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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10
The New Rural Routes.

October first seven new rural routes
will be established in the Eighth dis
trict. New Market, Sharpsburg, Leon,
Humeston, Davis City, Pleasanton and
Tingley each get route. When the
seven new routes are established it will
give the Eighth district 1856 routes, and
make it the third having the largest
number of routes in the United States.
Ex-Speaker Henderson's district, the
Second Iowa, and Joe Cannon's district
in Illinois, being the only other two hay-
ing more routes than the Eighth Iowa.
This speakes we'll for the influence and
interest Of Congressman w. P. Hepburn.
The rural route carriers have a firm
friend in Congressman Hepburn.-C
ton Advertiser.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10

seThe country is full Of helpless men
who don't know what to do when any
thing goes wrong, says Walt Mason.
@.You see them every day. They have
to stand and flyer a few, hours before
they can make up their minds what to
do One man has breakdown on the
road and he cannot fix things unless he
has a complete outfit of tools, vice and
a workbench; give another man coil of
wire and a pair Of pinchers and he'll
patch up any old rig that ever broke
down. You find the helpless people in
all vocations. 'Fll have to ask the boss,
says the helpless man, 4 don't know
what to do until I've seen him. The
other sort Of a chap goes ahead and
asks the boss afterwards. 1t is the old
story of the man who carried message
to Garcia"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10

A corn crop Of not less than 2,OOO,-
100000 bushels, with diminished wheat
crop, estimated at outside calculations
at 65O,O0O,0O0 bushels, is the estimate by
government and other authorities for
the harvest year 1908. Oats are in low
condition, but the minor cereals, rye,
barley, ETC., and potatoes are above the
average. There will not be so much for
export as we have had in some years,
but there will be plenty for everybody.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10

st. Louis Republic: Governor Cum
Minis, of Iowa, is not willing, it is said,
to be the republican candidate for vice
president. Probably he thinks it is
better to decline the honor than to
chase and miss it.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10

Chicago Chronicle: While Uncle Jo-
seph Cannon was watching the hole of
the Iowa tariff idea broke into the re-
publican congressional sheepfold,
whence piteous bleatings and baaings
now proceed.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10

The last congress created 11,316 new
Offices and employments at an annual
compensation of $7,927,639. AS the
congress also abolished 1,S15 Offices the
net increase is 9,5Ol with an aggregate
of s6,9S6,15s in salaries and wages.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10

Porto Rico is furnishing market of
million dollars month to producers
and merchants of the United States and
is supplying nearly million dollars
worth each month of the tropical pro-
duets required by the United States.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10

Governor Cummins and his followers
have a new name. The Keokull Gate
City says:
"Wabblers' is what the Cedar Rapids
Republican calls those Iowa republicans
who are not standpatters. 1t is good
term alike descriptive, suggestive and
deprecatory.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10

A feature of Iowa's dairy exhibit at
the st. Louis worlds fair will be a
statute in butter of John Stewart, the
pioneer creamery man of this state. 1t
will be life size and will be kept frozen
in glass case throughout the eXposi-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10

The Leon Journal says there are no
great cities in Iowa, and the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil suggests that the next
time the Journal editor goes to Des
Moines he had better stay at home.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10
One County Superintendent,
to delegates as fol

The township caucuses will be held at the place
where the last general election was held in the re-
spectiye townships and voting places on Saturday
Sept H. 1902, at o'clock p. m. and select the dele
gates to which they are entitled.
4 All voters who endorse the principles OF democ-
racy are cordially invited to attend and partci-
pate in the caucuses.
o. =. HULL, MARION WoopAKD'
Secretary. Chairman
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10
cents to S.O6.
ce. Average Price.

NOTWITHSTANDING the economics"
which have been so extensively intro
duced by means of combination into the
oil business the price is higher to-
day than in 1882.
This hoary lie that Economies not
only enable monopoly to reduce prices
but actually effect reduction has done
service long enough. No selfrespecting
person should indulge it hereafter. st.
Louis POST Dispatch.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10

Any paper, which can conscientiously
support the present state administra-
ton and honestly endorse the last re-
publican state platform is democratic
or mugwamp. Hawkeye.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10

Elihu Root, secretary of war, has
rendered his resignation to the presi-
don't to become effective January 1,
1904. William Ii. Taft will be his sue
cessor
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10
Dakota Lands
5000 to $3.50 per acre

We have 100 quarter sections of land
for sale in Hand, Hyde, sully, Faulk,
Hughes, Potts and Edmonds counties,
South Dakota. Prices ranging from SO
to $3.50 per acre. Some of it can be
traded for good income property. Be
sure and see us before going to Dakota.
We also have nice line of farms in De-
catur county for sale; also town prop
erty, stocks of merchandise and farms
for sale or trade. List your property
with us and we will get good results.
Also call on us for Missouri and Arkansas
lands
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10
Democratic County Convention

A delegate convention of the democrats of Decatur
county Iowa, will be held at the opera hall in Leon,
Iowa. on
SATURDAY SEPT. 49, 1903
at II O'Clock a. m for the purpose OF nominating can
didates for county offices to wit:
One Representative,
One County Treasurer,
One Sheriff,
One County Superintendent
One Member of Board of Supervisors,
One Coroner.
And to transact any business that may properly
come before them The ratio of representation will
he one delegate for each township and voting pre-
cinct. and in addition thereto one delegate for each
rs votes or fraction of 10 or over for Richard
Burke for secretary of state at the general cleo
ton Under this call the townships will be entitled
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

DEMVSRhIl S IN
For Governor,
JEREMIAH b. SULLIVAN,
of Creston.
For Lieutenant Governor,
JOHN d. BUTLER,
of North English.
For Supreme Justice,
JOHN r. CALDWELL,
of Tama County.
For Superintendent of Public lnstruc
ton,
A. r. NrCOOK,
of Howard County.
For Railroad Commissioner,
W. S. PORTER,
of Harding County.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1903-09-10
Advertising Rates.

Advertising Rates.
Yearly advertisers cents per inch per issue.
Occasional advertisers 10 cents per inch per ISSUE
Locals cents per line each Insertion
Locals set in black type 10 cents per line each
insertion
Legal advertising at legal rates.
Church and other notices where an admission Zee is
charged will be charged at the rate OF cents per
line
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03
SPLIT ON COLOR LINE.

Omaha Bee: The National Equal
Suffrage association, presided over by
that veteran champion of woman's
rights, Susan B. Anthony, has expert
enced q staggering shock by the in
trusion of the race question at the
national gathering in New Orleans.
The cardinal principle of the wo-
mans suffrage propaganda is the dec
laration of independence that pro-
claims all men to be created equal
and endowed with inalienable rights
to life, liberty and the pursuit OF. hap
piness.
These inalienable rights are pre-
sumed to be inherent in women as
we'll as in men, and inasmuch as wo-
men who clamor for suffrage cannot
be happy without it they resent the
Limitation of the franchise to men as
an invasion Of their natural rights.
Theoretically this position may be I'M
but in practice 1t has en-
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03
FRAUDULENT LAND ENTRIES.

Boston Transcript: There has been
owners of large herds and flocks, the
timber spectators and ~land-grabbers
on the one hand, and those now vague
but still certain millions who. look to
this public domain for their future
homes. But the former are organized
and powerful and know their ground,
and with a listless and inert land Of
flee they can have things largely their
own way, unless the government
awakens to it's responsibilities and its
dangers. "Of all the thousands of
desert land entries filed in the last
ten years." says Mr.. Whelpley, "the
land Office investigated only 472, and
Of these 297 were found fraudulent
and eventually canceled." Yet no
land filings are Investigated except
those against which a special contest
is instituted or special information
laid. If the legal forms are correct
the receivers and registers of the land
Office do mot borrow trouble, but wait
until it is thrust upon them before
acting. This indicates that a large
majority OF the land filings have been
constructively fraudulent.
The rate at which the government
is disposing of its lands is another in
dication that they r not going to
settlers and homeseekers. In 1900
the government decided away 13,5O0,-
1000 acres OF land; in 1901 these dis
posals reached 16,0OO,0 900 acres, and
in 1902 nearly $1,000, 900 acres. while
at the rate at which the present year
has opened, it's record will be at least
Is, 600, 900 acres, or as much as was
disposed Of at any time during the
great emigration rush to the west.
Yet the population does not CORE
| spondingly increase. On the contrary,
Gin states where millions of acres
have been decided away to individuals,
! there has been an actual decrease of
the agricultural population"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03
JUDGE MuRPHY's OPINION.

Judicial regard for the testimony
adduced before him and response to
the promptings of that sentiment to-
ward the dead that nearly all enter
tain may be said to have prevented
Judge Murphy from expressing him
self as he appears't to have felt when
he handed down his findings in the
Burdick inquest. Between the lines
Of his opinion a be easily read q
strong suspicion, II not belief that
Arthur Pencil, when he plunged his
automobile down the embankment
OF the stone quarry, knew more con
corning the death Of the man whom
he had wronged than he cared to tell.
His honor also seems to think that
Mrs. Hull was not the truthful, candid
witness she might have been. AL
though the verdict does not state him
to have been the murderer, until
something is discovered to cause a
change in public opinion, the belief
will prevail that Pencil himself
either killed Burdick or caused some
one else to kill him.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03

ture Of the counts countrymen,. but
when he says our sailors do not know
how to shoot he arouses all the latent
fire in the hearts OF the men compos.
ing the nation he speaks Of and moth
ing short of wal or the most abject
apology will suffice. This insult calls
for prompt and speedy action on the
part of the government and must not
be permitted to go %unnoticed. Only
an opportunity to show the count his
error by permitting some Of our sail
ors to practice OF one Of the kaiser's
ships will probably satisfy the major
ity of the American people.
Poor Workmanship by Yankee
sailors!
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03
IT WILL, INDEED.

Most heartily and emphatically does
this newspaper agree with it's west
side contemporary Of democratic pre-
delictions that the man who will lead
democracy to victory next year will
be some pumpkin in that party. 1t
will even go it one better and admit
that he viii lbe a load Of them, with
a lot Of squashes and other vegetables
thrown in for good measure. But
this must not be construed into an
admission that the democratic truck
garden is capable OF producing one
of the pie foundations large or tempt
ing enough to accomplish the feat.
The soil has become too impoverished
and the tillers of it have lost the
knack of producing a prize winner
in q horticultural exhibition of that
sort. It might have been possible at
one time, in fact it did actually &C.
cur, but the judges selected to de-
eide the qualities Of these latter day
entries are better qualified for the
position and are not to be fooled by
any more entries Of the kind that
once carried OF the blue ribbon. In
fact, all the people know more about
pumpkins than they did a few years
ago and it will be impossible to run
a blazer on them with a gourd. They
are not to be fooled a second time.
Pumpkin raising has been made "a
specially since 1892 and everybody,
with possibly the exception Of the
democrats, cam ~differentiate between
a real, genuine pumpkin and a meas
ley, little, crooked nose summer
squash. Our contemporary is asked
to bear this fact in mind when it be-
gins to look around for seed for it's
spring planting Of the s%ucculent veg
etable,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03
A WASTE OF ENERGY.

Philadelphia Record (dem.): The
overzealous people who want to make
Mr.. Cleveland president for a third
term are sadly wasting energies that
might be devoted to a better
They foolishly choose to overlook the
unwritten two-term law of the repub-
lie, which cannot be broken even for
SO good a man as Cleveland. George
Washington and Thomas Jefferson
fixed the limit that can never be ex-
ceeded so long as the nation shall ex-
list.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03
DEMOCRATIC HoPELEssNEss

New York Mail and Express: The
mysterious popularity of Judge Park
err of this state as a prospective pres
idential candidate is the visible am
blem Of democratic hopelessness and
dissension. An empty honor is to be
bestowed on a barren record, il not
an empty name. We have called HON
the democratic John Doe, and the
phrase is good enough. How much
the party fears even to take up its
old %shibboleth, free trade. is evidenc-
ed by the Chicago speech Of the as
tute Edward M. Shepard. He decries
"a general revision of the tariff" ad-
mits "the widespread popular belief
in protection" and would conine the
democratic attack to "the few sched-
ules in which, through such practical
monopoly. vast fortunes have been
made"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03
RIVALRY FOR BIG FLEETS.

Philadelphia Press: AS Kaiser Will
helm reads the English naval esti-
mates for the year, $4,000, O00-
eleven ~battleships building and six
more ordered and remembers that
a fortnight earlier the American con
gress ordered five ~battleships and
raised its naval estimates to $79,000,-
900, he must feel that his laboriOus
plan adopted three years ago to build
up a great fleet that should match
England and exceed that of the Unit
ed States has met with signal failure
at the very opening of the struggle.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03

What does It stand for? When local
organs pirate glibly and forthingly
about democracy and the democratic
party, the people have q right to
ask, What do you mean? There. is in
all the immense void no intelligent n
swer.
A man would be entirely safe in
offering a standing reward OF $1,O0O,-
600 for an answer to the plain ques-
tons: What Is the democratic par.
ty? and, Where is 1t at?
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03
MONOPOLY AND SOCIALISM.

New York Evening Post: That SO
cialist convention which hailed q lead
ing Wall street organizer as a fellow
worker in the good cause, conveyed q
certain truth in its irony. That truth
Is that giant combinations, approach
ing monopolistic control, are distinct
ly playing the socialists game. This
Is especially the Isl with vast cor
porations engaged in public service.
AS we see them united in larger and
larger holding companies, with cap
italizations mounting steadily to-
wards the proportions OF the national
budget, the Irresistible question is,
Where is the thing to stop? No sign
of retreat Is visible. American
financiers," wrote a skilled foreign
critic, months ago, have entered on
a path upon which there can be no
turning back" To restore the con.
stituent properties to their original
holders would be almost impossible.
The system of combination and re-
combination goes on with accelerated
momentum, and the socialist cannot
be blamed for %chuckling as he sees;
or thinks he sees, the very forces Of
capitalism driving iblindly on to that
complete monopoly known as the So
cialistic state.
We have made it clear that we
think there are ways Of clipping the
claws OF monopoly without going in
for socialism. We do not need to
out-monopolize monopoly in order to
draw its fangs. But all we have
wished to do at this time is to classify
the friends and foes Of socialism.
Among the latter must be ranked ev-
cry man who stands for competition,
a fair field and no favor asking no
privilege from the law except that OF
being protected in his common rights;
while among the coadjutors OF social
ism we know no imported agitator SO
dangerous, no Indigenous doctrinaire
so persuasive, as the impudent mo-
nopolizer Of industry and Of public
service.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03
further oficial notice would be tax.
a, ~ tho dno&donf ... ~.

uH ~. ~ - tAEAA"- a.
further oficial notice would be TAX
en- Of the incident.
The next thing in order now will
probably be a diplomatic note from
Germany and a polite request that
the admiral be disciplined. Should
this come then possibly will follow
the pleasing. fiction of an expression
of regret to notify the Teutonic var
lord and his belicose subjects, while
all the time the president and Amer
lean people will feel like patting
Dewey on the back and assuring him
that he did no than voice their
sentiment and that. what he said vas
eminently true. F
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03
NOW OUR TURN.

War with Germany has been avert
ed a while longer and there will be no
call to arms on this side of the ocean
in consequence of Admiral Dewey's
little pleasantly concerning the kais-
er's navy. Quick as were the Teutons
to take ~offense, they seem to have
been equally quick to be satisfied
with the admiral's explanation that
he really did not mean it when he
declared that the German navy was
manned by a miscellaneous lot of
chumps, compared to whom the ia
10 colt owned by n Thompson
was the embodiment of intellectual
ity and the personification of wisdom
and quick ~wittedness. There will be
no exchange of diplomatic notes and
no request for the administration of
discipline to the offending admiral.
| All is serene once more between
| Washington and Berlin and there will
be no interruption to the STEMS pro-
| gressive round of the table.
But what a scorcher the little Incl
dent developed over at Berlin in the
person of the distinguished Count Won
Reventlow, for, Of course, he is dis
tinguished; all German counts are
distinguished. Being one of them is
distinction, even though the possessor
of the title may not be known outside
Of the little dorf v which he lords
it and not have a pfennig to his name.
This particular count, however, will
hereafter be not unknown to fame.
He has made his reputation. With
all the solemnity and ~ponderosity one
of his exalted station is capable of
he declares that in time the United
States may acquire a navy, but to
| call the few ships we now have by
that name is ridiculous. The navy of
Germany, he -asserverates, could
smash Dewey's heterogeneous collec-
ton Of tinclads and not leave as much
as a splinter of it to show that it had
ever existed. lie designates as child
ish the maneuvers that have been
carried out under the directions of the
admiral who aroused his fury, and
then is guilty of the greatest cruelty
of all, reserving his knockout for the
last.
He touches us on our particularly
sensitive spot, the workmanship of
! our "men behind the guns" assert
ing that they could not hit the side of
the eastern hemisphere, let alone. a
thing so small as a warship. Any
thing and everything else could have
been forgiven and overlooked by the
people of the United States, emulat-
ing in this respect the forgiving ma
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03

countered many obstacles. The right
to vote is not always an accompani-
ment Of happiness with the stronger
sex and the great majority OF the
women in this world have not missed
the franchise in the pursuit Of happi-
ness.
II the truism that all men are Great
ed equal applies to women, it n.atur-
ally follows that all women are Great
ed equal whatever may be their race
or condition. But this doctrine Is be-
ing vehemently denied and Denounced
by the blue blooded ONE Of the
south, who insist that the color line
must be drawn as tightly in the mat
ter OF suffrage as in the matter of
social intercourse. If the son of Ham
and the daughter of Ham are to vote
the daughters OF Shem will turn their
backs upon politics and take no part
in elections. In other words, the
southern equal suffragists are con-
additionally opposed to having a
community of interests with equal
suffragists of the north who are will
ing to degrade themselves politically
to the level of the negro, the quad
room, or the %octoroon at the ballot
box whether they appear in male or
female apparel.
The advocates of equal suffrage
will find it very difficult to reconcile
their cardinal principles with practi-
cal experience and are rightfully
alarmed for fear the cause for which
they have been battling these many
years will be shattered on the color
line rocks.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03
Paine's Celery
Compound
Cures
Cures
DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION,
AND ToMAc TROUBLES.

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may lie enumerated as follows: feelings OF
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All forms of dyspepsia are quickly banished
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The Use of this marvellous medicine allays the
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digestive power, and promotes bodily strength
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Iowa, briefly writes about his happy expert
ence with paine's Celery Compound IS
follows:-
"1t gives me great pleasure to testify 10 the
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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-04-03

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