The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 2, 1894, Page 3

BATES:COUNTY National Bank, BUTLER, MO. THE OLDEST BANK EST AND THE NLY NATIONAL BANK IN BATES COUNTY. CAPITAT, = - SURPLUS, - .- $25,000 06 ¥.}. TYGARD, - - - President HON. J. B. NEWBERRY, Vice-Pres. J. C. CLARK - - Cashier DEVOL'S GAMBLING YARN. The Story of How a Fellow Up to Beat the Bank. New York Advertiser. “Before the war,” said Col. George Devol to an interested party of list eners in the lobby of the St. James Hotel yesterday, “Jim Ashby was the most uotorious gambler in New Orleans. “Ashby was proprietor of a faro bank iu these days,and such arun of luck you never saw. He broke every gambler for a hundred miles around. “But one evening a fellow came in there aud turned things about for atime. He played with a good run of luck, and in fone night suceeded in making that bank shell out $500. Ashby then in turn breaking the stranger. Blacked succeeded in The contest d. How to get even was all that occupied the stranger's mind for several days. “TIL beat you, if takes the rest of my life, the fellow said, and it was oaly a few days before he had a plan to get even with Ashby. “He went to a nigger trader who played the bank ever now and then, and told him of his plan to beat Ashby in the end. ““T'll black up,’ le said to the trader, ‘and put on some old clothes. I'll want you to take me up to-night and sell me to Ashby, and take your pay in checks.” “As he was low in cash, the trad- er quite readily agreed to take part in the scheme. They went over to the bank at an early hour, so that grew warmer as it progre they could cateh Jim before any- body else arrived. “The black boy stood back by the or. ‘Well, said the trader to Ashby, ‘Tm dead broke and waut to make a little play this Ive got no money—nothing but nuiggecs— evening, how imueh will you give me on this boy?” Now,Ashby wanted a boy to stay there at the bank, so he turned to the mgger and said: “Come up here nigger, and let me have a look at you.’ “The boy came up, and Jim felt of him, and asked him how old was. The nigger replied: ‘Fo’ de Lawd, I dunno, boss.” “How would you like to live here he and wait on the gentlemen! Jim ask- ed. “Td like it fust rate.” “Well the upshot of the matter was that the trader got $500 At the game that followed, however, luck whole ine check for his nigger. raa against hima second time, end he lost the entire amount that he had gotten for his nigger. “Treat the boy well, were his parting words with Ashby, as the trader left the place, Jim was rather impressed with his late acquisition, but the nigger’s clothes were not to Ashby’s liking. “ Say, boy, haven't you got any $125,000 0c | asbort time his pile amounted to | $150. | “ ‘Curse that boy, said Jim, when his newly acquired nigger had not | returned; ‘I told him not to be gone | long.” | | “The stranger could stand the) suspense no longer. He burst out! | laughing. | | “Well, Ashby,’ he said; ‘you | | told the truth when you said you'd own me; but you see, I've won mye! self back with the $10 you gave me| jfor that suit of clothes’ “That,” said Col. 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The corn crop is already badly injured, and if the present weather conditions lust much longer it will be a failure. Ia Aurdrain County, Mo, the corn crop is seriously threatened It is at a critical poiue and will be ruined unless rain comes. Concordia, Kan, July 26 —High hot winds have prevailed to day throughout Northwestern Kansas and Southwestern Nebraska. The early corn is almost entirely a failure and the late corn will not prove half acrop. | Topeka, Kan, July 26.—Reports | from Central and are corn crop dubious Rain almost universally, line, soon Western Kansas The corn crop will be a failure in more than | half of the State. In the western part of the State the crop is ruined, | while in the central part a fair crop will be raised only in sections where local rains have fallen. The corn| in many fields has burned up, and} during the three days hot} winds have swept over the western | | : : | very discouraging. past work in this county, eutirely without | results, left to-day and but litde| corn can be saved, even by abun- | dant rains. Marshalltown, Io, July 26.—The j unprecedented drouth and heat bas jreached a crisis that means almost jincaleulable loss to the farming dis- The temperature ran up to {108 degrees in the shadein this city, | tricts. and a hot. wind swept over the fields from the southwest, scorching and | withering v etation. The corn crop has been suffering for rain for weeks, but to day’s terrible heat fairly ecok- it, and | will be believed there of the ed itis pot one fourth average crop. Two or three days more like {this will utterly ruin it. Pastures were long ago ruined. Meadows | yielded scarcely any hay and to-day |they were burniug in several direc- jtions, being fired by passing tr: Potato crops in this section are f | ures. | : | that were never before known to fail. Streams and wells are dry : | | A. O Welton Staple: Feed and Provisi Fancy Groceres, on Od s of all Kinds. ow MUEENSWARF AND GLASSWARE CICARS AND TOBACCO, Always pays the highet market price for Countv Produces East Side Square. Butler, Mo- f the ine and | iono and the drive wheels gave way under ir eng this sect state proved too much for the rooster, of harness and saddles in pe a oO (eo) n fed) a) & 2. = fe) Oo was) on O = THE CREEDINESS OF McFarland Bros. To carry the largest and buggy harness, see the your old harness 2, fromthe cheapest Butler, Missouri. county, Mo. They keep and ; sing LROs. this conunty. Call he endless variety of eer harne made ht. Double wage McFARELAND ices andt horse millinery. “COW BOY K EL FORK 5 and trade in on new one3. -upin pr MeFarland Bros, the that horse owners need. TE the tremendous weig smash to the best $ Bound about 30) mev, women and children fighting the flames. About 4 o'clock the Makutchan und Wim. Knox's oat fields west of the Princeton depots took fire and the city fire depart ment was called out 2nd a portion of the fields with some stacks, were = : saved Along the Walnut braneb of part of Kansas, leaving destruction die eu % : SH Gham antl the Chicago Burlington & Quincy in their path. ee a s I 2 i . railroad a large number of fields Abilene, Kan., July 26.—Rock | = : ‘ : ss «| bavealready burned aud fires ure still Islund rain makers, after a week's : ragit The merenry bas stood 102 degrees iu the shade and 130 in the all The dry weather is seriously affecting the sun afternoon. continued corn. Kansas City, Mo.. July 26—The has been trying hard to 100 mark the past three days but the best it could mercury climb past the for to day do was {8S yesterday and ¢ While the there has been so little humidity that heat has been intense no great occurred. wever, have been seri- suffering has The crops, b ously damage It was intensively hot everywhere today, and dozens of telegrams poured in from the coun try reporting corn already gone or going fast uuder the withering blasts which were sweeping over the fields St, Joseph, Mo., July 26.—Hot winds have been biowing all day do- ing great damage to crops, particu- larly corn. Late corn bas suffered considerably, but was not badly in- jured until today Unless rain comes within forty eight hours there will not be a third a crop in many better clothes then those you've got| Nothing like the present coudition | fields. on?’ be asked, rather sharply. “ ‘Dey’s all I got, boss,’ the nigger replied. tire coat if I had $10. the depths of his pocket and banded it to the boy with instructions to } joan be recalled, and this may be jmarked as the hottest and most dis- ‘But [kin git a mighty |astrous day to Iowa crops in the mer time. )State’s history. There has been no j the cro “Jim pulled ont a $10 bill from | rain of consequence here since May 1. | :o know Omaha, Neb., July 26.—Reports ifrom the country are to the effect What's the Use ot Talking About colds and coughs in the sum- You may have a tickliug cough or a little cold or baby may have and when it comes you ought at Parks cough S is e Sold by H. L. Tucker. est cure for it. Governor Waite of Colorado went make his purchase and to burry that corn is rapidly commencing to to Topeka. Kas, aud addressed the back, as the game would soon start dry under the hot wind, and unless strikers, up. Well, that nigger went out, put on his good harness, and when he r ain follows very soon great damage will be done to the crops. Princeton, Il. July 26.—An epi- He bitterly denounced the railroads and told the men their cause was just. It now transpires that the governor rode on a free got back to the faro table the first demic of prairie fires in Bureau Co. pass over a railroad on which there thing he did was to change the $10 to-day bas resulted in heavy losses was a strike, was pulled by a “scab” bill and began playing. Of course to farmersin many localities. There engineer, sent whirling down the no one suspected that the good look-| has been no rain in the country for |right track by a “scab” switchman, ing stranger sitting before them was | five weeks and the fires made great and slept in a boycotted Pullman the black boy that buta few minutes headway. Between Arlington andjcar at the expense of the Pullman before had been sold for $500. “Well, sir, that man played, and in| oats and wheat were on fire, with | Waite is its prophet—Er. Diabotism. Ind., July 26 Stark, 30, kas been Jodged in jail here charged with the murder of his stepfather, Skinner. He went on a spree at Perryville, where of and with Newport, Henry having chased a bartender out a saloon, he took possession, a companion drank thems: drank. es crazy ather, where, without provoca but just because he was crazy drusk, he He shot three but a spade and Next he took after his reurderous intent, bur He and told his wife what he cording to his own story commenced to shoot nther, He then seized ed brained | times at bis stey missed hi m mother with she escaped him went home After sobering up he went back to his stepfather’a and washed and fix ed the body, and returning to his own home, washed and went to bed. He waived preliminary tion, and stated to P: torney Aikman that he on for the deed, drunk and did not was about. He has been to excessive drinking. seuting At- had ro reas that he was what he addicted but know Four Big Successes. 1 eded te more than advertising wing tour phenomenal s New Discovery, tor Con ceughs and co ic Bitters, the great remedy me remedies Dr. nption liver sto’ Arnica S: Dr. Kin perfect piil. world, and remedies are guaranteed to do} what is claimed tor them and the dealer whose name ed herewith will t glad to tell ore ot them- Soldat H. L, Tucker Drug Store. Fearfal Mistake —John in the thought he heard thieves in his garden early this mornipg,wed with bis daughter, Maggie, 16 years old, arose and Birmingham, Ala., July 25 Collins, a gardener, residing outskirts of Cunningham, went to investigate. The closing of tbe door awoke Mrs. Collins, who aroused her son Willie, telling bim burglars were trying to get in. The boy got a Winchester and going out. mistook his father and sister for. He went to the home of his | had done. | examina- | laimed | s, each to be guaranteed | tor | Bucklen’s | ite Pills, which are a} THOMAS ALVA EDISON. | Some of the Changes Indaced by His Won- derful Inventions. The effect of Edison's work upon the commercial and social progress of these times has been very great, how greatit will ultimately be it is impossible to | j Say. Selecting the electric light as the most commercially important of all invent ay be of interest br to examir history. The announcement of the discovery of a method of subdividing the electric leurrent so that a number of lights | could be made to glow along one cir- | euit froma common source of power j almost precipitated a panic. It would unsettle values) make coal, oil and ga tields 1 ruin j and throw thousands of valu less, gas co en out of ployment and reduce an enormous in- vested capital toa mere nominal value. | The new light was not perfect and then ne a long delay in which the then ‘wizard’ seemed to many minds | to be promising more than ever could | be fulfilled. Perhaps it was important that there was this delay. It brought people toa right understanding of the | actualeffect of the new light upon bus- iness and society. Even now the elee- trie light is just entering upon its com- | mercial stage. Universal as it seems it | | is really only beginning to occupy the | field it may yet fill. It is only now | that we are enabled to see its effect | upon other industries Gas making has for a long time been | one of the most conservative of all dustries. in- As an industry it apparently feared no competition, wished for no improvements, and cared for nothing but dividends) The electric light has now forced this sluggish business to bestir itself to consider improvements, and to tind new markets. Asa light, the eleetric is so superior | to the gas lamp that one is hardly to be considered beside the other, so one fades and must fade before the other. }Gasasa fuel in a crowded tenement lodg the ideal fuel and it is not surprising that the demand for gas increases so rapidly. It prevents the teaming of coal into the streets, it keeps a rough, dirty matter out of our homes, it saves labor and prevents dust, keeps the atmosphere clear and reduces the daily horror of the city ash eart. We hardly notice these things as yet, but they are destined to change very greatly the character of our homes, our streets, and cities and even change the shape of our houses, and complete- ly alter the aspect of our streets. These are but suggestions and hints of the changes we are passing through to-day under the influence of Edison's inven- tions. —Charles Barnard, in Chautau- quan. Decline of Whaling. The whale fishery was at one time an enormous industry in the United States. It reached its height in 1554, when 602 ships and barks, 28 brigs, and 38 schooners, with a total tonnage of 20s,- , were engaged in it, Hy 1876 the fl had dwindled down to 169 vessels. and it is doubtful if fifty are now at The introduction of kerosene, and the increasing scarcity of whales, seem to be the cause of this decline. Some remarkable voyages wer le in the old days. **The Pione y London, sailed in June, 1864, for Davis strait and Hudson's bay, returning in September, 1855, with 1,391 barrels of oil and 22,650 pounds of bone,valued at $150,000. In 1847 the “Envoy” of New Bedford, was sold to be broken up; but sea. m: "of N her fF refitted and she made a v worth § 50, the other a vessel made a years’ v nd oon her return eapta tiv » Nantucke ned froma as she “She ain't gota | t Town in the | World. | en of this city lately returned ) from a tour around the world describes terranean end of | 1 as the wickedest place “During the five « I was detained there waiting steamer,” he, “I scarcely streets unattended, assaults and robber said venture in the “sat midday wer of the commo j tic enw | erimi S are ty betwe and th that is is suck | The mc hotel I wz of a Norwegian s Paris & -rmain railroad | in 1S: idst intense x- The reporters w jon hand and in their tions. Spe of the locor ae | they said: *‘He snorts! His prod | | of vapor in the firmament! and intre which noth rs the v }ing can stop. | | fore him! He is ¢ { like the horse of Job. ed with thunder, —Little Johnny was in tribulation | | that morning. Prohibi ions, great and | small, met him at eve a. It w } “no” to this and ** to that, till at | last he began to cry, angrily exclaim | ‘ing to his mother between his sobs: “TD wish “n a swear ma, so’s you couldn’t say Herald. —For Cha ¥ {ng to have a next week for charity. Links Want to! ress, aga 1 tones of c said Cho) Choliy’s sister. ng very unnecess: ‘for Lynchea. Carlisle, Ky.. July 20. —Bill Tyler the colored fiend who so brutally assaulted little Anna Campbell Tues- day, was taken from the jail at 12: this morning and hanged to a tele- graph pole. After Tyler had been lodged in jail, the Sheriff anticipated trouble Early in the evening it became gen- erall known that Tyler was to be lynched. ‘The Sheriff swore in 20 | deputies. The town was ¢ excited, expecting great crowds Blue Lick. They came about 10 o’elock, numbering about 100. reatly from The force of deputies sworn in by the Sbemtf did not feel that they could cope with the well armed mob. Jailer Mastin did net offer any re- Blacksmith shops in the vicinity were broken into and every heavy implement was taken. With a howl of rage the mob bat- tered down the doors. Tyler's cell was [speedily demolished, and the Sistance jcowering culprit was at once taken out. He protested his innocence, but Miss Campbell's fatber called him to account, saying: “My child says you are the man.” A convenient telegraph pole fur- nished a gallows and in a moment Tyler was suspended from the cross arme,which stood on Piper's Bridge. “If all the gold in mint or bank, All earthly things that men call wealth Were mine, with every titled rank. 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Keeker, Col., July 26.—Masked men tied and blindfolded General S$. Allsebrook deputy sheriff whom Mr. Allsebrook had placed in charge of his sheep and stabbed and a apd clubbed to death about 250 head of sheep, after which they rode over to Smith and Trimmer’s camy and shot 101 tine blooded rams. The mob gave Ailsebrook five days in which to leave the country, inform- ing him that they had asecret orgau- ization of 300 members in Garfield, Routt and Rio Blanco counties, who were sworn to rid the country of such people. What a Prominent Man 2 Insurance Says. nber of HI M rlett with av result of in med to reli s Horeho cured me. my trien3s. ¢ found Bal- rior to any > I have ever knowr Solid HE It Tucker, dr by When J. W. McClurg was Gover- nor, the State officials—all Republi- cans—not satistied with their salaries pillaged the penitentiary store house for their supplies of flour, sugar, potatoes. soap, coffee, teas, etc , and which no account was kept against them. It was « “soft snap” and right well they took advantage ' of the occasion to benefit themeelves. Some of the State officials built fine residences with penitentiary labor, ,and for which there was no acceunt- ing until Gratz Brown and the De mocrats got control of things. Those were the halcyon days of Republi- |canism in Missouri, and Republican officials thought it a constitutional —The world has laid eighty-three energetic.”— Washington Star. A burglars in the darkness, shooting | million tons of iron and steel rails this city no less than 15 fields of|company. Great is Populism, and \both. The father was killed instant. | ly; the girl will die. } —Enugenia and Eugenie are French, ywell born. — jduty to “hog” everything in sight. | Times are not as they “use to was,” jand Democrats have no desire to pattern after the sainted McClurg & Co., in their management of the State government.—Ex.