Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1909-02-12
A farmer living over in Tansy

INouHty mas y uWarleQ pet pig
that is two or three years old and
[no larger than a house cat. The
other day he took his pig out with
a party of hunters. Presently up
Jumped a rabbit, and it got in a
hole before any of the hunters
could get their guns to their
! shoulders. "Here's where Foxy
will show you what he >can do,"
says the farmer. He let the pig
down and it shifted the ground
and went into the hole quick as a
ferret, and pretty soon came out
with the rabbit in its mouth. The
farmer says that the pig is more
valuable than all the bird dogs,
as it is also a good quail hunter,
and when the pig makes a stand
it is next to impossible to make
it flush the flock.
! Charles A. Sumner Of Kansas
City, who claims to be a repre-
Sentative legislative agent for the
Brotherhood of Hoboes, arrived
at Jefferson City Tuesday bear
ling a letter Of introduction to
Lieutenant Governor Gmelick
and Speaker A. A. Speer. His
purpose in coming there is to
have a bill passed providing for
1.-THE state giving employment TO
the men out of work. \ An appro-
priation of S125, 900, for the pur-
Ipose of carrying out the scheme,
lis one provision of the bill Sum-
Ener has in mind. Sumner says
he is backed by the leaders of
organized labor in Kansas City
and st. LOUIS.
4 Attorney-General Major has
rendered an opinion to the effect
that the law passed by the last
legislature fixing the salaries OF
county attorneys in counties of a
population of not less than 80, 900
nor more than $4,000 at $4,000
per year, is unconstitutional and
void. 1t affects but four counties
of the state and the attorney
general holds that it is a local
and special law. The opinion
was rendered upon the request
of several county attorneys OIL
their assistant.
While hunting rabbits in the
Pearl Bend neighborhood, q
Benton County man found in q
hollow log a loaded and cooked
shotgun which has been identified
as belonging to J. A. Long, who
killed Mrs. Winemuller and Felix
Crawford in October, 1905. Tht
finding of the gun again starts
people to guessing whether Long
made his escape or whether h,
! was killed by pursuers and hi'
body thrown in the river.
! The Braun prize, awarded tht
best student of the universities O.
America and Europe, has beer
} captured by Mabel Sturtexant O
Brookfield, Missouri girl, borr
and reared on a farm and educat'
ed almost entirely by her owl
J efforts. She intends making ,
tour of the world with the none,
her victory has given her.
Thomas M. Allen OF Cassyille
. a former postmaster, yesterda,
pleaded guilty before Judge Pol
lock of the federal court to open
ing another's mail He was fin
, ed $500. A decoy letter sent b,
; a postoffce inspector caused hi
t arrest. Allen is one OF the mos
/. prominent and wealthy citizen
Of Barry County. n
!, A crowd Of hunters about fiv
' miles southeast of Grant Cit
} went out hunting one day lai
I week and killed i89 rabbits on
1 square mile Of territory. At tn
D end Of the hunt the rabbits hrdn
.lgivsn out but the hunters wet
about all in. Rabbits are IN
usually plentiful this season.
al The prosecuting attorney
r Scott county made speeches &
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