The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-09
AT THE STATE CAPITAL
Des Moines, Nav = 100

Des Moines, May Z. 1901.
Suit has been commenced against
| the state board of medical examiners
by Charles Loeffler and A. ID. Shella-
barger, graduates ut the Barnes Med
| zeal college at st. Louis, who are
seeking to compel the defendants to
recognize ti.eir diplomas and grant
certitcate of practice in the state
OF Iowa. The proceedings are in
| the nature of a writ of certiorari in
| which the board is asked to certify
| to the district court record of their
| proceedings for the latter's review.
1t is alleged that application was
made to Dr. Kennedy in April for an
examination, who refused it. The
diplomas were presented at the same
time the request for examination
was made and refused on the
| grounds that it was alleged that
Barnes college hau had charges pre-
| fered against it because it was al
legged certificates We're issued after a
three years course. The students
declare the college is in good stand
ing now and that they have taken
| the entire course of four years.
| After working two years and rails
ing by popular subscription $4,000
Des Moincs is in a fair way to lose
the army post. Besides demanding q
gift of 400 acres of land, the govern
ment, through the secretary of war.
has imposed several conditions which
must be met before the post is estab-
IichnI rN1,o
the citizens who have been foremost
in the work of securing the post have
disagreed as to the methods OF pro-
cedure and the whole question is in
the air. 1t is believed by nearlv
everyone interested in the post that
nothing will be done this year. ut any
rate. The direct cause of the dis
agreement is the controversy over
the extension of city water mains to
the post, which the secretary of war
insists upon before he will permit
work on the post to begin. T.. M.
Hubbell, ID. b. Lyons, Captain c. r..
Matrous, b. S. Walker and few
other members of the army post com
mlttee and Commercial Exchange de-
clare there is but one means by which
the extension can be secured. They
favor anreNing to Des Moines the ter
ritory between the city limits and tho
post. w. W. Wilmer and j. S. Polk.
at the head of large number of En-
chan2e members and citizens general
~. are opposed to annexation. One
OF the plans suggested by them is
that committee be sent to Washing.
ton to ask the secretary of war to re-
lleve the city of the conditions i'm
Avn, t1,p,
paper be circulated for the purpose of
securing money with which to lay
mains to the post. Both these prop.
ositions are objected to bv those fin.
vo"ing annexation on the grounds
that they are impractical.
Advices have been received in Des
Moines to the eifect that the CHICAGO
Great Western has placed 10000 ,ObO
OF debentures at par from the pro-
ceeds OF which the new line between
Fort Dodge and Omaha will be built
The debentures will be a lien against
the new road only and will be Sc
cured by deposits of its capital stock
as collateral. The extension will be
built as an independent line and oper-
ated by the Great Western for the
time being under a lease. In all prob
ability it will be built as an extern
sion of the Mason City & Fort Dodge
road. On the subscription made to
the debentures it is estimated that it
will cost $1o,O00.OOO to build and equip
the new line. The subscription was
made up by a syndicate of New York
and New England bankers and they
have already paid over to the com
pany $1.57T5.0oO of the amount. This
will be used to start the work and in
thirty days anolher subscription of
20 per cent of the amount is to be
paid in and other payments will be
made as the work progresses. The
line has been located for distance
OF about twenty miles out of Fort
Dodge and work on the construction
'of the Des Moincs river crossing at
that point is to be commenced at
once. This will include a high bridge
over the tracks of the Illinois Central,
Minneapolis & ST. Louis roads and
the Des Moines river. which will be
about 5000 feet long and about 1925
feet above high water. 1t is estimat-
ed that the work on the river cross
ing alone will cost in the neighbor-
hood of 100000.
1t is estimated by the management
OF the Midland Chautauqua that the
programme this year will cost about
$1,000. The exact figures are not
known yet. but it will be in this
neighborhood. If two or three speak
ers of great ability can be secured
between this and the time the Chau-
tauqua commences the expense may
exceed $4,000 even. Heretofore no
programme has cost more than $500.
In some cases it has been found i'm
possible to pay out under these cir
cumstances.
The National starch works of this
city has shut down a portion of its
works. The reason given is that corn
has been forced to such high fig
ure by Phillips thatNi it is impossible
to operate longer until the price goes
down.
Pope Names Successor.
London, May 6.-The pope, accord
ing to dispatch from Rome. is UNI
derstood to have made will desig-
mating his successors, thus, to quote
the correspondent, modifying the ha-
bitual mode of choosing pope by
conclave. The news of the pope's
will first took shape in a diplomatic
note from the Bavarian minister to
his government. Its theory is sim
plc-the papal power being absolute
involves the right of naming his sue
,eSSOr