitters polish their bats.
wash their windows" and resort to
every known scheme to make them
selves hit, but they cannot rise to the
averages Of other seasons. The rea-
son is the pitching all around the CIR
cult has SO improved the big batters
are but little better than the weak
ones. The fast runners and the good
sDunters are the men who are getting
re base hits and winning the games.
lIhe great batters are the especial
4arks q the pitchers and their slump
y outing IS the more noticeable! Az
n pf tact, msperho y batting
on Il beti IAN the man
1tu has
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
DEVILISH TORTURES
ARB THE FORMS PRAcTlCED
BY THE CHINESE.

OF An People, They Are the Most
Cruel and Delight In Longdrawn Out
Z Punishment - Some Of Their sys-
tsxns.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-23
QUEER AND CURIOUS n
AND EVENTS.

Queer Names-0uaint Customs of 5:ast
Pennsylvania Farmers-A Dead Boys
Room Kept Closed Forever-Comman-
Ing with Dead.