The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-08-08
I AT THE STATE CAPITAL
Des Moines. August 6. 1901.

Des Moines. August 6, 1901.
Major Mckenzie of the firm of Nc
kenzie & Ryan has arranged with
Judge Holmes for a test suit to be
| brought in the district court to de-
termine the right of Iowa veterinary
surgeons who are now said to be.
Practlclng without having registered
and who failed to avail themselves of
the provisions made in the state
veterinary law which went into eff
feet January /, 1901. The point in
controversy, and of which the state
4 termine the rights of Iowa veterinary
board is very much in doubt, is
whether or not these practicing phy-
slclans have the legal right to regis
ter at this date when in fact thew
have been practicing illegally since
the first of the year, or when the
new law went into effect.
AS there are more than 200 who
failed to register at the beginning
OF the year, through ignorance Of
the law compelling them to do SO, the
result will be awaited with consid,
cradle degree of interest.
The report of the collections of tho
port of Des Moines has been made
public by Collector Redman. 1t is for
the fiscal year ending June 30, and
shows collections amounting to $685.
1908 for the year. Des Moines is a
port of delivery, where customs are
/! collected on imports. Only few
Des Moines people have occasion to
pay duty on anything that they buy
and have shipped to them. The prin-
cipal collections are upon tea and
| queensware.
A considerable quantity of the
goods received in Des Moines come in
free of duty. The Iowa Seed com
pany annually imports large guam
tity of seeds and bulbs, on which
there is no duty.
During the year 119 different con-
signments passed through the Office
Duty was paid on 100 of these, and 1s
came in without duty. The remain
ing one was simply entered to be re-
warehoused. The total duties
amounted to s23,o72.O1, and the fines,
penalties and forfeitures amounted
to $9s.72, making total of $23, 1908.
The expenses of the office amounted
to $so9.o5. Last year the duties were
$25, 145.7S.
A clever gang of counterfeiters is
working Des Moines and has thus
far baffied the detectives. The graft
is the raising of ST. bills to lives,
The Home savings bank was the first
victim to report the operations of
the gang to the detectives, but it is
believed there are other cases. The
person or persons doing the work
is clever and is evidently educated for
his style of crime. So far as has been
learned he has confined his opera
lions to the raising of one-dollar bills,
but there may be larger counterfeits.
The figure "1' in the upper left hand
corner of the bills is covered by a
delleate green paper, the shade of the
bill Over this is stenclled figure
-. The same process is followed on
other corners of the bill and in the
center is stenciled large letter 'sV."
The one way of detecting the bogus
nature of the bill is in the printed
word zone dollar" which is not al
tered by the counterfeiter. This is in
small type, however, and not one per-
son in dozen will detect it unless
expecting something of the kind.
''The negro problem. in the south
is not yet settled. In less than three
years there will be another mighty
convulsion. Already I can hear the
low rumblings in the distance. The
south is going to disfranchise the ne
gro and do it at any cost. They are
doing it now. South Carolina has
begun the movement and other states
will follow as rapidly as possible4
The north is standing idly by and
saying, Go ahead. disfranchise the
negro if you can do it lawfully, and
; if you can't do it lawfully, do it any
way" The above utterances We're
made by Senator Benjamin r. Till
man of South Carolina in his com
mencement day address to the gradu-
ates at Highland Park college. His
subject was "The Race Problem from
a Southern Standpoint"
Secretary G. H. Van Houten of the
written letter to the Orange Judd
Farmers, inwhich he gives asummary
of his observations on the crops of
the state. Mr.. Van Houten's esti-
q mates are based on close observation
$ in his extensive travelling about Iowa.
He estimates that the yield of mer-
charitable corn for Iowa will be 40
, per cent of an average crop. Pas
lures. he says, are in the worst condi,
/ ton they have been in since 1894.
i Members of the state board OF con-
t troll have returned from Cherokee,
: where they have been inspecting the
: work on the new hospital building be-
o ing erected at that place. They are
much pleased with the character OF
the buildings and report that the out
buildings will rival in beauty the main
: structure and that this institution
> will be one of the best hospitals for
the insane in the United States.
: There are now over 200 men working
t on the buildings and $50 are stopping
: at one boarding house which has been
d set up on the grounds. The board
e is anxious to hasten the work and
; will employ all the men it can get.
5ffdgt
Colonies Must Foot the Bill
London, August 1.-The supple.
mentary civil service estimate asks
for a7,o13,91o, of which e6,5oO.0oO is
: required by the colonial office as a
e grant in aid of the Transyaai and
8 Orange River colonies. Three mil
i lions of this will be considered an ad
J. vance to the colonies, to be repaid
out of the first loans issued by them
Great Accumulation of Gold.
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