The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 27, 1905, Page 1

t © eovery is doubttal. ee ee BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1905. The Butler Weekly Times. NO. 39 Experiment In Public Ownership. From the Globe-Democrat. Practical trials of municiple own- ership vary so much that all actual figures relating to the subject have a peculiar value. The Columbia, (Mo) Herald has an article on the opera- tion of the water and light plant in that city, which was taken overfrom 6@ private corporation on August let last. In the nine months since the municipality took hold the number of consumers has increased and the for both light and water has been reduced. The city now receives free, all the water and light required for public purposes. Under private ownership taxpayers paid $7,500 a year for this public service. In nine monthe the income of the‘plant has exceeded the outgo by $2.100 though the increase in water and light con. sumption has been 25 per cent, while the reduction in the cost of opera- ting the plant is over 20 percent. A new plant will be opened shortly with double the capacity of the one in use Good management in this instance speaks for itself, But sometimes that necessary feature is lacking and the figures are on the wrong side. Municipal ownership {s a good thing if those charged with {ta control are honest and efficient. Under incom- petent or crooked offictals it {s, of course, a failure. The public owner- ship and public utilities ceased to be an abstract idea long ago. In the year 1902 there werein Great Britain 831 municipalities owning water- works, 99 owning street railroads, 40 owning gas works and 181 sup- plying electricity. Out of the profits from its municipal street railways Sheffield. has invested $75,000 for the erection of shops to be rented. Liverpool’s vast docks are municipal property, and that city has erected over 2,000 model tenements. Muni- cipal ownership is a succese, if the administration is sound. Otherwise it is snare for fruitless debt and ende in loss. MISS ELLA OFF, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. SUFFERED FOR MONTHS. Pe-ru-na, the Remedy That Cured. Mias Filla Off, 1127 Linden Bt, [ndtan- Spolis, Ind., writes: “I suffered witha run down constitue tion for several months, and feared that | would have to give up my work “On seeking the advice of a physi- cian, he prescribed « tonic, | found, however, that it did me no good. On seeking the advice of our druggist, he asked me to try Peruna. In a few weeks I began to feci and act like a different persoa. My appetite in- creased, I did not have that worn-out feeling, and | couid sleep splendidly. Ina couple of mouths | was entirely recovered. | thank you for what your medicine has done for me.""+--Ells Off. Write Dr, Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Obio, for free medical advice, All corres pondence is held sirictly contidential. Pw. J. PARLEIR, | Doing a GENERAL Feep Business. oe Corn, Hay, Chop Feed, Poultry Fond, etc’ Candies and Cigars. FOSTER, - - st-omy AVENGED DAUGHTER'S RUIN. Al Kennedy Shot and Killed W. R. Brandenburg. Fort Scott Bepublican. Al Kennedy, the father of Mis Maude Kennedy, @ young lady of Bronson, who was ruined last winter while on a visit to lola with a mar- ried man named W. R. Brandenburg, Saturday night at 10 o’clock shot Fact and Fiction Mixed. “William E. Curtis, one of Ameri- ca’s prominent newspaper men who recently revisited St. Clair county for the first time since he was releas- ed by the James gang which took him prisoner on the occasion of his former visit in 1868, has written an article for the Chicago Record- Herald,” says the Humansville Star- Leader, ‘‘which all the papers in this section which know the history of the Youngers and Jameses say is largely fiction. The main criticism is that he got his facts and locations wrong. He told all about St. Clair © and killed the man who was respon- Bronson by the side of [Love Bros. nd repeated OVER $15,000,000 SHORT IN 20 DAYS. Treasury Deficit Shews Enor- mous Increase of Expendi- tures Over Receipts. Washington, July 22.—The Treas- ury deficit for the first 20 days of the new fiecal year amounts to more than half the deficit for the whole ot Jast year. The. figures at the close of business were $15,385,255. This ratio will not, of course, be maintained during the entire year, for if it were the treasury would be well nigh bankrupt. The figures are interesting as go- ing to show what was contended prior to the close of the fiscal year— that accounts were held back and and payments withheld so as to keep the deficit for the year down to as low an amount as poasible and make it appear that the official esti- mates were not far from the actual results, Many accounts that would ordin- arily have been promptly paid were held up and the present excess of ex- penditures over receipts added tothe $25,000,000 shown by the books on June 30 last year. It likewise illus- trates how nicely the Treasury books are juggled at any time when it fs sought to present any particular showing. SABSTORI : A. Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought Oe Leh Ueten of le Girl Sucked Poison From Boys Arm. » From the Indianapolis News. Stroudsburg, Pau.—By the bravery of Mies Lucy Ernsé the life of Ralph 3choenhut was saved, after he had been bitten by a rattler at Porter’s lake. Both are children of well known Philadelphians, the boy being about 17 and the girl a little young- er. They went out to get bark to make souvenirs, and while the young man was stripping a small tree a rattler struck him in the right arm, just be- low the shoulder. Miss Ernst at once offered her help. She ripped the boy’s shirt open and saw that his arm was getting dark. She then took a pen knife and cut a gash in his arm and sucked the poison from the wound, saving his life at the peril of her own. Both will recover, Grave Trouble Foreseen. It needs but little foresight, to tell that when your stomach and liver are badly affected, grave trouble is QPL LLLIIIIIIIIIILLSS SSS 2 McFarland The Pioneer Harness and Saddle men of Bates county, 1874. COLUMBIA OR SAYERS AND SCOVILLE BUGGIES, And an elegant Flat Pad Single or Double Buggy Harness. The Columbia and Sayers and Scoville vehicles have been sold for many years in Bates county, with the very best results. Elegant in style, a grade ma- teri] and skilled workmanship, our Bugeles, tine Har- | nese, whips and lap dusters ure match: ed to sult the taste ~ of ull. | Bros. Keep in atock everything that horse owners need. Double wagon harness from $10 to 830, Stngle har- ness $7.50 to $25. Second hand harness $3 to $15. Saddles of all styles and prices from the cheapest to the steel fork cow boy and gole leather spring seat saddles. Lap robes, horse blankets, dusters and fly nets, harness ofl and soaps, liniments for man or beast, coach oils, axle grease, tents, wagon covers, trim buggy tops new and repair old ones. Bring in your old harness and trade them for new ones, 8 We have the largest retail hareas and saddlery store in the southwes home. Sole agents for the Columbia and Sayer and Scoville buggies. gles, Surries, Road and Spring Wagons, in cheaper grades. See us before buying. McFARLAND BROS., SLLSLLSISLLLSLSLSSSLLALSLSLASSSLLLLSL SA, Poisons in Food. Southern Pacific Sued Perhaps you do not realize shat many pain poisons originate in yoy’ For $12,000,000 Taxes. | food, but some day you may feel; Louleville, Ky., July 18.—The back | twinge of dispepsia’ that will co tax suits against the Southern Dact-| vince you. Dr. Kings New Life "3 fic Rallway Company, on a valuation ; are guaranteed to cure 1” .o88 of $330,675,792.31, and involving | due to — undigest 7 back taxes amounting to $12,000,- | Clays ora real Try ; hae : 000, came up in the county on a mo- neon tion of Judge A. H. Humphrey, gen- eral counsel for the Southern Pacific, to have State Revenue Agent A.J. Bizot make the complaints more specific and to consolidate the three cases against the company. On Toward Viadivostok. Tokio, July 16.—Reliable informa- tion has been recelved here that the Russian forces in Northern Korea have gradually been driven north- ward since last month and now hold CASBTORIA. only toward positions south of the ha Ki Tumen river. ane OMT | The latest information theadvance of y “yy Fa south of a large force from Viadt- | vostok, butit fs believed the Russians willhalt at Nokiefsk, north of fumen, 4 Union of the Synods. | and concentrate their forces to make | Richmond, Ind, July 17.—An-|® resolute stand there against the | nouncement was made here to-day | Japanese advance. The rainy sea- of a meeting of great importance to _to the Lutherans of the United States vents movements on a large scale. the tales of the brush courts and judges who laid out their time in jail or in the woods hiding. He gave a very nice description of Osceola and the library of T. M. Johnson, of that city, which is one of the finest in the world. Mr. Johnson is the son of Waldo P. Johnson, ex- pelled from the United States Senate for treason in 1868, who afterwards siblefor the girl’s downfall. The shooting took place in the street at grocery store. The men met on the side walk and without speaking a word Kennedy drew his revolver, a thirty-eight calibre, and fired two shots, one of which took effect in the upper part of the stomach. Bran- denburg died in twenty minutes. | represented Missourl ae eonator in the Contederacy at Richmond. He] One Killed and One Hurt was practical author of the consti- tution of Missourl. After the war While Sleeping on Track. he returned to Osceola and his son, T. M., still lives at the old home- stead where he has erected a fire- proof building for his books.” St. James, Mo., July 22—While re- turning from escorting young women home from a revival meeting last night, George, Hughes, Webster and Marvin Gorman, sat down on the Prisco railway tracks and fell asleep. A westbound train came along, crushing Hughes’ head and onehand| Las Vegas, N.M., July 22.—Robt. andarm. Webster Gorman wasalso | Alexander, for years a deputy United fojdred on the head and shoulder, | States marshal in the western dis- Marvin Gorman was unhurt. Hughes | trict of Missouri, committed suicide died this morning, and Gorman’s re-| during the night by throwing him- self into a cooling vat at the hot eprings. He left a note saying ill “A Joplin negro wae making his health caused tha act. will and requested of his lawyer that when he died he be buried in Monett. Greatly 1d Demand- ‘In Monett,’ exclaimed the lawyer, Nothing ie more in demand than excitedly, ‘why do you want to bea medicine which meets modern re- buried in Monet?” ‘Well, it’s like — a and yam "sald the negro, ‘when the devil Sater, "Th are just what you out looking for negroes, stomach and ter ¥s the last place he'll think of! grou them. A’ Frank T. and that’swhy.” 25c., guaranteed. * Former Missourian Drowns Himself in Cooling Vat. ahead, unless you take the proper medicine for your disease, as Mrs. John A. Young, of Clay, N. Y., did. She says: “I had neuralgia of the liver and stomach, my heart was weakened, and Icould not eat. I was very bad for a long time, but in Electric Bitters, [found just what I needed, for they quickly relieved and cured me.” Best medicine for weak women. Sold under guarantee by eo T. Clay, druggist, at 50c 6 b This Man Deserved Death. - The Dalles, Ore., July 22.—Daniel Norman Williams, bigamist and murderer, was hanged this morning for killing Alma Nesbitt and her aged mother at Woodriver, March 8, 1900. Williams served two terms in the Nebraska penitentiary for criminally assaulting and attempting to murder a girl at Chadron. He was accused of uxoricide in Ne- braska, again in Kansas, and also of the murder of Jesse and Martha Tuman at Muscatine, Ia. He had wives living in Nebraska, Oregon and Washington. Williams walked to the gallows without a tremor, He refused to talk. CASTORIA The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of in Fort Wayne, August 3. Theinter- syoodical conference, composed of delegates from the three American | synods, will meet at that time to try to arrive at a plan of union on| the doctrinal matters which have hitherto divided the synods. A Frightened Horse. tuning ke mad down the street dumpiog the occupants, or a hun- dred other accidents, are every day occurances. It behooves everybody to have a reliable Salve handy and there’s none as good as Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. Burns, cuts, sores, Eczema and piles disappear quickly under {its soothing efiect, 25¢ at Frank T. Clay’s Drug Store. Envious of “Scotty's” Feats. Joplin, Mo., July 18.—Oscar Barter will go after the speed records of “Scotty” of Death Valley in a local way. He came up out of the Dead Horse mine to learn that his aunt, Mrs. Catherine B. Wilburn, of Mount Ver- non, I!Is., has willed him $12,000. He announced that he would treat his friends to a record-breaking trol ley ride from Carthage, Mo., to Galena, Kan., chartering a special car. Barter has set aside $2,000 for his celebration. They Oppose Land Leasing. Lawton, Ok., July 18.—The news- papers of Caddo, Comanche and Kiowa counties, comprising the en- tire original Kiowa-Comanche coun- try of Southwest Oklahoma, have united in their fight against the leas- ing of the \ million acres of Indian reserve land in Comanche county for agricultural purposes as proposed by Secretary Hitchcock, for five years, beginning January 1. An effort will be made at the coming session of Congress to have this land opened to Fraud Exposed. settlement. A few countefitters have lately eee | been making and trying tosellimita- Sickening Shivering tions of Dr. King’s New Discovery | of ague and malaria, lieved for consumption, Coughs and Colds, | ani cured with Electric . This and other medicines, thereby de noe my he public. This is to warn you to beware of such people, who seek to os through stealing the reputation of remedies which have been successfully curing disease, for 85 years. A sure protection to you, {a Our name on the wrapper. Look for it, on all Dr. King’s or Bucklen’s remedies, as all others are mere ‘{mitations. H. E. BUCKLEN & CO., | Chicago, Ill., and Windsor, rn is a pure, tonic medici benefit in malaria, for @ true curative influence on disease, driving it entirely out of the system. It is much to be — to quinine, having none of this drug’s bad after- effects. E.S. Munday, of Henrietta, Tex., writes: “My brother was very low with malarial fever and jaundice, till he took Electric Bitters, which saved his life. At Frank T. Clay’s drug store; price 50c guaranteed. especial as son has set in Manchurla and pre- | t and our harness are all made at 8 We also carry a full line of bug- NY NY South Side Square, S BUTLER, MO. Hume Happenings. From the Telephon: Alfred Ackerman made ‘with his thresher out at the Burns fariu Saturday, Threshing 100 bust ag hour Mr. Barns ent 40 acres of wheat and Aj t eshed out Ti7 bushels of grain {1 eight hours. The good Templars will celebrate the 54th anniversary of the organizn- tion of the order Sunday, July 80 Rev. Kirk, of the M. FE church will deliverthe address, All are invited to join in celebrating thie oerasion. The Hume school board met Sat urday night ard closed up the busi- ness of the fisea! year. J. M. Gas- | away was elected clerk; T, 8. Wilsou, vice-president; (, E. Horton, treas urer. J. G. Holland was chosen president last spring. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUI NINE Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to enre. E,W, | Grove’s signa treis on each box, 2% |Who May and Who May Not Kick. A subseriber that takes a paper and pays for it has an undoubted nightto kick when he finds something not to his likeing; but a fellow that “borrows” @ paper and == pays nothing for it—well, his kick is uot the kick of a gentleman, and any hammering he may dois not-ingood grace to say the least.—Uarthage Democrat. Falling hair means. weak hair. q Then strengthen your hair; % feed it with the only hair food, Ayer’s Hair Vigor. It checks § falling hair, makes the hair Hair Vigor grow, compietely cures dan- druff. And it always restores colorto gray hair, all the rich, dark color of early life. “My hair was falling out badly and Twas afraid would los ed er" ayer's Hair Vigor, It qi ekiys ailing and made my bairali! sou RRBECCA “. ALLEN, Elizabeth, N. J. £1.90 a bottle. J.C. AYER CO, Y gists, Lowell, Mass. ronnie £O1 Falling Hair ®& Trecoru ~