The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-01-19
FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Bits of Humor, Philosophy and In
formation by Our Special WASH
ingtOn Correspondent.

There s no nope lett the price OF
sauer kraut is going up!
Rabbits are selling for 40 cents
each on the Washington market.
The American Federation of La.
Dor is to erect in Washington a
magnificent temple to hold it's future
| conventions in.
1t has transpired that the Depart
ment of Justice is investigating the
Rubber Trust with a view to 'insti-
tuting proceedings.
Representative Sulzer, of New
York, has introduced in the House a
bill which has for it's object the re-
peal of the duty on meats and cattle
The Government lobster hatchery
at Wexford, R. l., threatens the very
foundations of the Great White Way
by promising to produce Holsters at
seven cents a pair.
More than $2S9,O00,0OO collected
for the government at cost of a
little more, than 100000 is the
record of the internal revenue SER
vice for the fiscal year ended June
90. 1910.
The "Conscience Fund" of the
Postoffice Department has been in
creased by ten cents, sent in by a
New York man in reimbursement for
stamps used by him for the second
time.
The Postmaster General in his
Forthcoming annual report will rec
ommend an appropriation and au-
thority from Congress to permit a
partial Introduction of parcels post
system on rural routes
Governor-elect Johnson, Of Cali
fornia, is in Washington at the head
of a large delegation of prominent
Californians who have come for the
purpose of booming San Francisco's
claims to the proposed Panama Gel
ebration.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
sent to Congress the estimates of ap-
preparations for the conduct of the
Government during the fiscal year
1912. The grand total is $74S,414,-
S6O.S1. The estimates for the cur
rent year were S745,O67,197.21.
In a case submitted by the Colum-
bus Traction Company against the
Baltimore & Ohio and the Norfolk &
Western, the Interstate Commerce
Commission is asked to decide
whether steam railroads can be COM
PEELED to make connections with
competing trolley roads.
Eighty employees of the congress
sional immigration commission are
thrown out of employment by the
dissolution of that body. The COM
mission was created in 1907 by an
act of Congress and it's life expired
December 4. Forty volumes of re-
ports, dealing with alien criminals
and the condition of the immigrants
coming to the United States, will be
sent to Congress. The work of the
commission has cost about $780,
O00
An investigation under the pure
food law reveals the fact that we
have BEEN eating sago> and tapioca
made from potatoes, instead of from
the pith of the palm tree and the
root of the cassava plant, respective
ly, as they really ought to be. The
product prepared from potatoes has
been on the market for some time,
and it must now be branded plainly
as an imitation.
Morris Olgiers, 16 year old lad
of Springfield, Va, has captured the
first prize at the agricultural fairs
at Blackstone and Petersburg for the
largest yield of corn per acre. He
proved up 1853 bushels and has been
awarded the national prize-a trip
to Washington with all expenses paid.
While in Washington he will be the
guest of Secretary Wilson and will
visit President Taft.
The Crop Reporting Board of the
Bureau of Statistics estimates the
area of winter wheat sown this fall
ed estimated area sown in the fall
of 1909, equivalent to an increase OF
$4,000 acres, the indicated total
area being 34,4S5, 900 acres. The
condition on Dec. 1, was 82.5 against
95.S on December 1, 1909. Kansas
leads with an estimated acreage OF
6,1z6,000, and Iowa is away down
the list with but 100000 acres.
1t is expected that at the coming
session of Congress there will be
introduced a bill for the regulation
of foods placed in cold storage. This
bill, modelled along the line of the
pure food law, will contain a provis-
ion for the branding of foods placed
in cold storage to indicate not only
their character, but the length Of
time they have been so stored.
This is good news following the
recent story of a Buffalo man pur.
chasing an egg with a trademark
three years back, placed there by
the packer.
The annual auction sale of arti
cles accumulated in the Dead Letter
Office of the Postoffice Department
will be begun next Monday. The
catalog for the sale contains nearly