Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1911-04-07

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Anderson Carter, a farmer liv-
ing on a farm a mile and a half
north of West Plains, killed VIM.
A. George, a bookkeeper for the
Funkhouser-D Davis Hardware Co.
at that place March 14th. About
a week before the killing Carter
purchased two plow points at the
store. He brought them back
and claimed he had been charged
5 cents too much for each of the
points. George waited on him
when he brought the points back,
and Carter was mad. George
offered to pay back the claimed
overcharge and tried to explain
to Carter, but Carter picked up
one Of the points and threw it at
George striking him on the head
and knocking him down. George
got up and did not seem to those
who. witnessed the act to be much
hurt, and when the store closed
in the evening started home, the
trouble having occurred just at
closing up time. George did not
recognize his wife and children,
whom he met on the way going
home, and on reaching there be-
came dclirious and died about
three hours after. Carter was
arrested and placed in Jail the
next day. He had not been
known as an especially bad man
at any time previous, though his
father, an uncle, two brothers
and two cousins had committed
murder. His uncle killed an old
man in cold blood in Arkansas
and was lynched. His fatl.er
killed a man with whom he picked
a quarrel at Mountain Home,
Arkansas, in 1894 and was also
lynohed. His two brothers wan
tonly killed a man in this state
and are now serving life sentences
in the pen at Jeff City for the
crime, and the two cousins are in
the penitentiary at Little Rock
on long terms for deliberately
killing a man. Carter is 40 years
old; George was 40.
Circuit court convened at West
Plains on Monday, March 9th,
Judge VIM. N. Evans presiding.
There are SO state cases on the
docket, seven of which are for
rape. There are Sc men to be
tried for gambling, although sew
eral of this number have two or
three charges against them.
There is 1870 civil cases on the
docket, % Of which are divorce
cases. The docket is assigned
two weeks, but court officials ex-
pect that it will take them two
months to clean it up in one shape
or another. Howell county is
one of the good Republican coun-
ties of South Missouri where they
have saloons, like Butler county,
and where they pay more atten-
ton to their whiskey drinking
and gambling than they do to
their churches and schools.
Funny, isn't it, though, that while
the Republican party sets itself
up as a great moral party, that
almost without exception the Re-
publican counties of the state al
most uniformly have saloons and
are controlled by negroes and
saloons and don't class up very
high in schools and churches, yet
their papers and politicians are
always shouting about the igno-
rance and 6ourbonism OF the
Democracy,a very large majority
of the counties OF the state clsssed
as belonging to our party being
free from saioons with splendid
local school systems and elegant
church sentiment.