The Fort Scott Weekly Tribune from Fort Scott, Kansas • 8

mu9 ynbnwe EFT TO A COMMITTEE AT Christmas Gift HITiKDAY. Decimbeb 19 1901. DIAMONDS MISSING FROM BURK- TITE CHARGES FALSE SEWER When you think of a Xmas Gift, you naturally think of Local Mews. HOLDER'8 WINDOW. REMONSTRANCES.

Drop lot brand new Winchester repeating shot-guns at Davenport's for FIRE DESTROYED ALL NO OCCUPATION TAX YET 115. BURKHOLDER'S, As it ii there ysu will find the nicest asssrtansst of fine goods suitable for gifts is the city. xxi ei'y property to trad for farm land. Address 209 south Little street, Display Caught Fire Last Evening and to Loss Sustaind is About 1,600 to $2,000. Fort ftcott, Kas.

Council Votes to Take a Jaunt Wichita at City's Expense. Shaffer Objects. I you wilt find Fine Diamonds sod Rare 111 KingS aiQ MtiaS opal, of great beauty, also Pearls, Rubys, Garnets, Turquoises, and many others. We have the very Istest in Geo tlemen's Fob Chains, also Neck Chains and Lockets of every description for ths From Vesterday'i Dally. I want agents to furnish teams and wagons to sell medicine in Bourbon, Linn and other counties.

Dr. Oyster, Paula, Kansas. From Yesterday'! Dally Last Christmas ladies. The pretty display in Burkholder's show window on north Main street caught fire last night and all the Btock Tn TJTnlini. HIaaVh Tnmniwrr n.JI job will find all the late We sold 100 Pairs of Spectacles The council last night, at its regular meeting, decided that Fort Scott owes its members a little recreation from and Eye Glasses for Christmas in the window was either burned, des- lfl ndlLllCi, WUUL5, JBIGllj CLUtl uUKulIuiC, novelties.

Tou sso maks troyed or stolen. A number of dlam-1 i rm rt nthor your selection early and bve goods laid away until jo ere ready for them. Any Gifts, and there was no disappoint the cursing of an ungrateful constiit ment expressed in the faces of The colored school on the east side, known hi the Washington school, is re-eoverini; its attendance which was so dimimttbed by the recent epidemic of small pox in the families who patronize that school. missing and it is suspected that some I ft'cle putchased of us will be ograved free. uency and voted to take a jaunt to those who received them as they r.t a ,7 V.

1 I. came In, one by one, to Wichita to attend the meeting of the police arrived made the window a grab A ve UptlCal department gIm. lt Municipal League, at the city's ex GRIFFITH'8 OPTICAL PARLOR The fire occurred before the store I croscopea, Beadiug Glasses, etc. Also Solid Gold and Gold Filled Spectacles and pense. No limit was fixed, except that the city is not to pay for drinks and had the lenses changed to suit their eyes.

We expect to double our last year's business, and have closed lor the night and while Mr. Eye Glasses, rimiesa and with rims. Lenses fitted after Christmas if dssirs. Buritnoiaer ana nis clem were waiting and cigars. on customers.

It was almost 9 O'clock Fvm Fvamlneri Pru hv nur firHnf Ontlr-lan. made preparations accordingly. Tlte's sewer ordinance went over to wueu nucuinuuiutrB jeweler weui 10 a committee, he protesting against any further delay. It seems to be a close A fine assortment of Opera and Field Glascee, Microscopes and Telescopes, which are always question whether or not the remon the window to take out a piece to show a customer. He had Just stepped back to the counter when It was observed that the window was all ablaze.

A Store Open Evenings. BURKH0LDER, THe Beliatle Jeweler. acceptable to people of taste and strance is sufficient to beat the sewer if the council wantB to build it. Tite refinement. Remember the place- unique display had been arranged in alleged some forgeries to the remon the window, cotton having been used strance and the committee will inves The St.

Louis steel range company, which has a lot of accounts against Bourbon county farmers who refuse to pay them on the ground of alleged fraud, has taken no steps in court toward the collection of them. The agent of the company has not returned Mayor Goodlander has received a fhort letter from the secretary of th Kansas City, Merchantile club expresing thanks to the people of Fort Bcott for the kindnesses shown them on the occasion of their recent visit to this city. It is difficult to determine whether or not the letter is a sort of "coals of fire" epistle or a mere matter of form. One item from the pay roll at the Missouri Pacific shops illustrates how busy the men are over there. J.

L. No. 4 North Main Street. freely to represent snow. The cotton 24 NoH Haiti Street, Fort Scott, Kansas.

tigate them. The occupation tax was not considered, though the ordinance In Brown's Book Store an an aiiauic ill evil moiaui auu i I was impossible to get close enough to save was on the table before the members any of the stock. The Jeweler threw was not a word of comment on his a bucket of water Into the window, but Redman and Tallman were absent. It was reported that a barn stands in the street on Humboldt avenue WE ARE motion and no second. it seemed to hare no effect.

Meantime The room was cold and the council the fire department had been called and when it arrived the large plate north side, just across the Marmaton bridge and the street committee was did not seem anxious to get at the oc cupation tax ordinance, which was in instructed to investigate glass window had fallen in and out in many pieces. The firemen used the Ready for Christmas! The finance committee reported the clerk's hands, so a motloa to ad journ was put and carried. that City Treasurer Schroer had not! chemical machine and extengulshed the blaze before it spread. Then a crowd of one of two hundred men who fled him that, pursuant to a recent A RAILROAD POSSIBILITY. had been attracted pressed in upon the Are You? window.

It had been left in total instruction of the council he would refuse to pay the interest on the bonds which were recently called in, and that after January, the interest paying period, he would recall the $21,000 sent ndications that Fort Scott, lola and darkness and Mr. Burkholder thinks Slater, one of the wood workmen in the roundhouse, last month worked 377 hours, averaging twelve and a half hours each of the thirty days of the month. Last week from Monday morning until Saturday night, he had gotten in just nine days. When a man works nine days in six he is tired, but when the pay car comes it has a tendency to rest him some. Western Will Be St.

Louis Line Through Here. some in the crowd began grabbing what they could get that was valuable to New York to take up the bonds if The police soon arrived and with they were not surrendered. Fmm Dally of Yesterday. their clubs, forced the crowd back. Mr.

It's the part of wisdom not to delay your prepara The fire and water committee was instructed to buy some new blankets, The announcement in the Associat Burkholder says there was from $1,600 ed Press telegraph yesterday that the to $2,000 of stock in the window, in tion until the last week. Better begin now, when vou helmets and other necessities for the nlnrHriC nnfitlv Hiflmnnrla pnld wntnh- Katy road is to build right away from employes of the fire department. It Emporia to Omaha gives rise to a sus es, fine clocks, jeweled pins and can do it more leisurtly. The whole store has caught brooches, etc. A number of diamonds i tti-j set rings have not been found in the the Holiday spirit, and you are welcome to inspect an picion that that road has rather an ex tensive scheme in contemplation, which may mean something for Fort debris.

Had they not been stolen they Qrraw rf netful arA KntiCil o-Jfto enV, was suggested that the purchase price be paid out of the firemen's insurance fund, but it appeared that that fund was designed for the benefit of firemen in case of accident to them. Chairman Roberson of the health committee reported three cases of would nrohahlv have been destroyed wuw Scott. It is a possibilitv that the road has in view a line from St. Louis to the by the fire as was a $100 stone in a your EfOOd fortune to See. What you select now, will be eit-imcr T'Vtia iiH Tiro a if tin or I Kansas gas fields and then on up to Omaha.

From Emporia east the line under a plate glass sheif that was sus- held for later delivery, if you wish. would be as good a St. Louis line as pendea trom above. When tne glass fell it struck the diamond that was We desire particularly to call your attention to our is to be found in that section. It would be shorter than by way of Kansas City.

intensely hot and crushed the stone Judge J. S. West, as-iisttint attorney general, thinks it advisable forciiUDtv clerks and register of deeds, who bold over uoder the profit-ions of the biennial election law, to provide themselves with new bonds. While their o.d bond9 not make auy specific roritjion of the length of time Ihey are to run, yet it in generally accepreil that a bond for a county offio'-r is to run but two years, and for ihin reasoD Judge West thinks new mds should be secured. ha advised a number of county officers to take this action and it is likely the most of tbem will do so.

FARMERS ATTENTION. We will 6tretch your dollar for you. Fresh Roasted Coffee from 12c to 35c, Special premium given on Saturday, Dec. 14th. American Pacific Tea No.

5 South Main St magnificent display of There has been a rumor for a long in many small pieces. Some of the time that the Fort Scott, lola West ases in which diamond set rings were ern, which is regarded as beyond on display and several cases in which some costly brooches were kept, were Smoking Jackets and House Coats. found, but the jewels were missing doubt a branch of the Katy road, was the beginning of a St. Louis connection for the Katy with the Kansas gas fields. This would be made by running This is what caused Mr.

Burkholder to smallpox in three different houses. The previous report showed twenty-seven cases. Attention was called to the fact that the firemen's fund is not being appreciated by the firemen. Some of them have been injured at fires in past years to the extent that they were compelled to lose time and not one of them had ever presented a claim for benefit from the fund. It was suggested that they present their claims.

Wichita's invitation to the Fort Scott Mayor and council to attend the annual meeting of the Municipal League at that town was read by the clerk and the mayor urged the council to attend. Tite thought all should go, and said that suspect pilfering. He has gathered up line to Moran from Fort Scott to con Also our line of SILK MUFFLERS and HANDKER the debris and placed it in a back room awaiting the insurance adjusters nect with the Fort Scott, lola West The Geo. C. Kennedy Co.

agency and the H. T. Hansford agency, car CHIEFS; HOLIDAY NECKWEAR; PLAIN and FANCY HOSIERY and SILK SUSPENDERS. ried the insurance, which Mr. Burk ern.

At Piqua the latter branch connects with the Katy's Emporia line, making a short line from this city to Emporia, and opening up a new and wealthy section of the country to the Katy road and to St. Louis. The line holder thinks will cover the loss. The three plate glasses that were destroy ed by the fire will entail a loss of about $225. The building belongs to on to Omaha would not be much out of the way for a good St.

Louis-Omaha the city should pay only the actual hotel expenses. It was understood that Vassar College. M. LIEPMAN BRO. I THE PEOPLE'S CLOTHIERS.

It was quite a metropolitan Bight to Notice to the Sick. J. C. Jury, the learned Magnetic Healer, will teach or practice the same Come and be cured of your chronic diseases end be well. Charges moderate.

J. C. JURY, Drywood, Kans. the mayor would get transportation for the officers. Shaffer objected to line.

As it is now the Katy can only reach tho Tfnnqns pnq helt and nharp in the see the police holding the crowd back frnm the unprotected window with large freight business from that terri their clubs. He said the council had an occupa Mr. Burkholder does not know what tory by going down to Parsons and W. J. CALHOUN CO.

W. J. CALHOUN CO. started the fire, unless It was an then up, which makes such a long haul that the road is not much of a tion tax up and the people would claim they were taking money thus raised and spending it on jaunts. The mayor said it was a prescribed rule for electric wire.

The window was illu competitor for the business. minated by incandescent lights, but cities to pay the expenses of officers on such trips and he thought that was HIS HEARING FRIDAY. the wires had been carefully insullated and Manager Selig of the Consolidated company says It is impossible that one of them could have ignited the cotton or anything else. right. 50,000 Bushels of Coal.

Now ready for delivery, at bank 5 miles N. W. of Fulton, Kas. C. K.

YOUNG, Fulton, Kas. Oh Yes, Oh Yes, Get my terms before letting your eale. L. C. HALL, Auctioneer, Uniontown, Kas.

Tite said the city owed the council such a trip. Roberson thought like wise. He said the council should go and stop at the best hotel and have a MRS. FORTNEY DIED SUDDENLY. Stewart, the Webb City Banker, Charged With Complicity With Buck-foot, Will Fight.

From yesterday's Dally. J. P. Stewart, the Webb City banker, grand, royal time and the city should pay the expenses. Of course, he said Ex-Representative B.

F. Fortney Did Not Learn of It Until Last Night Left Her Usually Well. the councilmen should pay for their own drinks, etc. The councilmen work for $4 per month and the people W. J.

CALHOVN a CO. Ladies' and Misses' New Haglan MacMsbes and Bain Coats. To Loan! Hone Prom YeU rd y' Daily. Mrs. Sarah Fortney, wife of B.

F. who is charged with standing in with the Webb City foot-racing gang and with having used the mails to defraud, will try to have the federal court release him in Kansas City day after tomorrow. His application for his re Fortney, of Marmaton, died suddenly about 10 o'clock yesterday morning at the family home at Marmaton. She lease on a writ of habeas corpus will be heard at that time. had been in her usual health until a Stewart is a man about fifty years We have money to loan on real estate security in Eastern Kansas and moment or two before she expired.

Mr. Fortney was away from home and did not hear of her death until 6 o'clock last evening. He arrived here at 6 curse them and the newspapers give them hell, and he insisted that a little recreation is due them. Shaffer said the city waB in hard straits and the council had no right to go out to Wichita and "blow in" the city's money. The people talk about such trips, he said, and tell about the officers coming home so drunk that they have to he hauled from the train.

Finally on motion of Hudson, the invitation was accepted, the city to defray the hotel bills of the delegates. The Main street paving ordinance was called up on its third reading and was finally passed, all members present voting for it. or flfty-flve years old and is said to stand high in Webb City. The charge brought against him created about such surprise as would a similar charge against a Fort Scott banker. Missouri; we loan in large or o'clock this morning and this morning he and his niece.

Miss Ella Fortney of In the letters received by Jonathan Davis and Mr. Sheppard from men all small amounts; our rate of interest i over the country who have lost their money at Webb City, the victims frequently complain that Stewart recommended Buckfoot to them as a man of means upon whose word they could Just the Garment for Stormy Weather. is low and terms of payment easy; options are granted to pay all or part at any interest paying time. Money ready when papers this city went out to the homestead. Mrs.

Fortney has not been in good health for a long time. She had in the past two or three years, had two attacks of nervous prostration, resulting from stomach trouble and consequent weak heart. These attacks came suddenly and were somewhat similar to attacks of apoplexy. She soon revived from them, however, and has been able to be up and about. Last summer she went to Colorado and when Bhe returned she seemed much improved.

Mr. Fortney has been for two months on their farm in Oswego county near Oswego. About a month depend. Mr. Davis testified at the preliminary that Stewart seemed to under stand all about what Buckfoot was doing with him there and that he had the money counted out and was anx 'id la iCaM- '8 0 to ears te rvnd the or -one tat and ious to deliver It to him on his draft.

W. J. CALHOVN a CO. He also testified that Stewart told him are signed. Buckfoot was a man to be depended W.

J. CALHOUN CO. W. J. CALHOUN CO.

C. C. NELSON, FORT SCOTT, KAS. upon, ir the government can get tnese statements before the federal court at Kansas City it may succeed in holding him. Tite's east side sewer ordinance was read and he made an extended argument in favor of it, giving a statement of the number of square feet of property affected.

He held that there was not a sufficient footage on the remonstrance to defeat it. Councilman Hahn who owns some property in the district favored the sewer. Mayor Goodlander asked why the district had not been made to include more territory. He said complaint was made that the district was not extended up the Wall street hill to give a good fall to the drain. He suggested referring the matter to a committee and on motion of Fredericks this was done.

Tite claimed there were some nameB illegally on the remonstrance, and othere who wanted a sewer had been compelled by policy to sign It. He voted against referring it to the committee. The mayor ap ago he was called home by her illness, but she soon recovered and when he left her she was in her usual health. Her sister. Mrs.

Mitchell, of Pueblo, Attorney J. I. Sheppard will go up from this city to morrow to attend the I has been her guest for some weeks, hearing. A ford to 1 wise. Superintendent Miller has been called upon to take some action in the matter of the complaint against Mrs.

Stcwait as teacher in the school near Xenia, on account of her having whipped the daughter of L. Mylus. Some and she and two of the boys were with her when she died. An effort was made to reach Mr. Fortney yesterday morning and afternoon by wire and telephone, but it could not be done and he had no knowledge of his wife's death until a special delivery message was delivered to him from McCune last evening.

Mrs. Fortney was 50 years old and had lived In this county with her hus- Cottrell's Book Store is loaded with articles suitable for Christmas Presents. You can buy more for your money, quality considered, than in any other place in this city. of the Mapleton people are taking an pointed Fredericks, Bryant and Shaf- rhelr (Ju Bring your old iron, rags, rubber, copper, brass, zinc and lead to us and we will pay you for old iron from 25c to 40c per hundred lbs, and highest prices paid for other metals. MUSKY BROS.

No, 18 Scott Avenue, fer as a committee to investigate the interest in the matter and have called npt.lt.inn and remonstrance, and report upon the county superintendent for a Konn Ha nractieablc. I settlement of the difficulty. There is a band for many years She is survived Hahn suggested that the people of rather serious division among the pat- Mr. Fortney and three sons, namely the district who are draining their rona of the school over the question of Alvin and Kenneth, who live at home, T. F9.

Cottre dmys- John found Dronertv and closets In a city drain ov-. dismissing wrs. oiewari, hiio iiuvnig ann- j'ercy, who is a postal cierK run some enthusiastic supporters in tne ning between Kansas City and Pueblo. er there should bo arrested. TORT SCOTT, KANSAS.

Street Commissioner Stoner expects district. l'rof. Robert Uright, a former Fort "fit" '7 Tite criticized Messrs I. V. n.

Kennedy and C. C. Myers and other re-monstrators, calling attention to the complaint against Mr. Myers' private Strayed or Stolen. Scott boy, and son of Mr.

and Mrs. J. a omot ru City Attorney Hudson hf, "Thurs" more thorough search intc- -A tnft books and finds that Fort. ied that take up the $10,000 of gas I und on money out of the sinking fun. ame to Is enough cash in that fund, 'i rom provide a good way out of the tlon of the gas bonds a way 11th, one M.

Ilrlght, Is to Im married on Christ-: ineh Vflin of to From Mapleton, Dec. sewer, which ne said was one oi too brown mare muie, years oin, uiemisn mns evening in iwish numu iuik, ui Hunt) the city's demand At the same most damnable nlusancos In town on left ml lee. IB hands high, weight WarrensDurg, Jio. miss war is ot time be will be cutting the street down Councilman Shaffer created a little i 000 pounds. one of the prominent families of War to grade, O.

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Oko. R. Wibb. OSBUN, NELSON WEBB, fluoceniora tnOnhunft Wfhh anf) Mitchell, Cli pin 1'eailey. INSURANCE Fire, Accident, Cyclone, Plate Class, Employers Liability, Steam Boiler, Fidelity Honda.

surprise by moving to reconsider the i Ono brown horse, a western star in rcnsbiirg, Sho attended the state Unl-the matter of the discharge of Police- face, one white foot behind, weight verslty at the time Hobert waa a stu- save tbo city the interest on tl There is another rush of tax-payon at the county treasurer's office on nc- a numbor of years. the cum- man Dillon. He said Dillon had somo io50, height about 16 hands, branded dent there and it was men mat iney met. Robert Is now a member ot the count or tne approacn or tne nuth of newly discovered evidence in his do- on right shoulder. fence and intimated that ho would a liberal reward for information.

be able to disclose a conspiracy. There FRED MYRICK. Office Mnncrlo Temple, formerly Duii- faculty, being an assistant ot Prof, the month, at which time the penalty Snow. Be on. The Dronson gas well has rview' been abandoned at a depth of 106 were ou ae with ound MDgcoo uotei, tort booh, itftnt..