The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 8, 1909, Page 4

The Butler Weekly Times Printed on Thursday of cach week. J.D. ALLEN, Ector and Prop second-class mail matter. ANOTHER DELAYED DIVIDEND. E. C. Vandegrift, receiver for the Bates National Bank, announces that he will shortly be able to pay a divi- dend of fifteen percent to the deposi- tors. This will be the third dividend: the first was 25 per cent paid in February, 1907; the second 20 per cent paid in June, 1907, and} this, if forth-coming, will make 60 per cent, all told, after the deposi-| tors being out the use of their money since October, 1906. From all reports the management of the affairs of this defunct institution by the receivers has not been entire- ly satisfactory to the depositors. Just before the bank closed its doors, its officers made an effort to induce the other two banks, the Missouri State and Farmers, to take over its assets and business and assume its obligations. With this object in view | a meeting was held, attended by the | officers of the Bates National and the Presidents and cashiers of the other two banksand all the assets and liabil- | ities of that institution were carefully | gone over, and it was the consensus | of opinion of all four of these outside | bankers, who were familiar with the | securities of that institution, that the assets if properly handled were am- ply sufficient to pay the depositors in | full, after satisfying all other indebt- | edness. If these gentlemen were | right, then the cost of the receiver- | ship has been expensive, consuming | forty per cent of the assets to close up the business, besides an assess- ment of 100 per cent on the stock. — Aldrich! Henry Watterson in the Louisville Courier-Journal: The one thing in the senate which has filled us with admiration is Ald- rich. ‘“‘Och!"’ says Bridget Ann O'Reilly in the Irish comedy, refer- ring to Sir Patrick O'’Plenipo—‘‘the cheek of him!’’ Yea, verily, both the hide and cheek and the gall of Aldrich, | and clad in iron, steel and brass; car- rying a forked hook anda_ shining spear; why, Senator Dillworthy, his motto, “the old flag and an appro- | priation,’’ was nothing to Aldrich; old sugar-in-the-gourd but a boy in corduroys compared with Aldrich; Ephrahim Smoot, himself the meri- est tyro at the game of now-you-see- it and now-you-don’t; and fitly the poet says: “High on a throne of loot and graft which far Outshines the wealth of Ormus and of | Inde, Of Carnegie and Rockefeller, E’en Standard Oil and Federal Steel, Aldrich exalted sits by merit raised To that proud eminence’’— Whilst the imps of the system hang around the doors and cry, ‘‘May the devil admire him!” Subsidy herself kow-tows to Aldrich. Goetz of the Iron Hand never hooked and hauled in the rafters on the Rhine with more | coolness and dexterity than the sena- tor from Rhode Island has ransacked and rifled the cargoes of honest, mer- | chandise seeking to navigate protec-| tionist waters, to avoid the shoals of classification and round the headlands | of the schedules. Strong Words. Here is the strong condemnation of | the Republican Senate by that ortho- dox Republican paper, the Des! - Moines, Iowa Register-Leader: It is a strange situation surely when a fight to retain the Dingley sched- | free trade and foreign domination. It is a strange situation when the president, after himself making the demand for a reduction from the Dingley schedules, will sit back and allow the Senate committee increases to be voted by as bloodless a combi- nation as ever pooled to steal a rail- road or loot a bank without raising a finger to sustain the men wh0 are standing by his personal pledges and by the pledges made by him for the administration. General Bell Sees War Ahead. Leavenworth, Kan.—General J. Ratered at the postofiice of Butler, Mo., as count money than goods. All 5c Lawns for 3c. All 10c Lawns for 7c. All 15c Lawns for 10c. Choice 25c Summer Goods for 15c. Assorted lot 50c Silks and Silk Ginghams for 25c. All 50c colored Dress Linens for 39c. Good time to make up comforts for fall. Choice lot Outings for 5c yard. 15c and 12%c Outings and Silkolines for 10c. Big lot broken assortments Wash Goods, Madras Cloth Etc. for 10c yard. JULY IS Before Stock Taking Month We invoice August 1st, so want to get our stock down as low as possible, and then it is less trouble to In order to do so we will make radical reductions in all departments. It will be a good time to buy a supply of not only many things you will need for the present but for fall wear and school wear for the children We call your attention to a few items Ladies Clothing Department Wash Dresses Reduced $7.50 Dresses for........ $5.00 5.00 Dresses for........ 3.98 4.50 Dresses for........ 3.50 3.50 Dresses for........ 2.75 $1.98 Chamois Gloves for 98c $1 and $1.50 Silk and Lisle Gloves for 50c 65c all linen Table Linen Extra good Cotton Batting at 10c, 12% and 15c. for 48c Very Special values in all Linen Crash for 12\c. 35c linen finish Table Linen Dandy Kitchen Crash for 6\c. for 25c THERE ARE LOTS OF OTHER BARGAINS JUST AS GOOD COME AND SEE Walker-McKibben’s — SHOE DEPARTMENT All broken lots reduced. Mens Furnishing Goods All $1.50 Lisle Union Suits for $1.00. All 25c Underwear for 19c, two for 35c. Broken lots 50c Neckwear for 25c. Broken lots 25c Socks for 15c. Special Blanket Offer. Big line of Sample Blankets on sale at wholesale prices, from 35c up. Buy in the summer and save good money. of this country without awar. There are now indication which I need not dwell upon. There are causes for war that cannot be settled by arbitra- | tion. ear ‘ “Your grandchildren will be going Railroad Will Open up Vast to military schools before there is any American Plain. Portland, Ore. July 5.—Uncle disarmament.”” ae Amsterdam News from the En- Sam's biggest ‘‘outdoors’’ left, the | f greatest region without railroads in J terprise. this country, the best remaining pub- During’ the storm Sunday night lic domain for from the beaten paths lightning killed a fine cow for D, V,-| of travel—Central Oregon—is about Henson. i i ” ~~ to be opened up. As unpeopled as A horse being driven by Chas. Bell Central Africa, as far distant in. time of the Mulberry district, became ws seu frightened on Main street last Wed- from the Pacific coast cities as Hono- CENTRAL OREGON TO BE SETTLED. attracts so many middle western farmers, but the lands of the Pacific northwest are nearer home, with a| far better climate, and settlers do not | have to leave their own county for | another. The Mule and the Battery. It is announced Mr. Edison has per- fected the storage battery. This isa problem which has commanded the wizard’s attention for a good many years. Since Edison is nota Nikola Tesla—not very often at any rate—it may be assumed that the long-sought secret of the perfect storage battery has been found. in Joplin, Mo., July.—One hundred carloads of mine ‘‘tailings’’ are being shipped daily from the Joplin district to be used for ballast on the Missouri Pacific Railroad between Joplin and Kansas City and between Kansas City and Pueblo, Col. continue for about six months. capacity of each car is approximately sixty thousand pounds, thus making the daily shipments aggregate 6 mil- lion pounds. weight of the ‘“‘tailings’’ shipped in the entire six months will be more Ballasting the Mo. Pac. Company of Kansas City, which has the contract for ballasting the Mis- souri Pacific, has four special crews at work in this district and each day sees a marked decrease in the size of the gigantic, mountain-like heaps of “tailings” that for years have risen like huge, snow-capped peaks from the surrounding landscape. Champ Clark Makes a Denial. Washington, July.—‘Neither Claude Ball nor anybody else has authority to announce that I shall be a candidate for United States senator,” said Representative Clark referring to a newspaper report, The work has been progtess for six weeks and will The Approximately the According to reports, Mr. Edison} than 1 billion pounds, Mr. Clark appeared very much an- the largest con- nesday afternoon and ran away. As it turned the corner at the Graham store the buggy tipped over, throw- ing Mr. Bell out, but luckily he was not injured. The horse broke loose from the buggy and continued on south. The buggy was pretty badly torn up. Through instructions from the | State Department Chas. Glassmeir, manager of the Darby Fruit Fram at Amoret, drove up here last Thurs- day and returned with the weather bureau apparatus, which he will erect on the barb: farm. Mr. Bradley, who has had charge of the bureau since its establishment here, has writ- ten to ascertin if it is possible to have another one located here. If the De- partment refuses, it is possible that several persons will “chip in’ and establish one of their own. Train Wrecks and Partly Burns. The Missouri Pacific suffered an- other big freight wreck when No. 153, the south bound ‘‘Red Ball’’, in charge of Conductor Sullivan, went into the ditch just south of Harrison- ville. Thirteen cars of merchandise were piled up in a heap, six of them and their contents being consumed by fire. the railroad company.—Review. A New Profession. insurance as a profession? The wreckage was ignited from a ules can be hearalded as a fight for | carload of matches which was tele- |scoped. The derailment, as was the one near Archie Sunday morning, is said to have been caused by bad |track. Two wrecks in the same week, of such dire results, will mean |near Bend, a distance of 120 miles. a loss of many thousands of dollars to,| The cost of the road and right of wa lulu, and more inaccessible than Alask, this great virgin prairie of waving bunchgrass is feeling the first inrush of settlers, There are lakes and rivers in that region that only the coyotes and the wild fowl known, valleys where wild horses and stray stock feed and borax beds and_cop- per ledges that only the lonely, oc- casional prospector has ever visited. Accurious instance of the splendid isolation of the region has just been remarked by an old newspaper man now making along team journey across central and southeastern Ore- gon. From Plush, on Warner lake, to Narrows, on Malheur lake, is 90 miles by trail. If one wanted to sen a letter from Plush to Narrows, in ad- joining counties, and should at the same time address one to Boston, Mass., 3,000 miles away, the Boston letter would reach its destination and a reply would get as far back as Chi- cago before the other letter from; Plush via Flamath Falls, Weed, Port-| land, Baker City, Austin and Burns, | a distance of about 1,100 miles. Now this great region is to have a railroad. The Harriman system will soon ask for bids on a road froma junction with the main line of the 0. 'R. &N. at the mouth of the Deschutes . river, on the north boundary of the state, to Redmond, an irrigation town '| will be about $5,000,000. This will bring railway facilities nearer to Cen- tral Oregon, but will not yet ap- Did you ever think of selling life proach the great prairies of the inter- ior of the state. It is planned, how-* - There are men located in county- ; ever, to extend this line eventually One of our good farmer friends of seat town where the population does clear to the California line. not exceed three thousand, who by| The coming of this road has caused” town with his wife, Tuesday. There devoting their entire time, talents and a big movement of settlers into the ig ’ energy to the business, are making interior: Many are taking home- Lots of {it doesn’t rest within the wizardy of believes his latest discovery will per- manently retire the horse. And the New York American impertinently inquires, what is to become of the Missouri mule? Scientific progress has been putting the horse out of business for a long time. The electric railway was go- ing to send the noble animal to ob- livion or back to the freedom of the plains. But it didn’t. Then the auto- mobile was scheduled to annihilate the faithful beast of service and ro- mance. The automobile has done considerable killing, but still the horse survives. But in the wildest flights of san- inary imagination the possible-ex- termination of the Missouri mule was never speculated npon before. And the New York American may lay its troubled head in the hollow of its arms and drift into peaceful slumber. Mr. Edison to issue a death certificate to the Missouri‘mule. Let no alarm be felt as to what the perfected stor- age battery may do to that reliable animal whose staying powers have been tested in the arts of peace and in war’s red rumpus. The Missouri mule, like “e pluribus unum,”’ is in-| destructible. Should the Missouri mule and the perfected storage bat- tery ever be placed in juxtaposition, reserve your tears and flowers and lamentation for the perfected storage battery. In the ensuing obsequies the Missouri mule will not be playing a calm, white, candied part.—Com. Farmer Forgot His Wife. the Wolfe neighborhood drove to! nothing remarkable about this. i signment ever sent out of the district. The bulk of the ‘‘tailings’’ or re- fuse gravel from the zinc and lead mines comes from the Webb City camp, where the largest producers are. The L. J. Smith Construction Franklin Bell, chief. of staff, in a} $1,200 to $1,500 per year. steads and making ready to raise town. speech before the army service schools at Fort Leavenworth at the force in Missouri. If you are in a purchasing wild land at low prices or graduation exercises, declared he saw indications of war and insisted that position to undertake the work to the’ irrigated farms nearer the settlements exclusion of all other lines of work, ‘at higher values. vil ha shanay wit Beko Cech eh I have a vacancy in the agency} wheat and live stock. Others are | noyed over a report that an arrange- ment had been made by which he would become a candidate for the senate and Ball succeeded him in the house. 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