The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 19, 1909, Page 2

HON. GEORGE B, ELLIS, A Loyal Missourian Who Has of more than one farmer in every " a not eight in Missouri was reached by this Ever Been a Faithful Friend means with some new and practical of the Farmers. agricultural information, and best of all some sound agricultural inspira- The Journal is pleased to be able to tion, st : present its readers under the title of _ The edition of the annual report of “Successful Home People” with the the Board has been increased from above excellent engraving and vt 1,000 to 10,000 and the quality of the sonal reference to Hon. Tian; B. Ellis, Peportis so high and the demand is so Appleton City Journal. Secretary of the State Board of Aue great that this increased edition is ex- culture at Columbia. hausted within a month from the While Mr. Ellis’ home is in an ad- time it is received from the printer. joining (Bates) county and has been — The bulletins of the Board of Agri- ars he, like other Hud- culture have been increased in num- son people, is so near to us that we ber and greatly increased in quality, claim him and them anyway. It is they now being issued each month only an imaginary line that divides us and edited mainly by specialists. in reality, and while it is of consider- Fora quarter of a century Missouri able importance legally, politically had made little progress in road im- and at taxpaying time, it is notsocon- provement and road building. This sidered socially and in reality we are matter assumed larger and larger im- all one big family anyway. portance as the State became more This paper is well aware of the fact fully developed, but those interested that the people of this locality will in the subject were unable to agree add a hearty amen to the kind words! upona plan which seemed feasible. that may be said of Mr.-Ellis and his Conventions for the consideration of estimable family, His beautiful home | this matter were held year after year, is the synonym for hospitality in the | one legislature provided an elaborate neighborhood and has often been the | system of laws, for the next legisla- scene of many pleasant social func-/ ture to repeal. It was really not un- tions, around which pleasant recol- til the road convention which was lections ever cluster in the breasts of held at Columbia in 1904 that Mr. those who may be guests. Ellis, in a paper presented at the con- Mr. Ellis is now being quite freely vention, outlined in detail an entire talked of in connection with the suc-| system of road management and im- cessor of Congressman DeArmond provement, that any substantial prog- from the sixth district, which reminds | ress was made. This convention us of the fact that George's politics adopted Mr. Ellis’ paper as view of really is the only ‘“‘bad’’ thing about the way in which the matter should him, and if he could only be indulged’ be handled. to drink enough of the Appleton City! ‘The question rested in this form Sulpho-Lithia water to take that im- until 1906, when, through a decision purity out of his system, he would be of the Supreme Court, the county about right. However, we have courts found themselves helpless in been represented in Washington for | providing funds for the necessary re- agreat many years by a Democrat) pairs of roads, and a convention of and if that kind of a regime has to be the county judges of Missouri was kept up in the future there is no man called again at Columbia, and Mr. in the district upon whom The Jour- Ellis was invited to participate in the nal would rather see the mantle fall. proceedings, and presented the same The Journal has always been able to, plan that had been adopted by the recognize the fact the Republican previous convention, and it was again party does not have a copyright or adopted as the sense of convention. mortgage on all the good and able Following this convention, the State men in the country, and it is not like- | Board of Agriculture held road meet- ly that it ever will have. | ings during the summer and fall in all Mr. Ellis was twice elected to the | of the principal towns of Missouri, legislature, both times being prac-,many of which Mr. Ellis himself at- tically forced to run, and elected | tended, to secure an expression of the without making any active campaign. | citizens of different parts of the State While a member of the legislature, to | on the feasibility of the plan propos- show his fairness in conducting the|ed by him. This series of meetings | State’s business, he was instrumental | was held by a mammoth convention i in having a bill passed making the | in Jefferson City after the legislature State Board of Agriculture non-par-|had convened. It was attended by tisan, thus taking this purely techni- | more than 300 delegates from all over cal branch of the state government | the State, including representatives of out of politics. The State Fair, locat-| the county courts of 42 counties, was ed at Sedalia, owes its existence more | held in the Hall of Representatives at to Mr. Ellis’ efforts in the legislature | the Capitol, for which both the House for so many ye: ae nae with the possible exception of the au- thor of the bill establishing the fair. Mr. Ellis was appointed a member of the State Board of. Agriculture in 1889, and continued to serve in this capacity until 1901, when he was elected Secretary, which position he still holds. At the time he entered upon his duties the farmers support UN IRS pene the Senate and House, invited this striking improvements made during} The outcome of it all was that the Mr. Ellis’ administration is in the | State for the first time in its history | this purpose, and provision was made | FABULOUS RICHES for the. necessary local support, so} that the roads were to become aj FOR THE FARMER. charge upon the state at large, upon | pean e the county as a unit, and upon the | local community all combined. To} insure the wise expenditbre of these | vast sums of money, Mr. Evans’ | plan provided for the creation of the More Than Three Billion Dollars. each county court has the advice and counsel of a state engineer in the loca- | tion of its roads, the establishment of | Tuesday aftefnoon. grades, in the designing and construe-} An indicated winter wheat yield of tion of its bridges and culverts, which | 432,830,000 bushels finally compared is saving the State thousands of dol- with 437,908,000 bushels finally esti- lars annually and has at the same mated last year; an average condition time a competent county engineer to of winter wheat 90.3, against 90.1 a supervise this work and carry into year ago; corn 84.4, against 82.5; effect the advice and suggestions of spring wheat 91.6 against 80.7, and the state department. | oats 85.5 against 65.8, summarizes While it is too much to give Mr. | Tuesday's crop report. Ellis the whole credit for the drag} When the government's system of system of handling dirt roads, itis points in tronslated into bushels, the true that he, as secretary of the State’ mind is better able to grasp the en- Board of Agriculture, brought Mr. | ormity of the crop, other than winter King, the inventor of this system, be- | wheat, which is forecasted in Tues- fore the public, by having him attend | day's report. | August, which was issued at 1 o'clock Cereals This Year Will Be Worth office of state highway engineer, and | Chicago, Aug.—Riches almost be- of a competent county engineer in yond compare will be brought to the each county, which was adopted by farmers and business men of the the legislature and has been effective United States this year through the for two years. The result is that! bountiful crops which are forecasted jin the government's official report for farmers institutes all over the State, and thus brought this method to the attention of the people and was largely instrumental in their adopting it. Mr. Ellis isa man of broad. vision and looks far into the future, consid- ers always the welfare of all the peo- ple of the State. While himself a farmer and primarily interested in the agricultural classes, and during his Experts do not agree on the basis from which to make this calculation, but striking a mean from among the | tables offered, the report indicates a yield of 283,000,000 bushels of spring wheat, 2,954,000,000 bushels of corn, 987,000,000 bushels of oats, 30,000, - 000 bushels of rye and 179,000,000 bushels of barley. Granting for the sake of the stat- istician’s peace of mind that all this whole career has been an ardent sup-; grain would rank up to contract stand- porter of the College of Agriculture, | ards set by the Chicago board of trade and has contributed in a large way to and that it will be marketed at Tues- securing appropriations for its better-'day’s closing prices on the board ment and improvement, he has at the | would be composed of the following same time been equally interested in | parts; $717,903,419 worth of wheat, the University as a whole, with which | $1,894,252,500 worth of corn, $360,- the College of Agriculture is connect- | 245,000 worth of oats, $22,500,000 ed, as the cap sheaf of the State’s| worth of rye and $107,400,000 worth educational system. Nothing could better express Mr. Ellis’ view in this matter than a statement he made last winter in an address to the Agricul- tural students in discussing the out- look for appropriations from the leg- islature, when he said: ‘‘It seems to be an opportune time to secure large appropriations for the Agricultural College and the State Board of Agri- culture, but the funds of the State are limited, and large increases to these departments must inevitably mean reduced support for other depart- ments af the University, and for my part, while interested above all in the agricultural side of this institution, I believe in a well-balanced Univer- sity as a whole, and would not wish tosee one department thrive at the expense of another.” STATE RECEIVES $129.025. Missouri Pacific Pays Large Fee for Reorganizing. Jefferson City, Mo., Aug. 9—Ar- ticles of consolidation and increase of capital stock on the part of the Mis- souri Pacific and all of its lines in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska were filed with the Secretary of State to- day. The total capitalization is $240, - 000,000, which really represents the capital stock of all the companies combined. The papers were filed with the Secretary of State this morning and before noon a charter had been issued covering the consolidated lines. The corporation tax on this consolidation was $120,025, the heaviest single item of the kind ever paid into the State Treasury. The Missouri Pacific was originally incorporated in this state, and has al- ways been known as a domestic cor- poration. : The consolidation papers were filed by Henry C. Herbel, of the legal de- partment of the Missouri Pacific in St. Louis. The tax the company paid than to perhaps any other one manjand the Senate adjourned, and the into the State Treasury will prove a|neighbor, asking him to call the members themselves largely attend-| boon to the revenue fund, which last | Police. % R ed. Asa result of this convention, a|Satirday was down to a little more| Davis saw the policemen coming| Farley and legislative committee of which Mr.|than $64,400. All the railroad tax|and a shot rang out. When the door |election, objected to Ellis was chairman, was appointed, | goes into the revenue fund and will] Was opened the girl’s body lay before |as challenger for Baker. Smith and and the joint Highway committee of tend to raise the situation with the| the rescuers. Treasurer until other taxes com- new type and other material. It has also moved its newspaper factory to jof barley. The total crop yield would | be 4,875, 920,000 bushels and its value, $3, 102, 100,000. The production of gold in the Un- ited States in 1906, the last year for which official figures are available, was $94,373,800 and the silver $38,- 256,400 making a total value of $132,- 630,300. The world’s products for the same year was $400,342,100 of gold and $214,309,200 of silver, a total of $614,651,300. | BLACK HELD FOUR CAPTIVE Attacks and Slays White .Girl and Self. Ironton, O., Aug.—After assaulting Ella Welch, 13 years old, Sunday morning, Charles Davis, a negro, held the entire family prisoners at the muzzle of a shotgun until Tuesday morning, when, confronted by the police, he killed his victim and com- mitted suicide. The assault and murder both were unbelievably in- human. The mother and two of her chil- dren were absent from home when the assault occurred Sunday morn- ing. The girl, Ella, was alone in the house when Davis entered. The mother, who had been absent, re- turned and discovered what had hap- pened. Davis seized a shotgun and told Mrs. Welch he would kill her. The other children likewise, he over- awed with his threats of death. Throughout Sunday, Sunday night, Monday and until early Tuesday morning he kept the entire family im- prisoned in their own home. Tuesday morning Davis thought he detected Mrs. Welch whispering something to her son, who is 16 years old, The negro leveled the shotgun at her. The son sprang between them and knocked up the gun. Mrs. Welch leaped through a rear window and ran to. the home of a Davis, seeing that escape was im- Triplets Born Near Garden City. The indefinite but autharized re- port reached this office of the birth its. are Organize Now. Unquestionably a majority of the democratic and republican parties favor the income tax. If proof on this point were necessary it is found in the fact that a republican congress has been forced by public sentiment to submit an income tax amendment. It is no secret, however, that the re- publican, leaders who reluctantly yielded to this necessity expect that the proposed amendment will fail by reason of not having a sufficient num- ber of states. The clause in the federal constitu- tion providing for the method of amendment is as follows: “The congress, whenever two- thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this constitution or, on the applica- tion of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a con- vention for proposing amendments, which in either case, shail be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions of three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the congress; provided, that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the senate.”’ The fight for the income tax has only begun. The subject should, therefore, be studied by every citizen. It would be well if, in every precinct in the United States, men and women should congregate for'the purpose of informing themselves upon this im- portant topic.—Commoner. Mother Sees One Son Slay An- other. St. Joseph, Mo., Aug.—Fighting with her own sons, Jasper and Clar- ence, in an effort to prevent them from wounding each other following a heated quarrel, Mrs. Albert Lindsay and her daughter, exhausted by their efforts, saw Jasper seize a butcher- knife and chase his brother up a fight of steps, where, seizing a shotgun, Clarence fired. The charge entered Jasper'’s eye and caused almost instant death. A coroner’s jury acquitted the younger boy. Jasper Lindsay is said to have start- ed an argument which rapidly devel- oped into a bitter quarrel. After a set-to with fists, in which the elder brother was bested, he swore that he would kill his brother. Mrs. Lindsay struggled to stop him as he reached for the knife. Her daughter threw her arms around Jasper’s neck and pleaded with him to think of what he was trying to do. The struggle lasted for several min- utes, during which Clarence Lindsay looked on. Then as he saw his brother free himself and seize the knife he fled. Unaware of the fact that his shot had laid Jasper low, Clarence leaped from a two-story widow, and, dragging the shotgun with him, ran two miles to police headquarters and gave himself up, saying that he had wounded Jas- per. 4 SHOT IN KY. ELECTION. Rich Merchant killed and Three Others Wounded. Lexington, Ky., Aug. 10.—During a school election in the Flat Lick Pre- cinct, in Knox county, eight miles from Barbourville last Saturday, Sam Earley, a wealty merchant, was kill- ‘ed and William Bargo, William Smith and John Henson perhaps fatally wounded. Wm. Baker and Henry Slusher were candidates for school trustee. Each headed a large’ faction, and Bargo, officers of the Henson acting Henson demanded a fair show for their condidate and, it is said, threats slashed himself across the! were made that unless’ Baker was|to pay extra ‘clerk throat and sank to the ground dying. given an equal division of the offices | penses. ‘ in the. booth bloodshed would follow. Hardly had the demand been made when the shooting began and Earley fell dead in the booth. The fight of triplets at the home of a farmer|continued outside, with the result/house hada narrow. itself to the proposition of the ground floor and now has a con- |near Garden City. The HIS BOY MASTER. . The Newest of Dog Stories Puts Canine Lovers to Guessing. Jackson, Miss.—A dog story strange enough, but without a single element of fiction and with no doubt as to its 'absolute truth, is developed through correspondence between R. W. Parks, a confectioner of this city, and his wife, who is visiting relatives at Creel Springs, Ill. Mr. Parks has a 5-year-old son and the boy has a thoroughbred fox ter- rier dog named Joe. When the trip | was made to Illinois the boy insisted upon taking Joe along. The dog was placed in charge of the baggageman and the family took a sleeper for Paducah, where they changed cars and laid over a few hours, having still about one hundred miles to go, crossing the Ohio River, to reach Creel Springs. Upon reaching Paducah, however, Mrs. Parks was told by the baggage- man that the dog had chewed the rope with which he was tied and escaped. He did not know just where it happened; but thought he must have left the car at Fulton, almost another hundred miles back. Telegrams were sent from Paducah to all the stations along the line and the family went on to their destina- tion. From there other telegrams were sent, but no trace of Joe could be found. The dog had many friends in Jack- |son besides the members of the fam- ily interested, and when Mrs. Parks wrote her husband of the ill luck in losing the dog he told his friends and there was much regret. Joe had never been outside of Jackson during the three and one-half years of his life and might be considered a tender- foot asa traveler. There was no hope that he would ever be seen again, as he was at least three hun- dred miles from Jackson aud be- tween one hundred and two hundred miles from Creel Springs. Many letters were exchanged be- tween the husband and wife, and the dog was one of the important sub- jects discussed in each. In the last of these, just received by Mr. Parks, his wife rejoices in having met Joe in the road a quarter of a: mile from the home of her parents where she is visiting, as she was going for a stroll. He was going directly toward the house, and greeted her and the boy with a bark and a cordial wag of the tail. Mr. Parks is spending much time now figuring on how the dog found his way there. He bad never been there before. He had to cross the Ohio River and he had been lost more than three weeks: The home where Mrs Parks is visiting isa mile from the town and off the railroad, Extra Session Cost $500,000. Washington, Aug.—Further inves- tigation of the cost of passing the tariff law shows that before Uncle Samuel gets through footing the bills of the lawmakers incurred during the special session he will have to pay out close to $500,000. The principal item of expense is the mileage, because every member of both houses is allowed mileage at the rate of 20 cents a mile from his home to Washington for every ses- sion which he attends. By the time the Senators and Representatives from the Pacific Coast put in their bills this account is pretty big. Members of the House get just $154,000, while Senators took away from the Treasury $47,000 for travel- ing expenses. . ei Extra pay for the employes of the Senate amounted to something more than $73,000, and as there are mafiy more clerks, messengers and other workers on the House side, it is esti- mated that the pay for extra services of the employes was about $100,000. The urgent deficiency bill carried an item of $25,000 for general ex- penses, and it is said that most of this was used for the passage of the tariff bill. The official report- ers of both got about $10,000 hire and other ex- His Home Was on Fire. H. E. Errett was surprised when he reached home to learn ‘that -his ing by