The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 24, 1883, Page 4

found file at Geo. | THIS PAPER Piewciscos Bewrapap-: oad icin NEW YORK | Times. thus treats upon the Prohi- | evatracte may be made for Chas. T. McE ar-and. 2c07TOR AND PROPRIETOR, TERMS OF SU?PSCRIPTION: The Westy Tres, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any edaress one vear, postage paid, tor $1.2<. BUTLER MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY, JAN, 24, 1833. BOR COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. We are authorized to announce the name of U. P. Keeder, as a candidate tor the office ot County School Commis- sioner ot Bates county, subject to the elec- tien et the Democratic Convention. We are authorized te announce the name of W. W. Graves, of Homer town- ship, asa candidate for County School Commissioner ot Bates county, subject to the action of the Democratic ‘Covention- Meeting of Democratic Exective Oqm- mittee: Notice 1s hereby given that there will be held a meeting of the Dem- ocratic Executive Committee of 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 to nominate county School. Com- missione~ and to transact such other business as may properly come be- fore it for its consideration. 3 Pierce Hackett, Pres’t. J. C. Crark, Sec’y. 7 at. EC SPECIAL ROTIVE. The undersigned have formed a co-partnership for the purpose of carrying on a Real Estate and Insur- ance business, under the name of 4he Tuazs Real Estate and Insur- ance Agency. It is our object to buy and sell real estate. act as agents for property holders, collect rents, pay taxes and do ageneral real estate business. Also wiil insure city or farm property in several of the leading companies. All real estate placed in our hands for sale will be advertised in the Timms free of charge. Parties wishing to buy or sell real estate are requested to: call at the office of the agency in the Times building, and any business left in our charge will recieve careful and prompt attentien. Respectfully, D. V. Brown, J. R. Davis, Cuas. T. McFartanp. [SSS a ANOTHER (ALL. To our first cail for, subscription money on January tst, many gener. ously responded ; but not all, quite. There are a few wko are owing us for over one year back subscription still waiting—perhaps till they get the money. : We desire to renew the request that, if you hav’nt means enough to way all, come in and pay what von can—every mite ards -in keeping the wolf trom our this weather. door cold —_—_—_ A THIRTY DAY OFFER. Any person who will bring or send to this office the names of fiye aew subscribers tothe Tiwes one year, accompanied by the cash, will be entitled toa copy of ihe paper free. Subscription price $1 25. | This ts an unusual low offer, and we trust that those of our friends aot getting the Times will set them- selves to work at once with a vim. There is not a neighborhood in the <punty where several of these clubs cannot be goticn up. Please re- | snember that the moncy must company the same. Sd TWO PAPERS EOR $1 76. Weill send the BuTrtex WEEKLY Tres and the St. Louis Post-Drs- Patch, to any address, one year, for $1 75 in advance. This is the best opportunity you ac- i neh catneenmecen aay ever have of getting yeur home cently had some trouble relating to | dependent political journal. paper and a St. Louis paper for so! smail amount of money. —_———————_ New names are being added to the i ‘Cumgs’ already huge subscription ist each day, but there is room for ¢aany more. The price per annum 4s only one dollar and a quarter. Sample copies given away cheerfully | »heation. en apy ! BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES ee | Jeader in Kansas, and editor and | likely will, { FURTHER FRUM KANSAS. i Col. D. R. Anthony, Republican proprietor ot the Leayenworth 1 bition question in Missouri: | “The Legislature of Missouri | stands a goed chance to hear all it wants from the Prohibitionsts on the submission of a constitutiona amendment te the popular vote. Despite Missouri’s hard name in the past, she has been making some progress the past few ears; but itseems ‘o us that the rohibitionists ought to be sufficient- ly convervant with public sentiment in our neighbor State to know that just now they have no hope ct car- rying such a proposition, and that therefore policy should dic- tate to them not to ei ter upon that in which they would Le verv certain to give their cause a serious backset. The Prohibition party of Missouri is made up a great deal after the man- nerin other states. There are a number of well meaning but totally impracticable ones in the lead, who in matters pclitical cannot see_be- yond the endof their noses. Then there are those who haye attached themselves to the Prohibi- tion moyement because they were no longer needed ineither of the vld parties, and who imagine that they see an opportunity ter place and spoils. The former class have not decernment enough to know whether or not Missouri is readv for Prohibition: the latter would not admit it was not, even if they knew it. There is too much Democracy in Missouri, which has always op- posed sumptuary laws; the foreign element 1s too cosmopelitan in its character, and there is too conspic— uous anexample of the failure ot Prohibition in this State to make the adoption of the constitutional amendment a likely event in Mis- sour. THE TRUE EDITOw. Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Coxrier-Fourual, prince of American journalism, es- timates the ability and duty of an editor as tollows: ‘*jome feople estimate the abzli- ty of a periodical and the talent et its editor by the quantity of its orig- inal matter. It is comparatively an easy task for a frothy writer to string out a column of words on any an all subjects. His ideas may flow in one weak, washy, everlasting flood; and the command otf his language may enable him to string them to- gether like bunches of onions, and yet his paper may be but a meagre and poor concern. Indeed, the mere writing part of editing a paper is but a small portion of the work. The care, the time, employed in se- lecting is tar more important, and the fact of a good editor is better shown by his selections than any- thing else; and that, we know. is half the battle. But as we have | eaid, an editor ought to be esteemed, his labor understood and apprecia- ted bythe gemeral conduct of his paper—its tone, its uniform and consistent course, aims, manliness, its dignity and its propriety. To preserve these as they should he preserved is fully enough to occupy the time and attention of any man. If to this be added the general su- pervision of the details of publica- | tion which most editers have to en- counter. the wonder is how they get time to write at all.’’ ee ee We ure happy to note such a} the country It is who unanimous feeling in tor the new jail proposition. ever commendable m a people exhibit a disposition for good substantial public buildmgs. Noth- ingteils louder or stronger for the county and its citizens. Aside from mere show and effect, however, first class public buildings in keeping with the importance and progress of acounty, are matters of economy fully understood by every wise_busi- | ness man and farmer. A new jail fo: Bates county is economy in the truest sense of the word, say nothing of its influence upon strangers and neighbors. H See i Hon. Levi Moler, has introduced | a billin the Legislature, authorizing cities to collect a tax on dogs, and to authorize their destruction in default ot payment of the tax. As our neigbor, the *‘Infant Wonder,”’ re- | the rightof the canine creation, 1t is | taken for granted that the billis in- | tended maiuly for her benefit. Ex-Sherit Timberla couaty, who plaved s of H an imper ant part in the search for the James brother: as determined to leave for ever and settle ranche near Caidwell. Kas oe a) « the ard | { this way unless so }e00 to rebuild t | qa case the bill mew befere the} Appleton Yournal: } i The Kan. Legislature becomes a law, which it / sas City and Southe rn railroad seems creating the office ot {tobe booming. The Clinton Adve- | Public Printer of the State, Mr. | cate says a car load of tools arrived A better man than Mr Rus- a2 1-2 miles of iron, and have pur- chasei a locomonve and several cars He is be- } | for use in construction. The road sition. sell could not be chosen. yend all question an efficient man is 1) every sense of the word, and repre- | will form a direct line between Kan- sents one of the best and most reliable | sas City and Clinton. i . ~ i SESE Democratic papere im the State. “To read the Butler Times and which, under Mr. Russell’s manage- | Democrat one would think that Bates county is the heaven we read about in the Good Book.’’—Apple- ton Journal. True enough, brother Hilton, but if you are doubting, come and visit ment, has labored twelve years for the success ef the party in season and out of season. LARTER The St. Clair, Henry and Bates county Fair Association, met at Ap-|us, our soil, farms, manufacturies pleton City on the 13th, and| and people attest the truth otf our elected mew officers and directors. | words. The officersiciected’ are ze follows: ae Te epee The President, Clark Wix; Vice-Presi- ichiEnt & aie » dent, C. Nesbit; Secretary, A. E. Woe Pe ies es $15,000 more in money orders than the Butler post office did during the past year. Wecan stand the com- parison. Page; Treasurer, J. B. Eggar. The Association decided to hold the fair on the r2th, 13th, 14th and 15th of September next. ; ee The Clinton Democrat, alluding te some suggestions cencerning can- didates for Governor two years hence says: ‘While newspapers are making slates for the Democratic conven- tion, the Democrat respectfully sug- gests the name of that time-tried veteran, Ms. A. A. Lesueuer, of the Lexington Intelligencer, tor Sec- retary of State.’’ Eater the Timgs on the Lesueuer list. A better Democrat and more cempetent man is not in the State. Senator Ransom, was re-elected United States Senator frem North Carolina, on the 16th and Gov. Cul- lom from Illinois, on the 17th. Walker Herald: Cholera is cre- ating such ravages among the St. about stopped buying. Jast Freight Tarifis? From the Henry Ceunty Democrat. The Kansas City this timely suggestion to the Kansas Legislature : Gen Wm, Bate, was inaugurated Governor ot Tennessee on the 15th. At the conclusien of the maugural ceremony, a live eagle was set at liberty from Capitol Hill, bearing amedal on which was inscribed, “For President, Cleveland, of New York; and for Vice-President, Bate, ot Tennessee. Time will tell the amount of truth in the tidings borne by this *‘king of birds.’’ a By all means the present Legisla- ture should make a law adding some- thing to Sheritts salaries. ‘This offi- cers work is often greater and al- ways more unpleasant than any oth- er ceunty officer, and yet he receives less pay than any. The Governor was night in recommending an in- crease, and it should be done. oe The efficers of the Missouri Press Association, who constitute the ex- ecative committee, met at the Zimes office, n Kansas City, yesterday to determine upon a program for the next convention to be held at Carth- age. Let the people of Kan- contented. it sas take notice of this and see to time. Do not put it ett until large classes get discontented. Do not let your own power nullified by the your dearest interests. weaken your faith in the of your government by playing fast and lose in the interests of men who wield the talisman of free passes,and who grant special favor te getspecial favers in retarn. All the loss the railway people sustain by tree pas- is made up again eut of your- selves. They extend whet they call courtesy te the press and to the members of the Legislature, representatives, butthie courtesy is the gilded bait with which they catch gudgeeus, thesimple fish you have sent to their market.’’ This advice willin a great part be of benefit if read and followed up by the legislature of this State, new im session at Jeffersen City. While itis truethat in Kansas, while St. Jobn and hie minions were running after fanaticism amd vagaries of :m- practical proportiens, and letting corporations wield the full vent of their force in their own interests, im all State affair, this StateWwas in a measure protecting her citizens from the heavy heel of the monopolists. But our laws are toe vague and im- practicai to ameunt to what the we> fare of the general public require. Legislation should so hedge aheut the railways of the. State that all manner of transportation will be brought down te good living prices for the roads, and not amount t> ex- tortion from the merchant and the shipper and producer. The history ef the world is a witness to the fact that monopolies will mot be just to the people, unles forced to be so by legislations. The State board of Railway Commissioners should im~- press the needed legislation upon the present legislature, aad the news- paper press of the State shenid sin- gle out and press their repiesenta— tives to give the matter the hearty consideration. The first matter worthy ef the censideration of all true patriots, is to serve the interest | ef the great body of the people. | The injustice of railwaycorperations ; must be checked ; thieis the day-and | new is the time tobegn it. If mo-/ nopolies are net to be controlled by! geod, healthy legisistion; ii the crea- H ted iste be aboye tle creator, then | farewell to the boéted inexplorable ; justice the Amertan people have | always claimed a abirthright. The} : | Kansas City 7/#es has struck the) the public school | keynote in Kangs, and we cannot i by | see wherein situation ix mach t diff. u The ballots = = | of the last eledion also sounded the Senator Plumb knocked the per- | keynote of gaeral retorm, and the! in| wise legislatyr will not fal io ced } and act on (fe dictates ef th wave.” H ST The Nebraska man who arove his wife out on acold night, causing her to freze her feet so badly that tuey bad to be amputated, was tarr- ed and feathered by his neighbors. A committee of the Legislature 1s examining into the affairs of the management of the Penitentiary. Let it be full and extensive. | Speaking of the jail and hog iaw {questions the Adnan Advertiser says: **We see no use of the county seat } papers making such an ado over the jail when there is no opposition. [t will recerve a large majority up ething happens before election to change the minds of voters. In a card to the Globe- Democrat, Mrs. Langtry says she entered the stage and came to America to re- tneve the financial fortunes of herself and husband. Then, she would be entitled to sympathy if she would take a cew-hide and lash that upstart Freddie, till he ceased to tollow her over the country, pt Nat. Barter, editor and proprie- ter of the Nevada Ledger, threat- ens to drown his politics unless the Republicans of the county come to the rescue by March ist. After that the Ledger will be published as an In- —— Brownsville. Saline county. asks the Legislature to appropriate $io,- building of that place destroyed the cyclone last spring. - as own succtesser his | John D. Russell of theSedalia Dem | at that place Tuesday, and that the | ocrat will be a candidate for the pe- | company have ready to be shipped | Clair county hogs that dealers have Times makes -*Some people in Con- gress are talking about an efficient standing army to overawe the dis- that railway abuses be refermed in procrastination and delay ot those in- to whose hands you have committed Do not per- mit any .nan, or any set of men, to efficency your STATE CAPITAL. | Prohibition Still Creating the Chief | Excitement. | Bills Introduced Relating to County i Officers Fees. Penitentiary Investigatien. JEFFERSON City JAN. 32nd: The Prohibitionist’s are still raging their effort to secure some legislation in their favor. They are not, how- ever, meeting with that success and encouragement thev had hoped when they began. Dr. Books and his aids find it up-hill business driving a lot of Democratic Legislators into the folly of prombition. A great many petitions have been offered in the House and Senate, for and against submitting a Prohibition amendment but no bills have veen effered since those reported last week. THE HOUSE. Dr. Storts, of Phelps, offered a resolution that a committee of one | from each ot the twenty-nine juaicial circuits be appointed with a view to diminishing or increasing the num- ber of Circuit Judges, as they may deem expedient, and to do away with the office ot Prosecuting Attor- ney and establish in lieu thereot the office of Circuit Attorney. NORMAL SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS. Dr. Storts, ot Shannen, introduced a billrelating to Normal schools, which provides that hereafter it sha!l be the duty ot each Senator and Rep- resentative elected to the Legislature of the State, to appoint one worthy young man or young weman, be- tween the ages of fifteen and nine teen and tourteen and eighteen, years respectively, who shall be entitled to receive, free of all matriculation and tuition fees, a fuli course of instruc- tion, as may beelected by themselves or their parents, guardians or cura- tors, in any otf the departments of the State University, (except those of law or medicine) and in the Normal schools of this State. COMPENSATION OF COUNTY JupGEs. One of the most prolonged debates that has yet taken >lace in the House occurred this morning on the en- grossment of the bill increasing the perdiem of county court judges from $3 to $5, and the increase: of mileage from five cents to eight cents per mile. ‘“Atter ‘several speeches the word eight was stricken out and the word five inserted, and the bill was ordered to engrossment. It amends section 1,215, of article 4, of chapter 23, ef the Revised Statutes of 1879, so as to read as fo;lows: SECTION 1,215. The judges of the court shall receive for their ser- rices the sum of $5 per day tor cach day actually engaged in holding courts, and five cents per mile for each mile necessarily traveled in ge- ing to and returning trom the place of holding such court; Provided fhat such mileage shall be charged | only once foreach term of court. SHERIFF'S FEES. COURT present law the tees allowed sheriffs are, in « large majority of counties, { i | : | It 1s a notorious fact that under the | | fair - j inadequate to a compensation | for the amount of work done these officers. A bill to allow ifts mileage for the service of etc., in criminal was duced by Smith, of Gentry, and this | morn'ng, Parker, trom the Judiciary Committee, reported adversely on the bill and recommended its indefi- nite postponement. The report | bv} sher- | writs, cases, intro- | in| charges. The bill amerds section 832 to reduce passenger fare on classed A, from 3 80 as Toads cents to 3 1-3 cents per mile, and on roads classed B and C, trom 4 cents to 3 cents per mile And to amend section 834 by reduc. ing freight rates on wheat, live stock and salt. CONSOLIDATING OFFICES, Mr. Mings, of Dent. introduced a bill to consolidate the offices of county collector and coumty treasur- er and provide for the compensation of the same. TO ABOLISH THE FISH COMMISSION, Taylor, of Grundy, and Gideon, J of Christian, introduced bills toabol. | ish the Fish Commission. There js a large number ot members who Te. gard this commission as neither use. tul nor ornamental, and _ the expen- | diture et monevto keep it up as worse than squandered, and a strong effort will be made to wipe it out of existence. Talking with Mr. Tay. lor about this mattcr, he said: ‘My reasons for attempting to repéal chapter 106 of the Revised Statutes, are that the Fish Cemmission is a Private boay, a close coporstion ‘as it were, which is maintained and supported by the State, and which charges $1.50 per can for turnishing young fish to the citizens of the State. It is useless to the average citizens because fish must be depos- ited in ponds fed by living springs, in which there are no other fish, and there are not a half dozen people in my section who have waters in which these fish can be cultivated. Again, if parties’ have privdte ponds in which such fish as are furnished by the Fish Commission can be raised the abolition of the Commussion will not prevent them from procuring and raising their own fish. For these I regard the expenditure of $7,000 every two vears as a useless extrav- agance, and am in favor of wiping out the Commussion.”’ THE SENATE. The Senate Committee on Pen- itentiary this morning, as foreshad- owed in last night’s dispatches, asked tor power to send for per- sons and papers, the resolution to that effect, offered by Mr. McGrath, being as follows: Wuereas, Grave charges have been made against the present management of the pen- itentiary, reflecting seriously upon the same; and Whereas, The committee Penitentiary is in the possession of evidence of such a character to demand a full and complete inves- in the matters pertaining management of the peniten- and serious on as tigation to the tiary during the theretore be it. ReEsorvep, That for this purpose the committee be empowered to send for persons and papers, that they may obtain testimony bearing upon the subject on investigation. The resolution was adopted. Senator Heards’ bill for the relict of the supreme court, passed the Senate last Friday, and wili now come up before the House In all probability the bilt past two years; for its action. | will become a law. Trustee’s Sale, Whereas, Mrs, ( lara Asbury, wite, aad J.H. asbury, husband, of Bates county, Missouri, by their deed of trust,dated Sep- tember 29th, 1882, and recorded in book 29, at page 174, in the recorder’s office a Bates county, Missouri, did convey to John W. Baldwin, as trus.ee, tor the pur- tof St. Louis county, and Morehouse ' Ways and Means Committee by Mr. called out Hughlett, Cronmer, Allen | pose ot securing the payment of certain | promissory notes in said deed of trust | described the tollowing real estate in Bates county, Missouri, to-wit. Lot 20, block 20, town of Rockville, Mo. | And. whereas, said notes have become ; due and payable and default has | been made in the payment of said notes, though the payment thereof has often been demanded Now, therefore, at the request of the legal holder of said notes of Nodaway, who objected to this summary disposal of the bill. and after considerable wrangling over the matter, Hamilton, cf Newton moved that 300 copies of the bill be ordered rinted forthe informats . P eee mormeation of the and in aceordance with the provisions House, and the chances are that not- | and terms ot said deed ot trust and by withstaadine tne adv . 1 | virtue of the power in me vested as such ichisea edie tes AOYEISe “Te DONLe Ob 4 erat Jona We alten as eae the Judiciary Committee, aforeaid, wM™, on wi'l yet be passed, by the riouse, at ;. eae 2 ere F , Saturday, March roth 1883. Stee sien between the hours of g o’cluck a- m., and 5 o'clock p. m., of said day, at the court house door, in the town (now city) of Butler, in Bates sell real estate hi ue for cas bidder to satisfy the Lill bill was reported from the Bashaw, allowing Sheri for cach per mi serving writs and pr ; cases, with th aid it pass. r |, REGULATING RAILROAD CHARGES. Gideon, of Christian county, i: $5 troduced lto chapter 21, worth ; Pa Portiand, Mainc article 2. nd $34. en- ‘