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$45,000 ININHERITANCE TAX Jackson County Alone will Pav That Under the New Law. The Law Affirmed by the Supreme Cour: Yesterday.--The First Payment Under It Made This Morning. --All to the Educational Fund. It was only yesterday that Sherwool of the supreme court de cided the legality of the collateral in- heritance tax and this morning, fewer than twent) after the de our hours cision, George A. Higinbothan paid to the county collector $400 due the state from the estate of his mother, Judge | We have had 24 presidents up to| : date. Hitherto presidente renomi:| Warfensbure,/ Convicted nated by their parties have usually | of Murder been re-elected. The four exceptions | were John Adams, defeated for re] a lelection by Thomas Jefferson in VICTIM BURNED TO DEATH. } 1800, exactly a century ago; Martin }Van Buren. Grover Cleveland and ae | Benjamin Harrison. Mr. Bryan’s)If Sentence Is Carried Out Faulkner | Success would indeed break many Will Be the First White Man to presidential precedents. He comes from the trans-Mississippi west, a Die on the Gallows in Dallas section that has never before sup- = He was born in pean ‘ I plied a president. [linois, the birthplace of no presi- youngest FACTS ABOUT PRESIDENTS. Some Incidents During the Reigns Our Chief Executives. be the lent. He would nan ever chosen as president. 'MISSOUR! MAN | SENTENCED TO DIE. of Eugene Faulkner, Formerly of Dallas, Tex verdict is eee out, ner, formerly of Warrensburg will be the first white man Mo.. » of to . Feb. 20.—If the jury's Eugene Faulk- suffer TOBACCO SPIT and SMOKE DON’T Your Lifeaway! n be cured of \any form of tobacco usin; made wel full of new life that makes ten pounds in cured. |All drug let et an ads AND “SEND sso KING With Cupid's Help a Pretty Student Reaps a Golden Harvest. | Bloomington, Il].—Miss E teth Kaburick is 21, pretty, stylish, well jedu ‘ated and an artist. She was ar- rested here to-day by a United States marshal, charged with violating the postal laws by using the mails to de- jfrau i. me herea The young woman ca year ago from Carlinville, ill, where her her lives, a well-to-do Bole S SAN Z = Ras A ears 8 % The Kind You Have Always Bought, and wh 30 years, in use for over All C sititintalten, aoe Experiments th Castoria is 2a harmless sul goric, Drops and Svc contains neither Opium, substance. Ets and ailays Fever Colic. € retiey and Piatulenes Stormin rels, The © Parsi wy ry : eae 5 + wm 280 | ae 5 ’ ' V/V Time Table ailway utler Station. $ORTH BOUND to u : 56 A.M 0.4 . 12°56 P.M. io 1 10.35 P.M Yo Loca ; 1256 PM 14 Stock Exnree ¢ not carry 53 p.m SOUTH BOTND. 10.9 M Oo. 8 12 M 1 M Loer ts 2:20P.M. IN% \TE DIVISION ¥o. 349 Depart 7:204.M Yo. 350 Arrive 11:59 A. M E_C. Vexpenvoort, Agent Table ieparture of trains at Worland Golf Time K. C, Pittsbr rrival and UT ROUND > 1 Kansas City iatly Express ...12:49 p. m No.3 oe ae 3:17 m TH ROUND rt Arthur Express, 2 41p.m s Express. » popular abort line be- Mo. and Pirteburg, Kan lin. Mo, sho, Mo., Sulphur Springs Siloam Springs. Ark., and the direci m the ae to St Louts. Chicago sorth and northesst and to Denver Francteco, Portlan¢ and pointe northwest. ‘No expense has been make the passenger equipment of ‘ie line secon? to none tn the west ‘a the new line H.C Onr Gen’) Pass. Agt., Kansas Otty, Mo >. 2 Thror 4 Siloam Spri member thie te ween easeeC ity 1, Payne, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, fice over Nichols Fast Side Shoe St Square. Residence on Ohio street, 2nd door ast of West School buildin sonth side 6-tf DR. H. M. CANNON, DENTIST, BUTLER, MO East Side Squara, Caroline E. H. Higinbothan. Our oldest president at the time ssh : mian farmer. She entered the Acad- The inheritance tax was passed by his inauguration was William Henry | death on the gallows in Dallas county emy of St. Joseph and ee the last general assembly and became Harrison (68). Buchanan was 66, ral process : j shady aidek. Hie dea seekk accom alaw Aug. 20, 1899. It provided Taylor 65, John Adamsand Jackson ’ I aulkner was convicted of rs plisticd aa ie ee 5 percent of the valuation of] Were each 62 and all the others were/in the first des ae Sees = good market for her faney k alllegnéies ieit 40 any one, not of}in their fifties except Pierce (49), death penalty as a punishine nt His | nee ft me lineal decent, shall he paid to thej Grant (41) and) Cleveland | (5)-|cnmc was) pamiclpatom in the are | 2 and se ; st county collector to be remitted to} @rant was our youngest president fe death of onstable Pate tT ale to dslee ae cess q the santo treasurer for the state edu-| O00 the day of his first inauguration. for y on the morning of Des 3, 1900 jit ie cational fund. In the Higinbothan} The birthplace of our presidents Four Set ee ee nes : Attention was ract © her re case a part of the estate was left to| are divided among the states as fol- | The ate were begun Os Jan eae he th : Rae ‘ her children while the remainder was | lows: Six have come from Virginia, | aud have occuy clusive ; aT ie ate willed to her daughters in-law. This | tive from Ohio, three from New York. | of the « rimin Ir ie or cigs latter part was valued at $8,000] tWo from Massachusetts and | thirty days. - ubespet seers a lai A z = > ils and the tax on it was $400. Judge | North Carolina and one each from bueced Biet s evidence. T bey ONE tines prea a Guinotte made the order for pay-| New ey, Kentucky, New Hamp Will = Drew Pruitt, brothers. Two r 5 ities ‘ ment this morning and a eheck was | Vermont, Pennsylvania and Pyhers, vse mnand William | ; 3 asi in Hears given at onc | oe : PEUBEES spite sikh eae tee saving R s The new law is mostexacting and} As to the Christian names of our} Chapr SC ee ee AA bad ito i <5 leaves no loophole to. eseape its pro-| presidents, there have been fou he keep saloon in this] a. : visions. After an estate has been |Jameses, three Johns, two An Irews i I 5 ring ials | oon bats valued the judge of the probate comrt j two Williams and one George, Phe ms} t > o ay d long dis ( | : : a 4 makes an order for the payment of|as, Martin, Zachary, Millard, Frank Btable i Uso see : i the inheritance tax. This order is aflin, Abrabam, Ulysses, Rutheriord, | hav {ill feeling tor h Ir = eee 2 ap = first lien on the property Besides, | Chester, Groverand Benjamin. Four-}- prover ¢ this trial t after ge executors and administrators are|teen of them had no middie names| bad been set on tireand officers ru=h A held liable under their bonds until]/#nud noue of them were named in Tinto the saloon to rescue him, one a x eI the tax is paid honor of any previous president—a | 0! them called for water to throw on ‘ ect The new law is of great importance | fact wich suows Low sadiy ratile | Ee gene: ulkner “eee Miss! to the educational fund of the state. ]is to name a baby boy alter a presi-| 4d advised that he be permitted to pace wan Rene ease Gad This ean be better appreciated when|dent in the hope that he also may | burn, as he was no good. Bee ae pea if sie re ae it is understood that there is due in| grow up and ‘get there ag ee, Cae ee had rec ‘ Jackson county alone about $45,000 All of our presidents have been sefore setting Bain on tire the], . ms z under the ely The estate of every | married men at the time of their elec- irners had poured turpentine and ae eae ; se ; eae ee ig - i person who has died in the county | tion save three—Van Buren, Buchan-|#@soline over bis clothing. It was 2 & ae ‘fs nes poe saii ee: since August 20, 1899, where le an and Cleveland. aiso proven that bis drinks had been {a gta, eee tcana cies have been leit to others, than} Washington was the first president | drugged to: make him unconscious as re So eae direct descendants, will be assessed | to die and the only one to die in the} that he had been robbed of his money [10 USE TOONS. sid by Judge Guinotte immediately. eighteenth century. At his death|and that a new pair of shoes were | 7,” ag cee ning & fre According to George H. English, | Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, | taken from his feet and sold over the Ee ere r je., the attorney who bas been mak-|the second Adams, Jackson, Van|bar by Faulkner for $1.50 only a : ‘ ee Zz sie is ed ing ive ations in the Witerest of }Buren, tt first ILarrison, Tyler, | ew minutes before he was set oa fire erlang: ea the state university, these estates} Peik, Taylor and Buchanan were all] The bulk of the testimony will come under the law: William | living | brought out on Faulkner’s trial. and Washi . Feb. 20.—It has beer Askew, J. J. Squier, Mrs. Henry Gar-| Among the curious coincidences of | that probably accounts for his being | reported to d lat western repul - land, Annie Erskine, Timothy Buek-| the presidential office we may men-| iver a severer sentence than his two |licans would « ppose the appointment ley and Fay C. Gurney. The Askew]|tion the deaths of John Adams and [Convicted companions in the crime.|of Philip C. Knox Pittsbure to su estate is the largest one of these. It} Thomas Jefferson on the same day— The manner in’ which Constable |ceed attorney general Griggs. was valued at over $200,000 and a|July 4, 1826. Innosubsequent year | Bain lost his life is the only killing of | Some western re publicans are not part of it left to others than direct | have two »sidents died. Grant | the kind ever known to have been pleased with the selection of a man descendants. and Hayes were the only two presi-| Committed in Texas. The feeling for | who has been attorney forthe Carne- “This ecision by the supreme|dents born in the same year. Gar-| the first few days after was sointense » steel works for the post of attor- court,” id Judge Guinotte, a|field was born in the same year} that Chapman and Faulkner were in general. It is feared that the splendid thing. not only for the state] that Monroe died. None of our pres-j danger of being lynched, and Sheriff | political effect in the west may not university, but for all the other edu-}idents has died out of the country, | Johnson had to send them to at | be good. ean be learned, cational institutions of the state. | 1 Tyler died at Richmond while} Fort Worth, where they were kept | however, t » organized oppo There is no possible way of estimat-| a considered herself out of the | for three weeks. 1e jury considered | sition, and it is not probable that ing how much it will add to the edi -junion. Only one president, John} Faulkner's case only two hours. Hel there will be any contest over the eational fund, because that depends | Adams, has had a son elected to the} accepted the verd without display | confirmation of Mr. Knox Advo- entirely upon the manner in which | office, and ouly one, William Henry | Of feeling, except that he looked sur-jcates of the appointment say it estates are willed. But it will un-| Harrison, has had a grandson chosen | prised and downcast. When Be aced | would be difficult for the president doubtedly run into the thousands of | to fill it. in he said to the deputy | to find a republican lawyer capable dollars.” | Only two ex-presidents are now | Sheri jot filling the post of attorney gen- Phe new law being declared | living—Grover Cleveland and Benja- t looks as if the tried to pile |eral in a creditable manuer who had valid,”” said a lawyer, “will do more}min Harrison. The graves of their} heavy load onto me.” not had corporatious or rich men than any other one thing toward the | predecessors are as widely separated | aaa j among his cliens. building up of Missouri’seducational | as the states th: them birth. | STIRRED A TARIFF WAR. z interests. Ever since I can remem-| All of our departed presidents lived wee » ber the legislature has never been|to a good old ageexcept Garfield and | _ 4 a able to appropriate as much money | Li who were assassinated. | &¢?™any Talks of Following Russiag | to the state university as it needed | Eleven of them lived well on into the} Example. to properly carry on its work. 1) seventies, while John Adams lived to| nee a + : zs don’t believe the difi assemblies | be 91, Madison to. be 85, Jefferson] Berlin. Feb. 21.—The Germans, | tis nee " have been niggardly, but the state|S83. and Van Bu jwt » were elated over Russia’s r | rf io agree : : has not had the anoney to make o f tory pol the | nited | 1 * eo erous apportionments v pe on : = oo ‘ i son in Missouri who wishes to see the Le 2 it university built up and be ona par ae : | = with universities of ¢ states nie = Witte, Rus is ntence on Woman ze ey one Mo a es | sidents AGN ms a : Pp ; \ : , = S x : as = a "ey : a s States . r > s ae = __, How Are Your Kidneys? s r I LANTA, GA. E SWiF T SPECIFIC CO., AT I WILL BE IN FOSTER, the first Mondayin each month 2daye ARCHIE, third Mondayof each month ¢ ADRIAN, 2d and 4th Monday and Tues ach week. Prepared to doall kindsof Dontal work. Con- | sultation free. H.M.C*\ «NON, D.D.8 DR. W. J. McANINCH, VETERINARY SURGEON. Scientifically treats all domestic ani mals. Office at Gailey’s Feed Yard. Batler, Mo. DR, E S. 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