The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 4, 1889, Page 3

Oh cra ee een ee atiaadameiees adele — It was back in °58 and 59 that Dob- bles made his first appearance in Red Star gulch. Rich seams had been struck, and the boys were making money pretty rapidly. As a natural | consequence the influx of settlers was great, but the newcomers were all young or middle-aged men—all except Dobbles. How he came by such a name, or whether he had any real right to it, were questions that did not bother the miners much, for inherited names and generally good antecedents were not often required in the mushroom cities and camps of the Wild West in those wild days. Even how he reached the gulch, from where or just when he came, were points upon which nobody appeared to be positive. But what his business was there was a subject that more generally interested the men of the Red Star, for he did not seem to have any regular occupation; neither did he seem to want for any of the necessaries of life, and he was never known to beg. The chief of regulators especially tried to satisfy himself as to the old man's means of subsistence, but the store-keeper only knew that Dobbles bought sparingly, and always paid for his purchases either in coin or ‘‘dust.” To be sure the old man might have been called up before the temporary authorities of the Red Star and made to account for himself; but the mode of questioning was seldom resorted to in mining communities in those days. When such an impromptu trial was held it almost invariable resulted in the expulsion from the camp of the man snspected or under surveillance; and such proceedings were taken only in desperate exigencies. But “Queer Old Dobbles,” as he came to be called almost from the day of hi8 appearance in the gulch, excited only curiosity at first. He seemed hard of comprehension, in fact, very simple minded, and never spoke except when directly addressed. He appeared about camp at all hours of the day and night, until it beeame a mooted question if he ever slept at all. Though he was con- tinually wandering or ‘‘prowling,” as the boys termed it, nothing of value was ever missed in connection with his visits to different portions of the camp, and he soon came to be regarded as a harmless and mild type of lunatie. ‘The winter came, and one of the coldest winters for many years it was too, but for a wonder, old Dobbles sur- vived it allr t, when not less than half a score of men gave up the ghost through freezing during those long cold months. ‘The old man lived, when at home—which he rarely was—ina cosy little affair that was half cabin and half tent. The most of the time he shared the somewhat superior accom- modations of the miners, and by the unwritten law of such communities he was always tolerated, though perhaps he was seldom really welcome. When the spring had come again the gulch was once more a most delightful spot to dwell in. The climate was dry and healthy, and there «seemed to be and new life in the very air. one appeared to feel the revivi- fying effect of spring’s advent except old Dobbles. “How did ye come through the win- ter, old man?” the miners would ask him, and the queer oid fellow, almost as much of a stranger when he first came to the Red Star, would shake his head mournfully and say “Poorly, sir, poorly! my cough is get- ting worse and worse every day. And, as if in verification, his words were followed invariably by a tremend- ous fit of coughing. “Consumption,” the boys would say as they turned away from old Dobbles; cure any and every case of acute mmatory Rheumatism and Neuralgia ig 2 DAYS; and to give immediate reliet ronic cases and effect aspeedy cure. On ipt of jo cents, in two cent ope, we vil qos to any address the et ription tor this wondertul com pound ich can be filled by your home druggist small cost. 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THE GLORY OF MAN STRENGTH.VITALITY ! . How Lost! How Regained, KNOW THYSELF THE SCIENCE OF LIFE AScientificand Standard Popular Medical Treatise onthe Errors of Youth,Premature Decline, Nervous ‘and Physical Debility, Impurities of the Blood. EXHAUSTEDVITALITY ~ UNTOLD MISERIES from Folly, Vice, orance, Ex or Ove Enerva ‘ad gudtting the victim for Work, Business, the Married or Social Relation. ‘Avoid unskillfal pretenders. Possess this great work, It contains 500 paces, oS ‘al Svo. Beautiful : fit, whole winter here He'll ‘pack his dus’ and go beyond the Eternal when cold weather comes again.” The old man seemed in a fair way to realizethese predictions concerning him- self. Indeed he appeared to be gradu- the spring. “You must sieep more, my boy,” said the storekeeper, compassionately, quired the GOLD AND JEWEL LSciatien for | like, and it ain't healthy, nuther.” ‘PRIZ: ESSAY on NERVOUS and -Parkerand acorps conti. more good than sleeping.” ching. peanacns of coughing BESS as if palsied. ove one hundred men hard at work. Improved machinery who came in hundreds. Maurice Tellson, stood over It has permanently cured THOUSANDS of cases pronounced by doctors hope- jess, If you have premonitory symp- toms, such as Cough, Difficulty of | | Breathing, &c., don’t delay, but use | weeks previous to Dobbies’ first appear- PISO’S CURE ror CONSUMPTION | ance. He was not particularly well immediately. By Druggists. 25 cents ! s 2 = ratzia Cure | . i enmatism 2nd Wewratgia Cured in |} ATA ; < ana imennea that piace anove 1 maa a daughter ! Two Days. \ QUEER OLD DOBBLES. asa fluent once, as good and pure a woman asany | : y ae al talker when he w to be, a dead that can be found outside of Heaven. i Chemical Wo. have discov > De, a e found outside of Heaven 4 soa hich acts with truly Events Proved That He Was Not shot and thoroughly “game,” qualities She was dutiful to me, and my one am- | sveious rapidity in the cure of Rheu- | So Queer as He Seemed. which ensured him respect if not bition was to see her happy in life | yism and Neuralgia. Weguarantee it esteem. There never was a cloud upon ourlittle Marjorie on the first day of every | month, and T: \ vised the paying off. Gold and silver coin were the only forms of money ever seen in the Red Star region in those days, and even that would not have been available were it not for a | little bank which had been “poor old fellow, he won't see another ally melting away into another world through the hot summer that followed one day: ‘don’t prowl ‘round so much by night. It don't look jest honest- “It's the only way Ican rest,” said Dobblies, brokenly; ‘tit seems to do me This was followed by another spasm The old man tottered away, his legs trembling under the weight of his body and his head shaking A syndicate of Eastern cxpitalists bought five or six adjoining claims that gave promise of great production, and by summer time the new company had brought vast amounts of precious ore out of the soil of the Red Star gulch and every claim that promised gold in abundance was speedily staked out by fresh arrivals, a dashing black whiskered, athletic-looking fellow, who x feet in his long boots, had been selected as the superintendent of the “Marjorie.” as the big claim of the Eastern speculators was styled. | Telison had come to the gulch a few oe rn eS TERE Wages were paid to workers on the one day whom I have cursed ever since. “Men, it was the old story of betrayal and desertion. My poor darling, once innocent in the eyes of all men, and still innocent in the honesty of mis- guided love, left my roof and followed that man. Sometimes she would over- take him, only to be repulsed, only to follow him again and again, in the blind hope that sooner or later he would relent and take her to his heart once more.” Old Dobbles paused and looked around him. “Only his eye saw a cloud of dust up the Payson City road, a cloud that dimly enveloped the forms of ap- proaching horsemen. “Well,” demanded a burly miner, ‘«what's this to do with us?” “Let me finish, answered the old man, ‘and then do your will with me As my daughter became an outcast and a wanderer, so I too left my lonely home and followed in her footeteps as best I could. Never once did I over- take her, but many times I nearly fcund her only to be eluded. Her two ruling ideas were to join the man she loved in spite of her wrongs and to es- cape the presence of the parent on whom she had visited so much sorrow. “T followed her west into the mining camps, but never succeeded in exactly locating her. I came to Red Star gulch and discovered, not her, but the villian who had brought all this wretchedness upon me and mine. He had found prosperity here, here where his past is unknown to you. To-day he received a letter from my Jennie, and crumbled itin his hands. I was following him and picked it up. My poor little girl is in Paysen City now, pleading that she may join him.” Dobbles paused choked by sobs, j | horizon until a man came into our home \ | on personally super- started about two years earlier at Payson City, forty miles distant from the gulch. Naturally enough, the work of bringing the coin on from the bank was also personally superintended by Tellson, who devoted three days to the round trip, always accompanied by an ample guard, for the “rustlers” were per- niciously active in the vicinity of pros- perous frontier communities in those days. The reason why the company pre- ferred to pay in currency rather than “dust” was that payment in the latter commodity involved more or less waste or overpayment. The miners would unquestionably have preferred the dust, but were forced to content themselves with Tellson’s way of doing business. But during the summer complaints | came in faster and thicker that much of the coin was “queer"—in other words, spurious and counterfeit. ‘That's curious,” said Tellson, when one of the men brought this grievance to the superintendent; ‘the bank wouldn’t play such a trick on me, and Til swear the ‘queer’ stuff wasn’t sub- stituted for good on the way home. If the money was changed—and it cer- tainly appears to have been—it hap- pened after we got here with it, and without my knowledge.” A few days later a delegation of the miners waited upon the superintendent in his cabin office and made a general protest that they were being paid in counterfeit money. Tellson repeated what he had said on the former occa- sion, and added, impressively: ‘Boys, this thing has gone far enough to require investigation. There is un- doubtedly some one ‘shoving the queer’ right and left. He may be some one who is shrewd enoug nd has facil- ities for robbing mi with his own bad coin. J open, the scoundrel is caught he wiil ¢ 2 again, his voice and cast a covert glance up the road. The cloud of dust was coming nearer. A few minutes would suffice to bring the horsemen to the tree. But none except the old man saw this, so absorbed were the rest in his words. It was plain that he was carrying his hearers with him, when Maurice Tell- son broke in, impatiently: Vho is this man you accuse? Come, The men departed, growling and dis our aienib old must : rude perieeere ga = “It is you!” shouted old Dobbles, and satisfied, but determined to keep on|, ay Sey : :, ae immediately subsided into a fit of the alert and capture the counterfeiter . ® if possible. One look at their faces coughing: ge i a2 Spee “You lie!” yelled Tellson. ‘‘Come, uld have satisfied any one of the hor- rible fate in store for the unknown ras- cal when he should be detected. An- other pay-day came around, and sever- al thousand dollars more of the worth- ess currency got into circulation, de- spite the great vigilance exerc ed by every one concerned. =xcitement and indignation grew to feverish proportions, and on the follow- ing morning strange stories got afloat about the gulch. It was said thata solitary horseman had galloped into the camp late at night, that he had gonestraight to old Dobbles’ cabin, had remained there for upwards of an hour, and had then galloped off again at a break-neck pace. The visits of the mysterious stranger, coupled with the circulation of spurious money, assumed a dark import in the minds of the miners when these rumors became gen- erally known. About four o'clock in the afternoon old Dobbies, apparently feebler than ever, strolled into the vicinity of the Marjorie. The men regarded him with the blackest of looks, which he did not seem to notice. He tarried for several minutes, speaking to no one, and spoken to by none. At last he turned to go, when, as if by common impulse, the miners roughly seized him and threw him to the ground. Old Dobbies lay there as if dazed, and asked no explanation. Twenty or thirty men bounded off to his cabin, and came back a few minutes later with several small bags of specie. The storekeeper, who had been attracted to the scene by the unusual proceedings, examined the bags one after another, and pronocuced tke com 3s all bad and spurious. «Up with him! Short life and speedy journey for the rascal!” shouted the in- furiated miners. More dead than alive, old Dobbles was dragged for the distance of a half mile, out upon the Payson City road, where there was a convenient tree for hanging. The storekeeper brought an empty barrel upon his shoulder, and on the head of this the old man was made to stand. In afew moments a halter was tied around his neck, and the other end swung over a low projecting limb of the tree. The proportions of the crowd had steadily increased until there were hundreds of men upon the scene. Maurice Tellson was there, and evi- dently relished the summary justice to be dealt out to this poor, infirm wretch. “I bope they'll make a quick job of it,” he said to those around him. The scene that followed was a wild, indescribable one. Cheers went up from hundreds of throats as it became evident that their victim had only afew minutes to live. Old Dobbles was seen wildly gesticulating for silence, and gradually the noise subsided sufficiently | waiting to hear from me in Payson ke hi hi for him to make himself heard. | City, and he was the man who came to “Men,” he began, in a tone that was | ; ‘i e ‘ i | the guich to see me last night When weak at first, but strengthened and be- } he left he promised to bring the troops came clearer as he went on, “I havea /| = x se ae little story to tell you before I go te | to assist me to-day. and he has saved boys, up with the old ri cal!” But there was a division of opinion whether the hanging should take place. Pistols were drawn, and it looked as if sides would be formed. Dobbles alone, of all the crowd, seemed perfectly calm as he stood upon the barrel, awaiting the decision of his fate. “Hang him!” shouted the superin- tendent again. ‘Then as many of you as like may go to Payson C with me, and if the old man’s words are true, ne us you are about to use him.” brought back to the miners the real issue at stake, and several of them reached forward to seize the rope and swing the alleged counterfeiter into space. But the horsemen had arrived, they wore blue coats, and at their head rode asergeant; beside him a man in plain clothes. “Stop!” thundered the officer. "We want that man,” and the troops drove straight through the astonished crowd. “Why, it's McCausland himself!” ex- claimed the man in plain clothes who had borne the sergeant company. “What in the world are you doing up there, Mac?” And to the astonishment of every- body except the new-comers, old Dob- bles straightened up and looked won- derfully energetic and supremely hap- py. Those near enough heard him say: They had me up as the counterfeiter, and I am afraid they would have hang- ed me if I hadn't known you were com- ing before sundown, and so endeav- ored to hold their interest until you got here. You see, they went to my hut and found that coin which I had seized in Tellson’s cabin unknown to him Really did look like a clear case against me, didn’t it?” “Jt certainly did,” assented the man in plain clothes, ‘and Tm mighty glad we got here when wedid. You wouldn't look nice, Mac, dangling from a tree in this wild West country.”” “See here, Dobbles, Mac, or What’s- your-name, how about thet darter of your'’a in Payson City?” demanded one of the miners who had listened to the above dialogue with a great deal of curiosity, but not with very much clear- ness of perception. “Old Dobbles laughed heartily in a way he had never been heard to laugh before in the camp, as he answered: “My name is McCausland—Captain McCausland of the United States secret service. I've been here the greater part of a year, trying to make out a case against Tellson for passing coun- terfeits here and elsewhere; but he is one of the shrewdest fellows I ever came across, and it’s been a long hunt A little while ago I got into ! Tellson’s place on the quiet, and seized | several bags of the ‘queer.’ Then I wrote to my friend here, Joe Barker, also of the secret service, who was my life by doing se.” | son City?” the men, who did not even then com- prehend the situation. ' ed the Captain, who seemed suddenly to have grown twenty years younger, “was simply the creature of my own | fancy, and I think I owe my life toa clever little piece of acting, I never had a daughter and yet she saved my | life. Strange, isn’t it?” Barker had not been idle. Tellson was making off across country as fast as he could go on foot, but the younger detective, with the assistance of some of the miners, overtook him and brought him back. feiter hadn't a word to say; he was tied into a saddle, and the detectives and the troops started back to Payson City with their prisoner by sundown. bles, boys,” cried McCausland, as he galloped out of the camp that evening amid cheers from hundreds of throats. “Queer Old Dobbles,” and his long and patient hunt for the counterfeiter is one that the new generation of miners there are never tired of hearing. —Har- rie Irving Hancock in Boston Globe. = = r logue, etc., address Bev. ROBT IRWLA, D. D., Pres, St. Charles, Mo. having iad p simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma throat and lung aff: and radical cure for Nervous Debility tested in thousands of cases, has telt it his duty re ieve human suffering. I will » ot cha ceipt, in Germac, with tull directions sor prepari using. i stamp, nami 149 Power's STATE OF MISSOURI, i “But what about yer darter in Pay- SJACOBS OIL persisted three or four of | FOR WATERMEN. D t ~ “My daughter, gentlemen,” respond- ALL MEN whose pursuits place them on the water, such as Seafarers, Lake and River Craftsmen, Yachtmen, Boatmen, &c., should be guided by what CAPT. PAUL BOYTON, the World-Renewned Swim- mer, whose autograph is here shown,says,as follows: But while the Captain was talking The ex-superintendent and counter- “I don’t see how I could get along without St. Jacobs O11.” —— CURES —— RHEUMATISM, CRAMPS, ACHES, PAINS AND BRUISES. “Don't forget your poor old Dob- Sold by Druggids ant Dealers Everywhere. ‘The Charles A. Vogeler Co., Balto., Ma. CALIFORNIA. THE LAND OF DISCOVERIES And thi never did. The tale of ed. Consumption € Xn old phy n, retired trom pratice edin kis hands an India missionary the tormula ot a AS cure of Consumption, and ai! fections, also a positive vat all Neryous complaints, atter having its wonderful curative powers make it Known to his suffering tetlow, rated by this motive and a Ponehit isi DISEASES THROAT © 4UNGS = Sold on Gurral "Send for.citcular,S] per wttle3 pr Qt ge, to all who desire it, French or Sent by mail by ad g this paper. W. / Block, Roct : Order of Publication. aty of ss ates. ito the use 24 f the revenue of of Missouri, plainti 1B. Philpot and Susan Penn, det ction for delinquent srd day of July, by her attorn erk of the ci t x state of Mis and files her petition, stating among o' things that the above named defendants, She: Penn, are pon-resi- i | Whereupon it ANCES. 4, €€ SOLD AND GUARANTEED BY Dr. L. RICE. r he said ti that ree Try Sanra Ape CuxwinG Gum, ti tagainst them in } A natural tornia Gum. ty swallow- this court by Lject and general |< 1 : eed hewine: wil nature of which is toentoree the lien of the the saliva produced in chewing wi aterla WOODWARD, FANON & CO., DISTRIBUTING AGENES, Kansas City, Mo te of Missouri for the delinquent taxes of y aid digestion. ears Iss} and Iss. amounting in the ag- -108, together with » and fees, upon the ts of land ated in . ta-wit: 1 east half il) of section five (5) ia township )ofrange thirty-two (52), and nless the said defendants be and appear xt term of this court. to be begun and in the city of Butler, Bates county Mi 8 on the first Monday in November, and on or before the sixth day thereof + shailso long continue, and if not then the end of the term) | and plead i petition according to law, the s en as confessed and judgment rendered accord- ing to the ayer of said petition, and the above described real estate soldto satisfy the same. ‘And it is further ordered by the clerk atore- said that acopy hereof be published in the Butler Weekly Times. a weekly newspaper printed and published in Butler, Bates county Missouri, for four weeks successively, the last insertion to be at least four week: fore the first day of the next term ofsaidcourt. A trae copy from the record. Witness my hand as clerk aforesaid with the seal of said court herennto affixed. Done at office ST. LOUIS REAL ESTATE NOW IS THE TIME TO INVEST. & Few Hundred Dollz:s Invested in Some of Our Properties Will Double Itself in One Year. We have recently aid out and placed upon market several subdivisions, in which we can traordinary—monthly, quarterly or anzual I> ments from $5 per month to ened gf year. our —— are in the best part of the suburbs. = ave the best raiiroad facilities. cheap fares c perk frequent trains. Our special properties are: ELMWOOD PARK A few miles west of city limits, on St. L., Col. Railway, “Atchison Route.” laid out style; jote from £20 tw $1.20 each. HILLSIDE Adjoining city limits, twenty minutes from Union depot on Wabash, park style; large lots at from $1,000 to HIN each BRANDON PLACE Just south of Tower Grove Park. twenty minutes from Union depot on Oak Hill & Crowndelet (irom Mountain) Ratiway; lots at $150 to each. Other investment properties in and around city from $1.00 to $350,000—improved and unimproved. THERE Is NO BOOM HERE. Our prices are based on sctual valves. Pleses mention this paper when writing. CARR & GREENWOOD. Real Estate Agents. 16 N. Sth St., St. Leute, Me. And FRANK OBEAR, Resi Estate Broker, 804 N. Sth St., Bt. Louie, G. IN. Hays, Repairer and Rebuilder} of Furniture. —of All Kinds— CPHOLSTERING & MATTRESS MAKING, —Done to Order on Short Notice.— ~ [seax} Ee in Butler on this the 2rd day of JOHN C HAY Cireuit Clerk. W. Graves, Att’y for plaintit. July, 189. w Order of Pubiieation. STATE OF MISSOURI, ? .. County of Bates. oe In the cirenit court of Bates county. Missouri, in vacation. The state of Missouri at the re- lation and tothe nse of Oscar Reeder ex- ofticio collector of the revenne of Bates coun- ty in the state of Missouri, plaintiff, ve. John B. Pitman, defendant. Civil action for delinquent taxes. Now at this 20th day of July, 1#33 comes the plaintiff herein by her attorneys, before the undersigned clerk of the circuit court of Bates county in the state of Missouri, in vacation and files her petition, stating among other things that the above named defendant, John B. Pit- man is a non-resident of the state of Missouri. Whereupon it is ordered by the said cierk in vacation, that said defendant be notified by publication that plaintiff has commenced & suit against him in this court by petition, the object and general natare of which is to enforce the lien of the state of Missouri for the delin- quent taxes of the year 1887, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $7 92-100 together with interest. costs, commission and fees, upon the following described tracts of land sitaated in Bates county, Missouri, to-wit: 60 acres the north half of the southwest quar- ter of the northwest quarter and the northwest quarter of the northwest oat of seetion twenty-two (22) township t! irty-eight (3) of range thirty-three (33), and that unless the said defendant be and appear at the next term ofthis court. tobe begun and holden in the city of Butler, Bates county, Missouri, on the first Monday in November, 1*™9, and on or be- fore the sixth day thereof (ifthe term Bil 80 long continue, and ifnot then before the end of the term.) and plead to said petition accord- ing to law, the same will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered according to the prayer of said petition, and the above ‘lescribed real estate sold to eatisfy the same. “And it is farther ordered by the clerk afore- acopy hereof be published in the i eEkLY Times, a weekly newspaper and published in Butler, Bates county for four weeks successively, the last to be at least four weeks before the of the next term of said court. Atrae copy form the record. p Witness my hand as clerk aforesaid with the of REPAIRING CLOTHES: —RINGERS — All Work Warranted to give Sstisfaction. Shop at South-East Corner Square, Butler, Mo. ee Adrpinistrator’s Notice. SPECIALTY Notice is hereby given, that letters of ade ministration ‘on the estate of Charlotte Brown deceased, were granted to the undersigned, Om theZith day of J seat ed the Probate: + a. ‘claims againat said es- exbibit them for silow= tor within one ‘All persons havi tate, are required to ance to the eat! seal ofsaid court hereunto fos ed Done 2t offce in Batier on, this the ith day of aly. caer ees TOS C. years from the shall be forever barred 1s. i-th vy for plainti W. W. Graves.