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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

Edward, the four months old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. n. Fesler, of Kansas
City, Kan, died last Friday at the home
OF Mrs. Fesler's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Oney, where Mrs. Fesler has
been visiting for several weeks. Funeral
services were held at the home Saturday
afternoon conducted by Elder Hubbell,
OF the Christian church, interment being
in the Leon cemetery. Many friends in
this vicinity extend their heartfelt SYM
pathv to the bereayed parents in their
sad aftlic!ion.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

Money to Loan onlmproved farms a
5 per cent. interest for s, 6 to 10
years time. r. VARGA & Son.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

A charming little baby made its ap-
pearance at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Seth Foster, east of town, last Friday
morning.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

II you want a farm sold or want
q farm loan at lowest rate of in
terest and best terms 90 to e. j..
Sankey, southeast corner Main
and Commercial streets, Leon. la.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21
For 80 Days Only.

Big premium with every dozen of
photos at swearingen's photo gallery.
Call and see. -
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

A bouncing boy was born to Prof. and
Mrs. j. H. Drake last Saturday morning,
Remember the new harness shop of
Cash I. Smith when you want any re.
pair work.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

u. J. H%orrigan, OF Charlton, a pension
examiner, had business in this city last
Saturday.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

We are prepared to wager that Ed
Parker who lives east of town has the
finest crab apples of any fruit raiser in
southern Iowa. He brought us a big
basket of Richland crabs which beat
everything we ever saw, as they are as
large as Ben Davis apples and unless a
person tastes them they are ready to
swear they are not crabs. +.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

Two bars Maple City will do as much
washing as three of any rosin filled soap,
do it better and easier.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

A ermo on our duty to God will not
be accepted as a substitute for doing
our duty to man.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

Jbhn Grinrod and James Ausman, THO
small boys arrested by Marshal :Chand.
l0 Tuesday morning and taken before
Mayor Woodland. They became involv-
ed in a difficulty at the @ depot and the
Chronology who is considerable the
largest gchoked Ausman, who when re.
leased .retaliated by hitting Grinrod
over the head with a board. cutting
quite a cash l n his head. The Grin.
rod boy is the last remaining mem
Der of the notorious family who
have caused s o much trouble to the
authorities and Mayor Woodland sen.
fenced him to 30 days i%n"jail, suspend
ing sentence "a hours to allow him to
leave the town AMI state. Judgmen Mt
against the Ausman boy was suspended
during good behavior.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

Avoid Fraudulent limitations.
Use the genuine Russ Bleaching Blue and
your clothes. All grocers, loc,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

A little son arrived at the home of
MIR. and Mrs. David McCutchan, of
Hamilton township, last Friday morn
ing, but was not long for this world, its
spirit taking flight to the realms above
the neSt=morninp. > -s
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

Do you want a nice building LOTT Set
Q. p. Finley. 51-2t
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

If you want good photos try Vogt's
new gallery, north side square.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

District court yer in this CITY
next Monday with Judge r. l.. Parrish
presiding. The term will be a three
weeks n providing there are cases
enough ready for trial. If the Clark.
Dull murder case is tried as expected it
will occupy the greater part of the term.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

The infant daughter Of MIR. and Mrs.
J.:H. Pitman died at their homesin sthis
city last Thursday after, being sick sew.
eral weeks. The funeral was held Friday
morning, interment being in the Booth
town cemetery. Many friends extend
their sympathy to Mr.. and Mrs. Pitman
in their bereavement - n.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

J.. The board of state medical examiners
have taken under adyisement until Nov.
ember the matter of revoking the
certificate to practice medicine held b,
DR.. ]. w. Crotford Of Lamoni, who was
convicted of the murder of Maud Stone
and sentenced to termin the penitent.
larry at Eft. Madison, and who was re
leased on bail a few weeks ago under
the provisions Of a new law which tool
effect July 4th, providing that convicted
persons could be released on bon,
pending the appeal Of their case to tn.
supreme court. The attorney general .
the state gave his opinion that til,
board of medical examiners should no.
have revoked DR.. Croford's certifca,.
while his appeal was pending in the sup
rene court, SO they took the matte
under advisement.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

DIR. j. q. Stone, the Leon osteopath
received last Friday from the state med
lcal board his certificate giving him
authority to practice in the state of
Iowa under tine osteopath law enacted
by the last general assembly, the state
board recognizing the osteopaths now
the same as the old school.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

The season for holding fall sales is
drawing on, and we desire to call the
attention of REPORTER readers to the
tact that we are fully equipped for
printing artistic sale bills of all kinds.
If you are contemplating holding a sale
this fall get your bills printed at the
RKpohrER office.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

Frank N. Hansell, the hustling man
ager Of the Graham, Darrah & Hansell
Co. leaves Sunday for ST. Louis where
he will meet the buyers for the chain of
stores owned by his company and select
a large line of goods for the store in this
city. Since locating here Mr.. Hansell
hnsbuilt up a large trade by meritorious
methods, and We are indeed pleased to
see his business constantly increasing.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

Mr.. w. ID. Moore, proprietor of the
Empire bakery, met with a serious acct
dent at the reunion grounds last Friday
evening. He had been down to the
grounds in his delivery wagon with a
load of bread and as he was returning
at the foot of the hill the wagon dropped
into a rut and he was thrown to the
ground and run over by a team which
was following close behind, his breast
and face being painfully bruised. Ii
was thought at first be had been NOR
tally wounded, but we are pleased to
state he is getting along nicely and will
soon be around again.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

IUFST Bros
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

w. +. Bracewell, the Morgan town
ship farmer, unloaded a fine new 30
horse power engine and a 40 horse power
marine boiler at this station last Thurs.
day which will furnish the power for his
-svrup making machinery, and will give
him facilities for making 100 gallons OF
syrup per honr, the new machinery
costing over 1000. He will engage in
the business on a large scale raising
about 100 acres of cane this year. The
sane makes from 100 to ,l35 gallons of
syrup per ton, and Mr.. Bracewell tells
us that he has Is acres that he thinks
90 Is tons to the acre,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-08-21

Among the most delightful attractions
at the Leon reunion grounds last week
was the fleet of row boats put on the
lake by the Leon Boat Co. The boats
will be kept at the lake and can be
rented at any time by picnic parties or
others who desire to spend a few pleas.
ant hours on the water.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-02
NADE HIM RESIGN.
How a New York Man Secured a
POstmastership.

1. W. Turner, formerly postmaster
at Lyons, n. Y, has been convicted
and sent TO Jail for kicking small boy
in the face. Turner became notorious
few years ago by the manner in
which he secured his appointment as
postmaster at Lyons. The cemetery
was badly in need of attention. The
fences were down and the place was
overrun with weeds. Turner got up
petition in favor of cleaning up the
cemetery and placing it in good order.
Everybody signed it, including two
candidates for the pOstmastership
Shortly thereafter the list of names
turned up in Washington appended to
an endorsement of Turner for post
master. He was given the office. The
people, however, made it so hot for
him that he was obliged to resign.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-02
NORTH CARALlNA CAMPAIGN.
All Queer Things Do Not Happen
i'm Georgia.

There is an interesting race for con-
oress in the ninth district of North
Carolina. Tie candidates are w. c..
Dowd of Mecklenb urgh county, T. NJ.
Huffman of Catawba, and f. Y. Webb
of Cleveland. Candidate Dowd of
Mecklenburgh is the editor of the
Charlotte News and also of the Hick.
orv Democrat, which is published in
Catawba county. Now MIR. Huffman
is the Catawb a county candidate, and
the Hickory Democrat, true TO the I'm
terests of Catawba, and disregarding
the interests of its editor, has announc-
ed strongly for Mr.. Huffman. In other
words Editor Dowd is booming his
own candidacy in the other counties,
but ia Catawba he is advocating the
election of his rival.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-02
1 900, 900 DEATHS OF PLAGUE
In Bombay Presidency Alone
There Were $4,000.

A government statement regarding
the condition of India in respect to the
plague from it's fret outbreak in Bonn
bay in September. 1896. to March, 1902,
shows a total of reported deaths from
the disease during that period of $780,,
600 in the Bombay presidency and
3l5. 400 In other parts of India, or a
total of $50, 900 for the whole of British
India and the native states. Making
allowance for untraced and unreport-
ed deaths, il is calculated that mil
lion died during the period mentioned.
During the first three months of 1902
the deaths reported in the Bombay
presidency were 62,677, compared with
1896 in the corresponding period of
1901. Other parts of India show a cor
responding increase, especially in the
Puniab, where the deaths in 1900
were 515, in 1901 15,245, while in the
first month of 1902 the figures have
arisen enormously. The deaths re-
ported in March alone numbered A.
7S8.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-02
RAVAGES OF PNEUMONIA.
Is Responsible for One in Seven
of All Deaths.

At the recent annual meeting of the
American Medical Association at Sar
atoga pneumonia was the disease that
received most attention. riting in
the New York Journal, DR.. James j.
Walsh saws: "We hear much of the
ravages of diptheria, the whole coun-
try is disturbed by the thought of
smallpox, but at their worst these dis
eases are only trivial factors in the
death rate of our cities. and pneumonia
is responsible for about one in seven
of all deaths that occur" This gives
an idea of what ravaging monster
pneumonia is. and with what dread it
should be regarded; and yet very little
progress has been made in its treat
ment in fifty wears. There is no drug
that will check or cure the ailment,
and the best that can be done is TO
give the patient careful and unremit-
ting nursing past the crisis.
10 the popular mind pneumonia has
been regarded as winter disease.
Medical men know that it occurs at all
seasons, though more frequently in
winter than in warm weather, and,
whatever the season, the mortality
from the complaint is as high as one
in FIVE. 1t is clear that the stndy of
the disease and the means of its pre-
venlion is a matter of the highest inn
portance.
At the Saratoga meeting the doctors
seemed pretty we'll agreed not only
that pneumonia was d germ disease.
but that it is contagious at least TO a
limited extent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-02
HEAVY CARGO OF SILVER.
Three Tons OF Coin Shipped from
New York to Porto Rico.

About three tons of silver coin of
the United States have been shipped
from New York to Porto Rico in pay
ment of bonds just purchased by a
banking house with branches in the
island.
Heretofore when bills and bank
notes were shipped to the island they
disappeared very rapidly. For some
time the disappearance OF paper mon
ey was mystery. Finally it was dis
covered that the people of Porto Rico
were jIst beginning to find it handy to
send paper currency through the
mails, especially when it was desired
to send small amounts out of The is.
land. In this way the currency sup
ply was being depleted constantly and
the bankers determined to try silver
coin, in the behalf that it will take a
good deal of postage to send it all out
OF the country in letters, and this may
discourage the practice.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-02
FELL FROM DEVILS PULPIT.
Athens Man Has Remarkable
Experience at TalIulah Falls.

Edward lyndon of Athens, Ca, the
son of A. j. Lyndon, stepped off "the
DEVILS Pulpit" while viewing Tallu-
lab Falls by moonlight early Sunday
morning, and plunged pne hundred
feet to the Jagged rocks below. Not
bone in his body was broken, and his
complete recovery is expected. HIS
fall was broken by tree about seven
ty feet down the chasm which he
caught hold of and pulled out by the
roots. He was alone at the time and
was not found until long after day
light, wheL his friends missed him
and began a search. Lyndon was
drawn up by rope. Not bone was
found broken, but the doctors feared
internal injuries. However, they feel
confident now of his recovery.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-02
THE SABBATH A BUSY DAY,
Thousands of Men All Over Kan
sas Begin Harvesting Wheat.

A Kansas City dispatch says: Prob
ably more headers aud binders were
at work in Kansas Sunday than we're
ever in operation at one time before.
Since the wheat harvest began rains
have been of almost daily occurrence,
keeping the ground so wet and soft
that cutting was out of the question,
over ripe, and when the day dawned
bright and clear all over the state,
the first really fine harvest day of the
season, almost every available ma
chine and every man whose conscien-
tious scruples could be overcome were
put to work.
In the southern part of the state
most of the wheat had been cut, and
Sunday was devoted to stacking: but
further north the harvest song was
the hum of binders and headers. AL
though the delay, due to rain, has
caused some Over-ripening of the
grain, there will be very little loss
providing the weather is good for the
harvesting from this on. There have
been no deluges to lodge the wheat,
20 wind to blow it down or tangle it,
and no burning heat to cause it to
shell.
The straw is short nearly every
where, but the heads are long and
we'll filled, and reports from the har-
vest fields agree that the biggest of re-
cent estimates as to the yield for the
state are likely to be exceeded.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-02
MOVED WHEAT FOR A WIFE.
Kansas Farmers Novel Method
of Securing HarVeSterS.

Farmer James .WOOlseY OF Kansas
has succeeded in having his 5OO-acre
wheat field cut before the yellow grain
grew musty, but it cost him his
daughter. He gave her as prize TO
the young harvester doing the great
est amount of work in specified time.
Willis Roadway, a young mechanic
from Illinois, won, and he and Anna
Woolsey were married at Pratt few
days ago.
The WoOlsey farmis one of the larg-
est in Pratt county, and the scarcity of
harvest workers in that section weigh
ed heavily upon the farmers mind.
His wheat grew dead ripe and there
was no one to help him cut it. Then
he devised upon Offering as bride to
the harvest workers his 19-ycar old
daughter. She was as dutiful as good
looking. The men came by the score.
She was given the privilege OF reject
ing any of the contestants she person
ally disliked, and many were thus rul-
ed out. The contest was spirited. 1t
lasted three days, during which time
Roadway, working 10 hours day, cut
100 acres of wheat in three days and
wore out three good teams.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-02
PRICE OF PHILIPPINE WAR is $25O,OOO,OOO
Imperialism With No Chance for Any Returns
War Department Expanding Annually Enough Pay Civil
Miscellaneous Expenses of the Government.

! navy of the United States is equal to
81. 10 on every man, woman and child
in the United States. These sums do
not include the enormous amounts ex-
pended on the army and navy by Off
GERS in the Philippines and in Cuba,
which were paid out of the insular
treasures.
To the present time neither the
Philippines, Porto Rico, Guam or Gu
ba has netted anything to the govern
ment. The colony possessions have
been COL slant drain upon the nation
al treasury, and through it upon the
tax payers of the country.
PENSION ROLLS AUGMENTED.
Four years after the c'ose OF the civ
il war-the most disastrous the world
has ever knOwn-the war expenses of
the government amounted to but $751;
50l, 900 and that of the navy to $40, 000,-
600, total of S,5Ol 900, as against
$l77, 900, 900 four years after the close
of the war with Spain.
Secretary Root in a report to the
senate places the cost of the war in the
Philippines alone at S170,326, 586,
which does not include the $4,000, 900
paid Spain as an indemnity.
The total cost of the war in the
Philippines, including navy and other
expenses, will be in the neighbornood
of $3.50, 100000, without the chances for
ahe return of a single dollar. In addi-
tiOn to this the pension rolls will be
largely augmented by reason of sol
diers mourning disability in the trop-
ical service and through death and
wounds.
Thousands of soldiers have been
killed in battle or by wounds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-02
CHOLERA IN MANILA.
Deaths Keep Close to the Number
of Cases.

The health authorities in this coun-
try do not seem to be alarmed at the
increase in the mortality among
American troops in Manila from chol-
era. Geaeral Wheaton, who landed
at San Francisco from the Philippines
ON Sunday last. in an interview with a
a representative of the Associated
Press said that he thought the health
authorities at Manila would soon have
the cholera under control.
1t is certainly to be hoped they viii
Twenty-Five enlisted men died of the
disease in Manila between April 25
and May 6. 1t is Spreading through
out the islands. In Manila there have
been !, 400 cases since the epidemic be-
gan and l,l97 deaths. and 6,595 cases.
and 5,098 deaths in the provinces
There does not seem to be any sign
that it is abating. On Thursday last.
in Manila, 30 cases were reported and,
% deaths. II is worthy of notice that
the number of deaths keeps pretty
close TO the number of cases.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-02
WOMEN MAKING THE CROPS.
More of Them Than Men Seen at
Work in the Fields.

A gentleman who has recently trav-
elled extensively over the counties of
Muscogee, Chattahoochee, Webster,
Harris, Stewart, Taylor, Harris, Schley
and Marion, visiting nearly every
white and coored family in these
counties, gives some remarkable &C.
counts of how the people are making
crop, and the conditions that now pre-
vail as to the labor problem in those
counties. What he says in regard to
those particular counties will no doubt
apply with equal force to others, both
in Georgia and Alabama, for the same
conditions prevail in both states SO far
as can be learned.
He said that as far as his observa-
ton extended much better and larg-
err crop had been planted than that of
last year.
The remarkable part of The gentle
mans statement is that nearly all this
has been the result of the work OF
women and children, and in many in
stances both white and colOred women
work together in the same fields.
He said that in passing through the
country it was nothing unusual to see
two or three white women and as
many colOred women at work in the
same field. while in others there might
be a white man and his sons and
daughters and no negroes, or perhaps
a white man and two or three negro
women, and now and then perhaps one
negro man might be seen at work in
the fields with two or three negro wO-
men, and sometimes several children.
The utter absence of negro men from
the farms through which he passed
struck him as the most unusual sight
he had ever seen, and he was born
and raised in Georgia.
The general and universal complaint
of the farmers was that it was almost
impossible to secure the la Dor of negro
men; that they had almost disappear
ed from the rural districts and had
left the women and children to do the
work. The few men who remained
were so unreliable that no dependence
whateyer could be placed on them
Columbus Ledger.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-02
HAVE THEIR GRAVES DUG.
South CarOIinian'S Idea of Attend
ing to Things Before Death.

A special to the Charlotte, n. c.,
Observer from Bennetsville, 5. c.,
says:
"Uncle Joe" Covington, a prom :
nent and highly respected farmer of
Hebron, this county, POW in his I'D
year, has already prepared the graves
for himself and wife. The graves
have been cemented, and monuments
placed over the mouth of each tomb.
He is most practical man, and says
that he prefers to attend to this mat
ter before he dies, and to make sure
that the graves are correct he has
reclined several times in his, and con-
verses about the matter as composedlY
as be would about any other business
transaction. But the most unique
thing connected with the whole affair,
he has decided to have some time this
summer an unwilling of the monu-
ment, and has invited his friends,
Messrs. T. G. Hamer and j. p. Gibson,
to deliver the memorial addresses.
These gentlemen have accepted the
invitation, and nothing of this kind
has ever occurred before in this sec
ton. 1t is predicted that several
Thousand persons will be present to
hear what these gentlemen will have
To say on such an unusual occasion"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-02

A Washington press dispatch says
imperialism is costing the people OF
the United States an enormous sum
annually. The war department is
spending a sum equal to the entire
cost of the civil and miscellaneous ex.
penses of the government.
Despite the claims of the admins
tration that the war is oyer in the
Philippines and that there has been a
general reduction of expenses, the
treasury department statements show
that before the expiration of the fiscal
year ending June 80 the war depart
ment will have expended $4,000, 0OO
The entire civil expenses of the gov.
eminent, including the pay of the
president, senators, representatives,
courts, clerks in the various depart
ments and all other expenses will be
in excess of this amount only few
hundred thousand dollars.
Since 1897, the year before the out
break of hostilities with Spain, the
war expenses of the war department
have grown to a sum which was never
dreamed of at that time. The follow
ing comparisons show this rapid in
crease: