The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 31, 1883, Page 4

| | FRANK JAM BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES | THIS PAPER may be found on file at Geo. | Pr. Leap goa me a4 ertixing Bureau (10 Spruce Bt), where advert cr eT udotor is IN NEW YOLK. | Chas. T. McF ariaud. SpiTok AND PROPRIETOR, TERMS OF SU: SCRIPTION: —e- The Weety Times, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any zduress one vear, postage paid, tor $1.25. BUTLER MISSOURI | WEDNESDAY, JAN, 31, 1583- i Announcements. FOR COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. We are authorized to annownce the aame of C. P. keeder, as a candidate tor the office ot County School Commis- sioner of Bates county, subject to the elec- tion ot the Democratic Convention. We are authorized to announce the name of W. W. Graves, of Homer town- ship, as a candidate for County School Commissioner of Bates county, subject to the action of the Democratic Covention- We are authorized to announce the same of W.G. Rose, of Mt. Pleasant szownship, as a candidate for the office of County Schoel Commissioner of Bates county, subject to the action ot the Dem- ocratic convention. ANOTHER (ALL. To our first cail for subscription money on January Ist, many gener- ously responded; but not all, quite. ‘Thefe are a few wro are owing us for over one year back subscription still waiting—perhaps till they get the morey. We desire to renew the request that, if you hay’nt means enough to pay all, come in and pay what yon can—every mite aids in keeping the wolf from our door this cold weather. : A THIRTY DAY OFFER. Any person who will bring or send to this office the names of five aew subscribers tothe Times one year, accompanied by the cash, will be entitled toa copy of the paper tree. Subscription price $1 25. This 1s an unusual low offer, and swe trust that those of our friends not getting the Times will set them- selves to work at once with a vim. ‘There is not a neighborhood in the county where several ot these clubs cannot be gottcn up. Please re- member that the money must ac- company the same. TWO PAPERS EOR $1 75. i Weill send the Burter Werkiy Trmgs and the St. Louis Post-Dis- atch, to any address, one year, for e 31 75 in advance. This is the best opportunity you «nay ever have of getting your home paper and a St. Louis paper for so small amount of money. ee The Times is in receipt of a cir- cular from J. E. Lockwood, Gen. Pass. & Ticket Agent of the Kan- sas City, Ft. Scott and Galf Rail- yoad line, dated Kansas City, Jan. 23d. 1883, in which he savs: ‘The Memphis extension of this tine is uow completed, and regular trains cunning to West Plains, Howell county, Mo., 315 miles from Kan- sas City. The line will reach Au- gusta, Oregon county, Mo.. about | “ebruary zoth, and will be comple- | zed and open for business to Mem- phis, Tennessee, about June ist, 1883. \ ffanything more is necessary io j »rove the folly of Prohibition, after | the experienced ones in Kansas have } spoken, let the new Governor of | Connecticut, the home and hot.bed | of Prohibition, give in his testimon in his message to the Legislature the | Governor says: | “Your failure to approve would | not, in my opimon, injure the cause | of morahty or temperance, for ex- perience teaches that however easy it may be to rouse the sentiment of | the hee tu eset Lae an amend- | ment, it is im) le after i - | won Sseltectuslly entorce i _— i A et ee } John Sherman, whom Sarah Hol- | ‘ensworth implicated as the father of | her child, and accessory to its mur- der at Rockville. this county, Iast November, was taken from the But- | ter jail before Judge Gantt, at Clin- ton on the 24th on a writ of Aadeas | corpas, and after several witnesses had heen examined was released on S500 bail. ; my constituents desire ion’’—meaning a Prohib tion amend- CLERK AND SHERIFF'S FEES. Hon. Levi Moler, Representative in the Legislature, has intruduced a bill providing for the protection of circuit clerk’s and shertié’s in the issuing of fees and ‘serving writs and summons. There may be bills befere the | Legislature of greater importance to he general public, but there are one embodying any greater degree of justice to the officers ot the law than the one above mentioned. It simply allows the circuit clerk and sheriff, the fees which they are en- titled tounder the law, in advance, and does not change in any way the | amount of such fees. There is a large class of individu- als who apply to the circuit court for the adjustment of their difficul- ties, and who understanding the lameness of the law, never pay the sheriff and circuit clerk one dime for their labor in preparing a case for court. It is in such cases as this tnat the bill introduced by Representative Moler is intended to have effect. The lawis explicit in providing for the collection ot fees for issuing and serving papers by the circuit clerk and sheriff, but it is deficient in the fact that it does not provide for the collection ot such fees im ad- vance. These officers are contin- ually imposed uper by a worthless class of persons whoseek a redress of their grievances in the courts never expecting to pay the cost of the liti- gation. If every legislater would take the trouble to consult the cir- cuit clerk and sheriff of bis own county, the reasens here given why the bill should become a law, would certainly be confirmed in the great majority of instances if notall. When people ge into court they should be required to pay the cest as they proceed and not be allowed to pros- ecute their suit at the expense ef of- ficers whose fees are small enough at best. It is hoped every member will give this bill a careful consideration and as it does not propose to increase or change in any way the amount of the officers fees—their support also, when it comes up for final passage. SENATOR BxITTS. From some cause best known to its editor, the Repudlican of this city, reproduces in its last issue, the circular letter addressed to Senator Britts, by the Prohibition Alliance of Butler just prior to the November election, and, also Sen- ator Britt’s, reply. Commenting upon the same the Repudlican says: ‘We shall watch with no small de- greeof interest the squirming ef our esteemed and honorable Senator under the Prohibition thumb screws twisted by the streng fingers of Rev. Jno. A. Brooks-’’ For the benefit of the public. if not tor our friends of the Repzé/i can, we would say, that Senator Britts 1s not the kind ot a man to squirm under the -‘thumb screw’’ ot acrank. He marked ovt his course before his election and he has the nerve to stick to the text. He un- derstands his duty to his constituents, and his fealty to Democracy never lags. He doubtless comprehended the tall import and meaning of these words in his reply to the circular; ‘tand I learn by petition or other- wise, that a respectable number of its submiss- ment—and it yet remains to be proven that there 1s a ‘‘respectable number ot his constituents’? desiring such legislation. Therefore, the ReAudlicaxn may continue to be *‘very much amused and interested’’ in the ‘Kilkenny cat fight now raging in the ranks of Democracy,”’ but you can cease to to worry about Dr. Britts redeeming his promise. Under the heading of **County Finan-es’’ will be found published in to-days Tres an abstract of the expenses of Bates county for the past year. Itis a favorable exhibit | and demonstrates the economy ef / Democratic management. a Sedalia is to have anew passenger ; depot 4ox 400 feet in size and built | of brick aud stone. Surely there 1s |mo town or city in the State that | terms by addressing T. C. Spellings, ‘meeds such a structure half so hag Presecuting Attorney as Sedaha. our worthy } "THE CEMETERY QUESTION. DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN. The publication of a card trom M. S. Cowles, a week ago, concerning | the condition and management of | the two cemeterics in the eastern | suburbs of the city, nas occasioned some talk upon the matter and has | produced a general feeling that some- | thing should be done looking toward the consolidation of the two wnder | one management. A meeting was held last Saturday night at the court house, but nothing definite grew out of itand an ad— journmeng was taken till next Sat- urday evening at the same place. The status of the case is like this: | The old cemetery grounds belong to | the city of Butler, and the old cem- etery association was organized simply to manage it. ‘There are some four or five hundred dollars in the treasury. The new cemetery as- sociation are the owners of the old fair grounds which thev have caused to be laid eff and thrown open as a cemetery. At the meeting Saturday night the proposition was for one or the other of the organizations to take control of both grounds under one name and gevernment. Satisfac- tory terms could not be reached and the question is leit where we com- menced. A proposition that is now meet- ing the approval of many who are interested in the matter because ot the burial of their friends in the cemetery, though they are not a part ot either association is that both asso- ciations turn over the greunds and everything pertaining thereto, to the city of Butler, and let its authorities have full control and disposition ot the same. This view is sustained by a large number of our citizens who realize the importance and necesity of a people’s burying ground — being lodged in the hands of a perpetual management. Experience has prov- en that associations have not given the best of management to our cem- etery affairs, and if the power to control isin the hands of the city authoritics the people can elect men to carry out their will. The city authorities will in all hu- man probability and calculation be a perpetual organization. The vicissi- tudes of individual life may change but not obliterate it. To know that atter we have crossed the dark river, our grave and the graves of our kindred will not be thrown open to the commons and stripped of their monuments and evergreens to sat- isfy the irreverent appetite of a later and more progressive generation, is surely something to us all. Let - oe there be a full attendance at the next | tures of Missouri will hold a con- mectimg and settle the matter in tne | Vention at St. Joseph, on March most proper way. : 13th. eee Our preseat Legislature is called aworking Legislature. The hon- orable body has been ia session now nearly one half the time allowed by law,and yet not a bill has been pass- ; ed ana receiyed the Govenors sig- Se nature. The existance and status | Semething of Interest te Our County ot the prohibition question has been Readers. the cause of the delay in business. are The best thing to do for the people | NORTHERN NEW HOME TWP. JAN 30 and the Democratic party is to settle Health of the neighborhood good. this prohitition question once for all, | Plenty of ice and snow wherever and that too at the earliest Possible | Sea migraines gt cts per bushel. momert. Do one of the twothings,! Noah Nihart, is feeding a lot of either submit the amendmeat or do | cattle and Logs tor the market. not submit it, and send Dr. Brooks; __D .Whitridge, is repairing the and his crowd of tanatics to their | Bells mill bridge. bomen i John Mediley’s coal may prove to cee = ' be of great value to him some day. Ex-Sheritt Simpson, will turn over |_| The building boom has fairly struck | this section Wm. Daniel, Wm. ue the County court next week.) girchfield, and Dr. Johm Patterson, $1,147 97, money due defendants in! have all erected goud and substantial cases where property has been sold | dwellings ontheir farms. The Dr. for back taxes, the amount being in| has ore of h- best stock farms in this oe : ection. See ee Ge The | Our public schoel in district no 1 money will be held im trust, by. the| under the skillful management of court, as a part of the school tund| Miss Alice Nixom, ot Jacksen coun- until twenty years have elapsed, then; ty, is progresing splendidly. The the law provides that it become a | patrons of the district are to be con- part of the permanent school fund of { Bee Ge Se oe the county. zen of Bates county, but for the past two years a resident of Jackson | county. died at the home of his son in thatcounty en Friday, January | 26th 1883. Mr. Lea, arose as usual | Friday morning and ate a very hear- ty breakfast, and to all appearance was as cheertul and well as he had been in months before. After fin- | ishing his breaktast he took aseat by | the fire, and complained ot his throat | hurting him and his feet being cold. | He called for some warm water to bathe his feet, and his daughter-in- | law went inte the bitchen tor the | purpose of preparing the water, but | when she returned she found, to her | Surprise, the old gentieman dead sit- ting inhis chair. The cause 1s sup- posed to have been heart disease. The remains were brought to this ; city and entered in the cemetery here last Saturday, without the ordinary ; tuneral rites that are usually given {| the dead. | Mr.Lea was one of Missouri hest pioneers having emigrated to this State from Tennessee about forty years ago. While a citizen of Ten- nessee he was one of the foremost men of his section, and was a mem- ber of the State Legislature two terms. None but his most intimate fri nds in this country know anything about this part of his history, so modest was the man in relation to the honors bestowed upon him. For a number of years he was a citizen ot this county, and for sever- al successive terms held the office of Public Administrator at the hands ot the Democratic party. Time works many changes in the affairs ot man, and as years rolled on death robbed him of a wife and two daughters, and his two unmarried sons emi- grating to the far west, the old gentle- | man was left with no other recourse but to seek a home with his son in Jackson county, where he died. Father Lea, tor as such he has al- Ways seemed tous from the fact that our own father and he climbed lifes rugged hill together away back in the mountains of old Tennessee was one of the noblest men that ever lived. Though not a_ professed christian, he lived a pure life and at the ripe age ot 79 years quietly pas- ses to the great beyond, leaving be- hind him a record umsmirched by any act of dishonesty or infidelity to duty or principle. During the civil war he sympathized with the Con- federacy, and like thousands ot oth- ers accepted the disastrous results decreed by its fate. a The liquor dealers and = manufac- ear- We regret to announce that the Sedalia Daily Despatch has suspen- ded because of financial embarass- ments. NEW HOME NEWS. teacher. I understand W. S. Steele intends —X———E SSS i 5 Out of fourteen States that ex-} Se Hee Berimented in prohibition leg:slation, cated at Cernland- ten have returned to the old license | The young man that did not take systera. A sorrowtul commentary | time to hitch his team before escort- | upon the virtue of prohibition laws, | img his girl in the house, says he will “| mever do so again. He certainly een eee ed i Anyone desiring to purchase a dent mean he will never escert the country printing office, can get good | girl again. ! cc = If you want to buyor sell real es- saw mill lo- county, this State, at Forsyth. the Times office. Hon. Alfred Lea, a former citi- | at Kansas City. Indictments The State Dismisses ali Except One. Held for the Bluc Cat Robbery, and Granted Bail in the Sum of $3,500. WANTED FOR OTHER CRIMES. | Fron the K. C. Times Jan 24th. The case of cases in criminal mat- | ters of the southwest, that of the state aguinst the noted Frank James, came up tor trial in the criminal court yes | terday afternoon, and the directien of affairs taken was a surprise to all but the officers of the law who, to use a common expression, were **on the inside,’’ and knew of what was Early in the morn- house going to come. ing the entrance to the court was crowded with people who im- pelled by curiosity to see this man, tamous tor the number of his crimes and the magnitude of criminality 1m- volved in the numerous reputed cases exposed themselves to the chilly at- mosphere of that hour. in order to feast their eyes upon one who was for so longa social Ishmael. Many young boys with books and satchels, and besides these much of the grown element, entered into the composi- tion of the crowd, but it was not juveniles alone who composed the major portion of human mass, for many men eutside ef the lounger class, who are always on hand on occasions of the kind, were present. Much comment upon the case was made, and a wonderful tamuliarity with the particulars of the case of the prisoner was manifested, this go- ing to show that there were at least one department of newspaper publi- cations that was read with attention and remembered with particularity as to the details. At last James came, attended by H. H. Noland, deputy clerk of the criminal court, and alsoby M. M. Langhorne. he prisoner was at once taken into the room of Jailer Corrigan and kept there beside a warm stove till further developments might require his presence elsewhere. He was clad in «a long brownish overcoat that fitted him well. His head was protected from the celd by a silk hankerchief wrapped around it, particular care being taken as to his throat, while his hat was pressed down tightly over the handkerchief. The suit of clothes that he wore on the occasion was a new one, the ceat being short and made in recent style, and the suit was made of one kind ot cloth of dark color. It was the intention of Depmy Marshal Ki Holland ot Independ- ence to accompany James to Kan- sas City, but as the marshal was la- boring under a temporary indisposi- tion, Messrs. Noland and Langhorn teok charge of him, landing their man at the Union depot. A trou of Haverly’s people were on the morning Missouri Pacific train from the east, by which way the prisoner was taken from Independence here, and when it became known that company passed by him to obtain a look, and the manager, who succeed- ed in gettiag an introduction. said to James: ‘If [had asgood a draw- ingcard as you I would not have to advertise at all.’’ To this remark, prompted by business enterprise of the manager, James scarcely replied as he is said to be particularly rensi- tive about being made a public spec- tacle as if he was some caged wild annimal., But few at the depot knew him, and he was shaved at a barber shop opposite the depot and to no one about the place did the guards | or the prisoner reveal his identity. After the barber had finished shav- ing James and had commenced on anether customer, it was told to the | barber who the last customer was, at i the reception et which information the manipulator of the razor opened wide his mouth and likewise his f eyes. | The Crenshaw murder case occu- | pied the attention of the court con- | tinually till the hour for the mid-day | adjournment, and, consequently, of Eancy tate, youwill do well by calling at! nething in the James matter was| Mr. Wallace stated that he had no | done till the afternoon’session. The Abrupt Ending of His ‘Trial | Tete Frank James took dinner at the | Marble Hall, and sat at the head of the table, while Bob Ricketts sat at | the foot, H. Clay Crenshaw and M. M. Langhorne on the left and Johny, | Murphy and Nat. Vincent on the i nght. | Mrs. Samuels, James’ mother, and John Samuels, his step-brother, spent the day with him in the jailer’s | sitting room. Two deputy marshals escorted the prisoner through the human impac. | tion blocking the aisle ot the crim. nal court room about 1:45 0’ clock yesterday aficrnoon, and the appear. atteny. ated man caused a sensation in the Men struggled, crowd, ance of this thin, careworn, court room. ed and pushed to get sight of him, but he evidently did not wish te be the tecus on which so much cbser. vation was concentrated, tor he took Frank James was aboard the entire pendence was read. a chair in the most obscure corner of the court room—that is, in the north. east corner, within the bar and be hind the sheriff's stand. While seated here men only at the shor distance of the reporters’ table away from him could see him. But even this was too conspicieus a place to suit him, for he soon moved, going into the little room in the northeast corner of the court room and had the doer closed upon him and those with him. In the meantime amem- ber of the bar, who bears a very te- mote resembiance to the prisoner, sat down in the chair vacated, and received the greetingsof many whe thought him te be Frank James. When the case was called Judge White ordered the Marshal to see that all persons who could be must be seated and tnat disposition would then be made of those who could not obtain seats. It was then ascertain- ed that about one third ot the peo- ple could not be seated, so the pro cess of crowding them into as small compass as possible was commenced and atter matters were reduced to reasonably fair condition for the transaction ot business, the prisoner was ordered to be brought before the bar and the title of the case, charging him with the murder of Detective J. W. Witcher, was then read. janes sat beside his iawyers, be- ing between Col. Phillips ef this city, and John M. Glover of St. Lou- is, who is assisting ex-Lieut. Gov, Charles P. Johnson. Gov. john son and Judge S-over sat just west of the prisoner, In response to the reading of the indictment. Prosecuting Attorney Wallace arose and said: ‘The state has used with ail due diligence what means it could to bring forward evidence in this case, but has not been successful. There ix evidence enough of the commission of the crime, but there is not sufficient evi- dencé to connect the defendant with the commissien of it. The indict- ment was brought betore I came in- _ to this office, and the crime was committed several years ago. The * state, theretore dismisses the case.” } Judge White mstructed the clerk to make an entry of dismissal, and then the charge against the prisoner tor robbing McCoy's bank at Inde- ‘That case sim exactly the same condition as the other,’ said Mr. Wallace. Another entry of dismissal was re- corded, and Judge White said, in an interroga‘ive tone. ‘*The defendant will be discharged then?’’ ‘*No, sir’? said Mr. Wallace. “there is another indictment for rob- bery in the first degree.’’ This new phase of affairs was 4 \ decided surprise, and as the indict- ment was not read, but was submitt- ed to the defendant’s attorneys. pro- ple began to utter in low tones €% pressions of wonder and inquiry 4 to what the indictment might be. The attorneys meanwhile scrutinized the indictment closely, and putting their heads close together began ' consult about it. Col. Phillips then announced that the defense weuld waive the reading of the indictment and he directed that a plea of not guilty be entered. Judge White asked: What or der in respect to the trial, gentle men?’” Continued on next page.