MISSOURI. 



MOLTKK. 



'. .print i MX' $-10,000 for eupport of the State 



. .ili.l mm i i'Mt\ i-adrtri. 



i,' imlvtxiiidunt purtics to avail Un-iii- 

 elven of tlir Imllot law without iri. j. n. -i t<> nmm-ri- 



Kct< i nl "i" Fund Commissioners. 



'I'll.' constitutionality of the law against pool 

 selling \vas di-puted, but tlio Supreme Court, 

 !. lirlil it to be constitutional. 



I IK- Nohiiul Defalcation, This case (see 

 " Animal C\c|opti'dia " for 1800, p. 503) was 

 lit in trial in May before Judge 1 largess, a 

 i whose instructions to the jury was as 

 follows: " Before you can convict the defendant 

 ::iust believe beyond a reasonable doubt, 

 ii-i'in the evidence in the case, that he converted 

 the public money to his own use, with the intent 

 at the time of converting to retain said money 

 and deprive the State of it." The jury stood 

 six to six, and were discharged. On the next 

 trial, in July, the jury rendered a verdict of 

 guilty, fixing the punishment at two years in the 

 Penitential y. Motions were made for a new 

 trial before Judge Burgess, the affidavits affirm- 

 ing that some members of the jury were incom- 

 petent by reason of intoxication, and some on 

 account of opinions previously formed. The 

 motion was denied. Appeal was then taken to 

 the Supreme Court. There are still other indict- 

 ments against the ex-Treasurer, one for forgery 

 and the other for loaning the State's money. 



The Confederate Home. This institution, 

 near Iligginsville, was opened in April, and 

 though not ready to be operated to its full 

 capacity, has provision for the support of fifteen 

 inmates. 



Geological Surrey. An act of the Legisla- 

 ture approved May 23, 1889, created a Bureau of 

 Geology and Mines; the board was organized in 

 the following August, and Arthur Winslow was 

 elect ed State Geologist, entering on the discharge 

 of the duties in September. His biennial report, 

 sent to the Legislature in January, 1891, shows 

 that the cost of the survey to the end of 1890 

 was $16,148.10. Monthly reports have been 

 made, and bulletins issued, giving results of the 

 work in special departments as it progressed. 

 Topographic maps have been made, and speci- 

 mens to the number of 2.300 collected and clas- 

 sified. Work in the coal fields had been done by 

 earlier surveys, and some attention had been 

 given to the zinc and lead deposits. The present 

 survey has gone more thoroughly into these sub- 

 jects, and has taken up in addition the clays, 

 building stones, limes, sands, and cements, and 

 the mineral waters, of which no scientific and 

 critical examination had been made; 1,574 

 square miles have been studied and mapped 

 with reference to the distribution of the granites, 

 syenites, and porphyries. A preliminary report 

 on the coal deposits gives results of the field 

 work prosecuted during the years 1890-'91. 



With reference to the value of coal and coal 

 lands, the report says it " must remain indeter- 

 minale until the question of the amount of the 

 eoal is settled. With a bed 2 feet thick, the 

 value of the 2,500 tons of available coal per 

 MIT.-, at $1.30 per ton, is $8,250. The value of 

 the product of a square mile of such coal is 

 $2,080,000. If we allow a profit of 10 cents per 

 Ion, the net value of the coal from an acre of 



land in $250, and for 40 acre* of such land it U 

 $10.000. 



Tin- production of lead for the yi-nr ending 

 Jane :',(). is-.il, as valued at $2,4 1 1 >J9. that of 

 y.ine at $2.7:J,0?;{, and that of iron at $331,005. 



Charities. The amount appropriated to the 

 support of eleemosynary institutions daring the 

 biennial period was $('i2:{,4">H. The S-hool for 

 the Hlind at St. Louis cost the State during tho 

 two years $59.209.40 for an average of alx>ut 

 100 pupils. The committee appointed to \i-ii 

 and examine the State institutions reported 

 that in their opinion a suburban location would 

 be far preferable to the present one, which u 

 now in the heart of the city, though it was far 

 out in the suburbs in 1855, when the school was 

 organized. The location has so increased in value 

 that it would bring a sum much greater than 

 would be needed for new grounds and modern 

 buildings. The School for the Deaf and Dumb, at 

 Fulton, had special appropriations, aggregating 

 $93,000, from the thirty-fifth General Assembly, 

 and asked for $11,750 more from the thirty- 

 sixth ; $70,000 was appropriated for the current 

 expenses for the last biennial period, and an in- 

 crease to $95,250 was asked for the next. The 

 appropriation for salaries was $24,500 ; 123 new 

 pupils were added, the whole number being :;".."i. 

 The average per capita for current expenses w&* 

 $197.50 ; for salaries and wages, $97.50. 



The appropriation for the State Lunatic A*y- 

 lum, at Fulton, was $40,000 for support, $20.000 

 for improvements, and $19,200 for salaries. 

 The average number of inmates was 550. For 

 the one at St. Joseph the total appropriation 

 was $87,500, of which $56,764.37 was expended. 

 The number admitted during the two years was 

 340, the total number under treatment 819. The 

 one at Nevada had admitted 438 and discharged 

 306, of whom 145 were restored and 43 improved. 

 The sum received from the State was $93.648.88. 



MOLTKE. HELMUTH KARL BERN- 

 HARD, Freiherr von, a German soldier, born in 

 Parchim, Mecklenburg, Oct. 26, 1800; died in 

 Berlin, April 24, 1891. His father, Fritz von 

 Moltke, a retired captain in the Prussian service, 

 married Henrietta Paschen, the only daughter of 

 a wealthy Hamburg merchant and Prussian 

 Councilor of Finance, and purchased an estate 

 in Priegnitz, and afterward one in Mecklenburg, 

 his native province. Helmuth, the third of 

 seven sons, was born while his parents were visit- 

 ing the uncle for whom he was named. Baron 

 von Moltke, the father, sold his land in 1803, and 

 retired to Lubeck, where his house was sacked by 

 the French in 1806. Shortly afterward he bought 

 an estate in Hoist ein. near Kiel, but lost the 

 buildings and granaries a year later through fire, 

 and when the maternal grandfather died soon 

 afterward, after the payment of numerous lega- 

 cies, little was left of the fortune, depreciated as 

 it was through the war. The property had to be 

 sold, and the father was compelled to return to 

 military life, taKing service in the Danish army, in 

 which he rose to bea lieutenant-general. Ho en- 

 tered Helmuth and his brother Frit/, in the cadet 

 school at Copenhagen in 1811, and while bejng 

 trained in the rudiments of the military profes- 

 sion they were subjected to harsh treatment and 

 privations. The uncle. Helmuth von Moltke. us 

 a captain of Mecklenburg troops in the French 



