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EXPERT WITH A ROPE.
Apache George Exhibits Some
Feats of Skill.
HE LASSOES A REPORTER.
Unique Character of the WiM and
Woolly West.
Characters," as eucb, are passing
away in the west. TLe bold men
a blackgnake" whip that measured
twelve feet from the tip of the buck
skin "cracker" to the handle. Telling
the reporter to hold the paper at
arm's length George backed off and
taking the whip began cutting the
paper off an inch at a time. As f,he
paper grew shorter aud shorter and
the stinging lash wielded by the man
standing twelve feet away cut nearer
and nearer to the reporter's fingers,
be grew uervous, but just as he was
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and the bad nun who have helped aD0UC lo 1911 A PacDe eSe luai
to win it the distinction of "wild and ue wa8 ausnea, niore tiiau Kausnea
woolly" are yielding to civilization i t, the cowboy gave tbe whip
and death. Teace to their ashes A an extra flou"k and with u crack
t .u ; like a pistol shot the .lash cut th
written up by the San Francisco PaPer cIean aud
Call is known as "Apache George"
than a
finger
by name George Bush, son of a
government scout, who once worked
with the Texas rangers. Not takiug
to "book larnin" George found him
self a captive of the Apaches when
he was 15, and there remained until
19, husband of a young squaw. He
came prominently before the public
clear less
quarter of an inch from the
ends
"Now I'll show you something
else," said George.. Takiug to
chairs, be called one mm weighing
180 pounds and another weigh:i:f.
1G5 pounds, and asked them to b
seated. Standing betweeu the chair
George took off his hat, aud dividing
when, says the Call, he joined the Lis lon& bair 80 tbat about half of ifc
Cody and Carver wild west show,
better known as "Buffalo BillV
hhow, aud after touring the United
States went to Enlaud with it. In
Germany "BuiTalo Bill" and Dr. Car
ver quarreled and they dividbd the
show. Gaorge went with "Buffalo
Bill."
The rival shows fought foi pat
ronage in the various European
town until the bitterness of the quar
rel extended to the cowboys them
selves, and in Hamburg, Germany,
the shows pitched their tents direct
ly opposite each other on the same
street. The cowboys knew theie
was going to, bo wnr, aud they filled
their revolvers and cartridge belts
with real, sure enough powder and
ball instead of the blank cartridges
used in the performance.
One afternoon Apache George
stepped from the tent into the street
just as one of Carver's cowboys
came out of the tent across the street
Compliments that wouldn't look well
in print were exchanged, and a sec
ond later the men were shooting at back to the Plaina aad "ettling down
each other. ' Cowboys of to day are not what
Ai.nther soi.d ami Avorr cnnbnv they were when I was one of them,
and Indian belonging to both shows but the Plains are
hung on either shoulder, he stooped
and told the men to take hold of his
hair with both hands and hold as
they would to a rope. The men
obeyed, when "Apashe George
straightened up lifting both men
clear of the chairs There they
swung, holding on to his hair for a
second or two, when astonishment
made them loosen their grip and
drop their feet on the ground.
"1 haven't got an iron jaw," laugh
ed George, "but I'll pull against
anv man in this town with my heir
for any amount of money."
As a rifle and pistol shot Apache
George does not claim any special
merit, but with the riata, lasso, lanet
or whip he defies all comers, and is
truly a wonder. He is a handsome
tellow. and despite the wild life he
has led, very much of a gentleman
He neither drinks or chews tobacco,
and to his abstemious habits he at
tributes his splendid health
"But I'm getting old." said Apache
George, "and I'm thinking of going
were on the streets fighting like de
mons. The police of the quiet Ger
man town were scared to death, aud
in the midst of the melee a compauy
the same, and,
after all, I would rather live on the
great prairies than in the Palace ho
tel. Yes. I think 111 go back," anc
the speaker roptd astray horse that
of dragoons belonging to the Ger- bad got out of a coral near b' and
mau army charcred down the street
and stopped the fight.
Apache George was thought to be
fatally woundetl, having been shot
iu the groiu, and fourteen others
were also badly hurt, several fatally.
The melee broke up both shows,
and as soon as the men were able to
leave the hospital they returned to
the United States. Apache George
at once struck out for the plains,
and ever since has worked off and
on in wild west shows and on the
prairies.
"I walked into San Francisco,
coming clear across the Mojava des
ere on ioor, ana i was ousted wneu
I got here," said George, yesterday.
'But so long as I have fifty feet of
rope I'll make a living," he added,
and then offered to show the report
er some of his feats of skill.
laking a rope ana putting a ruu
niug noose at one end. Apache
George aeked the reporter to go
down the street and walk toward
him. He first caught the reporter's
left foot with the rope as he went to
make a step, throwing the rope with
was kickiner up its heels. Then he
sighed aud coiled up his rope.
DEACON BROS. & CO.
THE LEADING DEALERS IN
SHELF AND HEAVY HARDWARE,
Cutlery, Guns, Tinware, Granitware, Gasoline Stoves,
Builders Hardware, Wagon Wood Work, Barb wire, &.c.
STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES,
And the largest and best selected Hue of
JL O II I TV J Z H Y .
The Morgan Spading Harrow, Corn Planters, Cultivators,
Spring Trip Cultivators, Plows, Wagons, Binders Sec &,c.
Top Buggies and Climax Spring Wagons.
Northern Grown Seeds, &c. Call and see us.
DEACON BROS. & CO.
Southeast Corner of the Square.
Welcome tor Negroes lb Hawaii.
i- -r ei-L-- -t it .
viuaries j. warier, one or lue
special commissioners of the Hawa
iian government now ia Washington
ooking after the interests of the
provisional government asking for
annexation, will sion leave for At-
anta. He desires to have a confer
ence with leadiug negroes of the
south looking toward inducing im
migration from that race to the
Sandwich islands. He says Le has
the opportunity of giving i million
negroes of the south work ou the
islands. He seems very much in
earnest, and paiuts in glowing pic
tures the islands and their possibil
ities for development. He says tbe
negroes would find the climate suit
able, and would be happv residents
with all the privilej
Atlanta Journal
CHOLERA NEAR THE GATES. May 3, but we are fully prepared to
meet any emergency which may
Two Immigrants Stricken With
the Plague at Halifax.
C. Star.
The Associated Press dispatches
announce tni3 morning that two
cases of genuine Asiatic cholera
have developed among a shipload of
immigrants landed a few days ago
at Halifax, Nova Scotia. The immi
grants were from Hamburg and
there were 470 of them bound for
Cleveland, Chicago, Toledo and In
dianapolis. Before the discovery of
the plague many had been allowed
to proceed on their journey west
ward aud some of these had tickets
for Chicago. One of the two cholera
suspects detained in the Halifax
hospital is Carl Erickson, from
Stainwang, Norway, ticketed to Chi
cago. The steamer which brought over
the immigrants was . one of the dis
reputable "tramp" boaU which pay
little or no atteutiou to government
regulations.
The responsible steamship lines a
dispatch from Washington says, are
woikiuir ia full accord with the
treasury department. Dr. Glavis,
the Washington representative of
these lines, 6ays that the Hamburg
packet line has discontinued laud
ings at Halifax, because the quaran
tine regulations at that point are
lax. He said it was a matter of self
preservation for the reputable com
panies to see that no cholera sus
pects were brought to this country.
arise during the intervening time.
Blessed be the Country Editor
Walter Williams In Columbia IleraU.
The country editor is most bless
ed because of the opportunities for
usefullness that come to him. He
liyes always close to his readers. His
paper is a welcome viator iu every
home. At times when even the phy
sician and minister may not come
in the country paper enters. It
moulds the thoughts and lives of
young and old. It preaches to a"
larger congregation than all the
clergymen in the town. It argues
oftener and more convincingly than
all tne lawyers. Its words cause
wounds that no surgeon's skill may
heal. When the editor uses these
magnificent opportunities rightly.
is fearless, conscientious, true, ex
eludes from his columns all that
may vitiate and deDase, and admits
only that which helps and elevates.
he is worthy ot much honor. Such
is the best type of the country edi
tor. Blessed he is above his fellow?
Washington. March 30. Fourth
assistant postmaster general Max
well to-day appointed 188 fourth
class postmasters and of this number
86 were to fill vacancies caused by
removals. The largest number ap
pointed from any one state was 45
n Indiana, which involved eleven
emovals. In Keutucky there were
24 appointments and six removals
M range Sight at Cape Horn .
San Francisco, Cal., March 27.
Captain Atkisou arrived from Liver
pool via New York to day to take
arge of the British ship Goodrich
whose master, Captain Williams,
committed suicide a few weeks ago.
Captain Atkison says that in conver
sation with Captain Spurning of the
ship DunTaig, which left Sin Fran
cisco for Liverpool about four
months ago, Spurning told him of a
remarkable experience. While round
ing the horn, the Dancraig nearly
ran into an iceberg aud when she got
clear, in plain view was a wooden
bark hard and fast on the ice. On
deck and iu shroud could be seen
lumps which the sailors on the Ouu-
craig took to be human bodies cased
1 1 1 i m a i
in ice ana were ueieivea to ue tne
crew wno ma been trozen to deatu.
Elliott Sliepard's Death Causes An
other.
his right hand. Then he caught the Chicago, IU., March 27. Horace
right foot, throwing the rope wi'.hjC. Douoghue, a well knewn publish-
bis left hand. Then the reporter er was standing before his dressing
jumped up aud down with both feet ca8e this morning when his wife took
as. if skipping a rope, and George UP newspaper and begau reading
pinioned both legs. Quick as a flash aloud about Elliott F. Shepard's
he caught his right arm, thou his aeain m iew lorn, ouaaeniy sue
left, and pulling the rope tight threw heard her husband fall with a pe-
& half-hitch over both arms, aud fin- culiar gurgling sound and, rush
ished with another hitch around the ng to his side, was horrified to find
ear
neck. The throw around the neck
was made without looking at the
victim. He then did a number of
fancy tricks, such as catching the
reporter on a dead ruu, aud then
throwing the tope on a half bitch
over a man standing close to a t-pt
where he brought hisfiist captive to
a standstill. Lissoit horses, men
on wagons with the horses going on
a trot, or catching small boys by the
feet as they ruu were mere child's
play to Apache George.
x "Now take this paper," paid
i George, handing the reporter a piece
of newspaper about six inches long
and folded up. He next produced
that he had cut his throat
to ear.
from
31 nrler Added to Jail Breaking.
Monroe, Ma, March 27. John
Smith, alias Stontr, who recently
broke jail at Paris, where he is con
fined awaiting trial for forging a
check on tbe F. & M. Bank in this
city, shot and fataly woundl James
Nesbit living six miles west of here
early this morning. It is reported
that Smith accused Nesbit of being
too intimate with his wife, while an
other report is that the trouble grew
out of a misunderstanding of over a
year ago.
tary S-miihling ot too treasury was
called this mori.ing So the two cases
of cholera in Halifax and he was
asked what arrangements had been
made to prevent the spread of the
disease in this country, further than
his ttleiiiui- t.i th
customs to quarantine tha immi-
grants and see that none of them
entered this country by land. He
said: "No other precautions have
bsen taken and none other are need
ed."
"Unquestionably. Aud it can be
kept out of every port in the coun
try at all times by just such precau
tions. I will venture the prediction
that if any of these 470 Hamburg
! immigrants attempt to land in Chi
cago, or any other poiut inland they
will be apprehended aad qurantin
el" 'Can you apprehend them after
they have lauded'"
"Yes sir; they will be kept under
surveilance, all of them, and until it
is Known mat tuey are iree ironi
cholera or other infectious disease,
they will not be permitted to come
in contact with our citizens. I pre
dict that if they land in Buffalo, or
attempt to land there our officers
will take care of them "
"Suppose a cholera infected im
migrant should escape the vigil of
the officers aud get into an inland
city what would you do with him or
her?"
"Seize the immigraut aud have
nun or ner quarantined in same re
mote place wtre there would be no
danger of a spread of the disease."
at. Ijouis, juo , Alarcn di. a pe
culiar cow disease has broken out in
ot. ijouis county, wnicu is giving
the farmers and others who own
cows, much concern. The disease
makes its appearauce iu the eo
tails and causes a sort of paralysis
which if not promptly bandied wil
result disastrously to the auiimv
D;iiry Inspector L. A. Bn-ge, speak
ing of the disease said he could not
ex-ictly name it. but knew it was not
a ne.v disorder.
"We had a distase of thnt kin
i . -
among me cows in tuis section some
years ago Ine germ makes its ap
pearance in the animal's tail in the
form of a worm aud causes iuflam
collector of j million. It was treated by lancing
the affected parts and applying
poultices. The disease as I recol
lect it, was not so severe as other af
fections peculiar to cattle."
;e of citizeuship.
BATES COUNTY
National Bank,
BUTLER, MO.
THE OLDEST BANK
THC LAflGESr AM) THE
ONLY NATIONAL BANK
IN BATES COUNTY.
CAPITAL, - - 125,000 00
SURPLUS, - - $25,000 00
F. J. TYGARD, - - -HON.
J. B. XEWBEKR1 ,
I.C.CLARK
President.
Vlce-Pret.
Cashier
Lawyen.
David Scauuelt, tor many years
cai-t oi tue nre aeparimeut, uiea
suddenly at the ago of 73 years.'
Death was due to kidney aud liver
trouble.
JQE ARMOND & gMITH.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Will practice in Bate ai.d adjoining
counties.
fcfTOuice over Bate Co. Xat'l Bank.
pARKIXSON ic GRAVES,
ATTORNS AT LAW.
Office West Side Square, over Lant-
down'i Drug Store.
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vv iiai id una
n 5
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DR. J. M. CHRISTY,
HOMOEOPATHIC
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,-
Office, tront room over P. O. All call
answered at office day or night.
Special attention given to tcmale dis
eases.
TC. BOUL.WARE, Physician and
Surgeon. Office north side sauare.
Butler. Mo. Diseases of women and chl)-
en a specialty.
anyhow
1
It is the only bow (ring) which
cannot be pulled from the watch.
To be had only with Jas. Boss
Filled and other, watch cases
stamped with this trade mark.
Ask your jeweler for pamphlet.
Keystone Watch Case Co.,
PHILADELPHIA.
Memphis, Teun., March 30 The
citizens of Kelly, Tunica, Shaw and
Cleveland have made an appeal for
aid in behalf of the cyclone suffers
in jiorth Mississippi.
rrom reiiaoie jniormation it is
1 a it . i rrr m i
learueu mat l.uuu iaraiues are in
destitute circumstances in De Sol
Bolivar, Sunflower and Coahoama
counties.
The cyclone struck that section at
a time when the farmers had just
T 1 Ml
nnisneti piantiu'r. ine various ex
changes of Memphis have coutrib
uted large sums to the suffers. The
Illinois Central, Yazoo and Memphis
valley, and the Kansas City, Mem
phis and Birmingham railroads have
given notice that provisions for the
sufferers will be transported free of
charge over their lines.
Pittsburg, March 30. At a meet
ing of embalmers of the United
States here to-day the body of EJ
James, who died a few days ago from
injuries received in a street fight at
Harrisburg, was mummified. Tbe
dead man's relatives live in Lon
don and are said to be very wealthy.
Prof. Sullivan of Louisville. Kv..
'Do you find sufficient authority c!a:lIlt, bodr will keen for rl '
.. .i. . ... . o
iu tne oia law to cope wnn au out
DR. F. M. FULKHRSON,
BUTLER, - MISSOURI.
Office, Southeast Corner Square, over
Deacoun, Sons Co. store
W A ROSE,
LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEER !
Will do business in Bates, Cass and
adjoining counties. Address me at Har-
rUonyille, Mo.
Reference. First National Bank and
3ank ot llarrisonville. 4 it
break of cholera, andean you handle
it til the law passed a few weeks
ago jroes iuto ffect:"'
'Yes; we are handling the incom
ing of the 470 immigrants from
Hamburg under the old law passed
by the last congress, approved
March 3, does not go into effect till
Iu a laudslide north of Edmund::,
Wash., Tuesday, Hubert Bak-r was
killed aud two otht-r men badly in
jured. Johu Allen, a guard at Sanbois,
Choctow nation, was shot dead hj
another guard daring a quarrel
Tuesday night
-COODLOS"
This fine youncr saddle stallion
will make the season of 1895? ?jf n
barn, 5 miles east of Butler.
Goodloe, Bav Stallion, bred bv John
T. Woodford, Mt. Sterling, Kv. Foaled
in iSS, sired bv Blue Jeans, one ot Ken
tucky's greatest saddle stallions. First
dam Kilty Fogg, by Beauty; id dam
Puss, the dam of more high-prfced fad
die horses than anv mare livir.gor dead:
third dam the famous Haggard mare.
Blue Jeans, sired by Philips' black horse,
he by Jen. Tavlor; ist dam by Gra
Eale p.; he bv (Jrav Fagle; id dam kv
Oden's Crockett.he by Roanoke, 3d dam
bylPotomac, 4th dam by Sir Archie.
Be&uty was sired by the noted sire
Magic, sire or Post Boy, 2:2 1-2; Clem
mie G. Mystery J-.25;Keno 2:3 1-2
and many other fast ones. His first dam
by Benton's Diomed; 2d dam by Crip
ple, ton ot Medoc;3d dam by Tiger Whip
he by Blackburn's Whip, he by import
ed Whip. This stallion is not only a
fashionable bred saddle hor6e but has
one cross that makes him connected w ith
some ot the best and fastest trotters.
Goodloe is registered a No. ,Sr, in
Vol 11. National Saddle Horse Breeders'
Association Register, Louixville, Ky.
Terms: $is; for co't to stand aud su.'k
Care taken to prevent accidents, but
will not oe responsible should anr oc-ur.
183m G. I). ARNOLD,
BARNEY.
Will stand the teason oi iSqj, at my
stable, eight miles due east ot Butler and
3-4 ot a mile south of the Montrose and
Butler road.
Description and Pedigree. Barber 1?
coal black, mealr nose,is hands high 'and
was sired by McDonald's fine mammoth
jack, dam was one of Leonard's fine Jen
nets. He is a sure ar.d large breefler.
Terms. SS to insure colt to stand and
suck it oai 1 within ten days ot the date
the colt is foalec, it not paid within ten
days to be $9 It not paid until aitei
October, 1S94, to be S:o- Colt will stand
good for season. Atter service has been
rendered, any ne selling, trading or re
moving mare forfeits insurance and
money mast be paid. Care will be taken
to prevent accidents but will not be re
sponsible should any occur.
A stallion will stand at same place.
Terms made known at barn.
DiWitt McDaxikl.
Franz Bernhardt
1 On the north eU!e of the square,
j Butler, - Missouri,
Does bis own
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i
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actual cost m mm
FortlieceM twelve months.
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