Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-07
MISSOURI POINTS.

The latest novelty in that line is card
of thanks" published in a Mcdonald coun-
ty paper by the outgoing sheriff. who feels
it his duty to express his gratitude to the
people for past fayors and courtesies shown
him while engaged in the discharge of his
official duties.
Jasper county prisoners are to be COM
PEELED to wear 4 uniform hereafter if the
new man in charge of the Carthage Jail
can prevail on the county court to make
the order.
An adept horse thief and trader of stolen
property who is said to be but II years old
was taken into custody by the officers at
Neosho a few days ago. The boy made no
effort TO conceal his crime when charged
with it, and seemed quite Indifferent as to
consequences.
Webb Citys death roll for the year 1896
included seventy-seven names, four of them
of men who had been killed in the mines
and two of persons who had committed sui
eide.
Joplin young men are so slow in some
respects, the Carthage Press declares, that
the girls in the former town never think of
removing the Christmas mistletoe from the
Fourth OF July.
George II. Walser, the man who founded
the town of Liberal, in Barton county,
where, under its original regulations, only
freethinkers were to be allowed to reside,
has written sizzling, hot-stuff letter to
the Progressive Thinker in which he de-
nounces as a ''white-livered lie" the story
recently published of his alleged renuncia-
,f ri lfcf1, nd
orthodox belief.
Tho rainfall in Galloway county from
Friday night to Sunday night aggregated
6.7 inches the greatest with one exception
for many years.
Two rival hunting parties in Audrain
county, who went after rabbit and quail
just before the close of the year, broke the
record for that section by bagging a total
of 2lS of the former and 40 of the latter.
The Welsh rabbit luncheon introduced
as a novelty by prominent society woman
in Columbia the other day wasn't an alb
solute and entire success, owing to the ILL
concealed disappointment of some of the
dear creatures present at the discovery that
there was no hind foot to be carried
away as a souvenir.
Ex-Prosecuting Attorney Edge has be-
come one of the editors of the Southwest
City Enterprise, and, naturally, some keen,
sharp work may be expected.
Petty thieving has become so prevalent
in Galloway county that the propriety of
organizing a vigilance committee, with a
published schedule of the number of lashes
administered for the various minor crimes,
is being seriously discussed.
If Professor Gass, who is at the head of
the public school there, doesn't satisfactor-
lily illumine the pathway of the youth of
Fulton as they progress toward an educa-
tional goal, ne should be turned out in
short meter.
Springfelds city council has thus far
successfully resisted the temptation to pur-
chase the ''willapus wallapus street roller,
and the municipal money box is so nearly
empty now that the deal will probably not
be made.
Tramps have become such nuisance at
Trenton that the authorities have begun
war of determination and have officially
requested citizens to wholly abandon the
back door handout practice.
State Senator Childers, of Hickory coun-
ty. while on his way to Jefferson City, lost
his valise and overcoat in crossing a stream
near Humansville, and very narrowly es-
capped drowning.
General Rice, the veteran editor of the
Sedalia Capital, is absent from his desk
owing TO a serious attack of illness.