Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-08-21

NEWS FROM MISSOURI. :


win Judge j. L.. Foot, of the Twenty.
second district, as president.
The death rate in Kansas City last
month was the highest in the history
OF the city, 324 deaths having been re.
ported.
City Marshal Vince Coleman shot
and killed Rufus Cox at Dalton. Cox
was selling fish in the street. Cole
man was arrested and lodged in Jail
nj keytesville. He Ii a brother Of
Charley Coleman, who was killed last
April in Keytesville by VIII White.
A special Mark Twain day has been
set for the worlds fair. The National
Mark Twain association has been or
ganized at Hannibal, the boyhoOd
home Of the great humorist, and will
Die It's convention at the exposition
June 10. 10 and II, 1904. The last day
has been specially assigned as Mark
Twain day.
w. T. Atha, living five miles south.
west Of Nevada. the other day killed
a blacksnake about 412 feet long, which
he fOund in a hens nest on his farm.
He noticed that II had what seemed
a swelling In one part Of its body and,
on cutting il open, took ont a large
corncob eight inches long, which the
snake had swallowed small end fOre-
most.
A difference over ten cents precipi-
tated a fight between Joseph Moore,
white, and John Mattox, a negro
minor a, Tho krtu,ra faynn mar Ma.
con. After several blows were ex.
changed Mattox pulled his pistol and
shot Moore through the heart. Mat
tOx is known az the king of the
camp among the negroes. He es-
capped.
According 10 records on file at the
Office of the secretary of the state
board of agriculture there are about
235 1913 acres of vacant public land in
Missouri which may be homesteaded
or purchased outright for $1.25 an
acre. Much Of this land is well tim
bcred and some of it is adapted to fruit
orchards. while, of course, "A large
part of it Is worthless for agricultural
purposes.
Eph Is. COckicll, son OF Senator
Cockrell, CT Warrensburg, is now liv-
ing on "a 5000-acrc sugar plantation
g the city OF Mexico. Mr.. Cockrell
is arranging to place on his plantation
q modern sugar mill. which will be
the only one of its kind in that part
Of Mexico. Cockrell likes Mexico and
says It presents fine openings for young
Americans who have a little capital to
invest.
A negro boy attended school at Chill
licOthe six years before the school di-
| rectors learned that his home was in a
country district They intend now 10
make The country district hand over
$40. If a child from II district at
tends school in another, and his pa
rents cant or won't pay his tuition, the
district in which he lives Is legally
liable for his tuition at the rate on
Sli a year. The money cannot be col
lected after a lapse of five years, SO the
Chillicothc district loses pay for It's
first years instruction Of the inter-
lOper.
A correspondent at Ottervilic de-
scribes an ice cream church social as
a success in every respect except the
following incident: Seven or eight
couples came down from SmithtOn 10
enjoy the social and while they were
ut the table some smart young man
or boy at Otterville started a game Of
throwing eggs at the Smithton crowd
and soOn a number of others Joined
IN the sport. The consequences were
that most all their clothes were spoiled
or ruined" But the general success
ri the occasion must have sent the
SmithtOnians home in high spirits.
Orrin Mclean, OF POwcrsvilie, was
arrested by the federal officers and
taken to Kansas City on the charge
Of "~bootlegging" whisky. Several wit
ncsses testified as to the p~crambulatpry
habits INDUCED in by MCLEAN in the
dispensing Of liquor, while numerous
witnesses testified on behalf of the de-
PENDANT. MCLEAN was bound over ia
the United States grand jury and re-
leased on his own recognizance. Pow
ersville Is "a local option town and Il
is the desire Of citizens there to carry
out the expressed wish Of the people
"a make the place prohibition In fact
as well as in name.
This dispatch recently came from
Columbia: Out of 900 exchanges re-
ceived this week at the Herald Office
228 are shouting for Folk for governor,
many OF them contain f%ull-page pic
lures of the scOurge of bOOdlers. and
there are perhaps 22s columns Of edi-
torial matter booming the young attOr-
ney for governor. The country press
IL almost solid for Folk. Such a state