The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 5, 1903, Page 6

ae ae ee RR a ee him to read it to the members of the |ed to put all their dead soldiers on} ANTER MAN Y YEARS. | house. The dispatch was as follows: |ice, Abe Lincoln would have to “Captain Lyon and Frank Blair| make a contract for Greenland’s icy en route to Jefferson City with three | mountains.” regiments of troops to capture the} “At the conclusion of this speech legislature and hang all the secession- | Vest was lifted from his saddled, and jst of that body. “Thank -God- with # rebel-yell, as the that!’ exclaimed one of the Union|}bore him triumphantly on their members from a back county. ‘A|shouldersto the tent of Colonel Jack- few pairs of plow lines well used on/ son, who was & personal friend of the some members of the house will do|Confederatecongressman-elect. After the Union cause some good.’ leaving this camp that was the last “The wildest excitement prevailed; | the Missouri boys ever saw of George. members reached for their muskets; | He remained in Richmond until the some were for defending the state-| close of the war, where he was admir- house, while the majority thought /ed for his ability.” prudence the better part of valor and a favored going further South. It Curd Consumption. Mra. B. W. Evans, Clearwater, looked like a speedy adjournmen' Ken, writes: “My bes ay one MR. VEST'S EARLY CAREER. The Senator as a Member of Missouri’s War Time Legislature. Cannon Ball Fired in War of 1812 Hits Man in Year 1902. Interesting Historic Kelle Te Us- earthed Near Bladensburg and In- side « Message Saying That the British Are Coming. For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Lawmakers’ Fear of the Yankee Sol- An old rusty cannon ball, fired from a British field piece at the attack on Bladensburg, Maryland, by the Eng- paren lish force under Gen. Ross and Lieut. ANéegetable Preparati Wainwright during the war of 1812, similating the Food hit a laborer working a short distance ting the Stomachs and outside of that town the other day and ~ «at nam broke his leg. The ball, when exam- IN} ined, was found to inclose a roll of — parchment addressed to “the com- manding officer of the American force diers and Their Precipitate Flight--- Vest’s Appearance in Richmond--- Suspected of Being a Spy---How Identified. From the Washington Post. Colonel Alexander Jones, of Inde- — Promotes Digestion Cheerful- |f pendence, Mo., recently on a vielt| would take place’ without voting - for three months; the doctors stated | defending Washington, and contain. ness and Rest Contains neither here, told the following racy|Presiding offiver the usual vote of/he had quick coneamption | We pro-|ing a detailed account of the plans of rep nor Mineral, OT NARCOTIC. Admiral Cockburn, the commander in chief of the British naval force then in the Potomac, and of which the land expedition was part, for his march on Washington and the destruction of the national capital. The communication was signed “Timson Howard, mate of the American merchantman, General Stone, and a victim of the British press gang.” thanks, After the panic had partly/cured a bottle of Ballard’s Hore- hound Syrup and it cured him. That ; was six years ago, and since then we sage was a hoax intended to test the always kept a bottle in the house. courage of the legislative warriors |Wwe ‘cannot do without it. For “Shortly after, however, the news |coughe and colds, it has no ual.” reached Jefferson City that Colonel |25c, 50c and $1.00 bottle at H. L. Lyon had actually captured Camp Tucker's Drug Store. Jackson and 639 prisoners and was THE BANDITS IN A CAVE? story of the last hours of the Mis- souri legislature at the breaking out of the Civil war and Senator Vest’scelebrated speech in that body, with his subsequent flight to theCon- federate lines and his election by twenty-two members of Colonel Jones’s regiment to the Confederate subsided it was ascertained the mes- Use Congress. Said the colonel: then moving on Boonville. There John Key, the man injured by the ‘ ; “It is a long time ago, but I think | ¥as ageneral panic and every man cannot ball, was one of a gang of col- By gnety Lg ine a } [ean give it to you. I had been with struck out for his own safety. Vest | sheriff Walker Believes the Union Rob-|°re¢ laborers engaged in cutting a sald hens — General Atchison in the border trou-| 42d Governor Jackson were the first road near Bladenburg. He was work- and Loss OF SLEEP. i / to make the break, and a bee line for bers Have Taken Refuge. ing at the bottom of a steep, 50-foot ness : ' ’ slant when the pick of a laborer at the é blesin Kansas for some time and was pretty much used up, #0 I thought I would take a rest for the winter at Jefferson City, amusing myself by listening to the exciting debates in the legislature, which I knew were bound to follow. There were some very big men in that body of state lawmakers, among :them was George Vest, young saddlebag lawyer from iy Boonville, who at that time was opening a modest law office with fair the southern part of the state, where} St. Louis, Jan. 30.—Will Rudolph, Fac Simite Signature of they thought they would be safe]the Union bank robber, who shot from danger. The governor, with a8/and_ killed Detective Schumacher, many members as could keep up with | with his confederate, Fred Lewis, are him, halted at Neosho to hold a meet: | believed to be hiding in the cave used ing of the legislature. They took]as a refuge by Sam Hildebrand, the possession of the old Presbyterian | outlaw of Civil war days. Sheriff church in that town for a legislative | Walker, who was raised at Desloge, hall, and here the remnant of the once | within two miles of the cave, has no spirited and determined body of|hopeof dislodging the robbera if they war statesmen met to consider what| have taken refuge there except by was best to be done to pull Missouri | starvation. top of the elevation dislodged from the earth, where it had lain for nearly a century, the big, rusty relic, It rolled down the hill and struck Key with considerable force, breaking his leg near the ankle. After the man had been cared for and put ona train for Washington, the foreman of the gang rolled the cannon ball to a nearby} creek and removed some of the earthand rust. He noticed that the ball was hollow, and, not know- ing that explosive shells were not in use during the war of 1812, curiosity Thirty Years /GASTORIA ‘Wwe cenvau! PANY, NEW YORM CITY. prospects for the future. " \ pe ‘ s impelled him to dig in the interior of | Mi i ; 5 7 “Claiborne Jackson was governor | into the rebellion. One man in that cave,” he 8ay8,| 110 relic with a knife, to see, as he sour Pegs Saney Stee Table The Best is the Cheapest. is and was as pronounced a pro-slavery “They had not more than gotten “could withstand an army of besieg-} expiained iater, how the powder in MOUTH BOUND, Not how cheap but how good: ts Democratas Vest. That remarkable | down to business when old Jim Lane}ers, for the entrance is eo narrow] the shell had withstood the ravages Pe eg ee 0 Feel i nasil I war legislature, which has gone into swept down on them from the Kan-|that only one man could enter at a] of 90 years. No, 24 St Louts express PM, a : ‘ f , : ‘ : Pg igh Miter the foreman had ent away the | N@ 204 Looal Freight... :65P,M,| The Twice-a Week Republic is not. history, was composed of 160 mem- | 8a8 side and put the governor and|time and the man inside could lie in| . ; babii Aiba aoutHt ROUND. s vs ; ; ; : : dl ; hi Girt from the two-inch hole in the big] So. 2 St. Loule€ Joplin (itmited) 6:08 P.M, | #8 Cheap as some so-called newspa- Re bers, ns well as I can remember. Of] his legislature to inglorious flight.|the darkness and pick off any One} niece of iron, bis knife brought out a No. 27 Kansas City & foplin mail..12:27 PMs | perg, but it is ascheap asitis ible Be that number 22 were Union men, and ‘There was no safety for them except|who dared to approach. It wasin] roll of parchment, yellow and dis- i. 105 Leet Fee 3 3PM, to oil a first-class yore r. It ae opposed to Missouri being taken out in the rear of General Price’s army,|this cave in the bluffs of Big river,| colored with age, but which, when un-] gg ig) Belek etn Benet 74. Mo | peinte, all the news th . : rth ss. ofthe Union on snap judgment by |®s the war began to close down too | forty years ago, that the bushwhack. | "¢!led. proved to be the communication | Wo, 192 Butler & Madison Aiive IR AcM. | > acndadplysisle ts: Webas be p judg N ‘ thy : mentioned above, A considerable por- | No 16t Butler Depart ‘..1:15 p.m; | printing. If you read it all the year “f Vest and his followers in the legisla-| hard and there was bloody fighting|er, Sam Hildebrand, took refuge,} jj... of the writing was illegible Bi No, 181 Butler Depart soo... 7 a.m, d ted Il the i 3 ture with Governor Jackson on the allaround. The moving legislature] with his followers, when closely pur-} enough could be read to ake a fairly pale ee haoadles it oo ree ti ae ‘s pho ce outside to back them up with his of- became tired and demoralized. Some | sued by federal soldiers and vigilance | connected whole. “Ike. Pittsburg & Gulf Time Table. ano be ra as ped aire of the of them joined Price’s army. andoth-}men, Pursuers who got within rifle The communication signed by Ho- spe ie the beat and moet rel Arrival and departure of trains at Worlend, | able newspaper that money and 44 i i yas i ficial approval. The situation wa ward, who from the character and becoming daily more serious around NORTH BOUND range of the mouth of the cave were + qo 1 Kansas City dally Rxpress ...12:49p. m, | brainscan produce—and thoseshould eae hs + ers scattered out over different sec- phraseology of the document was a the capital as to the future of Mis- tions of the county. There was such|shot down. Hundreds of men e0-| man of some education, explains that] N-8 pee ames” (] eee 8:17 8M. | be the di i i , ners ation, explains e distinguishing traits of anews- A anarmy of camp followers and loung- | camped in the vicinity for days and | he had been imprested i he Bri ‘1 : souri. i into the British | No, 2Through Port Arthar E: . ji service shortly before the beginning | No.4 8tloam § Express... p paper that is designed to be read by ers hanging around Price’s army |fa:led to dislodge the bushwhackers. that the old general issued an order} “The belief that the outlaws, Ru compelling every able-bodied man|dolph and Lewis, are in that cave is from Missouri to either enlist in the | strengthened by many circumstances. Confederate army or leave the camp. | First of all, I have been able to prove This order bore heavily on George|that Bill Rudolph and a stranger, Vest, for, said he, ‘I am not asoldier,} who may have been Lewis, spent a “Gevernor Jackson and General Sterling Price made a visit to St. Louis to confer with Captain Lyon of the United States army then in command of the arsenal and forces atthatplace. The interview between these gentlemen and Captain Lyon se aneas Clty, Mo. fend Pi all members of the family. Joplin, Mo , Neosho, en ea ieee Subscription price, $layear. Any \ " t! rome Lider 3 fouth to St. Louls, Chioago, newsdealer newspaper or postmaster Dida Ban Franco, Porn’ snd point will receive your subscription or you west. mn ili i spared to make the passenger shuipment'e may mail it direct to this line second to none in the west. Trave Z TueE‘REPUBLIC, via the newline H.C. Onn. a ot Gon’) Pass. Agt., KansaeOity, Mo. St. Louis, Mo. & of the war and had since beencompelled to serve against his country. While acting as orderly to Admiral Cock- burn he had learned that the British commander in chief intended to sack and burn Washington and lay waste the surroun zy country, A portion of the writing was not satisfactory to them. He] but —*: am not built for —- more in the outskirts of} “with the a ity iet " gave them two hours to get out of | @ soldier. lat River and were here as late as} «ll——patriots rally to—Washington F TATCH ST. LOUIS. the city, which they did by taking a| ‘‘However, the orders of cruel war|December 5. This is shown by let-| ®™¢-—— marauders who are coming—— HARRIET FREDERICK, WATCH IS, special train to Jefferson City, stop- had to be obeyed, and Vest left us.|ters from—Nellie Rudolph to Ollie aa and murder+—defeated in OSTEOPATHIST wn greatest game dg ps tie - iaahot# i). [al t his last night in e with hic , aloe re through ’ as ever seen will be held atSt. Louis ping long enowgh at each of the rail Pi sige his - “ nt etapa ste beng were ~— ooops dee wang el ih danas of Meadens tamale [a 100% To keep in touch with the road bridges to burn them down,.}™@, and early a2) DERE RS) ; Rj Cee Srere: 2OU% ® mile, and. hal t before,” treated. Consultation andexamina | work of preparation for this great They did not leave a bridge between started out in the direction of Arkan- | east of Flat River. There is consid-}| pos ser pt to the siete explains tion free. Office over Postoffice world’s fair and to get all the news St. Louis and the capital over the} 84% I did not hear of him again until | erable evidence that Rudolph worked eae Howat ete nearly 100 of the | Butler, Mo. of all the earth, every reading person ina thew . in Richmond, when, one day, much |in the Columbia lead mine near Flat WArnIDEs, and knowmg that the Aaepls| "> should at once subscribe for the line they traveled. ’ cans Pa pre © OR. H. M. CANNON, great newspaper of St. Louis, the es GLOBE-DEMOCRAT. Itstands pre- DEN'TENT: BETHER, MO.) eminent and alone among American a . newspapers, and acknowledges no - — _ | tends to every state and territory in J, M.CHKISTY, M.D. | S.A, ROE, M.D the union, to Canada and Mexico, Diseases of women and } Kar, Hye, Nose and | &0d to every part of the world where Children a Specialty. § Throat Specialist. | there are readers of the English lan- 7 > guage. It ought to be in your home DR- CHRISTY & ROE . during the coming year. 7 Office The Over Butler Cash Depart- | tisement elsewhere in this issue. - ment Store, Butler, Mo. 552 18-6t] Office Telephone 20. House Telephonel0,.| T C. BOULWARE, “hysiclar .nc e Surgeon. Office nortnside square Butler, Mo. Dleeasesof womenand chil. en aspecialtv. DR, J. T. HULL DENTIST. Parlors Over Model Clothing So, Entrance, same thattead{.to Hagedor.’s th sid . Butler, Mo pucxeve Pbk OINTMENT CURES NOTHING RUT PUES i A SURE and CERTAIN CURS | known for 15 yearsasthe | to my surprise, one of the boys came | River and that he came to the lead around with a small printed Land-| belt when he disappeared from home bill, which announced that George G. | four years ago, He haa spent much Vest, of Boonville, Mo., was a candi-|of his time here. The two outlaws date for the Confederate congress. | abandoned their horses within twelve There were several boys from Vest’s|miles of the cave. Willis C. Norwine, district in the command, 8o we got| leading merchant of Flat River, Con- together and elected George to con-| stable George Frazer and many oth- gress without any ballot box stuffing j ers believe the bandits were making orintimidation. It was a free ballot |for the cave when they passed south and a fair count, and that is the rea-|through Washington county. It is son why George was so much in fa-| quite probable, says Mr. Norwine, vor of fair selections since he won his — i — yp —— = . ., |caveas their pla ossible retr first congressional-honors: by-a-fair; efore the ebay es 4 that they honest count, for twenty-two of US| ,rovisioned it before they left Flat didit, and old Governor Jackson put| River. The cave entrance is in the thegreat seal of the state of Missouri face of a high bluff on the west bank on his certificate. of Big river.” “Mr, Vest had many hairbreadth Are You Restless at Night suggested to Capt. Mackenzie by the eacapes and adventures trying to bandmaster’s application for 48 reach Richmond, the more serious of] _ And harassed by a bad cough? Use| hours’ leave of absence from the ship these being with Confederate troops. Ballard’s a ny HM will to get away from the dust and dirt Sometimes he was taken for a spy, secure you sound sleep and effect.a) of coaling. Instead. the captain or- : I prompt and radical cure. 25c, 50c|dered the band to play~.f igh and at other times had great ditti-| and $1.00 bottle at H. L. Tucker's | hours. It was stationed ‘on the briige culty in escaping from impreswment Drug Store. during the coaling and reeled off mar- asa soldier. He rode into the cam Pgh ee PP ae tial airs. j ST . tenieth Wout prado Wouldn't Ask Miss Roosevelt. Two rival ganas of faces were nearFortSmith, Ark. He wasgreet-| New Orleans, Jan. 30 —The Seven eoerrnes ONE “wattage: Goal trom: @ by the boys ai’ ‘a damned Yankee | Wise Men has "declined to extend an| "&hter alongside and the other from agains ‘ankee | sitation to Miss Alice Roosevelt,|‘he wharf. The jackles trundied spy, and preparations were imme- daughter ‘of the President, to attend ipaimaaa of coal at a_ lively diately made to swing him up. Vest) the Mardi Gras ball on account of = protested’ who he was, and excited | President Roosevelt’s aloes poles dethands for his papers, with a rope| of encouraging society equality be dangling in the hands of thesoldiers,’ tween the races. Miss Roosevelé will . him the following: attend the carnival as a guest of drew from oe John Mellhenny, a member of the “ ‘Boys, L am from Missouri, and | --Rough Riders.” have been elected-to the Confederate Bar moans bn —- of ex- icl ja | tending an invitation to: her to at- expects to put the body of every | congress at Richmond, aud here is “ Mic-d Sold rwho is killed-in aneffort to the certificate of Governor Jackson,’ se = eee of Prous ay pd coeres the Sonth on ice, Lincoln had | Thedocument was immediately scan- | sided not to invite her to be present better make a contract for Green ned, und Vest’s life was suved. One| The Seven Wise Men is a national] Those stories about the disintegra- land’s icy mountain, and that pase the soldiers, remembering some of secret order and is not one of thetar-| tion of the Egyptian sphinx may be ‘ P . ; be nival societies proper. The edrnival| true, says the Chicago Tribune, and quick! The undertakers will need it | the proceedings of the legislature, of vaviction are Rex. the Mvstic Krew of| they may lead up prevently to the an- all before they finish the job of bury. | whieh Vest berate member, came for-| porteous and the Knights of Comus| nouncement of a newly invented rock ng the dead.’ _ | ward and said: ; "| and all, it ix said, either have invited | preservative. “About the time he closed his re-| * ‘Boys, 1 know this little rascal. | or will invite Mias Roosevelt. ———__—_— — “Htwas deemed advisable to arm the members of the legislature with muskets ana ammunition sufficient to resist an attack by the Umited Statesforces. It was agreed that the members should be equipped for bat- tleas required in the army regula- tions, Accordingly, each member was furnished with a musket and cartridge box filled with ammunition. Thus armed, they continued to legis- late with their muskets lying across their laps and cartridge heltsaround their waists, ready for a fight ora run, which ever was most prudent and desirable. < “While this was going on inside the . capital building, Governor Jackson was on the outside with his pistols strapped to his waist and rifle on his shoulder, while the bridle of his horse lay across his arm, ready saddled andbridled, A few days after the at- tack on the Sixth Massachusette regi ment in Baltimore, by the mob, Vest arose in his seat, aud, after he had stacked his musket, he thus addrese- ed the house: “ ‘Mr. Speaker, I notice in a morn- ing newspaper a dispatch which reads as follows (holding up the paper): “The bodies of the soldiers that were killed in Baltimore, belonging toa Massachusetts regiment, have been pliced on ice and shipped to New England for burial.” I say, Mr Speaker, if this Yankee government r. in the for- me of the noyes NEW NAVY COALING RECORD. Playing of Band on Cruiser New York Helps Sailors to Pat in S50 Tons in Six Hours. The cruiser New York broke the navy record for coaling at Honolulu the other day, putting ip 850 tons of coat-in-six-hours, “fhis- remarkable speed was due to the fact that the full band of the ship played during the whole time that the jackies were rushing the coal aboard. The employment of the band was igs mans 7 BEST REMEDY for PILES. ¢ Canada’s Peril. A Chicago syndicate, it is said, is making arrangements to settle 12,500 American families in Canada., At this rate. says the Chicago Inter Ocean, the settlement of Canada and every- thing in Canada on lines perfectly sat- isfactory to the pgople of this side of the border cannot be long delayed. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGIsTS. 4 Brera yy CARON OO. Ut Chance for the Inventor, Danger Ahead. marke a messenger rushed into th», He is the chap who raised ro much’ } Another airship suuject to perfect house of representatives and handed hell-in the ‘egislatare among them en oe eT Sat fs et control has been Facentaa to--Paris, a to the presiding offi “Buion fellows, He is the one-who; the : ys the Chieage Inter Ocean. Thus telegram it to the and ? ‘bold Yanks that if they expect-| —, r the Paris newspapers speak of the who passed clerk . asked’ them =e inventor in the present tense = a * - ‘s “ad = : s SET AOS ARON eS . ot ae % Soe