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VOL. XITI. BUTLER, OF ANY FORM USE | HEISHGLL'S OINTMENT Tt has proved infallible in every case. from sim- ge Pimples to obstinate Eczemas also (ching Piles. 60 CTB. per bsz. &e- Send for ‘Hints for Kitchen and ao "*@ bandy bovk for the toushold, FREE, BATES COUNTY National Bank, BUTLER, MO. THE OLDEST BANK TH LARGEST AND THE ONLY NATIONAL IN BATES COUNTY. CAPITAL, ~~ SURPLUS, - - »,000 OO £25,000 00 F.J. TYGARD, - - - HON. J. B. NEWBERRY |. C. CLARK - - President. Vice-Pres. Cashier DR. F. M. FULKERSON, DENTIST, BUTLER, = MISSOURI. Office, Southwest Corner Square, Tucker old stand. Dr. Lawyers. W. SILVERS, ryN r. Attorney-at-Law. neta Ofice over Farmers Bank; loor trom head of stairway. third | ye ARMOND & QUMITH. a ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice in Bates and adjoining counties. Bay Ollice over Bates Co. Nat’l Bank. ARKINSON & GRAVES, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, over jown’s Drug Store. Lans- DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Offiee, tront room over P. O. All calls answered at office day or night. Specialattention given to temale dis- gases. Li C. BOULWARE, Physician and Tr. Surgeon. Office north side square, | Butler, Mo. Diseasesof women and chil- en a specialty. J.T, WALLS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office, Southwest Corner Square, over Aaron Hart's Store. Residence on Ha-| vannah street norrh of Pine? Potter Bros. BRICK LIVERY STABLE. An ample supply of Buzgies, Carriages, Phaetons, Drummer _ Wagons, &c. s is one of the best equi bles in this section of First Crass Rigs At any hour, day or night on the iost reasonable terms. F desiring to put up their ho when in the city will find thi barn the most convenient in town. POTTER BROS. BANK} */of President Harrison is employing ELKINS AMBITIOUS. | The Republican Politicial Schen- er Soaring Very High. Washington, D. C. Sept. 2.- The fact that Dick | Louis, accompanied by Jet? Chie ler, has arrived at Washing ed no particular attention ust | fact was developed to-day that Steve Kerens of St ‘Cutlery and Guns ton creat-) A «SPRL G WAGONS, Bain and Fish Bros jElkius was expected to wrive here | |Monday and that the of | | |these men at the national capitd a Peaoden | this juncture had for its object the] presentation of Elkins’ name for the | Jwar secretaryship to succeed Mr. | FARM WAGONS | Preetor | | : 5 | Itseems that a newspaper man i Whose feel ee friend ugly words ab ing to Mr. | ROAD CARTS, THE CELEBRATED s toward Elkins are recently spoke ut him, us’ attention, caused} very which com eat the latter to call upon the «wr Casaday Sulky Jand expostulate with him. ‘You £m, }should not talk that way against t PLOW, WILL PLOW IN HARD Elkins,” said Kerens, “because he is | jlikely to be appointe d to a very im- and be of] to you.” The} refused t ition | portant pc quay cousiderable FALL PLOWING, WHERE service | newspaper man, however, Gand) det the catouton| ALL OTHERS FAIL | the bag. | It is stated that ex-Senator Henry West Virginia, Elkins j be mollitic G. Davis of MISSOURI, WEDNESDA » . ae CA SePTEMBER a 4 9, 1891. ANCES. NO. 42 eke father-in law and the especial friend THE OLD CRAZE AGAIN all his influence to seeure the war portfolio law, who is said to have the cabinet jon the brain. The story that Elkins has invoked the assit- ance of Mr. Blaine, but that the lat ter is not disposed to intervene. Many queer stories have been tol: concerning Elkins’ action wheu tix late war broke out. At that period he wasfa citizen of Missouri and an alleg- man. He has been xccused | deserted the Missouri} * : jin person but sent his white repre- talked with him fre- and assured him that the Messiah would make himself mani- fest soon and the white people would | be exterminated and India | Tuchans Listening to Stories of the Mes- for his ambitious son in siah and Promises of Joys. also yoes Guthrie, Ok., Sept. 2.—Old Crow, the Cheyenne who went to Pine Ridge agency a few weeks ago hoof the Messiah, returned yesterday and detailing to Mile he chief p{in sea is now engaged in red brethern on the wonderful According to his his ! Four ereek . things Siw. ed union with having story the red Jesus did not appear state troops, but however that may be the fact nevertheless remains that he avoided entering the federal ar- my and although a hale, hearty young man successfully dodged mil- | sentative who quently ised itary service. Thousands of these nos- trums are offered to the public every year. Some of them are dangerous and most of them are futile. Swift's Specific (8. S. S.) we are all glad to say, is not clased among these nos- trums. -It has overcome the whole- some prejudice of physicians in all! he will return to Walker Lake in a parts of the country, and seme of} week or two and persuade Christ to the strongest testimonials in its be | eome here with him. half come from medical men who} with the Indians here is rapidly in- have used it in their practice, and | creasing he now has a large }who do not hesitate to endorse its} number of followers. wonderful results. ———_——— reasonable. unending pleasure. Old Crow also Lake, Nevada, Walker place he visited at which He reports all the Indians in that re- |reeognized children of Christ. gion as and This is extreme- T have not ot. I twelve years, ly gratifying, but by no means a jtonishing, for every claim that is} put forward in behalf of S. S.S. is ibased ona series of actual experi- ments extended over a long period | suffered from catarrh for experiencing the nau- ig dropping in the throat pecu- to that disease, and nose bleed I tried various reme- | dies without benefit until last April, when I most daily. of time. saw Ely’s Cream Balin ad- The Church Topeka, Sept. the jehurebes take so Against It. 2.—There is not a) P th the ired a bottle, and since the first s use have pads no more bleeding —D. with the B ston Bud- uerly with Boston Journal. state in union in whi muel est it | polities as in Kausas. sueceede a in kalli A Girl's Fatally Misdirected Shot. strange men entered the house of Iwyn last evening and at- Tims Vistian and unsaie po- ¢ Who read the magzines? The number now course of publica- | ‘tion in this county reaches 1,778. an old battle ps near zo — Se = to the highest pinnicle of wealth, ! | THE MEDICAL PROFESSOR. that the prairie and forest would The attitude of the medical pro-|pe alive with game and lakes and , fession toward what is known asi ctreams stocked with fish, in fact “patent medicine” is not at all un-| that the Indians future would be an saw myrids of faries who were the | dancing and declares that | His influence | used all of one bottle | sed in the Boston Budget, I) IN—— IMPLEMENTS, eto nn. "Kentucky" s New teever me Frankfort, Ky . Sept. 1 To day at oon the ad strato of Gover- nor Bucl poss tantotostory and | his sucee 1 Young Brown. Was murs term of four auguratiqgny wee omit fa seRereines years more Ing, nding the ine» ‘and that , damage and consequent distress. SEL lowers witnessed by more nl prey any t affair of the kink After bein escorted by the military theooish the streets amid will en husiasmn the of- ficial party rope et tooth: invgural stand in the stite house yard where the valedie ory «f the outgoing gov- Jernor andthe address of the new) one were delivered. Both were short but highly appropriate The oath of office was then admistered by Chief Justice Holt of the court of appeal. The city isis way attire and there isa general suspension of business to make the ceremonies a success. The ‘new exbinet will consist John A.He Qley of Louisville, of secre- Norman of Graves, assistant and A, J.Gross of Brickinridge adjutant general. The other appointments at his disposal, such as commission ers to revise the and statute not yet tary secretary; code laws and other | be filled places, will An Awti) Death of an Engineer. Bethlehem, Pa., Sept. 2.—Richard Nash of Philadelphia, engineer on a fast Reading express train, while on the lookout this morning. was struck Oreville severed obstruction near station and his head from his body. by some Was The body hung out the cab window for some minutes before the fireman discovered what had happened. A Cer ot Powder Winslow. Blows Up. Ariz,, Sept. 2—While a + fot train was ra fall speed near Denison la tacar of powder blew up, instantly killing Brakeman E. W White and Stockman August Bec l of acar of y were blown \ t the lower part of Dr. rpass- ache, fits, etc’, 20 Opiates. R. R. DEACON, ——DEAI. ee. _..,. HARDWARE ar BUGKEYE Force Pumps, FREEMAN'S DIAMOND BARB 7 Builders Hardware Iron, Steel, Nails and Wagon Wood Work. > RR. DEACON. RUINED BY FLUODS. j Vast Damage Done in Treland. Dablin, Sept.—Dispaches Waterford state that the river row, in of the heavy has from Dar- consequence recent rainstorms, overtlowed, its waters are thousands of acres of land stroying the crops near the banks. In addition, the waters are | sweeping away many houses, and other erally the flooding and de- river barns similar buildings and gen flood is causing much Th declares Daily Express [conservative that the flood is due to nationalist obstructive tactics in par- | lament which have compelled the chief secretary for Ireland. Hen. A. J. Balfour, to withdraw the bill providing for the deepening and em- banking of the river Darrow iu or- der to prevent such overflowing of its waters and at ed. Edinburg, Sept. storms which have swept over the | British Isles have half ruined the} crops throughout Scotland and the| harvest is at a complete standstill. | present record> 2.—The recent | Fatal Baloen Accident. Oswego, N. Y., Sept. 2—The 10,- | 000 persons in attendance at the! | Oswego fair to day witnessed a hor- rible accident. Prof. Joha Frisbie! of this city was advertised to make! aballoon ascension and parachute jump and much interest was 7 owing to his residence here. When everything was in readiness | and Prof. Frisbie was pau to pa his seat on the trapeze, the loon in some manner got oe Aa om those holding the rope. It shot up- ward like a rocket, and the specta tors were horritied to see a man had been holding the ropes, swept f d dangling between the arachute and the When up about 100 feet he attempted to Who ground. lrop, but his feet caught in the ropes and turning him er, and he plu i headlong to the ground He I his headand was stautly killed. bn R Woods, and he dict the ex: f Ree ad, te hay advantage of a j usase to nas echnical om: ye loaves. jwrange, if possible, a | organs. Not Dead. Butin a Trance. Long Prairie. Minn, Sept. 2 - Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Richard son, an aged woman, apparently di ed ot GE tes) and was laid out for gan to show signs Ne: life =e ina short time revived so that she spoke and knew the friends gathered about her. BP aaa Union of Vermont ot Leagues. PpPRovan AAVt., Sept. 2 of the State Alliance representatives of the League will be held here Reform i A meeting Citizens’ apd Farmers to union of the League with the Alliance. The Al- hance declares that it will work for reform in local and state matters aud let national affairs alone. to-day “Sister Beatrice’? Charged With Va- grancy. New York, Sept. 2.—“Sister Beat- rice,” the notorious bogus nun, was arraigned in Jefferson Market police court yesterday on the charge of va | aney and was committed for ex- She once sued the late Senator Simon Cameron of Pennsy) 250,000 of promise andfwas beaten by General | Butler. lnation. vania for for breach Good Looks i~Good looks are more than skin deep, depending upon a healthy con- dition of all the vital organs. If the liver be inactive you have a billious look, if your stomach be disordered you have a dyspeptic look and if your kidneys be affected you have a pinched leck. Secure good health and you will have good looks. Elec- tric Bitters is the great alterative und tonie acts directly on these vital Cures pimples, blotches, boils and gives a good complexion. Sold at H. L. Tucker's drugstore, 50 cts per bottle. Caught From as Grand Forks, N. D., 2— Five thousand acres of hay land, studded with stacks, were swept clean last night by a prairie fire sup- posed to have caught from a North- ern Pacitic locomotive. The tire burn- ed to the banks of the Turtle river. SCHOOLS of LEXINGTON, MO BAPTIST Female aici ote CENTRAL COLLEGE FOR .V PENS pL APIES- ELIZ tL FEM LE ta WEATWORTR MILITARY ACADEMY. Sci!" D.FOR CATALOCUES. John Atkison’s Pension Apeney. Over Dr Eyeringham’s estore roome | West Side - Butler, Mo. LUMBER!! H.C WYATT & SON, Save money by calling on us for prices on LUMBER. LATH, SHINGLES. PAINTS. = Mater ” HIG H GRADE sna . LOW PRICES