The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 9, 1903, Page 3

3 H i j —BuY— | | ‘Direct from the Factory Cut Out The Middle Man, | Now we have the largest Nine tenths of the people are looking for this. - | Harness and Saddle Factory In Southwest Mo, Keep and can duplicate any goods in leather line--offered by cat- We keep every thing that horse owners need. Double wagon harness from ${0 to $30. Single harness $7.50 to 25. Second harness $3.00 to and prices from the cheapest and sole leather spring seat saddles, $15. Saddles of all styles to the rteel fork cow boy Lap robes, horse blankets, dusters and fly nets, harness oil and soaps, limi- ments for man or beast, coac oils, axel grease, tents, wagon covers, men’s canvass leggings, trim buggy tops new and repair old ones. Bring in yourold harness and trade them for new ones, alogue houses. So come and see us and let us show you. your money at home. We have the larg-st Retail Harness and Sadd'ery Store in the Southwest and our harness are all made at home. Woe also carry a full line of BUGGIFS, SURRIES, ROAD AND SPRING WAGONS. McFARLAND BROS., Butler, Mo, Malaria! Ever have it? Want to get rid NEW CABINET OFFICE IS FORMALLY OPENED. Department of Commerce and Labor Inaugurated With Speeches and Prayer. Washington, July 1 —The transfer of the various bureaus which are to be assembled under the act creating the department of commerce and la-, bor to the new department took place to-day. The transfer was ac- companied by a pleasant ceremony in the office of Secretary Cortelyou. A number of distinguished people were present, including Secretary Moody, Acting Secretary Loomis of the department, Acting Attorney General Day of the department of justice, Acting Secretary Brigham of the department of agriculture, Diree- tor North of the census bureau, Rep- resentative D. J. Stafford Rev. Dr. Franklin Noble, an old} friend and former pastor of Secretary Cortelyou, began the exercises by reading a few passages from Scrip- ture and delivering an invocation. Secretary Cortelyou, in hisaddress, called attention to the fact that on February 16 the entire personnel of his department consisted of a single official—himeelf. To day, by trans- fers made, the department’s person- nel consisted of 1,289 persons in { Washington and 8,836 in the coun- try at large, with total appropria- tions for the coming fiscal year of $9,796,847. He recalled the fact that 1788 Commodore Paul Jones, writing to the marquis of Lafayette concerning the federal constitution, strongly advocated the creation of a ministry of commerce, on theground that commerce must be the great reliance in the country in the future. Director North of the census bu- reau, on behalf of the bureau chiefs, responded, pledging the hearty sup- port of his associates and expressing the opinion that Secretary Cortelyou had before him perhaps the greatest that ever fell to the lot of acabinet officer in time of peace. Secretary Moody said a few wordson behalf of the cabinet. A was read from the President, as follows: “Hearty con- to you and the new de- partment which starts in to-day.” Dr. Stafford closed the exercises with a prayer and benediction. Postmaster General Payne’sefforts to shift the reeponsibility for the ffice ecandals on the shoulders of President McKinley has caused a storm of indignation all over the country, and the friends of the dead president are loud in demanding his resignation. Mr. Payne did a most unwise thing. He ought to have blamed it on the Nesbit law, and the reat.—St. Clair County Democrat. Malaria and Ague Cure. ne it? Know all about of it? Take Ayer’s Made b; Bold b; 7.0.4 er CO. All Dru Tate:* Lowell, Mass. Prico, BS cum. ANTI-TRUST LAW WORK. _ ED AGAINST UNIONISTS. Texas Officials Bring Action for Heavy Penalties as Dam- ages Resulting from a Boy- Cott. San Antonio, Tex., July 1.—Attor- ney General Bell and District Attor ney Bee, in the name of the state of Texas, filed the first suit ever filed against labor unions under the anti- trust law, seeking to recover heavy penalties and asking for an injune- tion restraining the unions and offi- cers from maintaining aud continuing a boycott that has been declared. The style of the suit is the state of Texas vs. The Trades Council and the Electrical Workers’ Union of San Antonio and Paul Steffer, Watton Peteet, Frank Van Riper, L. Stanley | John Thompson and J. D. Broderick, officers of the .union, asking for $6,000 penalties already incurred and for $50 per day for each day the matter complained of is continued, and asking for an injunction restrain- ing said labor organizations and officers from continuing a boycott against the Herff building Ferdinand Herff, a wealthy citizen of San Antonio, has just completed a magnificent business block in the most desirable business section of city, and in awarding contracts let the contract for electrical wiring to a firm that was on the union’s “‘un- fair” list. When this was done and the building completed the electrical workers’ union and the trades coun- cil rendered an official boycott of the building, and to merchants who were negotiating leases on the building] paper for twenty years, when he has & warning was sent to the effect that | given to it all the energies of his na- it they leased the building they} ture, when he has coddled it along would be boycotted by the trades|through periods of depression as a council, This resulted {n all the negotia-| ness, when he has defended it against tions for leases of the building being| attack and has felt at the same time declared off. when Irvin Alyia shot and instantly | Winfield Courier. killed his wife and then sent a ball still lives, but without hope of recov- ery. Blackheads, pimples, greasy faces Apparently Alyia and his wite had], 1a muddy somghaions ‘ahah ane been sitting side by aide on the bed, | go common among women, especial a dlechanged e revolve, the. shot] tes “aistiguring and’ mekin and di & revolver, ) a aod mal re- her head. pulive, features w! Oi , | wise fired another shot, the ball entering | indica That the liver is out of order. the right temple and lodging in the| An occasional dose of Herbine will skull. Jealousy was the cause, The| cleanse the bowels, regulate the liver Alyiajand so establish a clear, health Globe-Democrat would have done the was an engineerin the employ ofa|complexion. 50c at H. L’ Tucker's when he placed an arm taking effect in the back of He then, turning the gun on wile was only 14 years old. grain elevator company. How and Why E. P. Greer “Went Back On” His Trade With George Clark. C. F. Scott in the Iola Register. } A story went the rounds of the newspapers a few days ago to the effect that Mr. George Clark, ex-sec- retary of state had bought from Mr. E. P. Greer the Winfield (Kan. ) Cour- fer. A day later there followed a dispatch that the deal was off. And thereby hangs a very interesting and siguificant tale of a man and a news- paper, which we trust all the people at interest will pardon the Register for telling. Some weeks ago. through a friend at Winfield, Mr. Clark made Mr. Greer an offer for the Courier, After due consideration the offer was ac- cepted and Mr. Clark went to Win- field to close the deal. Arriving there Mr. Green met him in the office of a mutual friend and etated to him his understanding of the offer. Upon being answered that his under- standing was correct, he roplied: “The paper is yours,” and arrange- ments were then made for another meeting at ten o’cloek the next day to draw up the necessary papers, The three men met at the time agreed the next day, but they did not draw up any papers. For the first words of Mr. Greer were: “George, it’s all off. I can’t do it.” And then he told why. He had thought at first that he could sell the Courier as easily as any other property that he owned. He had large interests elsewhere that took him most of his time and he could give but little of his personal attention to his paper, and sohehad concluded to sell it. The offer Mr. Clark made was all he thought it was worth. But when the papers were all ready to sign and he began to realize that he was on the verge of actually turning the Courier over to some one else, he didn’t feel comtort- able. Andso he talked it over with his wife. They recalled the way in which he had started as a “devil” in the office thirty years ago, and learn- ed his trade, and the slow steps by which he had been able to make and save money enough to buy the pa per; and they remembered the pride} ; of his father and mother—now asleep on the hillside—when he beeame the editor of the Courier; and how out of of its earnings they had built their home; and—“and the short of it is,” said Mr. Greer, with tears filling his eyes, “Ihave found out there are some things a man owns that he cannot sell, ’ Allof which may sound “to the Greeks, foolishness.” But a man who has once wrapped his heart- strings around a newspaper will un- derstand it perfectly easy. It is one of the peculiarities of the newspaper business that a man who is init for the love of it comes to look upon the paper which he owns almost: as if it were @ living personality, with per- ceptions and sensibilities and emo- tions of its own. Indeed, the public share in this feeling to a certain degree, because they commend, criticise aud discuss— and cuss—a newspaper by its name, often wiihout any allusions to its editor, as if it had a conscience identi- ty quite apart from that of the man who owns or controls it. But to the editor himself, this feel- ing is intensified. And the reason is not hard to comprehend. When a man puts the very best that there is of his heart and mind intoa news- father might nurse a child in ite ill- ft was defending him—what wonder 1a it that he should come to feel after since kd. Greer became newspaper understand well why he cannot sell and onor him because he cannot. Repulsive Features, would other- attractive and refined, Drug Store. RRRRARF AO as < | MISSOURI STATE BANK, BUTLER, MISSOURI. CASH CAPITAL P Surplus Funds and Profits, - - $55,000. 9,820. Established A. D. 1880. @ general banking business. Always have money to loan. Capital, - - Surplus and Profits . making low rates, the records daily, reasonable prices, Wn, E. Walton, John Deerwester, Frank M. Voris, old Feathers. and soft coal. West Ohio Street. West Side Square, OBR EDEDEDEAEDEDEHREDEMERIIEAAZ } Total Deposits April 15, 1903, Receives deposits, loans money, wakes collections and does Always has ready money on hand to be loaned in Bates, Vernon, Barton, Cedar and Dade counties, Mo, Very Lowest Rates of Interest. on five years time, allowing borrower to pay back part each year if desired. Every land owner wanting a loan should oall and get our rates before borrowing of others, Having on hand a large amount of idle money we are We have a full and complete abstract of title to every acre of land or town lot in from the U. 8, patent down to date, that'we keep up wit’ We furnish reliable Abstracts at FISOOSOOOOOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOCN IwanT Your old Iron and all Kinds of Junk, # Also am buying Wool, Hides, new and : £ Ps £ 8 £ $ £ £ x : i & ‘ : : i : We solicit the business of mer- chants, farmers, stock dealers, aud the public general y, prowising them absolute security for deposits and every pos- sible accomodation consistent with safe banking rules, , $234,264.35, f ——DIRECTORS:—— Dr, T.C. Boulware J. R. Jenkins, Frank M. Voris, John Deerwester A. B, Owen, Ww. EB, Walton Dr. J. M. Christy ©. R. Radford Dr. N. L. Whipple C. H. Dutcher Geo. L. Swith T J. Wright. J. R, JENKINS J.B. WALTON Wma. E, Watton Cashier. Ass't. Cashier, President. RPE RPELA ALPE LPP eae “TRUST CO } THE WALTON TRUST CO. OF BUTLER MISSOURI. . $55,000 00, | 19,348. 16, on farms ates hone Interest Paid on Time Deposits. —— DIRECTORS. J, Everingham, Wn, W. O, H. Dutcher, Sam Levy, TJ. is FRANK ALLEN, Skcy, J. R, Jenkine, T, C. Boulware, C, R. Radford, Trigg, Wright, Wa. E, WALTON, Pres, Will give you the market price delivered ot my yard in Butler, Don’t Forget I handle pure Anthracite, Arkansas Anthracite and Semi Anthracite J,M. SALLEE. WODOGSDOOOOOGSIOODOOPO LMA OI, 4 PYONEER - DRUG - STORE SAM WALLS. Opposite Court House. BUTLER, MO. Se Shy SS, BB SSR SEE ESRD ! “Repealed” Missouri Laws. A stranger, while looking over some old records of the county court at Macon discovered that the Mis- souri legislature of sixty years ago was not venerated much more than those of recent years. In the Macon county court in June, 1839, the judges coolly “repealed” a state law by the following order: “Ordered that the law passed by the legislature of 1838 and 1839 respecting groceries and dramshops be null and void in Macon county.” In those days @ grocery store and dramshop were synonymous terms, and the legislature, it seems, had been curtailing the powers of the dealers—or trying to. Having gone thus far without the militia being called out, the county court made more law in August, as appears by the minutes: ‘The law passed by the legislature the 13th day of Feb- ruary, 1889, respecting the pay ot grand jurors is hereby rejected, and that there shall not be any eompen- sation allowed for such service.” The members of this revolutionary tribunal were Elvin Allen, Philip Dale and Lynn Dabney. The sheriff was Jefferson Morrow, who lived to be the oldest ex-sheriff in Missouri and died only a few years ago. The judges decided according to the theory of county rights, and their “laws” were said to be wonder- tully popular with the people of this baliwiel, but at the following session lot the legislature, the judges were in- formed that they were not elected to make laws. The Bumble Bee. Don’t kill the bumble bee. Farm- ers, it is to your interest to save the life of everyone of them. They are about the only insect that fertilizes the red clover blossom and make it produce seed. Without the bumble bee the farmer would get no seed from his clover. It iseaid- that when red clover was introduced into Aue- tralia it failed to produce any seed until the bumble bee was also intro- duced into that country. Sofarmers, and all others, should try to see to {t that naughty boys no not destroy bumble bees or disturb their neste. Besides, the bumble bee possesses personal qualities that all should admire. He attends strictly to his own business and bothers nobody unless they first bother him. He loves his home and family and would die trying to protect them. He has the courage of alionand goes straight at the enemy along the shortest road. The bumble bee will be your friend and benefactor if you will be his,—Ex. The Chicago police are puzzled to know whether Albert Sontag and wife, found dead from Paris-green poisoning, committed suicide or were murdered. ‘THE DEATH LIST {S 235. Terribe Scenes at the Wyoming Mine Explosion. | | Bodies Found ic Positions to Indicate } That Some of the Miners Were Crawling Toward Fresh Air When Death Came. Hanna, Wy., July 1.—Of 282 men who went into the Union Pacific coal company’s No. 1 mine yesterday morning 235 were kilied by the ex- plosion of black damp that occurred at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning. Most of the dead are Finlanders and negroes. Members of the rescuing parties tell of pitiful scenes about the seven: teenth level, as deep as it has been possible to penetrate, Some of the survivors were driven insane and fought against the rescuers. Dazed, listless survivors were found sitting on cars or lying on the floor, carelees ol whether they lived or died, Near the seventeenth level twenty bodies were found strewn over a pile of debris which the men had striven to surmount before overcome by the deadly fumes. Some were seared and blackened by flames, butall had died crawling toward freshair, The eleven who penetrated this far were too weak to bring out a body. For hours the scene at the mouth of the level, was heart-moving. With clothes and hair awry, wothers, wives, sweethearts and children hud- dled together, weeping and wringing their hands, Many sat on shattered tinbers blown from the mine's mouth, insens:ble to the surround: ings. The most frantic pushed, to the edge of the gap and tried to force a way into the slope, An expert who went alinost to the seventeenth level says that the mine cannot possibly be cleared for a month, It is feared that men in the lower levels were torn to pieces br explosion, whie! hurled great timbers high over the town and 1,700 feet beyond the mouth of the slope. Among the dead is Alfred Hep. good, who turned the first shovel of dirt in starting the slope, The tire bosses, who hac reported all safe he- fore working time yesterday, met death while 1 nga s tion, MULATTO MURDERER LY\CHED South Carolina Mol Whipped Three Negroes Susjccted With Prisoner. Jule 2—One Columbia WAR severely was han whipped int! tle townof Norway Orangeburg ty, last night. James T.V! derat soldier and the father of 19 childrer was sitting on Monday night with his fatuily at supper, when there was a fash anda rosr at the window and the white head of Phillipsfellfors ) ca on the table, blood flowing eight wounds in the back of his Some of the slugs pierced hist One bullet struck the youngest of the family, a girl of 9,and another the youngest sun, a boy of 11, but neither of the wounds is serious. While the elder children ran for @ doctor, the wounded boy supported for 20 minutes the head of his dying father. Villagers learned that Charley and Henry Evans, mulatto brothers had been seen hiding guns near the town the evening before. The men rere traced tothe window through which Phillips was shot, then back to @ pond, where Charley Evans was captured, His brother escaped. About midnight a crowd took out the three men who had been arrested in the afternoon and whipped them. Each of the negroes implicated the Evans brothers. After they had been severely flogged they were released. It is said one will die. Before daylight Charley Evans was carried 200 yards over the town line and hanged. Evans declared hie in- nocence, saying if they would give him until today he would prove his brother committed the crime. A Montana Grasshopper Pest. Butte, Mont., July 2.—Prof. Cooley of the state agricultural college at Bonanza, has returned from an in- vestigation of the grasshopper-ri-iden district about Forsthe. He xuys the insects have devoured ever. thing in a strip seventy long and Y niles wideand that, as a cou jience of their raids, range concious are worse he ever saw. He says the plains are dotted with cattle that have starved to death asaresu!t of the grasshopper raid. Sanaa ES iS