The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 1, 1900, Page 3

Sf RARER PRPPPIRLEPL EL LEP LOPLI LPPE PLPLEPLELL ILLS | TYGARD, HON.J. 8. NEWSEBRY, J.C.CLARE, President. Vice-Pres’t. THE BATES COUNTY BANK, BoTi.BR, Mo. a Successor to BATES COUNTY NATIONAL BANK. Esras.isHep Dzc., 1870. CAPITAL, $75,000. -}% A Genet Banking t ft Bates County Investment Co., : IBUTLER, MO.: i Oapital, = = 850,0coo. Money to loan on real estate, at low rates. Abstrects of title to all lands and town lots in Bates county. Choice } securities always on hand and forsale. Abstracts of title furnished, titles examined and all kinds of real estate j papers drawn. ¥. J. Trearp, Hox. J. B. Newurery, J.C. President, Vice-President. Sosy. & Tress. Jvo. C. Harzs, Abstractor. | 8. F. Wannocg, Notary. § RPL P RLLPRPPLPPARLLPAPPPE It is the easiest thing in the world to have And it is just as easy LUMBAGO OR LAME BACK, 4% 3.5 No remedy has made surer ms woes esas ST. JACOBS OIL. \T RELAXES THE STIFFENED MUSCLES. } We want the best trade—that is yours. cea You want the best groceries—they are ours. \waysat ig We can make the prices; Serernad We can get together. f 7OO00000000 WATCH. j We want your Chickens! POMPE LO? J Square PDODO00OGO0 900000000000 000 000 SMITH’S North Side of BARGAINS Prices at the bottom where We want your Butter! A H the: snould be SMITH & SON. We want your Eggs. The way to make these go farthest bring them to HE MISSOURI STATE BANK. of Butler, Missouri Capital and Surplus, (full paid) - . T 37,000.00. Receives Deposits, Loans Money, Buys Notes, Issues Drafts, and does a General Banking Business. Ready at all times to make loans at reasonable rates of interest. The patronage of merchants, farmers, stock dealers, business men and the public generally is solicit- ed, promising strict attention to business and a safe depository for funds. —DIRECTORS.—. John Deerwester, Charles R. Radford, Wm. E, Walton, T. C. Boulware, T a. ees, J.&. Jenkins, Booker Powell, Frank M. Voris, J.M_ Christy. : J.B, JENKINS, Cashier. Wm. E. WALTON, President. Interest Reduced, 20: We are loaning money on good farms in Bates county at 6 per cent interest and do notcharge any commission. Money on hand ready and loans closed up without delay. Parties wanting a new loan, or desiring to reduce the interest on an old one will find it to their advantage to call on us. WALTON TRUST COMPANY, Butler, Missouri. Always All the news, without prejudice ; The best general reading ; - The best market reports ; The great paper of the great West. THE KANSAS CITY STAR By mail, postage prepaid, daily and Sunday, 1 year, $4.00. By mail, postage prepaid, daily and Sunday, 6 months, $2.00. The Weekly Kansas City Star. : Postage prepaid, 25 cents @ year. The Founder of the City of Rich Hill, 44¥ Bisht. this morning, before being PHILLIPS CONFESSES AGAIN. CASTORIA | — | For Infants and Children. Before Starting for Prison the Murderer | The Kind You Have Always Bought | Tells of His Crime. Neate the 3 Ft. Scott, Kan., Jan. 24.—Amos | Signature of \ Phillips, the old Bates county farmer * a | who was yesterday sentenced to hang -for having been implicated in the Ed- | {linger murder with George and Ed| ' Meeks, who were ! M. S. COWLES IS NO MORE. -ched here Satur- |taken to the p... tentiary, made a {complete confession, which explains away the mysteries of the case that led to the belief by many that he was guilty and adds some new features to the details of the awful crime. Phillips was seeretly taken from jail last night in order to make cer- tain of his protection from a mob, which was threatened, and was kept shackled and under guard in a base- ment room of the Goodlander hotel It seems now that the collapse of his nervous system is not wholly due to the awful ordeal through which he passed Saturday night, when the lynchers were at the door of his cell fighting for him, but heis continually haunted by the dying s of the murdered boy and his pitiful appeals for merey. The old says the memory of that night will ever . tor- ture hip. As a crowd from the theater passed on the walk above him last night he startled through fear of a mob, and from that instant he was a pitifully helpless man. The remainder of the night he spent with Sheriff Brooks and deputy sheriff Ball telling them the details of the murder. The crime was planned inJBates county, Missouri, at the rendezvous where the gang made t hez quarters. Two weeks before Edlinger left home Phillips left for the south- west part of the county in his wagon, the plan being for him to wait ina certain neighborhood through which Edlinger would pass. Edlinger’s de- parture was delayed. The Meeks wrote Phillipsat Pawnee, this county, giving him the information| and di- recting him to go further west. It was while at Pawnee. Englevale and Stark waiting for Edlinger that the thirteen alibi witnesses saw him. He says these witnesses are mistaken as to their dates. After waiting at Stark several days he started north on the road which Edlinger was to follow. according to a route furnished him at Rich Hill by Ed Meeks. He did not know, of course, just where he would meet them, but a day or two later found them in campinthe stone house in this county, where the mur- der occurred. He arrived at the spot after dark and found the Meeks in camp with Edlinger. That evening George Meeks shot Edlinger, just as Ed Meeks made the statement a mo- ment before he was hanged. After the shooting they hurried out to hitch up and get away. Edlinger, who was thought to have been in- stantly killed, revived and made an outery. The Meeks men directed Phillips to get an ax from the Ed- linger wagon and “finish him.” This he did. As the dying boy saw him coming with the ax he pleaded for mercy, but the old man crushed his skull by four blows. Each man took a team and they left together. Two days later the body was buried in Mill creek, and they separated, to meet in Nevada, where they divided the spoils a week later. In his state- ment before the mob hanged him Ed Meeks stated that George shot Ed- linger, and that Phillips used the ax. Both he and his brother insisted that Phillips be hanged with them. The officers have no doubt of the Dies Suddenly. K.C. Star, 25th Manning S. Cowles, the built Rich Hill and did much to de- velop coal miningin that part of Missouri. died last night at Univer- sity hospital. He had been ill only afew days with paralysis of the in- testines. Mr. Cowles owned much property in Kansas City and had an office in the Bank building. His home was near Leeds. At the time of his death he owned a large amount of land in Missouri towns and in the country and was one of the largest stockholders in the Rich Hill Coal Company. Mr. Cowles was 62 years old and was born in Claridon, O. Wisconsin when the war and enlisted in a Wisconsin battery. during the war he was transferred to an Ohio battery. When peace came he was mustered out and Poughkeepsie, N. Y., tended a businessschool. Mr. Cowles came to Butler, Mo.. in 1865 and opened a large store where he sold general merchandise. About 1879, or earlier, he became interested inthe coal fields at the place where Rich Hill now stands, and became one of the promoters of the enterprise to extend the Missouri Pacific railway south from Pleasant Hill tothe coal fields. The enter- prise succeeded. In June 1880 Mr. Cowles saw the first nail driven in the building of the now town of Rich Hill. The town thrived amazingly, and three years after it had begun it had a population of 5,000. Mr. Cowles wasa member of the first town company of Rich Hill, and opened a general store in the town. As the town grew his wealth increas- ed, and he was a rich man when he died. Mr. Cowles married twice. His first wife was Maggie Mckibben, whom he marriedin Butler. The only child who survives him was born of this marriage. He is Marion 5. Cowles, 24 years old, and has charge ofa large cattle ranch in Cowley county, Kansas. The second wife, who was Laura J. Cunningham, surviveshim. He mar- ried her in 1884. Mr. Cowles was a large owner of realestate in Kansas City. He anxious for public improvements and was in every way a public spirited citizen. He was an elderin the Westminster Presbyterian church and a warm friend_ of its pastor, the Rev. Dr. George. man who American He went to broke out man went to where he at- was always Children who are troubled with worms are pale in the face, fretful by spells, restless in sleep. have blue rings around their eyes, bad dreams, variable appetite, and pick the nose. White's Cream Vermifuge will killand expel these parasites. Prive 25 at H. L. Tucke Favors Death Penalty. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 24.—Governor Stanley authorized an interview to- day in which he advocated the death penalty for premeditated murder. He expresses the belief that if the gal- lows had awaited the Meeks brothers at Fort Scott they would not have been lynched. — __ feonfession. Phillips was taken to “I believe,” the governor said.| Leavenworth this morning. The “that the punishment of murderers should be left with the jury. Leach, who was convicted in the federal court of murder, was virtualiy sen- tenced by the jury. The jury had the liberty to select life or death for Leach, and they preferred that he expiate the crime by serving a life sentence in the penitentiary. I will recommend to the legislature, I be- sheriff had been notified by the peni- tentiary warden that on account of the quarantine Phillips would not be admitted, but it was dangerous to keep him here, and the sheriff will leave him in the Leavenworth jail until the penitentiary quarantine is lifted. Most people appreciate a good thing at a fair price, but some few will have only the things that cost the most money. people. The “Ivory” is the favorite soap of most Some few want the high-priced toilet soaps and think they must be better because they cost more. No soap is more carefully made, or is made of better materials, than Ivory Saap. IVORY SOAP IS 99.0, PER CENT. PURE. COPYRIGHT 1698 SY THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. CINCINNATI BOERS AGAIN IN CONTROL. Warren Compelled to Evacu- uate Spionkop. London Thrown Into a Season of Gloom by News of Disaster. London, Jan. 26., (11:10 a. m.)— The war office has just posted the fol- lowing dispatch from Gen. Buller, dated at Spearman's camp, Thurs- day, Jan. 25, (noon): “Gen. Warren's garrison, I am sor- ry to say, I find this morning had in the night abandoned Spionkop.” London, Jan. 27.—(4a. m.)—Seven days of fighting have left the main Boer positions intact and Gen. Bul- ler's army 706 weaker. according to the official casualty lists, which seem- ingly do not include the Spionkop losses, as last not mention Gen. Woodgate’s wound- those ing. England is possessed by a depress- ing sense of failure, although nota word in criticism of her generals and soldiers is uttered. Not much effort is made to place a happy construc- tion upon Gen. Buller’s bare eighteen words telling of the retirement from Spionkop, and there is an uneasy impression abroad that worse news is yet tocome At one of the military clubs night the statement passed from one member to another that the war of- fice had received an unpleasant sup- to- plementary dispatch from Gen. Buller which was being held up for twelve hours. Spencer Wilkinson, in the Morning Post. writes as follows of the Spion- kop loss: “This is a serious attempt will not be made to mini- mize it, for no greater wrong can be forwarded do} jean ) hity, and will | Chinese fore: ot = ee eek er en eee unshaken,and probably nothing that Africa will degree her in- continue re ceive bad news, if it comes, with dig- happen in South change in the slightest tentions. She will to maintain her deter- mination to win at last To Cure Disease is to Cure the Blooa fler with bolle carb: ur bloot ts dises: cles,old soree 1, br Thar ed to care Sold by L. Tocwaa. ood Syrap ts £0 Lt lew boon for fomales SEE RUSSIA’S FINE HAND. Japan Excited Over Abdication of Chinese Emperor. London, Jan. 26.—A special dis- patch from Shanghai says the news of the abdication of the Chinese em- peror has caused a tremendous 8 n- sation in Japan, where a strong de sire is expressed to adopt stringent measures, as it is believed Russia is the leading hand in the coup d'etat. The dowager empress has dismiss ed Jung Lu. generalissimoe of the on account of his sup- posed disapproval of the coup d'etat. Other high officials have been super- seded. Extraordinary precaution have been taken at the risings. vice regal The troops have been served with ball capitals to prevent } cartridges The interior of China is greatly ex- cited and progressive Chinese are beg- matter, and an} | | | | | | | done to our people at home than to! mislead them about the significance | of the events of the war. way is to tell the truth as far as we know it.” But facts from the neighborhood of the Tugela river are scantier than | ever. The censorship now is simply | The right | ging the American, British and Jap- anese ministers to intervene and re- An of- received store the emperor to ficial communication from Pekin has been appointed heir apparent to the throne, has been given the statua the emperor. The statement that a new emperor has assended the throne is premature, al hough it is liable the present action is preparatory thereto. pe wer. here Chun, who says: Peu of a son of last Morrison for Bryan. Waterloo, Ill., Jan. 20.—Col. Will- iam R. Morrison announces that he will be in the field and ready for work in the next campaign. He thinks the | only thing for Democrats to do is to prohibitive, and something is wrong | with the cables. The break on the/ east coast lines has been repaired, but the cable between San Thome and Loanda, is interrupted. “More troops,” is the only sug- gestion here as to the way to break the Boer resistance. Mr. Wilkinson regrets that Gen. Buller has not 20,- lieve, that our present laws be chang- ed so as to offer the same provisions to men prosecuted for murder orcon- victed of murder in the first degree in this state. If the laws were amended so the jury in such cases would find or could find that a man was guilty blooded and premeditated, I would have no hesitancy in signing the death warrant.” CSCABTORIA. Bears the The Kind You Have Aswars Sought of murder inthe first degree, cold! Would Jacksos aaa ane This? | 000 more men, declaring that if they The Buffalo Evening Times wants would not make victory certain his to know: “If Andrew Jackson were enterprise without them is hopeless | president does anybody suppose he) The Spectator, dealing with the ne. oe permit stain a | cessity of large additional military obnobbing with money kings like | preparations. says: Roekfeller. Morgan and Havemeyer, | “It may be that we have yet anoth- and to name as depository for re-| er cycle of disasters in front of us.” erat ek woacaestiioeslcigetecs tec: Snag-euh 9550 a ci c nt Cape Town last Friday wit 2,127 of the most powerful of allthe trusts. officers and men. The first portion the Standard Oil? of the seventh division is afloat. “Would Old Hickory have permit- Hence, with the 10,000 men of this ted this?” — 4 LIF “No, by the Eternal!” That dark brown taste and horrid A Boon for Suffering Humanity | cea you have in the morning is caus- wert. constipation. 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