Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-02

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Congressman-elect Rucker, of the Second
district. whose term as circuit judge expir-
ed last week, was the guest of honor at an
elaborate banquet given by the members
other night.
Grant City has established a reputation
as a poultry shipping point. The town mer-
chants just before Christmas offered I cents
a pound for turkeys. and in one day four
carloads were brought in. The aggregate
weight was 5000 pounds.
Thus It is that PlattsburS is fast taking
her place among the great cities of the
West" explains the Clintonite, in connec-
ton with an account of the esta blishirg
there of an organization of Scottish Rite
Masons. such as only ST. Louis and Kansas
City, in Missouri, could boast of previously.
The boastful claim on the part of the
Linneus Bulletin that it is 1.-The original
Dockery paper" calls forth from its es-
teemed Popocratic contemporary, Deacon
McMichaers Plattsburg Leader. the some
what Jolting suggestion that this seems
to be tantamount to glorying in original
sim"
Holt county's increasing prosperity is
we'll illustrated in some significant bank
figures published in the Sentinel. The total
deposits of the eleven banks December /,
the date Of the last reports, were s2Ts, 4E3
greater than at any time in 1886. s14s, Os1 In
pyopSS NJ ,Q- o,p ,sl &C. 80
than the sum returned at the last call. in
July, 1895.
The fact recently disclosed in the Decem-
Der report of the Atchison county banks
that among the funds of those institutions
there was more gold thar paper money.
and three times as much gold as silver,
may not be comforting to the advocates of
the "heaven-born ratio" but it is Indicative
OF a mighty prosperous and promising
financial situation in Northwest Missouri.
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Tn Washington correspondent Of the
Louisville Courier-Jourral favors making
Silver Dick" Bland. of Missouri, the leader
of the Democratic minority of the house.
AS the position carries with it neither hon.
i AldhtS lllllt ulIlST-
ence. the Chicago Tribune thinks, who &C.
cupies it. but any change would doubtless
be regarded as an Improvement upon Babe
Bailey.
Rev. Mr.. Bulla, the former Gentry county
boy, who recently accepted a call from one
of the prominent Methodist churches in
Baltimore. has only been in the ministry
about three years. After leaving the Mis-
souri, university he travelled West, and
spent about four years in Nevada and Cal
ifornia. From there he went to Washing
ton, where he secured a clerkship in the
war department., remaining in tina position
eight years. He was admitted to the Bal
timore conference of the South Meth
odist church in March, 1895, and was
Immediately assigned to the pastorate of
Grace church, Roanoke, Va. where he re-
manned until appointed to the Baltimore
charge. In 1855 Rev. Mr.. Bulla returned to
Albany on a visit. and while there welded
Miss Florence Scarborough. of that city.
ut has been remarked before in this COL
umn." observes Tip in the New York
Press. that Senator George Vest resembles
a brownie of the Palmer Cox type. 1 am
sorry to learn from a mutual friend that
the distinguished Missourian has lost thirty
pounds of flesh. Who is the Shylock urg-
ing this demand? The senator's long and
serious illness has told plainly on his short
and humorous constitution. When a man
runs down at 60 years. it is no easy matter
IN hr1iI6 him 1,n aDain If Vest bod hnar
blessed with six feet and a half longitude
and two feet of latitude. instead of five feet
three of the former and four feet of the
latter. more or less, he might be the biggest
man mentally. morally and physically IN
the United States senate. Glory to ever
green and vigorous old age! Let no man
pull down our yest."
All previous records of lead and zinc
production in Southwest Missouri were
broken during 1885, the mineral outpu
of the interstate district having been
in excess of 100000. greater by over
put. The zinc output was ahead of any
showing. not only in the amount
of the ore produced. but in the prices paid.
For years the zinc mining operators looked
longingly for the time when Jack" as zinc
ore is called by mining men, would bring
$50 per ton. Tnirty-dollar jack was re-
garded as the acme of prosperity. This
hope of the miner has been more thar
realized. for Jack" not only reached $50,
but passed onward in its upward climb to
$1,000 per ton. that price having been paid
for the choice zinc ore produced at some of
the Belleville mines during the week end
ing December 5.
Since January 1. 1898. seventy-eisht fatal
accidents have occurred in the Mis-
district, most of them attrib-
utable. a correspondent of the Globe-Demo-
crat says. to carelessness or negligence on
the part of the miner and mine owners.
miners going back to ascertain If all of the
shots had exploded. The dangers of dyna- |
mite do not seem TO be appreciated by the
average miner. So numerous have been
the casualties from dynamite at the mines
State Mine Inspector ouinby is pre- |
lature to require all shots in shafts to be
by electricity. He has also in his bill
a clause requiring safety hooks upon all
mining tubs. for a dozen men nave been !
during the year by lack of them.
And unless extra precautions are forced
upon the miners and mine operators the |
death list will increase.