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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23
REvOKEs HIS CERTIFICATE.
DR.. j. w. Crofford of Lamont Has
Now No Authority to prac-
tiCe His Profession in
the State.


The medical certificate of DIR. j. w.
Croftord of Lamont, Ia, recently sent to
Fort Madison penitentiary for the muir
der of Miss Maud Stone, was revoked by
the state board of medical examiners at
meeting held at the state house to-
day. The action of the board was unan-
imous, in spite of the fact that Crofford's
attorneys had petitioned that body to
take no action until after the decision of
the supreme court in the recent case
against DIR. Croford.
The question of the revocation of DR.. !
Crofford's certificate under which he
practiced medicine in Iowa was up be-
fore the board at its last regular meet.
ing, and it was the sense of the board
then that it should be revoked. How
ever, it was decided to give the matter
chance for formal consideration, and
action was postponed until papers COW
ering all features of the case could be-
obtained, with the understanding that
the matter should be taken up at the
adjourned meeting being held at this
time.
/ The revocation of the Crofford certif-
cate was the first thing taken up by the
board when it convened this morning.
The meeting was held behind closed
doors, but it was given ont afterward
that the action of the board was unani.
nous. There was some discussion when
the matter was laid before the board.
The sentiment as expressed was that
even If DR.. Crofford had not recently
} been convicted of the crime of murder
and sent to the penitentlary, the board
} had enough knowledge of lis former
acts to warrant it in turning him down.
1t was pointed out that when the GER
tificate Of practice was issued by the
board originally it was not known that
Missouri penltentiary. Papers showing
this and statements indicating other
incrminsting acts on the part Of DR..
, Crofford were before the board to-day.
IneSe, together WltH tHe lacC lhaG Df.
Crofford is now serving at Fort Madison
for having performed criminal opera
I ton on Maud Stone which resulted in
l death, are the grounds for the revoca-
: ton of his certificate.
: All the members of the board are in
}. the city. Several were summoned as
a witnesses in the Parsons case now or
! trial in the district court here. There
J are number of matters of routine bust
G ness to be brought up at this time, anC
e the meeting was arranged with view
y to the board being in the city when thu
e Parsons case was called for trial. 1
t. will probably be in session tomorrow
e also.-Des Moines Capital.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23
Personal.

The lady who had to leave the dona.
ton party the other night before it was
over will please call at our drug store
and get a bottle of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pcpsin. She has indigestion or she
would not have taken sick and if she
had taken DIR. CaldwelPs Syrup Pepsln
she would not have had indigestion.
In SOC and 81 bottles at L. Van Wer-
denis.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23
Twas a False Alarm.

I have used your DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin and can truthfully recommend
it. Some four years ago doctors told
me that l had Bright's disease. l was
laid up three months and nothing
used helped NE and no food would stay
on my stomach. 1 used one bottle of
your DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin and
food would stay on my stomach and l
craved something to eat. l got we'll.
There was no Bright's disease about me.
1t was false rumor.' Ever since
have recommended DR.. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin to friends and strangers. 1t is
just splendid. / have full confidence
in it.-GEo. BENEDICT, $50 West King
ST., Decatur, Ill. Sold by L. Van Wer-
den.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

Kew. j. M. Yingling, pastor of the
Bedford st. M. E. church, Cumberland,
Md, says: sit affords me great pleasure
to recommend Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. L
have used it and know others who have
never known it to fall" For sale by
w. A. Alexander.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

One night the latter part of last week
Jimmie Mcintosh, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John D. Mcintosh, over on Grand
River, was going horseback to preaching
at River View church he crowded his
horse out to one side of the road to per-
nit vehicles free access to the road and
coming to slanting place his horse fell
and in some way got Jimmie under a
buggy which was just then passing He
retained presence of mind to remain on
the fallen horse and cling to the saddle,
but the buggy ran over him and bruised
him up considerably. He was taken at
once to the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. f. NJ.
Hamilton and DR.. Macy hastily dis
patched for. For & while it was
thought that some internal injuries were
produced, which would prove fatal, but
upon the arrival of the DR.. and after a
careful examination no bones were
found broken. After some court plas-
tering and other assisting of nature, he
was able to be up and around the first
of the week. The friends of the family
feel thankful that the results were as
they are, as all think it is miracle al
most that he was not killed. The fami.
ly wish to express thanks to their MANY
friends for their solicitous inquiries.
Pleasanton Index.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23
A LADY,

anne into our store and said: 81 am
going to take DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pep
sin for my cold. It kept US free all last
winter from every kind of a cold. 1t is
great remedy and perfect laxative"
Sold by L. Van Werden.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23
The snail is always on time.

A great man is one who has the PEG.
pie with him.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

The crooked man sometimes find s
himself in straitened circumstances.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

w. L. Yancy, Paducah, KY, writes:
81 had a severe case of kidney disease
and three of the best physicians in
southern Kentucky treated me without
success. l was induced to try Fo1ey's
Kidney Cure. The first bottle gave
immediate relief and three bottles cured
me permanently. gladly recommend
this wonderful remedy" Take no sub.
stitute. w. A. Alexander.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

A bad reputation is something to go
back on before it goes back on you.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

The butchery Is not confined to pack
ing house towns.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

The sea Of life is still infested by
pirates.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

N. Jackson, Danville, Ill.,, writes: "My
daughter had severe attack of la
grippe and terrible cough settled on
her lungs. We tried great many REM
edies without giving relief. She tried
Foley's Honey and Tar which cured
her, and she has never been troubled
with cough since" w. a. Alexander.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

Some desperate spectators have laid
of the ragged edge of despair into town
lots.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

1t has become quite the fashion for
farmers over in Decatur county to sell
their farms and buy them back at ad-
vanced figures. We have heard of sew.
eral transactions of that character oc.
curing within the past few weeks and a
man who was looking for farm report
ed that he had bought five farms be-
tween Pleasanton and LinevilIe during
the previous week at offers made by the
owners and in every instance they
backed out before the trades could be
clinched. Among the farms he report
ed to have bought in this way were
those of Cal Barr's, Haz Gat]iff,s and
d. w. Knapp's, from two to three miles
west of Lineville, and Henry Perkins
farm near Spring Valley. The prices
generally agreed upon were about $35
per acre. This is a very good way to
find out how much one is worth, but in
a few instances it cost the parties quite
dearly to take that plan.-Lineville
Tribune.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

La grippe coughs often continue for
months and sometimes lead to fatal re-
suits after the patient is supposed to
have passed the danger point. Foley's
Honey and Tar affords positive pro-
lection and security from these coughs.
w. A. Alexander.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

Fancy work-poetry.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

Lem Chenoweth died at his home in
Abba Tuesday evening at eight o'clock
The funeral will be held to-day. Mr..
Chenoweth was we'll known over the
county and had many friends who will
regret very much to hear of his DEATH
Garden Grove Express
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

Rather serious accident happened
to DR.. j. B. Horner as he was driving to
Andover last Friday. When he was
about two and half miles from that
place the kingbolt Of his buggy broke,
letting the box fall down. The doctor
was thrown forward very precipitately
onto the dash and from there to the
ground, he thinks; at any rate he found
himself badly shaken, with his nose
bruised end finger considerably injur.
ed. However, he managed to made his
way on foot to Andover, where he
found his team which had been caught,
after they had run nearly to town. The
doctor paid visit to his patients there
and got back home with only about two
hours delay, glad that the results Of
his accident had been no more serious
Lamont Chronicle.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

What you dom neighbor? Helping
Bill. What's Bill dom? Helping
Mandy. What's Mandy dom? Helping
Mother. What's Mother dom Taking
Rocky Mountain Tea. Sensible family.
w. G. Stempel & Co.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-01-23

We received notice this week of the
death of Charles r. Hall which occurred
last week. He died at Tullahoma,
Tenn. Mr.. Hall was we'll known here,
he having lived on farm west of town
for several years.-Garden Grove Ex-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-01
"AMERICA'S FRIEND" PROBLEM


A recent utterance of LIE Temps of Paris
concerning the attitude of the powers to-
ward the United States in 1898 is considered
important, as this paper besides being the
personal organ Of the minister OF foreign
affairs, has also, on many important inter
national questions, been deemed the official
mouthpiece of the government. LIE Temps,
in speaking of the London Times article
from Washington, in which an attempt was
made to clear away the cloud that had settled
about the British embassy IN the American
capital, says:
$50 long as these legends were propagated
only by publicists. whose unsupported asser-
lions were not Of themselves a guarantee Of
accuracy. they could be neglected But Lord
Cranborne has just renewed and emballished
this history. It passes in America proved
that Austria and France ." proposed a
collective, note with view to stopping the
war and obliging victorious America to &C
cept humiliating peace. The British cabi-
net, which had agreed to join in pre-
1iminary platonic step Of the same sort, is
believed to have rejected this with all its
might and caused the failure of the Machia-
vellian schemes Of hostile Europe. Not all
the powers involved are willing to accept this
version Russia has made known that she was
the real and useful friend. Germany denies
any evil intentions. Austria protests as to the
correctness of its attitude. It would, perhaps.
be well II an authentic publication were to
re-establ!sh the exact history Of French
diplomacy during this Spanish-American war.
Nothing Is so dangerous to allow fictions
to take root L. is such foundations that
the most solid international combinations are
reared, just because the premises escape
| criticism and belong to the domain of faith
or credulityn
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-01
ART AS A BUSINESS

In an extremely interesting article in
Municipal Affairs Brooks Adams shows
how valuable art is to any nation merely
estimates that the profits that France
derives from its various art attractions
are equal to what the United States de-
riyes from its iron and steel industries.
The French devotion to art, with Its re-
sulting innumerable artistic creations in
France, has made it a wonderfully attract
i've country to the people of all other ma
TONS They journey to France to see Its
paintings its statuary, its architecture,
It's beautiful cities. It's libraries, its the
aters, It's restaurants. It's boulevards, and
they spend their money there by the mil
lions. This money, together with other
money spent ia Europe by American tray
elers, goes a long way toward offsetting
our nominally favorable trade balance.
AS an industrial nation France Is rela-
lively declining. AS producer OF iron
and steel it is now led by the United
States, England and Germany. Yet France
remains the richest country in continen-
tai Europe and Is able to carry with ease
the greatest national debt the world has
ever known. England is renowned for
her shipping, yet Mr.. Adams thinks that
art makes more money for France than
shipping does for England. While the
funds OF England steadily fall when she
seeks to borrow the thrifty French have
| without the least effort kept $500, 900 ,00t
loaned in London during the past summer
| Mr. Adams Is strong believer In ma
tional selfsufhciency. To his mind the
| winning nation is the one that Il
most nearly able to supply itsel
with all 1t needs. He regards 1t as The
most disquieting feature Of the times
as respects America in the struggle FOL
supremacy that we lag SO far behind some
OF our rivals In the domain OF art. Ar
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-01
ADVICE WITHOUT RECKONING

A ready letter answerer for syndicate
glibly tells an anxiously inquiring damsel
that no man has right to- ask girl to
marry him on a salary OF $l4 week.
Upon being reminded that $14 week is a
larger salary than most men earn, she
replies that a man who can't hustle
around" and make more than $l4 week
should never expect any girl to marry
him. At that rate there would soon be
dearth of marrying and giving in mar
riage. If the ready letter -ansWerer had
confined her reply to men who had the
possibility Of earning more and were not
doing SO through Incidence or lack OF
ambition her answer wCuld nave Deen
sufficient. But she sweepingly applied 1t
to all men. She probably didn't know
that 1t is an absolute impossibillty Tor
all the. men of the country to earn even
$14 a week. The total wealth OF the
United States if divided among all Its
people would give each person about
$1,400. The annual production Of wealth
in this country in the form OF manufac-
lures is only $4,000, 900, or about $3.50 per
person. Each persons per capita share Of
| the whole existing wealth of the country
would be only a little more than the an
nual income that the ready letter answer
er thinks is indispensable to marriage.
! How much lower, then, must be the limit
| of the average mans portion OF the
wealth produced yearly. And to get right
| down to the hardest kind of facts, the
j1r ~ no
States do on the average earn only $4OO
a year, or about So week. If no person
/ who earns $14 week OF less is entitled
to get married, these 100000 would be
barred from the welded estate. 1t is well
| known that 80 per cent of the wealth OF
| the nation is owned by 10 per cent OF
| the people; which shows still more how
! absurd it is to insist that no man has
moral right to marry who is not earning
more than twiceas much as the average of
the wage earners of the country.
The social status makes all the differ
| ence in the world and should be consid-
cred when such silly advice is being doled
out Most persons that get married on
s14 a week are justified in doing SO. Such
an income is considerably more than that
Of the day laborer at $1.25 day. Persons
who marry with small incomes are like
ly to have a standard of living that makes
$14 week mean as much to them as
S14O a week to persons Of more expen-
sive tastes, habits and environments. We
have no doubt that there are hundreds OF
thousands of families in the United
States that are saving money on $14 6
| week. The possibilities of good healthy
living on very little money were shown II
TIL e urn a the other day in an ar
ticle that brought out the fact that a
1.-the Pillsbury home for working girls II
this city it costs only 5 cents a meal t.
provide an abundance Sof healthful, sub
stantial fare. f the $14-a-week maj
marries a S14-a-week girl he is all right
and the chances are that they will b.
happy, save money and before long be OF
considerably better basis-provided tn
husband has the capacity. If he hasn'
and he and his wife remain $14-a-weel
people, they will probably be very com
Portable and contented anyway.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-01
The COURSE OF BUSINESS

America has been losing gold this week
and this is one of the unfavorsble in
fuences that have been at work in the
securities market. The stimulation that
it was expected would follow the an
nouncement on Moi day of the denial of
jurisdiction by the supreme court in the
Northern Securities case. failed OF MA
LIBERALIZATION, as the previous an
nouncement of the attorney general that
he would bring suit Independently, had
taken the edge off. On Wednesday
$1;500,000 gold went to Europe and SO $780,
900 was Shipped on Thursday These
gold engagements were taken as fore
shadowng an unfavorable bank state
ment for the week. and were doubly dis
couraging. With later 1umors of damage
to winter wheat, southwestern railroads
were depressed, Missouri Pacific selling
under par, yet against all this, advances
We're made in stocks OF few railroads
where increased earnings gave a basis
for strength.
Despite unfavorable Weather, the gem
eral volume of spring business has been
large and satisfactory conditions are re-
ported in the leading manufacturing and
jobbing lines. Demand for textiles,
especially cotton goods, is 50 active, and
supplies 50 scarce, as to cause complaint
from jobbers who are unable to get the
| mills to fill orders with reasonable
promptness. In the northwest the ad-
vancng tendency in lumber has been a
feature. Minneapolis continues doing a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-01
Columbus Diary.

Translated from the original SPANISH
At Sea, Oct. 15, 1492-We managed to get
away from Palos without much trouble al
though the Spanish Society for the Suppress
sion OF Cruelty to Seamen threatened 10 ar
rest me for leading the sailors to certain
death. The claim was set up by the geog-
raphers, who make the maps, that inside OF
Ave days we should be sailing over the edge
and, as one of them expressed it to me, You
will drop about five million miles into no
where l Offered to bet him ten pesetos
that we returned home without taking
drop. This witticism greatly pleased the
king and had much to do with his subse-
ouent generosity when 1t became necessary to
at out the expedition.
EVERYTHING is moving on comfortably ana
the winds so far have been quite favorable
This matter Of the edge OF the world bothers
the sailors considerably, but personally am
satisfied that the water does not extend 10
the brink. otherwise the sea would all be
drained out long ago. I figure that there
must he q bank Of land at the edge to hold
| Nhe water in. and it Is this property, which
must be extremely valuable Tor residence
sites. as no one can 0bstruct the view, which
intend to pre-empt.E A canal might be cut
through this land and a waterpoWer secured
mff1cient to run all the mills In the world.
The mill pond would. indeed, be the whole
ocean.
Oct. 16-sailor strung to the yard arm
to-day for springing old gag about running
out OF eggs and the ship ''lay to-; also, cut
ting a slice of steak from on the bulWarks.
| offense will not be repeated.
l have men continually on the lookout to
DISCOVER either the end Of things or signs OF
| land. If q new world should be discovered,
YOUR old saltwater friend Columbus would
hereafter be about the only sardine in the
/ tin. Time will tell.
| "a. j. Russell.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-03-01
THE PRINCES FIRST WEEK

Take it altogether, the exactions of the
first week of the visit of Prince Henry OF
Prussia to this country have revealed the
fact that he has sufficient amount of en-
durance to run the gauntlet Of our per-.
sistent public and private hospitality.
Having a wife and family, the prince is
freed from such overwhelming feminine
obsequiousness and is proof against the
American maiden. 81
A man who can stand half a dozen or
more banquets and lunches and daily re-
2ceptions, constructed upon the liberal
basis current in this country, for six days,
can traverse the other part of the coun-
try, outside New York and Washington,
with absolute safety He has passed an
ordeal more exacting than that Of Vivien
Grey at the. baron's banquet when the
great horn of Oberon figured as the test
of bibulous ability. Prince Henry drinks,
but he knows how to drink with discretion
and he can stand with equanimity the
liquid pressure in Milwaukee, the
ward.
The prince has been received with the
usual enthusiasm of our people, the Ger
man american population being naturally
little more SO, as they love to see any
thing from fatherland, even ii it is a
prince, although they could not to any
great extent be .induced to go back to live
in fatherland, where private life is so
open to police and governmental OBJ
trusion. The population of Scandinavian
origin has no marked sympathy with Ger
many, for it is remembered how ruth
lessly Bismarck, in 1854, forced Denmark
to surrender Schleswig, Holstein and
Lauenburg for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
Prussia. They would not go very far to
| gaze upon the prince, and, under the
present state of feeling between the Eng
lish and the Germans, Englishmen in this
| country are not throwing up their hats
In honor OF the prince to any great extent
The English newspapers, indeed, in theil
comments on the cable news about the
| progress Of the prince, show no little dis.
approval Of the energy of American hos.
pitality toward the imperial vice-admiral
and make some very ugly remarks and try
| to bring the prince under ridicule. Mean
| time, the United States of America is no
to blame for the jealousies of these two
powers, but contents itself with saying:
| How happy could I be with either
| Were tOther dear charmer away.