The Leon reporter., January 24, 1901, Image 1

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LEON, IOWA
StnbnoriptioBi Rates
One year fl.50
months „.... 76
rbree monthB 40
Sinteredas second clag* matter at the
Leon ,Io*oa,Postofflce.
Judge Dewey suggests that as only 35
1 er eent. of those who voted nt the late
election votea for the Titus amendment
the
voters *f the state did not desire its
adoption very earnestly. It received only
185,105 votes and there were cast for
the
various offices 530,355
United States.
voteB.
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The navy of Spain now consists of one
battleship, two coast defense vessels,
four cruisers of the first class, five of the
second class and four of tlie third class,
with an auxiliary fleet of sixty gunboats
and. twenty-seven torpedo boats. Eight
ships are under construction—two sec
ond.class and one third class cruiser,
one gunboat and four torpedo boats of
I he highest type.
It looks like carrying coals to New-!
•castle or owls to Athens, but it isn't.
'Germany has just purchased 2,400, tons
of sauerkraut from a Philadelpha firm'
ito be shipped to China for the use of I
ithe German soldiers there. It has been
ithe tradition that Germany was the
'home of kraut, but it seems that the
ireal thing is only to be had in the
'The Chicago Inter-Ocean is again s|
•the ship subsidy bill dear to the heart
or Mark Hanna. This republican organ
argues that Hanna is connected with
"'the mercantile system of politics" and
(that it is "futile to argne that the peo-1
pie of the middle west are In favor of
«ny measure closely connected with the
name of Senator Hanna." The Inter
Oeean is really level headed in some
things.
25,000 tons of common salt, purchas
-«rd at LM»mr, Portugal, have been con
tracted far by Armour packing com
jpany of Kansas City. "We found that!
^JprjipM have gone steadily up on account
frl" studtbecoropany's^
country Tor gnr salt
'Twehly-five oar load* of the shipment
:are already on the read and 35 addi
tional car loads will follow soon.
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The house of vaprAsentatives has a
Uiill before it providing for nn lu-cto...
•df ithe vice president's salary from f8,000
vyear, which is the amount now paid,
11)0*25,000, and of the cabinet members1
wtflarv from $8,000 to $15,000. There is
rattlKy nothing extravagant in this prop
osition when a comparison is.made of
what fee tKbught to be correct salaries
for ofltaials of governments in foreign
countries. The president of the United
8tates now receives f50,000 a year. It
was only a short time ago that the
amount paid was the ridiculously low
sum of f25,000 a year. The president
of the French republic receives a salary
,of $120,000, and an allowance of an
uequal sum for his expenses. The speak
osr. 6f the British house of commons is
•pfiid a salary of $25,000 a year, besides
an cifieial residence, and on retirement
is given a pension of $20,000 a year for
life. This office corresponds in duties to
'the office of vice president of the United
.-States for which the people pay only
$8,000 a year. Generally, however, an
occupant for the place has been selected
t^solely because he had means of suste
nance aside from the salary and was
willing to come down handsomely for
the honor of going up.
iJlitrge consumers, even some of the
Itruafes, are beginning to cry out againBt
thevaalt trust for forcing up the price of
its product to such an exorbitant figure.
£alt is found in the United States in
large quantities. The salt mines and
salt springs in the state of New York
alom are sufficient to supply the entire
world with the product at a very low
price, but the trust has control of the
-situation and the price is such that the
great packers of Chicago, Omaha and
KansaB City are beginning to feel the
additional expense and to cry out
against it. The Armour Packing com
pany has found it necessary to import
.salt from Portugal. After paying for
•salt in that country, transporting it
^across the Atlantic, trans-shipping it to
1
New Orleans and bringing it to Chicago
~by rail, it is able to save a large sum
annually on the amount consumed. It
A ^11 buy no salt in this country unless
the price is cut down to a proper bams,
.However, the loss of a consumer like 1 little
vthe Armour Packing company, though
it buys large quantities of salt, does not
'"make so much difference to the trust
The trust .makes its profits out of the
small consumers, out of men. who buy
but few barrels of salt a year and these
numbered by the millions. The
aalt trust may'lose the custom of the
big packing houses, but it will not lose:
the small customer. The latter cannot
send to Portugal for what he buys. Th§
salt trusT wll|f therefore, continue to
levy tribute- apQ^. .lr^g people of the
UnitedBtfttee.
ROYAL.
^dbSBIItfEiylhlRE
AMERICA
COM
4bsoluteiv'Pure
NOTICE
NO MORE ORDERS
SWIll BE TAKEN TO
BUfLD SHIPS AS Wf
ARt WORKING TO
PULUtST
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
A GREAT COUNTRY.
In a recent speech Senator Frye set
forth these striking facts.
"Our wheat crop in 1898 was larger
than that of any other nation—twenty
three per cent, of the world's crop.
OOVAl BAKtWQ POWPER CO,. NEW YORK.
"TEE ABSENT-MINDED BEGOAB.
SHIPWRIGHTS
WANTED
AT ONCE
CRAMP^co
Our corn crop for the same year was
ten times greater than that of any other
nation—seventy-three per cent, of the
world's crop.
"Our export ofrprovisions was three
times greater than that of any other, na-'
tlon. •••.'
Our cottott--crop waa&vc^'times
-Seventy-five per cent, of the world's
production. ::~.U
"Our coal production last year-ex
ceeded that of any other nation—
thirty-one per cent, of the world's pro
on
™*-ndiiced in the
one to nrou^—
Among kUW
Maine legislature is one
(be prohibitory law to a vote of the
people. The bill is pushed by the ad
vocates of high license, who claim the
prohibition law is practically a dead
letter. Would it not be a singular con
dition of things of a so-called temper
ance nature that 'the canteen and pro
hibition locked arms and walked into
the sea together?
Beauty
The most beautiful thing in
the world is the baby, all
dimples and joy. The most
pitiful thing is that same baby,
thin and in pain.^ XAnd the
mother does not know that a
little fat makes all
wthe_
differ--
ence.
Dimples and joy have gone
and left hollows and fear the
fat, that was comfort and
color and curve-all but pity
and love-is gone.
The little one
from her food. There is some
thing wrong it is either, her fooc
or food-mill. She has had no
fat for weeks is living on what
she had stored in that plump
gets no fat
body of hers and' that is
[gone. She is starving for fat
I it is death, be quick!
Scott's Emulsion of
Liver Oil is the fat she
take it will save her.
Baking
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—New York Evening Journal.
MR. TEMPLE NOT A CANDIDATE.
The Iowa Daily Capital of January
11th contains an elaborate announce
ment ot the candidacy of our fellow
townsman, Hon. M. L. Temple,, for gov
ernor. Mr. Temple, at the time of this
anouncement, was in Chicago, on legal
business, and, on his return The Sentinel
reporter interviewed him on the subject,
prepared to give him a hearty support,
but Mr. Temple promptly informed him
that the announcement was wholly un
authorised that under no cijrcuoaatancne
would £e
^"ti^'iiaya be
could not afford, even if there were a
possibility, to accept any- office that
would take him from his professional
work. He is a candidate for United
States District Attorney for the South
ern district of Iowa, and he and his
friends will press his claims for that
place to the fullest extent.—Osceola
GRIP EPIDEMICS.
The grip is epidemic in New York and
there are 100,000 cases in Chicago. The
New York Herald describes the type of
the disease in that city as follows:
"We are becoming so accustomed to
expect the appearance of grip at this
season that it is no surprise to learn
that it is here. Fortunately, however,
its type is quite mild and the acute at
tacks of the disease are of short dura
tion.
"It commences, as usual, with ca
tarrhal symptoms, aching of the limbs,
marked lassitude, a slight rise of tem
perature. So far the upper air passages
are mainly affected. The patient, as a
rule, is not confined to his room for
more than two or three days, but when
be getB up and around is apt to be an
noyed for a week or more with a trouble
some and dry cough.
"In exceptional ca'ses the febrile phe
nomena have lasted for eight or ten
days continuously, and have in some
respects resembled the symptoms of
commencing typhoid.
"For the most part the convalescent
patients are apt to be troubled for a
considerable period with weakness, gen
eral want of physical tone aud altogeth
er are very much out of sorts. It is
then that complications are apt to show
themselves after indiscretions in diet or
exposure to inclemencies of the weather.
Now is the time to be careful of 'a cold.'
The latter is very apt during the winter
months to invite pneumonia, but espec
ially so while influenza is. prevalent.
Paradoxical as it may appear, the
light attacks of grip are oftentimes more
dangerouB than the severe ones, as in
the former instances the patients are
most apt to be careless of themselves
during the weak physical conditions
that follows."
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The genuine has this pietureon
it, take no other.
If von have not tried it, send
lor free sample, its agreeable
taste will surprise you.
SCOTT & BOWNE.
Chemists, ...
409 P«arl St., N.
SQg. .and jll.OO
ail ciruntata.
Matt Quay has i)een "vindicated
with the assistance of so-called demo
crats—and now he is in position to give
the plum tree a few more shakes. The
senatorship was the best one however,
and he takes that for himself.
In the reapportionment of .congress
men it seems that Iowa is not in it ex
cept as it has beeu in the past twenty
years. It was iirst reported that the
•tate waa given jut additional member.
That was a miBtaj^.
The first barnin
new century in bl^
London dispatctesindicate
that
the
situation in SautiS, Africa is-more serious
than the Britisbrjjovernment is willing
to admit. Tl£Boer invasion of Cape
Colony has precipitated a condition ap
proximating civil war. Martial law has
been proclaimed^ many districts of
the colony, and'the "loyal" inhabitants
have been called to arms to assist in
repelling the .Dutch invaders. Guns
from a British battleship have been
landed at Cfefletown, the defenses of
that city have been strengthened, and
the Boer prisoners have been removed
to transports in the harbor. The Brit
ish colonies have been urged to -send
additional volunteer commands to8outh
Africa to help the "tnolher country"
conquer the few thousand Dutch who
are still in tbe field. Altogether, Lon
don seems to He in a state of mind bor
dering on panic mingled| with disgust.
If the Duttih population of Cape Col
ony should rise in a body and make
common cause^-with their brethren ini
arms in the Tpinsjvaul and Orange Free
State the Boers might yet be able to
force Great Britain into making sub
stantial concessions. "Not a vestige of
their independence shall remain," said
Lord Salisbury a few months ago but
this declaration did not crush the spirit
of the burghets, and ever since then
they have been waging war in their own
way and inflicting losses upon the ene
my. Not quite' two weeks ago Lord
Kitchener, the British commander-in
chief, made an.: address to paroled
burghers—under instructions from the
government, probably—in which he
displayed a moderation that was in
striking contrast to Lord Salisbury's
"unconditional surrender" ultimatum.
No doubt the British could subjugate
the Boers in time,'even if the latter
should be reinforced by -Cape Colony
burghers. But the continuation of the
war forpn indefinite period will entail
terribleHosses u^mei\ and the expendi
ture of an immense sum of money. The
Dutch can carry on guerilla warfare for
years, and as long ag .there are armed
bodies of burghers in= the field cutting
off railroad communication, attacking
Bmall British garrisons -and supplying
themselves with provisions, arms and
ammunition at the expense of the ene
my it will be necessary to keep the bulk
of the British army in South Africa.
Under the circumstances the British
peoplp §i$f*st inching the conclusion
caddie,.and that while they are ex-:
haunting their resources in the South
African war they may be sacrificing
their interests in other and equally im
portant fields. If this conviction should
become widespread it is not impossible
that the Boers may get terms which will
leave them a "vestige of their independ
ence" Lord Salisbury to contrary
notwithstanding.
Take" W eeks' HreM-upwtvi»'tuuR«w\
cheerfully retund the purchase price If it fails
to oure. Price 95 cents. W. E. Myers & Co,
1
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Combs
Comb!?
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It's a question what some
combs are made lor they
don't comb. When combs
tail to penetrate the hair
it is because the teeth have
been merely sawed out—
They should be hand finish
ed. Hand finished combs
are fhe ones that satisfy,
and we can sell you such
combs for what you have
paid for poor ones. Have
a full line of pocket, dress
ing and fine combst Some
thfitt are practically un
breakable. The latter
cost, more to begin with,
but a good deal less in the
long run.
W. E. MYERS.
Druggist.
Seasoned native lumber, dimension
stuff and bridge plank, material for
house and barn frames always on hand,
We buy our stock in car load lots
direct from the quaries in the east,
thereby enabling us to make
than firms buying in small quantities
Our business is run strictly on a first
class basis and we
ILivery
Sale Stable.
rc*'1
Feed and
^_New
p£c.«Urite3.ohn ©tout.
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F. D. Close.
J. A.Harris&Bro:
Manufacturers of and
Dealers In
Me ail fait
LEON, IOWA.
.We carry a magnificent line of monu
ments. The workmanship is unexcelled
and material used first-class.
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Special atttention given to
commercial men. Your patron
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all our work to give perfect satisfaction.
4Z-CIM**
ft BROS.
KaCara, by penrf«l«,
THE BIG CASH GROCERY HOUSE!
The holidays are over and we are making prices
on staple goods that will surprise you.
OUR PRICES ON
Pride of Kansas per sack ...... J..'...".
Blue Ribbon per isack 90c
Quten of Kansas per sack $1.00
Cream of Dakota per sack 1.00
One--half sack Cream of Dakota per sack 50c
One-half sack Shawnee Fancy per sack 50
Southern bran, sack included, per sack 80c
Southern Shorts, sack, included, per sack 85c
Corn meal bran per sack 50c
Chop feedj per hundred, notsacked 85c
1 Hay, Corn, Oat&, Straw and Wood. /•,
Fancy California evaporated peaches per pound lOc
Fancy California evaporated prunes per pound 5c
Fancy Oregon silver prunes, large per pound 10c
Fancy Evaporated apples per pound lc ...
31b pie peaches 3 cans 25c
31b peeled table peaches per can 10c
Jams, Jells, Butters, and 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 the 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. CLARK & X.
CORNER 8TH AND MAIN. LEON, IOWA,
£E Everything Beautiful =1
luit-T f/iifwith which we nnnm in mn
with which we come in con
tact helps to refine and
strengthen our finer nature.
$82,975.29
1,798.33
3,500.0b
.. 1,000 00
18,188.30
i&7l4se .9i
Real Estate and Loan /Vd
BcnUweat,
Contact with beautiful furn
iture and' beautiful sur
roundings subdues the
coarser and sharpens the
liner nature as a grindstone
sharpens a knife. Little
children take in impressions
as a sponge takes in water.
Thev should have a cosy,
pretty home to live in. We
keep everything to furnish
homes cosily and reason
ably.
r: Undertaking Department. 3
-*6 »i 4 a flly special at- 3'
tention isgiven
to this depart
ment. All calls 3
promptly look
ed after.
am .a Licensed Embalmernnder the laws'of Iowa.
BFSOUnCRS.
Loans anil Discounts
Overdrafts
Real Estate
Furniture and Fixtures
Cash and Exchange
SW"
A.C. BOXTSER.
5: PHONE 200 OPERA HOU8E BLOCK.
-A OFFICERS.
J. Switzer,Pres. J. H. Davis, Vice Pres. A. L. Ackerley,Cash, J. C. Brothers Asst.
STATE SAYINGS BANK
A*
IOWA.
GRAND RIVER,
DIRECTORS.
J. Switzer, John Boyd, Peter Breneman, J. H. Davis, A. L.
Statement December 13,1900, To Auditor of State.
Ackerley.
LIA1JILITIE9.
tio.ooo.oo
Capital Paid in
Earnings
Call Deposits #30.071.18
Time Deposits 1C,485.8®
Interest Allowed on Time Deposits of Six Months and Over.
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m*TR!l*r C^IUiri RMAlVffl
900.1'-'
Total. W?,456.91
iowa.
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