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The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
BUTTER PRICES
TAKE A DROP
In Chicago, but Butte Prof
iteers Still on the Job.
Meat Prices Also on the
Toboggan.

Chicago, Jan. 25,-Butter took an
other slump of three cents ponnd
today, making decline of 'GG cents
since Jan. 13. Egg prices followed
in the smash at the high cost of lly-
ing and were quoted from ~ cents
to cents a dozen lower, a drop of
from 13 cents to 5 cents 4 dozen
within a few days.
A number of retailers face prose-
cution by the federal authorities be-
cause they continued to charge fancy
prices for butter and eggs despite the
large reduction in the wholesale
prices.
Butter sold at wholesale on the
Chicago market today from 46 cents
to 81 cents pound, and eggs from
So cents to 54 Y cents dozen.
Meat prices also dropped. Pork
fell from 80 cents to % cents d
pound, while veal and lamb sold fol-
4 cents a pound less than yesterday
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
BIG STRIKE
NOW ON IN
BERLIN
Even Socialists Are Wor-
rled. Six Hour Day Grant
ed. Wages Increased. Por-
tuguese Army Revolts.

Berlin Jan 25.ZThe strike cpl
demic in Berlin is beginning TO dis
quiet even the socialist leaders. In
common with the bourgeois press,
the socialist VorWaerts points out
the alleged disloyal nature of the
strike of the electric workers by
which hundreds of thousands suffer-
ed great hardships. The employees OF
the city gas works, who were granted
an eight-hour day only recently, have
now, under threat to paralyZe the
gas supply, compelled the granting
of six-hour day and an increase in
wages amounting to 12,500,00O
marks annually.
Herr katzenstein, a socialist alder
man, said that the recent strikes in
dictate I'VE have progressed from ex-
ploitation by the capitalists to ex-
ploitaton by the proletariat with the
distinctnon that the capitalists were
accustomed to reckon more than six
weeks ahead"
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
RED RUSSIA
MOVING
ALONG
Strong Army of Workers
Feared by the Allies. U. S.
Commission Goes to Eu-
rope. "Reds" Busy.

Paris, Jan. 25.-Additional infor-
nation reaching here continues to
verify the information that the Rus
sian bolsheviki army is strong in
numbers and is maintaining a strict
discipline. That the army can only
be combated by a large number of
allied troops is the general impress
sion here. That the allied nations
are war weary is foregone conclu-
sion and that the strength of the boil
sheviki is growing among the work
ers of all countries causes the cap
italist class to fear a revolution in
the event they call on the workers to
fight their fellow workers in Russia.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
PACKERS L|KE:
MISTER HOOVER
Removal of Food Admins
trations Would Mean Dis
aster, Witness Says. In
quire Into Methods.

Washington, Jan. 25.-Regulation
of livestock prices SO as to assure a.
stable market either through con tin
uing food administration or by es-
tablishing some similar system OF
control, was discussed today before
congressional committees by presi-
dents of two meat packing firms
which do an annual business OF about
100000.
Louis F. Swift of Swift & Co., con-
Guiding an appearance of two days
before the house interstate commerce
committee, said stable price over
periods Of production was desirable
and declared that if food admins
tration restrictions were removed
now disaster would result. j. Ogden
Armour of Armour & Co., told the
senate agriculture committee that
some means of assuring a price leVal
for some time would be agreeable to
the packers, repeating reasons he
had outlined earlier before the house
committee.
Members of each committee evil
denced considerable interest in the
statements of the packers and Repre-
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
Junkers Fear Spread
of Dread Bolshevis1n

Tacoma, Jan. 25.-For the first
time since the strike was called in
Tacoma and Seattle shipyards, the
government has attempted to settle
the controversy. Commissioner of
immigration White of Seattle has
been named as the government medi-
ator to attempt to end the strike and
prevent it's spread. With the gov
ernment intervening, it is learned on
good authority, that high officials of
organized labor in the state and city
are moving to prevent general
walkout and to curb the spread OF
bolshevist propaganda, which has
made it's appearance in Tacoma and
Seattle.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
RADICALS ON THE
ROLL OF HONOR

Washington, Jan. 25.-The senate
committee investigating German
propaganda yesterday put into the
record list of names of 62 men and
women, many of them instructors in
colleges and universities, who Archi-
bald Stevenson of the military intel
ligence bureau had testified earlier
in the week hold radical and paci-
fist views" Mr. Stevenson said the
names were obtained in investiga-
tions by the military intelligence bu-
reau.
Included in the list are the names
of Miss Jane Addams of Chicago.
Frederick G. Howe, commissioner OF
immigration at New York; David
Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus OF
Leland Stanford Jr. university; Nor
ris Hillquit. Scott Nearing, Oswald
Garrison Willard and Eugene v.
Debs.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
GARbACE: DEAL
IL VI uOIllIE
Tonight Must Decide, Says
Mayor. If It Fails, He
Will Let Butte's Garbage
Rot in the Streets.

The city council will meet tonight
with the mayor in committee Of the
whole to take up the garbage ques-
tion again and it is expected, either
get off the fence or continue to oc-
cupy that unexalted position in de-
fault of which the mayor has an
nounced he will, after the first of the
month, call off all collections of garb-
age and ashes and practically do
away with this department of the
city, which he says cannot be longer
conducted on the present system.
II have given the aldermen a long
time on this matter and | think it is
about time they can make up theii
minds as to what shall be done
There are three contracts before us
now, they have been thoroughly ex-
planned, and the aldermen have had
plenty of time to carefully consider
them from all angles and l shall ex-
pect some definite action tonight, y
said the mayor.
Three propositions have been sub
mitted to the councilmen for the TAX
ing over by private concerns and in
diyiduals, the contract for the dispo-
:. -
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
Unions Balloting on
Question of a Strike

Seattle Jan. 25.-Members of 130
unions affiliated with the Seattle
Central Labor council are voting on
the proposal that a general strike be
called Feb. in sympathy with metal
trades workers, numbering about
5000, who walked out Tuesday to
express their demands for living
wages.
Seattle shipyards remained idle to-
day, the profiteers having refused to
grant the SO day for mechanics and
81 and $6 a day for helpers and Ia
borers asked by the unions.
Last night the shipwrights and
joiners of a wooden shipyard organi-
cation, voted to support the metal
trades strike. The shipwrights and
joiners, it is said, number about
. 0D0
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
REVOLT OF
ENGLISH
LABOR
Is Threatened. Strikes In
crease. shipbuilders Want
3O-Hour Week. Strike Is
Also on in Paris.

London, Jan. 25.-Serious strikes
have led students of British labor
conditions to the belief that the de-
mands are made, not in an effort to
better labor conditions, but in an at
tempt to revolutionize the whole
condition of labor employment.
Today 147,00O Yorkshire coal
miners are still idle because their
employers decline to concede the
reasonable demands of the workers
Stoppage of work in the great ship
building industry on the Clyde is
threatened as result of the coal
mems strike.
The shipbuilders are demanding a
30-hour week.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
B0LSHEVlKI
in: SEATTLE
ACTIVE
While Smaller Unions Are
Voting on Supporting the
Shipyards Strikers, Gov
ernment Is Very Busy.

Seattle, Jan. 25.-Henry M. White,
federal missioner of conciliation
in this district has been requested
by the department of labor, to act as
special mediator in attempting an i'm
mediate adjustment Of the strike OF
$4,000 metal trades workers in
Washington shipyards.
Commissioner White said he
would hasten action to bring em-
ployers and men together before a
general strike is called, should the
Seattle labor unions referendum on
that proposal favor strike.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
Monarchist Warships
Are Firing on Oporto
(Special United Press Wire.)

Especial United Press Wire.)
Madrid, Jan. 25.--Several war;
ships have bombarded Oporto, where
the monarchist revolt is centered,
advices from the frontier today re-
ported.
Food is said to be very scarce in
Oporto. Piava Conceiro, leader of
the monarchists, is reported to have
threatened to shoot all of the officials
who refuse to obey the royalist pro-
visional government.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
Bernstorff Denies He
Helped Villas Bandits
Especial United Press Wire. }

Berlin, Jan. 25.-Count Won Bern
storff has denied charges published
in American newspapers that he
financed Villas bandits in Mexico. q
never in my life had anything to do,
directly or Indirectly, with Villa. 1t
is one of the many fake stories in
vented about me to create anti-Ger-
man sentiment"
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
Telephone Operators Are
to Take a Strike Vote
Especial United Press Wire. }

San Francisco, Jan. 25.-Local
telephone operators will take strike
vote Tuesday night, it is announced.
The proposed strike plans to involve
the entire coast territory. Failure
to comply and accept an agreement
providing for an increase in wages is
given as the reason.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
Portuguese Army on
Side of Revolutionists

Paris, Jan. 25.-The Portuguese
navy has remained loyal to the gov
ernment, according to all accounts
received in Madrid. The Madrid
newspapers, however, have advices
saying that the army is on the side
of tho revolutionists.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
Paris Walks to Work
as Result of Strike

Paris, Jan. 25.--A general trans
portation strike was declared in Par
is yesterday. The subway lines, sur
face cars and automobile busses were
affected. The population took the
matter goodnaturedly and walked to
work. The strike may spread.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
Bolsheviki Invade the
African Gold Regions

London, Jan. 25.-Plans for boil
sheviki movement on the Rand, the
rich gold mining region of the Union
of South Africa, have been unearthed
says a Reuters Limited dispatch to-
day from Johannesburg.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
MONTANA WEATHER.

Fair today and sprobably tomor-
row, except probably rain or snow
west of the divide tonight or tomor-
row; not much change in tempera-
ture.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
Lisbon Garrison Has
Joined the Mo1larchists

Especial United Press Wire.)
Vigo, Spain, Jan. 25.---Most of the
Lisbon garrison has joined the mon
archists, says a Coimbre dispatch. 1t
is also reported that the royalists
have seized the Monsate wireless sta
ton.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25

Copenhagen, Jan. 25.-Ensfgn
Krylenko, former commander of the
Russian bolsheviki army, has been
arrested, according to reports re-
ceived through Finland. He was
caught when he attempted to enter
the i-bolsheviki army of General
Krasnoff for espionage purposes.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-01-25
u. S. Labor Commission
Leaves for Europe Today

New York, Jan. 25.-The depart
ment of labors economic mission, ap-
trial conditions abroad, particularly
in the new democracies of middle
Europe, will sail today on the Lap
land, it is announced here. The
commissioners are recruited from
various sections of the country. Sec
retary of Labor Wilson will accom-
pany them to the pier.
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BUTTE WEATHER.
Fair and colder.
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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-08-07
Butler Team Wins a Ball Game.

Last Sunday the Butler ball team
got even for all of the games that
they have been losing lately. Schell
City was the victim and what the
locals did to them was something
awful. All ofthe hits that the boys
have stored up in their systems tor
so long were turned loose on the luck
less boys from Vernon county. But
Ter had an almost new lineup. Mel.
SON, of Burdett, did the pitching, and
only one hit was made off his de-
livery. Mills, of Adrian, did the
catching and he did a good job, not
only behind the bat, but with the bat:
He was up six times and secured
four hits, two two baggers and one
home run, besides getting two bases
on balls. Rexroad at third was an
other new man and played fast
game.
Next Sunday Urich wifi be here
and if the boys play the snappy bali
that they did last Sunday they should
win.
The score:
1884 $3.50 R H E
Schell c o o o o 5000 o S
Butler o So 4 rs x "a IL 3
Struck out by Nelson 16; by Scheil
CITY pitchers, s. Bases on balls, off
Nelson, 2; off Schell City pitchers.
10. Home runs, w. Williams and
Nelson.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-08-07
TELEPHONE RATE HEARING
POSTPONED
New Rate Schedule Filed and City
Granted Additional Time.

The hearings of the various issues
on the rental rates, tolls and service
Of the Butler-Rich Hill Telephone
Company was continued by special
Commissioner Judge Jas. D. Lindsay
on motion of ]. F. Smith, City Attor-
ney for Butler. Postponement was
granted to Thursday, August 18th, at
which time it is expected that final
hearing will be had on all issues in
volved.
Mr.. Smiths motion for a continu-
,ance was made as the result of the
%iiscovery that a new schedule of
rates had been filed by the Butler
Rich Hill Telephone Company on
August I. Neither the city nor the
patrons of the company had been
served with notice of the filing Of
the new rates which are considerably
in. excess of the original rates.
The Public Utilities Commission
has suspended the proposed schedule
for 100 days from August l.
Following is synopsis of the
schedule of the proposed new rates:
Business stations 800
Residence stations Isl. 50
Additional charge for desk
equipment ............... rs
Charge for installation of
phone .................. so
Rent on rural telephone due and
payable quarterly in advance; on city
phones one month in advance, not
later than 18th of each month.
Mileage charge beyond initial rate
area: Rural individual line service
in addition to published rate to pay
rs cents per month additional per
quarter mile or fraction thereof, air
line, between subscribers station and
city limits.
Virginia to pay 1888 per month
to obtain free exchange with the But
Ter switchboard, Spruce and Rich
Hill.
The former rates in Butler were
Business, $I.75; residence, $I.25.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-08-07
Barn Burned.

Monday evening about six o'clock
the barn on thefarm of Ned O'Dea.
about eight miles northwest Of town
was set on fire by bolt of lightning
and was entirely consumed. Mr..
O'Dea was doing the evening milk
ing when the storm came up. He led
the Jersey cow, which he was milk
ing, into the barn, and fearing a Cyl
clone took refuge in the cellar. The
firse he knew that his barn was on
fire was when he was notified by his
neighbors. The Jersey COW, about
five tons of hay, 60 bushels of grain
and some harness were burned with
the barn. An automobile and few
little odds and ends were saved from
the building. Loss on the building
about 81 900 with $3.50 Insurance.. SIS
insurance on the contents.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-08-07
Twisted a Horses Tail Off.

A horse belonging to Charley Pow
EFT was the victim OF a rather un-
usual trick of fate last Friday. Stand
ing near threshing machine going
at full blast in one of the fields of
the Powell farm, south of town, the
animal carelessly switched its tail
when in rather precarious position
and caught it between lastly NOV
ing wheel and belt.
The wheel twisted the member off
in very few seconds, leaving a
bleeding and tail-less horse wildly
and dazedly running around the field.
The animal was finally stopped and
DR.. R. c. Leininger called. He BAN
daged the wound and in few days
after the horse seemed to be ION the
road to recovery."-Pleasant Hill
Times.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-08-07
The Printers Lose.

In game of ball which was pulled
off Thursday afternoon the Walton
Trust Company team walloped the
printers team by score of some
thing like 22 to 3. 1t was impossible
to keep an accurate score as the man.
agement had neglected to furnish the
score keepers with adding machines
to keep track of the hits and runs of
the Trust company team or the err
rors Of the alleged team of the print
ers. The printers say that they are
going to challenge the Schell City
team as that seems to be about the
only team in their class in this part
Of the country.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-08-07
G Band Concert Friday Night.

Owing to the fact that there had
been an announcement that there
would be no band concert Friday
there was only small crowd out to-
enjoy one of the finest concerts that
has been heard in this city for long
time. The band concerts this sum-
mer are to be-given by the Butler
concert band and the saxaphone
band consolidated making band OF,
60 pieces and if the concert Friday
night was a Sample of what they
can do, the music lovers of Butler
and vicinity will enjoy some treats
this summer.
One of the most pleasing numbers
on the program was vocal solo by
Herbert WeMott. 80.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-08-07
High Art Suits at Black & Sons.

The Amoret Leader has a new
managing editor, William Scybert.
Mr.. Scybert is a newcomer in the
newspaper game in Bates county, but
the last issue of the Leader looks as
though he would make good.
Mr.. and Mrs. Werner Rains and
son, Harland, left the last of the
week for Phoenix, Arizona, where
they expect to spend several weeks
and it they are suited with the coun-
try they may conclude to make their
home in the southwest.
Lieut.. Clyde Sells, who since his
return from overseas duty has been
visiting At the home of his parents,
MIR. and Mrs. c. ]. Sells, in this city,
left the first of the week for Fort D.
A. Russell, Wyoming, where he will
be discharged from the service.
Mrs ]. L. Barker and sons, Lee
and Pearl, went to Urich Sunday,
where they are visiting at the home
of her mother, Mrs. NJ. ]. Elder.
Mrs. Elder is recovering from severe
injuries which she received about two
months ago in an automobile acct
dent.
Mrs. J. F. Smith left the first Of
the week for San Francisco. Cali
fornia, where she will visit her
brother, George Scott, after which
she will visit the principal cities of
the west. She was accompanied as
far as Kansas City by her husband,
Judge J. F. Smith,
In seven inning ball game Tues
day afternoon the North side of the
square team defeated the Walton
Trust company team by a score of =
to =. The bankers are game bunch
OF losers and say that they will
come back" and show the north
siders up in the next game.
Miss Ruth Allison, of Miami,
Florida, who had been spending the
PAST week visiting friends in this
city, left Monday for Appleton City
from there she went to Deepwater
township, where she is visiting at
the home of her cousins, Ben Bas-
kerville and Lucien Baskerville.
John Fdlkerson, aged ", died at
his home four miles southeast OF
Adrian, Wednesday evening Of last
week, says the Journal. Mr.. Fulker-
son was a native Missourian, being
born at Danville, Montgomery coun-
ty, this state, February IS. I842. He
located ON the farm in Mound town.
ship on which he died, in 1879.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-08-07

George Hemstreet eame down
from Kansas City Sunday for visit
with his father, Judge W. +. Hem
street. ..
Attorney E. b. Silvers. ot Kansas
City, was attending to legal business
and visiting his parents in Butler
Tuesday.
Mrs. Clark Travis. and little son,
Dick, Of Pleasanton. Kansas. arrived
the last of the week for vssit with
Butler relatives.
~ Mrs. G. A. VanHall came down
from Kansas City and speAt Sunday
in this city with her husband, Gus
NanHall, OF Trimble's Drug Store,
S. M. Price, who recently sold his
blacksmith shop on North Main
street, left the first Of the seek for
Marshall, wher he ~rill enxa9e in the
iblacksmithing business - o.
IN The copper cable Lightning rods Is
installed BY Hayden Ray have been
ip use in this county for tAe past Il
tyears and there has never beea loss
to building on which they were. IT
MIS-. E. S. Austin, OF Jefferson
City, arrived the first OF the week Tor
q visit with Butler relatives and
friends. She was ON her way homo
from a Presbyterian convention at
HOLSTER.
Miss Frances Woods. who has
ben visiting with her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. F, Wood, has re-
turned to Kansas City. where she has
q good position with the Western
Union Telegraph Company,
R. E. Mooney. Of the Walton Trust
Company. left Tuesday for Bridge
port, Kansas. wher he was called BY
the illness. of his brother. c T.
Mooney, who is suffering With 4 case
of blood poison in one oil his knees
Fresh bulk turnip seed. 1919 crop.
cheaper and better than packet seeds
I-2 or, SC; I o.. I0cs 5 or 3scs IL
pound, soc; pound. 9oc. postpaid 10
any address on written orders All
kinds spinach. lettuce. radlsh seed Al
43-It ID. u. DeaconS
r. B. Baskerville. of Deepwater
township, his daughter. Miss Panline,
sister, Miss Jennie, and Miss Anna
Belle Eckles, went to Kansas City
Friday. where they met Mrs. B.sker-
vile and Miss Judith Baskerville.
who were returning from Rochester,
Minnesota, where tAey hAA beeA ~
dergoing treatment At the Mayo
Brothers Sanitafinm-
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-08-07
Jay Gordinier Resigns as Fire Chief

Tuesday night NJ. J. Gordinier,
Buffers veteran and efficient fire
chief. rendered his resignation to the
city council on account of private
business. The council reluctantly
accepted the resignation and ten
dered Mr.. Gordinier vote of thanks
for his long and valuable service with
the department. His successor has
not yet been appointed.
He has been a member of the de-
partment for "a years the last II of
which he has served as chief. Under
his administration the department
has progressed from a volunteer de-
partment with hand trucks which the
members were forced to pull to the
fire by hand, to modern, well
equipped department with up-to-datc
horse drawn equipment.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-08-07
Pruitt.Woods.

Mr.. Harry L. Pruitt, of Little
River, Kan. and Miss Clara Woods.
of Yates Center, Kan, were united
in marriage last Saturday morning at
Rena Rankin's Millinery Emporium
on the east side of the square. Judge
B. F. Jeter officiating. The groom
has just been recently discharged
from the service. being a member of
Co. L. 18TH U. S. Inf. Fl. Sill, Ok.
They left the same day for Kansas
City. where they may locate.