The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 29, 1891, Page 5

~e. al BUT! ER WEEKLY TIMES. | = LOCAL ITEMS ————— There are no idle laboring men in| Butler. There are nine ladies employed in the departments at Jefferson City. Lamar is putting on city airs by| building a three-story brick hotel. | The Southwest Missouri editorial convention will be held at Schell! City, May 21, 22 and 23d. The trial of Ed. T. Noland has} been continued to May 4th. Noland is now living in St The waterworks company scattering the tains around public square. Louis. are the Harry McCants has received the appointment of express messenger on the Emporia railroad The English syndicates seem to; be grabbing at everything loose in this country except Kansas lands. Thos. J. Smith left for [Minois Fri | day night on legal business. He is expected home to day or to-morrow. | Farmers are busy getting in their | crops, which are a little late owing to the continued rains of the past month. Indge J. 5S Fran returned | from his trip to Hot Springs Friday | where he has been for his health | Remember the stock sale and! horse show wil! take place at the! lake and park grounds again Satur-! day. Bring in your stock. D. T. Owens, who has been quite sick for the past two weeks, we are glad to state, is able to be up and about, although he is very weak. on 7 i Rich Hill is a good live town, but | she needs a coat of paint mighty bad. Especially that portion of the city | if full view of the railroad. |bettoms, and now that the waters | gar becomes cheaper as soon as the | He is feeding 24 head of nice steers | jto vote the democratic ticket. When | given a preliminary trial His daugh-| The high water of the Marias! Charlie Radford sold his _|Des Cygnes carried thousands of the other day, lately purchased of |large fish, fine buffalos out on the | Mr. Butler. to J. A. Mathis. In the sale he reserved the east half of the lot, and has let the contract to S. T | White to build him a handsome res Here's one specially for republi- fidence. Asa hustler in real estate can editors: If the tariff isn't a tax! CERI hard ene The school be paid by consumers how is it that su- there would be few or noch attend school Monday of the celebration and confu tending it decided to give a re of one day. up the time are falling the markets are furnished with fine fish. being convir duty on it was removed? Take your time, gentlemen, in answering this. BS Mr. Jenkins said the weather is Wis teachere will make now clearing up and active opera tions will seon begin on the con structions of the waterworke, and a large force of men will be put to work. The company is how working on the reservoir at the river. J. L. Shubert. one of the old guard from Sammit township, was in the city Fridry. He said of the farmers in his section were plowing for corn Friday but the ground was wet an! little in that direction could be dene. Chauncey Depew is Harrison will president in eut be renomi for 1892. Cha and stands or the council of the and surely he about imcey 18 big roukme can party top I he is tal 5 tion of Han will suit the crate. The log cabin, and the skin racket will never The Odd Fellows Monday night 4 passed a resolution returming their | sincere thanks to Mayor Jas L Pace. Dr.G W. I T. J. Day, J. B. Arm- a few ou work gain. at the lng T. P. Crawford of West Point township spent Thursday in the city He said the oats crep was coming aloug nicely iu his section but wet 2 jstrong, Jo Teyers and the city weather hal delayed corn planting. | Gouneil for valuable aid and their | untiring energies in assisting the order to make the celebration a gran] | success. | which he would like te sell. The grand jury in Osage county | oring to persuade a fellow citizen | Homer township Wednesday and the case came up for trial the other \ ter was lis accuser, and after bear- day the prosecuting attorpey prompt- ing the testimony the court put his ly dismissed the case. bond at $500 ~ Woods was unable to give the bond and was sent back | arat office, but when it charges the} to jail to await the schon oi the | county $6 72 for 500 envelopes and | grand jury. lhe Beate WAS MOpTe: 250 note heads it’s a large sized | sented by Jobn Silvers aud L. A. hog But then, we ought not to| Graves and W. O. Jeckson appeared say this for the Union is working in gor the defendant. the interests of the farmer and labor- | ing man. The district couference of the M. E. church, sout# met in this city yesterday. The business of the con- ference will be held at the church. Preparations were made to entertain | No, the Butler Weekly Union is not | Mrs. Geo. Alspaugh and daugh- | ter living seven or eight miles north | |of the city while coming to town | | Friday their horse, hitched to a road eart, took fright and both were thrown violently ts the ground. Mrs. Alspaugh received severe in- juries about the head and shoulders | ~ city was decorated S mit band anda number of Odd Fei : | bunting and jindicted two democrats for endeav-| Thos. Woods was taken back to| tants ou Olio street, | band, the Iamar canton with band, | jfollowed Grand 1.0. O. F. DAY. | THE GRANDEST PAGEANT EVER WITNESSED IN BUTLER. Three Thousand Odd Fellows, Four SPRING Cantons. Seven Bands. Molitary Company. An Old Fashioned Barbecued Dinner, Speaking. Prize Drills. Ete sy Ne The Odd Fellows celebration in this city Monday; in every 1 upon the : cre } os ttos of the orde bl s und aaY t x over the streets e desig g : us) Grand eq R. P. Rixey arrived on Sun i Sunday evening the Kan ity canton with the Lees Sum day A Select As: sas lows arrived. Mon train brought large de the north The two special trains, one start morning's ygations trem ing at LeRoy, Kan, the other at Joplin, Mo., arrived within a few) properly and all had a good time. ninutes of LO o'clock. Tue Kausas train was gaily decorated with flags, | streamers and carried | between 60) aud 700 people the Jop- lin train carried about 800 The parale was formed immedi-| ately after the arrival of these trains | by the gratd marshal and his ass His efforts aided materialiy in) mak ing the occasion a grand success Recorder D. G. Newsom made a decided success in barbecuing the meats for Monday. He cooked 2,000 pounds and it was the nicest meat we ever ate He had entire control jof that department from digging the head rest-/ the trenches to cutting up the meat lng at the s-hool buriding. Grand | after cooked, and it could not have Master Rixey. mounted, in full uni | heen managed better. form, in command of the cantons The Odd Fellows of Butler were with his sta¥,composed of Col. Bow- : : : er,Capt. Dord and Acting Lieut. Cul- Pes ges ONES We une : 5 jladies, business men and citizens ver, led theprocession, followed by | ,onerally who assisted in making the Lee's Simmit band, the Kansas | 5 sa it ing j : ithe celebration the grand success it City cantor, the Joplin canton with {abeice epee hon tre Grane succes j Was. The decorating committee deserve praise for the excellent man which they performed the Mt. Pleasart canton with Pleasant | ‘ Hill band, Butler Rifles, followed by | Special 1 visiting lodges in regalia, with three | DP 1" bands, the 3utler lodge last. Then | ¥°"*- Secretary E M | Alex Lamb had supervision over J. M. McKIBBEN, OME Here you will tind the Latest STYLE DRESS GOODS, BOOTS AND SHOES. é NOTIONS, &c, &e, THE HANDSOMEST LINE OF GOODS, To be Found in the City go to <e, OF SOFNY NOLNO Ne Ke 4 J sortment of “% TI am going from here to Clay county, to kill the Devil that bas been mainly the cause of my trouble, then I shall end my miserable exis- tence. Before this reaches you, my spirit will be wandering beyond the shores of time, across the dark Jor- dan of Death And now with a bruised and bleeding heart, I bid farewell to all that is near and dear tome. My friends, weep not for me. Endeavor to live that you may escape the punishment that has been my lot. Farewell E. B. Sorrr. Soper had lived at Archie, Mo., one year. He had a good standing in the community. It is supposed that the crime was committed Tues- day night. At 6 o'clock Wednesday morning Soper bought a ticket for | Kansas City. The ticket agent con- versed with him for some time He | was not in the least excited or ner- | vous. ' |about sixty-tive preachers and lay- O. D. Austin returned home from| men. Preaching will be held each St. Louis Friday where he had been | evening during the meeting of con- and back which have codfined her to her bed since the accident. The Sloan and Grand Warden Maring in| the commissary department, and by Soper’s description was given to a carriage, the mayor aad city coun- | excellent management and unceasing | the Kansas City police as follows: cil in carrigges. Bringing up the rear ‘effort made decided success of the to attend a meeting of the grand | lodge of Masonry. Dr. Talmage surprised his congre- gation at Brooklyn Sunday morning by appearing for the first time in many years with a clean shaven face. We learn that a depot for the K. C.N. & F.S., railroad has been lo- cated on the Leonard land, about two and one half miles south of West Point. While the building boom is mov- ing along we hope to see it strike the vacant lots on the southeast cor- ner of the square, known as the Dix- on block. Spencer year on his paper. A farmers and laborers union in Howard county has adopted this res- olution: “That we patronize no traveling agent for anything from a steam engine to a patent churn.” Mrs. Jas. G. Blaine ir. ‘has gone to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to get a divorce from her husband. She Will only have to remain 158 days to get the divorce. A proposition submitted to the council Thursday night to reduce the saloon license from $1,000 to 3600 was promptly vetoed by the aldermen. Dr. T. C. Boulware, informs us that the Missouri State Medical As- sociation will hold its thirty-fourth annual meeting at Excelsior Springs Clay county, Mo., May 19, 20 and 21 next. The faculty of Cornell university, New York, put their veto to an invi- tation to Col. Robt. Ingersoll to de- liver the annual address before the students of the law school during commencement week. Dr. J. M. Christy and wife spent several days in Kansas City last week. The doctor went to attend a a meeting of the medical fraternity. They returned home Saturday and report an excellent time. Mrs. T. H. Smith and sop, Walk-) er, left Saturday morning for Her- mitage. to join her husband, and make that town her future home. The Trves wishes her a safe trip and hopes she will be pleased with her new home. Mr.Clarkson,s prediction that the next republican president must not be far from the farm controdicts the statement of Mr. Depew that Harrison will be the next republican nominee for president. At last accounts the bodies of two of the ladies drowned in the Osage river last week have been recovered, | but the third is yet missing. Since ference. daughter was badly cut about the was C. B. Jewis driving a burro to| most important feature of the day's Rice one of the times good subscribers living near Corn- land, was in to see us the uther day and set the figures up for another Senator J. N_ Bradley, spent Thursday in the city and Friday morning took the early train for Kansas City to transact some busi ness. He said since getting over a severe spell of gripp, his general health had greatly improved and he was feeling quite well,all of which his many fiends in this county and dis trict will be glad to learn. There is over 440 subordinate I. O. O. F. lodges in this state and the membership numbers over 18,000. Fourteen new lodges were organiz- ed during the past year. and five or six others are in process of organi- zation. The financial condition of the order 1s in good condition. The sovereign grand lodge of the world will meet in St. Louis next Saturday Mrs. J. E. Arnold has gove to work in earnest for the Confederate home and ‘already the ladies are beginning to hand in their dollars. If you want things done right and in haste ; just eall on the ladies. The money | thus given will go in a good cause jand everyone that can help should hand in their mite. If you cannot give a dollar give what you can. Hand all donations to Mrs. Arnold. Mrs. Calvin Rice and five children | \left Monday for North Powder, Or egon, to join her husband. Mr. Rice! took his departure about three weeks ago. He writes back to his father, Spencer Rice, of Cornland, that he is well pleased with the country and has secured work for the coming year at $2 per day. The Ties will visit him weekly, and he has our best wishes for success. Mrs. Dr. E. L. Rice of this city) left on Thursday of last week for an | extended trip to Cinemnati. On} Friday when near Washin, ton, Indi-) ana,the train she was on, through the carelessness of the engineer, collided | with another train, causing a wreck | resulting in considerable destruct- ion of prperty and the loss of one} life. Mes. Rice was considerably shaken upand somewhat unnerved but suffered no serioue effect. | | Unele Alf Miller, living of the eity a couple of miles, and on of the veteran subscribers to th booming Times, was i | | | Tygard, Walton, Clark and Jenkins, head and face. but is able to be up. Dr. Boulware is attending to their wants and, under the circumstances, the patients are getting along as well as could be expected. Portland, Ore., April 23.—Gover- ror Pennoyer, when asked to day whether he would go to the state line to receive President Harrison, is reported to have said: “Mr. Har- rison represents in his official power and the dignity of the federal gov- ernment. I, as governor, represent the state of Oregon in the same way. We are equal. I have no business to go to pay homage to him. On tke contrary, when he visits Oregon he should rather pay his respects to me as its official executive.” The mayor and board of alder- men are proposing to put on their new spring suits and if the signs do not fail you will hear something drop in the way of street and alley cleaning, and you will also hear of a good many things being done in the way of renovating this town of the long standing suisances that have been a burning disgrace to the health and sanitary condition of our city. The Tres is only too glad to state that a move of this kind is on foot and almost the entire population will hail the proclamation of the change from dirty, filthy streets to cleanliness. The mayor's back bone | needs no stiffening, he is the right man to have at the head and we firm- ly believe we now have a board of aldermen that will back him in his undertakings of referm. The water works company. Messrs are thorough business men, and as | | Kansas Gy cantons were the only a gaily deorated cart in which was | the histort goat. Fully three thou-| sand OddFellows were in line with | seven banls. The procession mareh-| ed east to Havana, north to Pine, | east to Miin, south to Ohio, west to Delaware.south to Dakota, east to! Mechanic.south to Atkison avenue, | east to gounds. Maj. Gen. Sloan | reviewed the uniformed bodies on| the squar. Here a number of Re- | becca menbers joined the procession | and marcied to the grounds. Dinnerwas served in good order and if any left hungry it was their own faultas there was any quanti-| ty left. The bill of fare was burbe-| cued meas, bread, pickles, coffee, cake, orawes and bananas. After duner the crowd repaired to the lale where a speaker's stand and seatshad been arranged. Dr. J. R. Boyd lelivered an eloquent ad dress weloming the Odd Fellows, ibeir famlies and all visitors to But ler. after vhich Gen. Sloan delivered an able ddress, reviewing the past history ad workings of the order | and its bjects aud aims. Grand Master Rxey made an eloquent and able addess during which there were few dry eyes in the audience. He was fllowed by Grand Warder Maring. The coapetitive drill by cantons was then had. Col. Bower, Capt. Doud ancCapt. Harvey Clark were chosen asjudges. The Joplin and | i contestans and both acquitted themselvs with credit to the chiva- liers and complimentary to their officers. The firs€ prize of $25 was awarded o the Joplin canton; 2ad prize of 15 to Kansas City canton. | As Joplirand Lamar cantons each | | | such are careful of auy enterprise they may take hold of, consequently when they were awarded the fran-|]y divide between them. chise to build the water works for | I¢ the city of Butler, their first move! in the matter was to secure the very | best talent to be had to look after | and superintend the construction of their plant. They knew, as business | men, that, to employ a mau thorough} The timdiad been happily spent in| |in knowledge of such matters was/boat ridig, singing and music by | | economy and dollars would be saved. | the band &c., Ke. a southeast So the city council Thursday night! At nighthe opera house was crowd- | e | deeming it proper and right that the ed with isitors to witness the bur e| interest of the tax payer and general |lesque iitiation by the Butler Odd | in town Friday | public of the town should be like | Fellows. The citizens and Odd Fel- | for the first time since 'y He has been suffering from a badly | eee ae mashed foot which has confied him | wee wor — prudent and to the house and at present he is | Ccouomy Ane for the best interest of hardly able to get about. However, | the city to have a suitable and inter- he has never failed for the last 12 or | ested party to look after the welfare 13 years, sick or well, to get around | of the town, and a suggestion and on the day his subscription expires | Motion of councilman Hod Carter to to renew for another year. appoint Mayor Jas. L. Pace to rep-! ——E jresent the city was unanimously | The body of Miss Minnie Kauf- jagreed to, and the mayor according: | map, who was drowned in the Osage !¥_ was duly appointed. It was a_ river with two other young ladies WiS¢ Move, a good selection and the last week has been found at last. | T1wesis glad to know that the cour The body was found in a bunch of & have acted properly in this mat willows close to the bank about one hes which is of vital importance to hundred yards below the spot where the town. No man could have been her sisters body was recov selected that will take more pride the accident the banks of the river have been lined with men and the search hasbeen kept up day and night. ered ai ® kago. The accident was a sad | it having the work done according | Mair bat the friends and relatives | to contract than Mayor Pace, and the | fee] relieved siuce all the bodies) pittance of expense will not be be-| have been recoverd. | grudged by the tax payers. | tractivdeature of the parade. _ boys a manly looking fellows, well had twety chivaliers and officers | present, he prize of $10 was equal-| After a! long and very exciting contest be-| tween te or twelve chevaliers the} | prize for he best drilled chevalier in | the manul of the sword was awarded to Capt Vhitamier of Kansas City. This ened the days programme. play wasrepeated on Tuesday even- ing to gyve allan opportunity to wit- ness It. NOTES Carriges were at the depot fer) ladies ad children and they were, taken teand from the grounds free of chare. The civ council did a wise and gen- erous af in baving the streets sprin- kled Maday. The vutler Rifles. commanded by Capt. hrvey Clark, was a very _at- The up in cill and in Capt. Clark they have aplendid commander. Mayr Pace exerted himself to see that th visitors were entertained | gers on its handle. proceedings. The ladies who devoted their time to the reception and entertainment of the visiting ladies deserve special commendation. FOUL BUTCHERY. Wife and two Children Killed by a crazy Husband. An Ax the Instrument Used to Commit the Horrible Deed—The Cruel Murderer’ a Buteher Liv- ing at Archie, Mo. | Saturday’s K.C. Times The police were given the details at a Jate hour last night of a horrible crime, atriple tragedy, at Archie, Mo., fifty-seven miles from Kansas City on Missouri Pacific road. The crime was discovered yester- day afternoon at 5 o'clock. At 6 o'clock Wednesday morning the mur- derer boarded a train for Kansas City after buying a ticket for this place. The police last night were searching the city for the murderer. E. B. Soper was a butcher at Ar- chie, Mo His sudden departure from the town Wednesday morning created suspicion, and yesterday af ternoon at 5 o’clock his house in the western part of the villiage was for- ; cibly entered. A ghastly discovery | was made H Tn the east room of the little cot tagea light haired child, its skull crushed in and its brains upon the | floor. In an adjoining reom was | the mother with her head and face | mashed beyund recugnmition and an | Aged 35, 5 feet 8 inches in height, 140 pounds weight, red sandy hair cut short, sandy mustache, blue eyes. square build. Soper is said to be extremely polite on all occasions. | One of his peculiarities is said to be |that he can never look any one squarely in the face At Archie it js not believed that Soper is insane. Feeling runs high and Judge Lynch would doubtless speedily settle his cave if he should show up at Archie. Soper was doing a good business at Archie, enough to have supported hie family in a proper manner, de- spite the statement made in his let- ter. From J. T. Hyatt of this city, we | leayn that the murdered woman was an adopted daughter of his sister. Soper was an ex-convict, having been seat to the penitentiary for horse stealing about 8 years ago and was suspected of having killed his father in Clay county several years ago. ‘Soper was seen at Liberty on Thursday last week,but at that time | his awful deed had not yet been dis- covered. The bodies of the three victims were buried Saturday morn- ing. It is said the citizens of Archie are terribly worked up over the foul murder and it would not be well for the fiend were he to fall into their hands. The sheriff of Cass couaty has offered $100 out of his own pocket, for the murderer. j ! The retail clerks in Kansas City have started a move for the early closing of the stores of the summer months, and are using pretty severe means to force the proprietors of the big stores to accede to their de- mands. other child with its head split in | : twain lying by her side. | In a corner stood anax. There, was blood and hair on its gleaming | blade aud the marks of bloody fin Mutely it told | how the crime had been accomplish- | ed. On the center table lay twe letters. | | One was addressed: j To the Authorities ! Whoever May Find These Bodies. PRESENT t In this letter, which was signed E. B. Soper, were these words: “It was best for me thus to act. last February. | Wise represented and protected im lows of Jatler had been requeted to| Rather than desert them I have | the matter of the construction of the | give way for the visitors, and the slain them. What would they have | idone for a living had I left them? Surely they would have lived miser ably. 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