The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 16, 1909, Page 8

F ' POEs. GIRL AIDS IN JAIL BREAK. Ada De Pratt, of Nevada, Mo., Tries Suicide When Deliv- ery Fails. Nevada, Mo., Sept. 12.—Unsuccess- ful in her attempt to aid two men in escaping from the local jail and be- » trayed by those for whom she had risked her life and liberty, Ada De Pratt shot herself rather than fall into the hands of the police officers who were searching for her. The bullet passed through her body and the girl may die. Miss De Pratt, who is only 18 years old and pretty, was employed as a domestic by a family occupying a house adjoining the county jail. For the past two weeks Jess Cherry, of Kansas City, and James Dow, of Pittsburg, Kan., both accused of rob- bery, have been confined here. From the top of the fence about the house the De Pratt girl was able to see and converse with the prisoners. As time went on the trio became friendly-to a marked degree. The girl often brought the men delicacies and carried messages for them. Finally the pair persuaded Ada to bring them a file. With the rough steel the men succeeded in filing away two of the bars. As they were about to climb through the aperture a pedestrian discovered them and re- ported at once to Sheriff Baugh. The jail delivery was frustrated. “Who told you about this,” asked one of the men of the Sheriff. “The person who gave you the file,’ remarked the Sheriff at a ven- ture. Taking this to mean that the De Pratt girl had betrayed them, the men told the Sheriff the part taken by her in the near-jail delivery. Mr. Baugh at once sent deputies to get the girl and bring her in. After a short search Ada was found near the window of the jail waiting for the men to emerge. She had a revolver in her hand, which it is thought she intended giving the prisoners to aid them in making their escape. As the deputies approached the girl realized at once that the plot had been discovered, Just as one of the offi- cers was about to lay a hand on her shoulder she pointed the revolver at her right breast and fired. The girl is unconscious and the police here have not been able to get a statement from her. The men involved in the near es- cape are under arrest for the burglary of a store in Schwartz, in the south- western part of the county. Public Sale. I will sell at public sale at my place 2 miles due east of Butler on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1909, the following property: 43 Head of Cattle: Consisting of 25 two year old heifers, 5 one year old heifers, 2two year old steers, 5 one year old steers, 3 milk cows, 1 three year old bull. 25 Head of Horses and Mules: 2 good brood mares, 1 aged work horse, 4 three year old work mules, 10 one year old mules, 1 mule colt, 3 two year old horse colts, 3 two year old filleys, 1 one year old filley, 1 i bins omreaae 30 Head of Sheep: 14 ewes from 3 to 6 years old, 5 ewes one year old, 10 spring ewe lambs, 1 registered buck. Farming Implements: 1 mower, 1 hay rake, 1 six shovel cultivator, 1 breaking plow, 1 harrow, 2 farm Se ot aE HOG CHOLERA PREVENTION | It Will Be Demonstrated at the Missouri State Fair. of the Missouri Agricultura, College at Columbia, will conduct demonstra- tions daily on the Missouri State Fair | grounds showing methods of using hog cholera serum for the prevention | of that disease.- Dr. Connaway has | been at work for years in perfecting | methods of preparing the serum and | administering it. This is of interest | Dr. J. W. Connaway, who is in charge of the Veterinary Department will pay every farmer who is raising | hogs to go to the State Fair and learn | all possible of the treatment. The United States Government Reports WE ARE OFFERING 39c IN OUR READY-TO-WEAR DEPARTMENT 3 Good Specials Children’s Worsted Dresses Good Colors, ages 2 to 6 years. Splendid values. Special price, each to every farmer in Missouri and it! cure and prevention of hog cholera. These demonstrations will be of great value to the state for they furnish an} opportunity to the swine’ breeders all | | } state that hog cholera serum is a sure | | over Missouri to get in close touch with the methods used in treating hogs with serum. | The State Fair dates are October 2 to 8. Chicago’s Fine New Hotel. From the Chicago Evening Post. | Although much still remains to be | done in the way of interior furnish- ing before the new LaSalle Hotel can | new hostelry has been formally open- ; $1.98 One lot of Nice White Aprons Fine sheer cloth, nicely made, extra good bargain, special price, each 15e One lot of Ladies’ Dress Skirts Come in black, brown, blue and gray. Special price on this lot ed tothe public, allof the rooms from the fourth to the sixteenth floor being furnished and ready for occu. pancy, The kitchen equipment is also com- plete and the announcement has been | made that the hotel is ready to serve | meals to fifteen thousand persons. | The delay in finishing the work on| the lower floors and in the rotunda is blamed to trouble with the building | trades unions which for a time ham- | pered all construction work in the| city. | During the last few days an army | of drapers has been busy covering | the uncompleted portions of the ro- tunda walls by hanging thousands of | yards of heavy burlap as a temporary be we expedient. Upon this burlap many! VERNON COUNTY MYSTERY. of the tapestry pieces which are even- tually to be set in panels on the walls| Woman’s Skeleton Discovered. have been fastened, thus adding] Skull Bones Crushed. Evi- some touches of color to the other- dence of Murder. wise somber appearance. , The new hotel, the total cost of | Nevada, Mo., Sept. 13.—Wilbur which is placed at 6 one half million 2nd > = es mage Sag be dollars, is owned by the LaSalle .Ho-|*"0W" farmer living fifteen miles tel Company, of which George Wood- | southwest of this city, found the skele- land, president of the Prairie State | to" of a woman in the side of a small be called complete, the magnificent $ manager of the Otto Young estate: | “#8 murdered. Philetus Gates, capitalist, and others | ; = ; |ney were called to investigate and mort the Doane of directors <a |brought the skeleton to this city. Red Hog Sale. | The bones were in good state of pre- On account of the death of G. W. | servation. The we ee tall ani Park, his son, J. H. Park will have a| Well dressed, the clothing being ch dispersion sale of pure bred Duroc- good quality. The hair, which had Jersey hogs, one half mile east of | been at a coil at the back of the head, Virginia, Bates County, Mo., on Tues-| dropped off as the skull was lifted by day September 2ist, 1909, when eT fi A d buried with will offer for sale 50 head of Spring | tg oe Pipa pote nla and 25 head of Summer pigs, males the body, but there was nothing in tt and gilts, also three yearling brood | bY which the hae could be identi- sows, three yearling males, and his fied. The left side of the skull was ar; “Big Ohio. — i ERE I ‘J. H. PARK, Virginia, Mo. Wife Charges Conspiracy. Plans Model Farm. Atlantic City, N. J., Sept.—Fred- Milwaukee, Wis., Sept.—‘‘Some | erick Reiners, of Brooklyn, son of a day Iam going to establish in Wis-| wealthy distiller, was arrested and consin a model farm,’’ said John I. wagons, 1 hay frame, 1 set 1 1-2 inch farm harness, 2 corn shellers, 1 cider mill and numerous other articles. Terms: All sums under $10 cash. On sums of $10 and over 12 months time will be given, notes with ap- proved security to bear 6 per cent from date. 2 per cent off for cash on sums of $10 and over. Sale to begin promptly at 10 o’clock a.m. N. B. MCFARLAND. C. F. Beard, Auctioneer: 47-2t Says He Can Restore Life. held under $2,000 bonds by Magis- Beggs, Milwaukee and St. Louis cap-| trate Jagmetty on the charge of con- italist, while he, with a party of Mil- | waukee men, was inspecting the: his wife, from whom he is seeking a spiracy preferred by Mrs. Reiners, model barn at the State Fair Grounds. | divorce. “T have been nursing the plan for several years, I shall have a farm of 2,000 acres, and its equipment will George Montgomery, a friend of Mr. Reiners, is also in custody in |connection with the alleged con- include every feature of modern/|spiracy, and a warrant is out for Con- farming. I shall take great pride in itand make it a model farm in every sense.”” stable Thomas Shrill, of Atlantic City. Clarence L. Cole, counsel for Mrs. Reiners, asked the court, before any i} | SO iN Sample Line of Men's, Women's and Children's - Umbrellas In this line you will find some of the finest grade Silk Umbrellas. This lot of samples 40 PER CENT LESS THAN REGULAR PRICE Hill’s Cash | | Rochester, Wis., Sept.—Congress- man Cooper took the hide off of Store } Cooper Lashes Cannon. | “SUBSIDIZED NEWSPAPERS” |Speaker Cannon in an address here | Some of the Excuses Which Will jand denounced him as an enemy to | popular government, that the country | must get rid of him before it can get any legislative relief. | He pledged himself to the fight, which is to be waged with renewed vigor against Cannon and ‘‘Cannon- ‘could do under the circumstances, ! Taft's express desire in the matter. | | His remarks received the closest attention by the 2,500 persons who had gathered at the Rochester home- coming. Mr. Cooper, as a leader of the in- surgents, was deprived of his com- mittee chairmanship on the insular relation, forecast a terrific fight at the opening of Congress in December, the purpose of which will be to pre- vent Cannon’s clection as Speaker, ! so that no man can exercise the abso- lute autocracy that is now Cannon’s. “The insurgents’? were defended as members of the House who had the courage of their convictions and the interests of the people uppermost in their mind, as well as being the only Republican members who tried to live up to the pledges of the party and justify its control of the legisla-' tive halls. , i Poultry raising has grown into such an enormous industry in Missouri that it‘can'no longer be classed asa side line, ranking as it does, next to live stock in the amount of money it be Made for Tariff Revision Sham. Washington, Sept. 13.—The re- ports floating back here indicate that the statesman who framed and sup- Bank; Charles A. Stevens of the firm | Sully near their father’s place. There ism,”” and closed by defending his ported the Aldrich law have agreed by that name, John Escher Knoble, |! @very indication that the woman vote on the tariff bill as the best he ©” 3t least one line of defense. “The newspapers,”’ they say “have The sheriff and prosecuting attor- and as being in accord with President ™istepresented the tariff bill.”” It sounds plausable to the ‘‘con- stits”—as congressmen call then— to put up this line of talk. You tell them confidentially that, of course the newspapers found fault with the bill, but that was because they were “subsidized” by somebody or other, or because they are in conspiracy to down certain eminent public men— including yourself—for not obeying their behests. Then you take up the Payne state- have been misrepresenting things. The truth happens to be though, that virtually all the great newspa- pers of the country started in with the expectation that the bill was going to be'a measure that Woilld. keep the campaign promises, and only grad- ually and reluctantly as the document was studied and its character disclosed did they come to the conclusion that it was a failure and worse. Kills Pupil Who Licked Two Teachers. Gravette, Ark; Sept. 13.—John Butram, a schoolboy, was killed by his teacher, A. T. Kelley, at the edge of McDonald County, Missouri, yes- terday. Itis said that Butram had caused the teachers of the Bear Hollow School considerable trouble and had succeeded in thrashing two teachers lately. When Kelley took the school it is said that he went “prepared to teach.” ms} ttursday young Butram announc- on anvils and blacksmiths’ tools and barb wire and copperas and so on, and as nobody knows anything about the subject and so can’t question you as to the importance of all these decreases in duty you get away with it, and your audience goes home thinking after all maybe you area great statesmen and the newspapers ed, it is said, that there would be no school that day, and Kelley insisted that the session would continue as usual. In the midst of a heated dis- cussion, it is said Butram’ drew a knife and made a dash at Kelley, who in turn drew his pistol, shooting But- ram three times. He died instantly. Stop and Read WE CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE testimony was taken, to permit her to brings annually to the farmers. Ear- make a statement. Half hysterical ly last year the State Bureau of La- 1 STUDEBAKER & STUDEB : ad be AKER & HENNEY We have two well improved farms, within five miles of Butler, her enter a room. farms fay weil and |eays, although whipping if she r Can give possession. at|toh GOODENOUGH Sulky and Gang Plows MAJESTI c nd QUICK MEAL a ST. C : LAIR aaa PENINSULAR pee! Kelley surrendered to the authorities. WEBER Wagons, NS