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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-06-23
MARTYRS TO A CAUSE

And thus it is the honorable
judges of the ST Clair county court.
both aged men, are forced to stand
the most severe punishment because
they refuse to levy a tax for the
payment OF what they and the ma
jority of their constituents. consider
an unjust debt. They must suffer
because a federal judges orders
were not obeyed. The judges who
served term couple of years ago
were allowed the freedom of the
building and were even granted per-
mission TO attend religious worship.
Not so with judges Gill and Neyitt
They must sit day after day in their
dark cell, with scarcely enough room
in which to turn around. How lone
their confinement will continue; pro.
vided they persist in refusing 10
vote for the bond issue, depends
upon the pleasure of Judge Philips.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-06-23
TWO MORE MINERS KILLED
Mines Near Joplin VeritabIe Death-traps for
Employees.

Joplin. Mo, June 1.-Two more
deaths were added TO the long list
of mine accidents at o'clock this
afternoon. The victims were John
Howell and Charles Kinsley. While
these men and Samuel Bayless were
working in the Rutherford lead
mines, on the hohinoor lease, Just
west Of Joplin. several powders
dropped from the top Of the drift
and crushed the men before they
could escape. Howell and Kinsley
were buried beneath q great mass Of
powders and earth, and were IL
stantly killed, their bodies being
horribly mangled. Bayless was
caught BY the falling macs Of earth
and rocks, and was badly bruised
and had one leg broken, but was
dug cut alive.
The accident occurred while the
men were working underground at
a depth Of $50 feet. Kinsley leayes
a family at Crested Butte, Ia. He
began work in the mine yesterday to
make money enough to take him
home. Howell leaves g wife and
four children in Joplin
This makes eight lives los. il the
mines in this locality this week, and
makes about fifty nine fatalities for
this year.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-06-23
Bucklen's Arnica Salve

The Best Salve in the world for
cuts, bruises, sores. ulcers, salt
rheum, fever sores, letter, chapped
hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin
eruptions, and positively cures piles
or no pay required Il is guaran-
teed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price IS cents
per box. For sale by H. L. Tucker.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-06-23

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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-06-23
Kansas City Timed
The Only metropolitan :,
Silver Paper in Missout
and the West.
9A'.Y Il ! YEAs.
.WCE.A-WEEE TiSE', 81. A ia

Fearless, Democratic, Ahsoluta.
Unalterabiy III Favor Of Frsss a Y
YER, II i the one and ~ !, ~
One Metropolitan Daily Sn,ao- ~
ing the Cause OF Free Sil,Ir.F9l
the Chicago Platform-It -. ~
at All Times for the Interss.s.
the People aud the Wes,
Against Trust Domination n
litical Corruption, Gang -
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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-06-23
Hobson TO Be Exchanged.

Madrid, June I5-The govern.
ment has authorized Gen. BIapco TO
entertain proposals for an exchange
Of Lieut. Hobson and the other
prisoners taken when the American
CO llier Merrimac was sunk off the
entrance to the harbor Of Santiago
de Cuba
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-06-23
= ST II Ia.
Bears the nThe Kind You Have a.wa.s Bought
S'sa Of Ae>zHZAzzG1
EX-SLAVE a CROESUS.
Richest Man in All Guatemala
Was Born a ChatteI.
San Francisco Examiner.

was DUl II q Olidlkci'
San Francisco Examiner.
A negro, born a slave in Alabama,
and his masters chattel until early
manhood, is the wealthiest man in
Guatemala, and one of the multi.
millionaires of the day. His name
is Knight, although travellers in
Guatemala would scarcely know it
by the familiar Spanish cognomen-
Don Juan Knight. The late Presi-
dent Barrios, of Guatemala, estimat-
ed his friend Knights riches at over
$500, 000 His annual income from
his vast tracts of coffee fucas, his
gold mines, his enormous banana
plantation and his farms of vanilla
beans, his banking and steamboat
stocks, besides the debts interest on
money that Guatemala borrowed
from HIM, is over 100000. He
lives in a beautiful home in the
suburbs of Guatemala City, and is
ceaselessly busy looking after his
immense interests.
The life of Juan knight reads like
q chapter from the Arabian Knights
this story of how poor black boy
rose, step by step, from human
slavery to a millionaire's place.
Knight never knew his father, be
cause his parents were separated at
a sale Of slaves several months before
he was born. His mother was
mulatto, the property of tobacco
grower, Daniel Upton, who lived in
Dadeville, Tallapoosa county, Ala.
Upton was a scholarly man and his
wife was former school teacher.
They had half dozen slaves, all of
whom they treated we'll. Knight
was born On the plantation one
spring morning in 1914 or 1915.
Mrs. Upton gave the negro child
sufficient lessons to get him started
on childish studies by himself. Later
Mr. Upton also became interested in
'litt.e black john" and provided
him with common school books.
At about Is John Knight was the
most promising negro in Tallapoosa
county 2Ir. Upton died in 1850, |
and the smart black boy was auc-
toned off to a new master, who took |
him to "a cotton plantation in Central
Alabama. The master entered the |
Confederate army. Young black |
John became the overseer of a part |
of the plantation. For four years he
suporintended the gathering of the
cotton and its shipment to New Or
leans at the best market prices, until
the close of the war.
Then he walked to New Orleans
and worked as wharf laborer for a |
firm which handled fruits from Cen.
traI America. He saved his money. |
In 1866 he was sent by his employer
to Yucatan, in Central America, to
live there, as boss of the packing |
and shipping of fruits to New Or
leans. That was practically the
beginning o. John Knights millions.
A lively, wide-awake person was
something unique in those days of
siestas aod tropical sunshine. A
revolution in Gustemala, in which |
Ramon Sanchez had been deposed, |
was just st its close. Knight saw
what hard work and an opportunity |
TO gain the favor of the new admin
istration would do for himself. He
proposed that for a concession of
some $4,000 acres of land suitable
for pineapples and banana growing
he would go to New Orleans and
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-06-23

Don't you think your liver needs
treating if you are bilious. 1t don I.
It's your stomach. That is, your
stomach it really what causes the
billiousness. 1t has put your liver
out of order.
See what's the matter with your
stomach
Sick stomach poigons liver and
then there's trouble. Shaker Digss
tive Cordial cures stomach and then
all's well. That's the case in a nut
shell.
Shaker Digestive Cordial is no
secret. Formulas on every bottle.
But it's the simple honest way it's
made, the honest Shaker herbs and
other ingredients of which it's com
posed, that make it so effcacious.
Any real case of indigestion and
billiousness can be cured with few
bottles of Shaker Digestive Cordial
Try it.
Sold by druggists, price 10 cents
TO 81.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-06-23
Damn Thamss FInndsh

Chickamauga Park, Ga, June l..
The drought at Camp Thomas Is
broken. The long wished for rain
mas come 81 last and the quantity Is
amply sufficient for al practical
purposes The weather was very
warm during the morning About
noon a black eload spread over the
SKY and the rain fell in torrents
The ground on which the camp
is pitched is SO Iocsy and the dry
spell had continued 50 long that but
few tents were properly ditched
and many OF them were flooded. :
ravine starts in at one end Of the
camp, and runs obliquely to the op-
posite corner. One tent Of each
company was in the ravine.
Shortly after the rain began fall
ing the occupants of these te2ts
were TO be seen wading in water
about foot deep, making frantic
efforts to gather up their hats, leg
gings and blouses, which we're sail
ing gracefully away They were
forced TO move to higher grouad. A
large snake, about five feet in length
in seeking shelter crawled into the
occupied By the officers Of &C.
B.
The advent Of the snake was the
signal fer the egress Of the three
officers, one of whom let out yell
that would have done credit to
Comancbe Indian. They stood out
in the rain till the snake was killed.
Captain Johnson and Lieutenant
DeArmond accuse Lieutenant Wade
OF doing the yelling, but Wade as
serts his innocence and says it was
one if not both of them.
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Probably no other woman ever suffered
}ust as Mrs. Adams did, the wife of Rev.
A. R. Adams, pastor Of the Christian
church at Blandinsvil1e, III. Physicians
were baffled by her ailment, and for years
she was compelled to live life Of torture.
To-day she is well and the story of her
suffering and recovery will touch a respon-
sive cord in the heart Of every woman.
About six yearsago," said Mrs. Adams,
my health began to fail. The first trouble
Noticed was with my stomach; food did
not agree with me, and my appetite failed
until could scarcely eae
Il would begin to bloat before was
through with meal, aud the food felt like
. stone in my stomach.
After eating would have pains in my
stomach with smothered feeling which
would finally extend into my throat and
chest accompanied by a choking sensation.
began to b1oat all over and my hands
and feet commencedswel1ing until Thought
lhad dropsy.
In short time had pain, and soreness
in my lief. side which extended across my
back accompanied by dizziness, and then
followed severe paroxysms of pain extend
ing from the lower part of my stomach into
the region of my heart.
During these spells hard ridge as large
as my arm would appeas in the left side Of
my stomach and around the left side.
II had feeling Of heaviness in my head
and at times could scarcely hold it up or
keep my eyes open, yet when night came
could not sleep.
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cision has been questioned by military
men and neutral power is likely to
give coal to a nation with which it
sympathizes.
There Is another reason for the pres.
ent Importance of these little islands.
In time of war, a ship or any number
OF ships may put in at neutral har-
Dor for repairs or food and remain
there an indefinite time. If hostile
ship enters the harbor, there must be
atlenst24 hours between the departures
OF the enemies. Considering that on
April /, 1898, there were 80 Spanish gun
boats among the Antilles, we may ex-
pect that many West Indian harbor
will witness repetition of the battle Of
Cherbourg, where the Kearsarge waited
outside of the three-mile limit for her
adversary.
Besides Havana and Matanzas in
Cuba, Spain has but one fortified har-
Dor among the Antilles, San Juan Bur
hsta, or ST. Johns. in Porto Rico. 1t
is an excellent harbor and could be
strongly defended by the Vizcaya and
Oquendo with the torpedo boats
against our squadron. But the latter
alone could do nothing in St. Johns
against our battleships. The fortifica-
tions are old-fashioned, and the guns
$40 uAsleAs a2ainst Iron ships.
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tians have experimental with kings
and discarded them. The treasure of
one of these despots, Christophe, re-
mains buried under the rank vegetation
for which Hayti is unsurpassed, among
the ruins of a stronghold he built. The
story is that the architect, European,
and all of the workmen wero thrown
from the parapets, SO that fortiication
worthy the name and the secrets
OF the citadel they have just completed
should never be divulged.
There are quite million people on
the island. but they daily on the way
to civilization. There is no army, or
Jayti's only use to us would be In lend
ing us harbor. There are no harbors
on the north coast, but Port au Prince,
in the republic of I!ayti, is well-pro-
tected port lying behind the island Of
Gounaire. In the Dominican republic
there are the harbors OF Sunto Do
mingo and Porto Plata, which would
make convenient bases for operations
in the Caribbean
The Mona passage, only 60 miles
wide, separates IIayti from the beauti-
full island of Porto Rico. Porto Rico is
a valuable possession, and Spain is
putting up rich stake on a turn of the
war cards when she risks her control
ct tia. fertile island, Well Yatsgea.
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u also suffered intensely from female
trouble.
~ doctored with ten different physicians.
but was not benefited. No two Of the doc.
tors diagnosed my case the same.
Zone day my husband noticed an article
regarding DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People in the newspaper, and induced me
to try the pills.
IL began taking them, bot experienced
no relief until / had used the sixth box. l
continued taking them and after using
eleven boxes was greatly benefited.
was also troubled with nervous pros.
tration and numbness of my right hand and
arm. My hand hurt so at times, tinplinp
and burning, that could hardly endure
the, pain, but that has all passed away.
lnow know what it means to eat GOOD
meal without suffering afterwards, and en-
joy good nights rest.
Il am again able to do my work, and
have done more this summer than in all the
last tour years Pot together.
teel safe in saying that 1t is all due to
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People,
and consider it my duty to let people know
what these pills have done for me, as it
may be the means of relief for others who
are suffering"
Diseases strange to physicians symp-
toms that defied diagnosis, have succumbed
to the potent influence of DR.. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People. Druggists
everywhere consider them to be one Of the
most valuable remedial agents known to
science.
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ing the ports. of Cuba. ST. Nicholas
Mole was an inner and outer harbor,
and the latter is land-locked and af-
fords good. deep anchorage.
The sympathy of both of the black
republics in Hayti is with the United
States as against any European power.
A moments consideration Of their his
tory will explain this. The two re-
publics, Hayti in the west and San
Domingo I'M the east, are Ahe only
countries in the West Indies whose
form of government is like our own
except, of course. the republic of Cuba.
Touissaint l'Ouverture's successful
struggle against France and his cap
ture by treachery, followed by the COM
plete expulsion of the French, is one of
liberty's favorite tales. The Spanish
invaded San Domingo in 1861 and their
defeat left the islanders free. The Hay-
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a NAIVE Fnpn k1ousr.

~ HATlve FARM HOUSE
Nevis was the birthplace Of Hamilton.
They are all busy places, but most Of
them have no harbor and even in the
event of coalition between England
and the United States there are more
important British possessions in the
Lesser Antilles of which our ships
would make use. They are, notably,
St. Lucia and Barbados. PiReen
islands, at the northern extremity Of
the former, Is an important military
port and will soon be the strongest
fertilization in the Indies. 1t is good
coaling station. The capital, Castries.
on the western coast, ia q fine town Of
10000 people, mostly French. St. Lucia
has changed hands several times since
the British took it In 1904 and made
Sir John More governor.
A fine bit of land Is the Barbados
and picturesque. It is the chief
English military station In the West
Indies. 1t lies in the track Of vessels,
and could we use 1t would be invalu-
able to our cruisers acting against
Spanish prlvateers and gunboats. The
harbor, Carlisle bay, Is large, open
roadstead and recently the forts have
been armed with modern guns. Bridge
town, the capital, stretches with $4,000
people, along the shores Of the bay.
Barbados has been very useful to
England when she was fighting France
and Holland. During the war that be-
gan In 1856, the island spent & $4,000 in
equipping and raising an expedition
which set out under Gov. Beckwith
and took Martinique, and the following
year Guadeloupe. These two important
Islands were finally ceded to France. II
France is disposed to have it so, they
may be of great service to Spain in a
war with the United States.
Point au Pitre, in Guadeloupe, is the
important station here. That it has a
fine military harbor may be concluded
from its soubriquet, "The Gibraltar Of
the Antilles" Nevertheless this Gibral-
ter is not as strongly fortified as It
might be. II resisted the English sue
cessfully in 1866, 'o1 and 1903. but was
taken by Gen. Darlington and Admiral,
Moore in 1880. The celebrated victory
of Rodney over Admiral de Grasse oc-
CURED here. A curious feature of the
island is La Rivere Sale (salt stream),
40 to 400 feet wide, which divides it.
Martinique is not great strategic
point like Guadeloupe. but there are
some interesting things about 1t.
Mt. Pelee, tallest of its volcanic noun
-.ai a-Raal1s- -,ises AAan feat In tho oil,
The population is nearly as dense as
that of Belgium, there being 10000
people to the island with greatest
length and width 43 and 10 miles re-
spectively. The place enjoys greater
immunity from hurricanes than tho
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CAfI. Oh
England and France in the eighteenth
centuries.
If we begin with the Greater Antilles
OF which Cuba is the gem, and follow
the circle along the Windward islands
and through the Leeward islands which
together form the Lesser Antilles, we
Shall touch many points that are des-
tined to become of the greatest inter
est to us in connection with a Span
war.
Spain originally held nearly all of
these islands. Cuba and Porto Rico
alone are left to her. She owns also
three rocks called Blanquella in the
Leeward islands, but they are of no
Importance.
With Cuba and Porto Rico as a CEN
ter, the war will spread itself among
the Indies. bringing back their strategic
Importance, Which apparently had
passed forever.
The general policy in the disposition
of the Spanish warships is not difiicul.
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ing sight in the Indies than the harbo,
OF Charlotte Arnalie, the capital, and
the towering peak 1900 feet high which
forms the bulk of the island. Though
the prevailing language of st. Thomas
is English and colony of Jews have
settled there, exports are few and the
population is decreasing. The Virgin
Islands, like nearly all the islands in this
part of the world, are subject to earth
quakes and the more dangerous cy-
clones. 1t is worth noting that July,
August, September and October are the
cyclone months. Strange to say, there
have been no battles at st. Thomas,
which passed peaceably to Denmark
from Holland. these islands were FREE
auented by the buccaneers, which shows
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the United States, as was at one time
suggested by our state department. The
harbor of ST. Croix is unfortified and
not more than 1G feet deep, SO that 1t
cannot be of much service as base.
The island is a hill that rises 1 100 feet
OUT OF the water. Denmark bought 1t
from Franco for $l45, 500 in 1888.
St. Thomas is but 100 miles away
from st. Johns. The harbor is nearly
landlocked and has depth of SO feet.
a dry dock is here and steam slip for
small vessels. There is no more pleas.
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FSlRSE UT SAN1. SltL
to predict, because the great number of
her small torpedo boats and destroyers
makes a nearby base of supplies indis-
pensable. Unlike large cruisers and
battleships. these little boats must take
on coal every other day, not only in
order to navigate but for the purpose
OF protecting their boilers. Unless their
coal bunkers are filled, a rifle bullet
will penetrate the boilers with disas-
trous consequences. There was vitality
grave reasons why the Spanish fotilla
should reach Porto Rico before war
was declared. They must have coal
ct hand for their small boats. This
question of coal gives the utmost i'm
portance to all the islands which har-
bors in the Antilles, and makes every
one of them a possible factor in shap-
ing the result of this war. While coal
is declared contraband Of war. the de-
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Indies and ships of nearly is feet draft
can unload at it's wharyes.
st. Johns is an ancient town. The
old buildings are curious and interest
Ing, especially the palace which was
erected by Ponce de Leon, who con-
qnered the island for Spain. The prin-
cipal city on the southern coast is
Ponce, with 10000 inhabitants, situated
three miles inland. Mayaguez on the
west coast contains 10000 people. 1t is
separated from its port by q river
spanncd by an iron bridge. There is
barracks here, but no fort. The four
other seaports of Porto Rico do not de-
serve notice. Their.harbors-as in fact
Is the case with all the harbors of the
island--are rapidly filling up with silt
aud arc dangsrous 10 heavy Yesisls.
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but not water-soaked, nKe some OF the
neighboring islands, industriously Gull
tivated, covered with forests and rich
in minerals, Porto Rico, taken alto
gether, is the most important of all the
West Indies, after Cuba. In her popu-
lation of about million the whites. a
mixture of almost every nation in Eu-
rope. slightly predominant, and their
industry furnishes exports second in
value only to those of Cuba, being es-
timated at more than quarter Of
million dollars few years ago. The
staples are sugar and coffee. All the
vegetable products of the region are
cultivated, and herds of cattle thrive
on the temperate table lands. The cap
ital. ST. Johns. already referred to, is
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other West Indian islands, and the
houses may be built there TO height
of several stories.
The British possession Dominica, is
a large island, without harbor.
The beautiful Island of Trinidad, the
land of humming birds, whence the
asphalt of commerce comes, is not one
of the Antilles, but it should be men
toned for its harbor. Port-of-Spain is
one of the finest cities in the West In
dies and favorite anchorage for
United States ships In 1895. the crews
of the New York, Cincinnati. and
49, Concluded on Last .Page)
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i SIRAIEGlCAL POINTS In THE WEST INDIES.
Nearly Every Played Part in the Ear
Struggles OF the Western Hemisphere Spanish
cations Antquted and Practically b
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THE WEST INDIA islands, the prob
ablescene ofany great naval battles
in war between the United States and
Spain, have had more than their share
of fighting since the romantic days of
the Spain main when England wrested
from Spain supremacy in the sea.
Nearly every one of the islands that
curve about the Caribbean sea played
part in the struggles between Spain
and England in the seventeenth. and
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situated upon the north coast on a
small island with which it is connected
by bridges.
1t is place of some natural strength,
but to protect 1t there is only the old
fort OF Santa Catalina, which is about
as it was when in 1907 it successfully
resisted Gen. Abercromby during
three days siege. The Notifications
are obsolete, unless, indeed. they have
been strengthened within week or
two by guns from some warships. The,
harbor is one of the best in the West