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tt TITLE R. MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 27. 1SS-L
NO. KJ.
fOUM IN A FIELD.
L Mai lling Discovery Made l
Hoy Hunters.
End of a Wanderer niiu.se
History Is a Mystery.
.m tie Nevada Mail
Friday evening Coroner Dr. L.
.Callaway received a telegram
om Schell City asking him to come
once to the farm of, II. 15. Cresap
d bold an inquest over the body
a man which had been found on
resap's farm.
Saturday morning Dr. Callaway
ft Nevada in compliance with the
lesra'fl aid found the neighbors
ksarding tbe body which was lying
a stalk field. The man had fall-
n an his face, and it appeared that
e had died without a struggle. His
nds were under him and his legs
rere extended in an . easy position.
The (ice was partially embeded in
Je mud and the entire bod frozen.
fice; hud nibbled off a portion of
ic car, but aside, from . this there
as no evidence of disturbance. An
verccat which the man had thrown
sfly over his shoulders was lying
few feet behind the body, and had
viclently fallen there when the first
i .1 i t. ti
iroxysm ot ueain was ieii. i nc
ntups were verv ninin. ine mors
gum, and the head was still
artiallv covered ov a cap.
The coroner summoned a jury and
c following tact s were elicited :
Two weaks ago last Friday a man
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onueti in iuo"e v. iiii ) laiin ui:u
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as inure ami inev aie io-"euiei . iu
i-mn i ill i i in vci s!j mill fill tii:iii
ltd his name was Tames Jackson.
mi lie was formerly :t merchant in
K" of the inland cities ot the state of
tv York. Misfortune overtook
m ;m! he left his native state -uk!
mc to Missouri. For seven or
ht years he hud been working in
unon County, uoing whatever ne
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;is 65 years old.
Col. NichoU became very much
iitcicsted in t!:e 0.4I man s storv. and
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eineinneruv tnat a nei?nror. ur.
ordon, wanted a hand, he directed
111 to the house. After offering to
iv for his dinner the old gentleman
1
hrt'w his overeiat over his shoul-
Icrs and started to Mr. Gordon's.
that was the last time he was seen
ilive.
Last Friday, about noon, two boys
who Were hunt! w ' discovered the
xxly. and without storming to ex-
inline it close I v hurried to .liifh'e
j
Creep's .iud told of their horrible
tmo.
The body was identified by M. F,
Hall the . nronrietor ot the Schell
City lime kiln as that of fames Tack-
Mill, sl mun whn l iI o.-n in Ins Mil.
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iijv mi v iriniic iimit: itirttiT lilt iisi
seven vears. He had worked at the
kllll at Ft. Seott ami ;ilso at that near
&:hell l!itv. Thi- (Virnnpr derided
nniiecessa-v to make a post-mor
tem examination trivintr it .is his
'Pinion that the man had died either
from aiiunlexv or some nnranii: dis-
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case ol the l.eai t. 1 ee bodv was 1
hurried 111 " rrrsivt"-vsird n:ir lht
' letter was shown U, Mr. Hall, and
j the recipient w as urged ly him to
; take advantage of the offer, but he
j refused to !o s:. ayinti that he could
not go home ::nri --oe the only pau
per member of the family."
The dead man was unusually in
telligent and had received an excel
lent education. lie said he had
been educated for 1 physician, hut
never practiced his profession. lie
was about feet 10 inches in height
and very slender. His ha.r and
whiskers were sar.dy and slightly
touched with gray.
A trunk which had belonged to
the deceased was left by him with
Mr. Hall. The Coroner ordered
the letters taken from it and sent to
Nevada, and they may throw some
light on the sad storv of the man
who died such a pitiful death. He
was known as an honest, temperate
and industrious man.
LATER.
The trunk which was left with M.
F. Hall, by James Jackson, the man
who was found dead on Cresap's
tarm has been opened, but nothing
calculated to throw anv light on his
former life was tound. A thorough
search failed to reveal even the scrap
ot a letter. It is thought that the
names of his New York relatives
may be obtained from parties at Ft.
. .
hcott and the attempt will be
at once.
SEORE ABOUi' FRUIT CULTURE.
TV. Adaptability of Fruits to this
Ciiraate, by Henry Speer.
made
UUKINKKS MEETING.
Held at the City Hall In the In
terest of Manufacturers.
A meeting ot the business men of
the city was held at the citv hall
Thursday afternoon of last week, to
meet and hear a proposition from
Messrs. I licks and Hooper in re
lation to moving an implement
manufacturv in which they were in
terested, from Illinois to this city.
Mayor Brown was chosen chair
man and McFarland of the Times,
secretary. The chairman proceed
ed to state the object of the meeting
and called upon the two gentlemen
named above to state their business.
Mr. Hicks arose and stated the
location, capital stock and relative
business of his Company, adding
that the cause lor wanting to remove
was that they desired to get into a
more central location of the field
they worked, and then they needed
more capital and force to carry on
the business. He gave a descnption
of the articles manufactured, which
comprise moat implements used by
farmers, ::nd on which they held
patents. His proposition in brief,
is, to orgonize a Company here with
a capital stock ot $40,000, ot which
his Company would subscribe $15,
000
John Cattcrlin, W. E. Walton,
T. W. 'hikis, D. V. Drown, A. L.
TrRnde were aDDointed a com
mittee to confer
tlemen.
with the gen-
W H. Adams.
The following well deserved com
pliment to a good man and a good
printer is taken from the Rich
Hill Enterprise. It is true, ev
ery word of it. Mr. Adams
was tor a long time foreman
in the Times office, and gave its
present publisher his first lessons in
journalism :
"Last Saturday we were compli
mented hv a trateinal call trom V.
H. Adams of Butler. His name
having figured conspicuously 111 his-
,.-.! i'lti-ivst in:inv. He is the
pl-ce where ir wa found. . j ,:,.,., m-wsiiaDcr man. of now the
Those who were acquainted with great state ot Kansas. He sailed up
U.ius Jackson during his residence Miour. river to the site where
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: ilie MltllMnli Vlts IjvailllllWIMI ".''
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m crnon s.v he has never been i
Communicative about his past life,!
ind rarely ever referred to it. From
remarks made at different times, and i
put together by those who felt some j
interest iu the old man, it is suppos- j
ed that lie was at one time a pros- !
perous -merchant, and that he was!
reduced to poverty by the rascality !
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sine I'ttT. iiui;i, iimo;ui:ng ins uiitic
rla! on the bar k of the ri vt r where he is
sued :h' Leavenworth Herald. The
historian says ot this noted ioilower
of Faust "that the piimeval type
sucker "had a magnificent composing
room, its boundaries were the Mis
souri river, the Calf of Mexico, the
Rocky Mountains, ami the Bri'ish
possessions. No smoke dimmed
ceilin?? stretched above bim, but he
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sister in New York reauesting him ; mf it F.Imtree. wl.in -extended
'o come back and make her house j its sheltering branches over the la
bis home. She stated that he was j boring artist of the art preservative."
financially able to provide for all his j Mr- Adan" "did mannered man
, ... , ' listened to the September breeze a
mce be received a letter from his ; .... A,, fK- 1.. r
Editor Times : This is .1 ques
tion in which each and every person
vrho plants an orchard in the west is
vitaly interested. How many are
there in Bates county to-day, who
would gladly pay large sums of
money to have the privilege ot chang
ing their varieties (particularly of
the apple) tc suit the climate; they
planted their orchards several years
ago, when very few varieties had
been tried here, and in a majority of
cases they planted largely of such
varieties as were known to them and
were favorites in some other locality,
or they consulted some eastern cata
logue and planted according to the
recommendations contained therein,
only to find after it was too late that
a great many of the favorites of the
east were comparatively worthless
here and it they left the matter of
selection to a nuseryman. be he ever
so honest, they were just as badly
off, for they were no better informed
on that point than the average plan
ter. Now, there need be none ot
this difficulty, nearly all of the old
and many of the new varieties have
been pretty thou roughly tested, and
any planter who will take a little
pains to inform himself may plant
with a great deal of assurance that
he will succeed, and ampl repay
him for his labor .nd expense, and
right here is where a great deal may
be done by local Horticultural So
cieties, as a recommendation of cer
tain varieties by an humble local so
ciety is more valuable to a person
about to plant trees in that locality,
than it would be tiom the American
Pomological bociety, or any other.
where a Oitlerent soil or climate is
found.
Now the Bates County Iloiticul
tural Society though young has ta
ken this matter up, and at its next
meeting (the third Saturday in
March) will have a paper on this
important subject, viz. a list of the
best varieties of apples for a family
orchard and tor commercial orchards,
which will no doubt bring out a
thorough discussion on the merits
and demerits of a great many differ
ent varieties. Now to my mind it will
certainly pay any one who is going
to plant apple trees, if not more
than twenty or thirty, to be present
at that meeting, and every one who
has had experience with the differ
ent varieties in this climate is urg
gentlv requested to be present and
give us the benefit of his experience,
and as it costs nothing to become a
member I think any one who takes
any interest in Horticulture can af
ford to become a member. There
is only two classes who are not
wanted in the Society, the first is the
man who knows it all and don
want to tell any of it to any one else,
and the other, the man who don't
know any thing ar.d don't want to
know. Now my friend if this meets
your eve and you belong to either
class, please stay away, if vou can
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give us someimng come, aim m ., 1
it we can do you any good we are
willing aud ready. H. S. !
Fiax! Flax!! Flax!!!
Messrs. Carnes & Hall are prepar-
ing to make the largest flax loan ev- j
er put out in Bates county. They
have about three thousand bushels of
fine seed selected from last year's j
crop: those desiring to sow seed this 5
season will save money by calling to i
see them before making other ar- j
nmgements. They can furnish t ith- j
er native or Russian seed on the
most liberal terms, ilaving tne only
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A beautiful imported moss rose china tea set will be given away with
one box 01 inatcniess oaMiiy 'u"" x j - - -----
ber placed oposite his or her name. 1 he 1 ca ct consists 01 no
Baking Powder warranted equal in quality ty to the best in the
No Humbug, Call and see it.
pieces,
market.
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PRICES
PAID FOR
flax cleaner in southwest Missouri, J
outside of Kansas City, thereby in-
suring their customer's flax seed ,
tree from cail and of the purest kind, j
This with their liberal dealings and j
unsurpassed facilities for handling
wnts, and advised tiro to quit work j , 5mrirt. -j ,k-. Wal timers i the product, will insure the greatest
1 . r . rl ' -i-nc in tVif f.-nmers tor their cross.
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peittl jiB otd ge in ease, This 4.f Butler for a number of vears.
COUNTRY PRODUCE
CHARLIE SPEAGwE,
Southwest Corner Square, BUTLER, MO.