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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-02-07
The man is there, and he Is feeling
out Of sight, too.-Judge.

Unscientihc.
what were you arguing so violently
about with Smithers, professor?"
He called me q blooming packass. +"
You ought to have knocked him
down."
'Oh, I didn't mind It, personally. It
was the unscientific nature of his state.
ment that annoyed me."-Indianapolis
Journal.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
SWEPT BY REPUBLICANS.
1t Was a Fight of the A. P. A. and the
Ants, and the A. P. A. Won
Kumpf Was Badly Beaten.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April THE A,
p. A. Republican ticket carried the
city to-day, according to incomplete
returns received at 1880 o'clock to-
night by majorities ranging from SOC
to 1900.
J. NJ. Jones, the Republican candi-
date for Mayor, will have a probable
majority of 1900, and George 8. Ora
ham, candidate for President of the
Upper House against Peter Herman,
will run several hundred votes behind
him.
The most astonishing feature of the
election is that F. A. Faxon, who wal
defeated in the Republican conven-
ton for denomination for the Schoo.
Board, and who was nominated on the
Populist ticket with J. Scott Harrison,
brother of the ex-President, the Dem
ocratic nominee, beat w. w. Taylor,
the Republican candidate, by a decis-
i've majority. Mr.. Harrison was on al
of the tickets. While it will take an
official count to fix the majorities, the
Republicans have made a clean SWEEP
of the city ticket and the Upper House
of the Council. The Democrats may
control the Lower House.
Mayor Davis was active in Jones
behalf, and his friends say tonight
that it insures his nomination for Gov
amor
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
PATE STOCK FARM.
Formerly Owned by James Robinson.
the ex-Circus Rider, of This City.

The property known as Pate's stock
farm, in st. Louis county, has an in
teresting history. d. A. January
owned it long before he invested in
Granite Mountain mining stock. Mr..
January has been dead q good many
years. Andrew Mckinley, a well
known Missourian, was the next own
er of the property. Mr.. Black, a cot
ton merchant, succeeded him and
then Jim Robinson, the bareback
rider, bought the farm. Jim made a
circus ring in one Of the stables and
trained his horses there during the
winter months. 1t was from the vet
eran circus rider and somersaulter
that Bob Pate, of st. Louis keno house
fame, acquired the property. Pate
found several good stables and two
fine residences on the place. One of
the latter, called the January mansion,
had cost the builder $40, 900. The farm
consisted of sixty acres OF ground near
Baden, just beyond the city limits.
Ink PiopCIty HaS hOb SuouSu iOl ~
Louis keno king. He added several
more stables and 800 acres of land. In
the Office of Mr.. Joseph Griswold at
the Laclede Hotel is a colored litho-
graph picture of the "R. c. Pate Stock
Farm Company's farm" This was
one of a good many copies of the
same picture issued by the company.
The Autographs announced that Maple
Grove Farm was the "home of the
great trotting stallion, Alley Russell,
record, 2:224."
When Pate went to the City of Mex
leo a few years ago to open a race
track there he sold the 306 acres which
he had added to the original stock
farm and mortgaged the latter to
VIM. l.. Griswold. All the money that
Pate could borrow went into his Mex
lean enterprise, and when the Girls
void notes became due the sixty-acre
tract with its race course, circus ring
and many buildings became the prop
erty of VIM. l.. Griswold. The latter
decided the property to his son, who is
still the owner.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
JEFFERSON CITY BRIDGE.
The Great Steel Structure Spanning
the Missouri Win be Dedicated
Thursday, May 81, 1896
Imposing Ceremonies
to Mark the
Event.

The steel highway bridge across the
Missouri River at Jefferson City will
be formally dedicated and thrown
open to traffic on Thursday, May 81,
1886. The event will be a big one in
the history of Jefferson City, and a
general invitation is extended to the
people of Missouri to attend and par
ticipate in the ceremonies. The pro-
gramme will include speaking, music
and fireworks and a general holiday
will be declared in the city in order
that the people may entertain their
guests and visitors. The list of speak
ers will include VIM. J. Stone and
Major John l.. Bittinger, editor OF the
st. Joseph Herald, both of whom de-
livered addresses when ground was
broken for the bridge less than a year
ago. This is the only highway bridge
across the Missouri River between
Kansas City and its mouth, and its
completion brings Jefferson City with
in ten minutes of two great trunk
lines of railway-the Chicago & Alton
and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
making the capital easy of access
from all parts of the State.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS.
Enough Corn Fodder Wasted in Mis-
souri, to Winter All the Live
Stock IN the State.

COLUMBIA, Mo-, April 5.-The Mis-
souri, Agricultural College experiment
station will soon issue a bulletin on
the subject of "corn fodder" Among
other things it will show that it is es-
timated that enough corn fodder viii
go to waste in Missouri this year to
winter all the stock cattle, sheep and
horses in the State. The objection the
farmers urge against cutting up and
making the best use of this fodder is
the cost of handling it. Machinery
for the husking of the corn and the
shredding of the fodder has been SO
perfected that this objection does not
hold. A large farmer in Randolph
county is husking the corr and shred
ding and ricking the fodder by ma
chinery at a cost of only 80 cents an
acre above the cost of husking this
corn from the standing stalk by hand.
This means that the shredded fodder
has cost him in the rick s1.1o per acre
for cutting and 30 cents for shredding,
or q total Of S1.40.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
Sill YER DEMOCRATS CONFIDENT
Say They Will Control the Chicago
Convention Despite Cleveland.

WASHINGTON, d. c., April THE
that President Cleveland will
soon give out a letter declining to be
considered as a candidate for a fourth
nomination has been received in the
last day Or two, and accompanying it
is the revival of the story that Car
Isle will be the administration candi-
date. These stories do not bother the
silver Democrats, who assert that they
will control the Chicago convention,
and that neither Cleveland nor Car
Isle could be nominated if the whole
administration force were employed
in the interest of either. The silver
men still look with more favor upon
Colonel Morrison, of Illinois, or ex-
Governor Campbell, of Ohio, because
while both have leaniDgs toward the
gold men,, either of them, it is be-
~lieved, would accept a nomination on
the free silver platform, and agree
not to veto a silver bill that might be
passed by Congress.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
GRAY AN EMBEZZLER.
Robbed the First National Bank OF
Macon of $4,000 Makes Full Con-
fesslon of HIS Crime.

MACON, Mo, April 6.-Harvey Gray,
who has been a clerk and teller in the
First National Bank at Macon for sew
eral years, was overtaken at Clarence,
Shelby county, last night by Cashier
John Scovern and w. NJ. English of
Macon, and brought to Macon charged
with e~mbezzling $4,000 from the First
National Banks Funds.
Gray is charged with taking 81 200
at IN time and then drawing a draft
Bank of Commerce in st. Louis. At
another time in March Gray is charged
with taking $4,000 of the banks funds
and then issuing drafts on the National
Bank of Commerce in st. Louis, and
entering the amounts of the drafts on
the books in the First National Bank
in Macon az follows: One for 81, one
for so cents and one for % cents.
Gray admits that he did this. The
other transactions he is charged with
are getting away with about $500 of
interest due the First National from
other banks on deposits, and he admits
this. Gray was in the act of taking
IN east bound train for Chicago when
caught.
Harvey Gray's home is at Darks-
vile, Randolph county. He returned
to Macon without a warrant or an
officer. Harvey Gray had been spec
ulating in Chicago options, and says
he has a $4,000 margin there. Gray
and substantial citizens of Macon stat
ed this morning that Gray's friends
and relatives will make good the loss
at the National Bank here. He has
wealthy relatives in Ozark county.
Gray had been visiting his Darks-
vile home, and without coming into
Macon he was taken in a buggy to
Clarence by his brother to take the
train East. Sheriff Asbury and a
Deputy United States Marshal were
after him at other points.
Gray was popular socially and other
wise in Macon. He is a prominent
member of the Baptist church.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
Saturday. the Eighteenth Day OF April,
a n 1909
TRUSTEES SALE.

WHEREAS, Graham T. Hook aud
Sallie l.. Hook, his wife, by their GER
tain deed of trust, dated January s.,
1893, and recorded in the Recorders
Office of Audraln County, Missouri,
in deed of trust book No. II, for trusts,
at page i1S, conveyed 10 8. NJ. Locke,
trustee, the following described real
estate situated in Audrain County,
Missouri, viz: Lot one % in block
one (1) in Hughes Addition TO Mex
leo, Missouri, as per plat of said Addi-
ton on file and of record in The office
of the Recorder OF Deeds for Audrai:
County, Missouri, which said convey
ance was in trust TO secure the pay
ment of the promissory note in said
deed described; and, whereas, the
said note described in said deed OF
trust remains due and unpaid; now,
therefore, at the request of the legal
holder of said note and by authority
of the provisions of the said deed of
trust aforesaid, ] viii, on
Friday, the Tenth Day of April,
A. D., 1896,
at the east front door % lhe Court
House, in Mexico, AudFain County,
Missouri, between the bours OF nine
O'Clock in the forenoon Il 8 O'Clock
In the afternoon of said day, sell the
above described real estate ut public
yendue, I o the highest bidder, for
cash, to satisfy Haid debt n the
expenses of executing Aaid trust.
=. NJ. LOCKE,
Trustee,
u. A. MURPHY, Atty. for Mortgages.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
CUBAN RESOLUTIONS.
Adopted by the House by a Large
Majority.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-The House
has adopted the Senate concurrent
Cuban resolutions by q vote of pa to
81. 1t was received with tumultuous
cheers.
The vote on the resolutions was
taken in the shape of q motion to
adopt the conference report, this re-
port showing that the House confer
ees had agreed to the Senate resolu-
tons.
The resolutions being concurrent,do
not need the approval of the Presi-
dent, but, of course, will be sent to
him through the usual channels, so
that he will receive official notification
of the opinion OF Congress on the
Cuban question.
Those who voted in the negative
were:
Republicans-Arnold of Rhode Is
land, Atwood, Black, New York; Bou-
telle, Daniels, Draper, Gillet, New
York; Gillet, Massachusetts; Grout,
LeFevre, Mccall, Massachusetts;
Moody, Pool, Simpkins, Wadsworth,
Walker, Massachusetts; Walker, Vir-
ginia; Wright-1S.
Democrats-Berry, Black, Georgia;
Culberson, Elliott, Elicit, Lockhard,
Tucker, Turner, Georgia; T~aylor-9.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
AFTER COLONEL BRECKENRIDGE
Women Organizing to Down Him in
the Coming Campaign.

LEXINGTON, KY, April Colonel
W. G. P. Breckenridge has been quiet
ly practicing law here ever since the
suit for damages of Madeline Pollard
two years ago caused him to be sue
ceeded by W. G. Owens. Though Miss
Pollard got a judgment for $50, 900 she
has never been able to get execution
or to recover anything. Now that
Colonel Breckenridge is canvassing
the district again to run for Congress
this year, the old movement OF the
ladies' in the district is being recogniz-
ed and Colonel Breckenridge will have
the women against him as he had two
years ago. Then the race for the
nomination between Breckenridge and
Owens was close. Now the friends OF
"K entucky's silver-tongued orator.
express the utmost confidence in his
o,rncasa
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
The Thoughtful Drug Clerk.


"What a | do for you, miss?" in
CURED the clerk in a San Francisco
Market street drug store of a blushing
young woman. She glanced about her
in embarrassment and then replied;
al want some castor OIL"
GAN right; in just a moment"
The clerk moved around behind the
counter for q moment and then went
to the soda fountain.
"Do you like soda?" he asked.
"Oh, yes, indeed"
"What fiavoring do you prefer"
pineapple, please"
The clerk drew a glass of the fizz
and the young lady drank it. Then
the clerk sat down on a stool and COM
menced to chat with her. She was
apparently annoyed, but replied
courteously to all of his remarks.
Finally, she said:
"If you'll give me the castor oil III
60"
"Why, you took it in that glass of
soda"
tTook it in the soda! | didn't want
to take it. 1t was for my little broth
err"
~ n =. -~l T-Ak " ny1fp
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
CARLISLE NOT A CANDIDATE.
More Interested in the Democracy's
Declaration of Principles Than
It's Nominee.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-Seeretary
Carlisle bias written the following let
ter on the subject of his candidacy for
the presidential nomination at the
Chicago Convention:
"WAsHINGToN, DC, April 4, 1896
Charles r. Long, Esq. Chairman Demo-
cratic State Central Committee, Louis
vile, Ky: My Dear Sir-Your favor
of March so, in which you say, in sub
stance, that many of my friends in
become a candidate before the ap-
preaching National Democratic Con-
vention for nomination for the Office
of President, and requesting me to
give some authoritative or definite
expression upon the subject, was duly
received and has been m~aturely con
sidered.
"Many communications upon the
same subject and of similar import
have been received from friends in
different parts of the country, and
while very grateful for these numer
Gus expressions of confidence and es-
TEEN upon the part of my Democratic
fellow-citizens, | have not been able
to reach the conclusion that the eX-
listing conditions require me to COM
ply with their requests by authorizing
them to announce me as a candidate
for the presidential nomination.
"While feel a profound interest in
the welfare Of my party, | am much
more concerned about its declara-
ton of principles than its selection of
candidates, because, in my opinion, its
failure Dr. success at the election, as
well as its capacity for useful service
in the country in the future, depends
upon the position it takes or omits to
take upon the public questions now
engaging the attention of the people,
and especially the questions affecting
the monetary system of the country
and the character and amoun of tax
alton to be imposed upon the citizens.
ats position upon these and other
subjects having been agreed upon and
clearly and distinctly announced, the
convention ought to have no difficulty
in selecting al acceptable candidate,
who will fairly represent its views, and
in order that it's deliberations may be
embarrassed as little as possible by the
contentious OF rival aspirants and their
friends, ! think my duty to the party
will be best performed by declining
to participate in a contest for the
nomination.
''The obligations assumed when
accepted my present official position
required me to devote my entire time
and attention to the public interests
committed to my care, and shall con-
tinue to discharge the duties imposed
upon me to the best of my ability and
in such a manner as will, in my judg-
ment, most certainly, promote the
true interests of the country; and, if
in the opinion of my fellow Demo-
Gratis of Kentucky, my services en-
title me to their commentator and
approval, l would regard their in
dorsement of my public r as an
| ample reward for the little | have
been able to accomplish in behalf of
honest administration and a sound
policy. With many thanks for your
kind letter, | am, very truly yours,
j. G. CARLISLE"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
A
$1.5O
EXCURSION TO ST. LOUIS
AND RETURN, VIA THE
CHICAGO & ALTON.

The Chicago & Alton on Saturday,
April Ii, 1896, and Sunday, April u,
1896, will sell excursion tickets from
Mexico to ST. Louis and return at
$50.
Tickets at the above rate will be
good for going passage on all REGU-
LAR AND SPECIAL EXCURSION
TRAINS due to arrive in st. Louis
Saturday, April IL, 1896, at or before
1900 O'Clock noon, They will be
good for return passage on any train
regularly scheduled to stop at station
to which return tickets read, up to
and including the last regular train
leaving st. Louis, Sunday night, April
IL, 1896, and also on special excursion
train which will leave st. Louis at 1881
p. M, Sunday, April IL, 1896.
Tickets at above rate can be OBJ
tanned only at the Ticket Offices of
the Company. Passengers paying on
trains will be charged regular fare.
For further information, time OF
trains, and tickets, apply to
E. s. WILSON,
Ticket Agent Chicago & Alton Rail-
road, Mexico.
JAMES CHARLTON, General Passenger
and Ticket Agent, Chicago, Ill.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
Something Good to Eat.

For a little money you can get lots
of goods, for instance:
A can of corn for SC.
a a of tomatoes for Sc.
A can of peas for sc.
A large can of apples for Sc.
A a of pumpkin for &c.
A a of pie peaches for sc.
A can of blackberries for sc.
A a of succotash for SC.
A "a of pine apple for Sc.
a can of hominy for SC.
Three cans of sardines for 1Oc.
Hall pound of good tea for Toe.
Half pound of Battle AK tobacco for
l0c.
A gallon a of apples for 15c.
sell J. &. Waldeck hams. They
are equal to Whittakers. Try them.
If you have never tried the Diamond
Drip coffee, try 1t; its a good thing.
One pound will make twice as many
cups as a pound Of any other kind. A
prize with every pound. My line OF
canned goods is complete good and
very cheap. Respectfully,
w A
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
Public Administrator eUtfce.

Notice is hereby given that lettera
OF administration upon the estate OF
ID. +. Shea, deceased, have been grant.
ed the undersigned by the P-obats
Court OF Audrain County, Missouri.
bearing date March IS, 1896.
All persons having claims against
said estate are requested to eyhibf
them for allowance to the admlnistra-
tor within one year after date OF grant.
ing letters, or they may he preclndef
from any benefit OF such estate, and
il such claims be not exhibited within
two years from the date they Win no
forever barred.
J. T. WILLIAMS,
5I-4t. Public Administrator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09

A communication from Beagles
school district says that the farmers
there have their oats all sown and
that they are arranging to plant a
big corn crop. Miss Hattie Jackman
has been employed to teach a three
months summer school. She is a
splendid teacher and will have a good
aohooI
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09

DEMOCRATS who never take any
interest in the success of the
party unless their name is on the
tieket,or they have some pet measure
to be advanced or particular friend
TO be elected, should swear off being
80 careless. We are going to need
every Democratic vote in the State
this year. The true Democrat is a
man who abldes by the result OF the
convention of his party and cordially
and industriously supports the NOM
ipaPa
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09

THERE is no excuse for a single
Democrat in Audrain County remain
ing away from the primary Saturday.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
Healer Schrader is a Nuisance

CINCINNATI, o., April 5.-Healer
Schrader, who was ordered from Gin
cinnati by the health officer on &C.
count of his methods being inimical
to public health, went over to New
port, KY, and began "healing'' and
selling photographs there to-day. The
mayor ordered him to cease opera
tions. Schrader refused, %whereupor
he was arrested on the charge of be-
ing a general nuisance and guilty OF
disorderly conduct.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09

EVERY citizen should talk and work
for his town. The man who thinks
that everything we have in Mexico
is better than what they have in st.
Louis, Chicago or anywhere else is
the man who helps make a city.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
TWELVE WORKMEN BURIED.
One Fatally and One Seriously Hurt
by a Bank Cav1ng In.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo, April While 4
large force of men were exeavating a
reservoir for the waterworks com
pany at Tarkio, Mo-, this afternoon,
one bank caved in on II of the work
men. One man was fatally injured
and another seriously hurt. Some OF
the buried workmen were entombed
for three-quarters of an hour.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
Notice Of Final Settlement.

Notice is hereby given that iinal set-
Element OF the estate Of Lewis FaFrabs
deceased, viii be made at the May
term, 1896, OF the Probate Court
of Audrafn county, Missouri, to be
held at Mexico on the second Monday
in May, 1896 l. ). fAkRAH,
tn Administrator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09

LET the Democrats of Audrain
County show that they car differ, but
at the same time not fight. Let every
Democrat in the county take part i'll
the primary and then proceed to help
swell the majorities.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
Nntiea Of Final Settlement.

Notice is hereby given that final set
lemen of the estate OF T. y. Robnetfs
deceased. will be made at the May
term. 1880 Of the Probate Court OF An-
drain county, Missouri, TO be held AZ
Mexico on the second Monday in May,
1905. t.. c. KESNEN,
III Administrator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09

THE idea Of a candidate having to
hunt around and insist or Democrats
going out to vote OH election day. 1t
is the duty and should be the pleasure
without being even asked.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
Not,ce Of Final Settlement.

Notice 10 hereby given that final set
tlement of the estate Of r. Is. Worfeil,
deceased, will be made at the May
term, 1885, of the Probate Court OF An.
drain county, Missouri, to be held ut
Mexico on the second Monday in May,
1895. Il. -. WORRELL,
I'd Administrator.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09

THE levy for additional 10 cents for
public school purposes was carried.
Mexico people are all public spirited
and nearly unanimous in favor of lib
eral management of our schools and
this is right and proper
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09
Nntice Of Final sattlement.

Notice ia hereby given that final sell
Element OF the estate Of &. G. Ecton,
deceased, will be made ut the May
term, 1896, of the Probate Court of An.
drain county, Missouri, to be held
at Mexico on tho second Monday IN
MAY, 1885. ALICE ECT0N,
td Administering. :,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09

THE majority rules in the Demo-
cratic party. Every true Democrat
will abide the result of the convention
and cordially support the nominees.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-04-09

The Democrats of Fulton nominated
a straight Democratic ticket composed
OF young business men. The "kids,"
IA they were called, were elected by
good majorities and will make Fulton
"a splendid administration.