The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-12-05
AT THE STATE CAPITAL
Des Moines, Dec. 8, 1901.

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The total amount paid per annum
for schools has increased more than
$1,000,O00 since 1896, says State SUI
perintendent Barrett in his biennial
report. The number of teachers re-
quired to supply the schools is 1923
greater in 1901 than in 1896. The
value of school hcs;zs.s has increasssa
nearly $2,500,0Oo. The report says:
I'm cities and towns there have been
marked growth and improvement.
The high schools are now, as gem
eral rule. well equipped and supplied
with teachers well educated for their
special work. There is also larger
number than usual of grade teach
ers, who have qualified themselves
Tor teaching in superior manner.
With u.s. said u college president
only recently, it is now question
OF refusing to receive more students
or of charging our capacity This
condition may not exist at all higher
institutions, but evidence is before
us to show that it does in many. The
great material prosperity of the peo-
pie for the youth to avail them
selves OF the advantages offered by
our higher institutions, and this they
are doing in larger numbers thar
ever before"
The Continental Biscuit company,
which has recently absorbed the busi-
ness OF the American Biscuit COM
pany, is preparing for the erection of
mammoth plant in Des Moines next
season. ~
AS result of the death of Charles
Meinkey of Fontanelle, one of the
regular panel of the federal court
petit jury, the case of the United
States against Letson Baliiett, on
trial on the charge of using the Uni
ted States mails to further a scheme
to defraud. has been continued by
Judge Smith MCPHERSON, and will not
come on again for trial before Nav
1902, if it does then.
Governor Shaw is in receipt of n
letter from Ex-Governor Francis
president of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition, suggesting that December
~ be observed as Louisiana Purchase
Flag day. This is the anniversary
of the actual transfer of title by
France to the United States. Gov
ernor Shaw is in hearty sympathy
with the movement, and requests
that the American flag be displayed
from all public buildings, state, ccun-
ty and municipal, in honor of this
historic event, which has proven to
be OF such value to the world as well
as to the nation.
In the Forthcoming biennial report
of the state superintendent of pub
lie instruction there will be an em-
Phatlc endorsement of the present
system of free text books, which has
been adopted in a number of counties
In Iowa. The state superintendent,
while acknowledging that there has
been some criticism of the methods
employed i'll some counties by INV
firms seeking to secure the adopts
OF books. says the practical wa
ings of the law have been satisl
tory AS an argument againsd
change in the present law, theMl
perintendent cites the fact that
ing the present year between f;
and fifty counties have adopted OF
adopted uniform series Of boo
for period of five years, and ANY,
changes in the law would greatly en-
barrass these communities.
On recommendation OF the cijy|
physician, Dr. N. C .Schiltz, the cityy
council has taken action looking to
the ordering of general vaccination
in the city. A communication of DR..
Schiltz was referred to the city So
icitor with instructions to prepare
q communication addressed to the
local board of instruction and to pre-
pare another communication adj
dressed to employers of labor in the
city, and especially to proprietors of
large stores and factories.
Governor Shaw has offered a re-
ward of $3.50 for the apprehension Of
the slayer of Samuel Grafton, the
colored preacher found dead in a
corn field near Ireton the middle Of
last October.
An appeal case which will test the
features of the Iowa code which was
designed to circumvent the original
package theory of the courts with
regard to Interstate commerce, will
come on for admission at the next
term of the Iowa supreme court. In
the Iowa code it was sought to pre-
vent the sending into the state OF
liquor in original packages by maxi
ing it n crime to solicit orders for
liquor to be shipped into the state.
On behalf of this feature of the law
1t is claimed that the solicitation
of orders is an act entirely within
the state and entirely separate from
the act of making the sale and ship
ment in another state. A number
of cases have been tried in the dis
trict courts involving the construc-
ton of this law, some decided one
way and some another, but test
case has been made of one from JEFF
ferson county in which one Hanaphy
was fined for taking orders for an
Illinois liquor house. Judge Eichel-
berger decided that the law is CON
stitutional, and the convicted per-
son appeals. The papers have just
been finished in the case. The de-
fault relies on the well known prin-
ciple of non-interference with inter.