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i F.J- Eh acon HON. J. B. NEWBEBRY, esident. BuourTritEeR, Mo. Successor to BATES COU EstaBLisuxD Dec., 1370. CAPIT L, $25,000. Capital, - papers drawn, PE Rete President, J-o. C. Haye, Abstractor. RRRRRRLL®ALPPP-PPP Lisson ri Pacitic Railway Time Table | at Butler Station. NORTH BOUND. eee yee ‘ mae No.4 1:00 P No. 10 : No. #12 Local Freight 60UTH BOUN No.9 No. : No No. sii Local Freight... INTERSTATE DIV is10N. No, 349 Depart 700A. M. No. 35 Arrive. . 11:59 A. M, E. C. Vanpervoorr, Agent. K. OC. Pittsburg & Gulf Time Tabie. Arrival and departure of traine at Worland. NORTH BOUND So. 7 Freight dally except Sunday No.5 Sat ese daily eight, daily except Sunday, No. 3 Port Arthur Express, daily, SOUTH BOUND, No. 2 Express daily ... -m. No ¢ Freight daily except Sunday -m™m No = Pm No 10 Freight, datly expect Sunday, p-m, No 4 Port Arthur Express, daily,.. 9°01 p. m. Remember this is the popular short line be- tween Kansas City, Mo.. and Pitteburg, Kan., Joplin, Mo, ssho, Mo., Sulphur Springs, Ark , Siloam Springs, Ark., and the direct | Youte from the south to St ‘Louis, CI hicago, and points north and northeast and to Denver, Ogden, San Francisco, Portland and points West and northwest. No expense has been spared to make the passenger equipment of this line secoud to none inthe west Travel via the new tine H.C. Orr. Gen’! Pass. Agt., Kan«as City, Mo. Hood S Should be in e — medicine chest traveller's. grip. stomach e headac . biliousness. tnvaluable when th all liver troubles. Mild and efficient. 25 cents. ‘a qut of order; ¢ BRIDE IS SLAIN, Was Brutally Stabbed to Death by Filipine Highbinders, Manila, via San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 9—A mysterious and terrible murd-r, the solution of which would Callo San Pedro, almos: in a block of the tenth Pennsylvania headquar- ters Two natives supposed to belong | to the lawless tribe of Maccabees, whose home isin the mountains of the interior, but which maintai quite a colony ia Manile, forcibly entered the home of a bride of a s young Mestiza bride of a week, and, after tying the old woman hou-e servant and her little daughter to the stair railing, pursued their vie tim to the bed room, where they stabbed her in the breast 13 times Hastily ransacking the roem, they secured about $20 00 worth of pre cious stones, which had comprised part of the bride’s wediing gifts, and, covering the body with vario articles of her trosseav, fled in time to escape the soldiers, who had be attracted to the vicinity by the g screams. The you as well as: of his the mur TERMS TOE 3 THE BATES COUNTY BANK, } : vd A General Banking Bates County Investment Co., iBUTLER, MO.: Money to loan on real estate, at low rates, Abstrac title to all lands and town lots in Bates county. Che securities always on hand and forsale. Abstracts of title furnished, titles examined and all kinds of real estate F Gaxp How. J. B, Newerrry, J.C. Crank, sleet Vice-President. See’y. & Treas. ;supper Tt | Sparke, Casper end OO eee es J.C.CLARE, Vice-Pr ‘es’ — Cashier NATIONAL BANK. Business Transacted§ = 850,000. RRRRRRRR RRARRRAR ARAB RRP 8. F. Waxxocx, Notary. SAL LDAP PARA FFA PPR RRP APD Jo Visit the Legisiature, Appleton City, Mo., Feb 5 —The high schoo! of this town will run an excursion to Jefferson City to mor row. Two special cars under the supervision of Superintendent Rich- jardson will carry tbe educational tourists. It wili be one of the most enthusiastic schools ia the country for the next few days. It is pro posed to make the run purely as an educational matter The students will be shown tbe legislature in session, the peniten- tiary and other points of interest. | They will learn more on this excur sion than they will in ssveral days of text book study. It is yery prac tical in method, and the superin tendent says that it is no new idea, but is very common in Germany. The high school enrollment this year greatly exceeds that of last year and the graduating c'ass is sv eral times larger, and ia composed of young men and women of pr iso A Pieasane Surprise, The sixth being James Claunch’s | 2let birthday, a buwber of his young friends gave him a surprise oystei $9 present were Mesere Geo. Beachear, Ira Sutton, Jobr Newt and Man Wilcox, Harry and Walter Deane, Charley and Albert Dickerson and Claude Freeman Misses E ssie Deffenbaugb, Della ‘and Bulah Sparks, Aza and Exie | Beanett, N | Nettie Dickeracn, Myrtle Schooley. baffle the talents of a Sherlock! 40"a, Alice and Ethel Sutton, Mr Holmes, was committed recently on | eand Ethel Wheatly, and Mrs. J. P. Sutton and Mr. and Mrs. T A. Frazee Games of various kiods were in dulged in until all were hungry They were then invited into the dining room to an oyster table, and it is needless to say all did ample | justice. Ata late hour sll departed to their respectiye homes, after ex pressing themselves as having bad a delightful time, and wishing Jim ndays A Gvrsr many more happy bir What a Farmers Wife Can Do. Windsor Review. Mrs. J. H. have and daughter | sule of cl eggs and} butter for 1898 Se lies man- age all their poultry and do not take en folks time to assist them. As the chickens and turkeys do ne much room and are nev . they do not hinder ther w on the The they ng ist L pic a, a iio 2 3-8 painters nside is cel 2w—well, that’s AP aa aah 3 it Was 45 Degrees Below Zero at a Wi peg Fire. |The Mani jed early this morniog. The baild to the hospital now ia prozreas Tne 'St Paul esd Duluth curlers were A little boy in a veighboring town was required {o write an eesay the other day. “The Newspaper’ was his subject, and bere is the ‘I don’t know bow newspa- result: pers came to be iu the world, und don’t think God doer, for be hasn't got nothing to say about them, and ‘editor is not in the Bibte. I think the editor is oue of the missing livks you hear about, acd stayed in th- brush ‘ill after the flood then came out aud wrote the thicg up, and bar been kere ever since. I don’t thivk he ever diea, J never saw a dead nr a Blemling, 20 to the lit from the] {regular corners and news stands, | R papers Many b and never heard of ove gettia’ lick ed Our paper is a mighty poor up; the editor goes ‘thout underclotbes all winter, don’t wear no socks, and paw hasn't paid bis subscription in An exchavge says a peddler is working eastern Kansas selling a tims wateb. The peculiarity of thess wat:bea lies in the fact thet they are fursished witb an alarm at tichment which a man’s wifs can cet at the exact hour she desired bin to start for home. The ulsrm going off at that time will remind bim that his wife expects him. A great many men have been alarmed at the Jate- ness of the hour they started home CTIVE SOLICITORS EVERYWHERE fer ‘*The of tt Philippines’? by Murat Halstead commissioned by the government as oficial historian of the war department The book was written in army camps at San Fran cisco, on the Pacific with General —— ip the hospitals at Honelulu, in Hong Kong, ir the American trenches at Manila, in the ine r gent camps with Aguinaldo, on the deck e! the Olvmpia with Dewey, andin the roar o! battle at the fall of Manils Bonanza tor agents Brimtul of original pictures taken by government photographers on thespot. Large book Low prices Big profits. Freight pai Credit given. Dro nnofticial war books. Oatiit tree se FT Baker See’y, Star Insurance Bldg., Chicago. — 50-1t BOYS SEE TH POIN’. pall trashy They Make Big Mcne Make I Easy.—No Capital Invested. How They Do Ic There are several thousand b.ys and hundreds of wen eugaged in Si Louis in a business which brings a weckly profit of from $8,000 to $10- 000 It’s the selling of daily papers. Hundreds of families Jive comiort:» bly onthe profits of the sale ct daily papers z lu S:. Louis the favorite news paper with the boys is the POSL DISPATCH, because it sells best. An investigation has shown that the boys sell more copies of the daily Post Dispat than the combined sales of the two other Enguish oo, eee One of the pleasures the boys fin in selling papers is they are thei: “own boss They come and g when they please. While many bay k the streets, eact having his peculiar wey of “erying” out his paper The situation is quite different o: Sunda; The papers are printe di the mornirg a others merely we boys and mea are cut in search of | buyers There are fc j}pspers. A boy taking from two to bree huodred papers a ali he cz to to get over the ground. jays as on week days finds the Post DISP ATCH everywhere. It's The Sunday POST- H has mapy original features, including the Comic Weekly es great newspaper is ealled a *Circeul: irtment,” the object of wh jue for merle e@ 3 are sent free). ard s I untry as 8 Louis they are constantly r r “agents 8 or men Griggsby Is Ready. Sioux Falls, S Wionipez, Mexnitoba, Feb. 8.— Tae War Departmen vba hote!, the largest | Co’. 3 building in the Cauadian west, barn- | regim. nt ¢ f cowboys ex February 9 — Griggsby's |ing was erected at # cost of $300,000 | T ply was ma and was c/owded with guests owing } dons io three | making the hotel their headquarters. | the Pui | The fire brigade worked hard with} |the mercury 45 degrees below zere. went, has a’so | 3,000 borses at To Pay ter J ff-rson City, ate committee f ported favorably on a bill to appre priate $350,000 to mobilizing M war with Spain. bill before Mebuizag pay the expe every case ot Catarrh that ed by the use of Hail’s Ca’ Sworn to before presence, this ¢ suscribed in and acts di surfaces of the sy monials, free Sold by druggist Sherif’s Sale , MA Caikins and « d by six o'clock the |! It’s the “most for | °°" | j | j et | > ‘from the( porn ers icud and See steel fork cow boy and seat saddles Lap robes, dusters and fly nets. ess store ness are all at home. Women in the Lagar to Celleiros, P ortugal, Rubber Rollers are Used for Crushing the Grapes to Mm ies SEN Claret and Other Wines, , for invalidsagal wn ON Vinesig “rn New] owever, Uses sl AND GROCERS WHO DEAL vw Win McFARLAND BROS. jarness and Saddeln South Side Square Butler Nio, Wiet we Beey We keep everything that horee ownerss from » $7.50 to $25; second hi styles and prices, from the cheapest to scle leatber epri horse blasl Harness oil anda full line machine oils and axel grease, T baggy tops new and repair old ones. your old harness and saddles and trade We have the largest retail Southwest avd or One bande Come, inepect will surprise joe McFARLAND BROS BUTLER, ale in Partition. that under asl and order # f Bates county, i e of a bam Saddles of farriet B