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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-18
Confessed to = Horr,bl. Cr,w

DETROIT, Mich. July 12-William
Sharkey. recently arrested at Toledo, has
confessed to the murder Of the miser and
hermit, Coleman Dupee. He admits that
he dragged the body inside the old mans
hut and set fire to the building. Sharkey
says that John Holloway and Elias Tay-
lor, both now in Jail, were implicated. The
object was robbery, but they failed to get
their victims MONEY!
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-18
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

r 7 HuRCH Aassnan soczs6yl-PfeacAina
0sezy N0onday, at 7S0 - Ms also - 10-9o q y.
every Other Sunday alsW Nov & eibbaxh aehool
d2 p m Prayer a. Praise ssrvsee Wednesday
A3Ax }. 7oo, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH.-0srviess tie ssesnd
iuring sazaEss ct sr1S \, - winter ut M . n.
Rsv. FnthAr DD11xcANP. f01ne.
METHODIST EPISCOPALr-CcsDz Foress svsn1s
and Merton street, w. b Watson. pastor -
vices every Sabbafh, morning - evening" -
aay seAeoi II ~ n n. -Yo1ag Esopaee inviting
TueedAy evening" yny6 messing 1AnxDoay 49,
ing.
SONGRE9ATIONAI.cCoe Broadway and 6sae
street, W. A. DssvoRth, pastor. Services every
Sunday at 10. 45a. -. and 5:3o p Ia Paper neeS'
ing Thursaay night, young Peop1seDeednG Tues-
day night; Sunday school ut 11:AS.
EREHBYTEREAN.-Cssner Broadwsy sid WllliaD
avene, J. w Ths1peen. pastor Services every
Sunday at II q and 7:30 m, SandAy school
$50 a m. Teacher. meeting every Wednesday
and prayer meeting ThAfsdsy EVENING"
LUTHERAN.-Services ut school house first and
third Sunday u each month; Rev. Hasing, pas-
tor.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH-Serices at the Court
House on the seeoAd and fourth Sunday OF every
month at II O'Clock T. N. Sunday school every
Sunday at p. m.
GERMAN United Evangefisal-{New Lutheran)
Services every Sabbath morning at II O'Clock:
Sabbath school At 10 O'Clock
VIM. Echelmeyer, Pastor.
VISIONARY BAPTIST {Colored).-Presching
every Sunday at II a M, and p m. Sunday
School at pm. Prayer meeting on Thursday
At p m
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-18

LONDON. July II The French steamer
Anadyr, bound from Marseilles for Yoko-
hama, has been sunk outside of Alden bar
by a COLI sion with the French steamer
Oxus from Yokohama for Marseilles. The
Oxus was only slightly damaged.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-18
PACKING House ON Fire.

CHICAGO, July 1.-THE Anglo-American
Provision Company's warehouse was
damaged by fire to the extent of 10000
early yesterday morning. The smoke
from the "green" hams stored in the
building was remarkably dense and sti-
fling and six Aremen were overcome. 1t
is not improbable that several OF them will
die.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-18

Kansas CITY, Mo-, July 12-Pat Coyne
was drowned yesterday evening while
bathing in the Missouri river opposite
Fifth street. He was twenty-five years
of age and was in tho employ OF the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railway
Company - check clsrk
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-18
Newspaper Consolidation.

OMAHA. Neh, July 12-gse proprietors
of the Omaha World have bought the
Herald and will run the combined papers
with morning end evening editions. The
Republican has made overtures to sell ont
also to the World.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-18
FARM NOTES.

Keep up the cultivation in the garden
1t pays.
For the first two or three years keep the
soil we'll stirred around the pear trees.
Early turnips can be utilized in several
ways. The bulb is excelled by the top fol-
the table, the latter being used as green's.
A patch should be seeded and left over
for an early supply of winter or spring
green's.
A zigzag rail fence is supposed to be one
of the cheapest that can be built, but un-
less the corners are kept free of weeds it
is the most expensive fence that can be
used, as it increases the labor Of weed
killing.
One of the best garden implements is
the rake If used recently on the young
weeds it saves hoeing later IN the season.
By raking between the rows of plants
once or twice a week but little labor will
be required, while much benefit will be
impaired to the crops.
Tomatoes may be trimmed of the lower
branches and made to grow somewhat in
the shape of a tree. The main stalks of
the plants become stocky and are better
able to bear the weight of the fruit. By
supporting the vines on posts or arms
more air and sunlight will enter, thus
ripening the fruit more perfectly.
When it is desired to cut two more
crops of grass from a field the grass
should be cut before the seed-heads form.
as the grass has performed its mission
when it has seeded; hence if the cutting is
deferred until the seed is ripe there will be
no second crop of Importance. Such crops
as Hungarian grass and alfalfa may be
cut every five weeks.
Our crops in Kansas this year Twill be
the best and largest ever before known,
and the indications for high prices are
good. We expect the farmers of Ellsworth
County will realize over IL 800 600 for their
wheat alone. 1t brings JOY to our heart
to think our people will soon be independ-
emit in such a fourishing condition.-Ells.
worth (Kan.) Reporter.
Prof. E. N. Shelton, of the Kansas State
Agricultural College, who has been con-
Quoting experimental farming at Manhat-
tan, has recently been trying several diff
ferent varieties OF winter wheat he
recently left with Secretary Mohler q
small sack of beautiful wheat raised on
one piece of ground. which he says at the
rate it yielded would go forty seven bush
els to the acre. He is experimenting with
other varieties which he thinks will aver
age fifty bushels to the acre.
Farmers from different parts Of Black
hawk County, Iowa, report that a strange
insect has been found at work in the corn
works at the roots of the corn and seems
to destroy its vitality. The ground in
some fields appears to be fairly alive with
these pests. Under . magnifyin glass
they are found to have heads armed with
pinchers. between which is sort of pro.
boscis that is used to puncture the stalk.
Corn attacked by these pests turns yellow
and ceases to grow, aud q large number
Of fields have been attacked
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-18

POSTOFFICE HOURS:
SUNDAY, 10:30 a. m to 1880 p. m.
WEEK DAYS, q NJ. to z D. m
MONEY ORDER, 8 a. M to p. m
REGISTERED BUSINESS. a. m to Z d. m.
II. p. Balm, p. NJ
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-07

THE report that there was confer
ence OF southern republicans in Wash
ington few days ago for the purpose of
inaugurating a movement in favor of
General Alger as presidential candi-
date in 1892, is one that gentleman
should promptly repudiate so far as it
identities him as "A party to the confer
ence. General Alger could make no
greater political mistake than to appear
to countenance any movement of this
character at the present time. 1t would
certainly destroy any chance he might
have of being q presidential candidate
three years hence. His selection to be
cOmmander-in-chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic was universally regarded
as merited recognition of his fine
military record, but it gave him no ad-
ditional political claim, and he should
be the first to condemn any effort on the
part of his friends to use it politically.
We do not give much credence to the
report, since it comes from democratic
source, but regardless OF its origin Cen
eral Alger should set at rest any sug-
gestion that he looks with favor upon
present plotJings in his political inter-
est, the effect of which may be to pro-
duce disaffection in the republican
paltv
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-07
THE CAMPAIGNS WEST AND SOUTH.

THE CAMPAIGNS WEST AND SOUTH.
1t is reported from Washington that
the national republican committee has
decided TO give it's attention chiefly to
the elections in the south, leaving the
campaigns in the new states to be man
aged by the local politicians. The idea
is that the new states being reasonably
sure for the republicans, and the repub-
lican managers there being men of po-
litical experience, there is no necessity
for the national committee giving spe-
cial attention to the campaigns
in these states. while it is de-
sirable that it shall give such
attention to the elections in the south,
and particularly to the Virginia cleo
tion. The committee will supply all
the political literature that may be re-
quired in the new states, but its work
will be done in the south, with especial
reference to Virginia.
Perhaps this is a judicious arrange
ment. So far AS the Dakotas and
Washington are concerned, nobody
questions that they will be carried by
the republicans, but the result in
Montana is not so well-assured, and
it would seem desirable that
the national committee give some-
thing more than perfunctory atten-
tion to this state. The indications are
that the situation there has become
more favorable for the republicans, and
is steadily improving. There are fewer
evidences of disafiection than were
present few months ago, and appear
ances are that the republicans have
closed up their ranks and will present
solid front to their opponents. If such
is the case there need be no doubt
aboutthe result in Montana, The repub-
licans will elect their entire state and
congressional tickets and control the leg
islature, so as to send republicans to the
United States senate. But ii is not wise
to give too much Importance to appear
ances, and it will be we'll for the national
committee to give all the aid it can to
the republicans of Montana.
AS to the proposed work of the COM
mittee in the south, while it is neces-
sary and desirable that republican effort
in that section shall be maintained, the
promise OF results is far from aattering.
There is believed, in well-informed
republican circles, to be fair chance
of defeating the democracy in Vir-
ginia, but an intelligent analysis of the
situation wall not show that the grounds
OF this belief are OF the most substantial
character. The settlement OF the fac
tional quarrels in the republican party
of Virginia doubtless improved its
chances, but the nomination of Malone
unquestionably has driven consider
able number of voters away from the
party, and it cannot be confidently as
serted that it has attracted an equal
number. The republicans of Virginia,
in order 10 be successful, must
| not lose "A vote, and they
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-07

THE bare announcement that Flor
ence Maybrick has been removed from
the infirmary in the Working prison
and now occupies solitary cell can
convey no idea of the terrible punish
ment to which this unfortunate woman
will now be subjected. For nine long
months she will be shut up in solitary
confinement, where her only occupation
will be stripping oakum and her COM
panionship her own thoughts. England
does not temper her punishment with
mercy. Consigned to this living tomb,
nothing but madness stares in the face
OF the unhappy creature. Should she
survive the terrible ordeal, she will
pass the remainder of her days
at hard labor with hundreds
of other women condemned to condi-
tion of hopeless despair and servitude
worse than death. There is little pros.
pect that Florence Maybrick will ever
be pardoned. Englishmen have too
much reverence for the laws and GUS
toms OF their country to set them aside
for mercy's sake. The agitation for her
pardon has already ceased, and her
name and crime will soon be forgotten
by the world as she will drag her miser-
able existence to an end within the
gray walls of Working prison.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-07
THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD.

There is an increasing demand for steel
pipe because of its durability and strength
Chicago inventors have constructed coal
mining machine to be operated by electricity.
A company has been formed at Dundas,
Wis, to manufacture shoes from wood pulp.
About one million tons of anthracite coal
was used the first six months of the current
year IN the production of pig-iron.
The cotton mills of the south consumed in
the manufacture of cotton goods last year
433,3'3 bales of cotton. This year will show
an increase.
There has been c marked decrease in the
importations of iron and steel during the
current year, owing to the low prices of the
American products IN that line.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
has graduated nearly 600 students during
twenty years; more than 5000 have taken a
partial course during that period.
The New Paragon Oil company has dis
covered cheap and simple process for ex-
tracing sulphur from coal oil thereby greatly
enhancing its value for Illuminating pur-
poses
OF the 80, 600 tons of wire fencing annu ally
imported into the Argentine Republic it is
Britain about quarter and France some-
what less.
The slate industry of California Is assum-
ing large proportions, giving employment to
hundreds Of men. The California Slate COM
pany owns veritable mountain of the best
quality for working.
The full capacity of all the steam engines
in actual use in Massachusetts, as shown by
the census of 1855, was 365, ,5T horsepower.
Two-thirds of the motive power of that state
IS by steam, ana one-third by water.
American exhibitors at the Paris exposi-
tion note freqent evidences of the talent for
imitation possessed by European manufac-
turers of machinery and farm implements.
They are better copyisJs than inventors.
There is an inceasing demand for heavier
steel rails than were laid in former years.
Instead of rails weighing tfty.six to sixty
pounds to the yard, many of the orders
this year are for sixty-fve seventy and
eighty pounds
New manufacturing enterprises to the
number of 2,6l5 were organized in the south
during the first six months of this year, rep
resenting a capital of Sl0S, 933, 900, as against
2,023 new enterprises, investing sSi sos, 600
during the corresponding period in 1888.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-07

AT meeting of the northern Illinois
miners committee and operators dele
gates compromise was agreed upon
which virtually brings to a close the
protracted strike. The miners are to
receive seventy-two and a half cents
per ton for mining, a reduction of seven
and one half cents from that demanded.
They are, however, to receive conces-
sions from the operators which will in
a measure compensate them for the
difference. While it is 10 be deplored
that more satisfactory settlement
could not have been made, it was on the
whole best to reach a compromise on the
terms proposed. The condition of the
miners of northern Illinois is certainly
one that calls for sympathy. Under
the most favorable terms they
are able to earn only u mere pittance,
and it was for the purpose of bettering
their condition that the great labor
strike was begun. They passed through
the ordeal in the face of privation and
hardship. For nearly six months they
lacked the necessaries of life, and were
forced to depend on charity to ward off
absolute want. In spite of their distress
these miners held out bravely, display
ing heroism in keeping the peace and
refraining from violence that reflects
credit on their manhood.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-07

THE working people CT Canada have
just passed strong resolutions in their
convention at Toronto condemning the
policy OF the dominion and provincial
governments in granting subsidies of
any kind To railroads, steamship, or any
other corporations. This is the NUT
tering before the storm. With lavish
largesses Canada has created a number
OF powerful monopolies, working hand
IN glove with the party in power and
eorrupting the political morals OF the
country. A great debt has been piled
up in consequence, and obligations
have been assumed which are sapping
the life blood out of the people. 1t were
we'll IL the lobbyists on this side OF the
ST. Lawrence would take heed of the
gathering clouds in Canada and desist
from an attempt TO compromise con-
gress in any scheme for subsidizing
American steamship lines. The people
Of this country have had their fingers
burned by the Pacific railroad subsidies
once, and they are not foolish enough To
play with fire again, especially with
Canada's plight before their eyes.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-07

OTHER LANDS THAN OUR,

The great London strike appears TO be
nearing the end Several of the companies
having conceded the demands of the men,
more may be expected to speedily follow,
and once the movement in this direction IS
fairly started the conclusion Of this remark
able labor demonstration will be soon
reached. The whole difficulty rests in an
excess of laborers on the London docks.
There is not work enough to give steady en-
ployment to more than two-thirds of the
offerers at any time, and the consequence is
that Dut few have employment from years
end to years end, The excess ls compelled
TO pick up an hours work here and there
and at regular prices per hour these pick-ups
cannot earn decent living The strike
arose in the ranks OF the pick ups, and in
time the regulars made common cause with
the strikers-as was natural. From this
beginning the distemper spread TO other
trades and vocations but the strike cannot
be regarded strictly cooperative up TO this
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-07

SAN FRANCISCO has dealt summarily
with jury briber and a bribed jury
man by sending them both to the PEN
itentiary for number of years. Tam
pering with juries had become SO fla
grant in that city that the administra.
tion Of justice degenerated into mere
farce. The lesson will not be lost from
now on, as the judges have had their
eyes opened to the evil. They are de-
termined to destroy it root and branch
before it vitiates the courts themselves,
and drives an outraged people to take
the law into their own hands.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-07

though they maintain peace footing OF
5000 men and could throw i,OO0, 900 into
the field on short notes, the Chinese are
much less a mintary problem than are the
Japanese, So Indifferent are the Chinese TO
military interests that the foreign officers
who were put in charge of the military
school are leaving one by one, in sheer DIS
gust. With energy and enterprise equal to
those of Japan, China, with her vast popula.
tion of 40i, 1S0, ,000 could put herself in readi.
ness to neutralize any attempt on the part oil
European powers to gain supremacy in the
far east. But as IL is the Chinese hordes
would be before the Russian forces what
chaff is before the wind. Nevertheless, the
Chinese are fighters If wisely led, and though
the empire is moving slowly in the matter, it
is undoubtedly on a military footing much
superior to It's condition ten years ago. The
Asiatics may yet have something very EN-
phatic to say as TO the encroachments of Rus
STA and England.
~
The grain producing lands of Russia are in
two divisions or zones. The black lands
zone, the garden spot of Russia, extends
right across the kingdom from Poland far
into the province of Siberia. They are lands
'Si Viio 40 ohc uolbt VI JUe Nllt vi bub DSuuS
of the Mississippi, absolutely devoid of stone
and needing no manure or fertilizer of any
description. Year after year enormous crops
are raised, yet only one-tenth is cultivated.
The other division, the arabic steppes zone,
conforms in its general direction to the black
lands, but here fertilizers or manures have
beneficial results. 1t resembles our western
prairies, having no forests. The black lands
cover some 10000 and the arabic stepces
100000 square miles, giving a grain produc-
ing territory of some 450,O0 square miles.
From the products of these lands there were
expectedin 1856 Al ,945 900 bushels IN 1887,
62,4750OO bushels, and in 1883, 70535, 600
bushels of wheat; and yet in one division
alone nine-tenths of the soil lay untitled and
unproductve. With such figures as these
before us it becomes of the utmost i'm
portance to discover the cause of the re-
stricted cultivation. and, if remediable, how
long 1t may be before such steps are taken
as will bring out fuller results.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-07
HITS AND mis- sEs.

Society leaders were shocked because our
guests, the commercial travellers, occupied
boxes in the Boyd arrayed in parade dress
coatless and without gloves When the av-
erage drummer sets about taking in the town,
he has little time for the foibles of fashion.
1t is only once in year, you know.
Omaha is truly an attractive place Peo-
pie from all over the union flock here TO iu-
hale the inyigoratlng aud health-giving at
mosphere; mismated sufferers come here to
secure dissolution of copartnership after a
years. residence, while love-sick maidens
laugh at locksmiths and make Omaha their
Gretna Green.
Thursday was a great day in Omaha, but
the kicker was with us. Every man wanted
front place in the procession and thought
his float entitled To IT. He may console him-
self that sometime-sometime 1.-THE last
shall be hrst, and the first shall be last"
Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-07
City News and Notes.

Mrs. Dalby and Miss Emma returned yes.
terday from an extended visit to Illinois,
The West Lincoln w. c. T. U. will meet at
the Asbury M. Il, church Monday evening.
A big frost is reported TO have occurred
last night along the line of the b. x Nj from
Grand Island west. -
Twenty-seventh street. intends to pave.
But If the work goes on as slow in the future
as it has in the past, there is no telling when
this work will commence.
Papers in the divorce case of Winnie Davy
VS. Michael Davy were FLED in the district
court to-day. After the filing they were
Withdrawn by her attorneys, Messrs. Saw
yer Il Smell.
1t is reported that Rinehart Adams. the
West Lincoln saloon keeper who was fined
500 and costs the other day for Sunday sell
ling, has skipped leaving numerous parties
in the soup.
Hendril, Wray, Colo, X. F.. Connor. Hot
Springs, S, D.; A. T.. SEVERN, Cortland;
Charles Lane, Omaha; George Miller, As
pen, Colo; w. Il. Field, Yuma, Colo j. ID.
Pope, Friend, were guests ut the Capital
hotel yesterday.
Attachment proceedings were begun to-
day by various parties against Adams &
Thomas, the West Lincoln saloon keepers,
who were fined the other day for Sunday
violations. Saunders & Co, in the county
court for S2DO and l.. Meyer & Co., in the
district court for S6Oo. Adams is reported to
| nave skipped the town.
A branch of the Indian aid association was
organized yesterday afternoon at the First
Presbyterian church after an able address on
the subject by Mrs. A. S. Qulnton, president
of the Women's National indian aid associa-
ton. The following officers swere elected: |:
President Dr. Charlotte Norton; vicepres /.
dents. Mrs. N. A. sanford, Miss Phoebe Ell
lott, Miss Rachel Lloyd, Miss Florence Bris-
cal; recording secretary, Mrs. John Dooi:-
little; corresponding secretary. Mrs M. e.
Wood; chairman of the press committee
Mrs, G.. III. Hyde. Mrs. Quinton will speak
at the FIRST Congregational church Sunday
evening. Saturday afternoon from to 6 u
reception will be tcndered her ut Mrs. DIR.
Norton's 1880 ID street.
Cushman's Mentho l,nnaler cures catnrrb,