Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-18
MISSOURI POINTS.

The Columbia Herald charges the Demo-
Gratis of Boone county with being virtually
unanimous in their desire to see Garden
Sass" Cockrell returned to the senate for
another term.
Mr.. Cunning Is the manager of a drug
.store in a thriving locality in one of those
Missouri counties wherein the services of
such a man ought to be of especial value
in that line of traffic.
Within the past two months there have
been obtained 1s convictions in fancy
county of violators of the fish laws. and
the practice of trapping fish, which has so
long prevailed on White river. has been
broken up.
Homeopathy" was the word that floored
Judge CAN'T, Rev. DIR. Taylor and Lawyer
Hough at the spelling bee in Jefferson
City the other night. but it must have
been dead easy. so to speak. for Lonnie.
If he was a participant in the contest.
go
Speaking of political jokes. that good
one concerning our very own Billstone
and the presidential nomination in 1907
has a running mate. Some of the Missouri
Popocratic papers are talking seriously Of
DeArmond as a speakership possibility in
the next congress.
Particularly c~ommendable was the ac-
ton of the new directors of the Centralia
Fair Association at their recent meeting
in deciding to double the premium money
offered for cattle and make the offerings
for agricultural products at the fair to
be held this year five times as great as in
1897.
Cooney probably won't succeed In bring
ing about any violent changes In the con-
stitution. but his recent baby kissing bug
gy tour over his congressional territory is
said to nave made his denomination with
out opposition by the Democrats of the
Seventh district practically a certainty.
Somebody complains of an u~naccountabl BILE
oversight on the part of the magazine
writer's in their failure to look up and in
terview John Lincoln, a former sheriff Of
Atchison county, who is said to be a sec
ond cousin of Abraham Lincoln and to
bear a strong resemblance to him in physi-
cal makeup.
IF it had not been that William j. Bry-
an was enthusiastically named by a DEM
ocratic national convention as it's candidate
for the presidency, it woul hardly be
deemed possible that anybody could be in
dead earnest in speaking of Ex-Governor
Stone as a presidential candidate" some
what equivocally observes the Brookfield
Gazette.
The matter of arranging for a permanent
summer school at the university, such as
was recommended at the meeting of the
university council. a body comprising all
the department faculties of the institution.
will come before the curators for consider
alton at their meeting this month, and it
is regarded as more than probable that
favorable action will be taken.
Illustrating the fact that whereas the
supply of mediocre talent for teaching pur-
poses is practically inexhaustible there is
never any lack of room at the top, the
Columbia Herald tells this story: Two
places were vacant in Boone ounty some
months ago. There were siXty-three appli-
cations for one of them. To fill the other
there was not a single application from
any citizen of Missouri! And the board
had finally to elect a man who lived 1900
miles away. One place was at the bottom
the other at the top.
The special significance of this scorching
swipe at our Lonnie lies In the fact that
it comes from the Joplin Herald. one Of the
reliable pillars of Popocracy in Southwest
Missouri: THE statement from Governor
Stephens that he will never again be a
candidate for any political office can be
relied on. His anti-fusion letetr showed that
he either didn't have political sense enough
to pound sand in a rat hole, or else that
he was trying to make things interesting
for ambitious politicians who have gotten
in his way The first theory Is the gener-
ally accepted one, but in either case his
excellency is a very dead duck politically"
In a case which was decided in Spring.
field Saturday Judge Neville. of the Greene
county circuit court, held that only nomi-
nal damages may be recovered from a tel
egraph company for an erroneous trans
mission OF a cipher message. The suit was
against the Western Union, Hughes. the
plaintiff having at some time last summer
sent a cipher telegram to a man in Mexi-
co. The cipher translated said, Shall I
go to New York;" and related to a pending
business transaction. The Mexico man