The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 10, 1883, Page 2

THE WEST AGAIN. The Times Regular Correspondent Finds Something of Interest to Write. Colorado Business Interests Consid ered and Future Prospect Out- lined. Special Correspondent Butler Times. BLO Cor. Ocr. 4, 1883. Pu letter, but uy mind matters and things in general that I nave not taken the pains to material would be wrote the TimMEs a has been so absorbed with collect tor a letter that at all in- teresting to the Bates county public. Since my last effort, however, I have pore visited the old stamp ground and _ oc- cupied forthe brief season of five the Times seemed natural to days the editors chair in sanctum. It this and quite unnatural much reluctance to leave it. THE RAILROADS. Missourn Atchison Topeka but do and with On my way to passenger on the & Santa Fe returned via the Union Denver. Through trains on these roads leave railroad, Pacific to Kansas City about the same hour, the former running to Pueblo and thence to Denver, while the latter runs direct to Denver. They are both excellent equipped roads and make the transit of the plains in twenty-two hours. ButI started in to write of Colorado and not of rail- roads, but then you know railroads and newspapers are inseperably con- nected in the general development of the country and the civilization of man. NOT SO FAVORABLE. Three months ago I written more favorably than I can now having could have of Colorado become _bet- ter acquainted withthe business re— sources and prospects of the State. This i country. in every essen a mining “he chief s and towns the or are supported and kept alive by mining interests. Some sections REFLECTION UPON THE PAST. | It has been several weeks since I} lame down all departments ot | business toa legitimate basis had to just what of | take place, and now is the matter. The sequelis in the tact that the mining interest was the foundation tor this bloated state of affairs and the moment it dropped a | few notches there was a correspond- | ing drop and depression in business. he Hence the vacant buildings and the universal complaint that the ‘‘coun- try is going to the devil.”’ THE HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. toregoing Atter reading the one | 1s apt to enquire what is there in tu- ture tor Gelorado and her people. development of bringing in The hope is in the new mines and the oa availabie state of cultivation every | acre ot land in the Siate, which is quite limited in area at best. This is Colorado’s only hope, and until it is realized I tear her business _ inter- ests wi'l suffer. Ihave ventured to give the above opinion not from any unkind feeling it But for or intent to injure the count is at present my adopted State. I was a| [say this 2s a matter of truth and to satisty any Bates county farmer who is making a good comfortable living for his wife and little ones, that he ; likewise daily food had better stay where he the laborer who looks for his work tosupply his tamily with and raiment. A GRAND Notwithstanding the very COUNTRY. serious busmess depression in Colors ido it is orful still a grand country s wonde he physically Her He 1 alleys are b climate, an asylum for afflicted of the world. oun- tains canons anc eautiful and sublime and the atmosphere de- on. I as been highttul beyond descrip love Colorado because it gener- ous to me and has granted me anew lease on hfe. There is something romantic about orado and her history. A study of her past is an inviting field for the imagination that the State possess agricultural 1esour- | of land susceptable of cultivation when proper irrigating facilities pre- pared. But the trouble is there is a monopoly in every ditch that 1s dug, just as there is in every ces, and there 1s yet a great deal are irrigating other important enterprise, and it usually bankrupts a community to Nave them constructed. Hence it will necessarily require a long time to elapse before those lands that are productive will be util to bring forth wheat, o other farm produc AT A STAND STILL. The fact is Colorado 1s at a stand still. zed and made oats, corn and Ss just Every town in now the less we except a few of the larger cities such as Denver, Pueblo, Lead- ville and Gunmson, and these places business men are even in com- plaining and their long faces depict the southern part of the State during hundred people, and I feel quite s in saying that neither one of during my stay in them did as business as $150 per day. seem strange and even startling to t which much Buuler merchant, that a whole town ot a thousand inhabitants would not transact more than a $150 business counted by the dozen in any of these | 4 room, street corner and atic was demand. in But a change affairs | must have been evident even then to the shrewd Money was plenty then and men were reckless. Their minds were th horoughly disipat- ed by the r: which car- ried them along§as swittly and ruth- lessly to business destruction as the cyclone does its But the crash had in ar observer. ne raging boom victims, | fe A set- helpless to come. a feeling ot distrust and foreboding | Charles Lewis, in passing through forthe future. I have recently re-| the state discovered about fifteen turned from a lengthy trip through | miles below St. August tami- This may | ¢: als: weeks ago Mr the State for th business rooms and dw ellings con be | them perhaps on Tuesd ay places built years ago during the Ing | before lea Mr. | mining excitment. Those were hal- | Lewis di rem | ¢yon ii s for Colorado, and every | here, except k ps to a tew friends and acquain their home, delights to dwell upor, pioneer hte in the primitive days of the wild west. A journey over the country by rail or otherwise brings one in contact with many interesting remi- niscenses of early life in the mining of the Rocky Mountains. Some of the most sublime scenery inthe world 1s to be witnessed in this country during the spring and summer months when the surface of the earth is peted with verdure ard the foliage of the pine and evergreen add to the rustic scene. Tis autumn now and the meagre forests the sear and yellow leaf. It but reminds car- beauty are in us that the autumn time of life com— eth apace, and that the moments of mans existence fron. the cradle to the grave are fast fleeting away. “Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be found”’ Half Human, Half Alligatsr. State is as dull as ““Stumptown,”’ un- | Jackson Fla. Times. Perhaps the greatest living curios- ities now in existence in this will pass through thi§ city w Tu country on their to Cinemnati and Louisville next lay. About two yj ears ago Mr. Iv of white persons, of which Tcame m contact with the | John \ Id, his wife and_ five business men of that section. I was r Two of ildren he in as many asa half dozen towns | found to be half Lhalf al- ranging in size from three to ligator. Hea c he parents to gi of the eee pay ther take | ¢ are of the AW fit to t away. A tew ft Lewis returned to | taking |b morning | 7 nd will emam he bout five hours | © These € now nine vears ot age ne nd have | fe trom lw ver been to exceed ten } and consequently have Ver been placed | th in length ther with 1 overwhelmingly b mer cept to wi dren | to complain about th i $6000 in government bond | Said to have been sth, tog the hind | €1gn coun and legs of the r. They | endure very ] | craw! around on their hands and feet | converse intelligently, and seem to fenjoy life very much. They live part of the time in the water, which they enjoy very much, using their tails while swimming, the the alligator, to propel their bodies. They are healthy, well-developed children, and outside same as good-looking and | ot their love tor the water their gen- i eral mode of livingis the same as | that of other human beings. g he | New York ie rald. New York, Oct. 3.—ihe Herald this morning that soon as possible the Herald would different as announced have its own news star nds i i parts ot the sold and other city paper at prices printed upon them at the pr might consid tisement for 50: sell the Heral Accord issue. the department made application, most of ayailable candidates for the j offered. Carpenters are now mak- ing stands. It 1s in expectation to have stands opened tor business Monday morning. The board of aldermen adopted resolution giving Colonel George T. Wi d partment of t 1. permissio ams, Manager ot this Hera new iess hours, to place, durin stand on the sidewalk wit tance of fifty fect of cac leading i nv t the The Garficid Monument. General Swaim says there in the published is no truth statement that the project for the erection of a monmu- Garfield i: under the auspices of the Army of the Cumt been abandoned and the ment to Washington, of | has | e society erland, funds col- lected for that purpose used in crect- ing a monument Cleveland stead. The probably arose trom the fact that a monumen in- statement to Garfield is to be placed in Lake View cemetery, near Cleveland adaition to the one to be in | erected in| Washington. | Mr. Fred Douglass 1s about play- | ed ont. He has been for many years the representative negro upon whom the republican party has lavished all its favors. He has been kept to the tront and been the re offices, well. nt of many filled ambition which he has certainly Fe had a great become a to cabinet offic he could use the colored race stepping stone to higher honors t he has yet received. ‘The Louisville convention has taught him | Mr. Douglass good administrative ability and rare orato- rial powers, but he has lost his influ- ence with the negro race, and the re- and thought abortive a lesson, has } | BUTLER, publican party will drop him, as_ he he | 5 : 1 can be of no farther use to them. It | does not matter where the negro | vote goes. “ne republic be | but it Offices, een contrived to exp of women in motive power to machine has lor ot inventors, angement the children Ne on Wednes- | until an to in a day, but eless true | day arrived in this city ¢ make a sewing ee, neans | from the best of my ment ani] transpor | of a steel tap I certamly have no cece: in dealing | St. Aus means of a box o an i in exagerating statements. V. acant | childre Ss city with gement of w nakes a sew ut any exertion of tl nd the th ing es to waiters each year. The head aitor at one ot the hig hotels borght after the ason last vear, z earnings are Sro,cco One of © sources ot his revenue is the pow- > seats of guests at the m tor- be likely to “ BUTLER ESTABLISHED 1870. BENNETT & WHEELER DEALFYS IN HARDWARE ANC GROCERIES, CELEB TEADQUARTERS FOR THE RATED Corlant poring Wagon and Wop Bug2ies. he Mitchell RacineFarm Wagon Hapgood Light DraftSulky Plow, Haish close barb Steel Fence Wire. Prices Guaranteed to be Satisfactory. | IRTHEAST CORNER SQUARE, - BUTLER. MO: J.M. PATTY, ill line of Is now recei i will continue to receive a tv Groceries and Queensware, nd will compete in ss ice of = the in city. STORE, ON SOUTH SIDE PUBLIC SQI Soett ‘SUTLER, MO. SEASONAL MINNEAPOLIS PWINE MCWERS, BUCKEYE GOO?T)s BINDERS CULFIVATORS, REAPERS AND BAIN WAGONS, RACINE SPRINC WACONS. and tull tine of TreOePYPFP BUGGIES AT Rm. R. DEACON ’S HARDWARE DEALE:, Subscribe F*"or The { chemical ‘isiapsoiie esas ER WEKLY TIM.S TAKE 25 PER ANNUM TARE. | MISSOURI Lyon&Nolf (North Main St. Two Doors South of the BARDWARE -AND— QUEENSWARE BUTLER, MU. | no tt [NG SEWING cTIN eRPECTINEVERY PATIO. rele Feet Oe Te MACHINES 2 acer i EW HOM ES ‘SEWING MACHINE CO- 30 UNION SQUARE: NEW YO CE TORA ose Bll Bes MASS. pene ees wryece BY. fis SPRAGUE & HUNTER, | AGENTS, | BUTTLER: - - MISSOURI pwoia Long Way 1 | t Help im Wanted To- | Day, Comtort is ne | distress are in hot “friend in n 4 something now being “a the compliment ot I - deed.” Tnat they do not keep the sut- ferer in suspense is the saltent excellence ot Benson's Capcine Porous Plasters. The plasters of other days—whether por- ous or otherwise—said—“ Wait until to- morrow: We can promise nothing on the spur of the mom lieved, like hope warm highe dtt tin th 25 cents, New York — *i TONS \ The tion 4 POSTOFFICE GROCERIES — Nn cs ne LS ee ARATE RIE A SABES SURAT OSH