The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1912-02-15
down At WASHINGTON
interesting Notes from the National
Capital by G. A. Wood, Special
Reporter Correspondent.

The parents of that two-headed
boy have their troubles mapped out.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion was twenty-five years old Feb
ruary 4.
Secretary Wilson has been COM
PEELED, 'for the four hundredth time"
TO deny that he contemplates resign
ing the Agricultural portfolio.
A treaty with France and other
countries for the restriction of the
circulation of obscene literature has
been ordered favorably reported to
the senate by the foreign relations
committee.
The remains of Gen. Phil. Kearney,
which now rest in a vault in old
Trinity Church, New York, are to be
transferred to Arlington Cemetery
April ~ and reinterred with the
highest military honors.
Ostensibly for show purposes, but
in reality for the purpose of main
tanning peace, the Secretary of the
Navy has tentatively decided to send
several warships to Baltimore dur
ing convention week
| Representative Turnbull of Vir-
ginia has introduced a bill providing
|
| investigate the practicability of a
plan to establish in Washington a
permanent exposition of the re-
sources Of the various states of the
| Union.
Representative Prouty has been
unanimously elected by the house a
member of the Committee on the
District OF Columbia, 10 succeed Rep
resentative J. Hampton Moore, of
Pennsylvania, the senior republican
member of the committee, who re-
signed recently.
The senate has ratified and made
public the convention for inter-
national protection of Industrial
property, signed at Washington last
June by Great Britain, France, Italy,
7 Germany, Austria-Hungary, Spain,
Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Sweden,
Cuba, Brazil, Belgium, the Neither
| lands, Japan, SantO Domingo, Servia,
Switzerland, and Tunis.
A bill for the incorporation of the
| Rockefeller Foundation has been
| introduced in the house by Repre-
| sentative Peters of massachusetts.
! 1t was referred to the committee on
the judiciary. A bill along similar
| lines was introduced in the senate
in 1910, but publication of the terms
Of the proposed charter aroused a
storm OF criticism because of the
scope.
The mainmast of the battleship
Maine is on the way to Washington,
where it Will be placed over the
graves Of the victims Of the Havana
n AT1i nSrtn
vessel bringing the mast also carries
a large assortment of relics of the
wrecked battleship to be distributed
! among municipalities, patriotic So
cieties, and relatives of the victims
of the disaster.
A fraud order has been issued by
the Postoffice Department against the
Acme Company of Kansas City. The
concern is charged with defrauding
by means of a circular letter adver-
Using for women to earn % cents
an hour by sewing dress shields. If
the small sum of one dollar was sent,
the women were sent supplies. Some
of the respondents never received
the samples, and those who did and
made shields were told that the work
was not artistic enough to merit
purchase.
Postmasters throughout the coun-
try as we'll as all free delivery car
riers, have been instructed to dis
courage so far as is in their power
the practice on the part of patrons
of rural delivery Of leaving money in
letter boxes for the purchase of
money orders. 1t is pointed out that
this practice will encourage theft
and if continued will eventually
cause the Department no end of
trouble and expense in Investigating
cases of robbery
Enjoying the sights of the capital
and in other ways reaping the fruits
of their industry and skill, a party
consisting of Miss Lois Edmonds, -
years old, of Clarinda, champion
bread baker of Iowa. winner with
a score of 90 per cent of the
state bread baking prize trip to
Washington offered by "Successful
Farming" Miss Vivian Edwards, of
Gainesville, who made a score of
under the patronage of Congressman
Pickett, and nine boys, winners in
county corn-growing contests, have
UeeI Ill " dSIlllSlOn turing the past
week.
The twin "boog-a-boos" of Wash
ington, Red Tape and Precedent,
stood in the way of Miss Edmonds'
realizing her ambition to bake for,
President Taft sample of Iowa
bread. The rule that no stranger
shall enter the White House kitchen
or prepare food for the President
was invoked by the jealous and en-
vious official books and Mr.. Taft ate
common bread.
The corn growers are led by Les
ter Finch, of Fairbank, winner of the
sweepstakes for the state, with
yield of 1857 bushels per acre at a
cost of II cents per bushel. The
other are Harry LaVelle, Postville,
1922 bushels at ~ " cents; David
r. Granger, 1922 bushels, at "a
cents; Glen Mead, Percival, 1856
bushels at 1871 cents; 1vyl E. Nay
Tor, Stratford, 1856 bushels, at 211a
cents; Clarence L. Brown, Salix,
S4.69 bushels, at FL cents; Arthur
Strohbehn, 60.O1 bushels, at FL