The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 29, 1883, Page 8

LOCAL ITEMS. All obstructions on the sidewalks nyust go. Again we say you W 1 make mon ey by seeing Lefker & Childs before you sell your grain. 37tf- The St Clair, Bates and Hen- ry fair will open at Appleton City Sept. 12th and continue to the 15th. The third year of Mrs. Burklew’s select school, bigins Sept. 3d. The gas works at Clinton have been completed, and the town 1s ablaze with fire. 2 great or small has her Every tov tramps, cranks, croakes and grow- lers, Rich Hill has one and Butler the-other. They are never pleased and nothing goes to suit them. A large" stock of farm machine- ry for-sale at cost. agtt. Wright & G lorious. Letker & Childs have thus far paid more:for independent flax seed than 37tf. any one-in the market. S.°M. Stark, of near Maysburg gave the'booming Times a_ substan- eall:‘the other day. He ‘fit’? mid . Shelby during the late unpleas- antness, and is what a printer would call the noblest work of God, tor he always-keeps his subscryption paid up a yearin advance. : A few of the Bargains. « ‘Ottered.at Jewett’s Furniture Store, Wardrobes tram $7,00 to 25,00 Tables trom $3,00 to 15,00 Sates trom 4,00 to 10,00 Chairs per set fom $3,50 to 12,00 Rocking chairs grom $1,00 to 15,00 Eastside. are Butler Mo. See! Letkerx& Childs before you sellyour independent flax seed. It they:don’t buy it, they will make somebody pay. you all it is worth. 37tt ‘Lhe Mich Hill western Exuter- Prise talks with good sense in its last issue in regatd to Walnut and the developmentof the whole coun- ty. ‘aewiew:taken is a_ sensible one anti.we commend the editors for thear frankness. “No man or set of mes.canihuild wp their own town and couatytby tryaag to pull down ther néighbors. Dhe Columbus -Buggy, the best one an:the merket, for sale by 3ott. Wight, Glorious & Williams. Yes any friends you told the truth that time :te.secure bargains in fur- niture goto. the Opera House Furnitture:Store. Brewiington & Brough, took the hint given hy the ‘Trmes man last week, ané the king bird of the barn vard teok.as suditen a flight:from the sidewalk tts ithe .adey as though he had beem xambling.on his ew: domi- cile and eayghtsigtt of 1 Methodist preacher im ithe :far .clistance coming to ns bosses house fer dinner. Some -ot the rest of dhe: bays. don't seem to »have tumbtedi. .Letker & Qhilds-Saved the |Farm- ress of Bates County tenahousand. fol- Jazslast year en.grain. They will do; better this xearut.you give tham achance. a7e- W.A. Stephems, wthozkas been i Texas fer several weeks waciting his hes brother, and also taking in ‘Sher-' man, |Mellas, and a aumberef other places .xeturned last week. He speaks ijn Joudest praise af Texas and her, people, and 2hout the only fault he-has to find with the Lone Star state at this partiewlar season of the vear jis, the friendly relations she bears ;to.aid Sol. Otiserwise she is a greatatate and her people sig hearted aad ‘likeral. The right-of-wey through the farm of Lou Diven, lecated abost two miles south oftowa was purchased sor the rulroad the ether day. The sum ot $350 being the price yvaid. This is the second tte he sold this same piece of grouml, and the has me purpose and same amount. The railroad get the advantage of the old read bed which is already graded through his farm and one culbert. | See et a Lefker X Childs have been kept going almostnight and day y ing and shiping flax from their ware house at the depot. They sup on an average of two cars a day. receiv- for] Family ReUnion. Can you imagine anything that | will be more pleasant than the fam- | ily reunion that is to take place at the residence of our highly respected | citizen A. M. Ellington, a tew miles southeast ot this cityia Pleasant Gap township. What thought could have entered the head of the aged sire more sweet than to have his children eight in number, without the loss of one, notwithstanding they have, as it | were, been scattered by the four winds, assemble around the family board once more. What thought could have been sweeter to the minds of brothers and sisters, eight in num- ber, than to have the pleasure of kneeling around the tamily alter once more beside their aged parents, whose brows have been furrowed with the sands ot time, and heads whiten- ed with the frosts of many winters, perhaps for the last time in their lives. We imagine there is no pleasure on earth halt so eweet as this family reunion will be. Whata consolation it surely will be to the old couple to have their children all together once more, and what a pang to their hearts will be the hour of seperation again. Two sons Jos. and Charles, ac- companied by their families have arriyed trom Buffalo, New York, and another son George from Texas is looked for every day. The Times hopes this family re- union of A. M. Ellington, willbe all that their hearts could desire, and that the old couple will be spared for many years to come. The taxpayers in convention as- sembled at Warrensburg, by reso- lution instructed the county court to go ahead and build a jail. The cost is not to exceed ten thousand dollars. Thats the way to do business. By this mode of proceedure they have saved the expenses of voting on the proposition which would have cost them five hundred dollars. Now it the taxpayers of Bates will adopt the same plan, of calling meetings in each townsh‘p and sending delegates to Butler to a mass convention we will have a jail, and likewise save the cost of five hundred dollars of again voting om the proposition. Let us have a jail and stop this leak- age and wasting of the people’s mon- ey by sending our prisoners to other counties for safe keeping. There is just one way to do this and that 1s tor the people to get together and instruct the court to have the jail built. Ten thousand dollars will put up a substantial structure. Oil experts say that the surface m- dizations, so prominent in portions ot the county, are no guarantee of oil, and trom the general lay of the land and the geological strata it 1s very doubttal if any oil is found in the north portion of the county. Indeed we notice that the Pennsylvania oil men now here, and who have been taking feases, preter working south, southeast and southwest, even many miles to going north of the mver. We suppose they know best; we don’t.—Rich Hill Resew The true definition of the Review man is comfractiex. He has become so hide bound, narrew minded, ene sided, dwarted and contracted in his mind, that he really belives the sun rises, shines and sets on one little spot alone in Bates county. Hecer- tainly has not been keeping himself posted in regard to Mormon Fork, wich is north of the river we bee Hiewe. Parties from Rich Hilt say the darkses had a high time at their fes- tival €aturday night. Ot course the thing wound up with the usual mat- mee, am several ot the coons wear sore heade. Itis said one of the Butler coens got it badly put on him during the melee by another nigger with a beer tottle, he landedin the cooler and is there yet if no one has paid him out. Our informant said the whole outfit wwas drunk, and the row was raised over the proceeds ot the festival, someclaiming that the others had stole the money. SrsciaL Nortice.—Fhe next time the grocer’s boy calls and you want Soda, order DeLand’s. Try it: if you do not say it is the best you ever used, ret t grocer; we j guarantee s ny he will make it good. Sold by A.L. Me- | Boia & Co. Butler Mo. THE LAND OF HEALTH. Colorado as Experienced by & Times Correspondent. A Beautiful City and a Temperance One. COLORADO SPRINGS. Times Special Correspondent. CoLorapo SpRincs Aug. 17 753- Though I wrote my last letter trom this place I said nothing in particular ot the city or the country surrounding it. I confined myselt to a simple narrative of our journey to the west, leaving to a subsequent time the pleasing task of writing of Colorado Springs and the Big Hills that envi ron it. Leaving Pueblo, the gate city of Colorado, either by rail or a wagon road, the traveler steers a course a httle west of north to Colorado Springs a distance of 45 miles. The route lays up the valley of the Foun- tain, a small river on which Colora- do Springs is situated. To the left or west, in plain view, and in strik- ing contrast to the broad prairies up- on the nght, rises in their original and forcible grandure the first chain of the Rocky Mountains. As you proceed the distance becomes short- er until imagination fixes upon about two or three miles to the toot of the mountains when in reality itis twelve to fifteen. There is a noticable dif- ference in the atmosphere from that felt in the vicinity of Pueblo. long betore.Colorado Springs is reached. By and by, after winding around among the foot-hills and the crooked eourse of the Fountain, a beautiful valley is penetrated, and here upon alevel plain about tour miles in leggth by one in width, in the shad- dow of the cottonwood trees that grow in regular order over the spot, is rested the beautitul little city of Colorado Springs with its estimated population of 7ooo souls. The streets are wide and straight and the surface ot the earth being gravel and coarse sand furnish a natural macad- am. The pavements, twice as wide as those in Butler, are of gravel. “A TEMPERATE ‘TOWN. Strange to say of a Colorado town this city is temperate in most things that come under that meaning- There is not a saloon, a gambling table nor a bawdy house in the place that anybody knows ot. But just two miles away toward the moun- tains on the road to Manatow, is the old village of Colorado City, the tormer capital of state when a Ter- ritory, and here every thing is sa- loons, and a brewery adds to the quantity of drink. Colorado Springs is therefore, free from drunkeness, and these being no inducements for rough characters none are. found among its population. There is considerable wealth represented in thiscity. Iam told that no less than thirteen millions are among its in- habitants, say nothing of the numer- ous smaller capitalists. These peo- ple as well as almost the entire pop- ulation, live here because of. the healthful effects of the climate. Business is overdone in Colorado Springs, tor the reason that so large a number of persons come tor their health, and finding it necessary to re- main, embark in some business to make expenses, thereby swelling ev- ery nook and corner beyond the de- mand or capacity of the city’s trade. Two daily newspapers are published here, the Gazette a morning. and the Republic an evening paper. Both are republican in politics, and seven column insize. There Democratic paper in county. the followers of that faith being too scarce to support one. In consequence of this last tact I feel like asheep that had strayed from the flock. A HEALTH RESORT. Cotorado Springs is puilded upon no stronger foundation, and is no has nothing more permanent to sustain | it, than its reputation as a health re- sort. Whether th:s will maintain and build up the city to larger pro- portions isa question. I am ot the opinion, however, that it will. People inthe east hear wonderful stories of the healthful effects of t climate, and the numerous and mar- velous cures it has made; but thesit - uation is not overdrawn, or the tale the city or! alltold. tis necessary to country to be next thing to an know what I am talking about and can have no object to misrepresent. But more than halt the invalids come | to this country in the wrong way | The rapid transit by railfrom Kansas i City to this placein twenty-four hours is tempting when one thinks of com- | ing west, when contrasted with the | slow, tedious journey by wagon, but | in many instances it is the one step | that leads to the grave. Thechange great, when convinced. invalid myself I of climate is so and made in so short a length of time as j a day and nights ride, as often pro- | duces an adverse effect upon the subject as it does a tavorable one. I feel well paid for my trip to the mountains in a wagon, though it seemed like entering upon a journey of half alife time. Next week I will give the readers of the Times another letter more in detail of the mountains and my travels through { them. Mc. Dick Liddil was placed on the stand Saturday as a witness in the great Frank James trial now in pro- gress at Gallatin, Mo., Liddil claims to have been one of the gang and goes on in his testimony to give a minute history of their and plans of the train robberyat winston, and a complete list of the names of those engaged in it. Itmay be news to a good many of our readers to learn that this man Liddil was sen- tenced to the Missouri penitentiary from Vernon County, Mo., Novem- ber 1877, and was pardoned out by heutenant Governor Brockmeyer, June 2oth of the same year. Liddil tells a pretty straight story of their manuvers and exploits and travels | TURELAULD, CCU Are just opening a full line of if not contradicted will be damag- ing testimony against Frank James. But, the question arises, is Liddil to be believed. He claims to have been with the gang and followed them from place to place and from state to state, sharing their trials, hardships, hospitality, protection, and a share of the proceeds of their gains, and during all this time never opened his mouth although he knew that there were rewards after re- wards hanging over their heads. What dependence is there to be put in the statement of this pardoned convict. Wesay aman who would be guilty of what Dick Liddil has been proved to be,and what he _ has shown himself to be is not worthy to be believed on oath. We will wa- ger the last buttonon our coat to have placed Frank James in Liddil’s shoes, you might have burned him at the stake and still he would have di- ed with the secret of Liddil’s con- nection with the gang in his bosom. There should be honor even among thieves. We do not intend to up- hold Frank James in anything he may be guiltv of, but we do teel like denouncing a traitor in whatever ca- pacity he may be. Why prosecute Frank James and release Liddil, when he has acknowledged to being as bad if not worse than all that has been charged against the James. Who know’s but that Liddil’s killed conductor Westtall. He says he was there, and that he and one other of the gang took charge of the engineer and with cocked -revolvers made him do their bidding. Sup- pose for one moment the enginee¢ had refused to obey their command, what would haye been the conse— quences. Death of course, for there was murder in their hearts, and the weapon in their hands. We believe Dick Liddil 1s a liar, and would not take his word for anything. For a Clean Shave | Go to Crouch Bros. shop, near southwest eorner of the square. They have aneat, -omfor table room. 351f. | | BUTLER PRICE LIST. | As furnished by |BADGLEYS & GIPSON, THE BOsS GROCERS. Wheat, - = - 85 per bu ; Corn - - 5 ap ete ' Potatoes = = - 25¢ per bush. Apples green - 40 per bnsh. Bacon - = Ss a Pa eee | | Lard eee ies 2 12 0s Cnickens - - - = $2.75 “. doz. | Butter = = = =z aera | Eggs - = = toc** doz ‘* Peaches - z = <7 Spee | Tallow - - - - See PDCCS MRR 52S oe: - 1S 4 And we only ask you to examine our goods get our prices and be convinced. North Side of Square, Butler, Mo. LEFKER & CHILDS, Grain Dealers. New Warehouse South of Depot Have just built a New Warehouse and erected a new set of Seales of Howe's Improved Pattern, and are now prepared to buy Iu ALL KINDS OF GRADY « rem the tarmers may have to sell, and for which we will pay Mo the Highest Market Price in Cash, and guarantee honest I weights and tair treatment. it be 34 tt LEFKER & CHILDS, sii ——— = — = = — = Ka, IN THE ee Go corr INSURANCE COMPANIES, | FIRE INURANCE IN THE Royo} Norther Imperial, Buffalo, | German, Firemans Fund, London, Lancashire, Western, Queen, German, German, , i Firemans, London, Orient, Fire Associa? and Union Insurance Companies. CANTERBURY & CATRO 34 tf | Butler. Mo.