Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-02-09
Looming State Funds.

uc lcCCtT, SecASs Was 1OuICSSC0
to Representative Patrick, of jackson
county.
Loaning State Funds.
Bids were received by the state treas
urer up to o'clock of the 1st for the
loaning of the surplus funds of the
state.
There is now about s.. 10000 surplus in the
treasury. Under the law the surplus is divided
into twentieths. No bid is received for less
amount. The rate of interest for use OF the
money is based on daily balances. Eighteen
bids were received. and the award was made
to eight banks for the amounts and rates of in
terest specified: Franklin bank. of st. Louis,
$40 at 1 so per cent; Franklin bank. of st.
Louis, e. 20 at I371e: Kansas City State bank,
Kansas City. $50 L41: Union nation
al bank, Kansas City, go at 1.s3;
Galloway County Savings bank, Fulton,
LEO at LIS; Central national bank, Boonville,
LEO at 1.53; First national bank jefferson
City. 1-20 at 1.4O; Exchange bank, Jefferson
City. 1-20 at LAO. The average rate under the
old contracts was l.3i par cent. and under the
new it will lack small fraction of LA The
awards were approved by the board of fund
commissioners The state is secured in these
loans by deposits of government, state and
county funded bonds, which are held by the
state treasurer az a guarantee against any
losses.
Mr.. Tatum on State Finances.
Following is culled from Jefferson
City special to the Globe Democrat,
dated February L:
Representative Tatum, OF the house appro-
priations committee, has been making an ex
animation of the states finances. He says they
are in most excellent condition. and tina. in
stead of merely $3.50 600 for the sinking fund.
as required by the constitution, there will be
placed in the fund 81, 100000, which will be
used to retire bonds, which by contract
the state Gao pay at any time and SO stop
interest. He says that the auditors esti-
mates have been very carefully made aud con-
sentative as to the receipts. which will, un-
doubtedly. exceed largely the necessary and
liberal estimates Of expenditures: that tia talk
OF deficiency is all bosh, that there is no ne
cessity for increased taxation in any direction,
and that he has the authority OF the auditor
himself that there will be no deficiency unless
the legislature makes extraordinary appropria-
tions not anticipated by the auditors esti-
mates.
To Protect Game and Fish.
w. w. Ellis. general manager of the
Missouri State Game Protective asso-
citation, is working in the interest of
fish and game.
He is endeavoring to have bill passed by the
legislature for the better protection of game
and fish. and he recently carried to Jefferson
City large petition and the Endorsement OF
representative citizens clearly showing that
game and fish that are left. Mr.. Ellis. on his
trip few weeks since to the Boiling Springs
on the Gasconade to secure specimens of fish
known to inhabit the waters of the state for
exhibit at the Worlds fair, was informed that
few days previous to his coming parties had
dynamited. the sprin gs and secured a.wSgon
load Of game fish to ship to market. The State
Protective association will begin in st. Louis
and purposes to prosecute tho se who. in de-
fance of the present game laws. persist in sell
ing game out OF season
Per Diem Question Settled.
The attorney-general has rendered a
written opinion on the question of the
per diem of the speaker and speaker
pro tenn of the house. It is the opinion
of the Encouragement that the pre-
siding officer is entitled to seven dollars
per day for every day actually presid-
ing, and the same applies to the speak
er pro tenn. when he presides.
Killed While Coasting.
Willie Delevan, 10 years old. who
lived at the corner of Twenty-fourth
and. Holly streets. Kansas City. was
coasting on Holly street at o'clock
on the afternoon of the Sd when he ran
under heavily-loaded hay wagon.
The wheels passed over his head, crush
ing his skull. He lived only twenty
minutes.
Chaplain of the Penitcntiary.
Warden Pace announced on the night
of the Sd that he had selected Rev. w.
W. Warren, of Ell Dorado Springs, as
chaplain of the penitentiary. Mr.. War
rem belongs to the Christian denomi-
nation. The salary is $1,000 per year,
and he will assume his new duties
March ].
Missouri and the Worlds Fair.
The Missouri Worlds fair commission
met in st. Louis the other day.
Gov. Stone was present for the first time.
The executive committee reported that active
now in he warehouses for exhibition at Chica-
60 The mineral exhibit has been shipped and
is to be installed at once.
Daughters or the Confederacv.
The state organization of the Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy have 90, OtO in
the treasury. They have paid $4,000
of the - :,75O tl.at the home at Higgins
vile cost
Congressman Norton Returns.
Representative Dick Norton, of Mis-
souri,. says Washington special of the
Sd. has returned to Washington after
being absent since last August.
st. Joseph Banks.
Nearly all the st. Joseph banks own
real estate, the value of which runs up
into the hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, as the assessors books show.
Dropped Dead
Mrs. L. Borhner. the wife of Paul
Borhner, travelling salesman, dropped
dead in ST. Louis dry goods store.
She had been in bad health.
Remembered Thomas Paine.
The st. Louis Spiritualistic society
celebrated the one hundred and fifty.
sixth anniversary of the death Of
Thomas Paine on the goth.
Feared Mental Derangement.
A. Ahrenthal. an Insurance agent,
committed suicide at Wright City. He
left letters stating that he feared he
would become deranged.
Burned Out and shot
Near st. Joseph the residence of Louis
Tindan was destroyey by fire. The
heat discharged rife, and Mr.. Tin.
dali was shot in the leg. S.
Failed to Indict.
T The grand jury failed to return an
indictment against Alex. Volz, arrested
ii St Louis for the murder of jose