The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, August 30, 1917, Page 7

next term-of said Court. A true copy of the record. Witness my hand as clerk aforesaid: with the seat ‘of said court hereunto affixed. Done at office in Butler, on ‘this, the 16th day~ of August, 1917. j H. O. MAXEY, Circuit Clerk. (Seal) 45-4t NEGRO SOLDIERS : i ON RAMPAGE Members of the 24th Infantry Shoot Up Houston, Texas. Houston, Tex., Aug. 24.—One hun- dred and twenty-five negro soldiers, of the two companies of the Twenty- fourth Infantry who engaged in a riot The Poultry LICE or the Poalry RAISER? _ Assures you of the profits. in concentrated form. Costs less than Can be used for Po ee $1.00 Bottle Makes 3Gallons EVAPORATING LIQUID LICE KILLER rns Psedd effective Lice Killer made. Cames You pay for no cheap filler. Pow: ultry, Stock, also for exterminating all in houses such as Ants, Roaches, Bed Bugs, Moths, Fleas, etc. Money | PUT UP IN S0c AND $1.00 BOTTLES I year dealer will not supply you send 50c for Postpaid Trial Bottic. THE WOLF CHEMICAL CO., Quincy, Hlinois, LC. 8. A. ‘FOR SALE BY ALL LIVE DEALERS.” Butler Station C, & St: Louls Pagr.11: No. & Joplin Passenger. -No. ay (Arrive) TIME TABLE CORRECTED MAY 7, 1916 tw NORTH No. x K. Ne. K. C. & St. Louis Pagr.10:: SOUTH Joplin Passenger INTERSTATE No. @8 Butler Passenger. 1 Freight.. Pp. at depot t later tha: Bey o'el i er in 103 s mor wil be held for following fay's forwarding. Freight for Inter- . Division must be delivered be- baad o'clock p. m. No freight billed for thie train in the morning. _ Madison and local freights carry pas- sengers, | 2 ‘ Claude L. Plain, Agent. PROFESSIONAL CARDS =—=—=—_—_— — 3. T. HOLL Dentist Entrance same that leads to Fox's Studio. Butler, Missouri ‘DE. North Side Square B. F. JETER Atto: at Law Notary Public : East side Square Phone 186 BUTLER, MISSOURI ORDER OF PUBLICATION. State of Missouri, County of Bates, {es. In the Circuit Court, October Term, 1917, In Vacation August 8th, 1917, Lawrence McDaniel, Plaintift, vB, Edith McDaniel, Defendant. M Now at this day comes the plaintiff herein, by his attorney and files his petition and affidavit, alleging among other things that defendant without reasonable cause abandoned this plain- tiff more than one year prior to the filing of the petition herein and has re- mained away from this plaintiff and his home for more than one whole year and is a non-resident of the State of Missouri. ‘Whereupon, it is ordered by the Clerk in Vacation that said ‘defendant be notified by publication that Plaintiff has commenced a suit against her in this Court, the object and general na- ture of which is to obtain a judgment and decree of divorce from this defend- ant founded upon the foregoing among other allegations, and that unless the said defendant be and appear at this Court, at the next term thereof, to be begun and holden at the Court House in the City of Butler, in said county, on the first Monday of Oetober, 1917, an on or before the first day of said Term answer or plead to the petition in said cause, the same will be taken as con- fessed and judgment will be rendered accordingly. ‘And it is further ordered, that a copy hereof be published, according to law, in The Butler Weekly Times, a news- paper published in said Cou! \R¢ of tes, for four weeks successively, published at least once @ week, the last insertion to be at least thirty days before the first day of said next Oc- tober Term of this Court. a ia HO, MAXBY, Circuit Clerk. A true copy from the Record, ‘Witness my hand, and seal of (Seal) the Circuit Court of Bates i county, this day, 8th of Aug- ust, 1917. H, O. MAXEY, B-4t Cirouit Clerk. — Order of Publication. State of Missouri, | | sé County of Bates. ~~ In the Circuit Court of Bates County, Missouri, in Vacation Aug- ust 16, 1917... The’ State of Missouri at the rela- tion and to the use of J. H. Stone, Ex-Officio Collector of the Rev- enue of Bates County, in the State of Missouri, Plaintiff. vs. . George Clark, if living, and if dead, his unknown consort, heirs, devi- sees, donecs, alienees, or immedi- ate mesne or remote, voluntary or involuntary grantees, defendants. Civil action for delinquent taxes. The State of Missouri to the above named Defendants, Greeting: : Now at this day comes the plain- tiff herein by her agent and attor- ney before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Bates County in the State of Missouri, -in vacation, and files her petition and affidavit, ting among other things that the above named defendant George Clark if he be liv- ing is a non-resident of the State’ of oor | Missouri, and if he be dead there are SHELL KILLS TWO MEN AT - FORT SILL : 4 Others, All Members of Second Mo. Field Artillery, Injured in Blast. ~ Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, Okla, Aug. 25.—A “live” shrapnel shell, fralf buried on the site of the artillery range used by the school of fire here more than a year ago, took the lives of Privates Nelson and James Kelly of Battery A, Second Missouri field artillery, here late today, when’ the fire over which the soldiers were cooking their first meal since their arrival caused an explosion which {wrecked the mess hall and wounded four companions. They were: Privates Oakley, Bloomer, Grew and Raymond Rose. All lived in Kansas City. Nelson was killed outright, while Kelly died on his way to the military hospital, where the wounded were also taken. Army physicians) said amputation of Private’ Oakley's lez was necessary. The other three were not injured seriously. ~ Army officers were puzzled over the explosion, but agreed that it was caused by an abandoned shell on the range which had not been used since early_in 1916, On this site a mess hall had been erected. The heat of the stove over which the soldiers were cooking brought on the ex- plosion. ‘ Mc- Later reports give the name of Clyde S. Allen, son of Dr. and Mrs. d1W. H..Allen, of Rich Hill, as being among the wounded. — Farm Loans. If you desire freedom from the bur- dens of everlasting debt, it will pay you to let us show you a plan where- by it can be done. It means low cost; with the most liberal ,re-pay- ment privileges. No renewals, with the attending cost, that come peri- odically, and some times raise in rates. It costs nothing to investi- gate, your own interest should prompt you do the best that you can. We invite a full investigation. Canterburys, 36-tf Butler, Mo. DROP SEED FROM AIRPLANES A French Plan Would Start Weeds | im German Crops. Paris, July 26 (by mail).—French aviation ‘authorities are considering an idea, first suggested by the cele- brated pilot, Vedrines, of throwing seeds of that troublesome weed, couch grass, known to farmers as squitch, or quitch, over the cultivated land in Germany. It is said it would be easy for an airplane to carry five hundred pounds of seed and let it fall on fields where corn, beets or pota- toes are planted, and that if a supply is not available, scientists ‘would not take long to raise it in sufficient quantity to send a thousand of the airplanes, which France is expecting at an early date from the United States, over Germany’s crops. The possibility of dropping seeds of some rapidly growing form of mushroom fungus, or even germs of phyiloxera, is also under considera- tion, ns interested in the subject mat- tér of this suit whose names cannot be inserted herein because they are unknown to plaintiff and affiant, and that the interest of such persons and how derived, so far as known to fiant, are described as follows, viz: That if ssid George Clark be dead his unknown heirs or devisees claim, or might claim, an. interest or right by descent, inheri- operation of law. ordered by the. clerk -that the. defendants be Ye: publication that plaintiff nced a suit against then petition and affi- and. general nature enforce the lein of the sixteen and the wounding of more than a score of persons, are being sought today by strong patrols of regulars and Illinois National Guardsmen under the command of Gen. John A. Hulen, governor of the city now under martial law. Three companies of coast artillery regulars from Fort Crockett re-en- forced the thousand~er more Illinois guardsmen today and order, which was restored early this morning, is being maintained. Roll call early this morning by Major Snow, in com- mand of the battalion of negrots, de- veloped 125 men were absent. Early this afternoon all but about forty had been rounded up by the provost marshal. THe forty had scat- tered and were believed to be trying to get back to camp. Under military law, soldiers may be shot for having mutinied and fired on their. officers. - The rioting, according to best -ac- counts available, was caused by ill feeling’ bred among the negroes through the treatment accorded some of them by city police ‘officers.’ As military police the negroes patroled the environs of the city when mem~ bers of the battalion were released from the camp on pass. Several minor clashes occurred be- tween the white police and the mili- tary, the latest preceding the riot re- sulting. in the arrest of two negro soldiers for interfering when a white police officer arrested a negro Wwo- man, The sixteenth victim was E. M. Jones, a jitney driver, whose body was found near Camp Logan shortly before noon. His right arm was al- most severed by saber strokes, There were many bullet wounds in his body. Included in the dead is a negro sergeant, Vida Henry, believed to have been the ringleader in the up- rising. Henry’s body was found rid- dled with buckshot about a quarter of a mile distant from the mp limits. % Horace Moore, one of the wounded police officers, who suffered amputa- tion of the leg, died this morning. E. J. Meineke, another police officer, is the fifteenth victim reported found at g o’clock this morning. Houston, Tex., Aug. 24.—Maj. L. S. Snow, commanding the negro troops guarding Camp Logan, last night de- clared that he attempted to control the men when he saw what was about to happen, “but they were be- yond control, and some one hundred and fifty of them started to shoot promiscuously in the camp and soon scattered in every direction.” An attempt was made to kill Major Snow, it is said, and he had a narrow escape. Houston, Aug. 24.—The killing of Captain Joseph W. Mattes of the II- linois Second Field Artillery was ac- companied by extreme cruelty on the part of his slayérs. Wounded by a rifle bullet, Captain Mattes was surrounded by the mut- inous soldiers, riddled with buckshot and his body hacked and stabbed ia many places with bayonets. The body, when discovered, was almost unrecognizable. W. A. Wise, while trying to save an unknown wounded man, was shot three times in the left arm and once in the back. ——y ‘The State Normal School At Warrensburg, Missouri, will open September 11, This school has three |new buildings and fifty university | trained men and women on its facul- ty. It offers four years of high school and four years of college work, It supplies all texts at a rental of one dollar a year, and has a trained nurse who gives her entire time to the health ofstudents. An unusual demand: will “be made for teachers next year, The field of Education needs you. * For catalog write E. L. Hendricks, President. At the home of Mrs. Mary Wink- ler, 4910 Lillian Street, was enacted ones of the most brutal incidents of the night. When the mutinous sol- diers passed her two sons, Fred Winkler, aged 20, and William J. Drucks, stepped to the front porch to see what provoked the loud talk- ing. Fred Winkler flashed on the porch light and William Drucks- got as far as the steps. With that a bullet penetrated the heart of the younger boy, while the right arm of Drucks was shattered at the wrist and above the elbow. _ Houston, Tex. Aug. — 24—An- nouncement that General Parker had ordered the removal of’ negro. sol- diers of the Twenty-fourth Infantry from Houston to Columbus, N. M., served materially to restore a spirit of quiet here tonight, after a day of the} unrest following the race rioting last te articles "alleging official soe W..?,- Hobb, lieutenant governor, Dee to the gov- , pending disposition of # barges in the senate. The sen formally designated next Wednesda; ight which resulted in the death of sIseventeen persons and the wounding of more than a score. \.A scene probably unique in the an- nals of the United States army was enacted at Camp Logan during the afternoon, when the six hundred sol- liers of the battalion of the Twenty- fourth Infantry were disarmed. “Flanked by full battalions of the Infantry under Col. M companies the Twenty-fourth Infantry, held: in the county jail, asa result of. the trouble last night, which ended with the death of seventeen persons, four of them city police officers. * This was the first move indicative of an attempt by the state to retain custody of the soldiers, rather than turn them over to the army for pun- ‘ishment. THE COST What the Federal Government is Spending for Buildings to House Its Soldiers. _ Not long ago there was some con- thoversy in the United States sen- ate as to what the government was spending to build‘houses at the var- ious cantonments to house the sol- diers that are to be sent to them; what it is costing for lumber’ and materials of all kinds and what is being paid for labor. In answer to a resolution the secretary of war sub- mitted to the chairman of the sen- ate military committee a concise re- | port of what the cost of the canton- ments will be. At each of the 10 cantonments for the national army there is being con- structed. from 1,000 to 1,250 build- ings, varying in size from 43 by 140 feet to 14 by 14 feet. Some are two and some one story. They are being constructed of wood with felt roof- ing. The estimated average cost of each of the cantonments is $5,600,000. The largest cantonment is at Ft. Riley, Kansas, and is for 46,000 men; the smallest at Battle Creek, Michi- gan for 36,000 men. In this estimat- ed cost is included the clearing of the land, building of barracks, officers quarters, storehouses, laundries, stables, railways and all things nec- essary for the proper care of the sol- dier so that each cantonment will be a complete city for a population of 40,000 people, with all facilities, plants and appliances required by modern living conditions. It has been necessary in order to secure the large number of carpen- ters that are needed to pay a slight advance over the union scale pre- vailing in that locality. The con- tracts provide that the contractor shall make no departure from the standard rate of wages. The largest item entering into the construction is, of course, lumber. A contract was entered into with eight lumbermens bureaus located in the lumber sections of the country, under which a scale of prices was fixed averaging $20 a thousand feet for southern pine and $22 per thou- sand for North Carolina pine, about 80 per cent of all the lumber required being of these kinds. This is consid- erably lower than the same lumber can be obtained in the open market. The average wages being paid car- penters at Ft. Riley is from 65 to 67 cents per hour; for plumbers 75 cents and: electricians 60 to 75 cents with double time for Sundays and holi- days. The government is very careful to see that the contractor does not take advantage of the situation by making a schedule of what he shall make on each contract. If the cost be under $100,000 he may charge a fee of 10 per cent and if the contract is for as much as $3,500,000 a fee of 6 per cent will be allowed. No Lone Jack Picnic This Year. Forty-five years ago today, Thurs- day, August 16, 1917, the famous Bat- tle of Lone Jack was fought. The event has been commemorated yearly since that time with a big picnic, and it is said only one year has been missed, But there was no celebration this year. On account of the enor- mous cost of living and the busy sea- son, the committee thought it best to abandon the “Lone Jack picnic” for this year. The Oak Grove and AMERICANS WON'T DIG IN Pershing’s Men Went to France to Use Guns, Not Spades. - American -Training Camp ia France, Aug. 24.—One of--the great- est problems Americans officers have before them is impressing upon their men the absolute importance of- der cover. The American soldier is not a natural “digger in.” He is much like the Canadian in that7re- spect, for it is an old saying on the British front that Canadians will die in the last ditch, but never dig it. It is the American spirit to up- stake and fight, but the world war has long since passed that stage and now in the long wear and worry of a struggle of attrition the best: com- mander is the one who best con- serves his men. One of the great reasons why the Germans are still in France and Belgium is their wonder- ful facility for digging in. They have a passion for it and an incentive, as well, for the allied rtillery never ceases to pound them day and night. The German belief that they tan dig faster than a modern army can advance is one of the principles of their defensive tactics. Notwith- standing the heroic efforts to rouse his enthusiasm over the pick and shovel, the American soldier has re- mained decidedly lukewarm. He’ came to France to fight the Germans, he says and not to dig a hole and look at them through a spy glass. It is purely a matter of tempera- ment and there seems to be little doubt now that only actual battle ex- perience will convince American. sol- diers that the ability to take advant- age of any bit of cover is one of the greatest assets the modern man at arms can have. “It seems a shame to have to curb the first line fighting spirit of our troops," said an American training officer yesterday, “but the men must be made to understand that impetuos- ity must be subordinated to steadi- ness. This has become a time clock war. The men must advance in giv- en time and go no further. Every step of infantry advance must be first worked out with artillery, and when the plan is arranged it must be strictly adhered to. “We realize that it will be difficult to hold our men to this plan. If they see a battle going on, their impulse’ will be to push on as fast as they can and some are bound to do so just as the Canadians did in the earlier stages. We undoubtedly will have big losses in this way, but the men who come through our first battles will be worth their weight in gold thereafter. They will learfi quickly the value of steadiness and absolute discipline under fire and they will be the steadying influence we can dis- tribute through the newer units of our great army as they get their fin- al preparation for trial by fire.” The natural fighting man, _ it seems, has a natural antipathy to digging in. .Even in these latest months of war British Tommies would much rather remain above ground and stand chances of being killed by shells than to dig the deep dugouts so admired by the Germans. Threshing Machine Buruned, At the Martin farm eight miles south of Rich Hill late Friday after- noon a threshing machine operated by Charles Mitchell, and owned . by John Plummer of Metz, took fire and was totally destroyed. The fire is supposed to have been caused by the friction of the machine as sparks from the separator dropped into a straw stack, which with a stack of flax was also burned. Threshing flax was being carried on at the time. The loss sustained by Mr. Plummer is placed at $1300, and he carried no insurance. Mr. Plummer was en- gaged in operating another machine Pink Hill picnics were also aban- doned, so that Jackson county will not hold any of these summer events so dearto the politician—The Lee's Summit Journal. “AUSTRIA ON HER KNEES” Exhausted Nation Anxious for Any Peace, Pictured by an Austrian. Copenhagen, Aug. 24.—An . Aus- tria which is literally crying for peace, which has discarded any thought of territorial expansion and is even willing to buy its way out 0% the war by territorial sacrifices on the Italian front and in Galicia; an Austria of frequent food riots, unable to last through another winter of war; an Austria, whose population would rise in revolutiop if any rea- sonable peace offer were rejected by the government is pictured by a high- ly educated Austrian who has arrived here from Vienna, In a talk today he told a story which explains the persistence of Count Czernin, Aus- tro-Hungarian foreign minister, and in returning peace negotiations. * This Austrian who spent several at Col, Welch’s farm when the fire occurred.—Rich Hill Review. Christian Science Services. Christian Science services and Sun- day school will be held each Sunday morning in the new church at the ~ corner of Ft. Scott and -Delaware streets. Subject, “Christ Jesus.” All are cordially invited to attend. THOSE SUDDEN TWINGES Bring Suffering to Many a Butler ; Reader. Pain is nature’s signal of distress. A warning not to be ignored. Those sharp twinges in the back— Those sudden, stab-like pains when stooping Are frequent trouble, To remove kidney pains, you must assist the kidneys. * Use a tested and proven - kidney remedy. None more highly endorsed than Doan’s Kidney Pills:_ Endorsed abroad—endorsed home. ~ Read this Butler testimony. J. E. Hulse, West Ave. and Ww. Ohio St., says: “I had a steady ache in my back and lameness which made any lifting almost. impossible. Ev- ery time I bent over, sharp caught me and my kidneys regularly at times. Doan’ nr 4 Pills gave me complete relief those- t » ; - \ dealers. _ D signs of kidney at ces there 4