The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-04
No. miles Ass'm't


In assessing the express companies
by the Cheshire law the council is
required to arrive at the actual value
of the business of the various COM
Panles in the state and make it's as
sessments accordingly. Reports are
furnished to the auditor of the state
III much the same manner that the
railroad companies report to the exc.
cutive council.
In determining the actual value. of
the property in the state the council
has used as the whole aggregate
value of the company's property, the
value as determined from its shares
of stock, less the amount of securi-
ties, real estate and personal prop
erty outside the state and exclusively
outside the general business of the
company.
Governor Shaw has telegraphed
Sheriff A. T.. Riseley that he cannot
grant the application for the pardon
of Henry Wilcox, the young man con-
victed of manslaughter for the muir
der of his father some months ago.
The application for young WiicoX's
pardon was signed by two hundred
Lake City people. The boy has been
taken to Anamosa, where he is to
serve his term of eighteen months.
The sympathy of the community is
still with the boy, who is believed to
have killed his father only in self
defense.
| Among the appointments recently
made by the president were five from
Iowa. j. N. Patton of Des Moines,
who has been in the transport service,
is made captain and assistant quar-
termaster in the regular army.
Harry Z. Wilkins of Des Moines, who
graduated from West Point, but who
served as major of volunteers, and
III. j. Gallagher are made captains and
assistant commissaries of subsistence.
Oscar H. l.. Mason of Green Mountain
is appointed chaplain in the regular
service. He was formerly chaplain of
the Forty-ninth Iowa. Bugler Titus,
who led the charge at lien Tsin and
was the first American to scale the
walls, has been appointed to cadet
ship at West Point. Titus home is
| Vinton.
Superintendent Swift, accompanied
by two detectives, was in Burlington
few days ago on new scent in the
daring robbery of 100000 from t5e
4 Adams Expess company y, XIV
months aeef It is repo,~ik~ ~1 NV
detective have obtaina "a 1hae IN me
cago Sa mp net hs{ bt the persons peD to
whom tfc6lar catalogue was
ne,1e1eces of which made up the
mummy package used to displace the
original. They are now tracing down
every man, woman or child who re-
ceived one of these catalogues, and
expect in that way to find where the
dummy was manufactured. Superin.
| tendent Swift said that they did not
despair of ultimate success and were
confident that the daring robber
would yet be placed behind prison
| bars.
| Six young men in the employ of the
A. A. Berry Seed company at Clarinda
were injured by the falling of the ele.
vator used to hoist grain in the com.
pany's wholesale storage plant near
the depot. The elevator is run by
hand, and was at the fifth floor when
the accident occurred. One of the
men was just stepping on the elevator
when the brake pin came loose and
the carriage fell to the basement Of
the building, six floors below Strange
to relate, none of the men were killed
and only one of them was injured to
any extent. The others, Bert Nc
Claim, Ernest McClain, Clyde Sharp.
Mont Mckee and Mr.. West, were more
or less injured, but after few days'
rest they will be all right again. A
pair of heavy scales on the elevator
when the drop occurred were shat
tered to pieces.
A recent dispatch from Des Moines
says: There are not lacking indica-
tions that control of the Chicago
Great Western will soon pass from
President Stickney and the English
bondholders allied with him to the
Herman syndicate. Vice President
Oppenheim is quoted as confirming
the report of the probable transfer
of the Great Western to the great
syndicate. Mr.. Oppenheim stated that
negotiations were pending which nav
result in the road being absorbed. In
the event of the control of the Great
Western passing to the HERMAN syn.
dictate it is the general opinion that
the Northwestern will be given con.
troll of the southern part from Del.
vein to St. Joe and Kansas City, thus
giving the Northwestern a long de.
sired connection with Kansas CITY.
while the Chicago-St Paul part of the
system would be given over to the
Illinois Central. This would place the
Northwestern on even terms with its
great competitors,Yth the Burlington and
Milwaukee e St. Paul, for southwest
ern business via the Kansas City gate
way.
Mrs. Kate Fely, the wife of well
to do farmer near Council Bluffs, be-
came insane over the Cudahy kid
mapping case. She barricaded herself
in room at the Kiel hotel, and,
opening the window, shrieked for
policeman. She labors under the
hallucination that she knows who
did the kidnapping and that the alb.
ductors of young Cudahy are aware
of the fact, and are after her to kill
her. Her knowledge, she says, was
obtained by overhearing converse
ton in South Omaha between tw.
men, one of whom she believes was
Pat Grove.
4 Levi Durk n very old resident of