The Butler weekly times., 1918-04-25
ORDER OF PUBLICATION,

State of Missouri,
County of Bates. 3D.
In the Circuit Court, May Term, 1918
| In vacation, March 2S, 1918.
Charles II. Blevins, Plaintiff.
| against
John Steiner, Charles +. Steiner, ]. c.
Biggs, the Hume Bank, corpora
tion, Thomas +. HOUSTON, if living.
K. Simpson, and the unknown con-
| sorts, heirs, devisees, donees alien
ees, grantees, asslgnees and legal
representatives Of William Shields,
and Of John Steiner, Charles +. Stein
er, Thomas f. Houston and Annie r.
Babcock, If they or either of them
be deceased, Defendants.
herein, by his attorneys, and files his
petition under oath, alleging, among
things that defendants, John Steiner.
Charles +. Steiner, Thomas h. Houston
each and all non residents Of the state
of Missouri, and can not be served
with the ordinary process of law in
this action, and further alleging that
he verify believes there are persons in
terested in the subject matter of his
petition whose names he can not in
sert therein because the same are to
him unknown, that such unknown per-
sons are the respective conSorts, heirs,
devisees, donees, alienees, immediate,
mesne or remote, voluntary or involun-
lary, grantee, assisnees or legal rep
r1ssentatives OF John Steiner, Charles
Annie r. Babcock, if they or either OF
them be deceased, and of William
shields and John b. Thomas, deceased.
That such interest, if any, is derived
tor. whose interests, right, claim or
title, to the real estate hereinafter de-
scribed, became vested in such named
ancestors. by virtue of the following
ty,Iy tS of nrI ir, fl,n nffi nf
the recorder of Deeds in and for Bates
County, Missouri, to-wit: \ patent
from the United States, to William
Shields, of record in Book $50, page
shown by the certified plat book of
original entries from the United States
land office: A deed to John ID. Thomas
IN il Boo" Book r, O. page $50. A 4 deed to
y lease made favor of John Steiner and
Charles f. Steiner in Book 80, page
COS. y trust deed, in book 16, page
aG4, to James K. Simpson, trustee for
Annie Il. Babcock, securing payment Of
two notes for eighty-five dollars each;
which interests, or apparent interests
have not been properly conveyed or
released by the grantees in said instru-
mentS
Whereupon, it is ordered by the
clerk in vacation, that said defendants
be notified by publication, that plain
tiff has commenced suit against them
nature of which is to try, ascertain and
determine the respective right, title
and interest of the parties plaintiff
and defendant in said action, in and to
the following real estate, to-wit:
The North Three-fourths of the
North East quarter, Section eight.
Township Thirty-nine. Range
Thirty-three, in Bates County. Mis-
souri,,
and to obtain judgment of the court
adjudging and defining the right, title
and interest of the parties to said suit,
in and to said land, the plaintiff
a fee simple title to the
same.
And unless the defendants be and
appear at the next term of this court,
10 be begun and held at the court
house in the city of Butler, in said
,ounty, on the Fourth Monday in May,
1918, and on or before the first day
IF said term, answer or plead to the
petition filed, the same will be taken
rs confessed and judgment rendered
1t is further ordered that
/ copy hereof be published according
o law. in The Butler Weekly Times, a
newspaper published in Bates County,
II. 0. MAXEY,
Circuit Clerk.
\ True Copy From the Record.
Witness my hand and seal
(SeaD of said court
H. o. MAXEY.
SIT Clerk of the Circuit Court.