The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 9, 1896, Page 1

4 fi, |e) Vo} wey i , Wee D Je “XVIII. ‘ issouri State OF BUTLER, MO. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY JULY 9, 1896. Bank THE FIGURES ON GROSVENOR, ye Oiioan’s Statement Concerning the MeKintey Law Proved Baulty. PUSITION OF POPULISTS. Bland Will Receive the Support of the | Third Party if Nominated at Chicago. | North Tonawanda, N. Y¥, July 5. Hee eese teas ee D. N. THOMPSON, Pres. Rh. A. BENNETT, V, Pres Er, D. KIPP, Casbier. G. Ww —L. J. McParlin, Secretary of the | National Committee of the Populist | party, was asked this morning if the | Populist party would stand by the| Democratic nominee for president in| the event of the Democrats adopting | Nowberry ) aa e = \ Ase AL, $110,000., General Charles | G speech before | [the republean state league last | | ation of the} Pratt Wyatt FARMERS BANK ts a general banking business. We solicit the accounts of far- erchants and the public generally, promising a safe depository for) + ls committed to our charge. We are prepared to extend liberal ac- dation in the way of loans to our customers. Funds always on hand on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part or all ; Wilsou Ge rina the re, on of} time and stop interest. '¢, Boulware Looker Powell 4! HH Piggott C & Radford TJ Wright Geo L Smith eater OTHER S’/TOCKHOLDERS. D A DeArmond John Evans Dr J Everingham Edith Everingham C & E Freeman G B Hickman DB Heath Semuel Levy C If Morrison Bryner y flamber Co toy k \§LColeman rwester DIRECTORS. Frank M Voris JM Christy RG West Wm E Walton Dr W D Hannah Robert McCracken A McCracken John Pharis JK Roster JW Reisner L B Starke Dr W E Tucker W B Tyler E Turner Wm W Trigg Wm Walls GP Wyatt Dr NL Whipple Clem Slayback Max Welaer John H Sullens. kG West Peter Swartzendruber J M Christy Virginia Items. ing news for the TiMkKs this ., . be things we see and hear, we get them wrong or mixed Wiends forgive us for this is 96. sRuffus Hall and daughter, of yrensburg, visited relatives and nds here last week. Crooks has built a new hay Jenkins, of K ©, came home k tospend afew days with nts. im Ward, county clerk of Linn i Kansas, visited his sister-in-law, is Lewis Garner, and old neighbors week. Mr Ward is one of the Wy settlers in Bates county. He that politics is badly mixed county. Mis James Crook was on the sick last week. Dick Wolfe spent Saturday and y in Cass Co with an old teach- md. He says the corn is look- well around Belton. te Manzar Hensley is on the st. Thehum of the thresher is heard jour midst. Mrs Fred Nestlerode was quite sick fith a sore throat, but is better now. John Maloney went to Colorado week. Miss Ella Durst went to K C Tues- | week. She thinks two! y of last Marts are better than one. ‘The Girangers met Wednesday of week and sold the hall and lot to T Judy. James Drysdale and wife, of But- it, visited his father, Wim Drysdale, Ohas been quite poorly for a few ts A WSimpson was quite sick frafew days but is able to be out pain fA Wallace has built a summer chen over his new cellar. its HH Flesher and Mrs Bruner, | » of G@ Wand Isaae | ited the fami Tuesday of last week. ‘lr Reed, adentisi of KC, thursday of last week. Quite a number of our people cele- | the 4th at home. e Harrison flag was run up on pole and unfurled to the breeze Mwave over our city the 4th. m Park, of Clinton, spent a few swith his mother, Mrs AJ Park week, AW Simpson makes a fine appear- e sitting on the seat of his new er, when cutting his neighbors’ |The Christian S 8 averaged 77 last (uarter, or Claypool preached at Miami r last Sabbath and will hold Meetings this week. re his regular time, Saturday Sunday. Win Buxton, of KC, visited his | ———————————— EEE Sr Gx < PYVALL & PERCIVAL. ie BUTLER, Mo- eye on Ns at poaued rates of it. Your notes are payable at onr oilice find them here wien due. We ates Privilege to pay any time,» Money ready &8 papers age signed. Sstr Elder Reed will | ( grandfather, Mr Kinney, and his aunt, Mrs Jap Pierce, last Sunday. The Free Methodists celebrated the 4th at the Weatherspoon grove with preaching, ice cream and good things to eat, which is much better than to take the children to town, where it is crowded and the little fellows can’t enjoy the fresh air. In our boyhood days the church people led in cele- brating the 4th and now somebody else have the lead. Miss Eliza Witherspoon will preach at the Crook school house next Sun- day at 4p. m. Mr Coulter and family are taking an active part in carrying on a Sab- bath school at the Crooks school house, and it is hoped that much good will be the result of their labor. We believe the seed they are sowing in the young hearts of the little boys and girls will, in the future, bring forth good fruit. Prof. Maxey and wife of Johns- town, are the guests of H P Nickell and family. John Hendrickson and wife of Drexel, spent two days with her father, W A McElroy last ‘week. Uncle Billy Drysdale has been sick for several days. Dr Lyle was called to see him to-day at this writing Monday night, he is a little better. He is quite old and the weather so warm will make against him. Flax cutting and stacking is the order of the day. Mike said to Pat, ‘did you read the | pieceinthe Trmks last week written | by an old populist at Virginia? and what do you think about what he said?” ‘Well, Mike, I think he is allright, and if the people of Bates wants free coinage; DeArmond is the man to vote for. Mrs Amos Bright has been poorly for the last week, and at this writing she is confined to her bed. Dr Lamb, of the Post, Linn county, Kan., passed through our city Satu day on his way to Butlerto celebrate | the Fourth. Miss Lena Jenkins is attending the institute at Butler. AARC Amoret Items. Miss Ella Tyson of Canton, Lil., is visiting her sister, Mrs Dr Crum. Miss Jennie Crawford arrived from Chicago last Wednesday. John Oneal’s little boy, Elmer, was cut on the arm Monday, by a barbed wire fence so seriously that Dr Crum had to be called in. Charles Gailey departed Monday | for his home in Oregon; he had been | visiting his uncle, Hugh Gailey. | Mr Hamman left Wednesday for | Port Arthur to be absent about two | | weeks. Joseph and Carl Davis arrived | Monday on a visit from Chicago with } relatives. Mrand Mrs L M Stephenson and i Miss Lutie Wilson drove over to Fos- } ter Friday, ona visit to John Ste- | phenson’s. | Mrs John Mathews was called to} | \ | i \ | | { Boicourt Tuesday, to attend a sick! relative. The base ball boys of Amoret | played at Rich Hill the Fourth, and beat the boys badly. j Dr Mitchell and Ed Dudley of Vir-) ginia, came over Thursday night to attend the Woodmen lodge of this | place. Mrand Mrs Pyle of Butler, were visiting the family of Hugh Gailey last week. Mrs Fenwiek has been very ill the past week, but is some better now. Rev J M Claypool, state evangelist | was in town, the guest of LJ Priest. He was on his way to Virginia, where he was going to hold meeting the past week. The people of Amoret attended various placesthe Fourth;some went to Butler; others to Rich Hill and some to Trading Post. Mr and Mrs Jake Riddle brought a sick child in Wednesday, to Dr Brooks. LJ Priest has moved into the new house built by Mr Gailey. WR Jones and family left Saturday for Sedalia on a visitto J C Lyles. Miss Mame Hassig arrived home Friday after a month's visit with friends in Kansas. Mr Worley, formerly of this place, was here several days the past week ting one of Amoret’s good look- ing widows. Rev Glendening’s wife left Monday | for Kansas City to visi { ' NEts’ CLERK. leader and au opponent of McKin- leyism, said, commenting on Gros venor’s tariff figures: “The statistics ent fiscal year, closing with April 1, show a balance in our favor of 82 million dollars, for the correspond- Ingten months of the fiscal year 227 million dollars, corresponding period of 1893 before the McKinley law was modified by \silver is gaining ground jal appearance of such it her daughter. | — 0) million | imported. | populist state ce well posted statistician and an advocate | of the Wilson Gorman bill to day | produces oflicial figuresin refutation of Grosvencr’s statements, showing that in 1894 the imports were $645,- 994,622 and the exports $869,204, 937 and in 1595 the imports were $731,957,878 and the exports $793, 397,890. Mr. Semple’s figures are taken from the monthly bulletins of the bureau of statistics at Washing ton Frank Doster, another populist for the first ten months of the pres- while for the the Wilson bill, the balance of trade was against us to the extent of seven million dollars. For the correspond- ing period of 1892, the balance of trade was in our favor to the extent of 208 million dollars, and for the corresponding period of 1891; which isas far back as the statistics are carried, it is in our favor to the ex- tent of 69 million, making for the last three years under the McKinley law a balance in our favor of million, as against a balance in our) favor for the last three years of the | Wilson bill of 393 million. The} only possible way in which Mr. | Grosvenor accumulate this claimed balance of trade against us 277) i} can |give him its indorsement. / sentiment. | fincial v |are willing to stand or fall. a free silver platform at the Chicago Convention. He said: | “If the right kind of a man is | named at Chicago our party will Placing | three tickets in the field, two repre senting free silver and one the gold| standard, could hardly result other! than in the success of Wall Street | All we want isa fair chance before the country with our | iews, | | | and on this issue we But I am not bothered with the apprehen | cion that we are in danger of talling, provided we coalesce with the Dem- ocrats) My advices indicate that such a combination would make a clean sweep west of the Mississippi, earrying Indiana and Lilinois and Southern States, waking it apparent that the gold bug contingent would almost ineyitably be defeated. SHE MUST LEAD THE WAY. America Need Not Wait For Interna- tional Bimetallism. Marysville, Kan.,July 7.—One of the orators at the St. Louis conven- tion asserted that the spirit of Lin coln was present If so, it was in one of Teller’s boots when he kicked over the table of the money changers. The civilized nations of the old world, whom we are asked to con sult in fixing the standard of silver, | are monarchies and despotisms, ruled by Kings and Queens, Lords, Dukes and Prines, all of whom riot) in luxury splendor, while the} great body of their subjects, even | women and work like | beasts of burden for a mere subsist ence. Foremost in ci and ) children, Ist ivilization, fore most in comprehension of human | rights, foremost in all resources that | a nation rich and great--gold, is by counting the exports of gold! jas though it were something from | let us de iwhich we had parted without rec iv jlug auy equivaleut, witie every cent of it weut to caucel some} obligation, public or private,owed by | our people, and has no business} whatever in the tabulation of trade | balauces.” \ Silver ia New York. fhe New York Herald recently | sent out a number of special corres- | pondents for the purpose of sound. ing the people on the money ques- jtion, and it candidly declares, as a) result of their investigations, that | in that! state and the friends of sound mon- ey must not ignore the fact. It! says the free coinage sentiment is very streng in the western counties, and the Republican party will be badly hurt by it in the event the Dem free ec racy at Chicago declare for ‘ The Herald’s corres- pondente report that iz Northern and Central New York and also in the southwestern portion of the state, “the silver movement swept among the people like Free disseminated among the far and the result that thousands of them have been coa- to the cause of the white has an apparition. silver literature ba’ been rs, is Verien metal. The New York Journal bas alss noted the growth of the silver move ses of the peo the Sara- few Gays ago menue among the wa iremarks tbat at ynyention & many of the would have declared for free coin-| rthe person-) leaders as, ple, tega eountry delegations age had it not been fo P Senators Hill and Murphy and ex- ors i silver, iror, lead, zine, coal and ag-| ricultare—embracing all lare our ind climates, | pendence. as | sume § macy ! at te guide ath beauty of America is that it is a na tion of Kings and Queens, “created | equal,” endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights—“life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” and | capable of “self government” with: | cipalities of the old world. | L. Ragver. | 1 Taxing The People Rich. The McKinley plan of allaying discontent is to increase taxes. special from Canton to the New ‘York World eaye: The Major assumes that this wave | of silverism is not really a demand popular cry for more money. He will therefore meet this impression | by pointing out that the Govern- ment needs more revenue, and that with ample revenue tke money stringency will be decreased. Ifthere is another way for a} country to raise revenue than by) taxing its own people it bas never discovered. A dollar has never been deposited in the United! States Treasurer which the people do not pay, either before or after de posit The McKinley idea, then, is! that the more money you take from) the people the richer you make them. , To satisfy the “popular ery for more toney” you Lave only to take! been ma away raore of the ey now in cir- culation. It is an axiom my that “A rich g a poor people.” But McKinley; ing a Napoleon, is under the unecee | ° sity of making precendents. He would promote prosperity by ins i look for t | from pré Al BUTLER, MO. A A RN nN am re Lear aN BOERNE wee wy >t nes politically. good. , oo Cor. Square. RRP RRF- PRE GOSS CLEYELALND IS DEAD We are alive to the wants of the Sparks, Griffth Co , at the Southeast per, paints, oils, glass, carpets, rugs stationery and notious at very low figures They are executing work in their line at figures surprisingly low. Give usa trial Capital Stock $50,000 00 Surplus Fand 85,000.00 1 We Want Your Business. DIRECTORS. oO H. M JNO, STEE JAS.M Artaeee ople. Call and let us do thee er of the square bave Wall pa- ae RAMNRARAS RA Sparks, TSK Griffith Co. creasing public revenues. If feo dollars out of ten is paid in taxes he would double revenue and prosperity by making the tax four dollars. The resulting prosperity would soon \ force a repetition of the doubling process, and, as it is impossible to | have too much of a good thing, it | would then be necessary to wipe out, | in taxes, the remaining two dollars | of the original ten. Then we would have the Millen- nium—or a Terror.—Yost Dispatch. MISSOUR! AND KANSAS CORN. There is a Big Crop and Plenty for Ex- portin Both States. Grain men of this city are at the) present time devoting a great deai | of their time to studying the out- | is year’s corn crop, and nt indications it looks as though corn would be king in this section of the country. Kansas and | Missouri have been favored with a! bountiful supply of rain, and every- | thing points to a large corn crop in both these States There will be great demand for this crop from y,aud different se especially from Mexico, where there isa drought. Unless rain falls there within a few days, Mexico will have a repetition of the curn fax 1892 Very little corn has been expu..ed , ‘out consulting the powers and prin ‘into Mexico owing to the high duty that is imposed by the Mexican gov- | ernment, The way is cleared now, | ‘however, for in anticipation of a| ‘scarcity cf corn the duty bas been | |removed from the States of Neuvo lean, San Louis Potosi and Tamau- i \lipas for the entrane> of corn to | ‘each State. Large orders are being | receiyed in Kansas City daily for one firm received an order for 100,- | , 000 bushels to goto Lardeo. “It is {an ill wind that b band Missouri aud Kan will feel happy in tro Lave ple —Kansas Ci ws nobody good,” as farmers t that they ty of corn f ing of kicking silver Re was held at the Circuit court room last night, with Judge J. M. We-ks in the chair. A strong manifesto was issued to silver Republics sand a big organization was formed The \ Republicans of this section are all for free silver, and kick against tue gold platform. | if euch claims be ‘corn to go to Mexico, and yesterday | b for the use of more silver, but a! Siver Republicans Balt. Minneapolis, Minn, July 2.—Sil- ver Republicans to-day issued a man- ifesto announcing that they can no longer stand by the party on ac- count ofits single standard plat- form. Bimetallism is pointed out as the fundamental priueple of Re- |publicanism and the dire resulte ‘feared from monometallic financil basis are dilated upon signers are Among the Congressman C. A. Towne of Duluth, ex Congressman Jobn Lind of New Ulmsi county, At- torney Frank M. Nye, Jobn Dain- | smith of Minneapolis, Jobn B. San- St. very Paul. prominent born of been politics. All these have in State T. W. LECC. Buggies, Surries, »phaetens &e,poles, ashes, cusiions, th. aint on Ear We reset tires and DO NOT RUIN THE WHEELS. HIGH OR LOW GRADE Snived me end hope you will eonUnue if you have never tried me, come nee that this is the right place Bugey : 13 of |** Aduinistrator’s Notice. tice is hereby given, That letters of ad- nistration on the estate of J E Morrison de- ceased, were cranted to the undersigned on the lith day of June, 18%, by the probate court of Bates county, Missouri. ‘Ail persons having claims against seid estate, are required toexhibit them for allow- ance to the administrator within one year after the date of said letters, or they may be precluded from any benefit of said estate; and not exhibited within two ears from the date of this publication, they shall be forever barred. This 2nd day of July. z F. L. MORRISON, Admioistrator. mi Trustee's Sale. Whereas D T McKibben, a siagle man, by i of trust dated Febraary 20th nd recorded in the recorder’s office thin and for Bates county, Missouri. ir book No. 110 page 35 conveyed to the under- i trustee the following described rea! estate lying and being situate in the county of Bates and state of Missouri, to-wit neing at the southwest corner of the ter of the northeset quarter of ts 32) township forty (48) ence east sixteen rode is, thence weet six- othe beginning, con- more or less whic! im trust to secure Bote fully irost, 807 the paymen: hereon, now acres tade e certain deat 2" t e and ions of eaid deed of he sbove described ° sighest bid- door of the court house, ounuty of Bates and stat noon and five o’eloe dey, for the 7 poses of & | interest and coste Brera