The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 15, 1915, Page 7

amon PROFESSIONAL CARDS OR. J. M, CHRISTY Diseascs of Women and-Children a Specialty BUTLER MISSOURI Office Phone 20 House Phone 10 OR. J. T. HULL Dentist Entrance same that leads to Stew- ard’s Studio. North side square Butler, Missouri : DR. H. M. CANNON . \ DENTIST Butler, Missouri East Side of the Square Phone No. 312 T. C. BOULWARE \ Physician & Surgeon Office North Side Square Butler, Mo. Diseases of ven and chil- B, F. JETER, Attorney at Law Notary Public East Side Square Phone 186 BUTLER, MISSOURI OR. ROBERT E. CRABTREE ae General Practice. \ Diseases of Children. Be TELEPHONES reer H : ‘esidence ve Office in Gench Bldg. Th HALSEY, M. D. 0. 0. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist and the fitting of Glasses BUTLER, MO Phone No, 65 . Office over Peoples Bank Resources $500,000. -We pay interest on deposits in our savings department. / MISSOURI PACIFIC iRON MOUNTAIN / Missouri Pacific Time Table. BUTLER STATION CORRECTED DEC 30, 1914 NORTH. No, 206 Kansas City Accommodation 7:10, m. No, 206 St. Louie & K. C. Mail & Ex 11:498 m. No. 210 8t. Louis Limited................. 9:10p.m. TRAINS WEST AND SOUTH. No. 201 St. Louis-Joplin Mall & Ex 3:05, m. 007: Ki0; & dopliw Mall t Ex...1:10 p- m, No. 996 Nevada Accommodation...... 7:48 p.m. INTERSTATE. WEST. No. 604 Madison Looal Freight, car- ries passengers....... No. 688 Madison Accommodation. 7:08. m, . 1:30p.m, EAST BOUND ARRIVALS. 11:16am. . 5:00 p, m. No. 637 Butler Accommodation. No. 693 Butler Local Freight. Freight trains Nos. 698 and 604 carry passen- gers on Interstate Division. No other freight trains carry passengers. All freight for forwarding must be at depot notlater than eleven o’clock s. m. or be held for following day’s forwarding. Freight for Interstate Division must be delivered before fiveo’clock p. m, No freight billed for this train in morning. L. R..Twyman, Agent. j | (Va ' . J ‘ t Farm Loans Abstracts Ys “pgp examine tate poereryiiney titles to same. interest ‘GAPITAL and SURPLUS, $125,000 FARMERS BANK BUILDING, BUTLER, MO. We have money to loan on real estate at a low rate of interest with privilege to pay at any time. We ett a oe set of Abstract Books and will fur- Wee will loan your idle peer for you, securing you on good security. J. B. DUVALL, Vice-President, real estate in Bates county and . We pay W. D. Yates, Title Examiner. | Carranza. Will Send fai to ) COME NORTH ON U, SEMEN cover, ERS “Take Refugees from City of Mexico to Coast. War Department Transport Goes to Tampico—Obregon Will Not Listen to the Consuls. Washington, April 18>—Gereral Car-|, Said she was forced to steal her way ranza has informed. American Consul Sillim@n at Vera Cruz that he would furnish a train for Americans desiring to leave Mexico City. He will permit & passenger train from Vera Cruz to Proceed as far as Ometusco, forty miles east of Mexico City, where the Americans would be picked up. The first chief asked to be notified as to he number of Americans expecting to leave and the time they wish the train tebe ready. ns The actign grew out of the effort of the United States government to ob- tain the neutralization of the railroad between Mexico and Vera Cruz. Although umrwilling to\make any per- manent arrangement, Géneral Carran- za now has expressed a desire to ald foreigners, who are anxious td.reach the sea coast, : Many Americans and foreigners- in Tampico similarly are planning to leave as soon as transportation ar- Tangements can be made, Secretary .Bryan sought the aid of the war de- partment today and the transport Sumner at Galveston was ordered to Tampico to bring back the 300 or more foreigners. y In its latest summary of reports from Mexico the state department said some fighting was reported from the west coast and the outcome of an attack on_Acaponota by Carranza forces was not definitely known. Both forces were short of ammunition, the | report said. 5 El Paso, Tex., April 13,—General Obregon, who has advanced north as far as Celaya, has declined to treat with the German, French, British- and | American consuls-from Guanajuato re- | garding the exit from Celaya of wo- men and' children, according-to a statement received today from Gen- eral Villa, who is preparing to pom bard the town. The Carranza commander was quot- ed as having answered that he did! not “consider necessary the interfer- | ence of for€igners in our affairs.” No further fighting was reported.--- Siege Fighting Now. Brownsville, Tex., April 12.—The | Carranza monoplane at Matamoros | was wrecked today. In rising for. fight it. dipped,-smashing one. wing and the propellor, There were no bombs aboard and no one was injured. Several days will be required to put the machine in running order. There was heavy rifle firing at the trenches about Matamoros just’ before daylight, but no casualties were re- Ported. Americans arriving here report dis- | tressing conditions throughout north- east Mexico. A little meat is all that many of the farmers and people in the small towns appear to have for food, Coffee and corn disappeared from geti- eral consumption several weeks ago. | Some farmers claimed that roving bands of troops had pastured their horses upon newly sprouted corn, ruin- ing the prospects for a crop for a few farmers and deterring others from planting through the fear that it would be labor lost. Laredo, Tex., April 12.—Villa forces have been defeated with a loss of 3,000 killed and wounded in the battle at Celeya, according to meager reports ‘Teaching here from Mexico today. | been virtually kept alive by artificial able to.mastef. | Grand avenue, he owned about eighty ANOTHER SEA RAIDER 1S SAFE GERMANS START Kron Prinz Withetm Evades British Cruisers and Slips Into Port at Newport: News. Newport News, Va., Aprit 12—The| Kaiser’s Army. Making Strong German converted cruiser Kron Prinz| ‘ Effort to -Dislodge French Wilhelm, the elusive raider of com- from Les Eparges FIRST ATTEMPT IS REPULSED into this port today and asked for fuel ———e ‘| and provisions, _ Many times reported destroyed, the former North German Lloyd liner had evaded hostile warships for eight months while she sent fourteen mer- chantmen.to the bottom. Her officers Teutons Forced to Retire After Bloody ,Engagement—Russians Meet a Stumbling Block in Carpathians —Rumors of Sea Fight. Past four allied cruisers off the Vir: ginia capes to reach this refuge. “We got in without being seen by the enemy and we can get out the same way,” declared her commander,| London, April. 13.—Les Eparges, oc Lieutenant Captain Paul Thierfelder, cupied April 9 by the French after a formerly navigating officer of the Ger- series of desperate engagements cost- man cruiser Karlsruhe, in a statement| !mg countless lives, again has come last night. under the fire of the German guns, It When she dropped anchor the Kron| Was around this place the Germans, Prinz Wilhelm had less than twenty- according to a French official report, five tons of coal and scanty provisions| lost thirty thousand men in two for the crew of 500 men and sixty-one| Months’ fighting. prisoners from British merchant ships} After a lull of two days the Germans sunk in the South Atlantic. 3 prepared for their counter attack on Les. Eparges by a severe bombard- ment and a heavy rifle fire; then in WILLIAM R. NELSON IS DEAD) tie coriy hours of the morning they aT. advanced on the position, which the End’ Comes to Owner and Editor of| French had made even stronger than Kansas City Star After Long | when the Germans held it, but were IIness At His Home. forced to retire. The extent of this offensive is not known, but it has been ansas City, Mo. April 13.—W. R.| reported the Germans look upon this Nelso&\ editor and owner of the Kan-| position, which commands the plain of sas City Star, died of uraemic poison- the Woevre, as one of the greatest ing at 2 o’clack this morning at Oak importance, and further attacks may Hall, his home tw the Rockhill district, | be looked for. He had been ill site early in last De-| Otherwise the situation in the West- cember, and once befere his life was| ern war zone is of comparatively little despaired of, but he regatyed complete] interest, owing to the general calm consciousness after lying a‘week in.a| that prevails. comatose state. . Last Thursday he| ‘Jn the East, although the Russians again became unconscious and vank| have occupted the principal positions gradually until the end, He was in the western section of the Carpa- years old ‘on March 7. hians, there is one height, known as For several days Mr. Nelson had Hetght 992, which they have not been means, much against his will. ost Into Hungary. The estate left by.Mr. Nelson is Neverthel@as, they are reported to ‘variously estimated between $8,000,000] be moving doy the western slopes and $10,000,000, Besides the Star and in a fair way make an advance Property at Eighteenth street and} {into Hungary. Reports persist of heayy firing in houses including Oak Hall in the|the North Sea, but no ey planation, Rockhill district, said to be valued at| either official or unofficial, Ts, forth- | about $500,000, a summer home valued| coming. These rumors date back as {at $50,000 at Magnolia Beach, Mass.,| far as April 7, and the latest, within and a 1,200-acre farm near Grain Val-| twenty-four hours, reported firing off ley, Jackson county, upon which he ex- Scarborough, which seemed to indi- pended upwards of $100,000. It is es- cate a naval engagement. But the | timated that the value of the Star} British admiralty has vyouchsafed no property probably will exceed $4,000,- information one way or another, ' 000. Outside of these properties, Col. Hard to Gage Results. Nelson owned $50,000 in Missouri Riv-] London, April 12,—The French offen- er Navigation Company stock and sive in Woevre, which, according to $5,000 in Kaw valley improvement official reports from Paris, continues bonds. to make progress, although the Ger- mans reiterate that all the French at- PACKING PLANT EXPLOSION tacks have been repulsed, it is be- Cooling House at Cudahy’s in Kansas lieved, is only the prelude to a big gen- eral attack in the West. City Wrecked—Two Men Serious- ly Injured. With the two general staffs in di- rect conflict, it is difficult to gage the results of the fighting. Military ex- Perts here, however, express the con- Kansas City, April 12.—An explosion | viction that the Germang will be believed to be that of dynamite or| compelled to send reinforcements to nitro-glycerin practically wrecked the] strengthen their wedge, which pene- six-story beet storage house of the] trates to St. Mihiel; and which is be- Cudahy Packing Company in Kansas} ing attacked on both flanks, and that City, Kas., about 6 o’clock last even-| as soon as this movement begins, the ing. More than 1,000,000 pounds of] Allies will strike at the place thus dressed beef, which, it is rumored, was} weakened and peraps at the whole destined for the armies of the allies,/ line. will probably be spoiled and it is With the operations in this district roughly estimated that the damage to| of France those in the Carpathians di- the building and contents may range} vide interest, which is being barely from $500,000 to $750,000. satisfied with the meager official re- Oliver Bennett, an employe in| ports from the various headquarters. charge of maintaining a uniform re- The Russians, like the French, ap- frigeration temperature, and Patrick] parently are making progress in the Lyons, a company fireman, were blown} capture of important places which are fifty feet, and would have been killed] essential before a general forward had they not been dragged from the} movement can be undertaken. They wreckage by Thomas Fox, chief of the | are in_ possession of the whole princi- “COUNTER ATTACK} Am located at KELSO FEED YARD south-east corn- er of ice plant and am pre- pared to give you complete satisfaction in Horse Shoeing. - Lameand Interfering Horses given special attention Lee Lovell Mo. Butler, REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. E E Maupin to M A Radford 1 a sec 86 Spruce .... .....- 450 H H Havely to A H Lloyd lots 17 Y to 25 blk 18 Foster .....:..... 80 N W Balifinch to James Reeder - lot 5 blk 88 Jst ad Rich Hill.... 300 Mary E Vance to A B Durkee lots 3, 4, 5, 6 blk 165; pt blk 164 2d ad Rich Hill............+... 1500 Demaris Witt to GS Porter 120 a sec 2, 3 Deepwater .. 750 M W Gantt et al to J A Gragg e lots 9 to 15 bik 27 Rockville...., 275 C W Ballard to Irwin Shirley und 44 int 360 a sec 1, 2 Walnut.... 4000 Mary Grice to S A Lee tract sec 22 Mt Pleasant..... 300 C W Wingard to Irvin Shirley = und}4 int 360 a sec 1, 2 Walnut 4000 TC Cline to Fannie M McCuan lots 1, 2 blk 3 Concklin & Wells ad Butler . sires 150 David Roach et al to TH Roach 40 a sec 21 East Boone ........ 800 J D Creath to W F Duvall pt lots 6, 7 Yoakums sub Butler ...... 1000 W H Morris to W P Morris lots 4, 5: blk 18 Williams ex Butler. 1200 W R Wilson to T S McHenry lots 1, 2, 3 blk 37 Foster.. 350 EC Webster to O A Heinlein 251 a sec 15, 16, 17 Lone Oak...... 1 B F Cumiford to E A Smiser pt lots 4, 5,6 blk 13 Amsterdam.. 700 Wayne McConnell to C E Me- Namer lots 3, 4 blk 24 Littles BUUHUME cree aie com vnnees 500 T W Silvers to Homer Duvall tract sec 22 MtPleasant ....... 4000 Jesse A Smith to Homer Duvall 60a sec 25 MtPleasant........ 3900 Homer Duvall to F Thomas 60 a see 25 MtPleasant............. 4500 5 Elizabeth Basore to T H Tipton lot 2 blk 142 8d ad Rich Hill... | 300 CC Kenney to C J Jones pt bik AD Butler cise. ic sscsee et ce eae 300 Geo Gebhardt to Orville Hoover 44 a sec 12 Deer Creek D W Stucker to Geo W Becker lots 1, 2 blk 19 Rich Hill George P Huckeby to Nancy R 1100 100 —“Phe reports, which-came-from—Car- rnaza sources, said the’ battle had| been concluded with the retreat north- | ward of the Villa army. ‘Send Protest to Villa. Washington, April 10—A protest against the recent decree issued in Chihuahua, Mexico, providing for the forfeiture of mines upon which taxes are not paid, or upon which develop- ment work is. suspended beyond @ fixed date has been lodged with the; Villa officials by the State Depart- ment. The decree, the department holds, would ithpose undue hardships on American and other foreign owners of Mexican mining property. A large American flag, carried by the Mexican-American ranchmen on the American side of the Rio Grande, near ,Bronweville, was fired on from the Mexican side by men concealed in the brush. The ‘Mexicans were piloting @ party of newspaper men to a ferry ‘and the flag was intended for use in the boat. -The party by mistake ap- peared on the river bank opposite the Mexican skirmish lines and hoisted the flag for protection. Not more than half a dozen bullets were fired at them before they gained -provided not to exceed $35,000,000. s fire Although] pal chain of the Carpathians and at company’s fire department. | terribly burned both will probably re-| some points are descending the south- cover. Refrigerator cars on a switch! ern slopes and are approaching, if they track beside the building were mashed] are not already in, the Uzsok Valley, south of the pass of that name. flat by the falling walls. See Allies in a 1.656 Mile-Line. SELECT ROUTE FOR U.S,R.R.| Paris. April 12—Troops of the Allies today occupy battle fronts whose Construction to Begin at Once on leength totals 1,656 miles, according i M : Seward-Fairbanks Line—To Cost to a compilation made by the Matin. $26,900,000, In the western arena, according to the figures, the French occupy 50 miles of trenches, the British thirty-one miles Washington, April 12.—The Seward-| and the Belgians seventeen miles. Fairbanks route has been selected for} In the eastern theater the Russians the government railway in Alaska,| face a front of 851 miles, while the Secretary Lane announced today. Servians and Montenegrins are fight- W. C. Edes is designated as chair-| ing along a line which measures 217 man of the Alaskan engineering com-| miles. mission, which will build the road, by French Take Les Eparges. the president’s order. London, April 10.—Repulses of the The estimated cost of the entire sys-| Germans at various points in France, tem is given-at $26,900,000. Congress| the taking of Les Eparges, an_import- ant strategic point on the road toward Secretary Lane said construction] their objective, Metz, and the capture work would be begun at once, and that/ of lines of trenches are announced in probably forty miles of the extension] the latest French official report of the of the Alaska Northern-from Ship| warfare in the West, while Petrograd Creek would be completed this year.| asserts that in the Carpathians the Construction will be carried on under} Russians are in possession of the en- contract, individual contractors build-| tire principal chain of mountains, ex- ing separate units of roadway. cepting one hill. Two Gultty in Bomb Case. New York, April 13.—Frank Abarno has been convicted of a felony and is} Compiegne last November because she e fugitive from justice. - official list made public in Berlin yes ote abe wete ee ee 17. years old, was found guilty today artillery. These include 3,200 Belgia®| Oliver P. Coggins. Punishment was No Passport to Johnson. French Slayer Acquitted. Washington, April 10—Secretary} Paris, April 12.—Captain Jean Her- Bryan yesterday instructed Minister) ail, an officer in the French cavalry Gonzales at Havana not to isste a/ was acquitted today by a court-martial Passport to Jack Johnson, as Johnson| which tried him for killing his wife at persisted in following the army in or- der to be near him. Life Term-for Youth, 17. St. Louis, April 12.—Jesse Coggins, - Germans Took 6,510 Gunes. - Berlin, April 10.—Aceording to an a total of 5,510 pieces:of captered| of the murder of his stepmother, Mrs. fixed at life imprisonment. Huckeby lot 4 blk 86 Rich Hill 25 Effie J Rhoades to Eunice Shalley lots 5,°6 blk 81 Foster ......... 3500 ~ John P Hart to Homer Duvall 82 asec 3 Mt Pleasant ........... 1 George P Huckeby to Nancy R Huckeby lots 8, 9, 10 blk 6 Wil- liams ad Rich Hill. 5 . 500 SEE THE Clothes Doctors For practical cleaning and pressing. 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