The weekly intelligencer., 1898-04-23

ne SEucI OA Gu0 lSIH pie was con
on Mr.. j. ID. Easter, Jr., last night at DE
Molay Commandery, Knights Templar.
Elder G. M. Goode will preach at the
Christian church tomorrow morning, on
"Our Duty to God and Civil Government"
Everybody invited.
IL. w. Winsor, insurance aud real estate,
has removed into his new office next door
east of postoffice. The room has been
tastefully and beautifully fitted mp. He
is on the ground floor now and will let
his friends aud patrons in on the "ground
floor" He invites you all to call and see
him in his new place. 4-23 a.
Orion Lodge, No. IS, and Gutten berg
Lodge, No. 1913, /. o. o. f., will celebrate
the seventy ninth anniversary of their
order at their hall on Tuesday, April 26th.
They will be assisted by the choir OF the
Evangelical church. Ceremonies will
commence at eight O'Clock. The friends
of the order are cordially invited to be
present.
State Senator John Morton, of Ray
county, has to all practical purposes, been
re- elected. The delegations from Carroll
and Ray gave him the nomination, a nd
the nomination is equivalent to election.
No man will be of more service to the
people of the state during the revising
session than the cool headed and brilliant
young democrat from Richmond.
Odessa Democrat: The wolves out
south of town are getting very bold, and
are killing sheep and poultry nearly
every night. They killed four more sheep
for Jas. T. Rogers this week. There have
-Ariy
them, but each time they have escaped.
| II their depredations continue, some kind
OF concerted action will have to be taken
to destroy them.
Odessa Democrat: Mrs. C. L. Collins
was called to Anderson, Ind, Wednesday
by telegram stating Mrs. NJ II. Buskirk,
her mother, was not expected to live.
Shortly after she had started a telegram
came announcing the death of Mrs. Bus
| kirk. Mrs. Buskirk was nearly 81 years
of age, having been born in June, 1877.
She was the grandmother of Mrs. W. E.
Ewing, and will be remembered by many
of the friends who met her during her
visit here last year.
Kansas City World: "In class OF fif-
teen, fourteen of them young men, Miss
Harriet Benton, of Odessa, Mo-, won first
honors at the Kansas City college of
pharmacy. Besides the diploma which
made her Phi. G., Friday night, she also
took the gold medal for the highest grade
in every branch taught" Miss Benton is
a daughter of Judge Richard Benton, of
near Greenton, and is a daughter of whom
Lafayette county is proud.
The Jos. Wilkerson case was argued be-
fore the state supreme court, Monday.
Col. John s. Blackwell represented Will
kerson, and Attorney General Crow, the
state. 1t will probably be six months or
more before a decision is rendered, and 1t
is not thought Wilkerson will live that
| long. He is confined to his bed, and has
been ever since his trial. He is an old
man, and confinement within the Jail has
broken him down completely.
The music pupils of Prof. Richter and
Miss Georgia Hall Jones, OF B. f. c., gave
recital Saturday evening, which was
attended by large crowd composed of
friends of that popular institution. The
recital demonstrated the thoroughness
of the music department of B. F. c., and
also the fact that her pupils possess talent
of no ordinary degree. The friends OF the
college were we'll pleased with the recital
and warmly congratulated Prof. Richter
and Miss Jones on the excellent showing
made by their pupils.
Lieutenant Frazier, OF w. NJ. A, is
liable to be promoted from lieutenant in
the regular army to colonel OF volunteers.
He belongs to a company in the Ninth
New York regiment, and this regiment
has been ordered south. Last Saturday
Lieutenant Frazier left petition in
Bolton's shoe store, asking the governor
to give him a commission to raise a
regiment for the Cuban war. Everybody
who saw the petition signed it, and on
Monday Lieutenant Frazier presented it
to the governor, who assured him that as
soon as war is declared a commission will
be issued. Lieutenant Frazier is now in
the service OF the government aud cannot
neglect one duty in order to perform
another. He cannot raise a regiment or
a company, nor even solicit men to Join a
company. But the government will not
interfere with men who organize COM
panies and get themselves ready to join q
command as soon as war is declared.
Several companies might be raised now
and they could unite in forming a reg
iment as soon the order is given. We
believe Lieutenant Frazier would make a
fine colonel. He is a graduate of West
Point and has had six years of experience
In the regular army. 1t is a great advan-
tage for raw recruits to have one or two
officers of experience.
The boys about town are telling a
hard yarn on three Lexington boys who
went to Leavenworth, Kansas, last week
to enlist. The recruiting officer refused
to accept them, and they were turned
loose in a strange place, without a penny.
They had beat their way to Leavenworth
by riding bumpers, and had dined on
wind pudding several times before they
arrived, aud now TO be turned away was
to have their ambition crushed aud the
fires of patriotism quenched. A hungry
man Is not good citizen. He cares more
about the pangs OF an empty stomach
than he does about the ratio OF gold and
silver, and his own troubles keep i'm from
thinking OF the Cuban troubles. Well,
the boys thought "discretion the better
part of valor," aud began their retreat
toward home. They reached Kansas City
very tired, more or less dirty, somewhat
sleepy, and wolfishly hungry. One of the
boys met a charitable looking man and
accosted him: "Say, Mister, Pm hungry!"
The citizen paZed at the prospective
tramp for moment as If undecided. The
young man added: "Mister 1 amt trying
to fool you; 1 am blankety hungry"
The gentleman gave him twenty cents.
With this money the three hungry fellows
struck a free lunch house and ate all they
dared on such a small investment. Then
another took to the street and somebody
gave him twenty cents. They again
returned to the free lunch and were eating
everything in sight when the proprietor
began to investigate the case. After
hearing their tale of woe he told them
that ii they would quit eating, leave
the house and never come back, they
might keep the twenty cents. Well, tine
boys got back home this week, and we
understand that they have done nothing
since but eat and sleep, and they are still
hungry and sleepy. Ii they ever go to
war again it will be because they are
drafted