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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
RUEF'S BIG BOND.
Bail Assregatins $1,5eo,ooo Given by
Ex-Frisco Boss.

San Francisco, July S.-Abraham
Ruef was released from the county Jail
Monday night on bonds aggregating
$l,56O,0O0, the largest amount ever
given in a criminal case in this state.
This sum is the aggregate bail upon
IS indictments returned by the Oliver
grand jury, charging Ruef with bribing
the former board Of supervisors in con
nection with the granting of fran
chises to public corporations and upon
which he was taken in custody on
March s, 1907. Twenty sureties, in
Guiding Ruef's father and sister and
himself, signed the bonds. 1t de-
veloped during the examination of his
sureties before Superior Judge Frank
J. Murasky, that Ruef owned real es-
tate in this city which he recently
transferred to his father and sister,
upon which real estate experts On the
witness stand placed a value of ST.
O95, 1856. Ruefs annual income from
this property was $4,000. His father
and sister went his bonds to the
amount of s69O,OOO while other sureties
qualified for $4,000. Ruef's next
trial has been set for July Is.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
THE SNAKE INDIANS ARMlNo.
Threats Are Being Made Against thu
White Settlers.

Weleetka, Ok, July S.-Three wag,
onloads of Winchesters were taken
into the camp Of the Snake Indians
Monday and several hundred of the
1000 Indians congregated there are
heavily armed. The situation is now
critical, according to reports brought
here Monday night by men who visit.
ed the camp.
The Indians are making a new de.
mand, according to these reports, one
distinctly different from anything
heretofore preached. The demand 10
that the Snakes be given their allot.
ment certificates which they have
heretofore steadfastly refused II Is
said that "Crazy Snake" issued a
ultimatum in which he said that un.
less the certificates we're delivered
the Indians would make a charge upon
the whites as their initial step at
driving all the white people from the
former Indian nation.
Indian Agent Howe went to the
Snake camp Monday and is said to
have arranged to have the certificates
ready for delivery Tuesday.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
TELEeRAPHlc sREVITIEs.

Excessive heat throughout the east
Monday caused many deaths and pros
trations.
Gov. Folk of Missouri arrived in
Denver Monday fresh from visit to
Mr.. Bryan at Lincoln.
Mondays statement of the worlds
visible supply Of cotton shows a total
Of 2,55s,325 against 2,71l,5S7 last
week.
The cruiser st. Louis, with Secre
tary of the Interior Garfield on board,
has arrived from Honolulu and an
chored in San Francisco bay.
Arrangements have been made in
New York for the issue of $l5,000,O0o
of bonds for the purpose of building
the proposed passenger terminals at
Kansas City.
The Socialist Labor party in con.
vention at New York nominated Mar
tin R. Preston Of Nevada for presi.
dent and Donald Munroe of Virginia
for vice president.
The Schoen Steel Wheel company's
plant, patents and business, were Mon
day transferred to the United States
steel corporation, the consideration, 1t
is reported, being about 100000.
]. A. Lydston, a well known physi'
clan of Chicago, died Monday of heart
disease, superinduced by the heat He
was overcome while reading at his
home and died before medical aid
could be summoned.
George Ellery Hale, director Of the
Solar Observatory Of the Carnegie In
stitution Of Washington. at Mount
Wilson, Cal. has been elected CORE
spending member OF the Paris Acad
envy Of Sciences.
As an evidence Of the activity oil
our new colonial possessions Hawaii
Is the latest to come forward with a
vice presidential candidate, the dele
gates announcing on their arrival In
Denver Monday their support Of
William A. Kinney, leading citizen
of Honolulu, for that place.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
TAFT GETS HARD JOLT.


Boston, July 6 -Secretary Taits
candidacy has been subjected recent.
ly to flank fire. which, unless 1t be
checked speedily by remedial action
In Washington, threatens to cost the
Republican nominee for the presi
dency the political support OF large
and influential body OF American
Industrial workers.
In letters written to President
Roosevelt, TO Senator Lodge, OF
Massachusetts, and to the War De-
partment, representatives OF respon
sible firms In this city and New York
have protested vigorously against
the course OF that department while
yet under the direction OF Secretary
TAFT In taking steps to have the
khaki for the uniforms OF the soldiers
OF the army OF occupation in the
Philippines, as we'll as from the Philip
pine Constsbulsry, bought from
English manufacturers and made up
by cheap coolie labor In Manila, to
the exclusion alike OF American mills
and OF American wage earners.
For the last week, the President
and the various bureaus of the War
Department In Washington have
been bombarded by angry letters
and telegrams from firms represent
Ing the large mills. the commission
houses and she Government con-
tractors.
So serious has been the assault
that President Roosevelt himself has
taken an acute interest In the sub
Jet, fearing the effects OF such a
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09

tactical blunder in presidential !!
year upon the popularity OF the Taft
candidacy, and has given assurance
through the War Department thai
steps will we be taken Immediately
to correct any injustice that ma:
have been done to the America,
manufacturer and mill workers.
In a condensed form the charges
that now menace the Taft candidsc.
among American industrialists ar
substah tially that ever since Genera |
Leonard Wood has been in CON
mand lin the Philippines he has d
verified a large proposition of thc
quartermaster supplies contract
into foreign, and especially Int
British channels, and that Secretsrj
Taft has permitted him TO do 30 III
challenged; that during Genera |
Woods command In the Far Eas.
not less than million and q hall @
English. made khaki has been bought
In a mar et In which American mi !.
representatives and American con
tractors were not permitted to com
pete, and has been made into un.
forms for American soldiers AMI
Philippine constabulary by Chinese
coolle labor In the local Mamie
shops; that America mills ar
amply qualified to meet, both as t.
price and as to any and all grades Of
goods, the most aggressive compel
ton of their English rivals, provided
they be given fair opportunity to
do so; that to permit British frms
TO supply the campaign clothing icr
American soldiers and 30 have she
cloth made up into Uniforms BY
Chinese tailors and coolie labOrert
in un.Americsn and grossly incon-
sistent with the proiessed policies { ?
party and country that SUI
scribes to she doctrine OF the prote
tlon OF home industries and the ioss-
ering OF domestic trade.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
Teaching Of Agriculture in Oklahoma

The Oklahoma law requiring the
teaching of agriculture III the public
schools, it is claimed, places the new
state far in advance of any of her sis
ter states in this respect.
In addition to agriculture, the law
provides a system for teaching horti
culture, road-building, stock feed
ing and domestic sciences and
economies in the common schools
Secondary grade schools arc
provided for in each of the five SUI
preme judicial districts, two to be 10
Gated each year until all are estab
lished. Each institution is TO have
an S0-acre farm as an experiment sta
ton, and besides the regular work
short courses for the instruction OF
farmers are to be given each year
The district schools are TO cost s20
900 each and $4,000 per year is al
lowed for maintenance. Teachers are
to be instructed in agricultural topics
In the normal schools and the A. & NJ
College is to be the cap sheaf of the
system.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
TAFT PLAYS BALL.
Statesmen and Newspaper Men En-
gage In q Match Game.

Hot Springs, Va, July S.-William
H, Taft, Republican candidate for the
presidency, Monday distinguished
himself on the diamond where a game
Of baseball was played between the
statesman sojourning here and the
newspaper men who are endeavoring
to keep the public informed upon the
candidates daily actions.
The game was the result of the &C
tivity Of Senator Murray Crane who
has had long conferences with the
Republican candidate while here. Mr.
Crane had no sooner finished his
breakfast Monday than he began plan.
ming for a contest of skill between the
statesmen and the correspondents.
The game was holly contested, but
for some reason the correspondents
fell behind In their score and lost out
after eight innings, by score of IA
to IL. The correspondents went out
side Of their own members for sec.
ond baseman. placing Charlie Taft In
that responsible position. Charlie dis.
tinguished himself when his father
went to bat and struck the second ball
delivered to him. The ball went whiz.
zing toward the second base and II
looked as II It would give Mr.. Taft
a home run, but Charlie nipped his
fathers hopes by catching him out
The game was played on the local
ball grounds just after a heavy rain
and as the participants sprawled in
the mud in their frantic efforts to run
the bases, the entire party was rath
er the worse for wear when the eighth
inning had been played. Mrs. Taft
came out to see the game which was
witnessed by large number of spec
tators from the hotel.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
The Roosevelt Leaves New York.

New York, July S.-With the Peary
Arctic clubs pennant fiuttering from
her main truck and the stars and
stripes at the mizzen, the arctic ex-
ploration steamer Roosevelt left her
pier at East Twenty-fourth street Mon
day, carrying Commander Robert E.
Peary, who is to head another expe-
dition in quest Of the north pole. The
Roosevelt, accompanied by a govern
ment tug, proceeded to near City
Island where she anchored for the
night to permit the adjustment of her
compasses. Tuesday she will go to
Oyster Bay where President Roose'
welt will board her to bid goodbye to
her commander and crew.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
Why the Boys Leave the Farm.

s. A. Hover. of the Missouri state
normal school. gives some good rea-
sons why the boys leave the farm. He
says:
One reason is because our methods
of instruction in the country schools.
until very recently, all tend TO lead
the boy cityward Most OF his
text books are written by city people.
and many OF his teachers are brought
from the city 10 instruct him In city
ways. Captains of industry have been
held up before him as models, and
little or nothing has ever been done
to put him in touch and sympathy
with his country surroundings.
On the contrary he has been taught
that the country is good place to get
away from that. the city only could
supply his mental and bodily wants
to the full. Until recently We have
had no text books on the different
divisions of agriculture that have been
adapted to the needs Of the country
boy, and never word OF Instruction
from any OF his teachers upon the sub
ject. The idea with both country teach.
ers and country parents has often
been to get the children away to the
city where they would have better edu.
cational advantages
This is all wrong, but fortunately,
the country is waking up 10 the injus.
tice tha has been done and reforms
are being inaugurated in many places.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
An,oret.

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur avidson Vi
tied relatives 10 Kansas Uty las,
week.
VIII Winery, of Kansas City, vi--
tied here the last OF the week.
Mrs. r n. Msxey and children
have returned from q weeks visit IT,
Jamestown.
DR.. Brooks barn was struck by
lightning last week, bit no damage
was done.
Misses Alberta and Helen Strais,
Of Kansas City, are visiting their
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Strait.
Clyde Moore came IN rom bis teie.
phone work between Joplin and Par
sons to spend the 4tb with his wife
and baby.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
Henry Farman Wins.

Paris, July S.-Henry Farman Mon
day won the prize of $4,000 offered by
M. Armengued for the first aeroplanist
who remained In the air for Is min
utes. ME-. Farman succeeded in re-
naming in the air for 20 minutes and
90 seconds, covering a distance of Is
kilometers in that time.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
pleaded Guilty 10 counterfeitino.

Joplin, NO., July S.-W. c. Guild,
the counterfeiter who was arrested
and brought to Joplin for his prelimi.
nary hearing Monday, pleaded guilty
to three charges of counterfeiting and
two charges of passing counterfeit
money. In lieu of $4,000 bond he
was remanded to the Jasper county
Jail to await his trial before the fed.
eral court here.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
Farmers Educational
AND
COOPERATIVE Union
OF America
A Mature Greed.

l believe In the brook as IL wanders
From hillside into glade;
| believe in the breeze as it whispers.
When evenings shadows fade.
believe in the roar Of the river
As ii dashes from high cascade;
l believe in the cry of the tempest
Mid the thunders cannonade.
l believe in the light Of shining stars
l believe in the sun and the moon,
l believe in the fash of the lightning
believe in the night birds Groom,
l believe in the faith Of the flowers,
believe in the rock and sod,
For in all these appeareth clear
The handiwork Of God.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
pardoned bv President.

Leavenworth, Kan, July S.-Charles
8. Mccullough, formerly a first lieu
tenant in the regular army, serving a
term Of two years in the military
prison at Fort Leavenworth for IT.
regularities in the handling Of his COM
pany funds, was released Monday on
the receipt Of q pardon from Prest
hent Roosevelt
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
A Revolution in Honduras.

Managua, Nicaragua, July S.-News
has reached here that a revolution has
been started in Honduras by the
partisans of ex-President Bonilla. 1t is
also reported that the movement is
receiving support from Guatemalans
and Salvadoreans.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
kansan Killed by Lightning.

Emporia, Kan, July S.-George
Jones, "a years old, was struck by
lightning and instantly killed at bis
home Monday afternoon, four miles
southeast of Emporia. He is survived
by wife and infant daughter.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09

Kansas City. July s.-Eggs-Fresh.
17hc a dozen.
Butter-Creamery, extra. 2lc; pack
ing stock, 15hc.
Poultry-Springs, tic pound; hens,
shc; ducks, Sc; turkeys. lie.
Fruits-oranges, s3.ooG3.75; lemons.
S2.75d3.00.
Apples-New stock, Arkansas, 50@e5c
q third bushel box; home grown, 4095oc
q peck.
Potatoes - New southern, soasoc a
busheL
Green getables-Tomatoes. 5o6sec
crate; green onions dozen punches, $50
zoe; cabbage, 75c0sl.oo per cvt
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09

Have you a bed Of gravel or OF
coarse, sharp sand? If so then you
have material for much building. Con.
crete is more and more used, and those
who use 1t properly find II best mate.
rial. There is no need for expensive
machinery. Do not be led to make
costly investments In machines.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09

Milk quietly. cleanly, quickly and
thoroughly. Cows do not like un.
necessary noise or delay. Milk at
nearly the same hour each night and
morning. and milk the cows In the
same order.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09

Chicago, July S.-Close: Wheat-July,
SIC; Sept, ssc; Dec. s92c. Corn-July.
TIC; Sept. 72hc; Dec, 62bc. oats-July.
4S1kc; Sept, 41Sc; Dec, 4i%c.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
MARKET REPORTS.
Kansas City Live Stock.

Kansas City, July S.-Cattle-Receipts,
1850. The nominal range of prices Is
here shown:
Fancy fat steers. .......,.S S.00m SIS
Choina IN nrime dressed beef
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
Kansas City Cash Grain.

Kansas City. July S.-Close: Wheat
July, S4hc; Sept. s2hc; Dec, s4kc.
Corn-July, 71hc; Sept, 67Sc; Dec.
56hc.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
DICK

A fine Percheron Stallion, Z years
old, dark bay, good style and action,
will make the season OF 1908 at my
barn 8 miles due east OF Butler.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-07-09
BRIGHAM AND ROOSEVELT.

These two fine young Jacks, 16 land
Is hands high, full brothers, Brig
ham four years old in July and
Roosevelt 3 years in June, sired by
Elamo, will stand at the same barn.
Both jacks are broke for service.
TERMS:-$S for horse and $40
each this season only for jacks to In
sure q living colt. Money Is due
when colt is iosled, colt to stand
good for service. Care taken TO pre-.
vent accidents, but not responsible
should any occur.
0evvifi Mcdaniel.
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just a Minute, Please

Buying pair of any other shoes when you get
Royals is like walking ten miles with auto at your
disposal. Don't do il.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-06-06
NO SNAP JUDGMENT.

Recent events prove that what is
commonly known as the liquor ques-
ton will shortly confront the voters of
this state, and before the people be-
come subject to the excitement and
bitterness the campaign promises to
develop, there is plenty OF time for
calm. sane study of the question.
Narrowminded, indeed. is the nan,
either anti or pro- Liquor. who will I'M
hesitatingly state that there is only
one side to the question. There are
at least two and it is exceedingly prob
able that there are three or four sides
to it, and no voter. who has the best
interests of the community and state
at heart, should cast his ballot before
securing for himself all available data
on the subject and carefully consider
ing the effect his ballot will have.
In the study of this question. it must
not be forgotten that the saloons did
not grow up in a night and that it
is the body polite, rather than the sa-
loon men themselves. who are TODAY
responsible for their being
A wise parent will not be too quick
To punish the child who has erred
through the parents own negligence.
and in the fight against the saloon
evil, for evil it surely is, there must
be no thought of punishment, and no
thought of the ruthless destruction
Of property interests
There are men who have built I'D
big businesses under the license sys-
tenn now prevailing. The fact that
the saloon is an evil, does not alter
the fact that these businesses have
been built up under the protection Of
the Law. and that they are endowed
with all the legal rights which sur
round private property.
Many hold that the anti-liouor SEN
timent is predominant here. If this
IS so, care should be exercised that
there be no hysterical abuse of power.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-06-06
Weather Conditions.

Rain has continued over the no 'sh.
ern Rocky mountain region and the
Missouri valley. due 40 the disturbance
which has remained almost stat! )nary
ever the latter district during the past
"a hours. The rains were light in al!
sections except in western Montana.
Alberta and eastern Nebraska. The
Hest of a well defined high area & over
the New England coast, and fair
'. eatter generally prevails in the east
en- states. The ;ligh area off the
VIZ shington coaSi las remained sta
ti"nary and lost strength and the
weather conditions are somewhat un-
s-ttled in consequence. being favor
able for cloudiness and showers IN tt is
locality tonight and Sunday.
JOHN GROVER, Observer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-06-06
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

Copy for advertising should be in
the Business Office not later than 10
O'Clock a. m. to insure insertion on
that day.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-06-06

Graded on the other-if men could be SO
that the dividing line be-
tween the essentially bad and the es-
sentiallv good was plainly marked
there would be little doubt of the out
come Of any battle of the ballots.
Rut the fact remains that, save IN
exceptional instances where the moran
issue in politics was clearly defined, the
influence of that class of citizens who
take bride in calling themselves the
better element" has not been up to its
pre- election promises.
The reason for this weakness, is as
eribed by many to lack OF discern
ment on the part Of those who preach
civic righteousness, to a tendency too
often apparent to take a man for what
he pretends to be, rather than for what
he is known to be.
You can find many who will say that
the good citizen" has placed pre-
MUM on hypocrisy. that to receive the
support of the respectable element"
all that is necessary is to attend church
regularly and assume a "holier than
thou" attitude. although the man who
makes such pretensions may be gener-
ally known as a CRATER and a cor
ruptionist.
There are plenty of sane people who
do not believe that every regular
church goer is an honest man, nor that
every saloon keeper is criminal. There
been made easy of requirement. and
that. in consequence, its cloak is made
to hide many whose private and public
conduct would not have been condoned
in the days when the cross was heavier
This belief, more general perhaps than
the average churchman would suspect
has not lessened the respect for those
able and pure minded men and women
who are not Christians for revenue
only, but it has led to the conclusion
that there is an unmistakable tendency
on the part of the better element to
vote for a church. going man, even
though he may be suspected of being
a hypocrite. in preference to a non
church-goer, who may be known tc
be of unquestioned honesty, but who
may be the victim of personal habits
not condoned by the straighter-lacei
1t would appear that the first requi-
site of the much needed public servant
is absolute honesty; that the second is
ability Civic decency cannot exist or
mere pretensions. and the sooner the
so-called better element abandons its
"holier- than thou" attitude and re-
cognlzes that in politics, as in every
| thing else in our narrow sphere, pre-
ference must go by comparisons. th>
sooner will the higher standard n1
public service be reached and main
| tanned.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-06-06

graded officer back from the. island or
the prison where he had been confined,
pleaded guilty to miscarriage of JUS
tice. restored the Hebrew to the army,
of some other officers just to make him
feel that he hadn't been so badly treat
ed after all. All of which furnished col
umns and columns of copy to the
American newspapers.
had been printed we in America had
grown tired Of the Dreyfus case. News
heads. had run through the list from
the four column scare" down to the
skies and readers generally had be-
come accustomed to glancing at the
that the papers would print something
about somebody else besides that man
name is
Then came the much needed rest
and we all thought that DreyfuS would
keep clear of the news columns until
his retirement was announced in a tel
egraphic brief-one-line six-point head.
Maybe Dreyfus was willing to do this,
but those awful Frenchmen were not
and it's started again, with some col
| umns about an editorial crank drop
/ ping a couple of pieces of lead, hot
! from the mouth of a revolver, into
| MonSieur's right arm.
America is still ymrathizing-but
America is now sympathiZing with it
self for having to read the stuff.