Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-25

city and county could join together and
put up a jail and city hall that wocld
give satisfaction. This will probably
be done within the next year if our
crop season is good.
THE first number of the La Crosse
Chieftain, under the new management
of j. D. WEIGH, has been received, and
will 90 on our x list. The paper shows
an Improvement over its old makeup
and get-up.
MONTANA wheels into line as DEM
ocratic state, at her late election, and
two United States senators and one
representative will be added to the
democratic list in the fifty7frst con-
gress. It does look as though western
people were beginning to see the need
of tariff reform.
THE hopes of the Oklahomaniacs,
who expected to rush into the new ter
ritory and set up shops to deal in red
eye and its accompaniments, have
been blasted in the bud by the informa-
ton that no liquor that intoxicates will
be permitted by Uncle Sam, who still
has jurisdiction over the country.
THE Printer Girl dropped in upon us
last week in all her trim binding and
neat makeup. Her style Is good, and
her form seems to be well put together;
her head is a sumner, but is rugged out
80 deity that one can easily tell what
her object In life ia. She halls from
Topeka, and can be prevailed upon to
visit you monthly for the small sum of
81 per year.
A BRIGHT young fellow, who is on
his way from Oklahoma to Colorado,
dropped into the DEMOCRAT Office FL
day morning. He says there will be too
much killing in the new country for his
health. He reports that on the south
ern border there are thousands of
Texans who will rush in, and, being
nearest the land, will get first choice;
and as all are heavily armed they will
hold their claims against all corners.
OKLAHOMA has adopted coat-of-
arms. 1t represents hand holding
four aces and a king; at the right is a
horse pistol rampant, while at the left
is a jack RABBIT couchant. Below is the
Latin motto mil Straitorum Tolera-
btu which freely translated means mo
straits allowed" Thus, within the
small compass of an ordinary-coat-of
arms are every industry of this great
and growing territory represented
EG.
WHO can tell US, approximately, the
average amount of wheat straw to the
acre in Barton county, and what the
farmer can afford to sell it for on the
farm? How much must the farmer
receive per ton for his straw to induce
him to haul it to market? How much
straw is annually burned or left to rot
in the fieldsp Why would not a paper
mill pay in this county, where there is
such an abundance of raw material to
be had?
NEXT Tuesday morning, at o'clock
Zoo years ago., the entire people of
America assembled around their family
affairs and offered up fervent prayers
for the success of George Washington,
the first president. How mighty has
our nation grown, and how wonder
fully have those prayers been answered!
All christian Americans will gladly go
to the places of worship on Tuesday
morning next, and assist in commem-
Grating that glad event in a fitting
manner.
FROM our neighboring exchanges we
notice that the newly elected mayors of
various towns have issued messages to
the city councils, outlining what should
be done during the coming two years
and calling attention to such matters
as they thought best to touch upon.
Now we would like Mayor Wilson to
get up q message covering the needs of
Great Bend. There is fine field to be
worked here, and with his ability, as
demonstrated thus far by his works,
Mayor Wilson could get up a very inter-
esting executive paper, and map out
much needed work for the ambitious
new council.
THE binder Irvine trust is an outrage
on the farmers, and is calling forth
many meetings of the latter to combine
againstit. Trusts are hard to eliminate,
and are the curse of the common peo-
ple.-HoisingtOn Dispatch.
AND yet the ''brains" of the republic
can party-the great lingo Jim-says
that trusts are private affairs;" and
we have now an administration which
was elected last fall by the judicious
use of money furnished by the largely
"private affairs" It does not seem as
though there was much hope of the re-
publican party taking any active steps