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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07
Rates of Interest in Different States.


In view of the evident anxiety among
the people concerning the proposition
to reduce the interest rate in Kansas,
it may be of interest to learn the rates
in other States. We give the rates In
1885, believing that no changes have
been made since that time. Alabama
per cent; Arizona 10; Arkansas g; Cal
ifornia z; Colorado 10; Connecticut o.;
Dakota 4; Delaware 6; District OF
Columbia 8; Florida 8; Georgia Z; Idaho
10; Illinois 6; Indiana 6; Iowa 6; Kansas
z; Kentucky 6; Louisiana 5; Maine q;
Maryland 6; Massachusetts 6; Michigan
Z; Minnesota 7; Missippi 6; Missouri o.;
Montana 10; Nebraska Z; Nevada 10;
New Hampshire 6; New Jersey 8; New
Mexico 6; New York 6; North Carolina
6; Ohio 6: Oregon 8; Pennsylvania g.;
Rhode island 6; South Carolina q;
Tennessee s.; Texas s; Utah 10: Yer
mont s; Virginia 8; Washington Ter
ritory 10; West Virginia 6: Wisconsin
u; Wyoming Is.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07
Pine Tree Tops for Paper Pulp.

An exchange describing the discov-
erv of new use of the cotton stalk for
paper pulp recalls another new thing
in the same line. Heretofore the tops
of pine and spruce trees in the lumber
ing regions have been not only great
source of trouble to the iumbermen
but cause of untold mischief and
loss. From them, dried and lying
about in vast masses, have originated
nearly all the destructive fires in the
wooded regions. Now an intelligent
and bright-minded Yankee has discov-
cred great use for them and has
shown that these heretofore worthless
and dangerous tree tops and branches
can be gathered. steamed to extract
the resinous matter from them, ground
up into dry pulp and utilized in the
manufacture of paper This discov-
cry at once makes marketable a vast
mass of hitherto waste material, and
the effect on the production of paper
in this country ought to be benficial
both to the press and people
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

The following very sensible advice
from that great and good man, Peter
Cooper, of New York, is respectfully
referred to few business men of this
section: I'm all towns where newspa-
per is published every man should adj
vertlse in it, even if nothing more. than
card stating his name and his busi-
ness he is engaged in. It pays the ad-
vertiser and it lets people at a distance
know that the town you reside in is a
prosperous community of business
men. AS the seed is sown so the bar
vest rec0mpenses. Never pull down
your sign while you expect to do busi-
ness"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

LET THE Strawberries blossom in
FlOrida-we are content with Kansas.
We have no microbes. We have buck
wheat cakes on the vine, and pick some
every day. The maple syrup is also
ripe, and sausage is OH the blossom
right along tra-la. No other state can
make the Kansan's mouth water, for
we can discount them every time. We
have bottled all the cyclone we had to
spare and shipped it east to satisfy the
Pennsylvania demand, and the snow
we have no use for, SO we leave it in
Wisconsin. The boys and girls you
meet on the street hurrying to their
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

work, look rosy with health. Their
eyes sparkle with joy to think that
Kansas is theirs. The bugs are all
dead or sleeping, and the funeral of the
last house fly Happened last week, so
we have no flies on US. Thank God for
the delightful winter. And thanks be
to Him for our salt, the revival meet
ings and other blessings tending to
save us.-AnthOny Republican.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07
Scientific Scraps.

Cedar wood pulp is now made into
paper for undertaking carpets, wrap
ping up wool, ETC., as Dreservative
against moths. The wood used is the
heretofore wasted chips of the pencil
manufactory.
A Long Island physician. finding
that his watch had become ma@netized,
inclosed it in cloth bag and buried it
in damp earth. where il remained for
three days. Upon digging it up he
found it completely demagnetized, and
it has not since varied one second.
A simple plan of stopping bleeding
of the nose has lately been advised.
Grasp firmly the nose with the finger
and thumb for ten or fifteen minutes; !;
by thus completely stopping the move
ment of air through the nose (Which
displaces freshly-formed clots) you
will favor the CLOTHING of blood, and
will frequently stop hemorrhage.
A Bridgeport Conn inventive gen
ius has perfected a locomotive attach
ment, in the nature of a phonograph.
whereby every blast of the whistle is
recorded, together with the exact time
at which it occurs. This is in the in
terest of railway companies, to pro-
tect them against false representa-
LlOuS ny pcISOuS WHO llect Will dCCt-
dent on the track.
A suit at law at Moscow and various
Investigations disclose that tea is being
shamelessly adulterated. OF forty-four
samples analyzed four consisted of a
mixture of tea and certain kind of
grass, four of the grass alone, and five
of tea which had already been used.
In Moscow the police have found a
number of barrels of sweepings in
tended for admiXture with tea.
A patent has been granted in Eng
land for new process of hydro-car-
bons. This method is roughly as fol-
lows: The hydro-carbon is we'll and
rapidly mixed with and then separated
from the raw spirit; the result of this
mixture and separation is that the fusil
oils in the new spirits are taken up and
retained by the hydrocarbons, for
which they have affinity, and the spirit
is then perfectly pure.
An electrical bulletin board is one of
the latest devices. Thirty or forty in
struments or boards may be worked
from a central office. The device con-
sists of a number of lettered wheels in
a row, and these are revolyed so as to
show the letters to spell out the news
through horizontal opening in the
case. 1t is not intended to have a rec
ord of the news it conveys, but it is de-
signed to merely satisfy the eagerness
for news and then makes room for a
succeeding announcement. 1t is on
exhibition in New York. but is not yet
in extended operation.
A curiously considerate invention has
been produced by Frenchman in the
shape of a noiseless clock. for use
more especially in sick-rooms. In
place of the usual pendulum the hands
are set in motion by the unrolling of a
chain, the end of which is fastened to
a buoy floating in a tank of liquid. The
fluid escapes at uniform rate, and can
be utilized to feed a lampwick, thus
giving the apparatus the double char
acter of clock and lamp When the
lamp is lighted the necessary diminu-
lion of liquid takes place by combus-
ton; at other times by carefully regu-
tated dropping.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

SAD Winter soon will cease his
shivering sighs, and nature gladly
turn her ear. to catch the laugh of
Spring. And yet, that surly buffoon,
March, of brawl and bluster, with q
blizzard in his eye, and his breath q
snow storm, may petulant and cranky
grow, and chill the budding smile on
natures lip.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

Prof. Blake says that not only viii
Kansas crops be good this year, but
that bad crops elsewhere win elevate
prices. The professors say makes us
glad and sorry, too: glad at our pros
pective good luck, and sorry for the
others reverses in prospect
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07
Petroleum Petering ont.

1t Is said that the great oil fields of
New York and Pennsylvania are rap
idly becoming exhausted. The sup
ply has fallen from 10000 to 43, 900
barrels per day. Search is being made
for new fields.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

SUIT HAS been entered in the district
court of the county by the board of
Banner township against the C. X. &
w. railroad to recover the amount Of
the bonds issued by that township to
the company some two years ago.
Griggs s. Keys are the attorneys for
the laintiff.-RuSh Center Gazette.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

EVEN our republican friends are be-
ginning to ask what has become of
Barton county's representatives in the
state legislature. They are disappoint-
ed that the daily press is not full of
their legislative ability. Never mind
neighbors. May be their names will
appear when it comes time to vote.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

A YOUNG girl named Abbie BROKER,
aged IL years, near Atchinson, jerked
her head quickly to avoid falling
stovepipe, and broke her neck. We
were always afraid some dreadful &C
cident would happen when We were
putting up stovepipe, and now we
shall forever eschew such domestic
employment.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

THERE are thousands of good, round
dollars waiting to invest in the salt
business in Great Bend as soon as we
demonstrate that the same quality of
salt can be obtained in the city as that
found at the prospecting well north Of
town.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

The Times, of Seattle. Wy. T., has
this interesting item: A young lady
yesterday stepped into an employment
Office in this city and said she was the
owner of 160 acres of good farming
land in Snohomish County, with sixty
acres cleard She said she had also a
small sum of money. and her object
was to secure husband who would
work the farm and make her good
consort. She left her address with the
agent and solicits correspondence from
any one who wishes to secure steady
situation and home. The young lady
was handsome and her eye had bust.
ness snap.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

WHAT'S the matter with Kansasr
She's all right! If you doubt it, inter-
view some Barton county farmer on
crop prospects.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

THERE ARE three million more
women in Great Britain than men.
Thirty-seven per cent of all the women
of marriageable age in England are
unmarried. Fully One-half of the
women of the educated middle class
-gentlewomen-of marriageable age
without husbands. Such deplorable
state of affairs could not exist in
America, most especially in Kansas,
and particularly in Barton county.
The ''gentlewomen" of our country are
mot built that way,' and the gentle
men are auful glad of it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

OF the 343 swans on the Thames 17S
belong to the crown. 81 to the Vinf-
ners' Company, and al to the Dyers'
Company. There is a regular keeper.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

THERE is not a more handsome or
better city in central Kansas than
Great Bend. We say this without fear
of successful contradiction.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

UP IN Ness county the grand jury
has indicted one school boy for giving
'ted ticker" to other school boys.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

!. MONDAY was not kansas Day, !"
but we defy any state to beat it, for
movement.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

WE ASKED 1.-The oldest inhabitant''
when we had winter like this, and he
eravely shook saow-white locks,
and said, ''young man, you'll have to
ask somebody older than me-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

TILE war waged by the Kansas City
Ne,cs on the gambling resorts of that
city has resulted in closing a number
of those places.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

A GOOD way to keep capital out of
Great Bend and Barton county is for
owners of real estate to mark their
property up above its actual value.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

WE AGAIN present our readers with
a picture of ''the owner of the republic
can party" He is in Washington, and
is waiting for the administration to
trot around and show off.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

THE Kansas City Times is following
the penitentiary investigation to the
most minute particular, and in the
opinion of most people the Times is ON
the right 'tack."
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

SEPARATING the white and cOlOred
children in the public schools, is q
question that now agitates the public
mind Of Wichita. When will it come
up in Great Bend?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

WAGES in Pennsylvania. are declin-
ing and strikes are becoming moro
numerous. So much for Harrison and
high tariff.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

THE U. s. house of representatives
inst, by vote of 148 to 1O2. What
the senate will do with it is hard to
determine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

Rough diamonds have been added to
the free list by the Senate. We hope
this will bring peace to the country. as
soon as the duty is removed, diamonds
will be readily obtained at their usual
price.-Ifibtsse.
INDEED the working people of Amer
lea should rejoice that the republican
senate has at last recognized the needs
of the masses and taken the tariff of
diamonds. Let US have all the ne ces-
saries, such as diamonds and the like,
free, but keep the tariff on such lux
uries as common clothing and house
hold necessities.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

JUST AS We 60 to prss we learn that
salt has been struck in the prospect
well at a depth eff 320 feet. In fact, an
artesian salt we'll has been struck, and
salt water is flowing out of the top
of the pipe in strong stream. The
water is a strong brine, and the flow
is constant. A quantity of the water
is now being evaporated, and we will
be able in our next issue to give a
complete report of the extent and inn
portance Of the find.-Larned Eagle
Optic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

SAMOAN affairs are assuming a
startling phase, and it now looks like
q war cloud of no small proportions
was gathering. Germany has placed
herself In position to be severely
dealt with by the American govern
ment, and our lawmakers at Washing
ton are greatly excited over the pres
ent state of the trouble.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

WHO wEEPs with you when you are
sad, and laughs with you when you are
glad, aud joins with you when you are
mad? The editor! Who is always kind,
ever wise, and never-hardly ever-lies,
and when he does apologize? The
editor! Who has heart, and modest
cheek, possessed with spirit true and
meek, and lives on promises from week
to week? The editor! Who reads a
paper not his own, and let's the printer
gnaw bone; while with his cash is Of
high tonep The delinquent subscriber!
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07
ouRRENr oo1nrEHT.

BEN HARRIsoN viii March lth in
less than a month.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

LEeATE. the owner of the legislature,
has introduced bill in the house and
the bill has reached the second reading,
providing: "That when any newspa-
per in this state has been published
for term of twenty-five consecutive
years at the county-seat Of any county
in this state and during that time has
maintained, and still maintains, a lead
ing position in circulation, character
and influence, s"ch newspaper is here.
by made the official newspaper of such
county for all purposes provided by
law" This law would aid but one
newspaper, the Troy Chief, and is
about the biggest piece of popycock on
record.-Ness City Sentinel.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

IT APPEARS that Lord Sackville
West is only one of q number OF minis
ters whose recall has been requested
by our government. Washington re-
qcested the recall of the French Minis
ters, the Marquis de Moustier, in 1888,
and Genet, 1913. Madison sent home
Spanish Minister, Yrujo, in 1904, and
a British Minister, Francis J. Jackson,
in 1869. In 1S49 President Taylor sent
the French Minister, NJ. Poussni, home.
In 1855 President Polk broke off all
official relations with the British Minis
ter, M. CromptOn. In 1871 President
Grant demanded the recall of the
Russian Minister, NJ. Catacatzy. Sew
eral American ministers have also been
sent home, from foreign countries, in
Guiding tho celebrated Chailes Pickney,
from Spain.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

THE stockholders of the sorghum
sugar mill at Conway have decided to
enlarge their plant next year. The
factory began work July 18th on the
amber cane, and ran steadily until
December LIST, working np the product
Of 1900 acres. The United States
Sorghum Inspector says the Conway
sugar is 98 per cent pure.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

THE Wichita Eagle says "the Kan
sas prophet can be relied on every
time to bring Kansas out on Top
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07

A LOT Of Kansans who went to
southern California in November last
to escape the hard winter had their
trouble for their pains. While the
California flea has feasted on them,
their old friends In the sunhower state
have been blowing for corn and prepar-
ing for the boom. AS a great winter
resort, we point to Topeka with pride.
It is place where the statesmen as
semble for their health Oupital.
OUR fair city is preparing to make a
growth that will be no hop-skip-and-
jump spasmodic boom, but a healthy,
everyday and all around bOom. There
is that in our people now that will
insure success; q firm determination to
pull together, to work as unit for the
general good and to make the natural
advantages of the county do their best.
No city in western Kansas will show a
more healthy and permanent growth
than will Great Bend-mark this in
your hat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-07


VOLUME V.
CURRENT oo1nlEHT.
BEN HAHRIsos win March fth in
less than month.
I. MONDAY was not ssKansas Day"
but we defy any state to beat it, for
movement.
UP IN Ness county the grand jury
has indicted one school boy for giving
'ted Ticker" to other school boys.
WAGES in Pennsylvania. are declin-
ing and strikes are becoming more
numerous. So much for Harrison and
high tariff.
WHATS the matter with KansasP
She's all right! If you doubt it, inter-
view some Barton county farmer on
crop prospects.
THE war waged by the Kansas CITY
Ne,cs on the gambling resorts of that
city has resulted in closing a number
of those places.
THERE is not more handsome or
better city in central Kansas than
Great Bend. We say this without fear
of successful contradiction.
A GOOD way to keep capital out of
Great Bend and Barton county is for
owners of real estate to mark their
property up above its actual value.
THE U. S. house of representatives
passed the Oklahoma bill on the 1st
inst, by vote of 148 to 1O2. What
the senate will do with it is hard to
determine.
THE Kansas City Times is following
the penitentiary investigation to the
most minute particular, and in the
opinion of most people the Times is on
the right stack"
SEPARATING the white and colored
children in the public schools, is q
question that now agitates the public
mind of Wichita. When will it come
up in Great Bend?
WE AGAIN present our readers with
a picture of 1.-THE owner of the republic
can party'' He is in Washington, and
is waiting for the administration to
trot around and show of.
WE ASKED 1.-The oldest inhabitant''
when we had winter like this, and he
-eravely shook saow-white locks,
and said, ''young man, you'll have to
ask somebody older than me.'
THERE are thousands of good, round
dollars waiting to invest in the salt
business in Great Bend as soon as we
demonstrate that the same quality of
salt can be obtained in the city as that
found at the prospecting we'll north Of
town.
EVEN our republican friends are be-
ginning to ask what has become of
Barton county's representatives in the
state legislature. They are disappoint-
ed that the daily press is not full of
their legislative ability. Never mind
neighbors. May be their names will
appear when it comes time to vote.
SUIT HAS been entered in the district
court of the county by the board OF
Banner township against the C. X. s
w. railroad to recover the amount Of
the bonds issued by that township to
the company some two years ago
Griggs s. Keys are the attorneys fol
the plaintiff. Center Gazette.
-
SAD Winter soon Will cease hit
shivering sighs, and nature gladly
turn her ear. to catch the laugh OF
Spring. And yet, that surly buffoon
March, of brawl and bluster, with .
blizzard in his eye, and his breath .
snow storm, may petulant and cranky
grow, and chill the budding smile on
natures lip.
A YOUNG girl named Abbie Brooker
aged IL years, near Atchinson, jerked
her head quickly to avoid falling
stovepipe, and broke her neck. W.
were always afraid some dreadful &C
cident would happen when We wer'
putting up q stovepipe, and now w
-
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-20
THE PROCTOR MURDER.

Two of the Atchison County Farmers
NeighbOrs Arrested.
ATcHIsoN, Kan, June 13-Edward Siler
and James Wiley have been arrested for
the murder of W. W. Proctor on his farm
in the northwest part of this county a
short time ago. Siler was Proctor's
nearest neighbor. their farms joining
The neighbors assert that Siler and Proc
tor were not on friendly terms, and that
they had frequent wrangles over a line
of fence and over Proctor's cattle tres
passing on Siler's lands. These quarrels
coupled with conflicting stories and
damaging statements made by Wiley,
Siler's hired man, recently, while on a
visit to Missouri, together with certain
other facts in possession Of the county at
torney-were deemed of sufficient weight
to justify the arrest, of Siler and
Wiley. The theory of the muir
der now is that several weeks
ago Proctor and Siler engaged in a
quarrel. Both men being quick-tempered,
they came to blows, and i'll the alter cation
Proctor was shot. His body was carried
to his house, and his throat cut to create
the impression that he had committed
suicide. Siler, vino is well-to-d came 10
Atchison from Platte County, Mo-, about
eight years ago. He has always borne
good reputation. Wiley has also hereto
fore borne good name. although but lit
tie is known of his antecedenis.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-20
Hanging On to the Last GASP.

A Democratic exchange suggests
that President Harrison's purpose in
appointing colored men as the heads
of certain bureaus is a deep-laid
scheme to create vacancies through
the voluntary designations of dis
gruntled subordinates- General Har-
rison knows the Democratic office
holders too well to expect voluntary
designations from any cause; but il
his intention had been as charged, he
would be doomed to disappointment
After all the cutlery and show of in
dignation over the appointment, a
Washington special in a Democratic
organ announces that when Mr..
Lynch. the new Fourth Auditor, took
charge of his Office, there was ne
show of reserve on the part Aof the
clerks and sub-officials in welcoming
a colored man as chief. but. on the
contrary. polite and friendly greet
ings- No designations have yet been
heard of. The naughty Southern
clerk may be outraged in his or her
feelings, but he and she will hang on
to the last gasp-Indianapolis Jousn-
al.