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hon an o- rime Ta Pacific RB. R, <gtox & SourHERN Brancn, eeNcave Butler daily. as follows: "GOING NORTH. daily) --- vexas Express i Ly) i fin & mee Expr Local Freight ae GOING ess (daily fexas Express (dat'y ) foplia& K. C. Expr Local Freight ---- 4O A.M. +O:30 ALM. FE. K. CARNES, Agent. 2 cret Societies. BIASONIL. Butler Lodge, No. saturday in each month. Miami Chapter Royal Arch M No. 76, mects second Thursday in ’ he ccualey Commandery Knights Templar weets the first Tuesday in each month. 1.0, 0. FELLOWS. Bates Lodge No. 180 meets every Mon- night. s Enéampment N ynd and ath Wednesdays it 6 meets the each month V. BROWN, Notary Public D. ler Mo. Will draw and acknowledge deeds, contracts, leases and all papers re quiring the acknowledgment or yurat of an officer- T. W. Stive Nota Pp. H. Ho-come. ubl OLCOMB & SILVERS :—Attorneys at Law, Butler, Mo, Office over Bates County National Bank. 5 $. B, LASHBROOK. ae ate & SMITH, Attorneys at Law utler, Mo. Wil practice in the courts of Bates and adjuining coun- ties, Collections promptly attended to and Taxes Paid tor Non-residents. Office, front room over Bates county Na- tional Bank. n2 tf. THOS. J. SMITH. 1. S. Francisco. S. P. Fraycisco. IRANCISCO BROS. Attorneys at Law, Butler, Mo., will practice in the courts of Bates and adjoining counties. Prompt attention given to col- lections. Office over Hahn & Co.’s hard- ware store. 79 ARKINSON & AERNATHY, Attor- neys at Law, Butler, Mo. Office wes side of the square 22 HENRY, Atterney at Law, Butler, e Mo. Will attend to cases in any eourt of record in Missouri, and do gencr- al collecting busines: W O. JACKSON, atterney at haw, «Butler, Mo., office over F, M. Crumly’s, Drug house on West side 261-17-1f Physicians. M. CHRISTY, M. D., Homeepathia ePhysician and surgeon, Special at- tention given to female diseases, Butle: Mo. Office, North side square front room overBernhardt’s Jeweiry stere ag-t T C. BOULWARE, Physician and « Surgeon. Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseases of women and chil- ren a specialty. . J, Everingham, M.D E, L, Rice M. D, Residence west side Residence east o! North Main atreet eqr, with J, C, lark, EVERINGHAM & RICE. PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS, Having forined a copartnership tor the practice of medicine and surgery, tender their services to the citizens of Butler and surrounding ceuntry, OFFICE in Everingham’s new bric west side square. Calls attended to atall hours, day or night, beth in the city and country. 24t14 A Card. Having taken out city and ceunty ticense as an auctioneer; I hereby offer my services to the public on reasonable terms. Have had seven years experience and will guarantee satisfaction. Orders lett with M. A. Maynard at Post-office, will be promptly responded to. 1 has jJ- M- Cassrry. io tes aE Ee A STB a Week. $12 a day athom easily made. Costly outfit tree. A ddre True#Co., Augusta, Maine. 16 or Russian Flex Seedte Loar. Te the tarmers et Bates county; Uhave secured a limited amount of ‘mperted Rusian Flax seed. which I am autherized to loan en fair and living terms. This seed 1s clean and, of a very superior quality, hav ing many advantages over the com- Mon s i a in s ie : H ined ef bloodshed hetore morn- | 7 eee being dereet tm, Sze _and prisoners. A party left this morning ! cmcrtam . Plumper in torm, it not enly yields } = é A} b © | ing. ™ore per acre, but threshing ma-, ae Sate Cay i : —-— : shines can save it better than the now equipping Five murderers were hung io commen seed. Parties desiring some of this seed should apply early. Toun A. LEFKER. 12-1m. Empire Mills. For Sale 17 =t* g:10-PM But- | SHOT BY AGES. | the last four day ————— are tothe effect that Indians The Reported Murder of Jadge *sic- | threaten to annihilate all the whites Comas cf Fort Scott and the oG ‘ounty. Capture of his Family THEIR FATE. by Indians. San Francisco, March 29—A peas Lordsburg dispatch says; party The Indian Outbreak Along the Fron- tier of New Mexieo and drizona Assuming Dangerous and Alarming Proporiions. just returned from the scene ot the | massacre in Thompson’s found Mrs. McC the head. and ly canyon shot t as. gh beside the buck i : | hoard, and stripped naked. McCornas, was » Kan.. March patches received here to-day |E. F. Ware, from Silv fc | M.. announces the murder of | H. C. McComas and the cx of | Mrs. McComas and their r-old son, Charlie K., by the Apache In-} |dians. The is | meagre, but it is supposed thatthey | were attacked by the Indians Judge Fert Sco found about 200 is south of his v diffe naked. Senator | - Shot in four t places, a sed MOVEMENT OF Col: Tribune's Santa Fe TROOPS. Denver, March special says: | Six companies of the Fourth cavalry | are out scouting after hostiles. Col- onel Forsyth and Major Noyes have | each two companies on Stein’s range | information very while {on a pleasant drive around the coun- | try in the vicinity of Silver City. } Judge McComas is a former resident j of Fert Scott, and a brother ef ex- Captain Thompson has two compa- | nies on the Gila river. Captain | Governor McCoun He is well] volunteers are on the line ot railroad | known throughout Kansas and Mis-| near Gila. | souli as 2 prominent lawyer. Mrs. Deathiefan i Gouden | McComas is a sister of Senator rae ME Tere Two other children are sate Silver City. Senator Ware leaves inthe morning for New Mexico to take steps to res- cue his sister. | Ware. Seer : : ne Norfolk, March 28-Colonel James in the care of friends at : : L. Corley, agent for some insurance companies, cut Ins throat at the hotel in Hampton this afternoon- a graduate ot West commission in the army before Judge McCemas was held a the war, and was General Lee’s quarter- S es oem . Point, bern im West Virginia in 1831, was : William McComas, for several years United States sena- jason of Hon. ‘ = ei master-general in the army of north- ror from West Virginia. He wasas- ae a P F . ern Virginia. He was a prominent sociated in the practice of law here}... € Norfolk i en ae : citizen of Norfolk, and president oi and in St. Leuis with JF. D. Mc- : ! the Local Civil Service Reform asso- Keighan. For a year or se past he} . s as & ciation. The intelligence greatly has been interested in mining matters = ts : shocked the community. Colonel in New Mexico, and has been man-|]_, - : & aa é :, | Corley died this afternoon. He left aging the mining affairs of a St. : E z x the city this morning in his usual Leuis syndicate in which Gratz Brown and other prominent capital- ists are interested. Fort Scott, March 29.—Yesterday spints for Hampton on business. He had suffered with insomania for some weeks. He was a member of é | the city council. He leaves a wife afternoon the news wasreceived here | Withree child of a terrible outrage near Silver City | “"° S7°° me on ss ne a en os = — KEilied by Lightning. On Re nei h eer seal esiwie:-an We learn from Arch. Bushnel youngest child captured by Apache Indians. The infermation received is very meagre and is all embodied in three dispatches received by Hon. that Henry, a son ot George Spring, living 3 mires west of Calhoun, a young man nearly growa, was killedby lightning en Tuesday ot this week. He E.F. W are abeut os aby yester” | was ating to cover a corn crib, day. They are as follows: and was on top of the crib when the Silver @aty, NM) Matchiezy = sterm came u rea or 5 o'clock Hon. E. F. Ware: H.C. MeCo- Be ee: 3 i ft : h struck mas and wife and Charhe were kill-| 1" the etter poets winen men aste uC by lightning and instantly killed. ed by Apaches yesterday. A party y hencune i : % i His clethes were entirely torn off gone for the bodies, Have tele-|,. a ii = i = him, and his beots split open, but graphed R, F. McComas. You : strange so say, the skin was net bro- telegraph other relatives. Ada and ieee : : ken ow him, except on ene wrist. May are in charge ef Mr. Lucas. a : 2 a His tarther was on the ground at Come at ence. Willadvise you fur- 2 the side of the crib and was knocked ‘her as news comes in. Answer. senseless fer a shert time, and when he came to himaelf was deat for sey- eral hours. A The untortunate young man sus- tained a splendid character among (Signed. ) Joun M. Wricut. Silver City, N. M., March 29-— Hon. E. F. Ware—dater; Mrs. } McComas and Charlie taken prisen- He (SED ses Eee al! who knew him, and his parents Another account says as follows; meer ast ae ‘es are deeply sympathized with in their Tuscon, A. T., March 29—Euv- | aq bereavement. gene Ware’s messenger arrived at Lerdsburg, stating that judge Mc- Comas has been killed by Apaches ind his wife and child captured by S. A. MANLove. dispatch south- The storm came trom the west.—Clinton Democrat. Riotous Miners. Denver. Uol.. March 25 cently the directors of the Mining cempany of New York receiv- eda threatening letter that a Indians. Later—A reeeived by | Governor McCemas at 10 0’clock to-night, indicates that Mrs. McCe- mas was also killed and fel- lows: To E. W. McComas, Fort Sceit: Lordsburg, N. M., March 29— ; Your brother, H. C. McComas and wite were killed by Indians twenty- five miles nerth frem here yesterday j afternoon, The bodies have been sent te Silver City. Daye goes over | there to-day to take charge of the re- Cassick large is as the mine is located, were demand- ing the dismissal ot Superintenent Perkins and Fereman §cGreger, charging them with unsufferable tyranny, and that they intertere in numberiess ways with the rights of the men, etcr Itie reliably stated that the true solution ef the truable is that Perkins discovered am organized {mains Our nephew Charlie 18] baad bad been loag stealing ore frem taken: captive. { the cempany, and was instrumetal in [Signed j W J Crospy. sending several to the penitentiary. ! STILL ANOTHER ACCOUNT. | Denver. March 2g—The Repud- Jican’s Silver City, NM, speciar says; Judge McComas of this city, formerly ot Illineis, en route te Pyr- amid City with his wife amd child, | was killed by Apaches at Thomson | cannon, twenty-five miles northeast et here, and his wife ané child are when the malcontents served notices on fifty persons to leave town torth- j with threatening violence. Querida and the surreunding country 1s terri- bly excited. Armed miners are pa- rading the streets and law is defied. Gevesor Grant has been called upon to proclaim martiallaw. Fears are to follow the tr: do rescue the/ ferent parts ef the ceuntry last Fr captives. “The so ened at} day, as tollows: A man named are all in field. | Walker. at Little Rock. Fred E. y west is report full of | Waite, at Frant. the; Probably | murdered in! -Arizona reports Black and company of New Mexico} ys fourth queen. He was | mumber of miners of Querida, where | Big Poker. Philade!pin + March -A big game « a ns ts 4 Af a with scarcely in fortune to \ the players, a jack-pot was made. which was not hroken until f five deals had swelled it Ieome proport | Young T las A. tt, finding three queens, threw a $20 gold | piece with dence. John Tucker found a pair of + hine and of i seven diam jacks ve ef drawing to Mr l cost $so0 to his four flu hat it weu ucker remarked play, and rposted the cash. Allthe plavers threw up their | hands exceptime Mr. Scott, who merely saw the raise. Mr. Scett drew one card, amd get Mr. Tucker split drawing to his feur-flush | hus jacks, ar took in the eat of diamonds. making his hand | a straight-flush. Mr. Scott bet $1,000, and put pibat umount in the pot. } ‘*My hand is worth $5,000,’" said Mr. Tucker in a tone indicating , Much neirveusness. “Five thousand = more!’?) Mr. | Scott sai it theusand imore!’? Mr. } Tucker retorted. Mr. Scott’s contiaence in his queens was u ninished. There might be some doubt about Mr. Pucker’s ability to pay if he lost, but it was worth the msk. ‘Thirty thousand more, said. Mr. Tucker paused, ran his eyes over his hand to see whether it was all right, and apparently went into a mental computation of his bank ac- count. “I call,’’ he said, throwing up an 1 O U to balance the pot. **Four qucens,’’ said Mr. Scett, spreading out his hand on the table and making a move as it to draw the stakes. “A straight flush,’’ Mr. Pucker, who pecketed, as his win- nings, something over $43,000. The Sydney Morning Herald tells cf a new and alarming disease in parts et Austria. The symptoms are twichings of nerves, semewhat similar to those produced by strych- nine, and some day aftersudden pain and mania sieze the patieuts, whe, if not fercibly restrained, would dash their brains out against the wall, and during the paroxysm do all in their power to bite these helping them. In one of the last cases, where two were | attacted at the men were required for teur anda half houts to hold them on the bed, and atter the violence ot the attact had passed that one remained for ever twenty-iour sensibility. ' | in said same moment. feur hours in a state of in- His Last Take. St Joe, Mo. March 28. Milton | Margrave. a typo at the Steam Print jed printizg office. died this after- noon at 6 e’clock. Mr Margrave, {has been employed in nearly every daily printing office in Misseuri, hay- ing been foreman of the Kansas City Fournal, the St. Joe Herald, the i Omaha Herald, aadthe Topeka Commonzvevith. He left two child- en Aes H A Grapeshet in a Tree. | From the Nashville World. One day last week, while the saw- mili of James McEwen was sawing | a log trom tise farm of Col. Joha Mc- | Gaveck near Franklin, the saw struck ja grapeshot, planted there on that The climax was reached to-day, SScoie night of the 30th ef Nev. HEREFORD CATTLE | °64. in one et the hottest comests be- tween Federals and Cenfederates in | the late civil war. In the heart of } jan oak upon this farm will be fonnd ; Many sad reminiscenses ot this nature and could they but speak weuld voice | | fortn volumes of interesting data ef | the te.rible scenes of that night. Buckien’s Arnica Salve. medical wonder ot the ed to speedily cure Burns R i Sores, Cancer-, Teter, Chapped H | tions, guaranteed Gt Phe new store Kiads of grass seed 2 stock. Wright & Glerius. just received all | BATES COUNTY National Bank. BUTLER. MO- THE NONPAREIL SALOON, J.48. HOUGH, Prop r. OPPOISTE OPE 0os. ORGANIZED UN IsS71, —— jaime = - The and furniture ; i : : i he nest liquors and Capital vz oe ‘ n the market. } t ul p ud In, > 7 5-000. Pree Lunch Brery : Night Surplus - - + - Large Vault, B urglar-Proof Safe with Time Lock. $ 20.000 | pared to do We - ing | DIRECTORS. | | DEALER IN Lewis Cheney, J.C. Clark,§ FURNITYU Dr. Elliot Pyle ion. J B. Newberry | ppg Bey IN TrUR . E. P. Henry FN. : 2 CARRIAGE Dr. J. Everingham, { arnt atyiessia prices Dr.D-D. Wood, | Good Hs arse Always on Rainy Geo. W. Miers | COPFING F. | Made and turnished on short notiee ies Orders may be lett at F. Evans? stable OFFIC alter night oron Sunduy, Butler, Mo va LEWIS CHENEY fC (CLARK c= = Vice YG z - - 2 J oS CARD BRIDGEFORD & HUPP. | Ornamental ‘House | pA De Sign Painters Graining, Paper-Hanging, Decora ting, Sign and Buggy Work 3 JOHN DUFF: PRACILICAL Wacthmaker & Engraver, MISSOURI. SUTLER NATIONAL BANK. (—_IN— Opera House Block, BUTLER, MO. thorized Capital.|j $200.000 Authorized Cap ti BUTLER, - 50.000 1,000 Cash{ Capital Surplus Fund t-——_ BOOKER POWELL, SETH THOMAS’ CLOCKS +++ President e President. --Cashier. As*’t Cashier Dr. T. C. Boulware, R, D. Williams. Judge J. H. Sullens, A. L, McBride, C, H, Dutche. Frank Vouis, Booker Powell, Green W. 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