The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 15, 1916, Page 7

perity ot our. custoniers, (tahini are. ideritical 0 Don tac ean ‘supply— Y d' the business entérprises of the ‘short; to make in every way I conditions for. those we ‘PEOPLES BANK, The Bank on wien ~ Fm st FARMERS. BANK BUILDING, sia ai MO. We have money to loan on real estate at a low rate of interest with privilege to pay at any time. We ie a complete set of Abstract Books and will fur- ‘betracts to any real estate in Bates county and examine and perfect it titles to same. We will loan your idle money for you, securing you reasonable interest on } Farm Loans: Abstracts Investments interest on time deposits. _ W. F. DUVALL, President, irthur Duvall, Treasurer. SEE THE For practical cleaning and pressing. We posi- tively clean eyerything 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. eatiti You Can Always Bank security. We pay Cygnes River at-Ottawa—Train Service Broken. —Ottawa is facing the possibility of another ser!- Ous flood tonight, although the stage « fof the Marais des Cygnes river at none TaaPs Seat TOBOROER| Engineer Units and Coast Artillery to Fill in Gaps in Gen, Funston’s - Patrol. hundred additional regular troops or- dered to the Mexican border tonight and reports of the rapid spread anti-American feeling continuing pour in from consuls all over Northern Mexico, administration officials made no attempt to disguise their unea: ness. It was officially admitted that there is growing alarm over what the agitation may produce and the possi-; bility of an attack on General Per- shing’s expedition. Part of the increasing apprehension here is due to the renewed raids in the Laredo region. Several reports dealing with the situation there have’ been received. Officials declined to reveal details, but they gave the im- pression of having reason to believe & serious purpose was behind the ban- dit raid on the Coleman ranch. No New Militia Call Now. The new force sent to join General Funston’s border pairol> Secretary. Baker said, was to fill in gaps in the guard such as that near Laredo, It will be composed of ten companies of coast, artillery and a battalion of en- Zineers. — The artillefymen will be withdrawn from fortifications between Portland, Me. and Sandy Hook, and the engineers will go from barracks in this ‘city. - i The secretary said there was no present intention of calling out addi- tional national guard regiments for -}Beventeen and eighteen feet. ‘through Washington, June 13.—With fiftteen fo} Q evens, about, thirty-eight miles up- itream, is eaid to be 1¢ceding slowly Htonight. Flood water continues. to ‘}pour down the stream trom numerous tributaries, however, Optimistic esti- fmates tonight placed the probable crest here at about twenty-five feet. The stage at 6 o’clock .was between Rains Tanging from two to four inches fell the river watershed last night and yesterday, ceasing after Fdaybreak Sunday, Some creeks were reported by farmers to have reached higher marks than known in recent Ottawa received 2.06 inches, 2.75 Fyears, Quenemo 2.63 and Melvern Finches, Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific train service from Ottawa to Emporia and Osage City was discontinued this aft- fernoon, owing to water over’ the tracks near .Lomax, Quenemo and Melvern, A washout on the Missouri Pacific near Lomax was reoprted. Kansas City Southern passenger train No. 4, from Port Arthur, Tex., to Kan- Sas City, passed through Ottawa over the Santa Fe at 4:25 o'clock this after- noon, detoured from Pittsburg. It had been due in Kansas City at 7:45). o'clock Sunday morning. Train No. 2 of the Kansas City Southern passed }through tonight. Washouts near Pittsburg and Joplin were reported. Conditions east of Ottawa tonight were said to be favorable, the Potta- watomie, which empties into the Ma- Tais des Cygnes at Osawatomie, not being in an alarming condition. More rain is threatening all through the watershed tonight. RAID LED BY CARRANZA MEN One of Bandits Slain Near Laredo, Texas, Identified as Col. Harrisonville will vote on $15,- 000 bond issue for a sewer system July 6. Chihwabing ity, Mex “| 10,-—Gen, Lai rera, -reported MI today from P al the ¢apture of Victor - Sandoval, a bandit leader in the Providencia Valley, together. with four com- panions, one of whom had been hot._Sandoval i The Amoret base ball team de- feated the Foster_Grays last week by a score of ten to two. Amoret has some base ball team. Geo. W. Steele, a former resi- dent of this county, died at his home in Kansas City Wednesday, sad 31, says the Adrian~ Jour- nal. Milton Pesch of Drexel won the gold medal for winning the most individual points in the K. C. S. track meet held at Richards some time ago, -Schell City is to have lights. At a recent election the bond is- sue was ‘carried by a big major- ity and now the News wants to organize a commercial club. Jay W: Fleener and Miss Rach- el Lane, of Merwin, went over to Paola, Kansas, one day last week and when they returned they an- nounced that they had been uninted in marriage while in the Kansas town.- The new. Methodist church at Hume was dedicated Sunday of last week, says the Telephone. Two ‘members who attended the dedication of the old church jin 1883 were present, Mrs. G, F. Hor- ton and J. L. McConnell. The proposition to issue “bonds jto build a new school house was | defeated for the second time at an election held in Urich last’ week. |The second defeat was by a much larger majority than the first one says the Urich Herald. iately by his captors and an- nouncement was made that his brother, Luis, now confined in Parral, is to be put to death ‘‘for the publie’ good,’’ A number of citizens today pub-. licly demanded that Luis Sanchez Mana, charged with attempting to enlist Mexicans to co-operate with the Americans in the event of intervention be handed over for ‘‘summary justice.’’ .To Build Auditorium. The Hume Auditorium Com- pany, composed of fourteen town boosters, has, been organized for the purpose of building an audit- torium for public entertainments. The lot west of the Commercial Bank building has been purchas- ed and a foundation put in for the building. Work will begin at once and when completed Mr. Gull will install his moving pic-- ture equipment and expects to give the people of Hume a first- class entertainment two or three evenings each week. It is also the purpose of the company to make this the permanent home of the Lyceum Course during winter months.—Border Telephone. Candidates Invited to Hume. Every candidate for office in Bates county, representing all po- litical parties—Democrat, Repub- lican, Progressive, Union Labor, Prohibition, Suffrage, or any oth- er faith, will be invited to make a speech at the big Fourth of July J. B. DUVALL, hie aNannsemhe PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. J. T. HULL Dentist 3S North side square Butler, - Missourl 3 B, F. JETER, ; Attorney at Law © Notary Public East Side Square » Phone 188 BUTLER, MISSOURI - T. J HALSEY, M.D. 0, 0. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist p and the Sitting of Glasses wi BUTLER, MO Omes over Peoples Bank Phone No, 48 . DE. RB. BR. GLOYD Graduate Veterinarian Located at Garretts Livery Barn Phan Office 128 ;.Res. 358. 4 80 4t * FARMERS BANK of Bates County General Mann, commanding at La- redo, reported today that a patrol of three cavalrymen was fired on the night of June 10 near the town of Hachita, and Private W. L. Saundarn, Troop K, Twelfth Cavalry, was slight- ly wounded. Two mounted Mexicans who did the firing escaped. : Unrest at Vera Cruz. A message from Captain Burrage, commanding the battleship Nebraska at Vera Cruz, said there was consid- erable unrest in that region, due, ap- parently, to the currency situation. There were no evidences of unfriend- liness toward Americans, the message said. ‘It added that the Carranza gov- ernment had been sending troops and ammunition inland, Captain Burrage did not know the object of these troop movements. Raid Texas Ranches, San Antonio, Tex., June 12.—Mexi- can bandits raided the T. A. Coleman ranch, about twenty-five mijes north- west of Laredo last night, and the Johnson & Coleman ‘ranch early to- day. They were driven back across the border by a troop of the Four. | teenth cavalry under Captain Ola W. Bell., The bandits took with them eighty horses. The. Mexicans captured two Ameri- | can cowboys, George Conover and Ar- thur Myers, on the Johnson & Cole- Jman ranch, The men were released about fifty miles west of Laredo, near Palafox, Tex., which they reached late today unharmed. The ranch property was undamaged, according to reports. The raid was reported to héadquar- ters by General Mann at Laredo, who is in charge of the situation. It is expected he will send reinforcements to Captain Bell, who is without pack train or supplies, Up to Funston, Says Baker. Washington, June 12—Secretary of | War Baker said tonight that there had been no change in General Fun- ston’s orders to pursue into Mexico any important trail left by raiders and he presumed that the border com- mander is taking whatever steps he deems necessary to deal with the sit- uation at San Samuel. ‘As the war department was closing for the night the secretary said no. official dis- patches dealing with the reported raid The Hampehire Was Afire. Aberdeen,. Scotland, Jane 10.—The legen ‘was seen to Villareal. Laredo, Tex., June 13.—One of the three Mexican bandits killed today in the case of outlaws who raided the. T. A. Coleman ranch, northwest of La- redo, Sunday morning, wore a Carran- za uniform, bearing the insignia of a lieutenant colonel, according to’ a message received here tonight. One of the bandits taken prisoner identi- fied the body at Webb, T'ex., this after- noon as Lieutenant Colonel Villareal of the Carrenza army. Capt. Ola W. Bell and his detach- ment of the Fourteenth Cavalry, sent out Suhday to pursue Mexican bandits who had raided the ranches northeast of Laredo, .were located late tonight forty miles west of Laredo, near Pala- fox, Tex., where they are maintaining a close border patrol, Captain Bells force, it is said, did not cross the Rio Grande at any time, and as yet has not intercepted any of the bandits. WLEAN’S SON GETS ESTATE ‘ate Publisher's Great Wealth Event- ually Will Go to His Grandchildren —Will Probated. Washington, June 13.—John R. Me- Lean’s will, filed in court here today, rovides that all personal property and, the income of the late publisher's vast estate shall go to his son, Edward B. McLean, and that upon the latter's death the estate shall }ass to his chil- iren. In any event, it provides that Edward B. McLean’s children shall re- ceivé $100,000 when they reach the age of 25 years, $100,000 additional at | 30 and another $100,000 ut 35. In regard to the McLean newspaper, properties, the will stipulates that the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer shall'‘not be sold without the consent of Francis T, Homer, a Balti- more lawyer, who handled much of Mr, McLean’s business. It directs that the present business and editorial managers be retained as long as the Enquirer belongs to the estate, and recommends that the present manage- ment of the Post be continued. NOTED PUBLISHER IS DEAD Washington, June 10.—John R. Mc- Lean, owner of the Cincinnati En- quirer and Washington Post, who died here this afternoon at Friendship, his palatial residence, was a powerful fac- tor in Democratic politics, but he was known almost as widely for his char- ity When the price of coal was_increas- ed in Cincinnati. when Ohio was froz- en oyer more than a’ score of years Pe Mr. McLean went into the coal ss, sold at the old price to work- gave free coal to the poor, id ‘wrecked the coal combine. During ‘summers of many years he gave ive to the poor of Cincinnati, and ‘Christmas he distributed be. $5,000 and $10,000 to the poor ‘Want T. R. in the Cabinet.” w.-York, June 12.—Colonel Roose- Secretary of State is the idea land Townsend, a big New | George Argenbright went up to {Kansas City Friday morning to attend a sale of White face cattle, seorge bought a herd of these cat- tle two years ago for $2000. From this beginning he has sold $5000 worth and was offered $6000 for the remainder of his herd last week.—Adrian Journal. irandma Pulliam over east, fell from the back porch at. her home Thursday afternoon and broke her right arm at the wrist. Dr. Martin set and dressed the mem- ber. But owing to the age of Mrs. Pulliam, it will be a diffi- cult matter for the bones to knit and: grow. strong again.—Merwin Sun. The Montrose Recorder wants the public spirited citizens of that town get up an old _ fashioned Fourth of July celebration with barrels and barrels’ of rel lemonade, fire crackers and comie street. parades, such as they had when the editor was a boy. It won't seem quite as it did then Bro. Sawyer. At a mass meeting held in Am- sterdam, Tuesday night of last week it was decided to hold a street fair in that town some time between the 15th and 30th of September says the Enterprise. Clyde Bailey, Edgar Smiser, Ben White, Pearl Sage and Frank Pattee were apointed an executive committee. Mrs. Mary Hayes fell asleep in death at her home.in Hume Fri- day afternoon, June 2, 1916, at the age of 80 years, 7 manths and 5 days. The funeral was con- ducted from the home, Saturday afternoon, by Rev. O. R. Sides, of the M. B. Church, and interment was made in the Hume cemetery. —Border Telephone. The little town of Amoret is al- ways up and coming. In order to accommodate its rapidly increas- ing patronage the electric light plant has been compelled, to instal a new and larger engine. The hitch racks have-been ordered off certain streets, Curbing hes been ordered on the main street and the Leader is advocating the pur- chase of a lot and having the hitch racks placed on it. _Rev. A. S, Gwinn, for some time past the pastor of the First Bap- tist church of this city, has ac- cepted a call to take charge of the work for the First Baptist church of Pierce City, Mo., and tendered his-resignation to the local con- gregation last Sunday, and it was accepted ge Sapien a My A strong protest on part of mem- pe spoltee City Journal. j mas < 7. celebration at Hume. The exer- cises will be held in the city park and will be a great patriotic meet- ing for all American citizens along the border. Plenty of shade and ice water and a warm wel- come for all. Come and see the candidates and shake their hand. An automobile parade, base ball games, band concerts, moving pic- tures, fire works, ete. will be ~ some of the added features. Threatened U. 8. Troops. Columbus, N. M., June 10.— American scout patrols with Gen- eral Pershing’s army in Mexico have been threatened with an at- tack by Carranza troops, accord- ing to authoritative. information received here today. A column of Carranza cavalry is said to have dashed forward upon a American detachment south of Namiquipa, rifles in hand. The Americans are said to have averted a clash by standing their ground. Ac- cording to the report, the Mexi- cans withdrew taunting the Amer. icans, Christian Science Services Christian Science Services and Sunday school will be held each Sunday in the Probate Court room at the court house. Sunday - school 10 a. m. Services 11 a. m. Subject, ‘‘Is the Universe, In- eluding Man, Evolved by Atomic Force?” All are cordially. invited to at- tend. TWO INDICTED ON CHARGE OF FALSE CATTLE — CLAIMS — Interstate Commerce Commission St.Louis, June 9.—Hal Man- gum, a cattle raiser and shipper of La Pryor, Tex., and Levi: Old, an attorney of Uvalde, Tex., were indicted by the Federal grand jury here yesterday‘on charges of having placed false claims against railroads operating in Texas, in . the shipping of cattle interstate from Texas to St. Louis and other points. A second charge of con- spiracy to “defraud was found against Old. The Interstate Com- merce Commission. obtained. the indictments and is prosecuting the cases. It is alleged that Mangum and Old would. load cara with cattle . and then put in bogus claims for. delays, bruising of stock in tran- sit or failure of the roads. to de- - liver in. ti