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The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30
SHELL KILLS TWO MEN AT
FORT SILL
4 Others, All Members of Second
Mo. Field Artillery, Injured IN
Blast.

Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, Okla,
Aug. 25.-A live" shrapnel shell, half
buried on the site OF the artillery
range used by the school OF fire here
more than year ago, took the lives
of Privates Nelson and James Kelly
of Battery A, Second Missouri field
artillery, here late today, when the
fire over which the soldiers were
cooking their first meal since their
arrival caused an explosion which
wrecked the mess hall and wounded
four companions. They were:
Privates Oakley, Bloomer, Nc
Grew and Raymond Rose.
All lived in Kansas City.
Nelson was killed outright, while
Kelly died on his way to the military
hospital, where the wounded were
also taken. Army physicians said
amputation of Private Oakley's leg
was necessary. The other three were
not injured seriously.
Army officers were puzzled over
the explosion, but agreed that 1t was
caused by an abandoned shell on the
range which had not been used since
early in 1916 On this site a mess
hall had been erected. The heat OF
the stove over which the soldiers
were cooking brought on the ex-
plosion.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

counts ctass 9t 81 mssSa.'' Batss. SIS.
In the Circuit Court, October Term
1917. In Vacation August Sth, 1917.
Edith MCDANIEL. Defendant 49,.
Now at this day comes the plaintiff
herein, by his attorney ana files MS
petition and affidavit, alleging among
other things that defendant , with9ut Ia3u
tiff more than one year. prior to the
filing of the petition herein and has re.
mained away from this PLAINTIFF and
his home for more than one whole year
and is nonresident of the state OF
Missouri.
Whereupon, It Is ordered by the Clerk
in sVaca ton that said defendant be
notified by publication that Plaintiff
has commenced a suit against her IN
this Court the object ana genera dannat nat
and decree Of divorce from this defend-
ant founded upon the foregoing among
other allegations, and that unless the
said defendant be and appear AT tnio
Court, at the next term thereon, 20 pe
in the city Of Butler, in said county, on
the first Monday Of October. 19l7; and
on or before the first day OF SAID Term
answer or plead to the petition IN ealo
cause, the same will be taken as con.
fessed and judgment will be rehoeFeo
accordingly.
And it is further ordered. that copy
hereof be published. according to law
in The Butler Weekly Times. q news.
paper published in said County OF
published at least once q week, the
last insertion to be at least thirty Gays
before the first day Of said next Oc-
tober Term of this Court.
Circuit Clerk.
A true copy from the Record.
Witness my hand, and seal OF
fseaD the Circuit Court of Bates
county, this day. 9Th OF Aug
ust, 1917.
xa-lt circuit Clerk.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30
No Lone lack Picnic This Year.

Forty-five years ago today, Thurs
day, August 16, 1917, the famous Bat
tie of Lone Jack was fought. The
event has been commemorated yearly
since that time with a big picnic, and
it is said only one year has been
missed. But there was no celebration
this year. On account of the enor-
nous cost of living and the busy sea-
son, the committee thought it best
to abandon the Lone Jack picnic
for this year. The Oak Grove and
Pink Hill picnics were also aban-
doned, so that Jackson county will
not hold any of these summer events
so dear to the politician.-The Lees
Summit Journal.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30
AMERICANS WON'T DIG IN
Pershing's Men Went to France to
Use Guns, Not Spades.

American Training Camp in
France, Aug. 24.-One of-the great
est problems Americans officers have
before them is impressing upon their
men the absolute importance OF
Learning the best ways of keeping iin=
der cover. The American soldier is
not a natural digger in. He il
much like the Canadian in that re
spect, for it is an old saying on the
British front that Canadians will die
in the last ditch, but never dig it.
1t is the American spirit to up
stake and fight but the world war
has long since passed that stage and
now in the long wear and worry of .
struggle of attrition the best COM
mander is the one who best con-
serves his men. One of the great
reasons why the Germans are still in
France and Belgium is their wonder
full facility for digging in. They have
passion for it and an incentive, as
well, for the allied artillery never
ceases to pound them day and night.
The German belief that they can
dig faster than modern army can
advance is one of the principles OF
their defensive tactics. Notwith-
standing the heroic efforts to rouse
his enthusiasm over the pick and
shovel, the American soldier has re-
mained decidedly lukewarm. He
came to France to fight the Germans.
he says and not to dig a hole and
look at them through spy glass.
1t is purely a matter of tempera-
ment and there seems to be little
doubt now that only actual battle ex-
perience will convince American SOL
diers that the ability to take advant-
age of any bit of cover is one OF the
greatest assets the modern man at
arms can have.
1T seems shame to have to curb
the first line fighting spirit of our
troops,'' said an American training
officer yesterday, "but the men must
be made to understand that impetuos-
ity must be subordinated to steadi-
ness. This has become a time clock
war. The men must advance in CIV
en- time and go no further. Every
step of infantry advance must be
first worked out with artillery, and
when the plan is arranged it must be
strictly adhered to.
1--WE realize that it will be difficult
to hold our men to this plan. If they
see a battle going on, their impulse
will be to push on as fast as they can
and some are bound to do so just as
the Canadians did in the earlier
stages. We undoubtedly will have
big losses in this way, but the men
who come through our first battles
will be worth their weight in gold
thereafter. They will learn quickly
the value of steadiness and absolute
discipline under fire and they will be
the steadying influence we can dis
tribute through the newer units OF
: our great army as they get their fin
J al preparation for trial by fire"
The natural fighting man. il
seems, has a natural antipathy 10
digging in. Even in these latest
months of war British Tommies
would much rather remain above
; ground and stand chances of being
killed by shells than to dig the deel
; dugouts so admired by the Germans
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30
The State Normal School

AT Warrensburg, Missouri, will open
September IT. This school has three
new buildings and fifty university
trained men and women on its iacui-
ty. It offers four years OF high
school and four years OF college
work. It supplies all texts at rental
of one dollar year, and has trained
nurse who gives her entire time to
the health Of students. An unusual
demand will be made for teachers
next year. The field of Education
needs you.
For ,catalog write
E. L. Hendricks,
A6-2t President.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30
THE COST
What the Federal Government il
Spending for Buildings to
House Its Soldiers.

Not long ago there was some con-
t,oversy in the United States SEN
ate as to what the government was
spending to build houses at the var
ious environments to house the SOL
diers that are to be sent to them;
what it is costing for lumber and
materials of all kinds and what is
being paid for labor. In answer to
a resolution the secretary OF war sub
mitted to the chairman of the sem
ate military committee concise re-
port of what the cost of the canton
ments will be.
At each of the 10 cantonments for
the national army there is being con-
structed from 1000 to 1880 build
ings, varying in size from 43 by I4o
feet to IA by IA feet. Some are two
and some one story. They are being
constructed of wood with felt roof
ing.
The estimated average cost OF
each of the cantonments is $5,6oo,ooo.
The largest cantonment is at Ft.
Riley, Kansas, and is for 10000 men;
the smallest at Battle Creek, Michi-
gan for 10000 men. In this estimat-
ed cost is included the clearing of the
land, building of barracks, officers
quarters, storehouses, laundries,
stables, railways and all things nee
essa,y for the proper care OF the SOL
dier so that each cantonment will be
complete city for population OF
1900 people, with all facilities,
plants and appliances required by
modern living conditions.
1t has been necessary in order to
secure the large number of carpen-
tiers that are needed to pay slight
advance over the union scale pre-
vailing in that locality. The con-
tracts provide that the contractor
shall make no departure from the
standard rate of wages.
The largest item entering into the
cons struction is, of course, lumber.
A contract was entered into with
eight lumbermens bureaus located in
the lumber sections of the country
under which scale of prices was
fixed averaging SEQ thousand feet
for southern pine and $22 per thou
sand for North Carolina pine, about
80 per cent of all the lumber required
being of these kinds. This is consid
erably lower than the same lumber
can be obtained in the open market
| The average wages being paid car
penters at Fl. Riley is from IS to 9;
cents per hour; for plumbers rs cents
and electricians 70 to IS cents witt
double time for Sundays and holi'
days.
The government is very careful tc
see that the contractor does not take
advantage of the situation by making
a schedule of what he shall make or
each contract. If the cost be under
ls1oo, 900 he may charge fee of II
per cent and if the contract is for a.
much as $3,5oo,ooo a fee of E per cen
will be allowed
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30
DROP SEED
FROM AIRPLANES
- 70 g..
A French Plan Would Start Weeds
in German Crops.

Paris, July 26 (by maiD.-French
aviation authorities are considering
an idea, first suggested by the eele-
brated pilot, Vedrines, OF throwing
seeds of that troublesome weed,
couch grass, known to farmers as
squitch, or quitch, over the cultivated
land in Germany. 1t is said it would
be easy for an airplane to carry five
hundred pounds of seed and let it fall
on fields where corn beets or pota-
toes are planted, and that if supply
is not available, scientists would not
take long to raise it in sufi'c'ens
quantity to send a thousand OF the
airplanes, which France is expecting
at an early date from the United
States, over Germany's crops.
The possibility of dropping seeds
of some rapidly growing form OF
mushroom fungus, or even germs OF
phyiloxera, is also under cons'dera-
tion.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30
Pergusoa Out Of Office.

Austin, Tex, Aug. a4.-James k.
Ferguson was suspended from the
office Of governor of Texas shortly
after Q O'Clock tonight, when the
board Of nine managers, named oy
the house Of representatives. present.
ed to the senate twenty-one articles
Of impeachment. alleging official nus
conduct.
w. r. Hobb, lieutenant governor,
automatically succeeded to the gov
ernorship, pending disposition OF the
charges in the senate. The senate
formally designated next Wednesday
a. the time for beginning the trial. IS
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30
THOSE SUDDEN rwINGEs
Bring Suffering to Many q Butler
Reader.

Bring Suffering to Many q Butler
Reader.
Pain is natures signal of distress.
A warning not to be ignored.
Those sharp twinges in the back
Those sudden, stab-like pains when
STOPPING
Are frequent signs of kidney
trouble.
To remove kidney pains, you must
assist the kidneys.
Use a tested and proven kidney
remedy.
None more highly endorsed than
Doan's Kidney Pills.
Endorsed abroad-endorsed at
home.
Read this Butler testimony.
]. E. Hulse, West Ave-, and w.
Ohio St., says: 81 had steady ache
in my back and lameness which made
any lifting almost impossible. Ev-
cry time I bent over, sharp twinges
caught me and my kidneys acted r..
regularly at times. Doan's Kidney
Pills gave me complete relief ff6m
those symptoms"
Price 6oc, at HI dealers. Doa't
simply ask for kidney remedy-4se
Doaas KidAey Pills-she eaNle -
Nr. Hulse had. Foster Nilb1rn g.
Nfgss. Buffalo, n. Y. -
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30
Farm Loans.

If you desire freedom from the bur
dens of everlasting debt. it will pay
you to let MS show you plan where
by it can be done. 1t means low
cost, with the most liberal lre-pay-
ment privileges. No renewals, with
the attending cost, that come peri
odically, and some times raise in
rates. 1t costs nothing to invests
gate, your own interest should
prompt you do the best that you can'
We invite a full investigation.
Canterburys,
a6-tf Butler, No
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30

the Twenty-fourth Infantry, held in
the county jail, as a result of the
trouble last night, which ended with
the death of seventeen persons, four
of them city police officers.
This was the first move indicative
of an attempt by the state to retain
custody of the soldiers, rather than
turn them over to the army for pun
ishment.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30

At the home of Mrs. Mary Wink
Ter, 4o1o Lillian Street, was enacted
ones of the most brutal incidents OF
the night. When the mutinous SOL
diers passed her two sons, Fred
Winkler, aged 20, and William J.
Drucks. stepped to the front porch
to see what provoked the loud talk
ing. Fred Winkler flashed on the
porch light and William Drucks go:
as far as the steps.
With that a bullet penetrated the
heart of the younger boy, while the
right arm of Drucks was shattered at
the wrist and above the elbow.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30
Order of Publication.

State of Missouri IS.
County Of Bates. !
In the Circuit Court Of Bates
County, Missouri, in Vacation Aug
ust 16, 1917.
The State Of Missouri at the rela-
ton and to the use of J. II. Stone'
Ex-Officio Collector of the Rev
enue Of Bates County, in the State
Of Missouri, Plaintiff.
George Clark, if living, and if dead.
his unknown consort, heirs, dew
: sees, donees, aiienees, or immedi-
ate nesne or remote, voluntary OF
involuntary grantees, defendants.
Civil action for delinquent taxes.
The State of Missouri to the above
named Defendants, Greeting:
Now at this day comes the PLAIN
tiff herein by her agent and attor-
ney before the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Bates County in the State
of Missouri, in vacation, and files her
petition and affidavit. stating among
other things that the above named
defendant George Clark If he be hv.
ing is a nonresident of the State OF
Missouri, and if he be dead there are
persons interested in the subject mat
ter of this suit whose names cannot
be inserted herein because they are
unknown to plaintiff and affiant, and
that the interest of such persons and
how derived, so far as known to at.
fiant. are described as follows, We:
That If said George Clark be dead
his unknown heirs or devisees claim,
or might claim, an interest or r1gnt
in the real estate by descent, inher'-
lance, devise or operation OF law.
saNhereupon it is ordered by the clerk
n vacation that the defendants De
notified BY. publication that plaintiii
has; commenced = suit against thein
ia this court by petition and affi-
davit, the object and general nature
Of which 10 to enforce the lein OF the
State Of Missouri for the delinquent
taxes of the years 1914 and 1913
amounting in the aggregate to tine
sum of $Ia8s together with interest,
coats. commissions and fees, upon
tie following described tracts OF land
situated in Bates County, Missouri,
|to-wit: -.
Lots IS, Is and ~. Block Is. IN ).
the town Of Aerwin, State ana (
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30
Christian Science Services.

Christian Science services and Sun-
day school will be held each Sunday
morning in the new church at the
corner of Fl. Scott and Delaware
streets.
Subject, Christ Jesus"
All are cordially invited to attend.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30

next term of said Court
A true copy of the record.
Witness my hand as clerk
aforesaid with the seal sof
(SeaD said court hereunto affixed.
Done at office in Butler,
on this, the 10th day OF
August, 1917.
H. O. MAXEYs
4S-4t Circuit Clerk.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30

Houston, Tex, Aug. 24-An-
that General Parker had
ordered the removal of negro SOL
diers of the Twenty-fourth Infantry
from Houston to Columbus, N. n,
served materially to restore q spirit
of quiet here tonight. after day OF
unrest following the race fioting last
niaht which resulted in the death OF
seventeen persons and the wounding
OF more than score.
A scene probably unique in the an
nals of the United States army was
enacted at Camp Logan during the
afternoon, when the six hundred sol
diers of the battalion of the Twenty
fourth Infantry were disarmed. :
! Flanked by full battalions of the
Ninteenth Infantry under Col Nil
lard F. Watz, and three companies OF
the coast artillery from Fort Crock
EFT, the negro soldiers were marched
fosr abreast to the parade grounds,
Where their arms were stacked. Army
ttueks then loaded the rifles and am-
sannition and conveyed them to the
camp storehouse. where they were
decd under heavy guard.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30
AUSTRIA ON HER KNEES"
Exhausted Nation Anxious for Any
Peace, Pictured by IN Austrian.


tria which is literally crying for
peace, which has discarded any
thought of territorial expansion and
is even willing to buy its way out OF
the war by territorial sacrifices on
the Italian front and in Galicia; an
Austria of frequent food riots, unable
to last through another winter OF
war; an Austria whose population
would rise in revolution if any rea-
sonable peace offer were rejected by
the government is pictured by high
" educated Austrian who has arrived
here from Vienna. In a talk today
he told q story which explains the
persistence of Count Czernin, Aus
tro-Hungarian foreign minister, and
of Emperor Charles in returning
again and again to the subject OF
peace negotiations.
/ This Austrian who spent several
days in Berlin on his way to Copen-
hagen, had an opportunity to talk
with representatives Of the German
foreign office, including Baron Won
Dem Bussche- Naddenhausen, the un-
der secretary and other Germans OF
the stamp of Prof. Hans Delbrueck
Of the University Of Berlin. Phillip2
Seheidemann, the Socialist leader,
and Maumiiiian Harden, editor Of the
zsknaf& He said all Of these men.
wih He exception Of Herr Hasde4,
|wsso eonyineed that peaee vas com
It 6e3ofe wiGees.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30

Later reports give the name OF
Clyde S. Allen, son of DR.. and Mrs
w. H. Allen, of Rich Hill, as being
among the wounded.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30

Houston, Aug. a4.-The killing OF
Captain Joseph w. Mates Of the H.
linois Second Field Artillery was ac-
companied by extreme cruelty on the
part of his slayers.
Wounded by rifle bullet, Captain
Mates was surrounded by the NUT
inous soldiers, riddled with buckshot
and his body hacked and stabbed in
many places with bayonets. The
body, when discovered, was almost
unrecognizable.
w. A. Wise, while trying to save
an unknown wounded man, was shot
three times in the left arm and once
in the back.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30

Houston, Tex, Aug. 24.-Maj. L. >.
Snow, commanding the negro troops
guarding Camp Logan, last night de-
clared that he attempted to control
the men when he saw what was
about to happen, "but they were be-
yond control, and some one hundred
and fifty of them started to shoot
promiscuously in the camp and soon
scattered in every direction"
An attempt was made to kill Major
Snow, it is said, and he had narrow
escape.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30
NEGRO SOLDIERS
ON RAMPAGE
Members of the s4th Infantry Shoot
Up Houston, Texas.

Houston, Tex, Aug. 24.-One hun
dred and twenty-five negro soldiers
of the two companies of the Twenty
fourth Infantry who engaged in riot
last last night Mig iast and and caused the death OF
sixteen and the wounding Of more
than a score of persons, are being
sought today by strong patrols OF
regulars and Illinois National
Guardsmen under the command OF
Gen. John A. Hulen. governor Of the
city now under martial law.
Three companies of coast artillery
regulars from Fort Crockett re-en-
forced the thousand-or more Illinois
guardsmen today and order, which
was restored early this morning, is
being maintained. Roll call early
this morning by Major Snow, in conf
inand of the battalion of negroes, de-
veloped I25 men were absent.
Early this afternoon all but about
forty had been rounded up by the
provost marshal The forty had scat
tered and were believed to be trying
to get back to camp.
Under military law, soldiers may
be shot for having mutinied and fired
on their officers.
The rioting, according to best &C
counts available, was caused by i'll
feeling bred among the negroes
through the treatment accorded some
of them by city police Officers. AS
military police the negroes patroled
the environs of the city when men,
bers of the battalion were released
from the camp on pass.
Several minor clashes occurred be-
tween the white police and the mill
tary, the latest preceding the riot re
sulting in the arrest of two negro
soldiers for interfering when a white
police officer arrested a negro wo-
man.
The sixteenth victim was E. M.
Jones, a jitney driver, whose body
was found near Camp Logan shortly
before noon. His right arm was al
most severed by saber strokes. There
were many bullet wounds in his
body.
Included in the dead is negro
sergeant, Vida Henry, believed tc
have been the ringleader in the up.
rising. Henry's body was found rid
died with buckshot about a quarter
of mile distant from the oaml
limits.
Horace Moore, one of the wounded
police officers, who suffered amputa
ton of the leg, died this morning. r
]. Meineke, another police officer, Il
the fifteenth victim reported found a
9 o'clock this morning.
The Butler weekly times., 1917-08-30

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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-05-15
WAR. ON CORN PESTS
SHOULD START SOON
TO SAVE THE CROPS

Animal and insect pests Of corn
prairie dogs, ground squirrels. goph-
ers. blackbirds. crows. cut-worms.
earworms. wireworms, chinch bugs,
grasshoppers-soon will open their
spring campaigns Of destruction.
Many of these pests "a be effectively
combatted. according to specialists in
the y. 8. department Of agriculture,
who describe measures that may be
employed.
For cutworms, Jumps Of poisoned
bait, made by mixing about 50 pounds
OF. bran or corn meal with two pounds
OF Paris green, six finely chopped or
anges or lemons, and enough cheap
molasses to make a stiff dough, should
be scattered along the corn row at
planting time or as soon al injury
ron cutworms is noticed. Informa-
furnished on application to the bu-
reau Of entomology.
Treating the seed with coal tar will
usually repel attacks Of birds, and, in
some cases, those Of burrowing ro-
dents. A teaspoonful Of tar Is enough
for a peck Of corn. Mix the tar with
a quart OF boiling water. After the
mixture has cooled somewhat but is
still! hot, stir in the corn until every
Grain is coated. and then spread it
out to dry before planting. Corn may
be Immersed several minutes in mod
erately hot water without affecting
termination. The tar treatment does
not repel mice or ground squirrels.
Destruction Of corn by ground
squirrels. prairie-dogs, pocket gophers
or mice is best prevented by poison
ing the animals a few days before the
corn is planted. Strychnine is the
best poison in all cases, but to obtain
satisfactory results a special formula
Is needed for preparing the poison for
each kind Of animal. Such formulas
have been worked out by tho bureau
OF biological survey and special in
structtons will be furnished upon ap-
plication. Paris green and strychnine