The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 25, 1909, Page 2

ALICE A ROUGH RIDER, TOO! Uncle Stephen Cantrell Dead. | STARR ADMITS HE DID IT. .. .|. Uncle Stephen Cantrell passed Mr. Roosevelt’s Daughter, Writes} Seacefully away at the home of his Fraulein Kroebel, Created Con- sternati orean ship, Saturday morning, November tien oS aie Up With al 13th, 1909, of ailments incident to old |age; aged 89 years, 2 months and 23 Cigar in Her Mouth. | days. Berlin, Nov. 20.—Fraulein Emma| Uncle Stephen was born in North Kroebel, a German woman, who was| Carolina, August 20th, 1820; from the chief mistress of ceremonies at|thence he moved to Platte county, the court of the emperor of Korea in| Missouri, at the close of the Civil 1905, appears as the author of a book, | War; after residing there one year he published here, which contains a sec- | moved to Bates county, where he re- tion dealing with the visit of the then |Sided until the end came. His wife Miss Alice Roosevelt to Korea in that | Preceded him to the other world some year. years ago. Five children survive In her account of the official recep-| him, viz: John G., Smith, Sterling, tion to Miss Roosevelt she says the {Roland and Mrs. Ed. A. Porter. Mr. emperor extended to the party an in-| Cantrell has been a faithful member vitation toa reception at the grave | Of the Baptist Church for many years. side of his departed consort, the |He was a loyal neighbor, a courteous empress, and went there at the head | gentleman anda good citizen. Such of an imposing suite in order to give | Men are missed and mourned. the Americans a fitting welcome, Funeral services over the remains Fraulein Kroebel describes the| Were held from the Altona Baptist arrival of the Americans thus: |church Sunday, conducted by Rev. Shortly after the suite arrived a| Jos. A. Smith, tornado of dust burst upon us, out of| The Journal joins a wide circle of which a cavalcade of equestrians | friends in extending sympathy to the emerged. At their head rode a dash- | Mourning children.—Adrian Journal. ing young hersewoman clad in a scar- | . ; let riding habit, beneath the lower| OM/ahoma Gas For Missouri. extremities of which peeped tight} Kansas City, Mo., Nov.—Kansas fitting red riding breeches stuck into | City isnow burning gas from Okla- glittering boots. In her hand she|homa. The Kansas fields practically brandished a riding whip, in her|are exhausted. Gas experts say, mouth a cigar. | however, that the wells in Oklahoma It was Miss Alice Roosevelt. We/are so much deeper and - stronger were flabbergasted. We had expect-|than those of Kansas, which have ed a different sort of apparition. | lasted three years, that they should Everybody was bowing and scraping furnish gas from seven to ten years in the most approved Korean court} Without difficulty. ;son, R. L. Cantrell, in Shawnee town-| | A Confession of « Colorado Bank Robbery By the Outlaw. Lamar, Col, Nov.—Henry Starr, the bandit, surprised a courtroom full of spectators here by pleading guilty to the charge of having partici- pated in the robbery of the bank at Amity, Col., last spring. Since his capture some months ago Starr has insisted he was innocent and that an attempt was being made to convict him on his past record. He said he had reformed previous to the Amity robbery. No evidence was heard. Starr’s wife and baby were in court, and Mrs. Starr wept bitterly when her husband pleaded guilty. Starr’s baby was named after ex- President Roosevelt. by the murder of a deputy United States marshal, Floyd Wison. Wilson and another marshal named Dickey set out after Starr and follow- ed him into his haunts on Wolf Creek, only to find him gone. They pursued him to X. U. Ranch on Cali- fornia Creek and came up in time to see him leaving. Wilson got a horse and set out after the’ fleeing outlaw, Dickey following some distance be- hind. Wilson finally caught up, and Starr dismounted. Then followed a fight in which Wilson was killed. Starr escaped on Wilson's horse. The killing of Wilson was the be- | ginning of the most bold and desper- ate holdups, bank irobberies and mur- ders since the times of the Jameses. In surprisingly rapid succession bandits, said to have been led by Starr, fell upon the Bentonville Bank Henry Starr is the last of the free| at Bentonville, Ark., the Chelsea rail- and wild class of clever desperadoes, | road station, the Missouri, Kansas & fearless, murderous and cruel, but Texas train at Pryor Creek, Ok., not without a flavor of dashing brava-| stores at Nowata and Choteau, Ok., do and a leaven of romance. Heisa'the bank at Aldrich, Mo., and the fit follower of the James and Young- Caney Valley Bank at Caney, Kan., er boys, a precise duplicate of that 'the last of which finally, proved the earlier boy bandit, ‘Billy the Kid,” | undoing of the outlaw. Three thou- and an able successor to his distant | sand dollars was obtained at Aldrich kinsman, Tom Starr, an Indian des- | ang $2,000 at Caney. perado, whose exploits were the — of other days not so long After the Caney robbery a suppos- | ed friend of Starr betrayed his where- abouts, and six heavily armed offi- cers entered his room in Colorado In the early 90s, when Henry Starr was still a boy in his teens, evil com- panions led him into his first crime, {for a more thrilling field than the the selling of whisky to the Indians. But the genius of Starr was destined petty bootlegging of delectable ‘fire fashion, but the “Rough Rider's’ Several weeks ago, when, with the | daughter ‘seemed to think it all a/| Weather still above the freezing point, joke. As the mistress of ceremonies | the weakness of the pressure was no- | I stammered out a few words of ticed here, it was somewhat of a| greeting, and the guest of honor mystery, as the gas company had had | mumbled a word of thanks, but noth- little difficulty before except when | ing more. She was mainly interested | the mercury was within 15 degrees | in the colossal figures of gods and j of zero. the mammoth stone images of ani-| An investigation of the situation mals which hold watch over the confirmed a report that the Kansas | graves of the departed members of | fields were becoming exhausted. the Korean dynasty. | Recent court action in Oklahoma | Spying a stone elephant, which | has allowed the Kansas Natural Gas seemed particularly to strike her Company to connect the pipe lines fancy, Alice hurtled off her horse and | with the Oklahoma fields. ina flash was astride the elephant, | Republicen reader, if you do. not shouting to Mr. Longworth to snap- | endorse and uphold the tariff bill as shot her. Our suite was paralyzed the best bill that was ever passed, with horror and astonishment. Such president Taft has excommunicated a sacrilegious scene at so holy a spot! you with bell, book and candle; | was without parallel in Korean his-| Speaker Cannon has read you out of tory. It required indeed “American | the party and Senator Aldrich has/| ways” to produce it. ;cast you out into political darkness. It was a critical moment. The sus- | These three, who are in present con- | pense was relieved only by the pass- trol of the party, have spoken and ing of tea and other refreshments. | you are free to act according to your Alice remained oblivious to what was hest lights. The only way to make going on around her. ; Not a word of | the Republican party stand for your thanks for her reception was forth-| views is to depose such leaders -by coming. She chatted casually with defeating them. ‘The only way to de- the wife of the American minister, feat them is to vote the Democratic | Mrs. Morgan, and partook bravely Of | ticket. Suppose you swallow your| the champagne and other delicacies. | wrath and humiliation and for reg- Suddenly she gave orders for the | ularity’s sake vote for the high tariff | saddling of her horse and galloped gang under inward protest. You away with her male escorts like a then only help shackle your party Buffalo Bill. jand stifle your own principles. If | you believe your party’s pledge to re- He Sues H. S. Priest For $19.500. | vise the tariff meant a revision in the St. Louis, Nov. 20.—John A. Gil-| interest of the people, it is your duty liam, who for years has been the | to resent the betrayal of your confi- | water.’’ In 1891 he and companions, said to have been his brother, ‘‘Bill,”’ who was later caught and hanged for murder, and his sister, Belle, robbed the express office at Nowata and fled with the spoils. This adventure im- mediately placed him in the outlaw Springs. After a struggle, in which the officers were nearly overpower- ed, Starr and one of his most desper- ate companions, ‘‘Kid’’ Wilson, were taken captives. The money was found in the room. Starr was re- |turned to Arkansas and convicted of | the Bentonville robbery. He was released from prison in 1907. Starr Old Guard Dockery. Every few days we read in some Republican or Assistant Republican | paper a sneer at the expense of Gov. | Dockery and the “Old Guard,” says |the Clinton Democrat. Would to | Heaven there were more Old Guard | ex-Governors such as Dockery. | Whena man spends a lifetime in rounds out as chief execu- tive of his State and then proceeds to make himself a genuinely useful pri- vate citizen, it proves that there is something to him. Read the following from the Gal- latin Democrat. “Gov. Dockery completed the grad- ing of the county road from the Rock Island overhead bridge to the Grand River county bridge on Tuesday last, and the township board is now get- ting matters in shape to furnish rock to macadamize the road. “The grade is said to be one of the best, if not the best, ever made in this county. When the rock is put on the dump it will be “a thing of beauty and a joy forever’ and above any ordinary stage of high water, “Mr. Dockery is negotiating with the officials of the Wabash in an en- deavor to induce-the railroad com- pany to grade and macadamize its right of way from the county road near the ‘Calf Pen’’ school house to the depot. “He is also trying to persuade the Rock Island road to pay the cost of grading and macadamizing its right of way where the county road crosses it near the residence of Joseph Luke- hart.- It is hoped that he will be suc- sessful in both efforts, “Under the Governor's supervision the gulleys alongside the road from the power house to the overhead bridge are also being cleaned out, the | was suspected of the robbery of the} bank in Tyro, Kan., in March, last} brush and debris removed and the road rounded up so that the water year, CLOSED! category, for it was followed closely Owing to the great catas- trophe which resulted in the. death of Congressman De Armond and his grand son, we have declared the show at the Electric Theater off for To-Night. Gough & Walker. LOOKING BACKWARD. Gleanings From THE TIMES _ Columns a Quarter of a Cen- | Says John D. Was “Goat” of the Joke. From the San Antonio Light and Gazette. prineipal legal opponent of the United | dence —Chi - Rail C , filed suit f yee ae $19,500 aguinst Judge Henry s,|BRYAN ATTACKS THE SALOONS Priest, chief counsel for the com- pany, to-day. He alleges that Judge The “Personal Liberty” Plea De- Priest's position as a leading member of the bar, a director of the United Railways Company and ex-United States district and circuit judge clared to be a Subterfuge. r Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 22.—William J. Bryan’s ex; broadside against the saloon and the doctrine of per- agravated the offense committed by Priest when he knocked down and sonal liberty will appear in the forth- beat Gilliam in Judge Muench’s di- vision. of the circuit court Nov. 4. In his petition he says that he in- coming issue of the Commoner. Mr. Bryan declares the drunken man is a menace to those about him and the -ts the hookworm agitation merely a huge joke and is Rockefeller, who has donated a million dollars te fight the disease in the South the one it is tury Ago—Nov. 26th, 1884. Judge Bailard is feeding 125 head of cattle on his farm in Spruce town- ap De. W- le Barbas erly F . r. W. er, formerly super- bicchrtebedollnime dae dengan intendent of the Southwestern Insane west part of the county, is on a boom. Bishop Rodertson, of St. Louis, will preach a Thanksgiving sermon at the Episcopal church. . Gent West returned Friday from a business trip through Kansas. He says the mossback Republicans down. : there are still betting on Blaine. “Laziness is a disease that is. prev- Ben Bigstaff and Ashby Hamilton! alent in all sections. of the country Asylum, thinks so. ‘Tf there is any such thing in existence as a hook- worm I have failed to discover it so far. In my mind there are plenty of ways'to cure a case of taziness other with which to do it. saloon akin to a disorderly house and gambling hall, the rendezvous of the due him, he says, because of the| criminal element and the willing tool ‘standing and weatth of the defend-|of the returned home Saturday from the ational Stockman’s Association at E. A. Ewing and bride, Will Mills liam the North as well as to us, 1 tors have failed to discover’ the hoo will be drained off on both sides thus preserving the macadam.”’ Why Kansans. Like Missouri. The Ft. Scott Tribune says but few people realize the immense amount of money that goes out of that city every month for liquor, to Missouri dealers. There are not only wagon loads of it arriving daily, but many go every day to points in Missouri, where they can secure it. Operator Sherm Knox of the Katy stated this morning that they sell on an average of 750 tickets each month to Nevada, which is an average of 15 daily, and that of this number many are pur- chased by people who go there ex- pressly to secure liquor. This num- ber is to only one of the numerous points in Missouri where liquor can be secured, and if the number to Rich Hill, Joplin and other places that are frequented by those addicted to the use of liquor could be secured, it would be appalling. Cleaning Out the Hawks. Charley Welch, out northeast of town, has a row, of 18 big. hawks hung along the road, which attracts attention and comment from all pass- ers by. Welch and his ‘neighbors have been pestered by hawks for some time. The pestiferous things steal every chicken they can get their claws .on and some of them have nerve enough to tackle young pigs. Welch went to work on them with the above result. Eighteen dead hawks made quite a hole in the visi- ble supyly of that neighborhood, and he is going to keep at it until the TAFT WANTS BIG NAVY! ——— Talks Ships and Waterways Norfolk, Va. features of the con. vention of the Atlantic Deeper Water. ways Association, and to accept again the hospitality of the people of the Old Dominion, President Taft came to Norfolk Friday,. reviewed a mili. tary and naval parade, made two speeches, in which he bespoke hig interest in a practical system of water. way improvements; to be carried for. ward on a*business like basis, ang not merely as a means of distributing patronage; partook of an oyster roast under the shadows of the towering Cape Henry Lighthouse, and attend. ed a smoker in honor of a large corps of visiting newspaper men. The President retired Friday night on the'naval yacht Mayflower. The Mayflower Saturday morning got un. der way for Hampton, where the President attended a meeting of the § Board of trustees of the Hampton Normal Institute,.of which he isa member. . Mrs. Taft accompanied the Presi- dent to Norfolk, and while he was reviewing the big parade and later was making an open air address, Mrs. Taft and her sister, Mrs. Thom- as K. Laughlin Jr., of Pittsburg, came as’:ore and went on a sightsee- ing expedition. In his speech the President, after detailing his views as to waterway improvement, spoke a word for ‘the United States Navy, declaring that the prestige of the nation demands that the navy be kept to a high stand- ard of efficiency. The President also declared that he was in favor of fortifying Hampton Roads, the greatest strategical naval base in the world, by ereeting an im- pregnable fort on an island placed half-way between the Virginia Capes. He hoped to see the plan adopted during his term as President. President Taft mentioned the big- ger navy in referring to the battle of the Merrimac and the Monitor. He said: “T want a navy to continue to be maintained worthy of this country, | We are not knocking anybody’s chip off his shoulder, and we are not hav- ing achip on our shoulder, but we are a great nation of eighty or ninety millions of people, and we must, in order under the present. canditions, to maintain the prestige that is pro- portionate to our stand before the world, have a navy that is worth see- ing and able to fight if it has to.” Notice of Posting. Ata regular meeting held on Nov. 13th, 1909, of Plainview Lodge No. 80, Central Protective Association, a motion was made, carried and duly recorded that the members of said lodge post their farms against hunt- signed members hereby give public notice of obeying such order: J. R. Baum, Henry Eiler, Henry Donvan, Chas. Dixon, W. F.. Duvall, J, C. Clark, Chas. Grant, Frank Holland, O. P. Wilson, John Geneva, John Lawson, G. I. Lynch, J» W. Mc- Aninch, Geo. Palm, W. C. Powell, B. P. Powell, Geo. Henry, Joe Meyer, Joe T. Smith, G. W. Stitt, J.-F. Mc- roEs F ing and trespassing, and the under- ¢