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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22
CENSUS FIGURES
What the 1890 Census Shows About
the Population of the State of
Missouri, Bates County
and the City OF
Butler

According to the latest census bull
letin the population OF the state OF
Missouri IS .3,4o4,o55. I,5So,9o3 OF
whom live in cities and towns OF
more than $500 population and 1917
I52 live on farms Or i'll small towns
and villages. There are I,723,3I9
males and I,oSo,73o females. Racially
the population is divided as follows:
White, 3,22s,o44; Negro. l7S,24l; In
dian, III; Chinese, 4l2; Japanese,
1876; all others, 81. OF the whites.
,So3o,oIS are natives of the United
States; 2,536o36 are of native parent
age; foreign parentagc 3oo,oo+; mixed
parcntage. 2o2,olS; foreign born
whites IS6, 6,o26. In the state there are
between the ages of S and 20, 1887
.332. Qn 1910 there were I,oo3,oIo.)
o6.4 per cent OF the rumber are at
tending schools. Native white attend
lng school. 67.5 per cent; foreign or
mixed parentagc, o2.8 per cent; for
cign born 4,}.I per cent, nero, 50 per
cent. The following counties have
between s and 10 per cent foreign
born populations: buchanan; jack
son, Lafayette. Gasconade, Warren.
St. Charles and ST. Louis.
The population Of Bates county is
220Ss. UYi0 25,S69.) I2,3G5 males
and 1I,hlS females. Native white
a&5SI, native parentagc 2I,4b5; Tor
eign partntagc, S5t; mixed parentage,
OIL; foreign born, 4Sl; negros, lo5.
In the county there are 3I7 illiterates
over the age OF 2I, o.loo families and
o,oo3 dwellings. The foreign born in
the county give the following as the
place OF birth; Australia, u; Bel
gium, 3.2; Canada, IS; Czecho-Slovaka
I; Denmark, 9; England, So; France,
Is. Germany 1885, ST. Greece, 2, ire land,
27: Italy, Q; Mexico, s. Poland. 2;
Russia, a Scotland, 81; Sweden. 21;
Switzerland, s.. and all others, 10.
In the city OF Butler there are p
7o2 people, I,3I4 male and 1888 fe-
males native white, native parentage,'
800; native white, foreign or mixed
parentage. TO; foreign born, 50; ne
ro. I6l. Il'iterates over 2 years OF
age, S. Number OF dwellings,, 77t;
numhcr OF families, 7o5.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22
THE KANSAS COAL STRIKE
Troops Are Ordered to the Coal
Fields to Protect the Miners
Who Wish to Work From
the Attacks of the
Howat Followers.

Last week after the women rela-
t;ves of the coal miners. who are on
Z strike in the Kansas fields had
hrutally beaten union miners who
wanted to work, the sheriff of
Crawford county acknowledged that
he could not control the situation
and a regiment of national guards
men were sent to the scene OF the
trouble and soon those miners who
wanted to work were given protec-
ton.
The indications are that the Kan
sas strike. which has been declared
by the Internatiena Miners union,
may cause bad break in the ranks
of the union. Last summer Alexan-
der Howat, president of the Kansas
district, called strike on some pre-
text or other and was sent to jail
for six months for violating the
Kansas industrial law. The Interna-
tional Union ordered the men back
to work. but many of Howat's
friends refused to abide by the Or
dcrs of the international and re-
manned out, announcing that they
would stay out until Howat was out
of Jail. Howat and his friends were
suspended from office by President
Lewis of the international union but
the radicals of the miners remain
faithful to him. The miners of the
illinois district have pledged support
to Howat and have sent thousands
of dollars to Kansas to be spent for
the benefit of the strikers and their
families.
The United States government has
taken a hand in the row by sending
prohibition enforcement officers to
the mining section and they are ar
resting bootleggers by the score.
In Crawford eeHHty- sentiment
tor law enforcement seems to be
growing and several officers who
have apparently lodged the issue
will be relieved and others put in
their places.
Efforts will also be made to get
rid of leaders of the miners who
have counsclcd defiance Of the laws
both of the state and the union.
The marching of women last Mon
day morning and the scenes OF riot
ing that followed for three days
were only the fruits OF the KIND OF
leadership that tho lahoring people
of the district, mainly coal miners,
have had forced Upon them for many
years. With their leader brazenly
defying the law and ridiculing the
courts of the count~v and denounc-
ing officials charged with law en-,
forcement, and just as brazenly and
boldly denouncing his own union
superior authorities and refusing. to
obey the rules of his organization,
little could be expected OF those
who blindly followed him except
that they would as far as they could
follow the example he set.
But the state is teaching them
lesson, and the lesson is going to be
fairly complete before the state gets
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22
MURDER AND SUICIDE
Harry Ashley, Formerly of This City
Kills Woman and Then
Himself.

Friday night, as Helen Waters, 2S
years of age, stepped from the en-
trance to her apartment at II2o East
Twelfth street, Kansas City, she was
shot and instantly killed by Harry
Ashley, 81 years old, rejected lover.
Ashley then turned the weapon on
himself inilicting a wound from
which he died at the city hospital
Saturday morning.
Miss Walters came to Kansas City
from Wichita. Ashley was resident
of Rich Hill. Mo. Here the couple
met. Ashley fell madly in love with
the girl. She spurned him.
Her rejection of his affection
drove Ashley to desperation. He
haunted her home. Thursday morn
ing at o'clock he made his last
visit. Refused admittance, he kicked
out the glass of the door.
Miss Walters, accompanied by
Miss Vivian Murray, who shared
her apartment with her, and three
other friends, planned a trip to the
Union station to meet some acqualn-
tance5 there. 4 sister OF Miss W al
ters- Mrs Sue Anthony, also living
at Miss Walters apar ,ment, was out
Of the city.
As the party stepped to the street,
Ashley. who had been lying iii wait,
approached
He spoke, but his words were not
understood by those who wltncssed
the tragedy. Whipping revolver
from his pockcd, Ashley fired po mt
blank at the girl. Four bullets found
their mark and Miss Walters tell
dead.
Ashley then turned the revolver on
himself. He iell, bullet in his head.
Miss Walters is divorcee, former.
ly having been married to Edward
Kesssllef Kesssllef of Of Wichita.
Ashley's father is a resident OF
Rich Hill, Mo. George Ashley, a
brother, lives in Kansas City. An
other brother. William. and a sister,
Miss Mary Ashley, live at the family
home
Ashley at one time lived in this
city. lie married Miss lottie
Young. who afterwards divorced him,
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22
Republican County Convention.

Saturday afternoon tho Republi-
cans OF the county held mass con-
NcntiOn at the court house and elect.
ed the following delegates to the Re-
publican senatorial convention to be
held at Osceola December 20:
c. +. Robbins, A. l., Fox. George
Sunderwirth, Joe Wright, Jesse
Moles, Frank koontz. L. II. Hirni.
B. +. Wix, Henry Fisher, Lon
Varncs, Mrs w. A. Searfus and
Mrs Pitner.------
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22

through with it. Troops camped in
the midst of the trouble zones have
brought home to the foreigners that
the state means business and no ac-
tons such as disgraced the mining
field last week are to be repeated.
And while the troops are camped,
ready for immediate action, the
deputy sheriffs are giving growing
list of persons, most of them wom-
Ell, who were in the mobs last week,
another chance to Marcia chance
to march into district court and face
charges that will mean heavy fine,
and Jail if they can't provide bonds
men.
Out in the coal camps and among
the Howat lieutenants here, the ar
rest of the first women brought in
was considered quite a joke. They
aid few of the women would be
arrested and given some publicity,
which would be beneficial to the
cause. and then would be given their
freedom.
But it is joke no longer. To-
night forty-two warrants had been
issued and the officers were only
getting good start There is no
limit to the number of warrants
that may be issued-except the num-
Der of persons who were in the
rioting.
1t was no accident that George H..
Wark, federal prohibition enforce
mcnt director for Kansas, came into
the field almost with the troops, and
unlimbered heavy artillery for an as
sault upon the booze business. tic
chose the opportune TIME to make his
work effective. The booze business
in Crawford County is hooked UP
with the doctrine of disobedience to
law that has been taught the strik-
ers.
Out through the mining camps the
forces of Wark are striking terror in
10 the hearts of the liquor peddlers
and bootleggers and jointists.
Instances we're found Tuesday, Of
ficials- declare where striking king ilfiHi-
crs have taken the flour that they re-
ccived as relief from the Illinois
miners and traded it for whisky.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22
Ask Permission to Cut Rates.

Jefferson City Dec. I4.--Thc Mis-
souri Pacific Railroad Company on
it's own behalf and in behalf OF 9th
cr Missouri railroads, filed IN appli-
cation with the state public service
commission today for an order put
ting into effect a reduction OF 10 per
cent on farm, garden. range and or
chard product, presumably to become
operative about January I. 1t is spe-
cified in the application, however,
that the decreases shall not apply TO
any commodity having had great
er decrease granted it since Scptem-
Der, 1920, than 10 per cent. In IN
stances where the reduction in the
past amounted to more than 10 per
cent, the rate shall not be lowered.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22
Death of M. w. Faubion.

Tuesday afternoon w. NJ. Fatlbion.
ono Of Buffers highly respected cit
izens was found dead i'll the stable
at his home III the northwest part OF
the city The cause Of his death be-
ing heart disease.
Mr.. 1aubon was a quiet, unassum-
ing gentleman who enjoyed the re-
spcct OF his neighbors and those with
whom he came in contact and his
family have the sympathy of the en-
tire community in their bereave-
ment.
Funeral services. conducted by
Rev. H. A. Mitchell will be held
from the Ohio street M. Z. church
Thursday afternoon and interment
made in Oak Hill cemetery.
The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-12-22
Stores to Close Monday,

We, the undersigned Grocery
Merchants, will close our stores Sat
urday night, Dec. o4th, to remain
closed until Tuesday morning, De-
cembcr 27, on account Of Christmas
coming on Sunday, making Monday
legal holiday You will therefore
make your purchases for groceries
accordingly. L,
Signed:
Hays & Zwahlen
Lon Rays Grocery
A. ID. Fortncr
Thrall- Simpson
Boners Grocery
c. w. Anderson
Golden Rule Grocery
Q. A. Heinlein Nero. Co.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21
Luke Mel uke Says

The average woman has more people on her Hating List than she has on her list of Friends.
 When a woman thinks that she is Intellectual she gets so that sha just hates to look Effeminate.
 It has just about gotten so that a man can't do days work for his wages without acting like he is doing the Boss a big favor.
 There is something awfully crooked about the man who imagines that all other men are crooks.
 Many Tailor has to start a suit in order to get the money for a suit he has finished.
 Once in a while every wife says to every husband: "Why don't you help around the house? Other men have to-"
 When they are first married she changes the style of doing up her hair four times day. But when the fourth baby comes she wads her hair into doorknob on the back of her head and leaves it that way.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21
Important to all Women
 Readers of this Paper

Thousands upon thousands of wo- men have kidney or bladder trou- ble and never suspect it.
 Women complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or bladder disease.
 If the kidneys are not in healthy condition, they may cause the other organs to become diseased.
 You may suffer pain in the back, headache and loss of ambition.
 Poor health makes you nervous irritable and may be Respondent; it makes any one so.
 But hundreds of women claim that Dr. Kilmer Swamp-Root, by restoring health to the kidneys proved to be just the remedy needed to overcome such conditions
 Many send for a sample bottle to see what Swamproot, the great kid ney, liver and bladder medicine will do for them. By enclosing ten cents to Dr. kilmer & Co.,. Binghamton N. f, you may receive sample size bottle by Parcel Post. You can pur- chase medium and large size bottles at all drug stores.
 When writing be sure and men ton the Alaska Daily Empire. Ju- neau, Alaska. adv.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21
Genius Arrayed in OveraIls.
(Cincinnati Ennuirer.D ]

NClnclnnatl EnQulrer.)
 Genius, it has been well said is the capacity for taking infinite pains, especially with details The saying is akin to that which holds that inspira- ton is largely matter of perspraton Those lack ing it wonder why captains of finance and industry are successful. They do because it is not for them to understand
 One of the foremost figures in American business affairs is man who once a mechanic appar- ently of the mediocre type. Book learning was his only in small part, and he knew little of the world about him. But he had the capacity of clinging to an idea and going with it to its ultimate expansion Defeat did not conquer him. and today his wealth is measured by many millions.
 Hampered in his mighty manufacturing opera tions through the disturbance of the fuel supply he resolved to fortify himself against other Interruptions and at the time afford the city of his domicie protection against the evil Accordingly he bought a moribund railroad stretching to the mining regions. Thus far he did what any unusually rich man might do. But what did he do farther?
 Leaving his comfortable home he made a personal inspection Of the property, noting all the grades, bridges, sdings and crossings along the 454 miles out and observed the defects and he examined every unit of the motive power and the shops stations and offices Along the line he talked with shippers got the views of the employees, and sought the advice Of expert operating officials whose lines tapped the road he was inspecting
 In consequence of the weeks spent in oyeralls and tt hard labor he is today complete master of the situation, and his instructions those who are now working to rehabilitate the neglected and haf-ds- bled property based upon first knowledge of the acts decade hence it is likely that ignorant men 9antantly will cavfl at the luck that attended his picking up of valuable asset. Only few will re- all the figure of patient and persistent man who ook nothing for granted and out to see things with his own eyes and hear things with his own ars. One or two, perhaps will remember that they detected genius beneath the rough disguise of his pparel. The world a whole. though bIindlv will egard him as merely fortunate, anu it will be a pity, too.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21
How To Get Rid or a Wife

This is a copy of contract made between two men and a woman 1T Parks, Neb., according to E. T Grunden:
 No all parties by these Presents that I do this day Sel my wife, Ne vada Burckhart, as we can not agree to gather Andwe Have Made a agree ment for her to go with James Hud son and l will get her a Devorce a! Soon as Possible. And I want nel to Marie lame Hudson as soon d. Possible. This is the agreement De tween oil of Parties.
 George Burkhart, his (X) mark
 Mrs. Nevada Burkhart,
 James Hudson.
 MT. Judge-Let this woman ge married at any time she wants tt as I have Sat her Free An she vii never be bothered by Me.
 George Burkhart, his (X) mark
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21
HEARST TO BUY POST-INTELLIGENCE

The Seattle Times declares that the sale Of the Seattle Post In elligencer William Randolph Hearst has been about completed, and that an announcement nj the sale and the delivery of the property may be expected within short time If this purchase should be consummated it will with success Hearst s dozen years effort get into the Seattle held. It will also add an important link to the Pacific Coast chain of Hearst newspapers, one or more daily news uapers in ten cities of the country. He already has newspapers in San Francisco and Los Angeles on the Pacific Coast, New York; Boston and Wash ington on the Atlantic, Chicago and Milwaukee on the Great Lakes and at Atlanta in the South.
 It is understood that MT. Hearst has been endeaV- bring to secure control of the Portland Oregonan, hut so far his efforts have with failure in that direction. An outsider would noturaly arrive at the conclusion that the old Oregonian is not likely to pass from Portland ownership Portland is a very wealthy city the Oregonian has long been closely associated with the wealth of the city. It is likely that Portland people will want to continue that as sociation on intimacy that would not be prac- ticabe If the ownership of the publication should pass into nonresident hands.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21

Congressman Madden of Chicago attacked the ad- minisration in speech in the House for pur- chasing the Guggenhem railroad The only thing wrong about the speech is the fact that the Gug- genheim railroad purchased at all by the Government any else
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21

Connecticut where the fight against the ratiica- ton of the woman suffrage amendment to the Con stitution vas perhaps harder and successful as in any Northern State has five in the State Legislature.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21


 road Mir Madden in the House with Rep resentatives Blanton ,xas and Stafford Wis consin Stafford is he present House but was in the last and vii the next) for the multi tude of speeches ack of knowledge of the subjects discussed.
 who 'illef is surprised at his defense of Ala iendshp for the Territory. He ar upon time and he has lveo md been mucl interested in working f Jry for a score of years since departint .ka has bette friend in Congress tn himself be Many times in the mmittee he ha spoke for the Territe interests stake. He eect his third tern In the House, and h 1ere is reassurin, to the people of Alask4
 The Congressional h., aims the following of the debate bet r Madden and Mr Miller the Alaska Raiiro a subject that Wa introduced when Representative Mckinley, Senator Elect from Illinois, introduced amendment in tn, appropriation bill designed to prevent a raise O the salary of Col. Mears, chairman of the Alaskan Engineering Commission, from $10000 to $15,O0( year
 MT. Madden-Everybody said that we building a railroad into a new Eldo- rado. that we were going into the Mata- nuska coal fields, that going supply the American navy with cheap coal. We were then buying coal from Wales something like $25 to $3O ton They said the Matanuska coal had heating power greater than that coal down here in the Virginia fields that it could be produced in quantities without end, that were going also into agricultural region from which we would be able get freight enough to pay for the railroad in no time.
 We have not found the coal and I have not seen any of the agricultural products. Sometimes they say that if you want to get down to where the earth is up there you have got to dig through seventy feet of ice
 Now l do not know whether this rail- road is being built the ice not. but one section of the road, twenty-five miles long, was laid in place where it was washed away within a week after it was laid That shows the quality of the engineering forces up there. We had two civilian com m1ssionerS cooperating with the military commissioner neither of whom had ever seen railroad except when they rode on it. They were getting $10000 a year. They did nothing for their comuensaion. They had 47 per cent of the employed in the overhead force and only B per cent of those employed doing actual construc- ton work l think it has been one of the most scandalous enterprises in a small way for consider $5O.000 ,O00 or $60,00O- 900 now small thing-that 1 have ever known. We have just begun to build the railroad. Only Al miles have been built out of 500.
 You know it was said before this railroad authorized and while it was under con sideration that the Guggenheims owned some of the railroads there; that they were steal ing Alaska; that they criminals. suggested then that il they were criminals they ought to be arrested and put in jail
 I said, l suspect that the first thing they
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21

Everybody with anything in the way of advice oE his mind now addresses letter to Marion Ohio- Washington Star)
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21
THE MILLER MADDEN DEBATE

No one who has followed the of Repre- sentative Martin B. Madden of Chicago is particularly astonshed by his remarks in the debate with Represen tatiye John K Miller ,-s Seattle over the Alaska Rail
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21

The best of job work, of all kinds, is done by the Empire. Call us up for quotations.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21
PoIice!

"It says here that electrical treat ment will add to your weight" said the Old Fogy, as he looked up from the newspaper he was reading.
 That's strange" commented the Crouch. "I should imagine that cleo tricity would make you light"
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21
Firms Is Firms

Bray & Buttin, Attorneys-at- Cave City, N M.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21

Always something to be thankful for: We don't nave to pay taxes on the castle We build in the air -(Columbus Dispatch)
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21
Notice!

Miss Green Corn of Chandfield, Okla, has been appointed Instructor of Dietetics to the Corn Fed girls in the Names Is Names Club.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21
The Wise Fool

Ignorance of the law excuses nc man." observed the Sage.
 Unless he happens to have a pull, added the Fool.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21
Ouch i!

Do you know that Smith is barely able to read and write?' said Brown
 That so?" asked Jones. "Wha, College did he graduate from?"
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21
It's a Cruel Old World!

Wilmington Journal-Republican
 Bill Steedum is being importuned, whatever that is, to syndicate his sayings, but we suppose if he did it wouldn't be long until the word would be passed along that his wife wrote all his stuff, like they say about Luke McLuke.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21
BITS OF BY-PLAY By Luke McLuke Copyright by Cincinnati
 Enquirer
Early Morning

Early Morning It is pretty tough to have to ge, up early in the A. M. these cold days. But what we started to tell you was that A. M. Eearly lives in Dayton, Ky.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-21
This Amt Such Bad Old Country

ThIS NIn't SUCh Bad OTd country! Rumley, Ind Champagne, III. Brandywine, Ohio. Brewersville, Ind Bourbon, Ind.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-02-25
High School Girls
Beat Academy Five
by 3 to IS Score

The girls basketball team Of the
Great Falls high school beat the team
Of Ursuline academy % to Is Thurs
day afternoon at the academy gymna-
stun. A return game will be played
Monday afternoon in the high school
gymnasium.
Hazel Hickman, with seven field
goals and one foul goal, and Ruth Con
ser, with four field goals, scored all
Of the high schools points. Olga
Trinstich scored most Of the points
for the academy.
The line ups were: high schooEHa-
gel Hickman and Ruth Gonser, for
wards; Julia Arthur and Dorothy
Bridgeman, centers; Eva Chellquist
and Katherine Cone, guards. Acad-
envy Olga Trinstich and Annie Kom-
mers, forwards; Louise Lockley and
Marie Reagan, centers; Evelyn Church
and Susan Churchill, guards.