The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 25, 1907, Page 2

= mein oe pos pe rome Mia nb Aiea sate 4 ENED CREAT "om to eoll trash made article. ‘The| betds's parents, to. Mise WILL HE? Wii! HARDLY. The financial affairs of Bates coun- ty are as muddled as ever ac J.D. 4 LES, Eattor and Prop “to the newspapers of the The Butler Weekly Times’ Printed on Thursday of each week. cor . The Republican- Press says | S Entered ot Missouri, ae /ft fs going to request the county eS edd A uate | researer to make @ statement for : RRR Er iss lication, aad that it will publish OUT AT LAST. the statement if it is furnished> Is 5 seems rather strange that it should Funk has been insisting that the/be hard for any county in Misson-. | county clerk had not made out the > = how dn = is ion nclal temen ut wherea m ne has @ gx ip pe settee no an an kr * fy espe of the Pronyere Been 4 te! to ascertain lac closures. Last week he published a roped vy — in such matters. portion: the section of the statutes! The above is from the Standard- requiring the vovviy court to Herald, a rabid Republican paper of make out a detailed siutement of the Johnson county, which is sticking receipts and expsnacs of the county, |its bill into Bates county’s internal and quotes as one item of recelpts| affairs in order to aselat its Republt. thas of “fines and penalties.” Now| can neighbor, the Republican-Press. this is no new law, it has been in ef- Not eve! n that paper has so far ques fect practically in this form for about tlondd the figures of Bates county’s ‘tweaty years, and has been constra- indebtedness, as shown by County ed by every county clerk in she state, | Clerk Week's statement, on May Ist. of all political affiliations, and by! Bas tor some reason, not yet con- every state auditor, whose duty It 18 | togeod by that paper, It wants to go so prescribe the form for thése state-| back four months to the first of ments, none of whom have ever tak- January, but is not willing to take en thesame view and placed theeame Judge Harper’s figures, which were construction upon it as Mr. Funk, {ncorporated in the grand jory’ re- and therefore they are all wrong. | port, but is demanding that county Auditor Wilder, a Republican state! sreasurer Boll make out a &pecial otticer and therefore free from Funk’s statement covering the period men- charge of covering things up toshleld| stoned, It does not point out any & Democratic office-holder, wrote Mr. /jaw for such a coures, but Funk de- Weeks complimenting him upon his mands {t statement. Mr. Weeks submitted law, hie statement to the grand jury be- he? fore {¢ was published, and that criti- cal body reported that it was inlegal} We trust that the efforts belng put form, But, of course, they are all] forth by the negro voters of Missour! wrong and ignorant, along with the/ to secure recognition on the Repub- editor of Tae Ties, as Funk says] lican ticket, in the person of Nelson the section of law 1s so plain ‘that! Crews, the negro clerk of the police an editor born in Kentucky ought to | courtin Kansas City, for Lieut.-Gov- understand 1t.” ernor, will not prove embarrassing We want to make a few sugges-| to our Republican brethren. The tions, which might convince Bro. Republicans and negroes fraternize Funk, after thoughtful consideration, twice a year in Butler—convention that an editor born in Iowa might| andelection days—and thejbalance of possibly be mistaken in his construc- | the year the negro looksyto Demo- tion of Missouri statutes, even if they | crate for employment, Hadley and do appear so very plain at the first|Crews would make a very appro- blush. Funk admits that he knows priate ticket, and the negro isclearly hat fines 1n criminal cases go into] entitled to recognition. So far he the common school fund. He didn’t | has been kindly permitted to vote admit, but probably Xnows that the! the Republican ticket to pay for his county funds and §choo! funds are| freedom. When Cleveland was elect- separate and distinct and that re-|ed, the ignorant negroes were led to ceipts on one are not entered up as| belleve they would be put back into recelpts of the other. That if a call slavery was made for the receipts and dis- Og eer bursements on the school fund that] 8". Ties has always and will 1s would not be proper to include in | °V@" Consistently and earnestly sup- that statement recaipts of the county | PO's every proposition that we deem revenue fund and vico versa, if the | *° the best interest of a majority of law required that school receipts be| OU People, of the city and county, entered in the financial statement as | DUt we never have and will not sup-| New Law Respecting pret = ——- — — A MANIAC WIELDED AN AX.| Order of Publication. coun ipprtany proposition that calls for . against all sensational and spas- te pcb ata ro pra taxation, that we do not consider Township Trustees. modic efforts to create an ill-balanc- at sok a Bates County, Missouri, the school fund, and the section of / S04, and does not meet those re- Saction 9850 relating to the an- | &demottonaliem and mere temporary Three Killed Before a ‘Michigan State of Missour! ‘at the relation and to statute which Mr. Funk quotes aig- | 1¥!remente, no matter if it issubmit-| nual settlement of the township | devices for exciting enthusiasm.” He Man Was Sh C combs, Collector of the nally fatls to make that provision, | *¢d and urged in the name of “public treasurers with the county clerk was | Went on to say that he stands for jan Was Shot. i, Diaintid, vs, Milton 8. 6r Martin 8. Did Mr. Funk ever know of hisown | 2¥rprise” by enthuslasts, who do repealed and a new section enacted | 365 days in @ year of earnest relig- c y knowledge, or by hearsay of penalties | 2°¢ concede to others the rights they |ingtead, The new law provides that | {ous endeavor. He gave as his mot i FOR Saturday In our Pre-Inventory Sale. Numbers 80 and 60, all Silk Taffeta Ribbon, Saturday Price 10c. All $1.48 White Shirt Waists, daintily trimmed, sheer qualities, mostly 36 and 38 sizes, \ Saturday Price 75c. Ladies fine Hip and therefore, law or no the treasurer must obey. Will Well, hardly. » dkerchiefs, narrow black edge, regular price 7c to 10c, Saturday Price 2c. WHITE PARASOLS Insertion and Embroidery Edge Trimmed $3.00 qualities, SATURDAY PRICE $1.50. $2.25 qualities, SATURDAY PRICE $1.12. $1.50 qualities, SATURDAY PRICE 75c. Our July Sale has been a splendid success so far, and we want to make the last part the best, so offer extra bargains to get your trade. COME AND SEE. Walker=-McKibben’s EGGS TAKEN SAME AS CASH. EVERYBODY’S STORE. Nunica, Mich., July 21.—Henry Civil action for délinduent taxes, pep Scutcheon, a farmer about 50 years Now at this day comes the Bieae herein by belng collected together with fines in| °lalm for themselves. Any proposl-| tho township treasurers shall settle /'0: "365 holy working days every in vacation and‘fl crim{nal cages? and hasn’t he heard | *0n that is worthy the support of their accounts with the county court | Year. ed hisinvalld son, his wite and her | vat a oe Sled Dae 9 Petition stati hi old, who lived near this village, Kill. | Court ot Baves Gouty: ts tou Sais ota ore of pendlties being added in cases of | OUF ntelligent people will bear the atits first and third regular terma| The bishop also pleaded with the foster father with an ax to-day. w hereagen ieee perry delinquent and back taxes? and | ftllest investigation and discussion. each year. These terms are held be- | Ministers “to stop sensational meth- tion, that the ry aca defendant be notified by pablica- ‘ Scutcheon was later shot and killed | tion that piaintif' 1 ced a sult against doesn’t the collection of delinquent acs pee emcee 04 — -_ gloning the firat Monday in February ods” in revival meetings and depre- by Henry McClellan, a neighbor, him in this con theo fest an a and back taxes go Into the county % e _ ounty Record seems to and August. The law requires the clated the practice of having what whom the crazed murderer had also | 5!#t@0f Missouri for the delinquent taxes of the fund? and might {t not bereasonable exceptionally sore over the defeat “4 1 agere; treasurer to account for all moneys | 8% generally known as “testimony ore vogether ‘Sith ister eso ne sam attacked. M or fands received, from whom andon | eetings” in revival services, He The Scutcheon farm house, appar- oc tracts of land sintered i eonerng describ what account, and the amount pald | ©*Pressed the belief that people are Jently, had always been a happy | (aise: out for echool purposes to the vari. | !aterested more in the word of God home, except for the cloud which ous districts in the township. The {teelf than in personal narratives the son’s illnese cast over the family. law provides that the county court | Concerning 1s. His address created To-day, with no warning, go far as | Butler, Bates shail examine the vouchers and war- | I¥lte a sensation among the mints- {s known, Scutcheon suddenly at- petition according ty'ta rants, and if the accounts are found | tre at the Chautauqua grounds, tacked his son with an ax. He crush- the pean to be correct and kept according to RARE Rang described ed the boy’s head frightfally. When law, the court shall make an order Beats Reub Field. his wife interfered he turned on her certifying to the same. The law fur- Professor Rogers, of the Warrens- | 0d pursued her from the house to ther provides that the township burg rats says that a the road, where he knocked her down. sreasurer shall, on the first Mondays | o¢ ii students, Osborn Greer, is «| He then rushed back to the honse in April, September and December, | proater mathematician than the cele. | #nd killed his foster father-in-law. send to the district clerks of each dis- brated Reub Field, who came trom| Next he tried to kill himself. The trict in hie township © detailed |tiiat town. Greer can adda column |maddened ihan gashed his throat statement of the amount of money } (+ 199 figures in thirty seconds. He|®0d wriete witha rasor and took on hand, amount received, the]... multiply two numbers of any | Paris green. His wounds did. not ght fair? , amount pald out and to whom and | ,1,, ,nd write the result without Notice is hereby given that 1 ee it had to be shot and & wagon wasifor what purpose, and the bal- making any other figures. He can 2 mentary Tipon the ostate of William About the surest way to raleo a| badly broken up at the depotyester- lence ‘on hand. Section 9789, R. | square two numbers of any number ° howl from a lot of two-by-fours over) day afternoon. The outfit belonged|s, 1899, provides the form and man- | figures, giving the exact answer |T0ad where he had attacked his wile ; thisetate, who chiefly owe what little] to Tom Duncan. ner of keeping the township treasur- | without making any other fizures,|® few moments before. The first |, prominence they possess to the pres-| Ed. Todd had driven the team|er’s echool accounts, Sections 9788 ond do {t in an incredibly shoré time, | blow did not kill her and she had ent “reform” admipistration, is to| over on the tracks to get some kind- and 9790 relate to the same subject- He can calculate the interest on any | been carried into the house of mention Sanator Stone’s name.|ling outof acar. While he was at| Tho county court has notified the | sam for any length of time, in the Synator William J. Stone is not only|work the switch engine backed a township trustees to come in and eet- lenggh of time {¢ takes to give him the head of the Democratic party in| string of cara down the track ‘and | ¢lp on August let according ‘to the the Problem. Professor Rogers says Missourl, bas 1s recognised as one of hit the wagon and horees. They | provisions of thie new law. Greer can count @ thousand years the ablest Democratic jeaders in the| were dragged quite a distance before backward and tell you the day on United States. What more fitting|the cars were stopped. One of the|Methodist Bishop Opposes which you were born:—Kansas City then that he and Sonator Warner, a| horses was found to have ite back Sensational Revivals. $ Journal. ey recognised leader in the National Re-| broken and had to be killed. The Publieea party and whos name hae|other one was aot bedly iojured.—| Coffeyville, Kan., July 29.—In hie Tre. Nok dibunensh le Fetotenn pokes Nevada Post. nedainn Chnaletine ddress hore |¥@ Right to Molest Shade Trees to so construe that section, since it of she High S:hool proposition. We was so construed by all previous have no doubt that some of the peo- county clerks and the present county ale Ma oted against 1¢ are just as clerks of all the counties in the state = * issu — a4 much interest and all the state auditor, including n the success of the schools and the present one, oe gh Hg roe intelligence to Now, Bro. Funk, be fair, {f tor once | 2278? the merits of @ proposition in your life, and admit thatyou know without belng dictated by Mr, Austin. the Newberry fine and other fines His attitude in the matter is about wore pald and credited to the echool|°" ® Par with the member of the fond, We know you can do this, be- school board, who wanted the board to refuse to allow the advertising cause we know that you examined the fines record more than once and bills of two of the newspapers, be- your continued efforts to make {t ap- Cause they did not support the prop- pear that they were not paid is not sae a oaly unfair, but positively dishonest. Horse Killed by Switch Enigne. Won’t you come out in the open and A horse was so badly crippled that The anti-trust law in Texas makes| Lee Summit, where he was married || it a penitentiary offense sfor any per- the same evening at og malig nN the lsenes of the nexteampaign, there- to-day Bishop H. Vincent, of the| The supreme court last week ruled bypatting Missourl right in the con- EP lbs ag | ato Releoowal dove thatcompantestringing wires along