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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-01-12

Michael Garry arrived in town Mon
day evening, in response to request
from w. s. Mead to stay with the livery
stable two or three weeks during his alb
sence on business trip. Mr.. Garry had
been employed at the State Reform
school. He likes it there very much, and
expects to return.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-01-12

The report that Rev. Mr.. Walkers
daughter had the scarlet fever was q
mistake. It does us good to make note
of this. It is to be fervently hoped that
not case of this to-be-dreaded disease
will appear in Wa-Keeney this winter.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-01-12

Friend Tilton, of the Wa-Keeney
World, was made happy New Years
day by number of his friends presenting
him with handsome geld watch, valued
at about $50. We don't believe Tilton's
friends need to watch him to such an
extent He's neither savage nor tricky.
II V'inona CLbber.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-01-12

Mr.. Geo. W. Combs and Miss Sara
Brooks were married at Eads, Col, on
New Years day. The World extends
CONGRATULATIONS. Mr.. Combs is widely
known in this county. He is an intelli
gent, pure gentleman. The now Mrs
Combs has spent large portion OF bel
life in Wa-Keeney and in the country
close by. She is an intelligent lady, and
will be true helpmate to her husband.
They will reside at Eads, where Mr.
Combs has considerable land.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-01-12

"A new son arrived on Friday Of las
week to stay with DR.. and Mr.. Jones.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-01-12
County Treasurer Gibbs is pressed
with Office work.

The county officers-elect will. Ebe
sworn in next Monday.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-01-12

From the way the Republican of las
week writhes with rage, the first shot VT
gave for the hero drummer must hav'
struck home.
He reiterates his insult to the major
| flies to pieces over our nom de finme, an(
breaks out in "a TRADE of billingsgate, il
keeping with bis style Of argument.
In the past, we have insisted, and still
strenuously insist, that justice shonld b'
melted out to him, and he not be blamed
for anything for which he is not person
ally responsible.
That same sense of justice led us tt
write our former article, for we had nc
wrong to redress, personally, or spite to
vent. But it was too much for our patri
otto blood when he took Major Hender
shot, (whose character and history a ma
ton honors,) and singled him out as q
target for such glaring misrepresentation
and insult. Somebody ought to speak
and. unseltish-like, we concluded to run
the gauntlet of his coarse vulgarity fol
holding him up for the contempt of the
people. It he had criticised the major in
manly honorable way, we would have let
it pass. But when he tried to stab the
old soldier in the back after he had left
us, and also as far as he could, injure
him in his business, it was too much.
Among the combination of reasons which
led him to do this, (from further investi-
CATION we are led to believe, he used the
major to vent his "petty Spite on some
Of the old soldiers and some members of
the w. r. G.
A little modesty along the personal
assault line would be becoming to him.
How many churches and societies have
received his fingsp How many old and
tried citizens? Who could assassinate
his character more than he has himself?
How much he has left to be used up, We
leave the public to decide. Ours is of
the stamp that will bear any amount of
foul.mouthed abuse, and he can't gag the
public sentiment of the people in this
way.
But, positively, when he swells himself
up to tell what "suits our people" what
is becoming" what is decent" the SUBJ
ject becomes irresistibly farcical. We
can not do it
JCsyxCx,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-01-12

The attendance at the school in this
district is said to be light. No adequate
reason for this condition accompanies
the statement. We hear nothing but
good words spoken of the teachers, there
are plenty of pupils in the district, and
the weather is all that could be desired
for the season in the way Of being pleas
ant
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-01-12

Monday evening, January IA, Rev.
T. J. Allen, of Sterling, New York, will
lecture on the Hebrew Tabernacle. he
viii exhibit model, about 8 feet by Il
feet, made as nearly exactly like the old
Hebrew tabernacle as it is possible to
make from the description given in the
Bible. 1t is a grand lecture, and is
highly commended by a large number OF
eminent divines. Admission, % cents:
under Is years, 10 cents.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-01-12
SUGAR-MII,L MEETING.
The Discussion Assumes a Wide
Range.
Nothing in Particular Agreed Upon
Except to Hold Another Meet
ing on January 10.

The sugar-plant meeting in Opera
Hall last Saturday afternoon was largely
attended by our farmers and business
men.
IL. McGarvie was elected chairman
and - Mathews, secretary.
e. D. Wheeler read an essay to show
that We must have sugar plant or emf
CRATE. At the conclusion of his essay, he
offered q resolution requesting our state
senator and representative to canvass
with other western Kansas legislators as
to the ACCESSIBILITY of passing an act to
authorize Trego county to vote bonds to
build sugar plant at Wa-Keeney.
Daniel Countryman jumped upon this
proposition with both feet, rammed his
fists through it, and moved that it be laid
upon the table.
Judge Osborn was called out. He
houndered about for some time, endeav-
oring to catch the heavy side, without
any apparent sign of success.
Several spoke. The discussion as
sumed range extending all the way from
advocating a sugar plant, on the score
that it would be good thing, to de-
handing sugar plant or cover on the
wagon to move ont of the country.
Mr.. Countryman's motion to table did
not prevail, which accounts for the pro-
longation of the discussion.
One thing was shown pretty conclu-
sively at this meeting. This was that
until the advocates of bonds come for
ward with a whole arsenal of facts and
figures to back their ideas, no bonds can
be voted in this county.
There was not man at the meeting
who would not like to see sugar plant
in Wa-Keeney. There was quite senti-
ment in favor of the Click idea of invok-
ing legislative aid.
Toward evening the meeting adjourned
until Saturday. January 10, at 1: 80 P. M.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-01-12

Best Colorado Soft Coal $3.50 ct
5ll VxRBECK'A
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-18
A Personal Matter.

The Tribuue has no space to waste
in argument with tramp advertising
dodgers which falsely assume to be
newspapers. Mr.. w. HI. Hickman is
president of the state wheel. In let
ter to cheap dodger, alleged to be
published in this city, he says:
Did you see the article in the last Tribune,
giving advice to the wheel to kick out all
politicians? We will run our machine with
out any advice from the Tribune as the po-
litical organ of the democratic party Of the
state. The two old parties try very hard to
run the wheel. They see the day is break
ing and the people are awakening to their
interests, and have an eye on them and will
hold them to account for their misconduct.
1 think, as a whole the last legislature was
one of the greatest frauds on record.
Mr.. Hickman is evidently resder
of the Tribune, and 1t is to be regretted
that he has no. followed the good ad
vice offered him. He ia no doubt in q
good humor with himself and consider
ably puffed up over the Importance of
his office. After a careful examination
of Mr.. HIckman's case, we submit the
AS president of the wheel he as
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-18
Slavery for Workers.
PHILADELPHIA Evening Herald.

Philadelphia Evening Herald.
President Austin Corbin of the Read
ing Railroad and Coal and Iron Com
pany is trying the pat ernal act on the
employees of the Reading Iron Works,
which were bought by the Railroad
Company at auction few days back.
In order to get employment these men
mnst sign formal document agreeing
not to belong to any labor organization
or to indulge in drink. This attempt
at evangelization business is quite on
par with Mr.. Corbin's general policy of
which the destruction of the trades
unions was the beginning and a fair
sample. That men can be found who
for the sake of bread for wife and chill
dren will submit to such officious inter-
ference with their rights only goes to
show the complete dependence Of our
workers, " hich is the out-growth Of our
present restricted markets and fierce
"home competition, "the responsibility
for which the war tariff people so glad
ly assume.
If the President of the Reading were
to require men, as condition of en-
ployment, to go to mass on Sundays or
vote the Republican, Democratic or
Geenback ticket, he could still find
many who would do SO rather than
starve; yet this would be not particle
more unjust or tyrannical than what he
has done. In fact, tyranny and lower
ing wages for workmen all around
seem to be as natural outgrowths Of
our present system Of trade restriction
es rain is of hot aud sunny spell of
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-18

From the New York World.

In the second place, wars do not usu-
ally break out unexpectedly over night.
like measles. and this Yankee nation
has never been suspected of sleepy
readiness in time OF danger. The royal
gentleman who sends ships here to
shoot at New York with guns of long
range will have to reckon with Yankee
ingenuity and activity and pluck back
ed by plenty of money. The ships will
find no very comfortable anchorage in
water whose shores will be lined with
dynamite guns Of quick and easy cou-
struction. each capable of throwing
shells containing thousand pounds of
nitro-gelatine, the explosion of which
anywhere in the neighborhood of a
war-ship will make 1t look as though
it had passed through six Samoan hur-
ricanes.
But we have defence better than
dynamite. We feed the world, and the
world has no mind to go hungry, as IL
would in the event of great war upon
US. Again, there is nearly as much
European as American money invest
ed in New York, and subject to de-
struction by the bonn bardment Of the
town. and the financiers who own that
money have q veto power upon pro-
posed hostilities. for, as SAKE says,
when European country wishes to
make war
She asks her Barings, not her Barons, now.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-18
IRONTON.

themselves, and left her impotent and
weak.
And it is an old maxim that His
tory repeats itself.''-Doniphdn Pros
pect-NeUs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-18
CHURCHES:

CATHOLIC CHURCH, Arcadia College
and Pilot Knob. l.. c. WERNERT Rector.
High Mass and Sermon at Arcadia College
every Sunday at o'clock A. NJ. Vespers and
Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 4
O'Clock P. NJ. High Mass and Sermon and
Benediction at Pilot Knob Catholic Church
at 1880 O'Clock A. NJ. Sunday School for
chill dren at 80 O'Clock p. NJ.
NJ. E. CHURCH, Cor. Reynolds and
Mountain Streets {. e. .HEATON, Pastor. Res
fdence: IrOntOn. Services every Sabbath
at II A. NJ. and 7:45 P. NJ. Sunday School
$3.50 A. NJ. Class Meeting Sunday afternoon
at O'Clock Prayer Meeting Tuesday and
Thursday evenings. All are invited.
NJ. E. CHURCH, SOUTH, Fort Hill
between Ironton and Arcadia. Rev. l..
PULLIAM, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday.
morning and evening. Prayer meeting eve
ry Wednesday evening. Sabbath School at
$3.50 A. NJ.
BAPTIST CHURCH, Madison street,
near Knob street, =. NJ. SHOUsH, Pastor.
Residence IrontOn. Preaching on every
Saturday before the first Sunday of each
month at 2:30 p. NJ. and on the first and third
Sundays at IL A. NJ. Sunday School every
Sunday at $50 A. NJ. and Prayer Meeting
every Tuesday evening at 1:30 P. NJ.
LUTHERAN CHURCH, Pilot Knob.
Rev. ROBERT SMUCKAL, Pastor.
A. M. E. CHURCH, Corner. Shepherd
and Washington streets, Ironton. A. ABB
ANATHY, pastor.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-18
p,pNERs ALLIANCE MEETINGS.

FARMERS ALLIANCE MEETINGS..
Annapolis Alliance, No. 154, meets Satur-
esay. April 2Sth, 1888, and, after that, every
~erond saturday, at 1:3O P. NJ.
j. NJ. BROWNE, Sec'y, Annapolis, Mo.
Arcadia Valley Alliance, No. 1O4, meets on
Saturday evenings before the lstand ID sun
Siays of every month, at 7:30 P. NJ.
JOHN LOTZ, Sec'y. Ironton, Mo.
EAGLE ALLIANCE, No. 152, meets on the
Jst and Sd Saturdays of each month. All
neighbors are invited.
FR.NcIEs ALLIANCE meets at Hogan on
sbe od and 4th Tuesday of each month at
.,1c,ock Pm. B.S. GREGORY, Sec'y.
MARBLE CREEK ALLIANCE, No. Io2, meets
every months on Saturday evenings before
xhe second Sunday ut LOgtOwn, and Satur-
.lay evening before the fourth sunday at the
Red Schooihouse on Marble Creek.
w. T. SUTTON, Sec'y, Ironton, Mo.
ELM GROVE ALLIANCE, No. l19, meets
every other Saturday evening, at the FIN
Grove schoolhouse, Belleview,at o'ciock r.
NJ. u. w. n,.1
w. j, RUSSELL, Secretary.
CppAR GROVE ALLIANCE, No. 120, meets
at the Cedar Grove schoolhouse In BelleVleW,
-the second and fourth Saturday at O'Clock
P. NJ. WM, hop l
j. G. HARTMAN, Secretary.
.G.RNITEvILLE ALLIANCE, No. 593, meets
~ fhe Town Hall of Graniteville on the "a
-anS 4th Saturdays of each month at :3u r.
a. A. II. MANLY, Sec'y.
Caxxsr Alliance, No. 591, meets on the I'd
md 4th SATURDAYS in each month at Z O'Clock
p. n. st the BOllinger Schoolhouse.
j. &. HUFF, Sec'y.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-18
Plundering the Treasury.

Even Tanner: supposed to be the
most radical of all the Pretorians, has
become appalled,. For years he has
stood up and advocated service pen
sion for every ex-Federal soldier. Un-
der the leadership of the Tanners, the
Tuttles, the Fairchilds, and others
whose patriotism is measured by the
dollars and cents it can pull from the
public treasury, the Grand Army OF
the Republic, nothing loath, was in
duced to pass a resolution, not asking
but demanding after the stand and
deliver fashion, the passage of law
"to give every soldier, sailor and ma
rine who served in the army of the
United States between April, 1851 and
July, 1865. for the period of sixty days
or more, service pension of S. a
month, and to all who served 800 days
or more an additional amount of one
cent a day for each days service ex-
ceeding that period;" and also a law
placing all widows and children of
soldiers and marines on the rolls with
out regard to the term of service or the
cause Of the soldiers death. In pass.
ing this resolution they did not consid-
er the condition Of the treasury or of
the toiling masses who paid the taxes.
Only the thought of the almighty dol
lar entered their minds. That thought
remains with them yet.
But Corporal Tanner. What of him?
At the command of the Pretorians he
was made Commissioner of Pensions.
He has done all that mortal man could
do, in the limited time he has been in
office, to batter down the walls of the
treasury and yet the patriots get pay
for their patriotism. It has been q
school of experience with him and even
he has become astounded at the enor-
NOUS sums it would take to satitate
the voracious appetites of the great
band of patriots. He is reported ia u
recent interview as saying:
sFor years have advocated, on the stump
and at Grand Army campfres, the passage
Dy Congress Oh u seTtIcc peuslOu DlIi giving
every soldier and saior pension. / am
thoroughly committed to this policy, and L
don't see how can go back on it, though
now that have become Pension Commis-
sioner and have looked the thing up find
the service pension bill would BANKRUPT
THE TREASURY. I'd rather resign than face
the old soldiers after going buck on the serv-
ice pension bill, and if as Pension Com mis-
sioner recommend that bill to Congress I'D
make myself ridiculous. How am l to get
out of it?"
How is he to get out of it? Better
ask how is the country to get out of it
if the Grand Army organization con-
tnues to call out "stand and deliver?"
Careful estimates pla ce the amount
required to pay service pension at
S400, 900 900 year. The present rev.
enues of the government are about
$3.50. .O00, 900, AMI if the present high
rate of taxation is maintained 1t would
still leave a deficit of $50, 900 900 less
than the Grand Army demands alone.
1t is time for thoughtful, conserva-
tive men to stop and consider. The
Roman Legions made Rome the most
powerful nation in the world. then
plundered her treasury to reward
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-18
Plutocracy's Defense.

1t has been intimated that President
Harrison and other Republican lead
ers went to Woodstock rather to dver-
tise Mr.. Henry G. Bowen's religie-
political newspaper than to celebra te
the Fourth of July. Certainly the
orators on that occasion had another
object and seemed to be all charged
with the task of glorifying the men
and methods of the present as far
superior to anything 1776 could boast.
Senator Hiscock especially labored
hard to silence the ''pessimism" that
can see any evil or danger in the iu-
oreasing luxury and concentration Of
wealth and power in the hands of the
few. Unable to deny the facts and
obliged to admit that "the direction of
great wealth and material forces may
be, and doubtless is, used as power
for oppression and the wrecking of
smaller individual fortunes" he as
serted nevertheless that the effect has
been tn cheaper the means Of living,
to Increase the wages Of labor. aud by
securing more equal distribution of
wealth to promote the freedom inde-
pendence and integrity of the masses.
If we understand the drift of his ar
gument, it is an attempt tn show that
for the improved facilities and other
distinction blessings we now enjoy as
a people, we are indebted to our mod
ern plutooraoy or Its methods and not
to the virtues we may have Inherited
from our fathers, nor to the lessons we
have learned from them, nor to the
seed they planted for us.
Behind this gauzy assumption we
see clearly outlined the well.known
fact, that the great material develop
ments and improvements of the last
twenty-five years have been made
with the wealth and labor Of the peo-
pie. and that instead Of being indebt-
ed for them to the wealth of our pluto
Gratis, the latter have in most cases
acquired their wealth by fraud or
sharp practice in the mani pulation of
enterprises begun and carried on with
the peoples money.
AS for the contention that the "mass-
ing OF material force" under the con-
troll OF few successful sharpers has
given US more equal distribution Of
wealth. that Is notoriously untrue, II
has given us extremes Of wealth and
poverty before unknown ir this coun-
try. Thomas G. Shearman's estimate
that the incomes Of 100, 900 pers0ns
now enable them to save three-nftns
Of all that is annually saved OF tne
earnings of this country may nut Oe'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-18
EqualiZlng Taxation.

The State Board of Equalization has
increased the valuation of railroad
property i'm this state about $4, SOC, 900.
The increase is very reasonable and the
railroads have no occasion to complain.
In fact, of oil the corporations In this
state there is no class which has been
treated with more fairness by law
makers and state officers than the rail-
roads. The Missouri Pacific IL the most
valuable piece of railroad property in
the state. 1t is assessed at SIS, 900 per
mile, while Its actual worth is certain
1y double that sum. But there are
many considerations which tend to
make railroad property that cannot be
classed as taxable assets Of the road.
The board has carefully examined
into all details and arrived at valua-
ton which should be satisfactory to all
concerned. The mileage valuation
of railroads in this state is in excess OF
neighboring states and yet 1t is not un-
reasonable.
Money and marketable bonds alone
pay taxes on a full valuation, when
taxed at all. Except in cities, real
estate is rarely ever taxed at exceeding
one third of its value. Uuequal taxa
ton, Is unjust taxation, and, having
this unquestionable fact in view, the
board has endeavored to distribute the
load evenly.-Jeferson City Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-18

sumes to carry the farmer vote of tn,
state in his pocket. He desires to mott
fy the two political parties-U) that h,
is ''on the fence" ~ that he is mar
of great Importance. and (3) that tn.
party which ignores his greatness i:
| forever doomed.
If we are not greatly mistaken, this
covers Mr.. Hickman's case.
And now q word about the position
of the Tribune towards the farmers
There is not a man, from the owners
to the employees of this paper, who is
not in sympathy with the farmers. We
have repeatedly advised them to or.
ganize and warned them of certain
dangers which always beset great or
ganization. The grange Was one of the
best organizations that ever existed,
and where is it to-day? The question
requires no answer. But what caused
its downfall? Meddling with politics.
And the same may be said concerning
the Knights of Labor. We have warn
the pitfalls. Last fall certain members
of the wheel furnished the republicans
with ammunition in Southeast Mis-
souri,. Is it because the Tribune raked
some of the political pot hunters of the
wheel in Southeast Missouoi over the
Goals so mercilessly last fall that Mr..
Hickman has published his late ukase?
We have our own suspicious regarding
this matter.
In conclusion, Mr.. Hickman assails
the legislature. In addition to being a
we fear that Mr.. Hickman
is very ignorant of the principles of the
which he represents. The
principles of the wheels
declare against trusts, combines, pools,
option dealing, false grading of grain,
high taxation, etc. If Mr.. Hickman
will examine the laws passed by the
same legislature which he condemns
as lone of the greatest tra uds on rec
ord," he will find out that the very
body of men which he abuses did enact
the laws demanded by the ohstitution
Of the wheel. If Mr.. Hickman pro-
poses to keep on acting the demagogue
and publishing his own ignorance to
The honest farmers of this state, he
must assume the consequences. From
present indications he should keep still
during hot weather. He should put a
paddock on his month and hire some
,heap boy to close the key.-Jeferson
City Tribune.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-18

DIED-At Poplar Bluff. July 4th,
1889, Asa Marks, aged Fl years. Mr..
Marks was young man of much
promise. a polished, courteous gentle
man in manner, large hearted and gen
erous, well educated and was one Of
the most popular members of society
over which his death casts deep
gloom. AS clerk for Messrs. Wright
and Dalton, while lifting he injured
himself internally and although no
serious consequences were at first ex-
pected in few days peritonitis set in
and he was past human aid. He will
be sadly missed in our local society of
which he was a useful member. His
mother and sister (Mrs. w. 8. Ram
DAILY were with him in his last hours.
Beside them he left three brothers and
two sisters to mourn his oss.--Popt6r
Bluff Citizen.