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The Butler weekly times., 1915-09-09
$37, 1887, ,526 More Taxed in
Missouri.

Jefferson City, Mo-, Sept. s.
There is total increase in the
taxable. wealth of Missouri for
this year over last of $37, 1897,
526.31. This increase is divided
as follows:
Real estate and personal prop
erty, $34, 4,765,45s, and public SER
vice corporations, 3,122,O68.31.
The total valuation of real and
personal :. property for taxable
purposes this year is $1,658,587,- :
414, and the total Of the corpor-
ate property is $198,883, ,909.47
The. total taxable valuation of the
property in the State for this
year is 81, 1897 All, ,323.47.
This is the highest figure that
the assessment Of the State has
reached and the big total is in
the face Of the fact that in many
parts Of the State farm lands
that command a cash value Of
800 to $3.50 per acre are valued
for taxable purposes at from $40
to $40 per acre.
The Butler weekly times., 1915-09-09
u. s. To Prevent Builders
Sending Submarines Abroad

Washington, D. c., Sept. A.
Navy Department officials will
look into published reports that
10 American built submarines
have crossed the Atlantic under
their own power and are now
with the allied fleets.
Secretary Daniels has been as
sured that the foreign submar-
ines being built at Quincy will
not be delivered during the war.
He expressed the belief today
that it would even be violation
of neutrality for the constructor
to knock them down and reas-
semble the parts in another coun-
try.
Quincy, Mass, Sept. 4.-Offi-
GERS of the United States Navy
will be detailed on board the ten
submarines recently constructed
at the yards of the Fore River
Ship Building Corporation for
the British Government, after
the boats leave the ship yard.
The Butler weekly times., 1915-09-09
4, 1000 q. 3. TROOPS
MAsSED ON BORDER
Washington Fears Reprisals
Against Mexicans May Re-
suit From Raids.

Washington, D. c., Sept. g.
Grave concern was evidenced
here today in the War and Navy
departments over the situation
on the Mexican border. Secre
taries Garrison and Daniels re
mained at their desks most of the
day, although all other govern
mental departments enjoyed 8
holiday.
Officials do not attempt to
conceal the fear that the depre.
dations of Mexican bandits may
result in a clash, between the for.
ces of Gen. Carraliza and the
American troops under Maj. Gen
Funston in the vicinity OF
Brownsville and Laredo.
Brownsville, Tex, Sept. g.
The disposition of troops in the
Brownsville section continued to.
day. By mid-week there will be
1000 men, cavalry, infantry and
artillery, signal and aero corps,
in this district, a command large
enough, it is hoped to exert suf-
ficient moral force to make the
use of physical force unneces-
sary in maintaing quiet in the
border counties with their 10 per
cent Mexican population.
The troops are patrolling a ter
ritory nearly the size of Maine,
which contains one city, Browns
vile. 1t is a country without
roads, except near the small
towns. Great spaces are covered
with brush traversed by trails
that only experienced guides. can
follow. Nearly everything in
this brush bears thorns, some Of
which pierce leather. Most of
the guides who know these trails
are Mexicans, and with few ex-
ceptions, neither army officers
nor State and county officials
know whether these Mexicans
are loyal American citizens or
friends of the bandits and revolu-
tionists.
Brownsville, Tex, Sept. g.
The new seventy-ninth District
Court held it's first sitting today
at Rio Grande City, about 100
miles up the river from here.
Some of the attorneys who at
tended court from the old coun-
ties said they were carrying a
law book in one hand and a pis-
tol in the other.
The Butler weekly times., 1915-09-09
Mob Attempts to Lynch Negro.

Bowling Green, Mo-, Sept. L.
A mob of several hundred farm
ers, having been outdistanced by
sheriff's party in an automo-
bile race from Elsberry to Bowl
ing Green, surrounded the Pike
county Jail here tonight and
threatened to lynch Harrison
Rose, a negro accused of murder.
A speech by Prosecuting At
torney McGinnis, urging the mob
to allow the law to take it's
course, calmed the men for
awhile and they dispersed. Lat
er the mob formed again and
late tonight threatened to break
into the Jail.
Rose, it is charged, killed Dud-
ley Davidson, a member of a
threshing party, yesterday when
Davidson asked the negro to
"pitch a little slower. Rose es-
capped and was caught in thick
ct near Elsberry by sheriff's
posse late today.
As soon as the farmers posse
heard of the negro's capture the
race began. Forty machines
filled with farmers sped after the
sheriff's automobile, in which the
negro was prisoner, but the sher-
iff had gotten a start of several
miles and so reached the Jail here.
a few minutes before the mob.
According to eyewitnesses,.
Rose stabbed Davidson to- death
with a pitchfork.
The Butler weekly times., 1915-09-09
Young Farmer Mentally
Unbalanced.

Thursday afternoon a phone
message was received in Rich
Hill that John F. King, a young
farmer living about three miles
northwest of that city, had be-
come mentally deranged. Joe
Baker, Constable Thomas and
Marshal Bankson went to the
King home to place him under
arrest.
King on learning that the off.
GERS were after him armed him.
self with a razor and defied the
officers to take him without a
warrant. His mother pleaded
with the officers not to use force
and they returned to Rich Hill
and Friday morning accompan-
led by Justice of the Peace
Stangel with a warrant they
again went to the King farm af-
ter him. He was found in the
field at work where the warrant
was read to him and he was in
duced to accompany the officers.
He was brought to Butler by
Joe Baker, Gus Seelinger, Con-
stable Thomas and Buford Baker
and placed IN jail TO await the
action Of the County Court.
The Butler weekly times., 1915-09-09
HUN01R K1ILuG0 10 IN
A DAY u MEXICO CTTY
Hundreds Fleeing From Capital
In Fear Of Starvation and
Attack BY Garza's
F0fCeS:

New Orleans, La, Sept. 81
Hundreds, Of refugees from Mex
leo City are flocking to Vers
Cruz to escape starvation and
what they declare will be a new
crisis, according to advices from
the Carranza capital.
The last party of refugees to
reach Vera Cruz, August L.
when the report was dated, said
Rogue Gonzales CARA, one-time
Conventionist President, with O..
800 men, and Juan Banderas and
Lagos Chazarro, each with strong
forces, were reported marching
ION the city and were near enough
to make an attack on Pablo Con
zales.
Speaking of famine conditions
in Mexico City the report said
that about so persons were dying
of starvation there daily.
The Red Cross representative
there is giving out rations to
about 100000 persons a day, it ID
said.
The International Relief Com
mittee is doing everything in it's
power to assist him, but the Car
ranzista authorities are making
no adequate effort to relieve the
situation with regard to food
supplies and the available guam
tity Of corn and beans is SO limit
ed that it is impossible for the
Red Cross Society to supply the
necessaries of life in sufficient
quantities to prevent many
deaths from starvation.
The Red Cross has food sup
plies at Toluca that would feed
the starving of Mexico City for
several days, but Gonzales has re-
fused permission for the sending
of these foodstuffs into the capt.
tai.
There are about 2,70O Ameri-
cans in Mexico City who have
organized a Defense Committee,
with about 1000 rifles and about
$4,000 rounds Of ammunition.
The organization is complete in
every detail, and is prepared to
defend itself to the utmost in the
event of a rising among the ma
tives or an attack on the homes
of foreigners.
All foreigners there have
agreed to stand together in the
event of. trouble and refuse to
give, up their arms to the author
tiles.
The Butler weekly times., 1915-09-09
Womans Missionary Union Meets
at Amsterdam.

The Woman's Missionary Un-
ion of the Butler Baptist Asso.
citation met in annual session at
Amsterdam Wednesday, August
25th, 1915.
Reports from societies showed
Adrian and Butler making nine
points out of ten each from the
standard of excellence. Rich
Hill made six points.
A new society reported at Mer-
win. Hume reported their great
loss by the death of their presi-
dent, Mrs. Ligget. Passaic wo-
men had given a missionary So
cial and contributed to the vari-
GUS missions.
Officers for the Association w.
M. u. were elected for ensuing
year.
President, Mrs. Carrie Huddel-
son, Adrian; vice president, Mrs.
j. B. Walton, Butler; secretary,
Mrs. Katie Haggard, Adrian; !;
treasurer, Mrs. Bertha Klumpp,
Rich Hill.
Every woman and girl in ev-
cry church of our Association at
work for missions is our aim.
x
The Butler weekly times., 1915-09-09
Russia Will Never Quit.

Petrograd, Sept. g." Russia
is determined to fight five, even
ten wears. if necessary" declared
NJ. Rodzianko, president of Du-
ma, in an interview today. eff
it should happen that we are
forced to give up Petrograd and
Moscow We will retire to the de-
fenses of the Ural Mountains
and continue the war. !
Russia has IL million soldiers
who will fight to the last drop
of blood. They will not think of
peace while a single enemy SOL
der remains on Russian SOIL"
The Butler weekly times., 1915-09-09
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

C. A. Emerson to r. j. Smith
tract section % Mt. Pleasant
$4,000
P. j. Cowgirl to Fred L.. Cow
gill lot 4 block IA Altoona 100000.
U. g. Black to E. F. Cannon
lots 5 and 6 Swassings addition
to Hume $4,000.
II. j. Middlekamp to John
The Butler weekly times., 1915-09-09
American Oil Men Lose $4,000, 900

San Antonio, Tex, Sept. 5.-A
message dated August 81, re.
ceived today from Gordon Will.
lard, an American oil operator
at Tampico, Mexico, said all oil
wells in that section, except the
Aguila, have been closed.
The operators of the Huasteca
oil. fields, American owned,
closed with the announcement
they had lost $2,OOO,OOO since
the Carranza-Villa revolution be-
gan, and that they have exhaust
ed every resource to continue op,
erations. Thousands Of men are
out of employment. !
The Butler weekly times., 1915-09-09

Shockey 80 acres section Is How
ard $5SOO.00.
S. S. Summers to Ida E. Null
lies lot 6 block / Worland $500.
G. T. Walton to w. w. Cannon
tract section % Mt Pleasant 800.
L. D. Wheatley to j. w. Bob
bitt lots 5 and 8 block 10 Sprague
$3.50.
The Butler weekly times., 1915-09-09
County Teachers Convention

Thursday and Friday Of last
week the Bates county teachers
convention was held in the Cir
Quit Court room in the Court
house. Some fine addresses were
made by well known educators
and the teachers spent q very
profitable two days. About $50
teachers attended.
The Butler weekly times., 1915-09-09
DON'T GIVE Up.
Discouraged Citizens viii Find
Comfort in tho Experience
of 9 Butler Man.

Experience is the modern in
structor.
Profit by the experience Of
others.
1t may save your life.
The experience of your friends
and neighbors.
The testimany of Butler peo-
pie
Will bring renewed encourage
ment.
Here is case in point:.
j. ID. Stewort, 404 Vine St.,
Butler, says: "Too frequent
passages from my kidneys both
cred me greatly, especially at
night. l also had pains in my
back and hips and was subject
to dizzy spells. I lost strength,
felt languid and weak and suf-
fered from soreness across my
loins. After trying remedies
and doctors prescriptions with
out being helped, I learned OF
Doan's Kidney Pills and got
supply at Clay's Drug Store.
They cured me-"
Price SOC at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills-the
same that Mr.. Stewart had. Fos-
ter-Milburn Co., Props, Buffalo,
N. Y. 46-2t
The Butler weekly times., 1915-09-09
SHORT STORIES
Of Local Interest Clipped from
Our Exchanges.

our ExCh2ngeS.
I t-MNork Work was commenced on tn
new telephone exchange building
Monday morning. 1t will be {
tWo.story structure with the ex
change and work room upstairs
and the living rooms for thu
manager and family on the lower
I.floOr.-Amoret Leader.
Mrs. Eliza Barnes suffered a
slight attack of paralysis last
week and another one Tuesday
but it is not possible to know
just how the illness will termi.
nate.-Amoret Leader.
j. O. McMullen loaded his car
Of household goods, Monday, to
ship them to Kansas City, where
he recently purchased an apart
ment house, and where they ex-
pect to make their home. Mr..
McMullen went up to the city,
Tuesday, to join his wife, who is
visiting their son there.-Amoret
Leader.
Roy Taylor and Miss Rowena
May Means Of Rich Hill were
united in marriage at Nevada
Monday evening, Rev. Odom Of
ficiating. They will reside in
Rich Hill.-Metz Times. -
The machinery for the Mont
rose Electric light plant arrived
one day last week and contract
or Matthews was at once on the
job doing the finishing work and
installing the machines.-Mont-
rose Recorder.
Judge w. w. Graves of the Su-
preme Court left here today to
attend a meeting and banquet at
@Harrisonville of the men and wo-
men of Missouri who are live
wires in raising poultry and Of
ficers in local poultry associa-
tions. He is president of the
Cole county poultry association
and has had many years of ex-
perience in raising poultry of all
kinds.-Jefferson City Democrat
Tribune, Sept. !.
Mrs. B. F. Moore of Kansas
City visited Sunday with her son,
Wallace, who is temporary man.
ager of the Logan-Moore Lumber
Co.'S. yard at this place while G.
H. Field lays off while it rains
Rockville Booster.
Married-At Miles City, Mont.
August 18th. Mr.. Raymond Mid
kiff and Miss Minnie Douglass.
They left at once for Butte,
Mont, where they expect to
make their home.-Rockville
Booster.
R. f. Piper, for several years
in the produce business in this
city and in the same business for
the past three years in Whittier,
Cal. met with a fatal accident on
the 18th inst. He was in his auto
truck with his son. CLAW. when
their lap robe caught fire. He
grabbed it and jumped from the
striking his head on the
pavement and fracturing his
skull. He was taken to a hospit-
al where an operation was per-
formed but without avail. He
died the next afternoon without
having reeained consciousness,
Booster.
w. w. Gooch and wife who
live in Bates county, and Char
ley Gooch. son of George Gooch,
returned Friday from Chetopa,
Kan. where they went to attend
The funeral of their uncle, Mich
ael Hillegas.-Urich Herald.
Rev. A. L. Anderson and wife
If Dover came in Wednesday
morning for a visit at the pa
rental R. N. Word home.-Am-
oret Leader.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-10-16
UNION MINERS DID
NOT VISIT JOHN D.
Open Secret He Expected to Be
Greeted BY Union Labor Men.
They Kept Their Distance.

DENVER, Oct. Alt is an open
secret that John d. Rockefeller Jr.,
expected to be. visited by delegations
of unionists while on his visit to this
state. Newspapers carefully noted
move of this young man and trained
publicity agents gave wide circulation
to his adnouced plans, which would
have fine background if the story
could be told how he received COM
mittees representing organized work.
ers and how ttey listened with bated
breath to the visitors theory Of "a
new democracy Of labor" -.
But no .unionists appeared. In fact,
these workers. exhihited an aggravated
amount Of independence and seemed
to yet remember Ludlow and the bru-
tai anti-union policy of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron company, which has
not been rep,1diated by Mr.. Rookie
Teller. The organized workers took
the position that if he was in Colrado
to find the facts it was up to him to
ask conference. This position was
practically the same as that OF the
state federation of labor convention,
which almost unanimously rejected a
resolution. to invite him to address, that
body. =. :
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TIME NOW TO OUTFIT IN
THAT NEW - FAIL: SUIT $50
TO $35 AT THE BIG DULUTH.
SHOULD GOVERNMENT.
;: - PAY: DoeToRss.'~>BILts'

In Farm and Fireside Herbert
Quick, the editor: discusses the doc
tors fees-esp eciallyt the fees Charged
to farmers by doctors. A wide dis
cussion of this subject has been going
on among farmers in various parts
of the country 'Many .faaar:mersf IS Claim
that the prices charged by doctors are
exorbitantly high. Quick defends the
the doctors and explains why their
charges are not as high as they ap-
pear. At the endv ef' his article he
makes the following sugestion:
But feel surs that we shall fl
nally come to seq that 1T is to the in
county or loeal4t look after every every
ones health. and that doctors will
become public officers who will win
their spurs by keeping people well,
When that time comes we shall all
pay our doctors bills when we pay
our taxes, and every case Of sick
ness may be treated free by the doc
tors of the Board of Health.
my friend, the medical professor
says it. has got to come to this, and
that we shall not get rid of extortion-
ate charges until it does"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-10-16
CHICAGO TEACHERS !:
UNION '0u7LAN|ED
School Board, After Court Re-
strains Members, Rules Against
Trade Union Plan..

CHICAGO, Oct: 14.-The' Chicago
board of education, which was recent
ly ordered to refrain from enforcing
its ant1-union rule against members OF
the Teachers federation, has passed
another RESOLUTION which, it is hoped,
Will overcome Judge O'Connor's OBJ
lection to their trade union antag-
on1sHb>. Members of the board believe
that, with ,the,achange they. will have
an easier time in their fight to gain
a dissolution of the injunction in a
higher court. ~ -
Judge O'Coanor held that the first
resolution passed by the board in
cluded membership of the Uational
Education association, the Illinois
State Tea cheers. association and :, the
pension fund.- ). = J. ..,.. - Z
To remove this objection, the board
Is forced to take a positive stand, and
declare, by the following change, that
the fight is: solely a denial Of the
right of teachers to join a trade union:
Membership by teachers in labor
unions or in organizations of teach
ers affiliated with a trade union or
a federation or association Of trade
unions is inmical to proper discipline,
prejudicial to the efficiency OF the
teaching force, and detrimental to the
welfare of the public school system;
therefore such; membership or affllia-
ton is hereby prohibited, as we'll as
teachers organizations which have Of
f1cers, business agents, or other repre-
sentatives' who: are not members of
the teaching force"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-10-16
BROTHERHOOD ] ] ] M |I|||F !. !. !.
@+tf :. :f,- - tt ~. NJ r
!. :: DEMAND 8-A0 D
Representatives of Four Big Rail
road, Unions Hold Confer ),
ence at Pittsburgh.

The railroad brotherhoods. which
are, among the oldest of American
labor organizations, have heretofore
taken very little part in the eight-hour
day. 1t is now evident that there is
a movement, developing among the
four big brotherhoods in inaugurate a
nationwide eight-hour day among
railroad men.
A successful union meeting consist
ing Of representatives from the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers,
Brotherhood of Locomotive FIremen
and Engineers, Order of Railway Con-
ductors, Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen and Order of Railroad Tele-
graphers, was recently held at Pitts
burg, Pa, and a strong set of resolu-
lions were adopted declaring for the
eight hour day for all employees. in
train and yard service. This meeting
was attended by high officials in the
several brotherhoods. It was held that
the increases in wages received by
railroad employees from time to time
have not been equal to the increase
in the cost Of living:
The resolutions adopted declared
IAAaI IAO AdAAA Odu COIpOrdt1OuS udO Jul.
lawed the full crew laws by the install
lation Of the "Ma1lett Type" engine,
and the unlimited number Of cars in
train. T. hey also hold thai the rail-
roads have abused the 10-hour day in
all classes of service. Therefore, It
was voted that the meeting go on rec
ord in favor of a universal eight-hour
day for all employees in train and yard
service, and pay and one-half for all
time worked in excess Of eight hours
in any 24-hour period. The meeting
also requested that the various BROTH
erhoods and the general committees
representing all transportation organ
izations make shorter day an issue
with the railroad corporations.
Maintaining that arbitration had
proven unsuccessful to all concerned
in the past, it was unanimously voted
that railroad brotherhoods should in
the future refuse to accept arbitration
in any FORM: The: use Of the tele-
phone was condemned in dispatching
train orders and the members went on
record In favor Of the telegraph. All
Of this indicates that there is in and
around Pittsburg a. :militants >organiza-
ton of railroad employees :. :.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-10-16
iNOBBY FALL OVERCOATs
$40 TO $50 AT THE BIG DU-
LUTH.
LABOR |: MAY OPPOSE.
:; x
DEFENSE PROGRAM
Organized Workers Said to Be
: Framing stay-at-Home Plan
!. In Next Congress-. !: ::

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.-In the
debate on preparedness in the coming
congress, a new voice will be heard.
Organized labor has about decided to
insist that in the appropriation. bills
providing for the army and navy, a
clause shall be inserted providing
that none Of the funds shall be used
to send or maintain armed forces of
the United States, on foreign soil, or
civil disturbances" It is to be con-
tended that if our army is to be for
defense only" nobody can object to a
provision which will insure that it can
never be used for offense; al Sec
ondly, If the ARMY is for national de-
Tense, it should be prohibited from
taking part in supporting big owners
in strike troubles. !. -.
3 Speaker Clark and Senator James
A. O'Gorman lead the list Of about
fifty congressman sent out by the Ma
tional defense. One hundred and fifty
members of congress gave favorable
replies to poll by the league. Unde-
cisive replies are coming from south
ern members. =.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-10-16
u !! s. VILE \ |. |. T|EL|.LY|OU
II HOW y TO ]. SAVE; J \ COAL
Bureau Of Mines Report Advises
ouseholders on Proper: way
to Use Fuel. :: -; !:

WASHINGTON, Oct IA prob
lem which touches the pocketbooks of
several million householders is. de-
scribed In a.report issued today by the
Bureau Of Mines. - In the report ex-
perts of the bureau tell the public in
detail just how, in heating. their houses
this winter, they may save in their
coal bills. Copies of; the report may
be obtained by any one who addresses
the United States Bureau Of Mines.
Tests were made in a. 10 room. house
In New Haven, Conn, which was COM
fortably= heated at a cost O., <$48 for
the TALL and winter, saving over
other houses Of the same size in the
same locality Of from $50 to 500.
According toitVan e. = Manning, di-
rector Of the Bureau of Mines, similar
results can be obtained in hundreds OF
thousands Of houses throughout the
country, with a Consequent saving of
millions Of dollars. =. ~: =.
'The result shows not only q; low
cost of heating" said Mr.. Manning:
but also an economical use of fuel
and illustrates what savings may be
erected when the problem is; given
proper consideration. Systematic and
regular handling of the fire doubtless
had considerable to do with. 4::esu1ts
obtained. The cost of heating is prob
ably $50 to 500 less than what is ex-
pended by large number of house,
holders WHO live in the same locality
and have: about the same heating re-
qulrementS but use more expensive
coal and give their heating equipment
less attention." y
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-10-16
YOUR NEW FALL HAT IS
READY AT THE BIG DULUTH.
GERMAN LABoRERs
PROSPER FROM WAR

BERLIN, Germany, Oct. 1s.-The
huge drains and losses of thirteen
months of war have had the para
doxical effect CT placing the, German
workingman in a position of prosper
ity unexampled in his history. Of rails
ing his wages by and large to point
they never attained before, and of
almost completely solving his non
employment problem.
The faster men at the front have
fallen and holes in the ranks had to
be filled the better has become the
situation of the men at home. the
higher have mounted the savings bank
deposits Of the few doing the work of
the former many.