Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1844, MAY. 61 JARVIS MURDER. THE JARVIS MUl{Dl}l{. This spri11-. a gang of desperadoes, eliietly from Clay County, went west on the Santa F Trail, and met the train of Jarvis, a .[exican, colning with money to buy goods at Independence. -fter killing Jarvis, they robbed the train of a large amount of money and everything valuable. The perpetrators of this crime l)1agge(l of their success, and it was found that other men of good standing had furnished the outfit, and had shared in the booty. Brown, a saloon-keeper at Hell-Town tRid;:ely), a11d .I(-Daniel. a son of a worthy farmer of Clay. were apprehended. tried in a Federal court, convicted. and hung,-. Quite a number implicated suddenly disappeared. The rst I111n1ber ot the Platte -lrgu.s is issued at Platte (ity by Martin L. Harden. publisher, and Allen .[cLane, editor. The United Baptist Church of Pleasant Ri(l,Q(- buys an 2l(1(, of land at the center of Sec. 5, T. 53. R. 35. and builds a brick elmreh. Henry Clay is nominated. at Baltimore, by the Vhi;:s. for President: and James K. Polk is nominated May 27th. by the Democrats. POSTAGE. For long distances. is now. for letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 cents. May -ll. 1845. reduced to. . ... ... ... ... ... ... .12; cents. Way 2, 1846, reduced to. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 10 cents. Jlay :?3Co11gress passes an act grranting preemption to trustees for town sites. Under an enabling act of the State Leg- islature, Weston entered its site and sold lots. Incessant rain. JUNE. June 6 John Linvilles will prohated, dated March 28. 1844. His widow was Nancy. and his children: 1. Nancy; 2. William: 5}. Robt. 9.: 4. John 1%.: 5. Richard P.: G. Jubal; 7. Henry H. Linville. THE OVERFLOW. For several weeks, this month. the Missouri an(l Platte rivers spread from bluff to bluff. driving out to the hills families and their stock. The site of the town of Tracy was covered. This is the only ood ever known to cover the liig-liest ;:ro11n(ls in the Missouri bottoms. The overows of 1,858 and 1991 left some g.-;round above the water. The Indians have no tradition of its equal. The great rise of 1826 was 4 feet lower. That of 1858 was 3 feet lower. The Platte kept pace with the .Iissonri in every great rise. Thad marks in the old mill at Platte (it,. of the overows of 1944. 1953.9. and 1891. The waters in 1.944 were 20 inches higher than 1.95.. aml the waters in 1859 have never since- heen reached by 2 feet. The Mississippi River attained its great- est elevation at St. Louis. June 24th. It was then 7 feet 7 inches above the city direetrix. The overow of 1944 is an era in our