The Leon reporter., January 03, 1901, Image 1

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Phone 22.
ESTABLISHED 1854.
THE LEOIS REPORTER
O.-E. HULL, Publisher.
LEON, IOWA
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Aitacetf a* second olaif matter at tfce
TCST CASE IS ARRANGED.
Plan to get at Validity of Titus
., Amendment.
lit Aaread Cut Before Judge Dewey ell
.Controverted Points Will be Involved.
Supreme court Declelon expected
Early in February.
The complete details of the programme
for testing the validity. of the Titus
amendment for bennial elections have
been made known. Through the me
dium of this plan, which was devised by
Attorney General Remely, and which
haa the endorsement of Senator Charles
W. Mullen, the attorney general-elect,
and of Senator Titus, the author of the
amendment, it i9 expected a decision
will be forthcoming from the supreme
court before the close of the January
term, the ninth day of February.
The case will be begun at Washing
ton, Washington county, in the sixth
judicial district, with Judge A. R. Dewey
on the bench. Marsh W. Bailey, the
county attorney-elect of Washington
county will bringaction in quowarranto
against the present incumbent of the of
fice, 8. W. Brookhart. Both of the men
are'republicans and personal friends and
the suit will be entirely an amicable one
It will, in other words, be an agreed
case. The petition will be filed by Mr.
Bailey January 8. after Mr, Brookhart
has formally refused to turn over the
office, to his supposed successor. This
petition will set forth all the facts per
taining to the enactment of the measure,
exactly as indicated by the house jour
nal of the Twenty-seventh general as
sembly. In fact, a certified copy of the
journal of the Twenty-seventh general
assembly,'the one in. which there was a
future to enter the amendment in fall,
wtll be attached tothe petition.. Tbepe
willalso be a certified copy of' the reao?
!*«$
measure' 'ly passed.
THE ALLEGATIONS.
The caw will be entitled, "State of
Iowa ex rel:, Marsh W. Bailey va. S. W.
Brookhart." Mr Bailey will allege in
his petition that the only ground foir thi
defendant holding his office and refusing
to surrender it, lies in the fact he claims
the office under -the Titus amendment,
He will allege the Titus amendment,
because of the failure to spread the reso
lution in-full On the journal of the house
of the Twenty-seventh general assembly,
waa never constitutionally adoped and
is not a.part of the constitution. He
will also allege that even.if the court
holds the amendment constitutional
and legally adopted, yet it does not
give the defendant the right to hold of
fice or extend his term for one year
that properly construed, the amend
ment does not extend the office of the
county attorney and he can claim no
rights thereunder. On these grounds,
be will ask for judgment and that the
.. defendant be ousted from the office of
county attorney.
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The defendant will demur to all of this
and will stand on the demurrer. All the
facts in relation to the alleged mistake
in the journal of the house having been
presented fully, every question will be
brought forward for settlement that can
bp raised. The district court is expected
to prepare its opinion in advance of the
filing of the petition.. The defendant
will waive service of notice and appear
^juid upon the filing of the petition, Jan
"uajy 8, the decision of the court will be
'tingtie,
'IIP''?'' ^PPKAJ*WILL
F0LI'0W!,
An appeal will then be taken forth
with. The abstracts and arguments will
be prepared, and the supreme court Wiil
beaakpd, at the beginning of next term,
15, to advancethe case. It is
-anticipated there will fie no objection to
this owing to the ptibliCj welfare de
manding an early ruling. The case will
be submitted at the January term, and
an opinion is looked for before the term
ends, February 9.,
Gopies of the petition and the papers
filed will be submitted: to a number. of
leadlibg' attorneys, Wbo will be requested
to fnrnish. arguments in accordance with
their opinions. Judge C. C. Cole is one
of those who will probably furnish a
brief. It is expected he will hold the
amendment should begivqn a strict-)
|pn. Senator Berry of Indian-^
file a brief. Attorney Gen
^y will make an argument,
it ten, before the supreme
wQI take the gronnd the
I should be construed accord
ant. Others that so desire
amenta.
ling the' petition until
necessary in .order to
b,
as until January 7
have no opportunity
|s office.
APPROVAL.
approval of Sent
said
nley, in speaking
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4BS0WTEiytaRE
^Mates the food more delicious and wholesome &
Attorney General Remlty, Senator
Mullan and Senator Titus conferred at
Iowa City a short time ago. At that
time the different planB were discussed,
and the one that has been adopted was
approved.
WOYAj BAKHfO PQWDCW CO.. HEW YORK.
of the test case. "1 have counselled
with both of the parties to the suit, in
order to .have all the questions at issue
fully presented. Personally I have no
interest in the case, and so far as my
tenure of office is concerned, I have
nothing to gain one way or the other.
While it has been a burden to me to
take the course I ha^e and has involved
much work, I believe the bar .of the
state has looked for me to do some
thing toward adjusting the matter. The
general public, I think, has taken the
same view."
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MONOPOLY'S UKASE. St
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A few weeks ago the powerful Window
Trust, known officially as the
Pittsburg Plate Glass company, issued
a circular letter informing its customers
that at a meeting of the directors of the
corporation they had resolved to per
mit no customer to import or to buy
imported window glass.. The customers
were warned to govern themselves ac
cordingly. In yiew of the fact that the
average duties on window glass are
above 50 per cent, it might be assumed
that the trust would have had no need
to issue this prohibitory ukase against
the importation of the commodity in
question. It appears, however,
some window glass still dribbles through
the custom house in spite ot the high
protective duties.
The Philadelphia Record tells us that
upon receipt ofthis imperious circular
the members of the Philadelphia Paint
club* wiio deal in window glass as well
as In paints, also held a meeting and
resolved that they would pot obey the
decree of the monopoly. The club, in
'•^junction jrith many other dealers
iK of courBe. the fdriii in 'whlch tftiirTliaie made an-wn^st "protest tdv'coiH ftluank,. OryJie may olaregard hte
grass against the oppressiveness „0f this
monopoly, and asked jor such legisla
tion as would afford them protection in
future. The only effectual protection
that congress could provide would be by
repealing the exorbitant duties on win
dow glass. The Window Glass Trust
would then be compelled to reduce its
rices to a reasonable level, and with the
markets open to them for both foreign
and domestic window glass the dealers,
wholesale and retail, could snap their
fingers at the circulars of the monopoly.
Instead of arbitrarily forbidding dealers
from importing window glass or from
buying the imported article, the trust
would very gladly invite them to buy
its own products—if, indeed, the corn-
i-
Babies and children need
proper food, rarely ever medi
cine. If they do not thrive
on their food something is
wrong. They need a little
help to get their digestive
machinery working piroperly.
COD LIVER OIL
WITH HYPOPHOSPNIT^S orUME
4 SODA
will generally correct this
difficult
If^fcu will put from one
fourth to Half a teaspoonful
Jn baby's bottle three or four
times a day you will-soon see
a marked improvement For
larger children, from half to
a teaspoonful, according to
age, dissolved In their milk,
if you so desire, will very
soon show its great nourish
ing power. If the mother's
milk does Dot nourish the
baby, she needs the emul
sion ft1vMi shoto an effect
atAonce
and\child
mother
A
50c.
and drug
£COT\* iMW, chtmltu, Ne
III. II I..M II.
bination could survive fair competition
Of course, there is no hopt( of relief
from th^ republican majority in con
gress, who have declared through the
ways and means committee that^they
will not consider any proposition to re
duce the tariP. In the estimation of
this majority the Pittsburg Plate Glass
trust and kindred monopolies in trade
are among the chief blessings, of the
Dingley tariff act. When' this' act was
before congress the manufacturers of
glass and the operators of many other
"infant" industries pleaded that the
duties were not high enough to protect
them from ruinous foreign competition.
But "no sooner were the dutieB raised to
an immoderate height thai! the benefi
ciaries of the tariff began to, organize
trusts and to screw up prices beyond
any farmer range. Then when the
dealers foijnd that importations could
be made in spite of the high duties, the
Glass trust issued its decree' forbidding
them to buy pr §ell the fojeigfl article:
If the existing system'shall survive' the
other tariff sheltered monopolies will
sooner or later follow this example.
THE LEGAL ELECTION OF M'KIN
LEY AND ROOSEVELT.
If the .constitution of the United States
had worked asitsframers intended, we
should all be looking forward to the 14th
of January with very keen interest, and
probably also with excitement, heated
controversy, and ho little turmoil. For,
although very few people seem to be
that] aware of the fact, it is the 14th of Janu
ary, 1901, and not the 6th of November,
1900, that is fixed by law as the date for
the election of president and vice-presi
dent who are to be inaugurated on the
4th of March.
On the second Monday of the present
month of January, 447 citizens who were
chosen for that purpose last November
are to vote for a president and vice- pres
ident ofthe United^ States. Each one
of these men haa a perfect legal right to
I AliliffitlAn nAtVAiy» ol1.*!! fin fav aa
Obligation and not vote at all. So far as
we are aware," all of the 447 electors are
yet alive, and'there.is no one through
out the length and breadth of the land
who does not expect iWth entire conff
dence that Mr. McKinley and Mr,
Roosevelt will receive 292 of their votes,
and that Mr. Bryan and Mr. Stevenson
will receive exactly 155.
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LEON. IOWA. THURSDAY. JAlstfARY 3. 1901.
Baking
POWDER
HOW GERMANY SUBSIDIZES SHIPS
Reference is frequently made to the
present policy of developing German
shipping by means of mail subsidies,
But it should be born in mind that in
Germany the government gives aid only
to steamship lines in order to accom
plish particular'ends, and in all cases
the details are prescribed with strict
ness. Thus, arrangements have within
a few wejbks been made for subsidizing
an important service of steamers be
tween Hamburg and African ports, the
plan being that the. ships are to sail
right around Africa, starting every two
weeks, and taking alternate directions,
On the first of the month a ship must
leave Hamburg, stop at a Dutch or. Bel
gian port, then, after calling at Lisbon,
proceed down the weBt coast of Africa,
with one of two stops before reaching
Cape Town after which,.with stops
the important points on the South Af
rican and East African coasts, the vessel
returns by way ot the Red Sea and the
Suez Canal, calls at Naples, stops again
at Lisbon and on the Netherlands coast,
and reports, via Bremerhaven, at Ham
burg. The ship sailing two weeks later
stops at the sauqe places, but goes out
by way of the Suez Canal and returns
up the West African coast. Utader the
same subsidy contract, a monthly
branch line of steamers by way of Suez
is to give additional facilities to trade
with German East Africa, so that ports
on that coaBt may have direct fortnight
ly service. The contract which is an
elaborate one, calls for. a, moderate but
sufficient speed, and requires that the
steamers to be need must be built in
German yards, of German materials, on
plant approved by. the imperial chan
cellor. German trade is always to have
preference oyer foreign .trade in -making
up the cargoes of these ships, and the
employees and agents of the company
must be German subjects. The ships
are all to be subjeet to the right of the
Imperial chanrollor to buy them or hire
them in case of the piartial, or complete
mobilization of the navy,"and no foreign
power may be allowed either to buy or
hire any of the steamers of this line,
even in time ot peace, without the sane
Ktaon
of the Imperial chancellor. If now
we had the Nicaragua qanal opened, and
we were proposing to subsidize steam
Bhips, it might be desirable for .us to
adopt precisely this German, method,
and giye government aid to one or more
I
lines sending steamships regularly
[both directions entirely around the
Ifooth-Amertean continent.—From "Pro*
1 grass of the World," in the American
What thoughtless talk that democracy
is dead! The spirit of, democracy is the
salt of the republic. The love of liberty,
the intense sense of individuality, the
genious of Anglo-Saxon freedom are
what makes a democratic party. It has
surviyed-the federal fiarty whose ideals
were quite strongly tinctured with aris
tocratic tendencies. It has survived the
whig party. It will be triumphant
when the.repubiican party and its ideas
area mere historic memory.
In the closing paragraph of his regent
message Mr. McKinley ^solemnly warn
ed congress against extravagance. If
he had begun his message with -this
warning there would have been no "pro
priety in-a great
psjtUU'
ations. Having ask^Pcongress ,tO Aen
large the army, to subsidize merchant
ships and to build ah isthmian canal,
it was a rather cooi imposition to wind
up -his message by-cautioning senators
and representatives against large ex
penditures.—Philadelphia Record.
A St. Louis clergyman has discovered
the key to marriage failures. He says
it is too easy to get married. It now
costs 15 to tie up and ¥50 to get a di
vorce. He suggests the reversal of
these figures and consequent limitation
of marriages as the best solution of the
trouble.
Many School Children are Sickly.
Mother Orgy's Sweet Powders for Children,
used bjt Motuer Gray mf nurse in .Children's
Home, New York, Break up I'olds In 24 hours,
cures Feverlshness, Headache, Stomrtoh
Troubles, Teething Disorders, and Destroy
Worms. At all druggists, 85c. Sample mail
ed tree. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy,
N.Y
On the
Threshold
of
New Year.
We wish to thank those"
who have helped to make
our last year's business
satisfactory. We acknowl
edge appreciatlooandiex
tend to our patrons the
:er«si /"wish that the
4tyj' OuV^lm
Si'»
his recommend­
rhas
Yjffl A ^4
been to
cOndufcl a store that
shoiild conserve In every
.way fhe best Interests of
the public. The accom
plishment of this purpose
has been made possible
by the steadfast adher
ence of those to whom
this greetlno Is extended.
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W. E MYERS/
Druggist.
THE BIG
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PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
OlMUM ui betntinn th h«lr.
Promote,^ ft luxorlftnl growth.
Wever *«iU to Bettor*
Hair to it* youthful ColorT
Com Ktlp diMUM fc htlr fioitaf.
t: ^TIPATION
^al oathftrtle remedloi Is tuolr oortlvo reaction which
instead of curing It. PARKER'S
"I""™ TOOTO 1» thy proper
remedy,
it acteonthe
ueod asalrected, pemtaucntlx removee
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eta. AStOO^'aU DSgytia,
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Vuteni, takUltiSni ml laUte.
taraMalL 10,000TntfnoiliU. Mllf
J. A.Harris&Bros
Manufacturers of and
Dealers In
NOTICE.
I am still on hand to cry sales in De
catur and adjoining counties. Twenty
years experience fits me to do the work
to the satisfaction of every one. Iwai
rant my work. All that is necessary is
J. H. MERRILL,
Auctioneer,
CROWN, IOWA.
16 years experience. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Charges reasonable. Best
of references. Give me a chance at
your sale.
FARM FOR SALE!
160 acres^lOO A. in cultivation, house
24x24, 4 rooms, small orchard, 3 wells, 2
miles southeast of Spring Valley. Terms
reasonable.
S. J. RICHARDSON.
W
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LEON. IOWA. if
We carry a magnificent line of mot
ments. The workmanship is unexcelled
and material used first-class.
_We buy our stock in car
direct from the quaries in
thereby enabling us to make
all our work to give perfect satisfaction.
J.
A.
HARRIS & BROS.
JOIH A. STOUT.
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Livery Feed and
Sale Stable.
Fresh Teams!_^
4- -^.New Rigsl
Special alttention given to
commercial men, Your patron
age solicited.
Phon* 20.
John
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load lots
the east,
than firms buying in small quantities
Our business is run strictly on a first
class basis and we
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id a a re a a re a in
^5 (on staple goods that will surprise you
AT OUR PRICES
Pride of Kansas per sack
Blue Ribbon per sack
Quten of Kansas per sack
Cream of Dakota per sack....
One-half sack Cream of Dakota per sack
One-half sack Shawnee Fancy per sack
Southern brtgi, sack included, per sack
Southern Shorts, sack, included, per sack ......
Corn meal bran per sack
Chop feed, per hundred, not sacked
Hay, Corn, Oat^, Straw and Wood.
Fancy California evaporated peaches per pound
Fa'ncy California evaporated prunes per pound ...
Fancy. Oregon silver prunes, large per pound
"Fancy Evaporated apples per pound........
31b "pie peaches 3 cans
81b peeled table peaches per can......
Jams, Jells, Butters, aft all Canned Goods for Special Sales at Cheap Prices.
Fresh Oysters in Bulk and Cans at Prices that Defy any and all Competition.
The Finest Line of Fresh Fruits, and Vegetables in tlie City.
We Pay Highest Price in Cash or Trade for Poultry, Butter, Eggs, Hay. Oats, Corn.
Do not Buy or Sell Anything Until You Get Our Prices?^
W. P. CLAKK & CO,
CORNER 8TH AND MAIN, LEON, IQWA.
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Eggs. Hides, Tal
low and Beeswax
Old Rubber, Iron
andfTMetals.
Highest Prices Paid in Gash! I
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HAL GATES, Manager.
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with which we come in con
tact ^lpit'v:t»''3refine and
strengthen our finer nature.
Contact with beautiful furn
iture and beautiful
sur­
roundings subdues the
coarser and sharpens- the
finer nature as1, a'grindstone
sharpens a''Knife. Little
children take in-impressions
as a sponge takfes in water.
Tbev should have a cosy,
pretty home to live in. We
keep everything to- furnish
homes cosily and reason
ably.
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£311$:
to this depart
ment. All calls
[promptly look
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