The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-10-31
THE NEWS in IOWA

Judge Wade has issued writ of man
damus compelling Auditor Hogan tt
| place the names of the republican
| candidates on the official ballot. The
| error in filing was held to be trivial
The little five year old son of Clar
ence Lenocller, a farmer near Wood
ward, set his fathers barn on fire
| The little fellow was 80 excited thai
| he ran into the burning building anc
hid in an oat bin and was burned TIC
death before he was found.
| Murder in the second degree" is
| the verdict in the case of the state
of Iowa against NJ. o. Clemens, OF
| Union. Clemens and Burghdutf had
| trouble and Clemens had made
threats against Burghdutf's life, ac-
cusing Burghdutf of insulting his
| wife, and threatening to kill him be
| fore the week had passed.
Secretary Dinwiddie of the State
Bankers association says that there
is an epidemic of swindling by means
of bogus checks at the present time
and that many endorsers are being
victimized. A party issuing checks
signed j. C. Nichols, on the First Ma
tional bank at Sioux City is the latest
He has secured money on these checks
at Sheldon, Rock Valley, Spencer.
Sanborn, Clear Lake and Waverly. All
himself and have been made payable
to Charles Gibbing. The checks are
worthless. Other operators have Sc
cured money on worthless checks at
Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Oskaloosa,
Corning and Omaha. Their method
is to stay in town short time
and induce some new found friend
to endorse a bogus check.
While rounding curve at the ter
minus of Il deep cut on the Chicago,
Burlington & Kansas City railroad,
two miles east of Exline, flag sta
ton between Moulton and Cincinnati,
rail lowered and ditched the com
blnatlon baggage, express and mail
car, the combination smoker and pas
senger coach and chair car. Consid-
ering the manner in which the cars
piled up and the frightful leap they
took down the forty-foot embank-
passengers were not instantly killed.
Three or four were fatally injured and
dozen or fifteen more or less hurt.
Following is a list of Iowans injured
so far as known: Miss Sophie Peter
son, Cedar Rapids, limbs broken,
otherwise badly and probably fatally
injured; III. c. Moore. Bloomfield.
mail clerk, injured about the face and
head; Mrs. Honly. wife of station
agent at Bloomfield, arm and leg
broken; Mary Corydon. j. r. llutfman
and George Headly, Moulton; j. w.
Hayes. Dralleville, and II. b. Brown
ing, Keokuk.
A company recently organized in
New York, with practically unlimited
capital, has a force OF expert pros
pectors at work just east of the city
of Fort Dodge on a 4oo-acre tract of
land, locating gypsum beds. which
are supposed to underlie a part or
all of the land. lie result of the
prospecting will not be known for
some little time, but it is the purpose
OF the company, if gypsum is found
in sufficient quantities to build four
or five mills and lave them ready
for operation as soon as possible next
spring. The land is in easy reach of
the Great Western tracks. Just
what effect this will have toward the
consolidation of the eight other stuc-
60 mills, which is about To be con-
summated, is not known. Several
meetings have been held With view
of consolidating the mills under one
management. The advent of the New
York company as rival to the con-
solidation is viewed with Some CON
Germ by the companies who entertain
the consolidation theory. With the
addition of several new mills. Fort
Dodge will indeed become the "min-
eral city, of the west
The state of board has taken action
respecting the outbreak of smallpox
among the Tama Indians. Dr. A. NJ.
Linn of Des Moines. a member of
the board, visited the tribe recently
for the purpose of ascertaining the
extent to which the smallpox had
taken hold among its members. The
boards of health from lama and To-
ledo had already examined into the
facts. DR.. Linn found. as did the
boards of health at those places. that
smallpox existed in malignant
form. Five deaths have already
taken place from the disease. 1t is
supposed the entire tribe OF about
500 members has been exposed A
part of the Indians have been vacci-
mated, but many OF them are opposed
to it. The state board OF health is
concerned over the spread of the dis
ease to the white people living about
lama and Toledo, as the Indians OBJ
ject to quarantine. The state board
of health is anxious to have rigid
quarantine regulations enforced and
has recommended that Gordon of
police be established by the local au-
ihorities about the reservation. For
the purpose of avoiding any legal
complications, in view of the fact
That the state has no jurisdiction
over the reservation. it has been adj
sised by the state board of health
that the police be stationed on the
land adjacent to the reservation and