The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-09-07

EChNACA anu bAOhhAnOAS iva A1eAA SAsa1-1
who owns q fine farm in Pleasant
Gap township.
We welcome our old friend C. ].
Pahlman and his sstimable family
back TO Bates county. They went to
Garden City, Kansas last spring,
but recently sold his farm there, have
returned and will probably buy here
again.
In another column we publish q
very interesting letter from j. s.
Brown, in California. Mr.. Brown
sends us a kodak picture OF himself
taken while be is inspecting the big
fsh, which he tells US about in his
letter.
PC. Burns living west Of Butler
lost his house by fire on Monday
morning. He had risen early to
come to Butler to the circus and
while he was at the barn he noticed
the fire. 1t is supposed to have
caught from the kitchen tiue. He
was fully insured.
Adjutant General Jas. DeArmond
arrived here Friday night to inspect
Company II and invoice the comps.
ny's equipment. General DeArmond
made similar official visits at Sedalia
and Clinton, where Missouri's Ma
tional Guard Companies are station
ed.-Nevada Nail.
Information comes from headquar.
ters that another passenger coach
will be added to the regular trains
on the Mo. Pacific between Kansas
City and Nevada shortly for the &C.
commodstion OF the travelling public
and to relieve the crowded condition
OF the cars.
Through its attorneys j. F. Smith
and W. W. Graves the city of Butler
has sued the bondsmen OF the N. o.
Nelson Manufacturing Co., because
OF failure OF the septic tank to prop
erly care for the sewerage run into
it. The petition reel tes two counts,
one for $4,000 on account OF the
failure OF the tank to do the work
guaranteed, and the second for
$3, $50 on labor and material.
Parties were in this county and
gathered up 35 hounds, for which
they paid an average OF 81 each,
says the st. Clair County Democrat.
They we're shipped south, where they
will be used in tracking game this
winter. 1t was pretty stiff price to
pay for dogs. Generally speaking
the dogs OF st. Clair county are not
worth 70 cents per dozen, and if the
parties will come again and advertise
their wants in advance they can gel
several carloads at 25 PER cent o
what they paid.
Whileengagedin breaking up scraK
iron with a sledge hammer at the Re
; public and Steel plant Friday In st
Louis, George Jones was probably
J blinded for life by the explosion oiar
old cannon which his sledge struck
The sledge was hurled through th'
roof, tearing a great hole. Jones
was badly lacerated and burned ant
probably blinded. He did not know
the old cannon was loaded.
A warrant has been issued for tn
arrest OF f. NJ. Salmon, formerly ,
clerk in the deiunct Salmon & Sal
g mon bank at Clinton, charging hin
B with receiving deposits, when he knew
the bank to be in a failing condition
!, The young man is son OF DR.. G. Y
Salmon, one OF the partners in tn
bank. Shortly after the failure O
the bank. he left for Death Valley
" Col, in search OF gold. Salmon an
g nounces his intention to come bacl
and stand trial.
8 Uncle George Rifle received a tele
gram on Monday from Sedan, Kar
!. sas, from his son Billy Rifle that hi
wife, Ida, was badly mashed" in hi
. laundry, which he was CONDUCTING
at that place. His mother left Nor
day night for Sedan. Later iniol
e nation by letter Is that Mrs. Riff
G right arm was caught In a manglt
which she was feeding, and tn
muscles and flesh torn of to th
;. elbow. The letter stated that sh