Friday, 14 Apr 1916--Acting chief of police Omer Yocum of Bevier shot and killed David Tooney, a miner, 45 years old, at that place Saturday night. Tooney, it is said, attacked the officer with a knife. Yocum fired four shots, all taking effect. Tooney leaves a wife and six children. Friday, 14 Apr 1916--AFTER MOBERLY GAMBLERS--A committee composed of some of the best citizens of Moberly realizing that the laws were being violated in Moberly by the gamblers, bawdy housekeepers, and pool halls decided to employ operatives from the J. W. Burns Detective Agency of St. Louis. They have been in our city for over thirty days accumulating evidence against these places. Friday and Saturday nights the evidence that had been accumulated in the last thirty days was laid before the committee. Saturday night the committee called Chief Hinton and advised him of the evidence in their possession and asked him to raid two gambling houses and two bawdy houses at once. Mr. Hinton expressed his willingness to raid them. He left the meeting place to consult the City Attorney, and get the policemen for the raids. While Mr. Hinton was absent getting his men both gambling houses were notified to close, and players instructed to "cash in" and get out. Some players demurred to being made quit but they were advised that they would be "pinched" if they remained. Burns' detectives were in each gambling house when the tip came to close. In order to clean up Moberly and make it a better place to live and to assist the officers and let the people of Moberly and Randolph County know the actual condition existing here the local committee has asked the Index to publish from time to time the reports of the work accomplished by this famous detective agency. The Index desires in this matter only to assist in its feeble way the better enforcement of the laws of our land--Moberly Index. In publishing the above, the Index seems to have started something and a full investigation will no doubt be made that the real facts may be brought out. In reply to the article, chief Hinton has issued a statement denying that he was responsible for the gamblers being tipped off, and states that he was with some member of the committee from the time they called on him to make the raid until the news came from the detectives that the places had been tipped off. In an interview in The MONITOR, Dr. E. E. Tydings, one of the committee, stated that he and another member of the committee went to the office of the city attorney to procure warrants, leaving Hinton with the balance of the committee, some ten or twelve in number, and that he learned later that Hinton excused himself, stating that he would look for his men to make the raid. He was followed by one of the committee, according to Dr. Tydings' informant, and was seen to speak to some man whom he took into a dark stairway, and that the man spoken to, so far as the committee knows, was in full sympathy with the gamblers. Dr. Tydings refused to give the name of this man. Friday, 14 Apr 1916--RUCKER ITEMS--Thomas Lawrence met with quite a painful accident last week, receiving a badly bruised leg and a sprained ankle. He was unloading freight at the Sturgeon depot when his team took fright and ran away, throwing him out of the wagon. Friday, 14 Apr 1916--Born, April 10, to Hugh Smith and wife, a daughter. Friday, 14 Apr 1916--M. A. Sims of near town was called to Centralia Wednesday by the serious illness of his daughter, Mrs. Nancy Lattimer. Friday, 14 Apr 1916--James Williams of Holdenville, Ok, was the guest of his brother, W. I. Williams, and family during the week. Friday, 14 Apr 1916--MRS. L. W. CLINE DEAD--The many Higbee friends and acquaintances of Mrs. L. W. Cline who moved to Thayer from this place about a year ago, will be pained to learn of her death, which occurred on March 22 from lung trouble. She is survived by three sons and one daughter. Mr. Cline, it will be remembered, died in Higbee something over a year ago. Friday, 14 Apr 1916--MRS. HENRY HAMILTON DEAD--Mrs. Henry Hamilton, aged 66 years, residing two miles west of Clark, was found dead in bed Sunday morning, death having occurred about 5 o'clock, it is supposed, from heart disease. She is survived by her husband, two sons, Steven and Clarence of Clark, and one daughter, Mrs. H. E. Vance of Billings, Mont. She also leaves one brother, Wm. Goarin of Renick. Funeral services were conducted at Clark Wednesday by Rev. E. Y. Keiter, and interment made in Chapel Grove cemetery. Friday, 14 Apr 1916--FOUND DEAD IN ALLEY--Chas. E. Wilson of Joplin, who had been here for several days visiting his aunt, Mrs. Shelton Cook of the West Side Hotel, was found dead about six o'clock last Saturday morning in the alley just immediately in the rear of the residence of Mrs. Rosena Johnson. The body was taken to the undertaking parlors of Oldaker & Walker and after being viewed by the coroner was prepared for burial and the next day was shipped to Joplin. As the body bore no marks of violence and the clothing had not been disturbed, it is supposed that he dropped dead from heart disease. Such was the opinion of the coroner, at any rate, who did not consider an inquest necessary. A brother-in-law of Wilson who arrived from Joplin Friday to see his wife, who was here on a visit and who was quite sick, stated that Wilson, who is said to have been drinking, retired about nine, or rather laid across the bed with his clothes on, and so far as known that was the last seen of him alive. It is supposed that he left the hotel by way of the back stairs and started down the alley, as it was a nearer way to the next street. Friday, 14 Apr 1916--W. H. Magruder, who recently moved to Rio Hondo, Texas, where he bought land about a year ago, returned Tuesday with his family and says he has shaken the dust of that country from his feet forever, and that his land is for rent or sale, or that he will trade it for most any old thing to anyone who may develop Texas fever. Mr. Magruder had no fault to find with the land, and it will produce almost anything, but was dissatisfied with conditions. The problem of getting water was the big drawback. A tax of $3 per acre had to be paid whether you get a drop of water or not, and an additional tax of $1 per acre every time you turn the water into the ditches. Other conditions made the place almost unbearable to a person who has lived in Missouri or any other good agricultural state. He states that all who purchased land in the vicinity of Rio Honda were skinned good and proper, and says that the state of Texas or the government should take steps to protect unsuspecting suckers. He says that so many in that section have taken up truck farming that there is no money in it and that the people are going broke at it every day, and that those fortunate enough to have anything to come back to are leaving the place as fast as they can. He said that what he missed most of all was the good old Missouri blue grass. Mr. Magruder landed here wearing a big white hat, not as an advertisement of the Lone Star state, having to wear it there, he said, to keep his brains from being fried. He is yet undecided as to what he will do, as he has rented his farm near Yates. Friday, 14 Apr 1916--COLT BORN IN A WELL--Both Mare and Colt Saved After Heroic Work of Eight Men--Edgar Fullington was a caller at this office Wednesday and informed us of a very unusual and exciting happening which occurred at the home of his brother, Irvin, last Sunday night, a 1400-pound mare belonging to the latter falling into a well, giving birth to a colt and both being rescued unharmed. Mr. Fullington was out in the lot looking after the mare, which was expected to foal that night, and was horrified to see the earth cave under her as she was passing the barnyard well, and to see the animal falling into the well thro' a big hole beneath the platform. He ran to the mare and tried to help her extricate herself, but as the rear half of her body was on the inside of the well, he could do nothing, and saw her fall to the bottom, a distance of twenty-one feet. he called to his brothers and neighbors for assistance and they responded to the number of eight. Fortunately, there were but six feet of water in the well, which was nine feet in diameter, and the mare kept her head above water by remaining on her hind feet and plunging to a new position when she began to mire in the mud. When help arrived all hands began dumping rock into the well from a large pile close at hand, and in a very shot time had dumped in about three wagon loads. With this solid foundation to stand on, the mare seemed to realize that an effort was being made to save her, whatever her thoughts might have been when the rocks began to fall, and at once ceased her plunging, as she could now keep her head above the water without much difficulty. The next question was, how was she to be gotten out. As there was no derrick at hand and no time to rig up an outfit, the thought came to them that they would fill the well with hay, and they proceeded to do so. After they had thrown in a large quantity the mare laid down, the water covering about half her body. When one side of the well had been built up about a foot the mare was rolled over to the high side and the low side built up. this was kept up until the mare had been brought to within about twelve feet of the surface, when she gave birth to her colt. This added to the difficulties of the workers, but as the hay process was working so admirably, the colt's arrival caused them no loss of time in devising a new scheme, and they kept piling in hay. A full stack was used by the time the animals had been brought to within four feet of the surface. A chute was then dug to them and they were taken out, the mare as sound, apparently, as when she fell in, and the colt as frisky as if it had been foaled in the barn. Irvin says no ordinary amount of money will but either colt or mare. The well, which had been dug by Mr. Fullington last summer and which was walled with nothing but a think coating of cement, will be abandoned. Kathy Bowlin Additions, corrections, comments welcome.