The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 24, 1914, Page 7

“KANSAS MURDER ay... MYSTERY SOLVED Youth at Great Bend Admits Slaying Three Persons Near Heiser, - GIVES FULL DEFAILS OF CRIME Thomas White Tells Officers How Oc- cupants of Farm House Were Shot Down in Cold Blood—Want.' ed Money, Great Bend, Kas., Sept. 22.—After making many careful inquiries as to + the penalty for murder, Thomas Tite; 21 years old, of this “city; is said by the authorities to have con- fessed to the killing on a farm near Heiser, Barton county, on September 11, of Lee Morgan, a farmer; Mrs. Mayme McQuillan, housekeeper, and Clarence McGuin, the latter a farm- hand, 18 years old. Hé mentioned an accomplice, it is said, and gave the motive as cupidity. The two expected to find the proceeds of a sale of 6,000 bushels of wheat, but $1.25 was all they found in the farmhouse. White also is declared to have stated that Lee Morgan was the cause of the separation of his parents when he was a child and of the ruin of his 13-year-old sister. ~ t ~ Quarrel is Alleged. On the day of the murder, accord- ing to, his alleged statement, White bad a quarrel with Morgan, with whom he sometimes made his home, over back pay owed the youth as a farmhand. A friend of White’s heard the conversation. Morgan is said to have cursed him and denied the debt. When the farmer left, the friend told White he “ought to get. Morgan.” + According to his story, White then rented a shotgun from-a relative and purchased some shells. The two friends hired a livery rig and drove to the Morgan farm. They approached the house cau- tionsly. - White stood guard at the front door, he says, while his un- bamed friend crept up to the window and shot Morgan While the farmer, his housekeeper and farm hand were sitting at the dinner table. The farm hand, frightened by the explosion of the gun, Jeaped back from the table and- dashed out the front door. As he did so White opened fire, shooting McGuin fouritimes. The last,shot was discharged with the muzzle placed close to McGuin’s skull as hé lay pros- trate and dying at White’s feet. Meanwhile Mrs. McQuillan ran from the house and attempted to rescue the farm hand and was promptly shot down by the other man. House Thoroughly Searched. * The two then entered the farm house and searched it thoroughly for money. They found only the small ‘amount mentioned. White thereupon closed all the doors and extinguished the light so as-not to attract the at- tention of neighbors to the tragedy. They drove back to Great Bend, re- turned the horse and rig to the barn and went to a restaurant, where they washed the blood from their hands. After that they loafed about town for a few days, finally taking a train for Hutchinson, where they attended the BO PERSONS PERISH AT SEA Storm Sinks Vessel Near Mouth of Columbia. River. Portland, Ore, Sept. 21.—Eighty men, women and children, coastwise passengers and crew, on the three-- masted steam schooner Francis H. Leggett were drowned when the Leg- ~gett was pounded to pieces in a gale, sixty miles below the mouth of the Co- Jumbi& river. -* Two men were picked up by passing steamers: carried to Astoria and Portland, wi they told how the sea tore the vessel to pieces and how the passengers were drowned, a boat load Senior Lieutenant von Tirpitz, son ‘ef Grand Admiral von Tirpitz, Ger man secretary of the navy, was an officer of the cruiser Mainz, sunk by the English off Helgoland. He was. rescued by the English-uninjured. CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS ABOUT READY TO ADJOURN Unless New Conditions Arise Session Will End by Mid- dle of October. Washington, Sept. 21.— Congress which has been in continuous session for eighteen months is almost ready to send word to the president that it has completed its work. Unless thie European war should precipitate conditfons now unforseen, administration leaders said they could ‘pee no reason why adjournment should not be taken by October 15. The senate will renew consideration of the rivers and harbors appropria- tion bill. Democrats having failed to break the determined Republican fili- buster, there is a growing prospect of further compromise on the measure, which now contains appropriations ag- gregating $34,000,000. “While the senate is fighting its way out, of the river and harbor diffi- culty “the” house will at Yast take up the war revenue bill, the measure hav- ing been completed by Democrats of thé. ways and meahs committee. Major Leader Underwood believes he can pilot the bill through within the week, ; Trust legislation after six months of deliberation is about concluded. The federal trade commission bill has left congress and awaits the signature of the president, who is delaying the vitalization of the law, until the Clay- ton anti-trust bill to supplement the Sherman act can reach him. The conference report on that meas- ure is completed, and should be agreed to in both houses within a fortnight at the latest. With trust legislation, the rivers and harbors bill and thé war tax out of the way, congress will have concluded the major part of its work unless there is a demand that the ship pur- chase bill be passed. ‘ This measure, however, may be permitted to go over until the winter session. A Navy's First Disaster. Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 21.— Rear Admiral Sir George Hatry, com- mander of the Australian mavy, in a wireless. dispatch to the government, states that submarine. AE-1, which was reported as lost, disappeared with all hands on board. THR GENERAL MARKETS, Kansas City, Mo., CATTLE—Steers. - $ Selected feeders, - HOGS—Bulk of sales, me amon RSET Ses SSeS SSEOOSe 8 as rs soegeco en Heeseas, ae i rit itis 4 Rae Seeoces FARM FURROWS. Farmer ‘end Stockman. : Lots of folks are willing to sacrifice appearances for attention. You-may practice economy every known way, but your taxes never shrink. Any sort of a neighborhood is good ‘lenough for that person who sees nothing but its faults. Plums are ripe and eventhough we caHed them peaches they could not be any better than they are. ou ~ Swearing at the weather seems to be an everlasting rainy day job for some men who are always behind with their other work. With pastures as‘green as in May and bushels of corn growing in the fields every day the farmer ought to bea pretty good candidate for the “I should. worry’? club as far as or- dinary troubles are concerned. If the law regarding weeds grow- |'ing along the roadsides cannot be en- forced it should be repealed. It is bad enough to see a slouchy farmer advertise his. way of doing business without allowing him to become an outlaw. ° There never wasascrub so scrubby that a little scrubbing of the right kind would not make him more sal- able. There are very few that have made a success with pure-bred live stock who could not have done fairly well even with scrubs. Don’t “‘knock’’ your own county fair. If you haven’t energy enough to boost for it have sense enough not to knock. Remember, your own opinion of those who knock the things you are boosting and then take a good square look at yourself as others see you. - _ After the grain is in the shock it is made and if it is damaged after that itis our loss. It is well enough to say that that grain will keep in the shock if it don’t rain, also that grain will keep in an open crib if it don’t rain, but it generally rains and some- times it pours. . Get the habit of reading the ad- vertisements in farm papers, even though it may take a month to find a thing you wish to buy. We don’t Know what we may want a month from’ now and keeping posted on the “ads’’ will help us to get what we want when we want it. I believe it has been remarked that it is no disgrace to be poor, but. that it is mighty inconvenient. As far as that part of it is concerned, however, T have noticed a good many folks in the possession of more riches than they could conveniently handle in the proper way. : The farmer has no reason to hang his head before any man on earth. What he puts on the market is of genuine value and a high essential to the welfare of the world. He may have to walk inthe dirt sometimes, but he has the right to be proud enough to keep his head forever in stellar space. f The threshing machine in this vi- cinity refuse to bear out the estimat- or’s guess of a bumper crop of small grain. Oats is rather light when sacked up and spring wheat was hit by black rust in places. Guessing at the crops may be great fun, but spec- ulators find it rather expensive at times. sae Silence counts very much more for wisdom than a clattering tongue. If nature made you homely, for goodness’ sake don’t try to enhance her handiwork. The young man who marries a rose bud often finds ‘that flowers. soon fade, while the thorns are perennial. Some.of my friends would have had fine vacations this summer if they only could have left themselves be- hind.’ 5 ’ The fellow who makes sport of a half-witted. person may imagine he has very bright brains himeelf, but The loriger the war progresses the more difficult it becomes to settle its issues of an evening dewn at the kes it iter of pri never repeat many of the things he hears; for instance, his wife is forever ding- ‘into his ears what she thinks of ‘stood, willimmediately install a big 'the head and stunned him. - midnight oil on the road leading to success; nowadays it is the midnight gasoline on’ the road usually else- where. Don’t lie down and give up; stand up; cheer up; keep up; look up. These are the sort of ups which roll up a good account to be summed up on the right side of life’s ledger. The small town is often ridiculed and condemned for its curosity and disposition fo pry into the affairs of other. people, but-te-an--honest man who attends to his own-business it is much to be preferred to the cold in- difference of the city. I, for my part, would a good deal rather have my neighbors show enough personal in- terest in me to be curious than to have them utterly unaware of my ex- istence. A ride across’ the country these days of late summer affords plenty of evidence that the weed laws are not very widely known or else that they are quite widely held in contempt. It is a mistake to try to haul big loads to the cutter at silo filling. They are harder to load and unload and the time gained in hauling from the field is usually lost in picking up the bundles that have dropped off. An ‘eastern farm paper remarks that nobody but a fool leaves his hen-: house unlocked at night. But it was an eastern paper, remember. Out here in the middle west those of our neighbors who are not honest and above the arts of a chicken ‘thief are so smart that a padlock would be no better protection against them than leather door hinges. IN A BAD WAY. Many a Butler Reader Will Feel Grateful for This Information. If your back gives out; Becomes lame, weak or aching; If urinary troubles set in, Perhaps your kidneys are ‘‘in a bad way.” Doan’s Kidney Pills are for weak kidneys. Local evidence proves their merit. Mrs. F. E. Mize, 411 Vine St:, Butler, Mo., says: ‘‘I had an attack of kidney trouble and suffered in- tensley. There was a bearing down pain in my back and the kidney secre- tions bothered me. in my head and was bothered by dizzy headaches.- Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I procured at Clay’s Drug Store, proved their merit by reliev- ing me after other remedies and doc- tors’ prescriptions had failed.’’ - 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.—adv. 48-2t Deal For Carthage Stone Ends Capitol Controversy. , Jefferson City, Mo., Sept. 20.—Ac- cording to information that reached Jefferson Citytoday, the Capitol stone controversy is ended; and at the next meeting of the Building Commission Contractor K. F. Gill will report progress in his search for the ‘‘best stone’’ to be found in Missouri. Gill has closed a deal with the In- galls Stone Company. of .Missousi, to get stone from the Superior quarry near Carthage. Samples from this quarry were approved by the com- mission some weeks ago. The quarry will be operated by the Ingalls Company and the: stone will be dressed at the quarry and shipped to Jefferson City ready for laying. The Ingalls Company it is under- plant at the Superior quarry. Slugged a Missouri Banker. St. Louis, Sept 20.—Harvey W. Salmon, 76 years old, former Demo- cratic politician and banker of Henry county, was removed to the City Hospital with a fractured skull last night, He told the police he had been beaten and robbed of his watch and chain. ' He said he left the Planters Hotel to goto-his home and boarded the wrong car. When he reached Four- In the old times they burned the I also had pains - BANAS 115 MONEY & Ce Sy © cur T BOOKS LLAA . * G7 OR BANK 1S A SAFE PLACE FOR IT Money carried in the pocket slips away easily. Put yours in our BANK; it won't be so hard to re- fuse a loan to “friends” who will never pay you back. Nor, will you foolishly SPEND your money when it is safe in our bank. = We refer those who have not banked with us to those who HAVE. Our vaults and locks are burglar proof. The good names of men of high CHARACTER and known financial RESPONSI- BILITY are also behind our bank. Make OUR Bank YOUR Bank Missouri. State Bank “The Old Reliable’ W. H. Charters, Jr’s Herd. | located for sale. It is a fine farm and About the middle of August we 2 desirable location for some one who made a trip to Butler, Mo., and vis-| wants to go into the hog business. — ited the splendid Big Type herdof W.,SWineherd. H. Charters, Jr., who has a really “Clinton Minister Out For Gov- good Big ‘Type herd that isacreditto| _ ernor. Missouri and would compare favor- | . ably with the best in Iowa or Nebras-|__ Lamonte; Mo., Sept. 20.—Rev. A, ka, the original home of the Big Type. iN. Lindsay, a Christian minister at There is no reason why this should | Clinton, will be 4 candidate for the not beicosiMes Charters ise a thor- | Democratic nomination for Governor ough hog man of rare business abil- |i” 1916. Formal announcement was ity and has the best breeding obtain- Made Saturday at Lamonte, where able. At the head of the herd is the Mr. Lindsay opened the Democratic great bnar White Sox Chief by A |C4™paign in Pettis county. Wonder, dam Long Price 4th by Col-|~~ cies umbia Chief 2d. The dam of Long! Sheriff's Sale. Price 4th is Long Price 2d by Chief .,thviineadannority of a transcript exo: Price and her dam was Extra Long. | Circuit Coart of Bates County Mo , returnable It would be impossible to improve on; ; 8t the October Term, 1914 of eaid Court, and to would | against Conway Grapaen {have ienles anne this pedigree. He was bred by W. ‘and seized the right, title, interest and claim W. Wheeler before Fesenmeyer got! the following deercibed oat ota, 84,2 old A Wonder and is one of the old- ¢cuth cas: quarter, the east belt of tie cone est and best A Wonder boars in ser~ [t'aadter aad" ott! Stat athe vice. He is very vigorous for his age of the north east quarter of section ten, a and the west hall of the cast half of fractional as he has never been fed to see how section three, and the west half of fractional heavy he could be..made. Charters srorion tue’ Gale ea ae Wumnehip says he could have made him weigh) being ‘nike seld'Gounty and State of edie 1,100 pounds easily. He is easily in| . ‘ the 1000 pound class and one of the| teteeen tae Deuce arion pehoer Saar greatest breeders in the corn belt. |iege SF cus ant Orbea tense ntore te keane Mr. Charters has followed the same ef Batlr, County aforeaid, sel the same, ot tactics Fesenmeyer did in keeping a | Vendne, to the highest bidder for caeh in hand, ; | to satisfy said execution and coats. son of A Wonder by selecting a splen- | HARVE JOHNSON, did son of White Sox Chief to take |‘"'* BhrLE OC Batee County, Me. his place. Wonder Chief will be two! Rags ath ie years old October 3. His dam Blue| | A a eee Partition. Violet is an elegant big sow by Mo. |*"~ ‘ye, : Wonder in Blaine’s Wonder. He isa "Foster: Moule Aukram and Bale Bowenaens combination of A Wonder, Big Had- | In ihe Chant Hourt, Bates County, Missouri. ley and Blaine’s Wonder blood and it j A By virtue and authority of a decree and or- ... | der of sale made by the s,id Court. in the above has surely produced great Seer Mh | seeauteurcena ch A certified copy thereof this case. Mr. Charters may well be| * ee C proud of his achievements as a breed- er in the production of this great young hog. He has size, dash and fin- ish, smooth, jet black coat, best of back and hams, good head and ear, very heavy bone and is up on toes. When W. S. C. is done with his life} of usefulness he will have a worthy | successor of his own flesh arid blood. | Without a word against W..S. C. we} will say Wonder Chief is going to be his superior as an individual and his pigs in the spring crop are showing up great. Another great herd boar is Long Price by Big Tom, the Ne- braska State Fair winner. His damis Sunlight by Guy’s Price 2d. He was bred by the noted Nebraska breeder D. C. Lonergan and carries the blood of old Expansion, Bell Metal, Guy great Nebraska hogs. He is a big, wide, long, heavy bone, quality ho afternoon Price, Oakland’s Prospect and es Tuesday, October 6, 1914, between the hours of nine o’clock in the fore- noon and five o’clock in the afternoon of that day at the east front door of the Court House in Butler, Missouri, sell at pnblic vendue, to the highest bidder the following described real estate, viz: The North half of the South East quarter of section twenty-eight (28). township forty-two . zenge thirty-three (38), In Bates County, jenot Terme of sale as follows, viz:—Tash in hand, 48-td HARVE JOHNSON, Sheriff of Bates County, Missouri. Sheriff's Sale. By virtue and authority of Special Execution issued from the office of the Clerk of the Cir- cuit Court of Bates County, Mo., retarnable at the October Term, 1914, of said Court, and to me direoted, in favor of J. H. Stone Collector of the revenue of Bates County, Missouri, and against J. M. Lothri 1 bBave levied upon end siezed all the t, man interest and claim of thegaid J. M. Lothridge of, in and tothe following deseribed eal Eavace’ wit: The Norte haifof Lot Bight, N ition Five (i, Zewnehlp Thirty nine (30), Range Thirty-three (33), all in Bates And I will, om Tareday, the 6th day of Octo- ber, A D 1914, between the hours of nine o’cloek in the forenoon and five o'clock in the - of that day, at the East Court House Butler, County of Bates hand, to HARVE JOHNSON, teenth Street and Clark Avenue he realized his mistake, he said, and got A. Henderson of Bates county, Mo., and has made a great cross on the A Wonder herd sows. Mr. Charters has one of the best sow herds we have ever seen. Big, wide, long, motherly things, as big as can be found in any herd. 25 of these farrowed 210 pigs uch larger |last spring. All sired by the three | ortse of forage feed there {herd boars but two litters. He also} asa hae 100-fall and spring gilts to select 6-td Sheriff of Bates County, Missouri. Sheriff’s Sale. By vistas ast setevetiy $6 6 Execution © issued from the office of of the Cir. ealt Court County, Mo, S tae dlrectad, vam el never Tas 21S Siteiay eames bah ¥y ?