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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-15
Black & Arnold Clothing Co.


G. B. Power orders his paper
changed from Reno, New, to Quincy,
Cal.
Childrens $3.50 suits now $l,25
Joe Meyers.
Buffers popular barber, Alex. l..
Cameron, places us under renewed
obligations,
Mrs. Jno. NJ. Coleman returned
home from a visit to her sons in
Spruce township.
Mems $1,000 suits now $500
Joe Meyers.
A bolt of lightning killed valuable
horse and a hog for Carl Decker,
northeast of Butler last week.
G. A. Knight, the popular carrier
on Butler No. 2, called and had his
name enrolled for The Times.
This year trade with us.
Black & Arnold Clothing Co.
Clyde Mcfarland purchased four
mules from Jesse Smith, of Summit,
on Monday, for which he paid 5000.
One lot straw hats worth 75c and
$l.OO now 25c Joe Myers.
Miss Goldie Hoke, who had been
visiting Miss Sallie Hayes, returned
to her home in Kansas City on Mon
day.
Boys $500 suits now $3.50
Jee Meyers.
Will Barnhardt had a valuable
horse gored to death by vicious cow
with young calf, the first of the
week.
Wear Douglas "Gilt Edge" shoes.
Black G. Arnold Clothing Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dowell Ray, of Urich,
came down the first of the week to
visit.with John Rays family and 9th.
err relatives.
so mems suits half price
Joe Meyers.
Mrs. Stella Miller and daughter
came down from Kansas City the first
of the week to visit her sister, Mrs.
Will Nix.
100 boys knee pant suits half price
Joe Meyers.
Circuit Clerk and Mrs. T. D. EN-
bree drove out to Spruce township
Sunday to spend the day with D.
Teeter.
Wear only High Art" clothes.
Black & Arnold Clothing Co.
Elder L. L. Wix, of Deep Water,
was in Butler Monday after coal fol
the thresher, which was to begin or
his wheat at once.
Oxfords and straw hats big cut
Black & Arnold Company.
Mrs. j. B. Walton returned home
Sunday from three weeks visit tt
friends at Hobart, Okla. Brown me-
her at Kansas City.
G. w. Cowley, one of Elkhar
townships substantial citizens ane
unwavering Democrats, was a bust
ness caller on Monday.
A card from ex-sheriff D. A. Colyel
of Nebraska, says he will try and pa!
a visit to his old friends in Bate
county this summer or fall.
Wanted, girl for general house
work, enquire of Mrs. Bert Allen.
Deputy District Grand Master, j
E. Dowell, of Adrian, installed tn
newly elected officers OF Bates Lodg
$50 l. o. o. F. on Monday evening.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1909-07-15

one was injured, but traffic on a
three-block-wide strip through the
city is at a StandStill.
The wind laid fields n grain flat. 1t
was followed by a deluge of rain.
COnvicts Aid in Saving Wheat
Crop.
jefferson City, Mo-, July ll,-Con-
victS from the Missouri State Peniten-
tiary were worked in the Galloway
bottoms here to-day helping farmers
save their wheat from the advancing
waters of the Missouri River.
All night last night and until late
this evening men and teams worked
in the fields that were not too badly
submerged, saving what wheat they
could. Warden Andrae, of the Peni-
Tertiary, sent all the teams at the
command OF the State, and negro con-
victS, under guard, to aid the farmers
in saving their wheat.
The convicts worked well and saw
ed several thousand dollars worth of
grain. Every team and every man
and boy who could be employed was
buSily engaged last night and to-day
until late in the evening, when the
advance of the river drove them out
of the fields.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
CHINESE COMMISSIONER HERE
WILL PREPARE REPORT ON VA
RIETY OF TOPICS.
Baron Liang Sent by His Sovereign
to Investigate Finance and
Governmental Reforms.

Baron IIiang Kuei, son Of the late emil
nent grand secretary, Jung-lu. and broth
er-in-law of his imperial highness the
Prince Regent of China. arrived in Wash
ington this morning at 1O:35 O'Clock over
the Pennsylvania railroad.
Baron Liang is imperially commissioned
to investigate and report upon topics
connected with government, government
reforms, finance and other subjects of
present Importance to China. He is ac-
companied by the following gentlemen:
Sung Shan. a secretary Of the imperial
household, and Chang Hung-nien, ex-
pectant subprefect.
The party was met in the President 8
suite at the Union station by Percival
Heintzeman, representing the Department
Of State. Mr.. Heintzleman is connected
with the division of far eastern affairs in
the Department of State, and was for
merly in the foreign service in China.
Escorted to Hotel by Police.
The party, surrounded by mounted po-
lice, was escorted from the station to the
its sojourn in Washington, which will
probably be for three or four days.
Tong Kuo-an a member of the board
of foreign affairs at Pekng, is also in
Washington, with the Chinese students,
fifty-twO in number, who have just ar
rived in the United States. These stu
dents are supported out of the fund rep
resenting the portion of the indemnity
growing out of the Boxer disturbances In
China in 1900. and remitted by this
government last year. Tong is Chinese
director of these and other Chinese stu
dents who will be sent to the United
States annually during the next thirty
wears
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
DEFINITE PLAN OF STUDY.
President Buffers Comment on the
College Elective System.

NEW YORK. November 15.-President
Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia. In
his annual report to the trustees. offers
the following comment on the elective
system. which, first applied by former
President Eliot Of Harvard. has infiu-
enced In some degree the curricula of all
American universities.
THE free elective system has broken
down wherever IL has been tried. 1t is
now everywhere to be superseded by a
definite and controlled plan of study.
which will not attempt to fit one curric-
ulum to every student. but which, rather
will make as many curricula as there are
students. that each may satisfy his own
intellectual needs and receive the train
ing which II is best for him to have
while having his own individuality stud
led and respected"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
UPH0LDS ACT OF 1906
Employers Liability Law Is
Constitutional Here
AND IN THE TERRITORIES
Supreme Court So Holds in Opinion
Rendered Today.
DECISION MOST IMPORTANT
Secretary Moseley Of Interstate Com
merce Commission Pleased With
Decision-Explains the Case.

The United States Supreme Court to-
day held the employers liability act of
June IL. 1905. to be constitutional in its
application to the District of Columbia
and the territories. A previous decision
OF the court had declared the act invalid
in respect to interstate commerce be-
tween the states.
The decision today was handed down
by Mr.. Justice Day, and was on an ap-
peal from New Mexico in the case of the
Ell Paso and Northeastern Railroad Com
pany versus Gutierrez.
Congress Has Amended Law.
Secretary Moseley OF the interstate COM
merce commission was in the court when
the decision was announced, and after
the session expressed qualification over
the decision.
He explained that since the decision
of the court pronouncing the employ
ers' liability act unconstitutional as to
the states Congress had amended the
law to meet the objection of the court.
Today's decision makes the old act ap-
plicable to the District of Columbia and
the territories, and in connection with
the amended legislation secures to the
country. in his opinion, a safe employ
ers' liability act.
Decision by Justice Day.
Mr.. Justice Day in his decision said,
in part:
Coming to consider the statute in
the light Of the accepted rules OF con-
struction, We are OF opinion that the
provisions with reference to interstate
commerce. which were declared uncon-
stitutional, are entirely separable from
and in no wise dependent upon the
provisions Of the act regulating COM
merce within the District Of Columbia
and the territories.
Certainly those provisions could stand
In separate acts, and the right to regu-
late one class OF liability In no wise de-
pends upon the other. Congress might
have regulated the subject by laws ap-
plying alone to the territories, and left
to the various states the regulation of the
subject-matter within their borders as
has been the practice for many years.
The Intent Of Congress.
Bearing in mind the reluctance with
which this court interferes with the ac-
ton Of a coordinate branch Of the gov
ernment, and it's duty no less than its
disposition to sustain the enactments of
the national legislature except in clear
cases of invalidity, we reach the con-
clusion that in the aspect of the act now
under consideration the Congress pro-
ceeded within its constitutional power and
with the intention to regulate the matter
in the District of Columbia and terri
tories irrespective Of the interstate COM
merce feature of the act.
While not binding as authority in this
court we ma ynote that the act, so far
as il relates to the District of Columbia
was sustained in q well considered opin-
ion by the Court of Appeals Of the Dis
trict of Columbia in the case of Hyde VS.
Southern railway"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
Blythe President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation.

The OF the year has returned when i'll accord
established by OrefaheS
the people of the United States in their
usual places of worship day of thanksgiving appointed by
the Civil Magistrate return thanks God for the great
merces and benefits which they have enjoyed.
During this past year have been highly best. No
great caames of flood tempest epidemic sickness have
beaen us We have lived in quetness, undsurbed by
of Peace and the plenty of bouneous crops
and of great industrial production animate cheerful and
people all the renewed energies of benefcent in
dstry and material and moral progress is altogether fit
ting that should humby and gratefully acknowledge the
divine source of these blessings
Therefore, hereby appoint Thursday the 25h day OF
November day of general thanksgiving and call upon
the people that day. laying aside their usual vocatons
repair churches and unite appropriate services of
praise and thanks to Almighty God
In witness whereof l have hereunto my hand and
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done the city of Washington this 18th day of No
vember, in the of Lord, thousand nine hun
independence of the United States
the hundred and thirty-fourth
(SeaD WIN. II. TAFT.
By the President:
p. c. KNOX, Secretary of State
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
HUNT FOR BLACKMAILERS.
Posse on Watch for Men Who
Threatened Death.

YOUNGSTOWN Ohio. November 10
A posse of farmers and deputy sheriffs.
armed with shotguns and rifles, are
searching Coitsville township for a band
of blackmailers, calling themselves the
Royal Five" who have threatened death
to Charles w. Fitch, wealthy farmer.
his wife and four children. The farmers
stood guard all night Saturday about a
watering trough in the center of Colts
Vile, following the receipt by Fitch OF a
letter from the Royal Five, demanding
that he deposit $500 under the trough, on
penalty of death.
The posse. possibly because Of its num-
bers and conspicuity. caught no black
mailers, but the search continued yester-
day and last night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
Retired Bishop Dead in Galway.

Special Cablegram 10 The Star.
GALWAY. November 15.-Right Rev.
Francis Joseph MacCormick, until re-
Gently Roman Catholic bishop of GAL
way and Kilmacdaugh. is dead. He was
born in 1888 and was educated at st.
Patrick's College. Maynooth. He was
curate from 1862 until 1872. when he was
appointed coadjutor bishop OF Achonry,
and he succeeded to the bishopric In
1875. He was Bishop Of Galway and Kill
macdaugh from 1887 until his retirement
a short time ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
'Twould Be q Great Thing.
GOMPERS IS SILENT.
Mitchell Disapproves Proposed
Strike as Rebuke to Courts.

TORONTO. Ontario, November 10
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor declined today to
discuss the action of the Philadelphia
Central Labor Union favoring a two
week general strike throughout the
country as a protest against the i'm
prisonment of Gompers, Mitchell and
Morrison for contempt of court, the
strike to begin on the day the labor
leaders are imprisoned.
Vice President John Mitchell express
ed the opinion that the attitude Of or
ganized labor with reference to the SEN
fences imposed upon the federation's Of
ficers was already we'll known. II do
not think that the officers of interna-
tional unions or the delegates to this
convention would favor such a strike
as is proposed by our good friends in
Philadelphia, he added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
PLAN GREAT NATIONAL STRIKE
SILENCE RESOUNDING II
THREE LEADERS GO TO JANL.
Central Labor Union of Philadelphia
Unanimously Adopts Resolution
to This Effect.

PHILADELPHIA. November 15-By
resolution Of the Central Labor Union,
unanimously adopted yesterday, every
union wage worker in Philadelphia will
go out on a two-week strike IL Samuel
Gompers. John Mitchell and Frank Nor
rison. officers of the American Federation
of Labor. are put in Jail for contempt of
court In posting stove company as
unfair
All Asked to Join.
The federation. now in session in Toron-
to. will be asked to extend the local
movement into nationwide strike IL the
three officers go to prison, and every
union In the country. through it's ma
tional headquarters, will &c invited to join.
Non-union men as well as organized labor
will be asked to give point to the protest
by refusing TO work.
H. c. Parker, delegate of the Cigar
makers Union, offered the resolutions
and was the only speaker on them. 1T
may be year or SO before all this hap
pens" said Parker, but now is the time
10 prepare. Let every man put by a
quarter or 30 cents week from this time
on. so as to be ready. Let him put few
bushels of potatoes and few sides of
bacon in the cellar.
'Twould Be a Great Thing.
1t will be a great thing to stop the
street cars for two weeks. 1t would be a
great thing to stop the railroads and the
factories for two weeks 1t would make
people think.
Some may say 1t would breed a revo-
luton. So be it. AS ii is, capital owns
the courts. If We don't get the right to
boycott, l want these men to go to jail
and then the issue will be raised Tor final
settlement"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
Carlisle's Condition Improves.

NEW YORK, November LEX -Secre-
tary of the Treasury John G. Carlisle,
who for several days past has been under
treatment for serious intestinal disorders
at st. Vincent's Hospital here, rested
comfortably through last night and his
condition, 1t was said at the hospital
showed considerable improvement this
morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
FIRE THREATENS RECORDS.
Blaze in Basement Of County Court
house in New York.

NEW YORK, November 15.-The work
of the higher civil courts was brought
to a standstill and the safety of county
records threatened when fire broke out
today I'm the basement of the county
courthouse, under the county clerks Of
flee. The big building in City Hall Park
was filled with smoke.
The blaze was confined to the base
ne,t roO:rs. where K started. L,uIcA
action was necessary. however. to keep
water from flooding the bulky exhibits
used in the trial of the American Ice
Company, which were piled on the floor
of an adjacent courtroom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
SAFE CRACKERS ON BROADWAY
WORK THEIR WILL CLOSE TO A
POLICE SIGNAL BOX.
And Thirty Feet From Throngs on
Great White Way-Use Nitro
glycsrin, Too.

NEW YORK. November IA select
party Of burglars held a little soiree.
beginning at midnight Saturday. at
Broadway and 37th street. apd in two
hours they had "jimmied" two heavy
wooden doors of the Regal shoe store.
with a six-inch scantling and a
sledge BANNED. drilled holes in a three
ton safe, blew up the same safe with
q heavy charge Of nitrogiycerin and
finally carried OF as booty more than
$4,000. This corner at 37th street Is
one of the busiest in the Great White
people pass IL.
Police Box Nearby.
Although the iron door is guarded by
police signal box and is not thirty
feet distant from the bright lights and
passing thousands of the Great White
Way" the anvil chorus sung by the
sledge hammer and the cool safe wreck
ers found no answering echo in the
ears of the police. Undisturbeds and
quite at peace. the band worked on, and
they must have been an hour battering
dow the faithful iron portals.
Once they had stepped across the
threshold of the last door the burglars
made short work Of the safe. 1t was a
generous charge Of nitroglycerin the
safe crackers used after drilling holes
in the doors of the safe. for the stains
Of the explosive were spattered all
over the ceiling and walls.
Steel Drill Only Clue.
The burglars had taken the precau-
ton to turn the huge steel mass COM
pletely around, so that its back faced
Broadway, hiding them from public
view. In addition, they had pulled
down the shades. put out the lights and
plugged the keyholes Of the wooden
doors with plumbers wax. But they
left behind them a steel drill. and this
is the only clue the police have to
trace them by.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
Restoring West Indian Cables.

NEW YORK, November 15.-Com-
munication with the stormswept West
Indies Is being rapidly restored, and the
cable companies reported today that di-
rect communication has been re-estab-
lished with Kingston, Jamaica. the center
Of the recent storm. Lines of communica-
ton have again been opened with Haiti
and Santo Domingo.
Other points In the West Indies are
still cut Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
Kaiser to Visit England.

BERLIN. November 15.-The Ham.
burger Nachrichten states that Emperor
William and the empress will visit Eng
land next year. They will spend the time
with King Edward at SandringAam and
.WindSo0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15

Earth Shocks in Canary Islands.
ICOD, Teneriffe, Canary Islands. No
vember 15-Heavy earthquake shocks
were felt here yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
Weather:

Light rain this afternoon or
tonight. Tuesday fair and
colder.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-15
None Alive, Is Belief.
Company Will Bury Men.

The St Paul Coal Company. owner of
the mine. will provide for the burial of
the victims. President Earling early to-
day appointed a committee consisting of
Mayor Connolly. President Henney of the
local miners union, and W. W. Taylor.
Gontinued on Fifteenth Pa4e.l
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Continued on Tenth PagA)
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Houtinued on Fifteenth PaSe.l
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-03-19
MUST PRACTICE ECONOMY.

The conditions at the national CAPT.
toll reminds the writer of the Incom-
ing of the Cleveland administration,
when it was necessary to increase the
internal revenue tax On beer and
liquor, the tariff on the necessities
of life and issue bonds to cover a de-
felt in the treasurey and provide
funds with which to meet the expend-
itures of the government. The ex-
travagan-e of the last administration
was simply phenomenal, and the dear
people must grin and bear it. Bryan
certainly has reason to be thankful
that he was net elected, for had he
been, the conditions would have con-
fronted him the same as they did
Cleveland, ard he would have been
obliged to jump cross-legged, meraph-
speaking. 70 meet the condi-
tions which President Taft has in
herited from his predecessor.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-03-19
CLEVER ADVERTISING

Up at Madison the investigation
commission is still at work investIga-
ting a lot of empty charges made as
a campaign issue for future cam
pagin. Good money that comes from
the taxpayers of the state is being
spent to further the political ends OF
one small coterie of men, professional
politicians who seek office and its
emoluments, rather than serving for
the public veal.
Reform is costly in more ways than
one. Reform in laws often hits upon
strange features to work out the
benefits described by their advocates.
Too often they are too radical in
their nature and cause serious incon-
venience to industry by haupering the
business of large concerns.
Just at present reform has taken
the shape of purity. The men who
for years have gained their desired
goals by means of funds subscribed
by Senator Stephenson and other
wealthy men of the state, now seek
to make new capital by decrying the
use of money in political campaigns.
They hope to lead the deluded people
after another will O. the wisp fantasy
by new process. that will aid them
to carry on their plans for state re-
form whether the people will or no.
Madison Journal.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-03-19

but the insurgents" scared the old
man just little to keep him in good
humor. The insurgents" and DEM
ocrats, however, succeed in securing
the object tor which they fought-a
new and larger committee on rules,
named in a resolution adopted by a
majority of the members. The
adoption Of the resolution takes the
naming of the committees out of the
hands IF the speaker and hereafter
there will be greater latitude on the
floor for the members of that body,
who heretofore have been a the mercy
of the speaker. who could recognize
them or not, just as he pleased.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-03-19
TAKE TARIFF OFF LUMBER
AND HIDES

A large number of lobbyists backed
by wealthy corporations are at the
national capital working hard to induce
the committee having the revision of
the tariff under considera ton to re-
tain the tariff, at it's present rate on
lumber and hides. There is no reason
why there should be any tariff on
lumber for thu numbering corporations
have become rich beyond a dream of
averice by reason of the tariff, which
has made it possible for them to force
tribute from the people at the rate Of
81 to So per thousand feet of lumber,
an imposition most keenly felt by
the pour who have erected homes III
the cities and the farmers, who have
been exploited by the men who pre-
tend to sympathize with them, and
yet ROB them. AS to the tariff on
hides it il robbery pure and simple
an immense trust which each year
is making a few men enormously
wealthy. Every man or woman who
buys pair of shoes are compelled to
pay from IS to so cents more than
they would If hides were on the free
list and the cattle raiser would get
as much for his hides, but under the
system which obtains at the present
time, the trust buys all the cattle and
fix their own price for the same and
sell the hides at their own figures and
make large profits on both.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-03-19
PASSING OF DEMAGOGUFS.

Having primary election la and
civil service law in this state, { anks
to reform administration, is i rea-
sunable tn expect that men will do
political work without recompence :?
The ref0rmers, as has been proven by
the investigation now in progress at
Madison, multiplied the appointive
state office four or five times and
by peculiar System of their own. got
their friends passed by the civil SER
vice commission and at the proper
time sent them out to do political work
for refomers, their expenses being
paid out of the state treasury, the
people already over taxed cUntribut-
ing to the fund paid such question
able reforms. During the first and
second reform administrations there
were tweny four deputy game wardens
in the city of Milwaukee, drawing
salaries of So 90 per diem each, be-
sides expenses, to aid in the great
RETURN movement. If ever people
were politically and financially bun
coed, they are the people of Wiscon-
sin. but the light is breaking and it
is becoming more evident each day
that the end of farce and fraud is near
at hand and there will be a reckoning
one of these days, and the republican
party in the state purified by the eli
mination of demagogues, liars and
poIitIral bunco steerers.