Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-03-17

Judge Rees Of the district court Of
Saline county has declared the Kansas
pure food law imperative as to cor
poratIons in the case where the Belle
springs Creamery company was found
guilty of selling short weight butter
packages.
In the schools of New York $4,000
pupils are on part time because of the
crowded condition Of the schools. May
or Gaynor proposes the construction
Of portable school buildings until per-
manent buildings can be erected.
The laws of Oklahoma forbid the
state treasurer depositing state funds
outside the state. Public Accountant
Taylor, in a report, finds that there
was on deposit In a Kansas City bank
$295.6S2.S1 and an open rupture has
occurred between Gov. Haskell and
Taylor.
A baby which weighed 16 pounds
and had a full set Of upper teeth was
born at Poplar Bluff. Mo.
The secretary of the Kansas State
Grain association estimates the dam
age to the wheat crop over the greater
portion Of the state at 10 per cent
with injury amounting TO 80 or 60 per
cent in the northeastern part.
The bill intended to create a model
city for the state capital of Oklahoma
has been defeated.
The president Of the Wholesale
Gricers' association of Pennsylvania
in addressing the convention of the
association said that eliminating but
ter, eggs, meat and other foods, con-
trolled by the cold storage houses.
food.stuffs are cheaper than in 20
years.
Two Sedalia, Mo. women, Mrs. J.
II. Finnell and Mrs. l.. NJ. Latbch were
among hose killed in the Great North
ern train that was caught in a
slide at Cascade, Wash.
A negro preacher was hanged to a
telegraph pole at Greenwood, Miss, for
shooting and w%oundiag a policeman.
The state bank commissioner of Ok
lahoma has made a report on the IL
quotation of the defunct Columbia
Bank and Trust company Of Oklahoma
cllh, "llINh SloWo tiut an ~ Inv
amount Of 2,6Ss, 6O7.6 have been paid
and that liabilities OF 1862, 919.02 yet
remains to be paid.
A special train OF seven express cars
loaded with silk from Japan, and three
tourist slecpers with armed guards has
been rushed across the continent from
San Francisco to New York.
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was found floating in the reservoir of
the water company at Hannibal, Mo.
The Santa Fe railroad company has
notified the Oklahoma corporation
commission that the company will re-
sumo its charge of three cents per
mile for passenger fare in that state.
A locomotive boiler exploded on
the st. Louis & Sa, Francisco railroad
ncar HOxie. Ark. while the train was
running So miles an hour, killing the
fireman and dangerously injuring the
engineer and brakeman.
Actions in equity have been COM
nenccd in Pennsylvania to recover to
the state at least $4,000. 900 alleged to
have been illegally paid to contractors
and others concerned in furnishing
the state capitol.
There we're AZ strikes in Kansas last
year and "a Of them were settled amic-
ably. The total loss of wages was
1882, S95.
During ten weeks of the winter sea.
son the people of Boston paid to thea
ters and moving picture shows g.,
100000.
A Topeka, Kan, woman who is sup
posed to be insane, shot a street ca
conductor when he approached her fol
her fare.
The price of hogs at the Kansas
City stock yards has reached $40 pei
hundred pounds, the highest price eve
paid there.