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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07
NE1eHBoRHooD 3, RE q: NEWS.
EllinwOOd.

Ellinw00d.
From the Advocate.
Another rain. Wheat looks fine.
Another railroad and we boom.
Fred Stommel has severed his con-
nection with the Star elevator and is
now with Frank Baker.
Chas. Herter. one of our most prom
inent farmers and cattlemen, shipped
car load of cattle to Colorado.
Our townsman, V. S. Mnsil set up
the cigars to the boys to celebrate his
35th anniversary in the United States.
We wondered last Wednesday even
ing why John Schwerdtfieger had such
broadusmile on his face and after
some questioning got the facts-A girl,
usual weight,
John Havas this week sold wagon
load of potatoes to c. Vossen which
were raised in this county. They are
the finest potatoes we have seen this
year, beating any shipped in here.
There will be literary at the school
hall next Friday, Nov. 8. An excellent
program has been prepared. The
question for debate is: Resolved that
suffrage should be extended to the
women of the United States.
Leo Bockemohle, the handsome
Assist. Cashier of-the Bank of Ellin-
wood, which is one of the most solid
institutions in the west, will leave for
Chicago this evening, friday to attend
the celebrated Bryant Business College
at that place.
j. D. Ronstadt was born in Hanover
Germany, 1841. Settled in Baltimore.
Nd, on his arrival in America in 1856,
and in 1851 enlisted in the U. S. Navy
and went OH board the ship Savannah.
He was in New Orleans when the civil
war broke out and was present at the
capture of the place. Later he served
on board the Oneida, and was present
when the first gun was fired on Vicks-
burg. He was in the newspaper busi-
ness in Nebraska some time, and settled
in EllinwOod in 1873. He was locating
agent for the Santa Fe company and
agent for the town company, and was
instrumental in bringing large num-
Der of settlers here.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07
Pawnee Rock.

from the Leader.
An increase of IL in Pawnee Rock
population this week.
Mr.. Charlie Welbaum sold his farm
this week to Bob Dillenger.
A brand new girl baby came to
gladen the hearts of section boss Con-
ley on Monday. We extend congrat-
ulatiOns John.
The post Office was moved on
Wednesday into the Office formerly oc-
cupied by j. Lindas as a lumber yard
office.
Milt MOsberger and family returned
from Washington Territory last week.
Mr.. Mosberger is building himself a
house on his brothers farm east of T.
H. Brewers and will make that his
future home, having sold his farm in
W. II.
Just as we go to press we learn of
the death of $50 of Geo. Leitn er s
Angora goats. 1t was certainly a
foolish move in George bringing the
goats from as warm climate as Texas
to this section unless he had the best
of shelter provided for them, which he
had not.
Our citizens should make move in
the matter of freight rates. Great
Bend has the 2ct rate that allows her
to pay more money for wheat than it is
possible for our buyers to pay. 1t
seems to us that it the proper steps
were taken that this matter could be
adjusted. 1t will pay to try.
Mr.. Lott, brother-in-law of a. r.
Vanhorn, who came out from Lima,
Ohio, a few weeks ago is so well pleas
ed with this country that he has set
| tied down on piece of land south of
| town and gone to work in true Kansas
fashion. He has already got more
wheat in the ground than he ever had
| in his life back east He was troubled
| with asthma when he came out here,
| but is getting much better.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07
Vacant Farms in Vermont.

Eastern men, among them the editor
of the american Architect, are at loss
to know the reason of the desertion of
eastern farm lands. We can inform
them, to some extent, of the reason.
They have only to remember that the
proven itself THE agricultural Mecca of
America, and men willingly leave the
states where they have to put in a life
time of hard labor with but small re-
ward to take up their homes in Kansas.
the lan,! of plenty and of profit. We
herewith copy "a rather sad story;
from the american Architect:
"a rather sad story is told by Mr..
Valentine, Il Vermont official, about
the desertion of that beautiful state by
its former inhabitants. Standing with
other officials on hill in Bennington
county, and looking over the valley of
the West river, a tributary Of the Con-
necticut, they counted fifteen contig-
uous farms, of perhaps hundred acres
houses and barns in at least tolerable
condition, without single inhabitant.
Beyond, toward the Connecticut, but
hidden by the maple groves IN the val
ley, were, as they knew, fifteen more,
also deserted, yet all well situated and
still showing signs of their former fer
tility. Statistics show that similar
condition prevails all over the state.
In Windham county alone are more
than forty thousand acres of land, once
cultivated, but now deserted, and in
the whole state the number of aband-
Oned farms, complete with houses,
fences, barns and outbuildings, must
be several thousand. Yet Vermont is
one ef the plei,santest, healthiess, most
fertile, and most civilized states in the
union. In its river valleys is no ma
laria, while its hills are covered to the
summit with vegetation. The reckless
agriculture which has made portions of
the south nearly barren has never been
favored in Vermont, where century
or more of stock farming has enriched
rather than exhausted the soil; yet the
people who once found happy homes
there have crowded into the towns, OF
have left the state altogether. In thirty
years, from 1850 to 1880, the increase
of population in Vermont was five per
cent, while the population of the whole
country more than doubled, and that of
the adjoining state of Massachusetts in
creased by nearly eighty per cent. Not
pretending to any ideas on political
economy, we will not try to account for
this strange condition of things, but it
is certainly curious that Il region SO
favored in climate and position should
be retrOgrading so rapidly"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07

Col. r. G.. INGERsOLL, at the grave
of his friend, Horace Seaver, in Boston,
August %: "When the day is done,
when the work of life is finished, when
the gold of evening meets the dusk of
night beneath the silent stars, the tired
laborer should fall asleep. TO outlive
usefulness is double death. How lit
tie, after all, we know of what is i'll OF
well. How little Of this wondrous
stream of cataracts and pools; this
stream of life that rises in world un-
known and flows to that mysterious sea
whose shore the foot of one who comes
hath never pressed. How little of this
do we know-ihis struggling ray of
light 'twixt gloom and gloom, this strip
of land by verdure clad between the
unknown wishes, this throbbing mo-
ment filled with love and pain, this
dream that lies between shadowy shores
of sleep and death, we stand upon this
verge of crumbling time, we love, we
hope, we disappear, again we mingle
with the dust, and the knot intrinse-
cate forever falls apart. But this we
know: A noble life enriches all The
wOrld ,,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07
Albert Items.


From "Spunk.''
Miss Lizzie Wells and sister have
returned from Colorado. They will
reside in Olmitz.
We were again favored with an
address by Rev. Davis of Lyons on
Sunday evening last.
Owing to the wet weather of the
past week the grain buyers have been
rather s'blue."
Still the Albert correspondent to the
Ellinwood Adrocate continues to thrive
under the nom de plume of ''mutal
nomine." What a wonder!
Chas Hill has gone to Jetmore
instead of Olmitz as announced last
week
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07

The English syndicates and the
English sparrows are running this
country. Kill the sparrows by shooting
them, and "shoot" the syndicates by
killing them.-Kansas Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

J.C. RILEY has sold that excellent
paper, the Hutchinson Democrat, to w.
C. T.. Beard. Mr.. Riley will remove to
ElDorado and publish the Jefersonian
at that place.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07

Now BOYS, quit calling each other
bad names. You are all good fellows
beth victors and vanquished, and you
can't make the people think otherwise.
Let us all pull together now for the
general good of Barton county.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07

for more copy. We, the prohibition
side of the house, will prohibition
does prohibit-so much that our repub-
lican friends seek stairway or dark
corner to lIquidate, on election day.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07

VICE-PRESIDENT MORTON is run
ming saloon in Washington without a
license. He charges fifteen cents for a
drink of whiskey. He has made appli-
cation for license in his own name,
but it was not granted because ma
jority of property owners did not sign
his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07

The prediction of various weather
clerks, that we would have an early win
ter, is coming pretty true. A blizzard in
New Mexico last week caused a great
amount of suffering among stock, and
several persons are reported frozen to
doatn
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07

THE latest reports place Iowa first
in the list of corn producing states, of
1889, Missouri second and Kansas
third, and gives the products of these
four states as 1,14l 900, 900 bushels OF
over one half of the total corn product
of the country.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07

\ PRACTICAL revivalist requested all
in the congregation who paid their
debts to rise. The rising was general.
After taking their seats, a call was
made for those who did not pay their
debts; and one solitary individual arose,
who explained that he was an editor,
and could not, because the rest of the
congregation were owing him for their
subscriptions Exchange.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07

vices on Sunday morning, December
1st. Bishop VIM. x. Ninde, of Topeka.
will conduct the services.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07

1t is really bit embarrassing to face
the fact that Kansas has lost in popu-
lation in the last year. The re-submis-
sionists have well exploited theory to
answer for it. Mohler has another
theory, namely, that it is incident to
the general boom bursting all over the
state. Hasn't some one better theory
than either of these?-Lawrence Jour-
nal.
YES, here is a better theory: The
blamed fool state went some $4,000 ma
jority for Harrison. No better reason
needed.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07
SHERIDAN IN KANSAS.
The Last Struggle OF the Red Men
on Kansas Soil
"Reminiscences of ...Little Phll'' and His
Famous Troopers.
lcopyrieht-A- N. kellogg Newspaper Col

II Kansas. essen
TALLY the State of old
soldiers, G en- Q ra l
Sheridan's memory
is rev ere d in q
double degree; for it
was he who, when
the public domain
within its geograph-
l 1;-,.%. -oC GrSf
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-15
THE WEATHER.

For Western Rsns-
syluania and West
Virginia. .Jair. slight
~ ,Oarn,sr; northerly
loinds, bseoninguar;-
able.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-15
TARIFF REVISION is FIRST.
Blaine Says Congress Must Look After That
Before Anythine Else.

Blaine Says Congress Must Look After That
Before AnythinR Else.
WASHINGTON, October Alt is widely
believed here that the President will recon-
mend in his message some decided modifca-
tions of the existing tariff. From remarks he
has let drop to persons who have eonversed
with him on the subject it is inferred that
he realizes the party expediency OF such a
course, and two members Of his Cabinet
whose counsels would be most likely to in
fuence are of the same mind Secretary
Windows Northwestern education fits him
to favor revision, while Secretary Blaine
has, within a few days, expressed himself
decidedly in hope that Congress will take
up the question at once and dispose of it.
The conversation was started by his friends
inquiry what he thought of Representative
Lodges scheme for Federal election law
as means of bringing out fair vote in the
Southern States. The Secretary answered
that this was not the time 10 bring such an
issue before the country. He added:
What the people expect of Congress is to
defer all other general legislation till the tariff
question is put out of the way. As long as
that hangs over its head 1t can hope to do moth
ing satisfactory In other lines. 1t would be the
wisest stroke Of policy for the Republicans Of
both Houses to unite, as soon as Congress con-
venes, upon bill designed to meet the popular
demand for tariff revision without disturbing
the welfare of any established American
industry. Other matters, however interesting
and important, can afford to wait till this one
is adjusted, for, with the people once satisfied
that the Republican party has made its prom
ises on this head in good faith, they will give
it all the heartier support In any enterprise It
undertakes afterWard.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-15
SILKS! SILKS!


the and values
tn Of gto
handle
lstodos wilbe madego u o
81 12 81 2 $ 80
81 So, 81 75 81 81, 81 81 25
81 81, H75 g. 81 S
quality guaranteed 81 B 81 25 81 g. 81 80 DS2
81, 81 81 %, 50 81 5 &
Satin Rhadane quality Toe S0c ST. 25 81 90 s.
Rhadimi, Trotine Satin
Satin Duchess, E
Alsof full ne o o
New large figure Black Bade which Dame Fashion says all the
All
all the different fnh and
the Stat this pieeitis the
W e selling at 30c 5Oc and 81 yard
combinations Fine Plaid Surahs inches
2to$ a
PLUSHES all
48c 6c, 75c, Csc and 81 25
k-6nihV a a
MIN
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-15
Sporting Notes.
THE Bridegrooms have it, without doubt.

THE Bridegrooms have it without doubt
ELLA CLAY won the unfinished 2:N trot at
Terre Haute yesterday.
THE Homestead team will play the Pitts
burgs at Recreation Park tomorrow.
IT looks as if the Brooklyns and the Giants
will contest for the big championship.
SAM HYAMs, the local poolseller, left for
Frederick, Md, last evening to sell pools on
the trotting races there
AT the sale of thoroughbreds at Jerome
Park yesterday Come to-Taw was bought for
SlU, 100 by Hough Bros.
THE scheduled games of the American
Associations finished yesterday Postponed
games can be played until Thursday.
THE Browns will have to play four games be-
tween now and Thursday to tie with the BrooE-
lyns, even If it is legal to play postponed games
now.
THE Pittsburgs will play at Braddock to-day.
The Braddocks battery will be Killen and
Liston. Staley will likely pitch for the Pitts
burgs.
BROTHER FORSTER. of the Cleveland
Leader, explodes that story about Tom LOTUS
going to manage the Cincinnati club next year.
Cleveland knows good thing when they
have it.
FRED CARROLL left for his home at San
Francisco, last evening. He was accompanied
to the depot by a host of friends. Fred says he
Will report mere ABOUT Marcn 10. Inc Dig nltter
is popular in PIttsburg.
MANAGER MUTRIE says that the Giants
will make Hughes, Lovett and Terry think
they cannot pitch at all. Byrne thinks his
team will easily beat the Giants and Mike
Kelly thinks the latter will have picnic with
the Brooklyns.
DoMINIcK MCCAFFREY, looking like sleek
well-fed farmer, arrived in this city from New
York early yesterday morning. The ex-pugilist
came here on business. II have permanently
retired from the ring" said he. II am a retired
gentleman. will not fight Policeman Pat Far
rell, of Pittsburg, and have not authorized
anyone to challenge the Marine or Jack
Dempsey in my behalf. OF course, if there is a
chance to make big stake I might consent to
fight again, but it would have to be with some
one in nv class, with some one with reputa-
tion.-Phtlddelpht Inquirer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-15
OUAYIN THE HARNESS
He Goes to Washington to Help Gen.
eral Malone in Virginia.
THE LATTER NEEDS HIM BADLY.
Mathew Stanley is Anxious to Settle the
PostOfice Fight Here.
GIVING UP BEAVER FOR THE WINTER.
A Plan to Make Frank Case Postmaster Causes
General Flutter.

Senator Quay has gone to Washington to
spend the winter. He leaves primarily SO
early in the season to help out Malone in
Virginia, who is struggling hard against
fate and Southern Democrats. The Senator
is anxious to have the Case postmastership
fight settled at once.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-15
CAMPBELL & DICK.
Freemasons' Hall, Fifth Avenue.
eI2rrs

which opens here on Wednesday, are begin
ming TO arrive in the city. The conference
will embrace about 30 members, represent
ing % of the maritime nations that
furnish SO per cent of the tonnage of the
world. In fact no maritime country of any
importance is without representation except
Portugal. The conference expires by limi-
tation on the 31st Of next January, and even
then it is doubtful if the members will have
finished the work laid out tor them.
The American delegates to the Interna-
tional Marine Conference met this morning
at the Office Of Secretary Cottman, in the
State Department. Their consultation was
entirely informal, relating TO the programme
of subjects to be discussed. The delegates
to the conference will assemble at the diplo-
matte reception room, in the State Depart
ment, Wednesday morning. at II o'clock.
and will be formally received by Secretary
Blaine.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-15
THEIR JOLLY GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The Democratic Societies of the State TO
Wind Up Happily.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.i

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.i
PHILADELPHIA, October 14.-Chauncey
F. Black, with the same gavel used by him
in the Senate hall at Harrisburg. will at
noon tomorrow call to order the first gen.
eral assembly of the Democratic Societies Of
the State at Thalia Hall, Crown and Cal
lowhill streets, this city. Among the most
prominent of the 700 who will be in attend
ance at the convention are:
Elliott P. Kisner, Chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Committee and BENZ. M. Mead, its
Secretary; Edmund A. Bigler candidate for
State Treasurer; William L. Scott, of Erie;
John Blair and s. Morris, of Greene; A. ].
Hughes, G. T. Rafferty,. ]. M. Guffey. Patrick
Foley, James A. Atwell and ex.candidate for
Auditor General William ]. Bremen, all of
Allegheny county; Postmaster ]. B. Larkin, of
Pittsburg. who will head the Randall Club of
that city; II. Willis Bland, of Berks. one of the
defeated candidates for Judge hagerman's
seat: Congressman Brunner and Senator Green,
of Berks; A. E. Dively of Altoona, E. II.
Rauch, Of the Mauch Chunk Democrat;
temporary Chairman Of the last State
convention; F. e. Beltzhoover, of Cumberland;
Postmaster Meyers, of Harrisburg, with Will
liam Rodearmel and John T. Dohoney, manag-
ing editor of the Harrisburg Patriot; William
olds, James A. Coyle and ]. L. Steinmetz, of
Lancaster; Robert E. Wright and Allen II.
Focht, of Allentown; Senator Hess, of North
ampton; Henry C. Bender, of DoylestowD; DR..
M. ]. McKinnOn, Of York; l. Irwin Steele, of
Ashland; William F. Harritty, Richard K.
Vaux, VIM. S. Stenger, Robert P. Dechert,
Chairman johnson. of the City Committee. ex-
Chairman Charles P. Donnelly and other promi-
nent Philadelphia workers.
No opposition has developed against
President Blacks reelection nor Secretary
Wounan's; but it is said that there will be
a scramble for the other offices. 1t is ex-
pected that State Chairman Kisner and Cam
didate Bigler will be called upon to address
the assembly.
At noon on Wednesday the delegates will
be taken up the Schuylkill river by steam
boat and thence on other pleasant excur-
sions
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-15
PLAYING WITH THE ARMY.
The Expensive National Toy Again the Sub.
ject of OratoricaI Recreation.


ject of OratoricaI Recreation.
ESPECIAL TELEcBAM TO THE DIsPArcH.I
WASHINGTON, D. c., October 1.-The
reorganization of the army so long talked of
and so often deferred seems as far off as ever
from the multiplicity of bills and the diver
sity of their bearing which will come before
the next Congress. Among others Senator
Manderson's bill provides for adding 30
companies to the infantry, with view of
giving it 12-company, three battalion or
ganization, like that of the cavalry and ar
tillery. Under that bill 30 captains would
be made majors, 100 first lieutenants would
become captains, 150 second lieutenants
would become first lieutenants, and these
promotions would involve an in
crease of pay amounting to
S104, 120 per annum. This measure
deals with the infantry alone; but another,
known as the Steele bill, while preserving
the feature of II companies for the infantry,
makes much more radical change by pro-
viding that in time of peace each of the
regiments of cavalry, artillery and infantry,
although at all times fully oficered, is to
have only eight companies manned.
1t is probable that with all these conflict
ing measures introduced into the last Con-
gress and previous ones, including the bills
of Mr.. Manderson, Mr.. Grain, Mr.. Harmer,
Mr.. Funston and Mr.. Warner, an entirely
new bill will be required as compromise in
order to effect reorganization.