The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 7, 1905, Page 2

BUTLER WEEAL) TIM S| Mt-Vernon has been elected os’ | Good at Promising. 3{ a i iiM 0 | the phi cap te pions Big me JOE McKIBBEN SELLS HIS) cissaeeandeieieiaas: sail . sé IN, EDITOR. losis Sani b h b a of | ee ot TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Folk. Ten towns competed, and COMPANY peat har people Nay ever pom ' eursed the country, the same 18 g0- iin iano Pin: sil ai Mt. Vernon won only after anexcited chureday, will be sent ‘S any address | Contest. ‘The sanitarium will be the ing on right now in the ranks of the xe year, postage paid, for $1.00. third of its kind constructed in the Republican party leaders who will ee se control the things that are to be United States. With the consulting Tie Missouri Pacitic Time Table at| architect, Senator H. H. Hohen done by the next Congress. The Re- publican President promises much Butler Station. schild, the commisioners visited the CORRECTED TIME TABLE.> Massachusetts sanitarium, erected to the people, while the men who will if You Want to Invest $2.50 ina pair of Shoes Dan K. Walker Becomes Head of Big Mercantile Company.— Well Known Dry Goods Store We have the best $2.50 value we have been able to find in the United States, in SOUTH BOUND. eight years ago, aud the New York ee x do the performing have their fingers " agli & Soathiwost mal < ES Sao pm | institution, which fs eighteen months} Now in its Own Palatial Quar-| to their noses and are winking both PETERS CASCADE $2 50 )K.C. & Joplin mail & Express 10:5) Pp ™ | old. Only incipient cases of tubercu- eyesatonce They know he takes ' 1 Local freight Rubpm NORTH BOUND. losis are to be treated and in the ap- Nq. 2% Kansas City and St. Louls kx 5:37am terson the North Side.—A 3 Ramses SIE AN Sid apres iz.at pn | PFOVed sanitary methods. It is) . Long Record of Success. Na 10 Kansas City limited mail 19:31 P™ | planned to construct a model eanit- _ 305 ileal iodoam}@tium, Senator Hohenschsld was} Joe McKibben, president of the he. Ff Kansas City stock s:l6pm| ¢he architect for the board of Com-| McKibben Mercantile company, the INTERSTATE DIVISION, missioners who located and built}/largest dry goods store in Bates Nas ei soa tetgal and Pa mlxot <.00 am | State Hospital for the Insane No. 4 | county, has sold a controlling inter- FAST ROUND, ” at Farmington, Mo. The cottage] est in the company to Dan K. Walker Nox@a2 Loral ear ire Se aa plan was adopted, an innovation in| and will remove to Pasadena, Csli- | , hed *____— | the Wess, which caused some adverse | fornia, to make that his future home. Fifty-eight as ch Lane criticism at the time by adherants of} The retirement from active business ip Mite adleanted New Ort the old line institution, but the re-| of Joe McKibben removes trom But- fever were reported in New Orleans! is ave vindicated the judgment | ler one of the most successful family Monday. of the board and the architect, In]of business men in the community, | Our judgment the board for the con-}The name ‘McKibben’ Mercantile Co.”’ will still be used, but the active templated sanitarium made a wise management of the big etore on the choice in the selection of an archi- tect. north side will fall entirely upon Mr. Walker, who has been manager of the institution for several years The predecessors of the McKibben Mercantile Company was the M. 5. Cowles & Co., which was established by M.S. Cowles in 1866 Hestarted {no a small store on the north side, where Williams’ grocery store now stands. The business prospered and the company moved to the old cor- ner, now occuptled by the Farmers’ Bank. It was here that Joe and James McKibben began business life. As yet boys they went into the Cow- les store and worked industriously. When Mr. Cowles retired some twen- ty-five years ago, the store was pur- chased by James McKibben, who re- moved it to the old Palace Hotelcor- ner, Joe McKibben opened, with Mr. Cowles, adry goods store at Rich Hill, which he conducted successfully for years. In 1892 Joe McKibben re- moved to Butler and, with his brother James, the McKibben Company was formed. At that time Dan Walker took a small interest in the institu tion. The store was removed to the gld Emery building on North Matn street. Business prospered and the company moved later into its own building on the north side, formerly occupied by R. Well & Co. Later, Joe McKibben purchased the Smith building and last month thecompany opened {ts new quarters in one of the largest buildings in the city. Bya no chances in promising them the great round earth for a play thing. So doeshe. That's why he is so prodigal in his promises. If he meant to keep any of them he would have called that extra session last spring or at the farthest in Sep- tember, but we have seen him flunk every time the party leaders went after him, ontil finally when he had made up bis mind to call 1s on the 11th of November, they went after him again-like a chicken after a June bug, and he has, as I said he would, flunked again, and there will be no extra session at all, The trouble with Roosevelt is that he has more side tracks on his line than any politician in the country, and hasno terminal facilities. He is also a great political fakir, When he starts out he means well and to do the very things he says he is going to do, for he thinks straight; but when he gets so far, some pelitical mounteback meets up with him and throws the switch and he {s afraid to protest and floanders where he is, In this he shows the spirit of the political coward and the opportunist. He fears to make mad the leaders of the party and at the same time he is beuding to their wishes, he ismaking a grand play for the people’s delecta- tion. He is making another one at the present time by butting {n on the peace business between Russia and Japan. All of itis done in the hope that some of his plays may land, and make him the center of at- traction in the great round world. He wants to head off the German Kaiser as the leader of political pyrotechnics on earth and then he will be satisfied, whether the people are or not. He cares nothing forthe people or their interests. He is work- ing for his own glorification. He is standing in with every play the political leaders of his party is mak- ing, and whether he is playing for a renomination or attempting to work the party so that he may dic- tute his succesor, it is yet too early te predict and will be until we read (Men’s or Women’s) It’s a thoroughly good shoe Made of good leather In good style In a good manner. We don’t know of another $2.50 shoe in America that we would recommend as we do the Cascade. It’s worth more money. Let us show you. EGGS TAKEN THE SANE AS CASH. Hill’s Cash Store, “DEAD” MAN CAME TO LIFE. The Elkhart Picnic. paaatemnandl Eikhart camp No, 8212, M. W. A., ker Had the held their first annual pienic at A Joplin Underta . Cumpton’s grove last Saturday. The Surprise of His Life. day was ‘an ideal one for such a ‘ gathering and a large crowd was Joplin, Mo., Sept. 6—Luctus Bad- Boy 60 years old, who was supposed — = was furnished by the to be dead from the effects of a dose an ae og - Among the other of carbolic acid which he had taken she usements were the Wild West inan attempt to commit suicide, |*°" — ° round, and base ball came to life in a Joplin undertaking pone peeches were made by Hon. room at 1:30 this morning. The eed Sullivan, Natlonal lecturer; L, embalmer, who was standing beside pepe : Rich Hill, and B. F, the suppoeed dead body, was so The ; a frightened that he rushed to a tele-| | od Sikaen Bre grand success, phone to call up the city physician. | | n tr = | Woodmen are feel- When the phyetcian arrived, all signs | ps ge at their first attempt, as of life had vanished and after efforts | "M8 !# the firet year of their organ- to revive the sparks of life, Badgett ization. The picnic will be an annual was again pronounced dead. Bad- affair. gett had had trouble with his wife. They have not been living together sented “ . approaching revo egg A ag lie i | pad Secloue trouble in your system fe. _@ P a; Han {s nervousness, sleeplessness, or and failed. He then took the poison stomach upsets. Electric Bitters in front of the house where the wifo | will quickly dismember the trouble- and children lived. some causes. 1t never fails to tone Forty-three cases of cholera hav been reported in Berlin, Germany, nine of whom died from the disease. eS One of the most wonderful men in the United States Senate is John T. Surgeon General Wyman bas ar- ranged to prevent the spread of —— trom Germany to the United Morgan, of Alabama. He is 81 years old and two years from this time he Walter J. Bollinger, 24 yaprs old,a will complete thirty years’ continu- checker employed by the Emery, | US service in the Senate. During Bird, Thaver Dry Goods company, the recent short seasion he spoke for Kansas City, fell seven flights to|™ore than four hours for two succes: death down an elevator shaft at the|Sive days. The physical effort of aos finn. speaking for four hours on one day pee ee ne {is more than many senators care to Governor Folk and his staff will/®*tempt. On every foreign subject jeave for the Portland Exposttion |e knows all there ts to kuow and next Sunday in aprivate car. Lieu- has the knowledge at command tenant Governor McKinley will act as without reference to books or docu- . executive during his absence trom|™ents. No other man knows so the state, when Missour! will have|™uch about the isthmian canal. Once someone asked how long he could really talk, “1¢ depends upon the subject,” he replied. ‘If it were & matter that I thoroughly under- stood! could talk for two or three days; if is were a matter I know nothing about I could talk for two or three weeks,"’—Stockton Journal. ——— Eph. B, Ewing shot — bimselt the first Republican Governor since reconstruction days. The “subway tavern” which was opened eleven months ago in New York with an address by Bishop Pot- ter and the singing of doxology, clos- ed {ts doors Friday night as a ‘‘sanc- tified saluon. The bartender’s excuse for the faflure of the saloon was that “um and religion would not mix.” | through the head in a hospital tn | Butte, Mont., on Tuesday. Eph. wwe probability that Ewing was formerly editor of the President Roossvelt willget the Noble Jefferson City Tribune and oye ot prize next year for his work for peace. the best_ known politiclans in the The noble prizes, tive in number and | State. He \shacalged brother-in-law of worth $40,000 each, are awarded | °X-Senator Cockrell. He was ap pointed consul general to Mexicu by President Cleveland, during his There is a str Revolution Imminent. annually by a Norwegian comwmis- sion. Teddy got in a good day's “ d term, but was compelled to|strange turn of the wheel of fortune the stomach, regulate the Kidneys work when he stopped that “bear | S@cond term, but pe i his message next December. L Ps fighs.”"—Nevada Mail. resign owing to ill health He wasa James McKibben removed to Rich} po Republican party has promis- State Fai “Swine § Sal Sees de tek tee = aa — 5 nervous wreck at that time. Since} Hilla couple of years ago, and he} oq every thing to the people and will e Fair ales. benefit particularly and all the usual ; conducts the largest store in that community to-day, under the title of the Cowles-McKibben Mercantile Company. The McKibben Brothers have for years been recognized as the leading merchants of Southwest Missourt. They have prospered in business, and customers who bought from them al- most forty years ago, are still pa- trons of the firm, Conducting the business on conservative lines, giving every man his just due, and with hon- esty as the motto, the firm has pros. pered and sold more goods in the period of its existence perhaps than any three firms in the county. Mr. Dan Walker has been connect- ed with the firm for twenty years. He began as salesman in a minor capacity and has slowly risen in the institution through the various de- partments until he was made general manager and buyer, in which capac- ity he has served for a numb-rof years, The other stockholdersin the company are Mr. Berry, who has charge of the shoe department, and Mr. Ray. Joe McKibben still retains A dispatch from West Plains, the| then he has been in the rail road con- home of Judge Evans, chairman of | tracting business. the Democratic State Committee, - states that he has called a meetingof] Cleveland, O., September 4.—Dis- the subcommittee of that organiza-| appointed because the Japanese gov- tion, to meet in St. Louis on Septem: | ernment renounced all indemnity in ber 7, at the Southern Hotel at 9 a. | the peace settlement and did not in- m., to consider the question of active | sist on greater territorial acquisi- work and preparation for organizing | tions from Russefa, Siaosuka Kitan!, for the next campaign. The state|Cleveland’s leading Japanese mer- should be organized by school dis-| chanthas renounced his allegiance to tricte. the Mikado by taking out his first ‘naturalization papers. Similar ac- toughly, it is estimated according | tion on the part of bis fellow country- toa New York dispatch, that since} men is sald to be also contemplated. the beginning, the war hascost Japan = 7,000,000 and Russia about $1,-| The Bates county Monthly Sale 000,000,000, It is sald in certain} Co,, had a big and profitable sale on circles in the financial community |last Saturday. These monthly sples that this waste and the probability | inaugurated by A. L. Fox and H\H. \ that it would not take much more Harshaw, are attracting much bt- : war to exhaust both Japan and Rus-| tention and bids fair to prove prot- Ni sia financfally, were the considera-|itable and of great convenfence to tions that practically compelled the] both buyers and owners of surplus cxarand mikado to agree to nego-|gtock, One of the items was 75 head tiate for a peace. of Shropshire lambs owned by Chas. i , McFarland. Mr. Beard was the purchaser. A car load of feeders was sold besides a large amount of other pertorm nothing during the next session. It will be a do nothin Congress. The “‘standpatters” will talk railroad rate legislation and internal revenue taxes to keep down genuine tariff reform. That will make the opposition fight so much harder against rail road rate legis- lation.and internal taxes, that there will be nothing done from any stand- point that will help the people. When the session ends there will have passed the usual appropriation bills and some private steals, and not.one thing that the people point to and say, it was done in the interest of the people. The trouble with the average American citizen is that he will never look at things as they ought to be looked at until his belly is empty. With a full stomach he looks com- placently on all steals and grafts by the Republican party, but let him get hungry and he will utter a yell that will reverberate from Tadmor- in-the-Wilderness to Yuba Dam. Then {¢ usually is too late and the Republicans have got things nailed down for another four years. Some day their pipe will go out and they will wake up. The three swine sales recently ad- attending aches vanish under its ied i 1 to be held (8e@rching and thorough effective- bg seal vo a rah ar ness. Electric Bitters is only 50c, aug’ and that {s returned ifit don’t give | 23-25, were a splendid success—153 | perfect satisfaction. Guaran by head sold for an aggregate of $4874 | Frank T. Clay, Druggist. an average of almost $33 per head. x The Poland-Chinas made the highest Hanged Three Times, He Says. average of $42 per head. Berk-| Rich Hill, Mo., Sept. 4—Hunter shires sold on Wednesday, Poland-| Daniels, 35 years old, who lives in Chinas on Thureday and Durocs on | the western part of Bates county, Friday and buyers and bids from {complained to the marshal here to- many states were pas a apes 4 ba day that he was waylaid by six consignors were generally well satis- fied and ft is quite probable that og chal a p BB aoa these sales will be regular features at aki ree times Saturday the State Fair eae ae night.—Hie-assatlante,-he-said,-ac-— | Cursed him of having written a throat- ening letter to R. A. Robinson, who lives near Sprague. Robinson received an unsigned letter about three weeks ago, de- manding that he deposit $500 in bills beneath a certain bridge last Saturday night or suffer death, Robinson showed the letter to some of his neighbors and a vigilance com mittee was organized, —_—_—_—— Thought Folk Was a Kansan. : ; =» Topeka, Sept. 4.—A justice of the Exercise and Grecian peace living near Esbon, Jewell coun- * | ty, whose name the governor re- Many thousands of women are now-a- | fuses to divulge, has resigned and et GEAR Be da; paying attention $o physical culture | recommended six men to succeed Starts From Los Angeles him. The resignation was address- edto Governor ‘Folk’. Governor y Sh With Principal Oakes, nee, Which 1s quite necessary | Hoch said: This paper has for a good many years insisted that there should be no state taxes on real or personal an} interest in the company and vill property. Enough to run the stag — 7. epi te company the benofit :/f his , should be levied on franchiggssoaee ss ing “““ that a Pe atany time. i MnP seca! the cof” to ite to physical beauty. reason the | “Well theres no doubt but that Los Angsion, O61, few hexthecil fet and symmetrical arms was {0 | this resignation should be accepted. J. D. Hall of Henry county, Mo. lets ion they paid to > the A man who thinks Folk is Governor - the man for proper exercl en, too, they of Kansas is hard today with Prof. Jesse A. Oakes Purammoled ‘by corsets, shoes and the | instice of the peace.” former principal of the Urich, (Mo.) | of some women the idea ot physical, ex- schools. ha Poa en with ab- only the idea of hard fa- Fight Will Be Bitter, ducting his 15-year-old pupil, O da persist IKnaue, elopiug. with ber’ to Loa] Se Remy te yy dl Angeles a‘... weeks oyu, deserting his wile and two children. Oakesex- presses fears that he will be lynched J by citizens of Urich, and requested ~ fbben | the sheriff to take him to the Clinton --Jwaye| jail for safe keeping. The Knaus a re-| girl will remain here until the trial, secured testimony here to be used in|: