The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 17, 1883, Page 4

ver. The spct on which stood | tabli voting precincts, appoint | the earher history ot America w entirely washed | township officers and exercise all the | must look to the ruins and relics yet has since been ex-| Something Hitherto Unpublish- | to be found by which the different! away py the ever shifting cur-/ the duties of the county courts, tI COUNTY HISTORY. PROHIBITION IN KAWSAS- Gov. Glick, in his message to BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES pa a rs —. — = the | ed in Relation to County races and peoples that preceded the | reht of the Missouri. , Sahne county | being in no jndicial circuit there was alg PAPER a ea caee Prohibition law and question m that Affairs. Indian, left traces ot their existence. | was orgamized from territory south | no circuit court held in the county, ol Sina: i pe aaa In this field there is interesting work | ot the river in 1820 and 1821 by the The commissioners sppointed to Chas. T. MecE ar-aud. i ‘The public policy embodied in} A Tediows Search Among the for the Archeologist oe. generations first State Legislature, Missouri hav- locate the county seat fixed on the p jto come. Our country is peculiarly | ing just been admitted as a State. | present site of Butler, but there t Records of a Half Centary Ago. icmiTOx AND PROPRIETOR, | this amendment and statute has been | .|in force since their adoption, but | 1822, | was no building the-eon, and the county court met at the house of | richin ancient remains. | The next session, 1821 and | . during ail that time this pelicy has { Sos | From the Hudson to the Rio | Jackson county, was organized trom TERMS OF SU?!’SCRIPTION: heen a pa a eso ae the | IETERESTING FACTS. | Grande and from Florida to Iowa | territory between the Missour: andj Charles Adams’. At the next elec. se ot a —d i ‘i - ; : bees La ee isan inexhaustible field in which | Marias des Cygnes rivers. Har-/tion, Rogers, Clem and Feeley, The Westy Times, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any < duress one vear, postage paid, tor $1.25. eee verting immigration from our state, i engendering strite in neighborhoods, and promoting excessive htigation, | loading down the dockets of courts, were clected county court judges, J, E. Morgan, clerk; Samuel Scott, sheritt; John Cummins, Treasurer; The faithfui Iustorian in taking upon himself the task of giving. any- thing like a complete account of any mony Mission was established in 1821, (see full statement heretofore | given in these sketches) and was are found the remains of thousands of works built bya race that pre- ceded the Indians and commonly oo ape 1833. segencdoant ee tcl Ane a | pas of the earth wishes of course to called Mound Builder’s. Any spe- the only settlement in what is new | and M. D. Osborn. Public Adminis. Ege ae (inciuse, of ugoxcatue: liquors in'| besmat the beginning. But upon! ig. or extended notice of their | Bates. In the year 1833 a new coun- | trator, and they proceeded to put of Demooratic Exective Oom- | ¢ub rooms and in the homes of the | going back to find the ‘ point at! works inthis article is impossible. | ty was organized out of that part | the affairs of the new county, Ver- Meeting which to commence, he invariably of Jackson now, comprised im the | non, into proper shape. people, setting a friy>tful example of the use of intoxicati.:g liquors be- fore the young, drinkin; to excess, But the evidence in indisputible that at some time in the past (when we annot tell) the Mississippi valley mittee- Notice is hereby given that there Meanwhile the enemies of thear rangement were planning to defeat it, | counties ot Cass, Bates and Vernon and was named Van Buren in honor finds himself beyond the time of au- | thentic record and in the midst ot will be held a meeting of the Dem-| caused by the purchase of liquoss in mee a ae ¢ ‘ a te ocratic Executive Committee of | quantities, and losing to the cause of | traditions, theories and suppositions | 4. densely populated by a people | of Martin Van Buren then Vice | A suit wasbroughtin the circuit court temperance good and sincere tem- which perhaps haye a foundation in President under Jackson. After-| at Papinville against Sam Scott for j that were considerably advanced in civilization. They tilled the soil, dug canals, traded with other na- [tions & &c., but their greatest works that remain are mounds that seem to have been erected for pur- pose ot religious worship or for the | islature from the | burial of the dead. But evidences | the p ssage of a bill changing the are not wanting to establish the fact | name from Van Buren to Cass that another race of peuple occu- | County, but not making any change pied the country long before the in the boundary lines. Thus Mound Builder’s. Deeply imbed- it remained till 1841 when Cass was Bates county at the court house in Butler, on Saturday, January 27th, at 10 o’clock, Pp. M., to fix days for township and county conventions 40 nominate County School Com- missione~ and to transact such other business as may properly come be- fore it for its consideration. Prerce Hackett, Pres’t. J. C. Crank, Sec’y. 7 at. eee THE TEVNESSEE DEFAULTER. tewards, during Van Buren’s ad- mtnistration he became very unpop- ular in this locality, and Gen Lewis Cass being then a popular states- i man, the member of the State Leg- securing attempting to perform duties of sheriff within the couhty of Bates, not having been legally elected to that office. This was for the pur- pose of testing the constitutional ot the act establishing the new pe ty. A change of Venue wa. taken to Henry county. The act in ques- tion was claimed to be void for @ variety of reasons but the only one decided by the court to be valid was fact, bus which are differently in- . terpreted and lead investigators to tablished customs of long standing es different conclusions, so that the or- many good and worthy citizens, by | : oy busybodies, whose only ambition | dinary reader is utterly unable to was to magnify their own import: | settle in his own mind what ts the ance, instead of working for real/truth. We find it utterly, impos- See a een a j sible to fix dates or give any con- fa eee eee eupralied mito the | Rected account of the people ot pre- fundamental law of the State a poli- | historic times, yet we have evidence cy which. from its nature, was an | to establish beyond a doubt that pop- experiment of doubtful utility and of | ulous, powertul and,wealthy nations, perance people bv the meddlesome interference with the habits and es- { county, uncertain success, and which has Perhaps the greatest and most ex- : citing case of official corruption and | other states. proyed a failure wherever tried in existed thousands of years. preced- ing the period ot which we have ded in the accumulations of cayerns are found relics of a race of people | ships 40 and 41 the territory south ot that line to the present south line divided on the line dividing town-- plunder that has come to light dur- During the last year of local op any recorded history. that once inhabited them, but how that it reduced the old county of Bates below the ratio of population required for a representative dis- of Vernon, being the new county and it was named Bates. It will be ob- served that the north line of Bates mode:n trict. A judgment was given set ting aside the act as unconstitutional, An appeal was taken to the supreme The progress made in times in deciphering the heriogly- phic found upon ancient ruins car- tion and license, the United States revenue office of Kansas issued elev- en hundredfandjthirt-two (1,133) per- mits to sell intoxicating liquors, or ing the past quarter ef a century, long since is entirely beyond con- has just been unearthea in the Treas- uty of the State of Tennessee. jecture. But leaving the reader who, tor Polk, the Treasurer, a nephew of | one permit te 879 persons, placing | TS US back six or seven thousand fictheesaisinen Gaus eoacalth wou ies then only 3 milesnorth ot where | court of the State and the judgment ex-President Polk, has gotten away, | Kansas as the first temperance State | years, yet abundant evidence exists particularly devoted to it, we will Butler now stands. The first court] of the lower court affirmed Sam . *, i ow i 7 7 ew ti J - in some manner, with $480,000 of | in the Union; while in the first’ year | that long previous to that period, How furn- atientignento the per (as held in the church at Harmony | Scott was fined one cent. The of prohibition there were issued 1.7 generation after generation, had Mission with Hon. Foster P. Wright county of Vernon vanished ahd its the States money. iod of recorded history. north line ot the state of Mississippi. and the second year of prohibition, 1,148 permits were issued, sixteen more } than in the whole vear of local op- town being named in honorof Mili- court Papin, a Frencn trader who donated the land for the town. Wil- J. E. Morgan. (now of Warsaw, Mo.) was elected tothe Legislature Upon the convening ef the Ten- oe ee ae gr arisen, matured and passed away ae, i patsaueS ag as Presiding Judge. The courts opponents were greatly Fejorced, nessee Legislature a committee was | one permit to 551 persons. and tak- leaving the scattered relics by which | crane ae sc a ne *| were held at this place three or four ut the population, increased 50 appointed to examine the affairs, of | ing Kansas from the first and rank- | we conjecture.as to what may have | 2tter_ two E years: Wan es rom | years when the county seat was lo- rapidly that the point made the Treasurers office and report . the ing her the seventh temperance state | been their habits and manners of Florida, West and Nort ay, GISCUVEE- |) on the 1iorth bank ot the- river in’ ‘the above: suit could: alae result of such investigation. When while in the first forty-five days of /jite. In the languages of Bryant's edthe Mississipp: nver near the | ior. Papinville now stands‘ the | again be sustained. In 1855 } Thanatopis. “Take the wings of morning the committee called on the Treas- they He sickened, died was buried urer for the purpose stated us z beneath its waters and but few of were informed by the clerk that Mr. | tion and license. If we consider | And the Barcon desert pierce, x pa ae ena Cie ssn and succeeded in putting through a Polk was absent from home, and ame ao = age gaia doa | bate st hp ttae See ae zoos ; se ieee eens nanos eee liam Gilbreath, of Hudson town- | bill attaching that part of Cass south that his whereabouts were not known. Cc lestine sales o 1 XI ig s gon. attempts were inade to to iP ship, was one of the commissioners | of Grand riveean@the line betwees liquors and consider the vast amount that is daily delivered to individuals in concealed packages by express companies, we are forced to the conclusion that the cause of true temperance reform has not progress- ed very rapidly under our present coercive system.’’ discovery. For 130 years longer the current of the Father of Waters rofled on to the Gulf unvexed by | other craft than the Indian canoe. And hears no sound Save its own dashlings, Yet the dead are there, And millions in these sol itudes Since first the flight of time began Have laid them down to sleep.”” This ideais so well set forth in the opening paragraphs of Switzler’s History of Missouri, that we here quote them: to select the site for the county seat. Being at the head of navagation on the Osage it soon become quite a trading point and a considerable village grew up. The unsurpassed tacilities for stock raising in this io- cality soon attracted many settlers, and as population increased various projocts were devised for new coun- townships 42 and 43, to Bates coun- ty, and then striking off the south part of Bates to form a new county to be called Vernon and removing the county seat of Bates county to Butler. As that.act established che county, lines ot Bates aad Vernon they still remain. J. E. Morgan built the first house in Butler, while This natuially created suspicion, and the committee proceeded to in- vestigate matters under their instruc- tions. But avery little while was aecessary to develop the fact that a great deficit was apparent, and fur- ther prosecution onthe part of the committee exhibited the startling figures of $480,000 short in the books In 1673 Marquette and Joliet, two Frenchmen, set out ir canoe’s trom the French settlements on the upper lakes and passed Lake Michigan, Green Bay and up Fox river 1n their In his message to the Legislature Gov. Crittenden recommended that and cash of the institution. the uniform rate of interest on “In all tands whenever in the | canoe’s whichthey carried oter the | ties. the land was yet vacant. He after- When the committee reported the | money be fixed permanently at six | ages past the climate has been such | divide and launched in what is now Harrisonville was the county | wards entered it and donated a part result of their laborto the Legisia-|per cent. Experience teaches | as to render it possible for man to! known as the Wisconsin river and} seat of Cass and situated 12 miles | of it for the county seat. John W. north of the south line as the boun- daries of the county, were at that time. The people of that town and Montgomery and John S. Wilkins also donated land. The county court was composed of Johr D, Myers, Edmund Bartlett and J. O. Pearson. ‘hey made a new plat for the town and R. L. Duncan laid it out in October 1856. The te cords of the county were removed to Butler, and the first circust court — was held in an old school house by Judge R. B. Hicks. The attor- ~ nev’s in attendance were Thomas H. The earth is found thickly} floating down it reached the Mississ- 1763, and fleated that the regulation of interest by | subsist. law is a very difficult matter, The j planted with the graves of, vanished | ippi June 17th, price of monev is usually governed | peoples. Countless generations | down as far as the mouth of ot by its scarcity er abundance, and | have come and gone and left no} Arkansas and then turned back. In} vicinity furnished the majority legislative enactments have but Ittle | record oftheir lives and work save! 1682 La Salle, another Fremchman,|ot the voters in the county effect. | what is to be found in the few sur- i explored to the mouth and took for- | ty and they feared that when the ter- viving monuments they have erect-! mal possessien of the country .n the | ritory should ailbecome settled up io or the rude implements andj name of the French King and named | that the county seat would be moved tragmentary remains of their indus- | it Louisiana. This of course inclu-/to Austin or some other location try which decended with them to/ ded the territory now comprised in} near the centre ef the county. They the tomb. The great ocean of hu- | the State of Missouri. French set-{ were therefore anxious to give off manity with the energy of its cease-|tler’s soon atter established them- that part of the county south of ture, it;created widespread excite- ment and surprise, and proceedings were at once instituted by the Gover- norto capture the absconded de- faulter. It was ascertained that, on teaving home, Polk started toward Mexice, and in that direction the of- ficers directed their force. At San Antonio, Texas, Polk, and two friends who accompanied him, were arrested, but succeeded in bribing their captors and were permitted to —————— ee / The railroad companies have caused to be published a list of the names of a large number of news- paper men, lawyers and doctors who have disposed of passes contrary to the understanding and courtesy existiag resume their journcy. At a point between San Antonie and the Mex- ican line the party were again ar- rested, and all efforts at bribery the second time failing, the distinguish- | ed prisoner was returned te the scene sand seat of his dishonest conduct where he awaits the action of the @aw upon his crim ———$—<—_—__. The Trams regrets that the Adrian { Constitution. We predict that the Advertiser should find it necessary | Missouri law makers will not be to accuse Butler of working into the [able to perceive the need or advisa- hands of the anti-hog-law advocates | bility of such an appendage to the ia the county in order to-secure sap- | Organic law of the Commonwealth. pertfor the jail propesition. Surely | é reer Seca € there'ss stich a thing existing it is in | _ No better place could be selected the minds of men whe do not reflect | for the helding of the convention otf the. public. sentiment of this city. the printers of the southwest than We.would respectfully inform the | Butler. We have an opera house Advertiser that Batter desires that | UBEaled in the southwest and be- the country voters should determine sides that the number of newspapers fGr themselves the important question |!” the county entitles her to prowmi- e&the:hog law proposition. In the | "¢"t Tecognition. sadgement of the Tings: the matter H. e af rts Weide is ‘pails Wee lon, John H. B8ritts, our Senator restraining . 2 titinnka of the pidlie aout ack an the Legislature. was appointed . chairman of the committee on Mines men, and does not materially con- anes che él of Butler. and Mining vy Gov. Campbell. Dr. Britts is also a -member of several Cen. John” B. Henderson, of St- other committees. Gouis,. has been into another fist SE RIE ity tis’ time with Col. ae Hon. Levi Moler, was made chair- 3 Scene in the cuurt room man of the committee on Unfinished ss The row am Business by Speaker Richardson’s alae aiken Pees es — of» committees las: stark made by Morrison, implicat- me ing Henderson, in some way with the affairs of the defunct State Na- tonal Bank. between them and the railroad com- panies. We sanction this exactly, as it *‘spets”” of the fraternity. A The Probibitionest are marshaling their forces at the State Capitai tor the purpose of pushing throwgh the | Legislature an amendment to the —_—_—_——— EEE Judge Wm. B. Napton, ex-mem- | ber of the State Supreme court, ced on the Sth ins: ' ; ‘ business the dead-beats less plow, has oftimes, no doubt ob-/| selves st various points on the east} Grand river that they might be sure literated the traces of former gen-/ side of the nver but uo settlement } of holding the county seat at Har- erations, save here and there a foot-} was made in what is now Missour? | risenville. Accordingly their Rep- print ia the solid rock, or an empty} until 1835, or later, whem St. @en- | resentative in connection with the shell which has been left upon the j eveive was settled. St. Louis was} Representative of Bates, Major Mc- Sterns of Bates, W. P. Johnson of St. Clair, R. G. Payton of Cass and Thomas Freeman of Polk. Wil | liam Jennings, (now living in Wal- | nut township,) wasune ef the Grand f a shores ot time. We of to-day, build, | settled in 1764. Soon atter this} Henry, made an effort te organize a | Jurers. They held their session ;sew and reap. buy and sell, and] France ceded Louisiana to Spain} new county but failed to carry itl on a dry knoll af: the high prairie thus repeat, over and over again, | and it was under the government of| through. R. B. Fisker was the i grass but as no complaints were laid j before them they were soon dis- charged. At this time two thirds of ithe land in the county belonged to bisa peel oe one the Government but in the next Bates | three years st was nearly all entered xtended | and in 1861 the county contained a populatien of 6,765 and Butler was a well built up town of 1000 :mbab- ‘itants. As the object of this article was only te give a correct history of “| the various changes of county of yunizations affecting the territory Bates the through a trom ithe great drama of life above the! that nation until the year 1800. Na-/ next Representative jsephulchres et departed millions | poleon Bonaparte then at the head4 and in connection long since forgotten. How often} of the French nation, se-} Cass county man, the leng years have finished their| cured its return te France, | bill forming a new cycles and the new began, who can} and in 1803 it was bought by the; ing the same territory ao compute or form whence shali the |-U. S. Government under Jefferson’s | except that the south. line data be drawn upon which such} Adniinistration for $15,000,000. In| east from the Kaasas computation may be based.’” 1So05 a territorial government was! unti The chronicler of the nations of | organized by Cougress for the | steac i with © got line as j it reached the Osage, wi ; accumulated recerds ot many centu- | ries and can hardly tell where au- | what is now Bates county. it was tained the narue « - ‘} now in Bates there ss nothing fur- { thentic history fails and tradition | not included in etther, but remained j new esunty called Vern | ther to add. Thaetor is unde sets in. Butinthe New World the} unorgamzed until January 23d, 1816, ) The estizens of Papinvilie were biter- | obligations to W. Fi Switzler of written record goes back only 390} when ‘the ‘Territorial Legislature {ly opposed to the new county, and | Colasipas J. E. Morgan of Warsaw, years and there abruptly termi-| passed an act organizing Howard j claimed that the act establishing it} aaa pele every old resident et nates. Previous to the discovery of} county. Itincluded all that part of/ was unconstitutional. The old / Bates tor information necessary to” | ; _ The fewtraditions existing among! was fixed at Cole’s Fort, where the } township.) T. B. Arnett and Wm / the most thorough investigation will | the Indians afforded us no reliable | first court was held July Sth, 1816. { Lakey, were appointed county court | prove to be eee: i information 2s to their origin or his- | In 1817 the county seat was re- | Judges of the new county and pro-. S.C. STURTEVANT. itory. To know-anything then of | moved to Franklin. on the Missouri | ceeded to organize townships, es— i pai rew of folks pres. the old world, has before him the] acquisition. The setticd parts of; as at endless task ot searching over the | Missouri were divided into four dis-! tinued due | tricts, but as no white men lived , America, by Columbus, we have no} Misseuri, north ot the Osaze and/ county court proceeded to | complete thie account. County and written history, saye that in Iceland- | west ot Cedar Creek and the divid-! build a brick court house at Papin- | State records, legislative enactmens ic annals there are found accounts of } ing ridge between the Missouri andj ville and a fine bridge across the land supreme court decisions, have a region which some of their adven-| Missouri rivers. (Sec Switzers | river at that place, hoping by these | 43.) peen consulted and itis believed turous spirits visited about the vear| History of Missouri, (page 192-)! measures to retain the county seat ino this account is more complete 1000, which was undoubtedly Amer-} It comprised what is now nine- j which they. would, trom their lo- i and correct than any heretotore ica, butthe attention of the world | teen counties north of the river,! cation, be sure to lose if the new { published, and although sifted from Was so little attracted to it, that it | twelve south of the river aad parts j arrangement become permanent. | J otements somewhat contradictory. was forgetten. * ; of nine otkers. The county seat! Edmund Bartictt (now of Walnut , .o+ nothing is herein stated but what