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— J. TYGARD, HON.J. 8. NEWBEBRY, J.C.CLARE, President. Vice-Pres't. Cashier. THE BATES COUNTY BANK, BoTiER, mo. Successor to BATES COUNTY NATIONAL BANK. i i Hf Bates County Investment Co., i IBUTLER, MO.: ‘Oapital, = = 850,000. t| Money to loan on real estate, at low rates. Abstracts of t 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 a] papers drawn, it ¥.J. TyGaup, President, Jno. C. Hayxs, Abstractor. Eeranuishep Dec., 1870. \GAPITAL, $75,000. -Z- * OBUSRLEDTranSacteas } ; Hon. J. B, Newserry, J.C. Cran, Vice-President. Sec'y. & Trose 8. F. Warnock, Notary. | ne RERPLP PRL PRPRPP-PRRLLPL PLP LDP ALPDPPRPAPA RPL ae ile | LAW. Given a Verdict for $15,00. THE STRAY | | Topeka, Kan., June 19.—A jury in — | the Shawnee county district court to Something About Stgays Everybody day rendered judgment in favor of Miss Barbara Tauer in her suit Should Know. inst the Sarah Ann Sells estate Following is the new stray law for $15,000 salary due for the past passed by the late legislature: tenyears. Miss Tauer was employ- “Ifany animal liable to be taken ed by Mrs. Sells, the wife of Allen up be found on any plantation on Sells, the famous showman, as house | the 15th of December of any year or keeper, nurse and secretary, with the understanding that her services were to be paid by a bequest in Mrs. Sells’ on any day thereafter until the Lith day of April following, the occupants thereof shall of cause notice such vill. Miss Tauer’s name was not | stray to be filed in the office of the mentioned in the will and the jury in | clerk of the county thereof within the district court allowed her $1- five days after the finding of such 000, which was the full amount of her claim. stra “Such notice shall be substantially POSSIBILITIES OF THE POSTAL SYSTEM. | Cheap Mail Facilities One of the Chief Factors | in Our Prosperity and Progress. the same as that of intention to post and must be given before any ani- mal liable to be taken up can be posted under the provision of the chapter. “Common is the commonplace.’’ The “Any person failing tocomply with most valuable of civil benefits is such a commonplace matter, that we scarcely | give ita thought. It would take a win- | terona whaler nipped in an ice floe to ; make us truly appreciable of the worth of the postal service. What a wonder- ful thing it is!| Wonderful in its organ- ization, with its vast machinery for the collection and distribution of letters, its railway mail cars, its route riders, the unfailing order and precision of its methods. Wonderful it is too in its re- sults. It knits together families widely the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of not less than $10.” Mothers who would keep their chil- dren in good health should watch for the first symptoms of worms and re move them with White’s Cream Ver- mifug Price > cents. For sale by H. L. Tucker. RICH LEGACY FOR A WIDOW. ! Wichita Woman Who Inherits Nearly One Million Dollars. Wichita, Kan., June 19.—Mrs. Dr. | Black, a poor widow of this city, was } notified to-day that she is the bene- ficiary of the late worth’s will to the amount of nearly Judge Leaven- dollars. Leaven- at leaving a recently, and in separated. It carries across the sea a million Judge some tender lover’s message or perhaps a little flower picked from the daisied grave of an English churchyard. hour of every day the mail bag is packed with words which waken love and laugh- ter, and words which deepen the furrow in the cheek and dim the failing sight with bitter tears. But with all this there is going on through the mail service a dissemina- tion of human knowledge, a reaching out of human help which is one of the crowning blessings of our century. The correspondence schools led by Chautau- qua, are sending to every village and hamlet the broader knowledge which is so eagerly craved by many who are shut in to the homely duties of a humble life. Without the mail system this plan of education would be impracticable. Every mail, too, carries trom the great worth died San Francisco nine ALO, sealed will, years which was opened that will Dr. Black deceased, w s the principal About a Dr. Black in poor circumstances and u nephew of the Ss bamec heir. died he his wife became the heir. year ago the estate expenses to settlement The administrator of ‘has paid Mrs. Black’s San Francisco to make with her and she leaves to-morrow To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo (Quinine Tab- centers, the advice of great physicians, | lets. All druggists refund the money which it would be impossible for the | if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s sig- | distant public to obtain were it not for the mails. Few people realize how many thousand people depend on the mail service for medi treatment. Not long ago when some postal affairs were being discussed in connection with the erection of the new postoffice building , er ee | in Buffalo, N. Y., some light was een Mexican Government — Investigating | on this subject by the statement that : " wee | the mail by Dr. RV. Pierce amounted Shooting by Lagos Police. | daily to something over 1,500 7 Ss. Of course this is not a common case, be- cause Dr. Pierce’s relation as chief con- sulting physici to Buffalo's famous institution, The Invalids’ Hotel and Sur- nature is on each box. PRISONERS MASSACRED. | The fec ating the than j Zacatecas, Mex., June 19 eral authorities are investig¢ killing without trial of more gical Institute, his advice and | twenty prisoners by the mounted po- | that of his staff of nearly a score of lice of the Lagos district. | d with | offenses, skilled and experienced specialists much Sought after, especially by women, to the treatment and cure of whose special These prisorers were charg having committed minor diseases Dr. Pierce has devoted over ss es se verse thirty years of almost constant labor. |‘ nd the police, instead ° ae | But though this example is out of the | them to prison, took the law into ordinary, it may serve as an evidence of the amazing benctits reaped by the pub- | lic from the mail service. It puts every outlying hamlet in touch with the most advanced medical specialism of the day. es at a cost of a two-cent stamp, skill and experience that it has taken years to acquire. Literally at the cost of a two-cent stamp, since Dr. Pierce Invites sick women to consult him by letter without charge. And this would Seem to be one of the most remarkable Services rendered by the postal syste perhaps the supreme service of all) For while it is a splendid thing to be able to shop in New York while living in Kan- sas, and a grand thing to be able to command the learning of great fessors while working in the Mic woods, it is nder thing means of th ply supplied s who have the di ful, are enabled nowledge a re being d their own hands and shot and killed them. The relatives of the murdered men | are flocking into the town of Lagos ! and appealing to the local author ssistanee and protection. — | | (ties for Wives Need the Money. June 20.—The board | at Omaha, Neb.. of education has struck a the institution of riage. By an amendment of the rules 3 y young woman who blow honorable mar- pro- just adopted, any takes unto herselfa husband thereby forfeits her place on the school roll. “We teachers encourage rug don't want to exchange Persian to place disposal of t mee salaries for rag earpet hu n explai matrons In som ee constitutes an at bury to the on-r mai t 2 id cheer- ing the work and wisd le Sam. ‘ <ome g project j ment he |for them for the Boers have t | dispatch ito describe the Boers TO PINGREE. The Dead Man an Example to Two Worlds. London, June 19 —At 11 night Hazen 8 S. Pingree, former or of Detroit and governor of Mi died her person present at the time gan, his son be thi cause of de stomach. alt ed and sent tes for burial. Gov. Pingree. who was noted fo his pithy sayings and peculiar ideas on reform for municipalities and states, was born in Denmark Me.. in 1840. He was a rot the First Massachusetts vir | the civil war and settled in Detroit | at the end of the manufacturi | the shoe! Later he] entered politics | war in business Speaking of the death of Governor Pingree, W. T the editor, says Stead, London “The career of one of the table modern most no- Americans is closed, a man who for strength of character, indomitable energy aud immense public spirit pre- firmness of purpose. sents'an example to two werlds “Ping esting experience in his brief visit to South Africa. out e had an extremely inter- He went armed with recommendations from Cham berlain which enabled him to pass everywhere freely through the When he left was fed with all the calumnies of the lish lines. London he Boers which have been reported to palliate the attempted extermina the Africa fall from his eyes tion of the republics Sut to South scales began to mo- the got Recommendations from the H nial office enabled him to penetrate regions hermitically sealed to the ordinary civilian. Accompanied only by his secretary, he penetrated into the heart of the seat of war andsoon making the had an opportunity of Bor acquaintance of the hands. Extraordinary though it may be the British camp in the morning and dine with he was able to lunch in ning that the Boers commando in the ev He found to his astonishment the Boers were by no means so black as they had been painted. They were by no means devoid of human intelli- gence, they dre civilized bein erous hospitality the traveling Amer- far sed an washed like welcomed with gen- ican, who found them from e tremists. The commandoes he visited well clothed and man possessing at least two horses, were well arme 1, every with a good reserve of ammunition. doubt They are safe-guarding it no but they still have stores of Mauser cartridges to fall back upon, but for the present they are doing all fighting with Lee-Metfords and cart- supply themselves their ridges which the. with from the British stores It is impossible that such a man as Pingree could fail to be deeply touch- ed by the spectacle of these heroic burghers maintaining their struggle against overwhelming odds for lib- erty and independence of their coun- try.He found no difficulty whatever, the hostile drove in a Cape cart, with } tary and son riding bicycles as an lines; he in traversing Ss secre- escort. It was somewhat perilous THE SOUTH IS NOT AFRAID. Henry Clayton's Declaration to a New York Newspaper r and t = wey WwW i li i. asin Missis pil tnd South ¢ ation in vTress ¢ x * * t college because of negro distra se ment. T regard that as ] 1s ter pure and simy $30,000 for Two Trees Woman's Home Compan A woman of means wi handsome country house son Was very fond of two beauti beech trees which stood ne er resi- dence. A fewseasonsagoshe bought a house at Newport. a thereafter she would spend that cordingly st resort of fashion mers at pa could not bear to t ches Hudson: but in favorite be She msult ~d in the business o firm eng ing lar tre and th the task of transporting beeches grown from eastert York to Newport The undertaking was carried o with ereat care: the trees were tak up, placed on scows, carried dow: Hudson and Sound to fore the setup t A quantity former home had to sustain them ur come accustomed to w sur trees received roundings. every care and assistance Phe ¢ was & The moving of these two trees is said success periment comy their owner S30.000, to have cost and the feat is distance record for probably long- of trees Got a $s Contract Budke of St. Louis. vice Conrad president of Nelson, Chesman & Co.. advertising ag with an sas City to-night large ontract for newspa tising. It wasgiver sas City bran him by the Gre i tain Distillery and calls fc penditure of $40,000 ° in three menths just preceding the Christmas holiday tilery Company is a believer in ad- It may be o The Green vertising. dence, but at the same time contract for $40,000 was worth of ad- made the for rtising awarded an order for } of quart bottles forits whisky. v compar To teach carload $1,000 will be tin advertising These bottles will all he fi! ere in which the company will remove this nsas City at the warehouse to summer, the five-story building at dis greeable, although natural, habit of shooting all bicycle riders on sight. for with them eyclists and British | riders are synonomous terms They came back unscathed. much to be regretted that int keen terests of truth and justice so an observer should not have been spared to return to his own country as found them in their struggle, which must have recalled at every turn the stir- ring episodes in the war of independ- ence.” The North German Lloyd steamer Koeningin Luise, which sails from Bremen June 22. via Southampton. June 29. for New York will take the governor Hazer he body of former Pingree to the | Nos. 1616-1618 Main street. | paseeoseS. = } | Stops the Cold and Works off the Cold Tablets cure, no Laxative Bromo-Quinine cure a cold in ong day. No |pay. Price 25 cents | — New York. June 20.— | General Che Bart Ithe victims of the sinking ferry | Northfield of the Staten Island ‘last week. was found to-day i East river. A gold wat: wl thad stopped at 6:50 \found on the body. It owing inscription: “Presented to Col. Charles G. Bartlett fii- {cers of his regiment rles G o clock, t bore was yy the 0. 1566 The readers oft ed to learn that dreaded disease able to cure in all i tages, Catarrh- Hall’s Catarrh Cu only pos 7 raternity. Catar: Totedo, O. e transplanting |, Kan-| Mountain Dis-} arloads | the fol- KRUGER IS COMING Don't Accept a Substitute ! for Cascarets be -— When you ask y get the ne Cascarets er Presiden itteé Stat Be soar oe Cathart Don't accept t suDstitutes, imitations OF ; ts! G re t ts stamp- W ashing Dey cca Never sold in bulk. sympa ~ \ \ ruggists, 1 are u g s f s by Mr. Kruger to this country Mes. Mehinley s hitting Caused Fe 1 W ‘ s r ahe New ‘ - g M vy , Was i brats ~ Was "ef ing C. W. Va ier H v 26 - : i ‘ > Mrs. Mel wt i vuay Was . ich. “ mas JUS sy si 4 rare on ‘ tn : W s various cok ‘ vy sw x eo. - - ‘ which attract r atten é Thess when fthished, E = sents ela and was se He v ( Seale eens Pe De ae . ssa Was Con t iz i ‘! v re Mr. \ Hoogt says BR : sca ig pie! Ir s been Mrs nley’s — ‘ - ft vears » tt ke these im ich-talked rs. and untillast = t ‘ 1 hat r invariable cus- ivices s hat Mrs. Botha’s vis asi r i in envelope onthe table s Way eted : : ind into this she would . 45 os rie irs iy ends of wool that she ; t necessary to cut from - 5 poting the old envelope oc ealneerg alert to make the presi : - "| dent's wife a giit that she would tind is laily pleasure and use, presented would with a little gold box to reeeive ts of wool a time Mrs. Mckinley used this eratitude to recepta I nor, but finally she went back her old envelope It's what I've sweetly. pretty, but Lam used to my old envelope. d for years she said e littl: gold box is very WHITE SUPREMACY Overtakes a Runaway Wife |} Wichita, Kap., June 20.—Henry }Southern Leaders Say They are Not) Kusier of Cameron, Mo., caught up x with his wife here to-d and t ’ fraid to Handle the Negro i eo “- And 100k her ba home with him About Question three weeks ago she elo} witha in named Lorain, taking with her Henry D.{! of the d » her husband. team bel« in he latter had been following them ocrat he i a} smemiber of the ers tional [ever since with the intention of kill SEES says concerning the 2 Lorain, but when he found his l eral movement in the south for tl > Lorain was not with her, having “We of the south are not afraid te was effected, Mrs Rusier saying that she was hypnot- rrapple with this negro question grappled } what she was They left st ohenid be with. Dem-| ized and didn’t realize doing when she eloped ocratic as) been i { j »} A reconciliation | | Suprema eht for Cameron ~lin the sou spite of neyr | ge and tha emacy will be | pinnae Oat nthe blacks | Killed Forty Insurgents | > wholly disfranchised, as witness! \anila, June 20.—It is estimated | Mississippi Louisiana and Sor that 40 insurgents were killed or \¢ arolina. As to the reduction wounded during the recent engage- jour representation in congress and | ments which have occurred in Albany | the electoral college Lecause of rl cad Rorenon pedvine, Sousa | disfranchisement. I rard that 48} 4 ts ure returning to their | political bluster pure and simple 1}, ymes | Gen. Cailles, who was at Pagasan- | Washington's Old Tavera: an, Laguna province, yesterday, is } New York, June 20 he ist }now at Cavinti. not far from I lof Public Im-j}sanjan map ar meeting of the Boar *s of theft and sale of public num- estimate | Cha ents a prove against a the tre made were received from ty en; rty neers i ! bureau on the proposed park at Pearl | ber of the witnesses in commis- Broad streets, of the historic Fraunces Tavern 1 squented by Washington and embracit and the | sary cases Provost-General Davis sub- has fr other mitted a plan for the municipal gov- helernment of Manila. The United fixed valuation of the half block pro-! States Philippine commission is mod- revolutionary war characters | posed for t reported to | ifying it park was actual 185.000, and nase price will probably be at j twice tk The total cost of the park about $500,000. | Representatives of 1e «6=Amer Hist Woman's Auxil servat js and ience and the and the | Societ who started the park movemer attendance at the t r decl > were i themselves meeting. fied at th se report nt Cogna of i } Women are Like Flowers, (22222 Cowboy Off His Guard. and bloom. Sickly Tubson, Ariz Burns was shot and boy named Wallace, a is and Wallace had her on the range and | Burns, who was kr southwest ¢ Your Lifeaw NE Ee anny eee Se nee inmibiieds Ste...