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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1905
Page
8
A historical item recounts the tale of a Mancho chief who outwitted pursuers and was captured after a long chase. The narrative emphasizes strategy, courage, and the unfolding of events in a remote region.
El Paso reports the destruction of Tome New Mexico by Rio Grande floods wiping out every house and leaving survivors camping on hills. Founded in the seventeenth century by Spaniards, Tome boasted prominent families and a famed massacre tied to Cuerveno Verde. The ghost town’s romantic legends survive in memory.
Harv ey Andruss a Republican county central committee member and wealthy farmer killed his wife with a hedge knife at their Centerview home and then shot himself. The 14 year old daughter intervened when he attempted to shoot himself, a note to his children cited a motive, and the family reported prior quarrel but not serious.
The Rock Island system spans the west like a giant web anchored at New Orleans Galveston El Paso Denver Watertown St Paul Chicago and Birmingham It covers nineteen states totaling 1 385 000 square miles nearly 40 percent of the Union and includes forty cities over 25 000 in population In 1901 these states produced corn worth 620 million and wheat worth 176 million, representing 83 and 48 percent of national crops respectively.
In a New York Times item about Ambassador Choate, a Texas judge presiding over a horse theft case sentences a prisoner to hang. The lawyer interrupts claiming due process, prompting the judge to discharge the prisoner while noting that the hanging would be carried out by “the boys” under customary practice.
Farmington Mo June 5 Word reached here that James Cunningham beat his father-in-law John F Shearlock to death with a club at the former's home eight miles north of Farmington Sheriff Croke and Deputy Tondon left for the scene Further details were not obtainable Shearlock was a former trader in Farmington and once represented Ste Genevieve county in the state legislature
New York doctors at Gouverneur Hospital explain caisson disease among sandhogs for the Manhattan bridge project. The affliction, caused by high pressure in underwater caissons, drives blood from skin to core, with air entering tissues and risking artery and vein damage. Slow decompression is urged to reduce injuries. many workers have been removed from the caisson, creating labor shortages.
Prof Ray Lankester of London argued at the Royal Institution that living animals are not generally smaller than extinct predecessors. Miocene remains show elephants as small as a Shetland pony, while present horses like Flemish dray horses are larger than fossils. Sharks reached colossal sizes, with fossil teeth four to five times bigger than a 30 foot shark, suggesting an 80 ft extinct species that could swallow three or four people.
Prince Tarkanov, a noted Russian scientist, claims new radium theories. He asserts the element can reveal a child's sex, cure many diseases, and has treated cancer in two patients. He also says radium stops hydrophobia in inoculated dogs and could revolutionize modern warfare if produced in quantity.
A New York police report notes a Buffalo Express item about a vice man being arrested and fined for snoring during a church service. The piece implies those who cannot sleep in church should stay home, reflecting a dismissive tone toward disruptive behavior.
An anarchist hurled a bomb at the royal carriage of King Alfonso XIII of Spain and President Loubet as they left the opera. The blast caused no injuries to the king or president but wounded several escort soldiers. Authorities arrested the principal attacker and three suspected accomplices seen near the Louvre archway minutes before the explosion.
Sickening shivering fits of ague and malaria can be relieved by Electric Bitters a tonic medicine. It is claimed to cleanse the system of disease better than quinine with no after effects. E Munday of Henrietta Texas reports his brother recovered from malarial fever and jaundice after taking it. Sold at Frank T Clay's drug store for 50 cents guaranteed.
Special round trip rates to Kansas City valid Saturdays and Sundays with return by Monday noon. Trains from Butler after noon. Denver Pueblo and Colorado Springs to Denver region with return windows June 30 to July 4 and good return August 8. Fare 1605 with Epworth convention. Special Colorado Utah rates. One fare plus 50 for round trip. June 1 to September 30 with return by October 31.
By decree and order of sale, a certified copy dated May 6 will sell at public auction on May 1906 at the east front door of the Butler courthouse Bates County Missouri. Bidder for cash conveys the east half of the northwest quarter of section 5 and all of the east half of the northeast quarter of section 6 in township 6 south, range 0, with parcels described along the road line to the south and north boundaries. Minor parties listed include Shorifs, Davis, Hedrick, Bowen, Bowman, and Carroll with executor M M Carroll ex parte.
In the Probate Court of Bates County J W Campbell administrator presents petition for sale of real estate of Wm A DeLong to pay debts unless contrary shown by Aug next term 1905 notice to interested parties and sale terms to be published in Bates County Mo with copies sent to heirs and claimants.
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