The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-07-11
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Des Moines, July 9. 1901.
Mr.. Cownie, of the state board OF
control, has returned from the insane
hospital at Independence. "In sim
gle day there the past week." said
Mr.. Cownie, the inmates of that in
hstitution picked 3,7OO quarts of in
| Intuition strawberries. They have
hen having strawberries, during the
season, three times day. They
plaSed steadily every day during the
seaSon, averaging about 1000 quarts
perNay. The lowest picking in day
was Y 800 quarts. The institution.
farmNis in fine condition, the finest
they al say that it ever was in. The
Iowa Institution farms are in fine.
shape, they are models, and that is
what the board of control wishes to.
make them" The largest number of
| patients ever in the hospital at Mt
Pleasant were enrolled last week..
| 1901.
Judge Smith Mcpherson has writ.
ten letterto the United States com.
missioners Under his jurisdiction, in
winch he calls attention to the prac.
tlce OF making arrests for the mere
| Plttance which accrues to the officer
from the fees. He condemns the prac.
tee and insists that it shall cease.
Dr. y. e. Kennedy, secretary of the
state board of health, says the hot
weather of the past two weeks has.
administered crushing blow to the
smallpox epidemic in the state and
/ VIII De instrumental in preventing a.
serious epidemic next winter. Small.
PoN mas died hard in Iowa, but DIR,
| II do not Think" said DR., Kennedy.
that there is going to be the small.
poN epidemic in Iowa next winter
that was anticipated. There is a,
good deal in the theory that when it
does not die out during the summer
IL is much worse the next winter, but
the number of cases in the state al
| ready is diminishing and the hot
weather is not giving it chance to
spread. L believe Iowa has seen the
worst OF it's smallpox epidemic, and
next winter there will be much less
OF 1T than there was this year. The
large number of persons who have al.
ready had smallpox is one of nv rea-
sons for thinking so. This, together
with the fact that the chance of new
eases developing during the summer
is small, makes me think that Iowa
is not going to have much smallpox
| next winter
5. IL. Dawson, who was sentenced
to Anamosa June, 1896, to serve a
ten-year sentence for the murder of
his son-in-law, Walter Scott, has been
paroled by Governor Shaw. The ap-
plication which led to the pardon was
circulated about three months ago
and signed by influential citizens,
| or Des MONIES. DaN son is the invent.
or OF the celebrated Damascus steel.
The secret which he uses in making
the metal harder than any other me-
tame substance is known only to
himself and has been locked up in
| the safety vault of the Des Moines
National bank since his commitment
to the penitentiary nearly seven
years ago. Before his sentence a
company was formed with a capital
stock of nearly half million dollars
tor the purpose of manufacturing the
commodity, and it is understood ia
be the intention of the promoters to
go ahead with the plans.
| The discovery that Des Moines
milk dealer is using formaldehyderfa
decrease his ice bill has stirred III
| officials at the state dairy comm
sioner's Office to renewed activity
preventing the use of the dea
preservatives. About a year
there We're four arrests made in
export on the strength of
ment made by chemist the1
| effect samples of the milk
these dealers contained a weak solu-
| ton Of tormaldehyde. When the case
was brought up for trial the chemist
was intoxicated and had to be car
ried into the justice court and his
evidence had little weight. The men
were discharged, but the effect was
beneficial just the same, as the au-
thorities have had no trouble with
davenport dealers since that time.
The supreme court decision in the
Slinker case gives the dairy commits
sioner unlimited authority in sup
| pressing authorizations of milk and
the effect has been wide throughout
the state in lettering the quality of
dairy products.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait won thu
| Joint debate at Chautauqua park wit
y. "A. boa U1laI. Oh AeOkuk on woman
Suffrage" About 5000 people attend
ed. The sympathy of the audience
was evenly divided, but Mrs. Gait
made much the better argument and
impression. DR.. Bcatman depended
largely on the scripture, which en-
| joins wives to ask their husbands,
and making the husbands the head
and wives the foot, and insisted that
suffrage will deprive the homes of
the needed care of mothers and de
prive men of their jobs and office
Mrs. Gait said that women are nov
taxed without representation, tha
equal suffrage will give better and
more moral government, and that if
st. Paul said what Boatman saws he
said he was wrong.
Commissions have been issued to
che following physicians appointed
delegates by Governor Shaw to the
tuberculosis congress to be held this
month in London:. Daniel j. Thomp-
son, Lohrville; Edsil w. Bachman,
Baskerville; Joseph r. Gorrell, New
ton; Josiah I. Kennedy, Des Moines;
David II. Bowen, Waukon; B. l.. Eiker,.
Decatur; William w. Hawk, Colfax;I
George w. Hinkle, Harvard; Elmer|
E. .Overfeld, Elma; John s. RoomeJ
Calmar, and p. L. Prentis, Delphos.
Four naro1es of inmates of To,,o4