Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1893-06-30
THE WEEKLY GRAPHIC
t. E. sUrLETTF, PROP.
FRIDAY, JUNE 80, 1892.

FRIDAY, JUNE 81, 1872.
Jos. A. Howell, the Linn
cou nty murderer will be hanged
August 4.
--As between the single gold
.sndard and the free coinage OF
silver gives us free coinage every
time.
Col. William T. Switzler ex-
editor of the Missouri Statesman
and chief of bureau of statistics
under President Cleveland's first
administration, has purchased a
half interest in the Cooper Coun-
ty Democrat, and will assume ed
itorial charge July.
The call for the remainder
of the artesian well subscription
should meet with prompt
response. The funds on hands
will soon be exhausted, and the
work must not stop. Pay up
promptly and let the work be con-
tinued without hlndrance.
Free coinage of silver has
been suspended in India, and as
consequence, the price of silver
has fallen of rapidly in this coun-
try. This may be a part of a
conspiracy to force the United
States to a gold standard, but it
is safe to predict that it will ut
terly fail.
--Kirksville need no longer
be concerned abont supply of
pure water. If a six-inch well at
adepth of little more than 400
feet will furnish 5000 grllons of
the softest and eurest water daily,
we can afford to sink half dozen
such wells, if that many are need
ed, to furnish the water required
President Cleveland and
Secretary Carlisle have decided
that the President has no power
to offer any relief in the present
financial crisis. Congress alone
being able to deal with the meas
ure for relief. After this decis-
ion it would seem very plain that
the first and the only thing to dc
would be to call an extra session
and call it at once.
The worlds visible supply
of sugar is said by London COM
mercial houses to be 250,000 tons
less than last year. Both the beet
crop of Europe and the cane crop
of Cuba are short this year. AS
the consumption is increas.
ing every year it is not i'm
probable that the price may be
still further advanced; for if spec.
ulators and the trust take advant.
age of the depressed crop pros
poets abroad they may be able to
make the consumer of this staple
pay great deal more for his sup
ply than natural commercial con-
ditions warrant. Moral: Let the
United States produce her own
sugar and she will not be at the
mercy of the eccentricities of a
foreign climate.
The artesian we'll is now
down to depth of 600 feet. The
last $50 feet have been drilled
through solid lime stone. At a
depth of 435 feet water bearing
stratum of sand stone was reach
ed. The water Is pure and soft,
and can be used for any and all
purposes, as it is as soft as rain
water. The quantity however is
hardly sutficient--as not to ex-
ceed $4,000 gallons could be obtain
ed from one six-inch we'll, every
twenty-four hours. At meeting
of the stock holders Wednesday
evening it was unanimously Yot-
ed to call in the outstanding so
per cent of the stock and continue
the work of sinking the well until
the entire subscription of $4,000
is used, or abundance of water
secured. 1t is expected that an
other water bearing stratum of
sand stone will coon be reached
that will supply soft water more
abundantly than the first.
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