The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-01-24

completed for the report of the state
railroad commissioners show an in.
crease OF $4,4S7,107.29 in the gross
revenue of the Iowa roads in 1900.
For the year ending July /, 1000,
there was an increase of $3,971, 722 90
in operating expenses and an increase
OF 5,311 men employed on the rail-
roads of this state at an advance of
$2,956,935.79 in wages paid them. The
passenger revenues were 81, 439, 679. 70
less than the year previous. but there
was an increase of $1,S5S,3o1.13 in
freight revenues.
The Iowa Afillers association
elected the following officers: Pres
ident, James Taggart, Knoxville;
vice president, c. L. Mott, Des
Moines: secretary and treasurer, T.
F. Rogers, Boone. 1t was decided to
hold another meeting in July at Ce-
dar Rapids.
Governor Shaw has gone to Beau
mont. Texas, along with A. Lang of
this city, who is interested with the
governor in the Des Moines Rice Land
company. The property of the com
Pany is four miles from Beaumont,
where Oil has been discovered. The
Des Moines Rice Land company is
considering the project of sinking a
shaft for oil on it's own land.
The movement to send Iowa troops
TO Washington at the time of the
Inauguration of President Mckinley
has been revived by letter from j.
w. Clark of Red Oak, formerly com
mander of Company M, of the Fifty
first Iowa, and now lieutenant col
onel in the regiment. In this letter
Colonel Clark said the company was
willing to go to Washington and pay
its own expenses, although he asked
Adjutant General Byers if it would
not be possible for the state to bear
the expense of transportation as far
as Chicago. Judge Smith McPher-
son, who is resident of Red Oak, in
terceded with the adjutant general
in behalf of Company NJ. It is un-
derstood that Red Oak citizens gen.
orally are willing to back up the
company, if permission to 90 to
Washington is. given it. It is said
there is no doubt that the necessary
fund can be raised. AS the situa-
ton now stands, two companies
have expressed themselves as will
ing to bear their own expenses. It
remains for Sioux City and Daven-
port to dete1-line whether troops
will be sent. General Byers gave
the Red Oa4l company this answer,
that if the four leading companies
he had designated, one of them
picked company, made up of mem
bers of both Sioux City companies,
would provide for their own ex-
penses, he would tender their SER
vices to the Inauguration committee
at Washington. He adheres to the
position he took from the first, how
ever, that if any troops at all are
to go from Iowa. not less than a bat
TALON should be sent.
Milton Remley, as attorney for the
state board of medical examiners, has
filed demurrer to the petition of
G. L. Parsons. in which Parsons ask
ed for mandamus compelling the
board to issue him a certificate to
practice osteopathy. The board de-
murs to the Parsons petition on sew
eral grounds. 1t is declared that it
is not shown that the board has fail
ed to determine whether or not the
school is regularly conducted col
lege of osteopathy. Until the board
termines this it is declared that Par
sons has no right TO demand a certi-
ficate. 1T is further stated that the
petition fails to show that the board
has found the school to be regularly
incorporated and conducted. Until
this question is determined it is de-
clared that no certificate can be is
sued. Further the petition is demur-
red to on the grounds that it does
not allege that the board has not
regularly conducted. Finally it is
stated that the act of the Twenty
seventh general assembly regarding
the issuance of certificates to grad
yates of schools of osteopathy is un-
constitutional because it is in con-
travention to the constitution, which
denies special privileges to any par
ticular class. 1t is held that it would
be giving the osteopaths privileges
denied physicians of other schools If
they were allowed certificates with
out passing the examinations which
graduates of other schools are re-
CURED to pass. 1t is declared that
to grant certificates to osteopaths
would be contrary to the medical
practice laws of the state, and the
board cannot be authorized to violate
these laws.
Rural Delivery.
Washington, Jan. 16.-The house
committee on postofices and post
roads has practically completed the
postoffice appropriation bill. The to.
tai amount carried by the bill will
be about $122,70o,0oO. The appropri-
alton for rural free delivery is in.
creased from $1.75o,ooo to $3,5oo,ooo.
Lawyer WEEDS Great Wealth.
New York, Jan. 1s-Miss Alta Rock.
sfeller, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
ID. Rockefeller, was married yester.
day at the residence of her parents
in this city to E. Paramalee Prentice.
young lawyer of Chicago.
Organ grinders have struck snaS
in Boston. In that city there is an
ordinance which gives the right to
any citizen to object to an organ
grinder playing his instrument with.
in three hundred feet Of the object
or's residence. If the musician fails
to move on, the police are required to
enforce the law.
Chicago footpads are audacious and
ingenious. Two of them despoiled Q
helpless woman of her purse and fled,
by dozen citizens. When
The highwaymen had lured the pursu.
Drs to q comparatively deserted
,treet, they, turned at bay, and held
ap the entire dozen, not leaving 3
lieksl - any Of their pockets.