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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10
Widower, 81, Looking For Wife,
Dimes Seventy-Slx Widows.

Portland, O'e., Dec W. { Brown,
known In the little town OF The
Dalles, Ore, where be lives, rs "Uncle
Billy" entertained seventy-six Wild
ows at a banquet. The number In
cluded all the widows, divorced or
made 30 by death, in his town and
the immediate vicinity. ls was
strictly an invitation affair, but IL
any were omitted is WAS by inadver'
tence.
"Uncle Billy" is q widower, and IL
looking for a wife. lie was 81 years
old, and celebrated the event by In
viting those he thought possible
candidates for that position.
The oldest OF his guests was 81 and
the youngest 25. He presided at the
banquet and called upon many ofth'
guests for toasts.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10

ness on she Pacific Coast; i am in
the business out there.'
These Instances of personal pecu-
MARY interest In she tariff favors
granted To private parties by Con-
gress certainly are not isolated cases.
These have merely cropped out' at
she hearings.
There have been examples OF an
other interesting practice. In Il
court Of justice il would be thought
strange II "A Judge Of the same or Il
co-ordinata court should descend
from she bench and address the
Judges In behalf Of private suitors,
Yet members OF Congress, the court
which must pass on the preliminary
findings OF the Ways and Means
Committee, appear before that com.
mittee 50 plead for private interests
in their districts. On November ID,
Stephen NJ, Sperkmsn, IA Representa-
sive from Florida, appeared and sd.
vocated the retention OF the present
duties On tobacco. Sometimes mem.
bers OF the coordinate body, the
Senate, appear.
ION November Is, Senator Hale,
OF Maine, member OF the Finance
ICommittee, which will deal with the
tariff In she Senate, appeared and
pleaded for no reductioni In the duties
ON starch and for duty on tapioca,
In the interest OF the starch manufac'
turers OF Maine.
Senator Buttons oiisnse was that
he violated the statute iorbiddinR
members OF Congress TO act as at
tornpys for private interests before
Government departments at Wash
ington. There is, as yet, no statute
iorbidding members to act as at
torpeys for private interests seeking
tariff fAvors, or preventing then
from passing officially, as Legislators
on she granting OF such favors &c
shemselves or those who help TO keel
them in office"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10
One of Thousands of Homes.

Mrs. FLORENCE ATHENS, 400 Srd
1V1 St., Toledo, Ohio, writes: "Peruna
cured me of internal catarrh. l took
about four bottles when noticed the inn
provement and the fifth bottle cured me.
al do not know what | would have
been like today had not got Peruna,
for was in terrible state. had pains
all over and was cross and irritable.
was losing hope of ever being well
again, and was downhearted. / am to-
day cured woman, after suffering for
nine months.
81 cannot tell you how happy l feel,
but you will know. / never heard of
such medicine; it is the best medicine
on earth. My husband is now taking
it. | will always keep Peruna in my
house. Peruna is the best friend ever
had. 1t must be praised; it cured me-"
Pe-ru-na Tablets.
For two years DR.. Hartman and his
assistants have labored necessarily to
create Peruna in tablet form, and their
strenuous efforts have just been crowned
with success. People who object to
LIQUID medicines can now secure Peruna
tablets.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10
Hawkins For Stone.
Dunklin G ounty Democrat.


Hon. C. P. Hawkins, member OF
the Legislature. elect, from Dunklin
County, wants IL understood that he
stands pledged to vote for the nomi.
nee OF bis party for Senator, VIM. j.
Stone. He was for Gov. Folk at the
election, but is now for the nomi-
nee. And more, II desired, he will
make the speech placing Senator
Stone before the Legislature for re-
election.
This is by authority, and Is plain
enough for even the Post Dispatch
or Globe Democrat to understand
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10
Leather Shoes For Horses.
From the Boston Advertiser.

From the Boston Advertiser.
A French inventor has been trying
to solve she horse shooting problem
He produced a horseshoe OF leather
which is secured TO the hooi by q
mixture OF cement and asphalt. Sue
cessfuI trials OF the device are said to
have been made 10 Paris. Horsemen
will be skeptical. The iron shoe is
not satisfactory, but has never yet
been improved upon.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10
Another Home
Where Pe-ru-na Is Used.

MFRS. MARIA GOERTZ, Orients,
lV1 Oklahoma, writes: "My husband,
children and myself have used your
medicines, and we always keep them
in the house in case of necessity.
81 was restored to health by this
medicine. People ask about mo from
different places, and are surprised that
l can do all Of my homework alone,
and that l was cured by the doctor Of
chronic catarrh.
"My husband was cured of asthma,
my daughter of earache and catarrh of
the stomach, and my son of catarrh of
the throat. When was sick weighed
one hundred pounds; now / weigh one
hundred and forty. Pcruna quiets the
nerves, and is a great specific for all
forms of chronic catarrh."
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10
How The Tariff COTTuptS.

Jesse F. Orion. secretary OF the
Tariff Reform Committee II the New
York Reform Club, appeared btfore
she Ways and Means Committee 80
urge revision 81 the schedules dowI-
ward. His impressions OF she COM
nit tees attitude and OF the persons
who appeerti before 1t are not wish.
)ut interest.
"ls has sometimes been said tnat
the productive system has been the
greatest currupting Influences in the
history of our national Govern
nent," remarked Mr.. orion. ANY
one attending these tariff hearings
couli hardly fail 80 get new light on
she possibilities In that line. Ex
Representative Nj. L. Rhodes, OF Mis-
souri,, appeared on November / and
urged tan Increase OF the duty on
crude barytes from Is cents TO IS
per ton. Mr.. Rhodes read one oi his
own letters, in which he had said; Il
have personal knowledge OF the
situation, because am interested In
the mining OF bsrytes' He said 80
the committee: when Twas In Con.
gress introduced a bill In the Fifty.
ninth Congress which sought to.tix II
specific duty OF IS ton on crude
ore, because l believed at that time
that that would give US ample pro-
lection
"In the present stage OF evolution
OF public morals, In most city coun.
ellis a member pecuniarily interested
In a contract TO be awarded by the
council is not ellowed to vote upon
it, and in many cities members are
absolutely forbidden to have any
personal interests In such contracts
But In Congress members not only
introduce and vote on bills iol
tariff isvors in which they IRE pecu
niarly interested, but they vote FOL
other members bills In return io'
votes Tor their own
"On the same date ID s. Alexander
now q Representative from the But
iialo, N. Y, district, appeared befor
a committee on behalf OF the School
kopi, Hartford, Hanna CompHn.
and pleaded for a higher duty III
apiline dyes. He did not stat
whether be was pecuniarily interest
ed In the company, but repeated,
used such expressions az our plant
. our product, give U.S. etc.
Representative Fordney, oiMich
!, gan, il one of the nineteen member
of the Committee on Ways IN
Means who will frame tariff bill, |
, which he present duties on lumbe
"a will be left, rnised or reduced. pu'
Ia ing the herring on the lumber schec
l. ule Mr.. Fordney saii, while examiI
\. ing witness: 81 b ave been In 81
~ lumber business ever since ! was
Il boy Later he said. referring (
"a lumber manufacturing: Il am in 81
,f manufacturing business In the SousI
r. in the State OF Mississippi; AM
again, referring to the lumbE bus
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10
This is Worth Reading.

Leo +. Zalinski, OF 6S Gibson St &,
Buffalo, y Y, says: 81 cured the
mos. annoying cold sore ever had,
with Bucklen's Arnica Salve ap
piled this salve once a day for two
days, when every trace of the sore
was gone" Heals all sores. Sold
under guarantee as Frank L. Clay's
drug store. 25c
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10

der by adding a teaspooniul oilemon
Juice 50 the water In which Is is boil.
ed
10. Slices OF lemon garnish fish OF
Ill description.
20. Tea IL greatly improved 10y
the addition OF n slice OF lemon
either iced for summer use, or ~ Rus
sian ten on cold winters day.
In buying lemons, selecl shose hav-
Ing a thin, dry rind-these are cheap.
err and are much jucier than she fresh
plump ones.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10

Kodol Is made of natural digestive
juices found In a healthy stomach,
and Il digests all food completely.
Kodol is pleasant to take, and is
guaranteed to give relief in any case
Of stomach trouble. Sold by G. W.
Hess.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10

DeWitt's Carbolised Witch Hazel
Sslve. Best salyeior burns, scratches
and hurts. II is especially good for
piles. Sold by c. W. Hess.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10

Awarded highest honorS by the
great Worlds ExpoSitionS, and
proved of superior strength and
purity by the official tests,
No alum, no lime phosphates
Food officials, state and national,
NTH physicians, condemn the use
of alum in food, and deplore and
denounce the dishonest methods
by which alum baking powders
are imposed upon the public.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10

Take DeWitt's Kidney and Blad.
der Pills. They are antiscpsic and
soothe the pain quickly, Insist upon
DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills.
Regular s'zn soc. Sold here 10y {. W,
Hess.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10

It's said shat Evelyn Thn9 has
become re- reconcilcd so her husband,
Harry. Wonder what she does wish
all her money, anyway ?-SprluCtieid
Republican.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10

Ii is reported shat Washington
friends will labor Tor Csbinet place
for John Hays Hammond, the mil
lionaire mining engineer IL II 10 be
hoped that they will be able 80 make
more noise than the friends who had
charge OF the Hammond vlce-presl-
Dental boom At she Chicago conven.
t!on. -Sedali8 Democrat.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10

Frank G. Harris, Prosecuting At
torny OF Boone county, sees no way
Of convicting IA doctor OF writing He
gal whisky prescriptions unless she
patient can testify that he asked for
whisky and was given prescription
without an examination being made
or any questions being ssked, and
further, shat the patient did not 20
to the doctors office with the inten-
sion of getting she doctor TO write
an illegal prescription 80 be used in
prosecution -Moberly Monitor.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10
Missouri Press.

Carrie Nation Is now sailing across
the brine for Scotland. The sight W
the compassless water must be \
healing one to her --CarthAko Demo
crat.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-12-10

Isis reported that Anua Gouliwas
once kidnapped by - French bnrberat
III Paso, Tex. Since then she has
been doing little kidnapping on her
own account among Frenchmen.-
st. Joseph Gazette
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
OREGON ITEMS.

Henry Derrick, aged "a years, a
pioneer of the Walla Walla valley,
died at the home of his brother, James
Derrick of Ferndale, recently.
The recent primaries resulted in the
nomination for the candidacy for
United States senator on the republic
an ticket of Henry M. Cake of Port
land by over 5000 majority over United
States Senator Charles w. Fulton, and
on the democratic ticket of Governor
George E. Chamberlain, whose nomi-
nation was unopposed.
An extraordinary wedding was
solemiized in Astoria recently, when
the daughter of G. w. Carnahan, the
late collector of customs, was mar
ried to Harry Behauna in the presence
of the remains of Mr.. Carnahan as they
lay in the casket. The wedding had
been set before the illness of her
father, and not desiring to postpone
the date they were married.
Four men supposed to be hoboes
were arrested at Umatilla recently
while robbing a box car. They were
taken to the county Jail at Pendleton.
The thirteenth annual reunion of the
Umatilla County Pioneer association
will be held in Weston May %. 20
and 80.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
MONTANA NOTES.

bunch of hobo miners en- route
from the Nevada mining samps to
Butte seized an Oregon Short Line
freight train at Red Rock, Mont, 27
of them taking possession of box
car and defying the train crew to eject
them. 1t was either a case of the
freight suspending operations or car
rying the destitute miners north, and
the train proceeded on to Dillon, about
so miles distant, where the police. I'M
der instructions from the railway Off
Gals, captured the hoboes. After a.
hearing the miners were ordered to
clear out of Dillon.
Five hundred farms in eastern Mon
tana and in North Dakota, the prop
erty of the Northern Pacific Railroad
company, will be placed on the mar
ket soon and sold only to actual set
tiers. Farm units are to be of such
size as to allow of sufficient pastur-
age for small bands of stock.
The Montana State Brewers associ-
alton has elected the following officers
for the ensuing year: President, Hen
ry Mueller; vice president, T. j. Ner-
ney; secretary, Charles Kesseler. The
next convention will be held at Bill
lings.
Holding that it is the duty of parents
to safeguard their children when in
known places of danger, the supreme
court has reversed the decision of the
district court of Silver Bow county in
the suit of Harrington versus the
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific railway.
which had awarded damages for in
jury to child. Unattended children
in such places is defined as prima
facie negligence, a new principle so
far as Montana courts are concerned,
the matter having been left to the
jury.
Timothy Reardon, against whom suit
was entered some time ago by his al
legged wife, in order to compel him to
recognize her as such, filed a sensa-
tional answer in the district court at
Billings to the allegations set forth.
Reardon declares that he signed a mar
rage contract at the point of a re-
volver and under threat of immediate
death in case he refused to attach his
name to the document. He further
declares that the woman, who claims
to be his wife, has never secured a
divorce from Charles Ayres, to whom
she was married before she signed
the marriage contract mentioned.
Reardon admits that he and the wom-
an resided in Nevada together.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24

ers are giving up this industry Last
year Kendrick shipped $4,000 bushels
of beans, for which the buyers paid
$250,000. While it is early for an esti-
mate the acreage will be reduced 20
per cent.
Much interest has been aroused by
the announcement that the work of
alloting the lands of the Occur d'Alene
Indian reservation preparatory to
opening the reservation to white set
tlement has begun. The reservation
contains 100000 acres of land, of which
probably 100000 acres are agricultural
land of the best quality The remain
ing 100000 acres are timbered and a
portion mountainous and rough. Some
of this land is covered with heavy
timber of great value. Other lands
are covered with smaller timber and
dense underbrush, while other portions
have fine timber scattered over them,
with no underground, and the trees
are large and straight, but they are
wide apart. There are about 600 In
dams on the reservation and each of
these is to have 160 acres of land with
out regard to age or sex. That means
that the Indians are to have first
choice of $4,000 acres of the land. The
park, if reserved, will take $500 acres
more
Robert Munro, aged 10, was captured
while robbing the till in Mike Makers
saloon in Wallace.
The success of the Farmers Educa-
tional and Cooperative association is
somewhat surprising, as the new or
der has taken the ranchers by storm
and they have flocked to join, until
Idaho promises to become a factor in
the national organization.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
IDAHO EVENTS.

The trustees of the First Presby-
terrain church of Moscow have received
a promise from Andrew Carnegie that
he will donate 1925 toward liquidating
the expense incurred by the installa-
ton of the new pipe organ in the
church.
To ascertain how many Indian chill
dren are attending white schools on
Nez Perez reservation, Indian Agent
o. H. Lipps will canvass the schools
and report to the department, which is
completing tabulations. Commission
er Francis Leupp wants Indian chill
dren to attend white schools, as he
thinks by so doing the young redskins
will lose their tribal habits.
Indian corn is likely to supplant
beans on American ridge. That bean
buyers will not contract the crop in
advance is the main reason the farm
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
news OF The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western HemIspheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

James Lally, charged with murder,
was burned to death in fire that de-
stroyed the Seneca, Kas., Jail recently.
The prisoner is believed to have set
fire to his bed with suicidal intent.
The president has sent in the nomi-
nation of Lawrence o. Murray of New
York as comptroller of currency, vice
William Ridgley, of Illinois, who re-
signed to accept the presidency of a
Kansas City bank.
Lieutenant General Linevitch. aide
de camp to Emperor Nicholas, and
former commander in chief of the Rus
sian army in Manchuria, is seriously
Ill with pneumonia.
Application for the appointment of a
receiver for the Odell Brokerage com
pany, one of the largest concerns of
the kind in Cincinnati, has been made
in the state court.
1t now virtually is assured that Chi.
cage is to have a new 20-story hotel.
1t is to be located at the northwest
corner of Michigan avenue and Hub
bard court, and is to be called The
~SAGSAAoSOhC5 dLICl lIlC lcilt llulOlIy Is.
Blackstone, for many years president
of the Alton railroad, whose old home
stead it, will occupy.
President Roosevelt states that he
will oppose any bill providing COM
mission to consider the subject of
amendments to the Sherman antitrust
law.
With telephone, telegraph and rail-
road service almost completely sus-
pended for two hours Friday night, the
center of the worst wind and rain
storm ragged over north Texas that has
been seen in many years.
Former Postmaster General Don M.
Dickinson of Detroit, who held the
portfolio under President Cleveland,
has gone to sanitarium at Flint,
Mich, accompanied by his family, to
recuperate from nervous breakdown.
He was taken ill with nervous prostra-
ton about six months ago and has
since been suffering acutely.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
PERSIAN FRONTIER IN TURMOIL
Russia Lands Troops to Protect Her
RIGHTS.

Tiflis.-The situation on the Persian
frontier arising from the activity OF
marauding Kurds has not materially
improved. The Persian bandits again
concentrated in force yesterday and
renewed their attack against Belesu-
var. The Russians countered with
energy, and their artillery bombarded
several villages in which the brigands
had taken refuge. The Russian COM
mander has orders to dispense and
entirely wipe out the bands.
The foreign office at st. Petersburg
is keenly interested in Russia's little
frontier war in Persia. 1t is the first
occasion to raise for the active appli-
cation of Russias rights under the
Anglo-Russian agreement to endeavor
to preserve order in northern Persia.
The operations themselves are consid-
cred of minor Importance, and they
will quickly come to an end as soon
as the subsistence of floods permit the
movement of Russian detachments.
Russia counts upon the support of
Great Britain and no interference by
any other power
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
GETS SIGHT AFTER 80 YEARS
Blind From Early Childhood, Today
is Cured by German Oculist-Adept
With the Braile Notation.

Blind from her early childhood, Miss
Alice Hollis, who is now about 40
years old, journeyed alone all the way
from Port Huron, Mich, to Wiesbaden.
Germany, and her courage has been
rewarded by the recovery of her sight.
She has just undergone a successful
operation at the hands of Professor
Pagenstecher, an eminent oculist.
Of peculiar interest is the story of
Miss Hollis aff1iction and of her brave
venture across land and sea. Losing
her sight when 10 years old, she was
educated in a school for the blind in
Michigan, and since her mothers
death, seven years ago, she has sup
ported herself by teaching music and
conducting a boarding house. When
she saved enough to go abroad, in the
hope of regaining her sight, she wrote
to Walter G. Holmes, manager of the
Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind.
in New York City, and solicited his
aid.
Mr. Holmes met her on her arrival
and took her to the Statendam, of the
Holland-American line, upon which
she had booked passage. Mr.. Holmes
took her to her stateroom and saw that
her baggage was properly disposed.
On every piece she carried, as WE'LL
as on her ticket, was slip of paper
containing Braille notation, so that
by a touch of the finger she could tell
what each was.
Before the ship departed Mr.. Holmes
also asked several women if they
would not occasionally look in on Miss
Hollis in her stateroom or walk about
with her on the deck, and her recent
letter to him shows they were kind.
ness itself.
IF they had been my sisters" she
for me. One of them even came and
roomed with me-" Continuing, she
writes:
81 have had an operation on both
eyes, and the doctor says l shall see
well with my right and some with my
left, and l can read by the aid of
glass all the letters on a card"
Il never saw a drawer women in my
life, to undertake this long journey
alone" said Mr.. Holmes, recently.
Her letter, you will notice, is written
with her own fingers in the Braille
She has been reader of
our magazine, and, like many others
afflicted, made it sort of in
formation bureau. Of course, we are
glad at all times to assist any one"
The Matilda Ziegler Magazine, which
IL. n
street, was founded and is maintained
Oy the widow of William Ziegler, who
was an arctic explorer, and is given
)y her to the blind of the United
States who can read.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
Men to Fight Wage Cut.

A federation of all the union men
employed in the shops of the Cana.
dian Pacific and the Canadian North,
ern railroads has been completed
They will fight the reductions in the
new schedule to finish. The com.
panies claim they are not going to
pay all of the men the same wages,
but will pay according to individual
worth. The same action, it is said
will be taken by all of the American
railroads. This is the beginning OF
big fight between all of the unions
and the railways.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-04-24
Unusual MaIady.

New York, April 24.-One of the rar-
est diseases known, yesterday caused
the death of Bonnie Hostelnek, IL
months old.
The baby bled- to death without any
blood leaving the body. This malady,
which was manifested by dark spots
all over the body, was Werlhoff's dis
ease, otherwise known as morbus mac
ulosis, or purpura acknowledged. The
black spot under the skin were caused
by the blood veins leaking, death re-
sulting when the heart had no blood
left to work on.