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BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Enrtor. J. D. ALLEN & Co., Proprietors, TERMS OF SUPSCRIPTION: TheWeexty Times, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any sdaress | is no use to deny the tact that the one year, postage paid, tor $1.25. EE ————————E BUTLER MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY JAN. 26th, 1537. ———————eem | party te take issue with it, expecting Call for Big 7. Members ot the standing railroad | fits. : committee of Butler will meet at] Party, has no war to wage in this John Atkison’s office, east side of | Matter, as the square, to-night at seven o’cleck, sharp. Business of importance. J.D. ALLEN, Sam Levy, Sec’y. In portions of Lafayette county, | contrary notwithstanding. farmers have been compelled to drive | understand the situation it 1s not ington. Just to ease the pain ot the Kan_| Parties ot the day unless forced sas City Times we would like to see | t© do so by the mandatory action PROHIBITION. CHICAGO, FORT SCOTT & TEXAS R. R. Just now Jefferson City is over—} poles run by « multitude of worxers from | Will Build Through Bates County every portion of the State in one = great endeavor to induce the legis- and Butler With Proper Enceuragement. lature to take action on this great) question, which, disguise the facts as you may, 1s bound’to perform no mean part in State politics. There | EVIDENTLY MEAN BUSINESS. temperance element in the State is very strong. The republican party | yfr, Walton, explains itself: has already recognized that tact and are trying to torce the democratic] wy &, Watton, Ese., Casn’R Butler NAT'L BANK. thereby to slip in and reap the bene- The democratic party, a8 @/ of the Bank of Fort Scott, has hand- there are as many temper- ance men, atrong in the faith, and who would exert their utmost en- deavors to dethrone king alcohol, in our party as in any other political addressed to him. county by way of Butler if your peo- and slurs of our traducers to the As we with either of the great political ance when we reach the south line the Commissioner and the county|°f one or the other, out their! and notes to be guaranteed by guar- court ot Jackson county locate the main and only object is to have the court house on the highest, most con- | two parties stand aside and let the citizens, the bonds and noes to be venient and beautiful knob in the | Whiskev and anti-whiskey element city. Outside of the city the read- placed in escrew. We ast no as- have a tilt at arms. It 1s not their} sistance whatever until we are readv ers of the Times are getting most desire, as we understand it, to say to grade, and then only as above. deeply interested in the matter. In honor of the name ot John A, Logan, the Legislature of Hlinois has elected the millionaire John V. * * Barwell, to fill his seat in the Senate, and generous Chicago has offered to donate Mrs. Logan six teet ot ground near the City in which to place the remains of her lamented husband. Chicago and the State of Illinois never do things by halves. A serious shooting scrape took | 2"¥ Proposition that affects a large | the endofthe week. We wil advise | Lone Oak, place at Osceola Weduesday morn- | Portion of sk population. It a re- jng between Charles Schmfat, a] Spectable minority even ask to vote | be present when your committee | Howard No. whether we shall have a democratic! The above terms are smilar to governor or republican governor, SO | those we offered to Warrendurg and that laws are tramed regulating or Higginsville, and which they have abolishing altogether the whiskey accepted. traffic. It a committee of your citizens Itis an American idea, as old 48} could make it convenient tovisit us, the constitution of our government, | we will talk over the details and show that the people have a right to peti-| them our town, and, I think, satisfy tion, and their servants, those who] them that we mean business, and are elected and hold their offices by | that we have the requisite backing. virtue of their suffrages, should not deny them this right and to vote on Our president, Col. Harms, is ab- sent at present, but will return before you when he does, so that he may hotel keeper, and a young barber | °" a proposition that effects directly | arrives. named Wm. Robbins. It is said 1} the welfare of the whole, their rep Please advise me as soou as con- the trouble grew out of Robbins | tesentatives have no right to say! venient if this will meet the views of carrying notes to Schmidt's girls|themnay. By respectable minonty | your people. against the wishes of their father. we do not mean a few cranks who Yours very truly, OFFICIAL COUNT. | Glazebrook Comes Out Victorious. | Communicated. | Misuter SHAKEUP ALLEN: Py de Times I mit you be ac- quainted, und I see py de Recort dat i A Clear Majority of Four After All ! von uv mine gountryman yas delin Votes are Counted. According to previous County Clerk Harper, on last Wed The following letter, written in| nesday, in the presence and with the | answer to a letter of enquiry from | assistance ot Lyman J. Burch and contestor Fort Scott, Kas., Jan. 17, 1887. | and contestee, with their attorneys, George G. Glazebrook, C. A. Denton and Wm. Page, an Judge Jas. B. Gantt and Thos. J. Dear Sirn:—Mr. Chas. Nelson, | Smith, and Sidney C. Franklin as assistant clerk, proceeded to open ed us your letter of the [sth inst., | and count the ballots of Bates county cast at the last election for sheriff. We are prepared to say this: that] The couat was not ended until we will build our read through your} Monday evening, when the clerk made out a statement of the resu ple will secure us the right of way | as required by law and filed with the Pres. | organization known, the vulgar jests | 4 sufficient title trom the south line | circuit clerk. The result 1s a little of Johnson county to the south line | different, we opine, from what Mr. of Bates county, together with all | Burch and his friends expected to necessary depot grounds, and also} find. After counting all the ballots, their stock ten. miles to water; $0/the intention or desire of these | one thousand dollars per mile cash| including those mentioned 1n the say#ex-Congressman Graves of Lex- temperance workers to take issue subsidy in notes—one-hat payable | contestor’s petition as having been on our reaching Butler ani the bal- | thrown out in Homer township be- cause Mr. Burch’s initials wer of your county. The rigit of way | omitted, the result stands 2,S11 votes for Glazebrook and 2,807 for Burch, anty bonds signed by responsible | giving Glazebrook a clear majority The result by town- ot four votes. ships 1s as follows: notice, | these expensive leaks. The two met on the streets and atter | ©4 be scared together in almost any a tew words it is said Schmidt drew | ®¢ighborhood, who stand ready to his pistol and fired one shot at Rob. | Petition on the most frivulous pre- bias, who in turn drew his revolver | text) but a substantial number of ‘and shot Schmidt 1n the breast, the | "espectable and intelligent citizens, ball passing through the lung and | Who would only use this power in liver. Schmidt will likely die. cases which appeared to them of Judge DeArmond is holding court gore to accommodate judge Sloan, who our has cases in his own county to dis- pose of. Judge DeArmond is suf- fering from a severe cold, but thinks be will be well enough soon to hold a special term of court inthis county, to dispose of several prisoners in jail who are anxious for trial. Our sheriff was very favorably impressed with the appearance of Judge DeArmond on the bench, which position he seems to fill with the ease and Grace of a man who bad spent years in dealing out justice. —Henry Co. Democrat. Se Monday afternoon in the Missoun Senate, Senator Downing, Chair- man of the committee appointed by the Governor to examine into the condition of the elee-mosynary in- stitutions of the State submitted a voluminous report on the State Uni- | 8€#t Party principles are involved. versity and Agricultural College at Looking at this matter trom a party Columbia, the School of Mines and | *@"dpoint, we have everything to Metallurgy at Rolla, the State Nor- gain and nothing to lose by bringing mal Schools at Kirksville, Warrens- this to a vote and torever setthng the burg and Cape Girardeau, the School | Y¢X¢4 question, unless, perchance, for the Blind at St. Louis, the Insti |S°™e ™ght argue that prohibition tute for the Deaf and Dumb at Ful- | ™ight carry, then there is more need toa, the Insane Asylum at St. Joseph, | still ot submitting it and letting the Falton and Nevada, and St. Louis | majority rule. Lunatic Asylum. The Commis- We know that it is urged that this sioner in his report r ; : that the School ry Mines at Rell matter is already in the hands of the and the State Normal Schools at Warrensburg and Kirksville be sal own views on this subject—views that haye been reached after much thought and investigation of the sys- tem of prohibition as practiced in other states where it has been adopt- ed,—and that is, we believe in high license and local option. holding these views as we do, we are not so narrow-minded or ego- exercising that God-given right ot every free American, and granted by our constitution, and free speech. We are aware that in taking this stand we are entertaining views in direct opposition to some of our greatest party leaders. But we do not consider this a crime to party ner treasonable utterances when no equivalent to prohibition. Well, on the grounds that they are not self- sustaining. These Schools have been a burden upon the tax-payers ot the State since their establishment and should have been abolished long in submitting it to the peopie that | P! they may say it shall be entorced by being made part ot the constitution. helping hand. the money, at least give the enter-— prise a good word and thereby help by vour influence. Ben Davis, two miners at No, 6 of legislature, which can pass laws | the Rich Hill Coal Co.'s works were badly hurt by the premature explo- ished. The recommendation is made Suppose it is? This power is not| Sion of a blast. being used, and we can see no harm | having his right arm broken in two a copes Mitchell, ot the Antonie Sala, New J. H. DowLaxp, Treasurer. Here is a proposition that there is |] West Point, no mistaking the meaning, people of Butler and Bates county | Walnut, want the road they can get it, but to do their part. a 5 There are no probabilities or possi- We have no hesitancy in asserting | bilities that if certain conditons were they are expected filled the road might be built, but | year and have been requested to do a straight-out promise the road shall | 8° thts time it yun will allow me be built. amount in developing the resources of the county and giving usan outlet that we are so badly in need of with- Out being dependent upon the whims of one man. an effort, which can do no harm, and it we will all pull together may be productive of very much good in the shape of another railroad. While the standing railroad committee will make every effort, it is not suffice un- less the people of al! West quarter of section thirty-four ]34] in town- people 1 classes lend a « po meena = At least let us make if you have not Friday evening Ben Green ard Green tared worst, aces. ork and Havana trade, C4 : came home ago. Statistics will show that there —— — in May, entirely helpl ‘i has not been an assembling of the Four States changed their chief | tism. He went, Pie meeps hg Legislature but that large appropri- | ™4gistrates on the 1Sth, as tollows: | TCc'¥ing no benefit, at his wife’s request ations have been asked and ted to maintain these Schools aber pense of the already over-burdened tax-payer, and now that the Com- missioner has made a complete re- Port it 1s to be hoped the Legislature Will act on his suggestions and stop Biggs, of Delaware ; Green, of New Tersey; Jas. A. Beaver, of Pennsyl- vania, and Gen. L. S. Ross, of | Texas. The deteat cf Jos. E. McDonald he regretted. began to take Hood’: i immediately begat 's |Sarsaparilla. He months his rheumatism was all gone, and man. Hood’s S; . . Sold by d ; a will help you. ite ANT od Se st _Mrs. Voorhees, wife ot Senator tor the United States Senate is to be | Voorhees, died in Washington City the 21st inst. to improve; in two sailed in command of his vessel a well Now it devolves upon our Charlotte Assessent. township. I had it published la space in your most valuable paper. Grand total, The above is a true copy. James DryspALeE, Assessor. Sheriffs Sale. the circuit court of Bates county, Missouri, turnable at gthe Febru: and it —_ claim le described real estate, in Bates county, ship No. thirty-nine, will on Thursday, February 17, 1887, between the hours of 9 o’clock in the forenoon and 5 o’clock in the afternoon of that day, at the east front door of the court house in the city of Butler, Bates county, Missouri sell the same or so much thereof as msy be juired, at pub- lic vendue, to the highest bidder forcash, te sagisfy said execution and costs. G. GLAZEBROOK Sheriff Bates Co. Sherrff’s Sale. By virtue and authority of atranscript exe cution issued from the office of the clerk of the circuit ceart of Bates county, Missouri, ret able at the Feb: term, 1887, to medirected in favor of O. F. Renick an it Wm. A. Evans, I have levied and seiz- w all the right, title, imterest and claim ofsaid defendant, of, in and to the following to-wit: Beginning at a point 50 portage : & poin' m o' the northwest corner of block No. 9, in Wil- liams addition te the city of Butler, thence east 182 feet, thence north ning, being part of the nerthwest —— of section 22, township 40, YangeSl. [ will, on Thursday, February 17, 1887, between the hours of 9 0’clock in the forenoon and 5 o’clock in the afternoon of that dsy, at the east front door of the court house inthe city of Butler, Bates county, Missouri, the same er so much thereof as ms} at public vendue, to the to satisfy said executio! Ep. Times :—1 herewith hand you abstract of assessment of Charlotte $299,329 00 By virtue and autority of a special execntion for costs issued from the office of the clerk of court, to me directed in favorofJ BR. Hubble J. H. Hines, I have levied and yn. all the right, title, interest and said defendant of, in and to the fol- : The east half of the north- {in gounty varrants. ; | Und I dinks mine vrend Grossman | vash mighty green veller und voolish. | Ven I vash a stone mashon I reed | py der Times dat a pridge to be bilt | 18, und I sayto mine vrow, Catharina, Igound got de yob und ven de gommissioner say now, poys, make pids on dees pridge, Shudge Suliens he up comes und he say, shentle- mens, ven you pid dees pridge und ven de varrants be issued I vill no bay dem, kase dey vash ilekal, und ven he say dees I buls mine vingers mit mine hair. So I say to mine zelt: Now I spend six dollar on dees matter und what shall I dose? So to Shudge Lefker | goes tor zatisfaction, und he say de panks vill py dem varrants. So Isees Mr. Valton, a panker, und speaks mit him apoud de varrants, und he say vat vund ish de varrants issued on? und I say de pridge vund, und he say I bay notings vor varrants on dat vund, und I say vot tor you put somedings in de baper vot said you py varrants for? und he say dat vos petore Shudge Sullens had deglared dem varrants ilekal. Und I say to Mishter Valton vat makes dem varrants ilekal? He say der vash d It e BURCH. GLAZEBROOK. oe Mingo, 48 84 more varrants issued dan der vash Spruce, 54 127 monish to bay mit. Und I say Deepwater, 79 115 Mishter Valton, I vas nown Shudge Fiudeons cae ae Sullens a long time, und Inows him | Rockville, 97 A been von nice man und vine shen- Prarie, 77 7 tleman, und de beoples all put con- Pleasant Gap, 126 125 fidence in him, und if he say dem Sanmaits 59 75 varrants vash lekal, vy, den, ilekal Shawnee, 58 87 dey ish, und I vill not for de gounty Grand River, 33 98 any a vork all de varrants lekal Deer Creek, 165 i40 ish, Und it mine vriend Grossman Mound, 6a 63 had schmart been he vould not vent Mt. Pleasant, 364 337 to Pob Catron mit a ilekal varrant 66 86 vor Pob to gash urd maks sbort uy. Usage, 504 314 My gountryman must look a leedle 1, 49 B out uad not drade his lekal calf for WK 2 49 87 ilegal gounty varrants. N.Home* 1, 172 147 A Lexar DucuMan. < ts teas 7 32 ——— Charlotte, 84 72 o Elichart, i 64 Home Evidence East Boone, 47 105 No other preparation has won success at West Boone, 29 7 Tawen, ok, whecs es ae eee: 79 58 as it has been for years, the leading medicine It the | Homer, 84 44 porte eeaen raistlceeaoass 94 149 at home” is “a tower of strength abroad.” It would require a volume People to print all Lowell people of have said in favor of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Mr. Albert Estes, living at 28 East Pine Lowell Street, Lowell, for 15 years employed as boss carpenter by J. W. Bennett, president of the Erie Telephone Company, had a large running sore come on his leg, which troubled him a year, when he began to st : ® No. VALUE. take Hood's Sarsaparilla. The sore soon grew people to say whether we can raise Horses, 649 $21,830 oo | Jess in size, and in a short time disappeared. this amount of money or not. It Jennetts, 2 40 oo} , 3°: aponphy, 216 Ce Pisise x eee , a = z tral Street, Lowell, has a aa would probably be 35 miles through | Mules, 127 59735 00] swellings and lumps H a’ our county from northeast to south- | Cattle, 1,73 21,965 00] on his face and neck, ood's west, the way the grade would have iy 37: pe oo brasserie Sarsaparilla 3 ogs I 12 : to run. This would make Aa aot Beg el 35 pe Mrs. C. W. Marriott, wife of the First As- 5.000 = > . x pas ‘o 3 sistant Fire Engineer of Lowell, says that $35, besides the right ot way and | Class 354 and 10, 12,954 ©O | for 16 years she was troubled with stomach depot grounds. We believe it would —- disorder and sick headache, which nothing a our eople to a this Total $73,886 o0 | relieved. The attacks came on every.fort- pay peop pay Real pro art with 1o 73» night, when she was obliged to take her bed, A amount in order to secure the road. CoN ae | aided and was unable to endure any noise. She of free thought} 7, would be worth many times that Ber cout seucrd, 225+443 0°} took Hood's Sarsaparilla, and after a time the attacks ceased entirely. Many more might be given had we room. On the recommendation of people of Lowell, who know us, we ask you to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six forgs. Preparedonly by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass, {00 Doses One Dollar /NORTH MAIN STREET —o—— TRUE STORE First-ciass in every respect. ——$ i OPEN EVERY DAY IN WEEK. ———— FRIZELL & RICE, BUTLER, MO. | $100 REWa« The readers of the Times edto learn that there is igs dreaded disease that science hag ble to cnre in all stages, and that jtarrh. Hall’s Catarrn Cure is | positvie cure now known in the | fraternity. Catarth being a congy ; al disease requires a constitutiona}, ;ment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure ig takia, the ! ternally, acting directly upon | and mucus surtace of the sys | destroying the foundation of the | and giving the patient strength, b | ing up the constitution and assigs | ture in doing its work. The Props gave so much faith in its curative that they offer one hundred dollan, @ for a ek nel ns cal ee mi any case it tails to cure, testimonials. Send ‘Add F.J. CHENEY & CO. fe BaFSold by all Druggists, 75 Ct. § t e \a DRS. FRIZELL & RICE PHYSICIANS, SURGEON : AND ACCOUCHEURS, Office oyer their drug store on Main street, Butler, Mo. LOOK HERE FARMERS DON’T FORGET THE OLD Star Blacksmith Sh Third door east of Grange Store. will need your PLOWS RIGGED Up ready for the spring work soon, a JACK CIPSON, Will do it or anything else you done in his line in ship shape. Gj him a eall he is The Star Blacksmi SIMPSON & Cf Have Just Ordered a New and Lot ot sey-DRUGS, MEDICINES,-@a * sap-CIGARS, WINES, @a nar AND LIQUORS, For medicinal purpeses, and everything in the TOILET -:- LIN Commonly kept in a first-class drug ,yhouse; and havie fitted up a nice room in the back part ot the store, J. M. HOLT, Sinisa Steere D. W. SIMPSON Will be found contiunally on hand night and day to wait on their many custo- mers, 76m Bates County Jas. K. Brugler & Son Managers, Butler Mo- 4 —__+o20o_ This Company loans money at the lowest rates amd buys good notes. We also make loans on improved farms = for the Missourt Trust Co., of Se dalia, Mo. : ° = * z < LOAN If you want accommodation, call. We havea e line of fine improved farms, grazing lands and city property © for sale or exchange. ae Choice investments tor capitelists.