The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-10-05
O M%IsSOURIANs.

Soh, h~lLhUTOuBnJ Ill tuo Otato OhiFOi
sity at Columbia.
TWELVE of the thirty-eight circui
Q judges of Missouri were born in thi
= state and seven in Kentucky.
JARED E. SMITH, who now repre-
sents Douglas county is the legislature
was state register of lands in 1864.
JOHN A. HANNAY, editor of tn
Sedalia Gazette, still holds the fort a
Washington as clerk of the printing
: committee.
ABRAHAM FULKERsoN, now a notary
t at Tuscumbia, Miller county, is TIT
: oldest living ex-state auditor. He hello
the office In 1862.
4 REPRESENTATIVE MORRISON, an ablt
, and faithful legislator, will be asked by
the democrats of Pulaski county tC
again become their candidate for thu
legislature.
Elk CoNGREssMAN CLARDY it Is said
will be asked to serve in the next legis
lature. The people of the southeast
want him, but it is a question whether
he would consent.
GEN. JOHN W. NOBLE, secretary Of
the interior, owns three hundred acres
of land at Oronogo, Jasper county, and
has sunk three shafts there and found
mineral in big paying quantities.
GEN. JAMES l.. MINOR, who served
Missouri as secretary of state from 1888
TO 1S45, is still living at Jefferson City,
a hale, hearty, vigorous old man, sur
rounded by his accomplished family.
j. PROCTOR KNOTT, the famous Ken
lucky congressman, was attorney gen.
eral of Missouri from 1865 to 1860, and
might have held the Office until now
had he not refused to take the test oath.
HORACE r. WILLIAMS, of Purdy,
Barry county, has been appointed re-
ceiver of the land Office at Springfield.
MIR. Williams is a representative of the
young republican element of the dis
trict and was a delegate to the last ma
tional convention.
The marriage of Prof. A. A. Fuller,
late professor of physics in the Mis-
souri, University, to Miss AnDie Lucin-
da lde, of Providence, r. L., took place
September 20, and they will be at home
to their friends at A Brighton street,
Providence, r. L.
Rev. PETER Ii. TRoNE, chaplain of
the last house of representatives, is
talked of by his friends as good ma
terial for railroad commissioner. He
lives at Clinton and is known as "the
fighting parson." He is now engaged
in organizing tariff reform clubs in the
southwest.
THOMAS ALLEN, the bright young
brother. of Capt. Albert o. Allen, chief
clerk of the state auditors office, has
been appointed by the civil service
commission as a law clerk in one of the
departments at Washington. He will
probably decline the appointments he
is 10Y attending the State University
at Columbia.
SENATOR MORTON 3. ANDERSON, of
Platte county, one of the statute re-
vising committee, is quietly being talk
ed about in legal circles IS a suitable
man for dean of the law department of
the State University Uice Judge Bliss,
uV~-a anu yv..l--o aro nthnrs who
think he would make most excellent
supreme judge.
The Carthage Democrat
the candidacy of Mr.. j. M. White,
superintendent of the Carthage public
schools, for the democratic nomination
for state superintendent of public
schools. Mr.. White is a native of
Kentucky, a graduate OF the North
Missouri normal school, and the Uni
versity of Michigan, and has been
superintendent of schools at Barry,
Clay county; Louisiana. Pike county,
and at Carrollton.
AN uDkind newspaper at Warrens-
burg suggests that State Geologist
Winslow should by all means locate his
bureau at Jefferson City, as he would
then have good opportunities for study
ing fossils. The Warrensburg man has
been misinformed. Jefferson City has
no fossils. The people are becoming
awakened, and will 500 build a pom.
toon bridge across the Misso uri, thus
doubling the trade of the city.
GEN. JOHN b. HENDERSON is the
Oldest living ex-judge of the state su
preme court, he having been appointed
in 1862. This comparatively recent
date recalls the fact that few men at
tain the supreme bench unfit they have
reached a ripe age, and hence their re-
tirement Is o o succeeded by death.
II Is q coincidence that none OF the able
%jurists who served Missouri on the
supreme bench fron 1920 until 1860 are
now alive.
THE Charleston Democrat says:-M.
B. Waite, a botanist from the depart
ment of agriculture, is in the city
making an investigation tor the govern.
ment into the diseases of plants. He
is one of a number scattered over the
country for a similar purpose. While
seeking specimens for his use Wednes-
| day Mr.. Waite discovered a variety of
grass which he thinks ia new to bota-
nists and may be valuable. He will
take a sample OF it with him TO Wash
ington.
The Columbia Herald says: -Coun-
ty Clerk Bstterton, IN gathering up
about a wagon load of old papers to be
burned, under the new law, came
across an old county warrant which is
u curiosity. 1t is printed upon very
fine, thin paper of a silken texture, in
the form of II bill. 1t is an order TO pay
w. r. Switzler one dollar and is signed
by w. Woodsou, comfy clerk, and M.
Il. Arnold, president OF i.pe county
court, and is dated Columbia, March /,
1912, making it nearly hall u century
old.
WILLIAM w. SALMON, a prominent
citizen of Clinton, died last week. He
was born in Greenville District, South
Carolina, In 1882. When but eight
years OF age his parents removed to
Missouri. locating at Versailles. in