The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-04-29
lOWA's NEW LAW ENFORCEMENT
lhWS.
The Ones Affecting Attorney Gen.
eral. County Attorney and
Sheriff.

ready in operation and the certainty that
the other two will go into effect July 4,
Iowa now has machinery for law en-
forcement more perfect than that Of any
state in the union.
The main provisions of the four new
laws are contained in the following
extracts from each Of them.
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
1t shall be the duty of the attorney
general to exercise supervisory powers
over county attorneys in all matters
pertaining to the duties of their Offices,
and from time to time require of them
reports as to the public business en-
trusted to their charge.
2. When requested to do so by the
governor, executive council, or general
assembly, or when in his judgment the
interest of the state requires it, he shall
appear for the state before any other
court or tribunal, prosecute or defend
all actions and proceedings, civil or
criminal, in which the state may be
party or interested.
COUNTY ATTORNEY.
1t shall be the duty of the county
attorney, first to diligently enforce, or
caused to be enforced in his county, all
the laws of the state, action for viola
tion of which may be commenced or
prosecuted in the name of tho state of
Iowa, or by him as county attorney,
except such laws, the enforcement Of
which is exclusively enjoined upon
others by statute.
SHERIFF.
1t shall be the duty of the sheriff by
himself or deputy to preserve the peace
in his county, to ferret out crime, to
apprehend and arrest all criminals, and
in so far as it is within his power, to
secure evidence of all crimes committed
in his county, and present the same
to the county attorney and the grand
jury; to file informations against all
persons who he knows, or has reasons to
believe, have violated the laws of the
state, and to perform all other duties
pertaining to the Office of sheriff or
enjoined upon him by the law. The
sheriff shall whenever directed to do
so in writing by the county attorney,
m IKE special investigation of any al
legged infraction of the law within the
county, and report with reference there
to within reasonable time to such
county attorney.
REMOVAL LAW.
Any county attorney, sheriff, mayor,
police officer, marshal or constable shall
be removed from office by the district
court or judge upon charges made in
writing and hearing there under for
the following causes:
1. For willful or habitual neglect or
refusal to perform the duties of his
Office.
2. For willful misconduct or NAL
administration in office.
| 3. For corruption.
1 4. For eXtortion.
5. Upon conviction of felony.
6. For intoXication or upon convic-
ton of being intoxicated.
| Sec. 2. The complaint or petition
shall be entitled in the name of the
state of Iowa, and may be filed upon the
petition of any five qualified electors of
the county in which the person charged
is an officer, the county attorney of such
county, or the attorney general, and
shall be fled by the attorney general
when directed to do so by the governor
This week we want to call the atten-
tion Of our readers who are interested
in horses to observe the large number
of horse advertisements to be found on
part two of this issue. Outside of a
paper IN Kentucky it is the largest mum.
Der of like advertisements we have ever
seen in newspaper. There are others
owners of horses who will have ad.
vertisements. This week there is tota
of 1T inches Of horse advertising in
the Free Press and the advertisers will
all tell you that it pays them. They in
yite you to look the advertisements
over before you breed your mares. Il
has paid them in past years and eact
year we can figure on about SO much
advertising OF this kind during the
breeding season. No class of business
men are closer observers of what pays
them than the horsemen. Each yeal
sees the announcements increase il
space and number. The total space
this week is over eight columns of {
seven column paper or nearly min.
columns of six column paper. Som,
of the advertisements are ordered tt
run ten weeks, some eight and so on
Corning Free Press.