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MISSOURI COURTS
CLOGGED WITH
ANCIENT R.R. CASES
(By Associated Press.)
KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 26.—The
transactions which led to the court
proceedings here today in the St..
Clair County Bond Case were part of
the “railroad building era” of the
early seventies when financing meth
ods that excelled the “wild cat” min
ing schemes of Colorado and Ne\ada
•were common throughout the country.
The bonds were issued by St. Clair
County in 1871 to promoters who prom
ised to build the Tebo and Neosho
Railway. The road never reched the
county and its citizens today are still
striving to escape payment for the
indiscretions of their grandfathers.
The promoters sold the bonds to
innocent purchasers. The county nev
er reimbursed the purchasers and to
do so now, with accumulated inter
est, some of it as high has ten per
cent, would be equivalent to selling
out the entire county.
The bond holders sued and were
given judgments but these too, have
never been paid. Unless a judgment
is reviewed before ten years expire, it
is outlawed. So every nine year, for
nearly forty years, holders of the
bonds have sought renewals of these
judgments. The latest proceeding of j
this kind was taken in April, 1914, {
when petitions were filed in the name
of William J. Douglas, claiming $465,-
C 55, and Joseph B. J. Barton and
Charles Townsend, claiming $197,570
They represent only part of the claim
ants.
June 10 of this year a writ of man
damus was made out in secret so that
county judges and officials could not
avoid service, and was made return
able before the United States district
court on June 25. Service was com
pleted June 15.
The writ, made out in the name of
the United States “to the use” of J. B
Townsend, Jr., and others of Philadel
phia, was directed against J. T. Bunch,
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Galicia Poor Country
But Densly Populated
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 26.—For
months war dispatches from Galicia—
where vast armies have swayed back
and forth, locked in one of the out
standing, most titanic struggles
of history to decide the fate of em
pires and of two mighty races —have
gripped the popular attention more
than the news from any other battls
theater. On Galicia’s fields during the
past few months have been done such
feats at arms as the modern world
could not have dreamed of; the
strength of great Russia swept over
this Austrian crownland, driving its
powerful armies over the plain in the
north, over the central hills, up the
southern slopes of the ragged Car
pathians, on to their lofty, icy crests,
beyond these crests, and hovered over
the fertile prairie land of Hungary.
Here the wafe spent its irrisistible
force, and upon the dreary mountain
rocks, above the clouds, amid the ice
and snow and chill cold of early
spring, the flower of Russian and the
Austro-German strength began roll
ing backward toward the north, still
locked in continuous, grinding bat
tle, until now the foothills have been
left behind and the terrific contest
has just surged over Lemberg. The
nature of this war theater that has
beheld among earth’s sternest, most
bitter scenes, is intimately described
by William Joseph Showalter in a
statement prepared for the National
Geographic society. The writer says:
“Austrian Poland is practically em
braced by the crownland of Galicia.
This crownland is almost exactly the
size of the state of South Carolina,
but it has a population six times as
great. If continental United States,
exclusive of Alaska, were as densely
populated as Galicia, we could boast
of a population four times as great
as that of Russia. And yet Galicia is
the poorest of all the provinces of
Austria. It lies outside the ramparts
BRITISH TO COP!
STAID OLD BOSTON
IN CHANGING MENU
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, June 26.—The receat rise
of meat has caused one of London's
great dailies to plead the cause of
the bean, a food little used in Eng
land.
Meat is the basis of the English
man’s fare. If of the well-to-do class,
he buys the best English meat, which
is unsurpassed in tenderness and
flavor. If unable to afford English
meats, he gets the cold storage prod
ucts of Australia, and the Argentine
and the United States. Working peo.
pie live on stews made of scraps or of
frozen rabbits from Australia. Cab
bage, sprouts or cauliflower in vary
ing degrees of freshness and potatoes
constitute the rest of the staple fare
of Britain.
Lentils are better known than beans
and are beginning to have a small
vogue as a meat substitute. But about
the only bean is the French haricot.
The small white bean, the staple fool
of the western ranches, the mining and
laboring home of America, and also
the large red bean have yet to be in
troduced in the British Isles. In no
respect are the British more conser
vative than in the matter of food
j but the war has already worked many
j changes and the recent increase in
meat prices amounting from 3 to 4
cents a pound may help along the
cause of the bean.
T. J. Holland, and W. A. Shryer, new r
ly elected county judges; William J.
Mathews, collector; John M. Harper,
treasurer, and George Virgil Higgins,
county clerk, all of Osceola, Mo. They
were directed to show cause why they
should not order a tax levy of SIOO,-
000 to be applied on the judgment ob
tained by the Townsend party of
bopd-holders. The judgment ofj thi3
group totals $338,162.42, and most of it
'bears ten per cent interest.
of the Carpathians, which rob it of
the warm winds that otherwise would
come to it from the south, and also
turn back upon it the cold winds from
the north. Thus these mountains give
Galicia long, cold winters; short, wet
springs; hot, blistering summers and
dreary, chilly autumns.
“The glory of Poland’s past and
the hope of her future are Cracow and
Lemberg, for it was the former that
was her capital in the yesterday of
history and the latter that is her cap
ital today and which would be her
capital tomorrow were Polish dreams
to come true. In Cracow, the great
city of Poland's past, the royal palace
still stands; but it is used as a bar
' racks, and not as the home of a king.
The cathedral is now the Valhalla of
its departed greatness; for there
sleep the kings and the heroes from
the Jagellons to Kosciuszko. Not far
away is the Kosciuszkoberg, one of
the most remarkable memorials ever
reared by the hand of man—a huge
mound of earth brought by loyal
Poles from every battlefield in the |
world consecrated with Polish blood.
“The country around Cracow is flat
and is devoted almost wholly to small
farming and trucking. The peasants'
dress in white jackets and blue
breeches, and wear jackboots; then;
women folks, with large bright shawls
and picturesque head-dress, brighten
and give spirit to the country-side.
“From Cracow to Lemberg the trav
eler encounters good land; it is fairly
level and entirely innocent of fernces,
boundary stones marking party lines
and tethers or herdsmen keeping the
livestock where it belongs. The same
methods of agriculture that we used
in the United States before the days
of the self-binder and the grain drill
are still in force in that region.
“It is in Lemberg that the only Pol
ish-dominated legislative assembly is
iu existence holds its sessions, for
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Lemberg is the capital of Galicia, and
the Poles, both because of their
shrewd political ability and their nu
merical weight, control the Galician
legislature in the face of their rivals,
the Ruthenians of East Galicia. The
city of Lemberg is largely modern —a
compact nucleus surrounded by scat
tering suburbs.
“While Galicia is almost wholly an
agricultural region, and while a large
percentage of that agriculture Is car
ried on in the old-time way, there
are some few manufacturing neigh
borhoods and industrial districts. Dis
tilleries occupy first place among the
industries, and there are many beet
sugar and tobacco factories. Petrol
eum springs abound along the Car.
pathians, and some of the towns in
this region grow from small villages
to modern Beaumonts between New
Year and Christmas.
“Galicia has many of the world's
most famous salt mines. Those at
Wielczka have been worked for nearly
-seven centuries, at one time being a
principal source of revenue for the
i Polish kings. Railroads are not per
• mitted to run near them, lest their
vibrations result in cave-ins. Within
■ these mines are a labyrinth of salt
hewn streets and alleys, lined with
i pillared churches, staircases, restau
rants. shrines and monuments.
“Autria has never treated her Pole 3
as the Russians and the Prussian did
: their. The Poles of Austria are as
free to sing their national songs asj
the people of our own south are free
1 to sing ‘Dixie.’ They are as much at
liberty to glorify their past and to
speak their native tongue as though
they were free and independent. Ex
cept that they must pay their taxes to
Austria and serve in Austria’s army,
they are practically self-governing.
“As western Galicia is the strong
* hold of the Austrian Pole, so eastern
Galicia is the main dwelling place of
the Ruthenian. The two races never
i get along very well together. The
SATURDAY, JUNE 26, I#J5
peasant population of Austrian Poland
eke out a hard existence. In many
parts of the country the peasant lives
in a log hut covered with straw; he
breakfasts, dines and makes his sup
per of porridge, washing it down with
bad brandy; and in general lives a
life full of want and empty of all
pleasure. The peasants who farm so?
the nobles, receive no money in pay
ment, but only a share of the crop,
often as low a share as ond-twelfth, a
wage of slow starvation." I,