The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 1, 1909, Page 2

Black Hand Boy is Killed. Chicago, methods of extortion received a blow in Chicago, when policemen. on guard, shot and killed a boy who gave his name as Rudolph Berendt, 15) years old, who under threat of death, | had demanded $15,000 of Solomon E. Grossfeld, president of the Grossfeld & Roe Company, wholesale grocers. One letter contained a warning that \if he did not deliver the money his home at 42 St. James place would be blown up by dynamite. ‘ Grossfeld was met at the designat- ed place by Berendt and handed over the package. Two plain clothes men saw the; |package change hands and started | forward to arrest the lad. The latter | jran and was shot. He died within, an hour at the hospital. | Brendt made a complete confession just before he died. “I thought Ij could get the money, for I had read | of others doing it,’ he said. “I do! not know what my mother will think, | as it was only a few months ago that I made my first holy communion,” | A Night Rider’s Raid, | The worst night riders are calomel, croton oil or aloes pills. They raid your bed to rob you of rest. Not so | with Dr, King’s New Life Pills. They never distress or inconvenience, but always cleanse the system, curing colds, headache, constipation, mala- ria, 25c, at F. T. Clay's. James J. Hill Tells Why Bread is Dear. The demand is greater than the supply. We have reached the end of our virgin wheat land; and our yields jare shinking while our population is increasing. That is where Conserva- tion touches us practically; but we jneed not worry. Nature is going to |take care of things. Necessity will | punish us and remedy matters in her |own stern way, if we do not-mend jour methods. When wheat does not javerage so’much an acre, it is not | worth raising. Now .consider a mo- |ment where this trend of things is landing us. Do you know how long it took England to mend her methods —to raise her averages from twelve jand fifteen to twenty-five and thirty jand forty bushels an acre? It took | her almost fifty years. In fifty years, | what population will we have to feed? | And we have not even begun to mend jour methods, It is the supremely big |question of the day. Shall we act now, and save ourselves national dis- aster, or wait till necessity compels us—and then act? Compare agricul- tural interests to any other national Would Bring to Butler \interests to-day! What were the jtotal returns from the farms of the United States last year? $7,000,000,- '000! Compare that to the returns from the forests—$1,250,000; and our farm averages are not a third of what ADQUARTE Monday July 5th 1909 A. H. CULVER FURNITURE CO. Bring your wraps, baskets, bundles ete. and leave them in our store. Plenty of room, plenty of ice water, place to wash, towels, soap, brush- es and combs. Come—you are welcome. A. H. Gulver Furniture Co, Headquarters for Good Furniture. William J. Bryan Jr. Weds: | Grand Lake, Colo., June.—Wil- liam Jennings Bryan Jr. and Miss Helen Virginia Berger, of Milwaukee, What a Heap of Happiness it were married at Kinnikinic Lodge, | the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. F. | D. Levering, on the west shore of Grand Lake. The wedding was a! quiet affair, and only the immediate! Hard to do housework with an ach- families of the couple were present. ing back. f The ceremony was performed out-! Brings you hours of misery at leas- | they ought to be, of what they could doors, under the great pine trees ure or at work. Ibe nada iy: aiaible wational method along the shore of the lake, the Rev- If women only knew the cause—| On or poh Mg hace treblad sh a erend H. S. Huntington, of Crete, that | adhanled thelr vinld. So psc Bo. Neb., officiating. | Backache pains come from sick kid |" From “Our A saa Fs ie Miss Edna Baker, of Lincoln, Neb., "ys. ee, IF WOMEN ONLY KNEW Homes. ‘SECRET RANCH OF June.—“‘Black Hand” | DEATH DISCOVERED. Stone-Lined Tunnel Hides Skele- tons of Men Slain by George McCoy. Mariposa, Cal., June.—Guarding his secret more successfully than the fiendish Bender family of Kansas, and with more cunning than the arttul Mrs. Belle Guinness, of the Indiana murder farm, George McCoy, miser and recluse, conducted a death ranch near this city for more than half a century, and not until two years after his death has the awful secret of the man’s lonely life been revealed. Now the search for bones has led to a quest for treasure believed to have been taken from victims and buried on the ranch as far back as the placer mining days of the early 50's. The first suggestion of the old mis- er’s gruesome secret came when newcomers began excavation about the old well of the ranch, witha view to reconstructing it, and uncovered a human skeleton. Further excavation revealed the bones of four men. All the skeletons were doubled up, showing that the bodies had been buried with the knees and heads together. In the house a trap door was found hidden in the floor. It led toa large cellar. A large stone at one side of the cel- lar wall pulled away, and there stood revealed the opening of a well con- structed, stone-lined tunnel, 4 feet high and about 2 feet wide, leading to the well, where the skeletons were found. One evening in the summer of 1877, ° John Wilson, a wealthy young ranch- er, rode out of Mariposa with a large sum of money in his saddle bags. His shepherd dog followed. No one ever’ saw him or his horse or his dog again. He took the road leading by the McCoy ranch. A Chinese told the | sheriff that he saw McCoy talking to’ Wilson on the road. The Chinese dis- appeared the next day. A posse charged McCoy with con- nection with the disappearance of’ Wilson. He denied it. The posse | searched his house and ranch, but to: no avail. They threatened lynching, | but McCoy gave no sign of weaken-| ing, and he was spared. The search for Wilson continued for years and was carried on by the Odd Fellows in all parts of the country. When the first skeleton was un- earthed at the ranch the other day, the disappearance of Wilson was re- called at once. The day following the discovery of the skeletons, a solid gold band ring with the letter “W” engraved on the inside, was unearth- ed. Near by the skeleton ofa dog was found, and the Wilson mystery had been solved. Missouri Teaching Farming. Now that the teaching of agricul- ture in the public schools has been i Th iting M ine f 5 i i i was maid of honor, and Samuel Berg-, ‘Twould save much needless woe. o Culing Magasine for July. made compulsory in Missouri, the er, brother of the bride, was best man. The bridal party were gowned in white. The bride elect carried lilies of the valley and wore a tiara of the same flowers, and the maid of honor carried lavender sweet peas. The little flower girl, Mary Berger, of Milwaukee, cousin of the bride, carried pink sweet peas in her flower basket. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan will spend their honeymoon at Grand Lake and will leave about September 1 for Tuscon, Ariz., where they expect to make their home for the next two years. Shot Brother and Buried Him Alive. Modesto, Cal., Juné.—Cecil Hop- kins, 12 years old, self-confessed slayer of his 6-year-old brother, ‘Theodore, made a statement to the Coroner that strengthens that offi- cial’s belief that the victim was buried alive on the hill where his body was found. As he told of the shooting and sub- sequent burial of his brother, Cecil ate candy and apparently failed to re- alize the gravity of the situation. According to his story he killed Theodore while the parents were ab- that Joseph W. Folk has cleaned up sent from home. The two boys quar- reled over their luncheon and Cecil drove his brother from the house and shot him, Fearing the consequence of his cratic party. deed when the parents should return, ~ he dug a grave in- the sand. ' a ht peat ih ~ While the birds of Thspeene weseet tak cam octahed Doan’s Kidney Pills cure sick kid- neys. Butler people endorse this: Mrs. E. J. Tyler, 507 Harrison St., Butler, Mo., says: “I used Doan’s Kidney Pills-and found-them to be a splendid remedy for kidney trouble. I suffered- from lumbago and my back was stiff and painful. I also had attacks of dizziness and could not sleep well at night. Finally my hus- band procured Doan’s Kidney Pills for me at Frank Clay’s drug store and after I had used them a short time I felt better in every way..’’. | The above statement was given in March 1906 and on Nov. 30, 1908 Mrs. Tyler said: ‘The cure Doan’s Kidney Pills effected in my case two years ago has been permanent. I oc- casionally have an attack of backache but a few doses of Doan’s Kidney Pills never fail to relieve me.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. ‘Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other. They say Mr. Bryan has grown rich from the lecture platform, and $20,000 at the same business$since January 1. Both these men obtained their reputation from preferment showered upon them its head. state is planning how best to make the subject attractive and interesting to students, both from the farm and | from the city. Most of the former! may reasonably be expected to know the rudiments of the matter and many of the latter will be so absolutely ignorant of how the most common things are grown that it will be diffi- cult to outline a course of study which will competently cover both cases. A splendid start in the work is be- ing made, however, in the summer school at Columbia, where~a number of teachers are being taught how to teach agriculture. The school open- ed June 3rd and will continue until August 3rd with Prof. F. B. Mum- ford giving instruction about animal feeding, breeding and allied subjects; Prof. M. F. Miller-giving a course in the production of and the stud: I had them fitted by alot soil fertility; and Prot J.C. 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