The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 22, 1903, Page 4

a en re mtg ee SLANDER ON THE TOWN. While we are frank to admit that | Butler is not wholly free from the | evils of gaming, drinking and other | \offences against the law, none of - | which has theapproval of Tae Ties, |we can truthfully say that they are carried on in a less degree than ever before, and assert that we have one of the most orderly, temperate, law- abiding towns of any its size in the whole state of Missouri. It takes a great many kinds of people to make up a cosmopolitan city the size of Butler, and we cannot expect them all to have the same tastes, inclina- tions, disposition and morals. Vice alwayshasand always will exist, and it is the duty of all good citizens to labor to reduce it to its minigum. Butit is the height of folly to makea sweeping denunciation of the town and its officers because a few tin-horn gamblers hide in a back room away from the ‘public streets and play cards, or some old bloke successfully works his wita to secure a drink of whiskey on Sunday, as was recently done by an anonymous writer in the Democrat, and which was copied as a sweet morsel by papers in other towns, The editor of Tue Times has been a resident of Butler for over 26 years the greater part of which time hehas been conducting this paper, this has given us full opportunity to know and we do know and assert that the evils complained of are less now than they have ever been during those long years, and it is an infamous slander to send out the report to the world that licentiousness lewdness gambling and intemperance are un- restrained, There aresofew intringe- ments of the city ordinances that not a dozen citizens could be selected atrandom that could name the police judge offhand, and that official would starve to death had he to de pend upon his fees from that office for support. To see a drunken man on our streets is a very rare occur- rence, and the only need of a marshal or policeman is as a precautionary measure, We again assert that we are not apologists for law breakers, neither are we 80 hidebound as to strain at gnats, and we will go further to cor rect any violations of the law than the writer of that article. On a sul. ject of so grave an importance asth questioning of the moral standing of atownor community a writershoul give his own name, so that peopl: can judge of the credibility of tl. witness. BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES- J. D. ALLEN, Eprror. aaa aN “ents y ]. D. Atten & Co., Proprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Werxty Times, published eyery Thursday, will be sent to any address ne year, postage paid, for $1.00, ANNOUNCEMENTS. TOWNSHIP ASSESSOR. . eae Weare authorized to annouuce J. W. Hol- oway as acandidate for assessor of Mt. Pleas- Sat township, subject to action of the Demo- cratic party, Two of the great New York dailies which have heretofore been loyal to the president have turned on him. One ts bitter in its ridicule of his anti- trust policy, the other is condemning his southern policy.—Ex. Jefferson City, Jan. 17.--Sportamen will be interested to know that a bill was presented in the house to-day providing that every person who shall be found hunting with dog or sun upon the land of another shall be liable to a fine of $10. With the death of Frank Hume, at Norfolk, Virginia, on the 5th, the seventeenth person in Virginia ‘el victim to disease caused by wounds in handling toy pistols, Lockjaw and blood poisoning were the direct causes of the deaths. Two bills are pending before the legislature pro- hibiting the sale of toy pistols. The ability of Senator Dickinson representing this district, is being recognized. He is chairman of the committee on Education, Text Books and Public Schools, and is also a member of the committee on appro- priations, railroads and internal im- provements, private corporations and privileges and elections. os Biggs in the Senate introduced a bill appropriating. $35,000 for the construction of a factory at the peni- tentiary which shall produce and sell twine to the farmers at cost. A “re- volving fund” of $125,000 is appro- priated for use in disposing of the twine, the money to be returned to the State Treasury when not needed. R. C. Kerens was given the caucus nomination for United States Sena- tor by the Republicans of Missouri over Chas. Nagel, an Akins man, by one vote, One side accuses the other of using federal patronage and the other charges that the cold cash from St. Louis did the work. Thereis talk ofa resolution being introduced in the legislature to investigate the charges. They are, indeed, aniceset to be forever talking about redeem- ing Missouri. Fortunate for the state that the people stood between both these factions and the United States senate —Stockton Journal. OC: The President to the King. South Wellfleet, Mass., Jan. 19.— The following is the text of the mee- sages transmitted to-day by the Marconi system of wireless telegraph y between Cape Cod and Cornwall, England, : etween President Roose- velt and King Eviward: Wellfleet, Mass., Jan. 19, 1903.— His Majesty, Edward VII, London, Eng.: In-taking~ advantage~of’ the wonderful triumph of scientific re- search and ingenuity which has been achieved in perfecting a system of wireless telegraphy, I extend on be half of the American people most’ cordial greetings and good wishes to you and to all the people of the Brit- ish empire. ‘ Dispatches from Jefferson City an- nounced that Thos. W. Crow, rep- resentative from Ray county, blew out the gas the first night in the capital city and came near killing both himself and wife. Commenting on the incident the Drovers’ Tele- gram, KansasCity, says: “Ofcourse, the Eastern papers will poke a lot of fun at Missouri now that a member of fhe state legislature has blown out the gas. Butlet them. Iv's a whole lot better to have some men in the legislature who will blow out the gas than to have it made up entirely of fellows who are johnny-wise on city ways. These men who blow out the gas and walk upstairs, because they don’t want to trouble the elevator boy are mighty good safeguards against extravagant legislation, just the same, and they are a whole lot harder tv get ‘next to’ than some of these smooth young city chaps.” Saaeeee ee THEODORE Rooseve.t. Sandringham, Jan. 19, 1908.—The President, White House, Washing- ton, America: I thank you most sincerely for the kind message which Ihave just received through Mar- coni’s transatlantic wireless teleg- raphy. I sincerely reciprocate in the name of the people of the British empire the cordial greetings and friendly sentiment expressed by you in behalf of the American nation, and I heartily wish you and your country every possible prosperity. Epwanp, R. & I. Found Dead By Railroad Tracks, Harrisonville, Mo., Jan.19.—Judge E. T. Lane, of this city, a prominent stockman and farmer, was found dead with head crushed, near the Pacific Railroad track just west of town about 8 o’clock. A corgner’e verdict is that he came to his death by being struck by a Missouri Pacific train. He was last seen alive early this morning. He had not been well for some weeks, and it is thought he might have fallen on the track y bis head on the rail aud had itcrush- indphetatitimaamates ed by a passing train. , ~ Platt Won by 108 to 1. He had served as County Judgetor Albany, N. Y., Jan. 19.—The joint | twoterms, and was élected asa mem- republican caucus to-night nominat- | ber of the Missouri ¢1 Thomas (. Platt to encceed him-/injall at Kansas Oty t _ seltas United States senator by & jont bonds q vote of 108 to 1 for Elihu The following, marked “stolen,” is published in a Missouri paper: “How dear to my heart is the steady sub- scriber, who pays in advance at the birth of the year; who lays down bis money and does it quite gladly, and casts round the office a halo of cheer. He never says, ‘Stop it, I cannot af- ford it,’ nor I’m getting more papers than now I can read;’ but- always says ‘Send it. the family like it; in fact, we all think it a real household need.’ How welcome he is when he steps in the sanctum, how he makes our hearts throb, how he makes out hearte dance. We outwardly thank him, we ‘inwardly bless him, the steady subscriber who pays in ad- vance.” farme, with safety and profit. ting erage of eleven and fifteen hun- dredths per centeach year for the entire six years, free of taxes, as all taxes were paidby the company. The Walton Trust Company Meeting. The directors and stockholders: of the Walton Trust Company held meetings on January 8, 1903. Dr. T. C. Boulware, C. H. Dutcher, John Deerwester, Dr. J. Everingham. J. R. | Jenkins, Judge Sam Levy, C. R. Rad- ford, Judge Booker Powell, Wm. W. | Trigg, T. J. Wright, Wm. E. Walton | and Frank M. Voris will serve as! directors the ensuing year. The fol- lowing officers were elected: Wm. E. Walton, president; T. J. Wright, vice-president; Frank Allen, secretary; C. A, Allen, ass’t secretary; W. D. Yates, title examiner; A. H. Peach, clerk and bookkeeper. Anexamination of the books for the year 1902, showed the earnings and expenses as follows: Gross earnings $19}523.34 Expenses and taxes paid 9,658.46 Net earnings $9,864.88 A dividend of 5 per centforthe last seven months was paid amounting to two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars and five hundred dollars added to the surplus fund. During the year 1902 thesurplusfund wasin- creased one thousand dollars and stockholders were paid nine per cent on dividends, amounting to four thousand nine hundred and fifty dol- lars. The surplus fund is now six thousand five hundred dollars. The Walton Trust Company was found to be in first-class condition, doing a large business in lending on During the last six years the stock- holders had been paid in cash divi- dends thirty thousand and eight hundred dollars, besides thesix thou- sand dollars in cash added to the surplus fund, thus net- the stockholders an av- Mr. Walton, the president, reported that the Walton Trust Company has on its books and under its control and management four thousand real estate loans, amounting to about four million dollars that. were pur- chased of the Walton Trust Com- pany by and now owned by more than one hundred money lenders, including savings banks, trust companies and individuals to-day they come forward and ask ; . ed, that this notice be published in some news- scattered over several states. Many|that another great Democrat and next United States Benator. Heise the eeu an " leader and fearless and worthy of | that scopy of this ‘be served on of these money lenders have been | leader be given the reward he sorich- any honor the party can give him,” | it, Belrs and devisees of deceased buying our mortgages continuously ly a EE. a Sl . a Sonsty, Riswer antl, etorsoal ald of _ for fifteen, twenty and thirty years.| ‘Bornin Kentucky and reared in . be: gore has diva Mr. Walton said that which pleased | Missouri, W. J. Stone has been crown- pe bah ag & al Seesanty of Bator ef me. him most was to be able to say to ed from time to time, because he has efferson City, Jan. 19. vernor| I, J. A, Silvers, judge of the te thie board of directors, that after | been worthy of it and because he has | Dockery submitted to the leglalature i tht te re eg a A thirty years of continuous business | @truggled for it. No man has been |late this afternoon a supplementary (0, as the same appears of {in my oles, in lending on Missourifarms for over made great unless he has struggled | message, recommending ‘the appro-| sx, ceteue ho +, said one hundred lenders, having made in for it. priation of sufficient money to im- vary, ogunty, Missouri, this 17th day of Jan- all about ten thousand loans that in} “The people respond where merit is | Prove the state capitol building. t Judge of Hrobate, the aggregate exceed fifteen mil-| deserved to the one who has striven These improvements have been ee lion dollars, not one of ow) ——====—— —— needed for years. Among the mod- ‘ money lenders during this long ern things urged by the governor is y period of time has lost a dollar, nor CUTICURA PILLS a tunnel frqm the foot of the lower does any of them own a farm taken terrace on the east aide of the build- at foreclosure sales to save themoney nl eee irectly_under the} 0 a 2 sill that was loaned. None of our lend- rior terminus it is ‘ aiie tua to bioia Giemsak tid Cis ca inp Colin ( H +» [suggested that elevators be built to| The walking sick, what the contrary we have theirconfldence 0 il GaSe, carey the law-makera to their floor. | a crowd of them there are: and every one of them is yet buying . Tt this\.is” done a will mean Persons who are thin and our farm mortgages, as they have the Blood and Skil that employees, Ry ange od and weak but t sick h sii visitors. may reach yany floor of | Wea ut not sick enoug money to loan. ‘ the building without walking up long | to go to bed ° d Possessing the confidence of so bsiaiitaal flights of wearing, breath-exhausting §' pau many lenders it enables the Walton steps. contemplates} ‘Chronic cases” that’s Trust Company at all times to be ready with cash to loan on farms at lowest interest rates and that at no time during the last twenty-five years has any borrower been refused a loan where the real estate offered as securety was satisfactory. The di- rectors and stockholders were pleased with the dividends received and with the prospect of good business in the year 1903. By the Aid of Armed Mea. Denver, Jan.'19.—The senatorial fight here has reached a point where it has been necessary to station dep- uty sheriffs outside the senate chamber; and it is reported that troops are to be called for. Two separate senatorial bedies are now in session, one presided over by Lieutenont Governor Haggott and composed of Republicans numbering nineteen, a majority, and another presided over by President Pro Tem. W. H. Adams, a Bemocrat, and made up of Democrats. The latter have unseated two more Republicans, Dick _ > Officials Are Assaulted. _ Bt. Joseph,-Mo,, January 17.—Itis believed that a plot existe to kill L. C. Gabbert, county prosecuting at- torney, and his , assistant, J. B, O'Connor. _ Less than a week ago Mr. States Senator. He is known toyou I have been his friend for twenty conged, Nazeslla F. Tingler, administratrix, all, of the state and republic. He|7°°"* Taciged Sie ehen he wendeet Orliee of Fubiicntion, mee has been a fearless leader in his par- nominated for Congress. After he} , fon stmuscey engee Maree Meuseate nek had retired from Washington for two | the estate of Jacob Tingler, deceased, 4 order for ths sale of 80 much of the congo aoe petri. inate him for governor. He won be:| maining debe due by suid states es teers: ( and debater, George G. Vest. He is enum be Geesrved to win, Boaseved tod yet ung aid for want of" wumcnt sane a worthy colleague of that great out his termy faithfully and honor. | Seivas required by inwy’ on examines f it is ordered, that ‘all persons interest- the Hon. Francis M. Cockrell. representatives in the Senate, and SENATOR STONE. You have it. You don’t want it. Then | * why keep it? Drive it out with Ayer’s Malaria and Ague Cure. 922335: #2y LIFE is often hanging in the balance when a physi- cian writes a prescription. If the compound- ing is inaccurate, or if the drugé supplied are lacking in purity or strength, who shall an- swer for results? ' We recognize our responsibility in these matters. We regard every prescription as one requir- ing the utmost care as to ac- curacy, and demanding the highest grade of drugs, that money will buy. Our ideal prescription service costs you nothing extra—we always strive to give the best of everything at prices that are absolute- ly fair. : H. L, TOCKER, Best Drug Store in Batés Co., Butler, Mo. Elected by the Missouri Legislature on Tuesday. Jefferson City, Jan. 20.—Ex-Gov- ernor William Joel Stone, candidate of the Democratic caucus, received to-day a majority of the votes cast in both houses for the successor of United States Senator George Gra- ham Vest, whose term will expire March 38, 1903. Richardson ©. Kerens was given. the solid. vote of the Republicans. Inthe house at 1:30 o’clock the roll | call began. All of the eighty-two Democrats elected answered to their names. One Republican, Thompson, was absent, making the vote for Kerens 59, The result was declared Stone 82 and Kerens 59. An invita- tion to the senate to meet the house at noon to-morrow to officially an- nounce Stone’s election was adopted and the house took a recess until 8 o'clock. Stewart, of Knox, chairman of the house judiciary committee, made the nominating — for William J. Stone, Stewart said thenomination meant the selection of a senator who would represent Missouri for six years “to combat the encroachments of the aristocracy of the East upon the rights of the people of the West.” He described Stone as “a gentleman whose fidelity to the interests of the people has been unequaled by any man, not only in Missouri, but in the whole United States,” NOMINATED IN SENATE, ry Senator Dickinson, of Henry, rose BSB BOSE OE OG 874 OG Oy OG Or G Org to nominate. “I desire,” he said, “to present the name of a distinguished Democrat, who has only recently, by a Demo- cratic caucus, been named as United Order of Publication. STATE OF MISSOURI, 88. County or Bares, In the Probate court for the county of November term, 1902. Jacob Tin x Sos. well, Themajority of the Democracy have recorded the desires, And I take great pleasure in presenting to this body the name of W. J. Stone. ty. He has been deemed by his sents te the court her petition, years, it was my pleasure to nom- ably. After being out of public of- fice for six years he comes and asks | th that the ambition of his life be given oy him. He comes now and asks this because the united Democracy of Mis- souri demands that he shall be the 08 whereo: ed in te cons of sald deceased, be notified Democrat and Senator, loved by all, “The Democrats have been fortu- nate in the days past in having such many other needed changes. The cost of it all is to be somewhere near $100,000. ? In Gases of Itching, Burning, Sealy Humours, And for Renovating and. En- riching the Blood, what the doctors call them, which in common English means—long sickness. To stop the continued loss of flesh they need Scott’s Emulsion. ‘For the feeling of weakness they need Scott's Emulsion. > May Be a Second Klondike. Seattle, Wash., Jan. 19.—It is re- ported from Bayson that a great gold strike has been made eighteen miles'‘north of Tanana river and 300 miles from its source. It is said that . no such gold strike has been made < The " - Most Economical since the discovery of the Klondike. | It makes new flesh and et Compounded, The fields are in American territory. | gives new life to the weak Prospectors have deserted CircleCity and hundreds of men are stampeding over the hills to the new district. The first man to h Dawson with the news was a Japanese, nam- ed Wada. He reporte that the origi- nal strike was..made on Pedro, a creek running parallel with Tanana. purifiers, however ive, |About. one hundred men were at while enabling all to enjoy the curative, | work on Gold creek. ““Jack’”’ Costa without constining Deas expetee a miner, was offered $50,000 for a and often injurious portions of alcohol claim and refused to sell. =) in which such medieines have hereto- fore been preserv A Marvelous Invention. Cuticura Pills are alterative, antisep- tic, tonic and digestive, _ beyond oo, the purest, sweetest, most suo- sful and economical blood and skin humour cures and ton’ — Cuticura Resolvent Pills (chocolate Coated) are the product of twenty-five rs’ practical laboratory experien Ir the Preparation of tention for the treatment of humours of the skin, scalp and blood, with loss of hair, and are confidently believed to be superior to = ge? alteratives as well as liquid system. Scott's Emulsion gets thin and weak persons out _ of the rut. It makes new, rich blood, strengthens the nerves and gives appetite for ordinary food, Scott's Emulsion can be taken as long as sickness lasts and do good all the machine time, ee ~The fel@otin.| ‘There’s. new strength seems to be! and flesit.in every dose. unlimited;” Notable among gre: | Soreness s is Dr. King’s New { :