The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 29, 1888, Page 1

1 7 ~ Cockle’s siiiis utler Weekly TITLE ABSTRACTORS, COMPLETE AND RELIABLE ABSTACTS OF TITLE FURNISHED ON SHORT NOTICE. MONEY TO LOAN On Real Estate security on long or short time. Office first door south ot Bates Co. National Bank. BUTLER, MO. LOOK HERE. It you want tc save money get. LEE -:- CULVER to do your PAPERING, CALSOMINING, PLASTERING, AND CISTERN WORK. w@_Satisfaction given or no charges made. Office at Jewett & Hickman’s Furniture Store. W. E. TUCKER, DENTIST, BUTLER, MISSOURI. OFFICE OPERA HOUSE. MASONIC. Butler Lodge, No. 254, meets the first Saturday in each month. Miami Chapter Royal Arch Masons, No. 6, meets second Thursday in each month. Pe Gouley Commandery Knights Templar meets the first Tuesday in each month. 1.0. 0. FELLOWS. Bates Lodge No. 180 meets every Mon- day night. Butler Encampment No. 6 meets the and and 4th Wednesdays in each month Lawyers. Ty H. CROCKETT ATTORNEY AT LAW. Otnce North Side Square, over A. L- MeBride’s store. W.BADGER va eourts. “All legal business ill practice in all courts eg! tu Mae attended to, Office over Bates Co. Na- tional Bank. Butler. Mo. AARKINSON & GRAVES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, over Lans- down’s Drug Store- LCOMB & SMITH H° LAWYERS BUTLER, MO. Office front room over Bates County National Banx. 4k W. SILVERS. e ATTORNEY =: LAW Will practice in Bates and adjoining counties, in the Appellate Court at Kansas City, and in the Supreme Court at Jefter- sen City. s@P-Orrice North Side Square, over A. L. McBride’s. aitt Physicians. J. R. BOYD, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Orricr—East Side Square, over Max Weiner’s, ig-ty DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOEOPATHIC Butier, Mo. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, tront room over P.O. All answered at office day or night. calls Specialattention given to temale dis- | eases. T C. BOULWARE, Phys e Surgeon. Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseases of women and chil- ren a specialty. DORN & PIERCE—BARBERS. Shop on North Side Square. “ed special attention to Ladies and dren’s hair cutting. We keep the best of Barbers, also grind scis- sors and razors. Everything firs class. All work guaranteed. Give us a call This old Engitsh Family Medicine in use for 86 years all over the world, tor Bile, Indigestion, Liver, &c. Of Pure, Vegetable Ingredients. : From Mercurs. PEACH & SPRAGUE... We} BUTLER, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 29,1888. DAVID R. FRANCIS. sketch of His Business and Mercantile Career. ‘and, in fact, immediately. This plan embraced the passage of a bill ex- | David Rowland Francis, the next | Governor of Missouri, is the young- | | est man ever nominated for that high i | office. He was born in Kentuc y | October 1, 1850, and will therefore | be but 38 years of age when he is inaugurated at Jefferson City next | (January. He was a small boy when | he came to Missouri, but he was «# bright little fellow, and at the age of 16 he entered Washington University in this city, where he graduated at | the head of his class in 1870 while | yet under 20 years of age. His bus- | iness and political career since that | time has been remarkable; it might | be said, phenomenal. He was a penniless boy when he left the} school-room and went out into the | world to shuffle for himself, but he was possessed of all the requisites | needed for success in life. He had | a strong heart, a steady, level head and he knew the value of honesty, | integrity and kindness. His entry | into business was by accepting a} position as shipping clerk in the | | commission and wholesale grocery | house of Shryock & Rowland. He | was not long in that position, how- ever, for he soon proved his value | and was advanced to a partnership in the house But young Francis was not satis- fied to stop at this pomt in his | business career. He was ambitious | to go up higher, and in April, 1877, ! he decided that he was strong enough | to stand alone, so he opened a com- mission house on his own account and in his own name. This business venture was a success from the start | and to such an extent that but few | years elapsed until he was regarded as a leader. Having married in 1876, he was already settled and of steady habits, | and it was the push and energy he displayed that marked him among | his fellow merchants for advance- | ment. His election as a director of the Merchants’ Exchange, followed by that of vice-president and _presi- dent of that great commercial body in quick succession, gave him promi- nence that was well deserved. His administration of the affairs of the exchange was a successful one, which added to his popularity. He is now at the head of the D. R. Francis & Bro. Commission Company and he stands at the head of the Francis & Smith Export Company, the largest exporters of grain doing business in New Orleans. To his business affairs he pays the closest attention, and to his watchfulness is largely due the | prosperous condition of the enter- prises with which he is connected. Mr. Francis entered the political | arena in the spring of 1884, when, | backed by the solid St. Louis dele gation in the State convention, he was elected as a delegate to the | spicuously. vetoed the measure, pointing out in the message a plan by which cheap | gas could be obtained before 1890, tending the St. Louis Company's frauchisc until 1910, on condition | that the price of gas in its exclusive | territory be reduced to $1 00 per 1,000 fromthe date of the accept- ance of the order until 1890, and not to exceed $1 25 thereafter, and re- passage of the Water-Gas Company's bill with additional restrictions. Within forty days after the penning ofthe veto message this plan was carried out, the St. Louis Gaslight Company reduced its price $1 per 1,000, and cheap gas was secured. This feat was accomplished in the face of great difficulties. The popu- lar opinion of the veto was that it was a mistake. Time proved the wisdom and business sagacity of the young mayor, however, and there- after his numerous vetoes of public measures were almost unanimously indorsed. The next important measure vetoed pany. The veto was based upon the ground that the city received only a paltry compensation for the proposed to be taken up by the road. The surface track connection of the Iron Mountain railroad with the | Union Depot was the next great measure vetoed. This bill was sought early by the Gould interest. The bill was vetoed because it conferred an exclusive franchise on conditions that would result in the paralysis of St. Louis commerce. The Dorsett underground wire bill next received the attention of the mayor. The franchise was too valuable to be given away for the | privileges proposed to be extended the city in return, and no surety was surrender of the nine miles of street the triumphant manner in which St. Louis and Missouri emerged from it | was due to the foresight, prompt action and good sense of Mayor | Francis, whose timely and wise action /in the premises turned a humiliating | defeat into a glorious success. | The efforts of Mayor Francis for | the establishment of a new bridge at St. Louis have resulted in the or- ganization of a bridge company, the securing of a franchise for the erec- tion of a bridge from the government and the obtaining of a franchise from the Municipal Assembly for abridge terminal railway. layed, owing to the opposition of conflicting interests and the strin- gency of the money market, it will entrance for a number of new rail- roads will be secured for the city and State. The smaller benefits secured for (St. Louis by the Francis adminis- tration have been innumerable. The icity has been kept out of dishonest The success of Mayor Francis in securing for St. Louis the National democratic convention is too recent to require more than mention here. In it he proved himself a veritable mascot. The canvass for nomination as governor, which culminated at Jeffer- son City yesterday, was one of the most brilliant and effective ever known in the history of Missouri politics, and the certainty with which Mr. Francis swept everything before him attracted universal admiration. The carrying of Buchanan county, which at once broke up and dis- persed the opposition, was consider- ed by old politicians to be a stroke of genius exceeding anything ever accomplished in this State in a per- given that the wires would be removed from theair. The bill was reintroduced at another session of the assembly, passed, and again vetoed. In addition to this display of ex- ecutive wisdom, Mayor Francis has shown himself possessed of rare financial ability. During his admin- istration the sum of $950,000 was reclaimed from the Missouri Pacific Railway Company, and the debt of the city largely reduced from 7 and 6 per cent. to 4 and 3.65; this on an indebtedness of over $5,000,000. The interest paid the city by banks carrying the city deposits was in- creased from 5.06 per cent. to 3.91 per cent. Itisas a public man that Mr. Francis’ ability shines forth con- He has, in speeches that have made him esteemed and respect- ed, welcomed to St. Louis all the | great bodies that have assembled in the city during the past three years. ; Many of his speeches have been National democratic convention at Chicago, where he made himself conspicuous by his untiring efforts in behalf of the candidacy of Grove democratic convention for mayor, and in the election following he de- a handsome majority. years he has administered the affairs of this great metropolis with fewer mistakes than any of his predeces- sors. He has made almost as good arecord as a writer of vetoes as President Cleveland enjoys. Promi- nent among his vetoes is the bill | passed by the Municipal Assembly | authorizing the Water-Gas Company {to lay pipes in the St. Louis Gas-| feet. The mayor gave a hearing to feated the republican incumbent by | For three | | Light Company's district and sell | Pills. | jreprinted in the most prominent journals of the country. Inaddition to formally welcoming the city’s guests, he has, with a generosity and jelegant a. warm. Being a man of | means, the possessor of a fine home and a leading figure in business, political and social circles, he has | been splendidly able to do this. He has thus entertained for the city all the distinguished State and National men who have been attracted to St. | Louis in the past few years, among them being the lamented Thomas A. Hendricks, Thomas Francis Bayard, ‘and Grover Cleveland, President of { the United States. The trying situ- ation in which the city and State were placed by the disavowal by the | companies, and to citizens, pending sonal canvass.—St. Louis Republic. DEMOCRACY AFTER IOWA. Chairman Brice Belieyes his Party Can Carry the State. The claim of chairman Brice of the democratic national committee that the democrats can carry Iowa, saysa New York dispatch to the Towa State Register, was made in earnest and with determination, as is proven by the number of Iowa men called to his service at their national headquarters. Judge James Grant of Davenport, has been here for two weeks in daily consultation with Brice and the committee. The old man said to a knot of people in the Hoffman house Saturday: “I am an old man, and one of the Bourbons of Bourbons, and I would be con- tent to die, if I could see Iowa go democratic.” He has given the com- mittee $10,000 and asked that it be especially devoted to Iowa. Chairman Brice said to a gentle- man to-day: “I believe we can carry Iowa. Itis now a plurality state. It is for tariff reform still. Now its vepublicans are divided and fighting Cleveland for president. In 1885 he a genialty seldom exhibited, extend-{on the railway question and we shall received the nomination of the city | ed privately a hospitality as rare and| gain 5,000 votes at least on that. The republicans are very radical and are alienating many railroad men and workingmen. will go into Iowa myself.” He ad- ed that the Iowa democrats were playing a fine game by way of divid- ing the republicans through a very shrewd man they have on the railway ‘commission, who is trapping the railway commissoners into rash and radical things, most to hurt the re- ; publican party in the end. A special purse is being made up Ba Jowa. J.J.H Hill, the railroad gas, after 1890, for $1 25 per 1,000 | Grand Army of the Republic of its} magnate of Minnesota, has given | connection with the movement to] $10,000 of this, $10,000 more is | representatives of the various gas | invite the president to St. Louis, and! pledged from the south and the oth- | the declination of the invitation by! er $10,000 is to come from the rich | the approval of the bill, and then| Mr. Cleveland. is well known, and| free traders of Chicago. Although, for the | time, the enterprise has been de- | yet be pushed to a success, and j | WITH YOU hands and its affairs have been | was a bill conferring a franchise of | transacted without the slightest jar the Electric Elevated Railway Com-| or a single failure. H | i | Successors to CHAS, DENNEY, at the old stand East H Side Square, where you will | A general invitation is extended WANTED Everybody to call on the new Grocery firm of ' PETTYS & WELTON, selected stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries Cheap as the cheapest, we will also pay the highest market price FOR ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE. Respecttully, PETTYS & WELTON. NO. 40 always find a tresh and well to all. Come early and stay late. I may and probably | of $40,000 by the democrats for use | FM. CRUMLY &60, With a Clean Fresh Stock of DRUGS. Stationery, Paints, Oils, &c. ONCE MORE Come and see us as we can do you good and would be g rlad to see you. jn Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. ‘When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. ‘When she was # Child, she cried for Castoria, ‘When she became Miss, she clung to Oastoria, ‘When shehad Children, she gave them Castoria x L. RICE,M, D. Physician and w « Surgeon, BuTLER, MISssouRI. Ot- fice west side square—over Graves’ har- ness shop. Butler Academy Will open Sept. 15th. Classical, Philosophical, Scientific, Teachers, Business and Musical Course Full Course in Penmanship. A SCHOOL FOR BECINERS. For those preparing for University and Professional Courses. For Teachers and those prepar- ing for Teaching. Full corps of thorough and exper- ienced teachers. As cheap as the cheapest. Better than the best. For further information address the principal, i F. A. WAGONER, 40 Im Butler, Mo. Public Administrator's Notice. Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of an order of the Probate Court of Bates County, Missouri. made on the 18th day of July, 185s, the undersigned Public Administrator for sad County, has taken charge of the estate of J. P- Harper, deceased. z All persons having claims against said Es- tate are apres to exhibit them to me for al- lowance within one year after the date of said order, or they may be uded from any bene- fit of such Estate; and if said claims be not ex- hibited within two years from the date of this publication, they will be forever barred Thie isth day of August, 1888 _ J. W. ENNIS, 38 Pablic Administrator. (LexinGTon & SouTHERN BRANCH.) Commencing Sunday, May 13th, and until turther notice, trains will leave Butler as follows: GOING WORTH. Kansas City Express....-..-+- 4345 Ao M. Kansas City Express +04:50 P. Me Local Freight +2+10:30 A. Me GOING SOUTH. Texas Express... Texas Express... | Local Freight S. L. & E. DIVISION, GOING WEST. | Passenger....--------see-+ee Freight = GOING EAST. Passenger 4:25 P.M. Mfr nee, ee RS ee 4:00P. M. All passenger trains make direct con- nection for St. Loui 1 ints east Texas and all points south, Colorado, | California and all points west and north- | west. Forratesand other intormationm | appv to E, Ko es. Agent. | THIS SPACE IS RESERVED iis ileal acti ites ct Si ah liiaai ce lnm in enti |FOR THE ADVERTISMENT OF IC. B. LEWIS THE? BOSS LWERYMAN | OF BUTLER,