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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-12-26
TINES Telephone No. 81.

LINES lelepuOHe NO. OF.
ticles at the american"
d. G. Phelps is a new subscriber.
! Don't miss the American"
| Ben Boyd, OF Butler, is rev sub
IfYou can't lose at the American"
] Bob Plummer is reported to be Sc
riously sick.
Mufflers and socks, both warm ar
Judge Graves returned home from
Warsaw the last OF the week.
Plenty OF nice ties at the American.
Miss Jessie Classify spent Christmas
in Kansas City with Miss Bessie Nc
Donald.
The state teachers association will
be held in Kansas City beginning the
beth.
Judge Graves sentenced Otis Crow
two years in the penitentiary for
and larceny.
Miss Lizzie Pettus has her paper
hnged from Johnstown to Log,
wton county, Mo.
Anew depot at Pleasant Hill will
be BID Ut shortly on the site OF the old
one recently burned.
The rock masons were put to work
again on the walls OF the court house
Monday afternoon.
W. P. Gartrell, after being set free
Sunday, attended religious worship
at the Ohio street M. E. church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark, OF Kansas
City, are spending the holidays with
relatives and friends in the city.
Capt. Tygard built an ice house in
the rear OF his residence last week
and filed it with a fine quality of ice
IRON the river.
g. T. Brummet renews his faith by
haviJ 8 his dates set ahead. He is a
\ gpqt clever fellow, who always meets
Nhh obligations promptly.
c. Huston, Mo. Pacific tele-
graph operator at Cole, was arrested
Friday and taken to Jefferson City,
charged with bigany.
Lea Culver, who has the contract
70 plaster the court house, put q
iorr6 o. men to work Monday prepar-
ing the mortar.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-12-26

Practical Holiday Gifts.
at lowest prices for good goods at
McKibbenS.
All wool waistings 81 and 25c a yard
Silk waistings 81 % S1.O0, 75c soc yard.
Black silks for dresses $3.50, 81 %, S1.OO
Black dress goods $3.50, 81 10 Sl25, S1OO, Toe 5Oc
and 25c yard
Coored dress goods 81 30 81 30 81 % 81 90 9Oc 75c
65c, zoe, 39c zoe 1jc
Vevets for waists and jackets S15O 81. %, &c soc.
Fur scars $780, $500 down to Toe
Cloaks and capes $500 down to $1.OO.
Walking skirts 81. 80 to S2.9S.
Dress skirts $500 to 9Sc.
Black underskrts $500, $780, $3.50 $500 $50 $500
$50 and S1.OO.
Table linens $780, Toe G5c 5sc j0c 45c lOc c 25c yd
Towels Soc Toe 5sc zoe 4Sc 4Oc 3Sc poe zoe Zoe pair
Napkins $3.50 $500 S2.75 $3.50, $500, $175, $50
$500, 9sc adozen.
Crashes 15c 12Nc 1lHc Zoe, SIC, Ne sc yard
Quilts sos, $3.50 50, Sl9S, 80 As lis oSc soc.
Blankets 500 $780, $500, S45o $780, $3.50 down to
4Sc pair.
Topsy hosiery wool aeeced lined 5Oc Soc 25c and 15c
Coli gloves 50c 4Oc 25e pair
Kid gloves 1.50, 81 90 thew fresh stock
Mttens kid and fabric $50 SOO Toe, 5Oc 35c Doe Doe
15c, Zoe.
Lace neckwear $50 Sl,25 100, 75c 5oc 35c Doe
Leather goods chatenes, purses, BELTS
New satin, taifeta, and velvet ribbons.
Thempsons glove fitting corsets 81 90 and 4Sc.
Handkerches $lOo Toe SOC 35c zoe, zoe, 15c 2c 1Oc
DC, 7c &C. 4c Be- 2c, lie. Largest line in the county.
Mems fine shoes $3.50 $500, $3.50, $780,
W fine stUEs SOU S3UU, $500 80. 90, 81. 80
Mems and womens slippers
Women's felt shoes,
Children's fine shoes
Children's school shoes
Finest line of elts and overshoes.
Mems fine shirts 81 90, Toe soc.
Mems gloves $50, SlO0, Zoe soc, 25c.
Boys gloves 81 90, 75c SOC Doc.
Mittens 81 90, Zoe soc, 25c.
Topsy socks 25c 15c and 1O aeeced wool and cotton
Neckwear 50c 25c.
Suspenders 75c, 65c, 50c Boo, 25c 15c, Zoe, De.
Mems pants $500, 300 15O LOO.
Mems hats $500, $50, 200, 80, 90 75c
Trunks and valses
Carpets size rugs squares special administer rugs
81 % and 34s.
Lace curtains S7.Oo, 600 800 LOO 100 800 300 $50
200, 10, 15o, 100 to soc a pair.
Porers S. 90 down to 80 pair
Mattings 35c, 3Oc 25c, Doe yard
cloths and linaleums
We show the largest stock of underwear in the county
and guarantee the lowest prices for good goods and
and money We guarantee everything ito be as
say.
McKlBBENS.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-12-26

The TINES wishes it's friends and
patrons merry Christmas, a happy
and prosperous New Year.
Miss Matte Boulware returned
from her pleasure trip to Florida,
Saturday. She leaves to-day for Los
Angeles, Cal, where she will spend a
few weeks looking after business in
terests.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-12-26

The public installation ofoficers of
Butler Camp, No. 245S, NJ. ". A.,
which was to occur January ,, 1902,
has been indefinitely postponed.
John B. Armstrong had his drove
oil cattle, numbering 147 head, cut in
two as they were being driven across
the railroad track just north of the
depot, Saturday afternoon by a south
bound freight train and the engine
killed and manned seven head OF
steers.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-10
ILLISoIsANs IN TEXAS.
1t Is Called a state of Successive
Mary eIOus Finds.

New Orleans Times-Democrat
j. W. Orr of Champaign, ex-chairman
OF the Illinois State democratic commit
tee, and j. L. Dawson Of Tuscola, ILL.,,
we're at the Denechaud last nigh sn
route from Beaumont and other Texas
towns. which they have been exploring.
Mr.. Orr said in regard TO his Visit:
II have Just been in Texas for the iirst
time In NV life. What saw there WAS
revelation to nc. Texas is an empire
1t is a far more prosperous and pro-
ductive State than people who have never
been within he- boundary lines know
about. Some new find Is frequently be-
ing made down in that wonderful state.
Just before we came away new coal
mine was discoIere about no milrs
north of Houston. This mine Is situated
near a station named Lovelady, or, rain
err, the station is named on account or
the coal find The vein OF Ignite coal Is
eleven feet in thickness and no telling
how far II runs along the ledge.
The excitement at Beaumont is now
abating The inhabitants are rcsnmine
their normal business relations by slow
degrees, although there does not amp ar
TO be any percepible decrease in the
daily list OF arrivals a the oily hotel
in town. The owner OF the gusher ~
now having pipe line put in to Port
Arthur Tanks will be erected at the
latter place TO receive the oil. Port
Arthur is less than twenty miles from
the Beaumont gusher. Four miles of
pipe has already heen laid. The entire
line of piping and the tanks ought 70 be
completed inside of thirty days. Then
look out for shipments of the Texas oil
TO New Orleans
''rhe members Of our party who went
TO Texas several weeks ago are all much
onamored of the State. We all expect
to make investments there in the imme-
diate future None OF us will take ad-
vantage OF the offers made OF land near
Beaumont at 5000 per acre but we have
found ether locations which are more
satisfactory to us, where we will invest
and some of us may take UP our resi-
dences there"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-10
HOUSTON, SUNDAY, FEB. 10, 1901.
% PAGES TODAY
TOBACCO VS.. COTTON.


While some of our people in Texas
are turning their attention to tobacco
raising and figuring on the possible prof
its of such crop, "there are Others"
equally wide awake In other portions Of
The South and especially in South Caro-
lima
Tho Post is satisfied that It will be in
terestlng to many OF It's readers, and
perhaps encouraging, TO read of the ex-
perieDce last year Of ono Of South Caro-
lina's enterprlsing farmers who made
test of the respective values of tobacco
and cotton crop. The facts are given
by the Charleston News and Courier.
which is ever on The alert for news relat-
lug TO the development and prosperity
of dts State. According to the News and
Courier's correspondent in orangeburg
county of that State Mr. John Nc
Lauchlin "ce red moro money last year
OF his half interest in a twenty-acre
tobacco crop than he did on his full crop
oil fifty acres in cotton, which yielded
forty-two bales and sold for 10 cents"
His half interest in the crop of TWEEN
ty acres OF tobacco was the equivalent.
OF course, Of whole interest in Zen
acres, as the News and Courier remarks,
SO that his experience in effect was that
ten acres of tob8cco cleared more money
than fifty acres of cotton with a big
yield and at big price. Then our
Charleston contemporary concludes.
This n1r,ne auutp l}ttIo o.r,,ri,e a., a.,
show that ono acre OF tobacco yields mora
net proht than five acres OF cotton, pro-
ducing 3loO pounds Tor 400 pounds to the
acre., and selling at 10 cents 4 pound or at
S-lO for the product OF the ave acres.
Cotton seldom produces at the rate OF 400
pounds TO tho acre, and more rarely sells
az 10 cents q pound In these times. So that
an acre Of tobacco is fairly equal, In proht-
making power, 70 from five to twenty acres
OF cotton, according to production ana price
The statement is m de that in the
counties of Darlington, Marion, Florence
and Sumter in the Old Palmetto STATE
the farmers in large numbers have tried
the tobacco crop and found 1t very prof
table And as might be expected after
Mr.. MoLauchlm's example had become
known many farmers in his county care |
making their first effort with tobacco
this year in spite of high cotton"
Our Texas farmers can consider this |
case and draw their own conclusions.
The agricultural department says we |
have as fine tobacco lands here as can |
be found In the Union. 1t might be well /
TO reflect, too. that possibly the cotton |
crop next year Will be larger than this
year and the price proportIonately /
lower.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-10

Morning OTesonian.
Last October a cold spell in Montana
killed a sheep herder in the Great Fa Is
district; two feet Of snow covered the
range in places and the thernone er in
dicated 40 degrees below zero.
The herder was frozen to de>th on the
prairies while caring for the sheep, ana it
was three days before his fate was known
to his employers. Two shepherd do s.
were with him when he died, and one OF
these stayed with his body while the 9TH
er attended to the sheep just as though
the herder had been with him The dog
drove them out on the range in the
morning and back again at night. guard
ing them from wolves and preventing
them from straying off, Neither dog had
anything to eat during the three days
Vigil, so far as could be asaeriainel, but
the 1000 sheep thrived as well, APPARENT
~, Is though directed by human asen v
The singular fact about the matter il
that these faithful animals would have
starved to death rather than harm one
OF the sheep left in their charge
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-10
soME rosTscRlPrs.

measure TO increase the school tax from
10 TO p cents On tho 800 was defeated In the
West Virginia senate BY the narrow margin
OF two votes.
70 ascend Mont Blanc is no longer reear /
cd as feat. Between June md sop.ombcr
q. 1900. as many no III tourists reached
the summit. Among them were thirteen
Americans.
IN the largest library n Oxforl. England,
has hung for time iDmemorlal this notice:
Women and dogs not admitted here" 1t e
allowed to hang stll to show the changes in
the status OF women.
IT has been dec del by court in Maine
tina. body BELONGS to the owner Of the lot
- which II is inferred, and not to parent
husband. wife or other relative who may
wish to have II removed
= Oh one Of the Indian reservations in New
York STATE Is a toy factcrv which employs
seyefai hundred indiPns all the year around.
Tina, toys manufacturer here are being
shppod all over the world
Attorney General Murphy Of Arkansas has
deci ed ha. women are not qua ihed to
eervefas notaries public Dul that the acts o.
those already holding appointments arc not
Invalid, though their commissions may BE-
revoked.
a 6oer company Of Lockport, ". Y, Is pre-
pai ng TO manufacture gun socks of Gbsr
wi view TO tightening tho weight OF the
rretent rife. TIE ordnance officers on duty
ut Springfield. Mass, will supervise the man
ufaeturc
Now York commission merchants are send
Ing representatives to Cuba to purchase pro-
drce for shipment to this country, 1t is
believed that Cuban products in large guam
titles Will soon make their appearance In
Eastern markets.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-10
Actor rorbiddcn to wed.

New York.--Ju'iiice Lawrence in the
supreme court ioday signed decree 4
divorce in the salt brought by Mrs. VIII
helmina Marie Mcdowell against WI
liam Melbourne Mcdowell, the o.tor and
former husband Of Fanny Davenport. The
papers in the case were not made PUB 1 ;
and the name of the co-resp- ndent Is not
known. By the terms Of the decree NJ.
MacDewell is forbidden to marry again
during the life Of the plairGid.
Chicago.-"The decree OF The New York
courts was not a surprise to Nj. Mac
Dowell," said Attorney I. r. Hart last
night at Hopkins theater. where Mr.
MacDowell is appearing 1T is what he
has been expecting and more han hop
ing for for some time past The woman
at first instituted a suit for separation.
but she was induced to change her dc-
ton TO suit Ter divorce and the decree
Is the result. The ruling of the court
that Mr.. Mcdowell can not ma, ry dur
Ing the life Of his lormef wife HIS but
httle effect in truth. He may marry
whenever he plcases, pTovid, d ne zoe
not contract his next marriage n New
fork State, bUt he may live in the state
with his wife If ne ever does marry
again.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-10

TO properly estimate such action we must
remember that our general pension Jaws are
the most liberal and comprehensive On earth
and that theac bills passed By congress arc
claims that have been turned down by The
pension bureau Yearly all Of The scandalous
increase OF the pension list is belrg of-
fected through congrcss and not tho bureau.
Mark Twain saw enough abroad TO enable
HIM to write an extremely interesting and
an icily sarcastic article against imperial
ism.
Miscreants continue cutting telephone ca
bics n san Antcn.o ms well as In Houston.
While this species OF malicious vandalism
may put the telephone companies to some
cost. which they are amply able to stand, It
puts the greatest Inconvenience upon the
innocent purlic ana thus only denonstra,c3
the tdocy as well as the mcanncss Of the
scamps who are committing the mischief.
Mr.. wayne Marveishs assertion in his
John Marshall Grafton that .ations can not
live by bread alone Is direct nlng at the
fun dinner poiL'
when Pennsyvan miiitin go down 70
Nick uley's Inauguration Washington is in
danger of exper cEcing some Of the horrors
Of Pekn. There are many people living who
remember past occasions when the Penusyl-
vania militia we're present at inaugural
ceremonies
SO Mrs. Nation Is accused Of showing the
white featherg' But possibly the lady
does not claim to he an Alexander aud knows
when she has Bot enough.
The everlasting, universal apparently In
born tendency to fraud and humbug in this
country has u latest illustration in an imi-
iaton vaccination scar that can be bought for
q dime and pasted on tho arm 1t Is meant
to FOOL the Inspector, not the smallpox.
King Edward VII promises to follow the
example Of his illus.r Gus mother My. the
old friends he viii have to cut and the good
things he will have to shakei
It Is announced that the ranks OF the
Grand Army Of the Republic have been re-
ducei by death since 1899 from 400, iS9 TO
1860 Ent IN the meantime the pension roll
has grown from $4,000 to $4,000!
Helen Could has given 100000 just recent
ly. in one lump, to a public charity. Miss
Helen's career shines in brilliant contrast
10 that al tho poor little Countess OF castel-
lane.
IT is low said Great Britain viii refuse
10 consent to the amended canal treaty. We
have been needing sume such action as
That by John Bull TO spur tho people OF this
'do on to building the canal
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-10
:
THE STATES MINERAL RIGHTS.

The opinion given to the governor by
the acting attorney general OF the State
with reference to the states reserved
rights in the mineral deposits discovered
In Texas. is not only especially timely
lust now. but is matter Of the greatest
Importance both to the State aud to the
purchasers Of the States lands.
1t appears from the attorney generals
opinion that the minerals are reserved
to the State on all public free school,
university, Agricultural and Mechanical
college and asylum lands sold between
April "a, 1888, and March 30. 1889.
BY the act Of 1889 the State has a re.
served right only in such lands since
sold as were classified or rcclassihed un-
der that act as mineral lands.
The State has no such reserved rights
In lands sold since March "a 1889. under
the classification Of agricultural sr3zlag
or umbered lands. Even though valuable
minerals may be discovered on such lands
and II may appear that the Classification
was faulty. yet the state is bound by
its own classification.
Il is very clear from this opinion that
u the mineral surveys OF the state here
tofore have been at all accurate or eA
haustiye the State OF Texas itself must
eventually become the owner OF vast
wealth in the mineral deposits scattered
throughout its whole extent There must
undoubtedly be discovered in time rio
deposits on the lands sold between April
1883. and March, 1889, and On the mlnera!
lands sold since 1889
The attorney general does NOT ofrer
suggestion as TO whether It would b
good or bad policy to take steps 70 assert
shese rights, but he does say thai now
there Is no adequate Law providing hom
che various public funds may enjoy thes.
RESERVED rights Should It be deemed
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-10

good policy. he says, to assert the title
reserved. an act should be pissed grant
ing TO the State an easement to 20 upon
the lands for the purpose OF full enjoy
ment Of the rights reserved. Including use
OF water and timber and providing fur
Their a method by which the same may
be condemned and also the minerals be
prospected for and mined
1t certainly ought to be worth the
while of the State. as ouch. to pass such
an act and put forth Intelligent efforts
to reduce its reserved mineral wealth
to profitable possession. But unless
1t proposes actively to develop such In
terests and add to It's revenues, It ought
not to stand in the way OF their develop
ment by private citizens. Now is the
time to declare its policy IN this par
ticular The State can not afford to ope-
rate as cloud upon the title Of lanls
containing minerals and az the slmc
time refuse to utilize It's reaerved inter-
ests. The mineral wealth Of The state
should be actively prospected for and de.
yeloped either by the State OF by the
As preliminary to the States action.
however. the bill pending for thorough
mineral resuryey of Texas ought to be
enacted into law. Then the State govern
ment can act more inteillsently in tho
premises. The various funds entitled to
this reserved mineral wealth are in need
of greatcr resources and the legislature
should promptly aid in every way pos
sihle TO secure these for them. The
State ought not to give away or neglect
any Of its possible sources OF revenue.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-10
Houston Must Have ITS Fair.
velasoo World.


Mr.. Ed Kiam, the great Houston mer-
chant urges the establishment of a South
Texas fair at Houston, ana offers to CON
tribute big sum dor that purpose There
has never been one single enterprise that
mas produced as much Improvements in all
lines cd Industries as the old time fairs.
And they are as good today as they were
thirty years ago.
tair with fine troaters and raeers, fine
STOCK of all hinds, and its attendant re-
suits. are living and instructive evI-
dence OF The enterprise, thrift and patrl-
otlsm OF the people. The great fairs
Houston held twenty-five years ago were
famous all over the country. Let Hous-
ton adopt Mr.. Kiam's suggestion. Let
them have thoir fair and Brazoria county
viii show up with hor rice, sugar and in
nunaIslnle ether products that the fu-
ture VIII cause her TO produce.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-10
Flaw nig Ice Crcnm plnnt.

Sioux City, Iowa.--This city is to have
the biggest ice cream manufaetu.i IL &
concern in the West and one Of the larg-
est in the United States. 1t will be es-
tablished about May l by the Han ord
HazeiweCd Cream company, now supply
ing butter to the lead lg markets of t c
country II is proposed to pat in ten
free2ers Of $50 gallons capacity and $500
gallons Of ice cream will be turned cut
per day Ben Mongul, an i.e cream
specialist who came to this country II m
laris some time ago and has been at the
mead Of large concerns in Chicago and
New YORK. viii be the sunerin .nnden
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-10
In the Coed Old Days!

INCONSISTENCIES Slntinel
The idea OF IA school without dis ip me
Is unworthy sober seoouI thought. The
time once was when children were Sc It
TO schdol and controlled whether they
or their parents liked it, And in tn Sc
dse's times were better ard boys were
bepger. a 10y, Z. matte. ed no, w
large he happened TO be- was mover
sent home for i'll conduct He was fog
sed ara II he resented it. No WITS Cog
ged again. and II his pa wrongf5lly I'M
dsrtcck ID interfere he WIS logged. 1t
was under such discipline as tbs that
uAe cause OF education made ouch RAPID
progress during the las: few decades
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-10

| Beaumont journal.
A dlspatcA from Washing on says ouf
junior United States senator, Hen.
Charles A. Culberson. will move as an
amendment to the house rivers and har-
bors bill that the BRACES river be m.de
naylgab.e for steamboats, from its mouth
to the old town of Washing on, and that
the appropra zion for the Improvement
OF nav igation of the Trinity river be in
creaseI firm $650G00 to $3.50, 600, and tor
O. appropriation of $500, 900 for the In
med.a,e construction Of a ship enamel
liom deep water in the Neches river
AID the SABINE. along the west bank OF
SABINE lake, to. deep water In sa5ne
Pass. And just here, the journal will
remark that Hon. Charles A. CuIoerson
is remarkable man. When e.ected at
torney general of Texas he was the
youngest man that had ever been chosen
for .hat position. He was then elected
governor of he state and at that time
he was tde youngest man ever elected to
that high Office. Next. ne was m4da u
Unite1 States senator and is the young
est man ever commissioned by Texas to
represent her in the upper house OF the
National leg stature. That he his been
al so early an age clCsen to those high
and responstb Offices Is because he i,
a man Of extraordinary abilities. He Is
Kind and alw US courteous. His dispo-
sit1n is ob.lgiug aud his manners are
veiy winning These are qualities tina:
IN all countries and in all positions give
popularity He is pretty sure to be al
ways In his seat when the senate is in
session, He IS watchful of the Interests
committed 10 his ch rye and omI.s no
opportunity Of serving ais state and peo-
pc Ilough youug yet, he has won the
h gles- honor the people OF Texas can
bestow i, he goes S i'll higaer II must
be by act of the people of the Nation.