The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 18, 1906, Page 9

e> MAGAZiNG SHOTON. PARE IMVO. Che Butler Weekly Times. VOL, XXVIII. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1906. NO. 12 NEW SHERIDAN STATUB, | 9 74* *OONGEST SENATOR. IN TROPICAL ARIZONA, [in3"sccunras perished ‘miserably’ and the desert once more began to en- GUEST OF KING EDWARD. 5 Once Told General Howard Southern ' | Burkett, of Nebraska, Who Defeated MRS. POTTER PALMER, SOCIETY Defeat Would Work for Good. OHIO ERECTS MONUMENT AT A Wm. J. Bryan for the Toga. DESERT SANDS BEING TRANS- croach upon the cultivated fields, LEADER, SPENDS SEASON In March, 1896, I had the pleasure,| | COST OF TEN THOUSAND From the farm furrow to the Sen-| FORMED INTO Y. re | ato coeenne Dare Ot Seperenes INTO VERDANT with arid conditions, a sublime faith I¥ LONDON. recently remarked an official of the In- DOLLARS ate is the somewhat remarkable FIELDS AND ORCHARDS, in their chosen field, the le bi ; dian Department, of traveling in com- record of the youngest member of that 7 0 ar angered gre Shed oy cog ht Leased “Egypt House”, tote of Wight} A2Y with the “Indian party” from body, Elmer J Burkett, of Nebraska. lg Me ccgg Mier tue age . e a overcome em. va a opele ane egypt H er ee: ment Washington City on its way to Car- ae yyy vtech dogs wird To be elected a Senator is considered | Country Was Once Inhabited by. an} struggle. Salvation, theeeh one on ; sion Persian Carpeted to Please lisle, eee wee oe ey Stan Years of His Life, But Not as He|® “stinction worthy the ambition of Ancient People—Only Ruins Left to|just out of reach. The great floods Royal Whim. athens — © @ Indian Looked During the War. any pig youth; to be the “baby” | See a a Teeming and Prosperous | which came each year, sweeping away . member of the greatest of legislative ‘opulation, bridges and tearing out canals and ann Potter Rian sot -—_ Pe RE yt The dedication of a statue of Gen-| bodies is a higher distinction, and es-| Swinging gently in one's hammock | ditches, could Dot be utilized because oak iP ge ost Lyme A Chi | gress and a few officials of the Indian | ¢T@! Phil Sheridan at Somerset, Oblo, | pecially as in the case of Mr Burkett, | beneath wide spreading tig thoes load- American women who have really and| service, were the fearless, forcible|/a Nov. 2nd, revives interest in the where the race was a hot one, and his|¢d With luscious fruit, and breathing truly penetrated to the inner circles of | Fitzhugh Lee, and that knightly | reer of the great cavalry leader of copencet an able and renowned an- at yr yews dans ne we he Christian soldier, Major-General 0. 0.| the Union armies, The state of Obio|tagonist, no other man than William ’ wee yey HA This or | Howard, ” ° erected the statue, an equestrian one|J. Bryan the almost tropical bloom about me, it ao Tet who hes get thesocial world | Naturally the two old veterans,/and there his birth was recorded.| Out in Nebraska, says Edgar ©, |!8 Indeed hard to believe that this very of London agog, but few of this vast | serving on opposite sides of our coun-| which will stand in the public square] Snyder, of the Omaha Bee, who is fa- spot, only a few years ago, boasted eee eee tore than receive an | trys most desperate war, found much {of the quaint old village in which] miliar with state politics, there has|Mvsht save the horned | toad, | the Invitation or two to affairs which are | in common to talk over and discuss; | Sheridan lived as a boy, It was al-| been in the past a number of long|“!& monster and the rattlesnake. A by 20 means the entertainments of the ont were together during the entire} ways pened hy Ay death, that} drawn out senatorial deadlocks. ‘The nny - PI BB yng be - smart set. D. eridan was born e village. He} people we: ‘ : é Mra. Potter Palmer, however, is aj I had the good luck to be included | and his family allowed the impression Eating wat phn Shaye wine Bro awakes in one a realization that, just woman whose social position is as-|in their conversation from time to/to remain as there was some hope! to gtop it. They concluded to direct beyond this fair oasis, gaunt desola- sured and has been for a number of|time, and heard much that was in-|that he might be nominated for Presi-| the action of ed lecislat tion, weird and mysterious, stalks years. To know her is the open ses- | structive and entertaining. ; dent. Sheridan himself was always ol nwrete wide under relentless skies of brass. ame to the most exclusive houses in| From present events their conversa-| proud to call himself an Ohio man. Nomination by the People, All these thoughts and others are America, and so when she went| tion drifted back to the heroic days of] When he died his relatives admitted The newspapers took up the matter| yours when you drop into Phoenix abroad jast summer and announced |the civil war, and they fought over|that he was not even born in this] @ popular nomination very ener-|0r Mesa, or any of the little oases in her intention of staying for the re-| again many of its battles. Then they} country, but on a ship when L.s par getically, and the plan was suggested | the Salt River Valley, after the long recalled old days at West Point, when|ents were en route from Ireland,| of having a state convention nominate | bot ride across the burning sands Howard was an instructor and had|They settled first at Albany, N. Y.,|& candidate for United States Senator, | Which intervene between it and El) “Fitz” as his pupil. and there his birth was recorded | and instruct their legislative nominees | P40, Texas. You are glad to feast “Do you remember,” said General| However it was in Somerset that he| to vate for him when the legislature |¥°UT eyes on the green verdure which | & ig bey “the time ot tee ro that I] grew up, a quick alert little Irish lad} met. Of course, there was opposition gee to Pun suddenly from out) you to attend chapel serv-| whose greatest delight in youth was/ to the plan in certain quarters, i Sere deser' to await the coming of the stage that mately interfered with the Pied An Almost Tropical Climate. | Me pina ee ace ae of the “bosses” who had controlled Phoeats, beautiful In a garb of Nebraska politics fo n ATS, tropical luxuriance, with wide aven-|} gray o ‘ ae « rca years of Phillies great love for! Burkett ors aot Maatae tole — vee shaded by magnificent palms or GIANT CAGE Se} sae BALE RIVER jorses and how hard his father used)“ m,,, opposition, however, did not de-|Sbapely umbrella trees, with pleasant ALLEY. ' to whip him for riding every horse he 1 . , lot de homes almost hidden by vines and | Storage necessitated an expenditure velop any great amount of strength,| aowers bids you welcome, beyond the means of the people. tragic d f '61-5. cout Bad to wiount, and Mr. Burkett wa nimously di "They nad. discussed the industrial Early Cavairy Training. clared the choios Ge the Becallcas ae Many of her pioneers and her best aoe Darr oF Seroniens a Apeehee. conditions of the country, and General | That early love of horses stood Phil| the state for Senator, to succeed Sena | iti#ens came here to fizht a last bats], Th ho) fhe Si Cee ae Lee seemed unusually well informed|in good stead when he entered the| tle with that dreaded scourge, the} tains, once the rendezvous 0 le as to the needs and opportunities of | cavalry arm of the service and fitted White Plague—tuberculosis— and the|APache outlaw Geronimo, and his the South him for the famous “Sheridan's Ride” welcome they received from the des- band of murderers, Salt River and “Do you know,” ho said, “the next] to the battle of Winchester. Sheridan ett brought the bloom of health to/Tonto Creek come together in Tonto decade will witness an industrial re-| began as a clerk in the village store thelr cheeks and new hope to their} Basin and flow into a deep and nar- naissance for us. We are just begin-| and was sent to West Point by a con-|§ hearts, and is reflected in the welcome] Tow canyon. Near the entrance to ning to get an influx of Northern capi-|gressman who hoped to catch the|§ Which greets the stranger at their/this gorge the Engineers of the Re- tal and push; and we are learning that| Irish Catholic vote. Alas, the con- gates to-day. tela pe lee are ee Flas we can get along without the niggers.” | sressman was beaten, but he gave the Ours is usually termed a new coun-} Soo%e VOIS (Rm, One @ e highest “Yes,” assented Howard, whose| nation a great soldier and in later try, yet in Arizona one views the te-|/in the world. Krom bedrock to tep thoughts seemed still to cling round] years when the man was in trouble, mains of a civilization that flourished | it will be 275 feet high, or about half MRS, POTTER PALMER. past events, “it’s all the result of that] Sheridan came to his relief in a grate- as long ago as the eighth or ninth cen-| the height of Washington monument. fight at Gettysburg.” ful manner, The mother of Sheridan tury, and mayhaps as ancient as that It will be of rubble masonry, and in me & poaee st Reygest —_ “[ don’t know as to that,” responded | almost outlived him and died at the of the first. There fs an irrigation ca- Ag construction will require 220,000 eee samnd Sp tha enuare elrole General Lee, “but I wish you would] age of 90 retaining her faculties to the | nal, deep and wide, cut from the solid sith has rt, W hen completed Ry Potter ‘aainar See does | tell me how ‘you’ens’ came to win that| last. He visited her often and she rock by a race which lived in ae hat ae! ror a ee ae ade Fite r things by halves, and this was never | Dattle.” was never 80 happy as when she told UNE FAlGy Cre ae eae ek one took deeb Ones fill mors thoroughly demonstrated than| ,, Wel” eald the gentle Howard, “I/all her neighbors “My Phillie ts com- learned the use of motals. On the | S¢r08 one oe eee water to cor whea she arranged the marriage be- didn’t win it, Fitz, God did.” ing.” He gave her a nice little home bank one finds a broken stone axe, ht Man tee oy ee + er “4 cover tenn. her niece, Miss Julia’ Dent}, “Ye8 General,” Lee answered, “I/ on the edge of the village, and under mute evidence of the wonderful pa-}¢ ree pee a Fe aint bee ave Grant, and the Russian Prince Can-|D0W you went up into the steeple of/a great tree that stands In the yard, tence of a people of whom history | Oo) Oe watt crop The ay iy . ‘4acuzene. It was one of the most bril- that old church at Gettysburg for some| speeches have been made by the first records nothing save this sign of skill ae a fe u $3,000, iene es ‘ople are 4 ‘om Corwin, Garfied, Hayes and Mc- f ~~ te 4 4 : ae i a oe ret Rares oe Kinley, The father of Sheridan Uved past so long ago that the Jacres are irrigated under present sys- bas turned out to be a supremely happy one. ‘ BEC oO CRC When Mrs.* Potter Palmer deter- \ } : mined to join the social colony at Cowes last year she leased the his- toric Egypt House in England’s fa- mous beauty spot, the Isle of Wight. Everybody who is anybody in English society goes down for the regatta sea- son, for the King {s sure to be there, and society flocks at the royal heels, This recalls that the interior of Egypt House is a splendid example of the simple luxury which prevails in so many old, English houses, Several Fry ago it was leased by Consuelo, wager Duchess of Manchester. The Duchess is one of the oldest friends of King Edward, and during the season that she was mistress of Egypt House she was the King’s hostess on more than one occasion. The Duchess had the old place done ever in anticipation of the King’s com- | ing and all the floors were highly pol- ished and covered with expensive rugs, His Majesty was escorting the Duch- é ess into dinner one bets? wi he alipped.on the polished fi nar- rowly escaped getting a bad fall. For the instant the King was angry and reminded the Duchess that he detested polished floors and would never again enter a house where they prevailed, Merchants of London received or ders the following day to take meas- wements of all the floors in Egypt 4 House, and when the King egain vis- ¥ #téd the Duchess there he found every FITZHUGH LEE’S VIEWS, ic “Yes,” answered General Lee, “but I didn’t go for the services, I went for you.” Again their conversation was about the war, and its decisive battles, and to the wonderful changes since those Lee gazed for some time out of the SENATOR ELMER J. BURKETT, of Nebraska, tor Dietrich, and, of course, Republi- can nominees for the legislature were pledged to carry out the action of the state convention. Hot Contest With Bryan. William Jennings Bryan was the uni- versally accepted candidate against Burkett, supported by the Democrats. Populists and Free-Silver Republicans, The fight was thus narrowed down to one between Mr. Burkett and Mr. Bryan for control of the legislature. Which one would be senator was de- pendent upon the political complexion of that body- The campaign, extend- ing over a period of abqut five months, was exceedingly virile, and there was plenty of uncertainty to make it inter- esting, and at times almost bitter. Mr. Burkett, like his distinguished opponent, is of even temperament, slow to anger and plenteous in that brand of good nature that never wears off; and so whatever may have dis- turbed others, it can be said that noth- ing harsh or bitter ever passed be tween them personally, id SCENE IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA. An Irrigation Ditch Runs Through the Town, oldest legends of the oldest Indian/tems. The Roosevelt dam will double tribes convey to us no word of an in-/the acreage. It will also furnish 10,- dustrious race of husbandmen who|000 horse power, which can be used carried the waters of the Salt River|for pumping water from underground out upon the desert and made it to] sources where tne supply is known to blossom. What dreadful catastro- ze. Some of the power will be phe overwhelmed them? What cruel ed electrically to the San Carlos fate overtook them and swept them | Indian Reservation, and water pump- from the face of the earth? Ask of |ed from wells may restore to the Pima the desert, which quickly returned and Papago Indians the lands which Fs aed to claim its own and obliterated heges are te bybigior er and cman Ao bind Roosevelt's great its drifting sands the long lines of | now almo: ‘olly nom tie ciate sorely Mepubican, to far-as|cauals and ditches and the wide|former condition of prosperous agri- the electoral ticket con t|spaces of green. It answers not. Mr. Bryan’s ‘he = Centuries passed, and then the Anglo- Be Pg ed wagon fond 00 oe asa campaigner made the outcome as ery gy Py pd Bs completed, ‘a coment mill at the dam one of doubt and uncertainty. Then, (‘side the sands, behold he found Bis or"a04 coment dally, saw nulls are too, there were local conditions that! ‘r. ancient ditches or followimg them, |CUtting big timbers, brick yards are in were not advantageous to the Republi-| ¢, great were the returns from ir- full blast; thirty miles of power canal ie rigation in the valley, it was but nat-|[0¥ furnishes 4000 horse power for These were the conditions confront- f all constructive purposes, telephone ural that the old canals should be}); ing Mr. Burkett when the campaign! widened and lengthened and new nes, electric lights and water works of 1904 opened. Mr. Bryan, brilliant, are completed, a _ city shrewd and resourceful as he is, took advantage of every mistake of the Re- publicans, and he went into the cam- determined to elect a Demo cratic legislature. He strove mightily; he held meetings in almost every dis- trict; he completely covered the state with a special train, and made from five to eight rear-platform speeches a day, arousing as he always does, great enthusiasm. But Mr. Burkett was also over the state. He made as many speeches as did ‘his opponent, and he is @ convincer, and he visited every por tion of the Commonwealth. Genius for Organization. Probably one of Burkett’s chief at- iF al : i i d