Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-05-17

has familiarized himself with the tariff
and money issues. He stands on the plat
form made at Chicago last year. He
comes from the woods of Pike county and
IS Il friend of Colonel Charles II. Jones,
who. when he took charge of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch told Mr.. Pulitzer that he
would write the platform Of the national
Democracy: and he did. Colonel Jones
now says that he will name the Democrat
ic nominee in 1900.
When q Southern Presbyterian college
in Missouri plays bail with a Kansas
school and wins, by using a negro as its
chief player. il looks like the war was
over and race prejudice dwindling, de
clares a Boone county contributor in his
home paper. Westminster college and
Kansas played with this result. Westmin-
ster is the Missouri Southern Presbyterian
school, conservative and representative of
conservatism. The Kansas university
stands for Kansas. abolition. bleeding Kan
sas' Yet Westminster's pitcher is n coal
black negro, and his magnificent playing
wins the game. Shades of the past, how
times have changed
Less than four years ago our Missouri
University club declined to play with Ne
braska because there was a negro on the
Nebraska team. Three years ago Iowa
sent a negro here on its team. and he re-
ceived disgraceful treatment from the
crowd. But now n negro represents our
state and is hailed with the applause of
t~riumph-which. by the way. being deaf
and dumb. he cannot hear.
Who can say the world does not move?
Elaborate tests of the draft of wide and
narrow tired wagons have Just been COM
pleted by the Missouri Agricultural col
leee experiment station in Columbia, eX-
a-I "a
half. These tests have been made on ma
cauam. gravel and dirt roads in all condi-
TONS, and also on the meadows and plOwcd
fields of the experimental farm. Contrary
to public expectation, in nearly all cases
the draft was materially lighter when tires
SIX inches wide were used, than with tires
of standard width. The load hauled was in
all cases the same, and the draft was most
carefully determined by means OF a self
recording d-ynamometer. The beneficial eff
feet of the wide tire on dirt roads is strtk-
insly shown in some recent tests at the
station here. the Columbia Herald says.
y clay road. badly cut into ruts by the
narrow tires, was selected for the test. as
presenting conditions least favorable to
the broad tire. A number of tests of the
draft of the narrow tire were made in
these open ruts. and Immediately followed
BY the broad tires running in the same
ruts. The first run of the broad tire over
the narrow tire ruts was accompanied by
an increased draft; the second by a draft
materially less than the original narrow
tire. third by a stu greater decline and in the
fourth trip the rut was practically oblit-
Grated and filled. In another trial, when
a clay road was so badly cut into ruts as
10 be almost impossible for light vehicles
and pleasure carriages. after running the
six-lnch tires over this road twelve times
the ruts were completely filled, and a first
class bicycle path made.
Whether the original name Of the town
was Bonville. in honor of a Captain Bon
willie. who, some traditions say, establish
ed a fort there in the closing years of the
last century, or Boonville. for Daniel Boone,
is a question that is being discussed in
the newspapers of Cooper county's metrop-
oils. Colonel Switzler. of the Democrat,
who is perhaps the most thoroughly in
formed man in Missouri concerning state
historical matters. insists that there is
nothing in the "Bonville'' theory. He
says: As far as we have information there
is neither historical nor traditional au-
thority that this city was first called Bonn |
vile or BOnville after one Captain Bon
vile. 1t had no existence whatever either
by name or in fact prior to August /, 1917. |
Therefore, if one Captain Bonville iof
whom We knOw nothing. "a few years
before the close of the last century land
ed his fatboats at the present site of Boom
willie and built a fort here, we never heard
of either event and do not credit their oc-
Captain Bonville may have been
in Kentucky or in st. Charles county. No.
"a companion of Boone" but old Daniel
Boone himself never saw Missouri until
1888, when he settled on Femme Usage
creek. in ST. Charles county, "a few years
before the close of the last century" TIL
first Europeans or white men who ever APP
peared on the Missouri river at tine present
site of Boonville were Lewis and Clark.
who, in 1866 made their celebrated expe-
dition up the river. by order of Mr.. Jeffer-
son. The first and only fort ever erected
at EConville was Coles fort. which was
built by Stephen Cole and his n~eighbors in
1872. about one and a half miles east Of
the present city of Boonville. The spot
on which BoOnville is located. as far as
have knowledge. was first called Boom
willie in 1877, when the town was located on
lards owned by Captain Asa Morgan and
Charles Lucas. Morgan died in Old Frank
lin. September q. 1921. and Mr.. Lucas was
on Bloody Island by Colonel Thorn
as H.. Benton in a duel, on September q.
1877. aged - years and 3 days. Boonville
was calledHby that name in honor of old
Daniel Boone. and no mistake has been
made through an error in pronunciation.