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the plane and saw, or to make it short,
the producers generally? The farmers
in Missouri do not receive the recogni-
ton from the State they should, and Ii
is their fault for not standing togeth-
er. At the last General Assembly an
increase Of salary was asked for the
worthy Secretary Of the Board Of Agri-
culture from $500 to 81. 200 per year,
and 1t was refused and opposed by
many farmer members; in fact, it was
really defeated by them. A short
time after this it was thought another
place could be made for some one to
rub up the old guns in the Adjutant-
Generals Office to be called the Adju-
tant's clerk at 3 salary Of 81 800 per
year, and many farmers supported the
measure.
Why should Missouri have State
Fair?
FIRST. Because we are able and 1t
would be no burden.
SECOND. Because the producing
interests of the State are great, and by
adopting a plan that would collect to-
gether the best of our products, it
would enable q man to there
the different kinds of seed and plants,
them, than would be possible to 90
quire in any other way In the same
time.
THIRD. Because 1t IL the safest
place for a man to go for the purpose of
obtaining stock to improve his stables,
herds, fiocks or his swine, as he can
there compare one animal with anoth-
er. Ifhe could see but one at q time
and be required 10 carry the form, size
and general appearance in his minds
eye he would be attempting something
that but few men are capable of doing.
FOURTH. Because other states
advertise their resources, and we
must, or stand at q great disadvantage.
FIFTH. Because the whole State
would receive therefrom a substantial
benefit.
SIXTH. Because 1t would excite q
spirit of emulation and enterprise in
our citizens that would be healthy and
commendable, which to some extent
now lies dormant.
SEVENTH. Because this IL the only
way ever devised to encourage the
working bee, and at the same time
muzzle the biood-suckers and drones.
EIGHTH. Because q fair supported
by State aid would be free from all
tuS SdtuuHuk ueNtcoS hHu uquOf SELL
ing that make many other fairs 90 OBJ
noxious to some of our good citizens.
NINTH. Because it Is for and by the
whole people.
TENTH. Because the reasons are all
in favor and none against it.
Saturday nights session was full.
ly as we'll attended as those of
other sessions and fully as inter-
esting. The following papers
were read: "Plant Fertilization"
G. D. Purniton, of Columbia. Ad-
dress, A. s. Smith, of Hannibal.
animal Disease" DR.. Paul Pa
quin, of Columbia. Education
and Agriculture" L. A. Martin,
Chilllcothe, School Commissioner
of Lexington county. Address,
Hon. L. E. Wolf, Moberly, State
Superintendent elect of Public
Schools.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
$3.50 EACH.
The Kansas City Sun Editors
Found Guilty.

The editors of the Kansas City
Sunday Sun were last week found
guilty in Squire Winscott's court
for libeling Miss Laura Riley and
were fined $3.50 and costs each.
They appealed TO the Circuit Court
giving a s400 bond each. The limit
of punishment in such cases is
81, 600 fine, or one year in Jail, or
both. The case will come up at
the January term of Circuit Court.
Immediately after the terminus
tion Of the trial Miss Riley, through
her attorney, George Robertson,
brought suit against Messrs. Pres.
ton and Laveen, the proprietors Of
the Sun, for the sum OF $4,000
damages for defamation Of charsc-
ter
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
DOUBLE HIS AGE.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Show Marries {
Man Without Religion.

C.L Haskell andMrs NJ. NJ Show.
of st. Louis, applied for a marriage
license yesterday morning to Depu-
ty County Clerk Flleschbein al,
Belleville, Ill. Haskell gave his
age as % and his brides as 46 The
groom said he was printer by
trade and Mrs Haskell replied that
she had no husband living. The
couple repaired Immediately to the
office of Justice Martin Medsrt
After making knnwn their inten-
tions and producing the license the
Judge was proceeding to unite
them in holy wedlock when the
groom said: "Make the ceremony
as short as possible, with as little
religion about it as you can, :"
Everything went along smoothly
until the Justice propounded the
usual questions ending with sac
cording to Gods holy ordinance. F"
Haskell objected to the use of the
word God. The Justice complied
with his desires and the couple
were declared man and wife.-St.
Louis Republic.
There is tinge of romance in
the above recorded marriage that
will doubtless be OF interest to the
BRIDES many friends in this city
and section; in fact, an air of ro-
nance has always clustered around
the fair being who has at last per-
mitted the god of love to step in
and play such a prominent part in
her llfe's affairs. Mrs. Show was
nothing if not romantic. Before
leaving for St. Louis to reside,
the lady told friend confden,
TALLY that she intended to marry
secretly and pledged her friend not
to divulge it for three months. In
order not to make the marriage
public the groom and bride went t'
Belleville, H., not thinking Ii
would be reported from there. c
L. Haskell, the young groom, is, we
are told, an itlnerant phrenologist
and lecturer, wearing long curly
hair and having q countenance thai
is grave and awe-inspiring. The
romance comes in here: The couple
fell in love through correspondence
and Mrs. Show went to st. Louis
| to meet her fate. AS soon as she
saw Haskell che knew there woulc
be a wedding if he was OF the same
mind as herself. "Barkis wal
willin', "everything was congenlal
and, although the bride always sait
it was her highest ambition in liz
to wed-if she ever did marry
minister of the gospel, fate SO de
creed 1t that the prize she secured
IN llfe's lottery objected to tn
name of the Divinity being called
in the marriage ceremony-at least
30 newspaper reports say. Before
marriage Mrs. Show was engaged
lin some sort of newspaper work il
St. Louis. She has considerable
ability in this line and it is proba
BILE that a new chronological jour
NAL will appear shortly. edited b,
IC. L. Haskell & Co. The LEDaEl
extends congratulations to its old
time friend and her worthy hus
hand
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

iHE County Treasurer of Boone
.0unsy, it is reported, stole twen-
y thousand dollars of the peoples
money. This fact was known some
aals ago. 1t should have been
,aoHn :. months-yes, years ago.
Inc accused has not been arrested;
.. not even resigned up to this
snting. The courts OF the country
No kept busy with cases where par
ass are accused Of stealing sums
money all the way from five
seven cents, and some higher
.uounts. Boone county contains
NE seat Of learning of the State oi
= ,n'soari. Boone county is
"spanse until we hear from Boone
ln. II is time the question as to
ns'asr the stealing of five cents
ss . man thief, and the steal.
@ over ten dollars makes the
g man agentleman, was settled
8 'ais part Of the world.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
The Burial of Bull.

Fort YATES, S. D., Dec. Is -
The funerals of the five Indian
policemen who gave up their lives
SO heroically Monday morning took
place at the agency yesterday after
noon. The full military force OF
the fort was on hand and a regular
military funeral was held. 1t was
very impressive. Four were buried
in the Catholic cemetery and the
fifth, Little Eagle, being a Protest
ant, will be inferred On Grand
river.
Sitting Bulls body was laid away
in the post graveyard to-day with
few honors.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
LIS Sheep Growing Profitable to
the Earmer?


First-There is much less capi.
tai required than in any other
branch of bookkeeping. 1t is not
necessary that sheep be pure bred;
the best of our common sheep are
good enough, and such can be got
at a reasonable figure, and with
proper management and the use OF
well-bred sires there need be no
fear of the result.
Second-Sheep require the least
attention of any kind of stock, and
require less expensive housing in
winter. A building that protects
them from storms in winter is all
that is necessary, while in summer
they will thrive on comparatively
scant pasture. They will also
pick their living late in autumn
and can be turned out much earlier
In tn spring than any other kind
of stock.
Tnird-They are the best scav-
engers the farmer can have, eating
much that would otherwise go to
waste. also spreading their drop
pings more evenly on the poorest
spots, thus helping to renovate the
wornout lands.
Fourth-Their freedom from dis
ease is also strong point in their
favor.
Fifth-They give the farmer two
crops per year-a crop of lambs
and a crop of wool. An ordinary
eve, fairly feed and looked after,
will give from 7 to 8 pounds of
wooleach year; this, at the current
price of 20 cents per pound will
give return of about 81 so for each
sheep. A fairly-well managed
flock of ewes will produce from
IA to l 3-4 lambs per eve, and
have known flock to give as many
as two lambs per eve. These
lambs, with fair attention. will be
worth on Nov. 1st Uaking the
prices of the last few years as a
basis) S. per head. This, with the
wool. makes an annual return of
about So per eve.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

The Linneus Bulletin truthfully
says: A newspaper that sells its
space at the rate of $40 for quar-.
ter.page advertisement to be insert
ed four times has no right to expect
merchants to consider it a paying
medium in which to advertise.
Good goods command a better
price.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
Geo. Suggett's Bad Luck.

To the Editor Of he LeGgrr.
COLLEGE CITY, CAL, Dec. IA
7 am still in the raisin business
here. 1 had ten tons the first croI
and as many the second; but had
to put them in dry house to dry
them, We had 100 trays, 6 lbs
per tray, III the dryer and it caugh'
fire and everything burned t.
ashes. We lost 500 or $500 worth
but still you will find s1.5O enclos
ed to pay for the LEDGER.
You friend and reader,
G.. II. SUGGETT.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

The Kansas City Star says an
old farmer, who has lived for thir-
ty-tive years In Audrain county,
predicts a white Christmas and q
lean graveyard. The cold weather
sign he says is in every object
long hair on all the animals, wool
ly feathers on the legs of the birds,
and thick bark on the trees.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

Mr.. VIM. L. Ragsdale, the "old
field school teacher" got choked
on a piece of bone at the home of
Mr.. Leatherman, near Old Clinton,
Monroe county, a few days ago.
The bone remained in his throat
is hours and 20 minutes. DR..
Dysart relieved him by pushing
the bone into the stomach.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
A Blood-Curdling Writer.


R. NJ. White, of the Mexico LED
GER, is still writing blood-curdling
stories about the haunted hill west
of that city. In the art of giving
color to a ghost story other papers
don't stand a ghost of show with
the Mexico LEDGER.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

The State Press Association will
meet at Jefferson City on the Sec
snd Thursday and Friday in Feb
ruary. A most interesting pro-
gsmme is being prepared and we
re sure the meeting will be one OF
the most successful in the history
ofthe association.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

Mr.. Quay states that he did not
lose nickel by the failure of Mr..
Delamatsr's bank. By the way,
Mr.. Quay's late candidate for the
Pennsylvania governorshlp an.
nounces that he is ready to pay 5C
cents On the dollar to his creditors
That's better than nothing.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
The State Fair.

Following is the able paper,
complete, read before the Institute
on the subject of a State Fair, by
Hon. @. F. Clark, of this city:
The honorable Secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture, In calling
this Institute, doubtless did so with a
view OF having . full and fair discus
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

Hon. c. f. CLARK delivered a
most admirable address before the
farmers Institute on the necessI-
y OF State Fair. The LEDGER
Produces this speech in full and
His worthy of the attention Of
every friend of the agricultural
interests of the State.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

JOHN A. HANNAY Is back again
va partner in his old paper, the
morgan County Leader, published
y versailles. John is one of the
Oess all-around newspaper men in
ue State. He was connected for
more than a year with the Sedalia
, ua'esss, but finally returned to
am old home, where he ia known
" every "chick and child" in the
county.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

F. Il. WADE, Secretary of the
Democratic and of the Farmers
Alliance Executive Committees ol
Tennessee, says that the Farmers
Aliisneeis non partisan. Mr.. Wade
is opposed to the third party
movement
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

WANAMAKEa is trying to i'm
prove the last chance to put a pos.
tal..elegraph scheme through a Re-
publican Congress.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

ACCORDING to the charges of his
nfmer partner, w. w. Dudley
seens to have been as crooked as a
banker as he was as a politician.
md his "blocks Of FIVE" political
methods sink into insigni6cance
snen compared with his fraudu-
lent financial practices.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
GOOD COWS PAY.
Dairying in Audrain Comfy Ra.
coming a Large and
Paying Indus
try.

A recent writer in the Dairu
| World, publication devoted ex-
clusively to dairy interests, has the
following to say of Audrain Coun-
tvs new industry: I have just
returned from a ten days visit to
Martinsburg, Audrain County, No.,
where l visited some thirty fami-
lies of industrious Germans, who
We're my neighbors twenty five
years ago in Csage County, Mo. The
most of them are farmers. The
last few years their attention and
efforts have been in raising beet.
cattle.
They told me they had to keep
a COW a year to get calf, and keep
the calf three years to get beef.
And for four years. time, work,
trouble and expense, their beef
would bring them in the market
from $40 to s25 per head. The
more beeves they raised, the less
money they had. The country
surrounding Martinsburg is prairie,
with fine grazing, all fenced. The
farmers called a meeting last win.
ter, organized a stock company,
elected their officers, incorporated,
and then bought two acres of
ground three blocks from the
depot. They bored a well, made a
pond, and put up a creamery with
one separator and the other neces
sary furniture and fixtures, and an
ice box. The total cost of the
whole, including we'll, lot, pond,
all complete, was $500. They
began operations about the middle
of March last have made a great
success, and are now getting along
finely. They have been making
200 lbs. of A No, 1 butter per day
all summer. for which they have
found a ready sale in Mexico and
St. Louis. They pay the patrons
20 cents per 100 pounds for the
milk, delivered at the creamery,
and have the skim milk to tax g
home with them. One morning l
saw them receive 4,67O pounds
of milk the next morning L saw
them churn, salt, work, pack and
weigh 202 pounds of as nice butter
as l ever saw, for which they were
getting their % cents per pound.
This new enterprise is the means
of bringing into that neighborhood
Sl5, 900 a year. The farmers are
p rfectly delighted, and straining
every nerve to get more and better
COWS. They want to put in anoth-
er separator in the spring, and
want TO increase their output to 500
pounds of butter per day. l am
an expert myself in handling milk
and making butter, and pronounce
the Martinsburg creamery first
class in every respect, the manage
ment good and product excellent.
This creamery is doing SO well that
the farmers at Rush Hill, ten miles
north, have built a creamery just
like it, constructed by the same
parties, and began operating it DC
tober 9Th last. Heretofore these
people have been getting from 500
| to s25 for a beef that took them
four years to raiae. Now, a COW
that averages one gallon of milk
per day brings them slS per year,
two gallon cow sS6, and three
gallon cow s54 per year and the
cost of keeping the COW is very
little more each than the keeping
of the steer each year, as the steer
had to be fed On corn the last
winter. These people saythey would
rather have fifty good COWS, and
furnish milk to the creamery, than
to run for Congress if they knew
they would be elected. They
write C w with capital letters
now, and seldom write beef at all.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

The Farmers Alliance has de.
nounced the Force bill, and if it be-
comes a law the Republican party
will simply have put another nail
in its own political coffin in the
Alliance States.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

The cedalia Gazette has just
issued a most valuable review
edition, which will prove of great
benefit to the business interests OF
its clty.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

John NJ. Wilson sold his bay
mare, "Annie Rooney" to St.
Louis party Friday for handsome
sum. John is the we'll known
travelling man. IT.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

CD. FERRIS is home from the
South, which insure- US that there
will be no need to buy an over
coat this winter.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

Ir begins to look as though there
vas no bottom to the hole-in-the-
ground as regards the supply of
uakar
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

farmers who failed 10 attend
the Institute missed a rare treat.
The meeting was both interesting
and instructive.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

THERE is less sickness IN Mex
ieo than in any town of its size in
the State.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

THE Horse Breeders Association
Of Missouri meets in Mexico Dec
90 There will be a full attend
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

TIE old directors of the Mexico
Mining Company were reelected
to-day.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

Elder Geo. r. Dodson has re-
signed the pastorste of the Fulton
Christian Church, to take effect
January /.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

Ex STATE TREASURER holland
sill be tried January 9Th.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

The young people OF Mexico are
,,epsring for a merry Christmas.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

RUSH HILL NEWS.
Correspondence of the Ledger.

Correspondence of the Ledger.
RUSH HILL, No., Dec. 18.-The
church here that came so near be.
ing blown down last summer, has
been thoroughly repaired and the
walls replastered and ceiled over
head. The Sunday School that has
been held at the school house the
last six months will again occupy
the church next Sabbath.
The young ladies from a dis
tance, attending the Seminary, will
leave for home Saturday to spend
the holidays.
Rev. Arnold, of Mexico, has
been called as pastor of the Baptist
Church of this place and Will
preach one Sabbath in the month
We have been asked a number of
times lately, is it fact that our
depot agent is married, or is he
only playing a joke?
A few nights ago, while a dance
was going on in the vacant store
room on the corner, Il little bird
few into toe room and made for
the nearest lamp, and with the
Tapping of its wings put the lamp
out. 1t continued its operation un-
til all the lamps were e&tinguish-
ed, and they were left in the dark.
Stock shipped from here through
the week: John Bick, three cars
of cattle, and R. McClintic, one
car cattle to Chicago; billiard &
Bartel, one load of hogs and Dud
Murray, one load of cattle to St.
Louis.
Mrs, DR.. Crawford is improying
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

Auxvasse is to have another
paper shortly.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

Miss Alice Mason entertained
the members of the "Upper Ten"
Club and their gentlemen friends
last week with a candy pulling.
A most enjoyable time was had by
all present. They were: Misses
Nellie SuIlinger, Susie Coons, Bena
Newhouse, Nellie Coons, Fam
ME Potts, Emma Cauthorn,
Emma Morris, Bessie Emmons,
Hebe Grantham, Ida Menefee,
Cordie Mundy, Natalie Dryden,
Loua Steele, Julia Morris, Jessie
Wells, Kota Luckie, May Hughes,
Minnie Basket, Stella Harper and
Messrs. Crossley, Dixon, Phillips,
Ryerson, Basket, Victor, Buckley,
Brown, Menefee, Morris, CriswelI,
Watts and Mason.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
Items From Santa Fe.

From me Ferry Enterprise.
J. M. DAVIS and wife, of Mexico,
visited Mrs. G. G. Davis last
ThurFday.
j. Wood Trimble and family, O
Mexico, are visiting his father this
week.
Miss Mamie Mosley, of Mexico,
who has been visiting relatives
here for the past two weeks, re-
turned home Wednesday.
Roy Stuart and family go to Pal
myra this week were they will
spend the winter. VIM. Pollock
will move into the G. c. Davis
house, vacated by Mr.. Stuart.
Mrs. C. G. Davis, we are glad to
learn, is better. her children, Miss
Mamie. Jesse and Joe, came down
from Mexico last Friday to see
her. J. w. Trimble is but little
better
J. R. Smiley sold, last week, to
Mr.. Guthrie, of Mama, Saline
county, 63 head of extra 2-year-old
steers, at $40 per hundred. This
bunch of cattle is hard to beat for
2-year-olds, in fact they are the
best lot Bob has ever handled, and
this is saying dood deafs tor he
has handled quite a number OF
good ones.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25
Mrs. OHutt Dead.

Mrs. O1utt Dead.
Mrs. A. M. Offutt, mother oil
Joseph Offutt of this city, died last
Thursday at o'clock of conclusion
of the brain. Mrs. Ofutt was "a
years of age and had become very
feeble. In walking across the
room Tuesday she fell, her head
coming in contact with the bed
which produced conclusion OF the
brain and resulted in her death
She was an estimable old lady and
will be sadly missed by her numer
GUS friends and acquaintances.
The funeral services of Mrs. A
NJ. Offutt were held last Friday
at the residence of her son, JOSEPH
Offutt, on East Liberty street, anc
were conducted by Rev. A. E
Rogers, assisted by Rev. A. A
Wallace. The interment tool
place in the new cemetery. De
ceased was a good Christian wo
| man.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-12-25

of Fulton, discoursed on the sub
ject of "Dairying." Mr.. Erwin is
known all over the State al one Of
the best dairymen in Missouri. He
has an unbroken record of seventeen
years. experience in the business
and has been unusually successful.
He has ability and plainly showed
he had practical knowledge while
handling the various questions rel
alive to his subject. Mr.. Erwlr
gave some startling figures In re
gard to the profits to be made from
dairying, and said that nothing paie
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-08-30
AN INLAND SEA RESORT.

There are conditions which are des-
tined to make the City Of Devils Lake
q summer resort second to none in the
Northwest. First, it has good hotel and
boarding house accommodations, then
the climate is cool and bracing on the
hottest day to one accustomed to the
moist and sultry heat Of more Southern
latitudes. There are no fogs or sudden
changes Of temperature. Malaria
troubles were eve known to originate
in this region, and there is rare exemp-
ton too from the annoyance of mosqui-
toes and other insect pests. Sufferers
from hay fever and pulmonary troubles
get immediatnrelief Then the lake is
of sufficient size to afford tourists a con-
slant round Of novelties for many
weeks. Its waters are warm enough in
the summer months for delightful bath
ing, while the salty tinge it possesses
not only gives q person a mild idea
Of sea bathing, but tt ia invigorating,
healthful and enjoyable in the extreme,
and most beneficial in rheumatic and
skin diseases. From the city across to
Fort Totten, q government military
post, q distance Of nine miles, it's depth
varies but little from 40 feet, but east
ward Of that, in Mission bay, q 200 foot
line failed to reach bottom. There is
fine fishing, il one enjoys catching pick
erel, ranging in weight from three to
SIX pounds. They r fine gamey fellows
and serve as deliciously on the table as
they are sportive to catch. The lake has
several wooded islands, and groves fringe
the mainland shore in many places. It
is the largest body of water between the
Red River and the Rocky Mountains.
The lake is reached direct by the Great
Northern railway without change from
st. Paul and Minneapolis. All around
is an ideal farming country.