The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-12-08
The lumber is at Myrick for the new de

The lumber is at Myrick for the new depot.
The city council will pay out %, 500 on
next Monday night.
Mr.. Robt. Hale has been installed as office
deputy by Sheriff Mitchell.
The water tank ct Myrick of which we
have already spoken is completed.
At last! fences have been put across the
Rylsnd and John walls, dangerous places.
Jim Gates kills hogs with prOmptness. He
gives satisfaction to his employers It not to
the hogs.
There is a little bridge crossing at the cor
ner Of Twenty first and Franklin avenue
which Is in need of repairs.
If you desire to use any New Years cards
now is the time to order. Don't put 1t of.
but come in and look at our handsome line Of
samples.
The Christmas goose Is the merchant who
n~egleets to lot his customers know through
the newspaper of what a nice line of presents
he has for sale.
The Baptist Female College put in two
new pianos this week; one a square concert
grand, and the other an upright. This makes
fourteen pianos that are in constant use in
the institution.
Judge Wood has a handsome new fence in
front of his residence, so has Mr.. Jos. Chinn,
and the painters are at work at Mr.. C.. Ben
Russeli's. The plasterers are at work at Mr..
David Smiths houses. The brickwork at
MIR. Moorehead's is about completed. Mr..
Kerry Is stopped because he is out of brick.
but he is burning IA new kiln as fast as he can
do IL. Mr.. Farrar is so busy with new brick
work that he can't catch up with his repair
ing work. There Is much other building and
patching going on, and old Lexington is i'm
proving right along.
Scalemaster Fred Gramm has been COM
planning to the mayor and chairman of the
scales committee for several weeks that some
vagrant was making q ~lodging.place of the
second ward scales house, and wanted the
city TO furnish q new lock for the door. So
persistent has he been in his complaints and
demands that q few of the ''boys' about
town concluded to "put up a job' on him and
so, last Monday night, fixed up q dummy and
placed 1t in a comfortable position upon Mr..
Gramm's chair, with q blanket thrown over
Nv shOuiuOios dhu diIOSCtuOI gave
1t the appearance of "a warrior taking his
rest with his martial cloak around him." On
the following morning, Mr.. Gramn., IN the
dim light of the morning star, unlocked the
door Of the Office, stepped in, and, observing
the image, jumped back so suddenly and
fo-cibly that he brought up with q heavy thud
against the rock wall around the courthouse
square, nearly knocking the breath from his
body. After recovering sufficiently, he
plucked up courage enough to take a peep
into each Of the windows, and becoming con-
WINGED that he had not been mistaken, started
post-haste on a hunt for City Marshal Chinp,
fully satisfied that he would now secure the
culprit and rid himself of the nuisance Of
which he had been complaining and from
which be had not succeeded in getting relief
from the proper authorities. Not sue
eeeding in finding the marshal, he gathered
together several early rlsers, who, for some
cause every morning can be found about the
northeast corner of block AZ, and arming
them with clubs, pokers, rocks, etc., mar
shaled them in line Of battle, MIR. Gramm
bringing up the rear. presumably to see that
none Of his "soldiers' shirked their duty and
failed 10 earn the promised reward of some
thing that rhymes nicely with his name. In
this order they finally reached the office and
making a gallant charge thereon, after first
giving vent to a prolonged .rebel YELL"
found to their CONSERVATION that the whole
army had been .'sold." After hunting up the
weigh-master, who had stubbed mis- toe and
was nursing the same near the southeast cor
ner Of the square,, on Tenth street, behind the
rock wall, the crowd proceeded to 'battle
row, )" where liquid refreshments were serv-
ed to the tired veterans-this time Captain
Gramm being required 10 take position in the
front rank. Everything is now harmonious
on the field OF battle, with the exception that
Mr.. Gramm refuses 10 give up the full suit oil
Mr.. Jas. Green's clothes. iu which the dunn
my was dressed. and eminent legal counsel
having been employed, ''suit' Will immedi-
ately be brought for their recovery. Oh
course Mayor Welborn and Milt Price, from
whom we gather the particulars and incl
dents Of this severe ENCOUNTER, had nothing
whatever to do with getting up the 'sell,r
snd only happened to be in the vicinity
at the time, and could not help noticing the
GommotiOn caused by these unusual proceed.
ings. p. S.-The "intelligent contraband'
by whom the image was ''packed" to the
Office made several narrow escapes from be.
Ing captured while en- route there. and
nearly scared the wits out of i've "ladIes'
who were at the time promenading along
Eleventh street. opposite the jail. who, 1t II
supposed, thought he was carrying of a mau
whom he had just murdered.
The Kansas City Times of last Tuesday had
this item which may be OF interest In Lex.
ington and vicinity Among the letters thai
Mr.. h. NJ, Davis, whose Offices are in the
Sheldley building, will probably receive this
morning will be one from hls nephew, Ii. d
Waldo. In it Mr.. Waldo will express his
gratitude for past kindness and will ask thai
his dead poly be placed beside his mothers
grave in the cemetery at Lexington, Mo.
But the writer will not be q corpse by any
means, at least the present indications DOM
point In that direction. From II O'Clock last
night until the day relief came on this morn.
Ing a young man sat 10 the central police
station. He was about 90 years Of age, re,
markably handsome in face and figure ant
was neatly dressed, 1t was Fl. ID. Waldo
who came to this city last Saturday night ant
registered at the Grand Missouri hotel
About IL o'clock last night Mr.. l.. W. Cam
the proprietor OF the Grand Missouri, called
at the central police station and told Captain
McGinnfs that he had a guest who contem'
plated suicide. An officer was sent over anC
Waldo was arrested and taken to the station
There he told a Times reporter a little OF BIZ
life and explained why he wanted to die:-
81 am a Respondent man, that is the Onll
reason" he ssid. "All my life has been
failure and l want to relieve my friends o
she burden I have been to them.'' Wald,
was extremely nervous and at times he caugh
his breath with a half gasp. half sob, like ,
shild that had cried itself into Mysteries. II,
said he was born In Lexington, Mo. TIVE
weeks later his mother died and q few year
after his father removed TO Prattsburg, N
Y. aud soon after married a second time
When young Waldo was seventeen years OLE
his father died and his stepmother set hin
adrift. His uncle, Mr.. II. NJ. Davis of thi
city, educated him and In 1884 he graduate,
at a law school and soon afterward went t,
Avoca. N. Y, and began practicing. In sup
port of this latter statement Waldo SHOWED
q note book In which were written the title
of numerous civil cases. Continuing hI
story he said "Despite the fact that l di,
acme business I never prospered aud had t.
call on my uncle for money occasionally anC
1 grew Respondent. About one month ago