The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 4, 1888, Page 4

CLEANSE THE SHIP OF STATE. We agree with the Holden Enter- prise that the demucratic party should nominate a business man for Governor, one who is youngand en ergetic, who is thoroughly posted in the needs of the times, and his the courage of his convictions. There is no doubt that politics in Missouri JER WEEKLY TIMES ‘, D. ALLEN Eprtor. » Atieen & Co., Proprietors, 3 PoRMS OF SUFSCRIPTION: To, eenty Times, published every @educaday, will be sent to any i daress VERY SIGNIFICANT. ‘Lhe President's Course indorsed. Jumes Russell Lowell Voices the Bay State Feelings. Mr. Cleveland's Message Praised as a crippled our wealth. Tome it is a| pleasant thing that the men of the | south and north are combining upon | a question which is of interest to us | all. We find now, and will find for- ever, that there is no reason why the | two sections should be embroiled. | Sectional lines at distinction no long- | er exist, and we are at last one peo- | A GHASTLY FIND. Fourteen Dead Bodies in a Cellar. Dakota More than Rivals Kansas and No-Man’s-Land. Strange Disappearance of Travelers ome vear, postage paid, tor $1.25. MISSOURI. JAN. 4th, 1583, BUTLER WEDNESDAY, oo We repeat, Judges Sullens and Bos wel! need no defense of their posi- 4ion on the printing questior. Pr. hibition candidate for Govern- or of Missouri, Miss Phu:be Couzins; for Lieutenant Governor, Charles P. Jobnson.—Globe Democrat. We have no doubt that Mr. Austin anc every member of the republican purty in Bates county would like to hav. the spectre of the past buried iu ob ivion, but like Bancho’s Ghest it wil not down at the bidding. Miss Phoebe Couzins, of t Louis is vexed at President Cleveland be-| aus he did not appoint her U. S. Marshal. If Phoebe wants offi fhe ought to emigrate to Kaneas, wh so petticoats stand on equal foot- ang saan rae with breeches. The terrific wind and snow st orm | é which prevailed in New York, Min- mesota, fowa, Nebraska and Western Kancas Saturday dispersed before it aeached this far. The telegraph re Ports the storm one of the most se- were ever known. The snow drifted in such proportions that nearly all raiload travel was suspended and #@ nwaber of large ships were driven ashore and wrecked. _ This extract from Cleveland’s mes- ®age is good. enough platform for anybody to stand on: “The simple and plain duty which ‘we owo the people is to reduco taxa- tion to the necessary expense of an * economical operation of the govern * wnent, and to restore to the business wf the country the money which we ‘ hold in treasury through the per- _* ®ersion of governmental powers.” ; Wichita. Kas., Dec. 31.—Dr. H. ~ @. Burleigh dropped dead at half _ “past 9 o'clock this morning by the ' bedside of his-dying wife. He was standing by the side of the bed gazing at her intently when _ he suddenly put his hands to his ' ead and calling out, “My God, my _ - poor wife is dying,” dropped to the oor. : » A physician living next door was * @n the spot almost immediately but Pronounced life ended by apoplexy. Missouri levies a tax of 40 cents ~ @n the $100 valuation for state pur- poses. Half of this amount is paid _ for interest and reduction of the “state debt. A fourth of the balance _ gomes back to the school districts aasapart of the public fund. This _ Aeayes just 15 cents on the $100 to sean the state government. Illinois © #@s out of debt, and yet the state tax has become too much of a sentiment jand not enough attention paid to the needs of the commonwealth and the qualifications and fitness of the candidate to successfully adminis- trate so that such object might be accomplished. The fact that a man fought in the confederate or Union | army, was a major, colonel or gener al, or only proudly bears the breveted title, is no valid reason why he should receive the sufrages of the people. These are dead and past issues and no matter how brave or true a soldier in times of times of peace the man to conduct the affairs of the government should war, in understand the use of the pyuning hook and we should not dwarf and stunt the growth of state to pay com pliments or reward field. valor on 2e of that brave man who dis- ing personal interests, y for & principal. fights if a ma linevery respect however, that he was a soldier in -this or that army should not be dispar; when the prosperity of the state de pends to a great extent upon the man who holds the executive office and if she wishes to take that stand among her sister states which her vast re sources and great wealth should command, she must choose her gov ernor with great care and circum spection. Like all parties that have been in power as long as the demo- cratic party in Missouri barnacles fasten themselves upon the ship of state, and the ship has to be taken into the docks and thoroughly scrap- ed and cleansed. The time has now come for this cleansing and the ques- tion is if the democratic party will have thecourage to do its whole duty in the matter. The Record refuses to answer the questions propounded to its editor by the Times of last week, viz: “Did the Record not combine with the only other paper in Bates county to secure the county printing at their own prices?” When the republican party was in power did not the Record receive $1700 for doing work which cost its editor $75? Did not the republican court let wooden bridges for $15,000, which could have been built for a third or fourth of that amount? Did the editor of the Record, Mr. Austin, expose the frauds of these officials when they became so palpab'y corrupt that the honest men of the party repudiated and helped defeat them? ful answer to these questions will greatly relieve an anxious public. A truth- As long as Judge Sullens has been in public life in Bates county the en- the! We all love, honor and revere | ple. Tobject tothat system which wrings money from the people to bestow it upon political aspirants, be | they friend or otherwise. The sys tem of taxation for tariff has out- The question is, shall down the revenue Masterpiece. The Republican Ex-Mimster Uses so | Guarded Words. rrow itself. | grow itself. we cul to our Boston, Mass., Dee. 29.—The meeting and banquet of the Massa- | chusetts tariffreform league at the Brunswick to night were highly sue. ! year afl th ar, or shall we dry up vurces of this revenue and stop | cessful, the arrangements being car this wrong to the country 2an Breckinridge of Ken u of the 2 of the tariff question and | ried cut upon a most elaborate scale. There were present a large number 85 Boao of prominent politicians and govern Is both from M: and elsewhere, among th Hon. James Russell ¥ ‘ John M. Corse, the Hon. Patrick A. Colli , re: : W. C. P. Brecken ment offic setts chu | ection pun- profita- fever 3 produced 18 3 taxation is ihe great red, must | to the number of 312 were ih cautiously, erance that can not be readily changed and that grave prac- tical difficulties lie in the path of any reforin. In the nature of the case the badquet hall, and the Rev 3 Freeman Clarke, D. D., invoked the After the banquet the Hon. James Russell Lowell, ex republican minister to Great Britain, one pepe haan = all protective tariffs must have an element of instability and uncertainty. e: re ly by st of | © a ee There are a few to whom this system with a con system Jon divine blessing. applause. At his first reference to| ~~ : President Cleveland, Dr. William # age : eae ee a a eo SE nied Wilson of West Vir- Everett, proposed three cheers for| . PAE Cleveland, which was given with a| &'™* Conese asipan Rogers oe will. ansas and others followed in brief HIGH PRAISE FOR CLEVELAND. mrdrossee: He — ee Mr. Lowell, in the course of his when the meting broke up. remarks, said: “One of the reasons The Boo:ville Advertiser wants that chiefly suggested the oppor- | to know if Judge Norton is using tuneness of our coming together | the gubernatorial scheme to assist here has been the president's mes-| him to become senator. The Judge sage at the opening of the present] has never intimated anything of the congress. Personally, I confess that | sort, and it would be as just and I feel myself strongly attracted to} sensible to accuse Lon V. Stephens Mr. Cleveland, as the best represen- | of seeking the state treasury’s office tative of the highest type of Ameri-| as 9 stepping stone to something canism that we have seen since Lin. higher. If we do not sadly mistake, coln was snatched from us. But] the question was asked as a soft we are not here to thank him as the way of injuring Norton’s chances head of a party. We are here to fe- | for governcr.—Ashland Bugle. licitate each other that the presiden A word from Judge Norton in an- tial chair has a man in it and this swer to the question whether or not means that every word he says is! ho will serve out his term as govern- weighted with what he is. We are or, if elected, would settle the mat here to felicitate each other that this ter. Surely the Bugle does not want to man understands politics to mean | elect a man governor who will resign business, not chicanery, plain-speak- | the office before his time is out, and ing nor palteriug with us in a double | yho will use the patronage of one sense; that he has the courage to | office to sccureanother.—Holden En- tell the truth to the country without | terprise. regard to personal or party conse | quences, and thus to remind us that a country not worth telling the truth A Terror to Wrong Doers. Globe Democrat, Governor Marmaduke will be re- canis - shal > kee is revenue | . i a. wants, or shall we keep this revenue lthis city, near the old Deadwood | sed of congressional | 1s never } ae | ssities of the | ly (and to his mind the worst) thing Austin can say of him is that he is a democrat. In order to ease his mind and remove the great bug bear which threatens to bankrupt the county, we will state that the public printing is let by contract to Rice & Sons of Ft. Scott, strong republicans, with ver- bal agreement, however, that such work as the home offices could do would be given them. This amounts to only a very small part of the print- ing, and no particular paper in the county was specified, but the coun- ty officers were left to use their own discretion as to where the printing shall be done. Our crumb picker, on North Main street should stand in with the officers instead of abusing the court. cfu that state is 51 cents.—Jefferson - City Tribune. ————XK—XK——:__— The Kansas City Times Saturday, was 2 mammoth twenty four page paper. Nearly the entire number of pages were taken up with anelaborate concise and complete review of the ‘commercial interests of the city. “The review contains a complete list “at real estate sold during 1887, ‘houses built, railroads, cables, bank- Zng, wholesale business &c. Facts ~and figures cannot be disputed and «the story they tell is wonderful for dike city at the mouth of the Kaw. ‘Great is Kansas City and great is €he Times, for it never ceases to Ia- or for the prosperity of Kansas City. Washington, Dec. 30.—Commis- ~ @ioner of Indian Affairs Atkins told fhe Star correspondent today that ‘the had now given up all intention of Resigning. He had thought serious- iy of it before his wife's death and thad spoken of his intention to a -@umber of friends. He now felt, owever, that the close attention the Office required of him was what he weeded to keep his mind off of per- w#onal affairs.—K. C. Star. A Monument For General Toombs. We learn from a letter from the contractor that the monument for General Toombs has been at last shipped from Italy. This is the third monument that has been built. The first was lost at sea. A bed of crystals was found in the second af- ter all had been completed except the base block. The monument will be erected immediately upon arrival. Washington (Ga,) Chronicle. tois not worth living in; nay, de- serves to have lies told it and to take the inevitable consequences in calam ity. Our politics call loudly for a broom. Mr. Cleveland, I think, has found the broom and begun to ply it. But, gentlemen, the president has set us the example not only of courage, but of good sense and mod eration. He has kept strictly to his text and purpose. He has shown us that there was such a thing as being too much, and that we had protected our shipping interests so effectually that they had ceased to need protection by ceasing In thus limiting the field of his warn- ing and his counsels he has done wisely, and we shall do wisely in following his example. His facts membered as one of the few gover- nors of Missouri who believed in the execution of the law against convict- ed criminal. Phelps was in this re spect, and many othersthe best gov- ernor Missouri eyer had. Marma duke came next in point of firmness and determination. He never allow ed himself to be swerved by mere sentiment in the consideration of a pardon or commutation case; he nev- erinterfered with the execution of the law unless convinced that an error had been committed at some stage of the criminal proceedings and that to exist. | this error amounted to a denial of justice to the accused. Stricken With Paralysis. Lexington, Mo., Dec. 30.—Another and his figures will work all the | old and esteemed citizea of Lexing- more effectually. But we must be] ton, Judge W. F. Wood, whose ser patient with them and expect them | vice onthe bench of this Judicial to work slowly. Enormous interests | Circuit, an whoseeminence as a jurist are involved and must be treated has given him a State-wide reputa- tenderly.” SENATOR MORGAN'S ADDRESS. tion, was stricken with paralysis yes- terday. The shock at first attacked Upon concluding his speech, Mr. | the right side of the face, but gradu- Lowell introduced the Hon. John T. ally extended to the arm and was Morgan of Alabama, who said: “Ij then followed by a second shock, believe we are about to relieve our rendering entirely use'ess the entire country of some of the fatuous enter-| right side. Judge Wood is over prises which haye injured her and! seventy years of age. Explained. Pierre, Dak., 30.—For months a certain degree of mystery surround- ied the movements of John Labiant, a Sioux half-breed living on s ranch at Willow Creek, 15 miles west of stage road on the Sioux reservation, formerly the stopping place of Black Hill's travelers, es many people who left Pierre for the hills were never heard from after leaving this city. A few days ago Labiant was de tected in cattle stealing, a posse or- | ganized at Pierre to go out and take | the eattle, but upon reaching the ‘ranch they found that the bird had flown, but the appearance of things looked very suspicions and they re- sheriff of iber ported, and the | county with a or | went to the ranch to make a thor | | ough investigation of the premi | FOURTEEN BODIES FOUND. In in front of a bed was ob The house was first examined. | one room served what appeared to be an oper- With | was pried out’ and was found to be ing or trap door. an ax this hung on hinges so it would drop extending from a bolt under the door to the room occupied by Labi- ant. Opening the entire trap the hole was found twelve feet deep and fourteen feet square. Ladders and lanterns were hasti- ly provided and an examination of | By!ding the cave was begun. As soon as the trap was dropped the stench that arose was terrible. of the cavern revealed a number of | record in my oftice. skeletons—twelve of grown human | ™y hand an beings and two of children. No clothing was found in the hole. The only article that was found was an iron bar about two feet in length, which it supposed the fiend used to murder his victims after he had | #"4 intoxicating dropped them into this hole. The ranch is ina lonely spot on | ones! when a cord was pulled, the cord | piace o- NOTICE OF ELECTION. | | Under the Wood Local Optien Law. i The qualified voters of Bates county, souri, who reside within the limits of Bates county, outside of the corporate limits ofthe cities of Batler and Nich Hill. in said county will take notice that on the 19th day of Dee. Issi, James M. Goolsbay and others presented to the Honorabie County Court of Bates | county, their petition, praying the court te order aspecial election to be held in said count of Bates, to determine whether or not spirit. ous and intoxicating liquors includin, wine and beer shall be seld within the limits of said county, outside of the corporate limits of any city or town, in said county, containing a pop- ulation of twenty-five hundred inhabitants or more, and that thereapon the said court made and entered upon its record the following or- der in the premises to-wit STATE Of MISSOURI, } COUNTY OFlmates, ‘™ | November adjourned term, 1887 In the county court of said county, + OD the twentieth day of December, Iss7, the follow ing among other proceedings bad, vig: Now on this twentieth day of Dy Tr the matter of the'petition of James M G@. yand others heretolore fled W-wit: on th i of December, iss7, is taken up and the fol ing proceedin, Whereas J a day low= had and entered of record: es M Goolbay and others did, on the Ivth y of December, iss. file and | Present to the county court their petition and application praying the court to order an cleo- tion in this. Bates county, to determine w beth. ! er or not spiritous and intoxicating liquors, ine cluding wine and beer, shali be sold within the limits of tais county, Iving outside corper- | 3 0 city or ‘own, in said county, t ® & population of twenty-five ats or more, and the court arefuliy examined said peti. pusidered the same. doth dad Hon contains the names of tenth enth of t anty, whor } » the court doth of January Iss ie | is it within sixty { held under the | | jor court that a s ! a county, at the usual ing precincts for holding gen vot- } ‘al elections for state officers in said ¢ to take Tnesday the with dav of January isss to determine whether or not spiritous and intoaicating liquors. including wine and beer, shail be sold within the limits of said count outside of the cities of Butler and Rich Hii, in said connty, the same being the only cities or towns. in suid county, containing a popula. tion of twenty-ilve hundred inhrbitants or More, the court doth further order that notice of said election aforesaid be given by publica- tion in the Butler We kly fimes. a newspaper published in Bates county, Missouri. for four consecutive weeks the last insertion of which said notice shall be within ten days next be- fore said 24th day of Jan’y., 1888, the day of raid election OF MISSOURI, COUNTY OF RATES T. 1... Harper, clerk of thy county court, in and for said county, hereby certify the above an-t foregoing to be a true copy of ine proceed- The examination | "8 of our said connty court, ‘on the day and year above written, as the same appears of whereof, I have hereunto set affixed the seal of said court, Ba] at office in Butler. this the 2cth day of mber, 18837. T. L HARPER, Clerk of County Court. By W. H, WARNOCK, D.C, You are further notified that in pursuance of said order there will be held a special election in said county at the nsual voting precincts for holding genera! elections for state officers in said county on Tuesaday, the 24th d: if Jan’y, 1888, to determine whether or not spiritous liquors, including wine and beer. shall be sold within the limits of sald county outside of the cities of Butler and Rich Hill in said county, and that at said election no 1 be entitled to vote who ia a resideat ties of Batler or Rich Hill in said con: In testimon fthi the bank of a creek, ten miles from | oF whois not a qualified voter of sald county” any human habitation. Lablant has not been seen for several days, and it is believed has fled to some of the Indian camps on the upper Cheyenne. Mr. Gladstone, who will arrive in this country in the very near future, will be received ina manner befitting his claims upon the admiration of the American people. It would be impossible for England to send to our shores a more distinguished rep- resentative, and the interest which the visit of the great statesman will inspire bids fair to exceed, in a large measure, that which has attended the | aforesaid. h TL 4 Geom oee County Conrt.of Bates Connty, Trustee's Sale. Whereas Albert J. Cox and Ann IL. Cox, his wife, by their deed oftrust, dated October 7th, 1881, and recorded in the recorder’s office with- in and for Bates county. Missouri, in book No. 27, page 81. sconveyed to T. A. Lemmons, trus- tee, the following described real estate lyia, and being situate inthe county of Bates a state of Missouri. to-wit: Allofthe north half ofthe northwest quar. ter of section nine (¥), township No forty-two (42), of range No. thirty-three (33), containing eighty acres more or less, which conveyance was made in trust to se- | cure the payment of one certain note. fally de- scribed in said deed of trust; and whereas de- fault has been made in the payment of said note, now long jest due and unpaid; and wherers it is provided by the terms of said deed of trast that in case of the death, absence from the state or refusal to act of the anid trus- tee, the then acting sheriff of Bates county, Mia- souri. Pld peg to sell the property herein before described. for the purposes of said trast, and whereas the said T A. Lemmons. trnstee a8 ‘as since died. now therefore at the request of the Irgal holder of said note and appearance of different scions of pureuant to the conditions of said deed of trust royalty who have enjoyed the hospi- | ises at public vendue, to the highest bi tality of the American republic. He is a man of the people, and as such he wil! meet in this country with a]... will proceed to sell the above described prem- jer for cash. at the east front door of the court house, in the city of Butler, of Missouri, on Monday, March 5th., 1888, een the hours of 9 o’clock in the forenoon county of Bates and state reception that cannot fail to assure and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, Be purposes of eeaiar said debt. interest him of the hearty sympathy which No 6. Acting Sheriger i fees Ooo Trastee. Americans everywhere feel for him in ; SERS: his great work.—K. C. Star. Frank Stahl Shot. A very shooting affair took place on Mon- day afternoon last. Frank Stahl, son of Louis H. Stahl, of the Adver- tiser. and young Philip Barzeza of Bridge Letting. arent te an order a bd: court o inty. Missouri, directed for the Cconst¥action ora across Muddy on the the county and to me bridge ‘section unfortunate accidental | between sections 20 and 21, of townshi rf Fange3i. 8a and fend pine; eb iH a Queen Truss. the above described at public vendus to the lovee eiaber: ae _ oat vat Goor of the cout ase in tler, count Bates and state of Missouri, on xa es Monday, January 23, 1888, sub-structures to the Kemper family school, went out setween the hours of 9 o’clock in the forenoon hunting. They had but little luck, | bide subject to arere nip ge, omen. and as they were coming into town Barzeza laughingly remarked “I be- lieve I'll shoot you” and started to swing his gun around to-wards Frank while doing so the load was dicharged, hitting Frank Stahl in the forehead and lodging in the scalp or skull. He had on a heavy hat which proba- bly saved his life. The shot lodged partly in the scalp and partly in the fore skull, cutting through the hair, etc., Dr. Holman was sent for and removed some of them, but we un derstand a number are yet in his forehead and may be left there un- disturbed. It is unfortunate and may result seriously, but we hope not—Becarille Topic. subject to approval of the court. ne ex Po at my offee. I at same time let gradi; y same place to lowest bidder sogies aad: 6-3t Notice of Final Settlement. Notice is arene d given that creditors and i others interested inthe estate of Abijs WI stone deceased, that I. 1) 3 Whetstone, eas ministrator of said estate, intend to make f- nal settlement thereof, st the next term of the Bates county probate court. in Bates count state of Missouri, to be heid at Butler. in said county, on the Ith day ofFebrusry. 1sse. J. Wuxtstoxn, 4 No.5 Administrator. Stray Notice. Sith day'Gt Decetabers nay, miourl. om the sprbet Peper gree Loo sae a dollars. o2, wt oe