The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 10, 1916, Page 2

Three Brothers of Slater ‘lave Mysteriously Disappeared From Their Homes. : re in those towns were frustrated Wheat, 10 year average 1 EFT TOGETHER e arrest of sixty-seven members of/ bushels per acre. Average 1915, 8 the secret band several months ago i Allen, John and. Richard Dobbins Are Alleged to Have Left Many Debts Behind Them. The Dobbins Brothers, Allen, John and Richard, among the most exten- sive feeders and shippers of cattle in Saline county, left Slater together af- ter disposing of everything dispos- able, including mortgaged property, and have not been heard from since. They left behind an array of liabili- ties estimated on the street at from $25,000 to $50,000,. No one really knows what their debts amount to, fanless it is the banks, as the heaviest sufferers are not talking. Among the heaviest losers are Kan- gas City and St. Louis live stock com- mission houses, which held mortgages on their cattle. Byers Brothers & Co. * did most of the Dobbinses’ business in Kansas City, and the Shippers’ Live Stock Commission Company in St. Louis. Various banks are also reputed to hold cattle mortgages, but the losses to the banks are well - distrib- uted. The disappearance of the three brothers has created all the stir that the failure of reputedly solid and sub- stantial citizens always does. The soundness of the brothers was never questioned. The oldest, Allen, is about 35; the youngest, Richard, about 28. They were reared in the county, knew everyone and were known by everyone. They were hard workers and apparently keen judges of cattle. They are accused of having bought on one market, incumbered the stock, shipped it to their farms at Slater for a few weeks and then sold it on the es OF WIGHTRIDER PLANS] — atisouri Grop The crop report for’ 1915 as published by. the Board of Agriculture ; : many ap thts interest How plans of night riders of South- | County readers. east Midawoun to pc several cour The 10 year average for towns and to kill the leading mer|the county was 21.6 bushels’ p chants, manufacturers and land owa-|acre. Average for 1915 wag 2). New Madrid Band intended te Bure Towns and Kill Citizens, Wit- Messes Decisre on Stand. bushels per acre. ea, Oats, 10 vear average 21.6. javerage 18. ee | The production of tame hay in was told on the witness stand in the circuit court at New Madrid recently by. confessed night riders who are be- ing tried on charges of “assault with ; intent to kill” and “conspiring with|Bates county in 1915 | ali intent to kill” | doubled the 10 year average,’ .* Their testimony revealed the opera- tions of a band modeled after. the Ku ‘Klux Klan, which operated in sec- tions of the South after the Civil!Saline county is second with 35.8. war. In wheat Andrew and: Atchison “Jerusalem” was the password of! are tied with an average yield for the night riders. “To do the bidding | 10 years of 20.1 bushels -per acre. of the majority” was their vow, and | . it) 0 death was the penalty ‘for failure ba a close second with a obey, according to the testimony of rs Hobart Shipman, Walter Willoby and} Average price for the whole George Perry. year, corn 56 cents per bushel; At the time of the arrests, Willoby | wheat 97 cents; oats 37 cents; and Shipman testified, the night riders | flax, $1.70; timothy hay, $9.80 per were planning to attack Gideon, kill/ton and clover hay $8.90 per ton. three designated prominent citizens | 162,924 tons of prairie hay were and then burn the town. Next they marketed. : were to attack Clarkton, Mo., kill five Hogs should bring a good price marked men and burn the city. - The discovery that detectives were among on January 1, There was only 91 their number caused them to defer, | per cent as many in the-state as they said, and the arrests prevented | in the year previous. execution of the plans. { 1,959,207 cars of | { years of 36.3 bushels per , acre. wheat was of participation in the recent night, 92.7 per cent as much as was sown rider outrages and two others were | in 1914. tried and found guilty on similar |” s : charges there. All were sentenced to! , Phe total value of crops pro- | . 5 the penitentiary for terms of from two |tuced in the state in 1915 was lordive youre 1$219,313,845 which was about : $180,000,000 greiter than 1914. RIDERS THREATEN A COURT | These figures are fow farm crops alone and do not include many ‘million dollars worth of poultry and eggs and different kinds of fruits, Judge "and Prosecutors in New Madrid Trials Receive Letters From Par- tisans of Band. ‘New Madrid, filled with night rid-i ers, night rider victims, witnesses in the current trial of night-riders and | defending and prosecuting attorneys, One of the most daring and other market, representing it to be clear of incumbrance. is Former Postmaster Dies. Ira A. Day, formerly postmaster at Warrensburg, died at the home of his son, Frank Day, in Mount Washing. ton the other day. Bankers to Meet in St. Louis. The council of administration of the leven night ridets; Sherlft Karms of | poy lost and was supposed to have cet unique incidents of the European | Nie fever Ra Ai eereenn | war culminated in the bringing in- | any moment, following the receipt of to Newport. News, Va., of the} six threatening letters signed “The | British South African liner Ap- Night Riders.” {pam by a German prize crew of Among those who received such let-| twenty-two men under Lieutenant | ters were Circuit Judge Sterling Mc- | Berg. . i Carty, presiding at the trial of sixty-! The Appam, which was given up | New Madrid county; E. E. Smith and | A T. E. Page, witnesses; the jailer in | been torpedoed off the Afrtean | Missouri Bankers’ Association, in ses: sion at Sedalia, decided to hold the 1916 convention in St: Louis May 2: and 23. Out for Lieutenant Governor. W. O. Atkeson, editor of the Bates > County Record, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomina- tion for lieutenant governor. Four years ago Mr. Atkeson was the Repub- Yican nominee for congress in the Sixth district against C. C. Dickinson. Christian County Against Bonds. At a special election held in the Billings special road district, Chris- tian county, the other day, a proposed ond issue of $40,000 was defeated. The vote was 242 for the proposition and 182 against. A two-third vote ‘was required. 2 Miser Starves to Death. Jacob Ropp, 78 years old, died in St. Louis of starvation and cold. Later ft was discovered that he had $18,000 in the bank. In his room a key to a safe deposit box was found and when the box was opened by Ropp’s brother a certificate of deposit for $18,000 was found and $100 in loose cash, Si > Third Dally for Moberly. The publication of Moberly’s third Gaily newspaper will begin on Febru- ary 1, it was announced recently. It will be a morning paper. A. L. Pres- ton, editor of the Marshall Democrat- News, will be the editor. It is under- stood the anti-saloon forces are back- ing the paper. Springfield City Assessor Dies. _ *. Jacob A. Long, city assessor of ringtield, is dead, aged 71. For yéars) he was engaged in the general’ merchandise business at Fair Grove. 3 Girl Shot by Sister. Leona Coin, 10 years old, was prob- “ably fatally injured at Springfield “wren ‘her 10-year-old sister, -:Mary, phot her with a rifle. The bullet jetruck, her above the right eye. “MU. to Debate Wisconsin, cold and fallen asleep in the street. & prominent citizen of Brookfield ‘and dead. : u Y by a New Madrid and the railroad agent }coast, was captured at sea ey faraies from nena: German submarine on January 15, the letters were mailed. The| four days after she left Dakar in rs were in a woman's handwrit-|the French colony. of Senegal, , apparently. | West. Africa. ‘ The letter to Judge McCarty warned; Besides her passenger list of 166 aye cee aoee whe convicted ment | and her crew of 134 she had 400 riders will “dance in hell.” at to! 5 ips the agent of the St. Louis & San Fran- Ldaatete taken’ from) othen ships cisco (Frisco) railroad and the St.) Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt); Among the passengers who were railroad warned him it night rid-| booked to sail on the Appam were ers were pean ra spat Co the | Sir Edward and Lady Merewether Frisco or Cotton Belt lines the bridges | and their suite; Frederick Seton and stations of those roads in South-/ James, former acting colonial sec- east Missourl would be “blown up.” ‘retary and closely identified with colonial administration affairs in SSiine road) Bonde Lowe: | Africa ; Francis Charles Fuller, Saline county recently) Yared) OOWN | ira appointed chief commis- the proposal to issue $1,310,000 in}. ay ‘ bonds te used in saereghire a} sioner. of Ashanti in 1905, and Mrs, county-wide system of 365-day-in-the- | Fuller. year highways. With all but a few; The Appam is 425 feet long, 57- scattering precincts heard from, it | foot beam of 7,781 tons gross. She was: evident that the bond proposal | was built in 1913 at Belfast and is ie not a pete Pareind ve whe | owned by the British and African votes. e defeat of the road planicteam Navigation | Company, does not mean that Saline county sah i. will lag behind: in the movement to sony Lye rl ie ipa of rock the Old Trails road across the state within the year. Already plans | are being made to call a bond elec- tion in-the Marshall special road a! NEW BELGIAN PEACE trict. | REPORT. . | Berlin Declares King Albert Will Consider Proposals From Germany. Froze to Death in Street. Thomas Scott, laborer, 35, was found frozen to death within a half block of | his home at Springfield. He is’ be-; Heved to have become .numb from} ; The Hague, Feb. 5.—Germany’s efforts to induce Belgium to sign @ separate peace have made im: portant progress in the past ten days, advices from Berlin assert- ed tonight. - In spite of official denials from Havre, King Albert has consented to give his consideration to tenta- tive peace proposals if they con- tain guarantees . for Belgium’s Town's Founder Dead. Col. H. M. Dake, for thirty years founder of Dake City, a suburb, is Oldest Missourian Dead. John W. McConnell, said to be the er, 1915 almost As acorn county Lafayette is first with an annual yield for 10 Six men pleaded guilty to charges | sown in the fall of 1915 which was | A Daring Feat. Annual Bred Sow Sale of — | | | CANAD: IAN PARLIAMENT conflagration. When the’firemen| machine shop, spread rapi BUILDING BURNS | spurted the liquid in the extin-| the rest of the building. aman pee, guishers it merely added fresh | officials said there was no doubt Five Lives Lost in Fire that De/|fuel for the flames, that it was of incendiary origin. stroys Canadian Government Fire Chief Graham Stewart and| Soon after the fire at H . Building. Dominion Policemen Moore and|Mayor Edwards of Galt requeated and senate, ported missing and it is feared they are buried in the ruins. All night Jong firemen, police and soldiers fouglit to save the $6,000,000 structure, one of the finest examples of Gothic archi- tecture of this continent. saved the library building and the east and west wings. _ Ottawa, Ontario, Feb. 5.—Gaso- line, instead of the usual. fluid filled the hand extinguishers fire- men used in the great fire at par- liament house. The extinguishers had been tampered with during the twenty-four hours before the _ Every Hog Absolutely Immunefrom Ch Ne Ottawa, Can., Feb. 4.—Two wo- men and three men are known to have perished:in the fire which swept through the central por- tion of Canada’s magnificent. par- liament building last night, de- stroying the chambers of commons Several others are re- At Butler, Missouri BRED SOWS and GITS From the Prize Winning Herd of Big Bone Type Poland Chinas, which carried off 92.ribbons at the Hutchinson and Topeka, Kansas, and Sedalia Missouri State Fairs in 1915. Joi! Herd Boars Big Bone’s Son Jr. 71940 Big Look 63604 Jumbo King 77152 Missouri King 77259 Sale to be held Rain or Shine in Argenbright's Heated Sale Pavillion Sale to Commence? at 1 O'clock P, M, Auctioneers: Col. R.L. Harriman, Col, C. E. Robbins Write for Cataloge.—Special Attention to Mail Bids W. A. BAKER & SONS Butler, Missouri Helmer agree the flames grew furious the moment they used the extinguishers. One of the contain- Ottawa, Feb. 5.—A fire today in the Jardine munitions factory at Hespeleri,- Waterloo county, On- tario, so alarmed the management and the village authorities that they. applied to, Ottawa to have or- dered out a regiment stationed in the neighborhood. The blaze, however, was got under control af- ter it had destroyed the shell man- ufacturing building and damaged several structures. Two Austrians and one German were arrested on ‘suspicion. But for a quick responce of the fire de- partment, the authorities said to- night the entire plant would prob- ably have been destroyed. The fire, which broke out in the dered ‘because of They the Young | Turk ‘slain: i throne in 1896.” i the military divisional headquar- ters at London to dispatch there to guard the munitions ers is being tested by chemists. | plants., Maunitions Plant Fired. Turk Royal Heir Slain; Not Suicide. Paris, Feb. 3.—Yussef Tazedden, heir.to the: Turkish throne, who wassaid to have committed sui- cide in Constantinople, was to a Turkish:Gernan alliane This statement was made by Cherif Pahsa, exiled leader of the Young Turks. __‘‘Yussef Izzedden_was_a friend — of France and a bitter ¢ ee Pasha,” he sai ‘ the same price’ for’ hia loyalty : did his father, Sultan Abdal este ‘a-ba foer days after his accession: of the ct his “¢ of thtub