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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-21

Tho commission further directs that all
rates embraced In exceptions. section .! OF
the tariff, which exceed "a cents 10 Hous-
| ION and 60 cents 10 Galveston, be reduced
9 cents per 100 pounds MS followai
Gulf Colorado and Santa Fc railway;
From Valera San Angelo and ,uterine-
date points. to Houston So cents, and 10
Galveston so cents per 100 pounds.
Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio
railway:
From Scco, Uvalde and Intermediate
points, 10 Houston 81 cents aud 10 Gal
weston 81 cents per 100 pounds.
l. From Nueees. Cline and Waldo TO HossS
ton ha cents. aud to Galveston 50 conls Der
100 pounds.
From Anacacho. Eagle Pass. Del Rio
and intermediates points to Houston SO
cents, and to Galveston 81 cents per 100
pounds,
From points west OF Del Rio including
Marathon, TO Houston SO cents and to Cal
weston Go cents per 100 pounds
international and Great Northern rail-
road.
From Derby, LAREDO and intermediate
points TO Houston 80 cents, and to Cal
weston 80 cents per 100 pounds
Fort Worth and Denver CITY rail- way
From stations north OF Iowa PARK TO
Houston SIS cents and 10 Galveston "a
cents per 100 pounds
San Antonio and AranRas Pass railway.
From Richards. Kcrrylln aud interme-
date points To Houston u cents, and TO
Galveston RI cents per 100 pounds
Texas Mexican railway;
From Los Angeles. Laredo and interInc-
date points, to Houston 90 cents 10 Cal
yegion 80 cents per 100 pounds.
other rates and the methods OF making
rates embraced In exceptions, section z OF
tho tariff. shall remain IN force provided
that when the mileage rates AZ established
by this order. or rates made by elnplny'ns
such mileage rates In connection With tho
differential rate prescribed in exception y
of the tariff. are lower than the existing
rates. such lower rates shall govern,
1'h,s order shall take effect February %.
1898. and the rates established by II shail
remain In force until further notice by this
commission after the receipt Of nfornia-
tion that the causes leading 10 their adop-
tIon arc removed
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-24

VIM. E. Walton went to MarshGeld
Mo-, on business connected with his
brothers estate.
We again WISH to call your atten-
ton to the fine line of Dried Fruits
we have and at very Low price.
1S-tf FRANK SMITH & Son
The TIMES regrets to say that the
latest reports as to the condition of
DR.. Pyle are that there is no change
for the better in his case.
The State Bank at Franklin, Ills.
was robbed Saturday night and
$4,000 and lot of valuable Dor DIS
aud documents taken.
Col. Henry Newman of Randolph
county, is aiming a regiment OF ne
groes with razors and sending them
TO Cuba to clean out the Spaniards
A railroad from Walker station to
ElDorado Springs, appears now to
be settled fact. Contractors are
at work on the road bed between
the two towns.
An attempt was made by burglars
to rob the post Office at Mammoth
Springs, Ark the other night. The
burglars were discovered before
they had gotten into the safe and
several shots were exchanged.
j. W. Duncan, ex postmaster OF
Adrian, and prominent candidate
for recorder spent Tuesday in the
city and gave the TIMES fraternal
call. There is no better citizen or
democrat in the county than John
Duncan.
A Butler lady, crying as If her
heart would break, was asked the
cause of her trouble. She said the
Spanish had blowed up the state of
Maine, her son belonged to the But
Ter militia and now he would have
to go and fight Spain.
There is one thing we want known
and remembered, and that is we are
selling more goods and better goods
than ever before and the reason is
we are selling them for prices to
| suit the times. T. SMITH & SoS
/ The FL Reno, OK Democrat of
the nth, reports the marriage, in
that city of E r. Talbot and Miss
Nora Jennings Miss Jennings for
merly resided in this city and has
many friends here who wish her q
happy voyage through life.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-24
The Small Boy and Pistol.

Sunday afternoon. in company
with several other small boys fishing
at the lake, Jim Thomas little son
7 or s years OF age. met with seri-
GUS accident. Ar. Thomas is the
posses.or of a single barrel de:ring-
er. The boys knew this and on the
way to the lake sent the little fellow
back to get it. He did SO and on
arriving at the lake undertook to
exhibit the weapon, and to explain
it's working. The result WAS as
usual in such cases, the pistol was
discharged and the bullet passed
diagon ally through lis left band,
going 10 the palm Of lis hand and
coming Gus on toe back near the
thumb, lacs rating the flesh and
breakiog TIE bones in the hand,
The boys were all standing in a
bunch and it is miracle almost that
one Of them was Lot killed
The little fellow was scared slmost
out of his Wits, hurried home and
the hand was properly dressed.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-24

TINES telephone number 81.
Judge John Francisco will make
an excellent mayor
W. D. Orear helps the printer out
with renewal.
John Adair will make the first
ward an excellent alderman.
The most complete line OF fine
Teas to be found in town at
FRANK SMITH & Son.
Mrs. Peter Gutridge, an esteemed
lady of Deepwater township, died
Friday night.
Over twenty car loads OF provi-
sions. clothing, etc, was shipped
from Kansas City to the starving
Cubars Sunday.
The Kansas City, Plttsburg &
Gulf depot at Katy, near Clayton,
Vernon county, Yves struck by light
ming Friday and burned with con-
tents.
The thild ward .mocrats will
land Jesse Trimble safely in the
white house on north main street,
and he'll make splendid council
man.
Rev. Iulow and L. P. Crawford,
have been spending several days in
the west part of the county holding
aseiies CT Sulday school conven'
tions
The school board of Clinton asks
for IS cents levy on the 800 valua
ton for the maintenance of their
public school. The levy in Butler
is Only 65 cents.
There must be something wrong
over in Johnson county. Tue sday
according to the Democrat OF War
rensburg, two train IL ads of people
Left that county for north Dakota,
The Millinery parlors Of III. & n
Evans are unusually bright ano
attractive. They are showing all the
new standings, Burnt Orange and
Turquoise being the newest. 1929
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-24
A Practical Joke that Worked all Right in
Rich Hill.

N d%NiSdi JUNO liidA UOlhCI h6hN w
Rich Hill.
A cigarette, a six pound can OF
powder, two store fronts demolished,
four young men badly hurt and the
fire department called out, was the
result Of a practical joke at Rich
Bill.
Friday evening about 8 o'clock,
the central portion Of Rich Hill was
startled by terrific explosion
which Jared the business part Of
the town. On investigation it was
ascertained that a six pound can OF
powder exploded in the gun store Of
J. III Hurst. There were six young
men in the store at the time, Oscar
Hurst, Charley Carson, John Berry,
Loud McMurtry and AloDzo Hen
shaw. and the explosion was the
result of q practical joke INDUCED
in by the above named young men.
Two of the boys were smoking
cigarettes, one threw his half.smok-
ed, in the coal bucket, and then
bantered Oscar Hurst, who held a
six pound can Of powder, to put
some on the cigarette. The chal-
lenge was accepted and in an instant
an explosion followed. When the
smoke cleared away it was found
that the store front was blown out
as was also the front to the adioin-
ing building. DR.. Delameter and
family, who occupied the second
story of the building, claimed the
damage to their apartments to be
about 5000 Mrs. Dalemster. who
was standing in the middle OF the
room directly over the explosion,
says che was raised bodily from the
floor. Three OF the boys In the
building, Hurst, Carson and Berry
were badly burned The accident
was a bad one aud perhaps the les
son will long be remembered.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-24
TO BUY THE ACADEMY.

The Proposition to Purchase this
Building aud Grounds Should be
Voted Unanimously.
The School board at the ann ual
April election, will submit the prop
osition to the voters of this district
TO buy the Academy for the use Of
the public schools. The amount
asked is only $4,000. We are in
formed by persons in a position to
know that the Academy building cost
$4,000 and the two or three acres of
ground on which the building stands
is worth from $500 to $4,000.
Besides this the rooms, or nearly all
of them are seated and ready for
use.
At the price offered there certain
ly is big bargain in the proposition
and as the district needs ard must
have more school room, there can be
no plausible excuse for any tax payer
voting against the purchase of this
building.
La buying the Academy the public
schools would be admirably located.
one in the east, one in the west and
one in tie north part Of town.
The question resolves itself to
this: Are tie people willing to buy
the Academy at the nominal coat of
800 or ara they ready to vote
bonds to the amount of $4,000 or
$4,000 to put up a new school
building. y.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-24

Our old friend A. II. Fritze has
his paper changed from Mulberry to
New Ponca, Okla.
Uncle John Daniels; an old and
highly respected citizen living s3uth
Of Butler, renews. We are sorry to
report that his estimable wife who
has been sick for some time is no
better.
The good people of Butler lent a
listening ear to the appeals of the
the starving people in Cuba, and
sent large amount of provisions
and clothing to the relief association
at Kansas City to be forwarded by
the relief train which left that city
Monday at noon.
A church wedding in high life teok
place among our colored citizens a
the second NJ E. church, at $40
o'clock p III. the 18th inst, the
ceremony being performed by Rev.
B. d. Dixon, pastor of the church.
The contracting parties were Mr..
Riley Clark and Miss Mary Briscoe,
adopted daughter of uncle Alfred
White The groom holds position
as porter on the Mo. Pacific railroad,
his run being from Kansas City to
Joplin, and by his gentlemanly con-
duct to passengers and especially
his effectiveness and politeness to
ladies with children has made him
very popular with the travelling pub
lie. He formerly resided in this
city. The bride is handsome
mulatto lady, well educated and for
a long time has been the reigning
bell in colored society.
The case of c E Dimmett, chsry-
ed with robbing an express car on
the Pittsburg & Gulf railroad near
Kansas City some time ago, and
whose preliminary trial was set for
the 18th inst, at Kansas City, has
taken more serious turn. On ar
irving at Kansas City Friday to
stand trial, the grand Jury had tax
en- action on his case and indicted
him on the serious charge of train
robbery. A capias was issued i'm.
mediately and he was taken into
custody again and locked in j all.
Instead of a preliminary the case
will now be tried in the criminal
court. Under the Law, train rob-
bing is capital offepcs in this
state. The TINES sincerely hopes
Mr.. Dimmett may be able to estab-
lish beyond doubt his entire in
nocence of the charges aga inst him.
L. c. Journal a..
@. E. Dimmett, who wss indicted
for robbing an express car on the
Pittsburg & Gulf railroad within the
city limits, yesterday gave bond in
the criminal court at Independence
in the sum of 81 500 with Fernando
P. Neal, the Kansas City banker, as
surety. Mr.. Neal as bondsnap, 10
secured by one of the banks of But
Ter, Mo-, where it is said Dimmett
resided before coming to Kansas
City. His trial hes been set for
March 81.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-24

Both the Uuitsd States and Spain
are in the market buying horses al d
mules. The United States il buying
cavalry aud srtillery horses and
Spain is buying both horses and
mules. Tie Kansas City and ST.
Louis markets are having q good
r11p
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-24
1ouId Eat bnt Little.

My husband was subjec. to
stomach trouble fer many years. It
seemed Ike dyspepsia aud so severe
he could eat hardly enough to keep
him alive, and sleep was out of the
question. He decided to take Hood
Sarssparl.s, and has continued to
improve while taking it." Mrs J
L. Masters. Herndon, Missouri.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-24

Clinton, Ia, March 19.-While
burning rubbish at her home south
west Of here, Mrs. George Risch was
burned to death by her clothing
catching on fire. Hsr husband is
believed to be fatally burned.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-24
BUTLER WEEKLY TIMES
LOCAL ITEMS

To Cure a Cold 10 One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
let's. All druggists refund the money
II it fails to cure. 25c. 3-6m
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-24

Hoods Pills are the only pills to
take with Hoods Ssrsaparilla. Easy
and yet sufficient
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-24
The Particular People.

making and finish just right
!. every little point as fashion de-
crees and comfort sanctions-whO
like the highest types of good
footwear that's the kind of peo-
pie we get along smoothly with.
THE PREVAILING FASHIONS
in good reliable shoes are ready
for YOU. This is the season when
correct shoes and comfort go
hand in hand, and we have just
received our spring stock OF
Mems Women's and Children's
up-to-date shoes and oxfords at
right prices. Call and see them.
! DrvsdaIe & keasIing.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-16
Cultural Notes on Asparagus.

If one would have thrifty plants he
must provide for them mellow bed
and an abundance OF food. The sets
should be planted separately (about two
by four focD and deep enough SO that
the tops are from four to six inches be-
low the surface of the soil. AS regards
fertilizing, if the soil is mellow and
sufficiently rich to raise u good crop Of
corn. surface maturing from year to
year will be all generally speaking)
that is required. A dressing Of complete
fertilizer every spring (not III autumn,
as is frequently recommended), how
ever, is of much benefit to any aspara-
gus bed, and the best time in which to
set the plants is also in the spring
They can be set in autumn, of course,
but in case they are they should be
mulched directly succeeding the first
hard freeze with two or more inches Of
old and well rotted mountaineering
Gentleman.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-16
welcome Home.

Duchess Of BarroSitz Ito attendant)
Who knocks at the castle gates at this
unseemly hour?
Attendant (excitedly)-1t is thy son.
He brings with him an American wife
with purse large enough to pay all
tic family debts.
ruchess with emotion)-Admit my
son and the purse. New York Weekly
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-16

also be put III a SACK ana ulppeu INTO
the solution. The same solution may be
used repeatedly. The whole tubers, after
first being washed, should be placed in
the solution for l " hours, then spread
ont to dry and cut and planted as usual.
This solution is extremely poisonous and
should not be allowed to get into the
mouth nor into wells, springs, etc, nor
be left where animals can gain access
to it.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-16

The following directions for the use
of Bolley's corrosive sublimate treat
ment emanates from the Rhode Island
station
Corrosive sublimate can be bought at
drug stores in the form of crystals. Two
and one-fourth ounces of these crystals
should be dissolved in few gallons OF
hot water, and enough cold water added
to make 10 gallons of solution. The
whole should then be we'll stirred. In
preparing the solution and treating the
seed use wooden vessels. only. Two bar
rels with wooden faucets are conven-
lent, the solution being drawn from one
to the other whenever it is desired to re-
move the potatoes The POTATOES may
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-16
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<5sSeS$s,.esG l4N<pEV
GROWING LARGE POTATOES.

GROWINO lATO6 ~ ~ OES.
Planting Single Eyes In Drills-H Killing and
Deep Cultivation Produce Small Tubers.
Many beginners in potato growing
find that their crop, even if large in
bulk, is mainly composed of small, un
salable potatoes of generally inferior
quality. There may be several causes
for this, the most common being the
planting of too much seed. American
Cultivator in this connection says:
One good, strong eye, with enough OF
the potato attached to give the shoot q
vigorous start from the first will make
two. three or four stalks. That is
enough in any hill to secure the best
tubers Some potato planters cut the
single eyes so small that the young
shoot does not start out vigorously, and
the crop, though composed of large po-
tatoes, will be a small one. The secret
of having a crop Of all large potatoes is
not to crowd the vines too much in the
hill. The potato bears crowding about
as poorly as any crop we know. Yet
there are objections to cutting potatoes
to single eye unless the seed has been
carefully chosen from the strongest
plants and those which retained their
foliage longest. Then not more than two
or three pieces should be made from the
potatoes thus saved, and the strongest
eyes should be reserved for each piece.
In beginning the planting of single
eyes it is always best to plant in drills
rather than in hills. More and larger
potatoes can be grown this way, and If
the ground is reasonably free from
weeds the planting in hills should be
made the regular practice. At / 5 inches
apart in the rows and the rows three
feet apart q crop of potatoes cut to sin
gle eyes ought to completely cover the
ground when the stems and leaves are
largest. AS the tops die down weeds
will start up, and the cultivator, set so
as to cut the surface soil not more than
an inch deep, should be kept running
through between the rows. Deep cult
walton, except just after the potatoes
have come up, should never be attempt
ed, and no hill should be made around
the potatoes.
Killing and too deep cultivation are
more often the causes Of small potatoes
than anything else. When the potatoes
are set, the cu1tivator should never be
allowed to disturb their roots as it will
surely stop the growth of the tubers al
ready formed and begin the formation
of new set, which will not have time
to ripen before the potato vines die
down. Such POTATOES cannot make rel1-
able seed. Tuey are far inferior to pota-
toes taken uuri pc from hills where the
tops are still! green. The dying down Of
the tops before the potato natures is al
ways the sign that disease has affected
them, and this is sure to extend to the
tuberS Spr8yi1p D0tatO tons with Dor
deaux mixture so as to keep the foliage
healthy, is therefore necessity for po-
tatoes that are intended to be used for
seed.
Corrosive Sublimate Treatment.
The following directions for the use
of BollaY's corrosive sublimate treat
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-16
IL the Apiary.

could not sections be filled with
foundation i'll winter time in order to
gain time with next summers W orkI'
In The National Stockman this query is
answered as follows: "By all means. I
know there are some who say they want
their foundat SO entirely fresh that
it will become too old if the sections are
filed in winter. In actual practice I
have found nothing Of the kind. have
had good success with sections in which
foundation had been filled two, three
and some even four years. l have felt
the annoyance of being obliged to fill
foundation in sections while bees We're
swarming, and have felt the comfort
of having several thousand sections all
filed weeks before that time, and it
would take some money to get me to
wait till summer before having my sec
tions filed with foundation.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-16
Oil Producing Seed.

"In 1923 we exported from this
country 9,462, OLA gallons Of cottonseed
oil, valued at $3,927 556, and in the;
succeeding season we exported "A, $685.
800 gallons, valued at So, O0s, 4o5. There
was then left of the product for home
consumption about As, 900, 600 gallons,
worth about ga, 900, GOO, while the oil
cake for fertilizer or stock feed would
amount to about the same valuation.
No part of this is possible outside of
the south" says w. J. Northen.
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-04-16
Bacterial Disease or corn.

A bacterial disease of sweet corn is
found in the market gardens on Long
Island and is the subject Of remark i'll
New York state station bulletin. The
blants wilt and die when quite young,
and the disease seems to be confined to
sweet corn and is most destructive to
early varieties. Field corn and popcorn
appear to be entirely exempt. The plant
doctors have not been able to lind any
remedy for the disease except great care
in selection and the use of varieties
that are capable Of resisting the disease.
Lime and sulphur have been tried, and
neither has proved successful. Luckily
this disease is not widely scattered over
tho country.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26
ASSESSMENT AND TAXATION.

EDS. INDEX: The time for the trus-
tees to meet is not long distant-the
first Monday in March-and l would
suggest that we all go to work and form
basis of our own, just as we think the
basis for the county should be. Form
ulate basis on everything that is tax
able IN the county then when we meet
at the clerks Office the first Monday in
March it will not take 80 long to agree
upon general basis for the county. 1
would also ask. as one of the trustees,
that the county commissioners meet IN
conjunction with the trustees and see
il we can not all agree on certain bas-
is. 1t would save the board of equali-
cation a vast amount of work If every
trustee could assess his township so
that the board would not have to raise
or lower the assessment of his town.
ship. 1t would also save the county
clerk a great amount of work In chang
ing the books and issuing certificates
of error. If we could possibly do that
it would save taxpayers the time and
trouble of meeting with board of equal
ization. will admit that it will be
hard to do, something that has never
been done, SO far as l know, but if we
will all go to work and try we can sue
coed.
There is one question In particular l
wish to speak about and that is the as
sessment of stock that comes into the
county after the 1st day of March and
before the 21st of December of the same
year. l would suggest that every trus.
tee get the sentiment of his constitu-
ents, If possible, on that question, aud
be prepared to meet it. If a major
lty OF the trustees favor assessing such
stock for taxation purposes, we could
pass some kind of a resolution asking
the board of commissioners if they will
stand by our work and not undo it like
they did last year. 1 believe parties
bringing in stock after the LIST of March
should pay taxes on it. Except where
the parties owning the stock can show,
either by tax receipt or a certificate
of assessment, that they have been
paid for the present year, The county
holds large portion of the grazing
land for taxes. They expect to be pro-
tected the same as anywhere else. If
they were to haYe any cattle stolen
how quickly they would appeal to the
county (which is the taxpayers) for pro-
lection, whether they had ever paid
dollar in taxes or ever would. The way
view the matter the county has all
the burdens to bear and has not re-
ceiyed any of the profits as yet.
l.. s. MCELwAIN,
Trustee Eagle Township.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26
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