The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-10-31
AT THE STATE CAPITAL
Des Moines. Oct. 2s. 1901.

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Des Moines, Oct. %. 1901.
The supreme court has admins
tered a severe rebuke to the state fish
and game warden, George L. Delevan,
! by holding that he transcribed his
authority when he gave a permit to
Fred Sears of Sac county to seine
! pickerel from Wall lake, Iowa. The
| court holds that section 1916 of the
code, which gives the warden author
| ity to take from any public waters
OF the state any fish for the purpose
| of propagating or restocking other
waters, or exchanging with other
fish commissioners of the United States,
never contemplated giving him au-
| thority to take fish from public water
| for private ponds, and if he had not
| the authority himself he certainly
could not transmit it to others. The
| court goes further and intimates
that the practice of taking young FRY
from the hatcheries of the state for.
| private purposes, which has been in
| dulged i'll to some extent in the state.
entirely exceeds any code provision
in the game laws of Iowa Sears,
| the defendant in the case, will have
to pay the fine imposed by the dis
trict court for taking pickerel from
| Wall lake for his private pond under
| authority of the game warden's per-
| nit.
1T was decided by the state election
contest board that the name of Rob-
| ert Hufschmidt of Waukon cannot he
/ ,>aS
| democratic nominee for the legisla-
| ture IN Allamakee county. The board
decided that his certificate of nomina.
ton, which was filed with the secre-
tary of state on the last filing day.
was invalid because made, and appa1.
entity sworn to. i'll blank, prior to the
day of the democratic county conyen.
ton, the nominees name being in
serted three days later. The board
declined to consider the question OF
| the right of Hufschmidt to file an
amendment correcting the defects in
| the original certificate 1t is claimed
by the democrats that the action of
the board merely creates a vacancy
on the ticket, which NAV be file 1 m
the manner prescribed by law. He in
tlmated that an attempt would be
made to place Mr.. Hufschmidt's name
on the ticket in this manner.
Auditor of State Merriam, in a let
Ter addressed to a prominent insur-
ance man of Marshalltown. and iust
made public, denounces the Western
consolidated Underwriters Fire and
MARINE insurance company of Chi
cago as wildcat" organization, with
no authority to do business in this
state, and liable to prosecution
through its agents for attempting to
solicit business without certificate
from the Insurance department of the
vtate MIR. Merriam in giving out this
letter is pursuing policy, adopted
| recently, of making public whenever
possible, the fact that such illegal
companies are operating throughout
the state.
The Inspectors who have been in
the city for several days looking at
the army post grounds, and viewing
proposed sites for the rifle range
have returned to Omaha. They did
| not accept a range, though they Wis
tied at least a dozen farms, and the
local committee are given further
time to secure a suitable tract. The
board has accepted plans for the
buildings as submitted by Captain
Turner.
Otis Green, who shot and killed his
former wife, ->.innie Wilson, at the
corner of West Fourteenth and Lo-
Gust streets on the morning of Sep
TENDER o, has been indicted for muir
der in the first degree.
distinguished party of railroad
men passed through Des Moines over
the Rock Island on the 25th. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt was the guest of
Ogden Mills on the journey, which
consists of a daylight tour of the
Rock Island system. The party con-
sisted mainly of Rock Island Off
Gals, among whom were Chairman
II. r. Cable of the board of direc-
tors; Warren G. Purdy, president;
A. j. Hit, general manager, and w.
Nj. Hobbs. general superintendent.
whose private cars made up the
train. 1t stopped at Brooklyn all
night, stopped at Grinnell, spent
three minutes at Des Moines and
thirty minutes at Valley junction.
tnence gong WihoUl stop to Omaha.
At Des Moines Mr.. Vanderbilt inspect
cd the Rock Island depot carefully
MIR. Vanderbilt rode in the cab and
handled the machine for time out
of Brooklyn.
State Dairy Commissioner Norton,
after threatening repeatedly to take
| measures to compel the delinquent
milk dealers in Des Nfoines to pay
the annual license fee of 81 required
| by the code, has resorted to more
| vigorous measures. r. IL. Butlin, a
| grocer. was one of the dealers who
did not pay his license as required
by and it is alleged refused to pay it,.
The state dairy commissioner filed
information against Butlin in JUS
tice Duncan's court. charging him
1 with violation of the law renuir;pr