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i it H ks j ; F.J. TYGARD, President. PPS PAOLAL CM CAPITAL, $75,000. Capital, = furnished, papers drawn. F 5.TyGarp, President, Jo. C. Hayes, Abstractor. Re CU as ee Np eenge ian e THE BATES COUNTY BANK, BuoTruEeER, Mo. Successor te BATES COUNTY NATIONAL BANK. EeTtasiisuEp Dec. =e x Bates County Investment Co., IBUTLER, MO.: Money to loan on real estate, title to all lands and town lots in Bates county. securities always on hand and for sale. titles examined and all kinds of real estate Hox. J. B, Newsrery, Vice-President. HON.J. B. NEWBEBRY, J.C.CLARE, Vice-Pres’t. Cashier A General Banking Business Transacted5 = 650,000. Abstracts of Choice Abstracts of title at low rates. J.C. CrarK, Sec’y. & Treas 8. F. Warnock, Notary. RARLDRPPLPP RDP Le RARARA Miesoun Pacific railway Time Table at Butler Station. NORTH BOUXD. KEE No. $12 Local Freight..00...00000. SOUTH BOUND. No. Sil Local Freight... : INTERSTATE E DIVISIO No. 349 Depart ..... z 11:59 A! No. 350 Arrive. : E. C. Vampervoorr, Agent. "RE RHEE Ft K. ©. Pittsburg & Gulf Time Table. Arrival and departure of trains at Worland. NORTH BOUND fe ie Freight dally exeeer easy 2 12:10 p. m,. ms: i ecimee daily. No, 9 Freight, daily exce! No. 3 Port Arthur Expre SOUTH Bi No. 2 Express daily . No. 6 Freight daily except Sun’ 8 No 10 Freight, dail No. 4 Port Arthur Express, daily,.. 9-01 p.m. Hemember this lo the popular short line be- $ween Kansas City, Mo.. and Pitteburg, Kan. , Joplin, Mo , Neosho, Mo., Sulphur Springs, Ark., Siloam Springs, Ark., and the direct Poute from the south ‘to St Louis, Chicago, and points north and northeast and io Denver, Ogden, San Francisco, Portland and points | 0 expense has been spared to make the passenger equipment of 6 line second to none inthe west. Travel via the new line H. C. Orr. Gen’1 Pass. Agt., Kansas City, Mo. Sunday, = . expect Sunday, I Roste eg of tine 1 ae ae alien 13 oe ganiem in perfec 1 n Prepared ony by C. 1. Rood iow CREW OF ELEVEN EATEN. Terrible Tale of Cannibalism Comes From New Guinea. Vancouver, BC, Jan. 27.—After escaping death by drowning, eleven of the crew of the ship Manbare were captured and eaten by cannibals | | Shocked up and let stand about two bound for Sydney, Australia, when | of New Guinea. The Manbare was it was caught in ths terrible gale of December. Near Cape Nelson it began to sink. The crew, eighteen all told, left the vessel in two boats and soon beeame separated. One boat containing twelve men was finally thrown ashore ten miles | from the cape. The sailors were seized by natives from the end hurried cff to the village of tle chief. One man, James Greene, escaped. The sailors were stripped and bound and killed, one each day. A wild orgie was participated ia by at | least a hundred savages who had | gathered for the feast. In several cases the sailors were | tortured by the old women children of the tribe. one were gouged out. The doomed men stoically watched the elaborate preparations for their death. A huge pot filled used for the feast, which day night. on the first intericr | was prolonged away into the! | | | | | | | | | | ia oats, | wheat from 45 to 60° bu | they are 650 per hundred. From Montana, Bozeman, Monr., Jan. 24, “99. J. D. Auten, Butter, Mo Dear Sir—I will drop you a few in the lines and let you know [ am best of health, and think there is no place like Bozeman, Mont. We are having lots of winter here now, and it is snowing in the mountains to- night. Itis very pleasant down in the valley. The coldest it has been here this winter was 49 below zero and that was cold enough for me. I like the winters and summers here se much better than I doin Mo. Of course old Miasouri is all right, I won’t go clear back on my native state, and will say I like the people in Miesouri better than I do in Montana, but the climate here i+ best of all) When I left Mo, last August my weight was 146 Ibs, now itis 176 lbs Now I will tel! you how the summers are here Spring begins about the middle of Apri!, then we begin to plow. We get our grain in by the middle of May, which wheat and barley. Oats makes from 75 to 90 bu. per acre, and barley from 70 to 75 bu. per acre. Every thing sells here by the pound. This isa great place to raise potatoe-; We don't commence to barvest here till Aug | First, we begin to put up the hay. which makes from two to three tons per acre. Hay is worth $9 or $10 per ton, that is timothy and clover When we get the hay put up ther we begia to cut the grain, each farmer has from 150 to 320 acris o! grain to cut, and that is cut and weeks and then threshed. We never stack the graio in this country. It hardly ever rains here in the fall, but we often have big snows, and when it snows we have to shake the | snow off of the shocks, and that isa nice job, youknow. We generally get done threshing some time in No vembsr. Now I will tell you about the winters. There has beea enow on the ground evar sincs November, and we have had sleighing a!l the time. It never raias here in the winter and the roads are fise and | and | The eyes of | | tain the year round, and i: with boiling water was} In most cases the men were be- | headed, their heads being stuck on poles and paraded before the men who were to suffer the same fate. Greene was rescued by a steamer after tramping without food a day and a night to reach the coast. The scenes of horror he had witnessed turned his hair snowy white. A most valuable addition to the illustrations of famous war scenes is the four page supplement ia this week's issue of Harpers Weekly, showing @ panoramic view of the town and barbor of Havana, the chief city of the pearl of the Antilles. The view includes the Morro, the en tire city and the inner] Other features of the s nt are num erous views of of interest around Havana, the buildi where the evacuation cerem: ook place rbor. | body of their dying mother, the landing slip at the Havana cus-| tom house and many otkers slick as glasa, and you ean hear | Sleigh bells all the time in the valley | Somewhere both night and day. The | nights never get dark here like they | do in the east, I suppose it is be- cause there is snow on the ground all the tims. Saow valley about the middie of April, but you can see snow on the moun is liable to snow any time in the valley. It snowed three inches here two years ago last July Now I will bring my letter to a close and sub scribe for the Times another year, and will say the Times is friend to me while I em in the far west. goes Respectfully yours, L. E. For At a Deathbed, Camden, N. J, Jan. 25.—Two brothers last nizht fought over the after | quarreling as to the division of her property. They were Thomas and Edward Pierce, and Thomas is prob | ably fatally wounded The fight cccurred when, after the! quarrel, the brothers went to the bedside of the dying woman. ward knelt and begged her to give | him with her last breath the larger | share of ber property. raged at his words, Fear him. Edward sprang up and drew a razor! into his back, cutting a deep gash a foot long, severing one of his kid. neys. Thomas fell, the police ceme and i RAR CGR RAS RAR: ARRRARRR RRARARAR AAA off in the | & great) Ed-| mas, Sane dying eondition. Edward was arrest- ed. Mrs Pierce watched the affray, jalthough too weak to raise her kand jor epeak. The shock had a marked effect on ber, and death is a matter of houre. Grocery bille of 1868 are a great variation from those of | Kirkeville, Mo. in 1868, jtailed at 20 cents a pound; sugar, 18 ct+; white euzar, tea, $1.75 te $2; per ewt. to $3 50; salt, per bbl. $5; syrup, per gallon, $160; eral oil, per gal- lon, 70 cts; coal per bushel, 15 to 25 ets. The grecer of “99 cau get on with a emaller cash drawer than the grocer of 68 unless he bas a much larger number of customers.—Exr bacou re brown | 20 cte;/ flour, Babies Chesper than Animals, Leondor, Jan. 26—The Vienna correspondent of tha Morning Leeder saye: It $has been discovered that the physicians in the free hospitals at Vienna systematically cxp-rim + he wes removed to the hospital in al 1898 In} TREAT HIM AS A SPY, | ! Phe President May Order Agoucilio to Pack His Trusk. Washiogton, D. C, Jan. What shall be done with Agoneillc? It is probable that jissary mey be ordered to quit the |country, under the contention that the Filipioo em be should be regarded as as The pree-dent for such ac [laid down in the case of the Soenioks jspies, Dabcse ada Agoncillo’s couimunication to the aud Carranza, in Can | state department, in which be pro- tested againat the freedom of action! of this government as to its army | acd navy in the Philippines, bas | irritated the president and the state | departmert tosuch a degree that summary action is expected against | him, probably “withia the next 45/ hours The state department's views of Agcneillo’s transactions | are: First, that be is conducting a cam- paign the United States government in the newsparers. Second, that he is writing letters against upon their patients, especially new- bora children, women who are enci ente and persons who are dying. In one case a doctor injected the bacilli of an iofectious dissase from a de- composing corpse into thirty five women and new bera children. In another case a youth who was on the high road to recovery was in oculated and he died within twenty four hours. Many patients have beea tortured by poisonous germs, and many men bave been inoculated with contagious liseases. One doctor who had re ceived an unlimited tumber of healthy children frem @ foundling hospital for experimental purposes, excused himself on the grvund tha chey were cheaper than animals. A Word to the Wise is Sufficient. E'y’s Cream Balm has completely cured me of catarrh when everything -Ise failed —Alfred W Stevens, Caldwell, Ohio. Ely’s Cream Balm works like a charm; it has cured me of the most obstinate case of cold in the head; I would not be without it —Fred't Fries, 283 Hart St. Brooklyn, N. Y A 10c trial size or the 50¢ size of Ely’s Cream Balm will be mailed Kept by druggiats. Ely Brothers 56 Warren St, N Y. one mu Items. (Rec'd too late for last week’s Issue.) Elijah Requa, who has been werk ngin K C, visited home folks last week The dance at Mr Hutton’s Friday night wes a success. Miss Eva Russell visited with Miss Minnie Bashore Sabbath. Mr Swezy and wife, of Pleasant Gap, attended church at this place Sunday. Mies Neale treated her pupils to candy Friday. She is\ teaching a splendid school and gives universal satisfaction. \ John Kamn batcherad’ Cees day last. Preaching at Mt Zon 5th biiities: everybody invited to attend ‘ Mrs J Kious is much improved from her illness. . Fred Kamm delivered soma hogs te J C Lane Wednesday. Mr Bashore is hauling baled hay to Rich Hit! Mrs Shuster, who has been 'very sick, is reported better. Frank Hammond is among these jeff cted with la grippe. The meetings, which have been juead by Rev Sbhulenburger at. Mt | Zion church, closed Saturday night. Jesse Nevins and family, of Rich | Hill, visited at Willie Allen’s Ss atur | | | day and Sunday We understand Mr Akers ‘and | family will goto Oklahoma in the gear future. Cal Bashore 1s erecting a new barn Jozeph Gander and sister M: attic | Were in Rich Hill Saturday. Miss Bertha McGuire, of Nev ada, is visiting ber cousin, Ella Nafus There area number of Ia grippe in this v.cinity. Dr Lusk is kept busy night and day. ' | The Happy Hill SS is proztegs- | | | | ng nicely. Mrs Wm Allen gave her sister, Miss Gweena Nevins, a party in| honor of her 17th birthday Saturday | | night. The evening was enj byed | | by about fifty guestz, who d ted” lat a late hour, wishing Miss Gwieera many more happy birthdays. Dar x. VEVITYVERETEETOVEVINNNED ADA DADA AALBAADAADAAAAALL to the president, but in reality to produce sentiment in this couatry hostile te the constituted authorities Third, that he represents au or ganization actuelly ia rebellion egaicst the United States America’s claim of conquest of the Philippines puts Aguiraldo and his followers in the categery of traitors to the government and his juntes in the position of spies fcr a hostile organization. It is believed that Agoncillo sends information by other than the regu lar routes to the iseurgest head quarters. CTIVE SOLICITORS WANT erywhere for ‘*The Story of the Pb: nes’? by Ma rat Halstead, commissione the govern- ment as official historian to the war depart mont The book was written in army camps at San Francisco, on the Pacific with General Merritt, in the hospitals at Honelulu, in Hong Kong in the American trenches at Manila, in the insurgent camps with Aguinaldo. on the deck of the Olympia with Dewey, and in the roar of battle atthe fallof Manila Bonanza foragente. Brimful of original pictures taken by government photographers on the epot Large book. Low pri Big profite Freight paid. Credit giver all trashy unomi cial war books. Outf - Addres Rarber, Sec’), Star Insurance Bulld cago. Notice of Final Settlement. Notice is hereby given to all creditors «nd ail others inter in the estate of C.G. Lockwood d, that I, D. V t‘rown, admir said estate, in- tend to make € ment thereot, at the next term ot the Bates county pro bute court,in Bates county, state ot Missouri, to be held at Butler, on the (3th dav ot February, 1899 F.C.CORSETS American Beauties. MODELS. (=~. KaLamazco Corset Co. SOLE MANUFACTURERS SOLD BY NEW YORK KACKET, One Low Price to Al! | West Side Square, BUTLER, MO. | oo SOCOOOOe A Mile of Reading! Aaa ) YOUR 3. WILL «oadealer & ¥ be h—almost_a mile of reading. COSTS, MONTELY, ONLY -.-- FEN CENTS. Trade su AMERICAN NEWS ComP ANY and its branches, NEW YORE DAILY NEWS, NEW YORE SUNDAY NEWS, NEW YORE NEWS LIBRARY. Published by the NEW YORK NEWS {PUBLISHING ce., 31 & 82 Park . tli ABS MBAMADADA DAMA AAADAABA Lovely Women in the Rubber Rollers are Used for Crushing the Grapes to Make Speer’s Port, Burgundy, Claret and Other Wines, « Which, asi conta improv rubber mar long 1 McFARLAND BROS. “Harness and Saddelry, s well known Portug: at otne Sree >» Celleiros rival the world inexceller from the Oporto grape ¢ years ago. ed for ther m. Mr. Speer, “Ss. He emp! h grapes at t y the and have no suj r weakly females 1g iron to the ayes t parties, wedding GGISTS AND GROCERS W “ink’s Leather Treo Sadie a South Si Double wagon harness harness from $3 to $ styles and prices, from steel fork cow boy and seat saddles dusters and fly nets. new ones. ness are all made at b and thirty sets on band. get our "99 prices. We McFARLAN D BROS. BU7LER, Mo. Notice is hereby . Missouri, State of of reveny d ry D.V BLOWN, She Public Administrator. The soil of northern New Jersey, Port and Bur Iya ee: Butler Mo. Read and See Whet,we Keep in Sloe We keep everything that horse owners need Siugle harness, $7.50 to Lap robes, borse blankets, Harness oil and soap full line machine oils and axel grease. Trip buggy tops new and re pair old ones. Bring your old harness and saddles and trade fot We have the Jargest retail ber ness store in the Southwest avd our be | Sheriff’s Sale in Partition. al. nce, forinv. alidsand ownony: ines im. however, uses the lz rollers ef he rate of a barrel indy now iq ysicians aged persons, n, and tend to pro and gener: ul family HO DEAL IN Wingg ve rior, ] de Square from $10 to $% $25; second hand 15. Saddles of all the cheapest tothe sole leather spring ome. One bundred Come, inspect and will surprise you. n, that under andy partition and 1a Exline , plaintiffs, ye Jane Exiine, @& ty S MJ ce vik R Bo Mi u 13} ny —sol>