The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 27, 1905, Page 3

The Butler Weekly Times. VOL. XXVII. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1905. E. B. ATKINSON, GRAINFIELD, KAN. Wearein touch with the great movement now in progress,to north- western Kansas, and we ask all who contemplate going out to that beauti- ful, prosperous, growing country a little latter,to go now. Say May 2, or not later than May 16. One fare plus $2.on either date for the round trip. We urge you to go now and if {t appeals to you, when on the ground, we urge you to make your contract of purchase. It must be tied up tight now, or you must pay ‘Sunshine 2 Health, Alfalfa? Wealth In Prosperous Northwestern Kansas. The Rush is on. Why Hesitate or Doubt. We offer no pig in a poke, and if you are a Missourian we want to “show” you. The Winner is the Man that Gets there First. If you wait till fall you will pay for the wait. Now is the time to go,and see, and make the contract. Take your family when you are ready. W. O. ATKESON, BUTLER, MO, a higher price later. It 1s good busi- ness sense to seize the opportunity now existing bht gone forever ni nety days hence. We are not making a great point on the opportunity for profitable in- vestments out there; for speculators are usually keen enough to need little urging. They are coming without advertising. It is the surest place to put your money asaninvestment; but weare talking now to men of limited means who really desire to acquire good homes for their families ata low price, and who have sons and daughters to provide for. We are not urging you toa pioneer or frontier life. That time is past, and what was once a dreary desert or the home of the bison is now a land of echools, churches, happy homes, and all that goes to make up modern civilization—where cattle, horses and hogs, corn, wheat and alfalfa are the principal staple pro- ductions, and barley, oats, spelt sorghum, rye and other crops grow without Irrigation. The acquization of a home upon the high priced land of Bates county {is a serious problem to many @ young man who fs about to establieh a family, and the fesue that confronts him ought to be de- cided bravely. To be @ tenant, or by one bold stroke end it, by buying a home in northwestern Kansas, where you will soon be not only in- dependent, but prosperous and com- fortable. You can not always be with mother and father; and there is no reason why you should walt for them to die in order to. inherit the old home. They builded their home, you must build yours. If you own your own home in this county and are comfortable and contented, we are not addressing you; we are talk- to the other man. We can sell you land at $2 per acre, but you would not buy it if we showed it to you at 50 cents. But you will buy the rich, fertile soil we can show you at prices ranging from $6.50 to $10, improv- ed orraw. The prices are rapidly rising. You must act promptly, even at some inconvenience to your- self, ff you would reap the great reward. This advertisement will not appear again. May 2 is a goodtime to elip off for a few days and see for yourself but if that is for any reason an Impossible date, make it May 16, or bust a hamestring. The fare is $13.50 for round trip from Butler. ATKINSON & ATKESON. For a Daily Prayer. We offer the following prayer to our readers, with acknowledgements to the Kansas City World. It utter- ed daily and lived up to it would brighten many of the dark places in our journey through life: Teach us, O Lord, to see the bright side of things that we may radiate the sunshine. © Save us, we pray thee, from petty- ness and fault finding and self-seek- ing. And may our minds be too big for prejudice and our hearts too large for hatred. Keep us, on the one hand, from the pride of pretense and on the other from self pity and moroseness. Help ue that we may be sweet. Guide us that we may be glad. May we be charitable in thought and generous in deed, white-souled and helpful. May we be straightforward and unatraid. Help us to love and laugh and give aa we loved and gave and laughed in childhood. And so lead us that we may be mean to none of Thy chil dren. Keep us in the ways of temperance —tn our working, our resting. Help us that we may take the time to do the things that we ought to do and that we may not do the things we ought not to do. Forgive ue our waywardness and forgetfulness and the deceit that is in us and lead us into the serene and blessed ways of peace. May that which fs good in us be made stronger and that which is bad in us made weaker. And save us from pessimism and epitefulmess and narrowness and haste of judgment. Look with tenderness upon those weloveand divide, we pray, our hap- piness with them. May we forget those who hate us and cherish those who love us and 0 Lord, we pray thee— Make us ever kind. Revolution Imminent. A eure sign of revolt and serlous trouble in your system {a nervousness, seplennen or upsets. Bitters dismember the trouble- * gome causes. It never fails to tone the stomach, regulate the Kidneys |. and Bowels, stimulate the liver, and clarify the blood. Ran down systems benefit particularly and all the usual * attending aches vanish under its searching and thorovgh effective. ness. Electric Bitters is only 5Uc, and that {ie returned if it don’t give satisfaction. Guaranteed by Frank 1, Clay, Droggiet Hadley Interprets Text-Book Law. Jefferson City, April 25.—Teachers and school boards in Missouri are juet now thinking a great deal about what text-booke to use next year. In accordance with the decision of Attorney General Hadley, the coun- ty boards of education in ninety- seven counties of thestate and county superintendents in the other seven- teen counties will have the right, after June 16, to select the books to be used{in schools under their reapec- tive jurisdictions. This right will be exercised boards of directors In cities having one thoueand children and more. The State Board of Educa- tion is considering the matter and will doubtlees make some recom- mendations to the county boards and superintendents as to course of study and text-booke. Members of theState Board are anxious thatthe children of Missouri have text-booke for the next two years as good asthe best and as cheaply as they are sold in other states. Robbers Loot Lebanon . Stores. Lebanon, Mo., Apri] 25.—Bryan Duffy was robbed last night in Le- banon of $300 in cash and acertified chect for $1000. Robbers also of- fected an entrance into the store of L. T. Scott and took abaut $300 worth of silks, which they packed into two fine suit cases; also one or two suite of clothing, shirte hateand shoes. The-secondhand store of J. A. Hughes was also broken fnto and several razors taken. No clue to the robbers. Expect Pat Crowe to Surrender Omaha, Neb., April 25.—Pat Crowe the famous kidnaper of Eddie Cud- is expected in Omaha hourly to surrender to the authorities. Chief ot Police Donahue confirms the re- port, but refuses to state his reasons for saying why he expecte Crowe, for who the police of the country have evsarched for nearly five years, to now surrender. y Poisons in Food. Perhape you do not realize that meny pain originate in your food, but some day you may fegl a twinge of dispepsia that will con- vince you. Dr. Kings New Life Pills are guaranteed to cure all sickness due to poisoxus of un tood— or money back. 25c at Frank T. Cleyadrug store. Try them. Mud Daubers Had Filled Gun Barrel. A deplorable accident took place on last Friday morning which re- sulted in Nathan Jackson losing his left hand, and he can consider him- eelf as fortunate that the accident resulted no worse. Jackson traded for ashotgun sever al daysago and had been warned that one barrel was heavily loaded and had not been used for — several months, and that the powder had probably become packed and the shot rusty. On Friday he and a younger brother got into a skiff and rowed up to the Johnson bend of the river, where they landed and pro- ceeded up the bank a short-distance; when Jackson determined to shoot the load out of the gun. The gun burst, tearing his left hand entirely off and throwing the barrel back- wards twenty feet into the river. An examination of the bursted gun barrel shows that it had been made the home of a family of mud daubers, and these had so completely filled the lower part of the barrel with mud that not even the heavy charge of powder and shot completely cleared {t c&t.—Osceola Democrat Kilt Congressman In Texas Feud. Hempstead, Texas, April 24.—To- night, while a mass meeting was in progress to discuss instructions to officers here to enforce the local option law and preserve the pegce, Capt. Brown and Rolling Brown started a shooting affray, and in a moment guns were blazing all over the house, There has been bad feeling here for some time past, growing out of the prohibition election, and to-night’s affray wae the culmination. There are two dead; twe others are certain to die, and two more are wounded. The streets are filled with armed men, and there may be more trouble. The dead are ‘congressman Jobn M. Pinckney, one of the prohibition leaders, and Capt. Brown, who is al- leged to have started the shooting. The fatally wounded are Tom Pinck- ney, & brother of the congressman, ana John Mills, one of Pinckney’s friends. “Doc” Thomkins and Roll- ing Brown, a son of Capt. Brownare at their homes, wounded. - It is not known how seriously they are in- ANOTHER DROP IN WHEAT. A Fall of 7 Cents in the Chicago May Price Monday and of 21 ‘ Cents in Three Days. Chicago, April 24.—Opening prices of May wheat thie morning were 3 to 4 cente under the close Saturday, and before there was any important resistance to the decline the price had fallen to 92c, # drop of 7\¢ for the day and of 21c from last Thurs- day’s high price. Continued liquid- ation of the Gates holdings was the feature of the market. When the price reached 92Xc it rallied to 93c and held around that figure, with moderate dealings, indicating that the Gates liquidation probably had been finished. July wheat held up for a while, but there was finally a drop of 2 cents in it, to 84% c, with heavy general sell- |, ing induced by the raing in the west, which makea promising winter wheat crop prospect. The liquidating fever struck the corn market also and the May price fell 14c to 46c. Treasury Deficit Alarming. Washington, April 24.—Adminis tration officials do not hesitate to express thelr concern at the growing treasury deficit. The excess of ex- penditures over receipts for the pres ent fiscal year reached the surprising sum of $80,118,434 to-day. At this time last year there was an excess of recelpte over expenditures of $2,- 412,005: Thereareonly two months and one week of the fiscal year, and Treasury officials now have no hope that this dificit will grow less. To say that they are disappointed and surprised at the situation is express- ing it mildly. Cody Will Not Take Appeal. Cody, Wyo., April 24.—Colonel “Buffalo Bill” Cody will not appeal from the decision of the court which refused him a divorce from his wife, but for the present at least will let the matter stand as it is, without taking the case to the Supreme Court. By his friends and representotives here it is said that Colonel Cody now realizes that his case was rather weak, and the result of the first trial of the case has still further weakened his side of the controversy until he sees nothing ahead of him but defeat should the Supreme Court give him a second trial of the case. Virginia Items. Elder Ishmel delivered an able dis- couree on the “‘Reeurrection of Christ” last Sunday. The Sunday School at the M. E. Church had a large attendance at the Easter exercise. Why is it that our Sunday Schools say nothing about the “Resurrection of the Drunkard,” and what his end shall be? Mrs. Maud French and husband, of Paseaic, took dinner with their uncle, R. McCanns, last Sunday. Rev. Baker preached last Sunday night at the M. E. Church. The rain all day and night last Monday made the farmers smile their faces. Miss Ethel_Miller_and_her two sis. ters, of Amorett, attended the Easter services and took part in the exer- cises. Carl Coulter, of Pleasanton, Kan., was over last Sunday and helped to sing in the Easter choir. He says his parents are well. Rev. Wm. Coulter is farming. Ask Car] Coulter which is the best hotel at Amorett. George, son of George Palmer, whe has been sick with typhoid fever for sometime, is very weak yet. Mr. Davis, of Illinois, who owns the Isaac Park farm, is visiting hie nephew, who is farming at the place Mr. Isom’s son, who lives south- east of Butler, took dinner with his father and mother last Sunday. The report said Cole Hensley was feeling much better last week. James Beckett was a very sick man last Friday. Dr. Foster was called toes him. .We believe he is 85 years old. He has heart trouble. Miee Ethel Miller called at Aaron’s last Sunday afternoon. She has charge of the phone office at Amorett. The office is in the big hotel which her parents. have charge. Call and see them, get @ square dinner and talk home to your people or to But ler, Amsterdam, Mo., and Pleasan- ton, Kan. AARON, Nurse Commits Suicide. Springfield, Mo., April 24 —Mies Annie Mortz, o professional nurse, while suffeting from despondency, committed suicide to-night at the Cliff Hotel. She came here about three weeks ago from Denver, Colo., in search of employment, but had been unable to secure a position at any of the local hospitals. Egyptian Student Exiled. Because of seditious utterances made through the American pres, Geris Youssef Salem, an Egyptian student of the University of Missou- tl, has been notified that he must not return to Egypt. In several in- terviews, Salem has severely criticis- ed the dominant political party In his country, and these interviews have been translated into the Egyp- tian language by the liberal press. Some of the seditious utterances are as follows: “From my childhood my one dream has been to make Egypt free and independent;” and again, “I expect to become an Amer- ican citizen and, under the protec- tion of the American flag, return to Egypt and begin the work that will finally-set-us-tree.”* Salem is heir apparent to a large estate in Egypt and may be entirely cut off by government officials. In case this happens he expects to take the lecture platform {n America. | Child Accidentally Shot During Hanging of Negro. Richland, Mo, April 26 —In the presence of 200 spectators Elias Smith was hanged at Waynesville to-day by Sheriff Doddson Sutton. He murdered Jamos H. Smith near Dixon, November 7, 1904. In his parting words he declared he had killed hia victim in self-defense. It was the first execution of a criminal in Pulaskicounty. A few minutes before the execution someexcitement was occassioned by the shooting of the 14-year old son of Rev. J. J. Francis by the accidental discharge ofa revolver, which fell from the pocket of “Buff” Arneby, a negro bystander. The wound is not con- sidered fatal. Arneby was arrested. Texan is Slain By Man He In- tended to Murder. Humble, Tex, April 25 —Foster Roeenberg, also known here as Ralph Scott, started out this morning to kill Gay Minnis, an of) well driller. He was slow on the draw, and Minnis shot him turough his head, killing him instantly. Lightning Kills Monett Woman While at Telephone. . Monett, Mo , April 24.—Mra, A. C. Hartman, while talking over the telephone here last Thursday during a thunderstorm, was struck by light ningandinstantly killed. She leaves a husband and three small children.