The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 10, 1898, Page 3

Cant Sete wosonan Seerass MOB LAW IN ALASKA. — Cowboy Who Slew Two Pros- pectors Swung From a Limb. @eattle, Wash., Feb. 2.—Special correspondence under date of Janu- ary 17, from H. B. Allen, a P.-I. Alaska News Syndicate correspond- ent at Valdes Pass, Copper River, Alaska, received to-day by steamer Alliance, save: At this place on the evening of January 2, N. A. Call, of Worthing ton, Mian, ani William A. Le, from Massachueetts, were murdered by a cowboy named M. F. Tanner, from Montana, who in turo was hanged the following morning. Last fall several boats landed at this place with passengers from all parts of the world, seeking an entrances by way of the Valdes trail over the glacier into the Copper River coun- try. Among them was a party of Masgachusetts prospectors, who had picked up en route the cowboy Tanner, who had nothing but ex perience, and was outfitted at Seattle by the rest of the party. Trouble commenced soon after the party landed. The cowboy was very over- bearing, avd at last his arrogance became unbearable, and four of the party, talking the matter over, came to the conclusion tbat the best thing for all parties concerned would be to divide the outfit, give the cowboy his sbare and let him shift for him- self. The conversation took place in a tent, and the cowboy, overhearing the remarks, walked to a shanty one- half mile distant, got his six shooter The four men were sitting in a small 8x10 tent, sur- rounded by baggage. The cowboy stood in the doorway of the tent, and holding the flap aside with one hand, his other by his side, he said: “I overheard your talk about me, and I’m here for business”’ He then shot twice in rapid succession, kill ing Mr. Call and Mr. Lee instantly. The concussion put out the light, so that his next shot «as in the dark. The party at whom it was aimed fell down and the cowboy, thinking there was only one left, went outside and waited uw considerable time for him to come out. He at last gave it up, and went away. The survivors immediately notified all of the men in the community, and they went in a body for the cowboy, who eurren- dered without any resistance. He merely said: “I intended to get them all.” Thirty eight men as a jury deliberated from 11 o'clock that night until 4 o'clock in the morning. At the end of that time it had been decided that the cowboy must hang. When daylight came a path was broken throngh the deep smow toa tree, a rope was thrown over a limb and Tauoner wes executed. The whole affair was conducted with great decorum and sclemnity, each man feeling that he was performing aduty. Both men were shot in ex- actly the same place, through the right lung, and expired without a word. At a meeting called it was decided to sell the murdered men’s effects at auction and send the pro- ceeds to their families in the Hast. The steamer Alliance, and returned poses. The snow is about 6 feet deep, and parties are waiting for it to crush down co as to cross the gla- The weather has been mild only a few days being ciers. thus far, colder than zero. There is a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in allthe grocery stores & new preparation called GRAIN-U, made of pnre grains, that takes the place of coffee. ‘The most delicate stomach receives it without distrese, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-fourth as much. Chil- dren may drink it with great benefit. Is cts. 25 cts per package. ‘Try it. and GRAIN-O. Clinton, Mo, Feb. i 2.—Brownie Biggs, the 19 year-old boy whe carved Landlord Adams of the Mis- souri, Kansas and Texas hotel, at Muskogee, with a razor several days was arrested here last night) since, at the home of his father. He refuses to return without requisition. A Sure Thing for You. tion in which you cannot lose Is 8 Atraijne. Biliousness, sick headache, fur- red tongue, fever, piles anda thousand other ills are ca ‘py Comstipation and sluggish liv- er. Cascarets Canty ca intestinal tonie are by stimulant ax ic are by t tecureor mon re- Captain Hardwick, landed here January 14 with thirty-eight passengers for the Copper River and 260,€00 feet of lumber for a hotel and wharf pur- Ask for Jack’s Revenge, From the Spingfield, (Mass.) Repulican. It’s a sbame for such a nice girl as Mary Hallett to go with a worth- lese, shiftless fellow like Bert Hill!” | Mrs. Raymond was very much in earnest. “I’d say something to her, only girls are such fools, it might be worse than to keep still. She looks all tired out now, with her work and worry at home—how will she look when she is married to a drunkard?” “It’s an awful pity,” ssid her neighbor, and as Jack Raymoad passed through the room she glanc- ed curiously from mother to son. She thought, “I guess Bert Hill ain’t much worse than your boy.” What she said was, “That's real pretty calico you’re working on. Jack went up the hill behind the house till he came t> a spot where the April sun shone warmly under pine trees. He dropped upon the needle covered ground, pulled his hat over his eyes and calmly fivish- ed the nap which bis mother’s in- dignant protest had disturbed. The wind blew softly among the pine branches, flies and wasps crept into the sunlight, bluebirds sang, and far over head a hawk sailing on steady wings cried cruslly. At length Jack stirred, removed the hat from his eyes tnd sat up. He hitched along on the ground till he got his back against a tree trunk. He gazed out upon the spring Jand- scape meditatively. Thea his lips began to move. He was talking to himself inaudikly. “Tt’3 a shame for such a nice girl as Mary Hallett to go with a worth- less, shiftless fallow like Bart Hill. Yes that’s so. It ought to bs stop ped. Talking won't do any good. Something’s got to be done. I sup pose I might undertake the job.” He grinned slightly at the thought. “It would be a good ide: to go into missionary work, aud I’m sure that is a good causa—to rescue Mary Hallett from Bert. She’s a nice little girl,and it would be a pity for herto marry him. Bert doesn’t even treat his mother well,what would he do to Mary?” Hestraightened up almost energetically, “I vow, Ill do it,” he said. Then he meditated again. “Wonder if I can?” he mused doubtfully. He felt ia a pocket and took out a small, round mirror. He gazed in it earnestly. Hetook off his hat and brushed his blond hair back from his forehead, then he gave a smile of affection which showed his white teeth; then he put the mirror back in nis pocket. There was a look of confidence in his blue eyes. “Guess you'll do,” he said. «Rather against you being light, though; but where there's a will there’s a way.” He got up and started down the hill. Halfway he paused. ‘“Sup- pose she should fall in love with me and then I’d have te go back on her and break her all up? It isn’t likely, to be sure, but what if it should happen? There was a rueful pause —then he said, The end justifies the means,” and went on down the hill. Although Jack’s friends maintain- ed that he would be all right if only he keptout of bad company, the general opinion was thas he and Bert were about evenly matched for worthlessness and _ shiftlessness And when Jack began to go to Hall- ett’s. people said, “Oh, dear! two of them!” They continued to be shift- less, bat it was remarked that, un like Bert, Jack had given up drink- ing. “You'll have to stop that,” Jack had told himself. “This is going to be a sharp game, and you can’t af- ford to muddle what brains you've got.” Some young men would have be- gun the campaign by going of an evening tocall on Mary, but Jack’s methods were different. It was a Monday morning just as Mary was carrying a basket of clothes into the yard, that Jack ap. peared on ihe scene. | He greeted her cheerfully, then} went and took the clothes line from her. “Ill put this up,” ke said, | and he pulled it tight and fastened | jit firmley. “Now you give me the big thing to hang up.” Icant do anything | with handkerchiefs and such like, but I'm great on sheets and table- clothes. | |line and Jack had put the clothes- jner was allready aud her father bad 1 pole under it. “Now if you have any trouble-| some young brothers and eisters | you'd like to get rid of temporarily, why jast send ‘em along. I'll take charge of them and deliver them safely over to you at noon.” “Ob, if you only would,” said.| Mary. They are so fretful thie | moraing, and in my way all the time.” It was witha sigh | 1 | | | of relief that, she Jack | and the two boys eni one girl pase- iog downthse road. She got her | work along bravely, and just as din- a few minutes later saw come in, Jacs,t:u2 to bis promise, left the three childcen at the door aud wen’ hous without stopping to | speak. Thee'.llren gave glowing ac- counts of theie walk. ‘And Jack's goiog tv muke usa kite and fly it ths next winiy day, they eadel. Nearly ev cay after that Jack took the ohildr-n off isto the woods and fields, ng Mary a vacation from their rose. When he went to get them, or when ke brought them back, ho always found some little thing to do to be'p her. Tuen one Sanday he dressed with unusual care, looking remarkably fresh and clean, too, and went to church and Sunday-school. After- wardhe walked home with Mary, holding her sua-shade over her cire-, fully all the way. Mr. Hatlett staid at the children Sundays, aud it was rather tiresom for him. So when he saw Jack coming he brightened up and urged him to stay to dinner. Jack consented, much to Mr. Hall- ett’s satisfaction and the children’s boisterous delight. Mary’s father dearly loved to talk and Jack ap- peared to enjoy listening equally well. After dinner Mr. Hallett went in- to the sitting room and fell asleep in his chair, while Jack insisted on wiping the dishes for Mary. The children swarmed about him and got in his way, till he declared that they were as bad as cats, and he would have to sprinkle them and see if! they would not clear out then. Whenthe dishes were done and Mary had taken off her apron, Jack began to notic3 signs of uneasiness in her manner. “About time for Bert,’ he said to himself; then aloud: “I ehould think you'd go crazy with these noisy youngsters around allthetime. I'm going to take them away and you can rest, instead of working as you usually do.” Down the road they went, and were hardly out of sight in one direction before Bert Hill appeared from the other. He, too, was dress- ed with perticular care, but though there was no denying that he was handsomer than Jack, there wasa certain set to his jaw and a kind of fierceness in his dark eyes which were not preposessing. These soft- ened when he greeted Mary, and he became very agreeable. But Mary for some reason felt un- easy and hoped he would not ask where the childrea were. She also dreaded their return. What would Bert say when he saw Jack? But when the children came it was quite late and Jack did not ap- pear. Mary got them bread and butter, for which they clamored voc- iferously, and then at Bert’s request walked up and dowa the road with him for half an hour while he smok- ed a strong cigar. After he had gone she sighed} wearily. She felt dissatisfied with herself; and the children, as she put them to bed, irriated her by their constant repetition of Jack's name Later she cat in her own room and cried,because she was tired, she told herself. She had not reached that state of mind, which came only a few weeks | later, when she cried from perplex ity and indecision as to the course she should take. She had honestly supposed herself in loye with Bert, and it took her some time to find out home with answered Jack shortly. “What do you mean fooling round | Mary Hallett, then?” Bert raised) his voice. Have I ever interfered with you?! Have Lever been in your way?” de-| mended Jack | “Noand you had better not,” Bert threatened. “You'll be the one to suffer,” re- torted Jack, “unless yon are more | sober than you are now.” | That night Jack held an earnest! coneultation with himself up in the darkness of the pines. He applied | many uncomplimentary epithets to| himself ‘How could I be so base} as to start in on this thing? Togo/| to work deliberlately get a girl away | from another fellow, with the firm | intention of giving her up when Ta| done it! It was vile And how has| it come out? It has come to this— | that if ehe refuses to marry me Ij shall be the most miserable man alive, and will richly deserve it, too, | for being so contemptable mean.” | For a long tims he sat meditating, then he stood up, and thera wasa | look of determination on his face, as | he raieelit to the troubled sky. | such as had never been there before. | “You've got to try and ba ha'f| good enough for her now, he said. | “And you'll bave to work harder | to do it than you ever dreamed of | working before.” | From that night it was noticed that a change had come over Jack | ~ | Raymond.As time weut ov, be could | He} no longer be called elitfcless. worked hard, and people began to} speak of him as “John.” He con | tinued to call at the Bert’s visits had suddenly ceased. It was in September that Jack asked Mary an important question as they were home church Mary answered with a “yes,” and then Jack with some hesitation and confusion, confessed his original plot. “Do you suppose you can ever forgive me?” he asked at the end. Mary spoke so low that he had to bend bis head to hear. “I should have been grateful to you—after awhile—for saviog me from him, even if you hai not come t> care anything for me yourself.” walking from He Has Kill 400 Cats, Port Jarvis, N. Y. Feb. 4.— Tom Metcalf, of Shroud township, Pa., hasa mania for choking cats to death and says he cannot tell what makes him do it, butevery timehe sees a cat he has a terrible desire to kill it. He1is 18 years old and bis mania for slaughtering cats dates back to the time he wore short trous- ers WhenMrs. Metcalf, who had secured a blooded maltese to take place of another cat which died mys- teriously, saw the lad trying te choke ths new arrival, she made the lad coafes3 his A cat was given him for experiment and he choked it to death in his hands, in a marvelously short time. Young Metcalf thinks he has choked four hundred cats to death. Cancer Of the Breast. Mr. A. H. Crausby, of 158 Kerr St., Memphis, Tenn., says that his wife paid no attention toa small lump which appeared in her breast, but it soon de- veloped into a cancer of the worst type, crimes. and notwithstanding the treatment of} the best physicians, it continued to spread and grow rapidly, eating two holes in her breast. The doctors soon_ pronounced her incurable. A celebrated New York specialist then treat- ed her, but she con- tinued to grow worse and when informed that both her aunt and grandmother had died from cancer he gave the case up as hopeless. Someone then re- commended S.S. begun it, and an improvement was no- ticed. The cancer commenced to heal and when she had taken several bottles it peared entirely, and although sev- eral years have elapsed, not a s of her mistake. When Bert learned what was go- pg en between the Halletts and | Jack he was in a towering rage. He! met Jack one night and stopped/ short before him, blocking the way. | *What do you mean fooling round} Mary laughed. She was too eur- prised to object, and in a short time the clothes were all hung on the my girl?” he demanded, pugnacious- ly. “Didn't know you owned a girl,” the disease has ever returned. A Real Blood Remedy. S.S.S. 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Finch, the Kansas City young man, who mur dered Frank Swofford, of Piedmont Mo., called up sheriff Wheeler, by telephone from Lamont, Mo., and | informed him that be would be here on the evening train to help mend the bars he had broken. Finch escaped Tuesday with | Charles Robinson, the notorious Missouri bank and post office rob- ber and six other prisoners confined in the combination state and Feder | al prison here. He hid in the woods | three miles from here Tuesday and went to Kansas City on a freight) train that evening, lodged near the | police headquarters and the next day | went toa farm near Lamont by way | of Pleasant Hill to see his mother and sister. They had not visited him since his arrest and he says his only ambition was to ses them. He speot a few hours in their company and then sent three miles to Lamont for a constable to accompany him to this city. OFFICERS THOUGHT IT WAS JOKE. At Lamont he called up the of-| ficers by telephone and said he was jon the way here. They thought he | was bantering them, and they wired j the officers at Lamont to hold him The sheriff and 200 peop'e met | the Memphis train through curiosity to see if he did come. While they were waiting he arrived on another road and walked up through town to jail. He was not handcuffed and was smoking a cigar with apparent pleasure. Finch formerly lived at Paole, | Kan , end later at Rosedale, wkere his father now lives. He followed young Swofford here from Paola and | murdered him for a few dollars, hiding his body in a growth of weeds. | Educate Your carets. Wits Cas- Bowels | R.H. Ward, cf Whartor, Texas, Thursday filed a deed of trust. Inaming RT. Irvin, trustee. The firm has been doing business in dry | goods, shoes and furniture, of which | they carried a heavy stock. Prefer- |red creditors are named for $19,000. | No farther statement yet made | Camilo Berardinelli, en Itelian who killed his wife ina fit of jeal | ousy at Santa Fe, N. 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The State Asylum Board inspected Thursday the new hospital building which is to be part of the asylum at St. Josepb, Mo. The building basa capacity for seventy five patients, and will be ready for occupancy next week. Land owners of Baxter county; | Tex, have been warned by white caps that the money rent system for farms will no longer be p:rmitted, return to a division of the crop being demanded THE DANGER to which the Expectant Mother is exposed and the foreboding and dread with which she looks for- ward to the hour of woman's severest trial is appreciated by but fe All effort should be made to smooth these rugged places in life’s pathway for her, ere she presses.to her bosom her babe. 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