

mssorui. 



The President of the Kansas City Safe Deposit 

 and Saving* Bank, which failed in 1804. wa- 



L Nor. 11, of wi to bank, and was sen- 



tenced to two years in the Penitentiary. This was 

 the largest saving* bank in the Mate. It had f2.- 

 000,000 in deposits, nearly all from poor people, and 

 when it taflea only $! 1,000 in cash wan in its vaults. 

 I ii. i, sxsretanrof the State Ibiard of 



Agriculture tamed a statement in December, from 



he follOWil 



ue agricultural productions were not so 

 abundant fur 1897 as last season. We produced 

 167.000.000 bushels of com against 200,000,000 for 

 last season ; 9.400.000 bushels of wheat against l > 



: ..... -: .'. ...... . 



-. ..... bushels; UMOO bom -f hay 



against 8.540.000 tons. 550,000 bushels of flaxseed 

 against 500,000 bushels ; 82,150 bales of cotton against 

 38.197 bales; 7.200.000 pounds of tobacco against 

 7.000,000 pounds; and 3.650,000 bushels of potatoes 

 against 7,880,000 bushels for 1806. 



oretarr Goodman, of the State II .rticultural 

 Society, estimates the apple crop, at $12,000,000; 

 peaches, $8,500,000; pears, cherries, plums ami 

 grapes, $1,500.000; berries, $2,500,000; a total of 

 $30.000,000 for tin- fruit crop of 1897. 



< shipments of agricultural products reported 

 to us by the transportation companies and compiled 

 this season show an out put far in excess of our most 

 sanguine expectations. 



-The shipment of cattle was estimated at 700,000 

 head. The actual returns show 1,118,500 h.-ad. 

 Hogs for the same period were estimated at 2.200,- 

 000 head, and the shipments amounted to 3,142,000 

 head. Horses and mules were estimated at 70,000 

 head, and we shipped 104,361 head ; sheep at 300,- 

 000 head, actual shipments were 326,340 head ; wool 

 at 8,000.000 pounds, shipments 8,086,000 rounds; 

 poultry 50.000,000 pounds, shipments 48,040,383 

 pounds; eggs 25,000,000 dozen, shipmen 

 579 dozen ; total timber product at 450,000,000 feet, 

 shipments 518,000,000 feet] cotton 29,000 bales, 

 shipments 83,197 bales." 



The last half of 1897 shows an increase in the 

 lead and zinc output over the corresponding part 

 of 1898 of $888,572. 



Discoveries of gold in St. Charles and Montgomery 

 Counties hare been announced, and the finding of 

 pearls in the Pomme de Terre and Osage rivers. 



. Heavy rains in January caused over- 



flows in all the stream*, washouts, and other damai:.- 

 in western Missouri. The great flood in the 

 sissippi in April submerged about 1,750 square mil.- 

 in the State. The report of the Agricultural De- 

 partment, April 11. said: "The agricultural inter- 

 ests affected in Missouri represent a total capital of 

 orer $9.000,000, the 5,300 submerged farms contain- 

 ing an area of about 470,000 acres. 



Mob Violence. Two men suspected of thieving 

 WOTS killed by White Caps near Mountain (trove, 

 May 18, and the house of another, who was away 

 from home, was burned. 



IxniK-Th. Hty dirwtory f.,r 1897 indicates 

 a large increase in the population. Tin- number of 

 names giren is 212359, indicating l,v the rule esti- 

 matmgS inhabitants to each, a population of 688,- 

 The increase is said to be nearly 3,000 greater 

 than the average annual gain. 



By the city election in April the entire Repub- 

 lican ticket was elected with the exception of Your 

 members of the House of Delegates. 



A V*33K!?JZ I 10 **? 6 * u * for a f * Iibral 7 

 was earned by 85.212 majority. 



Decisions. According to a decision of the circuit 

 c.-urt at KsasatCity, Oei .;' I meant! b,byth 

 Revised Statutes of 1889. even one day's residence in 

 the State is sufficient in order to procure a divorce 



if the offense proved was committed in 



while one or both of tin- | .1 in I In- Stale. 



:-t of appea ;. Tided in May 



that bicycles an- not baggage. 



'pinion was given in ti. Cir- 



cuit Court of A iber that tin- I- 



i- n<>t a legal weapon. One of the judges dissented 

 in an opinion in which he -^;n.l : "TlironU weapon 

 VIIM- hi M.rors can appeal to is the >n-ike or the 

 tt or l...th. These weapon- they have an un- 

 doubted ri^'ht to use so long us they use them in u 



peaceable and orderly mat 



Th effect of a <l< 'l-n-. I by tin* State 



Supreme c..urt. 1-Vb. ".. at Kansas City, is t< 

 to women nearly all the elective county and 

 offices in Missouri. The l.-.-i-i..n was in' the case of 

 the State r.v F. I'. II .,-rk of the St < 'lair 



county court. Mr. Ilostetter was app^inir,! to till 

 an uiiexpuvl t. MM. itinl at the next el< 

 Magpie h. \\ IK M ler was elected to succeed him. II. 

 refused to surrender tin- office on the ground thaj 



Wlllrll \\rfr illi-li^'ilili- to hold olliee. Tin- 



sued to oust him. and by the deei-iu succi 

 The c-.tirt held that a woman is eli^il.le t.. h<>: 

 elecliv.- <.ni<-i- in the State which is not s] 

 barred against her by statute. 



Political. The Union lieform Pnss Associa- 

 tion was orgatii/'-'l at Kan-;. !. and 



nil-Master- \\'ork i nan .1. I.'. - I tin- 



Knights of Labor, was made its president. It was 

 f>nned by the I'opnli-4 editors who 

 ognize the right of President Paul Van Dr Voort 

 to call a meeting of the National K< -form Press 

 Assoc-iation at Memphis. The new organix 



<'d resolutions on the line of the St. L<>uis 

 platform and favoring co-ooeration with 

 l riendly bodies, and adjourned to meet at On 

 -'2, 1898. 



I.e-Miilhe Session. The thirty-ninth (Jen. -ml 

 Assembly met Jan. 6, and adjourned March 'j;>. .1. 

 W. Farns was Speaker of the House. 



The new State government was inaugurated 

 Jan. 11. 



A successor to United States Senator Geor 

 was to be chosen Jan. 20. The Demo 

 members nominated Senator V->t. th- Kepul* 

 Richard < . K-rons, and the Populists (). D.Jones. 

 Senator Vast was elected* 



The laws in regard to aliens holding real 

 were made more lenient. Aliens are now pennittd 

 to take mortgages to secure the payment of l..;u,-. 

 and, in case of foreclosure and sale, to purchase ,md 

 take the title to the proprrty and hold it f 

 years, within which time it must he sold to a 



e purchaser under penalty of escheat to t In- 

 tate. 



A fellow-servant act was passed, making a rail- 

 road company responsible for damages sustained by 

 one agent or servant by reason of t i 

 another; and persons in the service f such com- 

 pani.-< having control over others or with the duty 

 of inspection are declared to In- vice-principal* of 

 ompaniea, and not fellow-wrvant-* with the 

 employees nndT th-ir sii| C.iitract lim- 



iting the liability of a company for injury or death 

 to agents or servants are declarer] void. 



A measure passed, which was introduced by the 

 Horse-Breeders' Association, prohibiting book ma k- 

 ingand pool selling everywhere except on 



- where races are being actually run. and al- 

 lowing it then only for ninety days, upon a li 

 issued by the State Auditor. This measure \\. 

 signed to cl<.-c pool rooms The Supreme Court 



d that it was class legislation, and thcr 

 unconstitutional. 



A school text-book rommN-ion was provided for, 

 to be composed of the State Auditor, Attorney ' 



