The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-14

WILLIAM HANSON and Thomas Burg
ers, who live on farm near Des
Moines, have purchased three buffa-
loes, bull, COW and calf, for
which they paid $1,000. The animals
were raised at Cochrane, Wis, by a
firm that makes a business of that I'm
dustry. The new owners expect to
engage in the same business. It will
undoubtedly pay them, as the supply
is limited and the demand good.
FIFTY-oNE saloons opened in Des
Moines last Saturday after having
been closed, with fifteen others, for
four months. They paid about $19,-
900 into the city and county treasur-
les. The state mulct tax is collectible
by quarters. The third quarter be-
gins July 1. 1t was decided by the
attorneys for the state that the sa-
looms must pay for the entire second
quarter before they could pay for the
third quarter. The result is that an
other $4,000 will be collected by July
1. The anti-saloonists made bitter
and long fight against the saloons
opening. They will proceed at once
to invoke the courts to close them
again. They were closed on a techni-
cality in a decision by the suprem
court.
THE new elevator in West Daven-
port was the scene of a very deplor-
able accident a few days ago by which
Arthur Henderson, a stalwart young
carpenter, lost his life, with sudden
ness that made him Obvious to pain
or the shock of 5O-foot fall from the
top of the partially completed struc-
ture to the floor of one of the bins on
its interior. Just what caused Hender
sons fall may never be known, as only
one of his fellow workmen saw him
drop, but in some way Re lost his bal
ance, and when his companions gath
tered about his body, life was extinct.
His neck, jaw, left shoulder and left
leg were all broken, and he was beyond
the aid of surgery or medicine.
AS THE fast Chicago tram No. . on
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul,
was running through Persia, few
days ago, the rear coach, diner, was
derailed and turned entirely over.
Five occupants of the wrecked car
were seriously injured and ten sus-
tanned slight wounds. The seriously
wounded are: j. E. Boyer of Panora,
Ia, skull fractured, expected to die;
Captain j. B. Nips of Kansas City,
injured internally; j. Morize, travel
ing auditor of the road, of Ceder Rap
ids, injured internally, seriously hurt
about the head; dining car Conductor
Fl. M. Kellogg of Manila, Ia, cut
about head; Porter j. Roth, cut about
head and body; Porter Frank II.
White, cut about head and face, leg
broken. The wreck was due to the
spreading of the rails caused by the
intense heat. The injured were taken
to Council Bluffs by special train.
A DISPATCH from Odebolt says: C. D
Reinhart, owner of the Reinhart fats
in Sioux City, shot hiswife three times
and then put two bullets into his
lungs. He willspot survive. Reinhart
and his wife me angry words
q n Y. : llllllg 44otn Odebolt
When about half way on the road he
committed the crime. The horse
turned around and started back, being
stopped near the home of Hon. Asa b
Smith. Mrs. Reinhart was dead and
her husband sat IN the buggy with his
arm around her in an unconscious con.
dition. He revived later and stated
that he had planned the deed deliber.
ately. Reinhart owns 800 ac1ps OF
land in Sac county. He has been a
quiet, orderly citizen and the deed
surprises his acquaintance Mrs.
Reinhart was a fine woman and was
highly respected. She was about IS
years old. Reinhart was 90 years old.
SIOUX CITY dispatch: The big S175,-
600 damage suit brought by the Ralya
Market Company, of Sioux CITY,
against Armour s. Co., of Chicago, the
great meat packing concern, is again
to the fore. Judge Shiras, of the fed
eral court, has remanded it to the dis
trict court of Woodbury. county for
further proceedings, and the bandying
of causes involving large amounts may
be said to have fairly begun. This
suit was brought under a contract
made by the Ralya company with
Armour & Co., May "a, 1899, in which
the Chicago firm agreed to furnish the
Sioux City meat dealers with certain
meats at certain prices. Armour & Co.
broke the agreement about August /
by refusing to supply pork loins at so
cents, the contract price, as the pro-
duct had in the meantime gone. up to
Setweens9 and 10 cents pound. The
contention of Armour & Co. was that
they intended the contract to cover
only the Ralya Market Company's res
tail business, whereas the Ralya COM
pany demanded product to fill large
number of jobbing orders which it had
secured. The market company was
incorporated for doing wholesale as
well as retail trade, and its articles
were officially fled, and it claims that
Armour & Co. therefore had no
grounds for limiting delivery of pork
to merely retail trade. 1t therefore