The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 3, 1904, Page 1

BR NNQUEEeetHnarcetr aie ER ARETE Oo ee sen q & 7 rat =e = i re a re lacs ss 900 gradefor Letter From W. S. Mudd. Esconpipo, Cat , Ocr. 9, 1004. Icannot get along without Tse Times. It is like a letter from home. We have bought a nice little fruit ranch with a aix room dwelling, with water system for house, yard, barn and garden, supplied by wind pump. The climate is very even and mild, every day about the same, nights always cool. We came here for our little poy’s health and the improve- ment has been beyond -our expecta- tions. We have to irrigate during the summer and fall. We gét our water from a reservoir three miles back in * the mountains from where the water firat reaches the valley. $350,000 bonds were voted ia 1895 to build the system and in 1897 the people refused to pay the water tax and the $4.50 grade for $4.00 5-00 gradefor 4.50 6.00 grade for 525 650 gradefor 5.75 7.50 gradetor 675 8.25 Special Blanket Sale, For Two Weeks Only tn Datatat aad aad atindiad bunt dinddit,it ttt be It will be to your advantage to purchase Blankets during this sale. MicKibb cNibbens. | fads $1.75 grade for $1.55 $2.00 grade for $1.75 $3 00 grade for $2 50 $375 grade for $3.25 $4.00 grade for $3 50 | A SCARE AMONG NEGROES. Many Leave Town to Avoid Ar- | rest for Illegal Registration. Kansas City Star. It is now eight years since the Mis- souri legislature passed what was then called for lack of a better name “Shannon's chicken law.” It was prepared under Joe Shan- non’s direction and introduced by W.F. Lyons then a senator from Kansas City. ; It was never enforced until this yearand its enforcement now has 58¢ grade for 45c¢ decreased the population of voting Te de for G8c age in Belvidere hollow and along i _— is Vine street on the South side, The Sie grade for Tie law makes it a felony for any person $1.00 grade for 906¢ convicted of petit larceny as well as R 1 grand larceny to vote or even to +08 weer G00 regi ter. The custom of Democratic $1.25 grade for $1.10 governors has been to issue pardons $1.50 grade for $1.35 to white convicts during the last week of the convict’s term. But begroes are rarely given the benefit of this re-enfranchising action and they go out of the penitentiary with- out being restored to citizenship. Under the “chicken law,” a man who has served in jail for petit larceny must loge his vute, ENFORCING THE LAW THIS YEAR This year the Democrats have no surplus money for the criminal ele- ment of the negroes, so they set about to enforce the ‘‘chicken law” and secured 200 warrants. They have a list of 400 negroes who are barred from voting because of thefts, big and little, but an fncomplete canvass showed 200 of them to be = CASHIER SHOT BY BANDITS. | Students Applied The Attempt to Rob a Cody, Wyo., Bank Failed. Cody, Wyo., Nov. 1.—Two bandite held up the First National bank of Cody at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, and when the cashier, I.0. Middaugh resisted thelr demands he was shot and killed. The robbersavere scared away by citizens with shotguns who were at tracted by the confusion before they secured any booty and are now be- ing chased by thrse posses with good chance of capture. : The two robbers, without masks, were riding horses. One held the animals, while the other, with a rifle valley has been dead until August; strapped on his back, entered the 23, 1904, when the people voted to compromise, they paying $225,000 and since that time there has been $200,000 of that paid in and within two weeks more the whole debt will | be paid and the property of the peo- ple in proportion to amount of water tax paid. My tax on ten acres was $451.50, and I own that amount of stock in syetem. This district only contains a little over 13,000 acres of land. There was but little of this money borrowed, 80 you see the peo- ple here must be in reasonably good cirsumstances. We like this country fine if we could only have our Mis- souri neighbors, noteaying anything detrimental to our California neigh- bors, they are all very nice. I very much regret that I cannot ~ be in Missouri thie year to vote for Folk. I have been for him ever since his name was first mentioned for governor and I would like to eee him | ominated in 1908 for president. + Hope Parker will get there. I think ~ him excellent timber for the place. I | think as much of Bryan as lever did. ‘Am glad to see Gravescoming to the front #0 rapidly. Gravee’ place is at ' the top of the “ladder” and it is only & question of time when he will get thore. , Give my regards to all the boys. + Hoping that you will be the Demo- Jeratic nominee tor Secretary of State ouri in 1908, I am Your frieni, . W. 8 MUDD. " Sauemm—n Waste to lock after a or tnt et’ in Bates and adjacent jon election day. bank. When inside he drew two revolvers and ordered twocustomers to throw up their hands. Then he commanded him to turn over the cash. Middaugh made a run for the rear door, but found it locked. Un- heeding the calls from the bandit to stop, he made another rush fora side door, but before he reached it he was shot and killed. + ~ Mound. Items. The weather is just. perfect, but we are needing rain very much. The pastures are drying up and stock water is getting scarce. Walter Rice and Nelson McCall to the river last week and returned with four ducks and a bushel of pecans. Bro. Burton, presiding elder of the M. E. charch south, will hold his firat quarterly meeting at Mt. Zion on the 5th Sunday, Nov. 5th. Come out bear a god sermon. Everybody is busy getting ready for winter. ‘ Oscar Wyland’s little boy, who has been very sick for the past five weeks, is improving rapidly. John Lotapich is talking of going to Texas to look at the country and buy corn to feed his cattle. He suya he thinks Parker will be elected and then we will have better times. Next Tuesday {s election day, and we urge every Democrat in the coun ty to go to the polls and vote the whole Democratic ticket. They are all good men. Old Mound js getting her roads in good shape, so. the voters will have no excuse for not going to the poll L.C.E, registered, and warrants were sworn out for the offenders, Up to noon to-day only eight had been arrested. The deputy marsha!s who were sent out tc serve the warrants reported that, from the {information they could get at their houses, no fewer than 500 negroes must have left town yesterday. Negroes who have never committed crimes in their lives r-fuse to give any information about others who have gone, and women declare they have no husbands at houses where negroes, the deputies knew, have lived until within the last few days. But it {s not the negroes alone who are disturbed now. There are a great many young Democrats whose voting record would not bear thorough investigation. To set the example of sending men to the pent- teutiary for technical violations of the registration laws might react, and there is a sentiment in certain Democratic circles that the negroes, if convicted, ought to be paroled. When they were taken before Justice McGovern yesterday the negroes insisted on pleading guilty. Me- Govern wanted them to stand trial, but they objected. He finally bound them over to the criminal court for Judge Wofford to deal with them. One furnished bond. The remainder was still in jail at noon. Brush to The Negroes. Kingston, Ontario, Oct. 81.—A mild race riot occured today at Queen’s University, the foremost educational institution in Canada The trouble arose over the admis- sion {nto the university of colored students from the Barbados islands. Fifteen of them were admitted this year, all medical atudents. It is claimed that they have been treated courteously by students and faculty, but lately have become over- bearing in their attitude both to fellow students and to the pro- fessore. The students held a meeting and decided upon drastic action. They decoyed four of the Barbados students to the dissecting room. There they were seized and stripped and etrapped to the dissecting table Then they were painted from head to feet in various colors, balsam being mixed with the paint to make jt stick. The faces of the men were painted a bright red. After this the victimes were furced to listen to a lecture on proper behavior to whites and let go. Fact Rather Than Theory. The Globe-Democrat theorizes and calculates, giving a multitude of figures to show that Missouri peo- ple pay high taxes. A citizen of Audratn county has come out in a statement which shows that the total taxes for county, school and state purposes paid in that. county oo 160 acres of improved farm land fa,on an average for the county, only $1460. This is bringing the matter down to the only correct basis—that of dollars and cents. The average is about the samo all over Missouri as in Audrian. In Towa and Illinois it ranges from forty to one hundred dollars on 160 acres. Doesn't Respect Old Age. It’s shameful when youth fails to show proper respect: for old aye, but juet the contrary in the case of Dr. King’s New Life Pills. They cut off maladies no matter how severe and irrespective of old age. Dyspepsia, jaundice, fever, constipation all yirld to this perfect pill, 25¢ at Frank T, Clay’s drug store. France Not Out Of It. Paris, Oct. 27.—A categorical de- nial was given this afternoon to the report from London that France had notified Great Britan and Russia that it would not become involved in the present difficulty if it assumed anextreme aspect. According tothe Franco-Russian treaty of alliance, France, it is believed, is bound to aid Raesla in case that country is at- tacked simultaneously by two countries. Not a Sick Day Since. “T wae taken severely sick with kiduey trouble. I tried all sorts of medicines, none of which relieved me. One aay Tsay un ad of your Etec- tric Bitters aud determined to try that. After taking a few doses I feit relieved, and soun thereafter was en- titely cured, and have not been sick| IU. It developed a stubborn ulcer astay since. Neighbors of mine have| unyelding to doctors and remedies been cured of rheumatism, ja, | for tour sears. liver and kidney trouble aud gen-|Salvecured. It’s just as for bis is what B. f.|burne, scalde. skin eruptions and piles. 25c at Frank T. Clay’s drug store. A Runaway Bicycle, Terminated with an ugly cut on the leg of J. B. Orner, Frauklin Grove, | We Sell Grand i eee Prize Shoes, The Shoes we sell—DIAMOND BRAND SHOES won the Grand Prize (highest award) at the World’s Fair—but the significant thing is that the shoes that Peters Shoe Co. showed the International Jury of Awards were not the fancy freak styles made merely for dis- play, to show what they could do, but were Regular Lines of Diamond Brand Shoes, precisely like those we have here ready for your feet. _ DIAMOND BRAND SHOES ARE BEST THE GRAND PRIZE PROVES IT. And it proves that our styles are the latest, the materials the best, the workmanship the finest. Ina nutshell it proves that Diamond Brapd Shoes are the shoes for you to buy, and here is the place to buy them. Let us Show you Some of the New things Just in Hill's Cash Store, 00000-98-00000 oopoSeSCe-b5. POLAND CHA SAL ON NOVEMBER 19, AT THE MOUND VERNON FARM, Southwest of Moundville and three miles North of Bronaugh, Mo., will be sold a select lot of POLAND CHINA HOGS. Herd headed by CORRECTOR, 72825, one ofthe best breeding hogs in Southwest Mo, If-you are looking for somethi g strictly fine you want to attend this sale. They are of the big boned, wrowthy kind that make money for the breeders every time. Mail bids can be sené to Con. GrorGe P. BELLOWS Auctioneer, of Maryville, Mo., in my care, Trains will be met at both Bronough and Moundville aud Free Fransportation given to farm, | 000 000 00) 099009000000 O00 two and one-half miles J. B. HARDINGER, Moundville, Mo. hicssinnssinteiampnusbueietntnnictineniennianesest Claim Negroes Once | 20,000 ACRES. of | forsale. Call and see me, western landa Convicted Not Voters }45-3m. J. M. Vaveran, Butler, Mo. Kansas City, Mo., October 29.— Warrants were issued for fifty negroes by the county proscutor to-day charging them with illegal registra- son, the penalty for the crime is| from two to five years in the peniten- tiary. It was stated at the prosecut- or’s office to night that warrants for 250 more negroes, charged with the same offence, would be issued to- morrow. It is alled that the negros have been couvicted of thefts in the past and are under the law, guilty of felony for registering. ASAWMILL. And wall Kinds of Lumber, Wood and Posts. Have just started a sawmill on the Widdlecombe land, near Papintiile. Have 300 acres of fine timber to be sawed into anything you want, Keep plenty of all kinds of lumber in the yards. A specialty of framing timber, | bridge timber, sheeting and barn Dr. Wm. St. John, | siding. The Eye Sight Spe- | cialiat, of Kansas City will be at the Cottage House in But- ler on Saturday, October 29th, Dr. St. John-has been making reg- ular visits to Butler for three years and gives as references many of the leading citizens of Butler and Bates county. Examiationaad consulta- tion free. TR TAR Tee 2 Plenty of fence posts and dry cord wood for a ile. Also wish to let the 300 acres to Parties to take the wood off the | ground after saw timber ig taken out. This 300 acres of cordwood timber can be bought cheap. Se W. S. READ, P>pinville, | or at saw mill, 52 46. | | | | | ‘