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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10
All Sugar Up.

The coming year should witness an
organized and energetic effort in Kan
sas to develop and extend the culture
of beets and sorghum for the purpose
of sugar-making. Had the fields in the
southwest part of the state been plant
ed with sorghum instead of corn tor the
past two or three years, the distress
among farmers on account OF drouths
would never have been felt. In COM
parison with wheat and corn. sorghum
is sure crop. 1t withstands success
fully hot winds and scorching drouths.
How great market exists for its pro-
duct may be comprehended when it is
known that of the sugar consumed in
the United States. but one-twelfth is
made in the country. The soil and
climate of Kansas are suitable for the
cultivation both of the sugar beet and
sorghum. From one or the other of
these sagae producing vegetables the
sugar consumed il. this country will ul-
timately be made. The iegisiature of
Kansas has already done much to en-
courage farmers to undertake this
branch of agriculture The Kansas
press should now take the matter up
and urge it necessarily. Kansas City
Ns,cs.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10
Interest Legislation.

The people who are most concerned
in the matter of interest legislation, OF
legislation to make lighter the burdens
Of the farmer, will look anxiously for
the proceedings of the republican legis-
lature of Kansas who are pledged, in
their platform to bring about an inn
provement in that direction. Whether
the republican legislature will stand by
their promises or not, we will soon
know. There is evidently an inclina-
tion to repudiate part of the platform,
as evidenced by the following from the
Hutchinson Nesos.
ssIf this declaration regarding the
rate of interest, had been engrafted i'll
the platform in response to an agitation
of the matter in the state press, or at
the demand of the people, it might be
regarded as binding, but as it was only
inserted by few SLY politicians for the
purpose OF raising little popular APP
plause and catching a few votes, it is
not to be considered as at all obligatory
on the republican party of Kansas
AS the entire republican platform
was evidently prepared ''by sly politi-
clans for the purpose of raising little
popular applause and catching a few
votes" the platform may not be con-
sidered as obligatory ON the republican
party of Kansas" and it went do to
depend on their doing anything they
promised, if left to their own sense of
.'obligation.''
We believe in looking on the best side
of affairs, however, and will hope that
the people interests will not be neglect
ed SO grossly as in the past.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10
What Kansas Has,

kansas has more good country news
papers, more sweet patient wives, love
ly daughters, and more corn than any
other state In the Union. kansas City
Ne,os. 49,
"We ought with more or less consist
ancy add, that she is also possessed of
more officers with big feet, more rail-
roads, more Office hunters, less political
sagacity, more school houses, more self
constituted political leaders-with more
cheek and less senSe-mOre pleasant
weather, more cheap but rich land, more
republicans who will soon see the error
of their political ways, more kind heart
ed people, more shrewd traders, more
demOcratS-under the circumstances
more smart men, more fools, more re-
publicans, more sunshine, less shadow,
more bOOmS, mOrecand finer Opportuni-
ties and less real prohibition than any
other spot on EARTH Scin-
ctdr.
some towns she has a set of men who
are terribly anxious to become wealthy,
SO anxious that they overreach them
selves occasionally. In other words, as
long as they think public enterprise
will, if successful, prove a private BEN
eft to them they will favor and assist
it; but the moment they think they are
going to have to spend a little money
for experimental purposes, with no GER
tainty of returns, they will repudiate
the whole business, if they can, regard
less of how it may compromise others
or reflect upon the good name Of the
town or city. A man of honorable bus
mess intentions, who cares for his
name or position and has a proper
sense of right and justice, will not at
tempt to crawl out of any obligation he
has made in good faith. The way
Kansas cities have been successfully
builded is by the business men starting
in the right direction and then pushing
all together for the same end; standing
by each other through success or fail
ure alike, and never taking step back
ward or attempting to shift response
bility.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10
The State Robbed.

The Kansas City Times of the 5th
and 9Th inst, contained a startling
expose of the rottenness and jobbery
indulged in by the officials having con-
troll of the Kansas state penitentiary
at Lansing. The expose is complete
and convincing. and puts various big
republican guns in a very precarious
position. The present legislature can
hardly afford to ignore the charges
made, no matter how much it might
desire to do SO. Robbing of the state
treasury of from S15O.OO0 to $200.O00
is most too large an irregularity to
overlook for political purposes, and
that is about the amount the expose
shows to have been appropriated by
the parties in the plot. We venture
the prediction that republican papers
in the state will have little if anything
to say about the big steal.
The Leavenworth Standard, of the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10
A Wheat Bounty.

In Ohio there is great manufacturer
who is also a wheat raiser. His name
is J. II. Thompson, and his residence is
Springfield. He has sent petition to
congress asking that a law be passed to
pay the farmers bounty of 20 cents
per bushel on wheat. He thinks the
farmers have been paying a tariff of
twice as much for the past quarter of
a century, and since there is no hope of
reducing the tariff taxes, he favors a
tax for the benefit of the farmers in Or
der to approach an equalization.
Our republican friends and neighbors
have just finished tellingaus that the
tariff is put on foreign manufactured
goods for the purpose of protecting the
American labor against the pauper
labor of Europe. Our farmers have
been competing with that pauper labor
ever since the formation of the govern
ment, while those engaged in manu-
featuring have been receiving bonus
for nearly twice as much as the entire
labor cost of manufacturing. The
farmers now ask protection in the
shapcof. a twenty cent bounty ON wheat.
and they ought to have it., We do not
believe in the policy of bounties; neither
do we believe in the policy of a high
tariff. But one is as right as the otEer,
and the long-suffering farmers of Kan
sas who have been voting protection
ever since Kansas became state. ought
to arise to their splendid manhood and
demand this bounty. Were it granted
they would still not be reimbursed for
amount of tolls they have paid to the
protected Industries since the war,
building up millionaires by the hun
dreds.
Kansas has sent representatives to
congress for almost thirty years, and
every one of them, without an exception
OF variation, have voted to tax their
constituents for the benefit of the man
ufacturers of the east. Now they have
an opportunity of voting to help the
people who have been sending them to
Washington, and the farmers of Kan
sas ought to make the demand.
Western Kansas would receive a
double benefit by a bounty of 20 cents
on wheat. Thousands of acres which
are now covered with buffalo grass
would be golden grain the next year
after the law took effect, and the de-
velopment of this great state would be
but a matter of short time. Its most
rapid development was when the price
OF wheat was high. A bounty of 20
cents per bushel would make the price
of wheat here at present so cents per
bushel, and men could make money
raising it at that price.-Ness City
Sentinel.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10
NUMBER Al.
5th Of jan, says editorially:


9TH OF JAM, says editorially:
when Gov. Martin reads the Kan
sas City Times this morning he will go
out and administer punishment to him
self for pardoning Tom Thurston. the
man who was sent to the penitentiary
for eighteen years for shooting d. r.
Anthony. Ever since Thurston inhaled
the air of freedom he has been at work
hunting evidence of the existance of a
coal ring at the penitentiary and the
result of his labors is over four columns
in the Times of this morning charging
fraud upon everybody connected with
the prison, but especially Directors
Hiatt and Richter. The witnesses
quoted are James A. Lober, of Atchi-
sen, and ID. ]. Keller, of Leavenworth.
AR article from the Leavenworth
Times is also produced in evidence.
The trouble seems to have grown out
of the fact that there were too many
partners originally in the deal and lack
of harmony.
AS the complainants in the case are
all republicans, the accused repubii-
cans and the governor and members of
the legislature republicans it is re
publican row that will have to be set
tied in a republican way
"Of course there will be an investi-
cation and if the charges are unfound-
ed the directors will have no trouble in
proving them false.''
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10
THE WEATHER FOR 1888.

l
FAIR AND CLOUDY DAYS: Number
of fair days in Jan. 26, cloudy days 5;
Feb. Is, IA; March, Is, 13; April,
Is, IL; May, f %, c 9; June. f %, c
4; July, q, c 4; Aug. "a, c 2; Sept.
f 26, 4; Oct. 25, c 6; Noy. f IS, II;
Dec. 20, IL. Total for year, 263,
90.
| WIND: Number of days with high
wind, 81; light wind, 242; calm, 81.
Prevailing direction was south in all
the months but October, which was
north. Detailed direction. wind sblew
from the north 81 days; east, Is; south,
129; west, Z; northwest. 80; northeast,
20; southwest, %; southeast. q.
PRECIPITATION: Number of SHOWS "a,
as in Jan. 6: Feb. 4; March, 8; Oct. 1;
Nov. 2; Dec. 5. Fall of snow 13 and
GIG inches. Last snow of spring,
March 21st; first snow of autumn, Oct.
21st. Heavist snow fall was Dec. Both.
Number of rains, "a; inches Of rainfall.
"a. Number of rains and SHOWS in
Vulnerable, 27. Number of hail storms,
2; hail melted, inches. Number of
sleet storms, g.; misty days, 13; foggy
days, 25. Total precipitation 2S inches.
Same compared with 1887, "a inches.
TEMPERATURES: Warmest days: in
Jan. Goth; Feb. 18th; March, 18th;
April, 22nd; May, 21st; June, 3Oth;
July, 2sth; Aug. 18th; Sept. 11th; Oct.
9th; Nov. 1st; Dec. 14th. Coldest days:
in Jan. 18th: Feb. 9th; March, 5th;
April, Goth; May, 7th; June, 1st; July,
Sd; Aug. Sth; Sept. 9th; Oct. 21st;
Nov. 18th; Dec. 25th. Number of
days at and below zero, IS, number Of
days at and above 1909, 8. Lowest
thermometer, 20e below zero Jan.
18th. Higest thermometer 1899 at
noon, July 29th. Greatest rise in "a
hours, 44o on Oct. 18th. Greatest fall
in II hours, 6Oe on Feb. 9th. Number
of days with hot winds, 16, as follows:
in June, 2; July, 10; Aug. 4. Number
OF killing frosts, 10. Last frosts of
spring, April, 3Oth. First frost of
autumn, Oct. Is.
MISCELLANEOUS: Number of days
with lightning, 1876, with thunder, 68.
Lightning was seen in all the months,
and thunder in all the months but
November and December. Number of
rainbows, 6, in the east 4, in the
west, 2.
Number of lunar halos, 10; solar
halos and parhelia, 10; total 20. Smoky
and hazy days 16. Objects covered
with ice. 10 days. Condition of wealth
er on holidays: Jan. 1st, fair; mean
temperature, 180; light wind from
north. Feb 22nd, cloudy in forenoon,
fair in afternoons; mean temperature,
41e; wind from south. May 30th, fair,
cloudy in evening; mean temperature,
10; wind from south. July 4th, fair;
mean temperature, $50; wind from
south. Nov. Goth, cloudy, fair in even
ing; mean temperature, $50; wind from
north. Dec. 25th, cloudy, mean temp
erature, 190; snow, mist and sleet;
wind from northwest.
G.. c.. REEDER.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10
Typhoid Fever Cure.

A beautiful young woman, over whose
head passed but eighteen summers, and
to whom life offered only the prospect
OF amending pleasures, she being sur
rounded with all the comforts that low
ing hearts and willing hands, supported
by adequate means. could afford was
recently taken i'll with typhoid fever.
The best medical talent that could be
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

CAPTAIN JAMES ADAMS, of Adams,
Pa, renews his subscription to the
DEMOCRAT, and writes us a very pleas
ant letter. He says he is "a member
of the G. A. r.; was republican un-
til Grants second term but has not
voted the ticket since. He does not.
however. agree with Private Delzell.
and he thinks the G. A. r. will vote
to protect their rights, regardless of
politics" That certainly is the senti-
ment that should govern the G. A. r.
and nothing could please the general
public better than TO believe the organ
ization has not been and cannot be
manipulated for political purposes.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10
Ellinwood Items.

Eltlnw0Od Items.
From the Advocate.
Dick Bosses friends gave him a
pleasant surprise on New Years eve..
in honor of his birthday.
AT the glass hall ''shoot" on Tuesday,
r.. Herald carried off the palm. Few
of the boys kept up their previous
record.
1t is rumored here that the late edi-
tor of the defunct Ellinwood Express
will return to this city i'm the near
future.
Quite number of Mrs. Chalfant's
friends surprised her on Monday EVEN
ing by dropping in with the necessary
etceteras for such occasions. A pleas
ant time is reported.
The school vacation closed with the
first day of the year, and ON wednes-
day morning the doors of the new
school house were thrown open to the
delighted teachers and pupils who are
now in full possession.
Five cars of stock were shipped from
this place to Kansas City on New
Years day. Frank Baker and f.
Entrekin having two cars of hogs.
Will Grant a car of cattle and Chas.
Willms two cars of cattle and hogs
However much our citizens NAV
differ as to the proper method to adept,
they are almost unanimous i'm the de-
termination that Ellinwood shall be
added to the list OF salt producing
cities in this portion of the state.
81. w. Zeignebush, an old and re-
spected citizen of this community,
farmer living few miles east of town.
died on December 3lst, of neuralgia of
the heart. The funeral took place ON
Wednesday, very large number of
sorrOwing friends and relatives follow
ing the remains to their last resting
place.
How long will this weather last?
Every man we have met for two weeks
has asked this question, and now to
satisfy all questioners, we will say that
the last interview We had with the
weather clerk, he thought it would
probably continue until about March
4th, when as there will be a big disturb
ance of the elements, we might look
for change. We don't say that there
won't be any storms in the meantime,
but this is the weather clerks idea.
No, we were not near the cook when
we got that -four OH our coat. We got
that flour going through the Ellinwood
mills under the guidance of the genial
proprietor, Capt. Grant. Not having
taken much interest in this institution
in the past, we were surprised to find
that here in our city is an establish
ment which, when run TO its full capac-
ity, will turn out 125 barrels of the
highest grade of flour daily, besides the
product of the corn burrs, which are
run at the same time. Ellinwood -four
has reputation reaching from the
big Muddy" to the Rockies and
the men and the machinery which
makes it are well worth a visit.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

n CINCINNATI establishment each
year beats out 21 900 gold dollars into
gold leaf, and as each dollar can be made
into sheet that will carpet two rooms
49, feet square, some idea may be
formed of its tenuity. 1t requires l 400
thicknesses of gold leaf to equal sheet
of thin paper and 2SO,OOO to form an
inch,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

1t is reported that dehorned cattle
in considerable numbers are received at
the Chicago stock yards, and their con-
dition is noticeably better than that Of
the cattle with horns: they are in better
flesh and not freshly scratched and
SCARED.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

The annual state encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic will
be held at Emporia, commencing March
18th, and continuing three days.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

The Finney county Democrat, at
Garden City, has changed hands, MI.
L. II. Barlow having sold his interest
in the paper to III. B. Hundley. We
welcome Mr.. Hundley to Western
Kansas Journalism, and extend to
Mr.. Barlow our regrets that he retires
from newspaper work.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

THE. Barton county farmer. he that
dwelleth along the shores of the
Arkansaw or in the vallieS of the
Walnut and the Cow, the stream that
has the red name, even Blood creak,
likewise the valley of the Deception,
hath lands as fair as any washed by
the Mediterranean Sea. For him the
morning sun sendeth it's glorious shafts
of light across plains as beautiful as
Attica. He looks at even upon sunset
as glorious and gorgeous as ever
Cicero watched from his Tusculan
villa, and at night he looks up into a
sky as divine as that which shone
down upon Mount Zion and awakened
the Psalmist to immortal song.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

YOUNG MEN in high life, as you
glide swiftly down the bannister of
time remember that there is chance of
passing many friend on the stairs.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

GEORGE WAsHINGToN was inaugur-
ated President of the United States, in
New York City April 80, 1889. A CEN
tennial celebration of that event will be
had on the 30th day of April with inn
posing ceremonies.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

A SUGAR factory which will work up
hundred tons of cane in twenty-four
hours Will Cost from $50, 600 to SIS GOO
according to the best information OBJ
tainable. Government aid goes to ex-
perimenting, not to building factories,
and state aid goes to the manufacturer
. cents a pound for sugar made from
Kansas plants. Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

it is for the richest magnate whose pal
ace car rolls on his own steel from
ocean TO ocean and from the lakes
to the gulf. slime and tide wait
for no mann and no man has ever been
able to lengthen a day beyond its
natural duration. on.-KendalI Boomer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

The Amazon irrigating canal in the
western part of the state is completed
and will be filed with water in short
time. 1t is one hundred and fifteen
miles long and will water an immense
territory.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

The new Wilson creamery seems to
be starting off in good shape, with
standing offers of twenty-seven cents
per pound for all butter they can make
the year Wilson Eaqle
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

On THE night of the Sd inst. the large
o lumber yards of the st. John & Marsh
Co., at Dighton, Lane county, were
burned to the ground; loss estimated
at SIS 900.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

DURING the year ending June 3Oth,
1888, there were killed and injured on
railroads 1872 persons -eighty-eight
killed anil 1 ,4S4 injured. oOf the eighty
eight killed only four were passengers,
the balance being employees. Consider
ing that there are twenty-nine railroads
operating over 5000 miles of road, this
is a comparatively small list of casuali-
ties.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

SENATOR COKE of Texas took an
amount of elevated stiffness and arro-
senate to last them some time. He
spiked every republican ''pop gum in
the senate, by showing evidence taken
before republican committee. that the
condition of the operatives in the shops
of Fall River and other New England
points, was absolutely that of starva
ton, and that the miners in Pennsyl-
vania are in still worse condition. The
democratic senators are making it un-
comfortably warm for the republicans
with their substitute bill by which they
reduce the tax on whiskey and tobacco
sos, ,OO0, 0,OOO.-Jetmore SciDletar.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

WE WILL have more to say about
tile salt business next week.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

AN ILLINOIS notion for making
church sociables pleasant is to give each
person a card ON which dozen names
are written and the recipient Of the card
must talk five minutes to each one
whose name is on the card. At the
end of each five minutes bell sounds,
and conversation must cease, and new
partners be found. This schemetis said
to be death to wall flowers and cliques
and of great advantage to the social
success of the entertainment
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

FAREWELL 1888, welcome 1889, and
the changing scenes OF time have usher
ed in new year. The past is history,
the future. SO far as moftais are con-
cerned. is uncertainty, the present 1.-THE
seconds. the minutes alone belongs 10
us, and with what exactness are the
precious moments dolled out to us. Did
sou ever think of it? n minute, an
lhour, day, year is just as long for
Che saeauest beggar of the city street as
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

SOME worthy clergymen in the east
are good deal ajitated because
the truly good Benjamin Harrison is
going to attend the ball which will be
given in honor of his Inauguration. It
is very sad; but we don't think the
worthy clergymen ought to take it so
hard. There are worse things than
going to lls-countenancing vote
buying, for instance, and helping those
who are caught at it to escape punish
ment.-Salina Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

THIS, the seventh congressional dis
trict, of Kansas, contains thirty seven
counties, and is, in population and
area, the largest congressional district
in the United States. In 1880 the
population of the district, as indicated
by the vote, was less than 130, 900. The
vote of November last would indicate
the present population to be some $685.
600. The total vote was 71,315. In
the fourthsdistEict, the next largest in
the state, the vote Nov. End, 1888,
was 10000.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

ACCORDING to a decision handed
down by Judge Gelson, of the United
States district court of Massachusetts,
a passenger on railroads can stop over
at an intermediate station OH a ticket
that is good beyond the point stopped
at and when he is ready to go, the
company must carry him to his des-
tinati0n on that ticket. The case was
against the Erie road, which was
mulcted in 900 damages for eject
ing a man from train at Olean, who
had stopped over ga through ticket.
-WaKeeney Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-10

WE RECEIVED one daily paper this
week-just one, and the first of the
kind since the Chicago convention
that did not have half column OF so
of associate press dispatches concern
ing Gen. Harrison, and how he re-
ceived calls, and perhaps answered calls
of nature-Or some other slnshy rot.
1t was so refreshing to miss our accus-
toned dose of this silly twaddle that
we have carefully filed chat paper away
lest we should not see it's like in many
days to come.-Ness City Neaos.