The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 22, 1894, Page 6

ok 9 MAN. AGAINST BOA. A& Remarkable Dael Fought in Central America to Settle a Wager. A Newark engineer who served on the engineering corps employed in the construction of the Nicaragua canal, and ishome onasort of a furlough, recently told the story of a duel with a boa constrictor by a fellow engi Life in the canal country is dreai various schemes are resorted to in order to relieve the monotony. One of the party stated one evening that he could kill a boa single-handed The rest of the crowd tried to convince him he but he stuck to the as wrong, us: sertion. Finally a handsome bet was made that he could not despatch a boa alone if the deadly was in its natural condition. The young engineer promptly accepted the terms of the yer. reptile he next day a gang of natives were to into the forest They continued the some time and finally came upon just the article they were looking for. It was a well-grown specimen of the boa fifteen feetlong. It had eaten heartily a few days before it was discovered and it was therefore torpid. It was captured without difficulty and | taken back tocump. It was deposited ‘na room, where it was securely bound | and then left until its sleep should be over. The young engineer who was to meet the undulous monster of the for- | est ina duel tothe death repented of rash bargain many times, but he never let any one know and it was “dead game,” as the saying goes, from first to last. Loas often remain in tor- por for three weeks, and it was nearly a fortnight before the pinioned snake showed signs of returning activity. ‘The engineers then appointed a night for the combat, and the young man who was to face the serpent went into active training. It bad been stipulated that his only weapon was to be a knife, and the young man relied on his clear brain, iron nerve, and supple wrist to carry him through the encounter in safety. When work was over on the appoint- ed day those who were in the secret entered the room and proceeded to cut the ropes with which the serpent was bound. It had been coiled up and sev- eral bands placed about it. These were all severed but one, and the snake’s opponent entered while his companions beat a hasty retreat to safe coigns of vantage from which to watch the strange battle and to give succor in a last extremity. The young engineer was lightly clad and carried in his right hand a long knife, highly ground and sharpened. The monster, half famished as it was, was in a most angry humor, and its horrid head oscil- lating to and fro with distended jaws and viciously shining, beady eyes must have made the young man’s flesh creep, He strode straight up to the boa, and with a lightning strode of his knife cut the remaining band that bound it. He jumped back the instant the stroke had fallen with the celerity of a tiger eat. but his swiftness was snaillike compared with that of the serpent. Quicker than thought the boa descend- ed upon his enemy. Before the man could move the snake had fallen upon his arm, had wound its way up its e tire length and was biting at shoulder. The arm around which the had wound itself was the young fel- jow’s knife arm. Luckily the hand and wrist were free. He did not wait to transfer the knife to his other hand, but summoned all his power and cut at the coil of the serpent nearest his pin- ioned hand. It was plendid stroke, a backward cut, and it was clean through the body. The upper portion of the slimy coil dropped to the floor and the intrepid engineer had won his bet. ‘The entire contest lasted but a few seconds, and so quiekly did it pass sent boa. find a search for his snake that the breathless onlookers searcely realized what had happened. The oung man was pretty thoroughly ex- usted. His shoulder was quite badly lacerated by the teeth of the snake. The stra t part of the episode was that the young man’s arm was lame for wee and all its length was a spiral black and blue where the snake had encircled it.—Pittsburgh Dispateh. GOT WHAT HE ASKED FOR. He Wanted a Horse with Lots of Snap in Itand t Tt. “Got something frisky?” he he walked into a livery called for a saddle horse. that will prance about lively and wake a fellow out of his lethargy. 1 can ride the trick mule in a circus, and can back anything that wears h They brought him out ored beast with a vicious eye. and he | mounted it and dashed off. Before he had gone two blocks the animal bueked, | erashed through a high board fence and plunged into a cellar, tossing his rider over the tov of an adjacent wood- shed and landing him on the ragged edge of alawn-mower. They bore him home, straightened him out and three | surgeons came in and reduced his eations and plastered him up with r beef. A few Weeks later he called at the stable and said if they a gentle saw-horse with ag affectionate Aisposi- tion, a bridle with a ¢ tingales and a sa. horns and a crupper to it, he believed he would go up inthe haymow and g around a little where it was soft an wouldn't hurt him if he went and fell off, as he did the other Washington P asked, as stable and ‘Something a ealico-eol- lo- uw to s Something in This > a The mania for giving arge num- | ber of Christian names to one and the same person is particularly prevalent im Italy. An Italian gentleman named Campagna, who has just been natural- ized a Frenchman, has given some lit- “tle trouble to the French foreign office q@erk in registering his full designa- tion. Here it is:y Vincendo Maria Gennaro Francesco-Sales Fran- cesco-d' Assisi Francesco de Paolo Roe Michele Crocitisso Emiddie Pasqus Giovan Giuseppe Geltrude © Gaetana Alfonso Ciro Andrea Luigi Gioran Geraldo Antonio-di-Para An- i Campagna.--London News. souie Anette eve | 484,990 widowers and 1,124,310 widows. | ina vise. | of his saddle. | sane a | vardin drew | practitioners to t | treating | plan orig | }to last j unmarried females, COWBOY DUEL IN VENEZUELA, They Loved a Little Indian Girl of the Orinoco Plains. 1 witnessed a strange duel on one of President Crespo’s big cattle ranches | Two | in the interior of Venezuela. vangueros, or cowboys, were enamored of the same dark-eyed little Indian “Just Landed” | 32 patterns of the latest works of art in | Picture Frame Moldings Also new lot of girl of the great Orinoco plains and | they decided to settle t the lasso which of them should take her towife. Adozen fellow vanqueros essembled to witness the fray The lovers, says the Union, soon appeared mettlesome mustangs, each with a long, powerful lariat of tough cow- hide. They were both experts with the lasso, and their horsemanship was amarvel. They approached to within forty and fifty yards of each then began to maneuver fora de mounted on other, ling cast. After several feints the lariat of e younger of the rivals, a hand sun-bronzed fellow went whizzing thro swiftly that the eye could low it. The other sank his spurs into his mustang. The animal sprang forward just in time to save his master from the and as he 1 noose, did second lasso rose in the air and so the missed, pinning his arms to his sides.as He was jerked headlong out His successful rival drew him along hand over hand, half lifting him from the ground by the tenacious thong, and put a bullet square between his eyes. He then turned and rode direct- ly to the camp where lived the cause of this barbaric scene. She mounted behind came galloping back sombrero. he his him and swinging A FORBIDDEN SONG. The Only Tone It Was Not Permissible to Play in the Dance Hall. I recall an interesting scene in Ar- bour’s old dance hall in Silver Cliff in the winter of 1875-79, writes a Denver correspondent. The Silver Cliff excite- ment then ranked only second to that of Leadville, and thousands were rush- ing to the new Eldorado. The great dance hall was crowded with miners, prospectors and tender- feet. Two sets of dances had been on the floor all evening. Two long rows of gaming tabies had also been run- ning at full blast, and at midnight there came a lull in the dancing for lunch. Some of the boys took posses- sion of the platform, and a young fel- low dressed in jacket and overalls threw his slouch hat back on his head and struck up some familiar tune on the piano. There were about a dozen in the party who joined in the singing. Suddenly one of the boys started up “Home, Sweet, Home.” The young man at the piano struck in with an accom- paniment, and that old-time song of loved ones and home association began to fill the great hall. ‘Pop’ Arbour was soon seen rushing toward the or- chestra platform. He had no objec- tion to Gospel hymns, but entered a protest at ‘Home, Sweet Home.” “Don't, boys; don’t sing that song here.” “Why no: usked one of the boys. “You will make all of the girls home- sick and break up the dance hall. Sing any song you want to, but not ‘Home, Sweet Home.’ ” LETTERS MARKED “RUSH.” An Attempt to Discover Why Thus Treated. It isa legend in the tele, that the sender takes a of mes- sages, and, sorting out those marked “rush,” puts them at the bottom of the pile. There is also a class of commu- nicants that every mewspaper office knows which marks its letters “rush.” It will never be known just these writers expect, apolis Jour Po: when the letter is ree x office authorities the wheelsof Un Sam's mighty engine for the d tion of w will stop while master seiz deliver the letter personally. If z body the across town, break-neck know that the post ing a “rush” letter. marked *trush” what as follows: “Hasty, Minn., 5 Montgomery died yveste He 1 be beau " fe: raised a potatoon year that weighed ei Frank Willi m yesterday.” imes a man will ser marked ‘rr containing a check a postal order. Then it sees post bears a messas ser er forty this ghteen ounce Some i a letter ush” goes to the business ¢ and is sent to the n sition tl he 'suppo- it eont editor growls at it and sends it business office. And so ked “rush” usually dela of Smallpox. It was several years ago that the attention of Fren advantages of ecording to the ested and carried den and Waters. in question consisted g the patients abso- m all solar light, and to be from first Early Tr ment ach allpo out by The tment in keepi aw lately this solar darkness h complete otherwise no ber | be looked for. recent] | experi ial results could | The same authority has ished the results of hi out the nsters. blue book relating } sus for England and Wafles shows that there were taken 3,716,363 unmarried males and §,908,665 4,951,548 married 049 married females, males and 4,9 a duel with | Florida Times- | settled | around the shoulders of the man who] aph office | s his hat and rushes out to | son | 4 amson was taken to the ine or | opened but | i covering | ROOM MOLDING Our line of CARP} NILLE CURTAINS AND | WINDOW SHADES has ne | beauty, ed in variety ice, in Butle: RUDENT PEOPLE REFER PERFECT AINTING Which iafprodaced by the use of the Sherman-Williams Co and The Weider Prepared Paints The res res of HE. 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Whereas E jot trust recorded in T Steele, dated the eran, by February ¥ Is Tecorder’s once Missouri, in book No ea to the undersigned tri ribed real estate ly p county of Bates and and for Bates county, 107 page 860 conve tee ihe following it and b ing situate ot Missour: A strip of ground sixty-three ( | of of the we-t side of lot three ( five (5) of Williams} Additi city) of Butler whi | | Trustee's Sale. | asin; | | | | | ) feet wide 3) Jin wock on to the town nveyance Was made in trust to secure the ent of one certain note fully described in said deed of trust: | Whereas detault has been m: | of the principal of said no’ terest thereon now lc 1s94, ck in the or the parpuses ¢ | interest and costs. “ALLEN ection n election to be hel t Bates county, Mo . the first Tuesday in April. Iso4, the proposit to make the tax levy for the ensuing year > the S100 valuation of the prope d district for contingent and teachers’ will be submitted to the qualified v aid school district: said election to bi held at it the election foroficers for aid city and at the same place in each ward in the board ef tion of said utler school board ROSS, i city of pa de: enon b y forthe elec der of Bu weW Clerk, 2th day of Mareh Administrator's Notice. Notice is hereby given, of administratic on Mary G. Presley deceased, were granted to the undersigned on the 13th day of March 1894, by the pr« bate court of Bates county, Missouri. | All persons having claims against le said estate are required to exhibit them for allowance tothe administra- 5 ee within one vear after the date of said lette: or they may be precluded fit of said estate; and if such claims be not exhibited within years from the date of this pub- tion, they shall be forever barred. y of March, 1894. Mupp, Administrator. that letters the estate of Claims. paving claims against LM Wil- otified that the undersigned ees will meet them at the court house in } the city of Butier.on Thursday April the 5th, | Isu4, to allow claims the assigned e: | tate of the ssid L MW persons having claims i . not present to have their claims allowed, they may be preciuded from any benefit of said es- tate PETER EWING and J. F JORDIN, Assignees. 16-48 TS, WALL PAPER, CHE-. One Door! of Allowauce of} Plain Talk To His Lordship. A venerable and pompous Engliah | ‘bishop was having his portrait paint ed by an eminent artist. After sit ting steady for an hour in silence the churchman thought he would] break the monotony with a rem “How are you getting along? inquired To the nishment of the the knight of the palette absorbed) in his work replied: “Move your head u little to ght and shut your :mouth. t bein address his lordshisp. accustomed to jform of Republic - } such a “May Task why you address me} ‘in this manner?” The artist, still bed in his }work, said: “I want to take off a little of your cheek The bishop collapsed — Louis | Pemsion cations Decreasing. | Washingt March 9—The de- crease in the number of claims re Appi ceived daily at the pension bareau is shown by a statement preprred at The 1 roll is now uber of the department peusiouers on the imately 966,000, against 952,000 for the corresponding week of la The number b however, steadily diminished since September 1, T number of of cuses pending the ae- tion is a decrease of over 91,000. year be Banging Threaten Guthrie O. T. Mareh 16.— Horse theives have been stealing horses by the score in Lincoln and Pellawato- ties. Every night three or fourare taken. Itis beheved to be the work of the gang, who drive the horses east to Indian Territory and Arkansas and sell them by the wh ole- sale. The farmers met yesterday and organized a vigilance committee and will hang the first with a stolen horse. Inie co man caught Sheriff Jones of Lewis county has ordered snother Arkansas blood hound = The dog is well trained and guaranteed and will cost $200 After ninete life Col Constitution. nh years of newspaper Hitt bas sold the Chillicothe good Hitt He mude ¢ as a new shane man. Three young eat en of the {Marshall high school have been awarded prizes for essays on the Life and Cha f£ Thomas H. | Benton A collector for a wroughtirou range company says Mississippi is | the only county in which he collect. lal every | Richu opd bas been invaded aud damage The cemetery at 1 by hogs | Grace Espiscopal church, hs Qaalis bave tered weil ia Mis sour. | The berry g 8 of u are |makiue beds. ; The “terripan neighborhood” is in | Boon county. A € : beurred Clinton bas seven mules of railroad track within her limits 4 [s paint the best is the cheap Don’t be misled by trying what is said tc be ‘“‘just as good,” but when you paint i upon having a genuine brand of Strictly Pure | White Lead It costs no more per gallon than cheap paints, and lasts many times as long. Look out for the brands of White Lead offered you ; any of the fol- lowing are sure : “Southern, “Red Seal,” 1 “Collier.” For Cotors.—National Lead Co.’s | Pure White Lead Tinting Colors. 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