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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1906
Page
2
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Local freight schedules and interstate division times shown for Butler Station. Corrected timetable lists times for Joplin, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Central West routes with early morning and afternoon departures. Agency agent J Ff. Gwarn noted.
A damaged OCR fragment lists numerous names and titles for the Bates County primary election. Names include Lawrence M. Griffith Osage Township, Janes R. Angle Mt. Pleasant Township, Harve Johnson Osage Township, D. D. Peeler Hudson Township, D. A. Bean Mt. Pleasant Township, and others. Mentions Osage, Mt. Pleasant, Spruce, Dark Creek, Walnut, Shawnee townships and officials such as Prosecuting Attorney Silas W. Dooley and county officers. Date referenced May 8, 1908.
Announcement says proceedings to oust Standard Oil from Kansas have been dropped after months of high profile efforts. Critics lament the quick capitulation as costly and futile, questioning the moral and political costs of the failed battle against monopoly.
A compiled Missouri press debate notes Col. Jake Allen of Bates county will not run for Congress, urging Democrats to vote. The piece cites his fishing and hunting remarks and his focus on home town aid, while urging party unity and civic involvement across Missouri. It also notes the Gallatin Democrat naming Judge J. W. Alexander as Dockery’s support.
Ex governor of Texas, 67, died at his residence with partner Frank C. Jones of Houston en route to Battle Creek sanitarium. He recently survived a railroad accident and faced $100,000 damages suit against the International and Great Northern. A noted southwest figure, he rose from farm work to attorney general and governor in the 1880s and 1890s. John K Walsh, ex-president of the Chicago National Bank, was arrested for bank law violations and for misusing $8 million.
Missouri Senator Warner says there is no corruption in the Senate. The piece notes reactions from other senators from Kansas and Oregon about alleged abuses. The House passed a bill to reimburse Joseph Pickena of Neosho, Missouri, $300 from a 20 year old registered letter loss. It also reports Charles Brickenstein, treasurer of Conegas County, Colorado, resigning due to a $62,000 shortage.
In Jefferson City on March 5 the supreme court, in Judge Foxs opinion, held the justice of the peace had jurisdiction over a St. Louis county misdemeanor case and that the St. Louis city police lacked power to arrest outside the city. The decision limits gubernatorial police to municipal bounds and signals a possible reopening of the Delmar race track. Justices Marshall and Valliant dissented.
Seattle March 4 The War Department requested the Great Northern to name a price for chartering the Minnesota and Dakota to serve as transport ships in case of hostilities China. The company replied with a satisfactory price while noting tense Orient conditions. The Minnesota, launched earlier as the world’s largest vessel, is 80,000 tons volume with 690 feet length. the Dakota is its sister ship. Both were built by James J. Hill’s Great Northern Railway.
Joseph G. Siebenrek former editor and proprietor of the Pittsburg Chronicle and longtime editor in chief of the Chronicle Telegraph died of pneumonia after a short illness. He was 74, a former Associated Press director, retired since 1900, and he leaves two daughters and a son.
A young man named Lionberg Irving near Coal drowned in Deer Creek east of Clinton Tuesday evening. He had begun returning home then decided to stay with Sam Robinson. Fording the swollen stream his horsemen were swept and he disappeared, later found drowned near Hunt's Center.
A fragmented legal notice from Missouri records an order of publication in a term case. The readable text references a Casas Geert property and an 1908 date, indicating a formal public notice action related to a civil matter.
Lieutenant General John M. Schofield, longtime U S Army officer and Civil War veteran, died in St Augustine Florida at 66 after a cerebral hemorrhage. He fought under Lyon Sherman and Thomas, led the Department of the Missouri postwar, and was survived by his wife Miss Georgia Kilbourne and a daughter.
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