The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 25, 1883, Page 4

BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES SS thas. T. McFarland, ito AND PROPRIETOR, ‘TERMS OF SUFSCRIPTION: WrELY Times, published every will be sent to any idaress age paid, tor $1 i aS BUTLER MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1333. The English beat the Amerieans at the recent internotional rifle match | at Wimbledon. ——_— The reunion of ex-soldiers of both armies at Lamar was a grand The attendance was very SUCCESS. large. Canada has quarantined against coming ranean. Cholera is still spreading in Egypt and it is expected to break out in Europe at any time —————————— Dennis Kearney had a row with the editor ot the Chinese American in New York. It Dennis came out of the contest without any additional glory. vessels seems Bell has beaten Edison in a recent -cision ot the patent office. The contest was concerning of discovery. a great adopter of other people’s ideas. The editor ot the Jefferson City Tribune announces that he will not stop the publication and issue of his paper on Sunday and promises to} make it lively tor the officer who disturbs him for so doing. When Gov. Foster and party ar- rived at St. Louis, they found an agent of Rich Hill awaiting their ival, who informed them that they were being swindled. That httle yarn didn’t work worth a cent. — The enlisted men of the regular army are circulating a petition to congress for a law retiring enlisted atter a reasonable length of service the same asofficers. There is should men no reason why the request not be granted The committee which investigated the charges of Gov. Butler against the Tewksbury alms house, report- ed against Butler and handles him without gloves. A muiority takes a different view of the case and rather sides with the governor. The national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic open- ed at Denver on yesterday. The at- tendance is large. Low rates induce many ex-soldiers to visit the moun- tains who otherwise remain at home. Coal Oil Johny, who made and squandered a fortune in oil regions would of Pennsylvania, recently tound a rack in ahotel which contained x draft for $25,000, that had entirely forgotten by him. He cash- ed it and sent the been proceeds to his fami All the telegraph operators who belong to the Brotherhood, tor higher wages last Thuesda Friday and quit work. struck and It occasions great inconvenience im the citres but has not stopped The places of the strikers business by any means. have been supplied with operators who do not belong to the hood. There is no telling what will be the result. —_—_ Hon. Thos. M. Nichol arrived this city Mond: Mr. Nichol formed us that everything is being put in shape as rapidly as posssible to commence work along the line. The party of capitalists, who lately visited this county, were astonished Brother- in a in- ratified with the spirit of enterprise manifested by the people. They consider it one of the grandest fields for investing money that can found anywhere in the United States. The growth of Walnut was especially surpnsing to them. Mr. Scullen is expected to-morrow. Mr Nichol says he found it a serious drawback that he has been compelled to be ab- sent # part of the time. He had just returned from Denver where he has large business interests. from the Mediter- | the priority | Edison 1s said to be | report | its resources, and were more than | THE OLD TICKET. There 1s no longer a doubt that an effort will be made to renomuinate Tilden and Hendricks next vear. It is admitted that Tilden has mollified John Kelly and the Kelley’s organ, expresses ness .o support him in cas be nominated tor the presidency, 4 the extract we publish to-day plainly expresses. Th only another linkin the evidence. Mr. Tilden is laying the wires. Kelly is willing, willing- shall Ene Mumford, of the Kansas City 7imes, | says he has much more admiration for Tilden than he had_ three ago and so one point after is brought to light which can not be n. The etfoit to re-nomi- nate the old ticket may years another prove cesstul. If so, asthe S¢ar says, will be beyond the power ot any loyal Democrat to withold his ap- action.”” proval of tha surmises are correct, look for lively work in Ohio between now and election day. Mr. Tilden will keep close watch of the campaign, and, knowing its important bearing we may | on the presidential contest, no effort | will be spared to secure Judge | Hoadly’s triumph. S. J. is the | shrewdest political manager in the | | campaign of $4 is taking shape. Republican opposition io the old ticket is a hopeful indication. ‘They have a wholesome dread of its effect and their desperate efforts to have Tilden die, Hendricks refuse or something else happen to render its renomination impossible, shows that they both believe such an event prob- abie and have the liveliest apprehen- sions of meeting another defeat at the polls in November, ’84. Wheth- er he will again be kept out of office now by force and fraud, none can sion no sur- made. It presented predict, but it need o prise should the effort be the same candidates are as in 1876, it is bound important bearing on theresult. The Republicans have virtually acknowl - edged the fraud and many ofthe stal- wart openly denounced Hayes as occupying an office to to have an journals which he was not elected. Tilden and Hendricks may not desire a re— | nomination but it looks very much | as it they will be the ticket. WHOLESALING. We have heard it hinted that goods | could be wholesaled in Butler after the railroads under proces shall have been completed. There will sjof construction be abundance of railroad competition and it 1s thought by some that whoie- sale establishments could do consider- able business. Springfield expects to do so in the near future to quite an extent and we see no reason why ' Butler can not get rates sufficiently low to enable merchants to sell many articles here as cheap as in Kan City. We do not. offer these views as understanding anything about the bus- iness but merely as suggestions trom others. done in way o Something has already been wholesaling hquors }and the experiment has Other lines proved a success. ot goods, it may be, can likewise be soid low } enough to draw a part of the trade | ie start is made, the business will grow. trom smaller towns around Sedalia would now be a prosperous wholesale market if Gould had not purchased both her railroads and thus destroyed all competition. GEN. MARMADUKE. Gen. Tohn S. Marmaduke stopped off the north bound train on Friday night and remained until the next morning. He had been attending the reunion at Lamar and wason his way hom His visit was a quiet one and not intended to be public. N | The Gen. has a number of old-time | | frends in this city by whom he was | warmly welcomed well as by |many others. No address was de- | livered but he entertained his numer- | ous callers at the Palace hotel. Gen. | Marmaduke is an excellent conver- \ sationalist and the impression made } by him has not in the ieast injured ‘his prospects in the gubernatorial as New York Star, , If the above } country and it now looks as if the | CONTROL OF RAILROADS. One argument used in tavor of building different lines of railroad | was that they would compete with | each other and the treight problem would thus solve itself. Indeed it was once contended that states should t interfere by establishing rates for | no ; | rail roads but leave that to competi- | tion between rival lines. It was | fondly imagined freight charges | would come down as the number of jroads increases. Sedaha strained every nerve to secure the building ot the M., K. & T., expecting endless | competition between it and the Mis- The expectation was | sour: Pacific. | obtained con- olesale houses | realized until Gould | trol of both roads. W had been enabied to do a tair business which was practically ruined by the consolidation and the city was little better off than with only one road. Kansas City put torth her best ef- forts to get the North Missouri trom competing H consolidated | with the Pacific and but for the building of the C. & A. there would be no competition between the two All this, however was done law for- St. Louis so as to have lines but that too was | cities. ! in direct violation of a state | bidding paralle! or competing lines 'to consolidate. Railroad mag- | nates have set themselves up as above {all law and heensed to do as_ they please regardless of legal restraints. No effort has been made to enforce i the law nor to bring violators of it to justice. The Kansas City 7zmes has lately been agitating this question and de- s shall be enforced manding that law against corporations as wellas against | individuals. It is a reasonable and just demand and ought to receive from those to areful consideration confided — the There whom the public has guardianship of its welfare. is no telling to what extent consoli- dation and purchase may be carried. It may possibly end by all railroads in Missouri being brought under one management, and, if immunity for violation of law is continued, our great state would be practically con- trolled by one man. No individual 1s strong enough to cope witha pow- er like this. ‘he of state authority should be brought to bear against such usurpation and no quarter given as long as similar out- It should whole force rages are attempted. be made a part of state. politics during the next campaign and so embodied platforms that xcuse in state and county there will no longer be any for continued negligence. It insult to the dignity of Missouri that her laws have been, and still, habitually set at naught by corpora without e is an are tions and their agents, ex- a pretext except to act differently | cuse and without that they choose from what the statutes say they shall. Other violators of law are brought to j justice and why not these? It a] | common citizen goes contrary to le | eal mandate, he is forthwith punish- ed, but Jay Gould can ride rough- shod over Missouri’s laws and not a 4 word do we hear in protest from those high in authority. TI law } could be entorced just as easily as the one regulating passenger fare ita taken. Gould anybody else will obey the laws if he | that punishment will firm stand were or once knows surely tollow each infraction The law forbidding discrimination ; and rebates in carrving freight is wholesome restraint. Tl er, can be taken into the | aggrieved parties. The remedy | within reach of anyone able to tee lan attorney. But it habitually | disregarded and its enforcement ap- | pears rather distant. If road chooses to carry freight, it does so: » howev- | courts by | | { is | Is | a but, it its convenicnce is better suit- ed by refusing, it retuses and gener- | ally that is the end of it. Suit has been commenced against the Pacific | and we hope to see it vigorously prosecuted until freight 1s taken on | | the same terms for all parties. | { stream and the liquid would run_to- e' positiv tain laws relating to rations. They have enjoyed immuni- ; d tv long enoug mand from them lega ] ance with all as from the most humble citizen of the | state. { ABUUT OIL. The recent discovery Rich Hill bas brought experts from Pennsyl of oil at nber of leased are far from bei the outlook. Surtace indicati | as to the character of rock, can not | be excelled. When one of them | was asked concern value of oil coming to the surface as an evi- dence of greater supply below, he said thata spring or well, which } furmishes a steady stream of water. | . i must be taken as conclusive proot } exists) some- at be sunk that a fountain head A well mig near where. a spring and miss the vein of water. to So a well near where oil comes the surface may miss it entirely. They ail agree that oil onthe surface de- 1s indubitable evidence that rich posits exist somewhere in the neigh- | berhood. This looks reasonable from the stand-point of those inex- perienced in oil prospecting. | i The theory of experts, as we un- | and it, is that oil may be forced The first theory ders up by two means. is that, in some past age, the oil rock the surtace and the rocks above cracked so that oil oozes to the surfa Take Mor- mon Fork as aline of fracture. The rocks on that line were raised along mm each A small part of the oil would come up through has been lifted toward ec it and thus be left slanting direction from the stream. the openings made but the greater south at part would settle away to the and of that might be miles betore a north stream and reservoir ot it would be reached and that too where there is nothing on the sur- face to show that itis anywhere in the country. A well sunk on the ridge ot the oil-bearing rock would amount to nothing. In this case, the oil found on Mormon would not be proof of deposits existing in the immediate neighborhood but a great- south, and er or less distance north and owing to a slant ot the oil-rock to it consequent settling of the Iquid the lowest points. In that case may be several miles trom the stream mentioned before oil 1s tound. The other theory of experts is that instead of an elevation along the line of surtace indications, there has been a settling down so as to torm kind of hollow trough. Instead sloping away trom Mormon, the oil- toward that or ot rock would then slope ward it and collect along it in reser- amount. Sufficient te | voirs of untold | would finally accumulate small quantitiesup to the surtace. | A well sunk along the creek would ! penetrate the basins below. When | that is the case, the proper place to | urface oil is found. force | prospect is wher When the former ld Id 1 | condition exists, | prospecting shon he done at some } distance on either side of the line of | surface indications. i decide | The | only certainty we have is that oil de- | Itis no matter to where work should commence. easy | posits exist somewhere in the north- | | West part of the county. There is no more doubt of it than that a| spring has a fountain head. Both j must have a soure the problem to be solved isto find it. Oil may | be found on the Marshall farm and at other places where small quntities come to the It be surface. may found several miles on either side of Mormon and not exist in’ paying quantities at all near the stream. There is no longer doubt that oil exists in vast quantities | in this county. It will be found ana j the finder will make millions out of it. The eagerness, with which ex- perts have rushed hither since the i reasonable | a It is time for the people to know | whether the state controls the rail- | roads or the rauroads control the | |Tace, in this county. His fences are | State Gov. Crittenden is mak-! all right in Bates, from present in- | ing considerable stir about et- | | dications, but we would not be sur- i foreing the high license law That | prised if he were looking around to is all right. But how does it come | make things doubly sure. As things i that he loses sight of others equaily now stand, this county is tor him with ex-Gov. Phelps second. important? ist. ‘actory to the discovery. shows that they under- | stand its value. They would not! come hundreds of miles on account | of a mere rumor if success did not | mean a vast fortune. The a grand one and competition fo perfectly honorable. Money been made very rapidly prize this coun cality. } would unegrth a fearful | inside. | dishonesty and squarely denied ever | about the | any officer for neglect of duty. can just about as zs another for oug we can see. After considerable prospecting has been done, some idea may be férm- lo- ed as to p ble success in any AMt present, however, it is all luck and prospecters must. take | { their chance. SHOW UP OR SHUT UP. Lhe Repudlican started several >with the statement that it | months as amount of corruption in county affairs. With | it was a vreat flourish of trumpets going to open the doors ot the peai- tentiary and put the recreant officials In the last issue but it| took back all one openly charges ot having insinuated that there was ev- | j er any crookedness charged. But to | show exactly the language quoted | we herewith again give the exact language used in answering the Adn- an Advertiser: Why does the Advertiser persist in saying that we have charged the county officials with fraud and thiev- ery when such an assertion is con- tray to tacts? Again it says: “The Adrian Advertiser seems determined to make us say that. the county officials have been stealing county funds, but we have never made such an assertion, and regard the Advertiser’s insinuations to that effect very discourteous toour court house friends.”’ In the last issue our neighbor takes a still stronger position in direct op- position to what he has been main taining for months: *They have repesented that we have charged the county officials with fraud and thhevery, in order to draw us into personal antagonisms, when there 1s not the slighest foun- dation on which to base such an as- sertion in reference to our posi- tion.”’ But still determined his own previous statements, he again to disprove asserts: ‘““We have stated distinctly sever- al times that we neither afhrm nor deny that there has been fraud, be- cause we don’t Know, and cannot find out. ‘Lhe ring hold the county records, and itis not our province to search them for evidence of fraud but it rematns for them to prove that they have managea the finances honestly and economically.”’ Atter spent in charges it 1s scarcely possible to im- selt-stultifi- months making agine a more complete cation than is presented in the above ex He acknowledges over accusations that he regards the county officers as upright Next week they may again be There 1s no telling to what extremes ot con- and over again that his are without foundation and men. charged with terrible things. tradiction his vagaries may lead him. The county records and the books of every office in the court house are open forthe inspection ot anyone and the assertion that the Aepudlz- | can is deimed access to them is sim- ply a mistake. In the Iast issue, threats e of putting officials in the aE ha ugain n penitentiary. whom he just ex-} onerate res £ edness. € oon ot that day, at the east front doo! | the court house, in the city of But It is a good deal like the of the vicious horse. His owner} was very complacently watching him | kickmg and snorting around the | barn-yard, after a vain attempt to} harness him up. A neighbor com-} ing up inquired what he was doimg. trying to} kick ing at the snertsor snorting at the! kicks. The Repudlican is kicking and snorting at a terible and | interest the public | know wheth- | 5 kick- He-answered that he was decide whether the horse was rate only feels in the matter isto at the kicks er itis snorting or ing at the snorts. We wish it distinctly that we are not engaged in defending | The | been. understood | Republican has frequently challenged to bring torward specific instead of that, all | In tact it has charges, but, charges are retracted. make or no charges | would be produced with avidity. It 1s true that the contingert fund was overdrawn t mistake but the i n nearly replaced st a cent nts have he > | resented, | minious ; Should either show up or shut u bearing date June gth, 1351, ard duly corded in the Recorder's office ot Ba county, Missouri, onthe said ath dav } June, 1881, in book No at page #4 con ed to the unders ed trustee ¢ following described real estate in t& j past due and unpaid, j and by virtue of th y ed by the terms in said deed of trust ® by Repudlican is allbosh. It there was an offense of such magnitude th th aS rep. € county court would be But the absence of all bad intentions and the fact that no effort: was arrested m twenty-tour hours. made at concealing it, leaves no room for Je gal prosecution. “his matter ha been thoroughly canvassed py par- ues who would be more than Pleas. ed to see the officers indicted and punished There is nothing in and no one knows it better than oy AIL this noise an tke pohtical capital but it has ended in’ igno. lure and public confession on the part of the Repudlican. neighbor. : tempt to n ot nothing Is out Trustee's Whereas Altred Sale, Henderson and A. Henderson, his wite, by their deed et | trust, bearing date, Mav 3ist, 1882. duly recorded in the Recorder's office Bates county, Missourt, on the said day of May, 1882, in book No. 23 at page 50g, conveyed to the undersigned trustee in trust to secure the payment of a cer tain promissory note in said deed ot trust fully described, the tollowing describe real estate situated in the county ot Bates and State ot Missouri, to-wit; ~ The south-west quarter of the south } west quarter of section twenty-seven, : and ten acres ott ot the east side of | the southeast quarter of the southeast quar | ter of section twenty-eight, 25, all in tewnship forty 40, of range twenty-nine | 2g and whereas, said note and interest icf past due and unpaid, now therefore at) the request of the legal holder ot said! note, and by virtue of the autnority in vested, by the terms in said deed of t tully set forth, I will, on Thursday, August 16th, 1883, between the hours of g o,clock in torenoon and 5 o’clock in the afternoos ot that day expose to sale at public oup cry to the highest bidder tor cash in hand all the real estate in said deed of truy described or so much thereot as may be) neccessary to pay said debt, interest and costs, ©. C. Duke, ‘Trustee. ist ust Trustee’s Sale. Whereas, F. Y. Orear and I. Orear, hii wite, by their deed of trust, bearing da March 27th, 1883, and duly recorded the Recorder’s office of Bates county Missouri, in book No, 29, page 603, con veyed to the undersigned trustee, in trus to secure the payment of the promis note insaid deed of trust fully deseri the tollowing described real estate situa: ed inthe county of Bates and state Missouri, to-wit: Lot No. 1, in blod No. 15, in the west side addition to th city of Butler, and whereas, default made in the payment ot monthly instal ments on said note and the abandoned by the said F. Y. wite, now therefore at the request the legal holder of said note, and by tue of the authority in me vested by ¢ terms of said deed of trust fully set for therein, I will, on Thursday, August 16th, 1553, between the hours of nine o clock in forenoon and five o'clock in the aft noon of that day, at the east front ot the court house in the city of county of Bates, atoresaid, sell hivhest bidder for cash in hand the estate in said deed of trusta d thism described or so much thereof as may necessary to pay the debt, interest AC, Clark, ‘Trustee costs. Trustee’s Sale Whereas, Walter S. Bowden and Bowden, his wite, by their deed of t to secure the payment of a certain pro issory note iu said deed of trust fully scribed, to-wit: Fitty teet off of ! west end of block fitt town of Butler, courty of ot Missourt, and whereas, said note now, therefore | holder of said 24 authority in me ve the request of the le t torth, I will August 16th, 138% ot nine o'clock in in the »renoon and f o’clock county of Bates, atore at public outcry for ca the real estate in said scribed or so much thereof necessary to pav said debt, interest # - Fr. M. Allen, ‘Troster Trustee’s Sale. of as deed mat Whereas, Reuben Ubi and Bare Uhl, his wite, by their-deed of trust, ing date March 16th, 1852, and duly corded in the Recorder's office ot Fi county, Missouri, on the said 16th ¢ay March, 1882, in book No. 23 at page conveyed to the undersigned trustee trust, tosecure the payment ofa cen promissory note in said deed of trust iv described, the following descr estate situate in the county of Bates State ot Missouri to-wit: The west quarter of the nortleast quart section twenty-three, 23, township 40, of range twenty-nine, 29, andw said note is past due and unpaid, therefore, at the request of the legal der of said note and by virtue of the thority in me vested by the terms i# deed ot trust fully set forth, 1 will, oF Thursday, August 16th, 158% between the hours ot nine o'clock i# forenoon and five o'clock in the noon of that day, at the east front the court house in the city of county of Bates, atoresaid, expo, sale at public outcry, to the highest dez tor cash in hand all the real said deed of trust described, or thereot as may be necessary to 937 debt, interest and costs. F. M. Allee Trask