The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 17, 1887, Page 4

QUAL FACTS. GAS WELL. From Prof. Broadhead’s geological survey we take the following statistics of coal deposits in the townships through which the Colorado road For Boring Made. would run if it should come by way of Butler, which we think is a very fair and just estimate: Twps. 40, 41 and 42, R. 30, (Sum- Butler. mit, Shawnee and Grand River Twps.) are underlaid by 5 feet of coal, although it all lies deep. Twp. 40, R. 31, (Mt. Pleasant) must | the gas be underlaid by the thick coal found | court house Monday night. Capt south and east, averaging 34 to 4] Hannah was elected chairman, P. C. BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Eprror. q J.D. Atten & Co., Proprietors, TERMS OF SUPSCRIPTION: TheWeexty Times, published every Wednesday, will be sent to any edaress one year, postage paid, for $1.25. 2S ee BUTLER MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1587. —_—_—_—X—X—X——as)>_lOOl = K. C., BUTLER & SOUTHERN R. R. is underlaid by about 8 feet of coal. } the lowest and best bid, being in sub- On Saturday last Messrs. Williams | square miles, are underlaid by about | He also laid before the meeting sev of New York, and Royce of Rich Hill, were in Butler looking up the title to the old Tebo & Neosho road | 20 miles square, or } twp. by 6 fees bed running north and south through | coal. our city. After examining the pub-| Since this report was made a 7 propositions, J. P. Edwards, Wm Page, P. C. Fulkerson, W. W. Hen: ry, Capt. E. P. Henry, John Atkison, of our citizens, they expressed them- | Hume, in Howard township, and on selves as satisfied that the title to} the recent survey made through New of the farms through which it pass-| A. Cope found 4} foot vein of coal es and signified their intention to | at a depth of less than 100 feet. The | town, just outside the incorporat City. From their conversation we would infer that this is the projected | now near the center of the township. road recently chartered to run direct | The western part of township, where an option on from one to sixty acre Mulberry coal fields, and which the | coal deposits. assert positively that surveyors will] at present Mine Inspector for the be in the field running over this | State of Missouri, made in 1885, we route within a week, and there will | copy the following: be no preliminary survey, but the would make a valuable competing | county, as required by law. The | satisfactorily arranged. line to the Gould system for Butler. | Walnut coal fields, (embracing These same gentlemen went overthe | New Home and Walnut townships) old grade Monday. which have within a short time se- _ cured railroad facilities, are being Suicide in Church. of Bulgaria, has been duly installed | from the amount of croppings on | gregational church this evening. of all Europe going to war. Wm. O. Jackson, in a long and | think, lays only i " : 2 > y ly in small troughs and | ple. well written article, published in the helen: The number of peri z Rich Hill Review, fully refutes the | charges made by a public meeting neighborhood with a drill therefore did the deed. this statement he publishes letters of Capt. H. C. Donohoe, J. C. Laugh- lin, President of the meeting that passed the resolutions and Parkin- son & Graves, formerly Vandenburg’s attorneys, now retained to assist the prosecution, all of which exonerates Mr. Jackson from any blame and gives him credit of doing his whole duty in the premises. —_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—__ Regarding the Drouth. Louis, says the Globe-Democrat, re- little hope of his recovery. port that while Kansas is burning tinder to be touched off at the first chance spark, that territory immedi- sing ately tributary to St. Louis and lying Congressman Stone has evidently along the routes of her many rail- been getting his work in on the La- roads is, on the whole, ina promis- bor party of the State, judging from ising condition, and, taken in the the following extract from resolu- | WTSt section, cannot be said, so far tions passed by the convention at | 9S heard from, to detract very seri- Sedalia last week: “We wish to} USly from the carrying capacity of: abolish the present unjustand waste- the roads. The cotton belt people, ful system of ownership of railroads | 2° has just brought here from and telegrams by private corpora-| Texas the first bale of cotton of the tions. * * © For this system we | 8°80, pronounce the ¢rop out- would substitute that of government |!°0k most promising, while along ownership and control for the bene- | the route of the Iron Mount- fit of the whole people, instead of #2 corn “and cotton, it is speech in the last Congress on this i i Question. ended in some of the members forci: his escape. der the bed. Bitten by a Dog. Abner Dowl arrived in town this morning from Lewis Station en route for Kansas City, where he goes for dry | treatment for a bite of a supposed mining town near Minden, in Barton bile and Ohio will be somewhat light, -county, located just over the line in the prospects for cotton are good. Kansas. Walter Hamilton and a | Wheat, being harvested, has not ex- neler had been hang- | Perienced the full rigors of the ing aroun: e town and on last | Season, but corn; which is not i ‘ 2 ‘4 yet | mad dog on his cheek. . Thursday induced teamster by the | made, will fare worse. lives von Lewis, ae wethapt ie name of Marlette to move them ————— 4 t the line into Missouri to = sg Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Sallie | along the road night before last a of his death. He and the woman then escaped with the team coming north. The man, however, was not hurt, but dragged himself to a lively tilt, overturning the vehicle Ber Mange and Scratches otevery a . ind cured in 30 minutes by Wool- and dashing Mrs. Taylor to the Sord’s Senitar? Lotion. A ae cure Butler, Mo. §I-1y We Will Soon Know What Underlies | A number of the stockholders of well company met at the feet. Toreach thick seams at Butler, | Fulkerson, secretary. Capt. Tygard shafts would have to be sunk 140 to} made a report of the directors that The Old Road Grade at Last to Be | 240 feet. they had accepted the bid of the Most of Twp. 41, R. 31, (Mound) | Clinton Drilling Company, it being Twp. 38, R. 32, (Howard Twp.) 27 | stance to bore 2,000 feet for $4,000. 5} feet of coal. eral sites on which to bore the well Twp. 39, R. 32, (New Home Twp.) | The following gentlemen presented lic records and talking to a number | foot vein of coal was struck near| J.T. Shannon, and R. G. Hartwell. The vote on the propositions were taken by ballot and that of J. P. the grade had reverted to the owners | Home township by the Santa Fe, J.Q: | Edwards was accepted by a large majority. This site is northwest of build a road over it from Rich Hill } coal shafis of the Rich Hill series | limits, and is on the highest eleva- to Harrisonville and on to Kansas | have been moved westward from R.| tion around Butler. Mr. Edwards’ H. to New Home township and are | proposition is to give the company Odessa, Mo., Aug. 15.—When the bly ejecting Henry while Flannigan jumped out of the window and made The girl and her sister then went to the residence of Henry and broke @ cane over her alleged seducer's head, when he and Flannigan ran un- The citizens then gathered en masse and told the girl that if she ground. The buggy was mashed to | and perfectly oata publication : perfectly harmless. Warranted 4 a Reese ted the horsealso badly hurt-|by W. J. Lansdown; Druggist, | 2 }%2 Zesrs from the date. of the publication | | | Ep. Tres:—In the issue of last The Site Chosen and Contract | week's Democrat we noticed an arti- | cle headed, “The Courts,” in which | ean be found a trace of ceysure, just | what j | > e of ground at one hundred dollars per wher from K. C. to Rich Hill, through the | this road would run, has the richest | acre if water, coal, oil or gasis found | tents of that body against any sucks and if they conclude to buy the land | imputation. . : sf n . facti of the court from the return of the se Herald so flippantly asserted would From the report of the Mine In-| he is to donate one acre. Previous to our meeting, about 20 sheriff } ee nanen ofthe feat hotane fe not run by Butler. These gentlemen } spector of Bates county, M. L. Wolfe, The directors were notified to | men met and issued resolutions pur- . Whereupon i = Serpe conditions of close contract with the Clinton Drill- | porting tocome from amass meet- ing Company and sign necessary | ing of the citizens of Hudson town- bonds. It was the understanding | ship denouncing the courts, officers, “It is utterly impossible to give} that work is to commence at once |and the grand jury of Bates county. line will be located as they go. This | the area of workable coal in Bates | or just as soon as preliminaries are | Unwilling to let such a misrepresen- tation go uncontradicted, the meet- ing of June 21st was called and res- olutions were passed disclaiming any Elmdale, Kan., Aug. 13.—Wesley | part in the previous mass meeting C. Parker, a young man about 20] and professing our faith in our law Prince Ferdinand, the new ruler | developed. The indications are that years old, shot himself in the Con- | and its executors as the proper chan- nel of action in such matters. Now Dg an nal Jour- ENED} in office, and in spite of their threat- | the hillside and in ravines, they cover | The young man joined with the | after several weeks have elapsed and | cop nae et nal publgved on the America, vi ening attitude Turkey and Russia|a large territory and will prove a congregation in singing the doxology, | (we understand) some of the great have not so much as chirped. It | source of vast wealth to Bates county. | and after the minister had pronounc- | votaries of denouncing law, &c., have would be funny if this little insig-]The Mulberry is the same series. | ed the benediction rose to his feet, | crawfished, the Democrat comes out nificant country, scarcely a speck on} From indications I am inclined to | drew a revolver and saying, “Ladies | and denounces them and in so doing the map, should be the direct cause believe there is less barren ground | and gentlemen, I bid you all good {it has denounced our meeting also; in these fields than in the Rich Hill| by,” drew the trigger. The ball | although there was no incentive for coal series. The Hudson coal, I| entered a little below the right nip-| its being called only to uphold the courts, a task taken at this late day Since then Parker has talked a| by the Democrat. As proof of this ; oles put down in the Gilbreath | little, saying he had no money, and | we cite to an article in the Demo- : i D will justify] was discouraged and sickly, and | crat when this affair first transpired st, Rockville a few weeks ago. In | this conclusion.” in which the sheriff was Prt A widowed mother lives near | vindicated from any blame in this The railroads running into St. Sabetha, Nemaha county. There is | affair. It says the sheriff and prose- Fee retrererie a moolthy lise. Fr} a8 cuting attorney have been praised in Smiths BILE BEANS “spars this meeting, (well did not it do the | @recty and SANS PES ean ee See TE same some classed with a species of hybridized pons asitmorum. In the combination, proportion, and preparation of its ingredients, Hood's Sarsaparilla sccorapth other preparations entirely tail. Pecu- liar in its good name at home, which is a “tower of strength abroad,” peculiar in the phenomenal sales it has attained, Hood’s Sursaparilla is the most success- ful medicine for puritying the blood, giving Notice | date the havin to comprehend. Starting out onthe | grounds that respect to courts is the proper basis of good society, claim- |ing to have been raised to respect |eourts, admitting their fallibility, jand anticipating a state of society without them, declaring to have strictly pursued such a course in the Anderson and Vandenburg case, not attempting in any instance to -| manufacture public sentiment in the slightest particular. It proceeds -| boldly to condemn any proceedings, any meetings, any publications made to influence courts. It says public 7 i: else. It cured the humor, and seemed to book No. 36, p . meetings have been held an the tone up the whole body and give me new to Oneat ite, Cares tol Rg de neighborhood of Rockville, wherein} jie.» J. F, Nrxox, Cambridgeport, Mass. | ty of Bates snd state ee taste resolutions were passed praising or | Send for book giving statements of cures. The west half of the southeast condemning this one and that one, owing entirely to the set of men calling them, azd they are all wrong. The sheriffand prosecuting attorney have been praised or con- demned turns. Now as secretary ication. Missouri, which conveyance wa : by te: A Order of Publication See nn ona of a meeting of citizens held at Rey- | srarm or Missouri, ly described in gaid deed of = as, defau! a8 n made ; nard, June 21st, (and the only meet-| County of Bates, ; = one of said notes for ing of its nature I know of being s|convened in this vicinity or else- it says “They are all wrong.” In the light of the facts I ask an expla- itself. For of all things to be ab- horred it is putting one in the “boots” of “poor Tray” when he does not deserve it. I would have sent this tothe Democrat but for fear of it being a factory of public sentiment, as was an item of news sent to it, at any rate it never pub- lished it, so I presume it so con- strued it, as it wasa description of a body of men who called themselves law-abiding citizens and at the same time were denouncing the law. In conclusion I will say that we | istration with the joey | es neice none deceased, have granted | bate Court, in Hood?’ ri Whereas, Nathan 00 3 his wife, by their deed of trast . 1883, and recorded in the Reo Sarsaparilla (2#2"Ssa: 32, page 67, conveyed to tea the following described req) Is a peculiar medicine, and is carefully pre- a ‘ the county pared by competent pharmacists. The com- | ~The northeast’ eee tm Dination and proportion of Sarsaparilla, Dan- | quarter of the southeast: q . delion, Mandrake, Yellow Dock, and other | Bineteen (9) and the north i. h remedial agents is excinsively peculiar to | tor oF section: teases oes Hood’s Sarsaparilla, giving it strength and | (40) of range twenty-nine (9 .) curative power superior to other prepa- | acres More or less, which ¢ rations. A trial will convince you of its | Made im trust to secure the ss " certain note fully descrived }j great medicinal value. Hood's Sarsaparilla trust ‘and whereas, default hac ‘ the payment ofa : Purifies the Blood note ae inten : es creates and sharpens the appetite, stimulates or rhala T hol low, therefore, at 4 the digestion, and gives strength to every | [5 ‘the ean teu pote organ of the body. It cures the most severe | proceed to sell the above described pea cases of Scrofula, Salt Rheum, Boils, Pimples, pet sate oer eines = Nighest and all other affections caused by impure | jn the city of Butler, counts tthe cog thew blood, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Headache, | Missouri, on Bates, A Kidney and Liver Complaints, Catarrh, Rheu- Friday, Au 5 matism, and that extreme tired feeling. ateece the fie agust 19th, 1887, é “Hood's Sarsaparilla has helped me more | gnd'so'clock in the afters aaa BF for catarrh and impure blood than anything | the pexpeses of satisfying said dg : else I ever used.” A. BALL, Syracuse, N.Y. | 8nd costs. c.0 Creates an Appetite “T used Hood's Sarsaparilla to cleanse my blood and tone up my system. It gave mea Trustee's Sale. good appetite and seemed to build me over.” Whereas, Gayford Do! E. M. Hate, Lima, Ohio. lass, his wife, and David 0. “1 took Hood's Sarsaparilla for cancerous | ©; Dever, his wife. humor, and it began to act unlike anything (Communicated) Trustee's Sale. Reynard, Aug. 8th. 1837. or how much we are not able tion two (2), and northeast er of te 9 peb, Hood s Sarsaparilla quarter (1-4) of the halt 0) Sold by all druggists. $1; sixfor£5. Preparedonly | the southeast Quarter ti-4) of ton 4 by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. | and ten acres off of east of northw, ter [1-4] of northeast quarter [1-4} 100 Doses One Dollar _{ fourteen [14], all in townahip 0 of ra! pent pine (29), and P : seven {f], bl twenty-one {21}, 1 fteen (15) inclusive. : 4 five (25) im town of Rockville, In the circuit court ——- county, Missouri, - ae ele prowdeanby ‘the June term, 1887. e state of Missouri at trusi the relation and tothe use of Oscar Reeder, aredon to et ae teatime he ex-officio collector of the revenue of Bates | said Oscar Rice, trustee, the {hes} county in the state of Missouri, plaintiff, vs | sheriff ot Bates count: “ ~ 2 Jacob Couple, defendant. Civil action for de- | to sell the property Rereinbefore . « % linquent taxes. trust, pec, Now, at this day comes the plaintiff herein, | 20, bumposes of said trust, and an by her attorneys, and it appearing to the satis- | from the county of Tretes and bas f siad e) I wish to vindicate the in- tosell cation that plaintiff has commenced a suit Paes against himin this court by petition, the ob- oor and general nature of which is to enforce house. 15 mas city of Ba county ¢ the lien of the state of Missouri for the delin- Th day, At . 1 quent taxes of the vear 1885, amounting in ag- hursday, mgm 8th, gregate to the sum of $4.28, together with the | between the hours of 9 o’clock in interest, costs, commission and fees, upon the following described tracts of land situated in Bates ee Missouri, to-wit: Lot 12 in block 22, in the city of Rich Hill, Missouri. and that unless the said defendant be and appear at the next term of this court to be begun and holden in the city of Butler, Bates | «4 eounty, Missouri, on the first Monday in No- a PO) Gi vember, 1887, and on or before the sixth dey of saldterm, (ifthe term shall eo longcon- | eo canon pecatel iss C S4-4t. tinue, andif not, then before the end of the | monthson re- term) and plead to said petition according to | Dollar. Liberal discount allot law, the same will be taken as confessed and | ers, agents and judgement rendered according to the prayer | The Poticr Ga- of said petition, and the abeve described real | of New York is the Onty logitimat estate sold to satisfy the same. 8) @ mes, & b- $OX Frankl iin adusre Ne Ye lished’ in Butler, Bates county, Missouri, Sai catch! for four weeks successively, the last insertion to be at least four weeks before the first day of the next term of said court. A true copy from the record. ‘Witness my hand as clerk aforesaid with the ‘SEaL.} seal of said ceurt hereunto affixed. ne at office in Butler, on this 4th day of Au- Bast, 1881. JOHN C HAYES, Circuit Clerk. . was thing) yet with a general sweep Eat"ae cual in medical science. of the same kind of censure on Dealers in the Celebrated John Deer 3 Bradley Stirring Fi Bradley, Canton. Deere and Brown Cultivators ; Pattee New Departure Tongueless Cultivators. Deeieé Keystone Rotary Drop Com Plat With Deere ‘All Steel Check Rower with Automatic Reel. Stalk Cutters, New Ground Plows, Harrows and Sulkv Piows - Jas. M. Suarp. Pecuhar WAGONS, BUGGIES AND CARRIAGES. ALL KINDS OF GRASS SE Hardware, Groceries, Iron, Nails, Wagon Woodwork, &e. ishes cures where strength and creating an appetite. Administrator’s Notice. is hereby given, that letters ofadmin- will annexed upon the estate , by the Bates county Pro- tes county, Mi: amy! ot _ fi 7a All —— ins! are a them to him for sliowance, Sithia