The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 11, 1904, Page 2

. notwlitaach of public confidence and properties in the Kansas field. W. bine. Then about 5 o’clock, at the OFFICIAL STATISTICS north front of the old City Hall, the evidence shows that Gutke met But ; lerand handed him a package. om in this connection, I think a point} ¥ DR. H. M. CANNON, i Dentist, BUTLER, - MISSOURL has been brought out not indicated by counsel for either side. | “Two hours later, the evidence shows, Butler waited on Murrell in the latter's office. The logical infer- —-lence is that Gutke had told Butler that Murrell was the agent and that Butler had then gone to Murrell. “We then find Butler on the floor of the House constituting with mem- | ber about this bill, discovering his interest in the measure. COMBINE SELECTED KELLY AND BERSCH “We then find from the evidence H .| that Mr. Butler suggested Mr. Kelly, Do Otherwise Would Be Trav or whemever the boys should select, asthe agent to obtain the money. esty on Jualice. And we find that the combine select- Fulton, Mo., Feb. 6.—Following 4] 44 Kelly and Bersch. strong summary of the State’s case) «ort we see that Butler, Kelly by Judge Graves, in which he declar-| 4.4 Berech went along Market street ed that upon such a showing !t would to Tenth, toward Butler’s office. As be a “travesty upon justice” to take/+, Butler's entering that office, it is the case away from the jury, Edward not essential. Butler took the stand in his own be-} wpe hour was unusual for the half and disclosed that it fs the pur: |, neaction of business, and some- pose of his defense to deny in detail body must have opened the office all the essential statements sworn to}, Kelly and Berech, who, we know by the confessed members of the for-/1-4m the evidence, went in there. mer boodling combine. “The evidence shows that the two The unfolding of this programme delegates went in and stayed awhile was distinctly apparent when four of before coming out. They then walk- Butler's witnesses had completed |.4 to McTague’s restaurant and then their precisely told testimony this). Carmody’. It is reasonable to evening. : _, |auppose that somebody else gave They were: Butler himself, Ed.|snom the money while at either of Butler, Jr., Willlam Devine and P. J.}thoge places? Nothing is to show Laughlin, both foremen in the em- that any one was in McTague’s or ploy of Ed. Butler & Sons, horse-| carmody's who was interested in this shoers. bill, who had been on the floor ef the In the history of all the boodle} Houge, who had interviewed Dele- trials never has one day been 80 full] datog concerning the measure. Then of incident as to-day. we have the distribution of the $47,- Until 2:30 in the afternoon But-|~ : 1500 at Lehmann’s house, ler's accusers recited their damaging] «1, yiew of thie series of circum- testimony. stances, I conclude that it would be Baving been over it belore they & travesty on justice to say that were clear on every point, never fal-}iiere ig no evidence connecting this tering, never hesitating, answering | defendant with this bill, with thie cross-examination without sign of combine and with the vote upon the embarrassment, each contributing lighting act, toward a convincing total—a closely woven circumstantial case against the defendant. Will be in Adrian every Tues- day and Friday prepared to do all kinds of dental work. and Boys---Thirteen States Represented. Chicago, Feb. 6.—Official statistics of the victims of the Iroquois fire have been compiled, and they tell a heartrending tale. In the grim list every decade in life is represented up to the age of 76 years, one person of that age being killed. The largest representation above 18 years runs from 22 years to 25 years. The youngest was 2 years old. Appaliing figures are given for those under 10 years, there being forty-nine children under that age on the list. Twenty children whose ages were 10 years are listed and thirty-six whose ages were 11 and 12 years are in the number of dead. The roster complete gives 141 we. men and children under 21 years and names eighty-five youths and boys under that age. In all, there wasa total of 417 women and girleand 153 menand boys. Among thosehaving trades and professions are found twelve domestics, three court clerks, four farmers, eleven housekeepers, two clergymen, 150 housewives, 1 lawyer, 5 nurees, 2 echool principals, 194 pupils, 43 teachers, 8 merchants and 4 dressmakers. Sixty-five are listed whose occupa- tions are not given. Chicago, of couree, has the largest roll of lives sacrificed, there being 390 of thedead resident of this city. Next to Chi- cago Evanston furnishes the largest number, twelve dead. The tablealso shows that victims of the fire were thirteeu States and eighty-six cities and towns. THE BUTLER CASE. Judge Graves Overrules Demur- rer and Sends Case Before Jury With Statement That to Paw Paw Bazoo: “You've heered about the phoneygraft, uf course,” sez Ezra Fox toCaleb Withers, Petey Jones an’ mean’ Alex Knox. “Well, itia mighty wonderful an’ makes some music fine, but keep ’em frum yer Uncie Ez—no phoneygrafts in mine. The other night at 1 o'clock I come home frum the lodge an’ tuck my shoes off, hopin’ Annt Em’s jaw in’ Leud dodge. 1 willadmit I'd had a sip too much—er maybe, two—but still my brain wus clear enough to tell me what todo. I found the key hole all O. K. an’ got up tomy room I clean fergot that phoneygraft an’ that there sealed my doom. In huntin’ softly fer a chair I teched the startin’ spring an’ with a squeak that blamed machine began to play an’ sing. ‘The Bamboo Tree’ came screechin’ out. That settled things ferme. Aunt Em come jumpin’ out uf bed an’ struck a light to see. She sez: ‘Well, Ezra, full agin? I givea trip an’ fell, an’, landing on that phoneygraft, I emashed it all to hell Aunt Em wus mad—you bet yer life. She driv me off to bed an’ talked so much 'twould take ten days to tell you all she said. I neverhad a word to say, butin my heart I laughed, because, although Em scolded me, I smashed that phoneygraft. I hope,”’ sez Ez, cuttin’ frum his plug a goodly chew, “some day to meet this Edison —I've got a thing er two I'd like to tell him just fer fun, about his blamed machine.” Then Ezra went on up the road just feelin’ fightin’ mean. AMONG THE DERRICKS. Kansas City Oil Company Brought in 150-Barrel Oiler Satur- day---Quick Drilling BOODLE NARRATIVE ASTOUNDS CITIZENS, The two Murrells, Helms, Tam- blyn, Robertson and Schumacher told @ story which astounded the residents of this quiet county. Many of them embarked that they had read Talk. o! the St. Lonis boodle deals, but] The Kansas City Oil and Gas Com- they had never dreamed of the enor-| pany brougit in its No. 13 on the mity of the conspiracy formed by Long lease, south of Neodesha, on that cembine nor of its wholesale pi-| Saturday afternoon. The well flows racy, oi the astounding venality of naturally and is estimated to bea which the corrupt legislators were}150 barrel producer. For quick senilyy. development on a large scale this Each told ‘how often he was bribed, company holds the record in the syhich was so often he could not keep| Kangas field. It brought in ite first count, Eachtoldthehighestamount | wel! August 21, 1903, and paid a he had received and the lowest. | dividend of 14 per cent January 1, ‘Mech declared that he had regarded | 1994, Thecompany isrunning three the matter as merely “business” and |rigs, and it has one of the best oil “crust. Corbin fw president of the company The effect of the jury may well be/qnd I. J. Jenkins is manager. W. M. imagined. All wore expressions Of| (Crawford, assistant cashler of the extreme astonishment. Bank of Commerce, was prominent in Some sat open-mouthed during the| the promotion of the Kansas City recitals; others frowned; others were | company and is a large stockholder. inelined at times to smile at such developments as Otto Schumacher’s jook —of_innocent—amazement and negative answer when asked if he had ever refused a bribe. Opposed to a “Crash.” From an Exchange. “Old Adam Forepaugh,” said a friend of the © veteran showman, “once had a big white parrot that had learned to say: The climax came when Judge " pea io impala <iraves overruled the demurrer to the | #t 4 Ume— . , e ack. As the Judge pronounced “The bird had, of course, acquired pis brief estimate of the evidence the this sentence from the hipped a . silence was profound, and when he the show. Well, one day the “ye concluded it was only the vigorous got lost in the country, and Mr. demands for silence from the Sheriff | Forepaugh leaped into eH “4 that prevented an outery of indorse- sarod out — yy re! it. ment from the auditors. Peoplehere and there who hadseen In stating his reasons for overrul- | the parrot directed him in his quest, ing the demurrer to the evidence, and finally, as he bia ping | bya Jadge Gra ves outlined, in theabsence cornfield, he was overjoyed to hear a { the jury, of course, as convincing familiar voice. icti “He got out and entered the field, one er a ae — and eae the parrot in the middle a oe dinaat as language | of @ flock of crows that had pecked eee _ aie him till he was almost featherless. ae co As the crows bit and nipped away “The question upon this demurrer | the parrot, lying on his side, repeat- ed over and over: is whether or not circumstances in : she evidence of this case so connect “‘One at a time, gentlemen—one the defendant (Butler) with the at a time—don’t crush.’ ” Saale thud alee aoe ‘ribet to render him guilty. . of “good spirits. 28, ; ribery as A Tornado at Reno, Nevada fegur betin, Ye: B0 a Goes “| will cite the chain of cireum- s lated in the testimony. | Reno, Nev., Feb. 6.—A tornado at} gists’, prose ia , to-day destroyed much “ he afternoon of November | East Reno os hs baie shows that Gutke| property. It cut a wide swath came before the combine with a through the town. The Stone build- propunaon of $20/000, co et |edtand the Web Bos hota wan prac ina combine|ed from {ts foundation. It was car- You Have Always Benghl «ordered that negotiations be accom-|ried a short distance and collapsed. Bears the * plished through J..K. Murrell, who Other structures were damaged. No Signature of had been elected agent of the com-/ one has been reported injured. GRAVES OVERRULES DEFENSES DEMURRER. GOOD SPIRITS. Good spirits don’t all come from Kentucky. Their main source is the liver—and all the fine spirits ever made in the Blue Grass State could not remedy a bad liver or the hun- dred-and-one ill effects it produces. Youu can’t have good spirits anda bad liver at the same time. Your liver must be in fine condition if you would feel buoyant, happy and hope- ful, bright of eye, light of step, vigor- ous and successful in your pursuits. You can put your liver in fine condi. tion by using Green’s August Flower —the greatest of all medicines for the liven and stomach and a certain cure for dyspepsia or indigestion. It has been a favorite household remedy for over thirty-five years. August Flow- er will make you healthy and active and thus insure you a liberal supply OF IROQUOIS DISASTER. | } Of 570 Victims 417 Were Wo-' men and Girls and 153 Men) [ee there, HISTORIC HOUSE IN RUINS. l SUING FOR A STAR. Home eof Cel. George Davenport om | Dispute Over Ownership of a Meteor Rock Island in the Mississippi | Causes a Unique Lawsuit is Crumbling. { in Kentucky. One of the historic houses of the weat | A unique suit has been filed in the is slowly falling to decay on Rock’ Bath county circuit court at Owings- Island. This house, which at one time | Ville, Ky. It is for the possession of was the most pretentious in this whole; a meteor which fell on the lands be- district, occupies a site on the island in| longing to the estate of the late F. the Mississippi river off Rock Island,|N. Ewing near that town. Thomas liL, and is on government land. No at- 'J. Pergram found the meteor, and the tempt is being made to keep the house in | heirs of the Ewing estate brought suit repair, and year by year it is slowly | for its possession, alleging that as it tumbling down. The house was put up| fell on their land it rightfully belongs in 1836 by Col. George Davenport. It|to them. Pergram has retained coun- was built of hewn logs taken from tim-| sel and says he will fight the case ber on the island. The window and door | to a finish. He was required to give frames were brought from Pittsburg by | $1,000 bond while the suit ts pending. boat, and the locks and hardware used] The meteor weighs about 300 all came from England. For those days | pounds, and was the main body of the the house was a vertiable palace, and | big meteor which was seen on Novem- attracted much attention. Col. Daven-| ber 15, 1902, from New Orleans to port was an Indian trader and came to| northern Ohio. Three pieces of the this section of the country in 1816. He| Meteor were seen to fall near here, was known as “Saganash” by the In-| and two small pieces were found a dians. The house was the scene of a|few days later. One weighing 12} terrible crime, July 4, 1845, when Coj,| Pounds was sold to Prof. Harry A. Davenport was tortured and killed by| Ward, of Rochester, N. Y., and Chi- robbers. The old man was at home on/| cago, for $300, and he in turn dis- the island alone when six men com-| posed of it to the National Museum prising a party of bandits found him.|@t Washington, D. C. The other They supposed he had a great deal of| Piece was sold to Kentucky State col- money about the house, and proceeded | lege at Lexington. Several months to torture him. He finaly gave them| after the meteor fell Pergram was $700, all the money he had, and then} hunting and found it on the side of they shot him. He lived long enough| ® mountain, almost buried by its fall. to give a description of the robbers, and| He knew what it was, and by help of they were all captured. Three of them,|® sled carried it to his home. Many John and Aaron Long and Granville} 8clentists have visited Pergram and Young, were hanged for the crime,| All have made offers, but he declined Robert Birch escaped from prison, and} them all, An eastern college offered John Baxter and William Redding| him $2,500 for the meteor, but he de- served two terms in the penitentiary, | Clined that also, and had made ar- rangements to exhibit it at the St. TORTURED FOR SCIENCE, Louis exposition, The case will be tried at the October term of circuit Russians Subjected to Rays of Violet| court here. Light in German Fortress and In the case of Goddard vs. Win- Brains Permanently Shattered. chell in 1892, reported in 86 Iowa, 771, the court decided that a meteor Russian refugees now in Berlin relate] was the property of the owner of the a fresh form of torture devised and prac-| land on which it fell, it being a nat- ticed on political prisoners confined in] ural accretion. The two other cases the terrible Schlussenberg fortress.| on record resulted the same way. They assert the brains of Russian po- litical prisoners are permanently in-| SCARF PINS UNITE BROTHERS. jured by long exposure to rays of violet light. The subject selected for scientific torture is placed in a large many win- dowed cell, into which the sunlight streams through violet panes and by night from electric lights. Day and night} Two scarf pins of peculiar design, violet rays are poured on the prisoner,| Presents from their father, were the sleeping and waking, until everything} Means of reuniting, at the Victoria looks violet, his food and even his flesh,| hotel in Chicago, two brothers who The effect of the scientific cruetly is| had been separated for eight years. to produce irritation and ultimately} The two men had been attracted to cause a change in the structure of the} each other by the similarity of their brain cells. The power of consecutive | Surnames on the hotel register, and thought disappears, sensory impres-| Were in the buffet when the younger sions cannot be orderly arranged, The| >rother noticed a scarf pin, identical victim is not insane, only stupefied with his own, worn by his companion, mentally. G. H. D. Shaw registered from New Frequently the victim never recovers, | OTleans Sunday. Wictor Shaw regis- He might be released without peril to tered from San Francisco “coon the government. While red rays mad- Eight years ago, a few weeks after his den, violet rays produce incurable brain | £2ther’s death, G. H. D. Shaw ran away lassitude. There is no proof that all po-|£70™ his home in San Francisco. = litical prisoners at Schlussenberg are} "®VeT Wrote Deok to His Twlatives An treated thus. Which prisoners are sub- ae. anh hw oy digg ble-name, All jected to this new scientific torture re-| ‘8° fear mains a secret of this most secret of all ‘When he stopped at the ‘Victoria Russian prisons, hotel he was on his way to Kansas City to marry a Miss Lessing. The day after his arrival his brother regis- tered. r “Where did you get that scarfpin?” inquired Victor Shaw as the two were in the buffet. “From my father,” replied the other According to statistics compiled by| Mr. Shaw. Dr. William H. Guilfoy, register of the} Explanations followed and the two bureau of vital statistics, there were| discovered that they were brothers. G. 772 suicides in New York city in 1902,]H. D. Shaw was also informed that of which number 477 were in the bor-| $5,000 of his father’s estate was await- oughs of Manhattan andthe Bronx. The}{ng @im in San Francisco. Last even- number of suicides in those two bor-|ing he left for Kansas City, and after oughs ten years ago was only 241. Na-| being married will continue westward tive born women to the number of 78} to secure the legacy. Victer Shaw re- killed themselves in this city last year,| Mained in Chicago. There were altogether 196 women sui- cides, of which 33 were Irish, 26 German AMERICAN SHIPPING. and 19 Russfan. The suicide rate has in- creased in Manhattan and the Bronx] Fe! Of 6,000 Tons Last Year—No from 14 to each 100,000 inhabitants in Deep-Sea Keels Laid Since 1892 to 22 to each 100,000 in 1992. New the Year 1901, York is now fifth in the suicide list of American cities, which is Ied by St. Louis, with a rate of 25.7. CATFISH CATCHES BOY. Eleven-Year-0ld i: Pawl, Mina, Youth Pulled Into River by 32-Pound Hani, Men Separated Eight Years Ago Find Each Other in Chicago Hotel =—Legacy Awaits One. INCREASE IN SUICIDES. Statistics Show Higher Rate of Self- Murder in New York City in 1902 Than Year Preceding. The board of trade and transporta- tion of New York at its first post- vacation meeting listened to a report on the falling off in our shipbuilding and carrying business, in which, the report says, there was a “loss of 6,000 tons last year, while not one deep-sea keel has been laid in an American yard since 1901.” The board decided Otto Scavinsky, 11 years old, had an|to put these facts before the people. exciting tussle with a catfish weighing|It also adopted a resolution, submit- 32 pounds, and but for the timely assist-|ted by Lewis Nixon, urging the in- ance of two men would probably have] dorsement of canal improvements. lost his life. President Straus read the following The boy was fishing on the river bank] letter written by President Roosevelt at the foot of Chestnut street, in St.]to Aaron Vanderbilt anent the shipping Paul, when suddenly his line was jerked] situation: violently, and he was yanked headlong] “tion Oscar S. Straus has forward- into the river. He cried loudly fot] ed to me your memorial. It is, I trust, help, but held on to the line. unnecessary for me to say how deeply James Goodhue and Thomas Murphy} and anxiously I have studied the sit- heard his cries and pulled him out of] nation of our shipping. I shall go over the water. They then landed the cat- your—letterwith—certain public men fish, after a struggle. who in the past have shown their great The fish was four feet long. Murphy!concern in American shipping. I gave the boy 50 cents for the fish, and the earnestly hope that we may be able boy forgot his ducking. to devise some method that will ben- ‘Re le Ma efit this industry.” A Remarkable Map, A few months ago a French bride re- ceived from a friend a silver sugar bowl with a map of the world engraved upon it, and on this map the route that thisnewly Are Women Savages? Dr. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemists, who is intensely intellectual, says men go bald because of their in- og pied ‘Gubuasne tania tellectuality, while women keep their moon tour was marked. The names of Slory because they are savages. Per- the towns at which the happy couple! haps 80, says the St. Louis Post-Dis- would make a more or less prolonged patch, but if Dr. Wiley will take off stay were lettered in enamel. his stiff hat and let the wind blow —____—_—<—_ through his hair he may save what is Fieticious Capitalization. left of it. Inteilectuality without com- More than $5,000,000,000 is represented! mon sense is apt to produce all sorts in the largely fictitious capitalization ef, of fantastic phenomena. industrial combinations in the United States within six years. eeerteemierasanatonsentins Brig. Gen. Frederick D. Grant, his _ Women Avoid Africa. brothers and sister, wishing to pre- There are few women missionaries in| serve the Grant homestead in Galena, Africa because of the ¢eadly nature of the | 11), pave given it to the city authorities, climate and the social conditions ef vast) who will probably convert it into a hos- pital. Grant’s Home a Hospital. 5 and 6 per cent Money t0 Loan. Close Loans at once. Abstracts furnished. MILES S. HORN, Attorney at Law, BUTLER, MO. East Side Square. MISSOURI BOARD RE- DUCES FREIGHT RATES. Maximum Distance Tariff Sched- ule Adopted After Many Hearings---Marked Changes. Jefferson City, Mo., February 6.— The Miesouri state board of railroad and warehouse commissioners has completed its labors in the prepara- tion of the schedule of maximum freight rates. Today it issued a maximum distance tariff schedule, which shows that a sweeping reduc- tion has been made in freight rates. The reduction affects pretty nearly alllines, varying with different classes of commodities. On grain thereduc- tion ranges from 30 to 35 per cent; on live stock, while the rate is only decreased 5 per cent in some in- atances, the reduction goes as high as 40 per cent in others, Onsoft coal the rate which has pre- vailed is lowered 50 per-cent, while the reduction on hard coal is 25 per cent, The rate on lumber is reduced 15 per cent, and on merchandise the rate is reduced from 5 to 50 percent. On the “classes” the reduction runs from 6 to 50 per cent. A compart- son of rates is made with the new echedule and the present Missour! statute of maximum rates and the distance tariff rates which are at present in force by the several rail- road lines in Missouri. The rate echedule is the final conclusion reach- ed after the matter had received con- sideration at a number of successive regular and special meetings of the board in Jefferson City, St. Louis and Kansas City. In Prison, but he Makes $40,000 Post-Dispateh, 5th. Press dispatches from Jefferson City say that Alvin W. Towsley Lawrence former clerk at the West End Hotel, St. Louis, now a convict in the state penitentiary for embezzlement, has just made $40,000 by operations in the cotton market. According to these dispatches, . Lawrence secretly placed $1,000 with @ Kansas City broker when he saw the cotton boom was inevitable. Monday, it is further related, Law- rence ordered his broker to “unload”’ his profits amounting to $40,000. The next day Cotton King Sully “un- loaded” and the market broke. No explanation has yet been made as to the manner in which a convict at the state prison could carry on a cotton deal of the kind ascribed to Lawrence. Lawrence is 28 years eld. He was discharged by the proprietor of the West End Hotel on Feb, 19, 1903, and on the same day disappeared with $1590 which had been in the hotel safe. He wascaptured a month later at Los Angeles, brought back and sentenced, after pleading guilty, to two years in prison. With the usual allowance for good behavior, ‘he will be free again next November. Lawrence’s wife, who has been de- voted to him ever since his fall and despite the fact that the name ofa woman guest at the hotel was fre- quently mentioned in connection with his, is living with a sister of her husband, at 1102 McMillan street, Walnut Hills, near Cincinnati. A woman friend in St. Louis to whom Mrs. Lawrence writes frequently says that Mrs. Lawrence has sent money to her husband several times since his imprisonment. This friend told the Post-Dispatch Friday that Mrs. Lawrence, who is the daughter of a prominent : town, Ky., family, has $250,000 in her own right, this being left her by a former hueband. Her devotion to people. Lawrence has estranged her trom her said