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BUTLEL ONAL GAN, —IN— ya House Block, BUTLER, MO. —_—_— $66,000, apital, - (RPLUS - $5,500 JOHN H. SULLENS.....--- President HOOKER POWELL,... Vice President. Wy. E. WALTON,. +-0-++Cashier, |. SN -Ast Cash pON KINNEY- -Clerk and Colle DIRECTORS, pr, T. C. Boulware, (M. Tucker, fudge J. H Sullens, Booker Powell, Green W. Walton, John Deerwester, ].R, Simpson Dr. N. L. Whipple frank Vorts, Wo, E, Walton, C,H. Dutcher J. Rue Jenkins. Receives deposits, loans money, and tansacts a general banking bus 5 We extend to our customers every ac- commodation consistent with sate bank- ing. Cor SPONDENTS. BATES COUNTY j National Bank, (Organized in 1871.) OF BUTLER, MO Capital paid in, - - $ 75.000. Surplus - - - + $71.000 President Rei TYGARD, =< => t Vice-Pres. ION. J. B. MEWBERRY, MCICLARK™ |= f= = Cashier. FINE SUITS. In every style price and quality Made to Order [ guaranteed a fit in every case alland see me, up stairs North? Main Street. J.E. 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Send 10cts. for 100-Page Pamphiet fielde are scarce, Dut those who write to Sunson & Co., Portland, Maine,wilt recerve free, full information about work which they can do, and live at home,that wil pay them from $5 to $25 per day. Some have eared over $30 inaday Either sex. young or old Capital Bot required. You are started free. Those who s ‘wo edeolutely sare of snug little fortunes, AL is bo AND A FULL LINE OF FIRST-CLASS | FARM MACHINERY, TOP BUGGIES SPRING AND FARM WACOONS. Store, East Side Squire. = = SLE Lo Trustee's Sal SINC bar SHO! South east corner + where they keep the Pe steel shoe for li and the he: iraft hie jeb of rht travelin: , Burden shoe fc shop at priccs to co other first-class sho} us a call and try it. betweer JACK GIPSON, pe | Proprietor ( hY THE GRANGE STORE, ——DEALERS IN—— GROGERIES, UhY GUUDS &f, Also A he | STANDARD IMPLEMENT CO. Plows, Harrows, Corn Planters, Mowers and repairs for ts tor the same. L. G. ILENRY. J.C. McCONNELL, Manager. 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Write to us at onee for ful particulars, which we mail free. Ad dress Stinson & Co., Portland, Maine. These are the same goods handle Trustee's Sale. Whereas Morton A. Maynard and Dora Maynard, his wife, bv their deedott 5 dated January 28, 7, and recorded in the recorder’s office within and for Bates county, Missouri, in book No. 49, page 5. conveyedto the undersigned trustee the following described real estate lying and being s e in the county of Bates, and state ot Missouri, to-wit: The east half ot block six (6) in the town (now city) of Butler, whicn con veyance was made in trust to secure the payment of his three certain notes tully described in said deed ot trust, and whereas detault has been made in the payment of the note of $200, due Janua- ry 28, 1888, and the accrued interest on all three of said notes, which detault un- der the terms ot said deed of trust ren- dered the whole Gebt due and payable and whichis now long past due and une paid. Now, theretore, at the request of the legal holder of said notes, and pur- suant to the conditions ot said deed of trust, I will proceed to sellthe above de- scribed premises at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash, at the east front door ot the court house, in the city of Butler, county of Bates and state of Mis- souri, on Thursday, April 19. 1888, | between the hours of g o’clock in the | torenoon and 5 o’clock in the after- Rewarded are lyr. j noon ot that day, for the purposes ot satistying said debt, interest and o 17-4t. F. M. ALLEN, Tr W. F. Hemstreet & Co Dealers in Groceries, Queensware, and woodenware OUR Canned Goods, Tobacco and Cigars GREENWOOD and BLUE SPRINGS R.R. DEACON. ~ sentative {required to tinish the work. on They were not rec brought the saws. She lives at Yates Center, Kansas, but has frequently ceration. OUT AND AWAY. Prisoners Break the Vernon County Jail. Saws Introduced by the Wife ofa Prisoner. John Jones. the Murderer of Ruye Es- capes. a Forger, and Howard, Burg- ler, Also Leave. Nevada, Mo., April 11.- -At an rly hour this morning. the cor wded with visitors. ad the w just how it had been public seemed cu- rious to kn effected. When the time to lock the doors, Sheriff Hill kindly left a Mail repre and escape am the prisoners from them the z was) cathered. is probably not that degree of harmony existing ! one would expect between persons whose lives. are so intimately as | sociated. Those pris es Howarc “| Jones, the murderer of Eugene Ruye | 3 and J. A. Bowles who was sent here How- from Sche effected 1 outhwest 1th north v corner of the moving ga stone the building. The labor was re ed easier by the ef orts of prisoners to escape. The bar its been sawed enti in two near junction with the brace a number of | few hours were The ; apperture mc asured 74 by 1s inches | fit years ago, and oul for The | stone which they pulled out was re- | and must hate been a close Bowles, who is a large ian. moyed by two Bates county prison- | ers who escaped about the time | Sheriff Hill took charge of the jail. j When | ced at that time | ptured. the stone was re’ it was secured with iron cleats, bolt- ed through the wall. | “Those have been talking | about going for two weeks,” said one of the prisoners. “Bowles said some time ago that he had sent for the saws. I first knew the saws were | in the jail on Sunday.” On Friday, Thomas the father of John, Bowles’ wife and Mrs. Gregory, wife of another pris- oner, were visitors to the jail, and there is little doubt that Mrs. Bowles men | Jones, visited her husband since his incar- | “I searched Mrs. Bowles when she first commenced visiting her hus- band,” said Sheriff Hill, “but she came so frequently that I finally commenced admitting her without here fifty times. I suppose she has been It is not difficult to search a man, but it is almost im- possible to find such a small thing as a saw concealed about the person of a woman.” searching. Three of the prisoners in the low- er cage refused to leave, though the way was open to them. Those re- maining were Lem Oakes, charged with the murder of Clarke in Cedar county, Perry Gregory, a Bates county man who is in for forgery, and B. F. Barnum who is serving a jail sentence of 160 days for selling whisky at Eldorado. Mrs. DeGarmo inhabits an impro- vised cell in the corridor and could probably kave squeezed through the hole in the wall had she so desired. Some of the other prisoners say that she has taken a fancy to Oakes, and would have gone had he not decided to stay; but it must be remembered in this connec- tion that Mrs. DeGarmo is not on the best of terms with the other prisoners. the labor and morning found the | Oakes. | John Jones who murderd Eugene | President Cleveland was together as the bars would permit. The saws were evidently passed at | that time. about HE SEES IT. There were four of them! inches in length, one fourth inch in breadth and very thin. The work was commenced Monday night just as soon as supper was over and the doors closed for the night. An Intelligent Man's Idea of Advanc- ten ing Missouri. In conversation with a St. Louis republican reporter. Major Harvey W. Salmon, of Clinton 1: The three men who remain- ed in the lower part of the cage probably took but little part in the work. Bowles and Howard did the principal part of the sawing and Jones kept watch. When the piece of bar eighteen inches in length had “T have been as busy as a bee for the last six weeks in the interests of the Southwestern Immig gration So- ciety, andTI don’t know one solitary blessed thing about state politics an truthfully say that I have put in every working hour in my labors for our section of Missouriand Iam been removed, the three men crawl- ed through the aperture. and at once commenced sawing on the iron enlisted heart and soul in the effort. to bring her to the front. Why, I This was the most difficult part of | never knew before that you must in- vite people to move into your coun try. if you expected the population. work incor When it was seen an increase in Tam just waking up to the fact that thorough, legiti- mate advertisi this that the work could not be complet- ed befe held and the feasibility of an escape by y a council was m direction, ne as in everything else, force was discussed. It was argued pays. Now, that if the jail door was rattled some | We #7¢ lst beginning our work, but it lie re] l . te one would answer the eall, probably I iind that such incidental notice of our meetings as we have received Deputy Dierh, they could knock h the lown and down and from your city press has stimulated Iowa, Nebr escape throw 3! : Kansas. side door of the - inquiry fre ence portion | | iar re of the buildir This plan was fi- eUaE TP ee (Oh (ees sinh is ath : Anes okers 1, | in the blizzard region can't pull up ral } ban The cut bar | St#kes and leave ati once and come was } dl back in position and the into our country, but they are bound erevices were filled with salve. The|'? come ** soon as they get cleats on the stones were the most |! loone -Nomhantmparts witheing troublesome evidence to conceal, but ul ena aw morning them brought home at | Mrs. DeGarmo came to the resenve. frozen She had the liberty of the corridor s RESUS AG mto around the cage and she stretehed a further eestasies over the glorious, oa fie Erode clantat ton the bracing country in which he has been so unfortunate as to locate Ae ier blankets upon it apparently to air. blankets ef- fe Be enna ane avorl erature of a certain section, inviting Pr] a matter of faet people read the lit- Phe i them to become settlers therein and Tuesday, doubtless, dragged wear- eway, and when night came the then close their eyes to all other Bre : > spots, vever desirable, as a home. work was again resumed. Between | *P* ts, however desirable, as a home Your K: ssmitten people never see the best parts of Missouri, and cleats the The iron poker twelve and one o'clock were pulled away. was used as a pry and the heavy only her rocky portions from the rock soon fell to the inside. Wh« a railroad train. Now, we propose to it struck the floor the prisoners say correct this sad state of affairs, ” it shook the entire building. “Mrs. far as lies in our power, by putting Hill heard it,” said one of the pris- forth a handbook showing up the 25 oners, “but she thought it was the t Missouri which comprise our society. The officers the will enumerate the advantages of the section as a counties of sovthw horses kicking at the barn.” Gregory was awake when the stone of association fell, and he aroused Brannum and When the exit had made, he hexrd Mrs. DeGarmo pound- g if Oakes 5 whole, while pi y communities been 3 will be heard from on their especial interests. Through the medium of ing on the cage and aski There of prisoners in the upper cage, but they could not escape. The escaping the railroads, and through channels peculiarly our own, we shall distrib- ute these pamphlets where they will Now, I wish you could see John Jaynes, chairman of our board of finance, for he could tell you all about it.” had gone. were a number accomplish the best results. prisoner around whom general interest centers is Ruye, and confessed the crime toa Mail reporter about ten months ago. He is now about 20 years old, under the average height and weight and his face is smooth. William's Australian Herb Pills. It youare Yellow, Bilious, constipated with Headache. bad breath, drowsy, no appetite, look out your liver is out of roder, One box of these Pills will drive all the troubles awa and make a new being of you. Price 25 cts. qv Pyre & Crumciy, Agents Syrup of Figs, Manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co., San Francisco, Cal., is Nature’s Own True Laxative, This pleasant California liquid truit remedy may be had of all leading druggists. It is the most pleasant, prompt, and eftect- ive remedy known to cleanse the system- to act on the liver, kidneys and bowels gently yet thoroughly; to dispel head- aches, colds. and fevers; to cure consti- pation, indigestion, and kindred ills. No. 7.-6m. Standford in the Big Race. San Francisco, Cal., April 10.— A gentleman of this city who has just returned from Washington and who is on intimate terms with Sena- tor Leland Standford, stated to-day that Stanford had finally decided to allow his name to go before the republican national convention a8 & candidate for the presidency, and having reached that conelusion de- sired the support of the California delegation to the national {conven- tion. The Last Brewery Gone. Topeka, Kas., April 11.—Judge Brewer of the United States circuit court over-ruled to-day the excep- tions of the defendants that the de- eision of the United States supreme court did not prohibit Ziebold & Hagelin from manufacturing beer in Kansas to be sold in other states, and the United States marshal was Rheumatism and Neuralgia cured in 1 to 3 days for 75 cents by Detchon’s “Mystic Cure.”? Do not suffer and waste money on other remedies. This abso ordered to close up their brewery at | !utely never tails. Sold by W. J. LANs- ia powN, Druggist, Butler, Mo. 8-6m. Atchison as a nuisance. This was the last of the Kansas breweries to hold out agaist the prohibitory law. A church in Ottawa, Kas., has girl ushers. The “sunflower state” is willing to try all sorts of experi- ments. That is all right if it is prompt to hold on to all that i good. President Cleveland Indorsed. Buffalo, N. ¥., April 10.—At a joint meeting of the democratic county, city and assembly district committees of Buffalo and Erie counties held this evening. a resolu- tion favoring the renomination of adopted Greatly Exested. Not a tew of the citizens ot Bu ler have recently become excited over the astounding facts, th several of their friends who h been pronounced by their physi jans af incurable and beyond recov: the dreade unanimously. es ery—suffering trom | The story of the escape as told by Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. monster Consumption—have beet All kinds of Country Produce bought at the highest market the prisoners shows that the present — a Baie in a avons tor Ree completely cured by Dr. King re. Rive us ‘Ss : 5 j aises ts, leers Sa eum, Fever ee . ee y price, Give usa call. — BELL'S old stand southwest fugitives were determined to leave at | Sores, Cancers, Piles, Chilblains, Corns, INES creed Passe corner public square. any hazard. When Mrs. Bowles | Teter, Chapped Hands, and all skin erup- the only remedy that does = ve! Saatliose: Gee ere tions,and postively cures piles, or no pay | cure all throat and tly —— was in the Jal Friday she was see nteed to give f Coughs, Colas. Asthma, Bronchits W. F. HEMSTREET & CO. talking very confidentially to her | = ded. Trial bottles free at al : pe = 1 , = \husband and they were just as close | pase large bottles $1