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Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-10-10
TEXAS MAN HoNoREo.
Rev. Beokvith ~ Houston Elected EPis
copal Hi.hsp Of Alabama.

Montgomery, oct s.-The special
council OF The Episcopal church, do
ccse OF Alabama. which met here
Wednesday unanimously elected on
the third ballot Rev Chas. n. Beck.
with. ID, as the successor OF the
late Bishop Banwell lie Is a native
Of Virginia aud is now general mis-.
sionary Of the diocese Of ToEas. rosid
ing On Galveston. ls about 80 years
OF age aud has had several important
charges. Some years ago be was
elected bishop co.adlutor 10 tho late
Bishop Gregg Of Texas but declined
and continued active ministerial work
Mr.. Beckwith has been rector Of
parishes In Houston and Galveston
and was at one time head master oI
the grammar school at the University
Of the south. sewanee.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-10-10
GRAND ARMY NETTING
Special Committee on rsssisa Claims
Reports to the Eaesmpmsnt.


Washington. Oct 9.--Among the OF.
fioial documents presented to the en-.
campmont OF the Grand Army ~ Re.
public was the report OF the commit
tee appointed last year TO Investigate
the administration Of the pension OF
fee by Pension Commissioner H. Clay
Evans and TO then bring the result of
the investigation 20 the attention OF
the president In speaking OF the ro-
suit OF their inquiry into special com
plants they say many OF the com
plants were without merit but on
the other hand many mer'torous
claims have been thrown out.
After this report COMMANDMENT.
Chief Torrance presented his annual
report. He referred 10 the charges In
regard TO pensions. said there were
200. 00o surviving veterans not on the
pension roll. aud urged legislation In
their behalf As 20 alleged frauds he
said the investigation had shown very
few who had seen military service
we're concerned in them. yiolatcrs OF
law were impostCrs. not soldiers.
he devoted considerable space to
the consideration Of statutes Of ex.
Confederate soldiers. repeating In
spirit his plea OF a month ago for a
manifestation OF good viii and broth.
crly kindness towards the late advcr.
sarlcs OF the members Of the Grand
Army OF the Republic.
The report of Adiutant General 81.
las m. fowler. shows that ON the alth
oi June. last. the muster roll of the
Grand Army contained 2631ii names
OF members in good standing and
there were 65ll posts The member.
ship showed a loss since the proceed
ing year of 5S04. There has been a
gradual decline iu membership since
| 1890.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-10-10
DOUBLE LYNcHlNG.
Two Sesror. Taken from Jail In renns'
see aud Hanged.

see aud Hanged.
Ncwburn. Tenn, oct 9.-Garheld
Burley and Curtis Brown. ncgroes.
were lynched here Wednesday might
by q mob OF 500 persons.
Burnley. on Saturday last shot aae
killed ID. Flat. well known farmef
near Cyrsburr Flat had traded
horses with the negro aud later Bur-
ley demanded that the trade be de-
clared on. Flat refused TO acceed to
this proposition and while on hIs way
home was shot down by Burlcy a
posse RON down the murderer and
while being brought 20 Dyersburs
Burnley confessed 10 the killing I'M
pllcatIng Curtis Brown as an accos.
sorry. Both men were lodged Ia jail
nj Dycrsburs a mob soon appeared
at the jau and demanded possession
of the prisoners. The mob would u1'
listen to reason. and forc.bly took pol.
session ol the two men aud hanged
/ them
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-10-10
Imm.n.. Pear. on EIhibitlsn.

Sulphur Springs. Tex, Oct S-Thero
Is on exhibition at the store Of o. NJ.
Pate onehalf dozen Keller pears, their
aggregate weight being Eve pounds
and twelve ounces. the largest weigh.
ing eighteen ounces and measures
twelve Inches In circumference. This
fruit was raised by j. =. Bauman.
three miles southwest Of town Tie
las already realized AZ from ono tre9.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-10-10
rrs.Ia.n, w.nl. n.tlr.m.a,.

Now York. Oct 9.-Gen Alexander
Stewart Webb has sent q letter of res
ignau1n 90 the board of trustees of
the college of the city of Nnv York
OF which De has been president for
thirty years lie asks that hIs retire.
mout take effect by December /. Ac.
cordIng 10 the retirement acc passed
by the last session OF the legislature
tho president and professor OF the
City College and other institutions
after thirty years OF continuous and
faithful service. may retire aH a IInI
which is provided for with one per
cent of the city excise fund. The pom
sion Tor president Oh fixed af $4,000 and
for professors az $500. General
Wobbs salary AS president BIAS beCa
$500.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-10-10
Mi.. Tobin Married.

Austin, Oct 9-The marriage Of
Mis- Margaret Emily Tobln. daughter
Of Dr. William u Tobln OF Austin
and DR. Edward Cuuington Hunt Of
New York CITY took place az high
noon "wednesday az the home u The
brides aunt. Mrs Nellie Faulkner In
this city The ceremony was per
formed by Rev. r. 49, Lee In the pres
cnce OF a few invited guests and th,
immediate relatives.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-10-10
To Discus. Coal si,us,ior

New York. Oct 9-Tdroe commit.
tees OF citizens. representing the mor.
chants. manufacturer and the Board
Of Trade OF this city. in Joint conf 10
ence. have decided 90 call mass NEE
ing 10 be held next Monday evening
IN Carnegie Music hall fo discuss
means OF getting coal 10 the city. u
was resolved that discussion Of the
merits Of either side in the strike
should be discouraged and the main
question Of getting coal the only one
considered
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-10-10
Mexican Go,.rnmss, Take. charge.

Laredo. Tex. Oct Captain
Thomas W Dodd. attorney Of the Mex
ican National road. IL authority for
the statement that the Mexican gov.
eminent has taken entire charge Of
the road from Laredo 10 Mexico City.
II lE reported that President Diaz has
ordered out the army preserve In or
der to facilitate the movement Of the
trains.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-10-10
FOR SALE

eorte half Of block near Allen
Academy Price 500. .- ..-os
Nbous 1te and one-quarter acre. ~.
near scho- house in southeast par
80 MN. euall..w cottage t, nI,.l
house ANA veil on premises Fr'''
six ro3m house and two lots Oh
ground located four blocks ron
Main street. Brick cistern on pre-
misses. Pdcoti25o. .v.,..
one quarter block near Allen A'a .
denny. East front. Price F2oo'O'.
Terms easy. ,....t ont
N fsst front on Railroad steel t 2ui
otto Boehme's property wiz
sell part or all. ,.,..o ~ sioC
each. .-.,
Also other city property
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-10-10
Gsnsr.I 80. Do swIll.rIand.

London Oct "a dispatch 90 tho
news agency from Geneva. Swiizer.
land. announces the .Worsmcns Nn.
tional committee has decreed a gem
oral strike throughout Switzerland in
sympathy with the strike of the street
car employees here. Tr0opc are held
in readiness 10 deal with any dlsor-
ders.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-10-10

New York. Oct 0.-One man was
killed and " persons injured in q rear
end collision of passenger trains on
the Pennsylvania railroad near Menlo
Pnrk. ~ j. II la understood that noao
Of those who were hurt received 50
Tious ln. urIos.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-10-10
nrlL,r KnI.a By /. soldier.

Tamaqua. Pa. Oct. 9.-James Burn.
ham. a striker. was shot aud killed by
a soldier on guard duty at Browns.
vile. while lettering near the non.
unlonlsts house that recently had
been dynamlted. Burnham refused 10
halt and the soldier fred.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1902-10-10
KnI.a . wsm.n and nIm..lL

Washington. Oct 9.-Mlss Alice
Glsher. a young woman employed In
the government printing Office. was
shot and killed by William Dougherty.
an emplOye Of the same Office Dough.
erty then shot and killed himself
Jealousy was the motive.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-07-31
Crop Bulletin.
For WEEK ENDING July %, 1902.
DIS MoINFs Iowa

OA9 wv -
Four to five days of fairly good
weather during the past week were well
improved in harvesting hay and grain,
wherever the fields were sufficiently dry.
The heaviest rainfall occurred in por.
ions of the northeast and north central
districts where much hay has been
spoiled or badly injured. Generally,
however, good progress has been made
in cutting the we'll matured and overripe
crops. The percentage Of total loss of
oats is heavy in extensive areas of the
state, but the high average yield on the
drier lands may afford partial compensa.
ton if future conditions are favorable.
The early threshing reports show liberal
yield of winter wheat and oats in the
southern section. In all districts the
reports indicate a promising condition
Of corn in we'll titled upland fields. The
condition of spring wheat is best in the
section where the acreage is largest.
Potatoes show a tendency to rot in
very wet soil, but the crop bids fair to
break all records of recent years.
The apple crop, though light, is likely
to be much better than last year.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-07-31
A Most Liberal offer.

All our farmer readers should take ad.
vantage of this unprecedented clubbing
offer we this year make, which includes
with The REPORTER, The Iowa Home
stead, it's special Farmers Institute
Editions and the Poultry Farmer. These
three publications are the best of their
class anu should be in every farm home
To them we add, for local, county, and
general news, our own paper, and make
the price of the four n year only 81 10,
Never before was so much superior read
ing matter offered for SO small an
amount Of money. The three papers
named, which we club with our own, are
we'll known throughout the west and
commend themselves to the readers
favorable attention upon mere mention.
The Iowa Homestead is the great agri.
cultural and live stock paper of the west:
The Poultry Farmer is the most practi.
cal poultry paper for the farmer, while
The Special Farmers Institute Editions
are the most practical publications fol
the promotion of good farming ever pub.
lished. Take advantage of this great
offer, as it will hold good for a short
time only. Samples of these papers may
be examined by calling at this office.
0. f.. HULL,
Publisher Leon REPORTER
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-07-31
Annual School Census Soon to be
Taken.

- rt-t
State Superintendent r. q. Barrett ia
sending out circulars to superintendent
throughout the state, urging them to
make prompt lreturns on the school
census of Iowa for 1902. The time for
making this enumeration of school
children is between the first and tenth
days of September in each year, and the
duty devolves upon the director of each
sub. district in each school township.
Heretofore'the state superintendent has
been very much dissatisfied..with such
returns, there being evidence of negll-
gence and lack of accuracy in many
parts of the state.
He hopes by urging upon the county
supertendents the Importance of secur-
ing accurate returns to get better results
this year. The returns are made by the
director OF each sub-distrlct to the secre.
tary of the school township in which he
resides, that officer in return reports to
the county superintendent who makes it
apart Of his annual report to the super.
intendent of public instruction.
In the circulars being sem out Super
%intendent Barrett calls attention to the
fact that the school census includes all
persons between five and twenty-one
years of age who are residents of each
school district. Noexception to this rule
is made, not even in case of marriage or
temporary absence attending school or
engaged i'll other work. Children in
charitable or reformatory schools must
be enumerated in the district where
their parents %resiue. Reports must be in
the hands Of school township secretaries
by September Is.
Attention is also called to section 8 of
the law providing for compulsory educa-
ton which makes 1t the duty of all
officers empowered to take the school
census to ascertain the number Of child
rem of the ages of twelve to fourteen
years inclusive in their respective dis
trict, with a view to carrying out the
provisions of the new law compelling
persons of such age to attend if they are
not already doing 80. 1t will be neces-
sary, Supt. Barrett says, for the county
superintendent to give timely notice of
this new requirement to the secretary
O. each school corporation and the
director in each sub-district, as this, too
must be q part of the county superin-
tendeut's report to the state
department,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-07-31
strauder Killed the Dog.

City Marshal Chandler is the cham
pion dog killer Of this part of the state.
The town has an ordinance requiring
the owners of all dogs to pay a city tax
and the marshal has been ordered to
kill all dogs on which the tax has not
been paid. A stray cur has been making
its home at the residence of H. M. Kern
and as Mr.. Kern did not want the dog
around he told Chandler to kill it.
Strauder did not have a musket to
shoulder, but he shouldered his spade,
coaxed the dog into a vacant lot, and
after digging a tirst.class dog grave pro.
ceeded to tap his dogship over the head
a few times with the spade until he was
satisfied the dog was dead. He then
gave him a decent burial and came back
to town and told Kern the dog was bur.
led, and Kern kindly set up the cigars.
The next morning Kern sent for Chan.
dler and told him he had been swindled
for the dog vas at his house ready fol-
his breakfast as usual. The dog, ever il
he was a cur, was too smart for. Straude,
and had only been stunned by the
blows from the spade, so he quietly dug
his way out of the grave and went
home. The dog is still alive and accord
ing to law is legally dead, for the city
marshal swears he killed him and buried
hin, I..H
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-07-31
a story of the Prairie.

The Century Magazine is about tc
print e serial which will have an especia.
interest to people who are at home or
the prairies. 1t is called "The Biog.
raphy offs Prairie Girl" and the author
is Eleanor Gates, a young woman who
spent her childhood in Dakota and who
thus writes from the closest personal
observation
The time oflNaiss Gates's story abou,
twenty-five years ago. it is put in the
form of a personal narrative of the life
of a little girl, and there is hardly q
phase or event of prairie life which is
not touched upon in these pages,-the
blizzard, breaking colts, horse stealing
by the Indians, school days on the
frontier, Fighting gophers and badgers,
cattle raising, and other typical phases
Of hardships or prosperity.
1t is not a novel, but the same char.
acters appear and reappear in the story
with a reality which imp1esses the
reader with confidence in the truth of
the narrative.
"The Biography of Prairie Girl" will
begin in the August number of The
Century and it will be illustrated.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-07-31
A Popular Landlord.

The Spencer News speaks thus of
Landlord Will A. Brown, formerly Of this
city, who is making a grand success this
season with the Manhattan Beach hotel
at Lake Okoboji:
The addition to Manhattan hotel is in
the form Of a dancing pavilion, with the
second story divided off into halls and
fourteen large bedrooms. Wide porches
surround the entire building. There is
400 feet of porch room for promenading,
The dancing pavilion is 80 feet long and
40 feet wide, with a raised platform at
one end for the orchestra. The room is
beautifully decorated with flags and
bunting. The new landlord for this
season is w. A. Brown, formerly of
Leon, Iowa, a popular hotel man, as is
we'll proven by the Manhattan being
highly praised by its guests, especially
for the we'll set table. 1t is the place
where those at the lakes for only a day
can get a good dinner and supper and
feel that they have got their moneys
worth.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-07-31
New Court Cases,

Henry IL. Bledsoe VS.. John Cronin
Plaintiff is a real estate agent at Garder
Grove and sues defendant for $40 com
mission earned in selling a farm of Is;
acres in High Point township owned by
Cronin to Elias NJ. Wyatt for S $500. S
H. Amos attorney for plaintiff.
John w. Toney VS.. Rosa B. Toney
The parties were married in this county
July 8, 1898, and lived together unit
Sept. l, 1901. The plaintiff alleges he
has always treated his wife as a kind
and loving husband, but she has disre'
garded her marriage VOWS and has been
guilty of such cruel and inhuman treat.
ment as to destroy the peace and injure
the life of the plaintiff. That she has
threatened and attempted to inflict
great bodily injury on him, and accused
him of infidelity without cause. That
when he was sick she would absent her.
self from home and give him no care or
attention. He also charges her with
having become addicted to the use of
morphine since their marriage. Hott-
man & Jackson attorneys for plaintiff.
VIM. NJ. Jennings VS.. Annie B. Jen-
nings. Plaintiff sues for a divorce and
the custody of their three minor children,
alleging as grounds desertion and that
defendant has been guilty of adultery
with one w. M. Cox. Il. Taylor Wright
attorney for plaintiff.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-07-31
U
Public Sale.

1 will sell at public sale at my farm 8
miles northeast of Decatur, and five
miles northwest of Leon, on Friday,
August 8, 1902, the following property,
to-wit. 20 head of thoroughbred Short
horn cattle, 6 COWS with calves by side,
8 ~two.year.old heifers, 8 COWS, 2 yearling
heifers. Pedigrees of these cattle fur
njshed on day of sale. 4 horses, 2 year
ling flleys, l two-year-old horse, l sad.
die horse; Is head of hogs consisting of
brood sows and shoats; farmimplements
and household furniture, Mccormick
mower, cultivator, corn planter and
other implements, a good sleigh and
bells, 6 dozen Leghorn chickens. Terms
Nine months. A. DECK.
| w. w. STEWART. Auctioneer.
FRED TEALE, Clerk.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-07-31
An Injustice to Boys

What a father does not do for his son
and his daughter is the greatest thing in
our sociological tangle today, and it will
be of still more Importance tomorrow.
For every hundred units that the supply
of labor increases, there are ninety-tive
units of unskilled labor, using the word
skilled III its most generous and broad.
est sense. The wage earners and the
would-be wage arners are not to blame
for this. 1t is nonsense to tell a big
strong man with a wife and three child.
rem that they ought to learn some trade.
While the boy is being supported by
his father, in school in the winter aud
III vacation IN the summer, that boy
ought to be turned from the OVERLOOKING
ranks of unskilled labor to the thin
ranks of skilled labor. If a boy a dozen
years old puts in his summer vacations
in some occupation where the work is
skilled, he will be almost or quite a
skilled workman by the time his school
ing is completed. If he is not working
in the summer, he can well afford to
work for nothing in order to learn a
trade but he won't have to do that. If
he is a soarse of income to the family
during the school vacations, the total of
his earnings in five years will be greater
if he takes less as an apprentice at some
real trade at first.
The trouble is that parents want their
boys to begin higher up the ladder than
the parents did; running errands and
some other trivial things are, curiously
enough, considered a higher round than
working In a shop. An advertisement
for an errand boy will bring a score Of.
answers in Keokuk. Probably a call
for a boy to learn a trade would brig
one or two answers. And thus the
army of the unskilled is constantly
recruited.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-07-31
Opening at Swift & Com.
pany'S Establishment.

Manager Joe X. Nugent extends q
cordial invitation to the people Of Leon
and Decatur county to call Saturday
afternoon of this week and inspect the
fine new establishment which Swift &
Company have just completed at the
foot of Main. street, and the farmers are
specially invited to bring their wives
with them for it will be very interesting
to them to see how the poultry, butter
and eggs are handled in this model
establishment, and appropriate souven'
irs will be given to all who visit the
establishment on this occasion. To
those who have never been in a big pro.
duce establishments will be a%revelation.
The purpose of the opening Is to get the
farmers interested in the raising of poul.
try and produce and the locating of
Swift & Company in Leon means they
will have a ready market for everything
they have to sell. The firm is ready to
cooperate with the farmers in every
thing looking toward raising the best
poultry, for they say that Iowa ls the
banner poultry state in the union, and
Manager Nugent wants to meet as many
of the farmers and their wives as pos
isble. Residents o. Leon will be equally
welcome at the opening and all who
attend will be we'll repaid for the trouble
Of going down to the big plant. Don't
this week and don't.comeA away without
a souvenir.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-07-31
a souvenir
Program for Soldiers Day Thurs.
day, August 18th.

$3.50 a. m.-Assembly, Bugle by Clymer,
.s marshal music and X. p. Band.
l0:00-Introductory by president of the
association.
l0:l5-Song, Misses Waight.
l0:30-Recitation, Miss Tabler.
l0:40-Speaking, Marion T. Stookey.
ll:l0-Sociable and Dinner,
l:30-Music, X. p. Band.
l:45-Song, Misses Waight.
2:0O-Oration, Judge Trimble, of Keokuk.
Song-Misses Moore.
Speec! -. w. Ha vey.
Adjournment.
500 p. m.-Campfire.
All are cordially invited to attend
these exercises. COMMITTEE.
1t pays to be decent in business and
in religion and in family relations for
exactly the same cause that it pays in
politics; for the same rules governing
people in politics govern people in
other relations in life. Some times a
h1i SuCCCCuS II UuSluCSo 1OI q liIllS WIZ
is tricky and unfair and selfish. Some
times the fellow dies in his apparent
success. But his nan withers into a
reproach like a blighted tree. Sooner or
later destruction overtakes a man who
cheats.-W. A. White.
John P. Reese, president of the Iowa
mine workers, has been nominated by
the democrats of the sixth district, as a
candidate against Maj. Lacey. MIR.
Reese is a young man of undoubted
democracy who has worked his way
from the lowest rungs of the ladder to a
place of respect of his fellow men, and
who will MAKE a very strong campaign
against the forces which will be arrayed
against him. The Sixth district has a
large voting population of working men,
and it will be interesting to see whether
the oft made claim that a working man
cannot receive the sufirages of fellow
working men on account of jealousy
will hold good.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-07-31

A new swindle is being worked among
the farmers in the country near Perry.
The sharpers carry sample cases con-
tanning samples Of high grade fence wire
an ! claiming to represent a firm in
Indiana. They offer wire fencing at a
low price, the goods to be sent G. Cd.
When the farmer buys the goods he is
shown a model of a fine ornamental
automatic gate, to be sent free with
each order if the farmer pays a half OF
a third, or even a quarter, in advance
Oh the order for the fence wire. This
generally catches the farmers for sums
from So up, and the agent is seen nc
more; also the fence wire ordered by the
farmer eve comes.