The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 14, 1903, Page 4

derce.eryeeppconemueninia rt BUTL ER WEEKLY TIMES. | J. D, ALLEN, Eprror. J. D. Atten & Co., Proprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Werxty Times, published eyery hursday, will be sent to any address we year, postage paid, for $1.00. —— BATES COUNTY ROADS, General complaint is made of the impassable condition of the public road leading from this city to Rich Hill. There are places in the road between this town and Cornland, we are informed, that it is next to im- possible to get through with any kind of a wagon or vehicle, A gen- tleman in town the other day from Cornland, said that in getting through one bad place in the road with his buggy, one of the horses broke both tugs to his harness and the other broke a single tree. He said he had traveled this road a great many years, but does not re- member of ever seeing it in such con- dition, He requested that Tar Times call attention to the matter that something in the way of bettering the condition of the roads be done. If the roud overseers and authorities will do nothing, then, eaid this gen- tleman, the people in general along the highways should take hold of the matter, There is no doubt of the fact, said he, that Butler is losing hundreds of dollars by the impassable condition of the roads. The farmers, likewise, are losers, as many of them were unable to get their produce to market. “This state of affairs should not exist in a great county like Bates Vernon county is at last aroused to the importance of good roads and a meeting of the business mens club at Nevada Saturday, was attended by a large number of farm- ersfrom the different townships of the county, The Nevada Mail has this to say of the meeting and the plans adopted: “The King drag system has received many supporters and this simple de- vice has greatly improved the roads wherever they have been used. How- ever, it has generally been conceded that something more than the King drag is demanded. Proper grading and macadamizing is necessary and this followed by an intelligent and ceaseless use of the King drag will forever guarantee good roads to Ver- non county. The gentlemen present decided to adopt two plans to work upon in order to improve the roads and raise the money to be used in doing the work. The first one sug- gested by Mayor Wight was as fol- lows: To organize under the law the six mile road district; the law gives the people of the proposed district authority to perfect such organiza- tion and provide that upon a peti tion signed by 50 tax payers _the county court may call a special elec- tion at which the voters may vote on the proposition; ifa majority vote in favor of the district organization, the district can then effect organiza- tion and the city council and the county court shall constitute a su- pervisory board and shall appoint three road commissioners. Any dis- trict including city or cities of the third and fourth class can eo organ- ize. Thislaw would apply to four townships in thecounty, Bacon, Dry- wood, Walker and Center. Should Center township so organize it would receive one-fourth of the saloon li- cense paid to Nevada and one-half of the county saloon license, besides levying a road tax. This wouldgive Center township sufficient funds to build good roads. Center township could not only build her own roads but could extend five miles out on any road leading into her boundary. This proposition was most favora- bly received by themeeting. On mo- tion of Dr. Wilson, seconded by H. M. Duck, Mayor Wight, Judge T. J. Meyers and J. Sam Brown were ap- pointed to investigate the six mile district law and to prepare and cir- culate a petition and submit the eame to the county court Monday. J. H. Jackson madea splendid and forceful talk on the matter of build- ing a good road through the Marma- ton bottom as did J. M. McAnulty, W. H, Litson, Col. Moore and many others. It was the opinion of all {Desperado Submits to Arrest FOURTH OF JULY. Is to Be Celebrated in Butler This Year on a Grander Scale Than Ever Before Attempted. BASE BALL TEAM ORGANIZED Excursion Trains to Be Run. The business men of Butler have taken hold of the preparations for the 4th of July Celebration for But- ler this year, and they propose to make ita hummer. The biggestand grandest celebration ever held in this section of the state. Get your wagons, buggies, carriages and vehi- cles of all kinds ready and head them for Butler on the morning of the4th, Forfearyou get crushed in thejam start the day before. A base ball team has been organized, and cham- pionship game will be played on that day. KILLED HIS CAPTOR. by Young Farmer, Then Shot Him When Off His Guard. Sheriff Took Prison to Mound City. Charles Phelps, a young farmer living just over the line in Kansas, west of Hume, was shot and mortal: ly wounded, ou last Thursday after- noon, dying at .midnight, ¥ one of two ‘desperadoes who robbed N, Johannes & Son’s store at Rich Hill. The robbers had sold a pistol in Iume, identified as one taken from the Johannes store. Marshal Clif- ford and deputy constable Bloom- field started in pursuit, coming upon them over the line in Kansas, where they were trying to eell or trade Phelps a pistol. When the situation was made plain to Phelps, he joined the officers and with Marshal Clit ford, covered one of the robbers with their revolvers. He threw up his hands and his guns being stacked against a tree, the officers supposed him to be unarmed and turned their attention to his fleeing companion, when the first robber drew a 38-cali- ber, self-acting revolver and shou Phelps through the abdomen. I: falling Phelps’ gun was discharged and came near killing Marshal Git. |i ford. The Marshal immediately grappled with the robber and disarm- ed him, with the assistance of deputy Bloomfield. The prisoner was taken to Hume and the sheriff of Linn county noti- fled, who arrived on the scene in time to save him from a mob of angry citizens and hurriedly conveyed him to the jail at Mound City. Up to last accounts the companion in crime had not been apprehended. The murderer and robber is a young man, only about 18 years old, The Review says he was fake peddler of shoe strings on the streets of Rich Hill the day of the show. Four shotguns and two revolvers were recovered by the officers that be- longed to Johaunes firm. C. G. Phelps, the young man mur- dered, had been married only ashort time, and had but recently moved to the farm on which he was living. Bates county escaped another hanging by a narrow margin, as cer- tainly would have followed had the crime been committed a few miles further east, Names Police Commissioner. Jefferson City, Mo., May 11.—Gov- ernor Dockery to-day egret Joseph H. Tuller, of St. Jose; Police Commissioner of that city for @ term of three years, from April 28th, to succeed net sl W.H. Robinson. ‘The decision of Governor Bockery to appoint Tuller was reached after a conference with Sena- tor L. A. Vories, State Committee- man W.E. Spratt and Representa- tive A. B. Duncan, The Governor apes the place to Mr. Spratt, but he refused. new yy isa prominent Demecrat of St. Joseph engaged in the livery business. nine years, and for twenty-four years recorder of deeds of that county, died at this home in Kansas City, Sunday morning of complication of paraly- sis and dropsy. He was a well known member of the Knights of Pythias and Odd Feliows, and held some of highest offices present that the work of building 6| orders good road ‘through thie bottom should be started at once. It was THE NEW COUNTRY. Roy Bigler has one adjoining Walter | —was offered $3,750 fur it this week; | ae the hotel man from Foster, Mr.; Hartshorn, has a good one 7 I | northwest of Lawton; John Fisher, | of Ballard, is deputy sheriff and has, aftarm 4 miles eaat of here; Charley | McLachlan, son-in-law of Mr. Mes-| singer, of Hume, has a $4,000 Sari 2 or 8 miles southeast of Lawton; | Dr. Maupin, formerly -of Papinsville, son-in-law of Mr. ene is county physician; Ove Harris, of Butler, is; chairman of the Democratic Central Ex-Circuit Clerk J. P. Thurman Writes Interestingly of Oklahoma. Water, 0. T., May 4, 1903. Thave felt like “rushing into print” ee — and cannot resist this desire any longer. The usual way is to tell when you start, what train you took and the hour and minute you arrive at certain stations, and the exact time you arrive at your destination. This should all be writ- We wish to announce to the bread iig public that we have another car of that deliciats Hard Wheat Flour Known as “‘PIRFECTION.” Committee and deputy county treas- | urer und has ry echool quarter half a If you have never used it ask your neighor and he ten back to the home paper within a| Mile from Lawton; John Harris, will tell you how it saved his life. me—the Butler, has a fine school quarter neur week after tesving bo hilow Elgin; my claim pe wh Walter on who leaves Bates county usually is ; so homesick in a week that he would the south—I sold it to the ae Haye You Bou ht Your | lements? die it he did not write back. ‘Thedis- coe aines ah cee hha ? bree bin ¥ a ee 200 lote were sold in the past two weeks. anwhere will do. Neither is the time John Harrison, of Butler, has a ever out of place—one week or twen- ty years is the same—they all write i adjoining Elgin and rune back, so here goes. leading hotel of that thriving This Comanche country is a won- — He rong iy ieee der in many respects. On Aug. 5th, | \°P Tea. rage noe onl ding 1901, leas than two years ago, from ey rageng pe aw ng 30,000 to 50,000 people were camp- bah So tar ast snow. ed around the edge of the 820 acres verything runs full here—the cars laid out by the Government for the are full, the churches, the saloons and townsite of Lawton; tente were 80 gambling houses, hotels and every- county. We do not like to be selfish, ut we would thick that another could not beplac- thing else. A slow fellow would get ike to b ii ed in line around the town except on | 722 over or would starve to death. e to have a liberal share of the coug trade, and the west and a part of the north and J. P. THURMAN. thousands were back from the bound- We make a price that cannot be met ¥ our compeditors for quality. Our Buggies From $48 to $125 are 25 per cent cheaper for quality thaany in Bates pay the top prices for anything you lve to sell in Prison Opens for Jessie Morrison, ary; the U. 8. soldiers forbid any our line. trespassing a ige - the new] Topeka, ov ber — A. townsite; on that day I saw the! preme court to-day affirmed the streets mowed out, 8o the lot and! sion of the lower court on the case of Quick Meal Stoves na pt wy age Bg the state versus Jessie Morrison. Jessie Morrison was delared guilty of killing Mrs. Olin Castle three years ago at the Castle home in Eldorado. The decision means twenty five youre imprisonment. ‘The decision was written by J ustice | Jou C. Pollock, the others concur- ring. It says in part: “Upon the theory of the tragedy as.maintained by the state the mur- der was a butchery of such savage and vicious nature as israrely equal ed, never excelled, in the criminal history of a civilized world, anda search for a parallel so shocking! must be instituted among the tradi- tions of the aborigines. It was indeed a brutal deed, utterly lacking in mit- igating or extenuating circumstances alike appalling to the mind and} shocking to the sensibilities.” The Morrison case was the most} block stakes could be seen the next day—the day of the opening of the lot sale. Free delivery was extended to Lawton and began May 1. About 12,000 people dwell in the metropolis of this new country; great wholesale houses send out their supplies over several railroads to many towns in the new country and into north Texasas well as into the Pan Handle of that state; more than 700 sub ecribers transact business over their telephone lines; factories, ete., are numerous. A fine school aystem was installed within 60 days after the opening and at present & highschool building costing $30,000 is arranged for. Nellie Wolverton graduated at Lawton at the same time her Rich fill classmates graduated in Rich Hill—on ground that had been held by the Indian for untold centuries till less than two. years ago. Law- ton is so large tha she, like St.|seusational ever tried in Kansas. | Louis, has a boodle investigation; | Jessie Morrison and Clara Wiley were but unlike that city in this, that her|in love with Olin Castle, a clerk in y; officers are found to be on the|the Racket store. Within a week “pquare.”” after Castle married Miss Wiley, the ‘two years ago there was scarcely | women fought in Mrs. Castle's home a board in this country, nora post | with a razor, Mrs, Castle being slash- i a B nora wire except at the cattlecamps. |ed ina horrible manner, and Miss Now the white house with red barn| Morrison being badly cut. Miss can be seen most anywhere and al-| Morrison, who at her three trials most every farm is fenced and cross| alleged self defense asserted that fenced. Mrs. Castle had called her into the Towns have sprung up all over| house and started a quarrel over a this country.’ Outside of Lawton, in| letter said to have been received by BESTS OR order, the best are Walter, Snyder, | Castle from Miss Morrison. Nereed Gosnell, excepting the towns of| At the first trial theju x be gee Siar ae Oe aS Se] Hobert. and eae established | the second, which resulte <b a five fe SSS ERSIE en 5] Pranos and bans About 200 hooks are in operation —THE NEW Music Sore present time. There are as many fine turnouts here as any place lever On the West Side of the are is hand- ling the celebrated Estey Organs anPianos a ple brought all they had and came —AND THE RELIAE— Kimball Pi | fr ororans th i om curl imball Pianos «Organs There are more shrewd men here precens 4 ae ee =! Fie grr than any place I know of. They| io Uncle of the oe bo | | ys and | {a —AND THE- will be at all that are to come. Jett had arrived in Winchester at eee oe Pag sey : 5 o’clock and gone to his mother’s ype C4! house to remain over night. His sao derr ne greg Ban 3 as) Tae | with Jett, ‘and he drew his revolver |S and other standard makes asjllas every- fidence in themeelvee, in the future of pratense ” bes ; = pega to aie e will sell you a piano orran on your aprodt oot of ay Investment orn |iumond ose” warantfor| fet ett’s arrest. Ts. ins. Ww! : Fr ee oe jamaiting she | Sheriff McChord knocked at the door | ff backed up with a good opening of the Big Pasture. “hers | thought he was the sheriff of Madi- mente token to-exchease. We i a ites Of! gon county and opened the door for ge. in car lots We handle Buggies, Implemetts, Flour, Feed and Provsions which all arefor sale or in exchan for produce, We give you orders for dry goods. If you have never met us, or if you ¢a new comer, we would be glad to show you our |i and meet you even if we cannot save you over 2er cent from our compeditors. Come and see us, make our store yo headquarters while you are in town. Respectfully, Successor to Frank Smith & Son, NoiSide square, Butler. | {orrison has been out on bail and is visiting her brother at Enid, Okla. A month ago it was reported that she intended leaving the country, and she said: “My bondsmen know where I - I have been living heré happily si to stay—till another opening, at i least. November last, but it seems that pan We, at Walter, are within 5 miles contentment causes distress among land as wasever laid out. We expéctit| ‘ Miss Morrison is the daughter of (4 of the “Big Pasture,” which is about | my enem‘es. They wish to createa twice as large as Bates county; it lies | prejudice against me in order to af- west of us and is as fine a piece of tee t me in the courts.’ to open next-Congress. Then will be} H. M. Morrison, formerly probate asmall chance for the Bates county | judge at Eldorado. Olin Castle re- boys to get a home without working | married last month and is now living a life time for it. in California, The climate, it seems to me, is al- most perfect. Ido not mean to ad- vise parties to come here without seeing for themselves, The best op- portunities have passed, but there is a fine field for investment yet and la- bor of all kinds can find employment at good figures, but anyone who has not a saving disposition will spend all he makes for there are so many ways of spending money here. All the. “absent sons of Bates” would like to get home, if there were Curtis Jett Held for Marcun for Marcum’s Murder. Lexington, Ky., May 10.—Curtis Jett was arrested at the home of his mother, Mrs. Lenville Higgins, at Juckson’s Landing, in Madison county at 2 o’clock this morning by Sheriff Woodson McChord of Ulark county, heading @ posse of eight men. Jettis charged with the as- sassination of James M. Marcum at] alackson last Monday moreing. ‘he warrant was sworn out here LJast the opportunities there, as there are night by Tom Cockrell, leader of the] 5 War wu [ke co} GM It IC } Syl IG [5] Siew [C have been to all the openings and | aja of the prisoner at Winchester. Hobart M- Cable, Mifield are numerous. The experience they stepfather, Higgins, remonstrated the country, in their ability to make ing his wile that was going to| fa own ter.ns. Every instrum¢ we sell is Termes. Oxiabews ae him, potting out the room in which| for three large stores and are fore able to fier ad ‘s 2) ll Ean xfne asin Bate ean sad Mata | $7 to $10. Ww ¢| Rent is high; interest at the e Keep Tellir You from 18 per cent to shay otter ; to the covered et and see for yourselves. Get oprices and ae ee o buy our goods. in this county at from $10 to $20 —usually 24 per cent and 36 percent; stoke this because we want you to ecto our store Aa a. acre; in the Indian Territory, at farm loans from 10 per cent to 15 per