The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 27, 1903, Page 3

WHEAT, CORN, OATS, FLAX, TIMOTHY SEED, CLOVER SEED, Any time you have any to offer give us a chance. WILL G. REED, 39 AMORET, MO. 0 0 2 0 A 4 2 20 20 A Ae AA AoA MA Ae oOo wo ee aa eer! 2 + 2 ~~ 4 2 2 2 —BuY— Direct from the Factory Cut Out The Middle Maa, Nine tenths of the people are looking for this. Now we have the largest Harness and Saddle Pactory In Southwest Mo, and can duplicate any goods in leather line--offered by cat- alogue houses. So come and | see us and let us show you, Keep your money at home, ‘ We keep every thing that horse owners need. Double ‘ wagon harness from $10 to $30. Single harness $7.50 to 4 $25. Second harness $3.00 to $15, Saddles of all styles and prices from the cheapest to the -teel fork cow boy and sole leather spring seat saddles. Lap robes, horse blankets, dusters and fly nets, harness oil and soaps, limi- ments for man or beast, coach 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. We have the largest Retail Harness and Saddlery et in the Southwest and our harness are all made at ome, We also carry afu!l line of BUGGIES, SURRIES, ROAD AND SPRING WAGONS, | McFARLAND BROS., Butler, | it? Want to get rid of it? Take Ayer’s | Made oy. Bold by g.c. Are fo. All Druggista.* Lowell, Mase. Price, E58. —s From the New York Press. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 19.—James Willis Sayre, the globe trotter of the Seatle Times, reached Seattle at 4:15 o'clock this afternoon over the North- ern Pacific railroad. Immediately upon his arrival here he went aboard the tug Magic of the Puget Sound Tug A brilliant humorist might write a column on the agitations ofa womau with a fleaon her. Nature has flat- to side until it resembles the general shape of an ocean greyhound, and Boat company, and was taken out’ thie, in conjunction with ites smooth, in the bay, crossing the line where the | hard and nearly naked integument, ‘Steamship Hyades passed out oppo | enabtes the insect to traverse swi site Seattle at 8:05 o’clock on the| the corporosity of its host, whether morning of Friday, June 25. This| man, womanor animal. The flea has completed the entire journey around | no wings. Itis the kangaroo of insects. the world. At5 o’clock this after-|It can leap through an openwork noon Mr. Sayre had been gone from | stocking into a silken petticoat, and Seattle exactly 54 days, 8 hours and | back from the petticoat through a 55 minutes. The best previous rec- | laceedging, etc.,etc. When the dainty ord made by Cearles Cecil Fitzmorris | feminine finger is placed directly upon was 60 days 18 hoursand 29 min-| him he is not there. If a mousecould utes. Thus Sayre has broken the | create as much consternation in pro- | record more than six days. portion toitssize asa fiea there would All The Negroes Left Towa. be no women in the world. Whiteright, Tex., Aug. 20.—All the negroes of this town, more than one hundred, have fled for fear of @ race war. A negroattacked a whitewotian about a week ago and that night 4 “negro accused of the offense was hang: ed by a, mob, but was rescued and saved from death by the sheriffanda posse Notices were posted ordering all negroes to leave the place and the $ Stops the Cold and Works off th Cold. Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablete cure a cold in one day. No cure, nu pay. Price 25 cents. A Fence 200 Miles Long. Helena, Mont., Aug. 22.—Thefence vation, which is forty miles long and lacks fled. A Texas & Pacide mogro | gixty flee wide, hes at last been excursion from Louisiafia and East-| finished. Its probably the longest : Nee wisiced chen grote [nee te te. world and has taben from the mayor and chief of police at years in- building. The plan is to protect the flocks and herds of the Groventres and Assiniboines from in- trusion, as well as to keep them fro: Commissioner General Agularfrom Brazil arrived in New York yesterda; en route to the World’s Fair cit where he will remain till after the Exposition. CASTORIA _ @ignatare of tened the body of the flea from side about the Fort Belknap Indian reser- lc Record. Dallas, Tex , August 22.—John M. H. Ball in Congress, representing the Sth district, has the unique record of having hanged ten meu. For ten successive years he served as district attorney for the notorious ‘Fort Bend” district and prosecuted many of the most desperate criminals in Texas. His convictions with the death penalty averaged one a year. His name became a terror in law- breakers, for he was pitiless in his prosecutions. He is @ prohibition Democrat, a bachelor, was born fifty seven years ago in Grimes county and comes of the South Carolina Pinckney stock. When fifteen years of age he enlisted in the 4th Texas cavalry and fought in Hood’s famous brigade through- out the civil war. After the war closed he worked as a farm hand, studying law at night. He has been apractitioner twenty-five years. He is now judge of Waller county, hav- ing held the position three years. Webster's Fancy Waistcoats. Washington, Aug. 22 —Washing- ton is little moved by the action of the Nebraska Republican convention in indorsing John L. Webster for Vice-President on the national ticket next year. The general opinion is that the indorsement means little; was made for local political reasons; that Webster's candidacy wonld be hard fought by his arch political enemy, Edward Rosewater of Omaha, and that he would attract little per- sonal following outside his state. Many persone prominent in national politics know little of, Webster be yond the fact that he is a lawyer of high standing in Nebraska, He was referred to here to-day as “the Tim Woodruff of the West,” on account of his reported tendency towards fancy waistcoats, Will Not Free Barrington. St. Louis, Aug. 22.—Arguments in the habeas corpus proceedings to liberate F. Seymour Barrington, charged with the murder of James Tl’. McCann, occupied the entire forenoon in Judge McElhinney’s court atClay- ton. Barrington sat with closed eyes and chattering teeth and appeared to be in very poor health, His at- torneys argued that Barrington was improperly committed and also that there was not sufficient evidence to justify the court in holding the pris- oner with bail. Judge McElhinney took the matter under advisemeut. A Negro in German Society. Berlin, Aug. 22.—Mpundo Akwa, a negro from Cameroon, Africa, calling himeelf a prince, who has been asso- ciating with high official society at Kiel and Hamburg, was arrested to- day at Hamburg for not paying a $1,750 hotel bill. The prisoner speaks English and German admir- ably and wrote letters in the Cam- eroon language for the instruction of the Oriental seminary for lan- guages at Berlin. tensive credit at Hamburg by saying he was waiting for an audience with the emperor. The Conductor to Blame. Joplin, Mo., Aug. 22.—Conductor Db. MOG 3 eld oe 0 trolley car accident on theSouthwest Missourf Electric railway Monday afternoon near Lakeside, in which Motorman Joshua Baker was killed and thirty eight persons injured. The verdict of the coroner’s jury is that Moad’s carelessness and negli- gence in disobeying orders of the dis- patcher or his misapprehension of orders caused the disaster. Motor- man W. A. Edge, who ie still ina critical condition, is charged with in- efficiency. The dispatcher, Laurence Havens, has been exonerated. A Windstorm in Great Bend. Great Bend, Kan., Aug. 22.—This county was visited last night by a heavy wind and rain storm, which dida great amount of damage tothe wheat. The storm was general and stacks of cut wheat all over the county were partly destroyed. It has been so wet lately that threshing is not as far advanced as usual. The loss from the wind last evening and from the rains during the last moz:'!: will amount to thousands of dolla: +. Sons Admit Killing Father. Meade, Kan., August 20.—W. J. Edwards of Plains Kan., near here, was shot and killed during the night. | His eone, John and Roy, have sur- rendered, admitting that they did the shooting. No cause is known. Cleveland. | Pinckney, who will succeed Thomas | sing tocriticisme of his Urbana (Ohio) He obtained ex- | ' oming Congressman Has Remarkable, Bryan Stands By His Criticism of Lincoln, Neb., August 22 —Refer-| speech wherein he called Grover Cleveland a bunco-steerer, W. J. Bryan says in his Commoner of to- morrow: “Will any one deny that Mr. Cleve- land had a secret understanding with afew Wall street magnates to carry out @ policy which he wouldn't have dared to advocate during the cam- paign? Shall we condemn the petty offense of the man who lures the un- suspicious into games in which they lose a small amount? Shall we do this and condone the treachery of those who trifled with the confidence of the people and who used the high- est office in the land to reward those from whom he had received favors? It will do no harm to have Mr Cleve- land and his friends know the feeling of the Democratic voters toward him.” A Labor Day Proclamation. Jefferson City, Aug. 22.—Guvernor Dockery issued the following Labor day proclamation to-day: Whereas, by the laws of this commonwealth, the first Monday in September of each year is designated as Labor day and as a public holiday, now, therefore, I, Alexander M. Dockery, governor of Missouri, do hereby re- spectfully require that so far as may be practicable all business be sus- pended Monday, September 7, in ap- propriate recognition of the patriot. ism and high character of American wage eurners, Killed By Kansas Tramps, Wichita, Kan. Aug. 22.—An un- known young man from Indiana was shotin the side by one of four tramps early this morning near Augusta, twenty miles east of Wichita, He died several hours later. He and two companions lay down to sleep with tramps last night, one milefrom Augusta, The tramps robbed them of their watches and money while asleep. On awakening they showed fight und one was shot. Thetramps fled. Two men were arrested at Rose Hillto-day upon suspicion, The man killed had been searcingh for work, Left His Bride and $18,000, Omaha, Aug. 22.—To avoid prose- eution on a statutory charge, Clar- ence English, a prize tighter, yester- day morning married Mildred Mayes in the couaty court. Immediately after the ceremony he deserted the girl, informing her that his name would be her only gain from the cer: - mony. : The bride has a fortune of $18,000 in herown name, but this was not disclosed until after English left his wife. The money, the girl said, she 'was keeping as a secret to surprice her husband and enable him to enter a better business than prize fighting. The girlis 16 years old. She will They Slept on the Tracks, Springfield, Mo., Aug. 22 —Hugh Westmoreland, a molder employed at the Sterling Iron Works here, was killed by a train here this inorniog. Westmoreland and a fellow work- man, L. Weddle, had been drinking and sat down on the railroad track. MISSOURI STATE BANK, § BUTLER, MISSOURI. CASH CAPITAL - - $55,000. Surplus Funds and Profits, - 9,820. RP PIPE IAPR RB Pa | Established A. D. 1880. Total Deposits April 15, 1903, $234,264.35. Receives deposits, loans money, makes coilections and does a general banking business. e solicit the business of mer- chants, farmers. stock dealers, and the public geveral'y, promising them absolute security for deposits and every pos- sible accomodation cousistent with safe banking rules, Always have money to loan. ——DIRECTORS:— Dr, T. C. Boulware J. R. Jenkins, Frank M. Voris, John Deerwester A. B, Owen, Wm. E. Walton Dr. J. M. Christy Cc. R_ Radford ~ Dr. N. L. Whipple C. H. Dateher Geo. L. Swith T J. Wright. JR. JENKINS J. B. Watton Wa. E, Watton Cashier. Ass't. Cashier, President. PPL APRA PRRIRPPI LPR RA PLLA P PP THE WALTON TRUST CO. OF BUTLER MISSOURI. Capital, - - - $55,000 00, Surplus and Profits . - : 19, 848, 16, Always has ready money on hand to beloaned on farms 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 call se Dy our rates before borrowing of others, Having on hand a large amount of idle money we are making low rates, We have a full and complete abstract of title to every acre of land or town lot in Bates Count: from the U. 8, patent down to date, that we kee; up wit the records daily, We furnish reliable Abstracts at reasonable prices, Interest Paid on Time Deposits. —— DIRECTORS Wn. E, Walton, J. Everingham, JR. Jenkins, John Deerwester, Wm, W. Trigg, TT. C. Boulware, Frank M, Voris, O. H. Duteher, C, R. Radford, Sam Levy, T. J. Wright, FRANK ALLEN, Sxkcy, Wm. E, WALTON, Prxs, | RPLL PILL LPL PLP LP RRP LDP P I PLLA RPP OS Pe Oa. WROOOOCOSOHOIOOOOOOOOOOOCOHOOC IwanT Your old Iron and all Kinds of Jurks 9 Also am buying Wool. Hides, new and old Feathers. Don’t Force I handle pure Anthracite, Will give you the market price delivered ot my yard in Butler, Arkansas Anthracite and Semi Anthracite and soft coal. J,M. SALLEE. West Ohio Street. 81-81 POORIOSOIOOSOOGOGOOOI SOOO i PIONEER - DRUG - STORE SAM WALLS. ? Opposite Court House. Fy E West Side Square, BUTLER, MO. LEBER BARE EYEE AE RB BE EEE LE BOE Bit OE OIE OIG OE 2G OE Or Og Org Ong CxGerg xe BCreqERZO Assailant of Kansas Girl went—to o'clock this morning Weddle was aroused by the train. He was badly injured, but will recover. Westmore- land came here from South Pitts burg, Tenn. His Neck Broken by a Blow. Frankfort, Ind. Aug. 21—In a quarrel at midnight, Harvey Thomas of this city, was killed by “Harry” Loveland. Loveland killed Thomas by striking him with his fist, break- ing his neck. Don’t speculate, first, because it de- stroys the basis of compensation and makes honest accumulation seem tame and, second, because now is not a good time tobuy. Thesqueez- ing process is now going on and stocks are likly to be still lower.—The Commoner. Jessie Morrison’s attorney will ap- peal her case to the United States Supreme Court on constitutional grounds, ) for South Dakota on @ hunting trip, accompanied by his cousin, George. The Steel Trust buys land in the Mesaba range which contains 70,- 000,000 tons of the highest grade iron ore. A monument marking the birth- lace of the late President Chester A. rthur is dedicated at Fairfield, Vt. ing phenomenal building boom. It certainly is a wonderful business | Shot Through Window Kingman, Kan., Augut 20.—The 11-year-old daughter of Louis Thom- as, & farmer residing here, was as- saulted by a stranger yesterday, while her parents were absent from home. Officers and citizen at once set out in search of the culprit. Sheriff Cheatum and his posse struck the trail of the fugitive in the evening about fifteen miles south of here, where they captured him this morning. He was brought to this city to-day and is now in jail. He gives his name as Silas Morrison and says he is from Memphis, Tennessee. 20 years old. A Woman’s Complexion. As an Easterner Sees Us. New York, Aug. 22.—Henry Woll- man, who has just returned from San Francisco, where he argued the United States shipbuilding case on behalf of the complainants, says: “I saw nothing but prosperity in the West. San Francisco is growing rapidly. Business is good. Every- body thinks and acts cheerfully. Denver is lively and looks as bright asa new dollar. Kansas City is hav- to remove sallowness or greasine. “local treatment, as advocated |: the ‘beauty doctors.” The only aa and sure way that a woman can i prove her complexion is by purifyi and enriching the blood, which ¢ only be accomplished by keeping t liver healthy and active. the liv- is the seat of disease and blood p. directly on the liver, cleanses and + Tiches the blood, purifies the co a It also cures constipati: refreshing sleep. A single bott. August Flower has been know cure the most pronouncing an? tressing cases of dyepeprin town. As far as I can eee, thereisno kink in our prosperity.” SCABTORIA. digestion. New trial siz Beare the The Kind You Have Bought | cents; regular size, 75 oo: \ Bignatere druggists. G.G. Creo ad New Jersey. lution. Green’s August flower ar: iliousness, nervousness, andindr - South McAlester, I T., August 20— While sitting in her brother's house in Wilburton at 100’clock last night, preparing to retire, Miss Lena Dick was shot through the back by an as- sassin, who thrust a Winchester ina an open window. The ball passed through her body, coming out below: the heart. It is thought that she is fatally wounded. The assassin made his escape in the darkness without being recognized. There is no tang: ible clew. Mise Dick isa white girl, Itis rank foolishness to attemp: of the skin by the use of cosmetics, o Bb as Ke Lasso