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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-12-06

Chicago, Dec. S.-Cattle-Recepts Si,-
co; best quality steady; others l0c low
er; beeves, Sl.o0U74O; cows and heif-
ors, N.GON5.2 %: stochers and feeders,
S2.SS5@ 100; Texans, s3.75u4.G0; westerners,
S3.Hli6O0; calves, $5.2Ju7.OO.
HogS-Receipts 5000; market SC high
er; mixed and butchers, $5.9Ud6 By;
good heavy, ,E6..5l. o.%5; rough heavy,
$5.s0N6oji light. &.S5aG.27ia; pigs, $50
G6.lG, bulk of sales, s6.0Va6.25.
Shcop-RNccipts $500: market SesstyJ
to zoe lower; sheep, $375Q5.i0; fambs,
si.5Glg760
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-12-06

st. Louis, Dec. .-Cattle-Receipts T.
0V; market weak; Texans l0c lower;
beer steers. $j.-a97.OJ; stcckers and feed
ers, 2.Wui.50 cows and heifers, 2.4Vl
5.2o; Texas steers. $25OQ5.50; cows and
heifers $2.35,a3.5O
Hogs-Receipts 5000; market strong:
pigs and lights, s5.7Sa6.25; packers, $500
$50; butchers and best heavy, 81. iOI
SO.
Sheep-Receipts 1880; market steady:
natives, $S.0o45.35; lambs, S4OOQ7.oo.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-12-06

Omaha, Dec y-CattIe-Receipts $500;
market steady; native steers, s.. 75d6. 40:
cows and heifers, $250Q4. 10; western
steers, S.2G5.3; Texas steers, 1OO0
AS; cows and heifers. S2.Ool4 10; can
ners. aHQs.5O; stockers and feeders,
S.Sd47O; calves, s2.75Q6.o0; bulls and
stays, $l.S0Q4.0O
Hogs-Receipts 1900; market shade
higher; heavy. s6.0OQ6.10; mixed, $500
$40; light, $S1oaS.2O; pigs S.SaS. 90:
bulk Of sales. $S.0oQ6.10.
Sheep-Receipts 1900; market steady
to strong; yearlings. $5.5OQ6.OO; wethers,
S.0aS.eo; eve, A5096.&; lambs. $3.50
10.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-12-06
st. Louis Cash Grain.

st. Louis, Dec. 3.-wheat-steadt
track No. Q red cash 75675x: No. . hard
Hls674h; Dec. 72A@7zh; May 77A. Corn
Firm; track No. cash 42N; No. 3
white 42hq4s: Dec. 4OkQ4ON: Nag az
0sl%. Oats-Steady; track No. ! cash
ss6ssh No. . white s40s4A: DsA ~;
May s4,k s
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-12-06

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The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
The PREMIER OF ITS KIND
NEW DEPARTMENT IN THE UNI-
vERsITY OF ILLINOIS.
AdministI alton to BE Opened for
Work I'm September.

Urbana, ILL.,, Feb. President
James of the University of Illinois an
nounced, Wednesday, the establish
ment, at Urbana, of the new school
of railway engineering and administers
ton, said to be the first of the kind in
the world. 1t will be opened for work
in September of this year. The school
will have three departments, intended
to cover the entire range of railway
work. The problems of construction
and maintenance of way, including
track for both steam and electricity
will be treated in one division. The
subject of power and its application,
all that is ordinarily included in me
chanical and electrical engineering as
applied to railway problems will be
treated in another division. The prob
lens of operation, of organization,
financiering, rate-making and every
thing which has to do with the actual
formation and management of a rail-
way company will be treated in a third
division. Aside from a special faculty
to give instruction in the various de-
partments, prominent railway officials
will give special courses in order to
emphasize to students the value and
practical features of the curriculum.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
THE FAILURE is A BAD ONE
Creditors of the Shoe Co.
of st. Louis Will Only Realize
About Forty Per cent.

st. Louis, Feb. 3~.-Creditors of the
Tennent Shoe Co. received FRI
day the report of the subcommittee, OF
which A. l.. Abbott is chairman, show
ing that the liabilities of the firm ex-
coed the assets by $374,000, and that
creditors will not receive more than
40 cents on the dollar.
The company was indebted to a
Philadelphia bank in the sum of SAL
900. This claim, it is said, is unse-
cured.
The company was capitalized at a
total of $500, 900, divided into $500, 900
of preferred and 100000 of common
stock.
1t appears from the report of the acf
~countants that less than o%ne-fourth OF
common stock was fully paid.
John H. Tennent, who retired from
the firm recently, at the instance OF
the directors, received dividends
amounting to $4,000 a year for the
past six years.
In addition he drew a salary OF
$4,000 annually. A promissory note,
signed by John H. Tennent for $751;
900, was found among the assets.
The overdrafts of Jack" Tennent,
has son, who was secretary of the COM
pany, are reported to be slightly in
excess of $751; 00.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
HARRINGTON MUST SUFFER
The Supreme Court of Missouri Af-
firms the Death Verdict-EGe-
cutiOn March ID.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Feb. 1.-The SUI
preme court has affirmed the death YER
dict in the case of F. Seymour ("Lord")
Darlington, and the slayer of James P.
Mccain will be executed on March Is.
Judge Fox handed down the opinion,
and Judges Burgess and CAN'T con
Cured.
One of the principal contentious OF
harrington was that he is a citizen Of
England, and is entitled to a fair trial
according to existing treaties between
United States and England, and that
he was not given a fair trial, as wit
nesses were produced against him who
had not been named on the Indictment.
The court held that it was not a fault
Of trial If the prosecuting attorney in
trCduced witnesses of whom he knew
nothing in time to name them on the
Indictment.
Judge Fox, in his opinion, said the
st. Louis county court had not erred
IN refusing Darlington a change OF
venue: as the lower court had made a
careful scrutiny of the allegation that
prejudice existed against Darlington in
st. Louis county and had decided such
prejudice did not exist.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
MRS. cHAs. YERKEs A BRIDE
The Widow of a Month of Chas. T.
Yerkes Said to Have Married
Wilson Miner.

New York, Jan. 31.-The American
this morning says:
"The extraordinary announcement was
made last night that Mrs. Charles
T. Yerkes, aged so, only one month a
widow, and recipient Of $500, 900 under
the will of her late husband, had be-
come the bride of Wilson Miner, of San
Francisco, aged 20.
This announcement was made in the
presence Of Mr.. Miner, who refused to
make any comment upon it. There were
only two witnesses, j. l.. Eastland and
Emile Brrgero, both of San Francisco.
and these two witnesses admitted they
had been present when Mrs. Yerkes be-
came Mrs. Miner.
The ceremony is said to have taken
place in the gallery Of the Yerkes man
sion, No. 1854 Fifth avenue, shortly after
eight o'clock Tuesday night, and, in ad-
dition to the two witnesses named, a
Mrs. Goodsall is said to have been pres.
ent as attendant upon the bride.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
A STUMBLING BLOCK
His Nomination as Interstate Cons
merce Commissioner Held Up
BY the Senate

Washington, Feb. 2.-The admins
tration has been served with formal
notice that the leading republicans or
the senate do not intend to confirm the
nomination of Mr.. Franklin x. Lane,
of California. as a member OF the in
terstate commerce commission to sue
coed former Gov. Fifer, of Illinois, who
retired recently. The name of Mr.. Lane
was sent to the senate several days
ago. and has ever since been pigeon
holed in the committee room Of Sen
ator Elkins, chairman of the commit
tee.
Mr.. Lane is a democrat, and sup
ported William Jennings Bryan in 1896
and in 1900. The, president, it is stated,
had a conference with Senator For
aker, of Ohio, who frankly told him
that the nomination vas held up, n
would continue to be held up as long
as the administration was insisting
upon railroad-rate legislation. He said
that Mr.. Lane was not the type of mar
who should be on the commission II
the legislation such as was asked by
the administration was enacted, or any
thing like it.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
ROGERS NEED NOT ANSWER
Decision of Judge GildersIeevc of
the New York Supreme Court
Appeal May Be Taken.

New York, Feb. 1.-Justice Glider
sleeve. of the supreme court, decided
that H. H. Rogers need not answe the
questions put to him by Attorney-Gen-
eral Hadley of Missouri in the Standard
Oil investigation. The supreme court
of New York is an inferior court, and
the case may. go to the court of ap-
peals.
Justice GilGersleeve, in his decision,
SAID that Rogers need not answer, in
view of the fact that the courts of Mis-
souri, are now passing upon the legality
of the action Of Hadley to GUST the
Standard Oil Co. Of Indiana and the
alleged independent oil companies
which are respondents in the Missouri
suits. Decisions on this point are ex-
pected in the Missouri courts within a
short time. The justice gives leave to
new the application on the same pa
pers or other papers if the court of Mis-
souri, decides the questions now before
it. The decision places the entire mat
ter upon the Missouri courts.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
IMPORTANT FOR ST. LOUIS
The Wabash's Inftintory Thnt 1t 10
ofs1Bridge Arbitrary.

st. Louis, Feb. 2.-St. Louis delivery
Of freight from the east, thus putting
into effect the through bill of lading
without the use of transfer wagons, be-
gan, Thursday, on the Wabash when
that railroads first through freight train
from the east arrived in its North ST.
Louis yards at GAS a. M, coming over
the Merchants bridge, with no stop on
the east side except n at Granite City
for a change of engines.
This train marked the passage OF the
bridge arbitrary as such, although Q
of the charge formerly called the arbi-
trary is still paid by the shipper as an
addition to the through rate.
It was the first time for more than
20 years that freight consigned to st.
Louis from eastern points was brought
in a solid train to terminate in St. Louis
instead Of being stopped on the east side
for handling and delivery on the term
minals there.
The importance of the occasion was
we'll understood by hundreds of mer-
chants who have been for years suffer-
ing from the delays due to east side de-
livery of their freight and paying tolls
varying from So to $40 a car, to have
their goods hauled across the river.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
sAILoRMEN WERE TOO SLOW
Miss Roosevelt COudn't Wait For the
Companion Ladder, So Went Up
Pilot Ladder

New York, JAM 31.-Miss Alice
Roosevelt and her fiance, Congressman
Nicholas Longworth, boarded a revenue
cutter Tuesday and proceeded down
New York harbor to meet the steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, upon which
Comtesse de Chambrun, Mr.. Long
worth's sister, was a passenger. The
comtesse, who was formerly Miss Clara
Longworth, of Cincinnati, has come to
this country IS a guest at Miss Roose-
velt's wedding. At quarantine station,
where the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
slowed down, the revenue cutter went
alongside the big liner. An attempt
was made to lower a companion ladder
for Miss Roosevelt, but the delay in do
ing so was too great, and Miss Roose-
welt boarded the steamer by the pilot
ladder.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
WINTER WEAKNESS
Dr.. Williams Pink Pills the Tonic
That Most People Need for
~ Blood and Nerves.

In winter the air of the close rooms in
which we spend so much of the time
does not furnish enough oxygen to the
lungs to burn out the foul matter in the
blood. In the cold season we do not exer-
else as much and the skin and k~idneysdO
not throw off the waste matter as freely
as usual. The system becomes overloaded
with poisonous matter, and too feeble
to throw it off. Relief can be had only
through the use of a remedy that will
promptly and thoroughly purify and
strengthen the blood, and the one best
adapted for this purpose is the great
blood tonic known as DR.. Williams Pink
Pills.
"They acted like magic in my case,"
said Mrs. Clara L. Wilde, of No. 377
Farnsworth avenue, Detroit, Mich. al
was weak and thin and could not sleep.
My stomach and nerves were out of or
der. / can't describe how miserable l
really was. I dragged through six
months of feebleness, growing weaker
all the time until I finally hadn'tstrength
enough to leave my bed.
"Then a glad day came, the day when
/ began to take DIR. Williams Pink Pills.
They made me feel strong right away.
My appetite came back, / took OH flesh
and the color returned to my cheeks.
People wondered that these pills did for
me what the doctors couldn't do. / took
only six boxes and then I was perfectly
well. If / had not found this wonderful
remedy I surely think that I must have
wasted to death. Believing firmly that
these pills saved my life by the strength
which they gave me at a critical mo-
ment, I unhesitatingly recommend them
to Others"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills contain no
stimulant but give strength that lasts.
They may be obtained at any drug
store.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
PREPARATION FOR SPRING
Indications OF nm Early Opening
of Spring Trade in Nearly
All Staple Lines

New York, Feb. 3.-Bradstreet's
weekly review says:
There is more snap to spring trade
this week, jobbers and manufacturers,
particularly at the west and south, not
ing more inquiry for dry goods, cloth
ing, shoes and similar lines. Favored
by the steady weather, these trades dis
play a desire to open the season earlier
than usual. The absence of sever and
sudden weather changes has also been
beneficial so far to the winter wheat
crop, which does not show any effects
of lack Of n covering throughout
most of the winter. Shipments on
spring account are being called for
earlier. Retail trade and to a certain
extent collections are also affected by
the same weather conditions; but the
forced sales are moving goods and there
is even a tendency on the part Of the
retailers to become reconciled to the
situation and not to let the undeniably
disappointing winter trade interfere
with spring demands. Outdoor industry
is favored by the openness Of the
weather.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
DOUBLE FAMILY TRAGEDY
George Ragsdale Commits Suicide in
St. Louis After Fatally Shoot
ing His VIE.

st. Louis, Feb. 2.-Crazed by drink
and harassed by family quarrels, George
Ragsdale, in the presence of two chill
dren, five and seven years Old, shot and
fatally wounded his wife and then placed
the d~eath-dealing revolver to his head,
INJECTING a wound from which he died
in the city hospital several hours later.
Mrs. Ragsdale was shot in the neck.
the bullet coursing through the chin and
coming out at the mouth. After he had
killed his wife, Ragsdale stood in front
of a mirror, placed the revolver to his
head and pulled the trigger. The lead
en- pellet entered the head just below
the right ear and came out at the mouth.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
PARTING OF cAsTELLANEs
A Report From Paris Announces the
Separation of the Well
known Couple.

New York, Feb. BIN a private dis
patch received in this city from Paris,
Friday night, it was announced that the
Count and Countess Boni de Castel-
lane, who was Miss Anna Gould, are
living apart.
This information was corroborated in
cable advices to La Prensa, of Buenos
Ayres, to the effect that the count and
countess have parted and that a legal
separation will follow. They have
three sons-George, Boni and Jay.
1t is said that the countess left the
Castellane mansion precipitately last
week after a scene with Count Boni.
when she Indignantly accused him, and
for five days her Whereabouts was I'M
known to her husband or any member
of his family. During the last four
days the countess has been at the Hotel
Bristol, in the Place Vendome. The
count has not been at home since the
countess left, and he is supposed to
have been living at his club.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
BUSY DAYS FOR MISS ALICE
Astonishing Amount of Purchases In
New YOrk-MOdistes Surprised
at riders.

New York, Feb. 3.-Miss Alice Roose-
welt gave herself up to the d~ressmakers
and milliners while in New York. The
presidents daughter established a prece-
dent in shopping on her expedition in
the small time she devoted to it, and
in the almost astonishing amount OF
purchases. Even the modistes expert
enced in furnishing elaborate trosseaux
for New York's fashionable set ex-
pressed surprise at her orders.
Among Miss Roosevelt's purchases
are toilettes for every season in the
year, indicating that she does not in
tend to bother her head about clothes
for some little time to come With the
exception of the going-away gown and
two street costumes, all of her pur-
chases are confined to the light spring
anG summer effects.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
PEACE IN SANTO DOMINGO
NORMAL CONDITIONS IN THE
REPUBLIC RESTORED.
Report Received From Col. Cotton,
the American COmptrOller OF
the Dominican Customs.

Washington, Feb. 3.-The following
cablegram- was received at the insular
bureau, Friday, from Col. Cotton, the
comptroller of Dominican customs:
Generals Candelario De La Roza.
Barahona and Mota, the last revolu-
tionists to hold out. have surrendered,
and are granted amnesty.
Peace and normal business condi-
tons throughout the republic are en-
tirely restored.
Customs receipts in January, dur
ing which the late hostilities took
place, surpass those of any previous
month"
Col. Colton's report for the eight
month ending November 30 last, shows
the customs collections, minus expenses
of collection, amounted to $1,442,S49.
The Dominican government was paid
As per cent. less expenses, amounting
to $3.50, 7,95, for it's maintenance, and
$702, 141 was deposited in New York as
part of the fund to be eventually dis
tributed among the foreign creditors OF
Santo Domingo if the pending treaty IS
ratified.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
A RATHER PECULIAR CASE
A Man Who Has Served Three En-
listments In the United States
Service Barred Out.

Boston, Jan. S1.-Although he has
served three enlistments under the flag
of the United States, once in the regular
army, once in the navy and once as a
volunteer, and in each case received an
honorable discharge, John ]. Bowes, an
EnglishE;an, has been refused admit
lance to the United States.
Bowes, despite his military service.
was never naturalized. He arrived at
this port January 10, and was detained
on the ground that he might become a
public charge, as he was i'll. He was
suffering from rheumatism and a bullet
wound received while serving in the
Philippines which had never properly
healed.
immigration officials promptly COM
municated the facts and an account of
Bowes' record has been forwarded to
Washington.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
Farms of the South.

While it is true that the Industrial de-
velopment of the south is going forward
with amazing rapidity, it is nevertheless
true that, by virtue of the extent OF the
agricultural interests of the south, az
riculture is yet the foundation of the
business of that section. A change
from poverty to prosperity Of the farm
er, and a change from land without a
selling value to land in demand at an
advance of from so to $50 per cent. over
the nominal price of one or two years
ago, is the most ~far-reaching develop
ment in southern advancement OF the
last quarter of a century. 1t is far
reaching in many ways, says the Manu-
facturers' Record. 1t means that wltian
the last year or two southern farm prop
critics lave increased not less than
81, 900, 000, 900 in value, probably at least
81, 500, 000, 900. But more than that, 1t
means that under the improved nan
gained new courage, new backbone, that
he has learned how to market his cot
ton crop; that he has fought to a finish
the great battle as to whether the pro-
ducer or the Spectator is to control the
price of his staple. Having won this
fight, the entire handling of cotton from
the field to the factory, whether the fac
tory be in this country or in Europe.
has entered Upon an entirely new stage
In its history. 1T also means that land
will be more thoroughly cultivated, for
the successful man, whether he be q
farmer, a merchant, or a manufactur-
er, is always better able to work to good
advantage han the one who is fighting
a losing battle. During the last six years
the total value of the cotton crop, in
Guiding seed, has been $1,000, 0O0, 900,
against 81, 19O, 900, 900 for the pre-
ceding six years, showing a gain in the
last six years over the preceding six of
over 81 ,400, 900, 900. 1t is not, however,
due to this great increase in cotton
alone that the southern farmer is in
better shape. More and more has the
diversifcation of agriculture gone on;
more and more have fruit growing and
truck raising, hog and hominy," with
the meathouse at home rather than in
the west, been developed Throughout the
south.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
GOT TOGETHER AGAIN
Consolidation of the National Live
stool and American Stock Crow
ers' Associations.

Denver, Col, Jan. Decentralization
of the National Live Stock association
and the American Stock Growers asso-
citation was effected here, Tuesday, by
the annual conventions of the two or
CARNATIONS. The American National
Live Stock association is the mans
adopted for the amalgamated body,
which represents 10000 stock grow
ers, and Murdo Mackenzie, of Trinidad,
Col, was unanimously elected president
of the new association on a rising vote
in joint convention of the delegates of
the two old associations. Mr.. Macken-
zie has been president of the American
Stock Growers association since its or
ganization in this city a year ago by
seceders from the National Live Stock
association convention.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
No Longer a MYTH.


Latter-day iconoclasts-or, more
properly, knockers-have attempted to
destroy what they call the myth" re-
garding George Washington and his
little Ratchet. They have contended
that the alleged incident never trans
pired, for they said that no proof of
1t was in existence. They are now
undone, for a man in Virginia has
found the Ratchet. That is, he has
found a Ratchet, imbedded in a tree
(not a cherry tree, but an oak) and
on the Ratchet handle appear the mi
tails &c. w" and the date "1738." In
the face Of such proof, says the st.
Louis Globe Democrat, who will deny
that the father of his country did cut
down the cherry tree, and then refuse
to lie about it? 1t is gratifying that a
tradition so dear to the American
heart should be so strikingly proved
true. And the calumniators should
now be forever silenced. We should de-
pOolI tiidI AdlShCI LII tnC olulllloolloh
institution, and whenever a mocker
arises to deny the truth of the cherry
tree episode we will crush and on
vince him by showing him the Ratchet.
And, hereafter, we must be more care
full in the preservation of material evil
dence Of historical incidents. We
would suggest that the presidents
"big stick" be put away for future ref
erence before it is quite worn out. We
will need it some day to prove that it
was used to preserve the worlds
peace. And the president does not
need it now. He needs a spade and
pick tt dig the Panama canal with.
These, too, should be carefully pre-
served to show to future generations,
for otherwise they may not believe we
dug a canal at all. With the perversi-
ty of a doubling class they may say:
"Show us the canal" but the pick and
spade should convince them. They
might at least convince us that the
canal was to be dug.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-02-09
MRS. MUELLER is MISSING
Wife of st. Louis County (MissOurD
Farmer Who Was Poisoned
Disappears.

st. Louis, Feb. lit has developed
in the inquiry into the death of Fred
erick ]. Mueller. caused by arsenic poi
soning 16 days after his marriage, that
Mueller's widow left mis- home near
Grover, st. Louis county, the day after
the body was exhumed for chemical
analysis, and has not since been seen
in the neighborhood.
1t also develops that Mrs. Mueller.
who was Mrs. Annie Mitchell until De-
cember 81 last, tried to gain possession
of Mueller's little daughter, Clara, aged
six, and heir to one-half of his prop
erty, from the child's aunt, Mrs. Adolph
kroeter, in whose possession she has
been for three years, and that it was
stipulated in the ~ante-nuptial contract,
said to have been made between Mrs.
Mitchell and Mueller, that the child
should live with them.
The report of DR.. c. M. Riley that in
examination of one-half of Mueller's
stomach he found enough arsenic to
kill five men has created a sensation
among the prosperous jewellers in the
neighborhooa of the Mueller farm.