The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-07-20

Fire destroyed $4,000 worth of
property at Wagner, Indian Ter,
Saturday. The fire caught from a
range in the Roak bakery. The
Muscoges fire department was called
on for help, and on a special train
made the trip, 16 miles, in 16 min
utes, and the effective work of the
department saved the business part
of the town.
The residence of Thomas Graves,
situated in an isolated place about
eight miles southwest of Richmond,
Mo-. was burned one night last week |
and MIR. Garves and his sister, Miss |
Lucy, persisted in the flames. Mr..
Graves was a bachelor about 55
years OF age and his sister aged 45
years lived with him. Mr.. Graves
was said to be miser and it was
supposed he had considerable money
hidden about the premises and it is
the general belief that the two were
murdered by robbers aud the bodies
and building burned to hide the
crime.
Charley Denney, for years a pros
porous merchant, now retired, and
one of the early settlers of Butler,
made us a pleasant call and had his
dates set up. Mr.. DenneY began
with the first issue of the TINES,
away back in '78, and has been a
constant reader since. We feel the
more fattsred when we remember
that he is republican in politics,
though a liberal minded, public
spirited gentleman. He has con
tributed much to the upbuilding oi
Butler and Bates county: There il
no better citizen than Charley Den
: ney.
!, George VI. Daniel returned hons
9 last week from an extended tril
/ through wastern Oklahoma and Col
4 orado. He says that little or nothing
: is raised in western Oklahoma mex
TO No Mans Land. That settler
turn their stock out to mighty poo
picking on the range, and those tina
"pull through" small per cent, ar
shipped east and sold to feeders. L
Colorado they depend on irrigatini
and when the bitches are low the
suffer. Mr.. Daniel says the aka
water in thatcountry came near xii
> ing him and he was glad to get bac
home.
The building on the northeas
, corner of the square to be occupie
by the Butler Cash Department stor
- is in the hands of carpenters unde
. going repairs and large addition
45x5O feet, two stories and bas
;. mont, is being built on the cas-
;, This will make the store buildin
one hundred aHd foety-fi five feet Ion
by fifty feet wide, two stories hig
= It is the largest business house v
know OF outside of the large citl
and will be filed with new goo'
ed and opened up before the first
lie, September. They aim to put in
ty kinds of goods and every departme
ne will be complete and presided ov
ne by experienced men.
= During the severe electric stor
- which passed over this section
:. last Friday night, the residence
]. B Small, north of town, "
=, struck by lightning and all the
mates were shocked, but no
seriously hurt. The bolt enter
the side of the house right over
he bed in which his little daughter a
rn hired girl were sleeping and pass
into the floor just beyond The
rst were in the house at the time j
let and Mrs. Small, two children, hir
lde oirl and two hired men. Consid
to able damage was done to the heu
'ut Later in the night Mr. Smalls b
the shed was struck and badly damag
A letter FROM Miss Cora Whltsl
=. daughter Of g 7 Wbitsitt OF t
CITY, who for tbs past three ys
has been attending the Post Gra'
YELL ate hospital in Chicago. and gra'