The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-04-10
OVER THE STATE

agreed upon in a conference between
| Mayor-eIect Caldwell and the proprie.
| tors of all the houses. Inc result
will be the voluntary action of pro,
| prietors themselves.
! A big grading contract has been let
by the Iowa Central Railway company
to the Walsh Construction company
of Davenport. It contemplates re-
vised location of six miles of track in
the vicinity Of Searsboro. This Is
one of the heaviest pieces of grading
work the Central will do this season.
The contract price is $4,000.
The machinery ordered by the pros
pecting company. which will drill for
oil at Fredericka. has arrived and is
being placed in position. The ma.
chinery will be capable Of putting a
hole into the earth for distance OF
5000 feet. Two shifts of men will be
placed at work and not a minute OF
the day or night will be lost.
Returning home late in the evening.
w. D. jacobson, postmaster of the
old town of Lyons, discovered the
charred remains Of his mother lying
on the floor in her room. The body
was burned beyond recognition. She
was alone and there is no theory as
| to what caused the accident. She was
| 65 years old.
By vote of 1886 for, to 176
against, Oskaloosa voted a franchise
to the Oskaloosa & Tama electric
line, and by vote of 1,12S for to 2s4
against gave a 2 per cent tax to aid
In the construction. This insures Os-
kaloosa two electric lines this sum
mer, the Interurban Construction com
pany having been given franchise
March Is.
Judge Green of Council Bluffs has
announced that his decision In the
famous Doyle-Burns mining suit will
be against the defendant, Burns, and
that he will overrule the motion for q
new trial, and has instructed attorneys
to prepare papers for filing a Judgment
of SAC, 900. At the same time he will
refuse petition for additional judgment
of $438, 900 prayed for by Doyle.
Dora Wooten, a pretty young miss,
10 years of age. stood up in district
court before Judge Holmes at Des.
Moines to hear her sentence of six
months in the penitentiary at Ana
mosa. She was charged with stealing
$25. In passing sentence the court
commented upon the beauty and ex-
IRENE youth of the prisoner, and said
it was sad duty he had to perform.
Fire in LIE Mars caused loss OF
$4,000. Firemen were handicapped
by poor water pressure, and all that
saved the city was the absence OF any
wind. The Flaughr block containing
four stores, Barren Bros, occupying
two of these with their grocery and
dry goods stores, the Grand Rapids
Furniture company and the LIE Mars
Post newspaper plant We're destroyed.
B. R. Crawford. stock buyer, specu.
lator, capitalist, litigant, newspaper
correspondent, has disappeared from
Newburg. There is nothing myster.
ious about this disappearance; he has
simply absconded. On the 25th he.
started for Chicago with several car
loads of stock, worth from $4,000 to
$4,000. He settled with the partias
who brought in the cattle and hogs by
giving them checks on the Citizens
bank at Grinnell. Many of the checks
were cashed by the Bank of Gilman
and forwarded to that banks CORE
spondent at Marshalltown. by that
bank to Cedar Rapids and from there
to the Merchants National bank OF
Grinnell. When presented for pay
ment Crawford's balance was only
81, 300 and the checks were protested.
The first time table on the Des
Moines, Iowa Falls and Northern road
has just been issued and trains are
now running between Iowa Falls and
Garden City on schedule time. There
are two trains each way daily except
Sunday and connections are made
with the Illinois Central trains for
Chicago and Omaha. The tracklayers
are now at work south of Garden City
and expect to reach McCallsburg, in
Story county, by the first Of the
month. Grading has been resumed
along the line south of McCallsburg
and the work will be covered as rapid
ly as possible. Master Mechanic G. B.
Holloway returns from the east the
last Of the week with two new engines
for the new road and the passenger
train equipment will follow in about
two weeks.
"A UlSpdLCu llOm DuUuNuS odyo.i
The mysterious disappearance of Cap.
tain Albert w. Hosford, of this city,
over two weeks ago has occasioned
much wonder and uneasiness among
his friends, and worry among those
with whom he had been connected in
business for years past. He was
prominent as loan, insurance and
real estate agent. and enjoyed the
en.4re confidence Of this community,
in which he has resided for forty
years. He served honorably through
the war and was prominent in G. A.
R.. circles. On the strength of his
reputation he has been handling
funds for people who trusted him, many
bf them widows 1t is now openly
charged that he has absconded for the
purpose Of evading prosecution for.
embezzlement. An evening paper
publishes list Of cases of widows
who have los. money entrusted to him.
t1is wife and family even do not know
where he is. There is movement on
foot to legally break omen Hosfords