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Thomas County cat., 1886-10-28

Oil stoves.
Gasoline stoves,
Soft coal stoves,
Hard coal stoves.
COLBY HARDWARE co.
The Kansas Mutual will insure YOU,
stock and buildings against fire, light
ming and tOrnadoes.
Call on Copeland for loans. 1t will
pay you.
STOVES. STOVES,
| AT
COLBY HARDWARE Co.'S
P. j. Assenmacher & Co keep full
stock Of gents and boys clothing, snd
0vercoats
Get your house insured in the Kansas
Mutual
Roofing, well tubing repairing of tin
and sheet iron work. Good work or no
| pay. COLBY HARDWARE Co.
90 to Martins for stationary.
+! For fine paint brushes and clothes
brushes, go to the Central
JUST OFEasp-A lunch stand and con
| fectienery west side Maine street one
| door north Of B1iIers's hardware store.
where ven can always find a good ho,
cup Of coffee orlunch at any time of day.
ii. y. STEATToN.
| Spackages good coffee at Donelan's.
Ghalnp@igae wines and liquors of cv-
cry sort at the Central, for medical pur-
poses.
| Foand, a new lantern in the south part
of Colby. Owner can have the same by
calling and paying for this notice
II. E. WELD
Ladies. look at those cloaks at J. W.
Allel, 4 Sons, all latest styles, and So
cheap.
New fall stock at the Great Western
dry goods and grocery house Call in
and price our goods. No trouble to show
goods.
Fancy articles of all kinds at the Civ
Drug Store.
We are headquarters for everybody and
everything. j. w. ALLEN & Son.
! Nice Messina lemonsat Kanb & Smiths
Homesteads. timber claims, and decided
lands wanted by Weld Bros
Stoves from $1.5O to S5O.OO-all sizes
all prices, at Colby Hardware Co.'S.
The best stock of mems gloves and
mitts just received at P. J. Assenmachel
& Co.'S.
Buy your salt by the barrel Mt J. W
Allen & Sons.
Go to Martins for French Harps.
The best treatment for cuts bruises
sprains. swellings and lameness is to ap
ply Chamberlain pain balm. Sold by
Walker & YOusse.
| We can please You in price and style
on heaters and cooks.
| COLBY HARDWARE Co
For sprains. swellings or lamenes:
Chamberlain pain balm has no equal
Sold by Walker & Yousse-
If you would not have consumption
cure your cough or cold while YOU can
Chamberlain cough remedy will do it
Sold by Walker & YOusse.
Chamberlain's eye and skin ointment
is Il safe and certain cure for sore nipple.
skin eruptions. scald head letter, piles
and all smarting. itching diseases Of the
skin, and is uneaualled for chronic sore
eyes. Sold by Walker & Yousse.
Thomas County cat., 1886-10-28
The Rail Road *
Coming Sure Pop.

However should our goods be trans
ported to Colby by rail to-mor. low,
we could not sell one particle lower
than we are doing at present Since
opening our Store September 11th,
we have had largo trade and feel
grateful,to the public for their very
liberal patronage and hope still to
merit the same. We make no preten-
tions to meet competition. Owing to
the fact that our expenses are light,
employing no clerks, buying nothing
but the best qualities of goods for
cash: we are able to sell as cheap as
any house in Western Kansas, then
make living profit which is all We
ask. Our store is now full of every
thing carried il first class Grocery
and Provision house
Salt and Smoked Bacon, Zoe per lb.
XXNX and Arbuckles coffee 6 for 81.
Rio in Bulk 8 for slOO
LightC Sugar 13 lbs for sl.oO
Etra G Sugar II lbs for s100
.Lusks and San Lorenzo Canned goods
4 for ST. 90
Baltimore Peaches 5 for s100
Tomatoes s for Sl.O0
We have en-route quantity of
New York Buck Wheat flour. One
car OF wiater Apples. Remember the
Peoples Store with the triped AVN
ing when you want Groceries and
Provisions. Yours Very Truly.
KAUB e SMITH.
Thomas County cat., 1886-10-28

| Call upon GoOdsOe for loan on chat
tels, or money to prove up.
See J. W. Allen & Sons new ad. They
are the boss merchants.
Smoke the Judic cigar found at the
Central Drug store. Best in the world
Go to Martins for Brushes.
A large invoice of dry goods just re-
ceived at j. W. Allen s. Sons.
Did you know you could buy sack of
-four ut Donelan's for 75c?
For money on chattels oup stairs over
Aliens store to GOodsoe.
Go to Martins for Silver Table Ware.
Look at the line Of gents flannel un-
derwesr at j W. Allen & Sons.
The best place to buy groceries is at
the Star Grocery
Go to Martins for Prescriptions.
packages of extra coffee for one dol.
lar, at Donelan's. of course.
For clear Popular and California Red
wood call on Chicago Lumber Co.,
Remember NJ Donelan has everything
you need in the line of dry goods.
Go to Martins for Sponges.
Have you tried T. P Feehans meat
market. It's the best in town. Don't
pass him by.
Money to loan. c. C. SIGGINs & Co.
Go to Martins for ewelry.
Don't purchase paint until you have
called at the Central Drug Store. We can
save you money.
Go to Martins for ':Brick."
Farm Loans
Made at Oberlin rates by F. G.. Finnerty
over Aliens store.
Go to Martins for Coal oil.
Ladies, examine our stock of dress
goods at the Great Western Dry Goods
and Grocery House.
Joe Lamont. the popular barber next
to W. II. COpeland's land Office, is stead
lily working away, busy nearly all the
| time giving as good shave or haircut
Us you can get in any city in the state.
Martins drug store.
A choice selection of novels and books
| of all kinds at the Central Drug Store.
Go to Martins for Patent medicines.
Examine our stock Of OvcrcOats before
buying. P. J. AssHNxACHER g Co.
Don't freeze to death when you can
get an svercOat for $3.50 at j. W. Allen
& Sons.
TricOts and ladies' cloth in all shades at
p. J. Assenmacher & Ce's.
For dry goods. boots and shoes and
groceries, go to NJ. Donelan's.
NOTICE.-All persons indebted to the
| firm of Bean Bros. must call ind settle at
once. Office at harness shop.
H. d. BEAN s. Son.
Croquet sets ut the Central.
Try sack of NJ. Donelan's seventy.
F, five cent flour.
Go to Martins for gasoline.
If you want groceries go TOD. w. Allen
& Sons They keep the best line in town.
Goodsoe loans money on chattels and
real estate.
Closing out dry goods at cost at NJ
DOnela-'s. Now is the time TO tuy.
Thomas County cat., 1886-10-28
THE THOMAS COUNTY CAT.
PORTER & HQVEY, Publishers.
The Following program was tinel- rem

The Following program was tinel.- rem
dered last evening ut aeans Hall at the
Oyster Supper. for benefit of the Metho-
dist church.
Quarteite, Come Lovely Darling.
!. II. Buffers
2 Instrumental, Mr. Frank Marble
tuet. 'Mither and Robin Mrs.
c. H0yey and Ed Hovey.
Instrumental. Mrs " " Walker
. Solo. Pretty Pond Lilies Miss
Elsie Marble
Instrumental, |. r. Bullers.
Sole, When tie Robins Nest
Again :" hIEs g Hovey.
Colby Maic Quarsette. Messrs.
Weld. Riddle. Glcy and Bodcn
Solo. Mr. Frank Smith
10 Duet, Mrs. Clara Johnson AID
Mrs. (, ns.e
II Solo. Nys. s. {. Bo.!ca.
- Instrumental Clayton Grand
March" Miss Clara Beaver
Thomas County cat., 1886-10-28
STkTENfEHT.

Owing - statements ,aaie by I, ,, Lessen
ger IN recard to Daniel Bradbury le.-cc hay
ing served as sheriff Of Davis c2urty. Icsa
would say that new Mr. Bradbury for Ter
yea11 lnew that he Sas Skei'H CT haT!s 90.
Iowa. foc four years, L. S. mail a s5nt cor SIX
y ars, and have never known or heard q: NJ
doing a iiShonoTahle act, ard 1 hcieby c:iat'
acterize ". D. Lessenger'S charges ag;;ins.
said Bradbury as .aise, and said LesscrscT
UNIV crthy Of belief, and believe him, from
what know of him, unworthy of the conf
dence of the Democrats Of Thomas county
j am ard always have boen Democrat.
WE, HULBEpT.
Subscribed and sworn TO in my presence by
W. +. Hubert, this ?5th day of October 1886.
(SEAL.) r. L. RIDDLE.
Notary Public, Thomas, Co.
Commission expires May L. 1890
Thomas County cat., 1886-10-28


You can get more good nOurishment
out of a ten cent can of corn ut DOnelan' S
than anywhere else for the money.
For new horse blankets go to J. d.
Beans harness shop.
Feeley & ca. have everything in the
grocery line. Give them Il call. 1t will
pay tvbs.
For sick headache. female troubles,
neuraigic pains in the head take Dr. J
H. AicLcan's Little Liver and Kidney
Pi}lets Twenty-Five cents vial Sold
by Walker & YOusse and ut the Palace
Drug Store
For the sest and purcst harness oil by
the gallon or quart. go to the harness
shop, juS east of Windsor House.
Look Sr those beautiful picture frames
at the Central Drug Store. The best in
the market.
The best -four in the city is the R. T.
Davis St. Joseph flour. Every sack war
ranted. For sale at p. J. Assenmacher
& Cos
J. p Bean. the popular harnessmaker.
carries light and heavy harness and bug
81 cushions.
Go 10 Martins for fine liquors.
Have you seen the superb scrap albums
at the Central. Albums of all kinds at
the Central Drug Store
Try IA sack of St Joseph flour For
sale All T. j. Assenmacher & Co.'S.
CCaH and see those fine lap robes at J.
ID. Bean harness shop.
Remember the old Pioneer on the cor
ner is the place to buy dry goods. grocer
les, boots and shoes. etc.
Go to Martins for drugs.
All kinds of saddles at J. d. Beans
harness ShOn
Thomas County cat., 1886-10-28

hDST:-One Large Pccketbook. with
four notes $50 each and other papers.
Liberal reward for recovery of same. Call
at this office
Thomas County cat., 1886-10-28

-NWttkIy 4DitC' %.
Commission expires May Il, 1880.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-10
NEW YORK, July l.
State Employment.
For The ENQUIRER.

For The ENQUIRER.
Reforms seldom come as expected.
Mild demands generally lead to radical
changes. The demand that slavery
should remain south of Mason and DIX
on's line, was very mild, yet 1t caused the
slave power to rise up and oppose the
national will.
Suppose some party now make mild
demand that government shall employ
all who seek employment; the results
would be more than we can fOresee. 1t
Is a demand easily understood by the
dullest, and could hardly be bjected to,
by anyone except perhaps tne employer
who likes to see large numbers hungry
80 that he can hire at low rates. A voter
could not be brlbed to vote against such
demand, because the prospects of a
steady lob is of more value than few
cents in hand.
1t would be merely extending to the
producer the protection which the state
asks from the producer. When the
state is in danger, it calls on the citi'
zens for help; when the citizen is in
danger of destruction by starvation, he
has right to call on the state for help
The enterprises established to meeG the
want would be conducted without profit
thus making the workers able to pur'
chase all the wealth produced, destroy
ing over production. The government
would need land, and the tracts already
forfeited would be reclaimed. Railroad:
would be built for the state, to furnish
employment, and afterwards run with
out profit. In short, there is no end Il
the results to be seen as coming from
this mild demand for employment by
the government.
Respectfully submitted to the K. of L.
who, it is said, will sometime take po
Illtical action, wherein lies the only hop
for labor. ClNelNNAFus'
The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-10
"CATO" PROTESTS.
Anarchism Is Not Chaos, Arson and
Murder.

For the Enquirer.
l must, as lover of truth and justice,
protest against the indiscriminate tiIngs
at Anarchy and the Anarchists by edl-
,ori ii and other writer's. Anarchlsm Is
one of the interesting topics If the dav.
Discussion and reading sUould make
people intelligent and bring out the
truth. l have looked in vain for sem
siple word, be it ever so critical, in the
labor press, on this subject. Editors
eagerly assure their readers tina; they
have no alliliation with Anarchists, and
then 90 on to state wnat they do.pot
know about Anarchy. hey couple So
cialistlc, scientific Anarchy with the
chaos of the capitalistic system, and air
their ignorance upon the subject IN a
way that Is truly sickening and dlscour-
aging.
Anarchisln is distinct branch or
school of Socialism, as much entitled to
study and consideration as State Social
ism. 1t is not synonymous with arson,
murder or chaos. 1t ls the very oppo-
site of "hogglshness." 1t is the very es-
sence of freedom. No man can be an
Anarchist who would interfere, in the
renotest degree, with the liberty of an
other. Remember that! All the An
archlst wishes is to be let alone, and in
that is included the equal right OF all to
the same freedom. He saws to the gov
ernment, to the church, to the dema-
gogue, hands off ~ What he WISHES
for himself he would have for all nRn-
kind.
1t is time for these unmannerly (not
to use a harshHr term filings against An
archism to cease. Gentlemen, fol
heavens sake read, study, think. Gel
rid of the gall that is within you. Tel
the capltalIstic liars to 60 to the devil
and think for yourselves.
There is an article in The ENQUIRER o
June 26, taken from the North Amerl
can Review, IN which the writer show
clearly, that, however well informed M
may be in regard to State Socialism, o
AnarchIsm he is wholly ignorant. Thl
writer also SAYS land this, mind you, L
in the leading Magazine of the country
that the International was founded a
PlttsUurg, Pennsylvania, III the fall
1883. Further Comment upon suclfgrUs
lyuuranue Is not necessary.
WILLIAM HOLMES.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-10
BoNFIELD AND THE RIOT.
Police Omc cIal Claims that There was
BIunder the Night Of the
Massacre.

From the Chicago Tribune
There was blunder on the part Of
the man who commanded the police
the night of the haym arket murders, or
this fearful slaughter would not have
occurre l." said a well-known police
official to Tribune reporter. "Bonfield
made the blunder, and is held RESPONSE
BILE for its effects by every man injured
there. suppose you haven't heard of
the peculiar way in which the attack of
the police happened to be made. The
dispensing of the crowd was a surprise
to the Socialists, as is we'll known, and
it was no less a surprise to everyone else
except Bonfeld. In fact, it wasn't In
tended to disturb the meeting, unless
that became necessary. 1t was not in
tended by Harrison or Eoersold to
change the policy of letting them alone,
which had been previously in vogue
with the administration. The bloody
circulars calling the meeting determined
he chief to adopt measures to prevent
a disturbance. FIVE companies were
put in the D1splaines street station and
four held in reserve at the Central while
a score Of detectives were mixed through
the crowd. Harrison and Eo, rsold re.
NAMED around the Central while Bon
teId was at Desplaines street. lu the
meantime the meeting was held,
speeches were made, and it was appa'
reutly nearly over, when, az about
quarter of lO. Bottled sent ~ ord over to
Continued ON fourth page.I
The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-10
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY. JULY TO- 1886

barber gets man in his chair he has
ample time to discuss this question
and, as rule, receives attention from
rich and poor alike. And again, bar.
bers, by patronizing the labor press, in
stead of the Police Gazette and capitals
tic dailies, do much to introduce the
subject to the great public,
BARRIERS should remember that the
true solution to the labor problem is in
abol;shing all and every species of cor
poration as they now live and prosper.
Free land and water and a government
system of public works must take the
place of the present rotten system. To
secure this requires a combination of all
workers, and once organized. only
through political action can we win !;
and not to be misunderstood, l will ex-
plain:
We have $1,000 workers in San Fran
cisco, also 10000 farmers fighting rail-
road and water monopoly-land in
cluded. We have 1900 retail dealers
opposed to high license system. These
$1,000 men should pool their issues un-
der the Council of Federated Trades and
Grangers and put up platform which
empodies practical reforms. Six con-
gressmen 60 from this state this fall and
one United States senator. No reform
can be accomplished by state law. That
point has been passed. These congress
men and this senator can be elected by
this combination and pledged to govern
mental control of the railroads. tele,-
grapes, etc. Our constitution can then
be amended to meet the wants of the
wage workers. All talk about bribery is
nonsense. The amendments and pledges
must be drawn up before election, and
then parliamentary practices and tactics
will fail to defeat the will of the people.
In conclusion, wage workers in gene
raj and BARRIERS in particular, must cease
their preference for "hifalutin" civic So
cieties, however benevolent they may
seem, and combine on labor organiza
tions, such as trades unions, Knights Of
Labor and tie international Work
mems Association; and the leaders ot
the latter societies should endeayor to
all practi, al benefits and dis
card all masquerading, useless ceremon
les; damaging alike, from a financial
as we'll as from an intelligent point of
view. TOBIAS Hook.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-10

good for the greatest number OF people
and not enact or tolerate laws that ena
Bile few to live in luxury and ease al
the expense of the many. [ \
2. That, as our national wealth accu'
mulates, the masses are growing poorer
and more diseontented, while the ranks
of involuntary 1dlers are swelling daily,
| 8. That poverty begets crime, and
that such social evils as filth, brutality,
drunke ness and the like, can only be
successfully attacked by destroying the
principal root-want or poverty,
4. That political freedom without
economical liberty" i. e., the right to
vote without the right to be employed
and earn the full undivided fruit of one s
toll, is farce.
S. That knowledge and virtue can be
implanted only in sound minds, that a
sound mind requires healthy body and
that healthy body requires good nour-
ishment, pure air and temperate work ;
we need first bread, then education.
6. That philanthropc institutions (as
soup and aims houses) are mere pallia-
tives, which may temporarily queIl the
wants of a few but are liable to foster a
caste of professional beggars and will
never solve the social question.
7. Thatmost of our clergymen are so
much absorbed in celestial or financial
matters as to lose sight of suffering hu-
manitY.
s. The adulteration of mental food
is the most heinous ofense against hu-
man nature, yet most of our leading
papers are, for reasons best known to
themselves ignoring or misrepresenting
the true state of affairs while giving the
minutest description of fashionable
balls, sensational divorce cases, prize
fights, family scrapes, and so on.
9. That overproduction does not de-
mand abstinence and economy but
rather an increased purchasing ability
of the masses.
10. That the middle class, the So
called bulWark of the republic, ls last
disappearing and making room for
moneyed oligarchY, surrounded by mil
lions of poor, and consequently ignorant,
des,, crate and dangerous wretches.
This anarChlc state of things can only
be Iemedled by system Of productive
and consumptlve cooperation on the
largest possible scale, which would ena-
BILE all willing toIler5 (of mind or body
to earn the fruit OF their LABOR and
abolish the two curses of modern civll-
zation-Pauperism and MilIionarlsm
These, Mrssrs Editors, are the reasons
why am Socialist ! S. Seller.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-10
I 'hOose.

The two extremes vi Anarchlsm have
met and are now clearly outlined 10 u1-
nc view. The CAplLallstlc Anarchist OF
the Jay Gould order, with his troops OF
armed police and PIukerton tn Igs; and
LIE vi Tie Herr Most Type with nIs torch
and dy nauIlte UomD. Ine Iorner Doasts
vi Ills aUlilLy u Uuy legislatures aud
Judges and therefore Can shUoL and XIII
Will lmuunlLI. 1he laLLer uetles all
law and Duasts Of Instability to Kill aud
destroy al pleasure and II the effect vi
the one uomD LurowD at Chicago Is any
criterion, 1t Is no Idle threat Stale 90
claIIsm Is the natural ground between
the two. CnUo u now which w Will
have, Co opereLIye Coumunm eal.n, a
Military DespoLIsm, or Anarchy. Marle
Louise MaTuu.
The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-10
MIGHTIER THAN THE CLUB.
8. Seller in a New England Capitalist
Journal Thus Speaks OF
the Brain,

From LQ6
On the average welfed and Comforta-
bly, situated individual, endowed with
Just enough brain to vote as his great
grandfat. .er voted, the word Socialist"
has about as much effect as a red hand
kerchief faunted before bull.
Various local papers have gra tuitOusly
inflicted such a shower ofinveCtiVes on
nv devoted head and the cause which |
am proud to serve, that their readers
must by this time be pretty well con-
vinced that am the incarnation of dey-
ilty an viciousness.
am willing to have my private and
public character measured with that of
these gentlemen. Why any honest,
clear sighted and tolerant person should
look with dlsfavor upon Labor Ly-
ceum. where questions of public interest
are openly discussed, where, in spite OF
differences OF opinion, the besC of telling
prevail =, where everybody, from the
professional politician up to the honest
toiler, enjoys the right of free speech,
where at times over a hun 1red ladies al
tended, is to me incomprehensible. Tne
only people who suffered by these meet
ings we're the rum sellers, Week after
week the gospel of Socialism, of the
common Brotherh cd of Man, was
preached there, and-no riot, no bomb ,
to frighten the good people of Brldgport
But, like the Roman emperors of 1900
wears ago, our authorities have decided
that such seditious utteranCes must no
longer be tolerated. Socialism must g.
Vain endeavor Man can be Suppressed
and imprisoned, never an idea. Social
ism if based on false premises, will die
a natural death without the aid of its
opponents. 1t will never be dubbed or
fired out of existence.
he hanging of John Brown did mo-
prevent the emancipation of the chatte
slaves. The prosecution Of Socialists
will not prohibit the final abolition o
wage slavery.
do not believe in violence, neithe
in the policeman's club, the riot gun o
the militia nor the bomb of the Anarch
ist These are savage remnants of Our
fratrcidal competitive system. have
full faith in the dynamite of the brain
Unless the authorities by oyersteppinl
, the bounds of reason and justice precip-
| itate Dloodshed, feel assured that al
} least in this country the co operativ
); commonwealth will be established b.
; the ballot wiChout any violent uphe avals
; The future belongs to the toi ers. Or
> ganized labor will elect the next presi
) dent of the United States. That people
of common school education and ever
: ministers of the gospel persisLentiy con
r found Socialism and Anarchism-tW
t opposite extremes, contrary in aims an
3 tactics, such ignorance is deplorable.
/ desperate maniac imagines tnat tn
hurting of bomb will destroy the com
7 petitive system and acts according t
. this insan Imagination, Socialism Cal
l as little be held responsible for this, a
< the teachings of Christ for the vlolen
: deeds of many a Christian fanatic. l
r conclusion let me state that am Sc
: cialist because 1 am convinced of th
: following facts:
d 1. That truly democratic govern
q ment should seek the largest amount o
The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-10

Night seemed to have settled over the
scene. Twilight at last. The voices had
begun to seem older and very stern.
The Sphynx had lapsed into the old
serene silence, as if these problems after
all we're only to be solved as they always
have been, by Time. In the dim star
light the BOYS were trying to fasten
rudey fashioned dunce-cap irreverent
rascalsy upon the majestic brow of the
Great Mystery. On Its margin saw
the new illuminated title of THE En-
QUIRER. Suddenly, without warning,
the air was full of failing lnterrogatlons,
each with fiery tail that looked so
business-like that l awOke.
J. HARRISON MILLS.
Npu NOpE Julv