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.... (tw r- W,\ li* I IF1 fS 7ft vT- THE LEON REPORTER O. C. HULL.Kdltor. I O N I O W A SUBSCRIPTION NAT IS Om year. fl.50 months months... .76 .40 Entered as second-class matter at the Leon, Iowa, Postoffice. STANDARD OIL TRUST BUSTED. The Standard Oil company of Mew Jersey and its nineteen subsidiary corporations were declared, in a de cision handed down by the supreme court of the United States, May 15th, to be a conspiracy and combination in restraint of trade. It also was held to be monopolizing interstate commerce in violation of the Sher man anti-trust law. The dissolution Of the combination was ordered to take place within six months. A Washington dispatch carried by the Associated Press says: "Thus ended the tremendoas struggle on the part of the govern ment to put down, by authority of law, a combination which it claimed was a menace to the industrial and economic advancement of the entire country. At the same time the court interpreted the Sherman anti-trust law so as to limit its application to acts of 'undue' restraint of trade and not 'every' restraint of trade. "It was on this point that the only discordant note was heard in the court. Justice Harlan dissented, claiming that cases already decided by the court had determined once for all that the word 'undue' or 'un reasonable,' or similar words were not in the statute. He claimed that the reasoning of the court in arriving at its finding was in effect legislation which belonged in every instance to congress and not to the courts. "Ever since the decree in this case in the lower court, the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Missouri, was announced, hope has been expressed by the 'business world' that the law would be modi fied so as not to interfere with what was designated as honest business. Tonight that section of the opinion calling for the use of the rule of reason in applying the law is re garded in many quarters as an answer to the prayers of the 'busi ness world.' "The opinion of the court was an nounced by Chief Justice White. In printed form it contained more than twenty thousand words. For nearly an hour the chief justice discussed the case from the bench, going over most of the points in the printed opinion, but not once referring to it in order to refresh his memory. Be fore him sat a distinguished au dience of the most famous men of the country. Senators and repre sentatives left their respective cham bers in the capitol to listen to the epoch-making decision of the court. Most eager to hear were Attorney General Wickersham and Frank B. Kellogg, special counsel of the gov ernment, who had conducted the great fight against the Standard Oil company. None of the brilliant ar ray of counsel for the corporations or individual defendants were present in the'court during the reading of the opinion. "President Taft and cabinet will consider immediately the entire trust situation and the advisability of pressing for a federal incorpora tion act. "A decision in the tobacco trust xcases, taneously, was not announced and may be handed down May 29." The harvester trust had the most profitable year since its organization last year, and the farmers contribut ed more to its piled up millions than ever before. Its gross sales amount ed to $101,166,359. Of these sales 134,196,065 were made in foreign »countries where it had no tariff pro tection. Its surplus profits after paying dividends and all other charges is now $15,978,818. A trust that sells one-third of its product abroad in competition with the "pau per labor of Europe" certainly needs no protection, and the democrats put its productions on the free list, to which Mr. Mann and his republican followers made strenuous objections, ine figures are taken from the trust's sworn report, and they were ac cessible to Mr. Mann when he made his objections on the floor of the house. It earned enough to pay 14.85 per cent on its common stock. But it is joyfully declared in trust circles that the bill to relieve the farmers from extortion will never get out of the senate standpat com mittee. "True the way in which Senator Lorimor, of Illinois, got into the cap itol is a time worn subject, but like some of the favorite plays it is bound to have a -ong run,' says the Davenport Democrat. "Something new has been' developing every day. since the first disclosures were made. And what has been divulged so far hints rather broadly at more to! come. "There is some-talk of Carrtill run ning a third time," notes the Ocheye dan Press. "We hope so. If he does it will give a lot of good progressive republicans a chance to show him they too know something about ve toing." The Boone News-Republican says. 'There is no doubt that Canadian reciprocity is popular with the largo majority of voters. Like the presi dent they care little how reciprocity is effected just so it is effected." Granting that the renomination of Taft would carry no assurance of his xe-election, who is the candidate whose nomination would promote brighter prospects of success? Asks the Sioux City Journal. "If Senator Kenyon attempts to take one-half the advice the Iowa press is tendering him," the Burling ton Gazette predicts, "he will be many years older than forty-two in a month or so." 1 which was expected simul ., 1 Washington Letter. By Clyde H. Tavenner. Special Washington Correspondent of The Reporter. Washington, May 20.—Although standpat Republicans proclaim that practically every farmer in the land is against reciprocity, the fact is that the recent wonderful growth of public sentiment in favor of reci procity started with farmers' organ izations and the agricultural press of the nation. Congressman Ralph W. Moss, of Indiana, a farmer himself, and one of the best friends of the agricul turists occupying a seat in the halls of Congress, established this fact be yond successful contradiction in a strong Bpeech delivered on the floor of the House. Mr Moss cinched his point by presenting the actual res olutions in which the great organi zations of farmers pledged them selves to work for reciprocity. "The great national movement among the farmers of the United. States to advance reciprocal legis lation began," said Mr. Moss, "with a meeting held in the Grand Pacific hotel in Chicago in 1905. There were present at the meeting dele gates representing the National Live Stock association, American Short Horn association, Nation Live Stock Exchange, Millers' National Feder ation, and other great producing and exporting interests. "It was decided to hold a national conference to advance reciprocal tariff legislation. Alvin H. Saunders was chosen as the leader of the movement. Who is A. H. Saunders? He is a member of the tariff board appointed by President Taft. Mr. Saunders was at that time the editor of the Breeder's Gazette, the most influential and widely read farm journal in the United States. Mr. Saunders issued a signed statement as to the purpose of the conference. He declared his willingness to co operate 'with the specific under standing that the interests of the farmers and stock growers should be paramount.' "It is time" declared Mr. Saunders in his signed statement, 'that some body should take up the cudgels against those who for selfish pur poses destroyed Blaine's reciprocity conventions, and are still barring the American stockmen and grain grow ers from a large and lucrative out let for their goods. The fight for better markets, worth unknown mil lions per year to the farming com munities, will not be won in a week or a month. It means a battle royal against entrenched power, but it will be won because it is right." Mr. Moss went on to show that the conference was attended by more than 600 delegates, representing ev ery principal agricultural organiza tion in the nation, and that at the close of the meeting the following resolutions were passed: "That we recommend that a per manent organization be formed un der the style of the Reciprocal Tariff league, and that -a committee of 15 be appointed to organize and further the work for which this convention was assembled." Mr. Moss expressed the belief that when reciprocity could be put di rectly to the real farmers of the country, it would develop that they are for it, and that the alleged hos tility of the farmer exists principally in the minds of the paper manu facturers and lumber barons. Democrats to the Rescue. I Two bills introduced in the Senate, and several in the House, each of them intended to deprive the Su preme court of the power it recent ly assumed to read the word "rea sonable" into the anti-trust law, in dicate the strong protest in Congress against the decision of the court weakening the anti-trust statute.' The Senate bills were introduced by Senators Culberson, of Texas, and Reed, of Missouri, both Democrats. Senator Culberson's bill consists of a printed copy of the Sherman act with three words inserted into Sections 1 and 2, the words being "of whatever character." The ef fect would be to prohibit all com binations, conspiracies in restraint of trade, all monopolies, all combina tions tending toward monopoly of, whatever character." In the Texas senator's opinion this change would effectually restore prohibitions of the', snti-trust law to just where they were before the recent decision was handed down. It is contended by many progres sives of both parties that the rulins of the supreme court places in the anti-trust law a loophole for trusts r.nd combinations to get through on the ground that they are not "unrea sonably" restrictive of trade. That the Sherman law will be re stored to where it was before the decision was announced, is probable. "Farmers' Friends Asleep." The farmers' free list bill is block aded in the United States senate. Unless strong pressure is brought to bear there is danger that the bill die in committee. Yet the interests that are supply ing the money to fight reciprocity, which interests are working over time proclaiming their friendship for the farmers and asserting they op pose reciprocity solely because they feel for the farmers, have not as yet raised their voice against the blockade of the farmers' free list bill. Query: If the interests fighting reciprocity are really and in fact such great friends of the farmers, why are they indiffereht over the fate of a bill which will untax nearly everything the farmers use? Democratic Senate Probable. If the next Presidential election is carried by the Democrats it is pr9.pfir.oiiy certain they will also con trol the senate. Should the Re publicans elect the President, there will still be the possibility of Dem ocratic control of the Senate. The substitution of four Demo crats for as many Republicans would make the senate a tie if the Demo crats held the vice-presidency they would therefore control the Senate. These Republicans face prospects of being succeeded by Democrats: Briggs of New Jersey Brown of Nebraska Curti6 of Kansas Dixon t" i* 1 "WW* THE LEON BIPORTSB, THURSDAY, "MAT 25,1911 of Montana Frye of Maine, and Gamble of South Dakota. Lorimer To Be Reinvestigated. That the election of United States Senator William Lorimer, of Illinois, will again be investigated, and that a new investigation assures his al most certain ejection from the Sen ate, is the prevailing opinion at Washington. Sentiment fpr the new investigation was brought to a head by a report of the Helm investiga ting committee in Springfield, which found that Lorimer had been elec ted by bribery and corruptlonv ONE WEDDING OUT OF EACH TEN FAILS. Divorce Statistics Show Surprising Conditions—Nine and a Half Per Cent of Divorcees re marry. Is marriage a failure? Figures comjpiled by Gus Brewer of the state land office show that for every ten marriages in the state, there is one divorce that one out of every seven married couples take do mestic troubles into court that 80 per cent of the divorce actions are. uncontested that three times as many wives bring divorce actions as husbands. Nine and a half per cent of those divorced are given permis sion to remarry. Polk county heads the list with 286 divorces. Grundy and Butler counties have the least with two each. A summary of the divorce statistics shows: Populaion of Iowa 2,224,771 No' marriage licenses issued 21,538 No. of divorce petitions filed 3,228 Total No. divorces granted 2,274 Divorces granted to wives 1,71C Divorces granted to hus bands Divorces granted by default Divorce petitions denied. Number of divorcees giv en permission to remarry within a year 558 1,824 116 213 The statistics by counties on mar riage and divorces are as follows: Divorces Marriage Granted. Licenses. Adair Adams 7 Allamakee 6 Appanoose 53 Audubon 7 Benton 20 Black Hawk ... 90 Bremer 13 Buchanan 7 Buena Vista .... 7 Butler 2 Calhoun 9 Carroll 9 Cass 14 Cedar 9 Cerro Gordo ... 37 Cherokee 9 Chickasaw 4 Clarke 7 Clay 8 Clayton 7 Clinton 61 Crawford 15 Dallas 19 Davis, 10 Decatur 13 Delaware 8 Des Moines .... 48 Dickinson 5 Emmet 4 Fayette 30 Floyd 15 Franklin 5 Fremont 18 Greene 17 Grundy 2 Guthrie 6 Hamilton 13 Hancock 4 Hardin 15 Harrison 18 Henry 16 Howard 9 Humboldt 6 Ida 9 Iowa 11 Jackson 20 Jasper 27 Jefferson ...... 9 Johnson 28 Jones 16 Keokuk 26 Kossuth 7 Lee 23 Linn 84 Louisa 14 Lucas Lyon Madison .... Mahaska .... Marion .... Marshall .... Mills Mitchell .... Monona .... Monroe .... Montgomery Muscatine O'Brien .... Osceola Page .... Palo Alto Plymouth Pocahontas .. Polk Pottawattamie Poweshiek .. Ringgold Sac Scott Shelby Sioux Story Tama Taylor Union Van Buren .. Wapello .... Warren ... Washington Wayne Webster .... Winnebago Winnesheik Woodbury .. Worth Wright 115 115 143 £94 1211 186 513 148 107 126 106 137 165 189 155 246 144 1U 91 101 191 447 159 220 114 145 140 417 65 106 247 153 132 112 157 96 134 182 84 152 176 155 94 .99 99 135 184 236 144 255 163 160 165 194 709 93 129 133 112 252 206 335 101 100 171 270 162 305 161 87 224 106 188 119 19 6 8 45 16 61 15 6 8 36 .. 16 54 10 .. 5 .. 30 4 11 .. 9 .286 8 6 .. 12 .. 9 .. 15 .. 99 .. 5 7 .. 14 .. 18 19 .. 33 17 53 .. 3 13 11 .. 29 3 9 .149 .. 4 .. 9 1601 932 144 111 132 657 141 234 203 228 130 171 192 473 160 136 138 347 104 150 890 52 111 $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease that solene has been able to cure In all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only'positive core now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires constltntion treatment. Hall's Catarrh Core is taken internally, acting dlrtctly upon the blood and mucus surfaces of the systeme, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature In doing it* work. The proprietors have so much faith in it* curative powers, that they offer one Hnndred Dollars for any ease that it fails to cure Send for lilt of testimonials. Addras, T. J. Boldby CHENKT OO, ToiedO Druggist, 75c. Take Hail'sYamlly mi* for '-.f '.r ,l.t. I Kl( 1% ILLtll II/IIMI. Oil'Cook-StoVicr Ifofhnitiiig Kitea fpssw^s Bwsf! The Fireproof Roof Woven Roofing* was the one roof that made good and was officially adopted by the Harriman lines for freight cars. The Rock Island lines alio use Vulcanite as a result of a similar test It is a significant fact, that without repairs or painting of any kind, the test cars are still in use. Your buildings will never be called on to resist any more severe tests than these freight cars were exposed to and the fact that Vulcanite alone survived out of the fire acknowledged roofing leaders of the country, should be a strong recommendation to you, to at least investigate Vulcanite before you buy another brand. Call on the dealer, named below, or if you prefer, write us direct PATENT VULCANITE ROOFING CO. chkago.njL Bowsher & Bowsher, Leon Distributors v*5 *.rf.v-* YOUR'E STRONG AND WELL That's Pleasant. YOU HOPE TO RE/MAIN SO- THE FARMERS & TRADERS STATE BANK— That's It. RESOURCES OVER $400,000.Q0— 5 iV The farmer and His wife were about to rit down to a cold supper when they saw some old friends driving towards the house. The good wife was equal to die occasion—thanks to her New Perfection Oil Cook-stove. She bad it lit in a moment, and her guests hardly were seated on the porch before a hearty hot meal was ready for the table sausages and eggs and long rashers of streaky bacon, and rolls just criiped in the oven and fresh coffee—and the hostess benelf as cool and neat as if she had not been near th^ kitchen. She never could have managed it with an old-fashioned range. The New Perfection is the quickest, most convenient and best cooker on die market 1 That's Natural. YOU MAY BE DISAPPOINTED— That's Possible. YOU NEED PROTECTION NOW- That's Evident. START A SAVINGS ACCOUNT TODAY— That's Wisdom. YOU WANT THE BEST BANK- That's Proper. That's Important. ONE DOLLAR STARTS YOU— That's All. Farmers & Traders State Bank. Leon, lowa Mads with 1.2 and 9 bmm, wkk loaf, .turquoise blue enemslrn cmmi. HsiyiiemeCtotiied lie 2-iM3jbwawisi»5y«wof wfehmrt cabinet top, which is fatad with drop Mvifctowsl neb, «H. DeiMiewywwfli of wtii tor gigiw dreuar to lot bnmi im Sparks or even live coals have no effect on a Vulcanite roof. It is recognized by the fire underwriters as a safeguard against loss, and this feature alone makes it worth many times its cost in times of emergency. But while your roof may be called upon to withstand fire once in a lifetime, it is called upon to resist the weather every day. Frost and rain, and hail and sleet, and snow and drought and heavy winds all combine every year in an attack on your property. The five best ready roofings in the United St-*e« were placed on test freight cars by the Harriman lines. These test- cars were run all over the country for a period of over two years. The roofs had to stand every variety of weather the. country can produce and a continual fire test in the shape of live iparks and coals from the engine. Standard 03 Company (Incorporated) KoBepain v, •.« J. R. BASHAW Jtw«ler and BookstOtr HEADQUARTERS FOR Jtwalry SBv«n«ar« Watft* Clocks Toys, Etc. fHIHHIMMHIMOWf KwmtmMmr the pises BASHAW CLOSE SCRUTINY of a monument shows whether expert marble eatters were employed in pro ducing ii or not. MONUMENTS we put up comprise symmetry and beat of workmanship. In price we go a* ow as possible to begin with. Delicacy often forbids the buyer questioning the price. Employ us and make a saving. We guarantee it. J. A. HARRIS & BROS LEON, IOWA CAPT. J. L. GOODING Kellerton. Iowa. The Auctioneer Who Makes Your Sale a Money Maker. Telephone or wire for dates at my expense. lowa Steam Laundry Co. Anything from finest silk fibre to heavy wool curtains. Dye Works in connection Send Basket Monday and Wednesday J, A. CASTER, Agent F. S. STEWART Licensed Undertaker lowa License No. 48. LEON IOWA V.R.McfllhNIS SttOflMM Bay block. LScat AWYER. Bucoeuor toOurry A UcGlnnb. Of. in DR. C. H. MITCHELL, SmoeMMr to Dr. W. G. Jaffrlw. SOBOISTL«n, Block, Iow». Phone 3. All »n~ vwarad promptly day Or nlffat. and FRED A. BOWMAN. M. D. nKraouw and stmonxm, howa li to It au-uo tosao* lo SiSt p. m. Iiaen Phone, OBn f—tml" VanMtr Mutaal, Ofloa •tadr .«v and- obtutrio meUltr. Bin* Honrs 7 to 8 on Saturday. 2 to 4 p. I IHIIHII 11. attention bItm to BmUI Notice of Probating Will. To all whom it may concern: You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office of the clerk of the district court ot Iowa, in and for Decatur county, an instrument in writing, purporting to be the last will and testament of D. D. Bethards, late of said county, de ceased, and that 2 o'clock p. m., of the 22nd day of August, 1911, haa been fixed for the probate of said" will, at which time you can appear at the court house in said county, and show cause, if any there be, why}? said will should not be admitted *~VA probate. In witness whereof, I hav&Y, hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal ot said court at Leon, Iowa, [Seal] •/fv 1 0 a a y» "L. Mendenhall, 39-3t. Clerk of District Court*