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Redwood Redmon No. 0290 Record 2:18's SIRE OF:—Woodshine 2:08',, Rosewood 2;10, Red Pepper 2:11',, Lord Redmon 2:13',, Deroy Redwood 2:16, Annie Red- wood 2:22',, Blondie Redwood 2:08, pacer. Red chestnut stallion 15'; hands high, weighs 1160 pounds. , Sired by Redmon C, 0289, 3 years old, record 2:30, sire of 6 with records better than 2:25, and 1 sire that has sired 7 pacers, 1 dam that has one; he by Joe Thorndale 2:30, sire of Minnie C. 2:12';, and others and | sire that sired 6 pacers, 1 dam with 2 pacers, son of Young Thorndale, son of Thorndale 2:22, sire of 10 and 9 sires that have sired 31, 19 dams that have 37 standard perform- ers. Ist dam Bessie by Goodwood 2223, dam of Redwood Redmon, record 2:18';; sire of 2 trotters, 1 pacer, 3 dams that have 3 pacers; son of Wood- ford Mambrino 345, sire of 13 trotters, 25 sires that sired 169 standard performers and 26 dams that have 43 trotters, 1 pacer, son of Edwin Forest. 2d dam Bessie Turner by King William. 3d dam by son of Imported Glencoe. REDWOOD REDMON will make the season of 1909 at my barn in the northwest part of Butler and will serve mares at $15 to insure a living colt. D. THRALL. BUTLER, MO. Farm for Sale. Here is an easy way to sell your Farm Every building you PAINT adds to the appearance of your farm, and therefore attracts attention and favorable comment, In addition to this it lengthens the life of the building. Every gallon of Sewall’s Pure Liquid Paint you use INCREASES THE PRICE PER ACRE of your farm. Many people are making fortunes buying old shabby-looking farms, painting up and selling them again at a big profit. If you want to sell or if you don't want to sell it will pay you to paint. Now this does not apply te every paint, but it does to SEWALL'S PAINT, which is fully guaranteed and always satisfactory and has been on the marked for over a Quarter of a Century. Why pay more for paint when you can get this reliable brand for areliable price? At LOGAN-MOORE LUMBER CO., Headquarters for GALVANIZED IRON, RUBBER ROOFING AND LUMBER. YOUR BANK IF not, WHY not the PEOPLES BANK? This GROWING and NEW CLEAN BANK, SOLID, and with AMPLE CAPITAL, managed by long tried and efficient officers and a STRONG board of directors should be consid- ered when selecting a place todo your banking business, Get acquainted with the PEOPLES BANK. Use its daily market report, its desks and sta- tionery when you want to write a letter, and its large fire-proof vault when you want a place of safety for your belongings, it will cost you nothing. Open an account with this bank and grow with it, The Bank on which You can Always Bank, PEOPLES BANK BUTLER, MISSOURI. Percheron Stallions If you want a good Percheron Stallion, call and see my stock. I will sell you a horse for one- half what these smooth-tongued salesmen will ask. My horses are all bred from best imported stock, and are warranted as recommded. If you buy from responsible parties at home you always hayé re- course if anything is not as recomm: . Farm three miles northeast of Butler, Mo. we: J.W.Barnhart [RECOLLECTIONS OF 1861 IN MISSOURI, | By F.C. Smith, one of “Pap” Price’s ‘boys’ read before a recent meeting of Marmaduk: Camp. Abgut the lst of May 1861 when Claiborne F. Jackson, Governor of { armed neutrality in the war between the States, he had a conference fn St. Louls with Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, commander of the U. S. forces in Mo, at which time he attempted to persuade Gen. Lyon not to enlist any soldiers for the Union army in this state nor to bring inany from other states; promising that he would not, on that condition, per- mit any soldiers to be enlisted for the South tn Mo., nor allow any Con- federate soldiers to enter the state. This proposal was defiantly rejected by Gen. Lyon and within a day or two Governor Jackson {ssued a proe- lamation calling for 50,000 State troops to enlist for the purpose of resisting {nvasion and protecting the rights, liberties and property of the people of Mo. This was the Missourt State Guard, and was under the flag of the state of Missour!, It was commanded by Gneral Sterling Price by appointment from Gov. Jackson. Gen. Price was up to this time astaunch Union man and had presided only ashort time before over a convention which al- most unanimously rejected secession. A few days afterwards Gen. Frost surrendered to Gen, Lyon about 1,000 of these State Guards on the 10th of May at Camp Jackson which limits of St. Louis at or near 3300 Olive St. Gen, Lyon next moved on Jeffer- son City with a view of capturing Price and Jackson and the small army of a few hundred, which had assembled there under Gov. Jack- son’s call for 50,000 men. They however fell back to Boonville, where there was 4 slight skirmish, and then to Lexington, where they recruited an army of about 5,000 fighting men, with an equal number of dead beats and camp followers. fo the mean time Gen. Lyon had assembled a large force at St. Louis, and Gen. Franz Siegel was in the southwest witha small army. To- ward the latter part of June Gen. Price moved his army to southwest Missouri and encountered Gen. Siegel on the 5th of July near Carthage in Jasper county. He chased Stegel nearly all day across the prairle but let him get away, with the loss of very few men on either side; and this battle of Carthage has always been referred to by writers on the Union side as @ signal victory for Gen. Stegel; but i¢ was only a horse race and Slegel got the best of it and escaped. Gen. Price then moved on to McDonald Co., where he camped on cowskin creek until about the let of August, when he started toward Springfield, where Gens. Lyon and Siegel had concentrated alargearmy outnumbering the force that Price had; but Price was re-enforced by several regiments from Texas, Ar- kansas and Louisiana making his available force about equal to that of Lyon. On the evening of the 9th of Aug- ust he camped on Wilson’s creek about 10 miles southwest of Spring- field, expecting to move on that place soon, where Lyon had about 10,000 men. But on the morning of the 10th of Aug. Gen. Price was sur- prised in camp at daylight by an at- tack in force by Gen. Lyon, where Lyon expected another “signal vic- tory.” But Lyon was surprised to find that the shot gun and squirrel rifle were such effective weapons in the hands of Missouri farmer boys. The fighting was severe on both sides. Gen. Lyon was killed and be- fore night the Federal army was in fall retreat on Springfield, nor did they stop there long, but cuntinued on to Rolla which was then the ter minus. of the 8. W. branch of the Pacificf.R. R., now the Frisco. Gen. Price;then moved up and occupied Springfield, his re-enforcements hav- ing returned to Arkansas; for Jeff Davisjdid not recognize the Missouri forces as in any sense a part of the Confederate army. For they were simply “State Guards” for the pro- tection Sof the state from invasion from jany source whatever. About the 1st of Sept. Gen. Price left his sick and wounded at Springfield and moved his army northward toward Lexington. happening at Lexington, Gen. Lyon had sent two regiments of German was in @ grove just outside the city | college, just north of town near the bluffs of the Missouri river, and forti- fied is with earth works. | | Late in the afternoon of the 20th (the third day of the slege) a battery They | was placed due east of the college arrested several citizens of the town|/about a quarter ofa mile distance and imprisoned them in the college }on account of trivial actions which | Cols. White and Stifel considered of- jfensive. This incensed the friends jand sympathisers of the prisoners Missouri, was trying to maintain an | and protests were made, but no at- | tention was paid to any complaint | except to perhaps imprison the com- plainant. During this time there were no State Guards nearer than Springfield and Cols. White and Stifel {sent scouts into the country who | took, without remuneration the beat | horses of the farmers near the town, and finally got so bold as to go nearly allover the county taking horses and anything else thelr fancy dictated. Not all the men, however, who were willing to risk their lives in | defense of their homes and property were with Gen. Price in Springfield. | Before the middle of August a force jot about 1,000 young men armed with shot guns were incamp at the jfalr grounds, three miles south of | Lexington. In a few days they had as prisoners, Judge J. F. Ryland, Judge J. E Ryland, ex-Gov. Austin King and several other prominent |Unton men, and notice of the eitua- tion was sent the Federals in town, |telling them that our prisoners | would be treated as well as theirs. This put an end to marauding excur- | sions to the country; and although | we numbered only about 1,000 men the federals did not come out and |attack us and we knew enough not |to attempt to storma garrison of 2,000 well fortified men. Thus matters went on until the | latter part of August when we found out that Col. Mulligan was moving on Lexington with alarge force from | Sedalia, which was then the western terminus of the Mo. Pac.R R. We {then withdrew to Johnson county |and later to Index, in Cass Co., which was about fifty miles southwest of Lexington, About the 7th of Sept. Gen. Price came up from the south and our regiment was united with his force of about 10,000 men, and the movement on Lexington was be- gun in earnest. On the 9th welearn- ed that Col. Mulligan had sent a force out to Warrensburg and we at- tempted by a forced march at night to take them in. But they got no- tice of our approach and made a rapid retreat to Lexington. Three or four regiments with Bludsoe’s battery chased them all day on the 11th of Sept., from Warrensburg to Lexington, but did not get within shooting distance until they were at Lexington but followed them to within a few yards of their fortifica- tlons and fired a few shotsfrom the battery and a good many from shot guns into their fort. Thus ended the firsts skirmish at Lexington. For when night came on Gen. Price with- drew tothe fair grounds and en- camped—or rather bivouaced his whole army in that nefgborhood un- til the morning of the 18th of Sept, when he moved up and surrounded the federal fortifications and the slege was on for three days and two nights. Col. Mulligan’s force consist- ed of about 8500 men, and the army }of Gen. Price was about 10,000 strong, and by 8 o’clock a. m. Sept. 18th the federals were completely surrounded with no chance of escape. Water was scarce and there were two or three hundred horses besides the men to be provided for within the fortifications. The only hard fighting was on the west and northwest between the col- lege and the river, where two or three regiments had to climb the steep bluffa in the face of a heavy fire from the enemy; but they did so once or twice before they got possession of the hill top, with the loss of only a few men, and finally rolled hemp bales in front of themselves as move- able breast worke until they reached the outerworks of the fortifications, which they held until the surrender. On the east, south and north east the firing was intermittent and oc- casional, just frequent enough to make the enemy keep under cover within the fortification. These forti- fications consisted—firet of a rect- angular earthwork six or seven feet high with a ditch outside abous ten feet wide and about five feet deep. This was immediately around the college building and inclosed about @ half acre of ground. On the out- aide of this were other lighter earth- works twoor three feet high and with ditches on the inside, inclosing ten or fifteen acres. On the second day they were euffer- ing for water and on the third their water was exiausted and several | soldiers there on steamboats under| were killed or wounded while from {t, and about a dozen red hot, six pound cannon balls were fired iu- to the building in an effort to set it on fire. Many have doubted that this could be done, and I was some- what skeptical about {it untill saw the performance and took part in it myself. A_ blacksmiths traveling forge was brought dp as near the battery as was considered safe on account of our amunition chests. y] - AND GET - | | APERFECT PAIR OF SPEX e tes o fit eyes with the ye te even the very weakes The cannon balls were then heated ee {n the forge as hot as could be with- out melting. The regular charge of| powder (about a pound {na flannel sack) was firss rammed down the gun, then a cylindrical shaped piece of wood about two inches thick (call- ed a sabot) that just fitted the gun was rammed down on the powder; then about a pound of wadding thoroughly saturated with water so that it would not ignite easily was rammed down on the sabot, then an- other sabot, or circular fron plate one-half an inch thick was rammed down. Now we were ready for the red hot cannon ball which was|{ brought to the muzzle of the gun by means of fron tongs, and as soon as the ball could be rammed home the gun, which had been already care- fully sighted, was immediately fired and the red hot ball like a meteor was seen on {ts way to the old col- lege building where {t disappeared within leaving a ragged hole in the| tn: wall. About a dozen of these were fired just before we got word that Col Mulligan had surrendered. The terms of the surrender were very liberal. Gen. Price by a three days siege had gained an almost bloodless victory. He could have taken the fort {n half an hour at any tiire by assault, but the loss of life would have been awful. As {t was many of the horses were killed in the fort and the odor was terrible. And the horses that were unhurt were generally stolen by the camp fol- lowers, many of whom had been dur- ing the slege lying efck(?) {n bed in the neighboring houses, but imme- diatly recovered on hearing of the surrender. It was estimated that there were several thousand of these at that time. The whole army was nothing more than a well organized mob, Men came and went away with or without permlasion when they wished. No two men were dressed alike. You could have seen the uni- forms of the West Point cadet, of the Virginta Military Institute and of various other organizations no two of which were the same. But these fine clothes gentlemen were few and far between. Nearly all wore their every day working clothes. The situation was peculiar and unique in every respect. A portion ofthe U.S. Army had surrendered to the army of e loyal state that ‘ only wanted to be letalone. The commander of the State Guards, while possessing great military abil- ity, as @ strategist and tactician was too lenient and kind hearted to maintain the discipline necessary to make an army atall times efficient. It was only the love and admiration for him whom they called “Old Pap Price” that held the army together. Some of his best soldiers went home on various pretexts—to visit their families, to get clean clothes, and many were really sick and were obliged to go. Some had never been sworn in; others who had been, con- sidered the oath a joke. Some were killed while attempting to get home, some were arrested and imprisoned by the enemy and a few on being arrested accepted a parole or took the oath of allegiance and came back considering that a joke. All the fed- eral prisoners were paroled by Gen. Price and sent home. His army re- mained at or near Lexington two or three weeks and all was galety and frolicing among the young folks in the town and surrounding country. Every house was thrown open to all comers and goers. These youngsters thought the yan- kees were completely vanguished and the war was over. They expected St. Louis and all other large cities of the state to fall into the hands of Gov. Jackson and Gen. Priceimmediately. But a change came over the epirit of their dream when Gen. Price started Place known at that time as “Camp Cowskin” in the southwest corner of the state. Up Before the Bar. N.H. Brown, an attorney, of Pitts. Vs., writes: “We have used Dr. Pills tor years and medi. CLAYS DRUG STORE, BUTLER, MO. Order of Publication. STATE OF MISSOURI, 88. Col In the ty of Bates, reuit Court of Bates County, Missouri, n vacation March 12th, 1909, The State of Missourl the relation and to the useof W. R. Bell, Mclo Collector of the Re e of Bates County in the State of Misgot laintif, Loulsa A. Davenport, defendant. Civil action for delinquent taxes. Now at this day comes the plaintiff herein b: her attorney before the clerk of the Cireult Court of Bates porate. in the State of Missouri, ion and files her petition stating among oth ing it the above named defendant, Louisa A Venport, is a non-resident of the uri. Whereupon tt is ordered by tion, that the defendant be notl+ fled by publication that plaintiff has com- menced a suit against her in this court b; petition the object and general nature of whi 8 to enforce the Ilen of the State of Missouri for the delinquent taxes of the years 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907. amounting In the aggregate to the sum of $1.39 together with Interest, coste, ions and fees, upon the follow! - ‘ibed tracts of land situated in Bates goun- jourl, to-wit: n block 165in the City of Rich Hill, at unless the said defendant be and appeal at the next term of this court to be begun and holden in the city of Butler, Rates county, Mis: souri, on the fourth Monday in May, 190, and on or before the first day thereof, and plead to said petition accord to law the same will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered ac- cording to the prayer of said petition and the above described real estate ‘sold to satisfy the same, * And itis further ordered by the clerk afore- said that a copy hereof be published in Tax Burtern WEEKLY Tinks, & kly newspt printed and published in 8 County, souri, for four weeks succes ly. the Test in sertion to be at least say days before the first day of the next term of said court. A true copy of the record, Witness my hand as clerk aforesaid with the seal of said court hereunto ({seav} atiixed, Done at office in Butler on thie the 0th day of March, 1909, T. MBREE, 23-46 Circuit Clerk, Order of Publication. STATE OF MISSOURI, County of Bates, In the Circuit Court of Bates county, Missouri, i tion 27th, 1909, The State of Missouri at the relation and to the use of W. R. Bell, Ex-Officio Collector of the Revenne of Bates County and Drain District No. One, Bates County, in the of Missouri, plaintiff vs DeWitt Clinton James R. Waddell, Trustee for James T. Thornton and Seth Mabry, C. C. McGinnis, defendants. Civil action for delinquent taxes, drainage as- sessment and interest. Now at tl jay comes the plaintiff herein b: her attorney re the Clerk of the Circui’ Court of Bates county in the State of Miasouri, in vacation and files her petition atating among other things that the above named defendants, DeWitt Clinton Blair, James R. Waddell, James T. Thornton and Seth Mabry, are non- residents of the State ‘of Missouri. Whereup- on it is ordered by the cierk in vacation, that the defendants be notified by publication that plaintiff has commenced a suit against them in this court by. petition the object and general nature of which ia to enforce the lien of the State of Missouri for the delinquent drain: taxes of the vear 1908, ible to Drainage Dis- trict No One. Bates County, Missouri, amounting in the Shenae to the sum of $1,162.07 together with interests, costs, com- missions and fees, upon the following describ- ed tracts of land situated in Bates county, Missouri, to-wit: SE, acres NW SEK, 40 acres » 40 acres N 1-2 lot2 SW, N 683 1231-2L2S8W, all Section 18, Township 88, Range 30. 40 acres ESE, 40 acres NW SE, 40 acres SW SE, 40 res SK SE, 40 acres NE NE, 40 acres NV, NE, 40 acres 72 acres N 1-2 lot 1 NW, 39.72 1-2 lot 1 NW, 24.88 acres N 1-2 N ¥. 2NW, 24.88 acres $12 N 1-2 lot2 NW, N Ss lot 2 NW, 24.89 acres 8 1-: 40 SES 40 acres SW SEX 10 SESW, 40 sores SW SE. 40 acres N'W SR, 40 acres NE SE, 40 acres SE SEall in sec 18,'! $1. 40 acres NE NE, 40 acres NW NE, 40 acres SW NE, 40 acres SE N&, doacres NE SE, 40 acres SW SE, allin sec 4, 38, 31, and intese the sald defendants be and ap of this court to be begu of Butler, Bates county, Missouri, on the 41 judgment rendered according to l~ er of said petition and the above feacribed real estate sold to satisfy the same. b And it is further ordered by the clerk afore- said that ® copy hereof be published in Tax Borer Wxexty Tin 8 weekly newspa) printed and publish Bates count: hs sourl, for four we juccessively, the last in- “on _! beat lye thirty days before the first @ next term of cour’ true copy of the Freer. ™ pin Vitness my hand as clerk aforesaid with the seal of said court hereunto affixed, Done at office in Butler on this the 80th day of March, 1909, T. D, EMBREE, Circuit Clerk. [emar.) 23-4 School Fund Mortgage Sale. Whereas, W. J. Aninch, his wife, ates count school fand my Ea lbed real estate: two frogs Oana jon e Town, now Ci ler, Mo which was made in trust to a is past due and unpaid, Now therefore, in suance of an of the county court, - &t the April term 1909, I will to above described real estate at public EB chest bidder for cash at the east front door of the court house in the city of Butler, county of Bates and state of Missouri, on Friday, May 7th, 1909, between the hours of nine o’clock in the fore- noon and five o’clock in the afternoon of that day for thi Upp of sati said ¢ intereats and costs of exoeating | 8 rnd W. J. BULLOC! td Sheriff of Bates County, Mo, Notice of Final Settlement. ;