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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

Spllt this 1dee up, an divide it among
you fellers. SOS to let you see, fur
wunst in your lives, wat kind of q
lookin' thing an idee is"
"All right; trot 'er out"
Better rope it, SOS 'twon't git away
frum YET"
Handle it keerful! it might kick!'
''No danger; faint big enoughr'
''Don't fotch 'er out too sudden;
might skeer the hosses.''
THAT ldee must DO mighty lonely,
rattlin' aroun' there in your skull all
by itsslK''
well" said Little, when this storm
of rude wit had died away, my idee is
fur you fellers to ride dooel."
ride dooel? Wat d. ye mean?"
''Why, let each of you ketch the
widest, fereest steer he kin git his
lass on ter-morrer, m then mex day
let Bob take the one Charley ketches,
n Charley take Bob's N ride I'M, n
whichever sticks on longest. he's the
champion, m t'other un keeps his lin
buttoned fur the rest o. the season.
What d. ye say?"
'*B~erao! Good enough!" cried both
in a breath.
Eye kin each choose a ref'ree, m
them two kin choose jedge."
"Al right" cried Charley. .I'll take
the parson for my referee
"Little Billie" referring to me,
nickname of Iittle's, ''is good enough
fur met" ohanted Bob.
SO the match was made to be ridden
the next day but one, and Little and I
were to arrange all details.
But" objected, 81 don't know
anything about the duties of referee.
What am / supposed to dop''
s.Why, eff we git inter a row, you're
to decide in favor of your man, m I'm
to decide in favor o mine, an then
the jedge, he's to settle it." Little ex-
planned
''Why not let the Judge settle it at
once, then?"
''Wall, it don't look ez eff there was
much use fur US refrees, but that's the
way they DO at the races at Sanity Fee,
20 reckon it's all right. Who'll we
have fur jedgea"
Don't care; name him yourself"
How'll the capa. meaning my
brother John-sdos''
Hell suit me wen enough. Is the
match to be ridden under saddle or
harebackp''
Saddle. reckon; amt no man Gv-
in cud sit on steer two minutes bare
back; skin s too loose.n
"Bridles?''
''We-e-I-ll. no; more fun ithout, I
reckon Might tie piece o. rope to
the horns to hold on hy."
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
The Death Ticker.

As most people know. the death
watch is small beetle which frequents
decayed or rotten wood, and is of
lonely and retiring habits. 1t is one
of the smallest of the vagipennia, of a
dark brown, with irregular bright
brown spots, the helmet turning up
and the upper lip hard and shining.
1t produces the ticking sound by peck
ing at the wood with a small hard
proboscis, when in the act of procuring
food. The writer once chased down a
death watch through a pile of old
papers in a cigar box, and was FORUM
ate enough at last to see it at work.
The ticking was quite as loud as that
of an old-fashioned watch, while the
insect was not much larger than the
head of black pin.-Sa,a Francisco
Chronicle
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
OUR NEIGHBORS.
Brief Items OF Interest Gatherid from
Correspondents and Exchanges.
Hoisington News.

Hoisington News.
From the Dispatch.
Robert Boxwell is quite sick with
fever
We are sorry to learn of the serious
illness of Mr.. James Carr.
The wheat crop of Barton comfy
this year will pay for the land on which
it was produced.
We this morning received at our Of
flee two of the finest peaches that we
have seen grown anywhere. They were
grown by Mr.. G. N. Bicknell Oh his
farm few miles north west of town.
Barton is fruit county without a
doubt.
All who have subscribed money to-
ward the erection of the M. E. church
are requested to leave the amount SUBJ
scribed at the Hoisington State Bank
at an early hour. The money is needed.
If you can't pay all you have Subscribed
at the present time, help with as much
as you can.
Mr.. M. G. Rathburn died at his resi-
dence a short distance northwest of
Olmitz on Monday evening. His
brother-in-law at this place, R. L.
Harvey, and wife received telegram,
on Monday but did not arrive at the
bedside of their relative until few
minutes after his death.
Numerous complaints are being
made regarding the manner the small
boys of the town conduct themselves.
Many of them are acquiring meddle-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

SOME of the republican congressman
are saying that the ''Civil service law
was passed as a joke" Under the
present administration it passes still
as huge hoax, and is no more respect
ed by republicans than the Kansas pro-
hibition law by their ward politicians.
The g. 0. p. had grown to be such a
political cormorant that it passed the
civil service law to check it's own mem
bers; but after being out of Office four
years the hungry blood suckers have
become so ravenous that they cannot
respect even the laws OF their own
making
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

WHEN Senator ingalls, stated that In
Kansas "drunkard is phenomenon, -
he wilfully misstated facts. What
might be excused i'll most men cannot
be in one of Ingalls, acknowledged
brilliancy and information. No other
word will fit his statements than the
plain every day term that for self in
terest, he unequivOcally and absolutely
lied. ingalls, is republican SENATOR
Wichita Beacon.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

to keep their eyes open now and ascer-
tain what kind of corn has done the
best this season. The opinion that the
very earliest varieties, and seed brought
from some northern state, will make
the surest crop, has been gaining
ground rapidly. If there is a point to
be made in planting variety of corn
that will mature early advantage should
be taken of it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
La Diva

81 60 to bed early-at half-past 10.
1 rise earl ly-at half-past 8. A glass
of hot water and dlemon-corrective for
Indigestion take every morning be-
fore my bath, and that is my secret of
health at present." remarked Nine.
Adelina Patti in recent interview.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
Pawnee Rock.

Pawnee Rock.
From the Leader.
Larned turned out goOdly number
to the show at Great Bend on Tuesday.
S. B. Dupree, late of Ellinwood,
moved to Pawnee Rock on Tuesday.
He occupies the Putnam house.
Drummers have been thick in Paw
nee Rock this week. Big crops and
good times draw trade for everybody.
Tom Converse, son of Robert, who
went to Pennsylvania two years ago,
has moved back to the land of wheat
and corn.
MARRIED.-On Sunday Aug. 4th,
1889, at the residence of the brides
parents, south side, Louis Haight to
Miss Lida Deckert.
Miss Fannie Williams returned from
Jacksonville. Mo-, on Wednesday.
She will make lengthy stay with her
friends in Pawnee Rock.
The lightning came uncomfortably
close to John Hepler's house last Sat-
urday evening. It struck tree Just
east of his house, running down the
tree and into the ground, tearing the
ground for quite distance.
The sights on the streets of Great
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
said pet banks were increased during
the month from $47 ,432 ,377 to S48, $780,
764, or by about 81 SOC, 900.

THERE is no telling where the
trouble resulting from a mortgage will
end. An exchange tells of an Ohio
man who mortgaged his farm to get
his wife pair of diamond earrings.
The wife took in washing from the
summer boarders to pay the interest on
the mortgage and the first day lost one
of the diamonds in the suds, and tried
to hang herself in the barn, but the
rope broke and she fell on a $3.50
jersey calf and broke it's back.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
Call Her Down.

Milkman: ''I'd like to see your wife,
sir" Husband: ''She's up stairs. "
Milkman: ''Win you call her down,
pleasea' Husband (astonished): Call
her DOWN." '.Milkman: Yes, SIR"
Husband: 'We1, I'd just like to see
somebody call that woman down once.
Suppose you try it Washington Let
ter
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

AT LeOti on the 9Th inst. JudgeV. II.
Grinstead, of Lane county, was nonli-
mated for Judge of the thirty third dis
trict, by the republican convention.
The other candidates were: Hargrave,
of Rush; Silas Porter, of Ness, and
Travis Morse, of Scott county
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

The Lacrosse Clarion, with F. H.
Davis and Fl. s. Fish as publishers,
comes to our exchange table this week.
1t is sort of a two sided affair, being
four quarto on one side and six folio
on the other.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

The county treasurers of Kansas
will meet in convention at Topeka on
October 5th. They will discuss mat
ters of Importance to their business,
and other matters of solid and LIQUID
nature; the state capitol will probably
assume somewhat of a carmine hue on
that occasion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

PAwNEE county's delinquent tax list
makes III columns of nine-column
paper-over twice as much as the Bar
ton county list; while Rice county's
list is one half larger than ours.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

LACROSSE boys don't want the earth,
but they come near getting all the
nice things thereof. On the 10th inst.
j. ID. WEIGH, the printer, was made the
happy father of an eleven pound boy,
who will hereafter be known as the
Chief of the Chieftoin
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

ONE hundred million dollars will be
the receipts for Kansas grain raised
this year. The odd millions that will
be received for sugar, salt, stock and
all kinds of produce will furnish Kan
cas- ladies with pin money
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

II is desired that every member of
the democratic central committee make
it his especial business to attend the
meeting Saturday. There are several
matters of great Importance to be con-
sidered, and every township should be
represented
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

KANSAS this year outstrips it's agri-
cultural record. Never in the history
of the state was the present wheat
crop, just harvested, surpassed. The
quality is excellent and the quantity
enormous. Farmers that were lucky
enough to have put out a wheat crop
last year. will make a speck, though
the price Should be low. Oats were
never BETTER good quality and heavy
yield. Potatoes surpass all former at
tempts, and corn is more than promis-
ing. Verify, Kansas is booming
american Wool Reporter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

REVERSING Horace Greeley's advice,
New Hampshire paper advises young
men mot to go west and grow up with
the country, but to stay east and loan
money to the western farmers on farm
mortgages" That editor is practical
economist and very good humorist.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

w. G. L. BEARD, ex-register of the
WaKeeney land office, will begin the
publication of democratic daily paper
at Hutchinson, about, the middle of
September. 1t will be named the
.EUening Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

1t is good plan in planting trees
for windbreaks or along the soadside
to plow up the soil, so that for two or
three years after planting more or less
cultivation can be given.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

II Is reported that the Mormons
lost control of Salt Lake City at the re-
cent election. Evidently, MOrmonism
must 90 west.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

A DENVER editor was recently fined
$50 for driving his horse at a 2:40 gait
on the public street. We would like
to see them find OF fine Kansas editor
who even owns a 2:4O horse.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

IT would be interesting to know how
much money is being spent in building
granaries in this county this year.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

ing drawer and also desk room. It
will well pay you the trouble to take a
look at it.
We are sorry to hear that Prof. II.
Anthe will leave for Arkansas in a
short time. MIR. Anthe passed an ex-
cellent examination when graduating
and possesses good diploma. He has
made many friends during his stay
here, and is we'll liked by his pupils as
a teacher We wish him success.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

GOD has been good to Kansas farm
ers; now let them be good to themselves
and begin to look after their OWL: inter
ests and the interests of their children
more closely. There is vast lot of
men who are growing rich off of the
negligence of farming people to look to
their own interests. New trusts and
monopolies are forming daily, and as
they already have control of our gov
ernment it will require united effort
to dislOdge them.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

IN future history (profane when re-
publicans read it, John ]. ingalls, will
be known as s'The Man of Letters
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

AFTER all that was said by the re-
publican platform, by Mr.. Harrison in
his campaign speeches and letter of ac-
ceptance and by all the organs and
speakers of the party against the 'spet
banks" and the policy of so disposing
of the surplus revenues, it is surprising
to learn from the July debt statement
that the Government deposits in the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

The war tariff must go! Even the
manufacturers of New England are
growing clamerous for free raw mate
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

MILLIONS of bushels of wheat are
now on the move, and Kansas worth
is making itself felt in the land.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

borrowed Briefs and Original Obser.
vatiOns
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

A MAN thus advised his boy: my
son, don't be an Office seeker. Let the
office seek you and then dodge. You
have to take your hat off too much.
Keep your hat on and be a man. Dig
potatoes, drive oxen, saw wood, cut bait.
hunt frogs by moonlight, and buy an
old cellar and retail it out for post holes
but don't wear your patience and boots
out by going to the post Office four
times a day, expecting always to get a
nine-inch yellow envelope filled with a
two thousand dollar Office.''
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

THE Arkansas City Democrat quotes
a travelling man as saying that "There
aie 302 whisky Joints in SO towns of
southern Kansas" and among others
enumerated gives ''Great Bend 6,
Larned 9, Dodge City IL, Hutchinson
14,'' and so on. Now is this libel on
some of the good towns of the Sum
AS to Great Bend, we know of no
Joints" in our midst. But then our
daily rounds are not made in search
of Joints s''-the right kind of stake"
is what we are after
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15

THE DEMocRAr for 81 80 per year.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-06
THE MEAT OF THE NEWS.

Mrs. Henrietta Cooke, a woman confined
in the Kansas panitentiary for murder, has
been proven to be innocent after thirteen
years imprisonment.
A gas we'll has been struck near Elwood,
Ind., that yields 1900, 600 cubic feet
day.
The decision CT Jodge Thayer, Of st.
Louis, that the Union cigarmakers' label
is void and valueless is to be appealed.
A woman named Spanish Bell" died in
Idaho last week, who boasted that she had
murdered six people.
Four English glassblOwers arrived al
Ptisburg yesterday. 1t is believed they
we're imported.
NJ. D. DohertY, a carriage manufacturer
of Charlottesville, Ind, has failed; liabili
ties, S42, coo.
President Ingalls,, of the Big Four roads
says it is settled that the companies viii
purchase the Ohio, Indiana and Western.
Twenty-four prisoners from the Indiar
Territory were lodged in the Ohio peniten
tiary yesterday.
VIM. Smith, a colored cook, Of Pitts
burg. shot and killed his wife and attempt
ed TO kill himself, bat failed, He will re
cover.
H. P. Terry, an electric light wire man
was killed by a shock while working OF
the wire at Buffalo, n. Y.
Badge, Brittanic, Buddhist, Msgnate
Forer q, and Barrister, were winners
Sheepshead Bay, yesterday.
The postoffice force at Spokane Falls bs
threatened to strike on account OF tn
small wages paid by the Government.
Back Morgan and Minnie Cassel wei
winners in the Columbus races yesterday
Two men were killed aud several injure
by an explosion at the mouth Of st. John
river, Florida.
Robert Carney was instantly killed an
his two brothers, Charles and Samuel, sc
iously injured by railroad wreck at We
ter station, on the McKeesport and Bel
Vernon road. The men we're miners.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-06
BURROUGHS BOOM.
Southern Republican congressman Will Support HIM
"A Stab at the Administration in the
Interest Of Alger.

WASHINGTON, September 5-Thefs was
an important conference OF influential
Southern Republicans held in this city to-
day. Among those present were Repre-
sentativeI HOuk, TayiCr and Evans, Of
Tennessee; Cheatham and Ewart, of North
Carolina; Tom Keogh, yOupg Tom Settle
aud General Estes, of North Carolina;
John NJ, Laugston o! Virginia, and two
colOred statesmen from South Carolina,
who are contestants for seats in the next
House.
The conference wss the result of much
correspondence between politicians dis
satisfied with the course of the administra-
tion in distributing patronage. 1t also
transpires that not single Southern Re-
publican who went to the Chicago con-
yention, and subsequently Topped to AL
ger, has been recognized in any way by
the administration. Tne Alger people
claim that this is not mere coincidence,
but deliberate calculation. They confer
red with the Wolverine Presidential can
didate, ana there is a strong suspicion
luhl tue pIeS6ul dutl- l-AuiululcbtdliOh LAOfS'
ment is in the interest of the formation Of
Southern Alger machine for 1892 Of
course, Alger pays the freight.
4 BOOM FOR BURROUGHS.
At the conference to-day, which was
conducted with as much secretiveness and
mystery as possible in a room at Chamber
lain's, Harrison was denounced, and it
was agreed that the Southern members
should act as a unit in the next House, and
more especially during the organization OF
the next House II was agreed that HOuk
of Tennessee should receive the support of
the SOutherners for Speaker at the start,
and then that they would 90 to Julius
Cesar Burroughs.
The action If the SOutherners in coming
out for Burroughs will be in the nature Of a
surprise, as it was thought that Mckinley
was the i,vOrite because Cf his well known
views on the internal revenue. The Sonth-
erners, however, say that Burroughs is as
reliably opposed to the internal revenue as
the Ohio man, and that Burroughs back
bone is much superior. They confess
fear that Mckinley would be too much like
Carlisle in the chair-a Judge rather than
politician. They have no Ears OF the
Wolverine hesitating 10 construe the rules
in the interest CT his party.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-06
AFTER THE SPORTS.
Lowry Determined That the Pugilists'
Friends and Backers Shall Suffer.

Lowry Determined That the Pugllists
Friends and Backers Shall Suffer.
JACKSON, Miss, September 5.-Gov.
Lowry is determined to have all active
participants connected with the Sullivan
Kilrain prize fight extradittd and return
ed to Mississippi for trial. There are a
number on either side who reside in New
York and perhaps other States that were
seconds or bottle holders, and Others
against whom there are indictments in
Marion county, to which place they will
have to come and answer before the court
These men, the Governor ssye, defied tine
law, and the indignity and outrage a7e in
excusable.
District Attorney II. Neville was here
Yesterday in conference with the Governor,
and sters will be taken in the early future
to have the criminals brought to the State.
Wakeley and Johnston on one side, and
Donovan and Johnny Murphy on the
other, are the men whom the Governor
wants to punish the worst.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-06
STRIKERS MAY WIN.
THE wHARPINGBRS BEGINNING TO GIGg
WAY.
Several AOcsds 10 the Mems Tsrms-Burns Predicts
an Overwhelming Vlctory-Two Thousand
Men at Work-Ths Pops's Health
-0ihH Foreign News.

LONDON, September 5.-There was a
slight break in the ranks OF the employers
this d. m. Five whNflingers agreed
to the mems terms and upon their
wharves work is now going on at the full
capacity. AT the other wharyes men have
congregated in large numbers ready to 90
to work at a moments notice, the
wbarffiugers being also il is reported ready
to make terms with the strikers The
aspect of affairs along the Thames is much
liyeller than for weeks past. The men
who have obtained work contribute their
days pay to the relief fund.
John Burns declares that the dock men
have given the dock companies q crushing
blow between wind and water. Austria
lia has sent "a, 600 to aid the strikers.
POLICE PROTECTION.
The officials of the dock companies have
again called upon the polics TO protect the
men who are at work. The ship owners
made another appeal for permission TO un-
load ships themselves, but were met with
q curt refusal. 1t is estimated that ., 1000
men are now ct work on the whsryes.
STRIKERS MAY RAISE THEIR DEMANDS.
Burns, in a speech to the dockmen to-
day predicting the success OF the strike,
announced that the demands now made
we're by no means final and when the dock
companies were beaten il would not be a
question pence an hour for ordinary day
work and g pence an hour for overtime,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-06
CABLE COMBINATIONS.

One hundred and forty.fJur designs for
national memorial the late Emperor
William of Germany have already been
submitted. The Jury OF award will meet
September 30
The tenants on the Gavin estate, county
Claire, who were evicted for having adopt
ed the ''plan of campaigu," have been re-
instated in their homes.
The attempt to organize a general strike
of builders and engineers in South London
has iailed.
Boulanger has written to Prime Minis
ter Tirard, claiming the right to be tried
by cOurtmartial.
Mr.. Badnock, Orange NJ. p, has issued
an address, inviting all Orangemen to OPP
pose Balfour's Irish University scheme.
Right Hon. Henry Chaplin has been sp-
pointed Secretary Of Agriculture, with
sea- in the English cabinet.