The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 18, 1915, Page 3

RIGHT’S FEED YARD Butler, Missouri ARGENB Owing to the lateness of the spring and the demand for horses and mules and the fact that people have insisted on me, “ I will hold a-Combination Sale at. SALE BEGINS AT 1 O’CLOCK P. M. 140 Head of Horses and Mules 80-head of work mules, from 3 vears up, will be sold most- ly in pairs. Some extra good big mules. 60-head of good : horses and mares, mostly farm stuff. Bring in your horses and mules and we will have as many buyers as possible. TERMS CASEI CHAS. ARGENBRIGHT, Mer. (COL. C. E, ROBBINS, Auctioneer =8=§= MC. WILCOX, Clerk Foreign Nations Insist United States Must Protect Their Interests in Mexico. | nie ere | BRITISH CONSUL ASKS FOR AID He Says Conditions Are Becoming In| tolerable and That Uncle Sam | i | Remains Passive. | § Washington, March ists who, by instruction of their gov- ermments, have been discussing Mex: | ican affairs with the Washington gov- ernment, interpret the latest deyelony : ments as a change from a policy of Passive observation to one of ener- getic insistence on the protection of! foreign interests. With the situation at Progreso ap parently clearing yp, disposing of the threatened cutting off of the sisal hemp supply needed for harvesting, the American grain crop, the Washing- | ton government tonight was confront: | ed with a troublous condition of af-| fairs at Manzanillo. The British consul there has appeal- | ed through the British embassy here | for a British man-of-war. He says the | GERMAN PO German consul joins him in the re quest, as the condition of foreigners | is “unbearable” and no American men- | of-war are nearby. This message was | England’s Blockade Order Made Pub- transmitted for the British consul by| lic in London—in Effect Since wireless through Admiral Howard of First of March, the Pacific fleet, who at the same time ; took up the situation with the Navy | Department, 2 London, March 16,.—The British or- The American cruiser Cleveland has! “er in council decreeing retaliatory arrived at Manzanillo to look after for- Measures On the part of the govern- 16.—Diplomat-+ FINRIIS fe EWING General Wood, former chief of staff of the army and now command- er of the department of the East, denies having any connection with the “American Legion,” with which his name has been connected. RTS ARE CLOSED Order of Publication. STATE OF MISSOURI, i - County of Bates MAN PUT HIS FIRST 3 SAVINGS IN THE | February 18, 1915 | Order of Publication, | Bessie E. Rinker, Plaintiff ve, | Amos A. Rinker, Defendant. her attorney, and havin; State of Missoori pisinue has commenced 6 suit against him i hia. court, the object and gene: tion being founded upon the following amon sonable cause in the year 19S abandoned tht: plaintiff and has absented bi: In the Circait Court, February Term, 1915, Now at this day comes the plaintiff herein by heretofore filed her petition and affidavit, alleging among other things that defendant ie a non-resident of the It ig therefore ordered by the court, that sald defendant be notified by publication that nature of which is to obtain in this court a judgment and decree of divorce from defendant. sald peti- other allegations; that deferdgnt, without rea- elf from this eign interests, making unnecessary, it Ment to meet the declaration of the is believed, the dispatch of any British , Germans that the waters surrounding ships. . the United Kingdom are a military The Carranza authorities at Manzan- , 4rea, was made public yesterday. illo have been confiscating property, The order has been in effect since March 1, and all vessels sailing to or from German ports since that date are liable to seizure. Ships proceed- ing to neutral ports with freight des- tined to Germany are also liable, All captured vessels. will be taken to prize courts and all casly realized from sale of cargoes will be held until end of present war. the food situation is bad and foreign- ers are generally apprehensive. A new Mexican “confidential agen- cy’ was set up in Washington today to rival the Carranza and Villa estab- | lishments and bring prominently be- fore the American government an ele- ment in the-complicated situation be- low the Rio Grande, to which as yet scant attention has been paid. Jose Vasconcelos is in charge, and he rep- | resents Kulalio Gutteriez, who is said to be at the head of an independent Movement in Central Mexico h 16.—The United States will vigorc protest’ Eng- land's latest shipping order. Offi- cials say that it is a flagrant violation Washington, Mar 1s u i SEE THE Clothe i } a] 1 | Doctors For practical cleaning and pressing. We posi: tively clean everything but a guilty conscience. Hats Cleaned and Blocked All work guaranteed and prices reasonable. Coods Called for and Delivered. CROUCH BROS. _ No. 7 S. Main St. Phone 171, Butler, Mo. HELP THE KIDNEYS. Butler Readers are Learning the Way. It’s the little kidney ills— The lame, weak or aching back— The unnoticed urinary disorders— That may lead to dropsy and Bright’s disease. ‘| When the kidneys are weak. Help them with Doan’s Kidney Pills, . A remedy especially for weak kid- neys. Doan’s have been used in kidney troubles for 50 years. -Endorsed by 30,000 people—en- dorsed at home. Proof in a Butler citizen’s state- ment. eae J. C..Reavis, 315 S. High St., But- ler, says: ‘I was subject to rheu- matic twinges, so acute that I could not sleep well. I also had trouble from the kidney secretions and my sight was affected. Doan’s Kidney Pills, procured at Clay’s Drug Store, John D. Rockefeller was once a poor; young man. Suppose he had not banked become rich? He never dabbled in get-rich-quick schemes either. = se Make OUR bank YOUR bank (seat) i | Kansas Building at Fair is Dedi- the FIRST money he earned, would he have . plaintiff for the apace of one year, | And that unless the said Defendant be and appear at this Court, at the next term thereor, to be begun and holden at the Court House in the City of Butler, in said county, on the fourth Monday in May 1915 and on or before the ret day of eaid Term, answer or plead to the, Petition in eald cause the same will be taken as conteened, and judgment will be rendered ac- ingly. And i¢ is farther ordered, that a copy hereof be published, according to law, in The Butler Weekly Tim newspaper published in asid Countv of Bates for four weeks successively, published at once a week, the last inser tion to be at least thirty days before the first Gay of said next May term of thie Court . MAXEY, Circuit Clerk. A true copy from the record. Witness my hand, and ecal of the Cir- cult Court of Bates county, this 13th day of March, 1916, H, O, MAXEY, Cireult Clerk Anarchy Spreading. Washington, March 15.—While con- ditions in the City of Mexico have im- Proved, the food and water supply be- ing replenished and the capital placed in order once more by the Villa-Zapata éonvention government, situations States have arisen at the port of Pro- 8resso, on the Atlantic coast of Mexi- side, Wireless reports from the American consul at Manzanillo state that a con- 22-4t unable to maintain order; that for- eigners are apprehensive ahd the food supply decreasing, while the Villa- Zapata troops are investing the ap- proaches to the town. Admiral Howard, commanding the cated. San Francisco, March 12.—The dedication of the Kansas State build- ing was the feature of yesterday's program at the Panama-Pacific Inter- national exposition. Hundreds of Kansans and local former Kansans took part in the ceremonies, Thom- as J. Straub, president of the local Kansas society, was chairman, and William P. Innes, commissioner from the Sunflower state, was the recip- ient of the bronze plaque from the exposition officials. Manzanillo if conditions do not im- prove, | _Progresso,the—pert-from which is shipped $0 per cent of the sisal hemp required for binding the wheat crop of the United States, has been ordered closed to foreign commerce by General Carranza, He has dispatched the gun- beat Zaragoza and is preparing to send the armored tug Ocampo to enforce his blockade order. The cruiser Des Moines is at Progresso under orders fraught with difficulties for the United | co, and at Manzanillo, on the Pacific | dition of anarchy prevaiis there, the | Carranza troops in possession being | Pacific fleet, is understood to be pre-f paring to take foreigners away from | helped me so much from the first that I continued using them until! was well.’’ Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy— get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Reavis had. Foster-Mil- burn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. | of international law and of the rights of neutrals. Failure to specifically proclaim a blockade to be maintained by ships of war off Germany's sea- | Ports is declared to make the “order in council” as issued in London a dis- tinct violation of the treaty rights of the United States with both France | and England. Summed up, officials interpreted the | 99, | British order as meaning that without Beat ora ero Bea anaes Adv. enforcing a blockade on the {serman! Methodist Church has Most at | coast itself, but by stopping Amer- M. U. ican ships anywhere on the high seas, ess cargoes destined for Germany would Columbia, Mo., March 13.——Men be taken inta prize courts for inter- minable litigation. This would particularly affect the shipment of cotton and other articles higherto listed as non-contraband and would prevent also the importation of | dyestuffs from Germany, so necessary for American industries, ; Perhaps more displeasing to officials and women students of the Univer- sity of Missouri belong to twenty-one religious denominations. Of the en- tire student body there are but 278 men and fifty-seven women who neither belong toa church nor have any church preference. There are more students who be- long to the Methodist church than to any other, there being 278 men and 127 women members. Then comes © | the Christian church with 256 men iNEW YORK HERDING TRAMPS and 111 women; the Presbyterian church with 189 men and 114 women; the Baptist, 172 men and 98 women; the Episcopal, 62 men and 31 women; the Catholic, 46 men and 29 women; the Congregational, 30 men and 10 women; the Lutheran, 22 men and 5 women. the Jewish, 18 men and5 ; than any other part of the British or- | der, however, was its prohibition on {American commerce consigned to neu- | tral countries and suspected of enemy | destination. | Officials Believe Hoboes Are Respon- i sible for the Spread of Foot and Mouth Disease. “The Old Reliable” - e functions is one of the features. Captain Henry King is Dead. King, who recently retired — as managing editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, died at the home of his daughter here this afternoon. Captain King retired from the man- aging editorship of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat February 26, after miore than fifty years in active news- paper work. His first notable assignment was to cover the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858. From that date until his retirement he was in daily newspaper work, save for the four years he The Finest Line of Wall Paper in Bates County. All the latest Styles and Prices }rooms. have been provided and a magnificent drawing room for state St. Louis, March 15.—Capt. ‘Henry 3 The building _ a fine specimen of from the Navy Department to see that Serre 7 MM ; 7 S t B k Elizabethan architecture. Handsome) there is no interference with American | New York, March 16.—A campaign 1ssourl! ta e : an reception, retiring and lounging| commerce, as, in accordance with in-|against tramps as spreaders of the ternational precedent, the right of a | foot and mouth disease among cattle de facto government to close a port | Was begun yesterday by Sheriff Weis- not in its possession is not recognized. | endanger of Westchester county, a Mexicans Kill American. | large portion of which was recently Washington, March 13.—Encourag- | quarantined. The sheriff requested the ing advices telling. of the relief of the | Police of all communities in Southern fo famine in the City of Mexico | Westchester to round up all tramps thrbugh the evacuation of the capital | who, it is declared, by sleeping in a by tHe forces of General Obregon, the | barn where there are infected cat- Carranza commander, were beclouded | tle, carry the germs to another farm. today by the néws that on the entry | | CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS of the Zapata troops John B. Mc- Manus, and American citizen, was -—The War Department is standing squarely behind Capt. T. F. Ryan, re- murdered—shot down in his home, the door of which had been sealed with the cruiting officer at Indianapolis, who was recently cited for contempt of coat of arms of the United States and court for his criticism of a local judge on the affair, beyond revealing what women; the Christian Science, 3 men and 1 woman; the German Reformed, 5 men and 2 women; the Disciples of Christ, 3 men and 1 woman. Other denominations represented each have but one or two members. Tifere are 339 men and 99 women who belong to no denomination, but who have a preference for some one church. Eighty-five per cent of the students belong to a church or havea church preference. Sixty per cent of the men are members of some denomi- nation, while 70 per cent of- the women are members. over which flew the Stars and Stripes. Secretary Bryan made no comment | who attempted to sentence a prisone to enlist in the army. a steps had been taken by the United States government, The Brazilian minister has instructions to see that punishment is inflicted on the offend- | ers without delay. Beyond this and —Carl Benz, managing director of the Hamburg-American Line, has Pleaded not guilty to.the indictments THE BEST LOAN is the one that We also handle the best lines of the arrangement for an indemnity spent in the Union Army during the to be paid the family, it was not be- charging him with being in a conspir- acy against the United States to sup- Ply German sea raiders with food and (1) Gives the farmer plenty of time to make improvements, buy more land, improve his Get your order in early for inside. PAINTING and DECORATING. Bluff, Utah, March 13.—Sending of United States cavalry against the renegrade Piute Indians under Old Polk and Old Posay is plannrd by Brigadier General Hugh L. Scott fol- lowing failure to persuade the In- dians to surrender. Gen. Scott says he will make one more effort to ‘bring about peace. _ = Meanwhile the Indian repeat their determination not to give in. 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