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$500,000. We desire to place out on real estate security a large amount of money. Will give the best terms and lowest rates yet offered by anyone in this line of business: | Notes drawn for one, twor| three or five years. Lave sonvemoney to Joan pauable on or before a — date. Calland see how ss we can let you huve money. The Bankers Loan & Title Co P. C FULKERSON, Manager. BATES COUNTY. National Bank.) BUTLER, MO. THE OLDEST BANK TH LARGEST AND THE | ONLY NATIONAL BANK| IN BATES COUNTY. i | CAPITAL, an $125,000 00 SURPLUS, - - $25,000 00 F.J. TYGARD, - - - President. - HON.J. 8. NEWBERRY, Vice-Pres. J.C.CLARK- 3 Cashier | W. A. ROSE, LIVESTOCK AUCTIONEER. Will do busi adjoining counties. risonyille, Mo. Rete .—First National Bank and in Bates, Cass and Address me at Har- R. R. DEACON, SONS & CO. |. HARDWARE. = CUTLERY, GUNS AND AMUNITION.-— ; Farm Machinery. TOP BUGCIES, SPRING AND FARM WAGONS, Cc ti is For sale by H. L. Tuc’ j or money refunded. Pric W. RK. H. Larimer. ee Backlen’s Arnica Salve, The Best Salve inthe world for Cuts ruises,Sores, Ulcers,SaltRheum Fever Sores, Tetter,Chapped Hands, Chiblains orns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi- vely cures Piles, or no pay required. It guaranteed to give pertect satisfaction cts per box , druggist. Church G. Bridgefo: Eq. M. Smith. a —oUNSLGN YOUR CATTLE, HOCS and SHEEP To LARIMER, SMITH & BRIDGEFORD, — BANSAS curr, nes and Will send you the rite them. Iron. Steel. Nails WAGON AND CARRIAGE WOOD WORK. And Pump Repairing. Gas Pipe and Fittings, Brass Fittings, Bath Room and general house Plumbing done by e xperienced men. Since | moving into our new quarters where we Lave plenty of room and light, we bave added a complete line ‘of choice family OCERIES5S,-- ay the higest market prices for Butter, Eggs, and general farm Produce Watch our locals for Holiday RR. R. DEACON, And are prepared to p Goods. Southeast Corner Square, BUPLER, MO. [Franz Bernhardt On the north side of the square, ' Butler, Missour1. Does his own Watch & Clock Repairing >» Wa , Clocks, ewelry a verware at ACTUAL COST AND CARRIAGE. For the neat twelve months As a wate can and w aker of 52 years experience give you satisfaction. Fine Watch Repsirmg a Specialty. SS : - : A BLOODY STREET FIGHT. ie has withal, that touch of senti- | THE CLINTON SHOOTING. Prof. Smith Suspended | ava libideas {ment which makes him sincere in } moet inci ®. Dee 24 Poot | his attachments, warm in his affilia- g : es x s Were Thick Z ) iu USMC Lee CTEM rae aq Henry P. Smith of Lane Theological | Ballets Were Thick and Many Men} | tions and loveable in all his relations, tmaster Keiser’s Wounds May semi of the Were Shot at Sparta, in Tom Wat- son’s District, Georgia. Braye Fatal: rccording to the decision Clinton, Mo., Dee. 13. | He is made, at least, of the material of which heroes are moulded. ‘neinnati Presbytery render- -Postmas- sy on charges, ed the | was shot through the abdomen and Sparta, Ga., Dec. 12.—Hon.Ju-| We sincerely wish him success. |ter Keiser of this city was shot apa ae iain gos aie lien West lies severely, if not fatally, He carries with him the united en- | twicein the back at noon to day by The wi ec ry, which had voted] wounded at his home. Dr. W. R. | dorsement of all Lexington. (Levy Hartley, an ex-inmate of the Monday that he was eas of here- Gilmore is dead. Rev. A. H. Ames We know that General Shelby of | Soldiers’ home. Attending pbysi- fn Cs aTco “BY MAIL. CONFIDENTIAL. nience, of bed elects. WS TPTATER, CBICASD, (12: ve ORRECT Mesourt?Pacific Time/tabie ¥ Zank ot Harrisonville. 4tt late years has been but little given | cians have grave doubts of Keiset’s, punishment at leuzth in secret and| 4!Ti¥#! and departure ot passenger e vill die. Marshal Brown aud Jesse foernenla PEReG to | resovernaaione Of ! RESO RU ay SS Creu aut trains at Butler Station. — _ will die. Marshal Brown aud Jesse | 5 office seeking and are gratified to | recovery a3 one of the balls has not decided, 31 to 27, in favor of sus-| N Rous r = Gilmore are severely wouaded. That |Jearn that he is regarded as the | yet been located. pensic) : ; lp re aa mast a.m 5} _——— : - =e is 5 assenger, - a.m. | Go TO is the result summed up ofa terrible | foremost competitor for the position. | Keiser was standing at the gener | Prof. Smith declared last nieht | Passenger - - > p.m. street battle here to day If a lifetime of devotion to Missouri jal delivery window at the postoftice | that he did not intend to let ‘the i ht 4 | ean i Pie! | did inte e . g s C A VAN HALL During the campaign just ended | and her people can entitle a man to , trying to decipher the address on a | matter rest, but would appeal to the Soutn Bounp - 4 9 | Dr. Gilmore and Colonel West were | consideration, General Shelby | Paper, wheu Hartley approached | synod next September and in the Passenger, - - 7:04 a. m. very prominent, the former a third ave 5 ast for the |z nabesa seiner | oe | rassenger, chen Dm. eS ey ery prominen | ought not to lave to coute st for the | an i opened fire. Three shots were | meantime would continue in cali o- | Passenger, Ee ~ pee j : party leader and the latter a demo-} place he asks If Lexington had a! fired but the third was turued aside | fessor’s ch: air at the eemina | Local Freight = 37 Pe ™ F. BERNHARDT & CO erat. This is Congressman Watson's | yoice in the matter it would be set- by a bystander, T. B. Bates, who | z | Z ‘| district, and excitement ran high | tled in udvasce. struck the hand of the assassin. Some Foolish People TOR throughout the campaigu. Dr. Gil- Seana The first shot took effect three inches | Aliow a cough to run unti! i SOON y CRBE Oe more was the author of a sensation L below the right shoulder, and the | SUD? the reach of medicr BE we es 1 pamphlet reflecting oa Colonel S. H. Cufford, 1 ab ig p@ a rewilnres |r semen’ iia athens . eee eee vac gtronvicd pore ceca chen tower. | ‘SILVERS & SILVERS, est and other democrats, w rheumatism, | h owas disor Tauging directly inward. i s scurrilous in the extreme. dered, his affected to After shooting, Hartley ealmly put | y would sce the excel- | Attorney-at-Law. To-day Dr. Gilmore came to Spar alarming deg I ‘ smoking revolver, a 38 bulldc taking the first dose , Will practice in the courts of Baes a ap Sawa- panel was t ribly r a 1 = : - ce Triai size tree. At}and adjoining countiet, the Court of MEDICINES, ta, accompanied by his three sons. a ee oe : ae ina aaa juto his poeket, remarking as he | al Is, Supreme Court at Jefferson They probably expected troubl ae at fies . ike@ aware. ‘a oT ee = {in the Federal Cox hal ese . . Electric Bitters cured him. walked away: “1 did it; I bad to do : ¢ : # aud all were armed. West met G Edy a ard Cie ee eee icbaren tit ered Hund a res ee mers third : 1 sedi Lee apes &: fe x : or trom head of stairway. J | more on the street aud, waiked up ning sore on hisles of| Behuidithistthere ia aio St. Petersburg, Dee. L.- he| Ateceee : a TOBACCOS AND to him, charged him with the author- Sartiw van «i ic un | midwife Bedwars Ledz, tricd| 8 ey isan old soldier, bh. uving | FINE CiLGARS, [ship of the objectional pamphlet. served in the forty-sixth Peanenis for having murder re than 100) DE ARMOND & s™ rH Gilmore acknowledged it West [wanin. He came to th a a been sentenced to one! ‘ ite ne to this place about | | 1 &RTISTS thenfdeuounced it as a base slander riot Catawba. Ohio, en years ago and married al year’s imprisonn ig ATTORNEYS AT LAW. MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS ;and as he did so slapped Gilnore’s er sores ou his who has since made a | Pation has been caused by | tice in Ba face. Quick as a flash Dr. Gilmore | sé was i: i ¢ th j rae _ | the ligh of sente Phe! counties. RGA Gal eyrccal ie Electric Bitter ec Se caret ae SRO RNAS, | Mn Sak oc : |. | SBF ORice oyer Bates Co drew a pistel aud opened fire on || : persuaded that her husband was in-| WO™24 was shown to bee z e a ea Pr ptions Carefully Compounded | west'and « ve Same » the doe. | e288 Arnica Saly 2 : : ne fe H eins ome sARKINSON &G L ally npounded | yy estiand at the sg the doc i, Sally lec ni diniwin Gunga Gale iardian was appointed, j guilty of suffocating iit ldren,| 1 JARKINSON & GRA A liberal Patronage of the tors s ran up. est was un-/ ~ te thee whom a pension was pro-| Whose bedies were found buried in TTNPN. = at aye ings are ase ena WILL BE INVESTIGAT Si oReR aco eee dl eee ede pea |) ATTORNaYS AT LAW. public is solicited. armed and Marsha rown ran to) en ; : cured. Tartley was sent to the | ber cell AS she had been at suca - . zs ry 7: Jefferson City Tribune. Zs wore, ei sis eee eter = _____ |his assistance. The Gilmore boys : é ‘ wa | Work for nearly twenty ye ne! i t Side Sq ’ er Lane l t Th Gilmore bo Diiciieae { ly t ty are there Office Wes Sq over Lans- Wednesday Sevator Vest called I gee | WANTED—CHICKENS & EGGS I will pay the highest market price for chickens and ege delivered at my store at Virginia, Mo.- Talso have good feed stable in connection with my store. Netson M. NrstLerope. Missouri Pacific Ry. Dailv «Train 2 and Dr. one of which killed him iustant Some fancy opened fire on the marshal, who was } hit. In the melee tims num. | | | ber several hundred She was saved there was much gossip concerning | is little doubt that her v her toward an i - Postmaster Keiser, then a wid- up his resolution looki: Ames, 2 bystand resolution was f referred to a Gilmore received three balls Subs q areas oe Filmore receive ee ba aati be hee Subsequently Mrs. Hartley pro- ly. It i tae Wen cured a divorce on x charge of | (i is not known who fired the shot bat — ? a ve Ss cruelty, and was married to Keiser | ee itis believed he was killed by his son | 7 much talk eee aie Sedaliay Atte go crecen eee \ | i Jesse. Gilmore was a member of bo aes and Perea paiie Fou fs chGuene tanms enced a ooo the legi The story going at Washington is arrouccbesan ty ene lersai ane | that it was by deliberate arrange- ore e postmas- the charms of the liily white maid, ter and to make Of etherial form and languishing eye, Who faints inthe sunshine and droops in th> shade, And is always “i threats. As time passed on he became more desperate until nerved to the deed he entered the office to day determined to take the man’s life. Soon after the shoot- | ment between Dick ter, the head of Kerens and Por- the census depart- ment, that Missouri republican head centers were to be allowed to sug gest to the census officials that their ust ready to die.” But give me the girl of the sunshiny face. The blood in whose veins courses healthy D 2 i ing he was arrested and place: and free. rea! business should be, while pre-|. ° BEET placed in With igor of yanth in her movements of | jail where he is playing the ' tending to to take a census, to pave insanity for dodge to per the maiden for me. | the way a : She is the girl to “tie to” for life. | | the reeent The sickly, complaining woman may | and shady bean object of love and pity, but | | Dhatitheeengus sa she ceases to be a “thing of beauty” | - worn down by female weakness and | | the control of the republican party \ disorders, subject to hysteria and a | machine for the purpose of carrying republican sucess in election by all the dark means thing in their power. zer is g . : : H L Tuck Missouri was in! nee er, drugg The preacher 2 local : local in Greene to bearing down pains. Dr. /the state for Harrison and Warner County, this state, who purchased a ate for engr : e's Favorite —— isa} 'no one here doubts, but the repub- | 8° old brick for $2,000 with the ex- uri Louse of represe |sure cure for these distressing com- Ste mi ion th: aa lence boru Missouri KANSAS CITY and? OMAHA; plai = aA a Enuntornd Tieicoble. ieans will bitterly oppose ali ai- a. Gee he besa realize or r OTL ssou : OLOEADOS SHORT LINE | drooping sufferer into a healthy. sto uncover the plot. The) $6,000 thereon, will not likely make | | happy, blooming woman. Guaranteed ference to the guldea . Should the republican senate calf in | Butier, Mo. y [en a specialty. | down’s Drug Store. ecialattention given to temale die- eee hob aw thoabd investigation of the census methods : f he full Geet a eee DR. als M, CHRISTY, er receivec shot in the abdomen - Mi 1 ower, was very attentive, and when | rom the fui pe nalty of her crime! ROMOBUPATHIC : . smployed in Mis ri ant b s ae 1 peg ogee | - which will probably end fatally. ae ee ISSUE i s Mr. Hartley's house was burned be | PY the powerful influence of some ae 3 aS . : + Ge Bic vicki aces | titution of the census department by 5 od ae | LODE ene AN ast PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Brown was hit in the right arm but é 3 took char ge of affairs and looked af- of Ler former patrons. did some shooting himself. One of the Ha reson, aoe tration ue ne ter the comfort of the lonely and | eae Sins RE PASCe Gilmore’s boys was hit in the le personal and party purposes. The homeless one masa pretty good. 3 [answered atoflice day or night. { C. BOULWARE,” « Surgeon. Physician and Office north ‘side square, Diseases of women and chii- When youtgo tothe Poet Oftice§ifor fyour mail, why not price Bennett STATIONERY, SOAPS AND TOILET ARTICLES, Just Received 5,000 Envelops from N. Y. 1% Ibs Toilet Soap from Phil GIGARS. elphia, ° From Baltimore, and s general assortment of |to 9 Daily “Train, a Kansas City to St, Louis,' e satisfaction in every case. or ) bi 'to the much bereaved ‘read the newspapers ; carefully, and Le ser mons hereafter. Our advice pa is to little more jattempt to stitle the Vest inquiry. will be refunded. T script Jo 0. Shelby, of for it a2 Lexington (Ky. picLably take the matter on STATIONERS SUNDRIES. General back, side cr chest are slit will learn that ae ce things end lots of otherein = leount;. Missou x Lexipgtonian Be to peer pa et re | alleged philantkrop ts who travel ee . pe pueelt bred and born will, as we learn from) | pees over the country s g gold bricks! QUANTITY! 4 PUEBLO AND DENVER \the Butler, (Mo.) Trvgs, be an ap- have as little reg c the feclings ' ' on LAN BUEFETT NI ERIM CARS nt for the office of United States ofa parson as any one els aud that Q! IALITY! .. 3 PUL HA OD b Ss 1 LARS ofthe Western Di t of it is best to avoid dealing with then Mansas City to Denver without cnange | Mi H. C. TOWNSEND | The General is oze of the most | | genial and gentle of men and at the Sa ‘Cire, We guarantee | j it. Sol H. L. Tucker's Prescription same time as brave as the Cid and; Drugstore. | —Jefferson City Tribune. PRICE! ular, Which will sult any berer. Examine gocds | Sud prices and see ifwe are notcorrect. , POST OFFICE EOOK STORE ght to be it warducrced that it pulse, iain cured Cata: “‘Cacterine”’ is the rem- | His R: old by H. L. TUCKER. General Passenge: and Ticket A’gt ST. LOUIS, MO 1t | fits, ete-