The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1895-12-12
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

A bill has been prepared for . hnal adjust.
nent In the matter. and will be introduced il
congress. The land grant act passed in 1852
It was to provide colleges for the benefit OF
agriculture and the mechanic arts. Missouri
selected about IS 600 acres along the survey OF
the Atlantic & Pacific. now the St. Louis &
San Francisco railroad. That land was sup
posed to be more valuable, by reason OF the
railroad survey, and 1t was put to the state at
double minimum price, on that account. When
the road was built, it departed from the sur
vey. Much Of the land was from to Is miles
of the road, and yet the state had been charged
double value for It, In 1880 all lands along the
road were reduced from double minimum to
single minimum Missouri had 1850 acres
which has been charged to her as $3.50 acres
The bill for adjustment authorizes the state to
select from the government lands within Mis-.
souri,. 2a.5OO acres for the benefit of the agri.
cultural college.
Claims the Town OF Diamond.
w. H. Robinson. says a Springfield
dispatch, has taken out in the local
land Office original homestead papers
for a tract of land in Newton county,
on which much of the town of Dia.
mond is located. On the tract home
stead there are several dwelling houses
and q town hail. Diamond is a town
OF about 400 people, and the officers in
the land office say that the no o.nestead
it. The tract was homesteaded by E.
II. Benham in 1871. but before taking
final proof he disposed of it and the
claim was never proven up. People
who bought the land supposed th.y
had good title to it. and thus the vii.
lage of Diamond was built on govern.
ment land. Mr.. Robinson will enforce
his claim for the entire forty acres sc
acquired.
Their Private Secretaries.
| Says Washington dispatch: Two
members of the Missouri delegation
have daughters who are stenographers
| and typewriters. They have decided
| to appoint those daughters to the posi-.
| tions of private secretaries under the
law which gives each member a secre-
| tary at 500 a month while congress is
| in session. The members are Mr. Tracy
and Mr.. Raney.
| Mr.. Cobb retains the services of his
| former private secretary, Mr.. Rogers,
| of ST. Louis
Mr.. Mozely has appointed NJ. L. Ben.
son, of West Plains. his private secre.
tary.
Representative Clark has appointed
as his private secretary Bert d. Nor.
toni, a well-kuown young lawyer OF
Macon county.
Farmers Institute in Shannon.
The people of Shannon county are
enthusiastic over the farmers insti.
tute held at Birch Tree. Those who
are lecturing under the auspices of the
state board of agriculture pronounced
the display of apples, dorm. potatoes
nd vxyI,n r. L., Il
seen. DR.. 7. J. Turner discussed the
disease of live Stock n. +. Murray,
Commercial horticulture" and rs this
is the heart of tho land of the big, red
apple, large audience greeted him
and followed the lecture with closest
interest. He was followed by John
Patterson on clarifying" Col. e. w.
Waters talked on "tillage" and Mr.
Patterson discussed s.farm wastes"
Good Roads Association.
The Missouri Good Roads association
has called its next annual convention
to meet in the Agricultural college in
Columbia in connection with the an
nual meeting of the state board OF
agriculture, the second week in Ianu.
ary. The experiment station has ar
ranged to make some practical demon
strations of the waste of power in haul.
ing loads on soft roads and over rough
roads. and also whether wheels with
wide tires will pull heavier on the
different kinds of roads than those
having narrow tires.
Bold Work Of Robbers.
At Montcer, Shannon county, three
men. about S o'clock the other after.
noon, robbed the store of Charles NC.
Clellan, the post Office, compelled G..
FL. Davis, n school-tedcher, to hand
over S65, and robbed Mrs. Mcclellan,
John Little, Joe Layton and another
man. Rev. Louis Dehls, Methodist,
was forced to hand over all he had.
Rev. DE. w. a. Rothwcll.
Rev. DIR. w. A. Rothwell. of Moher-
ly. died few mornings ago. aged 81.
He was one of Moberly's pioneers and
the father of Hon. W.. A. Rothwcll-
representative of Randolph county.
| He had been pastor of the Primitive
| years.
lsuIlet Flastened on His Skull.
James Pots and Wash Nash. co!ored,
| Of Lewis, Henry county, were fooling
with pisto', when it went off, aud
| the ball struck Nash squarely v in tho
forehead. and fattened out just as il
\ would had it struck stone wall. Nash
/ does not seem to be hurt much.
/ Kansas City Pioneer.
Ed ward N. Allen. aged 65, a pioneer
of Kansas City, for ten years president
| of the board of trade and an ex-rayor,
died the other day. His father was
the late Josiah B. Allen, man OF
considerable prominence in Connects
cut and Ohio
Poisoned His sistcr's Lover.
The death sentences passed upon
i Emile David by the scircuit court ol
Osage county has been affirmcd by tine
fsupreme court. lie poison0d Frank
Henderson, who Wn6 engaged To marry