The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 7, 1897, Page 2

op OS FOR MURDER IN 1868. | W. H. Gunter Will Have to) Answer in Missouri. Joplin, Mo., Sept. 29.—W. BH. Gua er, formorly a ci'iz-n of Stor county, Mo., was arrested Saturday Baxter Springs, Kansas. by O-puty Sheriff Scott and taken to Galena, the county seat of Stone, where be will ba tried for the mur @r of Jobn Benham in 1868 At éhit time Gunter was a well-todo famer and lived near Galena, on W ite River. He beda horse w ich ga.'e @ practice of invading Ben- baw’s field. The borse did so much gemage to young corn that Beobam frew tired of it und one day tied a ¥-nce board to its tail and started i: home. This enraged Gunter, and toading his rifls berode to Benbam’s touse and demanded if Benham had tied the board to bis horse’s tail Benham said “yes” and Gunter shot tim dead. He rode away and escaped. aithough the entire country turaed out in search. His whereabouts was a secret ner un | i | 1 | | | | i $ 3 REASONS FOR USING 3 “COMPANY, : i Th Klondike in S the 3 ° al O 3 e ondike in now e; 3 t ; Of Butler, Missouri, : i 3 a ei aKer Cc sO, 3 i ; ay ee Yukon Freezing. 3 GR : Me 3 Has on band a large emount of money to ‘ : e $ Has o eine ? £. Breakfast Cocoa. i 2 Bates County farms et low rates of interest, and on long | j : : ee ; ? jA Revenue Catter Brings the, 3 aie Be ey pur 3 or short time. ‘ TatekNews: 3 ; : ; We invite every Real Estate owner in Bates County i : Fi a i ¢ > is 1 . e aired ; that desires a new loan er to renew an old one, to f | tmee Toes UEC New oartig Wee : fi tire i ; come and see ua. Coast Schooner Goes Down 3 Me He t 3 § Rates lower and terms more reasonable than 1 on the Rocks | 3 (a pCostan Uorbece male ae i i } ever before given in Bates county. | Seattle, Wash, Sept 29 —The! @eecreseces oertooecessscoecoooeeres eco soseseeceoee: ) = = | United States revenue cutter Grant, FRANK ALLEN, WM. FE. WALTON, = $§/ ~ s : = : é * Secretary President. ¢|0*P!: Munger, arrived last evening H Silver Men Bound Together. W. O,. JACKSON, bene RAAPPSRAS RRRRALPR DS. — ‘rom Alaska She brought the latest | Washington. D C.S ppt. 30.— "CONFEDERATES IN REUNION, Encampment at Moberly is Notable. rell, Dockery and Benton Attend. gathering ‘There area numbrr of promivent men present anda large umber of the rank and fils. i] last spring when an old acquaint emcee recognize’ him at Leavenworth prison, where he was serving a cen tence of ten years {1 the murder of @1 Indian in the Territory. He was Sischarged soon after, before the Stone county officers could make ar cangements to secure him. Here turned directly to the territory and f rm of confederate gray, some with the tattered clothes they bad worn during the war aud preserved The company Mote ly. éecured a job of cooking for a gang af miners. Among the miners was a Lalf-breed, a witness against Gunter, who knew of the Stone county mur der. A standing reward of $50 had been offered for Guoter’s arrest and the half-breed informed the officers a Galena, who arrested him. Gun t r is GO years old and hard looking (t is somewhat remarkable that after éwenty-nine years all the witnesses are living in or near Galena and Gunter's conviction is assured. Tortured by Masked Men. Pottstown, Pa, Sept 29,—Isase Alderfer, living at Trappe, a few qiles east of this town, was terribly tortured by masked men last night, an effort to extort money from fim. Mr. Alderfer is 76 years o! age, and lived entirely alone. He bas the reputation of possessing considerable wealth. Henry Reisinger of Collegeville, a baker, stopped at the house this aorning and was surprised to hear ao response when he knocked at the door He entered the house and everywhere he found confusicn In the garret bound and gagged and a'most dead lay Isaac Alderfer. His ‘bead was terribly bruised and his feat burned and seared. The o!d mar, according to his story, was aroused ia the dead of the night by furious knocks at bis door. He admitted the callers and found them to ba wasked men They demanded money. The old man replied that be bad none. The Tbe man took a poker, stirred up th» fire and heated the iron red-hot The iron was applied to hia bare feet, the mea first taking (ke pre- caution to gag bim. - Finally, after he was insensible, they removed the gag and repeated their demands. The old man faint ly replied as before Enrazed at thie, the brutes battered him on the bead with a brick, beat him, jumped on his prostrate form and kicked him until he was unconscious. He was then bound again, gaged and left as dead on the floor, while robbers searched the hvuse. They were rewarded with only a few old clothes In the stable on the property was the horse anil carriage. The rob ders appriated thiaand made their escape. The old man died. It Hits the Spor. When suffering fron shroat and lungs feel Foley's Honey the corences will be ® warm, grateful «ng of the parts af- perienced ons ree will ea iT HITS THE ‘ere cold and your re, take a dose of nd Tar. when it once relieved, eling and heal- “pip Ses be me ‘Ut feels so gooc POT.’? It is Trantec: A, Trimble’sdraz store» S™aTanteed. At} Dingley Estimates. New York World. If Mr. Diogley’s estimate of total | revenue from his bill shall fall in the | Same proportion as bis estimate of income from the clotbiug clause has | 8» far done, asimple calculation | shows that the total receip:s from the tariff duties this year will not even pay the pensions, which are novestimat-dat about $147,000, 80. giaud stand in the Fair Grounds. Ou the ample stage at the rear of tre speakers stand were seated the Oaugbters of the Confederacy, most vyoung women. Here aud there was a mother cr grandmother of the Confederacy While beautiful “Old Glory” float -d and its colors glistened im the sfternoon sun, the silken stars aud bars of Marmaduke Camp cf Moberly was noticeable as it fell in drooping folds io the midst of the pretty daughters of the conf-deracy. ORATORY ERINGS TEABS. Rev J Ro Hitoer, one of Stone- ; wall Jackson's men led m prayer. A| speech of welcome was delivered by | Mayor Wila'd P Cave He was fol | lowed by Mrs L. W. McCinney, a member of the State Advisory Board of the Confederate Home She made an address of welcome in the nem of the Daughters of the Confederecy. Her address was eloquent aud brought tears from the eyes of mavy an old soldiers. The band then rendered “Dixie,’ which evoked great cheering Hon. Maecenas £. Benton cf, Neosho, Congressman from the lif teenth District, the history and cbarecter of the Southern people. If now a foreign foe should menace our independence the true Southerner, he declsred, would bs the first to spring to its defense and last to yield Last night Senater I. M Cock rell addressee the old veterans. Among distinguished guests are Gen. G. W. Themoson of Clay coan ty: Major H. A. Rieketts of Mexies; John T Crisp, Independenee: Judse L B Valiant and Judge T Grant, S: Louis; Prauk Pitts, Jeff-r json City; Col Jobn C Moon, Kansas City; Judge Biggs. St. Louis; Capt Bronaugh of Winiser, and Con gressman A M. Dockery. Maay of the vetg:aus fre accom panied by their wives and daughters. YOU": to know that when suffering from | any kidney trouble that a safe. sure remedy is Foley’s Kidney Cure. Gaaranteeor | money refunded. Plattorm is Being Vindicated. Bostou, Mass., Sept 3U. —George | Fred Williams, democratic nominee for governor, to-day received the | following telegram: Lincolu, Neb, Sept. 29.—Aczept | tion. nobly. The Chicago platform is ice vindicated by eveuts. fight for financial independence will |yet be won. The trusts aud govern- | ment by injunction will fall with the jgold standard. Your plank against | |retirement of greeubacks was time- lly. Strength to your arm and suc ‘eess to your banner. W. J. Bryay What Do the Children Drink Don hem tes or com ki coffee. more Grain dren the more health you theirsytems Gratn-O is m sod when properly prepared tastes hke the | choice grades of coffee but costs sbout 1-i as poe <All grocers sell it. I5c. and 25e. Cock- | f Mob-rly, Mo, S-pt 29.—The first ! annual eucampwent of the United | Confederates of Missouri is a notab'e | The grend parade ocevrred to day | with 100 Confederates in full uni | was armed with rifles an’ | commanded by W. W. MeMineh of | A large rostrum for the presiding | officer and spexkers isin front 0: the | mads a s;eech cn! congratulations upon your nomina- | Massachusetts democracy did | to see some good Democrat elected | | WATER FAMINE IN KANSAS. Not a Drop of Water in the Southeastern | Quarter of the State. Pittsburg, Kan., Sept 29 —Notb- ing like the present scarcity of water in this section Cattle sre dying by the | seore. un] sickness awong the peo bus ever been known | = (of Kansas. advices from St. Michaels. The! Congress'pan Hartman of Mcntana, steamer Bertha arrived at Unalaska | olyer Republican, expresses great Septemb+r 13 and reported twO) satisfac! tion cvar the platform of the incbes of srow at St. Michaels | Massac nusetts Democracy, aud says The Humboldt party bad their | that under the leadership of George boat nearly complete for sailing up| Fred Wiliams the contest in the Bay tbe Yukon, and expected to leave | State will certainly bs fought on St. Michaels September 19 — They) principle, even should there be no | LAWYER, BUTLER, ~ - MO . Will practice in all the courts.) 3 Smith & Francisco, ® 3h LAWYERS, | Office over Bates Countv Bank. Butler, Missoréle will go no further north than Munok Creek. There are supplies at Munok | for the winter. principally typhoid fever, is prevailing The most sufferiag exists ia the | wining camps, where the water sup ‘ply is all gone. This city has be leme the fcuntain cf supply fo: all the mining camps. Superincenc- ent Kirkwcod of tbe Wear Coal | company’s mines has several teams | ple. je hau ing water from the city reser voir to the miners’ homes The Mr | Carmél coal company at Froateuac ) wali eurt a water train from this | city to morzow to run day until | the water famine is broken by rain | At Yale 7,200 feet of pipe is b-ing from ihe town to the Misroun Pa- | Citic Jake, across tue etate A K Craig, the superin | tendent of the wines iu Fieming, is pipmng of Cherokee Pitisvurg has a bountiful supply of Ins ip | Misscuri sericus y conteuplating water from the town water from artisian sources aud cap stand all the demend being made by the veer- a towns Decline in Silver. Peoria (Iils ) Jourual, Repablican | paper: The gold dollar editors of | the country are barping considerably | on the fall in the price of silver, and jut the same time value” of the silver dollar, bow, worth | aomewhere around 42 cents in go’d There is just ore hittls point ecn- nected withthe question which these chaps seem to overlook. About a year azo, in an official document. | Secretary of tha Treasury John G | Carlisle stated that the silver doller |is not redeemable in gold or any other kind of money, and that the treasury had never redeemed it in gold. Inasmuch as they sre not re deemable in gold,nor ever have been redeemabls in that coin, some of the gold dollar editors cught to explain why itis that the builion value of “bullion Vhich is they cleim, pointing to the | There will be a crowd of returning | miterson the Portland due nere| October 15. It is estimated that} sh+ wil bring three tons of gold. | Capt. Munger has aboard C«p*. Pere son and crew, in all nne men, | of the schooner Hueneme, which left Seattle August 15 for St Muchaele| vith lumb-r fer building boats for | the Yukon. S+ptember 7, duriog 4; lense foz, the echoouer went ashore j on Uniak Island, b-coming a com- plete wreck, withits cargo All on noard escaped to the land by means | of lines, which a sailor carried ashore by jamping overboard and swim- ming Eight days later the Captain took three men in a small boat and rowed from the wreckeiand started to Uu- Fioally reaching there he brought the Grant to the rescue of the others The Grant lost two sailors over board oo bee return trip—Wm Good and Otto Severn The sailing schooner Elsie is kere f-om Dutch Harbor, which sbe Sep:ember 14. The cutter Rush and Enza Anderson then there, but the Rush expected to leave for Puget Sound about the 19th | The Elizabeth Anderson has just been brought around from Unalaska inno shave fora sea voyage. Her her to} took alaska left wele passengers refused to allow proce-d, abandoned her and St. Michaele Winter bas set in in the Yukon is freezing. Alaska and} TO MEET GOLD IMPORTS. Reamor Gold Certificates. {the moneta-y commission will jot legislation passage in the schooner Baranoff for | Was literally shot to pieces, pesos jenan nee of recovery. ! Belle That the Treasury Wii!l Issue; prospect of election ] Mr. Hartman contends that the | Thes- W. s ; isilver advocates of all parties must | S pS - Wy Tare necessarily band together in future | Le ers & sily ere campaigns, a3 they did last year, | —— ATTORNEYS (AT LAW— and heridicules the idea that the; BUTLER, - - - - - MO. cause of the white metal has gotten | Will practice in all tuc a black eye. Mr. Hartman thinks | ~ = A. W. THURMAN, have! its labors for nothing. Congress. in his opinion, has too {| win pra Bai ATTORNEY -AT-LAW, ce in all the courts. Odice over Sounty B: Batler, Mo. (tr) many able men of the several pol ti-| | GE RAVES & CLARK, ATTORNZYS AT LAW. Office over the Missouri State Bank | North side uae Dollars Re- | hat cannot ¢:] parties to surrender their powers to a self constituted | commistion How's This! We otter One d Hundred ward tor any case ot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure, / DR.J. M, CHRISTY, §, CHeney & Colcs., ‘oledo O.} We the undersigned, have known F. | HOMOEOPATHIC J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be-j PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON | 4 2 . lieve him pertectly honorabie in al! bus- Office, tront room over McKib iness transactions and finan vable to carry out any obligations made by their! store. Ail callanswered at office da firm. | night. Wesr & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,| Specialattention given to temale Toledo O. WALDING, KINNAN & Mar- | = ae vin, Wholesale Druggist, Foledo, O, — ee il « Catarrh Cureistaken internally | | . acne aiecti 7s apoNt chet blecdeant| [Dos FP red. Jones mucous surtaces of the system. Price | | by all druggists. | 75¢, per bottle. Soid eet Yrician, Testimonials tree, | | Office over McKibben store. Residence, M. E, | church parsonage, corner Ohio & Havannah | streets. Femate Outlaw Captured. South McAlester, 1 T, Sept. 30.) | ©. BOULWARE, —Lou Bowers, a noted f-mul~ horse | . Surgeon. Office nortan side square thief who operated in the Indian | Butler, Mo. !iseasesof women and chil Verritory. has been bound over chs SDerialeys the sum of $400. Physician and in! DR, J. E: HULL The woman is a sister of the leader of the notorious Carpenter gang, which was run} DENTIST. down a few days ago by Deputy Newly Fitted up Rooms, Over Uvited States Marshals. Carpenter Jeter’s Jewelry Store. Entrance, same that leads to Hagedorn’s Studio, north sive square , Butler, Me, C. HAGEDORN | The Old Reliable é 20 and, ' 3 bucksbot piercing his body. to say, he is still alive, with a fair) His sister, Strange Lou, |wasa cowpinion of the notorious) Star, killed neir Eu‘aula, in! the Creek Nation, and a professional | whisky peddler, horse thief and al ledzed murderess. She is feir lookis New York, Sept. 39 —There has) been som talk ip banking circles of the possibility of the Treasury de the silver dolla-, worth nominally! only 42 cents in gold, = maintair a gold Why in view of the the siiver dcl'ar, not in gold, with of which its equa ity of value wi now, brethren, fact that deemable in harmony is it, has not decline the valua of the metal it is made? speak 2t once MeLean Oat of the Reece. Columbus, O, Sept. 30 —John R McLean: bis near-s* frieuds declare, is not a candidate for the United | States Senate. Mr just bad a secret conference with , the State committee and his friends! | say he spoke as follows: ; “I am not a candidate for the | United States Sevate. Iam merely} |a good Democrat and wish to see | the Democratic State and legislative | tickets successful. In the event that | the Legislature is Democratic I hope | to represent this State in the Senate. | The | I believe General A J. Warner is a) For that} good man for this place. matter there are half a dozen other} men inthe State who are es well! | known and able as General Warner. I would be glad t> see any one of | them elected © Webb C City, Mo. ‘Sept. 30.—Chas. | French, 8 rider in the Hummel!,’ Hawilion & Sells clreua, bt, fell from his horses and nig , trampled upon a was d had his spine ght arm broken. vesides in New| ad bi He | disloca | He will die. | York ety. rre! Don't eli} here tco-| there are sure to be, it will not issuing gold certificates. jnow that gold is piling up in the jvaults ani currency | This di-cassion | partment is decreasing. is chiefly dispatch rec-ived the effet that some informal diseu recently there been jon amorg jtreasury cilisia’'s of the subject of ithe desirabl ty of this courss. Con | tinuing,. the dispatch says that Sec | rete y Gage is confronted by ade jcision m ade by Secretary Carlis'e, ) when nate gold fell below McLean has | $109, 000,000, that the reserve bay. the next meeting of tke Confederate | jisg once fallen below the amount |meationed. gold certificates could! jnot be issued again, even if the re-! ser ve went above $100,000,000 un-! orized by Congress. | Cannon of the Chase National bank; |saw nothiog that made the iseue of | gold certificates n-edful, but thought | that the issuance of such certificates {was entirely within the province of ‘Secretary Gage Viee President Hepbarn of the Nationai City bank, | said: “I believe that legally the issuance | lof gold certiticates is eptirely within \ the option of Secretery Gage. There ‘is no question that the treasury) needs currency. If the present con ‘ditions continue snd there ave ther gold imports, as in mv opinion be to far- ‘lop g@ before the treasi settle its balances in gold. uation regarding the curren be relieved by ‘the issuing of g old | | certificates.” « ity Wi The cy migh due to a} in Wall Street to, r the! less the issue was specifically auth | ® President , PHOTOGRAPH ER North Side Square. Confederates at Sedatia ia 798. Moberiy, Mo, Sept. 3). Confederate Encampment closed last Has the best equipped gallery ip Southwest Missouri. All night with a reception tendered the } State Sponso-, Miss Ethylene Jack Styles of Photogrphing | svn. and her maids of honor. Mise } Bettie E Willof Mobe-ly delivered executed in the highest style of the ¢ weleoms act, and at reasonable prices, Miss Jackson gracefnu Mis. 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