The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 22, 1888, Page 4

i | een ee eee an earn eae mR Be Co SE. s eeutetennenentionineamnne ee BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES J. D. ALLEN Eprror. J.D. Arren & Co., Proprietors, TF SCRIPTION: Limes, published every , Will be sent to any edaress one vear, postage paid, tor $1.25. BUTLER MISSOURI. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1888. Democratic National Ticket For President, | GROVER CLEVELAND. | For Vice-President, ALLEN G. THURMAN. ———— FOR REPRESENTATIVE. We are authorized to announce v. C. FULKERSON | asa candidate for the office of Representative of Bates county, subject to the action of the dem- ocratic primaries, held Seps. 15th, 1x58 We are authorized to announce JOHN B. BERRY of Deepwater township as candidatef or the of- | fice of Representative of Bates county, subject | to the action of the democratic primaries to be held Sept. 15th, Isss. {FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. we are authorized to announce J. ¥. SMITH, of Rich Hill, asa candidate for the office of Prosecuting attorney of Bates county, subject to'the action of the democratic party We are authorized to annnounce CALVIN F. BOXLEY, of Mt. Pleasant township, as candidate for the office of Prosecuting attorney of Bates county, subject to the action of the democratic party. We are authorized to announ J. W. BADGE of Mt. Pleasant township, as candidate for the office of Prosecuting Attorney of Bates eounty, subject to the action of the democratic party. FOR SHERIFF. We are authorized to announce DAVID A, COLYER, of Summit township, as candidate for the office of Sheriff of Bates county, subject to the action of the democratic party. We are authorized to announce M. L EMBREE, ee epee township, as candidete for the office of Sheriff of Bates county, subject to the action of the democratic party’. We are authorized to announce GEO. G. GLAZEBROUK, of Mound township, a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Bates county, subject to the action of the Democratic party. We are authorized to announce GEO. E. LOGAN, of Osage township as candidate for the office of Sheriff of Ba: of the democ tie party. FOR TREASURER, We are authorized to announce SAMUEL H FISHER, of Osage township, as candidate for the oftice of ‘Treasurer of Bates county, subject tothe action ofthe democratic party We are authorized to announce? OSCAR REEDER, present incumbent of the Treasurer’s offic candidate for re-nomination, subject to th tion of the democratic party. FOR SURVEYOR. We are authorized to announce DIXIE L. HAGGARD, of Shawnee township, as candidate for the of- | fice of Surveyor of Bates county, subject tc the action of the democratic party: . We are authorized to announce GEORGE E CATTERLIN, of Mt. Pleasant township, as candidate for the office of Surveyor of Bates county, subject to the action of the democratic party. FOR COUNTY JUDGE. Weare authorized to annonnce THOS, J, BOSWELL, of Charlotte township, as candidate for the of- fice of Associate judge of the county court of Bates county, northern district, subject to the action of the democratic party. We are authorized to announce D. w. CLOUD, of Spruce township, as candidate for the office of Associate Judge of the county court of Bates county, northern district, subject to the action of the democratic party. We are authorized to announce A. A. CONARD, . of Mound township as candidate for the oftice of Associate Judge of the county court of Bates county, northern district, subject to the action of the democratic party. We are UNE announce rIX of Prairie township, as candidate for the office of Associate Judge ofthe county court of Bates county, southern district, subjest to the ac- tion of the democratic party. ———— It was generally conceded that | Judge Gantt made the best nomi- nating speech at the Springfield convention in placing the name of Judge DeArmond before that con- vention. Cass, Henry, Benton, Miller, Moni- teau and Cole counties placed Bates county under lasting obligations by ‘the strong and unanimous support given Judge DeArmond. Another prominent New England republican has announced his withe drawal from the republican party because of its attitude on the tariff and eism-——the Rev. Dr. Wil- liam dewitt Hyde, president of Bow- doin College, Maine, who is deserib- ed as 2 man who was bred a repub- lican.’ The procession grows more numerous as it moves along. The Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.) deelares that Blaine is losing the uds cf votes every time and that is what he opens it scounty, subject to the action | shis mouth to speak. Pre. | | A PLAIN STATEMENT. A communication appeared in the | Bates County Democrat of the 9th | inst., over the name of Jesse Connell, |asking for information relative to | the action of the Bates county Board | of Equalization in reducing the ase ‘sessed value on money and notes a6 returned by the assessors and increas- ing the value of land. We have waited for two weeks for the Demo- | crat to enlighten Mr. Connell on this | subject, but up to this time that | paper has failed to make answer, either because its editor could not give a satisfactory explanation or would not take the trouble to hunt In justice } | | | up the facts in the case. | to the officials comprising this Board | we make a plain statement as it ap- pears of record: The Board of Equalization found that seventeen township assessors out of the twenty-four, including Osage | and Mt. Pleasant, the largest town- | ships in the county, had placed the | assessed valuation on money, notes and bonds at sixty per cent. of their face value, all other property at forty per cent; the other seven assessors had taken money and notes at their face value. It was clearly an injustice to the people of these seven town- ships to have to pay taxes on property |at its face value, when the seventeen townships paid taxes on the same property as ed at sixty per cent. of its real value. There was only one of two things for the Board to do: either increase the assessment of ;the seventeen townships forty per cent. or decrease the assessment of | the seven to equalize with the others; this latter alternative the Board chose, and wethink wisely. Itstrikes us as being a little inconsistent, to | say the least, to assess a horse, worth | $100, at $40, and a note for $100, given for the purchase of this horse, at its face value, when if placed on the market it would not near bring that amount. As for increasing the value on real estate, there is nothing in it, except to equalize the assess- ments in all the townships. While | the real estate in some of the town- ships was raised, in others it was |lowered. The Board was but doing its duty under the law when it equal- ized the assessable property all over the county and it has no excuses to | offer for its action in this matter. | In our announcement column will be found the name of Hon. John B. Newberry as candidate for the office of representative, subject to the action of the democratic primaries. Mr. Newberry needs no introduction to the people of Bates county, being an old settler and having been prom- inently allied with every public inter- est in Bates county for many years, as well as being prominent in politic- al circles. He held the office of sheriff of this county and represented this district in the State Senate. In every position in which he has been tried he has shown that sterling quality expressed by Grover Cleve- land when he said “a public office is a public trust,” possessed of striking individuality, the soul of honor and integrity, he would make a repre- sentative second to none other in the county. It has been discovered by a com- mittee appointed by congress to in- vestigate certain matters touching the labor problem that wages in many branches of manufactur- ing have largely decreased within the past few years. In New York girls who could make a few years ago from $7 to $8 a week as shirt makers can not earn more than $5; cloak makers who formerly made $9 a week can not command more than $5, and workers in rubber goods who formerly commanded $10 a week do not average more than $5. It is claimed by the protectionists that wages depend entirely on the tariff yet there has been no reduction in tariff while this cut im wages has been going on. Will the protec- jtionists please explain?—Kansas | City Star. | When Mr. Blaine arose to address | the Portland meeting on Wednesday, “he wore the same English clothes as he did on Monday when he arriv- is now evident that the dem-| ed in New York: a soft black cuta- rrender to Blaine | way, checked trousers, checked gait- 2at Harrison does jers and varnished shoes.” Quite ‘English, you know! You can get a‘ to-day’s force with a probable larger 39 tf. [ mighty good suit of clothes, such as | Mr. Blaine wore, for $13 in London, | and probably took advantage of his visit abroad to purchase all the clothing he will need for several years tocome. The spectacle of Mr. Blaine going around clad in an En- glish suit of clothes, championing | the cause of American labor against foreign imported goods, is one for American workmen to contemplate. ; —St. Louis Republic. Tired of Republicans. Caldwell, Kan., Aug. 16—The Caldwell Journal. for nine years the leading republican paper of the bor- der, surprised its readers to-day by coming out flat-footed for Cleveland Thurman, Martin, Eby and tariff re- form. It states the cause of its po- litical change to be the position ta- ken by the republican party on the vital economic questions of the day which position it denounces as “an unwarranted deviation from the paths of political rectitude and an absolute repudiation of the various promises made heretofore by the re- publican party in reference to light- ening the burdens of what is pleased to term unjust, unnecessary and dis- criminate taxation.” Itlauds the ex- ecutive acts of President Cleveland during his term of office and denoun- ces as hypocrites those who accuse him of being a free trader or an ally of England. “Dynamite” Dave Leshy has been employed to edit the Jou the campaign. sal during Immigration. Those counties which started into the move wreat southwest immigration reut and tailed to raise their quotus and to be represented in the hand book will have reason to regret not continuing in the good cause soon, for the grand results of the so- ciety are soon to be experienced. The contract has been let and the first eddition of 50,000 hand books is now being printed. ‘the pamphlets were let to Buxton & Skinner in St. Louis, at a very low figure, and at the same time the job is to be first class in every particular and the books will be daisies. President Salmon informs us that Hutchins & Co. are issuing 100,000 maps. 50,000 of them are to accom- pany the 50,000 hand books, and the other 50,000 will be folded and dis- tributed separately. The maps as well as the pamphlets are to be the very best. The work is now in progress and both maps and books will be issued in a very short time. By winter this section of the state j will witness such an influx of immi- gration as she has never seen before. —Clinton Democrat. New Coons In Town. Supt. Geo. W. Sweeney arrived on thenoon Pacific train from Du Quoin, Ill, with a gang of colored miners, to take the place of the ones who “jumped” the town a few weeks ago. As will be remembered by most of our citizens, the Keith & Perry Com- pany imported about 150 to 200 colored miners and their families some three or more years ago to take the place of the white men with whom the company was unable to make terms on account of a strike at No. 5 that grew out of a misunder- understanding about screening or weighing their output. There was considerable dissatisfaction at the time among the white miners and our people generally, but the company seems to have had no troubleor very little with its colored population. They were confined mostly to the mining region of this company, some four to six miles from town, and rarely ever came to town except to draw their wagesand lay in supplies. Hence there was little cause for com- plaint, and things seem to have run smoothly enough till about a week ago, when a number of the young colored bucks who were a little ahead of the company, “racked out” for a cooler clime, going to Iowa, where there was a strike in vogue, and where they were promised some- | thing fat. This occuring just as the coal mining season was about to fairly open here threatened to leave the Keith & Perry Co. short of hands, especially as the Rich Hill Coal Mining Company is working all avail- able men in its mines, but the arrival installment by any train will avoid mpything in the nature of a panic. and our people may look for work to. begin in earnest in all our mines now. There were 30 miners besides their families in to-day’s lot.—Rich Hill Review. BARCLAY FOR SUPREME JUDGE. Ellison, Smith and Gill Nominated for | the Appellate Judgeship. After one of the most exciting and hotly contested fights ever known in the political history of Missouri, the State Democratie Judicial Convention at Springfield last Thursday, on the | 18th ballot, nominated Judge Shepard Barclay, of St. Louis, for supreme judge. The ballot- ing begun Wednesday evening and at midnight adjourned to Thurs- | day morning. Judge DeArmond had 2 positive strength, which was de-| termined to secure his nomination or be forced into the ditch fighting. Considering the obstacles in his way, | he made a phenomenal race, and it was conceded by all parties that Judge DeArmond was the only man that the anti-Barclay strength could have nominated. The St. Louis Re- public, in summing up the result, puts it thusly: Therefore it was an interesting as | well as an exciting contest. Judge Burgess’ friends fought well, but the division in Southwest Missouri be- tween DeArmond and Stratton di- vided the balance of power in sucha violent manner that it could never be controlled. Stratton votes went fre- quently to Burgess, ‘and Burgess votes to Stratton, but the DeArmond contingent maintained a solid front throughout, and would have suc- ceeded had the Stratton vote come to it. Even at the last, when the name of Burgess was withdrawn, the Anti Barclay men still had a chance to win by uniting upon DeArmond. Instead, however, they undertook to give Stratton the Burgess vote and failed. Had there been any sort of unanimity of purpose between the | delegates from the Southwest ener- getic marshalship might have swept the waters of opposition right over the rock of the Barclay support. But that unanimity was wanting, singu- larly enough, and the balanee of power was never for a moment yielded. THE APPELLATE JUDGESHIP. The three lucky parties who drew the prizes in the Kansas City court of appeals race are Judge James Ellison, of Adair county; Gen. J. L. Smith, of Cole, and Judge Turner A. Gill. of Jackson. William Phelps, of Carthage,moved that nominating speeches be dis- pensed with. The motion was carried and the roll was then called for the names of nominees. The following were announced by the various counties: James Ellison of Adair, J. D. Parkinson of Bates, J. W. Boyd of Buchanan, T. A. Gill of Kansas City, J. L. Smith of Cole, John A. Shanklin of Grundy, E. Brown of Jasper, A. F. Alexander of Lafayette, John M. Barker of Mont- gomery, John Edwards of Nodaway, G. Rechow of Polk, John G. Strother of Saline. Before the roll was called the name of Judge Parkinson was withdrawn. The first Ballot resulted as follows: Ellison 145%, Boyd 36, Hall 52, Gill 102, Smith 119, Shanklin 80, Brown 75%, Alexander 38, Barker 83, Ed- wards 43, Rechow 86, Strother 60. Judge Ellison having received a majority of the votes in convention was declared te be nominated. On the third ballot Gill and Smith } were nominated by the following vote: Smith 142, Gill 152}, Boyd 164, Shanklin 86, Brown 61, Barker 4, Strother 40. W. H. Briggs, of Pike county, was | nominated for the St. Louis court of appeals. Here is a bit of “Southern bull- | dozing” that was on “the other | side:” | Louisvile. Ky., August 10. At} Richmond, Ky.. Wednesday night Clabe White and Green Campbell, | colored, were taken from their homes | by a crowd of colored men and} soundly whipped. The reason as- | signed was that the two had voted | the Democratic ticket at the election | Monday.” | Plenty of six per cent money to} loan. Privilege of paying part or | all at any time before maturity and stop interest. Prac & Srract ; stant and ship and man were gone. oo om FEMAL= 3OLLEGE, Lexixeros. CENTRA Sth, 1888. Beautiful location. Thirteen c Laprovenents 65,00. Heated by steam ticth session opens Sept, Lonservatory of Musie, ¥ AERDOLFP, Presiden, s THE BEST 1S THE CHEAPEST. | IF YOU WANT THE BEST ‘TOP BUGGY, SPRING WAGON, PHAETON OR CARRIACE, GO TO BENNETT, WHEELER & CO. | i dea | Olthe J IF YOU WANT THE BEST Binder, Mower or Combined ‘Machine, On the market get the BUCKEYE of BENNETT, WHEELER & CO. [If you want the best Farm Wagon be sure and gei the SCHUTTLER, MITCHELL OR STUDEBAKER: It you want the best HAY RAKE, ROAD SCRAPER. PUMP, WIND MILL, BARB WIRE or HARDWARE OR CROCERIES, zoto BENNETT, WHEELER & CO. IRON A CRASH AT $ lin time of overwhelming disaster, | three boats of the Thingvalia were Over a Hundred Lives Lost by a|lowered and manned. The _ first Steamship Collision. | away rowed straight to an upturned erat ee ee / boat on which a woman was sup- : New ea — oe bees cap- | ported by ‘Third Ofiner ‘Potensen See Le WAC Jame together with an engineer who had gers of the steamship Geiser of the his arm broken and a seaman with a Thingvalia Line were asleep early on beoken’ lew. Dheke owece taken ion — Ae aa Pent last, — board the bout and soon afterward the/abrp ploughed her way) (0) Ue | 6 other boats haa picked up a few ext through the fog and mists oi others who survived, thirty-one all Leia oF aca ead pat a ‘i 8 told of passengers and crew. One white capped! wayes; eure up ’Y ® hundred and seventeen souls had stiff southerly breeze. She had left Ghen drowned New York Saturday with 138 souls cis Fier bt oe on board, and was off Sable Island. FLAG RAISING AT THE FOUR The first gray rays of dawn were | CORNERS. struggling up in the east as the. ee steamship Thingvalia of the same} ae line loomed up almost dead ahead. There were quick blasts of the steam Democratic Demonstration. The Democracy of northern Bates assembled ie . 1 da jon the beautiful round topped mound at the whistles, the changing of bells and | four corners of East Boone, West Boone, West shouts from the officers. The bow! Point and Elkhart townships on Saturday af of the Geiser swept away to the} terneon, Aug. 18th, to prove their loyalty te north and also the bow of the Thing- | the Democratic party, discuss living issues and valia followed to the North. Anoth- | renew Demociatic sociability, which was right er minute and the Thingvalia crash- | grandly accomplished by the pole raising and z ey % | moonlight picnic. The first attempt at raising ed into the Geiser, cutting through | was foiled by the main guy ropes giving way the hull close to the center line Sf} white the pole was but a few feet in the air, the deck. The Geiser rolled heavi- | but luckily no damage was done and the sec- ly over to the port, and then as the | ond attempt was suecessful, Thingvalia backed slowly away, | a eda - W. Badger exercised his 3 a . | Muscle and ‘‘heohhe’d’’ was funny ss well righted and rolled over with her | as profitable. Among those that took s part wounded side almost out of sight 11 | in the tamping, your correspondent recognized the water At once a phantom-like | | Judge Boswell, Oscar Reeder, Geo. G. Glaze- host of screaming people in their | brook, and Geo. E. Logan, and by the way they night clothes came rushing up from | wept agentes the sept of assisting F s . % . | the settling such an emblem which stam the lower decks, adding their cries | ninety-six feet above the earth and supports the and prayers to the noise of falling | pemocratic rooster in the act of giving thecrow spars and the confusion of shouting | of victory. The flag, « ten by eighteen, the men. The Geiser’s deck way aslant | masterwork of Bridgeford and Druammonds snd and wet, and the ship lurched con- | sabe = se eee = goes and pol : | man in the life size on opposite sides, jus! stantly toward her wounded side, | low the stars, was recate sake at ae setting and passesgers unable to find a foot- ofthe sun and in her gentle gale then blowing hold, plunged and rolled overboard , trom the east floated out her signal of triamph almost as rapidly as they reached | tothe evening sunset and seemed to mingle ber the deck. | colors with the paintings of nature to proclaim a: | liberty, peace and prosperity. after doing A HERO'S DEATE. | justice to the bountifal repast spread by the : . sco | hospitable ladies of said townships, we were In seven minutes the dying Geiser | nightly entertained by Judge C. F. Borly, Je gave her last lurch. A wave swept | W. Badger and Gen. Joe O. Shelby, inmany across her deck. and when it subsid- | instructive and forcible remarks. ed only the bow with the bridge, Notabie among the events ef the eyening was above it, and the chief officer. Hen-/| ee given by the Butler Thar- * - man Club. ry Brown, standing on the bridge | ‘The program of the evening wae very agrees- gripping the railing and looking | bly and appropriately interspersed with music away over the bow of the ship into! tarnished by the Altona brass pand. After the fog and mist. Another in-| presenting boquets and tendering thanks and | cheers, the crowd dispersed about ten o’elock z z . j in the evening, evidently feeling that it had - j ¥ feeling There floated over their grave two | been an afternoon pleasantly and profitably life boats, bottomside up, and pieces | spent. Among those present were persons of timbers and boards and boat-oars | fromall over the county including s goodly and life preservers, with half a hun- | numberof candidates who no doubt improved dred people clinging to them. or | their time and epportunity. We are glad to swimming from one floating object | ae eee shee Cuber taen — to another. The waves swept over! Ania, i reer en eto areas them and the spray hid them, andj A Parriciratsr. as each wave ace. the fiomestied | = spectators on the deck of the Thing-' Pimples. boils and other humors valia saw that those who remained | are liable to appear wher the blood numbered less than they had seen| gets heated. To cure them, take before, and the screams and vers | Hood’s Sari ill for help were rapidiy hu J. K. Brugier & S list of fine improved farms for sale on have a large RESCUERS AT With such haste as 16tf cheap and on easy terms.