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reenter aat POE PRESIDENT TAFT’'S COMM A TION TO CONGRESS SHORT AND TO THE POINT CALLS FOR RAPIO AND THOROUGH ACTIGn Mr, Taft Calis Attention to the Fact That His Inaugural Address Coverec the Ground Sufficiently Regardina Tariff Revision—Wants Present Ses slon Devoted Chiefly to That Subject elect tariff Whit n 1 af, the vp of cated | nue that might b in order to avoid quire about er being a purest ymumMye There FY not control hou \ wanted to do \ o1 tee of 15 eza Clark and 1 tommyrot. Li i When Repr tative Champ Clark , called on President Taft later int morning and was told what the speak- ; er said he answered briefly “Unele Joe Mr. Clark has par | would comment ! not further except to say that the amend- ments to the afternoon rules adopted Monday amounted to very little. A New Kansas Live Stock Inspector. | Topeka, Kan., Mar. 16.—J. H. Mer cer of Bazaar, Chase gcounty, prob- | ably will be named as five siock sani tary commissioner to sueceed John B. Baker. Whiie the appointment may be made shortly it is probable that Mercer will not begin his duties for, @ while, as this is the shipping s for cattle and the governor is dis- posed to keep Baker in charge until the important work of the season is completed and then let Mercer begin. Decapitated by Train. Chapman, Kan., Mar. 16.—J. B. Dob- bins, while crossing the track here on Main street, was struck and killed by a train, his head being severed ; from his body. Mr. Dobbins was 86 years old, and had lived in Dickinson county for the last 28 years, Eight Abilene, Kai lores Robbed. Abilene, Kan, Mar. 16.—Eight stores were robbed Monday night, small sums being taken-in each. Safes were opened and tills robbed: No trace of the men has been found. lings they | metric tons, worth $439,086,200. Coal | interest in the study of Bright's. dis- ) ease, Dr. potent th the dol é few 1 of s old, but at 0 yee ce you can scarcely ne A s that almost panies BOW Af er e threat n With violet rs th r ht to look tty nifty Phila boasts of a magazine levoted lusively to aeronautics One of fly-by-night publishing concerns, eh? The American Humane society fs to range lan to war on cruelty, and vic mammoth hat are 1 gs Yor lief. It is claimed that the mound build vere the first baseball players, but n y has ever discovered anything te they were the first Asbestos shee are being in stituted the attre s of sleeping iys of the l he heat from the ome of the s to shut out 8 und rneath The el t « ed in central Europe, The earliest mention of the elevator le in a letter of Na poleon I, addressed to his wife, Arch duchess Maria Louise. | Dr, Hillis nks the millennium has arrived man who needs 14 tons of h coal and doesn't know where he is going 1¢ for {t obably conv millenni doesn't amount te much after all A sin i spelling society In Eng land w to have school children | taught to spell by ear. * To show how tastes diffe is a matter of common complaint amc business men here that some of aduates of the com. mon schools spell that way now, SERS Can the proposition that the mini mum salary for an unmarried Episec pa clergyman in the diocese of New York should be $1,200 and for a married clerg. un $1,200 with a suit- | able place » in, or $1,500 in| money, be ta s an official state- ment of the exact cost of a wife? When the officers of the American battleships arrived at Tokyo. last month they were welcomed by crowds | of school children, who sang Columbia’ and other American songs in English, When have American school children ever welcomed foreign visitors by singing songs in their na tive tongue? In view of the stock exchange has Jumped recently seats in New York from $70,000 to} 000, it is a little discouraging to learn that the owner of a pew in fash ionable Grace church, on lower Broad way, Which he bi it for $8,000, has | been able to $1,190 bid for it, at auction get only Cornetists standing in the belfry af} the Park Street church in Boston] played “America” at noon on October | 21, in honor of the one hundredth an niversary of the birth of Rev. S, F Smith, the author of the words sung to the 1 “Amer 1 this country ica” was first sung publicly in this church, on July 4, 1832 f the fa purchased 1, will be taken from Montana and placed in the * new bt rk on Baltic river, ‘a thousar northwest of Winni-| peg. The animals now are being rounded up by Michaei Pablo in Mon- tana and will be brought north in spe celal trains There has recently been opened in one of London's fashionable streets a| toilet club for degs. There the pets of the smart set can have their hair dressed and their coats trimmed to immaculate perfection, For three shil. can be bathed. If their} teeth are imperfect they can be filled or extracted, and if their claws pro trude too far they can be daintily mani- cured. [SS Germany in 20 years s increased | its yearly mining product from 100,- | 000,000 metric tons to 242,609,000, forms 85 per cent. of the output. Other minerals, are salt, iron ores, copper, | lead, zine, pyrites, gold, silver, man- ganese, arsenic, saltpeter, vitriol and alum. The workmen number about | 700,000, and the companies about | 2,000. | Dr. Norman has received the Gibbs prize of $20,000, offered by the New York academy for the best “Hail | fact that the price of | $ “HIGH ART” SHE WILL HAVEHER APRIL EASTER---11th. SUIT HAT GET IT NOW. $ BUY YOU ONE “TWO” BLACK & ARNOLD CLOTHING CO, “THE PLACE WHERE YOU WILL EVENUALL TRADE.” NORTH SIDE SQUARE. CENTER OF BLOCK. Miss Houts Weds Banker. Joplin, Mo., March 15,—Miss Eliza- }school here, who, in 1904, as Rube | Oglerhy's State Bank Exam!ner. The wedding | was two mouthe after the State Rafl- |rond and Warehouse Commisstoner {became a benedicé at Kansas City. His bride was Miss Houts’ chum at} | time, while the operation was going | on, but we had a good time finger | Warrensburg. After the campaign Warrensbury | confidently expected the nuptial date jto beannouneed. Miss Hout grad | vated and came to Joplin to teach hachoo! | became aoctety editor of a morning newapaper here, relinquishing her position to resume teaching, Rumors {estrangement and reconciliations ame fast and furlous, but Mise Huts declined to be Interviewed ex- jee t to venture “Mr, Oxlesby fs a aentleman in every sense of the word Bunee {fs cashter of the Mineral felt Bank, Webb Clty, five miles at German? has hot sald much about it, but last year she patd $30,000,000 | to invalid workmen in the way of old-age pensions. A New York athlete wants $20,000 damages from the girl who jilted him, This shows that no matter how strong a man may be, a_ girl can usually throw him, Women in New Yor an aero club. It is useless for the men to think that the women will be satis: fled even when the men get off the surface of the earth Mr. Edison thinks the present type of aeroplane will not be the flying } machine of the future. At t proper lison will drop a few guard- to the futur rship. na has « \ judge in Indiz ided that the letters “O. K." mean ie right.” But think of the darkness which must beeloud the Indiana Ae when such a question | , vurt. A erabbed old bi s into print to say that bis idea of bravery is a Mormon. What that chap really needs is a wife who would wake him every morning by cracking a milk bot- tle over his head A Georgia editor says that the Sal- ! ome dance which he saw at the coun- ty fair was all correct. He should be an authority for he took his lunch with him and was right on the ground until the lights were put out forests in tryong y of this Moths have been eating Saxony, while fire has been d ours. There must be consp natural forces against forestry ‘ year, but that is all the more reason why human activity should prevent or repair nature's ravages. Tolstoy's domestic life is singularly happy, in spite of the faet that his wife does not share his views concern- ing religion and sociology. The countess is 16 years younger than her husband, and, although the mother of 3 children is still beautiful and charm- ing. pt Clementine Rocher, aged 16, threw herself into the Seine, opposite the Palais Bourbon, in Paris. Before as- sistance could be given she had re- | gained the bank and informed the ter original researeh work on the kidneys. | | rifled spectators that she was re The prize was founded to create an) Ditman’s investigations tried to account for the unnecessary two-thirds of man’s meat diet, and to see if this had any close connection with the poisons present in the sys: | tem of a person afflicted with Bright's disease. —————EE_=__= More than 7,500,000 pounds of hu- man beings, or over 3,750 tons of hu- manity are transported through the streets of New York every day in pub- lie cabs. In other words, more than 50,000 different people use hired ve- hicles every day to take them about the city on business or in search of hearsing for suicide, as she proposed to take her life by drowning. She was arrested. Count von Zeppelin’s new balloon is being made by the firm of Spencer & | Sons of Highbury, in North London, England. There are dozens of men and girls employed in the evolution of the balloon, which is composed of new cells of six-fold goldbeaters’ skin. The work is being pushed forward with all possible speed. ff Western newspapers, which already are_ably conducted, are to be still_bet- ter in the future, if the colleges can fers four courses in journalism this | 6 pleasure. Moreover, according to the cab people who have made a study of the situation, there are fully 110,000 people, exclusive et babies and inva- lids, who never use the street cars. year, and similar courses are arranged, or will soon be provided for, in the universities of Wisconsin, Iilinols, ¢jg Kansas, Nebraska, Washington and Missouri. In the summer of 1907 she} “have formed | bring it about. Indiana university of lo The Johnson County Star {sboaet- little different from anything that Lura Bowman 5a sec 8 New Home ing over the fact that they cut up| we have been up against fora good | twp $50. ten thousand dollars in national |They explain is this way: ‘“Prest-| the large power cutting machine tn cutting the bank notes to the regula tion eize, their “weather eye’ on us all the ing the “‘evil’’ stuff, just the same.” Wm. Laney at his pleasant and hospitable rural home in Hudson township has had the pleasure dur- ing the past week or twoof a visit | from his couein, J. M. Thomas, one of the pioneer residents of Kansas | City. Mr. Thomas comes down to the Laney home about once a year for a good visit and, as he expressed | {t, “to get some extra good eating.” | lt has been our good fortune at | times past to break bread with Mr. Laney and we can readily account for the attractions in the home for Mr. Thomas and all others who en joy a cordial welcome and “cooking just Nke mother’s,”"—Appleton Jour. | nal, A package of stamps, to the value of $103 was found by a farmer nam- ed Sam Raber, fn a hay stack on his farm near Medford, Mo., last week. The stamps were identified by Scott Fisher, former post master at Ven- ton, as those stolen from that post oftice when it was robbed last fall. The next day Raber found the bal- ance of the stamps lost by the Den- ton post office, near where he found the first package. The package did not have the appearance of having been exposed, and the bellefis that the post office robber lives in that neighborhood and took that method to get rid of very damaging evidence, belng a novice {n robbing and afraid to try disposing of them. The 13th anniversary of the ladies Wednesday Coterle Clab was cele- brated at the home of Mrs. John C Hayes last Wednesday afternoon. Each member was entitled to aguest and there being 24 members, made & goodly company. In conjunction with the regular literary program, & short comedy was given, entitled the “Real Thing” and those present pronounced 1t the real thing, 1¢ solv- ing, in @ ludicrous manner, the ser- vant girl problem. In token of esteem to @ retiring member, Mrs. A. B. Ludwick, who {s shortly to leave Butler for Oklahoma, was presented with a handsomely engraved silver fork. The ladies Coterle 1s an estab- lished Institution of our town, of which we are all mighty proud. George Garrett of Butler, Mo., a regular shipper, states that in the next few weeks, if hog prices hold up, there will be a pretty fair run of heavy hogs from his neighborhood. “You see,” he sald, “farmers have been holding their beet hogs for $6 at home, and when they can get that they will les them go. After the lot which has been held back is disposed of, I do not know where a carload of good hogs can be found inall my territory. And I would not be sur- prised after that to see hog prices hold up for a good while. No farmer who has the shoats that are large enough to feed will pay the price corn brings now to feed to such hoge: The price-on hogs will have | to hold up around $6 in the country make them pay out. Feeding hogs alone {is more expensive than feeding them with cattle, and no cat- tle will be fed from now on. The , Whole live stock situation ig just o The bank ofticlals kept | | while, if at all. Those that feed cannotdo so as they | fiancee, stumped the State/dent Johnson and Caehter Eade|did@ few years ago when feed was tor“Kube” with a party of 16 War! brought to the Star office ten thou |cheap. The fdea that anyone can| rensburg Normal School girls, was! sand dollarein national bank notes | feed cattle and hogs and make married here to ©. T. Bunce, former jn large sheets, and we manipulated | money at it regardless of the way he |teeds, {s a mistake.”—K, C. | Telegram. Real Estate Transfers. WARRANTY DEEDS F W Maxwell to NN yers lot 8 blk 17 Sprague $25, HR Nilson to Rose B Nestlerode los 16 & 17 blk 28 Amores $425. H K Wood to F K Wood 80 @ sec 7 Howard twp $4,650. | Bec 22 Mingo twp $5,775. J C Johnson to Geo S App 27 a sec 18 Grand River twp $800, Mabel and Jasper Livingston to |lewp $150, Geo M Guy to. Ella N a sec 1 Lone Oak twp $3,780. H D Chambers to Jos H Groves 80 asec 15 Deer Creek two $4,160. Margaret A Allen to © R Allen and | | wife lots 1 and 2 Bakers add to But: ler $600 Sadie A Ridgway to Daniel F Smith 39 a sec 35 Deep Water twp $1,000 Joseph F Geiger to WG Mehafiey and wife lots 12 and 13, blk 1, Lida Henry’ add to Butler $3,000, W G Mehaffey toChas Argenbright | 80 aw sec 16 Mt Pleasant twp $5200. IN Satterly etal to Geo W Poulter bik 87 Sperry’s add to Rich Hill $200 | Maud L LaFollett to G W Poulter blk 37 Sperry’sadd to Rich Hill $800 Ethel Livingston by Guardian to The business as it! beth Houte, principal of @ ward|bankcurrency in that office last week. | stands now requires close figuring |a sec 27 Homer twp $4,560. Vand J F Con- Geo 8 App to Jacob F Myera 115) Lura Bowman 5 asec 8 New Home Williaras 80. W A Downey to W F Caldwell 114 ’ B F Cathon to Lee G Lovell pt sec 3 in City of Butler $350. Lee G Lovell to E Vickers pt sec 23 in City of Butler $350, Sallie P Haas toO E Groves lots Drovers) 129 and 130 Town Cos 1st add to | Adrian $850. | Carrie Long to Geo Medley and | wife lots 5 and 6 blk 143 Town Cos | 3rd add to Rich Hill $525 Hiram Nichols to E F Simmons 50 asec 16 Pleasant Gap twp $1. Mollie Bell Davidson to Walter P Greer 40 « aec 19 Shawnee $1500. | John H Snilen to J W Burge 69a sec 18 New riome also lot 16 blk 14 Walnut $1. John H Sullen to J W Burge Sy 1k 9 Couches add to Butler $1. | J W Barge to J H and L M Sullens S\ lot 1 bik 9 Couches add to But ler $1 J W Burge to J H and L M Sullens 69 & see 18 New Home twp also lot 16 blk 14 Walnut $1. | Rich Hill Realty Co to G W Batr 6 a sec 9 Osage twp $750. | WH Mistler to John F Wilson 40 asec 13 Deep Water $1400, Marriage Licenses. |T. G. Hines, Butler, Mo. frace Sartin, Butler, Mo. L C. Hunter, Montrose, Mo, Arah E Grogg, Montrose, Mo. Geo. Taylor, Adrian, Mo. | Suste Swartz, Adrian, Mo. 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