The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 6, 1893, Page 3

t | ja “blacksnake” whip that measured | twelve feet from the tip of the buck- Apache George Exhibits Some | skin “eracker’’ to the handle. Telling | Feats of Skill. the reporter to hold the paper at/| arm's length George backed off and taking the whip began cutting the | paper off an inch at a time. As the | paper grew shorter and shorter and | Unique Character of the Wiid and | the stinging lash wielded by the man! Woolly West. {standing twelve feet away cut nearer and nearer to the reporter's fingers. EXPERT WITH A ROPE. HE LASSOES A REPORTER. “Characters,” as such, are passing away in the west. The bold men and the bad men who have helped to win it the distinction of “wild and woolly” are yielding to civilization and death. Peace to their ashes A man of inoffensive career who is written up by the San Francisco Call is known as “Apache George” —by name George Bush, son of a government scout, who once worked with the Texas rangers. Not taking to “book larnin” George found him about to tell “Apache George” that! he was eatisfied, more than satisfied | in fact, the cowboy gave the whip! an extra flourish and with a crack like a pistol shot the Iash cut the paper clean and clear less than a quarter of an inch from the finger ends “Now Ill show you something else,” said George.. Taking iso chairs, he called one min weighing self a captive of the Apaches when|!80 pounds and another weighs; he was 15, and there remained until | 165 pounds, and asked them to Be 19, husband of a young squaw. He seated. Standing between the chairs came prominently before the public | G¢°TS® took off his hat, aud dividing when, says the Call, he joined the his long hair so that about half of it Cody and Carver wild west show, hung on either shoulder, he stooped better known as “Buffalo Bill’s” and told the men to tuke hold of his show, and after touring the United hair with both hands and hold as States went to England with it. In|they would to a rope. The men Germany “Buffalo Bill” and Dr. Car- obeyed, when “Apache George” ver quarreled and they divided the straightened up lifting both men show. George went with “Buffalo clear of the chairs There they Bill.” swung, holding on to his hair for a The rival shows fought for pat- second or two, when astonishment ronage in the various European made them loosen their grip and town until the bitterness of the quar- | drop their fect on the ground. rel extended to the cowboys them | “J haven't got an iron jaw,’ laugh- selves, and in Hamburg, Germany, ed George, “but I'll pull against the shows pitched their tents direct-|@y mar in this town with my hair ly opposite each other on the same for any amount of money.” street. The cowboys knew there As a rifle aud pistol shot Apache was going to.be war, and they filled George does not claim any special their revolvers and cartridge belts | emt, but with the riata, lasso, lariet with real, sure enough powder and | whip be defies all comers, and is ball instead of the blank cartridges truly a wonder. He is a handsome used in the performance. tellow, and despite the wild life he One afternoon Apache George has led, very much of a gentleman. stepped from the tent into the street He neither drinks or chews tobacco, just as oue of Carver's cowboys and to his abstemious habits he at- came out of the tent across the street. | tributes his splendid health Compliments that wouldn't look well| “But T'm getting old.” said Apache in print were exchanged, and a sec- George, “and Tm thinking of going ond later the men were shooting at | back to the plains and settling down. each other. Cowboys of today are not what Another secoud and every cowboy they were when I was one of them, and Indian belonging to both shows| but the plains are the same, and, were on the streets fighting like de-| #fter al), I would rather live on the mons. The police of the quiet Ger | great prairies than m the Palace ho- man town were scared to death, aud| tel. Yes. I think I'll go back,” and CHOLERA NEAR THE GATES. Two Immigrants Stricken With K. C. Star. announce this morning that two cases of genuine Asiatic cholera have developed among a shipload of immigrants landed a few days ago at Halifax, Nova Scotia. grants were from Hamburg and there were 470 of them bound for Cleveland, Chicago, Toledo and In- dianapolis. the plague many had been allowed for Chicago. One of the two cholera Stainwang, Norway, ticketed to Chi- the immigrants was one of the dis- in the midst. of the melee « company of dragoons belonging to the Ger- man army charged down the street and stopped the tight. Apache George was thought to be fataliy wounded, having been shot in the groin, and fourteen others were also badly hurt, several fatally. The melee broke up both shows, and as soon as the men were able to leave the hospital they returned to the United States. Apache George at once struck out for the plains, afd ever since has worked off and on in wild west shows and on the prairies. “T walked San Francisco, coming clear across the Mojava des- | ert on foot, und I was busted when } I got here,” said George, yesterday. ~But so long as I have fifty feet of rope I'll make a living,” he added, and then offered to show the report- er some of his feats of skill. Taking a rope and putting a run- ning noose at one end. Apache George usked the reporter to go down the street and walk toward him. He first caught the reporter's left foot with the ropeas he went to mak his right hand. Then he caught the right foot, throwing the rope with his left hand. Then the reporter -jumped up and down with both feet asif skipping a rope, and George into t step, throwiug the rope with | the speaker roped astray horse that} had got out of a coral near by and Tnuen he sighed and coiled up his rope. was kicking up its heels. Sirange Sight at Cape Horn. San Francisco, Cal., March 27.— Captain Atkison arrived from Liver- pool via New York to day to take whose master, Captain Williams, eommitted suicide a few weeks ago. Captain Atkison says that in conver- sation with Captain Spurnizg of the 8 } ship Dancraig, which left San Fran | cisco for Liverpool about four! months ago, Spurning told him of a| remarkable experience. While round | ing the horn, the Duncraig nearly | ran into an iceberg and when she got | clear, in plain view was a wooden | bark hard and fast on the ice On} deck and in shrouds could be seen | lumps which the sailors on the Dun-! craig took to be human bodies cased | in ice and were beleived to be the | Eliott Shepard's Death Causes other. Chieago, Iil., March 27. An- er, was standing before his dressing case this morning when his wife took up & newspaper and began reading aloud about Elliott F. Shepard's -pinioned both legs. Quick as a flash he caught his right arm, thon his left, and pulling the rope tight threw ’ a half-hitch over both arms, and fin- ished with another hitch around the neck. The throw around the neck death in New York. Suddenly she heard her husband fall with a pe- that he had cut his throat from ear to ear. charge of the British ship Goodrich | ~ , his te i grants i been taken and none other are need- |eago, or any other point inland they | crew who had been frozen to death. | .—Horace| surveilance, all of them, and until it | ay Ec C. Donoghue, a well known publish-| is known that they are free from | we CO GUUS a ent euliar gurgling sound and, rush-! ing to his side, was horrified to find | - DEACON BROS. & CO. -_—_THE LEADING DEALERS IN-— SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE, Cutlery, Guns, Tinware, Granitware, Gasoline Stoves, Builders Hardware, Wagon Wood Work, Barb wire, &c. he grew nervous, but just as he was | STAPLE & FAN CY GROCERI ES, And the largest and best selected line of EAI®YI The Morgan Spading Harrow, Corn Planters, Cultivators, Spring Trip Cultivators, Plows, Wagons, Binders &e Ke. | negroes would find the climate suit-| F.J. TYGARD, - - - Top Buggies and Climax Spring Wagons. Northern Grown Seeds, &c. DEACON BROS. & CO. Southeast Corner of the Square. meet any emergency which may arise during the intervening time.” the Plague at Halifax. Walter Williams in Columbia Herald. The country editor is most bless- ed because of the opportunities for usefullness that come to him. He liyes always close to his readers. His paper isa welcome vistor in every home. At times when even the phy- sician and minister may not come inthe country paper enters. It moulds the thoughts and lives of young and old. larger congregation than all clergymen in the town. oftener and more ccnvineingly than all the lawyers. Its | wounds that no surgeon's skill may j heal. When the editor uses these | magnificent opportunities rightly, is fearless, conscientious, true. ex- |cludes from his colunms all that | may vitiate and depase, and admits only that which helps and elevates, Z he is worthy of much honor. Such Raga | is the best type of the country edi- ie WET eEEAS pecalsaty) lines)s | tor. Blessed he is above his fellows. dispatch from Washington says, are | 2 working im full accord with the} treasury department. Dr. Glavis, | culiar cow disease has broken out in the Washington representative of | St. Louis county, which is giving these lines, says that the Hamburg jthe farmers and others who own packet line has discontinued land | cows, much concern. ings at Hatif The Associated Press dispatches The immi- Before the discovery of the to proceed on their journey west- apneeaes ward and some of these had tickets suspects detained in the Halifax Wa) Eas hospital is Carl Erickson, from cago. The steamer which brought over reputable “tramp” boats which pay little or no atteution to government St. Louis, Mo, March 31.—A pe- The disease . because the quaran- {| makes its appearauce in the cows’ ine regulatious st that point are tails and causes a sort of paralysis lax. He said it was a matter of self- | which if not promptly handled will preservation for the reputable com-| result disastrously to the animal. panies to see that no cholera sas» | Dairy Inspector L. A. Barge, speik- pects were ght to this country. | ing of the disease said be could not Assistay ; but knew if, was not treast ine i he ing io the of the anew ec {wo cases; “We hadadiscase of that kind| he ® Was | among the cows in this section some | ats bad been | y ago The germ makes its ap | >in the animal's tail in the| form of a worm and causes inflam It was treated by lancing fected parts and applying and see that none of them ses. The disease as I recol- entered this country by land. He lect it, was not so severe as other af- suid: “No other precautions have | fections peculiar to cattle.” disc is country, ther than tu the col customs fo quarantine the immi- lectors of mation. Memphis, Teun., March 30 —The And it ean be | cltizens of Kelly, Tunica, Shaw and Cleveland have made an appeal for ed.” “Unquestionably. kept out of every port in the coun- try at ali times by just such precaue aid in behalf of the cyclone suffers tions. I wil! venture the prediction jin north Mississippi that if any of these 470 Hamburg | From reliable information it is nmig ; attempt to land in Chi j learned that 1,000 families are in destitute circumstances in De Sota jwill be apprehended and qurantia- Bolivar, Sunflower and Coahoama el” counties. The cyclone struck that section at “Can you apprehend them after , they have landed?” “Yes sir; they will be kept under | finished planting. The yarious ex | changes of Memphis have coutrib- i The | Illinois Central, Yazoo and Memphis i they will not be permitted to come | valley, aa jue RACE City, ao in contact with our citizens. I pre- | une and icing tan peneeae ae | dict that if they land in Buffalo, or | Sven notice that provisions for the i vers | SUfferers will be transported free of | charge over their lines. cholera or other infectious disease, attempt to land there our officers will take care of them.” “Suppose a cholera infected im-| Pittsburg, March 30.—At a meet- migrant should escape the vigil of jing of embalmers of the United the officers aud get into an inland | States here to-day the body of Ed. WE A C Hi I IN KEK R YY. | earnest, and paints in glowing Call and see us. |—Atlanta Journal | May 3, but we are fully prepared to | class postmasters and of this number cee | pointed from any one state was 45 Blessed be the Country Editor. |x Indiana, It preaches to a" Welcome tor Negroes ih Hawaii. | Charles L. Carter. one of the; BA | special commissioners of the Hawa-| a \iian government now in Washington | N t | B k jlooking after the interests of the! a iona an a BUTLER, MO. | provisional government asking for! | lanta. He desires to have a confer- | ence with leading negroes of the | ‘annexation, will svon leave for At-| i south looking toward inducing im- | jmigration from that race to the THE LARGEST aND THE Sandwich islands. He says he bas/jypy ya’ : DAN the opportunity of giving 4 million ‘ON LY NATIONAL BANK jnegrces of the south work on the| IN BATES COUNTY. He seems very much in| GAPITAL, $125,000 00 | islands. | 325,000 00 pic | {SURPLUS, - - g tures the islands and their possibil- lities fur development. He says the | | : |1.C.CLARK - : with all the privilege of citizenship. | i i % | Lawyers. Washington, Mareh 30.—Fourth | DAMON a we = ee assistant postmaster general Max- pt Aue. marche ty well to-day appointed 188 fourth ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice in Bates and adjoining counties. gay" Olfice over Baies Co. Nat’! Bank. JDARKINSON & GRAVES, ATTORNGYS AT LAW. Office West Side Square, over Lans- down’s Drug Store. e 86 were tu fill vacancies caused by removals. The largest number ap-| whieb In Kentucky there were 24 appointments and six removals involved eleven | removals. David Scauneli, for many years chief of the fire department, died suddenly at the age of 73 years.’ Death was due to kidney and liver troubie. DR. J. M, CHRISTY, HOMOBOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office, tront room over P. O. Atl call answered at office day or night. Specialattention given to temale dis- eases. What is this T C. BOULWARE, Physician and e Surgeon. Office north side square, Butler, Mo. Diseases of women and chi)- en a specialtv. OR. F. M. FULKERSON, DENTIST, \BUTLER, - MISSOURI. * Office, Southeast Corner Square, over Deacoun, Sons & Co. store anyhow a w A. ROSE, LIVESTOCK AUCTIONEER § [ Will do business in Bates, Cass and adjoining counties. Address me at Har- risonyille, Mo. Reterence.—First National Bank and Sank of Harrisonville It is the only bow (ring) wluch cannot be pulled from the watci.. To be had only with Jas. Boss Filled and other. watch cases stamped with this trade mark. W& Ask your jeweler for pamphlet. President. 4 able, and would be happy residents | HON. J. 8. NEWBERRY, pas q atime when the farmers had just | was made without looking at the/| victim. He then did a number of} fancy tricks, such as catching the! reporter ona dead run, aud then | Murder Added to Jail Breaking . Monroe, Mo. March 27.—Job throwing the rope on a half bitch | Smith, alias Stencr, who recently; mote place were there would be no | don and aresaid to over a man standing close to a spot | city what would you do with him or | James,who died a few days ago from | he! | injuries received in a street fight at | “Seize the immigrant and have | Harrisburg, was mummified. Tbe n!him or her quarevtined in some re-| dead man’s relatives live in Lon- } | | } he very wealthy. Keystone Watch Case Co., PHILADELPHIA. This fine young saddle stallion will make the season of 1893 at mr barn, 5 miles east of Butler. Goop oe, Bay Stailion, bred by John T. Woodford, Mt. Sterling, Ky. Foaled in 1S8S, sired by Blu s, one of Ken- tuckv’s greatest sadd Hions. First dam Kitty Fogg, by Beauty; 2d dam Puss, the dam of more high-prfced sad- dle horses than any mare living or dead: third dam the tamous Haggard mare. Blue Jeans, sired by Philips’ black horse, he by Gen. Yavlor: 1st dam by Gray Eagie jr.; he by Gray Eagle; zd dam by | Oden’s Crockett,ne by Roanoke, 3d dam by{Potomac, 4th dam by Sir Archie. . e noted sire 31-2 | na her fast on | by Benton’s Diomede; 2 | ple, son ot Medoc:3 jhe by Blackburn’s ip, he by import- ed Whip. This stallion is not only a | fashionable bred saddle horse but has | one cross that makes him connected with some ot the best and fastest trotters. Goodloe is registered as No. 387, in Vol 11, National Saddie Horse Breeders’ | Association Register, Louisviile, Ky. | _Terms;—§rs for colt to stand aud suck Care taken to prevent accidents, but will not de responsible should anv occur. 183m G. D. ARNOLD, dam by Crip- n by Tiger Whip BARNEY. Will stand the reason of 1803, at my stable, eight miles due east ot Butler and 3-4 ot a mile south of the Montrose and Butler road, Description and Pedigree. Barney 15 Franz Bernhardt On the north side of the square, H | Butler, - Missour. Does his own Watch & Clock Repairing Also Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Sil- verware at | ATUAL GOST AND CARRIAGE, | For the next twelve months. ! (As a watch maker of 52 years experience! can and will give you satisfaction. Fine Watch Repairing a Specialty. | “ ‘a GO TO—— G. A. VAN HALL, —SUCCESSOR TO— F. BERNHARDT & CO. } | —FOR— PORE DRUCS i MEDICINES J { TOILET ARTICLES, | TOBACCOS AND coal black,meaty nose,:5 hands high and _ play to Apache George. as “Now take this paper,” said|too intimate with his wife, while an-jing of the 470 immigrants from, Jobn Aller.a guard at Sanbois, ™°ney must be paid. Care will be taken George, handing the reporter a piece | other report is that the trouble grew | Hamburg under the old law passed | Choctow nation, was shot dead hy of newspaper about six inches long| out of a misunderstanding of over a|/by the last congress, approved {another guard during a quarrel astandstill. Lassoing horses. men | check on the F.& M. Bank in this on wagons with the horses going on} city, shot and fataly wounde? James a trot, or catching small boys by the} Nesbit living six miles west of here feet as they run were mere child’s|early this morning. It is reported | that Smith accused Nesbit of being and folded up. He next produced | year ago. where he brought his first captive to/fined awaiting trial for forging a! I: liv the old law to cope with au out-! break of cholera, and ean you handle | it til the law passed a few weeks “Do you find sufficient authority ‘claims the body will keep for ages, i i ago goes into effect?” “Yes; we are handling the incom. | Jered March 3, does not go into effect till | Tuesday night. i < > = as sae x se = + | was sired by McDonaid’s fi ‘FINE broke jail at Paris, where he is con-| danger of a spread of the disease.” | Pref Sulliyan of Louisville, Ky, | (eDonai née mammoth = jack, dam was one of Leonard’s fine jen- CIGARS, Iu a landslide north of Edmunds, Wash., Tuesday, Robert Baker was | 9a¥s to be Sg killed aud two other men badly in-! nets. He is a sure and large breeder, . Terms. $Sto insure colt to stand and | Suck it pais within ten days of the date! the colt is foaled, ir not paid within ten | It not paid until after! October, 1894, to be Sio. Colt will stand; good for season. Atter service has been | rendered, any ene selling, trading or re-! | moving mare forteits insurance and | ! Prescriptions Car: to preyent serene but will not be re- j Peops wate Gempouate sponsible should any occur. liberal Patronag: wa stallion will stand at same } ~ i ‘erms made known at barn, ic is solicited. . DeWitr McDaniat. pultiats 4RTISTS MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS. place.