Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-01-12

Inc 0fuef III WHICH Tue inauSuiai
procession proceeded from the Gov
errors office to the house of Repre-
sentatives was as follows:
l.. Sergeants-at-arms.
2. Committees of escort.
3. Judges of the Supreme Court.
4. State officers.
5. President Pro. Tenn. Sebree
of the Senate and Lieut.. Gov. ELECT
O'Meara.
6. Gov. Claycomb presided over
the joint session.
BIOGRAPHY OF GOV. STONE.
Governor Stone is a Kentuckian,
and in his dress, accent, daily life
and personal habits bespeaks the
gallantry and refinements of the
state which has furnished so many
statesmen for Missouri. He was
born in Madison county, May Z,
1S47, and consequently is 45 years of
age, a comparatively young man
Tor one who has attained distinction
through long experience in Con-
gress. He was educated in the
State University of Missouri. and
having spent the best years of his
life here he feels more of a Missou-
rian than q Kentuckian.
When the war began Colonel
Stone was too young to take a very
active part, but he associated him
self with the Seventh Kentucky
cavalry, c. S. A, for a short time.
1t was about the year 1868 when he
came to Missouri, and his residence
in this state has covered, therefore,
4 period of thirty years. He was
admitted to the bar in 1867, and
was Prosecuting Attorney of Vernon
county during the years 1S72-'74.
In addition to his business as a law
yer Colonel Stone has also engaged
largely in farming and cattle raising.
HIS congressional career began in
1884, when he was honored with a
seat in Congress from The Twelfth
District and for three terms was re-
elected, refusing at last to again be-
come a candidate. In the House he
was conspicuous by reason of his
defense of the people against the n
croachment of corporations and was
especially prominent in the matter
of saving to the actual settlers ofthe
country.
HIS HOME LIFE.
Colonel Stones home life is pecu-
liarly pleasant and sympathetic.
His good wife, who was a Miss Win
ston, of Jefferson City, presides over
his household affairs with much
grace and affability. As mistress of
the mansion she will be entirely at
home, since her fathers family for
generations have been familiar with
official life and as a girl it was part
and parcel of her existence.
Colonel and Mrs. Stone have three
children, but ''the baby" has long
since ceased to be classed in the cat
egory of infants. The oldest is a boy
named kimbrough, after his uncle,
Kim Winston, and who is now Is
years of age. He is now a Junior at
the State University.
The oldest daughter is named
Mabel, now about IA years old, and
is attending Christian College at Co.
lumbia.
Mildred, the baby, is 10 years Of
age and is, of course, at home with
her parents.
COLONEL stones HOME.
Colonel Stone located at Nevada,
Vernon county, in 1870, shortly after
his admission to the bar. 1t was
then a town of about 800 people,
whereas now it has nearly 5000 and
is one OF the business cities of the
southwest. He began the practice
Of law in the back room Of areal estate
office and took his meals in a neigh
BORING restaurant that was located in
a basement. Speaking of those
DAYS. Colonel Stone said.
''Dr. lockwood, now one of the
w%ealthiest citizens of Nevada, came
soon after | did and we kept an
office together. We had one Of
these old lounges that push in and
pull out and there we slept for two
or three years. a certain Captain
Saunders kept a restaurant in a eel
lar and there we took our meals.
There were no railroads in this
county then and it was very wild.
[ remember shortly after | came to
Nevada [ had to ride one day to
M~Ontavello, a distance of sixteen
miles. | rode a mustang and the
trail cut right straight across the
prairie. | think it safe to say that
not more than a dozen houses came
within my sight across all that
open prairie, where [ could see for
miles"
Il came back after dark. 1t was
a clear night. The sky was heavy
with stars and the prairie full of
coyotes. They fitted along after
me on the trail, bowling dismally.
1t was a most CHASTITY ride. Ny
mind was full of Tam O'Shanter and
| was ready to run at any moment.
That trail lay for a good portion of
the distance along where is now the
road to my farm. 1t is all fenced
now and there are farms and farm
houses all the way. Nevada's pop
ulation has grown from 300 to s 900
and that of the county from $1,000
to $4,000.
To Break Into Jail.
1t is usual to hear of people trying
to break out of Jail, but those who
want to break into jail are few and