The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-10-31

: hS S.e'oo SASSnloiif suudrQ ~ decided
that the sustaining of the objections
against the first certificate filed hy
j the democrats of Allamakee county
made vacancy under section 1902 of
the code, and that the democrats we're
privileged to file petition the
same as if a vacancy should arise
| from other causes. The secretary OF
state therefore certified to the audi
tor OF Allamakee county the name of
Robert Hufschmidt for representative
and the same will appear upon the
ballot at the coming election.
Judge Wheeler, in the district court
at Clarinda. declared unconstitution-
al the law passed by the Twenty
eighth general assembly prohibiting
the sale of liquor shipped into Iowa
from other states in original pack
ages. Under this law liquor agents
from Omaha who covered southwest
ern Iowa We're arrested and fined in
several counties. The .'law and or
der league has pushed the prosecu-
ton of the alleged offenders. The
agents combined to secure ruling on
the constitutionality that it inter
fered with interstate commerce. The
case will probably be appealed, and
the league members say they will car
ry it to the United States supreme
court
Craftsmen blew open the safes in
the Rock Island depot and in the office
of the Rees-Gabriel Lumber company
IN Underwood, a small town sixteen
miles east of Council Bluffs. Nitro
slycerine was used and the doors of
both safes We're shattered to pieces.
The doors and windows in the lumber
office were blown out. The robbers
secured only 3 cents for their trouble,
this being the amount they got from
the lumber company's safe. There
was nothing in the Rock Island depot
safe. The double explosion awoke
the whole town. The cracksmen,
three i'm number, stood off the citi-
zens with revolvers and made their es-
cape, running down the track and
then turning off into corn field.
During brawl in front of a saloon
in Foster James Anderson, a white
miner, was shot and instantly killed
and three others seriously injured by
flying bullets and other missiles. Paul
Waites. a we'll known colored man,
who moved from Ottumwa to Foster
last week, is under arrest charged
with the crime. The killing was done
by bullet from forty-four caliber
revolver, and WaiteS is said TO have
owned such gun. Another negro
named Meadows is also under arrest
charged with being an accomplice.
Mates disappeared after the shoot
ing, and was not found until noon the
next day, when Sheriff Bonner pulled
him from beneath his house. He is
now in Jail at Abba. He is married
and has two children.
season at Davenport occurred when
the Chris Mueller planning and sawmill
burned to the ground. The loss will
reach 100000, covered one-third by i'll
surance. The flames threatened adj
joining property and the city was
endangered for q time, but valiant
fire fighting confined the fire to the
Mueller mills. The fire started in the
planning mill and spread rapidly till
all the sawmill was destroyed, but the
Office and the books were saved. The
mill is total wreck Whether it
will be rebuilt is not determined.
This blaze runs the city's fire close
to million dollars this year, inclld-
ing two slwmills, one immense lum-
Der yard, and three sash and door
factories. There is a strong belief
that most of the fires were of incen-
diary origin.
The large experiment barn at the
Iowa State college experiment sta
ton burned few days ago. The fire
was discovered in the old b,.ilding
just north of the experiment barn 1t
quickly spread to the newer and
larger structure, which burned rap
idly, and within a couple of hours
the large barn had burned to the
ground. The college hose company
mad some trouble getting water on
the fire on account of the distance
of the barn from hydrants and the
scarcity of hose. The Ames fire COM
pany went out on a special motor
with a supply of hose and'helped save
the new judging pavilion and the
large stock barns on the west. The
building contained hundred tons OF
hay, valued at S1,sO0, and about 1000
bushels of grain, which was a total
loss. large amount of farm ma
chinery was also burned. The barn
WIS Julll III 1913 anu cOSl, Mllu llS
equipment, about $1,000. In accord
ance with the policy of the state there
was no insurance. The loss will prob
ably reach $500.
daring robbery was committed
at Allison at o'clock few morn
ings since, the safe in the county
treasurer's office being blown open
and about 500 stolen. The court
house is situated at some distance
from any other building and the only
person sleeping there was Louis
Busse, prisoner confined in the Jail
below. Busse says that between 2
and ) O'Clock he was awakened by a
noise in the hallway above the Jail.
On gaining entrance to the treasur-
er's office by gathering in the door,
Busse says they worked rapidly and
quietly. They cut off the ends of the
rivets in the door of the safe, poured
i'm nitro ,rlvcaripe liubted tba f,,co