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VOL. VIE. BUTLER, MISSOURI, Sm mR 9 ASO A NO A RR I OT: Texas’ Woma. Desprrade. Maud Raynor, the woman des rado, wr.tes an Abilene, Te respondent to the New York S is city for assault St 1 } zen places.ana in ja < As soon as she an object of ler enen peopl generally have tormed of sof compact frame and about ie dum fiage. ight, with a gracefu Her features are small, teel gray ana ndant. In aken away her pistcis and knives. ‘TL suppose Pil never see them “When calabashes again,’’ she said. you get into one of these they always help themselves to what you've got, and whether you’re sent tpor not, they keep what they steal. Dil bet Pve the sheriffs in with good Weapons They don’t enough together at one time to huv turnished halt Kansas last five mone and the get Texas j years. such things, but they know just enough to pinch them wien they get achance. 1 played it ona detective He had been tollowing me tor about a up here in the Panhandle once. month, and tinally, when he got me, he took two guns and three knives | away trom me. I saw his eyes hang out ss he looked at me. to him: “You'll be well won’t you?’ “He pretended care anything about heeled that he the and showed me some of his old fire- cracker pistols, and wanted me to | admire them. I to!d him one of my guns was worth a bag full of his, | and atter getting him a little excited, | [grabbed one ot show it to him. my I pointed out sever- al of the good points, and then turn- ing iton him I said: ““Twant to see your hee lively now.’ neht “He thought I was fooling for a 1, but when the pistol clicked wit was business. Then he ind wanted to trade with mine, too, her. She | and [ says} now, | didn’t} weapons, | weapons to) offender. Some dered man c had «a qu words be rushed at her with a knite. He} arush at the woman ould have finished her ther an cre if had her one of the men taken jpartin a mild sert of a way. 4 | they stopped to parley she made proposition : “CH fight the whole pack et you, Jone at I killed that jand I’m glad ot it. 4 time. done it years ago.’’ One man went out with fier, and the two stepped off twenty The shoulder, paces, turned and fired. man got a bullet in bis and wanted woman was unhurt. to quit. The | | Standing there resolutely she called ion the others tor a victim. But no one surred, found were not disposed to annoy her fur and, finally, when she they er she said: **Now, Lam going to Texas, and How ; LT want an escort. vou are going with me?’ They all agreed to go but two, self, saying: te go with me. and you got to go, too.” The sport. She never took her pistols | off them others rather enjoyed tor x minute. her horse out of the corral, mounted i their own, and at her command rode enim tront of her. When she driven them ten or fitteen miles {made them back. rode On toward tt sout Unless the woman is convicted for > assault committed hi citv the other ¢ new region, so entir fore, 1s correct, if 15 this | I ought to have | toon Then she taunted them, | | and then its fertile lands will | prize of jempt and occupy them. many of} and to those two she addressed her- | j allow Oklahema to become a **You’re just the ones that I v ti the} They got! | been ill for some time and has taken | A special | had } she | settling from 1) diff rent all that have been published hereto | that the Southwestern settlers should covet it lisconate Ir is sus lands. that the disparaging picture forth in the intercets ot pamies that hive leases land at 3 cents per ac fore, nave their own rea ing them trom settleme heped that the people of the west will le rma alone present. Sooner or later it wi to be thrown open for settlement. be the who first’ pre Buc settlers may have no right on them until congress the cattle companies wil ave to withdraw. their terri- tory for independent citizens. John Kelly Dying. New York, Feb. 13.— Mr. Kelly, Tammany John the leader, no part in.public affairs. to the Brooklyn Eagle this evening trom Rock Kel Nat sea air away Beach says that Mr. y. having expressed some beliet would cure him, was 1¢ to that place rece seve WEDNESDAY unaccountable herds and } hasi & Marble Slab From Vermont. > he perspires We Q- 7 i555, T makes th state feclaration only as public nentin the pres: e of the two 1Ouses of Conzress of the contents of lw papers opened and read on tnd not 4s pessessi n law to declare any constiuction whatever. The declaration ot the president of he senate awakened no hostile criti- sm at the hands of Vice President- et Thomas A. Hendricks, who said the lid ¢ an was quite closing sentence stirred up a hornet’s nest on the re publican side of the monopoly branc of congress. outward Mr. Edmunds gave no sare in announcing what which the November was men. by the bal'ors voters put into the boxes 4. But that the 219 eectoral votes had been would the announcement | cast for James Gillespie Blaine been more pleasing to George F. Ed- g munds ? We Times. think not. —Kansas Man 2: * Mustanz most men more ever LOOK HERE, FARMERS! | Aims, | dated the 20th day of August, | Recorder's | Bates county, Missouri, in book No. 30., recorded s wife, FEBRUARY CALL + NRO is RETO SAN AND SEE US, J. M. MecKIBBEN. Trustee’s is, Fletcher Alms by their in the 1883, office, in} and at page 562, conveyed to the undersigned {in tri | tain pre the following real estate, County ot Bates, to-wit: (11; three (3), an east qrot th 10), all in towns Range ten ( (39), of And wt issory not the ip No. No. eas default has the payment of said note and est thereon and the same betwe egal holder ot f the provissions of s Thursday n the hours of forenoon and 6 o'clock in | ot said day, Butler, in the said Bat ri, proceed to sell said real estate, } much there id debt, interes urpose of Now therefore at t id note, signed t February at the court as mav and highest sat styi id cost. Wa. F and State of The east half of lot of the north east qr of section No rth halt of the north south east qr of section No. thirty thirty-three been ist to secure the parment of therein de situate cer- | ribed in the; Missouri No. mm the in now due eleven 2 reqnest of din per- o'clock the house “5 county, at for id 19, 1885, ternoon door Missou- or so necessary to cost, bidder public cash, debt, Hank Sheritt of Bates County, ssouri, t iwes AL BRANT 222 qu ithe mail in a sa lined WREKIY MISSOURI! R* PUBL'CAN ¢ to Get Valtuvbie oid Articles for bar Chon of theie Value: le in the F Guaranteed as Represcated by the Old Reliable M i Republican. rilowime Lt We will give the Weekly Missouri Re publican, the regular subseription price $1, with the tollowi at the prices named e Waterbury Watch, av exceiler and good jooking watch. It is nutactured by the \Vaterbury Com- specially tor the Missouri Repub dis scut to subscribers throug? i The reg r price e watch is $3 50, but we F Republican, one yeas chain tort price of with the Tri-Weeh pany, li an, one vear $6 50. An ele é ant Sewing Machine warranted machine is tulls to it :¢ than similar ma- hat have been selling all ove: ntry for trom ¥35 to #60. Ounm only $18 and Weekly for one ve 1rownin. Withthe Tr -Weekty fo year it is $20- ” Farmers’ ar shop, $50 wort set of tools co ot 4 Mechanics’ I tools for rere a