The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 11, 1882, Page 4

aT = TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION. BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES | At its sitting last week the county THIS PAPER prise iP es Senge: Aart aa eis IN NEW TORK abolishing the township organiza- tion system be vote of the people at the election on | November 7th. This order was made in obedience to a large and — | ressectable number of petitioiners. TERMS OF SUPSCURIPTION: Township organization was voted upon the county two years ago, and Wednesday, will besent to any cdaress | had the then been fully one vear, postage paid, tor $1.25. | understood, as it is now, there is no BUTLER MISSOURI. ~~ | doubt but what it would have been WEDNESDAY; OCT, 11, 1882 j defeated. The most valuable EDNE 3 2 TI, : S$ —— — | sons to individuals as well as a peo- Democratic State Ticket. Chas. T. Mek arsand, ipiTox AND PROPRIETOR, The Weery Times, published every system les- ple, however, are learned in the school of experience, and the two years operation of township organi- zation has taught the people of | Bates county a lessonin the econo- | mic affairs of local government that | will not be ignored or forgotten. As a business proposition it is bun- | glesome and Icose andjsubject to a long string of evils that cannet be obviated. It is notonly very expen- sive in its working but cripples the higher authorities in the county to such an extent as to effectually bar them from doing much good to lo- for Supreme Judge, Thos. A. Sherwood For Sup’t. Pubiic Schools, W. E. Coleman. For Railroad Commissioner, Gen. James Harding. For Congress Tweltth District, CHARLES 1. MORGAN. Sixteenth District, John H. Britts. For State enator Democratic County Ticket. court ordered that the question of | submitted to a} nity nominated. Mr. Wade nomination was not seconded. glance over the room showed the surprise that existed, and when just as a member was. preparing to | rise for the purpose of nominating | Mr. McFarland, Mr. Wade jumped nanimously ~‘deciined’” that which | was not offered to him and that which he could not haye gotten if he had wanted it ever so tad. Mr. T. M. | Broaddus then nominated Mr. Clark and he was elected) by Mr. McFar- land’s friends without 2 decenting voice. The Times regrets the necessity of making this personal reference. to occasion the editor-of the Demo- king any personal defeat crat ty attempt in buncomb tor pb Was overwhelm 1 humi and his nomination by Mr. pathy was only intended to give opportunity to sotten its affect by an ostentacious display of disinterested magnanimity, for which on be- half of the Democratic journalists ot the county the Tres offers its ating, an calities and the county in general. The revenue of the county is so un- equally divided that the county court has control of but a trifling sum with which to defray the regu- lar expenses, and nothing to make necessary improvements. The county court can not build bridges and throw up pikes with the paltry sum given to its charge. Although there may be thousands of dollars in the Treasury each township con- trols its share and little or nothing is left the court to operate upen for the general-good and benefit. Rich Hillis anxious to have a bridge over the river. connecting For Representative. LEVI MOLER, For Probate Judge, S. F. HAWKINS, Fo: Presiding Judge County Court, JOHN A. LEFKER, For County Clerk, R. J. STARKE, For Circuit Clerk, Jj. R. JENKINS; For Sheriff, W. F. HANKS, for Prosecuting Attorney, $. P. FRANCISCO, - Sapapeliil Osage: and Lone Oak tawnsmups, JAMES k. SIMPSON, bat it “cantiot be ‘built ina decade For County Treasurer, under the township organization R. S. CATRON, system. Abolish it and the coun- ty court can then listen to the just demands ot our neighboring city, otherwise there is no hope. Every voter should look up this matter ane consider it carefully be- tween now and election day, and be able Sto vote on it~ intelhgentty. Its money in everv tax-payers pocket to do away with the system and re- turn to established business methods of government. A MAGNANIMOUS DEULINE The editor ot the Democrat dees not want to be considered egotistical in presenting to the public the ¥cire cumstances of his nomination and declination of the Secretaryship of the County Democratic Central Com- mittee. We trust that our readers will not consider us egotistical in For Coroner, D. D. WOOD, For County Judge District No. 1. ANDREW RITCHEY, For County Judge, District No. 2. A. NEPTUNE, ~ FRANK JAMES’ SURRENDEX. Frank James, the outlaw of twen- ty yeats and the last membér of the robber band that was born of the great war, has surrendered to the authorities of Missouri. Voluntari- ly appears before Gov. Crittenden, in his office at the State Capital, and deliberately unbuckles from around his~ waist a brace of pistols with which he had’nt seperated since 1861. The scene was excedingly dra- hu-nble gratitude. Sim Francisco’s popularity is in- creasing day by day: It is only nec- essary to know him to be convinced ot his ability asa lawyer and gen- tleman. His administration as Prosecuting Attorney will be one of the most brilliant in the history of the county. ee Col. John F. Phillips and Hon. Chas. P. Johnston, have been re- tained as Frank James’ attorneys. EE Col. John T. Crisp, has declared himself an Indepennent candidate for Congress in the Fitth district. Prof. W. F. Coleman, Democrats ic candidate for the State Superin-— dent of public schools, was in the city yesterday. Papinaville Scraps. Chills ia abundance. A large,acreage of wheat sown in this vicinity this fall. G..W: Roberts went to the ‘“In- farit Wonder,’” on Friday. Mr. Richardson, of Rockville,’ spent the Sabbath in the burg. Papinvyille’s public school opened with a good atténdence on Monday. Maj. Wilson is in St. Louis this week purchtising goods for the fall} trade. : Appleton City fayy.. Mrs. Shaver and Miss Wilson left Wednesday morning for Ft. Scott to visit relatives and to attend the fair at that place. The A to his feet and in a moment’s speech j —previously prepared—very mag- H Aber- | 2 ae Ae Levi Moler and others of]: ancient County seat, were at the th matic, and the details, as they ap- appear elsewhere in the Times from an eye witness, read more like a novel than of actual facts which eventually will form an interesting part ot Misouri’s history. Thus ends the Missour: band of outlaws whose deeds gave our tair Commonwealth abroad the name of the “‘robber State.’ For the hap- py termiation Missourians are in- debted to no other agency than the efficency of herown officers. To Governor Crittenden, almost solitary and alone, belongs the honor of re moving from the States escutcheon the stain that closed the eyes of the world against her name and her people. The peaceful and unostentacious surrender of the most «noted and most feared bandit of modern times 1s caiculated to excite wonder as it} presenting a statement of the history George Templeton, republican and facts in the case: candidate for prosecuting attorney, Mr. Wade of the Democrat and| and C. A. Denton, Esq., of Rich Mr. McFarland ot the Times were} Hill were in the city Saturday at- both candidates for the Secretary- | tending to legal business. ship of the Comnnttee. Upon inter- J. A. Burgesser, of Marion coun- viewing the members of the Com-| ty, Kan., is visiting the family of his mittee on the day of the meeting, | brother, J. Burgesser of this place. Mr. Wade found all but two in favor The proposition to compromise of Mr. McFarland. The question} and fund the railroad bonds of this of selecting a Secretary from the Com- township at 75 cents on the $1 was mittee was not thought of till sug-j| lost here by a yote of 54 to 26 and gested by Judge Ballard to Mr. | the taxpayers are now silently awaut- Wade about three hours before the} ing the inevitable. Committee met. From this sugges- tion Mr. Wade took his cue. realiz- ingthat he had no more show of being elected Secretary over Mr. McFarland tnan he has of going to Heaven. Mr. Clark was visited by Judge Ballard and arrangements made with Rich Hill can beat Butler on a primary election, but for acting the tool on a railroad matter, Butler can beat the world. Each man want’s the depoton his own prop- erty, or he willgive the cause a kick. The result will be that while they are wrangling over it. the C. & A., will build a depot a few miies east | FRANK JAMES, Himself to Gov. Crittenden | Qctober Sth. Last Subdued. ' Taken to independence, County, Missouri. JEFFERSON City, Mo. ,Oct. 5. We said nothing m our proceedings —This evening at about half-past’ four o’cleck Frank Jamescame bold- | i ~: | ly into Jefferson City and surrender- | A} | reporter of the Sedalia Désptach was early upon the ground and had a| };: breif but satisfactory interview with | - 1 ed himself to Gov. Crittenden. slight scar on the lower hp, which a long, fair moustache hides, and he is munus some eight ornine’teeth. He | is a little bald, butnot from age, be- | ing now only thirty-eight. As has been always truly said of his great physical endurance, he can to-day, he says, ride further and faster, and do with less food and sleep than any other man in Missouri. He is soft spoken, very. interesting and intel- ligent in conversation, a good listen- er, quite differential, cool and calm as a statue, and the quickest, dead- liest man in a personal encounter between the two oceans. Seated in the Governor’s office, a watchfu! and interested spectator of everything which went on about him, a Dispatch reporter said to him: ‘‘And so you are the noted Frank ames ?’’ ‘ “Tam Frank James. It does not become me tc say whether 1 am: no- ted or not.””) =, = & t ‘*Why did you surrender? None knew where you were hiding, nor could any one find out.’’ -*What of that ?-- F was tired of an outlaw’s lite. _I have been .hunted for twenty-one years. Ihave. liter- ally lived in the ‘saddle..-I have never,known a day of pexfect peace. 4 It was one long, anxious, inexora— ble, eternal vigil. WhenI slept it was literally in the midst 6f an ar— senal. If€ E heard: dogs:‘bark more fiercely than usual, or the feet of horses in a greater volumn of sound, than usual, I stood to my arms, Have you any idea._of what a man must endure who leads such a life? No, you cannot. No one can unless he lives for himself.”’ ‘*What do you expect ?’’ -*A far trial. Incoming as I ave directly to @overnor Critten- Ihave acted m perfect accord with my summing up of the man. I have always declared and do new declare that he alone of ali who engaged in the hunt for the outlaws was the one single man actuated by a principle. The balance hunted tor gain or fame. Goverror Crit- tenden hunted to vindicate the law and extripate train and bank robbery from the State."’ “Has Governor Crittenden made you any promises ?’” ‘None. You have read his let- terin reply to imine, and except what that contains, he has never said another word. Ido not want him to make me any promises. Wait until the courts decide wheth- er 1 am guilty or not guilty. I do not deny that 1 want one single chance to prove my surrender is in good faith, and thatI can become once more a good citizen. Gover- nor Crittenden can afford to give me that chance. He has already done what-has never been done- before in this State, he has made Inghway robbery impossible.’”’ ‘Will you tell me something of your past hte ?”” . “No, not now. I have nothing totell you. The present is mine jHe Voluntarily Surrenders) tcntions. 1 At Jefferson City on Thursday | tatety The Outlaw of Uwenty. Years at | Jaekson LAST OF THE ROBBER BAND. | him to accept the Secretaryship, and of the electric city, and Butler will and the future. Let the past go, | main until this whole affair is tled. I have come in voluntarily and surrendered, and of course i there can be no doubt as to my in- tully resolved to . Whatever that may | abide the res | be 1 ssue like a man.”’ ave you been hunted much 2 j ‘Yes, if the newspapers tell the l truth, perhaps lt have been With- in the past six months | have seen six well known de- haye talked with them | treely about myscif at that. Sus- “dime? No, of course not. It i even revealed my identity they jw d have laughed at me for being ' an impostor. “How do you account for this im- | munity from recognition ?”’ “In quite a simple manner. In | the first place *I have never had a picture taken ot myself since 1563. That portrait of mine in Edwards’ taken from and talked w ss, and e | pec | I **Noted Guerrillas’? w that picture. Tf you ever have seen it, you will admit, I tnink, that I changed greatly since then. been very little in Mis- { souri for the past ten years. | the redoubtable outiaw. He @ in pe Those fect health for one who has been j who knew me in Clay and Jackson wounded seventeen times. Shot | counties knew me as a_ beardless three times in the mouth, there is aj csoldier-> You will be astonished when tell you that I have lived in Texas, Calitornia, Arkansas, Louis- iana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Vir- ginia, Maryland and New York Llived tour years on one farm in Tennessee and worked as hard as any man -ever worked. I would have been there to-day but for events in Missouri uver which F had no control, and which brought men to my house whose presence would have destroyed me. 1 was forced to move on in selfe-defense, and look out for another hiding-place.”’ “People m Missouri think that you do the most of your hiding in the brush. It is there that the au- thorities look for you. low about it all?”” ‘*The best place in the world - tor a man with money is some big city. Most people look alike there. If he will use ordinary precaution there he is comparatively safe. He must lie clase, go out hut little, make no ac- quaintances, have nothing peculiar in dress or manner. and above everything else never talk. Ninety- nine times out of a hundred it is the talking men that get caught.’” **Have you secured any lawyers yet to defend you?”’ , ‘‘No, I have not. My friends will attend to thatforme. They will endeavor, I understand, to :ob- tain the services of Col. John F. Phillips and the Hon. Charles P. a Tam a poor man, and ave but very little money. 1 must do the bestI can.”’ “Ifyou have no objections will you tell me something about the Fords ?’’ “I have nothing to tell you about them. I prefer not to talk of myself in any manner, or of any one ever connected with myself. I am to be tried, you know, and then you can see what will be developed.’’ ‘*Have you perfect confidence in the good faith of Gcv. Crittenden?’’ “If I had not,’”’ he replied, with a | sigaificant smile, ‘would I be Lere in this private office? Yes, I do | trust him fully.’’ |. Here the reporter was interrupted by quit: a number ot persons who ‘gathered about Frank James, and subjected jim to a multitude of ques- | tions on a number of subjects, to all | of which he gave calm and consid- | erate answers. He came trom the west last meght on Conductor Hooten’s train, and such was the confidence of Frank’s triends in Hooten, that they made him acquainted with his real char- { acter, and told him frankly who he was. Notwithstanding the tact thit Hooten had an immense t.rain— | twelve cars erowded to their ut- | most capacity—he found an_ iso- | lated seat for Frank in the rear ot jthe car, where, completly in the jouadoms he would have been free from all recognition, e™en though | there might have been aboard those _ who knew him perfec tly. i On arriving at Jefferson City he did not get off at Pie depot, but at Jefferson street, 2. square above, and walked down fo the old McCarty ropann e Semen ronment e En will surely stamp upon the period a historic event that will mark the ad- ministration ot Governur Crittenden as the most successful of any since the close of the civil war. And the surrender was uncondi- thonal ; though it may seem to some increditable. All that Frank James asked is a fair trial. That the Gov- ernor guaranteed him. Evidently the prisoner felt that no very grave crimes could be proven against him. But as he says in his plea for am- nesty, the life of an outlaw is not Pleasant or desirable, and for the sake of his wife and child he offers | tee as a candidate. That mercy should and will be exercised im bis trial we feel no doubt, but if against him | the law fixes a penalty and it must! met, Mr. Abernathy up his person to justice. guilty of the indictments be vindicated. being too busy in the bank to attend the meeting of the Committee, Mr. J. W. Abernathy was sent to repre- | sent him in proxy. Thiswas a tortu- | nate thing for Mr. Wade as it was his last and only chance to be nom- inated much less elected. t In the mean time Mr. McFarland | had interviewed Judge Bailard and | finding him decided in favor of elect- ing all officers from among the Com- mittee, at once informed his triends that he was no longer in the race and would, therefore, not suffer his name to be presented before the Commit- The understand- mg was that there should be no op- Position to Mr. Clark. However, when the Committee arose and with superlative courage and great dig- i mourn her foolishness.—-R. H. Zz-| but this I can say truthfully and | terprise. without boasting. that I am not near- You are wrong, Bro. Wiseman. | ly so bad'asI have been represen- Business men of Butler have sacn-| ted to be, and thatthere is not a ficed personal interest to public good | 4T°P of blood on my hands except = that shed in open and honorabie and are making strenuous efforts to| ya; Iwas a guerrilla. I tought! rich’s barber-shop and was shaved. secure the road and.i# weil come it} the best Iknew how with Quant-(Not a soul in the town knew him. pluck and enterprise will bring it.!rell, Anderson and Todd; but I Armedonly with Crittenden’s let- Business men are not dead to But- | "¢¥er in all my hfe slewan unarmed | terto him, he had come boldly and ler’s interests, and when the scratch | '™2" 0F 4 prisoner. Ask any ot my resolutely into Jefferson to surren comes they are always on hand, reddy to’'do what is required ot them. . We are informed that work will] fore the people, but I do not. I tell | preme court building, the Adjutant commence on the C..& A. road about | it to you because it is the truth, and | General’s office, shook hands with- the r5th inst. It is said that it will not | because [ have been described m} out revealing himself, with Railroad goto Butler. Gazette. < some newspapers as a memster of | Commissioners Harding and Pratt, We will wager the Gazette a new cruelty who delighted in “bloodshed | Private Sccretary Farr, Geo. H. hat on the proposition of the road | —— re feaieke ie | Flataesbers: ote = Pal- - s | y _ | more. f ell, and many ot to Butler. Now no craw- “Directly to Independence, in others: ‘Not a soul suspicioned who ms: Jackson county, where ¥ shall re-|the czlm, polite, quiet gentleman House, where he registered as B. F. | Winfrey, Marshall, Mo. For an 'hour the next morning he discussed _the crops, politics, prohibition, &c., | &c., with the landlord, Col. Barr McCarty, and then went to Hen- etie, Howard. or Randolph coun- | resentative of the laws of Missouri. ties if this is not so. ou may; think that [tell you this to soften | erally, and took a good look at the comrades in Clay, Jackson, 1afav-| der tothe Governor as the cnet rep- | He walked abont~ Jefferson gen- | my fate, and strengthen my case be-/ town.’ Visited the capitai, and su- | as, and they talked to him servedly. a James walked quietly into the Gov. | ernor’s office and just as quietly told the Governor who he was and what | was his mission. The Governor re. ! ceived him calmly and courteously, shook hands with him, j him to be seated. Evidently the Governor was expecting him. He had been assured by Frank James’ friends that the letter looking to. wards 2 surrender was é0na Rede, and thathe might be expected at any time to make his submission, In conversation with James, Goy. Crittenden simply repeated the dec. larations made in his le ter to him, He toldhim clearly that he had no power to either grant an amnesty or a pardon, that he must go to Jack. son county, be delivered there to the laws of the State. This Frank James expressed himself as Perfect. ly willing to do. In the meantime he had unbuckled his belt, contain. ing a Remington revolver, calibre 44. and 42 cartridges, and handing them all to Goy. Crittenden, re marked: ‘Governor, tor the first time in21 years [now permit ans other man totake my pistol. It is the happiest moment ot my life. J feel freerer, and braver, and better to- day than I ever felt before since 1861. If you will, I would like you to keep this pistol and belt as a gift from me. Each bas a history. One day, if I am spared, I will give it to you as truthfully as [can recall it, That belt was captured in open fight at Centralia. That pistol, af- ter its owner had shot me through and through, was taken trom him betore I fell. lam now unarmed and your prisoner. I have trusted yeu as I have never yet trusted any man. Wo with me what you please.’’ Gov. Crittenden was evidently touched by the brave, simple taith of this notorious outlaw—a man who probably in all his life never knew the meaning of the word tear, and who, asa soldier or otherwise, was capable of some of the most desper- ate deeds of daring known-to human tortitude and courage. The Governor accepted the pis- ‘tol and belt, and said to James: “*You shall have every protection afforded by the laws of your coun- were the sen of a President ’* By this time it was five o’clock, and the Governer called in all the State officers, aud whoever else was | about the capital building, and intro- duced them to Frank James. Many could scarcely belfeve’ the truth of the surrender. Others seemed to think the whole matter was a hoax. Some were disposed to deny the identity, as james, but very soon and finally all were convinced of the absolute truth of the surrender, and then the questioning and the eager scanning of the man began. His reply to one question was chrrac- teristic. Farr asked him why he carried a Remington revelver in- stead of a Smith Wesson or 4 Colt’s. ‘*Because,’’ he said, the Remington is the hardest and the surest shooting pistol mage, and be- cause it carries exactly the same cart- ridge that p Winchesetr rifle does. armgm@nt was two Femingtons and a Winchester nfle. The cartrsdges of one fill the chambers of the other. You can now see why I prefer the Remington. There is no contusion ot ammunifion here. When a man gets into u close, hot fight, with a dozen rien shooting at him all at once, he must have his amunition all of tie same kind. . Gov. Crittenden will send Frank James.to-night, at midnight, to In- dependence, inthe charge of his privaté secretary. F.C. Farr. The Governor has also telegraphed Pros- ecuting Attorney Wallace, of Tack- county, fo meet the party ot Inde- pendence to-morrow :orning SECOND DISPATCH. Jerrenson Crry, Oct. 6,1 o'clock. —-Ahbout twenty persons were pres- ;ent in the governer’s office when | Frank James surrendered. Among i them was Treasurer Chappell, Au- jditor Walker, Judge Henry, Gen. | Harding, Adjutant Gen. Waddell, i G. H. Platienburg, Maj. T. O. | Towles, Jesse Henry, Judge John { Oldham, F.C. Fary.Frank O’ Neal,of | the St. Louis Republican, N. C. | Burch, Wood Noiand. V. M. Hobbs, | J. C. McHenry, Maj. G. C. Pratt, | Ghief Clerk Clark, of the Auditor's | office, and twenty r prominent | citizens of Jefferso Without a single dissenting voice the act of surrender was end: 1 and applaud- ted. After the sur er and infor- mal talk of over ha! hour, Frank | James returned to ¢ McCarty house, where not !css than five hun- dred people called upon him. For } vas immense, and condition ». When the depot there rto see the |four hours the jau | citizens of every : | dition calling upon | time came to go io | were still visitors c | tamous outlaw. , Farr goes | with him to Indepe Jackson | county, to turn biin over to the civil ' authorities. | Continued on next Page. S At half past tour o’clock Frank” try, and as fair a tnal a¢ though you and asked ~ officers, and be subjected fully to the. »