The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-11-07
THE NEWS In IOWA

Bluffs caught his trigger on the side
of the board, discharglng the weapon
with its muzzle pointed directly at
him. The charge took effect under
| the left arm.
BY the collision of a freight train
with switching engine at Alton the
conductor, who lived in Ottumwa, was
pinned beneath a box car and his life
crushed out. No other men were
| injured, but trains were delayed for
several hours.
| Inc new Des Moines, Iowa Falls q
Northern railway has its grade com
pleted as far as McCallsburg, in Story
county, and the track laid as far as
Buckeye, in Hardin county. Ile road
is traversing one of the richest and
most fertile portions of the state.
| At meeting of the building COM
mittee of the board of trustees OF
the State Agricultural college the con-
tract was let for the erection of a
feeding shed 140 feet long by "a feet
wide, for $1,740. This Will be used as
temporary quarters to continue the
experimental work in stock feeding
during the winter. The remainder of
the money obtained from the eNecu-
tive council will be used to buy feed
to replace the loss by fire.
| G. L. Montgomery ana N. S. Bird,
travelling men of Mason City, have
probably lost their lives on Clear
lake. The two men went duck hunt
ing on the lake, using a small boat.
AT o'clock in the evening 81 squall
came up and neither men nor boat
have been seen since. Boats pairolied
the lake all day in search of the MISS
ing men, but no trace of them could
be found. Montgomery represents a
manufacturing concern of Plano, Ill.,,
and Bird Travelled for ST. Louis hard
! ware firm. both are we'll known.
BY decision rendered by Judge NJ.
a. Roberts in Ottumwa, L. G. Climmie,
sheriff of Appanoose county, was sus-
pended from office pending the re-
suit of trial in which the sheriff
is charged with 1nalfeasance in Office
and perjury. II. L. Vermila of Union
vile, Appanoose county, was APP
pointed sheriff in the order promul-
gated by Judge Roberts, during CHM
mics suspension. The case is one
which has caused widespread COM
ment all over southern Iowa. The
sheriff, an Appanoose county consta,
ole and a justice of the peace We're
indicted on the charge of malfeas-
ance in Office. In this it was charged
that the sheriff would arrest tramp,
bring him before the justice for trial,
have him committed enter up his
fees, and, after keeping the vagrant
over night, turn him loose. 1t was
alleged, and it is so stated in the in
dictment in legal phraseology, that
the sheriff the next day would repeat
the operation, thus, it is alleged, con-
siderably charging his fee bill. This
practice became so much talked about
tat the citizens committee of Cen
terville took the matter in hand and
procured the indictment of the sheriff
and the other two peace officers.
A dispatch from humboldt says:
George A. Lincoln, the Iowa state fish
| and game warden, arrived on the
Northwestern railroad with a carload
! of young fish few days ago. The
| business men here had been promised
a car of fish some time ago, but it
has been some time in coming, owing
to the difficulty of procuring the fish,
for the larger per cent of the fish
distributed by him are seined from
the slougls and bayous along the Mis-
sissippi river and on account of high
water it is sometimes hard TO procure
the fish. The state hatchery at Spirit
Lake does not send out large num-
Der of fish, owing to the small amount
of money appropriated by the state
Tor this use and Warden Lincoln has
found that his money goes farther
and gets more fish by seining them
I've 11>.e E.,l.
the Des Moines river here were taken
from the Mississippi, there being
about $4,000 small fish, mostly crop
pies and bass. The fish We're taken
from Mr.. Lincolns car to the river
Zen Lincoln will distribute about
twenty carloads of fish in the waters
of the state and will greatly help to
keep this great sport alive. He is
doing good work both in the propaga-
ton of fish and the protection of our
game, which is greatly appreciated by
| all sportsmen.
The annual report of 3. Murphy,
trustee of the Iinnie Haguewood
fund, has been filed in the office of
Governor Shaw. The report details
the manner in which the appropria-
ton of the state legislature has been
expended and there is appended the
report made by Miss Dora Donald,
under whose tutorage the states
blind ward has been for several years.
Miss Donald is now the superintend-
ent of the school for the blind of
South Dakota, and Linnie Haguewood
is with her. The most interesting
part of the report in addition to the
precociousness and ambition of the
blind girl in her studies is her love
for the work in the mechanical de-
partment. Miss Donald says: Lin
pies deNterity along manual lines has
been often mentioned Her love for
the feminine arts is deeply rooted in
her nature and serves to fiu each va
eanGhour with never ending pleasure.
This ability has been called into ac-
tivity in lie institution printing of
fee, where she has taken first honors
as an operator of the stereotype
| maker. All Linnie's natural charac-
teristics are here called into activity.
She is not. called upon to depart from
the we'll known path, and she writes