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i See Es P. A. BRUCE. eratic ne District is one t subst:ntial men the county af- prietors. He was born in an adjoining TERMS (¢ SURPSCRIPTION county, was educated ata Missouri 4 his whole interests The Werxty T S, published every t wople of thisstate sent to any address) %TP" Prope oF ; . for Stan, ar t is one of the most ouscler of men in his dealings, DEMOCKATIC TICKET nemanever beard of him being guilty C. DICKINSON ofa litte or mean act. He is achris- PL HARPER lemon, open and above (OWN FO MER RELL, ice ear todd A PATTERSON hinges, ee -Thlhiter i ISLR. hand spirited. He has madea ‘ FADDEN, nle, Ne North Dist-P AL BRUCE. | : sont ist. MARCH, Word against him asa man, a citizen b. RENICH ) man ean truthfully say a jora democrat. He is true to hiseon- } Vietions, tirm and loyal to his party Pthe War revenue tax, Pe: principles, a true friend and good gress dust April, was! neighbor, There is no good reason if April Ist jWhy any democrat should not sup- port Mr. Bruce, and many good rea- i icon a ny ‘as ms ae sons Why free born American citizens, steht omiiation doe pauls whe love our home institutions and WE HRL - j believe that our own people are com- | le petent to control their own internal The proposition to vote $400,000 affvirs, should vote for him, in bonds whieh to build a! a tea pape Jeans municipal ligit plant in Kansas was! The County Democratic Cen- badly defeated in the election Tues [tral Committee met at the court ‘ta | house Monday afternoon witha work . ing quorum present. Matters 7 A review taining to the organization of the soon to wt approprit-! party were discussed and acted on, | tions pr fay Ul the meas" Reports from the different towr ships! ures i epresent almost one show that the party was never in billion dollars better trim at this stage of the cam- qe PY No dissensions, no dissatis- Het! ons, all harmonious, enthusg awn g for the biggest dem- mare jority this fall ever in the “he party or- sndid hands, and = the size rat wy to the State Judicia Iidye G s’ friends will leave for Phd ' eshorta met Sprin nSunday, so as to be y conyres contested 1 there: nhead Butler froin | Bategco distriet (St. Butler, demo- lay The people of WY, irrespective of party, are hdping to see our distinguished vacant by a vote | fellow citizen honored with this nome: jination. a worthy recognition of his his par The bo wd profession, Uhieago * employed by the! : While wo {de not chim that he has “a dead the avetem for an jcineh,” We do assert, from a partial What nec bart knowledge, at least, of the situation, ' at HAS is 2 “le i ing Mark Hanna, of tHtt he has a most excellent fighting ; , chance and we are firm in the opin olumittee : : -_ ion that he will be nominated s of Lord Pauncefote, —_—_— English representative to this coun- The storm of Saturday and Sun- vestern railway struc Tuesday over advance i wes come of { the arbit The reniir try, wio died in Washington City) day which visited Alton, Tls., is re-| age, were shipped back to ported to be the most destruetive in England aboard the cruiser Brook-|40 yeats. The scope of the damag- lyn Tres or fined interment ing wind and rain is wide and the ’ we loss to farmers and others within a ys. “the | padius of 150 miles of Alton is esti- some time The Post-Dispatch whole « would warm up} mated at $1,000,000 and it is eon- tu Pres Koosevelt if he were to! sidered low, The heaviest loser and smas t president | the greatest sufferer is the farmer, sa candi ¢ su dhimselfjand! i the American bottom farming the repuldicans always do thei strict the farmers, it is said are sraushi ifte ie election, never | puined befor bee acieimeeN Hogs reached the top noteh on the Kansas City market Tuesday when a load sold for a hundred. le market at Kan- t $7.85 7 Unfortu- vers few of th This is 24, cents higher than the pre- his sease . * at Cus season ef! vious high price for the year. Only COMSOLK t ll * ral * it all the i twice in the history of thelocal stock + hoe nAPRet att Sands in Kansas ity has the above In February, the top price was $8.30, and in Aug. 1882, $8.80 was reached. “ } llow | The eHow eiee heen exceeded. record price isa who has a tar 1SS3. Whe rress adjourn: od sine die or July Ist. Seer ne ait St. Clair Bonds in Court. Phe last h r arked | all ny throu ame f} Osceola, Mo., July 1.—A petition ws without proper} was filed in the St. Clair county cir- After adjournment | cuit court yesterday, seeking to ar- was announerd--by the speaker a} nul judgment and cancel the railroad number of patriotic songs were sung bonds against St. Clair county. L. bers. closing with Dixie, |'T. Armstrong, Hugh J. Bunch, R. L. jenderson and ex-!}Crawford, Hardin Hammond, Char. ‘Jes W. Nesbit, George Schmitt and others are plaintifis, and St. Clair ie ; . county, the Tebo & Neosho Railroad Phe thind-tria} ot Miss Jesnie Mon company and each and every one of og Moa othe holders of the fraudulent. St. Eldorado, Kan., Saturday, the jury| i county rallrond bonds, deten- petcrning a-yerdict oF murder. An'the The petition states that the so- second eree and msrtlie Wed her called bond indebtedness is in the punish A Sen Yenro ai okie peer nature ofa cloud on the title of all weal a sede Row rte the lands owned by these plaintiffs, Morrison was sentence itentiary for five years. She had better have left well enough alone. others, i unfinishe eonsiderd tic by the men sung by Sper confederate General Hooker, of Mis- sissippi rison, charged witl Mrs. Olin Castle taxpayers, for which reason they ask to have said fraudulent bonds sur- rendered and canceled, and said fraudulent judgments set aside, an- nulled and vacated. Judge John P. Philips is made one —S ee It's pretty ard work to get up in- terest ina republican state conven- tion. Even free railroad tickets seem to go a-bigging in almost all) of the defendants in the case, for the| ment oi congress until the measures ties. People seem | Purpose of showing,that he was nev- * beige ad ler competent to render judgments to realize that it is sinply a gather- against said county in these bond ing of office-holders who wish to im-| cages The suit was filed by George press on the President that there is C. Worth, who will be assisted by really such a thing as-2 republican! two other able attorneys. party existing in Missouri, though it! is somewhat disfigured having been the towns and , county. | of the jability asa jurist. and high stand in| the protection of the sugar trust had | and all lands owned by their fellow-| States by a trust or trusts, so as to | | SUCH A CHANGE. | Not only in feelings but The |} skin is clear, the , the . ' . ¢. | cheek » plu Sc o rin and MITM decided success n life as afarmer,and | Cheeks are plump, “No re pain an « HN A. SILVERS | misery, no more si che, no more A ko Lipwiek, itis snel men who are competent to} jaundice. What worked the W. 7 JOHNSON j transact the public ¢ fairs of the peo- Dr, Pierce’s Golden M al T which cured the disease of the that prevented proper nutrition cleansed the clogged and Dr, Pierce's Golden c eases of lungs, heart, liver, and other orgaris which seem remote from the stomach because many of thes eases have their cause in a diseased con- nm of the stomach involving the allied organs of digestion and nutrition. 18 letter about a year | ™ Ha 4, of Fart DEMOCRATIC CATES | 3 ns Adminstration and Opposes’ Adjournment | | Washington, June 30.—A caucus of the Democratic members of the! house of representatives held recent- ly, ur 1 the follow in nimously adoy lnration: tesalved, first, that we condemn | | ithe KR flor their failure to pass a measure | idliean majerity in congress ‘providing reciprocity with Cuba, ‘The bill which passed the house of | rtily support- ed by the Democratic minority after Pe presen tatives Was been remaved by the solid Democrat: | ie vote, aided by a small minority of {the Republican members, ed the house, the bill carried relief to }Cuba, reduced the price of sugar to Am and struck a heavy blow at the notorious and obnoxious sugar trust. “The refusal of the Republican senators to consider the measure un- less the protection of the sugar trust should be restored gives evidence that the president and Republican purty in congress are willing to re- fuse American Assit pass- nh consuniers ief to Cuba and totally ignore than with the consumers rather | their abandon alliance | trusts “The failure of all reciprocity leyis- lation with Cuba rests upon the Re- publican administration, which is willing to reduce the duty on theraw sugarof our producers, but unwilling to destroy the sugar monoply *Second—that the Republican ma- jority in congress is dominated and controlled by the trusts and monop- olies, which have the great duties of our countfy in their grasp, as shown | by its action in passing ananti-trust | bill through the house of representa- tives in the fifty-seventh congress in the closing hours of the session, the senate refusing to consider the same as a subterfuge to tide over the elec- tion in 1900. That bill has been abandoned, and they have ever since refused and do now refuse and fail to bring in any measure to suppress the trusts, or to favorably report any of the numerous antitrust bills intro- duced by Democratic members during this con “Third—That we favor the {mme- diate passage of a measure toamend the present anti-trust law so as to more fully proteet trade and com- merce against unlawful restraints monopoliesand also a measure tore- duce the duties on all articles and commodities manufactured and con- trolled or produced in the United | destroy such illegal combination, and to reduce the rate of duty on any article or commodity manufactured in the United States. “Fourth—We oppose the adjourn- mentioned above have been enacted into law. The caucus lasted only an hour | Bert Casey band, as they have been » made ar- strong Pemoerat- Repre tive Rich- nessee, the Demoeratic ler, was among thespeakers, at the close of his speech, the resolutions were adopted anani-] mously j hana: uel | SENATOR CHOKED HIM. tigate | Mr. Beveridge, of Indiana, Was As-} saulted in the Chamber bv Mr. Bailey, of Texas Washington, June Joseph W. Ba ed Senator Alfre Indiana, tonight just after the Sen-} 30.—Senator of Texas, assault- i. Beveridge, of ate had adjourned from executive ‘exes session senidtor was | dragyed aw his opponent by | Senators ¢ He was | very angry threatened severe | harm to the Indiana senator The trouble was the result of a heated controversy whieh the two senators had Senator Bev Ny attack” upon Solicitor Penfield, of| the State department, his afternoon, when idge said that Senator} an unwarranted | lev had made Horse Thieves Killed Two. Guthrie, Okla. July 1 sheriff A. | Bullard and Undersheriff Coburn,, of } Roger Mills county, Oklahoma, were killed yesterday afternoon ina fight | with horsethieves while the otticers| Were attempting tO arrest: members The fight oc urred in the northeast part of the! and continued for about thir. | of a band of outlaws, county ty minute: roundi tire ban il put upapmcky tight, Bullard had | the outlaws tinally sur-} he two otfcers. The ene unde their escape, suppos- | a served two veurs as sheriff and was recently nominated by the Demo- While it is not positively known who composed the erats forre-election yng of outlaws, suspicion points to operating in that portion of the ter- ritory. Didn't Dare Kill Himself. Salt L wandering . Utah, Jone 30,.—After about the mountains thirty hours with a loaded shotgun, intent on suicide, Alex, A. Robertson, paying tellerof the Wells-Fargo bank here, returned home and was found in fis attie Sunday. He confessed during the past eight years to defal- cations amounting to$90,000, Two other bank employes are said to be implicated. They have lost in the past three years $100,000 in gambl- ing. Robertson is serving his third terms in the eity council, More ar- Tests are expected Congress yaaniniared, though he steritiey— OF WOMEN iq tra iy SOAP Preserve, Purify, and Beautify the Skin, Scalp, Hair, and Hands with uti (AP « Mrtttons or Women use Crticvra Soap, assisted by Curicura OmTMENT, for beautifying the skin, for cleansing the scalp, and the stopping of falling hair, for softening, whitening, and soothing red, rough, and sore hands, for baby rashes, itchings, and irritations, aud for all the uur} of the toilet, bath, and nu . Lillions of women use Curicura Soar in baths for annoying irritations, inflamma tions, and excoriations, or too free or offen- sive prespiration, in washes for ulcerative weaknesses, and Re ment anes, anti- septic purposes, w! ly su; themselves to women, especially ase Complete Treatment for Hamours, $1. Consisting of CUTICURA S0aP(26e.),tocleanse the skin of crusts and scales, and soften the thickened cuticle, Cu TICURA GINTMENT (500), to instantly allay pening, inflammation, and tation, and soothe and heal, and CUTICURA and was devoted to a discussion of the terms of the foregoing resolu- The plaintifis in this case are! tion, which was drawn up by Repre- , among the wealthiest citizens of th vi “ eg Charles W. Nesbitiea bank. sentative Jackson, of Kansas, and frequently struck by democratic cy-' er, while the others are either mer-| Presented by Representative Griggs, viones —Clinton Democrat. jchante or well-to-do farmers, of Georgia, chairman of the Demo- RESOLVENT PILLS (25¢.), to cool and cleanse the blood, Coticuna Resotverr Pitts (Chocolate Coated) are anew, tasteless, economical substitute for the celebrated OuricuRa Resouvent, as well as for all blood purl. Bers and humour cures. i pe Fe 60 doses, 2c, | Srtetier ee ee mite A) FF FTA TSISSsASsssaR HURRAR FOR THE CL°RIOUS FOURTH. Like Christmas she comes every year. ing-omnere Mo before. Standard first car gone lou every day for mo! Come in look at Hardware, Ete. Won't the boys girls have a cracking good time, crackin tire- crackers, and they will have a crackin good time if they will come to Butler on the said date, and if you will only come buggies and a cre to be too light or THEY ARE JUST RIGHT. examine our Haying Tools, Barn Door Fixtures and everything that goes to make a happy harvest. We also have a fine line of Groceries, | once and afore- ASSESS ooSoSERe ree ooo Seseerewe) in and buy one of our crackin good ickin gocd set of harness at the crackenest price you @ ever’ heard of, quality considered. EVERYTHING 1S ALL RIGHT in price at our store, We are hav- aga © s are the hot stuff, g ago, and wiring ‘e; they dont seem too short lived, our Rakes, also eye oa alo} | | : MILLIONS || Benuett-Wheeler Mere | aera el aelel ae elelelele Duel in a Hotel Corridor. | Fire Cracker and a Sheriff. | Pallas, Tex., June 20, Charles > MePherson, Kan daly This Fouts, night clerk at the National | Hotel, William Irby, a barkeeper, fought a} pistol duel in the hallway of the see- | No. 153 Gritlin street, and | ond-story of the hotel to-day. Fouts | is dead at the morgue, and Irby is locked up at the county jail, with a; s.ight flesh wound in the nght cheek, The men had been enemies for some | time. They met in the hallway of the | hotel to-day and brought mattersto an issue. Pistols were drawn and eight shots exchanged. All of the bullets from Fouts’ weapon were buried in the hotel walls; two of Irby’sshots took effect—one through Fouts’s head and the other through his heart. Soon after the shooting Irby sur- rendered at the Sheriff's office. He would say little concerning the tragedy, more than that the fight was forced onto bim, and he acted in self-defense. Nothing could be learn- ed at the hotel concerning Fouts’ career. He is said to have lived in Dallas only a few weeks. Irby fs the son of an influential and well-to-do Dallas county farmer. Will Meet in Jerusalem. Denver, Col., June 30.—“Jerugalem, My Happy Home,” will be the rally- ing cry of the International Sunday ] School Association in 1904, when the Holy City will be the meeting place for the world-wide Sunday school convention: The triennial meeting of 1905 will be held in Toronto, evening while Sheriff Seitz was wit- | nessing'a wrestling match between an Italian and a bear, he lighted a ean- von firecracker.- While holding. it preparatory to throwing it at the | bear it exploded, tearing his fore- finger and thumb. The hand is not so badly injured that amputation will be necessary, but the sheriff will probably be crip- pled. ler of Publication. STATE OF MISSOURI, } County of Bates, 5 In the circuit court, Juneterm, 1902, Josephi: shepherd plainuff, vs. John Shepherds Mary Ann Tapscott, George Shephera, Kate Barth, Mary A. Godwin, Kichard P Shep- herd, Anna E Covey and The unknown heirs of Kinney Shepherd, defendants, Order of Publication, Now at this day comes the plaintiff herein by aitorney, James W. Sudueth, and files her nded petition and affidavit, alleging, among ings that derendants, the heirs of Kin- erd deceased, are unknown to this plaint-t and for that reason their names cannot ue inserted in plaintiff’s petition. Wherew itisordered by the court in term time that said defendants be notified by publication that plaintift ha: menced & suit against them in this court, t uject and general nature of which is to obtain a decree in partition, accord- ing to the respective interests and rights of the parties to this suit, of the following described real estate lying and being situate fa the coun- ty of Bates and state of Missouri, described as follows, to-wit: ‘The northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-five (5) and northeast quarter of quarter in townsht 88, tif ie unable state whether or not the said Kinn ra left any children or descendants and that ifhe did they are together entitied to an undivided one-seventh interest of, in and to all said real estate and that unless the gaid hei: of the said Kinney She; » deceased, be appear at thiscourt at the next term thereof, be began and hviden at court city of Butler, Mo, in said county of Nov. bext, and on or st vit