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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-18
THE LATEST.

CANADIAN CITY, Tex, April 15.-Large
numbers of prospective Oklahoma BOOM
ers have passed through this city the past
few days on their way from New Mexico
and Colorado to the promised land of Ok.
lahoma. This Oklahoma excitement will
be of great benefit to Kansas and the Pan.
handle of Texas, from the fact that Okla
holna will attract the flow of emigration
which has been directed the past few
years toward Dakota and the North
toward the Southwest. 1t will dow into
the country which has been just opened,
and that being q small body, only q little
more than thirty five by sixty five miles
in size. will soon fill up.
NEW YORK, April IA private letter
received in New York from a Trustworthy
gentleman residing at the City of Mexico
says: "Four of the men arrested on the
charge of being implicated in the derail.
ment of President Diaz's train a few
weeks ago have been shot The execution
was carried out very quietly, as not infre-
quentiy happens in such cases in this
country. Newspapers and news agencies
did not publish the fact as editors stand
in awe OF imprisonment and don't publish
even Is which the Government authorities
prefer should remain in obscurity."
CINCINNATI, April 14.-A North Vernon,
Ind. dispatch states that on Wednesday
night late, Joseph Maynard went to the
house of Henry Roam, called him to the
door and shot him without saying word
The weapon was a shot-g gun. The sho
took effect in Roan's head. He can moi
recover. Yesterday Maynard was cap.
tured by the sheriff. It is said Roam had
told that Maynard had been caught at.
tempting to steal money and jewelry from
the drawers of his bureau last Sunday
night
URBANA, O., April 14-Last night when
supper time Ford, a university student
brought back from Arizona for forgery
and another prisoner sprang from behind
the door and choked him until they stuffed
his mouth full of rags and fed A little
later the sheriff was found. Two meI
found the prisoners hiding in hay NOW
They advanced ON them with q pitchforl
and captured them. Ford narrowly es
caped lynching while being taken back t,
Jail
CHICAGO, April 14-R Z. Ribbon. at
torney for Henry Dieckman, the 500. 90
defaulter, has returned from Windsor
Ont, where he went to consult with hi
client ON his financial affairs in St Louis
Mr.. Ribbon said he would have his clients
affairs settled in few days. The at
torney brought . proposition to those de
frauded for ultimate restitution IL Dieck
man is permitted toreturn and guarantee,
immunity from prosecution.
SAWrER, Kan, April 1h-The OklAhom
boom struck our town in earnest yester
day morning. Captain b Gill concsn
tratsd his boomers and started At ten Z
m. with . company Of fifty. all we
| equipped with teams and farm implemsntI
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-18

General Boulanger in Deputy Sonsee,a
house last aight The French enshs.ss5r
who were among the guess. depS. ted.
Prince de Chimaya, Belgian Minister OF
Foreign afairs, and most Of ths :otAaS
foreign ministers present aeciined to be
introduced to the General and also iefa the
mansion. The other diplomats D,ostlY
held aIoof from the General
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-18
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTES.
SENATOR MANDERsON says many sem
=ators who voted against the confirmation
of Murat Halstead were not actuateo Dy
personal feelings, but believed daisteao
ttoo impetuous.
SECRETARY TRACY is said to have peen
pleased with his visit to the Brooklyn navy
yard.
REAR ADMIRAL THOMAS H PATTERSON,
United States navy, retired, died at
Washington on the 10th after a long ILL
mess. He was sixty nine years of age.
THE court martial to try Major Armes
cfor pulling Governor Beavers nose met at
the War Department Washington, on the
18th.
TIE Commissioner of Patents has re-
moved Jerome B. Burke, division chief,
and reinstated John W. Baboon in the
position.
In the case of Steve Russell, convicted
in the United District Court, Western dis
strict of Arkansas, for murder, and sem
stenced to be hanged on the 10Th OF April,
the President has commuted the sentence
to imprisonment for life.
THE President has appointed Henry 8.
White, of West Virginia, to be United
States marshal for the district of West
Virginia.
PERRY BELMONT recently resigned as
Minister to Spain. Secretary Blaine, in
response, requested him to remain in Mad
rid until his successor arrived.
ORDERS have been issued to have the
Boston and Chicago war vessels ready for
commission not later than April 20, in Or
der that these ships can take part in the
centennial ceremonies at New York.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-18

"A banqust Of Boulangisfs ct Vrpaillee
was broken up % the nixht Il the 1SsA by
the military
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16
The Profits in Good Roads.
Houston Post

The Post has just recently called atten-
tion to the great necessity for good roads
in Harris county. Public opinion is dis
tressingly apathetic in this matter. No
subject is at this time OF more vital i'm
portanee OF more readily admitted to be
of paramount Importance. and yet the
public is slow to take the first active
step. a recent exhaustive article in one
of the magazines calls attention TO one
of the obstacles in the way of areusing
general interest among the farming or
producing classes particularly. 1t
Is that specific illustrations are not
presented of the loss to the country by
the continued dependence ON old roads
Proceeding, therefore, to partieularize In
some instance of waste and loss of profit
the writer cites the difference in the size
of the loads that are hauled on the impeF-
feet roads and those that could be carried
over fiFat-elass highway, and Inclden-
tally also the wear and tear on stock, re-
duced to dollars and cents. The eoneiu-
sions are worthy of attention and Fefec-
ton. 1t seems that any one of the
better class of permanent roads
will enable a team TO draw on the
level about four times the amount drawn
on common dirt road IN good condition
On the basis of the experience of Illinois,
where considerable attention has lately
been given to the subject of road inprove-
ment, it is estimated that good roads,
even good dirt roads, at all seasons OF the
year would reduce the cost of transporta-
tons on our country roads more than one
half, while good permanent roads would
make the real cost of hauling less than
one-auaPter OF what it is now. In other
words, the first-elass highway gives the
producer coming to market four loads
TO one BOW marketed over the miserable
excuses for country roads. These de-
duetiens are taken from no less eminent
authority than Bradstreet a and based
upon the discussion OF the monograph not
long since published by the American
Economic association. 1t looks likrt
auadrupling a farmers metiye poveAE,
without the purchase of additional stock
or vehicles, ought to constitute power
full practical appeal to one sself interest.
But this is not all, The estimates con-
clude that the saving on each
head of draft stock is SO an
nually by . system OF good
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16
ABoUF MEN AND HoMEM.

Mrs. Tyler, widow of the ex-presi-
dent, has been buried by the side OF her
husband.
Queen Olga of Greece can supervise
the cooking of dinner OF trim a bonnet
with equal skill.
Senator William ID. Washburn OF Min
1esota is reported as financially embar-
raised. He is said to have lost $3.50 600
in Chicago wheat last spring.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is to be
paid $500 a year for editing the chill
dreu's department of a syndicate OF
English and American papers
Queen Victoria is suffering severely
from lumsago and rheumatism. She can
not stand for any great length of time,
and her face has an unhealthy flush in it
Hannibal HamIin. now in his eighty
first year, writes to friend IN Washing
ton that his health was never better, and
that ne can walk with ease from ten to
fifteen miles day.
The Washington Post says that Sir
Julian Pauneefote, the British minister,
rides in street cars, laughs and chats
with children on the streets, sauntePs out
along country roads, frequently visits
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16

Tue question as to the authorship of the
famous Arthur Richmond letters in
the North American Review has again
been brought up. AT the time they ap-
peared Gail Hamilton was charged as the
writer, but if the people would stop to
reflect they would soon see thar Gail
would be the last person in the world to
write anything without her own sigma
ture. An associate editor of the North
American Review told reporter that
those ''who attempt to fix the author
ship on Julian Hawthorne and Gail Ham
ilton are on the wrong track. ~
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16

ure your convention may decide upon !.
Leasing, solomon & Rasenthal, Sanger
Bros, Cameron. Castles s Storey c. c..
Mccullough, Ksllum & Rotan, j c..
Stephenson & Son. Moon Bros, Tom
Padgitt, W. n. Grand, Eikel & Bru-
stedt.
Mr.. William Cameron was appointed
delegate TO represent these parties as
delegate frem Waco.
Now l desire to state that if Mr.. Clark
and others call those gentlemen poll
tieians aud demagogues, then / am will
ing 10 admit that the convention was OF
that kind. However, / would beg to
ask whether Mr.. Clark or the merchants
OF Waco handle the freights aud COM
meree of NNaee. aud whether Ar, Clark
Is building up the city of Waco, or
whether il Is the merchants, manufac-
tuFers and business men of Waco that
are building IT'D If il be tFue that he is
the man that is building up the city and
country then I am willing to admit that
his Judgment and opinion should be
worth mere than the merchants of his
city. Respectfully, 5. ID. BLAKR.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16

the 25-cent opera resorts and frequently
goes behind the scenes to talk with the
chorus girls.
That sincere and amisble end-of-the-
world crank, Rev. MT. Baxter OF En-
gland, has revised the date es the
great smashuB He now declares that
it viii occur on the llts of April, 1891,
With no postpoumezss on account of the
weather.
Against thu new Indian commissioner,
I. j Morgan, it is charged that when
commanding negro regiment he bri5ed
sergeant TO levy 81 of every new re-
crait, and that no was found guilty of the
offeuse by court martial. TO the charge
Gen. Morgan pleads that he was found
only technically guilty, and thet be has
led correct life since tee var. For
every penitent sinner tnsre should be for
giveness aud amnesty; but the post of IN
dian commissioner is heset with sore
temptations. On this account President
Harrison might have given Gen. Morgan
an easier berth
Lord Fife who is 70 marry the eldest
and ugliest daughter of the prince of
Wales, comes OF a queer family. The
cable has tol0 us how three of his sisters
have been divorced aud married again
His mother was very stout and hand-
some lady, who used to wake up in the
middle of the night and deyeHT chicken
and champagne, which were placed upon
Q table at her bedside. She was liberal
in her views, and furnished house in
Remington GsYdens for Edmund Yates,
then poputs.f novelist. When she died
suddenly, her husband, old Earl Fife,
found the oils for the furniture and,
like true Scotchman, closed bis eyes to
their suggestiveness, and merely re-
quested Yates to pay them to him. Per-
haps this hurt more than scandal. AT
any rate, no eplogy of Lady Fife appears
in the "reminiscences of Edmund
Yates
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16
TAKE CARE OF NUMBER ONE


Elsewhere in THE GAZETTE win be
found some discussion of the failure of
the Texas immigration bureau, and if
one thing becomes more apparent than
Texas as state cannot OF viii not unite
in an effort for the common good Hav-
ing been somewhat instrumental in CIV
ing impetus to this immigration move
ment, THE GAZETTE has prayerfully
watched its course from the beginning,
and has endeavored to trace the Gauges of
its failure. Some things there were that
hampered the movement, but the one
obstacle that proved insurmountable was
the lack of unity in the state. Texas is
large, and the interests of the state are
not Identical; sectional ambitions, Sec
tional needs and sectional jealousies can
not be overcome sufficiently to make the
common good a common object, and
each section must. because 1t will, "take
care of number one, - leaving the COM
mon benefit to be an incident rather than
an ODJecL on IT'S eHOFtS,
While this state of things is to be de-
plored, it is not unnatural--the pine of
the southeast, the cotton and sugar of
the south, the cattle pastures of the
southwest and the grain of the north and
northwest are afraid to pool their issues
lest the benefit be absorbed by some one
section. This is Humankind depIora-
bic, and the section that fails to read
the lesson conveyed by the fact will
share the common stagnation that fol-
lows common inaction, No city or
section can do aught to promote its own
growth without in some part benefiting
all the state, and therefore this munic-
ipal or sectional eRdeavor cannot be
condemned as unpatriotio. The ques-
ton for each section to decide is,
whether it will make no effort at
all for its own betterment be-
cause of the impossibillity of united effort
on the part of all the sections of the
state. If North aud Northwest Texas
desire Immigration, if these sections are
willing to expend money in order to pro-
mote their growth and development,
they must organize on sectional basis,
and in an effort to ''take care of number
onen they may enjoy the satisfaction
that from all they msy accomplish for
themselves, some benefit will result incl
dentallY to all Texas, and such example
would have the tendency to arouse al
other sections to organized and active
effort.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16
Rot q Political Meeting.
Dallas News.

DALLAS. TEX. July l5.-HoR. George
Clark of Waco and others seem to think
that the freight rate convention held at
Dallas July S and 8 was political gath
ering. In reply beg to state that if he
calls the leading merchants OF Waco,
Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and SheF-
man, and in fact OF all the towns, large
and small, in North and Central Texas
politicians, then we are ready TO admit
that 1t was a political meeting. True,
there were quite q number of able men
in that bo9g that have been in the legis-
lature of Texas ard the congress OF the
United States, but they were there
strictly for business and not for political
purposes. Eeel that can best answer
Mr. Clark s interview by the following
telegram from the leading merchants of
this city:
Waco, Tax, July 8.
To s. D, Blake. Dallas;
We regret, owing to lately pending
negotiations with Arkansas Pass railroad
just closed, it VIII be impossible for US TO
send our representative men to the Dali
las freight rate convention. We are
heartily in sympathy with your move-
ment and win cooperate with sny meas
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16
Chicago and the worlds Fair.


Since there is to be world g fair
holden in the United States of America
during the year 1892, at which time the
American hemisphere will have been
known to white men for four centuries
il is plain that said fair must be holden
at one of two plaees-New York OF Chi
cago. The continent and hemisphere
have no other cities Of magnitude and
accommodations sufficient to house, feed !,
and ereditably entertain the myFiads of
foreigners who, together with millions of
Americans, will vislt the great fair be-
tween the first and last dag OF it's holden
Chicago is in every way preferable TO
New York as the site of the regtdaffs
1t is central, and the most easily reached
from all parts of the Union of any gFeet
city. 1t can hold more visitors WITH ass
crowding and Inconvenience ;sSE1 eau
show more tall houses than NV 7 oTk
its thirteen-storied buildings are more
imposing than those of the Eastern me-
tropohs; but they are places OF business,
The houses in which Chicago people live
and sleep are more ample and more airy
than those in which New Workers crush
themselves in beds and at tables. Chi
eago is healthier city than New York,
miles upon miles of boulevards, and
tens upon tens of miles of parks. 1t also
is a summer resort, and the fair will be
holden during the summer months. An
ordinary saltwater harbor can be seen
anywhere, but such a glorious lake 'front.'
age as Chicago enjoys is TO be found in no
other city. New York is a great seaport
town, but Chicago is a great American
city. 1t is the American city. That
aping of European manners which excites
the deFision of foreigners in New York is
not visible, and would not be tolerated,
in Chicago. Chicago is American but
cosmopolite. New York is heteromor-
plus, but provincial. Great conventions
long have abandoned New York and
selected Chicago as the place whose ply
steal, moral and mental air is most in
spring.
Besides which, by 1892 Chicago will
have its auditorium complete. 1t will be
able to produce italian or German opera
upon scale whose magnitude and excel
lenee have never been reached, or even
attempted, in any other city of the
world. 1t Will be able to show to visiting
Europe, Asia, Africa and Australasia
how thoroughly liberty enlightens and
enlarges the tastes of mankind. And,
furthermore, it was Chicago that first
proposed the holding of the worlds fair
in 1892, and proposed it through its
favorite medium--the Inter Ocean.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16
He BEATS H4LSTEAD.

The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette has
always been one of the most virulent
South haters in the country, and the name
of Its editor, Murat Halstead,. has al
most become recognized synonyme for
malignant Misrepresentation and parti-
san bigetry, But greater than Hal
stead has arisen, and is now making the
Commercial Gazette the vehicle of his
vile fulminations against the South.
Halstead is taking vacation in Europe,
and r. D. Mussey is at the head of. the
Commercial Gazette's editorial depart
ment during his absence.
AS soon as the reins were placed
in his hands, Mussey started to drive
ever since been engaged IN fierce
discussion with those Southern editors
who did not choose to allow his SANDERS
to go unchallenged. Met and answered
at every point, Mussey has gone from
falsehood to falsehood until it seems
there is no statement too preposterous
for him to make. His latest charge is to
the effect that
To-day man from the North cannot go and
settle in the South, except in few localities,
and preserve his own ideas of politics and adyo-
cate them without getting himself into hot
water, and likely as not receiving warning to
leave, Many and many Northern
citizens have gone into the South in the honest
endeavor to build up industrial interests, and
been killed or forced to return
The day may come when Northern
newspaper readers viii consider malicious
lying dishonorable. Till then Mussey
and his kind will flourish.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16

roads. 1t was shown also that in the sbs
cial report on cereal production in n.
tenth census it was stated as the snE
stance of answers made TO inquiries "a
garding the cost of moving and handlin.
grain, that in most of the western wbes.
regions it wheat had to be hauled MOS.
than eighteen 70 twenty miles to rescs
railroad or water, the land carriage 4
ordinary years ate up the profit Of eBl.
ture. According to the estimates thu,
received 1t cost the ordinary farms.
more to carry each busheI of wbss,
a mile than it did the ordinarS
railroad to carry ton. Here then
are some specific illustrations tbs,
should arouse the active interest ),
every producer who has crop or produe,,
to haul TO market. If four loads can ~
taken to market where one was carris5
before, and S25 per head be annusllv
saved on the wear on stock, ID does NJ,
require a mathematical expert to STE N.
large and gratifying increase TO the year,
profits of the faFm, And If the merehan,
is enabled to do feurfold the trade !,
does not require a genius for finaucierins
to determine his interest ia the question
Public sentiment must take up this an
important matter aud drive it to practical
results.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16
a Rag Producing Tax.
Boston Herald.


At the dinner given on Monday evening
at the Algonquin club, 70 the members
of the senate committee on interstate
commerce, Senator Reagan made a
statement which is said to have been
highly appreciated. After referriaa
the valuable information that the eefn-
mittee had lsstsped to during its VISIT in
Boston, he said that he felt strongly
drawn to this part of the country, fsal
the reason that he came from $50
that raised much of the cotton tlt the
mills of Massachusetts worked into
cloth, that raised more wool than any
other state, and this, too, was largely
converted in Massachusetts into its fin
ishsd product, 'and, gentlemen, - he
said, addressing his Massachusetts,
hosts, ''If we keep on this tariff tax of
AIS per cent. venture to say that Texas
will also be in position to furnish your
mills with its full share of rags. The
representatives of Boston who were pres
ent at the dinner quickly caught the
force of this suggestion, and Endorsed
Senator Reagan's economic conclusions
with unstinted applause.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16

A NUMRER of Mennopites living in
South Dakota have petitioned the con-
vention now in session in that state to in
corporate a provision in the constitution
exempting them from military duty
They are people of peace. they say, and
not of war. OF course their request
viii not be granted. No state has the
power to make such exemption, as it Is
the general government which bosses the
war business.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16

THE CD. News seems to be very
much at war with Attorney General
Hogg. THE GAZETTE has kindly feel
ing for all esteemed contemporaries, and
so it advises the CD. N. to go slow :.
There IS a hen on. When the attorney
general strikes something drops.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16
MONTAGUE.
Criminals Waiting for TriaI-worF of
Grand jury.
Cerresnopdenee of the Gazetta

Criminals Waiting for TriaI-WorF 81 a.
Grand jury.
Correspondence of the Gazette,
MONTAGUE, TEX, July IL This week
has been very warm, but the very thing
for farmers,
The criminal docket win be taken up
tomorrow in the district court. There
is large docket. The cases of J. L.
Dobson and Sarah Gipson, charged with
infantieide, are set for the 29th, with
special YeniFe ordered.
Deputy Sheriff Dock Nix came in YES
terday with Mrs, John Hubble and her
father, Mr.. Bills, from Collin county.
These parties are wanted in the case Of
John Hubble, who is charged with big
amy.
There are now IN the county jail seven
men and one woman, Tom Tison Was
under bond to appear before the grand
jury, and was arrested after bill was
found. He was searched before going
into the jail. He had aplis person u file
and two small saws. re saws were hid
in his boot.
The grand jlsf Aas returned thirty
eight 20 sment ~
sIfSS6 hayese sFrh, use tAe ST rsaefs-
ENedNEEfsS DISSATISFIED.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16

If the Greenback organs, some few of
which still cumber the earth, would i'm
press upon the people how small sum
''per capita it would require to make
passable highways in every neighboThood
they might be able to do some good in
the world. Good country roads mean
greater profit to the farmer, education to
his children and social life to his wife.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-16

THE big Union stock yards are good
thing; the bagging factory is good
thing; the moss collar factory is good
thing-Fort Worth has all these.
A fruit oannery would be good thing !;
so would sorghum mill, paper mill i,
and WOODEN mill be good thIngs-Fort
Worth has none of these.