The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 23, 1886, Page 4

rrr mp UIEEWT V ALLEN Ebrror. ut TERMS OF SUiStI | Wednesda one vear, aznd Judicial Di trict, HON. D. A. DEARMOND. | . oye ' emociatic !icke F Meu tt i j For Kepresentative, J. H. HINTON JOUN C. HAYS. | For Recorder, R. G. WEST. | | j For Cx For Prosec JOUN HH. SULLENS For Public Administrator, \ J. W. ENNIS | For Coroner, | DR. E. L. RICE For Judge South District, H A. NEPTUNE. | For Judge North District » BOSWELL. j Wade, in his desperate zeal to help his chief, is attempting to pre- cipitate a quarrel with Henry county, | which it would to make a breech ' take years to abridge. Will the denio sitq rats of Bates county etly by with folded hands and Wade succeed in his spiteful, yea, hellish purpose of arraying the two of Henry against each other, simply to gratily a personal spite? not. great counties Bates and We opine The democratic convention Vernon county ot held in) Nevada on the 12th, adjourned without accom- plishing the purpuse for which the convention was called, that ot elect ing delegates to the state, judicial, senatorial and congressional conven- tions. ——______.., From the Jasper County Democrat we see that that county is to have a candidate tor railroad commissioner in Dr. G. R. Hill. Dr. Hull is spoken ot very highly by worthy, the press as a competent and honorable gentleman, and, we have no doubt, would make a good officer to fill that Position, This makes the fourth candidate from the southwest, name- ly Kennac y. Cressap and Pace. Winfield L. Thompson, 24 years old, shot and killed his wife at the Sturtevant House, New York City, Tuesday, and then wounded himself so badly as to have since died. The couple had just married june 2, and were apparently happy, the cause of the tragedy being unknown, Thompsonis a son of Dr. Thomp- son, pastor ot the 2d Presbyterian church, Kansas City, anda lead ing divine in that city. —_—_—_ d among politicians here Tt is s that senator Vest recently wrote to Maj. Wm. M. Draffen of Boonville virtually tendering him the federal | judgeship of the Western district, to | succeed Judge Arnold Krekel, but | that Draffen declined the preferment, Itis now generally conceded that | Senator Vest will secure the @Ppoint- ment for Judge John F. Philips of the Kansas City court of peace who prefers that office toa seat in congress. | forced upon them. | the | when roused to action by repeated | bold and villianous ring ot s! | ; temple fully, once more, as we have repeat- + edly done in the past, when t! | is torced upon us, and t | does not let an issue pass withou j abusing and villifyingthe friends and H WILL NOT DOWN AT THE BIDDING. When N Allen Wade spoke so confidently of * emiah squ the Allen facti ’ he failed to con- f t he considere2 sider the fact that what he considerec a faction was the best element of democracy in Bates county, who had become tired and disgusted with the | arrogant and selfish poss rule being That th *the gang,’’ the of **the chque,”’ “crowd,’! etc., was the voice of people rebuking the politic to arr themselves the power to dic dared who 1 } } ld r do party should or shouid no A »x who the people should or should No, it w not nominate to office. : so down ata **cliqu that ‘set orst ring of political hard upon the w s ers { trick that ever gain- ed cc lof any county and run it to their own selfish ends. No| **Allen-Walton clique’? could ac- complish in a million years what the people have done in one fell swoop. The American people are quict to forgive and slow to wrath, but insults and iusolence from such a{ isters and political tricksters as the Wade- of Pace combination ha rule-or-ruin combinations, they drive | them out as the Lord did the and money lenders from the holy Ot course they are sore, it the is expected they would be; but +n the Times is ¢ 10n of mercy rather than war. We would cheerfully pour oil upon the troubled H waters and spread the balm o’ Gilead over your lacerated feelings. We d> not seek a war aad cheer- ‘fight he bloody shirt is flaunted tauntingly in our olwe branch and We our robes that they teeth, extend the swear a truce. would brush asi might not become contaminated while we ad minister charity upon atilicted leper, that is all. H continually The Democrat has issues, wi tned to keep alive dead supporters of this paper; but insteac ot driving them away, he is oaly | sealing more tightly the bond be- tween the Times and the people, of and tor whom it is an organ. The Times has always been to the Democrat and his crowd a nemesis, a frightful nightmare, which they have tried in vain by every trick and scheme known to the treacherous to wipe out of existence, but, like Banquo’s ghost, it will not down at their bidding, It has a mission to pertorm in protecting the rights of the people. —_—_l NO CAUSE FOR A QUARREL. We have been asked what Bates county could hope to gain by carry ing out Wade’s ideas ot hate and to Henry We frankly admit that we proscription in regard county. can not possibly see any Bates that c good to 2 such a course, and the ev ry to be drawn upon her own head by such a course is apparent will} Bates 2s are in the same to all who pause and reflect a moment. and Henry c senatorial, judicial and congressional Henry can give to Bates the state senator or the circu:t judge at any time, or it could keep her from getting either. Bates county had the state senator tvo terms, being ably represented by Capt. Juo. B Newberry and Major J. N, Bradley ; Henry was represented in the last senate by Dr. Britts and the indica- cations are now t districts, at Cass will be accorded that honor without oppo- Siion. In gular rotation Bates | would be er r four | years hence, t with | Henry wh Henry cou ceded the the c Bates m, and Judge DeArmond, the county’s pride,draws the prize. Now, on the other h Ww atcan Vernon or St. Clair coun give us, were they ever so kindly disposed - We can expect uothing from either. Neither is in a position to elp us Will the people of Bates county so barg isposed of toaccomplish ig must be . ling must be gotten up between ? Henry and Bates,and this Bro. Wade | is striving desperately to co. a = people ot Bates cou counties. two great ts are allied, not only p our citizens Vs ors, and we ar wn selfish end ment of their o THE KILLING OF COL. STRON On last Friday Col. J. W. Strong, iLmanayer of the St Joseph Uerald, was shot in bss office and almost instantly killed, by Dr. S. A. Richmond o tame, who in tura cessful attempt on shooting himselt making only a sh There seems to er t physi sot St. J and rations W eing toc nin an asylum. This same man who mysteriously disappeared from fis home about one year ago upposition he had strengthened hat in the rive found | Hubbard which suit advertis Col. Richmond’s attorney, and } edihat Strong had sold him out, which had preyed upon his mind and ie tragedy on Friday. While there is no analogy existing between the two cases of the shoot- ing of Dr. Muntord of the K. C. Times andC ¢ of the Herald, both the influential journals, as former was shot on account of a publication and the latter had become involved as an attorney in a case, still the committing of these atrocities epoc of We have no doubt the poor. demented mind of Richmond had a yague idea that he seems always to mark an many of like nature. ought to get even with Strong, but resolve to commit murder was not fully formed until he read the har- rowing accounts ot the attempted assassination of Dr. Muntord by the scoundrel Carlisle, tien the how was fully opened up to him and he pro- ceeded to put in execution his mur- li Carlisle were summarily dealt with, derous design. such villians as instead of letting them pose in the attitude ot persecuted martyrs, Te would be much of crime prevented, and the widows and the orphans would not be lett to mournthe death ot husbands and tathers down dy cranks and lunatics. The democrats of Carroll county have verv wisely nominated Major James H. Wright for representative Major Wright is possessed ot fine scholarly attaiuments, and large leg- islative attainments, having served several terms in the Missouri leisla- ture; besides, he 1s one ot the most able and effective orators in North Missoun, Major Wright, in the leg islature, will not only be of value to his own county, but to the state at large. —Southwest Mail. We can cheertullv bear evidence the above, Major Wright 1s a life riend to the family of the editor Times, having come trom the nei same orhood in Kentucky. He has manv re g in this county, Itis stated that the poem, “Curfew Must not r * was written dy Mrs. Rose Hartwick Thorpe, now a resident ot San Antonio, Texas. The poem: wus first published in the Detroit Commercial Advertiser, in the tall of 1870, when nts author was a school girl of seventeen. en — ig strictly to the t elected. w he was 1 Stone has seen fit to leave | at Wash n City trine of democracy ts, ‘He serves best who serves his country rence between these for congress is very ve. Con- to tix up The de Gen. Joe Shelby’s Regrets. Apratin, Bates Co. Mo. June 17. My Dear Munford: Tlearn with greatregret the act of the (Carlile) from whict you were in- jured. You come of a stock that few in Misse Ec fear means and the last race of peo- yur1 know as well as I do, and not what 1 truly say they know ple or tamily that knowingly would lo another an injustice. T 1 braced by disy toriety and wi rascality attempted to j ering up his assassinate you. Had you haye been properly armed and had your arms been of easy access his body instead of filling a comtortable cell he pot- | would have been buried m t | field. Get scoundrels, to fix well ter’s well, continue expose the in the future, then you will be ready for the grave, knowing that you have performed your duty well and faithfully as an editor and citizen. T hope that you will soon be re- stored to your tamily and friends, and that additional vim will be given the innocent the Times to protect and expose the guilty. Your friend, Jo. O. Suerry. The ©. B. & Q. Extension. We publish elsewhere an article pointing out the fact that the time 1s at hand when the C. B. & Q. exten- The road is to teach St. Louis from the east and from the west over its own track. The amount which the proposed extension is expected to cost will be about $3.000,000. The statement is also made, with an air of official information, that when Vice-President Potter went east recently, it was supposed for the purpese of examining the Bee company’s line, with a view of pos- sibly accepting its presidency, the real reason was in order to explain more fully to the directors in Boston the condition of affairs. sion is to be built. This would seem to forebode good news for the people ot Johnson county and we belieye tor Warrens- burg. construction of the extension from Fort Scott to Carrollton as having been delayed by the strike, and this is part of the route proposed to be taken up immediately. Had it not been for the strike, there 1s no reason to doubt that by the end ot 1886 we would have had the road fully equip- ped and running. But if this authon- tv 1s correct, very little time will be lost, as, according to it, the whole line will be completed this year, or at the very latest by May 1st, 1887 — fournal-Democrat. Another Road Coming This Way. Miami, (Kan.) Republicar.: Nimmo, F. Bradlev and W. "hite, capitalists ot London, Eng., ders in the Leavenworth | and stocknolc road, were in the city over Sunday, HOOTS = & = \HOES coward The article speaks of the =P — Are an Article we are interested in, | Buying our stock direct FROM MANUFACTURES Having been in this BUSINESS FOR YEARS, WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. Call and see us. J. MoKIBBEN. | ATTENTION | | I take pleasure in announci to wool growers ot this and adjoing counties that lam inthe market and will buy and pay the highest market price for all grades of the entire season, I would be pleased tor wool growers to notifiy me when they shear their flocks and I will call on them. Wool twine and Wool sacks furnished at the lowest prices. All shipments will receive prompt at- tention and satisfaction gauranteed. I an Your obedient servant, LEWIS HOFFMAN, North Main St., Butler, Mo. tional Bank. ——— Reference Bates Co. } JT. GRAVES & SON, Continues Southeast Corner Square, next to Grange store. to carry one of the largest stocks of Harness & Saddlerv Goods. His A 1 Farm Harness and Single and Light double harness can’t be beat in quality and price. Come and examine. A fall line of Saddles for Men, Boys, Ladies, Misses and everebody at bottom prices. We eell Horse Blankets, Robes, Whips, Lashes, Curry Combs, Horse brushes and similar articles as low as the lowest, as well as halters, bridles, i collars, sweat pads, etc. M isto sell only first-class goods, to sell them as low as possible, R to sell only such goods as we can recommend, to please all who | favor us; that is what we are here for and just what we proposes, todo. Repairing neatly done. — J.T. GRAVES & SON. FRANZ BERNHARDT'S ;} GOLD AND GLOLD AND SILVER SILVER WATCHES, {SPECTACLES | OF THE BEST PLATEDWARE Manufacture, al- Anu a general as es icesct sortment ot jewel- ry at lowest prices | They made an overland trip trom, * R | posed line of the :oad z | express themselyes well pleased with aye Ne gabe ae | } Is headquarters tor fine Jewelryg | the road These Watches, Clocks, Solid Silver and Plated Ware, &c. gentlemen are London, | and say we have es — Spectacles of all s and for all ages; also fine Opera Glasses. You ing country they have seen during are cordial! d to visit his establishment and examine (their travel, which 1s ured by his splendid display of beautitul goods and the low prices, | their investment in the euterprise. ALL KINDS OF ENGRAVING NEATLY EXECUTED’