The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-10-03

| AC CbBluei DOIIoT anu UNnAInOe
for the electric light plant have not yet
arrived. but are expected any day.
Several ear loads of poles arrived a
week ago and are being placed on the
streets. The contract calls for the
| lighting of the city by NOvem Der l st.
So 1t is going to keep the contractor
moving to have the plant in opera
| ton by that date.
| Tie people of Sedalia object TO the
| holding Of the state socialist cOnven-
| ton in that city in this month. To
that end the Citizens Alliance. rep.
resentlng about two thousand bust
ness and professional men, have issu-
ed resolution calling upon the au-
thorities of the city and county
to prevent the meeting and
asking property holders not to rent
any building III that city for the Use
of the socialist convention. The peo-
pie OF Sedalia hold that there is little
difference between socialism and an
archy, and therefore the convention
is not desired in that town.
Sheriff Smith went to Cameron.
Clinton county, Saturday and ar
rested Geo. ". Clapper. on warrant
charging Clapper with defrauding
school district No. Z. Mt Pleasant
township. Clapper is in the business
OF selling libraries, and it is claimed
sold set OF books to the above dis
trict for $50, receiving payment in
advance. The books have never been
received by the district, and the di-
rectors, believing they had been de-
frauded, caused the warrant to be is
sued. Clapper gave bond for his APP
pearance at court and was released.
We were cOmplimented with a call
from Mrs. VIM. Bateman, who
brought to our office a sample OF
very fine apples and peaches from
her fatherin-law, l.. Bateman's place.
near Combs, Ark, from which place
Mrs. Bateman had just returned. She
said his farm lays on top of the Bos-
ton mountain, the soil is very rich,
the water pure and cold, and the
best place for growing fruit she ever
saw. The samples brought us bore
out that it must be a very fine fruit
country. Mr. Bateman sent remit
tance for renewal
Tom Vaughan, ofnear Enid, Okla,
is visiting his father-in-law, J. c.
Courtney, of Athol, this county. We
were complimented by very pleas
ant call from him on Monday. He
said his father, Uncle Enos Vaughan,
r \. Allen, George Rhodes and other
Bates county people near that place
are doing well Our people will re-
member Mr.. Vaughan as being the
young man who was waylaid and
shot by two robbers on the Rich Hill
road few years ago. The bullet
passed entirely through one leg and
entered the other, making a very
painful wound.
Dick and Olive Collins. the two
young men implicated with Will Fur
geson. in cutting John Mansfield |
Tuesday night of last week, were
handed over to Sheriff Smith by their |
bondsman Sunday evening and lock |
ed i'll jail. \ report was in circula |
cion Sunday evening that Mansfield |
had died from his injuries, which re-
port probably caused the bondsmen |
to withdraw their endorsement. In |
quiry. however. proved the reported |
death of the young man to be false |
We understand he is up and going
about and. while the wounds are |
painful they are not serious. Will |
Ferguson, who did the cutting. is |
still at large. but Sheriff Smith says |
he will get him.