The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 21, 1899, Page 5

Sh gr Ie MARKET REPORTS. Kansas City Live Stock. Kansas City, Dec. 19.—Cattie—Receipts, 1,666; calves, 721. The market was steady to 10c higher on best and slow on com-~ mon. Following are the representative BHIPPING AND DRESSED BEEF STEERS. Ave Price, 1492 $5.90 1259 5.06 4. No. Ave. Price.|No. |. +1492 $5.90 1.. 3.35 i SDIAN STEERS. 90 | 20...---...- 778 3.90 70 | IVE COWS. 05 4 -1385 3.80 90 | 14 1060 3.65 20 | 22 + 929 3.20 15 4 12 3.15 W8 AND HEIFERS. 3 - 640 4.20 day, none. The market was generally 5e lower. Following are the representative sales: * .02%_| 81..242 $4.02%4| 65..275 $4.00 ao 00 | G4. 207 4.00 299 4.00 69.270 4.00 | 71..202 4.00 285 3.97% 2..105 2.66 | 2..585 3.60 50 3.50 2140 «3.50 | 1.620 3.50 280 3.25 1150 3.00 | 1..760 3.00 | 1..470 3.00 Sheep—Receipts, 3.124; shipped yester- day, 462. ‘The market was steady at yesterday's decline. Following are to-day’s sales: 4% nat.Ims. 9 $5.50 | 23 nat.yrl.138 $5.25 271 Mex.yr. 76 4.35 | 25 lambs... 80 6.10 B. 09 4.00 |263 W.weth. 98 4.10 a7 07 3.60 | 12 Mex.yrl. 9 3.30 s iiiln14 3.35 | 81 el. ewes. 82 2.76 Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, Dec. 19.—Cattle—Receipts, 4,000; market steady; butchers’ stock and ca ners steady to firm; calves shade lowe! stockers and feeders unchanged. Beeves, 4.25G7.80; cows, $3.00@4.75; heifers, $3.25@ 6.00; canners, $2.00@3.00; stockers and feeders, $3.00@4.65; Texas fed beeves, $4.35 6.5. Hogs—Receipts to-day, 40,000; market 2%@6e lower; mixed and butchers, 8.9E 4.18; good heavy, $4.00@4.15; rough heavy: $3.86@2.95; light, $3.00@4.10; bulk of sales, 14.0064.10. Sheep—Receipts, 13,000; steady to slow at yesterday's decline. Native wethers, $8.90@4.50; westerns, $4.00@4.40; native lambs, $4.00G6.65; westerns, $5.00@$5.40. South Omaha Live Stock. South Omaha. Dec. 19.—Cattle—Receipts, 2,300; market steady. Native beef steers, $4.25@6.00; western steers, $4.00@4.75; Texas steers, $3.70@4.20; cows and heifers, $3.25@ 480; canners, $2.25@3.00; stockers and feeders, $3.60@4.75; calves, $3.50@7.00; bulls, stags, etc., $2.60@4.00. Hoge—Receipts, 11,500; market 5c lower. Heavy, $3.86@3.95; mixed, $3.90@3.92%4; light, $8.92%@4.00; pigs, $3.85@3.90; bulk of sales, $8.90@3.92%4. Sheep—Receipts, 2,500; market steady. Native muttons, $4.30@4.60; western mu tons, $.00@4.30; stock sheep, $3.75@4.z lambs, '$4.25@5.25. St. Louis Live Stock. St. Louis, Dec. 19.—Cattle—Receipts, 3,- 00; market steady. Native shipping and beef, $4.00G6.70, with fancy worth $7.25; stockers and feeders, $3.00@4.55; cows and heifers, $2.00@4.65; Texas and Indian steers, $3.30@4.75; cows and heifers, $2.3@ 3.70. Hogs—Receipts, 11,000; market 5c lower. Pigs and lights, $3.90@4.00; packers, B.H@ 406; butchers, $4.00@4.10. Sheep—Receipts, 1,500; market steady at Monday’s decline. Native muttons, $3.85 G@4.00; lambs, %5.00@5.50. Kansas City Grain. Kansas City, Dec. 19.—Wheat—Sales by sample on track: Hard—No. 2, nominally 64c; No. 3, BG Ge. Soft—No. 2% nominally 69@70c; No. 3 64Yac. Mixed Corn—No. 2, 29%c; yellow, 29%c; No. 3 mixed, nominally 29%4c; No. 4 mixe nominally 28%c; no grade, nominally. 28% White Corn—No. 2, nominally 29%c; No. pees 29%c; No. 4 white, nominally White Oats—No. 2, nominally 23@23%4c; No. 8 white, 22%c; No. 4 white, nominally Be. Rye—No. 2, nominally 48c; No. 3, nom- inally 47%c; No. 4, nominally 47c. Prairie Hay—Choice, $7.00@7.50; No. 1, 96.50@7.00. ‘Mmothy, choice, $9.00@9.50. Clover, %6.50@7.50. Alfalfa, $7 00@%.00. Chicago Gra a Provisions. Chicago, Dec. 19.—No. 2 red, 68%@69'2c; No. 3 red, 6@67%c; No. 2 hard winter, @%c; No. 3 hard winter, 62@65%4c; No. 1 northern spring, 67%@69%c; No. 2 north- ern spring, 67@69c; No, 8 northern spring, C1@B8se. Corn—No. 2, 31%c; No. 3, 30%4@3lc. Oats—No. 2, 22%@23c; No. 3, 22%c. St. Louis Cash Grain. Bt. Louis, Dec. 10.—No. 2 red cash, ele- vator, 68%c; track, 72c. Corn—No. 2 cash, 3ic; track, 32c. Oats—No. 2 cash, 23%c; track, 244@24%c; No. 2 white, 26@26%- Kansas City Produce. Kansas City, Dec. 19.—Eggs—Fresh, l6c dos. Butter—Creamery, extra fancy separa- tor, 25c Ib; firsts, 2c; dairy, fancy, 18¢c; store packed, l5c; country roll, 15@léc; packing stock, lic. Poultry—Hens, live, 5%c; old roosters, 1Se each; voung, 2c; ducks, 6c; geese, Sc; turkeys, hens, 7c; old toms, 6c. Pig- eons, 60c doz. Game—Prairie chicken, $5 per dos.? quail, 75cG@$.1.00; venison saddles, 12@lic; wild turkey, 9@10c 1b; wild geese, 4@5 doz.; ducks, canvasback, $4 doz.; mallard, fat $4; common, $38@3.50 per mallard, fat $5; common, g3.50 per dos.; teal, fat $2.25, thin $1.50@2.00; mixed, $1.28@$1.50; red heads, $2.50; plover, $1. Frogs, 35c@$2. Rabbits, jack, Tsc@$l; cot- = 40@60c. Squirrels, Sc. Brant, $3 jon. Vegetables—Home grown potatoes, 5@ @c per bu in wagon loads; northern po- tatoes, 40@50c; sweets, W@tSc per bu. Onions, 55@65c per bu. Parsnips, 35@50c per bu. Apples—Choice to fancy, $3.00@$4.00 per bbl; fair to choice, $2.00@3.00 per bbl; 6c @$1.00 per bu; culls, 2@40c per bu. Cali- fornia fancy, $1. 85 per bu box. New Missouri Coal Field. Leaven-vorth, Kan., Dec. 19.—Agents representing the Chicago Great West- ern (Maple Leaf) railroad have pur- chased two farms at Beverly, Mo., across the river, in the Missouri bot- toms, for the purpose of opening a coal mine. They have also secured coal rights on nearly 2,000 acres be- sides, and the sinking of a shaft is ex- pected to commence early in January. A Rival of the Sugar Trust. Dover, Del., Dec. 19.—The Colonial Sugar Refining company, the alleged rival of the A merican Sugar Refining company, ‘vas incorporated here to- : day, capital $100,000, with the privi- lege of increasing it to $100,000,000. The company is chartered to engage in the production of sugar in Cuba, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. o nkruptSale Having t from the trustee in bankrubtcy, the C. SPRAGUE & COW’s Stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Groceries, We will sell the same at retail to the people of Burler and OOK BOON OS OS OOS £086 89EO20 0000000001 9808 08000888 C989 80C OX Etc., at a big reduction from wholesale prices. Bates County, REGARDLESS OF COST OR VALUE. This stock must be closed out quiek—first cost no object everything goes. Come early and get the first choice. This great sale means lots of money to the people.and just at a time when such goods are most needed Latimer & Caldwell, At Sprague’s old Stand. ee P. S. All fixtures for sale cheap. or all lines at a bargain. merchant or any one who wants to go in BUSINESS. TOISOOIOOOHOOOHOOIOSOOOOOOOLIGOOOOLAK The boys in this community are hunting rabbits now instead of deer We will close out any This is a chance for a OK PSS BOSE £808 O56 9S62C000&9< 2OS1 NOSES 946009800 806088885 seen grazing in the community a few DONT NEED To wait until New Year’s to make a resolution to save money, this is just as gooda day as any to commence. SEQQESE Come in and start your account. No amount is too small. Messrs. Price and D. H. son call at this office “‘Rose™ Sunday eve and Mr. Price entertain- ed us nicely for a time, telling us his ups and downs during his four years in the confederate army. g is a staunch good old demoerat. Evans Stevens. reports his school progressing nicely. are a woman believed to be Mrs. os aud a man nan tenement in Tenth avenue caused the Spruce Items. B. McCanahan ismoving this week to his farm where he has rented of and Mathew Evans is moving to the Rains farm. There will be a new merchant take charge of the store in the Guttridge property at Ballard soon. Mr. Mistler, after next Monday, will only grind corn once a month, on the first Saturday of each month. Jot Newberry and made a trip to Appleton City Satur- ne SPECIAL SALE To close out our Holiday Goods, We are Selling Mandolins from$3up Guitars from$4up. Autoharps from $3 up. We have everything known in music. SPECIAL PRICES ON PIANOS AND ORGANS. Did you ever look over our stock of sheet It will pay you. McCulloch’s Music House, West Side of Square, Butler, Mo. Art Gilmore W. T. Wigger went to Spruce Sat- Mrs. Margaret Kretzinger is spend- ing awhile with her daughter Mrs. Eliza Beard. She is very poor health this; winter. Miss Allie Williams died at the resi- dence of her uncle, G. day:last week, of consumption. remains were taken to Henry county, her home, for interment. i Mr. Ray, the Oak Grove school teacher, has a brother visiting him from Kentucky. J. E. Kretzinger has been hauling to the mill this week. E. Kretzinger has been painting Mrs. Beard’s house. It is reported that Ning Bros. have put up a hoop pole shop at Spruce. Art Gilmore is feeding 30 head of cattle this winter. Charles Beard is feeding a bunch of cattle this winter. Will Wigger has returned from his His brother Geo. attend them, $50 a month each for sions, besides keeping guards on watch day and night. ed Saturday night by the crowd who had assembled bridge to skate. The Deer that community a few days ago either be- longed to Mr. Keirsey, near Ballard, or Henry Oliver, of Montrose, as both deal in deer. Will Cole of Appleton City, passed thrugh here Sunday. Nannie Maxey went to Butler shop- ping last Saturday. L. Coleman purchased a fine bunch of hogs last week, which he will John Borum and family visited | feed on his well improved farm. with Grandma Wilker last Saturday and Sunday. John Simpson goes west quite oft- en, not for his health, but for a sweet Deepwater Items. The gaities of this community are skating and sleigh riding. The sale at Albert Wetzel’s Thurs- | day was well attended, and things sold at their full value, and D. H. Kash, the auctioneer, is said to be a Johnstown ter genera! has ordered that hereafter the length of service as letter carriers shall not be indicated on the uniforms of carriers by stripes but hy stars. one black silk star; two stars for ten years; one ref silk star for 15 years, and two 101 20; one silver star for 25 years, two for 50; one gold star for 35 J. E. Kash went to Nevada Satur- and two for 40 years. day on business. Robt Southerland and Geo. Allison have been trading stock. ~ 2. H. Kash purchased a horse at the Wetzel sale last Thursday. trip to Oklahoma. and himself with their families will soon go thereto make their future Bate Batchelor bought several hun- dred rails at 90c per hundred. George Troope and family visited Grandma Kretzinger on the first Sun- in December, and presented her some very nice presents. The time set to meet at the ceme tery to clean it off was Dec. 9, but it was such a bad day people could not Among the visitors who called on the Elm Grove school last week were Mrs. Sue Chambers and daughter Miss Mignon Coleman, Shelton and Shad The eclipse of the moon was watch- ; O@ell. > who remember what they | to be impressed with t record madeby Wm Only the Most Optimistic in London Believed That Buller Had Crossed the Tugela. the incor McKinley He has never been true to any one ~OsitiON ass i doby him, and has proved him of the most versa- tile trimmers in the history of Ameri ‘an politicians. In regard to this matter, H, H McClure has addressed a letter to the METHUEN POWERLESS TO ADVANCE. Reinforcements and Extending Their Fortifications on Both His Flanks—Misgivings as to the Wis dom of Sending Troops from India to South Africa—Corps of Rough Riders. Pittsburg Post which gives one a fair lea of McKinley's methods, Among or things, Mr. McClure says: “The future writers of history will dthat they have almost an im- possible task to follow the sinuous meanderings and ways of William MeKinley. They will not only find McKinley against McKinley, but they will find him against all precedents, teachings and conduct of his prede cessors in the history of the American republie » They will find him before 1896 ad- vocating in season and out of season all kinds of robber tariffs for the pur- pose of bamboozling his fellow-citi- zens into the folly of handing him over the presidency. They will find after he has secured thecoveted boon in order to get it again, launching out into an imperialistic policy which is death to tariff and allit representa. They will find him before 1896 de- nouncing Cleveland for the awful crime of destroying one of the na tion’s precious metals as money, over which he (McKinley) shed lots of tears. They will find him after 1896, in order to enhance his chances to succeed himself, recommeding to congress to destroy silver money. They will find him opposed to war with Spain before 1898, and in the twinkling of an eye they will find him on a Tuesday sending Spain an ulti- matum to surrender Cuba by the next Saturday at noon. They will find him denouncing forei- ble annexation as criminal aggres- sion, and then they will find him col- onizing the Philippines with an army of 65,000 troops armed to the teeth, shooting Filipinos, destroying their property and making their country a veritable hef.”” It should be remembered that this is not an attack on McKinley. It is simply a plain statement of facts. In the face of such a record, what can the American people expect if they re-elect McKinley? There is nothing which they cannot expect. He isan opportunist. He has no fixed policy and his course to-day is no criterion as to what his course may be to-morrow. London, Dee. 19 timistic ga that Gen. Tugela river, aud even they speedily realized tha le that the war office would refrain from the immediate publication of news of such importance. There is also no confir- 0 m of the statement t Gen Methuen’s line of communication has been cut, though there is 4 probabil ity of suc: an event occurring at any mwement. According to the latest news from Gen. Methuen, dated Sunday, December 17, the situation appea complete i:npasse fhe gathering reinforcements and extend- ing their tortiticaticns on both his Hanks, but it was believed they would be unable to attack the British posi- tion. Oa the other hand. it was re- garded as impossible for the British to turn -ne Boer flank, which was resting on the river to the east and rapidly approaching the river to the west. The Boer lines of entrench- ments are continuous and capable of rapid connection at many points. From elsewhere at the front there is absolut nothing to throw additonal light on the situation. Some of the papers express consid- erable misgivings at troops going from India to South Africa, They think the risks too great and that it may lead to two continents being ablaze instead of one. For « Corps of Rough Riders. London. Dec. 19.—Two important re- ports, both said to be off lly con- firmed, became public. One is that the government has decided to raise a corps of 40,000 rough riders to send to the Transvaal. The other is that the duke of Connaught, the queen's second son will be sent out in com- mand of the Eighth army corps, the next corps to be rased. The enlist- ment of rough riders will be the atest innovation the British army een in ages. It is due in the first place to the urgency of the situation rond | to the fine im de hy Col. Roosevelt's regi- Only the most op e any credit to the rur ors Suller had crossed the t it wus iner and in the s pression m ment in C SEVEN DIED BY FIRE. In a Tenement House Five were Killed— = Woman and Her Littie Child the Other Victims. New York, Dec. 19.—Five persons were burned to death and six were seriously injured to-day in a fire in a five-story double tenement house known as the Mentor, 102d street and Third avenue. Three members of a family of four perished, vi John Barrett, wife and daughter Julia, the latter six years old. The other: ud Grand River Items. Chas. and William Lewis contem- plate moving to their new home in Deer Creek soon. Coleville literary is progressing nicely. We were informed that Jas. Howard Hamilton defeated silver- tongued Maxey Friday, Dee. 8. I suppose we will have to call around and enjoy our selves. Dr. W. R. Gilmore was seen driving through our neighborhood a few days ago. They are making extensive prepa- rations for a Christmas tree at Al- tona. We wish them success. It is under the management of the Argen- bright girls. People are getting hungry, I pre- sume, as they are all killing hoge in this vicinity. M. F. Taber took a load of hogs to Adrian last week. Pola Woolsey has improved agreat deal. He was able to go visiting last Sunday. We are informed that Mr. Crews is going to move to the place formerly occupied by Wm. Lewis. Ad. {Defienbangh sold his corn to Argenbright brothers. Jode Haggard and wife went sleigh riding one day last weep. RB. M. Powelland wife visited Frank Andes last Sunday. Wine A. Wake. 1 Williams llway of a five-story Fire in the death of Mrs. Kate Fox and her son, 24% years old. Mrs. Fox’s husband, a hackman, was away from home at the time. Marks a New Epoch. Memphs, Tenn., Dec. 19.—The com- pletion of the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad from Memphis to Weath- erford, Ok., and the formal opening of that line for business has marked an epoch in the railroad situation in the southwest. T he location of the line gives it the position of a dictator. It affords a direct line through the very heart of the miost valuable territory in the southwest and its local trade will prove one of the most valuable acquisitions ever. obtained by the building of a ralroad. Smalipox Worrying Kansas City. Kansas “ity, Mo., Dee. 19.—Smallpox is costing Kansas Cty $200 a day, and it will continue to be a heavy expense for some time to come. There are ients in the hospital. It month for a physician to now 15 costs $15 2 three female nurses, and $50 a month for a steward. The food and fuel for them cost $15 a day. To many of the 101 people in quarantine the city is compelled to furnish fuel and provi- Stars Will Design Their Service. Washington. Dec. 19.—The postmas- For five years service they will wear # A H- CUI VER, A. UV E JNO. HUTCHISON, Licenesed Embalmer. —o— wires Tus BUTLER CASH DEPARTMENT STORE. —~— Allorders attended 4 etic of ly, day or night. e best hearse in the county. Terms: CASH OR ON CREDIT. He Will Wait Awhile. Rome, Dec. 19.—The Osservatore uomano. organ of the vatican, says it s certain that Negus Menelik, of \byssiniz. is contemplating war _gainst Great Pritain. He wishes to vait, however, until her weakness is ‘nily established. The validty of the act which gives he defendants in misdemeanor cases he right to waive a trial by jury was ustained by the Illincis supreme aur j SE ee BN reteruone—Night, 109; Day, Bo. &.