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MISSOURI IS PROSPEROUS| State Bank {Examiners Report Financial Institutions to be in Good Condition. K. C. Star, 7th C. E ROBBINS, Auctioneer, Amoret, Mo. . No booze fighter. No greene band learning the business at the expense of those who employ me. If you want an honorable firet class job done, give meachance. Eightyears experience SKILLFUL BURGLARS. Aliens Disp'ay Mast Ingenuity in| Tais Calhag. English Police Are Suprterd at the lngenuity of Feeetca Compet- liters of Bald Sikes) or eerr Are tears. C.T Bunce, of Sheldon, and W. H Reed of St. Joseph, state bank exam- iners for the western half of Missouri, are at the Midland hotel, having come to Kansas City on one of their periodical visits. They say the banks and banking institutions of Missouri are in excellent condition. There was only one failure among the state banks and trust companies in Missouri last year,” said Mr. Reed this morning. “Last year we had 770 euch irietitutions to look after now we have 769. Money is plentiful in these institutions. The deposits are even larger than they were a year ago in spite of the fact that that the wheat crop last fall proved to be small. Judging by the condition of the banks and financial institutions Missouri is avery prosperous state ” Wrecked Seamen Frozen to Deck Gloucester, Maas., Jan, 9.—The ex- periences of Captain J. B. Leaben of the British schooner Ayr and his crew of four, who were brought bere to-day by the fishing schooner Jen- nie B, Hodgson, after having been rescued from their wrecked vessel off Cape Cod, was pronounced by fisher men of this port to be among the worst ever heard at Gloucester. (aptain Hodgson of the fishing eet, when about ten miles off of Cape Cod, gighted @ rolling hull and What be tok to b8 a signal ot die 4 teh tress flapping from the stump us Xi mast and in apite of tremendous seas and frightful cold, he chopped one of his dories out of the ice and, with fwo of his men, went to the wreck aid found five men on board practi- cally fronen to the deck, and almost ut the point of death. With great diftculty the helpless ssamen were placcd in the dory and takott to the fishing schooner, where they were partially revivea, They hud been there for 30 hours without food or water with the tem perature far below zero and contiuu ully washed by tremendous seas. Hears Murder Over Phone. Minneapolis, Minu., Jan. 7—Jas Garfield, a bartender, this afternoon locked ail the doors and windows ot his flat on the third floor of the build ing opposite the West hotel, in Fifth street. Then be summoned his wife into the dining room where the tele phone was located and told her she must die, as he intended murdering her and and killing himself. Locking the door, he called up a seloon keep friend. “Hold the line and listen,” he said, “Tam gving to kill Pearl and my- self” The man at the other end of the line heard & woman’s screams and three revolver shots. He notified the olice, who hastened to the flat and toke down the doors. They found the woman dead and Garfield d) ing with @ bullet in his brain. The women had been shot twice in the head. She had been an actress known on the stage as Pearl Guy- ‘ otte. Garfield came here recently from Hurley, Wis.. where he was known as James Jennings. No cause is ascrib- ed for the murder aud suicide. Another Stone Case Fails Jefferson City, Jan. 7.—The case against Prosecuting Attorney R. P Stone, of Cole county, on the cha of accepting illegal fees, went to trial in the circuit court here this mornin *. 10 ger eo Judge Songs ‘ gan, o alia, as epecial judge. An hour later, when the pore pe was made, the court sustained a de- murrer by Stene’s attorneys to the evidence and instructed the jury to acquit Stone. The verdict was ren- dered and the jury discharged. This ended the case. eee a Small Potatoes result from a lack of Potash in the soil. Potash pro- duces’ size and quality. We re ab ab : which. 43 That the many abe«u land display more = in the purs: British members ex vonglars in Bag- ngenwily bap the rai is a it of ther fact recently acames by a royal commission aad geaet cugnized by the police. The sqpecwevty cd BU Sines foreign competi r evidenced by a burglary act committing unable to speak Engusk jooaved culy the other aay In the ¢ was cat hunt e constables plement Was [ the police as “t lars’ tools. At first glance it seeams * more than a strip vf steel some seven pose of whieh is Bee ay touching a spring jects from one ead. Amer her leases a gimlet, a thir! cawses a shar] wedge to projee tuneth pireduces f “diamond” ¢ Thea, when closed, this t: of burg lary appliances is @ T atone end and a “jimmy” at the othe me CO! pact little strip of stvel than «mn be easily carried in the pocket "lame are seven serviceable tools, The police of Lonmdom atmost daily learn something .mew respecting the scientific principles pem which burel ars go a-burgling. 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FY dynamite Bill Sikes may be parfomed if he de. spairs of keeping pave with this kind of foreign competition TO HONOR PIGEONS OF SIEGE, Notice of Final Settlement. Notioe a hereby given to all oreditors, an: sllothere tree din the | gatate of Wm Alexander, that 1, L.Q. Robards, adminis ro! bates matend te Ke Anal eottlemoay Wbreof, at ¢ he Baten © county, state Missouri, ‘ym the sth day of Wane L. Q. ROB. Ww-at Next term gett Probate court, in Bater esourt, to be held at Butler 19M. DS, Administrator, Paris to Erect Monamest te Perpeta- ate Memortes of Peathered Hevees ef ISTH Notice of Final Settlement, Novice is hereby given to all creditors and others interested in the estate of Deidrick Sergman, detea that I, Yetta Bergman executrix of enid we, intend to make final settlement thereof, at the next term of the probate court in county, state of Missour on the sth day of Rebruary, 1901 YETTA BERGMAN, Executrix, Among the military and tles that Paris has recem in bronze and marble, tome are more worthy of such fame than Whe little he- roes of 1870, which are now to be hon- ored, They are th tet Pigeons who played so important & mam during the memorable siege. Francis Sarcey. Edgari Quintet and others set the seheme guing, and the dis- tinguished Sculptor Fremirt has made sketch of the proposed memuarent to The winged aids of the Fremeh. This repre- sents a shield fm enamel on ita pigeon, poised with ont ready for flight. Beneath bird falis dying, its breest peeeet br a baliet A third group bird hov- ering over @ nes ¢. Four slender columns @ »€ to support am Administrator's Notice, Notice te peredy given that letters of adminia- tAation with will anmexed upon the estate of CRarlotte Keeble, deceased, have been grant: td to the undersigned, by the Bates County frobate Court, in Bates County, Missouri Dearing date the 7th di of December, 190°. All persons having claims against said estat are required to exhibit them to me for allow ance within one year from the date of said let- vers, or they may be precluded from any bene At of such estate; and if said claimy be vot ex aibited within two years from the date of th: wabl vation of this notice, they will be foreve, arred, J.G. KE Order of Publication, STATE OF MISSOURI, ) ; 88, the shield County of Bates. The monrmert maced either it In the Circuit Court of Bates county, Misson- t - Jar. i tion November, 13, At’ Pees, plain- front of the © eat- va, Victor Logotierce. defend: 1 . Now at this day comes 7 aintiff herein by his attorney T W silver files bis petition alleging arvong other th’ that defendantie not a rvsident of Missouri; and that he has de- parted from hia usua! place of abode in this state, so that the regular process of law cannot be served on him. whereupon it is ordered by the Clerk in vacation toat defendant be noi fled by publication that plaintiff commenced & suit against himin this courg the object and general nature of which ie to obtain a decree of conrt divesting defendant of alt right, t tie and interest in and to the west half of the northwest quarter of section nine (9) in township forty- one (41) in range thirty-one (31) in Bates county Missouri, and to vest the title thereto in the plaintiff A.C Pees, and that unless the said defendant be and appear at this court at the next term thereof to 'e begun and holden at court house, in the city of Butler, in said county, on the first Monday in February 1904, and on or before the third day thereof, and anewer or plead to the petition in said cause the same will be taken as confi ssed and judg- mv nt will be rendered accordingly. And be it further ordered that a copy hereot be published according to law in the Butier WEEKLY Timus, a weekly nawpdaver printed and published in Bates yi iesouri, for four weeks successively, the last insertion to be at least fifteen days before the first day ofthe next term of the circuit court, A true copy of the record. J. A. Patrenson, Circuit Clerk. Witness my hand and the seal of the {szat] ged court of Bates county, this 27th iy din Des Plant wt the approach to the bridge of Amster’ ts, Oddly enough. the act of these brave little so ence. A pircor kill» return from Tours. Nev was preseved by M. Roe kept it, stuffed, tm af GOOD WORK OF GUNNERS. Great Shooting of Wee om Ratticship Indiana te Recent: Ter- get Practice. The officers and crew of the battleship Indiana, which recentlt arrived at New York after target practice off Martha's Vineyard, are jubilant ower what they declare was the best shooting on record. The records already baxve been reported to the department. They say that, tak- ing into consideration the type of her guns, she has beaten the Alabama, which recently set up @ new world’s record off the Florida coast. With all of her heavy gums, the In- diana’s proud gumners say, she has done better work than any ship with guns of ty of Bates the same type. She has created a new | In the ciroult court of Bates County, Missourt, standard for eight-inch gums.one pointer | 12 vacation, November ith, 1908, The State Seaman Treanor having made four| WT. ex: straight hits in two minutes and 16 sec- replsintif co onds. All the shots streck a ball's eye 1 about four feet square. a) grndel of one ets is in exist- r Bicis on its 3, 1870 deche, He has 2 CARE. wher November, 1003, J. A. Parrerson, Circult Clerk. 5-4t OC, M. Barkley, Depaty. Order of Publication. STATE OF MISSOURI, 88. 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