The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-25
BREyITIES.

Memories of the murder in Sioux
City of the Rev. George c. Haddoclz, on
August 8, 1856, have been revived re-
Gently by news from Oklahoma that
Henry Peters, one of the men indicted
for the crime was not burned in the
furnace of a brewery, as had been sup
posed all these years, but is living in
that territory. After the murder it
was believed that because of his
knowledge of who We're the murderers
of Haddock, Peters was put out of the
way.
Lee A. Curtis, civil engineer, says a
late dispatch, reports that the survey
of the new Duluth & New Orleans
railroad has just been completed. 1t
lis also reported that the contract for
the beginning of the construction of
the road has been let. The line of tho
road. as marked out in the preliminary
survey, runs north from Des Moines
to Usage, passing through Cambridge,
Nevada, McCallsburg, Hubbard. Iowa
Falls Hampton, and two miles east of
of Nora Springs.
Nate Linneger and Roy Sigafus,
two lads from Savanna, while rabbit
hunting, q few days ago, discovered
the remains of a man on Pulford
isl; n |, near Savanna The body was
in 81 rude box, the end of which pro-
truded from the earth, near the Iowa
shore. The decomposed remains were
wrapped in an old carpet. The mat
ter was reported to the police, but the
officers have failed to identify the
body. Only few months ago another
skeleton was found in that locality
which was not identified.
Judge Prouty, of the criminal divi-
sion of the district court of Polk coun-
ty, wants to reach the person or
persons, who, it is alleged. offered a
bride to a member of the Polk county
board of supervisors, in consideration
of securing contract for making the
plans and for the erection of new
court house. When the grand jury
made it's report, Judge Prouty detained
the members for few moments and
especially charged them to make in
quiry into the matter and to return an
Indictment if they find the published
statements sufficiently well grounded.
The Pottawattamie county grand
jury returned true bills against S. 2.
James. of South Omaha, "divine
healer" and Mrs. P. B. Yates, of Tabor,
! Iowa. on the charge of being crimi-
nally responsible for the death of the
latter's daughter, Ethel Yates, which
occurred in Council Bluffs January S.
| The post-mortem examination held on
| the body of Miss Yates showed that
death was the result of appendicitis.
| A physician who had been in atten l.
ance upon the case was dismissed and
the girl was treated by faith cure. A
deputy sheriff went to Tabor to arrest
| Mrs. Yates.
Des Moines dispatch: Iowa plaster
manufacturers, who own and operate
the seven stucco mills at Fort Dodge,
have just succeeded, after considerable
effort, in securing concessions from
the supervising architects of the
United States treasury department,
which they believe win prove of great
benefit to them. For q number OF
years the supervising architect has re-
fused to specify Iowa plaster in sub
hitting his plans to contractors for
bids. He has favored adamant and
other hard plasters to the exclusion OF
the brown coat stucco process. Re
peated efforts have been made to Sc.
cure change by interesting Iowa
members of congress but these have
failed. Recently L. f. Breene, repre-.
| senting one of the larger companies,
went to Washington with samples and
endorsements of the well known brown
| stucco process and succeeded in getting
several audiences with the supervising
architect. He showed him what had
been done with the stucco plaster, and
pointed ont its advantages, with the
result that he secured promise Of
the specification of Iowa plaster on an
equal footing with other plasters in
all lettings of public work in the fu-
ture. Since that time it has been spec.
flied in a number of buildings, with
the result that considerable new bust.
ness has been obtained.