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3 R ler Weekly Cimes. Vor. XVi BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 1894. Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, - . Transacts a general banking business. mers, merchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository for all funds committed to our charge. commodation in the way of loans to ¢ to loan on real estate at lowest rates, at any time and stop interest. IDIRECTORS. Or. T. C. Boulware CH Du cher John Deerwester JR Jenkins Booker Powell HH Piggott © BR Radford TJ Wright Geo L Smith OTHER st Frank Deerwester D A DeArmond John Evans Dr J Everingham C & E Freeman G B Hickman DB Heath Semuel Levy CH Morrison Dr W D Hannah E Bartlett Margaret Bryner Lulu Brown JN Ballard GA Curuthers HK Chelf JM Courtney Robert Clark CP &8 LColeman JR Davis ——_—_ ee Prairie City Item. The snow has come and gone. Miss Minnie Kemper is visiting R. J. Maddox of Cedar county. Prof. Wolf informs us his pupils are progressing nicely, also that they will soon be ready to give a first class school exhibition. Prof. W. is giving universal satisfaction as a school teacher. A valentine party was given the young folks by Mr. and Mrs. Ww. E. Eddy Feb. 14th, about 50 valentines were opened and read and a general ‘ood time was had by all as none can Relp but-enjoy themselves while at the home of Mrs. Eddy. We are expecting a series of meet- ings to begin here in the near future by Rev. Russel and Hamlit. They will be with us as soon as their meet- ing at Rockville closes. hey are having a successful meeting at that place. Prof. Hornbuckle, teacher of Pen- manship and art work is instructing a class in art work at this place alsoa elass in Penmanship at Syper school houre. Rev. Murphy of Rockville fulfilled his last appointment at this place last Sunday. We are sorrow to lose such an able minister. Walter Summy will t surplus hay at fair prices. ent he is bailing hay bought of G. W. Sunderwith. The wild man was seen by our sportsman one day last week but as yet have not captured him. W. L. Durand formerly of this place has returned from Illinois with his two small children. Illinois he lost his loved companion. He thinks of locating in this vicinity. Harry. all your Amsterdam Items Miss Lula White of Spruce town- ship, who taught the winter term of | school at Center, will teach the same school this spring. Miss White has returned to her home. She made many friends during her stay both in the school room d Will M, Crawford y last week. Dudley Chambers is instructing a class in Telegraphy at this place with ) Emerson to see that they all keep right. Dr. L. R. Robinson of Merwin will leave the first of April for Kansas City, where he will take a post grad- nate course, Mr. Jas. Jett will move his to the country this spring. We regret to loose them as they are good citi- wens. Miss Ella Megredy of Kansas City | Stockton | Miss Ella is a young lady | is visiting her aunt Mrs. Graham. of winning manners, charming face and to know her is to admire and like | her. Mrs. T. C. Robison of this place who had a very severe operation per- «formed in Kansas City, not long since is rapidly improving and will soon regain her usual good health. Mrs. J. D. Waddell is improveing. Mrs. Jas. Burrows was taken sud- denly sick at the Baptist church last | Sunday and was taken to her home. | She is better at this writing. Miss May Crawford who has been | sick the past fifteen months is im- proving, but very slowly. The democracy of this section heartily indorse the course of our senators F. M. Cockrell and G. G. | Vest. They are couragevus, bold and patriotic and an honer to the state and party they represent. One of the most brilliant socia events of the season was the Valen- tine and card party given by Miss At pres-} While he was in| and social circles, | who will gladly welcome her return. | family | $110,000. We solicit the accounts of far-} | We are prepared to extend liberal ac- | our customers. Funds always on hand . | allowing borrowers to pay part or all Frank M Voris HC Wyatt RG West Wm E Walton OCKHO!DER:. Robert McCracken A MeCrachen M V Owen John Pharis Charles Pharis JK Rosier J W Reisner L_B Starke Clem Slavback John H Sullene. KE Tucker yler ME Turner Wm W Trigg Wm Walls G P Wyatt Dr NL Whipple Max Weiner Oscar Reeder Sadie Graham, in honor of Miss Ella | Megredy of Kansas City on Wednes- | day eve Feb. 14, 1894, hours from & until 2 p. m., the hours were whiled | away by cards, music, games and the reading of the valentines they were gay, humorous, poetic, comic and cupid shyed a few darts. Supper was served at 12 0’clock, which consisted of cakes, fruits and other delicacis of the season. Miss Sadie is a charming and graceful hostes and was ably as- sisted by her brothers. Those present were: Misses Pet Burrows, Yula Tye, Maggie Nickel, Mary Braden, Minnie Forbes, Cordelia Forbes, Lura Dalton, Ella Megredy, Lula White and Sadie Graham. Messrs. Lou Parrish, Will Rankin, Will Crawford, Will Morris, Rome Morris, Dudley Chambers, Ed Dalton, Dair Forbes, Rob Forbes, Will, Charley and Oliver Graham. An [risH Lap. Virginia liem-. The rumor is now current in Vir- ginia, that General Shelby has ap- pointed Wm. Smith Sr., of Homer township, deputy United States mar- shal. A splendid appointment; with Mr. Smith’s long experience with human nature, and his well known courage and personal bravery he ; would be a terror to evil doers. John Drysdale and wife, of Foster, were visiting relatives here Sunday. Dan Bean says he sells his butter for the cash. ' WG Vogt wants to buy a good second-hand mower. Gordon Wallace is nursing a good big felon on his thumb. | . WT Cowan sold a good horse to a Kansas buyer. | Mr. Pettypool has a 3-horse sulky plow for sale or trade. Our tax collector informs us that Saturday Feb. 24, '94 will be his last day at Virginia forthe purpose of col- lecting; those that have not paid will have the extra penalty added. He | hopes all will be on hand @nor before | that date. iss Morrison will finish a suceess- | six months’ term of school at the | Cameron school house, in a couple of weeks. The Grandview literary and library | association is booming. | Profs. Comiford and Dunsworth orchestra music cannot be surpassed outside ef the large cities. Geo Thompson sets his paper ahead for another year. Mr ike Parks took home a hand- some new organ last week. | Geo Thompson and Carter Wallace | | shipped theircattle oneday last week and made good money. Mr Biggs} shipped his cattle, but did not strike | so good a market. Born, to the wife of John Hedger, a bouncing baby girl. All parties do- ing well. Ed Dudley will start for Dakota as ; Soon as heis able to stand the trip. We hope it will do him good. | W J Gardner has gone to Jake Ro-| | north of Butler. | workman, Ww io | changed from Jasper, Mo.to Virginia, | JC Wright does not eat the head | | and back bones of his hogs; he pays} his help with them. Cruth, I want to help you next time you butcher. | Ike Lockridge, Tom and Cruth Wright, Rek John Foster and O. Rad- ford had a fine rabbit hunt the other day, and sent the game to Kansas | City, but can’t hear from them. i N. M. NESTLERODE. Mr. Gis a Set Se i At Kenosha Wiscousin, Sunday | night Fred Meyers aud a stranger | , Stopped at the Grant house, blew) out the gas on retiring and in the) | morning both were found dead. CLL Reval Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U.S. Gov’t Report. Baking Powder | neeessary A GREAT CONSPIRACY. Many Prominent Republican Pol- iticians are Involved. Pacific Coast Mo ubers ot the G. O. P. Coe prised the Geng —AH E gaged in Smugsling. shington, D.C, Feb few days nyo te announce t..t fou: G Georg, Assis tant United si ue Attorney for Or ezon, had hee instructed to vigor ously pros cute Chinese smugglers under indictment in that State. About this brief aunouncement is woven a story which tells of one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated against the government. The men most concerned in it are amoug the most prominent Republican politic lans on the Pacific coast. and the whole conspiracy was formed and carried ‘through during Harrison's term of office The prosecutions will in all probability beg.n just about the time of the epring elec tious im Oregon, and Republican methods will receive an airiug which will serve the whole country for an object lesson. Jumes Lotan was to Republican politics in Oregon what Boss Tweed was to New York city Nothing was ever done without tirst consulting Lotan He handled the campaign fund and shaped the Republican policy. Upon the election of Harri son everybody who knew anything at all about the politics of that State understood that Lotan could get any place assigned to Oregon anointed collector of customs, and the place went to him for the simple askin;- But before this appoint. ment had been announced Lotan’s busy brain had been at work aud he had hatched a wonderful wouderful scheme for robbing the government. ‘Tue collector of customs had charge of the inspections of Chinese, and Lotan, with the aseistance of Whit- nvy L. Boise, chariman of the Re publican State central committee of Oregon, had figured it that with the assistance of a boat line which oper ated between Portland and Victoria. inspectors could be appointed at both ends and Chinese smuggled in by the thousands. But in order to have the plan carry without friction, | it was necessary to let «a Chines merchant into the scheme and form @ partvership with the proprietor of the boat line. This was Nat Blum, whose real name is something like |B umenkrowitz, and who stalks the) s:reets of Washington rich as any of the old thieving merchauts of his tory, and free from all (is necessary to convict his partners in crime. Whether the scheme orig mated with Blum or Lotan essential. Each is willing to have the other take the glory of having conceived the idea. But according sier’s to prune his orchard, 3 miles | to Blum’s story, he and Lotan met skilled on the streets of Portland about! Radford has his address |f0Ur days before the latter's appoint- | meut. Lotan then told him that his appointment was sure thing and he proposed to make all he could out} Blum explained that Chinese into of it. laborers who wished to come the United States would pay $50 a head for the privilege. It would be to have a deputy with nerve to Jand the Chinaman,Blum as serted. aud Lotan declared that one harlee Cardinell, was the very man Shortly after Cardi pecame inspector of Chinese. About this interesting for the place. n juncture | Boise, chairman of the Repulican State central committee, made his appearance in the conspiracy. Bium had been ing frequent visits to Lotan's office and had caused more or] t. The country was amen brought in by a Chinese mer- chant named Seid Rock and smug- led throug with the assistance of ithe deputies appointed by Lotan. One of these deputies was C. J. 18.—A presse dispatches For T-asou now apparent he asked to be danger of | prosecution, because his testimony is not cing fiilled with Chin-| NO l4 1 | Mulkey, a brother in law of United | States Senator Dolph. Mulkey has jalready been convicted. The testi ee showed that Blum met Mulkey | pay bim $1,200 a month salary rot to interfere with the business, and Muilkey further agreed to “call off* one Dillon, who was giving the smugglers no end of trouble. So it was that with both ends o* the line | operating in perfect harmony China- men at $50 a head were being land ed by the thousand, and Republican Chairman Boise, who is also a law yer, in ord«r that all suspicion might be allayed, acted as go between for Lotan aud Blum, Boise handled the wires for awhile and then Lotan concluded that thelawyer was mak ing altogether too much money out of it. It was at this point that Lo tan instructed Blum that when ships came in, to report only half of them to Boise and the other half to him, so that if the ships brought twenty Chinamen, the lawyer would receive $25 for each of the ten Chinaman landed, instead of $50 each for the entire twenty. Lotan and Blum then began handling the money be tween them, and entered into an agreement with Seid Rock, the Chi nese merchant, by which he could laud his Chinese at $25 a head, on condition that he would act in the capacity of interpreter for them Just how many Chinese were anded no one call tell until the case Is probed to the bottom. Until thy beginning of the present adminis tration matters were carried with a high hand until the final day of grief came, when Blum was arrested and lodged in jail. Gotan had re- ceived as his share of the Chinese money some $20,000,and with Blum behind the bars did not offer him assistance in a fiuaccial way. Neither did any of the others offer to come to his rescue, and Blum, in order to make his own escape, threw them down and gave the story away. It is thought at the Department of Justice that still greater frauds will be unearthed relating to opium smuggling ou the coast. Numerous other leading Republicaus are in danger of being caught in the net, and the entire coast region is agitat ed in consequence. Caucus On Biand’s Bill. Washingtov, D C., Feb. 19.—The | success of the filibuster against the Bland silver bill, which hus blocked | proceedings iu the House for five days, to day forced the Democratic | advocates of the measure to invoke the decree of a caucus, and immedi- ately after the adjournment a Demo eratic caucus was held in the hall of the House to consider the situation. There were present 130 Democrats, but not a Democratic member of the New York delegation, all of whom have joined in the obstructive move- |ment, was present, nor in fact any | of the others who joined hands with jthem. The presence, however, of 'Mr. Pence, the Colorad»s Populist, |was significant. The sentiment in the caucus, therefore, was all favor jable to the bill, and two resolutions were adopted, one to keep the seign- iorage bill before the House to the jexclusion of everything until dis- it as the sense of the caucus that it was the duty of every Democratic jmember to be present aud vote jeither for or against the bill. jOnly difference of opinion existing | Was as tothe advisability of going ifurther than this and compelling | members te vote or be counted if | they refused to do so. i | R. S. Catron insures growing | cops against hail, also writes fire and tornado insurance ' Pitcher’s Castoria. i Children Cry for : Pitcher’s Castoria. | Children Cry for | Pitcher’s Castoria. posed of, and the other expressing | The} 433 tf! j Cash Capital. YD 5 BENNETT =. D. S28...... Receives McKane Sentenced to Six Years in Sing Sing. Brooklyn, N. ¥.. Feb. 19.—Johu Y. McKane was this moruing sen ‘enced to Sing Sing prison. The big boss of Gravesend was pale when he came into court. He could seareely stand to receive his foom. When sentence was pro nounced he fell into his chair an! vuried his head in bis hands and -obs shook bis frame. McKane resisted a writ of manda | ‘nus preventing him from interfering vith examination of registratio ‘ists He and bis henchmen mobbed the would-be examiners and ther threw them into jail for assault The inevease in registration in th- Gravesend district was the wonder of Long Island. The sentence was a great surprise to everyone. It was expected that the jury's recommendation to mercy would induce Justice Bartlett to be more lenient. Clerk Byroe then asked McKane the question: “Have you anything Osvy why sentence snould nut v passed?” McKune arose, seized the railin with his left hand and ina tremblin; voice said: “I don't know whether 1 have anything to say much. Tem not guilty I never did anythiu; wrong in my life. I had nothing t lo last election with the inspectors I never advised them at all, much ess to do anything wrong. I am rot guilty I never did anything wrong in all my life.” His voice grew weaker as he spoke the last words. He hesitated and then turned toward his chair. “Hold on a minute,” said Clerk Byrne. ‘“McKane, you have not yer heard your sentence.” the railing with bis left hand and put his right hand in his pocket. Then with. lifted bead and closed “yes he listened. The voice of Jus tice Bartlett broke the silence. “I am not at liberty,” he said in a tone of intensity, “to disregard the recommendation of the jury for mer cy. Nevertheless, in passing sen- tence, I cannot overlook the great gravity of the crime of which de- fendant has been convicted. The fact that he laws is the more of a matter of mo ment for the reason that he is av in- telligent man who exercised wide authority and who knew what the law was. This aggravaies the offense The sentence should not be too light, lest it should not be appro priate, and on the other hand it should not be so severe as to excite sympathy. The sentence of the court is that you be confined in the state prison at Sing Sing for the term of six years.” Hungry Lions At Large. Topeka, Kan., Feb. & Rentfrow’s winter quarters in the heart of Topeka, and during the tume they were at large terrorized the community as only three hungry savage lions can. Th~ elephants got to scrapping amovg themselves, er cage near by. The three became engaged in a pitched battle, which jended iu all of them gainin pen, to the lot in tke of ithe building and the two lions were out in a moment. OF BATES CO. Solicited DIRE D. N. Thompson, M.S, Kiersey, John Steele M. Wilcox Oscar Reeder, J. 3. McKee, E. D. Kipp McKane turned back again,caugh» | disokeyed the: 17.—Three | big, hungry lions escaped from Sells | which rzade the lions nervous. Three | | of the lious were in one cxge. snd a_ large one named Nero was iu «noth | There were four. head of tine cattle belonging to| FARMERS BANK ata Portland hotel and agreed to} | OF BATES COUNTY, $50,000.CO “~POSTCRY scsese sees. President lst Vice-President 2d Vice-President on nee Cashier Deposits subject to check, Lones Money, issues Drafts an transacts a general Banking business. Your patronage respectful. CTORS, John E. Shutt, R. J. Hurley Clark Wix, E A. Bennett § J.K Rovier. NH M Gailey VERINGHAM. Secretary ——— Oe, 8:on became the prey of the he 4, which probabiv was all that sevd Keeper Brigys’ life. It being ‘ate at night, Colonel Sells was notiti-d, ‘and by the time he arrived the h og j had killed the cart a Gd were suca- ing their blood, which made th m all the more ferocious and unma:a gable. The news soon spread and every | thing was excitement. Torches were | procured and fires built, irous heat- ed and after two houre of hard aid nervous work the beasts were driv-o back imto another cage that wae ; placed near the eutrauce of the | buildings. | Last week while Thor. McGhet | was digging in well! just west of {town, he found several large piecat of zinc ore, some pieces would weigh four or five pounds. Under the con- litions which this was found it ‘ould not be ascertnined whether it came from a strata of the ore or had been broken off of boulders contain- ing portions of the ore. Howevet an ivvestigation should be made an& determine whether or uot itis worth vorking.—Roekwille Reflex. Suffering for Fuel. Topeka, Kan., Feb. 14.-—A petition j signed by thirty nine citizens of \ Healy, Lane county, was received by | ‘he State Board of Railroad Com- missioners this evening for ¢ ad enough to keep their families from suffering during the present cold lepell. The petition was writted February 10, and said the parties in waut would be out of fuel in threo days. This is the first suffering re ported. The boxra bus no power to act in the matter, and will prob ably refer the petition to the railroad companies with the request that they donate some coal to meet the emerz lency. i | [' \ VS MOTHERS! MOTHERS # To know that a single applica~ | tion of the Cuticura Remedies wilf afford instant relief, permit rest | and sleep, and point to a speedy and economical cure of torturing, disfiguring, itching, burning and scaly humors, and not to ust them without a moment's delay is to fail in your duty. Cures made in childhood are speedy, ers knew the comiort, strengthjan? Vitality in Cuticurs Plasters, they ‘Would never be without them. In Colonel Sells in this lot, and they | eri Been