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Oy | , Che «Bul er Weekly Time yoL. 1X. oat lie Table Mo. Pacific R. R (LaxtxGToN & SouTHERN BraANncu.) Commencing Sunday, May roth, antil turther notice, trains will le Butler as follows : GOING NORTH. —Texas Express... Soe eC Express.. “ 1yy—Accommodation.. GOING SOUTH. . 14—-Texas Express < of 6-K. C. Express “ rag~Accommodation. eee S. L. & E. Div. GOING WEST. _—Paseenger Accomodation GOING EAST No, 146—Passenger. « y48—Accomodation 110 PM All passenger trains make direct con- section for St. Louis and all points east and all points south, Colorado, ia and all points west and north- wet, Forrates and other intormation applv to E, K. CARNEs. Agent. GH0. E. CATTERLIN DEPUTY ty} nd on SS M M 50A i5C A No. 145 147— County Surveyor AND CIVIL ENGINEER. Orders of Surveys left with me will receive prompt at- tention. Office East Side Square, over R. A. Atki- son’s store. Butler Bates County, Mo. “aW. HE, TUCKER, DENTIST, BUTLER, MISSOURI. OFFICE OPERA HOUSE. Lawyers. ractice in all e attended to. , Mo. RKINSON & GRAVES, ATTORNAYS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, down’s Drug Store. HoLcomn & SMITH, LAWYERS BUTLER, MO. Qounty National Bank. over |S. Francisco. NCISCO BROS. Attorneys a Ss. P- FRANcrsco. 335 PM] All legal business Mice ever Bates Co. Na- BUTLER, MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY JULY THE PRESIDENT DECLINES. account of my / 0! ~eo ady | ¢ 1 Will Not Attend the National Encampment. ito t ay countrymen. | I 1ould not be ir if I failed to;e Mr. Cleyelan¢ confes-. while d WW dl resent Pp . ——— ment. that Ihave been hurt by un-|I A aa and Manly Letter to Mayor’. ithy wud attacks upon me Francis of St. Louis—The Highest growin: 4 this eetter and the Office of the People Must Not which my actions Be Subjected to Insult. s have been imisrepre- | -see- eae St. Louis, July 7.—The followi letter addressed to the mayor of city, who was chairman of the con a privately, | b irend Army | ba o } is by no M Threats of per- violence and harm in case I] d mittee of representative citizens of | sow St. Louis, who verbally invited the | undertake the Gip inquesti president to visit this city during the | S¢OTes of inisgui holding of the encampment of the) Under the sti Grand Army of the Republic, next | feeling have made are not even con- | September, is printed in the Repub-| sidered. Rather than abandon my | lican, this morning, and explains itself | visit to the west and disappoint your | without further comment: ied, unbalanced men | o uation of excited | w citizens. I might. if I alone were | concerned, submit to the to ‘which it is quite openly asserted I uld be helple present at the encampment; but I should bear with me there the ExecuTIvE Mansion, ’ insult Wasuincton, July 4, 1887, § Hon. David R. Francis. Mayor and Chairman: My Dear Sir:—When I recieved | the extremely cordial and gratifying | the Louis, tendered by a number of her | fi je ly subjected if peo ple’s highest office. the dignity of which I must protect. and I believe a invitation from eitizens of St n that neither the Grand army of the representative men, to visit that ¢ Republie. as ranization. an or nor during the national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, I} anything like a majority of its mem bers, would time an acceptance of an invitation | ever. among the membership of this from that organization to the same | body there are some, as certainly effect, and had considered the pleas- | \t seems to be the case, determined to | ure which it would afford me if it} denounce me and my official acts at should be possible to meet not only | the national en sampment. T believe members of the grand army, Init the | people of St. Louis and other cities in the west which the occasion would | \v le | they should be permitted to do so | unrestrained by my presence as al I guest of their organization, or as give me the opportunity to visit. | The exactions of my public duties T! guest of the hospitable city in which their meeting is held A number of Grand Army Posts '} it \v felt to be so uncertain, however. tl intention, am Lans- Oflice front room over Bates t Law, Butler, Mo., will practice in the courts of Bates and adjoining unties. Prompt attention given to col- hardware store. 79 T W. SILVERS, e iy ‘on City. es AL. McBrid zitf J. R. BOYD, M. D. Max Weiner’s, 19-1y Butier, Mo. letions. Office over Wright & Glorius’ ATTORNEY : LAW Will practice in Bates and adjoining counties, in the Appellate Court at Kansas y, and in the Supreme Court at Jetter- e@Orrice North Side Square, over PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Orricr—East Side Square, over when first confronted by the dele. | have signified their I j gation of which you were the head T | informed, to remain away from the {expected to do no more at that time | encampment in case T visit the city \t ion of the | at that time. {than to promise consid Without considering | double invitation tendered me and to i the merit of such an excuse. I feel ] be the cause of ;t The time and! that I ought not to me to accept the same thereafter it | But the and |] sincerity of your invitation, reinforced | long before my invitations were re- by the heartiness of the people who | ceived. express the pleasure it would 1: nomattendance. possible. cordiality juce of the encampment were fixed Those desiring to partici- surround you, so impre ssed me that | pate in the proceedings should be I could not resist the feeling which first regarded, and nothing should prompted me to assure you on the be permitted to interfere with their | spot that I would be with you and intentions. Another the Grand Army of the Republic at | of more importance than all others the time designated if nothing hap-| remains to be noted. The fact was pened in the meantime to absolutely | referred to by you when you verbally prevent my leaving Washington. | presented the invitation of the citi- Immediately upon public announce- | zens of St. E Se 4 consideration | Louis that the coming ment of this conclusion. expressions. | encampment of the Grand Army of | emanating from certain important ' the ‘Republic would be the first held | members of the Grand Army of the \in a Southern state. I suppose this | Republic, and increasing in volume! fact was mentioned | a pleasing | and virulence, constrained me to|indication of the fraternal feeling review my acceptance of these invi- | fast gaining ground throughout the tations. The expressions referred | entire land and hailed by every patri- to go to the extent of declaring that! otie citizen as an earnest that the I would be an unweleome guest at | Union has really and in fact been the time and place of the national! saved in sentiment and spirit with | encampment. This statement is/ all the benefits it vouchsafes to a ]. M. Cristy, HOMOEOPATHIU PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, Office, tront room over P.O. All calls answered at oflice day or night. Tele- communication to all parts of the ne city, diseases, T. Sui Butler, Mo. Ten a specialty. DRS. FRIZELL & RICE. AND ACCOUCHEURS. Office over their drug store on North | Object or purpose by attemptir lain street, Butler, Mo. W. 1H. Batrarp, DRS. CHRISTY & BALLARD, Special attention given to temale C. BOULWARE, Physician and ‘on. Office north side square, Diseases of women and chil- based, as well as I can judge, upon | united people. I cannot rid myself certain official acts of mine involving | of the belief that the least discord important public interests, done ‘on this propitious occasion might under restraints and obligations of | retard the progress of the sentiment my oath of office, which do not ap-| of common brotherhood which the pear to accord with the wishes of | Grand Army of the Republic has so some of the members of the Grand | good an opportunity to increase and | Army of the Republic. I refuse to} foster. I certainly ought not to be believe that this organization. found- the cause of such discord in any | | | very largely by men entitled to last- jing honor, and consideration, and St. Louis are entitled to this unre- whose crowning glory it should be | served statement of the conditions that they are American citiz as as my contemplated visit and to with- part of its mission to compass any) dvaw my acceptance of your invi- tation. My presence in your city at the time you have indicated can be jintimidate the executive or coerce Secret Socteties. MASONIC. Butler Lodge, No. 254, meets irday in each month. fami Chapter Roy meets second Th Arc ’ in - mandery Knights Tem Tuesday in each mont 1.0. 0. FELLOWS. Bates Lodge No. 180 m ¥ night. oped Encampment No. 6 meets an ve esd si ach m d ath Wednesdays in each m e he first Masons, each ts every Mon- those charged with makiz 1d exe- | euting the laws, and yet the expres of but little moment compared with land har- ainment of your other tre you that Tabandon the importance of sions to which I have referred monious entert Ts cate such a prevalence of wt osts. feeling and such menace to uld be } casion wh 1 peaceful be ig t to the people ot ment to commemorate the soldier which | and a procession of 5,000 members reviewed by Department Commander Gately. Hannibal Hamlin and others. The procession | Cleveland’s portrait. which had been | pointed to the flag whereon the |president’s picture was portrayed. A murmur ran through the crowd. | ever encourage any | gradually swelling into loud com- | had been contemplating for some , scuudalous attack upon it. If. how-| plaints. The men, one and _ all, | positively refused to march under who, acting as escorts, were in the | 3 i quently raised. c | and would have given the flags back | were firm the mayor finally had the \ flag taken down, amid cheers, and been r |now under sentence to be hanged }eonvince the judges of that court ed upon patriotic ideas, composed | event or upon any pretext. It seems to me that you and the citizens of | which have constrained me to forego | PHYSICIANS, SURGEONS | well as’ veteran soldiers, deems it f your citizens. Hoping the en- an oc of nuch usefulness and that its pro- eedings may illustrate the highest atriotism of American citizenship, ampment may be Asion an yours very sincerely, Grover CLEVELAND. An Insult to the President. Ellsworth, Me., July 5.—The cele- ration of the Fourth here was sadly narred by a disgraceful partisan row | ver President Cleveland. The monu- | ead of the town was to be unveiled f the G. A. R. from here and else- | ‘here were in line. They were to be | | was progressing | Shoes Beat any $3 00 Shoes along the densely crowded stretts, when a banner bearing President that have ever been offered t own to the breeze by some demo- ratic members of the committee on rrangements. hove in sight. Aj adden halt was called. The com vanding officer, inreply to questions,” he banner. The Ellsworth comrades, roused and fre an, were especially “Tear it ries of down” were The mayor left his carriage and, | murrying to the front, sought the! ause of the trouble. The men told } 1im that they refused to march under | he likeness of 2 refused who veterans their hard-earned pensions | man o the rebellious south. As the men 1 i he procession moved on. If the above disgraceful proceed ings had taken place south of the | | Mason ‘what a ery of treason would have and) Dixon line, ye gods, | aised. Maxwell Case Concluded. St. Louis. Mo., July 8.—P. W. Fountleroy. one of the attorneys of | Hugh M. Brooks, alias Maxwell, August 26 for killing C. Arthur | Preller, stated to day that he would make no further effort to save his client. He said he had concluded not to attempt to carry the case to the United States supreme court because he did not think he could that there was a constitutional point involved. He would not apply to the governor because he believed that in a case involving the notoriety and prejudice of this one the gov- ernor would not interfere. WILLIAM JEWEL ‘ COLLECE, LIBERTY, MISSOURI. 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