The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 16, 1905, Page 7

see : Ses FREE! FREE! FREE!! The Famous Busy Bee Graphophone and Busy Bee Gold Moulded Records, (Together with one Record.) A GIFT TO OUR PATRONS. Having made arrangements for the exclusive agency in Butler, for the celebrated Busy Bee Graphophone and Busy Bee Gold Moulded Records, we wish to announce that we have decided to show our appreciation of your patronage By Giving Absolutely Free WHEN YOU HAVE BOUGHT $20 FOR CASH One of These Celebrated Talking Machines Positively only one machine given to a family. Additional Records may be obtained at our store for the regular price of FIFTY CENTS or they may be had THE GOOD STORE. The trains were about eight hours “Mate Monday. ; The snow extends to 150 miles {south of Denison, Texas. I. 1. Concklin, has purchased the Thomas residence on Ohio street. Eggs are retailing at 30 cents per . | dozen and are scarce at that price. | | Four persons were frozen to death ear Gutherie, Oklahoma, Sunday. | \ A large number of our Democratic friends attending the convention Monday, dropped in to sce us. “& The last saloon in Polk county ‘was closed Saturday by the county “court refusing to grant a license. The ice on the lake !s about fifteen ches thick, this is by several inches he thickest ice ever harvested off he lake. A coal famine extsts in many places in Western Kansas, and the people are using fencing and out buildings for fuel. ‘ An overdose of laudanum taken as relief for toothache, killed Mrs. J. CLOTHES |then we would know what cold fs |where over in Kansas Friday and P. Brown, residing near Joplin, the other night. The Helping Hand Institute in * Kansas City sheltered 700 people Sunday night, 400 were given cots and the others slept on thefloor. Heavy rains in the south {s caus- ing the streams and rivers to leave their banks and great damage is being done to property. ~ The south bound train Monday » morning was delayed eight hours by _ afre(ght wreck on the main line above Pleasant Hill. Fresh fish was on the market in Butler Taesday. Two wagon loads were on sale and they were nice. * They had been taken from the Miami oo) river. * Salesman wanted to look after our terest in Bates and adjacent coun- Salary or Commission. Ad- The Victor Oil Company, Cleve- : d, Ohio. ‘The cold wave Sunday night sent “\ thermomenter down to 28 degrees . pelow zero. That was by about 18 ~ degrees the coldest night of the winter. See our $2 rocker. Knight,Adrian, 14 3t. ONE FREE WITH EACH $5.00 CASH PURCHASE It is natural that you should wonder how we can afford to give you a Grahophone worth $7.50 free with $20 cash purchase. The story isa long one but sufice tomy (ATES DO IT. COME AND SEITE. People all over the world are paying from $10 to $100 for talking machines that do no better work. New Spring Clothing and Shoes Now in. cd THE John Guyton of Missouri has con-| A New Jersey woman killed her- tracted with the Japanese govern- ment to furnish them with 1000 horses to be used in the Japanese army. The most severe blizzard of several years holds the entire West in its grasp. Ruilroad traffic is greatly demoralized and several persons were frozen to death afflicted with asthma. It is feared the fruit crop, apples, peaches and berries, will be aie | ‘injured by the severe cold weathol If the snow lays on the grotind }much longer and the cold_weather continues for a week, there will be | few quails left for seed in thiscounty. ‘The old settler says this is nothing: | that ue tender-feet ought to ha been Lere in °57, or some such date, Tie county court of Jasper county issved an order levying & tax of $5 a night for each theatrical per- ; eg ; \formance given at Joplin, Carthage Well, we are satisfied. Don’t want | or Webb City. to know. F The Democrat says the smallpox scourge at Mamar is practically a thing of the past, as there are only three houses in the town under quar- antine with no new cases reported. James W. L. Slavens, 66 years old, and one of Kansas City’s earliest pioneer residents and business men and former mayor of the city, died Saturday night. Death was due to paralysis. The committee on appropriations ot the House has agreed to report unfavorably on the bill appropriat- ing $200,000 for the construction of a new supreme court building at Jefferson City. | Unele Billy Wilkerson, an old man The passenger train on the Inter- state stuck in a snow drift some} did not get into Butler until Monday evening. [he train makes daily trips between this city and Magison, Kas. The occupants of the Missourl State Bank building were put to great inconventence by the freezing of a water pipe in the streets, from which that building was supplied. On digging down to the pipe, theground : —— frozen pi pi — week for the cold spell by stealing a Tre Totes was complimented by a box of caps from the McKibben Mer. , + colt deci didn Jobs ped ‘ cantile Compsny. A whipping post peacee™s sep llc ig might prove a very effective remedy strong, the Republican member oi A the county court, trom Rich Hill. He against depredations by such fellows. isa very agreeable gentleman and} Dispatchesfrom northern Nebraska his eervices in the court so far show|report the quail in that section of him to be evenly balanced and broad| the etate all dead or nearly ao from guaged. starvation. The ground has been It has been very dull in Butler the covered for the past two months with past week on account of the cold deep snow and the birds being unable weather. All last week~wery few| to get anything to eat have huddled farmers ventured to town, and) together in a protected plan and died Saturday was about the only day by the flock. It is suld there will not the merchants did any business|be @ quail left. worth mentioning so far as thecoun- Judge Graves writes to friends in try trade was concerned. Osceola that he expects to bring his The county court of Henry county | family and spend three or four weeks refused-a license to open adramshop|in Osceola next summer. He states in the town of bey ng MS pene that he is doing a fine business in his being a town of less than pop-| practice of law, end has the pleasure ulation, under the law it requires aland satisfaction of being at home. majority of petitioners of the entire| The Judge is well liked in Osceola, town, and this, it was ‘shown, the|and his many friends will give him a saloon element did not have. warm welcome—Ozceola Democrat. A justice of the peace held an inquest and decided that he came to his death from natural causes. Three tramps broke into jail last living by himeelfin Drexel, was found | secretart keep a recard of the fami- dead in bed one morning last week. | lies quarantined. One stuffed bird on the plate will | home than two on a hat, modestly | sugyests the Kansas City World. Jane Faus, a negress 73 years of aye, of New Haven, Conn, graduated from the elementary grade of the Hill house evening school Friday night with honors. The United States government thermometer at Fergus Falls, Minn, registered 3N', degrees below zero Sunday night which is the lowest point in six years, The county board of henlth met at the court house Friday. Those present were Judges J. W. MeFad-| den, J. A. Bruce and John Arm-| strong and Dr. T. C. Boulware. The’ board organized by electing J. W. |McFadden, president; P. A. Bruee, | vice president and Dr. Boulware, | secretary. The following orders were made: Ordered that all physi cians practicing in the county treat. ing contagious diseases outside of incorporated towns report the same to the secretary. Ordered that the Last Tuesday seems to have been “rabbit day” in Osceola says the Democrat. Billy McLain of Harper, came in with 586 in his wagon; | James Brownlee of Rainey brought 220 more and by 3 o’clock J. 5. Hunter, to whom they were sold, | began chopping off the heads of 1079, received from various sources. The price paid was 5 cents each—enough to pay for the ammunition. The principle advantage to the farmer comes in saving the fruit trees from destruction. | The school entertainment at the Christian church last Thursday night for the benefit of the library fund cleared fifty four dollars. It was somewhat different from the ordi- nary school exhibition, had many new and novel features and the little tots wont through their parts us nat- ural as old actors, or‘better still, as if they were playing on the grounds without spectators. The audience was highly entertained and many complimentary expressions were {n-, G. M. Norris, a former Bates | C, B. McFarland has a fine flock of elt and two children becauseall were do more toward making a happy county citizen, orders the Tur Times sheep on his farm east of town and to his address at Leedey, Okla. [in the last two or three weeks his Mayor Stump of Nevada received | herd hastncreased with over 100 an rnonymous letter Monday. The lambs, which have done well, not. writer says: “Ifyou press this dog withstanding the severe coll weath- er. law one hundred and fifty men will make an example of you by hanging) A couple of covered spring wagons youto a tree in the court house loaded with indians, men, women yard.” The city council of Nevada! and children came into town Tues. has passed an ordinines taxing dogs day morning from the south on the in the city as property, double quick. They were very cold Bon Payne, a well kaown farmer of pnd the women and children made L ette count years of age, for the stores to get by a fire. They nt y . were driving wood horses and the is ki!led by a Chicago and Alton: train at Talo crossing, two miles | west of Higginsville, Mo., the other day. He had started home from town in an intoxicated condition in asleigh. The horses attached to the | sleigh came back to town and a party went to search for Mr. Payne. min as soon as they hitehed at the square, blanketed their horses and made the animals comfortable be- fore they left them, One of the men after bluiketing his lorses took @ papoose from the wagon and carried ‘it to its mother who had gone They found bis body in thesnow near | Hito eae ey the railroad crossing. [tis thought!) Arch 1 Stone, a prominent farmer his team getting away from him, he and iafiiontio! Denuoerat of Osage attempt-d to walk the track to; wasa pleasant cdler. He said Sun- day night was severe on stock. Two Judgements for personal injuries of his « ves that were well sheltered, were given by juries against the to | had their legs so badly frozen that {he had to thaw them out with water principal towns of Bates county in| ones circuit court last week. Mra, Stagner | applications and he was afraid they was awarded $400 damagestagainet |would die, He said he found a covy Rich Hill, and Thos, Heath wan| ot eight quail all starved and frozen given a verdict of $25 against Butler | *° death. That unless the weather both for injuries recieved by falling on | moderates and the snow goes off the detective sidewalks. Rich Hill will @Uail on the uplands will all die. He probably appeal her case while Butler | thinks those in the timber that can will probably pay the judgement, as |get better shelter will live on buck the cheapest and eastest way out, | berries. Butler will have another damage. Hanley Clark telephoned from hia suit to defend this term of court, that home in Summit township Monday of Mrs. Davis for personalinjuries re- | morning that the thermomenter, on ceived in a fall. | the north side of his house registered A very sad accident happened near 38 degrees below zero. The same Harwood, Mo., Friday evening. J, thermomentor, in the same place, six W. Kinsey, while out rabbit hunting | years ago to the very date, Feb. 13, tracked arabbit to its nest in the 1899, registered 32 degrees below snow and to save a charge of shot: zero. Mr. Clark keeps a very accu- he concluded to killed therabbit with rate record of extreme weather the butt of his gun. In striking at changes, rain falls, ete, and says the rabbit his gun was discharged | that Sunday night’s cold spell beats and the load entered his body under the record. We have undoubtedly his left arm. Mr. lh called for | had the longest severe cold spell ever Maview and was strack by the train, help and walked abouRA0 feet when experie.iced before in thissection. It he fell dead {n the sn the charge bas been continuous winter since the having cut a large artery. His call 5th of January, more than a month for help was heard by his ‘son-in-law and theend not yet in sight. The dulged for the teachers who had it in control as well as the pupils who par- ticipated. - who was a short distance away and snow is from 12 to 14 inches deep on | he ran to him but he was dead when the level, very dry and crisp and bids he reached him. \fair to last a long time.