The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 10, 1895, Page 4

scheint Nat aN —_—_— ee J. D. ALLEN Eprror. T. D. Atten & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weekry Times, published every reday, will be sent to any address » postage paid, for $1.00. The republican pie hunters at Jef ferson City, are reported to bea ravenous set of fellaws. The Bazoo says a large majority of the pie hunters at Jefferson City, wil! get nothing but rabbit. The colored pie hunter don't seem to be én it even for a piece of rabbit. The Kansas City Times is making a fight to double the police force of Ghat city. From the number of hold ups and murders committed in Ghat city something in the way of protection is needed. Kansas City Tiwes.—Democratic Missouri has over $700,000 in her Geasury. Republican Ohio, with Napoleon McKinley at the helm, hus 4 bankrupt treasury and a deficit of aearly $1,000,000. The facts are their own commentators. dudge Warford, of the Jackson eounty criminal court, says the abortest cut in the direction of re- furming criminal costs is to amend or repeal the change of the venue ‘Mawes Says the Judge these laws @e of value for nothing on earth but delay. ———— A statement issued by the director of the mint shows the coinage exe- cuted at the mints of the United States during December to have been $3,456,663, of which $2,072,042 was gold, $1,270,028 silver and $114,593 minor coins. Of the silver cdined $250,341 was in standard dotlars. If the Missour: legislature wants éo endear itself to the people of the atate it should make a decisive, open and aggressive war upon the com bine of insurance companies. If the compahies now doing business in the atate cannot do business without en tering into a compact with each other to charge exorbitant rates, there should be such a freedom ex- tended as to admit all companies doing a legitimate and reliable busi ess The combine should be broken. —Nevada Mail We notice that our young friend Ed Austin, of the Record, has start- eda bureau of information at Jef- ‘ferson City, and intends to dissem- inate his information of the workings of the republican legislature through éhe country republican press of the etate. of kis Uncle Filley, and on that ac- count, if no other, will doubtless be @grand success. We take great pleasure in commending the enter- prise shown in the effort, and hope #4 will get many shekels and much -motoriety out of it. . Newspaper reports say Barret “Bectt, defaulting treasurer of Holt county, Nebraska, has been hanged @yamob. Scott had been released on bail last week and took a drive én the country with his wife, daugh- dor and neice,and on returning home avolley of shots was fired into their carriage. Scott was slightly wound- ed as was also his wife and neice. Both horses were killed. The vigi tes then took charge of the party nd putting the ladies out at a farm house, took Scott away and it is sup- posed killed him and threw his body én the river. While we have no disposition to éaterfere in the workings of the re- publican party, we would like to ezake the suggestion that the repub- Kcans of Missouri get together and mominate our uncle Filley for the presidency next time. We say our epcle Filley, because as manager of tLe legislature we al] have an inter- ———_——— —= BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES Ed's scheme has the sanction | General Philip Sidney Post, mem- ber of congress from the tenth dis trict of Lil, died suddenly in Wash-| ' ington City, Sunday. He was only ill one day. ———___——_ Speaker Russell of the Missouri | legislature 18 killiug a good deal of | | time in making up his committees. The legislature has been in session |} more than a week and yet no ap- | pointments have beeu made, aud the | speaker anuounces that it will be able to name bis appointees. The jobjret iu delay is to coneiliate the Filley aud anti Filley factions. The people foot the bill. | The Times 1s, as an abstract prop | Osition, opposed to imposing a tax | upon any man’s business or occupa tion, but there are times when it is necessarry in order to collect reve nue sufficient to ruu the town. The time had come in the history of Butler some time ago, when it was absolutely necessary to levy sucha tax or let the town get deeper in debt all the time, without any pros pect of getting out. This of course was avery short sighted policy of the board, for after it was demon strated, beyond a doubt, that it was necessary to have more revenue, then the only course left them to raise this money should have been adopted. But then it is better late than never and we are glad that the | board has taken the steps to get us out of debt and meet the legitimate expenses of the town. With such men for leaders, as Taubeneck, Gen. Weaver, J. S. Coxey, the common weal army lead er, Carl Browue and Iynatious Don nelley, the populist party will never succeed. They are neither honest or competent and all are worn and hacknyed office seekers. Hon. Allen G. Thurman, the great Ohio statesman, was eighty one years old a few days ago. To the friends who called on him to offer their congratulations, he made a few remarks. Amoug other things he naid: ‘ “In 1846 the Democrats were whipped worse than at the present time, but this defeat was like an earthquake. Two years ago we car ried everything, and some thought we would do the same this year. But I became u little uneasy and did not advise any cf my friends to bet. But we are bound to beat them, be cause the Democratic party is a par ty of free institutions. I'll be gone, perhaps, but a party founded on the principles of a free gouernment will stand so long as that goverment is maintained. You have been in worse places than at present time and come out all right. and you will come out all right again.” Correct The Evil. Jefferson City Tribune. The report of the state auditor }Shows that criminal costs are in | creasing from year to year at the rate of from $50,000 to $75,000 | without a proportionate increase in crime. It is claimed that unneces isary delays occasion a large share of costs. A man charged with crime, if he has money enough to employ a lawyer, can rarely every be forced to trial in less than a year. In speak ing of this matter one of the judges of the supreme court recently point ed out the opportunities the contin- uance and change of yenue laws af ford for killing time, and that strong feature in the practice of criminal law at the present time is to delay going to trial until the public no longer recalls the crime committed. Every continuance adds to the bill {of costs. The case of Wils Howard, | who was hanged in Laclede county for the murder of a deaf mute, was cited as a sample of the evils of con tinuances and changes of venue. There was never any question as to Howard's guilt, and yet it required two years and cost the state some $6,000 to hang him. At the last session of the legisla- eat inbim. While he was simply “De| ture the house appointed a special Qie Man” running ward politics in §t. Louis we cared nothing for him, committee with power to revise the criminal cost laws but the members fut when the whole law making/|disagreed and nothing was accom pores of the. etate is placed in‘his| plished. Some are now urging’ the f:acds tBen we all claim’an interest, end we are opposed letting his great tglents be confined by the boundary of a single state. Nominate him for | e@resideat on the republican ticket, ay all means, and give him other|suggested is to make every county |/ay dead, with bullets from the dep, worlde to conquer. appointment of a ‘legislative oom- mission empowered to remodel the entire code and report at the 1897 eession of the legislature must make the mecessary changes. One plan pay its own criminal costs. several days yet before be will be) 7 A Suggestion to the Legislatures. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The various State Legislatures now assembling have it in their pow er to do a great deal for the revival | of business and the promotion of prosperity, not so much by the pass- age of pew laws us by 2 wholesome restraint iu that respect. For sever al years past the tendency on the part of these bodies has been to court the favor of labor organizations by legislating in an unfriendly spirit toward capital and certain forms of investment. The most of this legis lation has simply served the pur- poses of demagoguery, without yield- ing aud substantial advantage to the laboring classes In tact, it bas worked detrimentally to those classes 1n its general effects It bas discouraged enterprises in which large sums of mouey are so used as to provide employment and stimu- late commercial and iadustrial activ ity and progress. Capital is prover bially timid, which is only to say that wen of business sense are slow to mvest money where the laws or other conditions are of an unfavor- able nature. When such a situation ‘laticn of freight rates,” the “rege | This Senator said the most of these TALK OF BOODLE. | Some Legislators Want to Make the | H Best of Two Short Years. | Special to Kansas City Times. Jefferson City, Mo, Jan. 7.—Never before in the history of a Missouri | Legislature bas there been so much | THE BESTIs T talk of boodle as has been associated | with the present one. Possibly this taik started when a Senator, who! does not live in Buchanan county, | drank too much in St. Joseph one! night two or three weeks ago ard announced openly that he was “out | for the stuff.” He said the Repbli-| cans would probably not have econ-) trol of the Legislature agaiu in ay life time and be f-r oue proposed to) make the best of it H Certain itis the rail oads are ex-/ pecting trouble and are laying plavs | to meet it. A well known Senator! told The Times correspoudent to-day | that fully twenty bills for the “regu-! tion of passenger rates,” the * re ae | lation of Pullman fares,” etc., ete. | bad been presented to him with the} | | request that he aid in their passage. S8A01S 400D AKO Ad VIeUO OAK GARLAND. HE CHEAPEST Steel Ranges exists, corporations and other large bills bore tne flavor of the sand bag. | concerns adopt a conservative policy,, Men who claim to be close to and curtail their operations instead | Chauncey I Filley say that be will of extending them They will not) frown upon any such proceedings take the risks created by laws en | during this session The ‘old man” acted in a spirit of hostility to their) wants to go to the Uuited Star s interests; or, in other words, they; Senate and will, it is claimed, com- will not accept the hazards imposed | pei bis henchmen to make a record upon them in the form of a penalty | that will aid in their re election and and as au arbitrary and inimical dis- his uplitting crimination. But there are others who think It i+ possible to give all neceesary the boss prefers a bird in the hand protection to the rights of labor»|to a prospective seat iu the Senate. and y:t not refuse due protection to| the rizbts of capital The two forces are alike essential to the wel | fare and prosperity of society. and | Vemocrars Act on the Carhsle Cur: | they ae alike entitled to just and | Fency Bill. cousiderate treatment. Any scheme} Washington, D. C., Jan 7.—The} of legislation which assumes that |Chief interest in things political to they ure either antagonistic to each | day centered around the democratic other or indey endent of each other | house caucue. is false in theory aud sure to be dis-/| The republicans hoped that the appointing and injurious in its prac-|C@ucus would break up in a row or neal results. This has been illus-/ tbat so much bad temper would be trated so often and so forcibly that; €2g*ndered that it would be a bope- there is no excuse for doubt or ig- norauce about it. A law that causes | The republican expectation was capital to be withdrawn or withheld | not realized ~The democratic from active service in the channels |C¥8 Was au orderly, thoughtful, bar- of production and distribution is monious conference and although not to be justified by any kind of ;PUCh divergence of opinion and pohtical or economic logic When} ™any coullictiug ideas were repre- money lies idle because it can not | sented, it was, on the whole, a good be safely invested, the fact signifies |thing for the party aud probably that the sources of employment are |'e8ult in the passage of a bill lessened, and that labor is placed at; There were about 150 members| a disadvantage. it 18 when capital | Preeent. All of them did not remain is encouraged to multiply the agen-| Until the end, but those who went cies of commerce and industry, to/®Way were in favor of the measure. construct factories and inaugurate| The caueus convened at 2 o'clock new enterprises, that wages are high | and adjourned at 5 o'clock. There and the masses contented and hap | ¥®® much discussion, much explana- py. There is an abundance of hoard |tion, no ill feeling, and while there ed money in the country at present | ¥8S positive agreement, the meet which will be put in the way of| iB was very far from being ivhar- making better times just as fast as|™ODt0us. the opportunities are presented for | In brief, the caucus agreed to pass doing so under reasonably secure | 9 CUrrency bill. It was resolved to and propitious conditions. islature can hasten this desirable re- J sult by manifesting a disposition to} CUSsion of the give capital a fair chance, as well as! labor, without discrimination against either; and it is to be hoped that they will generally pursue such a course when it is so evidently the wise and profitable one for all classes / and interests. INDORSED tN CAUCUS. less effort to pass any currency bill. cau The leg allow one day more to general de- bate, and to proceed with the dis- measure under the Two “Good” Ontlaws. Guthrie, O. T., Jan. 3—Bob Moore and George East, two noted desperadoes who were suspected of | being implicated in the Canadian, (Tex ) express robbery and the kill. | ing of Sheriff McGee, were killed by a posse in Washita County yester- day while resisting arrest. Deputy Marshal Williams and a! strong detachment of deputies had been chasing the outlaws for sev-/ eral days, but had not got within} fighting distance until yesterday. | Although the sides were unequal, the outlaws were armed to the teeth | year ago. I was sick for over six months. and their natural desperateness, Saeay conor on ‘A Triend came fomemed etrengthened by the box in which | ee oeaaten Sonic et es eae the deputies had put them, made! mere ame pace ma them no easy marks. Ss as cae ‘etn ee eg ease . ss to surrender, | ever. te veiee Deets ae == they ea stand and began using! medirine | Sttcine 1 siso advise every one their Winchesters, and in the frat a Mp eee ae volley one of the posse fell, seriously Hood’s*=*Cures wounded by a ball in the side. The} Soma + oak eer ack next instant, however, both outlaws the medicine has given me much enerey apd Benjamin, Missouri. Good Advice Quickly Followed Cured of Rheumatism by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. “C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.: uties’ guns in their hearts. +: ' | we gtoperten aué appearance. SSe.a Dex Dealers in Hardware: The highest price paid fo duce-_ FOR SALE ONLY BY 'Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co, Groceries, Queenswate, Schuttler, Clinton, StudebakertarmWagons r all kinds of country pro- five minutes rule during the remain- der of the week aud take a fiual vote on Saturday. A special rule to this be reported it was agreed to pass substantially the substitute offered by Mr. Spring er for the original bill Amend- ments were not barred and undoubt edly efforts will be made to amend the bill during the discussion under the five minutes rule, but the cau cus endorsed substantially the sub stitute, although there was an un- derstanding that amendments might be offered effect will caucus will do when the measure comes before the house. There were over 50 democratic members absent, but itis uuderstood that most of islation. WHIPPED BY A Mob. Unmasked Men in bidorado Springs Sevreely Horsewhip John Cum- stead. Eldorado Springs, Mo, Jan. Joun Cumstead was taken from his boarding place iu this city last might by a mob of unmasked ciuzens aud taken to a secluded spot in the sub- urbs of East Eidorado where he was severely horsewhipped and given a few hours to leave town under the after a given time. Cumstead was the keeper of an immoral resort. He occupied « dwelling iv the West end until two weeks ago, when the building was stoned. the windows shot out, the doors broken down and the furniture demolished. Cum stead is recognized here as a tough By a vote of 81 to 59) ‘Tue meat of the whole | thing of course is what the 59 mem | bers whe voted against the bill in| the ausentees were favorable to leg \ penalty of severe punishment if bere | BUTLER MO, __ Two Wet Die. Louisville, Ky.. Jan. 7.—At Sal visa, Ky., Sylvester and Seymour Jordan, Will Wright and Jim Cosby had a fight last mght. Wright, Cosby -join- ed issues with taking bis part. Seymour Jordan’s throat was cut from «ar to ear, while Syly » Jor an dan was shot im the neck. The Jo. dans have been terrors to the pecple of that The wounded men cannot live section for yenrs | | KNOWLEDGE | Brings comfort and improvement and j tends to personal enjoyment when | rightly u: The many, who live bet- | ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best products to the needs of physical being, will attest | the value to Thealth of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting | in the form most acceptable and pleas- | ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax- ative ; effectually cleansing the system, ' dispelling colds, headaches and fevers ae permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical | profession, because it acts on the Kid- neys, Liver and Bowels without weak- “Twas taken down with rheumatism over a) character and with corrupting the youths of thecity by alluring them | every objectionable substance. into the dens of sin, where they were | —_ Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug- exposed to licentiousness in all its | gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man- phrases. | ufactured by the California Fig Syrup After the shooting and stoning of | ©o-only. whose name is printed on every Iso the name, Syrup of Fi a new supply of amunition and re-} accept any substitute if offered. moved to new quarters, where he | declared he would not be molested. | Since then he has been undisturbed | until recently when it was learned | that he had recruited his forces. | This was too much for the citizens | and Cumstead was called to the door | of his boarding house by unknown | parties and confronted with a! pair of six shooters and told to| © throw up his hands. Thie he refus- i i ed to do, jumping back into the! * house where the mob was forbidden | admittance by the proprietor. It | was but the work of » moment to | : force their way in. Cumstead was, found hidden under a bed. but was/ | drawn out by the leader of the mob i with whom Cumstead began a fur-| ions struggle. in which a cook stove | | was broken to pieces. The leader | ‘finally silenced his victim by club-| bing him with bis revolver. i | Much excitement prevails over the | leffair today. Cumstead swears he | will be avenged. and; as he is a bad | character, and as the leaders of the | gang were unmasked some startling developments are looked for iv a few days. 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