The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 7, 1902, Page 7

Says His Cow Suckled a Snake. William Jones, a farmer and cattle raiser, near Verdella, Mo., was on the market yesterday with a car of cat- tle. The load included one old can- nercow which Mr. Jones c&lled his “snake cow.” “That cow,”’ said he, “has been feeding a big bull snakeTor threeweeks. I saw her do it andkill- ed the snake. He was between six and seven feet long and as big around ‘as the calf of my leg. Three weeks ago I turned the cow out in the pas- ture with the steers. After a week or sol observed that the cow was as fresh as ever and made up my mind that some one entered the pasture and milked her. I watched her one evening and followed her to a big rock pile in a deserted corner of the pasture. She began to bawl as if calling for her calf. Presently the snake came from under the rocks, coiled himself under the cow and be- gan sucking the teats, one after the other. The next day at about the same hour the cow visited the rock pile again and I observed the same performance. On the third day I took out my shotgun and after the snake coiled itself in position to milk the cow I fired and blew its head off. Several others entered the cow’s teats, but did not seem to hurt the animal ” Young hogs sucking « cow in the pasture is not an uncommon thing, but this is the first time that a snake is known to have fed on cow’s milk in this unique manner, bw. F. Duva.. Fa H. E. Perciva. J.B. Devan. —0—_——_. DUVALL & PERCIVAL, FARM LOANS. Money to Loan on Real Estate at Lowest Rates of Interest Come and get our rates. PRR LEP PPPP PRE LLL LOL PLL ELE PLPLL LEP PIES PS J. TYGARD, HON.J. 8, NEWBEBRY, J.C.OLARE, President. Vice-Pres't. Oashier _ THE BATES COUNTY BANK, BuTLuIR, Mo. Successor to BATES COUNTY NATIONAL BANE. Estauisurp Dac., 1870. \ iP ITAL, $75,000. $e A General Banking Business Transacted nty Investment Co., IBUTLER, MO.: OCapital, $50,000. to loan on real estate, at low rates. Abstracts of tae tS 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 ates Cou : rs drawn, aa z sear Hox. J, B, Newsenny, J.C. Chanx, Strange Scene at Butte one" President, Vice-President. Seo’y, & Treas, 8, F, Warnock, Notary. Butte, Mont., July 81.—The most remarkable display of lightning ever seen in the Rocky mountain country prevailed over Butte for an hour this morning between 4 and 5 o'clock. The heavens were one continuous “Teheet of Tames, withe Moment o intermission, and thousands of peo- ple were aroused from their slumbers by the brightness of the strange phenomenon, Nearly everything be- came more or less charged with elec- tricity and many persons were injur- ed by coming in contact with articles connected with electric light and tele- phone wires, even several hours after the electric display in the heavens had ceased. Alfred E. Rhodes, of Aurora, IIl., anemploye of the Cudahy Packing company in Butte, was killed at 8 o'clock this morning by an electric shock that came from a stack of meat in @ refrigerator car. When he first entered the car, he received a violent shock by touching a piece of timber He was dragged out by a fellow-employe, und after great dif_l- culty his life was saved. A short time later he went- back in the ear to resume work, and touched a pile of meat, and was instantly killed. A dozen or more people in different parts of the city received severe shocks. Jno. C. Hares, Abstractor, ! t Robert Yost Honored. | TRUSTS AND IMPE- ‘or distinguished services render-} St. Louis man has been award- both a gold medal and a diploma hMdirectors of the South Caro- Ex}osition at Charleston. ‘compliment has come to rt M. Yost, who was secretary Missouri commission to the -American and Charleston Ex- tions. . Yost was a devoted exponent greatness and glory of Missouri oth these expositions, and his were greatly appreciated at home and abroad. Thecon- Ing of a medal upon an exposi- Official for good conduct is an nal honor. compliment came to Mr. Yost great surprise and is highly ap- ted. To Cure a Cold in One Day ‘ is not founded on fact.” p Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab-| yr, Carmack was asked what would sts refund mone’ a ; voney-- constitute the main issues in New En- = hpdipet’ a. [rom this year and he replied: ' “Imperialism and trusts. The feel- led Widow Kills Herself on Her | ing against these two evils seemed to Husband’s Grave. me to be powerfully strong among : Democrats and Republicans alike.” Vaverly, Mo., July 31.—Mrs. Belle f rai The senator was especially struck rn, aged 30, committed suicide by the feeling of harmony existing morning by going out to Ar- ‘ among the Democrats of that sec- on cemetery and shooting her- tion. hrough the head. “The leaders of the New England he was found on the grave of her Democracy,” he said, “including and. She said the man she|¢)o¢ who were not with us on the d would not marry her. money question in 1896, were all | enthusiastically with the party. I never saw such a spirit of harmony as prevailed among the Democracy of Boston and of that part of the country generally. In Maine, too, the gold Democrats who left their party six years ago are all back in line and gave Mr. ‘Bryan an enthu- siastic reception. Indeed, his meetings there were wildly enthusiastic. I heard the names of many individuals of local prominence mentioned as those of persons who had bolted the regular ticket in Mr. Bryan’s first campaign, either by voting outright for Mr. McKinley or casting their ballote for Palmer and Buckner or by simply going fishing, who were now working like beavers for Demo- cratic suceess,”” Senator Carmack was in Repre- sentative Littlefield’s home district and had an opportunity of learning how that congressman’s constitu- ents regarded him. ‘I found that | Mr. Littlefield’s neighbors entertain- ed the highest respect for him per- sonally,” said Mr. Carmack, “but as our | & trust killer they regarded him as a joke.” Kid Bryan in His New England Campaign Didn't Touch Silver. Washington, July 29,—Senator Carmack, of Tennessee, who returned to-day from his speaking tour of New England, denies that William J. Bryan put the slogan of 1896 to the fore during the speechmaking in those states. “I heard every speech, he deliver- ed,” said the senator, “and in none did he discuss free silver or 16 to 1. His remarks in Maine followed close- ly along the line of his Boston deliv- erance. He dealt with thetrustsand the Philippines and the Fowler cur- rency bill. All this talk of hia hav- ing threshed over the issues of 1896 May Yohe Got $22,000. Plymouth, Eng., July 31.—Miss May Yohe arrived here thisafternoon on the steamship Fuerst Bismarck from New York. When told of Capt. Putnam Bradlee Strong’s denial that he had taken her jewels without her knowledge and his statement made on his arrival in London that he pawned the jewels upon her request and gave her the money she became greatly excited and in her anger re- vealed the amount paid to her by Strong’s family. This, she said, was $22,000. The former Lady Hope shed tears while talking of Capt. Strong. She said she did not come to England to retaliate on Capt. Stong, but to re- cover her jewels which were pawned here. She added that she had paid her lawyer, Emanuel Friend, $5,000 of the money she received from Strong’s family. Miss Yohe proceed- ed to London. Strong is in London, and appears to have pleuty of money. onstipation, impaired digestion fa torpid liver, are the mostcom- p ailments that are responsible that tired, listless, fagged-out ling that makes the summer 2 baded period to so many people. bine will cure contipation, it im- the digestion and arouses the to normal activity. Price, 50 its.—H. L. Tucker. Senator Platt’s Denial. ork, July 81.—Senator Platt dkning took occasion to deny ent attributed to him that eeident Roosevelt would have the id backing of the New York dele- Hon at the republican national ion in 1904 and that he told ident so yesterday at Oyster Platt says not a word on the passed between himeelf and sid ent. Al Immense Corn Crop. Lincoln, Neb., July 31.—There were heavy rains last night all over the state, damaging the oats crop, but insuring one of the heaviest corn har- vests in Nebraska’s history. Esti- mates by the general commercial agent of the Burlington lines, based on the reports of 300 or 400 etation nte, forecasts a crop of 280,000,- ‘000 bushels. ‘This figure has’ only once been e: . The Finest Fabric Bidding For Immigrants. Vienna, July 28.—Agents of Mexi- can industrial and agriculturalinter- ests are seeking to divert Austrian direct to the gulf. The republic of has just tontracted for th Twisting Earthquake in Calitornia Like Wheat in Canada. Just Suited Him | Los Alamos, Cal.. July 31.—The} most severeearthquake in the history of this place occurred at 1:20 this morning. It is not possible as yet to estimate the damage, but it is very heavy. No lives are known to have been lost, though there were many nar- row escapes. Every brick building in town was destroyed or badly wrecked. Innearly every house windows were broken, — The Presbyterian church, a large and handsome brick structure, was razed to the ground, and a similar fate befell the weneral store of W_ 8. Wickenben, also a brick building. Tornado’s Motion. Washington, July 31.—People of the northwest are beginning to get It is not very often that a negro is found in the south who is so anxious to work that he willturn his hand to anything he can do, but Lewis Sells one of the vireus brothers, who have their pictures all in a row, used to tell an exception. In Alabama a coal black negro ap- plied to Mr. Sells once for a “job.” “What can you do?” asked the man- ager. “Anything.” “Well,” said Mr. Sells, “just now I need a forager; think you could do that?” “Guess I could boss, if | knew what *t was:” eagerly replied the negro. “Well, aforager is a man that woes a little ahead of the show and gathers in all the chickens he can ffnd and all the eggs he can find, and once in awhile a shote, and gets things generally to eat. How does that strike you?” ‘,Boss,” explosively exelaimed the negro, I’m just your man. foragin’ all winter.”"—Chicago Trib- une. | worried about the increasing produc- tionof wheatin Canada. Last year’s yield was close to 50,000,000 bushels, which was a jump of 20,000,000, and nowex-Premier Greenway, of Canada, predicts that this year’s yield will not be far from 70,000,000 bushels. Thereis a tariff on wheat which keeps itfrom coming over the boundary line. Otherwise ‘the great mills of Minneapolis might profit by grinding it. But no. It will go direct to Liv- erpool, where the price of wheat is made for the world. What is more, the railroads and steamship compa- nies will give better freight rates to wheat than to flour; it costs less to handle; the insurance on it is less, and there are other reasons resulting in the fact that the unground prod- uct can be sent abroad cheaper than the flour. Another thing The tide of immi- gration is setting over the boundary line now and into the great fertile wheat fields of Canada, The north- west would like to keep these people in the United States. They make wealth. One result of the feelings in that section of the country is a growing demand for reciprocity with Canada, The farmers want the tariff wall low- ered, Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, thinks the ultimate solution will be Canadian annexation. TWIST LIKE TORNADO, The shock seemed to have had a spiral motion, like that of a tornado, Goods were hurled from shelves of stores and piled in the middle of the rooms. Even such heavy articles as desks were thrown about. Nota chimney is left standing in the town. All brick walls were badly damag- ed, but frame structures generally es- caped serious injury. In the drug store not a sinele bot- tle escaped, and Kohn’s saloon was flooded with liquor from broken bot- ties. Los Alamos has about 600 inhabit- ants, and is located in Santa Bar- bara county, I's been Report of State's Finance. Jefferson City, Mo., July 81-—Fol- lowing is the monthly report of RK. P. Williams, State Treasurer, for the month ending July 31: Balance, June 30, $2,584,313.81; receipts durs ing July 36,00; disbursements during July, $215,122.87; balance, July 31, $2,648,527.03, Secretary of State Sam B. Cook re- ports having received and paid into the State Treasury taxes and fees for the month of July, 1002, as follows: Notarial commissions, $670; domes- tie corporation tax $11,495; foreign corporations tax, $1,500; miscellane- ous fees, 8568.70; land department fees, $26.50; i ti flow $1,061.50, Total, $1 Don't Be Selfish, FLEEING FROM THE TOWN, The people are terror-stricken and are fleeing from their homes to places of safety. Since the night of the 27th inst, 75 distinct shocks have been felt, The most severe shock occurred at 1:20 o'clock this morning, when the earth seemed to lurch from south to north and then twisted back again. Three distinct shocks were record- ed between 7:25 and 7:30 o'clock this morning. President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, of the University of California, was communicated with by telephone and advised the people to quit the town as soon as possible. Scientists of the university were away on vacations, but President Wheeler advised that tne people be ready to flee at a moment’s notice, and that the doors of residences and places of business be left open so that those indoors might escape to the streets without delay in the event of further disturbances. The advice of President Wheeler was communicat- ed tu the people, and was acted on at Give away what you don’t really need in your house, Don’t let such things accumulate, They will soon fill attic and cellar and overtlow into other rooms, where they do no one any good. You _are_not_ likely want them again, and it is a nuisance to have them around. Long ago we should have been obliged to geta big- ger house for our growing family if 1 had followed my husband's thrifty plan of “saving things.’ At first he thought I was extravagant, butnow he acknowledges that if other fam- ilies would likewise rid themselves of “truck” they are not likely to use again in a thousand years house cleaning would be robbed of half its terrars. Thrift is a homely virtue that easily degenerates into miser- liness. Some of us hoard old clothes, unused furniture, discarded bric-a- bracand the like, simply because that habit has become so fixed we are too stingy to give such things away to worthy folks who need them. Yet 21.70. How Are Your Kidneys Dr. Hobbs’ Sparagus Pills cure all kidney ills. Sam- ple free. Add. Sterling *omedy Co., Chicag) or NE Recovered $40,000 Booty. El Paso, Tex., July 81.—M. B. Da- vis, assistant Superintendent of the Wells-Fargo company, has arrived here from Mexico and says the other two Mexican Central train roboers have been captured, with $40,000 of the booty. Allof the $53,000 taken by the robbers has now been recovered. CASTORIA Yor Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought we don’t mean to be stingy, and are once. It is impossible to estimate] ashamed to discover that we are so.| _Be4Fs sea ELITE the financial loss at this time with |—Good Housekeeping. Signature o lo d any possible degree of accuracy, but it is believed that the disturbances of the past three or four days has dam aged at least $80,000 worth of prop- érty. Reports from other sections of the valley probably will increase this amount by many thousands. “Kill and Burn,” Gen. Jacob Smith. ATTENTION San Francisco, Aug. 1.—Gen. Jacob —0:— : Smith arrived to-day from Manila on the transport Thomas. en, Smith positively declined to say any- thing for publication and would not even allow reporters to approach him. Through his aid, Lieut. M. H. Shields, Gen. Smith said that he would not be interviewed, as he did not care to subject himself to further criti¢ism. Maj. Davol of the transport service delivered Gen, Smith's order of retire- ment to him on board the ship. Gen. Smith on landing went to the Occi- dental Hotel and denied himself to all visitors. Gen. Smith was courtmartialed at Manila for issuing the famous order to kill all Filipinos over 10 years of age and to burn and: destroy their villages. By order of the President he has been retired from the army. The or- deris a virtual dismissal for the good of the service. When you want any kind of black- smithing done, it will pay you to call on us. We do all kinds of repairing, horse-shoeing, plow work, andin fact anything in the line of a first-class blacksmith, We do our work as good as the best, and as cheap as the cheapest. — JACOBS & SONS, Pyle’s old stand, 37-1m Los Alamos is about one hundred miles from Los Angeles, in thesouth- western part of California. It has about six hundred inhabitants. Santa Barbara county, in which it is located, is on the Pacific coast. Itis diversified by mountains and valleys. The Santa Inez range tranverses this county from east to west. The climate is mild and almost tropical. No rain falls between May and November. Earthquakes are not infrequent. Southwest Corner Square lam prepared to sell machines on the installment plan, easy payments only $2.00 per month, the machine World’s Largest Tree. Fresno, Cal., July 31.—What is un- doubtedly the largest known tree in the world has been recently discover- ed two and a half miles from the San- ger Lumber company’s mill at Con- verse Basin, far up in the Sierras, in thecounty. The discovery was made by a party of hunters, but little eredence was given to the report, as every one thought the description of this colossus of the forest was exag- gerated But it has since been visit- ed by people who have verified the finders’ statement. The monster was measured 6 feet from theground and it took a line 154 feet and 8 inches long to encircle it, making it over 51 feet in diameter. This treeis @ few rods from the company’s boundary line and is on the govern- ment reserve, hence will stand to in- terest sightseers. S'pose Fish Don’t Bite at Fust. S’pose the fish don’t bite at fust; What be you goin’ to dew? Chuck down your pole, throw out your bait, An’ say your fishin’s threw? Uv course you ain’t; you’r goin’ to fish An’ fish, an’ fish, an’ wait Until you've ketched your basket full An’ used up all the bait. RRL PAPA S’pose success don’t come at fust? What be you goin’ to dew? Throw up the sponce and kick your- self, An’ go to feelin’ blue, Uycourse you ain’t; you got to fish, An’ bait, an’ bait ag’in. Bimeby success will bait your hook, An’ you wil push him in. —Houston Post. Men Will Be Boys, _ In the excitement of a lively exercise like boat-racing or ball-playing, they willstrain their muscles and go home lim ing and sore. Then Mg gia 4 have Perry Davis’ in- ler on hand to soothe the quiver. ing, nerves; to penetrate the muscles ith warmth and healing power. It ng power. I mearkone. Large hotties For digestive weakness, nervous- ness, pains in the side, flatulence, diz- ziness, wakefulness, headache and other annoying accompaniments of costivenvss, Herbine is a promptand unequalled remedy. Price, 50 cents. ~H, L, Tucker, a a Sewing Machines. | agent for the i Singer Sewing Machine, to be delivered at yourhome, This is an excellent opportunity to get a Also handle repairs for all first- class machines, needles, etc, Clean- ciality. B. F. Richards. ner, square, Butler, Mo. Nis hs A PLANT TREES, or easy to cultivate than fruit trees, 1 am agent for the celebrated at Lees Summit and can take your orders for all of the best varieties of for small fruits such as Strawberries, Gooseberries, Currants, Grapes. ete, and hardy. Persons wanting trees will get just fresh as the nurseries are but a short distance from this place. J, I. DUNN, Butler, Mo. References:—Mo. State Bank, Bates Having succeeded Fred Lefker as 4 § $ machine if in need of one, ing and repairing machines a spe- r] | Office and s#leroom southeast cor- There is no crop more profitable SIAR NURSERIES, Apple, Peach, Pear, Plum ete. Also The stock is guaranteed true to name what they order and they will get it Call at Residence west Ft. Scott st. County Bank aud Farmers Bank.