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BUTLER, VOL. XIII. eee pI g >» MISSOURI, WEDN VESDAY APRIL 1 ») 1891. HOW PEARL STOLL MONEY BATES COUNTY National Bank, BUTLER, MO. THE OLDEST BANK : A Clerk of the Ex Treasurer of Kanes City Makes a Statement to tell what he knew about th TH LARGEST AND THE faleation. He says the sh ee ONLY NATIONAL BANK #8" pai IN BATES COUNTY Creag ee tena ene CAPITAL, eile 5,000 00) od out of the eit uds several SURPLUS, eae 5.000 00) large checks of the Rk. R. DEACON ‘arries the I Largest Stoc¢ k of ~RARDWARE and IMPLEMENTS :: IN THE COUNTY. ROCK ISLAND PLOWS AND CULTIVATORS. EAGLE PLOWS AND CULTIVATORS. C ASADAY SULKEY PLOWS. BROWN, UNION AND US. CORN HARROWS, PLANTERS. J HAWORTH AND BROWN CHECK ROWERS Lc 7 & EVANS, ST | FREEMANS BARB-WIRE, TO BUGGIES, SPRING WAGONS, BAIN & FISH BRO. WAGONS BUCKEYE IRON FORCE WARE. ALSO, PUMPS, IRON. A LARGE ““R. R. DEACON STEEL, VARI TY OF ROAD CARTS, WAGON WOOD WORK. BUILDERS HARD- ALWAYS ON HAND. BUTLER, MO. | * been dishone re “d ut the b, | HON. J.B. NEWBERRY Vice-Pre+ Contrat m= chureb, and MINISTER SWIFT'S DEATH. 1. C. CLARK - - Cashier | had wrougf appropriated about) ——— \ rr . | }$3.500 of the church's mone y John Atkison’s | When warrants were drawn on him |by the trustees, he would pay them | Heart Failure the Canse—Great Hon- ors in Yokohama. ' jand instruct bis clerk to put the a jwarrants in the cash drawer and| San Francisco, ¢ sahagege ie —The le ver his b vy Ismen we a 1 hb ine un . ee ft. U nite: 1 Staten Mi nister to Ja- Over Dr Eyeringham’s store rooms —_| Vestigution of his office Peske would | pan. arrived on the steamer Rio De West Side - Butler, Mo.) berrow enough cash to cover the|Janerio. Mr. Swift had been pros- | shortage. and immediately after.|trated with a severe attack of influ- DR. F. M. FULKERSON, wards would return it to the per jenza early in the year, but was sup- | sous froin whem he had borrowed it ) McKim states that Peake had attempting to throw the responsibil DENTIST, BUTLER, MISSOURI. Office, Southwest Corner Square, Tucker's old stand. ity of the defaleation upon employ of the office, and that | been assisted in this by the investi gating committee of the council, wh: would not hear his (MeKuim's) evi dence. Dr. Lawyors, J. H. NORTON. Attorney-at-Law. Office, North Side, over Barnhardt’s Jewelry Store. Peuke, which come up for trial in « McKim makes the above statemen Catvin F Boxcey, PROSECUTING ATTORNKY, CALVIN F. BOXLEY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Butler, Mo. Will practice in all the courts. from the suspicion that has beer cast upon them. Edmund's Reasons. statement of the reasons for his res ignation. “I have resigned,” he, solely. ARKINSON & GRAVES, ATTORNsYS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, down’s Drug Store. over Lans- ing the winter. AGE &l TON, AT ‘ORNEYS AT LAW, Office North Side Square, over A. L. McBride’s Store, Butler, Mo. to his duties, and if I cannot remain resign. DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOBUPATHIC ike’ Supreme (Gowtlwhen (0 nace PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, _ | business before it.” Office, tront room over P. O. Atl calls] Six Important Elections This answered at office day or night. Specialattention given to temale dis- cases. ner in Kentucky, Jackson in Mary been he has McKim also claims that the prosecuting attorney has agreed to nolle pross. the criminal cases against short time, on the lack of evidence. to clear himself and fellow clerks Washington, April 8.—Senator Ed- munds was asked last night for a said “from personal considerations It is a pure matter of health I can not live in Washington dur- I suffer from throat trouble, and the climate is too severe. T hold that a Senator should attend in Washington constantly prefer to IT shall spend the winters in Aiken, S.C., visiting Washington oc- casionally to attend the sessions of Year. Governors are to be elected this year to succeed Bois in Iowa, Buck- {posed to have entirely recovered. {On March 10 he complained of ip tin in the region of his heart and jwent to bed. That night while talk- ing to Miss S. he suddenly expired without warning. Death wes attrib ,{ uted to heart failure. ny The body was taken to Yokohama with As the procession reached fired from the United States steamer Al- The funeral were made by the and were participated in by the Ja panese officials. where it was received great honors. Yokohama minute guns were iy liance. arrs igments t : the foreign diplo- matic corps, the American Legation, Admiral Belknap and staff. The fu- neral services were held inthe Amei- ican Episcopal church at March 13. The coffin was draped hold. The services were conducted The remains were escorted to the train by foreign and Japanese min- M/and a large detachment of troops. At Yokohama sailors from the United States, British, Italian and Japanese men-of-war acted as an escort. Bish- op Williams conducted the services at the cemetery. A wreath sent by The remains only temporarily inter- red at Yokohama and will be convey- ed to Califernia. [ C. BOULWARE, Physician and)jand, Abbet in New Jersey. Hill in| An exchange says that if readers e Surgeon. Office north side square, | a a : - 2 = Butler, Mu. Diseasesof women and chil-] New York and Camp¥ell in Ohio. wish to have a complete record of en aspec All six of these gevernors are|local events and one of the best SET OT jdemocrats. Two belong in states | books that can be had any where let J.T, WALLS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, Southwest Corner Square, over Aaron Hart's Store. Residence on Ha- vannah street norrh ot Pine. Atlantic in the western states all six cf the offices to by jeumstance without — Potter Bros. BRICK LIVERY STABLE. An ample supply of on the are now held demociats n the history of the country a a presidential kes the I and ma ilar and rtane ush the Phese six electi only indieation whien the Suggies, Carriages, iO is Phaetons, Drummer |": & politic Wagons, &c. ed by election figures fthe ct conditions reveal Three of the states, New Maryland and Kentucky, ». the b Jersey, are surely lemocratic aas always been close low uaDy This is one of the bestequpped Sta 3©> bles in this section of the state. no First Crass Ries Fersiree At any hour, dav or night | on the most reasonable terms. Farmers desiring to put up their horses when in the city will tind this barn the most convenient in town. POTTER BROS. women and mildest, surest. 30 d Samples tree at H- er‘s Drug Store. tetyr bordering on the south.two in states | them take a seaboard and two is io ee eud of L. Tuck- | ine, treeat H. L. blank book, and each week chp from their paper all the The fact that |items of interest and paste them un be contested | der the date of the paper. and at the year they will be sur o| prised at the amount ef Jocal history Lin one scrap book. Cat out all ae church notice, we idin deaths, | personal ver nd all and a collee- net part could be proe done news- subscription. interesting {in a few years you will L such as you wo orauy book that {cured. Then when have all this think of paper and squar yo the work the put your has in your up on aeNervous Dise s of the Re | Suarantece tt. American colony, : Tokio | with the United States flag, and was | covered with flowers, some of which | were sent from the imperial house- | by Bishops Williams and Beckerel. ; isters, the naval and military officers | the Emperor was buried in the grave. | HAY NOW SHORT AND HIGH. A Pour Crop and Speculation Causes Lofty Prices. Laneas City Star There is some danger of } and its tribe crop Nebraska than a iberal sup- famine in Kansas City tary territory. The year Missouri. Towa, not third as large as the over! ply of the year before. ity in and Kansas was more Speculators, as might be expected, | to take The result fluctuation of until twice as this have not been slow tage of the shortage. has been an excited direction, than high as they were last prices in the upper they are now more year at time. Hay dealers were not made aware of the fall extent of the hay shortage until about two weeks ago. Previ ous to that time the market out the winter. About two wee ago L. C. Mercer, a daring bay | speculator of Omaha, began to buy hay in unlimited quantities in Kan sas City and neighboring cities. succeeded not only in getting a small corner on hay for himself, ,but sending up prices from $10 $14:50 a ton, wholesale. Local dealersare looking lugubri- ous over the situation. They do not know how to fill their orders. i side of the hay possessed by the stockyards company, there was from 600 to 1,000 tons of hay stored in the city at the time the shortage first began to make itself felt. That jas nearly all gone by this time. , They do not know where they cun | urn for more. In parts of Kansas ;and Misseuri where the supply 1s in to _ will be needed too much at home to make it purchaseable for shipment to Kansas City. In one town in Kansas where a Kansas City dealer purchased sever- al cars of hay, the farmers of the station refused to allow the hay to; come to market. “I think hay will go to $20 on a ton before we vet new one commission man. A few of the Kanszs City hay mer- hay,” chants are disposed to take a more hopeful view. “IT think there is no cause for alarm,” said J. B. Spellman present flurry in the markef I at ute to the spirit of speculation t Las been controlling for ra’ danger of a famine. The ro: been so bad that the farmers could ;20t not haul to track, and they are taking advants tirst @ ell to get in their crops. | These matters have prevented th marketing their he I see the et 1 supplies tr ran to $21 a ton there the other up day but is easier now ‘Timothy here sells for about $14.50, the same price that good prairie brings. last | advan- ! had! maintained a steady tone through | He | Out-! fairly good it is probable tie hay | | appetite | restored and Prairie hay, in fact, is preferred i in | healthy action. | this market, as it is less dusty and | 50c at “H. L Tucker's drugstore. jess Hable to give horses the heaves. | An Associated Press dispateh to The Star from St. Paul from Omaha, St. Louis are there buying every | of l price = 50 a ton, and it is learned | | that their operations have not been | uitined to the ¢ twin cities. St. Louis in St. Paul. lot was purchased at The entire between and $8.25 a ton andis already con tracted for in St. Louis at $16 bal) made a queer find in the Indian Ter- ‘ritory yesterday. He had been out in the country, and while returning to the Frisco road at a point in the forest 20 miles west of Grand Sta- tion he came upen two nergo babies each about a year old and apparent- ly twins. Neither was able to walk and they were crawling around on the ground crying. There was not a house within five miles of the place and nothing could be discovered showing any recent presence of oth- er persons. After making a thorough search |for some clew to where they came from, he took them up and brought them to this city and placed them with a colored family here. One of the children has pneumonia caus- jed by its exposure and will proba- bly die. The negro who found them is a stranger here and had left the city before he could be seen. So far inquiry in the section of the find has failed to locate the the heartless people who abandoned | them to the fate 5 | the Wood. said | Thousands of Cattle. | Arkansas City. Kas.. April 9 | Thousands of cattle are being un- | loaded south of here | kee strip and driven into the Osage An attempt 2 to p th arcu » Kas.. directly i: n. but st low the ver the ite auth stock to into Kansas be b: scant | 1 cant faction. and ve You mung. you xre step into ‘nervous stratior You need a nerve ton and in Electric Bitters you w find the exact remedy for resto: results fol nerve tonic re alteratis r good digestion is the kidneys resume says agents | They | | brother of Mrs. Ellis and ) On their bridal tour they jhave visited hundreds of country | towns within reach of rail facilities and have contracted for all the hay insight at an average price. The | purchases already amount to 1,200 tons. Little hay remains on hand | forsale. Twenty car loads of baled | hay are awaiting shipment to St. BABES IN THE WOOD. A Pairot Negro Babies Found Fer; From Any Habitation. Paris, Tex... April 8.—A negro __BRADFIELDS FEMALE- REGULATOR oul a ED , Foti ee nessun eldest 1 nn oe GHA Aaa NESS . F TAKEN DUR) Ss GREAT DANGER SS OU rita mL Be AVOWED soow AN waza xyReg SRADFIELD RE. SULATOR £0: ATLANTA GA AGREED TO DIE TOGETHER, Suicide of Two Young Women Mo. ot Lab- erty, in New Mennice, Santa Fe. No M Easter Sunday | Oaks, N. M.. Details of an White to-day, the affair being a double suicide, tragedy at reached here in Joseph and St.) which two handsome young women | straw | formerly of Liberty y they can get at the prevailing | actors. Mo., were the Some two years ago Mise j Portia Hill from Liberty to serve as governess in the family of Mrs. Goodwin Ell At the end of a year she married Howard Doyle. came a promi- nent youug ranchman, y met an old friend of the bribe’s, Miss Jessie Rigley, who replaced Mrs. Doyle as governess in the Ellis home. It was their custom to spend Saturday and Sunday together. On Easter Sun- day Mrs Doyle came on a visit to Miss Rigley aud the two were seen in earnest conversation at various jtimes during the day, avoiding the other members of the family. In | the afternoon they went for a walk, and in an old corral wear by their | dead bodies were discovered an hour later. Over the heart of each was a bullet hole. They were clasped in each others arms and between them was a revolver, which usually had a place on a mantle in Miss Rigley’se room. They left several notes, none giving reasons for gheir act, only “death is sweet and we prefer it to life.” They requested that they be buried in the same grave. The re quest was complied with. SICKNESS THE CAUSE. of the “Babes in| on the Chero | Try a bottle Price j Kansas City Mo, April S—Miss Jessie Rigley. whose suicide togeth er with Mrs. Doyle, at White Oak N. M., on Easter Sunday, was the daughter of Wm. Rigley, a well- known farmer living near here. She had comsumption, and had gene to N. M., for her health. She had frequently said thai rather than suffer like a sister who died from consumption, she would kill hersel!. The Doyles were from Platt Ce. a State. secure Indian regular army under bill passed by ongress has not been encouraging results The Indians will not enlist in the jinfantry because they abhor walking | The effort to re- eruits to the the provisions of a the Fifty-first C attended by | They object to the cavalry be- }eause they not want to bind | themselves to a stated arm of service and they do not like to be separated from their w - Who are useful to vation A rigid inspection is, : ‘aig rae th reatures of burden. + at the line and all Texas eatt! as 1 aaa ed admitte nything but ug rations, largely re do any work service to mpelled to hustle K C. Star A Valuable Discovery. oE yout oO Me onroe, of Du lar, sales. bottle gave Guaranteed by