The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 23, 1887, Page 5

| BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES enema maces NOTICE TO TEACHERS :—Public Ex- J aminations for the benefit of those per- desiring to teach in Bates county, be held on the 3d Saturday of each month in the Ohio street school house, Butler, Mo., and on the st Saturday of month in the West side school house, Hill, Mo., the anne oc , F eenciD| each day at 9 o'clock, A. N . W. W. GRAVES. County School Commissioner. LOCAL ITEMS J. K. Brugler wants a lot ot good farm loans, running trom 6 to 18 “months. This 1s a good chance for farmers to get short loans, or sell short real estate paper. ~ oa Spring will soon be here, gentle » Anna. Get your plows sharpened for \ spring work. The M. E. church at Clinton is having a successtul revival meeting. The Montrose Democrat wants street lamps. Eclectric is the latest, Bro, Brison. Thos. Irish, of the Rich Hill Re- | view, was taking in the sights of Butler Thursday. The blue birds will make their appearance in a few days if this T pleasant weather continues The streets of Butler presented a city appearance Saturday and our merchants drove a lively trade. J. K. Brugler & Son have a large lst of fine improved farms for sale cheap and on easy terms. 16tf Peter Lennartz, aged 82 years, was found dead in his room at the resi- dence of his son, in Montrose, Wed- | 4 nesday last. | wan Gi th Ata railroad meeting 1 meeting in Hume -last week, $4,500 was subscribed to secure the Chicago, Fort Scott and Texas railroad. "has suggested the idea to the Lex- ington ,Register of removing National | capitol to to that city. G. W. Eichler marshal of the city of Butler. 2 Longton, Elk county, Kansas. Holden will haye waterworks. against. It would seem from th that there are e are torty fossils in fossils in Holden. ‘ tensburg Journal-Democrat, Miss Belle Rogers, daughter of Col. Miss Katie Glessner entertained house Monday night. The part | was given in honor of her cousin, Miss Hattie Glessner, of Paola, Be Kansas. Judge J. N. Ballard, ot Ballare : Bates county, was in the city the fir. ot the week. ‘s tension of the St. Louis & Empor this summer.—Montrose Democrat. Wm. E. Walton and wife and qs Mrs. C. T. McFarland took in the Patti concert at Kansas City Friday } The tickets of admission | were only six, five ‘and tour dollars, iT. night. 0. and there was only about $15,000 ‘ worth of seats sold. The thriving little town of Wind- ng °F, over in Henry county, was visited uti @ by a disastrous fire one night last week. Besides other property two - lvery stables burned. In one ot the Je stables a number of vehicles and Ht @ bout twenty nead of horses were . | tet, struck another vein, which i | Quality of cannel coal. If his fi 7 @tno distant day. We understa se Se —— oy 2 The State capital removal question the Eichler “authorizes us to say that he will be a candidate betore the democratic city convention for R. W. Grierson, spent a couple of days in the city last week, and then returned to his new paper at Last week a vote was taken and the Proposition carried by 496 for to 40 Cc. j. “Hynes, editor of ¢ editor of the War- and A. W. Rogers, of Warrensburg, were united in marriage on the 11th. umber of her friends at the Glessner He is strong in the belief that Montrose will get the ex- A farmer drilling a well near Mul- berry has passed through a four-foot ) Yein of coal, and, at a depth ot 200 ~ Pronounced by judges to be an extra find should prove to be true, you can for a real estate boom in Homer he will continue his prospecting until More fully satisfied ia regard to the As we go to press Jos. Herrold, of Elkhart township, is being tried triea for cutting Joe T. Smith. Farmers, it you want a good price for butter during the next 15 days, | go to Pharis & Son, square. south side Mr. and Mrs. have been east visiting relatives and friends the past month, returned home the latter part of last week. Pleasant Hill has no citv govern- ment, and, the Review says, will not be organized until the bondholders agree to take 25 cents on the dollar. Sheriff Glazebrook, please send Aus. a bottle of soothing syrup. After two fair counts and the dis- miisal of the suit the child still cries. nature. his in the winter. W. J. West, years in the penitentiary. Rose will take place. An exchange says: not marry at all.’’ before taking the taral step. ed when friends separated them. police force by the city counci Trimble, resigned. Times in their selection. trom Kansas City. the company, Ss rampage. a work, y 4, st | away from home <t a W.G, Womack. Mr. quality. Call and see him, ind | the platform before him. nd most ludicrous. cP K. Brugier. who | You should not getimpatient with All things equalize them- selves—the rich man gets his ice in the summer and the poor man gets {A Four Foot Vein of Coal Found at vast field of superior coal. | gentlemen that H. M. Gailey, who | has been engaged in sinking a shaft for the murder of S. K. Reynolds, on the first day of last March, was tried at Lamar, Friday, aad the jury gave him 25 We are requested to state that the county Grange will meet at Prairie school house, seven miles northwest ot Butler, Saturday, which time a public installation of ofhcets ‘*Girls, it you can’t find a gentleman to marry, do This 1s sound advice, and girls who are about to mairy a lady ought to weigh it well J. West Good, the **Big Injun’’ of the Sedalia Bazoo, and Geo. F. McCullough, who has charge ot the city circulation of tae Democrat, had a little set-to in Sedalia one day last week. A tew blows only were pass- Paul Dickerson was placed on the 1, Thursday night, in place of Howard There are few hetter or more competent men for the position of nightwatch, and the counci! have the approval ot the The Winner Investment Company have purchased 20,000 acres ot land in Clay county, just across the river What they in- tend to do with-it 1s best known to Probably they intend to try to induce manutactories over the river and sell out at a big margin. Saturday was a lively day in But- ler; you could almost see a thousand men making the dirt fly at the out- skirts ot the city, ties rolling in, steel rails being laid, and real estate on a The wide--awake solicit- ing committee of the Chicago, Ft. Scott & Texas were getting in their A house on the farm of J. H. Burk, four miles west of town, oc- cupied by a Mr. Hart, was entirely destroyed by fire Sunday, together with its contents. The tamily were the time and have no means ot knowing how the fire originated. The loss falls very heavy on Mr. Hart, as all that was saved was the clothing they had on. The attention of the readers of the Times 1s called to the large adver- tisement ot our enterprising friend W. recently purchased the large and elegant stock ot Geo. F. Wilhams, on North Main street, and it 1s a pleasure to note that he is having a splendid trade, which is a guarantee that he is’ selling goods at bottom prices. His stock is all fresh and of the best Skeptical people will doubt the report that recently a mesmerist who was lecturing at Detroit obtained such control over the minds of many persons in his audience in a recent lecture as to make them see an or- ange tree grow into fulf maturity from a seed which he threw upon So great was the delusion that men rushed up and began to fill their pockets with the imaginary fruit, and wrangled | tor their outlay. and fought tor its possession. When | he broke the spell the scene was ENTERPRI SE REWARDED. stomee Tt LEGG "© STAND Hc TESES Amoret, Homer Township. ee Another proot that enterprise will be rewarded and Bates county is one Yester- day we were informed by reliable at Amoret the past winter, at a depth of 55 feet struck a tour toot vein of coal, a lump of which he has placed on exhibition at the office of J. K. Brugler & Son, in this city. Mr. Gailey and associates are very much pleased over their good luck and Propose to commence taking out coal tor local use at once. The Times offers its congratulations and proposes to keep an eye on Homer in the future. Tops, Cushions, Wheels, Axles, Shafts, Poles and Dashes for sale. BUGGIES & WAGONS REPAIRED, REPAINTED & MADE GOOD AS NEW. TRY ME. I a PLEASE YOU. East Room Iron Block, BUTLER, MO. Tr. WwW. LEGG, The jury were just five minutes in $15,000 Damages Awarded. making up their mind to discharge| The suit bv change of venue trom J. B. Saulsman, Monday evening. | Jackson county, of Mrs. Martha A. Sauleman was charged with assault-! Furnish vs. the Missour: Pacific ing Ike Kelley with a pistol a short (railroad, tor injuries received in a time ago,in Jettress’ saloon in Butler. | wreck near Kansas City Feb. last, was disposed of in our circuit court Wednesday evening by the jury bringing in a verdict in favor ot the lady for $15,000. The amount sued for was $25,000. The suit was ably prosecuted by Wallace & Gates, ot Kansas City, assisted by John T. Smith of this city. The railroad company was represented by Adams & Harrison. Ut was claimed in the trial that Mrs. Furnish had received spinal injuries from which she would probabiy never recover. The case | i being one of the most important on drivers are authorized to apply the} the docket tor many terms, attracted ee lash. On the contrary, the demo-| more than ordinary attention, and I am told that there are in the qt cratic party of the city have a hun-| 4). large audience present give John | English language but tour words } dred good competent T. Smith the credit of making the | endmg in ‘‘ceed.’’ Ioan find *‘pro- capable ot playing marshal, and one | peg speech on either side. ceed,” ‘exceed’? and ‘succeed,’ of the lot will be nominated and : but I cannot find a fourth. Willyau eleced. or any of the readers of the Daily News help me out of thedilemma =f] which I find so exceedingly aggra~ vating?—K. C. News. Bi Pay Up. All taxes not paid on or before February 15th, 1887, in Summit township, the collector will proceed to levy for same according to law. W. F. LaFo.vert, Collector. A Kansas Man's Awful Crime. Augusta, Kansas, Feb. 18.—Con- Judge Booker Powell gave us a substantial call Saturday. He is considerably enthused over the pros- pects of the new railread through his neighborhood, and informed us that there will be no trouble about the right of way. It is a pleasure to note that the good farmers of that section are not standing in their own hght. A Witty Mississippian. Hon. John M. Allen, the witty member from Mississippi, again in- creased his popularity in the house by his speech on the diplomatic and consular bill. During his speech Perry Belmont asked the gertleman it he “‘would yield to a question.’” ‘No,’ said Mr. Allen, “I can not yield to anything but applause.’ Atter closing his speech, a general and hearty applause having subsided, he added: “I will now retire to the cloak room and recetye the congrat- ulations ot my triends.’’ Both ex- pressions were greeted with hearty laughter and general appJause. The genial Sam Jones opened his first sermon in New York with the words: ‘People say to me ‘Jones, why don’t you preachChrist? You only preach law.’ To all such I say: ‘Do you suppose I’ll bring my God down here among you cutthroats?’ ’”’ Sam never dared say that ot Chicago people. All that he called them was *‘skunks*’’ Adolph Weil, our enterprising boot and shoe merchant, who has been in Clinton the weeks, The republican party ot Butler has but one man in all its ranks ca- pable of filling the office of city marshal. That manisJ. H. Morgan, and, so far as the republican party 1s concerned, he seems to have a life lease on the office. . He will be re- nominated for the April election and the party leaders will get out with their drover whips and drive the cattle up to the polls to vote for him. Ot course no steer must get contrary onthe road, and if he should the past two or three winding up their business over there, spent Sundav in the city and returned Monday morning to finish up. During his absence his tather, R. Weil, of St. Louis, 1s on guard at their store in this city and is holding prices downto the old notch. J. K. Bruglar wants more app cations for first-class loans. 7 per cent. interestand commissions. 4-tf j 7 ql tf } i and men Marshal Logan, ot Rich Hill, in- tormed us that a miner was accident- ly killed near that place Monday. A load of them started from the Hill in a two herse wagon tor the mines, when out of town a short distance they overtook another wagon and a race took place, and in crossing a bridge the wagon went down and one of the men was killed. Mr. Logan disremembered his name. R. S. Catron has secured the services ot Ben H. Smith, who will act as special agent to collect all back taxes south of the river. If you are delinquent get yourselves ready to meet him. By reterence to our announcement column, you will find the name ot our young triend, A. A. Badgley, who announces himself a candidate betore the next democratic township conyention for the office of constable aa : The old jail has seven occupants, of Mt. Pleasant township. All who "i E . | as followes: are acquainted with him know him James Carrol, grand to be a young man fitted for the Seth Thomas, malpractice, David position, and to those who may not | Lauderback, petty larcenv. John know him the Times will have no; Smith, :petty larceny, John Brown, hesitancy recommending him petty larceny. Fred Asher, burg: larceny, An M. K. & T. brakeman by the name of John McCarty, was in- stantly killed at Deepwater bridge, near La Due, Henry county, Wed % ee = nag and| tery, Wiley McGuire, disturbing pip apie ee what % ? : ~Yworthy of their support. Tr. \- - M. nesday last. He was on top of an} RB, Joley lives a short distance south- ea field for incest with his three daugh- extra high car setting a brake when his head came in contact with a cross beam of the bridge, The lick was so severe the whole top of his scalp was torn off His body tell to the water below and was recovered with diffi culty by the train men and taken to west ot Butler and 1s a democrat of} Our enterprising merchant, Lewis the strictest type. It he should be} Hoffman, is doing a wholesale busi- nominated and elected he will make| ness in his line from the looks of a reliable and taithtul officer. things in his store room Monday. SSS He has on hand at present over three A negro brute made an assault on | taousand dollars worth of hides and Mrs, Nixon, at Nevada, one night} furs, consisting of otter, beaver, ters-—the eldest 18, the youngest 13 years. Canfield came to this city from Springfield, Mo., about two years ago. He was a prominent member of the Grand Army post of this city and a short time ago was recom— Chnton, last week. Mr. Nixon is anemploye| wolf, fox, coon, mink, skunk, | mended for the position of city mar- Thi k CB of the railroad company, and being opossum, muskrat, and badger. | shal by members of the post. CORO rere crea ri calledioutlatevat night to repair an|The most of them were pur-| The affidavit tor the arrest was Lewis, as a candidate tor the office ot constable of Mt. Pleasant town- ship. Charley is known and hked by everybody. He is one of our most eterprising men, and a sound democrat. Take our word for it, if he don’t get there, he will be tramp- ing on the heels of the tellow that does, for when it comes to rustling Charley don’t allow anybody to get ahead of him. We predict he will be a hard man to beat. engine, lett his wite alone in the! chased by him im Kansas and the house. He had not been absent/ Indian Territory. It is by far the long until the negro entered the largest invoice ever in one store in house, and grabbing Mrs Nixon by| Butler. Among the lot are about Soo the throat with one hand and pre-| coon, 500 skunk and 300 wolt skins. | senting a large pistol with the other, | wr, Hoffman is a rustling business demanded that she be submissive Or! man and deserves to,make a good he would kill her. The poor woman | profit on his investment, which we was badly trightened, but, instead of hope he will do. obeying his command, broke loose from him and ran into the yard, W. W. Graves, one of Bates screaming at the top of her yoice. county’s most energetic and promis- The neighbors were aroused by her! ing young men, submits his claims cries and came to her assistance, and | and asks the democratic party to give the negro was forced to retreat. | him the nomination for county school Officers were summoned and went| commissioner. Mr. Graves has been atter him in hot pursuit, but up to this | a prominent teacher in the public date he has not been caught. The | schools of this county for a long | poor woman has been prostrated time, and is so — seg 2g ever since and for a while it was| requires no itroduc . | - thought she would not recover. | At present he holds the office to} | Save Your Eyes. MAREE TS Ss | which he aspires by appointment! DR. JOHN A. HULL will. visit FLOUR. | | from the governor. As to how well | Butler on Feb. 18th, pol and on 1 have and will keep on the performs its functions we leave | rooms at the Laclede Hotel, w! hand a large stock of Inde- | for the teachers. of the county sat Be ‘bern ie ent a pendence flour which 1 will sell very low. | the public to judge. For two terms! 54 diseases of the eyes. Ample QUEEN OF PANTRY, sworn to by the three daughters. BANKERS LOAN AND TITLE 60. tigi MONEY! MONEY!! Plenty of Cheap Money. Farm loans in sums from $200 }, to $20,000 on one to five years time. Low Rate of Interest, no delay On good titles money is fur- nished immediately. Loans on City property for 1,. 2, 3 and 5 yeafs time. Judge Ballard, of Spruce, called Saturday to get us to print some right of way blanks. He informed us that the railroad meeting at Ballard last week, notwithstanding the ter- rible bad roads and inclemency of the weather, was a grand success, all present being enthusiastic tor the road, and were only waiting for the drum to tap when their committee would leap into the saddle and pro- ceed to take mght ot way through that township. The -citizens of Spruce are a wide-awake people and do not stand back for mud, rain or fire when it comes to an enter- .Annual and:semi-annual inter- est. jhe was principal of the public} satistaction given. Don’t forget the i schools of Rockville, (which speaks | dav. pees Far Ee ir i y, CHALLENGE, q foo for his abilities) at the close of To Tax-Payers. prise that affects their interests. We | FAMOUS, which he came to Butler, and, form-| Tax payers of Mt. Pleasant to admire such pluck and_ sincerely dge | ship will take notice that thew taxes. hope they may get ten fold in return ing a co-partnership with ju for 886 are now due: snd/aucst ae | Parkinson, began the — o | paid this month, December, or the law. He is a bright, intelligent! penalty will be added. young man, and one that the Totes | 3 AARON BEL, | predicts will yet make his mark. | Special rates on 500 pound lots. Also keep on hand a good stock ot home flour. W. G. WOMACK. North Main street. | Two great enemics-Hood’s Sarsaparilia and impure blood. The latteris utterly deteated by the peculiar medicine.