The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 5, 1901, Page 1

he Butler Weekly VOL. XXIII. BUTLER. THU RSDAY, MISSOURI, SEPTEMB ER see eae) {7 NEW FALL CARPETS 7 = AND MATTINGS AT GUT PRICES, McKIBBEN). THE MISSOUR! of Butler, Wiss:-uri. Surplus and Undivided Profits, pital $55,000.00. STATE BANK. We are admirably equipped for the transaction of all branches of Banking business; have at all times an Abundance of Cash so. that wecan Loan Money and Buy Notes on the most liberal terms. OUR DEPOSITORS are provided with check books free of charge and every courtesy in our power is extended them. “4 OUR FIRE PROOF VAULT is offered to our customers as a safe _ depository for their private papers free of rent 1) This bank is organized under the banking laws of Missouri and is bf frequently examined by State Bank Examiners, has forty-seven acustomer, Wa. E. Watton, President. stockholders, thirty-nine of them live in Bates county, carefully and solicits the patronage of the public. managed We want you for J. R. Jenkins, Cashier. ——DIRECTORS,-— John Deerwester, T. C. Boulware, Booker Powell, J. erank M. LOW Gratien R. Radford, wri Torte, -INTERESTi RATES. E. Waltor Jenkins, Dutcher. wm. J.&. CH The Third Amendment having been declared unconstitutional by our Supreme Court the WALTON TRUST COMPANY. ¢ will now loan money on Real i before offered. " at Butler ready for loans. ri There will be no delay on Estate in Bates, Vernon and Barton counties. Missouri, at lower rates of interest than ever We have a large amount of idle money in Bank our part. If you want a loan be sure to come and get our rates, terms, ete. We have a complete and reliable abstract of title to each acre of land and town lot in Bates county showing every transfer or States down to this date. RANK ALLEN, Secretary, Settlers Fear an Outbreak. Tueson, Ariz., August 30.—The ache Indians have been engaged adance for the past three weeks dthe chiefs unable em. Anoversupply of tisguin, a are ong liquor which is made by the | ahead being the senator senator Missouri paches, has caused the protracted der Bros., traders at Fort phere, and says settlers break unless the Indians are sub- The medicine men fear ‘ eof them offered to tiethe body of | daughter to a gree and let them | dot at her. The medicine man ims that they might shoot her ny times, and yet she would live. the White 0 holding dances, but the actions | the Apaches on the San Carlos ervation scares the settlers, be- eof threats of warfare which ve been made. ArLanta, Ga., Now 19, 1900. e have handled Dr Moffett’s thina (Teething Powders) ever its first introduction to the pub- nd trade as @ proprietary medi- » and our trade in it has steadily from year to year untilour now amount to two or three dred gross per year, which isa strong evidence of its merit and tsatisfaction it is giving to the others of the country, for they say t nothing so effectually counter- the effects of the summer's hot or overcomes so quic the ubles incident to teething. Lamar & Rankin Drvs Co. Wholesale Druggists. 2t Still in Business. hile considerably broken down trheumatism, I am still able to e insurance and look after thein- sofmy customers throughout county. No policy will be allow- to lapse for lack of attention, tthe promise that it will receive Y careful attention. Respectfully. J.S. Pierce dT respectfully solicit new business | encumbrance from the time land to stop; | ace. A member of the firm of Alex- | ever had. Thomas } an} have told | m that they can do miracles and , doesn’t overlook the young fellows. | e | Ben | | and got into a trivial row. mountains they are | was bought of the United WM. E. WALTON, President. Captures Them All Alike. The Kansas City Independent, ; (with republican proclivities) speak-j gied, ing of senatorial probabilities says: | There will be no vacancy in 1904. Francis Marion Cockrell will go right | from Mis- souri and the best * = Nothing canj defeat Cockrell. It isn't any use. He can number the old guard, He captures them all. among and the young recruit » 8 * He wil! do things when they call him. A St. Louis youth, Brady, was straying around down in South America He was | discovered ina mild flirtation with the daughter of a petty official and | thrown into jail without ceremony. The bey didn’t waste any time foel- | ing with the American consul. He | knew a little about Missouri politics, | so he wrote out a message to Sena- tor Cockrell, and gave the guard his | | diamond ring to get the message | | eabled to Washington. Cockrell was | in bed when the cablegram arrived. He got up, read it, puton his clothes | and went to work. In two hours the | state department had cabled to the South American city an imperative | demand for the Missourian’s release. They released him early next morn- ing and promptly invited him to din- ner with the young lady in Sees OF Sinaiesiieaait Digestio May not be all that is mean now, but it will be if Seca after eating, fits of n ss of the stomach, fa ia is sack he tendency to s attention. This is cor FOO.00. his supporters | He on | the residue of the estate be divided | a cousin of | last winter | | WILL SENT BY MAIL ' MAY CAUSE LAWSUIT. —— | —— Oregon Man Confesses He Helped In It. | Big Estate Left by Widow of a Cali-| Albany, Ore., Aug. 31.—Cornelius Stone, A prominent citizen of | fornia Banker is at Stake. 31. county the last Lowry, living about nine miles from Albany, has confessed to the killing ofthe Bender family in the early t of June, 1873. Shortly after the appearance Dr. William who was last seen traveling the old Osage mission road, n tavern kept by the Benders county, Santa ~The clerk | will | a Cal, by the Rosa Aug yo mail, ie | of v purports to be Rebekah W. and prominent tat F {oi Mrs of York along woman who} promises to hy ebruary, ne of the most sensational | a vate coutest in the history of the} of twelve men, Mr. Stone being one |of the number, searched the Ben: At the time of Mrs. Lowry’s death| house and found the gold-r jno will could be found, and as a re-} spectacles of Dr. York. They found sult one-third of her estate of $75, la trap door and graves in the “gar 600 went to her husband, Doctor J.| den,’ where the bodies of the victims | W. Lowry, who eame here from Mis-| had been butied. No doubt remain souri, and the remainder to her|ing as to the guilt of the Benders, jchildren by her first marriage, who} they were taken to a small clump of had in every way opposed her union | trees on the bank of a creek, three j with Dr. Lowry. | quarters of a mile from the tavern, The will just received by the county | 4nd the entire family, consisting of clerk, came through the mail and | Benderand his wife and theirson and {Was accompanied by a note, uns daughter, John and Kate, were the leaders of the party. doubt as to the confeasion, for every detail is entered the holder of the willif the documents were destroyed genuineness of this The alleged will bequeaths only |‘ Site. Dactor Lowes and it iat and Mr. Stone says he will go Idirected that the remainder be dis-| back to Kansas City and point out tributed among the four children of the graves of the murderers. The Mrs. Lowry by her first’ marriage. | ™en never claimed the reward offered The affair has caused excitement | by A. M. York, brother of the deceas- ed. Mr. who is about 70 years of age, said he desired to clear up the mystery and set the the people at rest before he died, and here, and no doubt there will be long Stone, and bitter litigation. Mrs. Lowry, merly Mrs. E. T. jah Fy of the Santa Rosa bank minds of the deceased, was for- Farmer. wife of Eli- and founder and one of armer, president fession. A. Y. Smith, a resident of thiscoun- | Sonoma county’s wealthiest citizens. é worked with ty, who : : > a Some eight or ten vears ago Farmer came to Oregon about the same time abs seeds Mr. Stone did. tween the two, there had | been before the first marriage a warm attachment. The match was warmly | opposed by Mrs. Farmer's children, | but to no purpose. A Shocking Calamity laborer, a railroad ately befell of Williford | wri . 2 Dr. A. Kellett, Onibebra Ss 2 % ans : ry }Ark. His foot was lly crushed. and diligent search failed to] but Bucklen’s Arnica Salve quickly cured him. It’s simply wonderful for Burns, Boils Piles and Skin Erup- reveal a will. It was assumed that | she had died intestate, and : after con- [side arable squabbling between the jtions. It’s the world’s champion asccaui nets and De Gewese healer. Cure guaranteed. Sold son : anc - Lowry on] py HL. Tucker, druggist. the latter Sas j administrator of the Pie lay be was entitled (ho: on of the property, Mrs. Fs children two-thirds. | the other, was appointed aes Under] third | rmer’s anes Will Recruit Moonshiners. Nashville, Tenn.. the United States army recruit in Nashville, and | | | Clay, - 5 ing officer stationed | The will brought to light cuts Dr. owry off with 310 and directs that chance enlistment, and with a securing a number of these daring in- dividuals for Uncle Sam’s big fight- To-day Captain Clay he would send his j equally between her four children—! Sarah Angie Fox of San Franciseo. | Lillian Belle Webb, of Palo Alto, | Fannie M. Griffith and Charles R. Farmer, of this city. The document] —. : nee | pia ville, during the middle of | bears date of April 19, 1897, and nea : next week. This is in the midst of | bears the signatures of Robert Crane | . ; the moonshine section of Tennessee. | > and Doctor R. Press Smith as wit- 5 3 ‘ F The little town is surrounded by the eln ing machine. announced that assistant Sergeant Stevens, to Ceoke- Tenn., eases. : one _. | homes of many shiners. | While both the subscribing wit- Speaking of the @oonshiner asa nesses have died since the date the| .oidier. Captain Clay said that he | willis alleged to have been drawn, | both were alive at the time and both + were friends of Mrs. Lowry. The will lisdrawn up on yellow paper in a | | handwmiting apparently the same as | that in the letter. although the will | js in ink and the letter pencil. | Dr. Lowry is said to have some |property in his own name in Mis- |souri. Heis an active temperance | the required examinations, especially ee The alleged will substi- | as to the educational qualifications. tutes Charles R. Farmer in hie stead | Many of them can neither read nor| | as administrator. was daring and always showed upas a good tighter. He needs but little target practice, beeause he is invari- ably an expert with the rifle Most of the ‘shiners to be enlisted will be of the younger generation. Many of the country boys ane anxious to leave the wilds of the mountain, but | in many eases will be unable to pass | | write | maitorial Comment Dr. J. W. Lowry was formerly a| WAY RELEASE JESSIE MORRISON | practicing physician and prominent! citizen of Butler. He was enthus astic in temperance and church works/|Case Has Been Appealed to Kansas and had the esteem and confidence | ss 3 f ; i = j Supreme Court. of our people. who will be slow to| believe he did anything wrong. He} Eldopado Kan., Sept. **.—The bil} has two daughters in Butler, Mrs. | of exceptions in the Jessie Morrison W. G. Shafer and Mrs. T. W. Arnold./ case has been signed by Judge Aik-! It looks to us like the doctor was | man and filed with theclerk of court | The case will being made the victim. be submitted to th® jed. In this note Dr. Lowry is accus- lynched. Tha bodies were buried in fed of causing the custodian of the| the sand at the bottom of the creek, will, who, says she, or he, was an| Where it widened into a small lake lintimate friend of Mrs Lowry, to| The twelve men disappeared. Mr. | suppress the document. Doctor| Stone moving to Linn county short- Lowry pointed out, the writer | ly after, and this is the first authentic | alleges, that both of the witnesses to| account of the killing. Mr. Stone the signature of the will were dead; | would not reveal the names of the and it is further charged that he | Other men, but in conversation said promised to make it ‘‘all right” with that John Sperry and himself were al | There isno | therefore consented to make the con-| detective | agency in Kansas at the time corrob- | died, and his wife inherited half of : x R | orates ‘the story of Mr. Stone, and jhis estate. Ay two afterward a s the aadow Guanticd “Doctor IG Mone probably another member of the | arty, 2s not admit it. He Lowry, an old schoolmate. Be- | Party ea a Aug. 30.—Captain | is | quite a while. now after Tennessee moonshiners for | of state su from bond ad Miss - convictes Wiley C: with 4 The The se five “dust 4 Few Me-ows, vears for second Slaughter, Passaic Breeses rn attend Che exehibition Jess Smith & Co r Sunda iia of the Carl Keirsey & Co Jobn Hoorman & (« ht Black Cat here Sunday ni, le Billy Walls kr to Mrs from Johnny 1n0 Sketching Ciub. ' y her Visit is happy as a lark Wal ipped nsas Isaac In st from Ka R. Wa sale here the Dr. Mek his 4 rs has his bi lott arland kee, | of late. | | He reports ¢ | sick list j | Our preacher compliments bis con- | ord ereyations on the good which | speaks well for all | Thos. Zimmer is regaining hisform | er good health | Mrs | visit Hardim has returned from her | SCHOOL CHILDREN in Illinois. She says she left | | her son who bas typhoid fever, butis rider. | | We will pay $1 for Davis is an expert wheel | Conklin has bought th Walters Mrs. © prop erty of Mr will oc- cupy it and she and Bryan j} Tom Zimmer aud wife the drawing Ble ear! the funniest of OP morning at the store. } Rev. board at place on same avenue. Fri the above | day evening and sell it out Saturday Our butchers kill a beef every t it by a boy or Brown, our boy preacher, is a} attending school. | worker in his Master's caus Jobn is convalescent | Deerwester | after an attack of bronchitis Griffith. of Ballard, j here and at Butler a few days ago. Mr. Pp | Have you heard peranas j hand Must be on ecard | Ray visited asa aureus: 8 1-2 by and your Sharp has a fine lot of st W.F.I our our friend name and address on ithe back. ut | w ere is | others are binders t Fred Chur far west Competition closes SEPTEMBER 16 ch ormed th | is enjoying life in t Miss Jennie Me Nebraska, wher e she Mr. Tathwell has a new single | ; : driver. All the drawings sub- i More next time: too busy now | . : es rer. |mitted will be dis- e. | ? played at our hosiery How To Gain Flesh | Persons have been known to | gain a pound a day by taking an ounce of SCOTT'S YEMUL- | SION. It is strange, but it often happens. Semehow the ounce produces tie pound; it seems to start the | digestive machinery going prop- | ccly, so that the patient is able io digest and absorb his ordinary iced, which he could not do be- ‘county the week end- jing September 21. BUTLER | CASH | fore, and that ts the way the gain i made. ! A certain amount of flesh is | essary for health; if you have St got it you can get it by | king | ‘ Hcolt’s Finaision You will find it just as useful in summer | STORE as in winter, and if you are thriving upon | dont stop because the weathers warm | s } ; !