Ripley County democrat. (Doniphan, Mo.) 1905-1920, 1912-08-23

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Little River Drainage District at
Poplar Bluff recently, when the
district and Louis Houck entered
into an agreement which stopped
litigation in court and amicably
settled their differences. Mr..
Houck had ffty-two exceptions
filed, and all OF these were settled.
1t is said that the Thebes Bridge
and Terminal company, in which
he is heavily interested, received
$40, 900, and his own private lines
of railroad got S130,000 from the
district. On o tract of 1900 ac-
res on the edge of Scott county,
the assessment was reduced by
Judge Sheppard from about S48,-
900 to about $4,000. This was
also a Houck matter, he and the
district attorneys, Oliver & Oliver
of Cape Girardeau, having agreed
not to appeal from the courts
findRg. This drainage district
covers several counties and COM
prises hundreds of thousands of
acres. The estimated cost Of the
project is about S4,000,000, with
resultant benefits Of probably
S14, 100000. Hundreds of land
owners have been involved in the
litigation and at one time the Iron
Mountain railroad got a Supreme
Court injunction pending deci-
sion regarding the jurisdiction of
the Butler county circuit court.
New Madrid Record: Hon.
| David A. Ball, who came very
near being nominated for COVER
nor in 1908, by the Missouri De-
mocracy, now realizes that only
men cen win in politics who are
"good losers"-that nobody has
time CT patience to listen to the
story Of a defeated candidate. If
| be had accepted his defeat four
years ago withouta kick and had
taken the stump to advocate the
election of our state ticket, he
would have had walk over for
governor this year, when we
ehall sweep The state like cy-
clone. He sulked in his tent in
1908, tried it over again and
didn't carry single county last
Tuesday. He is good man, but
made the mistake OF not showing
himself a good loser.
Tuesday morning about 1880
O'Clock of last week, at Kennett,
the five year old daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Laden Of that
city, was killed by local freight
train. The crew was making up
the train Tuesday morning get
ting ready to start on its run
when the mishap occurred. Some
freight cars stood near the public
crossing and just as the little one
started to walk across the track
on the crossing the switching
crew made a coupling between
some cars which were knocked
back onto the crossing stricxlng
the little girl, who was 80 badly
mangled that she died in a short
while.
| The Democratic voters Of the
Twenty-first Senatorial District
have by their ballot chosen Hon.
c. P. Hawkins of Dunklin county
as their next representative in
the Missouri State Senate. Mr.
Hawkins. as we'll as Dunklin
county appreciate the honor, and
Ii is the consensus Of opinion that
the Twenty First District will
never haye cause to regret in
making the choice. Mr., Haw-
kins has local and state reputa-
ton ss q capable and untiring
worker with sn ambition to be OF
great service tohis epastitHents.
Madden Merit;
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