The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 7, 1883, Page 4

UTLER WEEKLY TIMES THIS PAPER Picecleors Sewn vertising Bureai St) where advertisin: Advertising Barr itor it IN NEW YOKE " chas. TT. MeEar aad, cite aND PROPRIETOR, ee TERMS OF SU: SCRIPTION: The Weety Times, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any cduress one vear, postage paid, tor $1.25. Announcements. BOR COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. We are authorized to announce the aame of U. P. keeder, as a candidate tor the office ot County School Commis- sioner ot Bates county, subject to the elec- tion ot the Democratic Convention. We are authorized to announce the aame of W. W. Graves, of Homer town- ship, as a candidate tor County School Commissioner of Bates county, subject to the action ofthe [+ mocratic Covention- We are authorized to announce the aame of W.G. Rose, of Mt. Pleasant township, as a candidate for the office of County School Commissioner of Bates county, subject to the action of the Dem- acratic convention. We are authorized to announee the same of J. F. Searight, ot Grand River tewnship, as 2a candidate for ounty School Commissioner, subject to the ac- tion of the Democratic convention. BOR CONSTABLE. We are authorized to announce the mame of Boone Trimble, as a ca didate for Constable of Mt. Pleasant township, subject to the action of the Democratic convention. Green county’s expenditures for the year 1882, reached $24,554.21 Se ‘The next meeting of the Misseuri Bar Association, will take place at Sweet Springs, Saline county on July 25th and 26th. Qe | The Clinton Democrat, and the Rich Hill Reveew, two of our most enterprising exchanges, have lately added steam to their press depart- ment. J. West Goodwin having pu- chased the franchise of the Sedalia Uéspatch's Associated Press -report will in a short time convert the Bazoo ‘ato a morning paper. Sahai W. B. Phipps, former editor and proprietor ot the Elderado News, has purchased the Stockton Stalwart where he will hereatter devote his time and energies. & slight change has taken place in the proprietorship of the Adrian Ad- vertiser. Tip Kirkpatrick has tak- enin Mr. Dryden as a partner, and the firm name will be Kirkpatrick & Dryden. The gentlemen have the kindest wishes of the Times. The pcohibition cuuse has just re- ceived a great back-set in Indiana. where the Legislature yesterday re- fuses to submit an amendment te the people. Dr. Brooks sheuld wear the usual badge of mourning ior thirty days. TT ‘Lhe type, presses, engine and of- dice turmture of the Sedalia: Dés- éatch, were sold at public auctien on Saturday last, bringing only a fraction over $900, but little more than the type alone cost. J, West Goodwin was the chiet purchaser. ee Mrs. Geo. E. Dugan, society re- Porter of the Sedalia Democrat. has Seenappointed to read the poem before the next annual meeting ot the Missouri Press Association. The selection is a lnghiy prover ene, and adeserving trioute to an accomplished lady. The editors may expect a rare poetical repast.— Sedalia Democra: —_—_—_—__ When Mrs. Wiiliams, ot St. t.ouis, found her husband sitting upright in the hallway, last Tuesday syening, she commenced the cus- somary wifely remarks about men who get druuk; but to hes amaze- ment she discovered that he was deaf. How he must have chuckled ever the way he deceived the good woman. —Sedalia Democrat. eee 3 The South appears to be afflicted, dust now, with large State official thieves... The Treasurer of thet Sate af Alabama, has been fcllowing in the foot pnnts of Polk of Tennessee : and js atse’short in his accounts to | the enormous sum of about $300,000. uike his venturesome Prototype, | Treauret Vincent, is absent trom *ome on special business. | THAT OHIOAGO INVESTMENT. | IN MEMOXRY OF BEN HILL. | For some months past there have! A few days since, the United | been in operation in Chicago sever- | States Senate held memorial services | al firms styling themselves Co-oper- | ative Unions or **Mutual Investment | Hill of Georgia, one of the Souths { Cgub’’. Their object, ostensibly, | was speculating in grain and stocks. The capital upon which they operat- | port of Senator Ingalls and Vests re- | arks are eloquent and interestmg: By far the most eloquent and im- ! pressive of the nine speeches aeliver- | | Union, and was secured by means of | circulars and lucal .agents. These agents would quietly work among the citizens of their town, and in ome cases the country was scoured by them soliciting subscription to sto: k ,uich sold at $10.00 per share. There was no limit to the amount et stock to be sold, and not a small number invested to the amount of thousands, some mortgaging their property to secure the money. For weeks and months this busi- ness was carried on. The Chicago firms were receiving thousands of dollars each day from the unsophis- ticated farmer mechanic, merchant or protessional man inremote regions ot the country, until they had amass- ed their hundreds of thousands. Che plan was to declare a divi- dend each inonth which was prompt- ly sent to tne stock-holders, they sup- posing that it was the legiiimate re- sult of some big haul in the purchase and sale of grain or stock in the Chicage markets, but in point of tact it was simply declared out of the fund gathered trom the stock-hol- ders. During the past few weeks the Chicago post office has been flooded with registered letters, money orders and draughts for these firms. The Post-office department at Washing- ton set on foot and investigation, and soon finding that they were bogus, and were not known ameng Chica- go brokers or in the markets, a sweeping order was issued forbid- ding the delivery of any more mail matter to them. This was the end, the climax, and the consequent ex- citement among the duped stock- holders as the news went through the country can better be imagined than described. To make the above details fitting and interesting it will be necessary to state that semewhere between ten and fitteen thousand dollars went eut ef Butler jnto the pockets of these swindlers, and it is doubtful if as much as one fourth is ever recover- ed. To add to the interesting fea- ture ot the case, we find among those in this city who were taken in, some of our leading business men, doc- iors, lawyers, mechanics, and some men who were so wild over the mat- ter, induced women and children to invest their savings in the bogus con- cerns. Property was mortgaged, collections were made a great dis- count, and in one er twe cases the hird earned pennies of the day la- borer— saved up for the improve- ment of the home or the purchase ot some of lites comforts—were taken from under the pillow and sent away to enrich these scuundrels. Circum- spect membets of the church, who would loth to lock upon the dance or the poker table, hesitated not in trying their hand at this game ef chance and gambling device. Men whose buisness experience and sa- gacity we might have thout was proof against such temptation, were roped in with the rest, and a | mon vortex swollows up the whole leaving a partial financial wreck and ruinin its wake. | | com- | Mr. J. F. Searight, Grand River. township, announces through the Tings this week as a candidate fo- ; County School Commissioner. Mr. Searight, has been 2 teacher in Bates county for twelve years, and is in other particulars an efficient | and well qualified gentleman for the | ; Place. He was a candidate before the Democratic convention four | vears ago for the position and re- | ceived a very flattering yote. in be- coming acandidate Mr. S. yields to the urgent requests of his many | friends in his section of the county. ee ; Cass county voted in favor of the i compromise propositien on her rail- i | Toad bonds hy a large majority. We i | Congratulate the peopie of our sister | county on their wisdom in briaging to a final settiement this most treub- lesome of all questions to them and greatly detrimental to their best in- | _ terests and prosperity. ! | | ed came from various sections of the | m | on the death of the late Senator Ben | most brilliant and conscientious states | men. The tollowing newspaper re- ed to-day as that of Mr. Ingalls, ot Kansas. He spoke ot the great abil- ities of the departed senator, calling him the Murat of senatorial debate. **Of all the dead whose obsequies we have paused to solemnize in this chamber,”’ he said, **I recall nu one whose untimely fate seems so lament- able, and yet so rich in promise, as that of Senator Hill. He had reach- ed the meridian of his years. He stood upon that high plateau of mid- dle age—ain that serene atmosphere where temptation no longer assails— where the clamorous passions no longer distract, and where the con-— ditions are most favorable to great and enduring achievements.’’ Mr. Vest closed an_ eloquent speech as follows: ‘*‘Ended are his contests, his triumphs and deteats. The strong aggressive intellect is at rest. The clarion voice, which could at will wield the best Democracy, 1s still forever. Out upon the shoreless ocean his bark has dritted; but it has not carried away with it all of the ,ite that isended. Never to mor- tal hands has been given a legacy more than has been committed to Georgia in the memory of his seryice, and hislast prayer te her welfare. Patriot, orator, sta.esman, tarewell! farewell! Let Georgia guard well thy grave, forin her soil rests the ashes of no one whose life has done more to illustrate her manhood— whose genius has given such glories to her name!’’ Marshall L. Wolfe ceunty road and bmdge commissioner, let the follewing contracts at public auction Monday: For widening the grade on the east side of the Miami bridge and west ot Butler, to D. Whitridge ati3cents per yard. The grade will be made a distance of 95 teet. Me also let at the same time and to the same party the grading and cut- ting down ofthe hill at the south approach at Grandriver bridge be- tween Dayton and Altona, at 30 cts per yard. The contractor is to also place a substantial rock wall three feet high on the sides next te the river bank. This grade will be 175 feet long and 16 feet wide, and will cost im the neighborhood ot three hundred dollars. The commuisssion- er stated tothe court that the work was taken very cheap and that the coatractér could not make much more than wages out of it. ET by Judge Waters frem Ft. Scott un- der the date of fan. 22nd, toa friend in Lexingtos Mo, which throws some light on our new rail- road enterprise: Just as soon as -the weather will permit I will be up there with our engineers to run the line from Lexington to Odessa. and also make some changes at various points along the line, so as to have everything in readiness tor active operation inthe spring. ‘he dread- ful cold weather has comewhat !n- tertered with our winter’s werk, but we think unless it continues too long we willbe able to get evervthng ready for spring. I have justreturn- e4 home having been east for a few days. The Oklahoma colonist have leit Arkansas city forthe promised land. Tie Government is aware of their movements and it is presumed sol- diers will be on their track soon to contest the right of occupatien. A number of papers in the State have getten the wrong date for the holding of the Missouri Press Asso- ciation at Carthage. The correct dates are the Sth and gth of May. Saeed The Times proposes the making up of a purse by the fraternity for the partial restoring of brother Aus- tins loss inthe Chicago game of chance. The Truzs, is indebted to Sena- tor Cockreil, Representative Moler and Official Reporter Vance, for nu- merous public documents of late. poe pany, located at Kansas City. closed on last Saturday. The tollowing letter was wrtten | j | i | NEIGHBORHOOD NOT Rich Hill Gazette: We received | information Saturday that a humar | skeleton had been found nailed up in « box in a vacant house about 3. wounded. The men_ escaped our of our latest information. Ciinton Democrat: A few weeks ago the Daily Rich Hill Gezette joundered in deep water, and the miles southwest of this citv. W have heard no particulars of the ‘ i case. The probability is that it is| liveliest, and most flourishing young outfit | Cities in the State, 1s without a daily Such is newspaper lite. city of black diamonds, one of the the relic of some physiciaus Sedalia Bazoo Jan. 30: A teman who came in from the south | paper. Last vear the flourishing town ne as ip A Bader had two corpses on its hands tis morning inforned a Bazoo re {| porter that the residence of Capt. jin one day—died ot starvation as Harry C. Moore, the merchant | the epitaph— both dailies. prince of Nevada, was entered by \ The Tipton Times thus relieves thieves between 12 and 1 o'clock | tts prophetic soul; **There will be Monday night. j about thirty-nine gubernatorial as- Osceola Sax: Ned Murrell has | Pirants to be chokea off by the next sold the Warsaw Enterprise to Bob Democratic Convention. Ex- Gov- Richardson. Ned got upa good | ¢rnor Phelps itis said, feels the spur paper, and Bob can do the same. | ot duty ‘agging’ him on to pick a But running a newspaper in War- flint and try it again, and we shouldn’t saw is about as hard work as climb-| wonder if the uld boss would make ing up a steeple feet toremost. it lively for the rest of the boys. gen- However we hope Mr. Richardson One thing is certain, Missour: great success in his new undertakings{ hasn’t had a better Governor for ‘ : , | twelve years.”’ Harrisonville Democrat: We : Odessa Herald: It’s coming: learn that on Monday last, abou . : noon, Joseph Bradish,a son of Mr. it’s coming; wait a little longer gen- Jas. Bradish, a bov about fifteen tlemen before you sneeze over the years ot age, committed suicide by snuff you take from croakers. Judge hanging himself with a halter in the | Waters, was in the city on Friday stable. This occurredon the tarm | last and told a citizen that he would of Mr. Jesse Ragan, about six be on with a full engineer force as miles northwest from this city. the weather would permit them to Adrian Advertiser: The drill- | WOTK: and as soon as the plow and ing on the Page farm 1s drawing to Ae can sean 0 mine ts a close, with what result only those | OVS 17 Making a road be es 5 interested know. Although we orks presen EABiCLY: throughs should be pleased to have it male WwGlb ES EAR den ae BE pukhe soon, it 1s but right that the | ™2Y be so, but what of it? it will not = oe REA : do Odessa any good. It may not parties, who have risked their money 2 athe in prospecting for coal, should be and then it may. The best ot Divines the first to profit by the knowledge anc Angels differ onimportant points of its actual extent and worth. Soe NeE: Adrian Advertiser: J. S. Me- Holden Enterprise: One of the Craw has taken out several bottles | ™°st remarkable things that ever was ef oil frem tne coal shaft on kis} beard of, occurred on the tarm of our place near Cresent Hill. ‘The wa- friend, G. J. Clary, who lives just ter runs into the mine and the oil | 4CfOSs the line in Cass county. Nov. was skimmed trom off the water. | !9th, he missed valuable sow, Mr. McCraw thinks it is coal oil | Which be could not find, after spend and says that it smells like it but | ™& Several days in search and inqui- that is probably a mistake as lubri-|'Y¥- The 19th of last month, or just . “ps ° ._ | sixty days from the time the sow was cating oil is the only hind found PY ccs ; . . missing, Mr Clarey,sson went to the this section. = Z straw stack to get some straw to use 4 Harrisonville Democrat: A sta lin beding stock, found the missing tion will soon be established on the hog. She was burried under some L. & S. R. K., six miles south from | straw which had slid on her in such a here on the tarm cfDr. Beattle. F. position that she could not even turn Me Holloway and H. M. Borroughs around. She was greatly emanci- wl erect a house at once i aah Ge pated by her sixty days incarceration. gage in the grocery business ae [his case beats Dr. ‘T'anner’s record also ship grain. A depot building twenty days. will probably ne erected by next summer. In the meantime a post- office will be located there with Mr. Holloway as postmaster. Everett Cor. Harrisonville Dem- ocrat: Our cattle feeders are feei- ing good over their success this win- ter. EF. M. George, Capt. Wm. Scarce and Jas Parish are in the lead. Mr. George shipped from Archie to-day (Tuesday) 96 head ot the finest and best fatted steers ever loaded at that station. They aver- aged 1,500 pounds. ‘They go to St. Louis where the owner will, no doubt, realize a handsome profit. Rich Hill Exterfrise: John Hood, the Pleasanton banker who died week before last, left a will in which he bequeathed $1,000 to the Masonic Lodge of his town, and also a legacy ot $1,000 tc each of the churches. His bank stock is to remain invested for a period of five Lamar Missourian: To a gentle- man just from: that place, the Mis- sourian is indebted forthe particulars ot a shooting scrape that occurred at Terrico, Thursday night. There was a dance at Rodger’s Hall, and among the large crowd present was a young man named Fred French, a former resident of Cedar county but lately returned from a temporary res- idence in Kansas. Atter the dance, French started home in company with some young men named Lovell whom he left a mile or so out from the town, and cutacross the timber to his parent’s house. He had gone but a short distance when he was fired upon by parties in ambush, receiving thirty-two turkey-shots in various parts ot hisbody. The Lovell boys hearing the firing, hastened to the scene, but were themselves fired up- i on and driven off. affair was | supposed to be the culmination of an years, so that ne derangement what- | old fued between French and some ever will be occasioned in the hus- | Parties in the vicinity of Jerico, and iness of the bank. Here isa sensi-| though French and the Lovell boys ble and liberal man. Let the news- iknow the names ot the Papers pass him around in double- } assassins, they have thus far refused editorial type. to disclose them. While French's : 2 Z wounds « 5 it is no! ies Lamar Missourian: On Friday | un <4 are serious it is not beheved | they will prove fatal. last, S. W. Keene sold to Curtis } Goss, vf North Missouri, four hun-} Rich Hill Gazette. Miss Dora Heath dred acres of land im Leroy town-| one ot Butler’s accomplished and ship for $6,000 cash. Mr. Goss | amiable young ladies, and who was will not remove to the county, hav-} bere assisting in the protracted meet- ing made the investment for specu- | ing lately held here by Kev. Brown lative purposes. Mr. Keeane | et Butler, left for her home last week. bought the land in June 1880, for! Miss Heath formed many acquaint- $2.400, having thus cleared a clean | ances and made many friends during $3,000 in less than two years. i her stay here, who will he glad to welcome her back in the future. Webb City Zimes: Thursday j : night two men went to the house of| Sedalia Democrat: Mz Hoover. ax nulex ‘trom Sar- | €d thatthe Chicago, Burlington & coxie, ostensibly to serve a writ, | Quincy railroad is about extending The would-be “Itis rumor- | but not showing up their authonty, | i toad southernly through Carroll | were fired upon by Hoover and his | county to Lexington, where it will The K : i Mill Com- | ery Se brother-in-law, who put them out o € ! connect with the Chicago & Alton’s the tease. Ia she ake Hoover | B¢® line to Holden. Rich Hl! and and his brother-in-law were fatally’ TeX@s-” | Walker Herald. M.V.B. Paz i i g| and hadnot been captured at the | a man well knewn in Vernon county | had the mistortune to loose his barn | by fire !ast Friday week. The build. ing was entirely destroyed, together { with lot of corn, wheat and oats and j a fine milch cow that was tied in the barn at the time. Mr. Page’s loss is at least $2,000. Rustic-Leader White the law-makers at Jefferson city are making a State puplic printer, why Lebanon not provide for the election of a coun ty printer in each county? There is a great need of an official of that son ineach ceunty in Missouri. Stockton Fourmal: An escaped trom the Vernon county jail last week The prisoner was carrying slop from his cell when he made a dash for liberty, inmate Stockton Fournal: R.A. Camp- bell, keeper of the Osage county p orhouse was murdered with an ax by an insane inmate named Houste recently. Windsor Review: The advance in the price of corn to thiry-five cents per bushel caused the farmers to bring in lots of that article to town, Chicage & Alten. Rich Hill Gazette. Judge Hey- lumn returned last week from hissur- veyfof the C.& A. He informs us that the contract for construc iig the bridges has been given to a St. Louis firm. The tie contract has also been let to another firm. Work will be commenced all aleng the line early in the spring. So we see that this great railroad boom is no blow out but a certszinty, Rich Hill will have her thira railroad, with the trains runningon the C. & A. 1m less than a year. Kansas City & Sonthern. Clinton Democrat. Wm. Baily, president, and F. M. Green, contractor on this road. were m Clinton Saturday. President Bailey revived the work thus far ac- complished, and complimented the gentleman in charge for the eudu- rance and pluck picking trozen ground. This mormng their switch will ac- comodate thirty cars. Five hundred tons of steel rail, with necessary tastenings, sufficient to build six to seven miles, are on the grounds. Two thousand ties haye been un- loaned, and eight thousand more or- dered to be delivered in February from points below Warsaw on the Osage and from Osage City. ta My New Quarters, Tam able toplease the public all the more with low prices and good goods, ALF. Wyard. to 4t Startling announce- ment. A.S. Martin will commence on Saturday, Feb. 10th and continue until March 15,to sell their stock of Dry-goods, Carpets, Notions & Millinery Goods at net cost for cash. It fis well known that we always perform iwhat we advertise. & ‘you will do wellto call ‘early: your friend.