The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 17, 1904, Page 2

PRICE OF FEDERAL CONTROL. THINKS MISSOURI WILL HAVE BIG FRUIT CROP. | Dr. Whitten, of State University, | Says Conditions Indicate Heavy Yield. Columbia, Mo., March 12.—Mis- souri will have plenty of fruit this " vt ., year, according to Dr. J.C Whitten, proposition to appropriate 1% mill- | rotessor of horticulture in the uul- ion dollars. He discussed the situa-| versity of Missouri. He said to-day: tion frankly and gave the committee “The prospects are good foralarge to understand that its proposition crop of all kinds of fruit this year. would have to be submitted in an-| boa ches are injured in some sections, other form. If the government was but the state as a whole will have totakeany action at all, there would enough to eupply the demand, unless have to be a thorough understand- something unforeseen happens. ing of condition. Nothing could be Prospectaat this time of yearalways done until formal jurisdiction over depend upon conditions that have the Kaw was obtained. If the com-| 1 availed during thesummer, autumn mittee were prepared to request this). 14 winter preceding. The pastsum in the name of Kansas City the sena-) er and autumn were exceptionally tor promised co-operation. favorable for the setting and matur- The committee is not prepared| ing of she fruit bude of orchard trees, without further instructions to press vines and small fruit plants. The ite demand that the government take rainfall was well distributed and controlofthe Kaw. Even iftherains hence fruit plantations did not suffer descend and the floods come there materially from drought atany time, are strong corporate interests which |, the other hand, there wasno over- would in all probability oppose gov- plus of rainfall during any month, ernment control of the Kaw. The The cold weather came ou gradually, Bowersock dam at Lawrence would so the plants matured well for the have to come out; the railroads) winter, There was a light fruit crop would have to remove their wreck- last year, 80 the trees and other Senator Cockrell Startles Kan- sas City River Delegates. - | Washington, March 12 —Senator | Cockrell informed the Kansas City | flood relief delegation this afternoon | that it would be a waste of time to} further press before this Congress the age and construct their bridges ac- plants were not overtaxed by Its cording to government regulations; weight. The orchard trees and other thestock yards company would have fruit plants therefore went into the winter with a good setting of fruit buda. “The winter just passing has not to give up the land it has reclaimed from the bed of the river and Wyan- which has already let ‘ yunry, snitracts for i gs i consencts for ee $100,000 bridge, | boon very severe, Low temperatures would hsve to let new contracts.|nave been prolonged at times, but Tine Wae Aa i > The War department will have none the thermometer has not registered ofthe kind of bridges across astream excessively low at any time All under ite control which Wyandotte county proposes to build, Senator Cock tee the issue could not be dodged. If the government controlled a stream private interests could not control, It the people of Kansas City and Kansas wanted to use the Kaw river for their business enterprises the gov- ernment could noo be a party to it. \ statement was prepared by the committee to-night and telephoned the Kansas City executive committee which was asked to send further in stractions. fruits, except the peach,seem to have passed the winter so far without in- jury. Peach buds have been report- ed killed in some parts of the state In the immediate viciaity of Colum bia, where I have examined them, they are all killed, except in the case of especially hardy varieties or in ex ceptionally favored spots, Along the Missouri river hills south of town the peach trees have suffered less and haveenough live buds left to produce a good crop. From other parts of the state the reports are more con- flicting than usual. It is, therefore, impossible to estimate the percentage ofa full crop the state as a whole will produce. “Theindications are, however, that in many parts there will be a good crop, while in others there will ba an entire failure. Some buds are killed in all sections, but the peach usually sets somany buds that the treecould not support the crop if all of them should set fruit. If nine-tenths are killed itis a good thing for the gen- eral crop. One-tenth is sufficient to make a full crop of fruit.” Missouri's Wheat Crop Short. Columbia, Mo., March 12.—Prof. YB Mumford, acting dean of the University of Missouri College of Agricuiture, doea not think Missouri will have @ large wheat crop thie year. ‘From reports received,” said Prof. Mumford, “the general impres- sion of the farmers is that the condi- tions have not been favorable for a waximum wheat crop in 1904, The winter bas been cold and the ground unprotected by snow. The extreme- ly dry weather of the fall and winter resulted in a weak fall growth of wheat. It is too early to predict the probable damage from the ravages of the Heaslan fly, but last year the damage from this source was very great. A favorable spring with sufli- cient rainfall may yet overcome the numerous ubfavorable conditions which have interfered with the growth of the crop, but prospects certainly are not flattering.” Shoots Sweetheart and Hangs Himself. Frenchtown, N. J., March 12.— Miss}Mary Wyker, a young school teacher, is dying, and Pan! Weaver. 18 years old, is dead as the result of a@ murderous attack on the girl last night. The attack on Miss Wyker was made when she was going to her boarding house. Weaver fired three times, and two of the bullets inflicted wounds declared fatal. Weaver es- caped, and early this morning Weay- er’s mother found his body hanging to a rafter in a barn on the home- stead. He had adjusted the rope while standing on some boxes, and then shot himeelf in the head. Young Weaver had been paying at- tention to Miss Wyker for some time. Accused of Murder By Poison. Sikeston, Mo., March 12. —Several days ago “Harry” Miller, a young merchant, who had been married only two months, was found dead in bed by bis wife, when she awoke in the morning. He had died without a struggle, but froth about the mouth aroused suspicion that he had been poisoned. The heart and the stomach were examined. It was al- leged that the night before Miller's death he had drunk some wine atthe drug store of Dr. Warren Smith. Dr. Smith has been arrested on a war- rant accusing him of murder fn the first degree, sworn out by David Smith. He isin the jail in Benton, the county seat of Scott county. Dr. Smith denies that he is responsible for Mr. Miller’s death. No report on the condition of the heart and stom- ach has been made. Six Missouri Fraternal Campa- nies Must Quit. Jefferson City, Mo, March 12.— State Superintendent of Insurance RobertG. Yates has requested Attor- ney General Crow to bring injunction proceedings against six fraternal in- surance organizations, five of which are located in St. Louis and the oth- er one in Springfield, to enjoin them from further conducting or continu- ing in business in this state. —— —- ‘These companies are the supreme Sea Battle at Port Arthur. | lodge of the Knights and Ladies and Kansas City, Mo., larch 11.—Lon-| Progress, the supreme lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Protection, the National benefit association, che ; Modern Reserve association, the sian fleet went outeide the harbor | tome Annuity asscclation, all of St. don reports that aceording to Port Missouri Student is Charged!PLATTE RIVER GOING DRY. With Burglary. Warrensburg, Mo., March 12.— William Waldo Hunter, a young nor- mal student, was arrested this morn- ing in this city on the charge of burglarizing the store of John Thrail- killlast Friday night. Oa thateven- ing the rear window of the store was forced and nearly $100 worth of goods, including a suit of clothes, a rain coat, suit case, etc., were stolen. The articles stolen were the very ones young Hunter had looked over only the day before, and suspicion imme- diately rested upon him. Hunter was making preparations to leave town for his home in Phil- lipsburg, Mont., when arrested, and his trunks at the depot weresearched and all of the stolen goods, it is al- leged, were found packed in them. He was placed in jail, and this morn- ing his preliminary trial was set for Monday. Huoter, although livingin Montana, belongs to a preliminary Johnson county family, and has many well-to-do relatives living in this neighborhood. Held the Engineer to Blame, Jeflerson City, March 12 —Thecor- oner’s jury which heard the testi: mony of railroad men as to who was responsible for the freight train wreck at the tunuel, four miles east of here ast Monday, in which a con- ductor and two brakemen were kill- ed, returned a verdict to-day holding W. Christine, the engineer, responsi- ble. Christine was the engineer of the local which ran into the caboose of the through freight, The jury found that ne orders were violated by the engineer, but that it was gross negli- gence on his part that caused the wreck, The three men killed were Charles Stoemaker, Co fOr. an k Nevisand Charles Weyant, brakemen on the through train. The bodies of Shoemaker and Nevis were burned in the fire which consumed the wreck. Their homes were in St. Louis, Wey- ant resided at Sedalia, He Tried to Kill His Wife. Los Angeles, Cal, March 12.— Colonel Griffith J. Griffith, the Los Angeles capitalist, who shot his wile in the eye with a revolver at the Hotel Arcadia in Santa Monica Sep- tember 30, was found guilty of as- sault with a deadly weapon by ajury in the superior court last week and wassentenced to-day by JudgeSmith to two years’ imprisonment in San Quentin and to pay a fine of $5,000, ‘The sentence imposed is the extreme penalty which the law provides in case of aseault. In sentencing Griffith Judge Smith took occasion to read a severe lec- ture to the defendant. Hecharacter- ized the assault as a most aggravat- ed one and without reason orexcuse, adding that “the court had made up its mind when the jury left the court- room that in case it returned a ver- dict of conviction that he would in- flict the extreme penalty. A more aggravated case of assault I have never heard of in an experience of fourteen years on the bench.’’ ~ TO COME VIA AMERICA. The United States Newpapers to Get War News First. New York, March 11.—Following an arrangement effected by the gen- eral manager of the Associated Press ali of the war news collected by the great Uuropean news agencies from Japanese, Korean and Chinese terri tory will after to day be tranemitted to London by way of the Pacific cable and the United States will be delivered en route to the Associated Press newspapers. ~ Hitherto this matter has been transmitted from the far. east by way of India, and has been repeated from London to New York. Under this new arrangement first publication of all news will be made in the United States. jark Dunn Hahged at St. Joseph To-Day St: Joseph, Mo., March 10, 1:06 p. m —Mark Dunn, the murderer, who since Monday morning, had escaped three times from the officers of the law, was hanged at 10:40 o’clock a. \Irrigators Warned by the Gov- ernment to Use the ~ Water Now. Lincoln, Neb., March 11.—The government has issued a warning to irrigators in Nebraska and Colorado that the Platte river is going dry, owing to light snows in the moun- tains, and that the water should be used now. It is feared that no mat- ter how much water is used now there will be suffering later, as the little snow there is in the mountains is melting too soon, All the western watersheds are in unfavorable condi- tion. The Platte river is formed in Lin- coln county, Nebraska, by the junc- tion of the North and South forks, The North Platte rises in the North Park, Colorado. The South Platte rises in.the South Park, Colorado, and is extensively used in irrigatiun. The Platte joins the Missouri at Plattsmouth, Neb. The drainage area of the Platte is about 7,500 square miles. The stream cannot be navigated. It is the widest tributary of the Missouri, but neither the larg- est in volume nor the longest. The length of the main stream is 900 miles, A Wine Man anda Church. Brooklyn, Mareh 10,—The Rev. Edwin M, Martia, assistant pastor of the Lewis Avenue Congregational church here, resigned yesterday rath- er than sountenance in church mem- bership a man in the liquor business He came here from Richland Center, Wis, a year ago. Twodeacons may also resign. Thecauseof the trouble his family he has attended the church many years and recently decided to formally become anenrolled member When his name was presented there was warm opposition on the part of the Rev. Mr. Martin, backed by sev eral deaconesses and two deacons, but the merchant was admitted. For Breach of Promise. Mexico, Mo., March 11.—Barton Waddington, & prominent farmer of this couaty, living near Kenton City, has beeu sued in tavcircuitcourt bere for $6,000: for alleged breach of promise, Mattie McCully, a widow, of this city, being the piaintiff in the case. Sue alleges that, avout lust August she and Mr, Waddington en- tered into an agreement to be mar- ried “within & week, or 1 & Very short and reasonabie time,” and the defendant put the marriage off aud finally refused to marry her at ail, though she is willing to fulfill her part of the contract. Convicts to be Rewarded. Leaveuworth, Kan., March 11.— The warden and board of directors of the Kausas penitentiary have rec- ommended that pardons be grauted to “Tobe” ‘Laylor, Arthur Uox and J. Carpenter for their efforts in help- lng tu suppress convict difficulties, Taylor and Cox aided in disarming Bill Rudolph, the St. Louis murderer when he attempted to stab George Rowe, a guard. It is believed their action saved Rowe’s life. Taylor and Uox are life convicts. Taylor has been in the penitentiary nearly twen- ty five years. He is an old man. He is trusted by the otticials, ‘Chey do uot hesitate to send him outside the walls on errands. Cox also is an old man. Carpenter is negro serving a life term for murder. He, too, husspent many years in the penitentiary, and isan old man. He was the “trusty” incharge of the dynamite in the pent- tentiary coal shaft at the time of the mutiny three years ago. He refused to allow the conspirators to obtain the explosive, and, sitting by the box, threatened to blow them all up, himself included, should they urge their demands. Died from Effect of Burns. Richmond, Mo., March 11,—Mrs. H. W. Brown of Millville died yeater- day from the effects of burns. A few days ago she was standing by a stove when her skirts caught fire. Husband rushed to her aid, but the Groceries, Hardware, Im Pr ccrceWanted. We guarantee satisfaction. G. E. CABLE,.*",.. If you fee! anyways timid you have accumulated a g the matter, GROVER CLEVELAND — TO BECOME A MASON. Asserted That the Former Pres- Shuttle ident Will Receive Three Degrees at Once. 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LOCK AND CHAIN STITCH. _ TWO MACHINES IN ONB, BALL BEARING STAND WHEEL, We also manufacture sewing machines that ie earaizia” Tectary rung as silent asthe tick of a watch, Makes 800 stitches while ed, are given to the applicant on his initiation Mr. Cleveland, it is also said, will receive three degrees at once, and ru- mor has it that for some time he has been in active training for the event. Fora new member to receiveso many degrees at one time is unusual, butin Mr. Cleveland’s case an exception was made for the reason that his initia- tion into the order has been delayed from time to time, through no fault of his own. Grand Master J. Holt Apgar will arrange to convene the Grand Lodge of Masons of the State of New Jersey in Princeton a few nights hence, when Mr. Cleveland will be notified. It is expected that the full quota of mem. bers will be present to witness the ceremony., Mrs, Dye is Released; May Agree to Be Tried. Boone, Ia., March 12.—Mra. Sher- man Dye, accused of sending the box of poisoned candy through the mails to Miss Rena Nelson, of Pierre, 8. D., was released from custody to-day, Judge Whitaker framing his decision in the habeas corpus proceedings in accordance with th» decision of Gov. Cummins in the requisition matter. Mrs. Dye will not be molested as of South Dakotw. Upon her release Mrs. Dye intimated that she might go to South Dakota to atand trial. A Robber Gave Himself Up. Sedalia, Mo., March 12.—R. 0. Williams, a barber, who was wanted to anawer a charge of robbing a shop here of more than $100 worth of utensils about two months ago, sur- rendered to the police.to-day. He had worked in Kansas City anda number of Kansas towns since the burglary, but said his conscience would give him. no rest. Williame was held in the criminal court in de fault of a $1,000 bond. long as she remains outside thestate | ; f DR. H. M. CANNON, } machines make 200. 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