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SNAP DP m OUR COT PRIG Those E SALE goods Still continues and with such success that we will le nearer out of this season than ever before but that's hardly surprising considering the extraordinary inducements we are offering Remember we give you choice of any winter weight, suit in our house for only as high as None' reserved they all go and there are a few worth in the lot, and whole stacks of $18 and $'20 values. On our $9 05 tableyou'll find 12:50, $15 and even $18 values all going at the uniform price of Cheap suits in proportion. Come and see these goods. You'll scarcely resist such values. Boys aud Childrens suits at cut prices shirts and wool socks at Special Prices, you ever saw before. -all boys and children overcoats at cost. Winter underwear at cost. Wool over Don't fail to see us before buying Will show you clothing at lower prices than TEA VALUES we are offering in mens winter suits. They are worth from 3 to $o more than we are selling t heiu at iu THIS SALE. A FEW Children overcoats left You can buy at cost McKIBBENS. JvUxs &.IB0TS Outfitters 3 r lWT'EK MEEKLY TIMES! LOCAL ITEMS The occupation tax strikes the banks the hardest. Deacon Bros. & Co , have a novel ty in their hIiow window. Mrs. Geo. Jones of Wichita, Kan sas is visiting Mrs. W. S. Arnold The estate of the late Jay Gould has been appraised at $80,934,5S0 79. The law prohibiting the killing of I quail out of season west into effect Jan. 1st. The Review says all the Rich Hill ! Coal Co's.' mines are running for the tVfirst time in two years. Warrensburg, Mo., are visiting rela tires and friends in the city. Peora, Virginia, Decatur and Jack sonville, Ills., people have contribu ted liberally to the Nebraska suffer ers. The West Virginia republicans will make a fatal mistake in electing Steve Elkins to the XT. S. Senate. Cattle are reported to be dying near Blairstown, Henry county, with a strange disease which has become I epidemic. Kansas son has a mrtuhlican rrrtv. g 0 - . ernor. Governor Morrill took the oath and was inducted into office Monday. Henry Snyder was convicted in the justice court at Kansas City Monday,and sent to jail for one year for stealing a pin. The pin was a diamond though. South Dakota's treasurer, Mr. Taylor fcas absconded and 1370,000 of the stata'a money went with him At least our good republican friend fi Taylor has gone ana so nas tne money. The Tikes congratulates W. E. Welch, of the Adrian schools, on hi ppointment as one of the rice pres idents the Southwest Missouri Taachefg Association which meats at Cartaiga next year. Ice being put up off about C inches thick. tho lake is W. W. Graves went to Jefferson City Monday to look after a case in the supreme court. Dr. Choate, Bates county's repre sentative was honored with an ap pointment on two committees, that of roads and highways and township organization. Walter Crabtree.charged with kil ing John Leach at Deepwater. has been granted a change of venue from Henry county, and he will be tried at Osceola, Mo. JSilas Levy left Monday for St. Louis to atteud the funeral of Judge Sam'l Levy's brother. The deceased had been afflicted with consumption and has been sick for some time. Quite a lot of supplies for the Nebraska suffers, has been left with the mayor, and will be shipped this week. Among the donations is sev eral thousand pounds of flour. A snow fall of from a foot to 15 inches in Ohio. Sunday. In Cleve land the street cars were run with great difficulty and for a time hun dreds of cars were stalled in the center of the city. Saturday morning the thermome ter registered six degrees below zero, the lowest notch reached this winter. The wind blew a gale and there was little business or stirring on our streets. The Nevada Mail calls on the city authorities to pass an ordinance pro hibiting the sale of the disreputable beet, the Sunday Sun, in that city. Such au ordinance for Butler would be the proper thing also, as the mor al status is not improved by its cir culation. Warrensburg, Ma. Jan. 12. While searching over the personal effects of Adam Fickas an eccentric old man, who recently died near this city. Administrator J. W. Suddath to-day found over $4,300 in currency and greenbacks hidden away in cracks and crevices. The estate is on of the most valuable in the eoanty. We see from the Windsor paper that W. R Taylor, living near that town, returning from his barn drop ped dead at his yard gate. He was 77 years of age, a pioneer citizen and had held the office of sheriff, collect or and judge of the county court, of Henry county. "It takes more mouey than the avemee man thinks, to run a first- class local paper, aod the friends of the Union must rally to its support, or we will not be able to continue indefinitely," says friend Atkeson, of the Union. The above may ac count for the patent inside the Union has adopted to lessen expenses. Daniel K. Swearingen, editor of the Burlington Courier, a populist paper,was tried in the United States court at Ft. Scott, Kansas, Saturday for sending obscene matter through the mails during the campaign and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary and to pay a fiue of 50. Dispatches from Loudon report a terrific snow storm in England Sun day, the worst in years. The storm prevailed through out the country. Iu places the snow was 12 feet deep. The mail carts were stopped and the railroad traffic delayed. Telegraph wires were down in all directions. Saturday Jacob Miller, a furniture polisher iu Chicago, crazed by jeal ousy, caught his young aod hand some wife by the hair, pulled her head back and cut her throat with a razor. She expired immediately. He theu rau to the factory wbere he was employed, and hot James Olander. the foreman, in the head, ioflicting a slight wound. Miss Ida L Cruuie writes a very interesting communication from the state capital of the workings of a republican legislature. Sbe has a position there during the comiag session and promisee to - let the Tikes hear from her quite often. Miss Ida has had enough experience in the newspaper business to knew how to pick out the grain from the chaff, aod we look for torn vary spicy and interesting letters from her this winter. Parties from Rich Hill report business very dull among the mer chants owing io the slack in work at the mines. Lane & Adair, Butler's popular dry goods firm, are making a whole sale reduction in boots and shoes They are anxious to clean up for the spring trade and are actually selling foot wear at prices in many instan ces below cost. If you want cheap boots and shoes now ia the time to make your purchases and Lane & Adairs store is the place to get them Read their large advertisement for farther particulars in this issue of the Times. There is no humbug about this firm, they mean what they sav. Call and see them. Saturday would have been a most j excellent day to have tested the muscle of the tramps on the rock pile Give tbea- a little out door exercise, they will feel better for it. The many friends of Miss Bell McClements in this city will be sor ry to learu that while out ekatiDg near Adraiu the other day she had the misfortune to fall ou the ice and break the large bone of oue of her legs. The break is below the knee and will lay her up for some time. Miss Fannie Woolery.we understand will finish the term of school being taught bv Miss McClements. The Timxs office printed hand some weddiug cards last week for our young friend D. H. Warford, of Altoua, who will wed Miss Mary S. Wills, of Pilot View, Ker tucky. The ceremony will be performed at the home of the bride, Thursday Janu ary 24th The bride is a sister of Mis Jackson Hacrcard, of near Alto na, ana visited our county about a year ago. Mr. Warford is one of Bates county's most substantial young men and in his matrimonial venture the Times wishes him unal loyed happiness. i When it comes to paying taxes the bank? seem to be strictly in it. and because they can't hide, dodge or renig they are caught couiing and going. Tho state and county gets them, the city asks and gets its share, they are hit harder than any other business in the occupation tax and lastly they have the extreme pleasure of contributing to Uncle Sam's income tax. If there is any thing else you waut in the way of taxes and don't see it call on the banks. Some people have an idea that share-holders in banks are a lot of aristocratic bloated bondholders, who ought to pay all the taxes. Well we will not dispute with these fel lows, as they are not stockholders in a bank and never will be It takes all their time whittling goods boxes and they wouldn't know a five dollar bill if they met it in the road. Get your window glas at DnrMMOxrs. D. W. !Srtus I'linrnn. M. D Bradley, living near Papin ville,was tried before Squire HerBcbi, oue day last week on the serious charge of attempting to kill his The prisoner plad guilty wife. to tbe charge, and was bouud over by the justice in a bond of $500. Be ing unable to find bondsmen he was sent to jail. t At the time of his at tack on his wife it is said Bradley was under the influence of liquor and was only prevented from killing his wife or doing her great bodily harm by ,the timely arrival of tbe lady's brother A Evans, who pulled Bradley off of his wife and prevent ed hi in from ii.flicting further injure to her person. As it was Mrs Brad ley wa9 quite badly hurt Bradley bears the reputation of being of a viscious disposition, and when in his cups is no respector of persons, and it is said this is not the first time he has abused his family. Get your pictures framed at D. W. Dkcmmosds. Saturday evening Meredith Haw kins, a farmer living west of town was in tbe city making some pur chases. Among the articles bought was a pair of boots which he put in his wagon standing in front of Sprague's store. Leaving the team for a few minutes on his return he found his foot wear gone.. . A sneak thief had plucked them. It was a bold piece of business, but Butler at the present time seems to have several of this class of citizens, er one very mischievous and energetic character. Farmers are daily con plaining of loseing laprobes and other articles from their vehicles tied up at the rack or hitched in the alleys. If we were editing a paper and practicing law at the same time, and was to try a case before justice court and got unmercifully licked, we hardly believe we would fly to the columns of our paper to make our client believe it was the stupid ity of the court aud jury that we were not successful. The fact is, that jacklegs ought not to practice law, it' takipg money from a client under false pretenses and the differ ence tatween such a pretended at torney and the fellows who bet on election and then go to law to recov er is so slight that it is hard to Poor Digestiou Leads to nervousness, fretfulness, peevishness, chronic Dyspepsia and great misery. Hood's Sarsaparilla is tbe remedy. It tones the stomach, creates an appetite, and gives a rel ish to food. It makes pure blood and gives healthy action to all the organs of the body. Take Hood's for Hood's Sarsaparilla Cures. Hood's Pills cathartic with them. 23c. become the favorite every one who tries A SHIIfal Operation. Dr. Boulware was called a few days ago to operate on Hayes Brix ner, son of Adam Brixner, living four miles southwest of town. The young uiau was afflicted with ab dominal abscess, aud not knowing the cause of his ailment allowed the abscess to grow until the pain be came unbearable and his case a serious one The doctor applied the knife and making an incision of about four inches tapped the cavity and relieved the young man of near ly one gallon of pus. The discharge was so very offensive the waiters could scarcely remain in the room and bad the operation been put off a day or two longer it is highly probable the case would have reach ed a stage beyond medical skill. During the summer, in plowing with a tongueless cultivator, Hayes buckled the lines around his body, to take up the slack and his team becoming unmanageable, jerked and wrenched him severely before extri cated by other parties in the field, and he attributes his present trouble to this mishap. Owing to the location of the ab scess tbe operation was a very dif ficult and dangerous one and the young man can congratulate himself that the knife was in the bands of a skilled physician The patient it doing well at present and the pros- .t- v,: 1 3 LOOK AT THE PRICES WE ARE MAKING And think if it does not justify you TO BUY FROM US. Mens suits from Mens overcoats from Boys suits long paots from Boys overcoats from Childrens suite from Childrends overcoats from $2 50 and ap 1 75 and up , 2 25 and up " 1 50 and op 75 and op 50 aod op 14 k little Cash tes aio ag Way discern twa. the difference between the All caps and Lined gloves At coat JOE MEYER, THE 7 PEOPLES CLOTHIER