The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-08

Dunn Of Marion, Drake university of
Des Moines is bequeathed $4,000 in
cash. The Old Ladies' home and
Home for the Friendless in Cedar
Rapids get $500 each, the Christian
church of Marion $1,000 and property
valued at $4,000; the Home Mission
society of the church $1,000.
During the recent term of excess
sive heat there were eleven deaths
due to the hot weather and five 9TH
ers were caused by it indirectly. The
month of July has record of fifty
seven deaths, while the average for
some years for the entire month has
been little more than thirty. OF the
fifty-seyen deaths, more than one
fourth were infants less than l year
old.
Fred Robinson, lineman in the
employ of the Council Bluffs Gas and
Electric company, was electrocuted
while making connection from the
main circuit to the Mccormick imple-
ment warehouse on Main street. His
right arm came in contact with live
Wire, and the unfortunate man fell
to the ground from the top of the
pole and expired in few minutes.
lis home was in Crete, Neb.
dispatch from Washington says:
The fact that the Rt. Rev. Thomas j.
Conaty, rector of the Catholic uniyer-
sity, is to be raised to the bishopric
within the next few weeks has
aroused much interest in Washington
as to the field of duty to which he
Will be assigned. The new Iowa do
cese to be created either at Sioux City
or Des Moines is one of the very few
vacancies existing and it is regarded
almost as a settled fact that Monsig-
nor Conaty will be assigned to the
Iowa see.
The now famous $4,000 law suit be-
tween Charles Yates and the heirs of
the Wash Hardin estate has been
brought to a sudden termination at
Centerville by arbitration. Mr.. Yates
married the ward of Mr.. Hardin some
ten years ago and had lived with and
taken care of the Hardin family,
which consisted of Mr.. Hardin and his
aged wife, ever since. Mr.. Hardin
forgot him in his will and he brought
suit for taking care OF the aged cou-
pie. He was awarded a verdict of
$4,000 and the heirs gave notice of
appeal, but finally agreed to settle
ment at $4,000, and the defendants to
pay the costs, which will make the
total almost another thousand.
Iowa cattle feeders are profiting by
the drouth in Kansas and northern
Missouri and in some parts of Ne
braska. In these districts the almost
total destruction of the corn crop
and the burning up of range and en-
closed pasturage has caused the own
ers of stock to rush their holdings
to the market and in the past few
days stocllmen who have no feed or
prospect of feed with which to carry
their stock through have been I'M
loading thousands upon thousands of
all kinds of cattle on the stock mar
kets at Kansas City, st. Joseph, st.
Louis and South Omaha. The ship
ments are made without reference to
whether cattle are in a marketable
condition and hundreds of carloads
of yearlings, stock cattle and cattle
| that have been on grass and are now
in fair condition for corn feed to fit
| them for market have been offered in
the past few days, with the result
| that there has been general slump
in prices and an over-supply on the
markets. Iowa stockmen who have
assurances of good fall pasturage and
| of about so per cent of corn crop, to
say nothing of big supply of fodder,
have been quick to take advantage
of an opportunity to buy cheap stock
ers and feeders and have been taking
a large part Of the offerings at the
dumping places. These are being
! brought into Iowa by trainloads and
the shipments from the Missouri river
markets to Iowa have been especially
heavy. 1t is claimed that an average
of 400 carloads of cattle a day have
been coming into the state for the
last week or ten days.
elf Ieowned the entire corn crop of
the state 1 would be willing from the
present outlook to compromise on
twothirds of crop. I mean from
that I believe two-thirds of the corn
crop of the state has been saved by
this change in the weather; and that
| there will be 20O,OOO,OOO bushels of
No. 2 corn. BY No. z corn 1 mean
good, marketable, profitable corn
Such is the opinion of Director j. r.
Sage of the Weather and Crop Blu
reau. Continuing, he said: 81 be-
lieve that corn is now in very prom
ising and encouraging condition, and
that the output will be 100000, ZOO
bushels, as compared with something
over 30O,O0O,000 last year, which was
phenomenal year. Another encour-
aging thing that / would call atten-
ton to is the condition of the fodder
to be secured from the corn which
will not show up so we'll in the pro-
ducing of ears, but will be valuable
from it's fodder. The fodder this
year will average in value $40 an acre
and as there are over eight million
acres planted you can see that the
feeding value of the fodder this sea-
son will be over eighty million dol
lars. With two-thirds of a corn crop
and the splendid fodder that we will
have the Iowa farmer will be very lit
tie worse off this year than last or
than the average. The fodder last
year was not husbanded, it was al.
lowed to go tic waste, it was not even
so good on the average as it will be
this year, when it will be better taken
care of, too. We have many lessons
to learn from this drouth, Just as we
had in 1894, and the fodder lessor
will be one of the BEST
H. A. Boyle of Crawford county
first lieutenant and surgeon in the