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BUTLER. WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Ebprtor. . D. Atuen & Co., Proprietors, TERMS OF SUMSCRIPTION: TheWeexry Times, published every FAUTS AND FIGURES. The Record and Democrat are making a preconcerted attack upon Judge Sullens and are accusing him of using his official position for pri- vate gains by giving the county printing to the Truzs, which paper he holds stock in to the amount of Wednesday, will be sent to any sduress | $100. Let us see if the facts in the OGe vear, postage paid, for $1.2<. BUTLER MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 18th, 1888, case will justify such a course from the Bates County Democrat in thus assailing a democratic official. Judge Sullens has now been the presiding judge of the county court for one Lamar was confirmed in the sen- year and during that period he has ate on the 16th for judge of the su-| yoted to give but one job of printing @preme court. to the Tm, and that was the print- The Truzs has not exhausted its|itg of the notice of local option eupply of wind, but when it blows, | election, amounting to $26.00. Thefi- it blows with a purpose. —_—_—_—_————__ nancial statement, for which the Tras received half price, was award- Brother Sam Jones and Sam Small | by the other two judges, Sullens re andthe Kansas City Times don’t | cording his vote against the same. Geem to be getting along so very | The balance of the printing did by harmonious. We have heard it said that the Democrat would rule the party in Bates county or ruin it. From the Course of that paper of late in fight- ing county officials it would appear it had accepted the latter alternative and is trying to ruin. this paper was given it by the other county officers. During this time the court had the controlling of three orders of publication under school fund mortgages, all of which were published in the Bates County Democrat and paid for by the county court, amount $37.50. These are matters of record accessible to any- Senator Vest, who talked about | 22° who wishes to investigate. The Ge Blair bill so pungently, is the most popular speaker in the senate. His rhetoric is not so carefully fin- ished as that of Senator Ingalls, but his wit is far more spontaneous.— Boston, Mass. Herald. facts are that the court controls but very little of the county printing and of this little Mr. Wade has re ceived his full share. Then why this assault upon Judge Sullens. The Democrat has never received a line of printing from Recorder West, The Butler Democrat this week | ¥20 has given all of his work toa @nnounces Judge J. D. Parkinson, | Job office in town, then why does Of that city, asa candidate for the | 2° that paper assail this official. Kansas City court of appeals. He Again, the account of the Trmzs with was the first democratic circuit judge the ony) from January 1°86 to who held the office after the war in | J#2Uary 1’87, under the jurisdiction southwest Missouri, which position | f the old court, wee third Ore he filled two terms with credit to | than from Jan. 1°87 to Jan, 1- 88, himéelf and to the satisfaction of the | U2der the present court. How is people.—Foster News. James G. Sparks, Herts senator Messrs. Wade and Austin guing to harmonize that fact. Maybe the mem- bers of the old court held stock in for this, district, comprising the | the Times, too? counties of Bates, Henry and Cass, Judge Sullens has held office in dicd at his home in Pleasant Hill, of | Bates county, at intervals, for the consumption, Thursday evening of | past fifteen years, his course being Jast week, after a long and protracted | closely scrutinized by these two dllness. He was 32 years of age and | sorthies in every position in which leaves a wife and babe. His death | he has been placed and yet this is _deaves a vacancy in this district to be | the worst and only thing they can filled at the general clection next|say of him. It isno more nor less fall, or sooner in the case of an emer than an attempt on the part of Mr. gency. Senator Sparks was a bright | Wade to vent a personal spleen and syoung man, and per!ormed the duties | at the same time co-erce the court , Of his office with credit to himself |into giving him all of the county and the people whom he represented. | printing. It is, of course, a political Will Messrs Wade and Austin kindly inform us why they single out * Judge Suilens of all the county offi- “cials, to vent their spleen upon be- “ecause he does not throw them “crumbs. There are eight other printing than either of the county Judges. Mr. Wade was opposed to and fought Judge Sullens before Chenomination, openly Democrat, by publishing communi cations and open letters for Judge ‘Jefferson City, Dec. 30.—In speak- plum to Aus, and he, too, has a lit- tle personal spite because the demo- cratic part of the court would have no republican crumb pickers about the public crib. “If, as the Record states, ten bal- County officers and there is not a lots were stolen from the ballot box Gingle one but what controlls more | #2 Butler, and Mr. Austin being cogni- zant of the fact does not expose the perpetraters of such a villainy, he is as guilty as they.”—Times. Of course we are cognizant of the espousing | fact, because T. L. Harper, county his opponents cause through the | clerk, certified that it was a fact, as the result of the re-count.—Record. T. L. Harper, county clerk, did no _ Melker. Is there any wonder then | ®Uch thing. It would naturally cre- _ Bhat Judge Sullens doesn't hunt him | 8t¢ suprise if some men would make ___@p to force patronage upon him. this kind of an assertion with the papers on file in the circuit clerks office to give it the lie; but one is not ‘dng of the property belonging to the | suprised at Mr. Austin making such tell how many paupers and insane | are to be cared for, so it is evident | that those three funds are governed by circumstances not in the power of the court to control. The sav- ings, if any are made, must be on the contingent and bridge funds. Let us compare these two funds. Under the old court for one year, the contingent fund was $10,805.59; ten months of this court and the same fundis $3,188.67, aclear saving| St- Paul, Minn., Jan. 12—Railroad of 7,616.92. The bridge fund under | ™en agree that the storm of to-day the old court was $10,212.21, under | ¥®8 quite the worst ever known in the present court is $1,229.24, aclear |the northwest for their business. saving of 8.982.97, or a total saving | It extended from the Rocky moun- of $16,599.89. There will be one /|tainsto Lake Michigan, and south more term of court to complete the | to the Indian territory, but its worst year, putting the probable cost of | effects were felt in Dakota and Min- this term atthe enormous sum of|nesota. Everywhere it was accom- $3,000, and we still have a saving on | Panied by high winds, which drifted these two funds of the snug little | the snow badly, and in many sections amount of $14,000. it assumed the character of a bliz- enero zard. The railroads had hardly finish- FOR JUDGE OF COURT OF APPEALS. | ed clearing their tracts from the pre- The Democrat last week announced | vious storm, and that of to-day ab- Judge J. D. Parkinson asa candidate | solutly blocked all the small roads for Judge of the court of appeals at | throughout. The through lines are Kansas City. Judge Parkinson had | battling bravely against the element the honor of being the first circuit|to keep trains moving. ‘Trains on Judge elected on the democratic | the roads to Chicago are from one to ticket south of the river in|nine hours late, but all the main lines this state after the war. He served | are still open and eastern trains left with distinction on the bench, is ajas usual to-night. All freights on fine jurist, a good democrat, and is, | the Northern Pacific and Manitoba we believe, thoroughly competent to |/ines nave been abandoned and no fill the duties of the office to which | passenger trains was sent out on he espires. Southwest Missouri is|these roads to-night. The Kansas entitled toa place on this court this | City train of the Omaha was also time and we know of no good reason | abandoned. Superintendent Egan why Judge Parkinson should not be | of the Manitoba says its passenger the man. trains are laid up at stations where ; ——— there is plenty to eat. The St. Paul Mr. Wade admits that as the only | and Duluth is trying to keep its democratic paper in Bates county at | main lines open but has abandoned the time, the Democrat pooled with | the branches. the Record and got the county print | 4 special from Huron, Dak., says ing at their own price. Austin most] the wind is blowing fifty miles an emphatically denies it. Which told] hour; the air is full of snow, and one the truth, the witness who testified |i, unable to see fifty feet. Some against himself or the one who tes- unthinking teachers dismissed young tified in his own favor. school children; some of whom had to go four or five blocks across the open land and five or six got lost. Whistles were blown, bells rung and people turned out and took long ropes and walked fifteen or twenty abreast back and forth over the ground and soon found all but one. The mercury was 40° below, having fallen 26° since 10 o'clock. TERRIBLE REPORTS FROM DAKOTA. Search was continued to night but there is little hope of finding the The Butier Times this week an-| child alive. nounces Judge D. A. DeArmond, of| ‘The shop whistles were blown at that city, as a candidate for the su-| intervals during the afternoon as an preme Judgeship, subject to the de-| assistance to any persons out in the cision of the democratic convention. | storm. A number of farmers started He is at present circuit judge of this | home as goon as the storm began judicial district, and was nominated and elected without opposition.— Foster News. THE WORST YET. Another Fierce Blizzard Raging. ae ee | Dakota the Scene of the Worst Effects | of the Storm. 1 School Children Lost on Their Way to Their Homes. Favorable Mention of Jndge DeAr- mond. The Berirer Times has announced Judge D. A. DeArmond as a candi- date for Supreme Judge. All who know Judge DeArmond will readily concede his ability and aptness for the position. His chances also are no doubt very flattering.—Rich Hill Review. and there are grave fears for their safety as business men who attempt- ed to go home this afternoon lost Judge D. A. DeArmond, we learn, | their ways at the street crossings, is squarely on the track for supreme | and many did not attempt to go judge. He isa fine lawyer an able | home to night. jurist and would do great credit to| A Webster, Dak., special says that the office to which he aspires. The} several mail carriers are believed to Southwest should be recognized in| be caught in the blizzard and have this matter and the Enterprise wish-| perhaps perished. The temperature es Judge DeArmond great success. | is 230 beiow. He is in his natural sphere on the} Bismarck reports that children bench; cool, reserved, ripe in legal | started for school were compelled to lore and in every way qualified for | return by the fury of the storm. the honorable position. His ac-} A Pierce, Dak., special says the quaintance in politics of the distriet | wind is blowing sixty miles an hour makes him a formidable candidate ; and it is impossible to see 100 feet. and his name would add strength to | Three trains are snow-bound at Ree the ticket. We will have more to| Hights, and there is reported a col- “fate governor, Darwin Marmaduke | a statement, for thatishis reputation. | Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. ‘Whea Baby was sick, we gave her Casteria. ‘Whea she was 8 Child, she cried for Castoria, ‘When she became Miss, she clung to Castoris, ‘When she bad Chiléren, she gave them Castoria. 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By virtue and authority of a special execution issued trom the office of the clerk ot the .ircuit court ot Bates county Missouri. returnable at the February term, 1888 ot said .ourt, to me directed in favor of the State ot Missouri, ex. rel., Uscar Reeder, Collector, and against Elizabeth M Packe: and A. A. Packer, her hasband, I have levied and seized upon all the right, title, interest and claim of the said dctendants, Elizabeth M. Packer and A. A. Packer, her tus- band, of. in and to the _ tollowing described real estate, situated in Bates county, Missouri, to-wit: atl ot biocks nineteen (1g) and twen- tie (20) in Feely’s addition to the town ot West Point, { will on Wednesday, February 15th., 1888, between the hours ot g o’clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the atternoon ot that dav at the east front door ot the court nouse in the citv of Butler, Bates county, Missouri, sell the same or so much thereor as mav be required, at public vendue, to the nighest bidder tor cash, to satisty said execution and costs. G. G, GLAZEBROOK, Sheriff dt Bates County. Sheriff's Sale. By virtue and authority ot a special execution issued trom the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Bates county, Missouri, returnable at the February term, 1888, ot said court, to tne directed in tavor of the State of Missouri ex rel, Oscar Keeder, Collector, and against D W. Snyder, I have levied and seized upon all the right, title, interest and claim of the said defsndant, D. W. Snyder, of, in and to the tollowing described real estate, situated in Bates county, Missouri, to-wit: Thirty-three one hundredths acres. part of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter, of the northwest quar- ter, beirg in the southwest corner ot said tract allin section thirty-tour (34) town- ship forty-two (42), range thirty (30), I willon 2 Wednesday, February 15th., 1888, between the hours o g o’clock in the forenoon and 5 o’clock in the afternoon of that day at the east tront door of the court house in the city ot Butler, Bates county, Missouri, sell the same or so much thereof as may be required, at public vendue, to the highest bidger tor cash, to satisfy said execution and costs. G. G. GLAZEBROOK, Sheritt ot Bates County. Trustee’s Sale. . Martha F. Shou A. Shoup, by their d of trust, May 4th. 1887. and recorded in the record- er’s office within and for Bates county, Mis- 18, conveyed to r4 ib- situate im the souri, in book No. 44. page od real ostare, lying and bein; and husband D. dated "NOTICE OF ELECTION,» Under the Wood Local Opticg Law. The qualifed voters of Bates souri, who reside within the li and others preeeta their Detition, praying. the sea tet oe in said 2 F BOS ous and intoxicating liquors ding and beer shall be alt withte the Tisaltee taide of the corporate limits fay ¥, containing g handred inhal STATE OF MISSOURI, {ss COUNTY OFSuaTEs, = November adjourned term, 1887. In the Sad court of said county, twentieth Ror Decemsat, 1837, macmers lo on the 19th day ot December, 1837, present to the county court their jon application praying the court to order an elem on in this, Bates county, to determine whethe liquors, ia- Raia gies tee outside the corpor. wo, in said county, id thi examined said peti. iy considered the same, doth and that said petition contains the names of tenth and more than one-tenth of the qualified voters of said Bates county, who reside outaide the corporate limits of any city or town in eald county, ace & a yore ation of twenty-five hundred inhabitants or more, and who are ied to vote for members o: id Bates county, Missouri of which said petition the cou od by eae mation 8 of the last genera’ held in and for Bates ra 8 Missouri, the court doth farther tind that the 24th day of 188 is not @ general election day nor is it within sixty daysofany general election held under the laws or constitution of this state, and th: cities of Butler and Rich Hill are thi or towns in said county having a pop 2500 inhabitants or more. It ie theref. ed by the court that s special el: m be held in Bates county. at the useal vot- ing precincts for holding general elections for state officers in sai ity to place or Tnesday the 24th day oF Jan 1888 to determine whether or not spiritous intoxicatin; shail be sol has determin- ion of poll. eee including wine and beer, within the limite of said count! ide of the cities of Butler and Rich Hill, in said connty, the same being the only cities or towns. in said county, containing a popula- tion of twenty-five hundred inhabitants or more, the cvurt doth further order that notice of said election aforesaid be given by publica- tion in the Butler We kly Times. a newspaper pablisned in Bates county, Missouri. for four consecutive weeks the last insertion of which said notice shall be within ten days next be- fore said 2h day of Jan’y., 1888, the day of holding patd election STATE OF MISSOURI, COUNTY OF HATES, T. L. Harper, clerk of thy county court, in and for said county, hereby certify the above an-t foregoing to be a true copy of the proceed- ings oreu said any court, on the day a year above written, as the same appears record in my office 2 In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said coors, [peau] at officein Butler. this the woth day of Jecember, 1887. T. L HARPER, Clerk of County Court. By W. H. WARN » D.C. You are further notified that in pursuance of said order there will be held a special election Precincts for 8 for state officers in the 24th day of Jan’y, e ether or not spiritous and intoxicating naners, including wing and beer, shall be sold within the limits of said county outside of the cities of Butler and Rich Hill in said county, and that at said election no one shall be entitied to vote whois a resident of the cities of Butler or Rich Hill in said county or who is not a qualified voter of said county. T.L HARPER, Clerk of the County Court. of Bates Coanty No. 5-4. Sheriff's Sale. By virtue and authority of a special execution issued trom the office of the clerk of the circuit court ot Bates coun- ty, Missouri, returnable at the February ber term 1888, of said court, to me di- rected in tavor of the State ot Missouri ex rel, Oscar Reeder, Collector, and against George Rapp, I have levied and seized upon allthe right, title, in- terest and claim of the said defendant, George Rapp, of, in and to the fol- lowing described real estate, situated in Bates county, Missouri, to-wit: The northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section eight (8), township thirty -eight (38), range twenty-nine (29), also south part of southeast quarter of the northwest quarter, thirty-one and twen- ty one hundredths (31 20-100) acres ot section nine (9), township thirty-eight (38), 1ange twenty-nine (29), I will on Wednesday, February 15th., 1888, between the hours of 9 o’clock in the torenoon and 5 o’clock in the atternoon ot 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 ax may be required, at public vendue, to the highest bidder for cash, to satisty said execution and costs. 6. G, GLAZEBROOK, Sheritt ot Bates County. maid: County clerk Harper did certify, and “My brother died a poor man, you | his certificate was concurred in by * wight say. Hoe had little property, | both the attorneys for Burch and money. St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 14—Between » deve and tho Iowa line and in south- ern Nebraska and northern Kansas, ; > farmers are reporting great loss of | th ivo stock which last night froze to | 1887, published in the Foster News _ Meath in the stalls. Closed, and so is Burlington & Mis- ©. Souri River road between St. J oseph | and the elections held in the county j Controls the latter fund, no one can and Denver. wo stock trains that had been | and attempts to show by the com ) ~ if any, excepting his personal pos-| Glazebrook, that ten double ballots, | @essions. Ihave not yet examined | or twenty ballots, were thrown out, @is papers, but I hardly think that} not counted. Nine of these were a the loft a will. The governor made | loss to Glazebrook, ten to Burch and ‘more or less money but he was too|one to Taylor. * @enerous to keep it, and like many} brought to the attention of the othor liberal people he dies without | grand jury and was thoroughly inves- This matter was tigated by that body and found to contain nothing but republican bun- comb. The Review takes the summing of e financial statements of 1886 and and copied in the Tres last week, Gelayed arrived at St. Joseph last parison of the salary and election might with every head of cattle dead | and jury funds, that no salary has Most of the passenger trains are| been made. That this is an unfair abandoned. The Missouri Pacific inference can readly be seen, as the belween Omaha and Kansas City is|law controls the salaries, and the number and length of circuit courts, say on the subject as matters devel-|lision between two freights at the op.—Rich Hill Enterprise. same point: raging there for twenty-four hours and the temperature 15 ° below, and all railway travel suspended. Jamestown, Dak., reports no trains moving on the main line of the Northern Pacific. Grafton, Dak., reports the wind blowing a gale, the mercury 20° be- low and immpossible to see meet than two rods. i In St. Paul the parade and i ceremonies attending the laying of the corner stone of the third ice Supreme Judge. Judge D. A. DeArmond, of Bates county, is being favorably mention- ed as candidate for supreme judge, to succeed Judge Norton. We learn from those who are personally ac- quainted with Judge DeArmond and know his worth as a man and his ability as a lawyer, that he is in ev- ery way qualified for the position. He is said to be a man of firmness, well versed in law, and when he has arrived at a conclusion, has the Saturd: Norra lommuvuntante ehetbeel nope palace were postponed to Saturday, ilar a Ga Saanie ea ia stand be \though some of the clubs paraded} ag Gap oe ee ~ | just the same. { it. Thisis the kind of a man we} eC H need on the supreme bench.—Cole | To-night’s weather reports show | Coats Danocat ; ~ jthe following below zero: Helena, ‘2 ea ; Mont., 24; Bismarck, 26; Moorhead, } aoe ee: ee Mobs | Minn., 12; Ou’Apelle, 34, Minnedosa, | henaennar gta cos te Ce moon on the 28th of this month.) Se Be i The total eclipse will begin at 5:30 | Three passenger cars were ditched p. m.and ends at 8:09. It will be; Lee ; ** | near Willard, Kas., on the Rock I:-} visible throughout the United States. iieni coal aad no onelant. Mineola, Dak., reports the storm | Missoari { between the hours of 90’cloct in the forencon | | and epecifcations now on file at my office. I county of Bates and state of Missouri. to-wit: All ef lote number thirteen (13) and fourteen (14) ,Houaston’s addition to the town of Adrain, . Which conveyance was made in trust to seeare the payment of one certain note fully described in said deed of trust; and whereas, default has been made in the payment of said note and accrued inter- est thereon, now long past due and anpaid. Now, therefore, at the request of the legal holder of said note and parsuant to the condi- ditions of said deed of trast, I will proceed to sell the above described premises at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash at the east front door of the conrt house in the eity of Butler, county of Bates and state of Missouri, Thursday, January 19th, 1888, between the hours of 90’elock in the forenoon and 4 o'clock = se ie h = dy tor the purposes of satisfying lebt. interest anaooets : 2 A. F. HICKMAN 0. 3. Sheriff's Sale. By virtue and authority of a general execution issued trom the office of the clerk of the circuit court ot Bates county, Missouri, returnable at the November term, 1887, of said court, to me directed in favor ot Altred Park and against G. W. Park have levied and se1zed upon all the right, title, interest and claim ot the said defendant, G. W- Park of, in and to the toilowing de- scribed real estate, situate in "Bates county, Missouri, to-w t: The east half ot the southwest quarter | of section seventeen (17) in township No, torty (40), of range No. thirty-two (32), in Bates county, Missouri, I willon Wednesday, February 15th., 1888. between the hours of 9 o'clock in the torenoon and § o’cleck inthe afernoon ot that day east front door of the court housein the citv of Butler, Bates ty, Missouri, sell the sarne or 80 ired, at dder tor ion and costs. ZEBROOK, Sheriff of Bates County. Bridge Letting. Pursuant to an order made by the connty | court of Bates county. Missouri. and to me | directed for the construction o a combinat bridge across Muddy Creek on the section bet ween sections 2) and 21. of township 3. range Sl and sub-stractures to be o hard pine: length of span, % feet: bridge t be a Qu-en Rod Tross. I will proceed to se) the ahove described at public vendue to the lowest bidder at the east front door of the court house In the city of Butler, county of | Bates and state of Missouri, on i Monday, January 23, 1888, Stray Ni otice. Taken upby N. J Settle and posted before P.M. Johnson, a jastice of the peace in Min, township. of Bates count,, Missouri. on the | Mth day of becember, ixs7, the following de- will at same time let the grading or fils at | ecribed property: one two-year-old steer (last same place to lowest bidder } spring); color. light roan, with red neck and GEO. FE. CATTERLIN, | tight horn drooped down. and no marks or Bridge Com’r, | brands pereeivabie Appraised at twenty Bates Co. Mo. j dollars 62h and 5o0’clock inthe afternoon of that day—all | bide subiect to approval of the court Plans b-t.