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Moberly Weekly Democrat from Moberly, Missouri • Page 8

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County At the Davless county local option election Tuesday that couiUy went dry by majority. Every township in the county gave a substantial majority for the proposition. at Marshall. A lodge of B. P.

O. E. was organis- ed at Marshall last night by members of the order from Sedalia and Lexington. Elks from Columbia, Boonville, Fayette, Higginsville ami Mexico were present. Klre Threatens IClks' Quick work Tuesday night by the club members saved the Elks' building- at Gape Girardeau, dedicated last spring, from burning.

Crossed wires in the motor room at the bottom of the elevator shaft caused the blaze, which had spread considerably. my Sudden Death Was Feared. "In case of accident, notify wife at Yoke." These were the words on a card found in'the pocket of a well dressed man, who fell dead on the main street in Monett, Tuesday. Apoplexy is said to have been the cause of his death. State KeccivOvS Jmml Monoy.

The state treasury at Jefferson City yesterday morning received from the National government a draft for the state's per cent on the government lands sold in Missouri for the year ending June 30, 1907. This money goes into the state road and canal fund. Triplets Horn at Jefferson City. Herman Goeddc and wife of Jefferson City, who have always been advocates of President ttoosevelt's ideas about race suicide, are now more firm adherents of his position than ever before. There were born to Mrs.

Goeddc yesterday nfto.rnd.on three daughters, two of whom weighed four pounds each and one weighed five pounds. They are well formed and seemingly healthy infants. Missouri Dentists Meet. The fourth annual meeting of the Northeast Missouri Dental Association convened at Kirksvilie Tuesday a two day session. The officers arc: Dr.

Bradgeford of Macon, president; Dr. H. R. Neeper, Hannibal, vice president; Dr. E.

F. Brown, Edina, secretary and treasurer. Dentists from Iowa and Illinois arc also present. Twenty-three persons are on the program for addresses and clinics. Gas Supply Inadequate.

That part of the population of St. Joseph which depends upon natural gas for heating purposes was shivering last night. It has tho number of consumers has been greatly increased during the summer season, and the piping facilities re- niain-'tho same as formerly. The result is that with the coming or cold weather the supply of ga's Is inadequate. No relief is promised before the first of the year.

Missouri Saddle Horse, Premier, a bay saddle horse that is looked upon by experts at the American Horse Exchange as a probable winner at the next national horse show, in which he is entered, week by Godfrey H. Kahn for $3,000. powerful, dark bay about sixteen handH high, with wonderful depth, sloping, high withered shoulders, strong back and quarters of the typical weight carrying park hack. Mr. Preece found the horse in Missouri, where ho was raised by Dr.

McAllister of Columbia. His sire, Col. Stevens, was a thoroughbred stallion that won races in the southwest, including the Kansas City Herald. 3vas sold last Preece to Otto He is rugged, Must Fay the Penalty. In vigorous phrases the United States circuit court of appeals at St.

Louis Wednesday affirmed the verdict of the United States district court at Cape Girardeau in finding Charles Smith, and Charles M. Smith, of Sikeston and five employes guilty of operating a negro peonage system in southeastern Mis, souri in the winter and -of 1906, in violation -of the United States constitution. Foi pay These are jthe cases which' were prosecuted in the summer and fal of 1906 by CoL David P. a that time United States district at torney, and now judge of the Unitec States, district court. The verdict of the loweif cd'ur which is now affirmed, meted out the following punishment to those fount guilty of establishing and maintain ing the peonage camp: Charles M.

Smith'. owner the tract of land where the'system was operated, sentenced to serve three and one-half years in Loavonworth prison and to fine of $5,000. Charles M. Smith, sentencec to serve two and one-half years ir Fort Leavenworth prison and to a fine of "$5,000. William Woods, employe of the Smith's, two years in-prison and fine of $100.

Floyd Woods, employe of the Smiths, two and one-half years in prison and a fine of $100. Benjamin Field, employe of the Smiths and one-half years in prison and a fine of $100. W. Lee Rodgors, overseer for the Smiths, two years in prison and a fine of $100. Benjamin Stone, employe of 'the Smiths, one and one-half years in prison and a fine of $100.

Pushed Spouse Into a Well. Herman Vantigcr, a Linn countj farmer, 53 years old, was taken from a midnight train on the Burlington at Macon Saturday night by Chief of Police Malone and held to await the arrival of officers from Linn county. Vantiger is wanted for throwing hin wife in a well. The crime, it is charged, occurred November 'i. It is said that the woman went to the well to draw some water, and.

that her husband, coming up behind her, shoved her in. The well is eighteen feet deep and had six feet of water in it. The woman succeeded in catching hold of the chain and climbed out. Then neighbors took charge of her and protected her from further attacks. When arraigned before a justice at Marceline, Vantiger induced George Allen, a well-to-do implement dealer of Marceline, to go his bond for appearance before Justice Kendrick for preliminary trial, which was to have been held Monday-.

The defendant began disposing of his personal property Friday and soon gathered in over The Marceline officers received a tip that, Vanti- gcr was going to skip out. He boarded an east bound Burlington flyer at, Bucklin, and the deputy sheriff there, Sam Parker, of it a few moment after the train had gone, notified the chief at Macon. Mrs. Vantiger is three years older than her husband. There have been numerous quarrels, and Vantiger says she hen-pecked him, but denies that he pushed her in the well.

The woman insists he did. Some twenty farmers of the neighborhood guarded the Vantiger home Friday night with shotguns, fearing Vantiger would burn the houses on the place before he left. Vantiger says he was not running away) but was merely going to Quincy on business, intending to return for trial, lie had $1,000 in his pocket and carried a bundle of clothes wrapped up cloth. Me had a blue handkerchief over his. fiend.

Deputy sheriffs of Linn county came over and took charge of Vanti- ger. The Ash-Brown Nuptials. John P. Ash of Renick and Miss Agnes Brown of Clark were united In the holy bonds of wedlock by Elder G. A.

Perkins at his residence at 2 o'clock this afternoon. After the ceremony they returned to their home previously prepared by the groom where a weeding feast, awaited them. They are prominent young people and have the best wishes of their hosts of friends for a bright and prosperous future. COUCH AND CURE THE LUNGS WITH Dr. King's New Discovery mn i PRICK run -HHSfJC 1 i uii Trill Bottle Free £ND ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES.

GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY OB MONEY KEFUNDED. 1 to Start JNfcw Service Soon Ilitclii Soincwlicre. NEW DISPENSARY AT KANSAS CITY Abandon Service from Milwaukee Junction to Kxcclsior. to expectations the Wabash and Fe will not institute the double track system from Carrolton to Fleming, or more strictly speaking, Carrollton Junction to Camdcn -both of which arc now stations just established by the Wabash. Carrollton Junction is just west of Carrollton and Cnmden Junction is just west of Cam den and between Camden and Fleming.

The distance, Ayhlch was to have marked the beginning of double track service between the Wabash and Santa Fe, is twenty-four miles. The tracks of the two lines along this stretch of country run parallel, and many an exciting race has been pulled off between train crews of the two roads. For some time negotiations have been on looking to an arrangement whereby the doable track system wpuld be installed over this twenty- four milos'of track. It, was'announc- ed some time ago that the deal had gone through and' the new time card to be issued next Sunday would show the same. There has been some hitch in the negotiations, however, and the service will continue as heretofore, for the present at least.

"Another departure to be shown in the new time card will be elimination of the service between Excelsior Springs and Milwaukee Junction. This run, while a short one, has been of sufficient importance heretofore to be given six passenger trains each way'per day and it has occupied a conscipuous place on former Wabash time cards. In the new card, however, it does not appear, the service having been abandoned entirely. The new time card also shows that a new Wabash dispensary has been established in Kansas City at 1020 Main street. surgeon in charge is Dr.

1.0.'AVilhelm. Heretofore Kansas City has only had a resident physician like Mexico', Carrollton and all the other little towns along the Wabash. The new deal gives her a nicely equipped dispensary with a competent physician in 'charge at all times. W10AK KIDNEYS MAKK WIUAK BODIES. Kidney Diseases Cause Half the Common Aches and Ills of Moberly People.

As one weak link weakens a chain, so weak kidneys weaken the whole body and hasten the final breaking- down. Overwork, strains, cold and other causes injure the kidneys, and their activity is lessoned the whole body suffers from the excess of uric poison circulated in the blood. Aches and pains and languor and urinary ills come, and there is an over-increasing tendency towards diabetes and fatal Brlglit's disease. There is no real help for sufferer except kidney help. Dean's Kidney Pills act directly on the kidneys and cure every kidney ill.

Moberly cures are the proof. Mrs. J. Brock of'514 Roberts street, Moborly, says: had dull aching pain ml lameness in tiiy back which was very persistent ind annoying. Hoar.Ing so much ibout Doan's Kidney Pills, my husband procured a box for me at C.

E. Znhl's drug store. I only used about liftlf of them, but have found my )ack much since. The trouble has disappeared." For sale by all dealers. Price GO cents.

Foster-Milbxirn Buffalo, N. sole agents for the United States, Remember the name Ml)oans and no other. County Collector Joe KIrby of IJuntslvillo last night and will be here for next five days. His wife is visiting lor parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Daniels, while Mr. Klrby is in Mobnrly, A Chicago profotiaor says he can Mire leprosy with snake poison, Urn and can he cure snake poison with eprosy? Fred Meyers' Father Dead. Dispatcher Fred Meyers is In Kansas City to attend the funeral of his father who died yesterday. The death of Mr. Meyers was not unexpected as he has been in poor health for several months and his son has made frequent trips to Kansas City to be at the bedside of his parent.

Sympathy is extended to the son and other sorrowing relatives. Knee Painfully Injured. John M. Frazier of the Wabastf supply department was the victim of P. very painful accident while on the discharge of his regular duties yesterday.

Ho was climbing on a car of lumber.billed to-the Wabash and in some way his knee was wrenched so badly that he had to give up work' and return to his" home on Hallock street where he Is still laid up and is suffering considerable pain from the fnjiiry. Hack From Colorado. Joe M. Davis, who for several years was employed at the Wabash car shops in this city and who later gave up that position and to work at the barber's trade, and who a few months after Colorado, has returned to this city. Jbe has been working In for the past several months but has come to the conclusion that there is no place like old Missouri and with his wife has come back here to stay.

His many friends will be pleased to learn of his return. and wife gar Robersdri and Miss Erma Harper' spent last Sunday iri'Moberly, -V-V. Mrs. McFarland of Columbia Mrs. Whitten of Moberly visited Mollie J.

Ktoel last Saturday and day. Mr. Meloda' and wife visited 1 Glover and family 'n West of Saturday and Little Gladys accomapnied home. Mrs. IVfontgomery of' near church the guest oC Hattie, and Thomas, family at ly duringjthe past week.

Ten stocks of haK on the Wight farm, just this side of Milton, burned oneway last It seems that man in lighting his pipe used'a match, which set fire to a -stack of the fire' from this to nine other stacks which quickly burned of the heYbic-efforts to save them. Some one stole from Dixon on'the Coates farm near berly. Sunday night. It was a brown horsey sixteen hands high and about 15 years pl'dl John Weper, just west of Madison) missed a saddle the same night and it is supposed tliat the', same party took it. John Patterson of Moberly was here 'Monday after-noon but so'far has.

found no clew that will lead to the'apprehension of the thief. All Burlington Wheels Stopped. Every wheel on the Burlington system was stopped for five minutes Monday afternoon in honor of the founder, former President C. E. Perkins, whose funeral at 3 o'clock at Westwood, Mass.

The official notice was issued by Second Vice President Wiliard. Instructions were sent to all general managers of lines west of the Missouri river to notify all employes' of the company to cease work for five minutes during the hour brine, funeral. 'train movements were also stopped. In central time territory the order applied to the first five minutes after, 2 p. m.

and in western time territory to the first five minutes after 1 p. m. Train is Loaded. The.aftqrnoon Wabash train from Hannibal; where' it connects with the train from the east, is getting to be one of the best trains running into Quincy, It is loaded to the guards every afternoon and often there is "standing room only." As the morning Wabash train does not get to Quincy until nearly noon, the people from Kinderhook, Barry and other points along the lower route of the Wabash, but five hours to do their shopping and come in the evening remain over night, giving them the evening the whole next day to do their ping and transact their business. If the trafllc on this train continues to increase tho Wabash will have to add an extra Herald.

How to Make Pumpkin Pic. Get a good ripe pumpkin, and cut into convenient sixes for cooking. Use a very heavy bread or butcher knife in Cutting the pumpkin into pieces, then a short, bladed one for paring; remove the soft part. Boil until done -and with as little water as Press llirough a sieve and put into it a little salt while mixing. To one pint of cooked pump kin add one cup of sugar, three eggs, one cup of cream, one cup milk, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one-half, teaspoonful ginger, one-fourth teaspoons ful salt, one taolespoonful butter.

Line the tins with rich pastry dough and fill with the mixture. Have the oven only moderately hot and bake the pies about forty-five minutes. One wise counsel is better than the strength of First insertion Friday, Nov. 15; Trustee's Sale by Sheriff, Nuisance Can be Operating officials of the 'Burlington claim to have domonstrated that the abolition of the'smoke nuisance, insofar as railroad locomotives are concerned, is not only possible; but practicable. After a campaign last- Ing i'or a period of three iribuths, the statement is made that the smoke evil no longer exists on the lines of the Burlington which Ho within the ity limits, The method is sb simple that, apparently, there, is no reason why the engines of any railroad should longer emit black columns of Ivic beauty Officials of the oad Burlington.

assort that any manager who desires to stop the nuisance on his can do so; The whole story is up in the term kind of firing BupjiieiriQhtod Bu Uiigton termed brick archesi in the locomotives, for tho purpose of aid- combustion. four months igo the management of tho ton hired a Binoko inBpector of tholr own, and gave him orders to abate tho amoke nuiaahco. Tho fact that fuel costs the Burlingtou 1 2,6 00,000 la imprCBued upon tho Whereas, Roy P. Campbell and Berla C. Campbell, his wife, did by their certain deed of trust, dated August 1, 1907, and recorded August 2, 1907, in mortgage fcook, 45, at pago 237, in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Randolph county, Missouri, on August 1, 1907, convey to J.

C. the following described real estate, lying and being in tho county of Randolph, aifd, state of Missouri, to wiu. An undivided 1-3 to the following lands: The south- au(l west quarter of the northeast quar- tho northwest quarter of the northeast the south of the southeast qxiarier of the north- oast quarter, ton acres off of the south sido of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter, and acre, more or less, off of southwest corner of 00 acres off of north side of oast half of northeast quarter 'of. section 21, and tho southwest'quar- ter of the southeast quarter and the west half of the southeast quarter oi the southeast quarter-of section. 10, all In township 'fifty-five (65), raiiRo thirteen (13), subject to the dowov and homestead interest -therein of one Anmh'da Campbell, and sub-, ject to a dood of trust executed on tho 13th day of April, 1907, and re- in 45, at page 47, of tho mortgage records of Randolph county, for said conveyance was mado to secure the payment of a certain px'omlssory uoto In said dood described, and whoroas default has boon mado In tho payment of ijatd noto and Interest, and whoroas it is provided in non, and, thoroforo, tho "necessity of economy in the UBO of i IB that heavy black smoke cuuBcul by too rapid firing, said trust that in caso of tho refusal to act of tho trustoo named in said dood of trust said trust shall bo oxocutod fry tho thon acting iKnnctoiph said thoMogal 'holder of said not In nummuce of tho provlslotts said dood, of truat, W.

Huston, sheriff of'UandoIph county, will, on Saturday, Docombor 7, at tho court houso door, in the of Randolph county, tho nouvs of 9 In tho ovonoou -ami o'clock aHoruoon of noirat pubUo highofjt blddor for oash tho ftbovo' doacvibod ostuto to tmttafy said' nbto "and gothor with this trust i Shoritt of Hiuidolpht County,.

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