The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 28, 1895, Page 4

i ib ot — PO He BUTLER — | J. D. ALLEN Eprror. ' WEEKLY TIMES }. D. Aten & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: | | i ‘The Wrexry Times, published eyery | Thursday, will be sent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.00, The greater number of the high Government officials of Spain are resigning. Harold Hartwell, S. Brawley,| Richard Dondeyrde and Steve Mar- tin perished in the hotel fire at Venver, Col. With ex-Premier Gladstone's turn to England is raised the rumor éhat he may resume the premier- ship. re- On account of intimacy with a student, President Willoughby of; Washington College, at Limestone, Yenn., secured a divorce from his young wife. A Kentucky jury got around a horse thief’s wife-and-child-to.sup- port plea by making up a purse for them and sentencing the thief to the pen. Actor Wm. H. Crane advises American Thespians to _ revolt against the overflow of nastiness now flooding the stage from abroad. The Florence and Cripple Creek south-bound train was held up near ‘Victor, Colo., and the passengers ‘robbed of money and valuables. SS The house has refused to ccntinue the school book commission of the state and the present contract with the school book publishing houses will expire next September and the state will then return to the old aystem of each county in the state -adopting its own text books and making the best contract possible swith the publishers. Another sign of Southern expan- sion is the growth of Manufacturing in New Orleans. Between 1870 and and 1895 the number of factories | E Bartlett! Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. Transacts a general banking business. We icit the accounts of far- mers, merchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository for jall funds committed to our charge. We are prepared to extend liberal ac- commodation in the way of loans to our customers. Funds always on hand to loan on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part or all at any time and stop interest. {DIRECTORs. Or. T. C. Boulware Booker Powell Frank M Voris CH Dutcher H H Piggott HO Wyatt Jolin Deerweater CR Raiford KR G West JR Jenkins TJ Wright Wm E Walton Geo L Smith OTHER S'TOCKHOLDERS, Frank Deerwester Robert McCracken Dr W E Tucker Margaret Bryner; » 4 DeArmond A McCracken} W B Tyler Lulu Brown John Evans M V Owen ME Turner Hurley Lumber Co Dr J Everingham John Pharis Wm W Trigg G A Caruthers C & E Freeman Charles Pharis Wm Walls HB Chelf G B Hickman J K Rosier G P Wyatt JM Courtneys} DB Heath JW Reisner Dr NL Whipple Robert Clark Semuel Levy L _B Starke Max Weiner C P&S LColeman J R Davis CH Morrison! Dr W D Hannah Clem Slay back Jolin H Sullene. LET US REASON TOGETHER. | Company foreseen the future doubt- The Tres does not now and never | less neither would have been willing To Tue Citizexs cr Brrier, M | Plain Statement. | In justice to ourselves, as well as jto the citizens of this place, and for the further reason that the respon- sibility for action contemplated by j oS. may be placed where it properly | belongs, is our apology for this card. | Itis an admitted fact that the cit- izens of Butler, by a most decided vote, agreed to pay this company }acertain anda edt sed price for water to be furni y from the Miami _ The comy cepted the franchis | constructed perhaps the best plant in the state cities, outside of the larger » substantially com stly and faithfully,our | part of the contract. We bad a right to and did expect the city to karry jout its part of the agreement in good faith, but it has not done so. | No muney has been received from the city since January Ist, 1894. It is true been re- peatedly assured that our bill would be paid as soon as the money could plied wi that we have Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. Dealers in The celebrated John Deere & Bradley Stirring Plows, Deere & Champion all steel Planters, with Drill and Check Row- er Combined. Lever}Harrows ry & MAW, & SC, BME mn SIS Wy GYMOUNE Ue : ae Sood ‘Deere Spring Trip Cultivator, Bradley and New has had any pecuniary interests in | to enter into the contract. Possibly | be provided. Extra efforts were put | pring D , uy the Water Company. Nor is thie i it would have been better for both paper or it’s editor in any manner|had the contract not been made indebted to the Company or to the; The city would have done without gentlemen composing it, or under | water works a few years louger and obligations to them, more than is| the parties who built them could due from one citizen toanother. In| have invested in something with other words, no one has avy strings | more profit and less yexation. on the Tres on this or on any other | it was all done in good faith at the question. | time. The citizens wanted water Being thus entirely free it will be} works and promised to pay the rent. the province of this paper to treat: The company in spending this large this, as all other local questions, fairly | sum certainly had faith in the peo- without prejudice. It’s a well known | ple’s honesty and in the legality of fact that Butler desired the building | their franchise of water works several years before | they were built. Tiernan of Ft. shoul! be honest as well as an indi Scott with our Alderman Snyder | vidual and that because the treasury wanted a franchise, «s also others. jis en pty is no good excuse for Afterwards Dewey. of Jefferson City, | refusins payment of a debt of our was granted a franchise by the) own im tking and one that we paid council. An election was held and | regularly heretofore Any one can the people ratified it by a large ma- | object aud tear down but in our jority. A year of waiting and hoping | present condition the city demands passed when Dewey failed to build | good business men in the council for the reason he could not raise the} who will practice economy, avoid money necessary. Then an effort | litigation and meet our indebted was made to organize a home com-|ness promptly. A due regard for pany. Four of our citizens agreed | honesty as well as the peace and to construct the works if the Dewey | success of the city requires this franchise was granted them. The | Policy. council accepted their proposition, | The opposite course will create las increased from 554 to 3,595, the cepital from $5,429,140 to $40,057,- 000, hands employed from 4411 to 46.036, and the value of the product from $8,450,439 to $70,089,546. ‘New Orleans could hardly be per- suaded to go back to the condition of things “before the war”.—Globe Democrat. Geueral John B. Gordon one of ‘he most distinguished ex confeder- an election was held and after| bad feeling among our people, retard thorough discussion for weeks the) our growth, throw us into expensive franchise was again voted by our. law suits and in the end the courts people. At that election the voters’ will decide, as they are doing in voluntarily decided that Butler other Missouri towns, that Butler should annually pay a given sum to | must pay her debts. ga eae Sree ! A PLAIN PROPOSITION. The company built the worke, | The Butler Water and Light Co. they were examined and received by | publish an open letter to the citizens the council and for a year or two! of Butler in this issue. The com- ate generals now living. ex governor of Georgia, and United States sena- tor from that state, by invitation will bein Kansas City April 5th, and deliver a lecture to company A. & grand army organization. To make the visit of Gen. Gordon cor. dial company A. has invited the citi- zens to take part in entertaining him and the day promises to bea notable one in the city. ‘A state election will take place in Obio this year and the democrats have opened the campaign making the issue of free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, the leading question in the vcampaign. Of course the coinage + of silver has nothing to do witha state election except that an expres- sion of the people be had and the placing the party equarely and fairly on the one side or the other will tend to show the strength of gold and silver for the presidential cam- paign of 1896. “Ibe President has made the fol- towing appointments for the Indian Territory: Wm. M. Spmnger, of Allinois, to be Judge of the United States Court for the Northern dis- trict; and C. B. Kilgore, of Texas, -Judge of the United States Court for the Southern district. Marshals, S. 1. Rutherford, of the Territory, for the northern district and L. L. Stowe, of the Territory, for the southern district. Attorneys for the Territory, J. V. Walker, for central -district, and A. C. Cruce for the southern district. The two Indian Territory judgeships- are--newly- created offices, established by an act ef the last Congress framed for the purpose of checking in a measure the great spread and growth of law- fessness and crime in the Indian “Territory, which has become aj to the water claim? tefuge of rebbers and vuilaws. thereafter the City paid rental as| pany does not mince words, but promised. In their construction | plainly tells the people that it ex the company claim it expended | pects pay for the service rendered, seventy-five thousand dollars in cash, | aud if forced to do 80 will appeal to a large portion of which was paid | the courts. There is no denying out here for labor and material and j the fact that the company has been entered the channels of trade, great- | very patient with the city council ly to the benefit of merchants and|in waiting a whole year for its business men of thie city. | money, and has plainly showed its From this statement of fact it | disinclination to involve the city in appears that the people of Butler (litigation; though the gentlemen have at twe elections, held at differ- | comprising the company have never ent times, voted to tax themselves to | had any fear of the result of such pay for water works. Of course it|atest. They have had the advan was the general opinion that our | tage of the best legal counsel in the city levy of fifty cents on the $100, | state, and the supreme court deci- together with the amount coming in | in the Neosho case, recently handed from saloon and other licenses, would | down, sustains this view. No sensi- be sufficient to pay the rental. | ble man will want to see the town A year or two later and the city | forced into a law suit when the re- was sued several times by persons Sult is so clearly foreshadowed be- injured on defective sidewalks. | foreband. We take it that our citi- Judgments were obtained, which, | zens are law-abiding, honest and with the costs and lawyers’ fees, cost want to pay their just debts. The the city over $3,000. Then several on Jy question to be considered, is saloons closed causing decreased | this an honest debt. Is this com- city revenues while the expenses of | papy operating under a legal frane the city had increased So far as| chise, and has it lived up to its con- known no exception was taken to tract in its construction and the Water Company's claim while | operation of the plant? If it has, the fifty cent levy and the saloon | it is entitled to the pay specified licenses paid the bills. The city in the contract and no more or less. paid the company promptly during This ground has all been worked that time. Finally the outgo exceed- \ over. The plant was accepted by ed the income. Then an occupation | the legal representatives of the city tax was resorted to asin Nevada, and the contract price paid without z question for several years. Clinton ea towns that haye |“ wow we assume that all the honest water and light. citizens of this city expect of its To any one entirely divested of | council is that it protect the city’s self interest and prejudice, would interest in all things. That it see there not appear a strong presump-' that the water works company and | ‘i ; - = | the light company live up to their tion that if the city with the fifty | coutentin, sal Sua st: aah genni. cent levy and saloon licenses had | oe ons to t the city’s obligati remained able to pay the city’s debts | ang pay it’s debts. would it not have continued paying! A council is harily competent to the water rental just as it had been perform this plain duty to the city doing, and that an empty treasury | ‘f its members are restricted before their election by pledges to refrain from legitimate measures to provide sufficient revenue to run the affairs Had the voters and the Water | of the eity. is the real cause of the opposition to But! The Times believes that a city} forth by the mayor and council to to raise funds for the purpose of paying all obligations of the city— the occupation ordinance was adopt- ed and collections made,- this com- pany having contributed quite liber- ally—yet no part of our bill has been paid, and the city council at its late session refused to issue a warrant for the amount due. This leaves us but one alternative, jand that is to bring suit against the city, which we shall certainly do, in ample time to get into court at the coming term | good faith between debtor and cred | itor demands payment of the account and in addition to this there can not be any doubt about the legality of it. | It has never been questioned by some of the best attorneys in the state and is now settled by a decision of Supreme court in case of Saleno vs. City of Neoshc similar case just decided. | But what will be the effect upon the city’ which costs money. Litigation is a luxury The city wili doubtless be catled on to pay a large sum for attorney fees, incidentals, &e, and iv the end will find a judge ment hanging cver it for principal, interest and costs, payment of which will absorb the reduced revenues of the crippled city for years to come, leaving a small amount only for pay- ment of salaries, but nothing for im- Fairness, justice and | >» Water Company in aj | Departure Tongueless Cultivators,Grub Plows, Schutiler, Clinton StudebakertarmWagons | TOP BUGGIES, ROAD WAGONS, SURRIES, CARRIAGES and SPRING WAGONS. | .'- The Largest Stock --.- | of Groceries, Hardware, Stoves and Queensware in Bates county. All kinds of Grass Seeds, Barb Wire, Nails, Wagon wood work ete. The highest market price paid for all kinds of i Country Produce. BENNETT-WHEELER MERC, C0 —— = [OVER A MILLION BUR 7 > oe | SHES he indemnity “xchange | ASHES. $300,000.on the Reid plant { | As nearly as could be learned last 3) cap = night the rest of the insurance was Reid HEELS Packing Mouse | divided among sixteen companies. Almost Totally Destroyed. | These included various board com -Kansas City’s Greatest. | panies, $250,000; various Lloyd com- ul panies, $250,000; Individual Under- | writers, $50,000. la : | ‘The fire will throw 650 men out of Total Loss $1,100,000, Fally Insured | work ine majority of them resi- dents of Kansas City, Kav. Their average daily wages were $2.50 and ; i the loss in minor trade channels is sas City Times, 25th. Te meer ane sure to be severely felt. However, The most destructive fire in the | SAS f 3 history of Kansas City broke out at jon WU peu wul temporary fceiean es & : 5 : >» | ager William J. Reid said last night, i start : night gases ari | while he was watching the progress ig packing house in Armourdale. | ma * | of the fire, that the company would of yond ys: ape as = mee | certainly rebuild, and at once. This 2,000, ¢ : 000, only three buildings were saved. | Sigs fen aad Aad + ete Eleven buildings were destroyed 3 at once clearing away the debris and and the loss will probably aggregate | preparing for the rebuilding. company. had Three Buildings Sayed Out ot Fifteen Acres. provements of streets or other needful | considerably over $1,000,000. purposes. This must necessarily result in great depreciation of value of all city property and is not a flat- tering outlook for the future of But- ler. We have honestly endeavored to avoid any necessity for bringing suit, but those members of the city council who are on record as_ being opposedto the payment of our claim, have forced us to do so. They have by their action said the responsibili- ty was jours and we leaveitto you, Burrer Warer, Licht & Power Co. A fire at Rich Hill Sunday morn- ing burned out the Beasly block in the center of the town. Tired Feeling Means danger. It is a serious condition and will lead to disas- trous results if it is not over- come atonce. It is asure sign that the blood is impoverished and impure. The best remedy is HOOD’S Sarsaparilla Which makes rich, healthy blood, and thus gives strength and elas- ticity to the muscles, vigor to the brain and health and vitality to every part of the body. Hood's Sarsaparilla positively Makes the Weak Strong «<I had a dull, tired feeling with no appetite and could not | sleep well. I tried medicines ———— without any benefit until I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla. After I had used three botules I was in good health and I can eat and sleep well.” Frep Doverass, 1519 Lacas St., St. Louis, Mo. | Hood’s Only Hood’s 'Hood’s Pills Si2, cisymenece xe. The cause of the fire is not defi- nitely known, but is said to have been an explosion of dust in the fertilizer works, which formed part of the mammoth “hog building,” in which the flames were first discover- ed. The fire swept over the plant with terrific rapidity, licking up the fat and grease-saturated structure like a famished monster. The fire departments of both Kansas Citys, Armour Packing com pany, the Missouri Pacific railway and the Reid Bros.’ own company united in fighting the flames, but owing prrtly to the poor head of water and partly to the inflammable | The Kansas City house was in- | stituted in 1887, as a branch of the parent concern under the manage- ment of William P. Reid. The name became the Reid Bros. Packing company in 1893. The Indianapolis concern still retains large interests. Mr. Samuel Reid of the Indian- | apolis company was seen by an As- |Sociated Press reporter late last | night. He said that if the plant proved a total loss the damage would be, roughly,$50,000 on build- ings and $1,500,000 on contents. He said further that as to rebuild. ing the directors must decide that, but there was little question but the ess lant Id b re. nature of the buildings’ contents, Dae erreplacediat cuce they were able to accomplish but little, and even that only by the hardest and pluckiest of fighting. After three hours of steady com. bat the firemen gaye up to the! flames. i The immense brick storage build | ing, 300x200 feet, four stories, con | taining $100,000 worth of pickled meats in the basement alone and | altogether representing $900,000. Five ice houses, frame, each 200x 125 feet, nineteen feet high. The hog building, an immense | rambling three story brick structure | covering several acres and including in its various wings the fertilizing | FE plant, the engine and boiler building, | : i} & an ice manufacturing plant, a tin | eat . shop and cannery. ~ | The saw mill and six stories of | KNOWLEDGE hog pens and several other minor | Brings comfort and improvement aid buildings. tends to pemaess enjoyment when There were saved only the beef oid otenmanh niet re ae ie . 5 japting the world’s best products to ed beeves and $150,000 worth of | the needs of physical being, will attest canned meat: the smoke house, a/| the value t health of the pure liquid four story brick 80x40 feet. and the | laxative principles embraced in the office building, a small tbree story Tenet 8 rup of Figs. 5 Gk __ Its excellence is due to its presenting ays - | in the form most acceptable and pleas- The loes Manager William J. Reid ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly estimated at $1.100,000—on the} beneficial properties of a perfect lax- storage building. $800,000; on the | ative; effectually cleansing the system, other buildings. $300,000. This | dispelling cole headaches and fevers aay _covetet By Semmeess Sis! © can pve aia ae insurance is divided among all in- met with the approval of the medical surance eompanies that will place profession, because it acts on the Kid- insurance on packing houses. The aeys, Liver and Bowels without weak- Principal country is the indemnity | ening them and it is perfectly free from Exchange, a local co-opérative insti { ugk (as oi thase "gyrep et Figs or eal by all = Pena _Syrup igs is sale by irug- firme.’ Reid Bros. J, C- Fowler i eae anda bottles but te mane Sous, Armour Packing Com; 7 | es by the nee Syrup '’ vow name is pri Jaceb Dold & Son, Bullene, “package, also the sicdish Saaten or A & Co., Baraham, Hanna &| and being well informed, you will not Munger and the Jokn Deere Plow | sccept any substitute if Five young ladies took the veil at Springfield, Ill.