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BUTLER, MISSOURI. THURSDAY APRIL 80, 189(5.
NO 24
Missouri
State
lank
OF BUTLER, MO.
pmnsacts a general banking business.
1- merchants and the public generally,
ahlnds committed to our charge. We a
$110,000.
We solicit the accounts of far
promising a safe depository for
inn)eomiuiutu 10 our cnarge. we are prepared to extend liberal ae-
nLmixlation in the way of loans to our customers. Funds ahvavs on hand
loan on real estate at lowest rates, allowing borrowers to pay part or all
I IDy time and stop
ISooftpr Powell Frank M Vorid
II II 1'igKOtt JM Christy
C K Kadlord li li Webt
T J Wriht Wm E Walton
(ieo L Smith
OTIIKlfc HTOCKHOLDEKS.
Of, f.C. BOUlWBro
a rwteher
UiDwrwester
jgjenilns
llstleti
lirpret Bryner
4li Brown
gotoTl',u,lberCo
UlClielf
;( Courtney
WtCluk
lj.ft.gL Coleman
(git UWWMK"
D A DeArmontl
John 1.. 9
Dr J Kveringham
Edith EverlnRham
CAE Freeman
Q B Hickman
I) B Heath
Semnel Levy
(J II Morrison
lr W 1 Hannah
Iiobert McCracken
A McCracken
John Pharls
J K Hosier
J W Belsner
L B Starke
Clem Slayback
John II Sullens.
Peter Swartzendrnber
Dr W E Tucker
W B Tyler
E Turner
Wm W Trigg
Wm Walls
O P Wyatt
Dr X L Whipple
Max Weiner
11 li West
J M Christy
Col ver Items.
ttonrv Randolph upset his boat
,hi' fixing a trot line in the creek
ud'lost his outfit besides getting a
jood ducking.
DrKenicK, oi juum, ui i
MruWilley, who is quite sick,
m day last week.
IN Hendrix ana J a nays snipped
title last week to Kansas City and
ioobtleshave the experience some
Maine the money, as an ciaim to
m this season.
Pes being sick and ins deputy tans
ir day last week caused us to mis-
or man last mursuay.
MSKiersey takes the cake, being
he flint to plow corn, so far as have
;erd. . .
Louie Kiersey is taking lessons this
prlng in gardening.
Jag Mclihee and wife spent an
renlng visiting in Culver.
Carl Decker took a Hying trip to
annas City last week,
ills Maud Stover is taking treat
ment in Butler for scrofula.
C J Greer brought out a load of
iourand merchandise 1-riday. lie
lowni them all on Hour. Bring your
Mckens and eggs to Charley.
Our new mail carrier took posses
Jon of the route Friday and will con-
iinne to run same as Dee.
Wt have a new road wagon to
mde for a good buggy.
8 F Hillings is home irom ins trip
aCarthage. His daughter, Mrs Ida
Vtl .. ,S... 1,
ft visit with relatives and friends.
Mr Patrick from the northeast was
overtoDr Mc.'s. He is gold stand
ird from away back.
flrWA Williams of Hume, is not
a the fight this year for representa
tive, (as we suppose ) as he is a gold
Kiudard democrat.
Spruce township has up a light (not
mtapital removal) on the removal
al the voting precinct from Johns
.own to Ballard.
Bob Douclass called at Culver.
OL Griggs drove to Hutler for fish
Uncle Billy was fish hungry.
SoBatleris having trouble with
Kreity dads, just such as we expect
nearat (Julver.
Dr ucFarland's wife is quite sick
A daughter of G G Gartin is sick.
Jack.
ELEVEN PERSONS DIE IN
A CYCLONE,
Clay
County, Kas., Visited
Death Dealing Storm
by a
T WEN T Y-PEOPLE INJURED
Houses Wrecked. Trees Up
rootei and Animals Perish
New Home Hems.
the
There is a worm dastrovinir
we in tnis vicinity.
Men Bell is verv low: he was strick
with paralysis some time ago and
no use of himself, lias to be turn
In a sheet.
wttie Burks visited in Snraerue
st week.
in mliliiifT IB uym'p to Ilia
tady fine orchard. Jim is plant-
s some oi the finest trees we ever
aw.
Liffhtninnr ct runlr citwl Lrillwl ci ll nruA
I a O ' " v . it I " 4 nil I v v . ut .
wjun Kicks on last Wednesday,
There has been a Sunday school
"SMuzedat the Sew Home school
wwe, with Parson Miller, euperin
.?n7 Orav visited at W Little
Sunday.
Anew man in New Home, his name
he is from the burnt district
ebraka.
'irgil Trowbridge is cutting stalk
a noe at 10 cts per acre.
Shally is in very poor health.
,xuuo a number were ou the- rive
White corn is worth 20c a bushel.
J Elliots was farminpr Thursday
harrow tietl behind his waon.
ihe weeds and yrass have posses
" of the early planted corn.
P Y Morse is preparing to plant
some melons.
Uncle Joe Littlefield is going to
disk 70 acres of land and plant it in
corn; he says disking is better than
breaking; he tried a place last year.
Hob Good run caught some line fish
last week. Some of them weighed
ten pounds each.
BP Caldwell and wife visited the
widow Steele Sunday.
We had quite an electric storm
Sunday morning. Lightning struck
in several places; it struck the widow
Steele's house and barn, tore the flue
off th house and did considerable
other damage.
S Kobb was up from off the Osage
in Vernon county, Saturday. He re
ports the Usage all over the bottom;
he said that on Wednesday of last
week hail fell as large as goose eggs.
JIM.
Snmniii Items.
Plenty of moisture for all purposes
and corn promises to be a good stand.
Crops of all kinds make a good
showing for this date in the season.
Llder Webb came to his last ap
pointment laden with some of the
novelties purchased at Hutler.
1 he township examinations held at
Summit center by H E Parker and
Misses Emma Holin and Janie Dono
van passed off nicely and we suppose
satisfactorily to all concerned.
Miss Vina Lawson is visiting Mrs
eter Lane, of Hutler.
Miss Grace Stearns came out from
Hutler Friday evening to spend Sun
day with her parents, and was
caught in the rain in spite of her ef
forts to evade it, being m an uncov
ered vehicle.
Most of the farmers are well along
with their corn planting, while some
are through. This surely indicates
one of our earliest seasons, and a good
crop, unless unfavorable conditions
arise earlier than usually looked for.
D D Peeler and A H Owens were in
this locality for a limited time l-t
week. Both are competitors to be
feared by those who aspire for the
same positions.
.Politically, Summit s waters are
not rullled by any discord and all are
sailing on in anticipation of a glorious
victory for the principles advocated.
Mrs Angelina Gutrulge, ot bpruce,
passed through Summit Sunday to
Butler, where she would take the
train for Baker City, Oregon, to visit
two sons and a daughter living in
that state.
Dom Pedro, the hard pan blatent
correspondent of the Democrat talks
through his hat, when he is able to
talk, and we are loth to use our ainu-
nltion on such 6inall game, wnose
voice must be elevated in that way
in an effort to bring it on a line with
the better class, but to let him know
that while we are not expecting any
thing better from him nor any good
to result to the Summit boys, socially,
morally or otherwise, by coming m
contact with such elements of society
as himself, let we feel practically
safe, as the Summit boys were grown
on sood soil and are strong in all that
iroes to make up the man, and will
be able to withstand anv evil influ
ences that may be thrown around
them by the "big Injuns" of Shawnee
or any other locality. urovkr.
TO Tax Payers.
Notice is hereby given that sui
will be brought on the taxes of 1S91
'(J:" "93 and '94 at the uext term of
the circuit court, unless the same is
paid at once. S. II. Fisher,
Ex-officio Collector.
Storm Struck the Village of St.
Joseph, Tneii Plowed Its Way to
Ci if ton, Destroying Every
Standing Thing in a Path
Nearly Half a Mile
Wide Some Won
derful Escapes.
Clifton, Kan., April 26. Eleven
persons dead, three fatally wounded
and twenty-live others seriously in
jured is the result of a cyclone which
struck the village of St. "Joseph, near
here, last evening, then plowed its
way through to this place and thence
eastward, cutting a path from 150
yards to nearly half a mile in width.
The day had been a very warm one,
and in the early evening there were
indications of a rain, but later it
cleared away. About 0 o'clock clouds
formed near St. Joseph, and a half
hour later a full-fledged cyolone broke
upon the village and partially de
stroyed it. Thence it seemed to rise,
until within a few miles from this
place when it again struck the
ground.
A large number of cattle and horses
also were killed and injured. The
cyclone started about Bix miles south
of Clifton and went in a northeaster
ly direction for twelve or fifteen miles
and then lost its force by spreading.
It passed about half way between
Clifton and Morganville. Its track
varied from 150 yards to a quarter of
a mile in width. It tore through a
farming community and left nothing
standing. Houses and barns were
wrecked, trees torn up or broken,
fences leveled and hay stack blown
in every direction. The cyclone was
followed by a terrific rain storm,
which lasted several hours, flooding
the devasted district.
The cyclone took the people una
wares. There had been indications
of a heavy rain all day, with local
showers, but nobody expected a
storm. So far as learned,the victims
were in their houses, and the most
of them had retired. The etorm
struck Peter Anderson's house at 9:30
o'clock. This was about a mile from
the starting point, ihe house was
demolished in an instant. Every
member of the Anderson family was
injured. When they had extricated
themselves from the debris they dis
covered that Anderson's grandchild
was missing. Ihe dead body of the
child was found this morning in a ra-
ine half a mile away, it evidently
had been carried there by the Avind.
Anderson alarmed the neighbors
who lived out of the track of the
storm, and search was commenced
for victims, but little headway was
made in the rain. Couriers were sent
to Clifton and Morgansville for doc
tors, but it was daylight before they
arrived, and the extent of the injury
and damages is not known. At noon
to-day it was thought that all the
ictinis had been tound.
Heart-rending tales of suffering are
told by persons who had visited the
scenes of t lie storm. Many of the in
jured lay all night, pinned down by
wreckage or paralyzed in the mud,
while others crawled or hobbled
across the country to a
house. In several instances people
were lifed into the air by the cyclone
and carried for a distance and then
suddenly dropped. The buildings, it
seems, also were lifted up and then
hurled to the ground with force
enough to demolish them. The wife
and daughter ot John Morris were
reading when the shock came. Ihe
house was divided. The women man
aged to get out, when the wind pick
ed them up, carried them 200 "yards
and let them safely down on a pile oi
straw, just awav from the storm's
track.
The people for miles around today
gathered at the different points where
damage had been done, and rendered
assistance in everv pojsible way,
The track of the- storm looked like a
piece of ground which had been lev
eled with a roller. Half a dozen tele
graph poles were torn down where
the cvclone crossed the road. Tele
graphic communication between Clif
ton and the outside world was cut off
from the hour of the storm till 9
o'clock this morning. It is expected
that much damage was done in the
vicinity of Palmer, Washington coun
tv but the details can not be learned,
There was no damage to
uprooted or broken off, and every
thing in its track was destroyed.
'fhe first victims of the storm were
Eli Belshazor and wife, living about
a mile east of St. Joseph. The fami
ly were just preparing to seek refuge
in the in cellar when the storm struck.
The six children! were all more or
less seriously injured, and it is
thought two of them will die. About
a mile further east the home of J ulian
Trembly was destroyed and he was
killed.
The greatest loss of life occurred
south of Clifton, some six miles. Two
farmers, E. B. Peterson and J. S.
Haynes, were killed and a number of
others whose names could not be
learned. At one place a woman and
child were killed, and at another a
0-year-old boy. The body of the lat
ter has not yet been found.
Several are reported seriously in
jured south of Palmer and some of
them fatally. The number killed and
who have died from their injuries is
this evening reported to be eleven,
but the list will doubtless be in twenty-four
hours. Over twenty-five per
sons are said to have sustained ser
ious injuries. Over twenty families
were rendered homeless by the storm.
The suffering of those injured was
rendered great by the severe hail and
rain that closely followedthe cyclone.
The roar of the storm could be dis
tinctly heard for miles.
The little city of Clifton was wrought
to a high pitch of excitment. At tirst
it seemed as if the storm might strike
there and many sought safety in cel
lars and dug outs. But it pas'sed sev
eral miles to the south.
r
HE TOOK SIX LIVES.
Awful Crim e ot a Boy Who Was
i'lold to Saw Wood.
DUVALL & PERCIVAL
BUTLER, MISSOURI.
FARM LOANS.
Money to loaa on farms at reduced rates of interest
)Your Notes are Payable at j our, Office
nl you find them here when due.
We give you privilege to pay at any time. Money'iready'as
JBoon'aspapers are signed.
co-tf.
Two Children, Two Men, One Woman
and liiuiselt Are Slaughtered in
j. His Frenzy.
Rockklle. Ind.. April 25 This
morning at 7 o'clock Peter Egbert,
a young man 23 years of age, shot
and killed Mrs. Herman Harsnke
and her two children, Herman and
Aggie, Sheriff W. D. Mull and con
stable W M Sweem. He then killed
himself; and his sister Miss Florence
Egbert, who was lying very ill of
typhoid fever, died shortly after
ward of; the shock.
Shortly after 6 o'clock, Egbert
was sent into the back yard to saw
some wood. Shortly after, while
Mrs. Harshke was out milking her
cow, Egbert secured a double-bar
reled shotgun, and going to the
Harshke houBe next to his home, he
shot the little daughter, a child of
Chicago, 111., April 24 Edward
ardrldge, the board of trade plun-
ft 0 1
ger, wno died a lew uays ago, was
worth 2,700,000. The noted spec
ulator left no will.
speak of, but fruit in the storm's
track was ruined. It is impossible at
this time to estimate the damage to
buildings and other propeity
10 years, dead, and wounded the
boy, two yearB younger, who ran out
on the porch where Egbert shot him
again, killing him instantly. The
murderer then went out into the
alley and levelled his gun at Mrs
Harshke. who seeing his intention,
attempted to escape. He shot her
however, the charge taking effect in
the top of her head, removing part
of her skull. Mrs. Harshke lingered
in an unconscious . state for about
two hoars, when death ended her
sufferings.
Having: completed this work oi
butchery, Egbert shouldered his gun
and deliberately walked up into the
business part of the town. Sheriff
Mull and: constable sweem were
planning a means of capturing the
murderer. Egbert was walking
across the north Bide of the square
holdinsius cun in position, with
both barrels cocked, when he saw
Hall arid Sweem crossing the street
toward lim. He called out to them
that they had better not come any
nearer. ;
The Officers then retired into
stairway in the national bank build
ing ; for; a moment's consultation
when Eebert turned, and, coming
upon them suddenly, shot and in
stantly killed both men.
The murderer then started to run
takiBe westward course toward
the fair grounds, a number ot cm
zens inclose pursuit. He ran like
deer until while crossing an open
field, j4st west of town, a shot from
erons tolhis Cufsaers took effect in his heel.
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D.
K.
E.
A.
D.
THOMPSON, Pridn.t
BENNETT, Vice Pres.
K1PP, Cashier.
Judge Clark Wix,
M. G. Wilcox,
J no. E. Shutt,
J. Everinghaui.
OTH V.ll DIRECTORS
M. McKibbeu,
J a
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Jiio
J.J
M. Gailey,
Steele,
McKee.
FARMERS' BANK
CASH CAPITAL
$ 5 5,0 00.0 0
WE DESIRE YOUR BUSINE:
OSCAR REAVIS
I wish to sav to
my friends that I have just
south of Post Office a
opened, one door
NEW GROCERY STORE
My stock consists of a new and complete line of Groceries and
provisions, and 1 extend to mv friends a cordial invitation to call
and see me. 1 will treat you right and sell you goods as
cheap as the cheapest. Country produce wanted, and the high
est price paid for same. Give me a call.
Order of Publication.
STATE OF MISSOURI.
County of BaU. "
In the circuit court of Bates county. Missouri.
In vacation. March lth, isstfi, 1 he State or
mlfourl &t tba relation and to the uie ofS
H fiiher. ex-fficio collector of the revenue
of Bates county in the Hate of Mlnouri,
CP'aint'U. va. James II Meffoifl. defendant.
ClYU action ior aeiinqueui iihm.
Now at thla aay cornea the plaintiff herein by
her attorney, before the nnderaigued clers of
the circuit court of Bates couoty in the state
f Missouri. In Tacation and flies her affidavit
stating among other things that the abate
named defendant. James ix aimuru ib
non-resident or the state oi Mis
souri. Whereupon It is ordere by the
clerk in racation.that said defendant be noti
fied hv unbiication that claintiff has com
menced a suit against him in this conrt by
petition and affidavit me oojeci ana general i
nature or which is to enforce the lien of the
state of Missouri for the delinquent taxes of the
years ltu, lsal, 1S92 and 1S93, amounting in
the aggregate to the snmof $4.00 together with
interest, costs, commission and fees, upon the
following described tracts oi iana siiuaie.u in
Bates cusity, Missouri, to-wil:
Twenty (SO) acres, south nair, west
half lot six (fi) section fire (6) town
ship thirty-nine (39) of range thirty-two (3-')
and that unless the said aeienaam
be and appear at the next term or this court to
be begun and nolden In the city of Butler,
Bates county, Missouri, on the first Tuesday
after the second Monday tn June, 1SW. and on
or before the third day thereof (if the term
shall so long continue, ana u not tnen ueiore
the end of the term,) and plead to said peti
tion according to law, the same will be taken as
confessed and judgment rendered according to
the prayer ef said petition, and the aDOve ae
scribee real estate sold to satisfy the same.
And it is further ordered oy toe cierK aiore-
caid that a copv hereof be published in the
Butler Weekly Times, a weekly newspaper
printed and punnsneu in Bates county, Mis
souri , for four weeks successively, the last
insertion to be at least fifteen days before the
first day of the next term or eaia conn.
A true copy irm ioe rccuru. iuna " j
hand as clerk aforesaid with the seal
seal of said court hereunto affixed. Done
at oflice in Butler on this the 10th day
of March, 1. STKWAST AlCHfSU.N ,
2-4t circuit ciera
Abilene, Kansas, April 24. The
greatest flood in Abilene'a history
resulted from a terrific rain a few
miles north of town about 5 o'clock.
In tbreo Lours Mud creek rose thirty
feet and all the west and north sides
are under water to-night. The streets
being level are rivers from sided to
side. Much property is injured, but
no lives have been lost.
This flrippled him, and, though he
managed to scale tne enclosure oi
the fair grounds, Ee waa unable to
run fdrther.
Hejrawled into a stall in the fair
Concordia, Kan., April 26.-The wnere ne snot ouuaw iu
cyclone which swept through this j the;tM breast, ihe nre irom nis
section of the State on last evening I oqWi Ignited his clothing which was
partially burned when he was toana.
WOK'T IX KAXSAS HISTORY.
wns -rooaoiv one or tne most severe
i i - i . -.
mat ivansas nas ever experienced. I -v . t i-:n
i.c vcm u w m&www&w -
i .
wa8 excitement eo intense. Business
suspedfed and people can think or
talk oi nothing but the awful trage
; dy. - The dead are being prepared
fof jbufial, but no arrangements for
It formed about 7 o'clock last even
ing near the little town of St. Joseph
in the eastern part of Cloud county,
ana rasea in a northeasterly airec
turn through the northern part of
Clay and probably in the southern
eil.e nf Wn shin t cm ennntr Pnftfin.
atelv, it struck no towns, bat its I tiei Jarierals have been made.
course was throxigh a thickly-settledf A Eefa'ert was at one time confined
portion of the Kepublican valley; & th inline asjlam, but had been
1 he cvclone was funnel-shaped, and v ij rr ,r,.,i
its power seemed unlimited, blouses W?? as. cur;f TLe., Senera'
j.tul Kims were lifted inrn i?i nii-nrx belie I IS that Inanity V.HS 126 CSUSc
dashed uacti to earth. Trees were i CI the Crime.
Well Satisfied with
A8??3 Hair Vio.
"Xeiir'.y forty years ago, aftfi
i,:ue weeks of sickness, my hair
tr.n.'-'i gray. 1 ljegan using Ayerj
Hair V and was so well satis-fu-.l
i.:t;: i!e results that I have
never tried any other kind of dress-
is ing. It requires only
AYEH'S
hair of gj
to re::;r,
ult, to iif.
1 prevent
. I isever
.
i
tts-i;2i!g itiiliiors. aiif
i-:ir id::i f.u.mg out. 1 never I
late t' r-c:'!nsnc:id Ay?rs medic:;:' .
to :i! v f ric::t!s." Mrs. II. Id. Iiaioi. J .
Av&ca, X -r.
fit if &uiS
fir nmr tfigor
v Dr.J.C. -1 ver .., LiweU
Golden Opportunity
AT
W. G. WOMACK'S
CASH GROCERY,
for the farmers of Bates county.
Gentlemen, trade with me and I will
do you good by Belling you goods
cheaper than you ever bought them
for. Here are a few nuggets:
30 ft good rice
8 ft fancy broken Java coffee
4 ft " 30c roasted "
ft genuine African Java cof
3 ft pure Mocha and Java "
15 ft extra dry salt meat clear
of bone
10 ft rolled oat flake free from
black specks
30 ft Mich hand picked beans
Best brooms each
Good "
5 cans good sweet corn
4 best " "
2 " heavy syrup apricots
2 " mountain yellow table
peaches
14 boxes Greenwich lye
16 " Greenock "
28 bars Clairette soap
2S " Silk soap
24 " Old Country soap
6 ft raisins
5 ft extra fancy large raisins
4 ft good California peaches
1 2 gallon pail sugar syrup
15 ft pail jelly
Would like to give prices
thousand other articles, but
wont admit of it. Remember
sellini: exclusively for cash and pro-
j duce ODly I pay cash all the time
j for eggs and poultry. Plea&e bear
' this in n ind when you corae to But
ler. I watt to call your attention to
my large assortment of fjueensware
and tinware, which I am Gelling low
er than it was ever offered for in
Butler before. I am sejlicj? winter
I wheat fiour ranging in price from
; 75c per sack to $1.10; do not handle
j spring wheat flour as it works sticky
! and will cot give satisfaction in thia
; country, would advise yoa to let it
! alone. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to one and ail to trade with
Respectfully,
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I Bailor, rear Mo. State Bask.