The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 6, 1916, Page 2

MISSOURI NOTES . On July 1st, the postoffice at El Dorado Springs was raised to the second class. A $75,000 bond issue for a mu- nicipal light plant was carried by Stamp Clerk Must See Each in Mexico. Mexico City, Mex., June 29.— Many curious conditions are to be encountered in Mexico during this revolutionary period, and each day brings its surprises. In this city, of half a million in- habitants, and the capital of the a big majority at Marshal last -{nation, A week. There are 120 less saloons in Kansas City than there were two years ago. The number now is only 445, Capt. Ray Carter, riage at Nevada last week. - Miss Ada Albert has for 37 years held the same position in Maryville public school, and has been selected for next year also. In the biggest land deal in Vernon county for years Charles Brubaker has sold 1,340 acres to W. D. Kuhn of Kansas City, for $100,000. Clay county last Saturday voted a 1 1-4 million dollar bond issue for the purpose of building over two hundred miles of 865-day-in- the-year roads in that county. The Kansas City Terminal As- sociation has expended $38,691,- 435 on the new Union Station there and improvements incident thereto, and expects to spend a total of $44,000,000. In a recent issue of an exchange there was a picture of Mrs. Lydia Kay, of Jamestown, Missouri, | who is still living in the house in| which she was born ninety years | ago. At a meeting of the Carthage | City Council one night last week, | $15 was appropriated to give the | boys of Co, A) who were in cainp} purposes of lowering prices, they} they marched across more than at Camp Clark, a feast of ice are advancing every day, the pa-|1,000 miles of plains and arrived cream, | per money is steadily dropping injat Santa Fe. Immediately after price and the situation is becom-|they went into camp General Overton Harris of Sullivanling more difficult, showiwg the]Kearney designated Col. Doni- county paid th erceord Hereford price in Kansas City last week, buying a bull for $11,100. The highest previous mark for single animal of that breed was $10,000. | Commis- has for- J. S. Lansley, Police sioner of Kansas City, warded his resignation. to Gov- ernor Major. He said he could not spare the time from his busi- ness to devote to the work of the Police Department. Residents and institutions of Boonville have subscribed $400 a, month for the next four months to} help support the families of men belonging to Company B, Third' Regiment, and to make up the difference in their salaries. , ‘ Earl F. Husted, the Osceola; young man who was slugged and robbed at that place about ten days ago, died at the Springfield hospital where he was taken for, treatment. He never recovered consciousness to tell anything | about the tragedy, The story that a Clinton moth- _er was offering $1000 to any one | to accept their price for the goods. The commercial taxes are paid every month, but the quotas are fixed at the beginning of the year so that business expenses may be calculated ahead and made to meet them, On April 29 a decree was issued doubling-the taxes due only two with not the least excuse for so doing. Notwithstanding all the incon- veniences, hardships and ices to which the business public has been subjected, for the alleged ford oil, and gas deeply interested in the deep well being drilled farm at McDonald by the People’s Natural Gas Company. The well, which is now at a depth of 7350 feet, has as yet failed to produce oil or gas, but drilling operations continue, . Work on the well, whieh is the deepest ever drilled in the United States, was started March 1, 1911, and has been that time. postoffice for the purchase of the value of 1 peso in postage stamps, was answered ‘‘Is prohibido’’ (it is prohibited), You must show the letters and papers you are wishing to mail, then tender the exact amount in change (paste- commander | board tickets) or keep your letter of Co. L. 4th Rgt. and Miss Fran- | until you are able todo so. If you cis Annabelle were united in mar-| wish a 10-cent stamp you cannot buy it with a 20-cent ticket—and no reason is given for this ruling; but the street has it that it is be- cause of the use of stamps by some of the business houses for change, as business is exceedingly diffi- cult on account of the scarcity of fractional currency which the gov- ernment fails to provide. A merchant has his prices fixed on goods‘at the basis of a eur- rency worth 2 or 2 1-2 cents on the dollar—suddenly a new_paper is foreed on the public declared, by fiat, to be worth 20 cents and of forcible price, and merchants are forbid- den to raise their prices or to withdraw their goods from sale, which results in compelling them one-fourth aeceptance less than days trouble has a deeper root than in the cupidity of a few speculators. Pennsylvania Digging Deepest Well in America. Bradford, Pa., operators on the continuous Richardson to the Front Again. hient:—Pracy—Richardson—of who would go to war in place of | her son who was a member of the National Guard, brought forth quite a bunch of patriots and they were greatly disappointed when informed it was all a mistake. In celebration of the departure of the Clinton soldiers, M.. T. Wood arrayed himself in his blue of ’61, and armed with the mus- ket he bore during the Civil war, mixed among the outgoing sol- diers, who examined ~ his equip- ment with much curiosity, says the Henry County Democrat. : Ten cars loaded with crude oil totaling 100,000 gallons were thrown into a ditch at Beaman, Mo., five miles north of Sedalia, Sunday, when an eastbound Mis- souri, Kansas & Texas freight train ran into a broken rail. The wreckage immediately caught fire and three of the cars exploded area of three hundred feet. No/| America, Miss inj and winsome, : headquarters in this city, at 39th Missouri is a great fruit state. | street and Sixth avenue, and is re- g applications for enlistment | reached ,the Gulf of Mexico, where e regular Army, Navy and/they took’ one was injured. state, | ii for more. armies in Central America end Mexico, and then joined the Prin- cess Patricia’s Canadian light in- fantry, when the famous regiment was raised in Canada shortly after the outbreak of hostilities. He was severely wounded in Flan- ders and was returned to Canada for discharge. He completely re- gained his strength, however, and refused further pension payments in order to serve again. throwing the flames four hundred| New York, N. Y., d feet into the air and covering an|The first woman recruiter in| that they left Leavenworth until Edna Payne, pretty | they reached home 12 months af- ed|terward. They obtained their in ap-|ceivi Lamar, Mo., in charge of the ma- chine gun section of the Ninety- seventh battalion, Canadian Ex- peditionary , wounded so many times that he is called the has suffered fourteen different wounds from both Mexican and, German guns, but he is going back in several force, has ‘human | sieve.”’ He served . Woman Recruiting Officer. has establish » the at that provisions ahead injust- June.—Brad- are Cummins since Officials of the com- pany stated that the*hdle will go as deep as money and human in- genuity will drill it, and if a good supply of gas is found, , another well will be drilled at once. The well has cost the owners ap- proximately, $50,000 to date. been He June.—|phan’s expedition from the time MISSOURI FIRST Missouri Troops the First’ Bervice in Mexion, Missourians Prominent in called into the United States ser- Mexico, no one was surprised that it was a Missouri regiment that was the first to be mustered in, beating a Michigan regiment by a few hours. _ Somehow when there is trouble in Mexico there is always a Mis- sourian in the thick of it. Gener- al Pershing, who has command of the Expedition now. ‘‘somewhere in Mexico’’ chasing the elusiv; Villa, is a native Missourian hav- ing been born in Linn county. During the war with Spain he was captain of cavalry and so dis- tinguished himself that he was appointed a brigadier general, jumping over about 200 officers. After the raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and a mah of dash and unquestioned courage with some- thing of a diplomat about him was wanted to command an expedition into Mexico to capture and punish the murderers, the choice natural- ly fell on General Pershing and his conduct of the expedition has shown that no mistake was made when he was selected. Senator Catron, of. New Mexico, in a recent speech in the~United | States Senate called attention to another Missourian, Col. Doni- phan, who made a‘name for. him- self and for Missourians’ in the Mexican war of 1846. 70 years ago Alexander William Doniphan, lawyer of Clay county, Missouri, recruited a regiment for the Mexican war. They met June, 1846, at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, where they were mustered in and Doniphan elected colonel. They were placed under command of Colonel, afterwards General, Kearney, In less than 60 days phan to prepare a code of laws for the provisional government of New Mexico, The laws then pre- pared were sent to Washington and-approved and many of them jare still a part of the statutes of that state. General Kearney sent Col. Don- iphan and hig command into the Navajo country to subdue the In- dians who were then at war with | the people of New Mexico, Don- iphan rounded up the Indians which was the largest and most! warlike of the tribes of that part} of.the country and compelled | them to make a treaty of peace. | Col. Doniphan then proceeded | to the state of Chibuahna, A bat. tery of artillery had been added to his command which now num- bered about 1,100. At. Brasitos, about 20 or 30 miles north of what is now El Paso, Texas, he - en- countered a force of Mexicans 3,- 000, which he easily defeated without the loss of a man. The Mexicans retreated to Juarez. He followed and another engagement took place and he was again vic- torius capturing the city. After staying there for about three weeks he proceeded to the city of Chihuahua. About 15 milés north of that city he encountered the Mexican army, consisting of 4,500 men. He met those Mexicans at a place called Sacramento. He de- ployed his men around them and attacked from both the front and rear and with a loss of but two men killed and nine or ten| wounded dispersed them, killing j)two or three hundred Mexicans and wounding a great many more, He drove them into the city of Chihuahua where he had expect- mo When’ thé national guard’ was Federal. - Railroac a public body. the controversy is.as fo 1, Preferably by eubmiesion to the Interstete Commiesion, the only tribunal which, by reason of its accumulated information be oa ’ and {ta control of the revenue of the railwa' ‘A is in a posi- tion to consider and protect the rights and equities of all the interests affected, and to provide additional revenue rt to meet the added cost of @; In case are found by the Commission to be just and teasonable; or, in the event the Interstate Commerce ‘cannot, under exi: Jawe, act in the premi that we jointly request Congress to take ouch action as may be necessary to enable the mission to consider an tion in the public confidence, The tates the railroads may charge the public for transportation are now Jargely fixed by this Govern- ment board, ELISHA LEE, Chairman PR. ALBRIGHT, Gen‘! Manager, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, L. W. BALDWIN, Gen’! Manager, Central of Georgia Railway. C. lpBARDO, Gen"! Menoser, EB. H. COAPMAN, PF Southern Rai . B. CROWLBY, Asst, Vice-President, Nee York Central Railway. . Faced by demands from the conductors,-engineers, firemen and brakemen that would impose on the’ country $100,000,000 a year, the referenceto an impartial Federal tribunal. ; With these employes, whose efficient service is acknowledged, the. railroads have no differences:that cou The formal Proposal of the railroade to the employes for the settlement of lows; : : “Our conferences have demonstrated thet we esnnct harmonise our differences of opinion and matters in controversy mugs be passed other and disinterested jes. Therefore, ropose that proposals and the prepesitee A the jaye be disposed of by ae keane of the following methods: ipa Pe promptly dispose of the questions involved; er 8. By arbitration in accordance with the poovisions of the Federal law’’ (The Newlands Act). Leaders: Refuse Offer and Take Strike Vote Leaders of the train service brotherhoods, at the joint conference held in New York, June 1-15, refused the offer-of the railroads to submit the issue to arbitration or Federal review, and the employes’are now voting on the question whether authority shall be. given these leaders to declare a nation-wide strike. _ The Interstate Commerce Commission is proposed by the railroads as the public body to which this issue ought to be referred for these reasons: No other body with such am intimate know! -dge of railrgad conditions has euch an unquestioned posi- Out of every dollar received by the railroads from the public nearly one-half is paid directly to the em- A Question For the Public to Decide The railroads feel that they have no right to grant a wage preferment of $100,000,000 a year to these employes, now highly paid and constituting only one-fifth of all the employes, without a clear mandate from a public tribunal that shall detérmine the merits of the case after a review of all the facts. . F The single tssue before the country ts whether this controversy is to be settled by an impartial Government inquiry or by industrial warfare. ‘ : National Conference Committee of the Railways trew York, New Haven & Hartlord Railroad. an additional burden in transportation costs of railtoads: propose: that this wage problem be settled by ~ ld not be considered fairly and decided justly. by such —~ A that eventually the ployes as wages; and the money to pay increased wages can come from no other source than the rates paid by the public. The Interstate Commerce Commission, with its con- trol over rates, is in a position to make a complete investigation and render such decision as would pro- tect the interests of the railroad employes, the owners of the railroads, and the public, N. D. MAHER, Vice-President, Norfolk & Western Ruils.ay. JAMES RUSSE Denver & A.M. SCHO' Pennsylvania eX W. L. SEDDON, Vice Pres, Seaboard Air Line Raiiway. A. 3, STONR, Vice-President, Erie Railroad =~ G. 8. Wa), Vice-Pres & Gow't Mom -Bunset Central Lines, G. H>EMERSON, Gen’! Great Northern Railw nde Wailrond, onl Supt, Transp. Vice: P fake & Ohio Kiilwey eee A.S. GREIG, Asst. to Receivers, St. Louie & San Francisco Railroad, C. W. KOUNS, Gen’! Manater, Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe Railway, H.W, MeMASTER, Gen'l Manager, Wheeling & Lake Krie Railroad. and build up the government. | General Pershing’s route is ov- er the same one as that little band of Missourians traversed ov- er 70 years ago. Drainage Commission Meet. | Robert L. Grover of Warrens-! burg, Robert D. Reeder of Adrain ; and E. E. Parsons of near Lone, Tree, the commissioners who have | been selected to estimate the) benefits:and damages dceruing to| the lands within The Grand River Drainage District of Cass and Bates Counties, Missouri, met. in Harrisonville. Monday, together with George Bird, engineer for the district, C. L. Vansandt, secretary of the district, and Allen Glen & Son of Harrisonville and Walter | E. Owen of Clinton, attorneys for | the district. The commissioners started their | field work on Monday afternoon and think they will complete it within a week-or ten days. They are also classifying the land. Their report is made to the circuit court, with Judge Charles A. Calvird of Clinton acting as special judge. If he finds the benefits accruing ed. to meet General Wool, but he did not find him, Wool five days before had been engaged in the battle of Beuna Vista under Gen- eral Taylor. Not finding him here he proceeded in a week or two down by way of Beuna Vista, and Saltilla and by way of the capital of Coahila on to the Gulf of Mexico. . . It-is a historical fact that no clothing was furnished to Doni- Aeheene en route from the time ey left Santa Fe until they to the district to be greater than the costs, the district will then proceed with letting contracts for the ditch to be dug, issuing its bonds, ete.—Cass County Demo- ‘Is Your Gar No crat. es Bahr cyeteot Twenty Payment Lite Policy The Old Line Bankers Life Insurance Co., ‘ egaice g Lincoin, Nebraska ae, Matured in the Gentlemen:—Your Mr. Miller handed me to-day a ,« paid-up policy for $1,000.00, and check. for $421.56, ina Peocoreenan policy No. 3477, J sy? If your engine is noisy, If it loses compression and power, If it fouls the spark plugs, Then the cylinders need reboring and the pistons refitting. This may be done at small expense and your old engine made to run. as noiselessly and powerfully as when new. . Weare fully equipped for regrading cylin- ders and refitting pistons. Only expert workmen employed. Henry’s Garage North Main St. § Butler, Mo. 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