The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 21, 1901, Page 4

Siar st RAINS weet BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES. SHALL THE CITY OWN ITS OWN LIGHT PLANT? A Cremation Law in Canada. Montreal, March 16.—A_ bill now Pe J. D. ALLEN, Eprror. ]- D. ALLEN & Co., Proprietors. ~~ “-PERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION s, published The Weexty I s to any add Thursday, will be : one year, postage paid, for $1.00. sent Mr. enlarged to The Commoner, 1's paper; » be page the 000 Even if he only yn as 1 president of the ites cost ruration of Pre Monday March 4th, cost) mor than $4,000,000 Thos. Jones of Vernon 4 Mo., recently purchased 4,400 acres ofjand at Sour Lake, near Benu- mont, ” as, south of the big gusher, for a small amount of money. $200,000 $2 He has refused from e: ern capitalists for the lan« Since the p of the medical billin the legislature knocking out quacks, healers, Christian Scientists, ete., Ft. Scott is making an offort to secure Prof. Weltmer of Nevada, and acommittee has been sent to confer with himin regard institute to that city. to moving his Frank James says democrats of Missouri owe much to him He says afew years ago republicans were afraid to locate in Missouri on aecount of the reputation of himself and Jesse. As a consequence Mis- souri is democratic and most of the other states in the west are republi- can.—Ex. President Hadley of Yale, predicts that we will have an emperor within twenty-five years, unless we can cre- ate a sentiment which, regardless of legislation, will regulate. the trusts. That’s a bold assertion for a college president to make in these days of republicanism and hold his job. Inarevent number of the moner attention was called to the fact that it was customary for the outgoing president and the incoming president to ride to the inauguration together, and Mr. Hanna chosen to ride with Mr. McKinley the question was asked whether Mr. Hanna represented an outgoing or incoming president. Onereader sug- gests the answer “Both,” and an- other thinks that he may be in the middle of his term —Commoner. Prof. Maxey is a young gentleman of the strictest integrity. who has made a decided success as a teacher. His heart is in the work to which he has dedicated his life. The interests of the schools in Bates county could not be in better hands. He is the democratic nominee and is entitled to the full party support. He is worthy and competent and will get his share of the independent vote. Democrats should take enough inter- est to go to the polls and vote for Maxey. Com- as was The place to begin your party or- ganization is in the municipal and township elections. The only way to keep up a party organization is to support its nominees. It is just as important, from a party stand- point to support the nominees in city and township, as in county and state. There must be a place of be- ginning, and loyalty to party prin- ciples must be instilled in the lower, if we would expect it in the] higher branches. Every demoerat is | entitled to his choice of candidates | the convention, afterwards itative of the party alone | 1 be considered. We hope to see the democrats victorious in But- tinevery towns! reatly the county oil | & trie light plant is only ten years have no doubt the lief that the life of that kind of ma- chinery, wholly upon the manner in which it That is the question now before the voters of Butler tosettle. The coun- cil recently had estimates made by a electrician, of the compete nt expert probable cost of establishing an elec- tric light plant, the cost of operating i wear of machinery, Oss same interest on money invested, etc., to- »robable earni “a gether wit! pacity of th which estimate ull inanother column d thouch Collaps Caused in the past t us } pal streets of i 5 plishe 1 is mig e zs Lv ) t t I How I nto é voters when f ‘ pt itv hor 1 t Ss, th n 1 I: S ve are d yy of muni Sealy : > Dr. R. V palo lates p | lished eis el pI ul vDeerT | t $ nad wit I i ie] < ‘ uct sts o chine ind other mate-[} Ie be ry liberal, and the}jarecer i y st figures, in spite of which it shows that instead of paying two | on thousand dollars for the street lights ses ase when the franchise given a company, the private con sumption pays the costs of operat- g the ing and the public lights, leavi taxpayers to pay the interest on the sinking and provide a fund to pay off the bonds investment as they be- come due. M sax, and thirty cars shipped east represented bout $10,006. Charles Horner. bookkeeper and before the Quebec legislature author- izing the cremation ef bodies in t Protestant cemetery Montreal is di bill has been now under ission. tion to the Guerrin, a member ¢ ment, who submitted that er pazan burial istom » approved the ecclesiastica authorities, should not be permitted in Christian ) iking si vould ised i = i a ro duel suVvs ibly is , 5 ship le : r r 6 s = The hides , hunters H hom \ $ represen ‘ i Sh MM 1. He st T , 6 years » unheard o Mes considerable damage, the main lk being the bak jin Coal company and ry building, the Odd Fellows temple building The Presideat’s Band Improved Ever since Gilmore gave the great The city council of Chillicothe, Mo., | cashier for Fred Terry, at the stock-| Boston Jubilees there have been en- recently referred the of that city buyir its own lighting plant to the committee on public That comnuttee, after a dili- gent and painstaking research, made an elaborate report to the council matter works. favoring municipal ownership, which report was published in full in the Missouri World. It showed that a large number of towns in Missouri and other states, of from 2,000 to 10.000 population, that owned their own light plants, and in some c: ably ses their water works, almost inva reported that it was a b g saving to the taxpayers and a good thing for the towns. The principal a against the city’s building and oper- ating its own light } lant, have heard. gument used which we is that the life of an elec- We usin gentlemen in their the that argument are sincere belief, but wlined to we are be- i} like all other kinds, depends is handled. We b ye electric ma- ehinery can be ruined and worn out in less than ten years, and on the other hand, when properly handled | miners and prospectors to the new ean be preserved as longasany other | fields. kind of machinery. So we repeat, so far as we are con- cerned, if the time has come to putin public lights, this we believe is a good proposition. buying the material will not be bound by these estimates, but there is no economy in buying cheap machinery. Of course the council in A two-thirds majority vote is nec- essary to carry the proposition. The cashier of the First National bank of Niles, Mich., is defaulter to the tune of $150,000. ment has taken charge of the affairs of the bank and the cashier has been arrested. He does not deny his guilt The govern- but refuses to talk. The bank will be permanently closed. Miss Alice McLain, republican nom- inee for county school commissioner, complimented our sanetum with a pleasant call while in the city Satur- day. Miss McLain is an accomplish- ed young lady and a good teacher, but she fellinto the hands of the Philistines and will, of course, have to be sacrificed. A promine’ writes us that er of the county | if democrats are termined to from th stay away polls | and permit theircandidatefor school | o be defeated er that commi it we the horse and mule market, St. yar Joseph, Mo., who disappeared the first of the year, has not been heard of since. His accounts were found to be correct and foul pla is suspected. In circuit court of Pike county, Mary Wood of Wentzville, Mo., was awarded a judgment of $15,000 damages against the Wabash rail- road, Saturday. The young lady was run down by a train and losta leg, besides other injuries. Mr. Carnegie has opened his check book before his death and is person- ally which are generous and noble. directing his gifts to charity This is certainly more gratifying to the old man than to wait for the world to read of bis charity inan obituary. | Attorney Geveral Griggs has au- thorized the statement that he will retire from £ dent MckKinley’s cab- inet within a couple of weeks. He will return to his old home in Pater- son, N. J., and resume the practice of the law. made twenty miles from Tombstone, Ariz., which stampede of A new gold strike lias been has caused a Vhe tind runs $25,000 to the ton. The electric street railway lines at Sedalia have been sold under mort- gage. Missouri Cow. The Missouri cow is destined tocome to the front. The Kansas City Star tells ofa farmer in Saline County, Missouri, who advertises as follows: “Full-blooded cow for sale. giving milk, three tons of hay, a lot of chickens and several stoves.” There should have been no lack of buyers for this cow. A Superb National Band. All the other countries have to take a back seat now for our own National Band, the U. S. Marine Band of Washington, D. C. Since congress passed the special act in- creasing the number of musicians to 74, and raising their pay to the highest figure, as well as conferring the rank of Lieutenant on leader} Wm. H. Santelmann, the band has steadily improved ‘till it is now the! largest, the best paid and the great-/ est national band in the world. Cu-/ riously enough, though the leader is! a German and the musiciansare very | largely Italians, Lieut. Santelmann/ is a graduate of the Conservatory of Leipsig, as is such a gifted musician and talented leader that the band is now a model, musically speaking, while it’s great size and strength makes it almost a new feature of in- terest in t he musical world. The nd is to ita few cities during spring to show its present house Saturday deavors to improve the [ S. Marine band at Washington, and although some slight progress was made un- der Petrola, Sousa and Fancuilli, it was the patriotism aroused by the Spanish war that finally passed that act of congress which made the pres- ent leader, lieutenant, and not only increased the number of men 74, but largely increased the pay, so that the finest talent in the land now be found band. Wm. H. Santelmann, a in the band to an in the U. S. Marine The members can now easily make $160 a month, which is more than most musicians can make else- where. With such a paymaster as Unele Sam it is therefore not surpris- ing to hear now that band is the finest in opera March 30th our National the vorld. At house. Saturday evening Coaled Look at your tongue. Is it coated ? Then you have a bad taste in your mouth every morning. Your appetite is poor, and food dis- tresses you. You have frequent headaches and are often dizzy. Your stomach is weak and your bowels are always constipated. There’s an old and re- ‘liable cure: Don’t take a cathartic dose and then stop. Bet- ter take a laxative dose each night, just enough to cause one good free move- ment the day following. You feel better the very next -day. Your appetite returns, your dyspepsia is cured, your headaches pass away, your tongue clears up, your liver acts well, and your bowels no longer give you trouble. Price, 2S cents. All druggists. “TI have taken Ayer’s Pills for 35 years, and I consider them the best made. One piil does me more good than half a box of any other kind I have ever tried.” Mrs N.E.Tatszor, March 30, 1899. Arrington, Kans. ysers | Mur-| heumatism. Nobody kno ll about 1t3 t _Y W KNOWN, will ] tors trv S ‘s Emul- ( Oil, when : s m | United States Band a Revelation. Small orchestras make good mu- sic, but the great symphony orches- tras of 70 men or more are revela- tions away beyond and the real per- fection of orchestra music. This same difference is found alike in military bands. The presidentand other offi- cials are going to spare the reorgan- ized U.S. Marine Band of 74 men from the white house to go out among the people of a few musical cities not only to show what a great band is, but to satisfy them that the large increase in cost of the National Band is fully justified by the results. Congress passed a special act in March, 1899, which greatly increas- ed the size and pay of the band, and made the leader, Wm. H. Santelmann, a first lieutenant, the highest honor ever conferred on a musician with the exception of Lieut. Dan Godfrey of England. Allofthe friends of that bill and all of the friends of the band claim that it isnow the greatest band in the world. At opera house Satur- day evening March 30th. Burned 360 Insurgent Boats. Manila, P. I. March 15.—The rebel trading operations in the islands have been effectually broken up. Lieutenant Fred R. Payne, com- manding the United States gunboat Vistayan Pampanga, pursuant toinstructions has seiz d and destroyed 300 vessels | of various sizes, most ly native craft, constructed to assist the insurgents. to grief are a number of coasting vessels ) belonging to leading firms. Among those whieh have come NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the office of the county clerk in Butler, Bates ceunty, Missouri up to twelve o’clock m. sharp, Tuesday, the 16th day of April, 1901, for the erection, construction and completion of a Court House for said county according to the plans, details and specifi- cations prepared by Geo. E. McDonald, Archi- tect, 5902 East IS8th street Kansas City, Mo., which are now on file in the elerks office of said county. The building is to be a modern structure, with heavy walls, steel beams, plate giass, encaustic tile, slate roof, steam heat and plumbing. All bids shall be for the entire completion of the building and each contractor shall accompany his bid with a sample of stone and brick proposed. All bids shall contain a certified check in the sum of ($500.00) Five Hundred Dollars, made payable to the treasurer of Bates county, Mis- seuri, a6 8 guarantee tosaid county that the contractor would if awarded the contract, enter into written agreements in duplicate with said @ounty and furnish a good and sufficient bond double the amount of contract, which bond must be acceptable to the county court of said | county, and shall be furnished within twelve | 2) days after award of contract, and if the contractor fail to supply and execute such bond, then the aforesaid check shall be forfeited to! All bids shall be upon printed forms fur- nished by the county clerk of said county (35),000.00 j | said county as damage. | | Approximate cost of building Fifty Thousand Dollars. The county court | reserves the right to reject any or ids. All bids shall be sealed and marked ‘‘Prorosars For Covet H and be clerk of said count delivered to the E. McDowaxp, Architect. By order of the County Court of said County Sam’i. West, Pr ng Judge L.D. Wrwsart, Associate Judge, 4.35. Manacu, A e Judge Is-ta | PRELIMINARY ES OF COST Municipal Electric Lighting } | The of Butler, Me Fer, 23, 190), d (esti. tside dis Ix49 feet, © walle ‘Ations of P reef, coy~ “ . * t 5 com- A coal shed \ IN feet, of Ted also erected tixtures tack and he foun- asonr rh, ready for I a ‘ ed pump, plete in ‘tion and &, ready for auto- rected wady it 2,180.09 ade end. lations a \eiter belts ' 10 lynamos r dynamos instru- and cluding Py 1 excit ns and omplete are ates type Trans- lamps nepension mates lamps complete including neluded power (nominal srups wit t plet for said ar » of said ated not us lor “, but which is below 2,100.00 All poles of sizes required | work, er 1; with all er pi rs, framing, et yuired ly to receive the wires and are iamps 1, 160,00 All pole line wires, of best triple braided insulation, weatherproof wire and best quality of copper; all are lamp wiresand commercial primary wires, being the entire pole line wiring eystem excepting the secondary wires 1,380.0 @uysand guying and stringings of wires, including the necessary miacel neous materials, as tape, solder, ete., SM Secondary wiring in business section = of city 0. Commercial transformers for original plant and the erecting and connecting of same complete ready for service Secondary and service wiring mate- rials with plant Incidental expenses Engineering work and surplus fund reserve or ‘Total as above Very respectfully, OWEN FORD, Consulting & Supervising Engineer, ESTIMATE NO. This Plant to * estitnat the same as in the epting that the aystem shall consist of nd SO-candle power 1 $110.00, less Chan th first Incancde al cost of this Plant will be Plant as per first estimate, or ....++-SI TM Attention is called here to the faet that the pole line is necessarily more extensive u r this «ystem or ant as will be 1 by reference to the map, ESTIMATE NO This Plant be the sam » in first € ma ex pt that there shall be Dynan id Exciter and one en and yon « foundation, t ur 1 Station wo The Dynan « ow « direct con- neck meant the Engine ar Dyname wi nected togeth era Dyname being . sions and rum- same speed as ve vi vit connected.) name willbe 100K, W Kilo wait) capacity or as generally known acity. The erigine in ot 2 Compound Engine tiported Engine of 150 H. P. capacity. The total cost of this Plant Will be $100.00, more than the Plant in the first estimate, or STK 20.80, ESTIMATE NO. 4. As will be seen from Estimates 2and 3, the at of Plant on basis of the M {System of Street lighting and the Direct Connected Generating Out- fit woul be, + IB S1OM, Very Respectfully. OWEN Forp Consulting & Supervising Engineer. ESTIMATE OF EARNING CAPACITY OF rLast. INCOME. p-lamps, average 28 cts. per nth, each..... TE | p. lamps avers; month..... 1000-16 ¢. m 00-16 Total Income per month - Total Income per annum... OPERATING EXPENSE. Fuel Labor.....-+0. Water, Oil, Lamp Re and Incidental expenses...--- Insurance, Taxes ai except intere Interest ... + 00 Total expenses per month Total expenses per annum Total gain « Vr expenses. per annum, Value of street lighting 5 3.92000. po 5 4 OM 7 on a moderately | ta pe your ny | wou of the fret The t shew thie ted somewhat vat it the first year pass expe ; Plant w be Joad- : as eagle: A ‘ity would ‘ wadieuatubk * ate after the |p ant wing 16 - nem ne REE expisined 10 " T average of 4 Rents owes Foun, © 9 Cons 5 &S ng Eneimeete