The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-01-31
AT THE STATE CAPITAL
Des Moines, January 20, 800.

The statement showing the COndl.
ton of the state and savings banks
OF Iowa, as Indicated by reports from
the different banks furnished in ac-
oordance with the last bank call, has
been completed in the Office of the au-
ditor of state. The reports from the
banks show their condition at the
close of business December 10, 1900.
The statement evidences flourish
ing condition OF the banks of the
state, and a large Increase in the vol
ume of their business since the last
preceding report to the auditor.
There are now 24G savings banks in
Iowa and 1913 state banks, total of
AGA, and sixteen more than were re-
ported in the last preceding state
ment.
The Iowa State Medical Veterinary
association, which has just closed its
thirteenth annual session. adopted
resolutions severely criticising the &C
ton of the federal government for
the alleged indiscriminate distribu-
ton of vaccine among gen
tlemen who do not know how
to properly use it. Officers were
elected as follows: President, P. o.
Kato, Forest City; vice presidents, S.
II. Kingery, Creston, and P. Malcolm,
New Hampton; secretary and treas
urer, j. d. Brown, Oskaloosa.
The supreme court decided in case
from Winneshiek county that bonds
men of saloon-keepers under the
mulct law cannot be held for penal
ties for sales to minors. The law inn
poses fine of $500 for each sale to
a minor. Saloon-keepers are required
to give bonds to obey the law. But
the court holds that there is an ex-
ception in the law providing that only
bondsmen of permit holders, that is,
pharmacists holding permits from the
district court, can be held for penal
ties for selling to minors. Bondsmen
of mulct saloon-keepers are liable,
however, for civil damages to be col
lected by parents, guardians, ETC., OF
minors to whom liquor has been sold.
The Bonaparte dam case which has
been furnishing food for thought to
the supreme court of the last five
years has been settled for all time
by the overriding of the petitions of
both the state and Byron f. Meek for
rehearing. The case will stand ac-
cording to the decision rendered at
the October term in which It was held
that the owners of the dam were not
compelled to provide fishway. The
series of cribs constructed below the
dam make a perpendicular structure
and furnish complete obstruction to
the passage of fish in the Des Moines
river. The dam was built by the gov
eminent for the improvement of the
Des Moines river in 1852 and in 1866
after it had been bought by the Meeks
the locks were closed by wall and
no fishway was provided. AS early as
1893 information was filed to abate it
as a nuisance, but the supreme court
holds that fishway cannot be re-
quired in non-navigable river. 1t is
the largest and best constructed dam
in the state and the case has been
watched with keen interest. by all
sportsmen.
The state of Iowa is going to re-
ceive two Chinese cannon from the
walls of Picking, captured by the Uni
ted States troops when they entered
the Chinese capital to relieve the be-
sieged legationers. In letter just
received by Governor Shaw, United
States Minister Conger says:
81 am today starting on their way
to you two Chinese cannon, with their
carriages (knocked DOWN., which our
troops on thelr arrlval mere captured
on me Guy wal near our legauon.
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ed on each side of the walk leading
to the state historical building.
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