The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 18, 1895, Page 1

tm 4 1G VOL. XVII. BUTLER. MISSOURI, THURSDAY APRIL 18, 1895. NO 22 Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, Transacts a general banking busi ness. mers, merchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository for all funds committed to our charge. commodation in the way of loans to o to loan on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part or all| happy. at any time and stop interest. {DIRE Booker Powell H H Piggott © R Radford TJ Wright Geo L Smith Or. T. C, Boulware CH Dutcher John Deerwester JR Jenkins ur customers, Funds always on hand UTORS. Frank M Vorle HC Wyatt RG West Wm E Walton OTHER S’TOCKHOLDERS, E Bartlett’ Frank Deerwester Margaret Bryner, Lula Brown Hurley Lumber Co G A Caruthers 1B Chelf JM eng tido d Robert Clar! © P &8 LColeman JR Dav GB Hickman DB Heath Semuel Levy © H Morrison: Dr W D Hannah Robert McCracken A MeCrackenj MV Owen John Pharis Charles Pharis JK Rosier JW Reisner L_B Starke Clem Slay back John H Suilens, Dr WE Tacker W B Tyler ME Turner Wm W Trigg Wm Walls G P Wyatt Dr NL Whipple Max Weiner A Prairie City Items. Farmers all busy planting corn. Wheat is looking very promising. | Stock is being rushed on the pas- tures. ee W H Summy and wife were visiting at B W Hornbuckles’ Sunday. Mr Girth has his new residence about completed. Prairie City can now boast of a beautiful park. It seems as if J F Summy was des- tined to be burned out. A few years ago a smoke house on his premises caught fire and burned down, burn- ing a number of valuable articles. Then the first of last month he lost his residence by fire. A few days later an out house they were using for a kitchen caught fire, but fortu- nately a passer’ f discovered the smoke and by hard effort saved the building. ‘The last fire was that of an ice house containing about 12 tons of ice, which burned last Sunday, it being set on fire by Mr. Summy’s six- year-old son applying a match to the straw around the ice. . Arthur Lyon now drives to his best girl’s house in a new buggy. uite anumber of our young folks visited the bluffs in Vernon county, Sunday. G@ W Sunderwirth wears grin because it’s a girl. She measles have somewhat abated a broad in this vieini HARRY. Culver items. CJ Greer and Ab Bolin went to Butler Tuesday on business. WS Ray sowed millet this week. W H Elliott planted castor beans the 10th. He is. quite a successful bean raiser. : John Harman & Co. shipped a car load of hogs to Kansas City Wednes- day. F 3 A number are losing their hogs with cholera. Decker Bros. bought 107 head of cattle; they went south after them. Oats looking fine. ‘ Our smith was in the washing ma- chine business one day this week. He repairs anything from a garden rake to a threshing machine. ¢ Mr Willey bought the blacksmith’s pony. Our mail carrier bought another | pony from Tom Nance, which en- ables him to come on time, roads or } no roads. Hayden Ray has 20 acres of corn | planted. ‘ George Wilds and wife passed up ventral avenue Sunday bound for their ‘‘Ireland home.” Nace Combs bought a buggy of Culver & Co. the other day. R A Chennoworth’s family of Hen- ry county, Visited at Squire Perry's Saturday. : Our smith was busy hammering on plows all week. s Nip Evans seems to be having trouble with his new Avery planter. Uncle Dan and Charley took a load of produce to Friend Carpenter, bringing back a baby buggy for our baby. ‘ ‘ School supplies just receiy ed from Chicago by € J Greer; call and see. Mrs Peter’s daughter called a few minutes on business. a Lloyd Allison was at his old home place one day last week. Samand Lonie Kiersey, we are sorry to report, missed the mark on a load of cattle; hope they will do better next time. : Have you seen the new carriage and gold watch? if not, ask Lonie or Clarence, they doubtless can tell. Lant Cloud passed Saturday even- ing bound for Butler to see his wife and baby. JACK. Virginia Items. “We heard ‘em say it and noted it down, The things that happened about the ! town, 3 So don’t blame usiftrue or not, We always give you the best we've | got.” eS Unele Joel Zinn is very sick at this | writing. Dr. Boul was called to | see him Monday. One of Jas Cusick s ¢ the measles. : ‘Mtr Redford, of Ind., is ting his uncle Mr Elliott north of Virginia. Grandma Holloway is visiting in 3 county. % rat : ‘irs Emma Geir, of West Union, lowa, is visiting her sister, Mrs. hildren I | Gardner, north of Virginia. | Miss Ida Cowan returned home from Warrensburg last Thursday, where she had been visiting her un- jele, Mr Hall. | Easter services at the M E church was well attended. Good programme | was had; Rev. Galbraith delivered | the closing address |. Pierce Hackett sold 120 acres of | land to R T Judy last week. Mr Crabtree, of, Butler, has been visiting inthis vicinity. He called Monday morning on Marion Kenne- dy, and the two blind went to Mr Whinnery’s and spent the day. Milton Flesher, of Butler, attend- ed Easter services at Virginia. Rey. Galbreth will preach at the M Echurch the 4th Sunday at4 p. m. instead of at night. Miss Anna Judy and her sister re- turned home Saturday from Kansas City, where they had been attending school this winter. Andrew Simpson was out with his new buggy last Sabbath. The Misses Walker, who are at- tending school at Butler, were out home Saturday and Sunday. Cal Connaway’s child got badly burned last Saturday, Dr. Mitcheil was called. | Dr. Mitchell was called to see Mr. Herrell, who is sick, Sabbath morn- ing. Protracted meeting at the Nestle- | rode school house, carried on by the | free Methodist. Peter Denny shipped a car load of hogs to Kansas City last week. Mrs. John McElroy is on the sick list. Mr George Jenkins’ little girl got a button in her nose last Thursday af- ternoon. They took her to Butler Friday and had it removed. Elmer Simpson, of the Trading Post, passed through here Monday driving a large drove of cattle. One of our young ladies was disap- pointed last Saturday. The fellow could not get a buggy; so goes the world. Friend Carpenter of Butler, was in Virginia last Sunday. Peter Lane and wife, of Butler, | Were visiting east of Virginia,Sunday. Daniel Stub and wife, J wife and sister-in-law, passed through Virginia Sunday. It looks like there had been a wedding. i NELS’ CLERK. | New Home Items. Louis Jones hasa fat heifer forsale. | Mrs DB Nestlerode has the ad- | dress changed from Virginia to Maze postottice, Mo. Pearl Snuffer and his best girl were on thei Mor aturday night, and while | crossing Burnet’s creek the cart gave | way, letting them into the water. X WG Reed, of New Home signs for the Trmks this week 1ll., also joins the TIMEs list. Daniel Nestlerode and family, Virginia, visited a couple of days in our town. Donald county. The Masons met at Foster Satur- day night for the purpose of building anew hall. Sunday. They had eggs, pies, cake and candy, and all had a fine time. port a good time. Andrew Morris | fat hog for sale. has a calf anda F Nance, | $110,000. . | We solicit the accounts of far-| impr | | | r Way toa party at Clarence | says, * | j | Clarence Ridenour, of Steelsville, | United States: z) there werr o He is on his way to Me-|the ranges and the corn failure in| nation. | | i The little girls of this neighbor-} broken down beyond what might be hood had a pienic on the creek last indicated by the diminution in the i | | | | The party at C. Morris’ Saturday : j ntght Se Well attended, and all re- exports of live stock are growing.jing. Then, so I am told, they have | | James Butcher has secured the con- | | tract for carrying the mail from Rich | Hill to New Hore, for four years. | The click of the corn planter has | been sounding for several day David Snuffer and wife visited in | Sprague, Easter Sunday. | “Mr John Forsyth went to Bedford | Sunday to visit home folks. Ed Hicks, our school teacher, is getting along splendidly with his school; don’t hear as > complaint. Dave Nestlerode, while out hunting | ducks one night brought in one with ‘hair on not green headed, but auburn ha oil, call on me. Mr Joe Lowry and daughter, Miss Susie, of Walton, Neb., are vis ing Mrs Swarens. i Anos Drysdale her, pounds of dressed beef For the nine months ending March 1, 1895, New York exported 75,609,863 pounds of dressed beef. Boston’s and wife visited Allen, Sunday. mily visited sday. Mr. R John is first-class man. | heavier incre For the nine N. M. NesTLERODE. months ending March 1, 1894. she Nyhart Items. exported 54,258,561 pounds of dress- Cond nRdavandc nyse beef. For the nine months end- ng ihemeaiecs: jing March 1, 1895, 60,955,177 who has been on the | pounds. | t the past few days, is slowly “There” continued Secretary Mor- | * .. (ton, ‘one finds a reason for higher | eabout Will Smith; ‘he 5 = i |prices. The Chicago yard figures, i Holt wereover|for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday | It wa n is and ‘ A | OF BA’ Sunde The boys seem to be very |and on 8d of this week would | OSCAR REEDER .... a8 | show a falling off of cattle receipts | R. J. HURLEY rif fo hi a Gs eel E. A’ BENNETT 1 wonde ee G found out who! tom last year's figures. The first | E_ D. KIPP wrote the Ny t items. nies = oe 00 | Abe Carp was visiting Sunday | four days this week about 25, “ : at Jno Hoagland’s. John has a new | bead of cattle to the Chicago yards , Receives Deposits subject to che road wagon, it’s a fine one. _ |The same four days in 1894 brought| transacts a general Banking business. he got was 16 mallards. Lee is a yarde. This would mark a tremen- | DIRE great hunter. dous falling off, either naturally or) D. N. Thompson, Geo W Kiersey, There will be New|by a combination. This latter is the | Hee Sees M. G. Wilcox, preaching at Hope Baptist church Saturday night and Sunday. L Daniels has gone to housekeep- ing. Dave Whetstone is putting out lots of corn this year, Henry Payton was out prospect- ing the first of the week. Any boc iding a buggy cushion will confer a favor by notifying E. E. Ho!t or C Hoagland. Orvil Pickett and Earnest Pearce were in our midst a couple of days the first of the week. Jim Ingram is improving the D. A. Colyer farm. Berry and Ed Corlett are thinking some of going to Texas soon. We wish the boys success. The Shepherd was amongst his floek Sunday; Harry is anice young man and we Wish him success. G GRADY. question the department is investi-| gating. However, while this falling | off in cattle at the Chicago yards occurred, the price paid last week, which, after all. is the business basis | ef the big slaughterers,was not high. | Quotations ran from $4 to $6.10 a) hundred for from poor to choice} cattle. This would hardly justify sirloins at 28¢ and the annimal, even every hair on its hide, is utilized at higher than the highest price per pound quoted for live cattle. My own opinion is that there has been a natural rise in beef prices, which unscrupulous and designing slaughterers have seized on to send away above proper or legitimate figures.” Neepwater Items. S L Coleman sold to Saul Kahn, of Montrose, 40 head of fat hogs, aver- age 286 pounds at $4.60 per hundred. Farmers are busy plowing and planting corn. Wheat is looking well since the fine rains. Oats up and looks well. There is a large acre- age of flax sown in our township. W H Zimmer and his two sons Will and Henry, are putting in 150 acres of corn, 40 acres of flax and 40 acres of broom corn. A Sunday school was organized at Elm Grove school house April 7th with quite a good attendance. W. H. Shelton was elected superintend- | ent and Wm. Jackson secretary. ‘Taffy party at Thompson’s last Fri- day night: all the young folks report a good time. BOTH RAISER AND CONSUMER “WORKED.” Washington, D. C, April 14— Secretary Morton has recevied some very interesting information as to how the dressed beef combine works both cattle raiser and meat consum- er. The Secretary says his inform- ant isa public man who has made an investigation of the subject. It is believed that his authority is Sen ator Vest, of Missouri. the story is told me, is the way the combination of slaughterers does its buying. In their business it would be the natural thing to plund There was a singing at W H Shel-| er both ways—plunder the live cat wee Be sat nas ererecnce | tle seller, and then, having butcher- aay school or the Bim Grove Sun-| od the cattle, turn in and plunder WH Shelton and family went to| the consumers who buy and eat the Ballard tast Saturday to visit his| dressed beef. The first step would sister. 4 be to break down prices for cattle us sae eens elene DOve yards, where the slaughterers do night. — hey teh i their buying. Asa first step they| are kept informed by wire of every eattle shipment in the country. Every morning and every night they know to a hair just how many cattle are on their way to the yards, their grade and cost, and all about them. | They get together and arrange their buying. Ono is given first choice,say | jat Gca pound Call him A.The second takes choice 54¢c a pound. Call him |S. The third takes a third choice jat 5c a pound. Call him H. The} fourth has fourth choice at 4c. | | “Into the yards comes the inno- Washington, D. C, April 14.— cent seller with bis cattle | Secretary Morton has been diligent-| A. offers 6e for a choice. The! ly gathering information bearing on | seller declines but no one offers more | the recent advance of prices of meat. |S. only offers 5$c. H. drops to 5c. | “In looking over the figures” he} Six cents is the highest offer. The believe in on Easter SINCH. PRESENT ADVANCE IN MEATS Decline of Late Years in the Cen- sus for Cattle, Swine and Sheep. Heavy Increase in the Exports of Live Stock—Natural Rise in Prices Seized Upon by the Combine to Send Them Far Above Legitimate Figures—How the Raiser and Con- sumer are Both ‘‘Worked.” cline of cattle swine and sheep. On January | charges, the shrinkage in the weight 1, 1892, there were 37,651,293 oxen |of his cattle, and the wild range | and cattle, not milk cows, in the/cattle feed badly in the yards, On January 1,1895,/and other elements of loss He | 364,216, a dimioution | gives up. All others like him gives With poor grass onjup. The seller yeilds to the combi- A. gets first choice at Nebraska Kansas, Iowa, Missouri! 6c, S takes second choice at / and Illinois last yeer, the number of | each gets bis choice at his figures. | fat cattle would of course, be much|The yards are bid down as first | | choice and other choices are made and taken away. That, as I understand it, of 3,287,077. | is the! if to aid in stiffening the market, our | way theslaughterers work their buy- general census of cattle. Again, as/ England is our heavy buyer. Our) a way of bringing the market down| exports of cattle in figures would |ifit is too high for them and too ob-! read like this: ‘From New York|durate to yield to the method quot for the nine months ending March 1,;ed. They will order on cattle of | 11894. were shipped 78,555 head. | their own and it is said they get re | From the same port, for the nine | bates from railroade, which enables months ending March 1, 1895, were) to move them at less expense than shijfped 100,833 head, an increase of | law abiding and less favored folks— above 25 per cent From Boston,|and when their cattle are in the for the nine months ending March 1, | yards they will indulge in mock sales 18S4, we exported 76,087 head of at low figures, and even sell the cat- liye cattle, f he 9 months ending | tle seyeral times over, until the mar March 1, 1 we exported 93,288 | ket is trampled down in this general head, an increase alsmost as large) procession of ficticious sales to a ionately as from New York.’! figure they approve By all these ig export ports system the seller is cheated, and the 2nd the minor ports such, slaughterers wax fat with profit.” 2s ia and San Franciseo,; How about this arrangementnt of show similar stimulation. ;choice among slaughterers before | “Dressed beef, while increasing, | they go to theyaads? Do they com-| does not show the same pace. New) pete honestly with one another for York, for the nine months ending first and second choice*’ was asked March 1, 1894, exported 7 :513,947 | “No,” responded the secretary. | porterhouse | steaks at 35c, when every pound of | “This,” said Secretary Morton, ‘as | e notes a considerable de-/seller is ina box. If he refuses he | late years in the census for|must face the expenses of yard | FARMERS BANK. OF BATES COUNTY, Cash Capital. COUNTY D Oscar Reeder, . McKee, E. PD. Kipp |Prettier and More Attra New Spring Millinery. THE NEW SAILORS The New Shapes. The New Trimmed Hats, THE NEW BABY CAPS. $50,000.00 EPOSTORY TES CO.! mreseey arene President ident President -- Cashier ck, Lones Money, issues Drafts and Your patronage respectfully CTORS. John E. Shutt, Clark Wix, Jas. M. McKibben, ERINGHAM. 4H Seer ctive Than Ever Before, HARPER & VANCAMP. Each takes his turn as first choice and so on, throughout the line until he immerges at the little end with fourth choice, and he is ready to have first choice again tion in robbery.” CLEANSE THE BLOOD. | Parity the System) of Catarrhal Impu- rities and Cure is Certain. Spring time is most favorable to the cure of Chronic Catarrh. dreds of letters are received, testify- ing to extraordinary cures. writes: chronic catarrh for thirty-five years and had tried nearly every catarrh cure known, until by accident I was advised by a friend to give Pe ru-na atrial. In one week from the time T took the first dose 1 began to feel like a new man. cured I havenosymptome of chronic catarrh whatever. I am 74 years of age and am sure Pe-ru-na is the best medicine 1 ever used and would not | thing.” The Pe ru-na Drug Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, are of fering free, post paid, two medical | books, one on the catarrhal diseases, the other on Spring medicines and Spring disease. These books con- tain the very latest and most reliable information on these important sub | jects. For free book on cancer address | Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio. Crawfordsville, Ind. April 14. — Incendiaries set fire to the large dairy barn, of David Martin, at 3 o'clock this morning, and it burned with all its contents. In the flames perished forty four Jersey cows, 11 horses and over 50 fat hogs. A large quantity of feed and imple | meuts were also consumed, entailing a loss of $10,000 | large barn belonging to H. A. Wise jwas destroyed by fire last night. Three brood mares perished. The fire is supposed te be the work of in- | cendiaries. Loss £7060. Hun- | Wm. Mandel of Sleepy Eye,Minn, . “I have been troubled with | I kept on using it, for some time and I am entirely, be without it in the house for any- | Union City, Teon., April 14—A PEACE CONVENTION SIGNED. Chinese and Japanese Plenipotentia- It is rota-' { ries Reach an Understanding. London, April 15.—A dispatch to the “Times” from Shanghai says that Li Hung Chang's son in-law telegraphs that a peace convention | Was signed at Shimonoseki Monday by the Plenipotentiaries of China jand Japan. ‘The following are the terms of the convention: 1. The indepeadence of Corea. 2. That Japan retains the places she has conquered. 3. That Japan shall also retain the territory east of the Liao River. 4. That the Island of Formoss | be ceded permanently to Japan. 5. The payment of an indemnity of $100,000,000. 6. An offensive and defensive alliance. New Jersey Forest Fires. Millville, N. J, April 14.—The largest woods fire so far this season started this morning near Hays gravel pits in the West Jersey rail- road, about 12 miles from this city, end has burned over nearly 1,000 acres of timber and cordwood. Love and Fox are probably the heaviest losers. They had more than 2,000 acres of timber, and a large quantity of timber and pine logs and cord- wood. John Russell bad 2,000 acres of timber land in the track of the fire and it was all burned over. Lande of Louisa Banks, Wieser heirs, Jo seph Madden and Daniel Compton were also burned over. The totai loss is estimated at $12,000. A large number of men from Port Elizabeth Dorchester and Leesburg went out to fight fire, and by vigorous work and cross firing it was brought un- ‘der control. The rain this after- noon aided in subduing the fire. Final Settlement and ap- plication for Discharge of Assignees. Notice of Notice ie hereb | and other partie estate of H M W! signed assign’ next reguiar given to all the creditors nterested in the assigned §. that we, the under- » Will at the Bates county circuit court, make our fipal report as tothe condition and dispositiog of said estate, and | file our spplication asking the court to sie- cbarge us from the furth rosecotion of suid trust. Butler, Mo, Ary th. 18%, R EWING, J. F. 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