Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-12-18

. NEWS FROM MISSOURI. :


NNbpN ~ III SIhIc norman
school at Warrensburg.
The ministers alliance of Marshall
has agreed to stop Sunday funerals,
except in case of necessity.
The Missouri Sunday School asso-
citation. In session at st. Louis, decided
to raise 5000 for work in the state
this year. OF this sun $4,000 is to
come from st. Louis.
At the Missouri Dairy association
meeting at Clinton II. T.. Green. of
klrksville, and the Appleton City
cheese factory were awarded gold
medals for the best butter and cheese.
respectively. w. w. Warple. of st. Jo-
aeph, was reelected president.
Gov. Dockery will shortly visit
washington city to meet former CO.
laborers in congress. During his alb
sence Senator Thomas l.. Rnbey, of
Macon, will act as governor. Since
Lieut.. Gov. Lees resignation Ruboy
mas been acting as lieutenant governor.
The attorney general, e. G. Grow,
n Sheriff Smith have returned % JEFF
ferson City from Albany, N. Y, where
they went to try to get William Ziegler
~eXtradited to answer to the Indictment
for bribery. Gen. Crow was not
pleased with the reception he received
in New York.
On January 2 a conference of the
FOLK clubs and Folk believers of the
entire state will be held in st. Louis.
1t will be followed al night by q meet
iny il, \I,,ni, la1J nNr..
meeting was set for January 2. as the
holiday railroad rates will then be
available. Congressman w. ID. Van
diver is Folks manager.
December IS Butler county will vote
on local option. Circuit Judge Fort
is taking a lively interest in the quos-
ton and during the recent trial of a
murder case at Poplar Bluff, when the
courtroom was crowded, the Judge in
,@rrupted the proceedings for over an
hour TO allow two ministers to address
the people assembled in behalf of local
option.
Judge Robert II. Kern and other land
owners OF the Charlton bottom. living
north of the Burlington railroad in
Wv "No'NIh ldIl VI .hdtOl county, nave
Just completed a levee, which runs near
The bank of the Charlton river for a
mile and is three feet above the high
water mark. The levee will protect
several thousand acres of land from
high water.
Abraham Harrington, "a messenger
.or the American Express
livinD nt cIInlta L. |
a few days ago while on his run on the |
Kansas City division of the Missouri.
Kansas 4 Texas railway, escaped from
the hospital at Sedalia. Arrangements
were making to remove the patient TO
his old home in Canada and he was to
have started soon.
Many republican papers of the Six
'eenth congressional district favor A.
i. Murphy for congressman from that
district. Mr.. Murphy is national at
torney for The Creek Indians at a sal
airy of So 1000 a year. He stated that in
case he was nominated in his home
district he would return and make the
race. He was defeated for the nomjna-
ton in the same district by one vote
in 1901.
DR.. +. b Mumford. acting lear of
the Missouri agricultural college. Sc
cured figures and other information on
Missouri mules which reveal that the
number of live stock in this state is
far greater than in 1900. which. in
View of unfavorabie conditions. is re-
markable evidence of the wonderful
agricultural vitality of Missouri. They
show that tho number of mules in
this state has now reached 300, 900. |
Their value is estimated at $23, 900 900.
Missouri alone now has nine per
cent. of the total number of mules in
the United States. There are more
mules in Missouri than in any other
state except Texas. When it is re-
membered that during the Boer war
thousands of mules were shipped from
Missouri to South Africa these figures
IRE astounding. Missouri has in three
years leaped TO the position of Sec
ond mule state in America, crowding
Texas closely for first honor.
Mule-breeGing in Missouri Is On the
increase and will continue. The mule
is a good investment. 4 good team
should bring as high as $500. Mules
do not vary in value 50 widely as
horses. a great advantage in breeding
mules is that they require such little
care and comparatively small feeding.
A mule can get along on a smaller
amount of feed than a horse. and it
does not seem 20 make much difference
what the feed Is.
So far as the University of Missouri