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WITT CL UilLon J. D. ALLEN Ebrror J.D. Atren & Co., IF SUNSCRIPTION TERMS ¢ | claim to possess that cabalistic power ~ | with which they can woe success to LET THE PEOPLE SAY. The congressional caldror i boi! ng taster and faster, visions otf success unqualified, with power men. untold, rises before the political Bock News came out last week Gantt for congress. The McBeth, who has wantonly forsaken duty at the national pitol and made a tour to the far west to consult with the witches,who post of c ates county BUTLER MISSOURI | perch upon the banner of their chief, We belong to no ring, and have WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 188¢ land control the people by meth ods | ight to support t ae Our choi it J = + ot their will. to s i ate Parkins ae |. Stone is athome from Washington | thereby nominate W. J. Stone, it is HON. D. A. DEARMOND. 11 ing after his tences, and in spite | your privilege and we say, ame. | of the promises of his official orgzn. | But we want it distinctly understood : i af 3ates county Democrat, to the | we are running the News, and emacralic if al | contrary, he has invaded the realm of propose to support our chox lf SUITE - . | Bates county and urged his claims | Gantt was not : : Prose —— li: pon the people. Ofcourse this has irespect, and compent fort! eed Fo esentative, created no surprise, as it was under: | tion, thea we would | stood by all who understood the | no man can dispute his ability. — J. H. HINTON. For Circuit Clerk, JOHN C. TAS For Recorder, R. G. WEST. For Tre Ty OSCAR TI Le For Coun*y Clerk. For Piosecuting Attorney, W.O. JACKSON For Sheritt, G. G. GLAZEBROOKE, ' Probate Be, SAM F. HAWKINS. ror Presiding Judge, JOUN HL SULLENS. For Public Administrator, J. W. ENNIS For Coroner, Ry R. D L. RIC For Judge South District, A. NEPTUNE. For Judge North District T. J. BOSWELL. At the state election in Oregon, the democrats secured a great yicto ry | most of the stute offices. nactianinmantinn Keep your temper. Wade, it spoil Then sides,.you are getting most too o!d y electing their governor and one’s disposition, you know. in poutics to uct the ugly Judge DeArmond seems to have a aby by getting clear field in his race for circuit judge. A better man tor the position cannot be tound in the district —Rockville Globe. —_—————. One of the incidents of the Blaine movement is a ‘revival just at this time of the story that large sums of British gold were expended to defeat him in 1884, because of his views, Irish -__ Hon. D. A. DeArmond has con- sented to become a candidate for the No better man than Judge DeArmond could be called to the position. —Lamar Democrat. Ee eee nee Bro. Wade last week lost his usual equanimity and his temper by hurling anathemas at office of circuit judge. bad he showed t head of those opposing him. Keep cool, Wade, or you may receive : sun stroi We would lke tor the Democrat to explain what it means, if that paper is really giving Judge Parkin- son an earnest support, that in every locality where the Stone men think they are in the majority a straight out fight is made tor that gentleman and Parkinson is not known inthe race? —_——-—_._—. The democrats ot Bates county have already put in nomination a ticket for county offices. nom a This early ution pohey saves the candi- lates the heavy expense of “setting "em up’? for several months, and is a painful res ction to the privileges ot the campaign dead beat.—Joplin Herald. —_ Congressman Stone, it 1s said. is stWi lingering around the district, looking atter his political fences. Notwithstanding the tact that they | are Stone fences, they are neither “nig tight, bull } strong,’’ and he ts not likely to add to their strength by leaving his duties in Washington City to look after his candidacy at home.—Henry Co. Democrats mule high nor | would do this, and situation that he Wade was simply trying to deprive tad } However excellent the other congressional candidates ot 5 ee nated by our dem- he te ticket nom this privilege. Be my nuse ss A Si > neighbors of Bates, last Satur- So much said by 25 - choice made tor represe Democrat and other wise. home man question—and this seems ic to be about the only alification | *" 2 meee : : close student vf political questions of they are w to accord to Judge | an : a ] } the day; cf ster integrity and t people might pos sie ; a ? ff : oral worth; a deep thinker and an to t he was | = er ‘ é . accurate reasoner ; verse cere inh e, were | and a reader of + in which he it not for the manner <a ae high souted, the ;¥ gr will bei sentative re and th d by shows only too plamly to every on the floor of su Representatives. i of easy address and and r- telligent mind the objects p t the man or cause poses tor which he is a candidate. Col.(?) W. J. Stone had purchased the county ot the bosses for a stipu- his attention will find ia J. H. Hi an honorable adversary, I } or acon ¢, | give as well as take hard lated price, for which he expected to the advocacy of right or receive delegation bound and : gagged to place him back in con- of truth. ~Nevada Noticer. gress. An looked for factor Call of the State Conventior entered the race in the form of Judge Headquarters State Democratic Gantt, whom the people of this] Committee of Missoun, St. Louis, county respect, admire and love for | June S.—A democratic stute cons | his many manly and noble qualities | vention is hereby called to convene and true principles. He ts virtually | at the City of St. Lous on Wednes- WANTONLY SHOT. ee ee eee, Attempted Assassination of Dr. Morri- son Munford. sewee Five Shots Fired Into a Crowded Street Car. | iia | Woman and Two Men Wounded. [ Sl ee { On Monday atternoon a sonia’ attempt was mace on the life ot Dr. | Morrison Munford, general mana er of the Kansas City Times, by one Wm. D. Carlisle, by shooting five crowded street. car, Munford, a_ gentle- man by the name of John E. Hale, { y | sss man of that city, anda | g lady, Miss Jennie Streeter. The whole affair occupied buta ew minutes. About 5:15 m_ the afternoon Dr. Munford and his friend E. L. Martin had started for his h He stopped at the junc for an approaching le Carhle came across Ninth streetfrom the corner where the } Burlington railroad tcket office is situated, 1 took his position near the Dels First National bank. stopped Dr. Munford stepped across are street entrance of the w When the cars north track and entered the rear Carhle im- y followed and pushed him- med selt ahead of Mr. Martin, close be- hind the unconscious object of his As Dr. Munford Carlile said: murderous intent. turned to sit down, “You haye traduced ny wite, and Vil kill you” | While speaking he | revolver through the car door full at discharged his Dr. Muntord, striking him in the !eft lside. The buliet glanced froma !mb and remained embeded in the flesh just below the skin. As Dr. ; Munford turned and tor the first ' time saw the assassin, the latter fired | a second shot, the bullet cutting the lappel of the victim’s coat. Both these shots were fired when two | not more than five teet. From the the distance between the was the son of Bates county, who gave him the office which he now holds day, the 1Sth ot August, 1886, at 10). | pistol’s tor the t ot ; | was not more than a yard. to Dr. Munford it Miss eee muzzle O CIOCK 4 m., purpose and who will receive it back unsul- | Selecting candidates for the o ee ter of James Streeter lied by the slightest stain, but elevated | Supreme superintencent of peiES ae Beret from toa higher plane by his just nari School end rauroas (coma: 1 ms ( on ee ee sitting in impartial rulings. Wade knew and | sioner. isis ol repres vy Nein ; 2 et ger aiae and “he Stone knew that he could not hope | Shall be one delegate for each 300 | re Ean is to carry this county over this adopted | Votes or traction of 150 votes or over c son of our people, hence something ist In each representative district at had to be done, and that something | the last general election tor the dem- ocratic nominee for president of the United lepresen titled to a least was the same game these political bosses played upon Bates county democracy four years ago, when States, provided tive district en- In the city of St. Louis delegates may be selected by wards. these same righteous exponents ot one delegate. home rule attempted and did defeat the wishes of the majority on this very plea. The Times has no fight to make on any home man who would be an honor and help to our county. Home pride would prompt us to do this. All persons who believe in the fundamental principles ot the demo- cratic party as found im the national and state platfcrins of the E party, and who are opposed to the concentra- it Judge Parkinson is in earnest he | tion of power either by the govern- can and will not object to the people | Ment or corporations, and are willing selecting their own delegates to rep- | to assist in the overthrow ot all power that is not exerted for the Protection and welfare of the whole people, are imvited to participate in esent them, and let them say who they shali support on second choice, This is the right which belongs to the people, and when any man or set the selection of delegates. D. H. Sxretps, Witrtam H. Mayo, Secretary. A writer in the American Bar says ot men attempt to wrest this pewer from them and arrogate to themselyes the authority to say who shall or sk that a Twenty-tourth street port ae dl dis- | dealer, who goes every year to Ken- | ty on its face, and the people tacky to attend horse : s, bought pe foth to have their power/last year un old plantation very | u such style. cheap. The only buildings «are a ——_______. é tumble-down house and barn, an Up to date democratic county | 4); eee = : ; a this spring,while repairing the house, conventions Save bi yely 3 e been held in twelve | he found in the cellar a large case counties and full uckets put in the | containing thirty-one barrels ot field. The legislative candidates | Whisky, all bearing date of 1861. nominated are follows: Bates, iB The man who had owned the place was an old bachelor. raids dur T g the war led him to turn H. Hinton; Cedar, J N. Jordan; Daviess, J. W. Alexander; Henry, ie irequent We El. (Cock< ‘Talayette Robert his ready money into whisky, which Hickhn; Marion, Geo. A. Mahan; he did. Soon after he ws killed, Pettis, W. D. Steel and S.C. Craw. | 22d no one knew of the liquor. rd; Pike, Duffey; Ralls, J. Ce hesengnee barrels of twenty-five- on: Ray, John F. Morton; | Y€#to'd Kentucky whisky is worth Saline, F. P. Sebree and C. B, | # 800d deal. Buckner; Vernon, Capt. A. Cum- | A young. man by the name of muns. For the e Hon. | W. G. Dowaing of Lewis county is the only candidate nominated. M Jordan, Alexander, Cock and Allison are old members of the senate, Aaron Allison, hi township, St. Clair county, commit- ted suicide the first of last week shooting himself through the | with a rifle. No cause is assigned house, and Senator Downing is also | for the rash act except that he had anold member. Al! the counties in | been unwell for some time and was which conventions have been held consequently despondent. He was! are rehably democratic. On the hying with his widowed mother, | question of electing a United States | three miles north of Johnson City ig in Monegaw J by essts. | oa | ody each | Chairman. ! horse | second bullet struck her in the breast | and but tor a corset steel might have | kill her. As it was, only a flesh | wound was inflicted. Dr. Munford | and attempted to shoot the assassin but was prevented by the scabbord drew his reyolver clinging to the pistol and when he got it clear the man was arrested Dr. Munford was taken to a phy- | sician and the wound probed and bullet extracted. Mr. Hale’s wound was more serious, the bullet enter- ing beside the nose passing down- ward and backward toward the neck. His wound 1s considered to be mor- tal. Carlile was arrested and locked up on a warrant charging Inm with assault with intent to kill. Carlile is «a notorious swindling lawyer, well known in Kansas City, a partial history of whose machina- tions in connection with the person and property of miss Sallie Crute ppeared some time ago in the Times. Railroad Wor Union, Mo., June 9.—Work was commenced here on the St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado railroad {yesterday. Mr. F. RP. Anderson, railroad contractor, has the contract | from this place to Labadie, Mo., a distance of thirteen and three-quarter miles. He has about seventy-five laborers and forty teams with scrapers awaiting at Union. |and plows here, and is j obout 200 25 | teams in a day or so trom the west, more laborers with where he has just completed a twelve ‘mile piece of road. He W Philadelphia, Pa., June 9.—Fred- erick Turner,secretary ofthe Knights of Labor, said to-day tonaccour Too Valuable. of the pressure of duties and the juniust attacks Powder]y, the fatter had offered } resiznation in earnest at Cleveland made upon Mr. and had taid down his gavel. The general assembly would not accept e resignation and offers were made to increase the general master work- man’s salary from $1.500 to $3,000 or even $§,000. After much per- suasion Mr. Powderiy was induced to withdraw his resignation, bur! would not accept the increase of- | fered. | | | JEWELRY STORE HOOT S + & + \HOR ——-2 Are an Article we are interested in, suying our stock direct FROM MANUFACTURES Having been in this BUSINESS FOR YEARS WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. Call and see us J.M. McKIBBRY ATTENTION — W O0LGROWER I take pleasure in announcing to wool growers ot this and adjoing counties that Iam inthe market and_ will buy and pay the highest market price tor all grades of re season, I would be pleased tor wool growers to notifiy me when they shear their tlocks and I will call on them. Wool twine and Wool sacks furnished at the lowest prices. Ail shipments will receive prompt at- tention and satisfaction gauranteed. Tan Your obedient servant, LEWIS HOFFMAN Yorth Main St., Butler, Mo. 3 ———— Reference Bates Co. National Bank.-—~—-- J... GRAVES & SON; Southeast Corner Square, next to Grange store. Continues to carry one of the largest stocks of Harness & Saddlerv Good His A 1 Farm Harness and Single and Light double harness can’t be beat in quality and price. me and examine. A fall line of Saddles for Men, Boys, Ladies, W iss We sell 4 | and everebody at bottom prices. Horse Blankets, Robes, Whips, Lashes, Curry Com by Horse brushes and similar articles as low as the lowest, as well as halters, bridles, collars, sweat pads, etc. re) U R Al M isto sell only first-class goods, to sell them as low as possible, to sell only such goods as we can recommend, to please all WD favor us; that is what we are here for and just what we todo. Repairing neatly done. “ J, T. GRAVES & FRANZ BERNHARDTS : Pays i} all Ai \2 Bas, vIy ~ eae ant ore .‘e. OS Peugermang’ * Mefne -*o2 0, > a 3 RP yo. a AOR Pics auacacwarce : we: s F Yeats Pe: ee < - / | is > wth is headquarters tor fine Jewelry§ Watches, Clocks, Solid Silver and Plated Ware, & You é s and for all ages; al-o fine Opera Glasses. are cordially invited to visit his establishmeat and examine his splendid dispiay of beautitul goods and the iow prices, ALL KINDS OF ENGRAVING NEATLY EXECUTED sworn ate isn.