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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-12-18

days our merchants have experienced
for long time. The farmers in
town that day all seemed in good
spirits.
Sid Crane dropped around Tuesday
and sent the DEMOCRAT to Fred Du
Mont, at Ben tonville, Arkansas, for
one year, as Christmas present. A
good idea.
The grain market is improving.
We are yet of the opinion that it was
not bad plan for farmers to hold Cd
to wheat when the price here got down
below 80 cents.
The revival meetings at the NJ. E.
church, this city, are continuing with
increased interest. A large number
of persons go up to the "mourners
bench" each night.
This Office has received handsome
calendar for 1891, furnished by the
Travellers Insurance Co.; and present
ed by w. III: Odell, the resident agent
for that company.
A Webster's dictionary would make
a handsome present to a young boy or
girl who takes proper interest in
studies. Cali and see the book we
furnish to DEMOCRAT subscribers at
81 80 each.
W. III. Moore, the expert account
ant, has just completed an examina-
ton of the county treasurers' books OF
Rush county. He found one ex-
county treasurer short $401.57. He
makes a report showing the total
county bonded indebtedness of Rush
as s1e6, 10000.
A modern moraiist says: GA Loop
ard may be able to change its spots,
and wise man often changes his
! mind, but a fool never changes; he
will continue to the end of time, 81 ist
fool" eve would like to refer this to
some high protection, anti-free silver
crank, for considerations
When you are summing up what
you shall buy in the way of Christmas
presents Just make q little memorand.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-12-18

disease. together with old age Is sup
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-12-18

This office has received a handsome
calendar for 1891, furnished by the
Travellers Insurance Co.; and present
ed by. w. II: Odell, the resident agent
for that company.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
SHORT BITS OF NEWS.

AT Jacksonville, ILL.,, the national associ-
alton for the education of the blind has
elected J. H. Dye, of Arkansas, president.
A SMALL cyclone visited the country
around Peoria, ILL.,, wrecking q freight
train, killing one man and doing much
damage to crops.
BREwER1Es in Chicago and adjoining
cities who have beea engaging in a beel
war have patched up a truce, and the price
will be restored.
The committee on parades has finally
persuaded Gen. Alger to consent that Grip
pied veterans shall be permitted to ride in
carriages in the Grand Army procession in
Boston Aug 10.
FRANK V1LIERMAN, secretary of the
Denver German and Centennial Building
n Loan association, is short in his &C.
counts about $4,000. He has turned over
to the association about $40, 900 worth Of
property and resigned.
The Gene1alissimo has made arrange.
ments with all railroads running into New
York for q special rate on the occasion Of
the ~cantonmeLt of Patriarchs Militant
and Triennial parade of the l.. o. o. F.; to
be held in that city Aug. 8 to 10.
IT has been dec ded by the republican con.
gr~essional committee Of the Sixteenth
Ohio district to renominate Maj. Mckinley
for congress by aeelamatlon at o mass ecu.
veDt,on noSt moth and dispense With the
formally Of a nominating convention,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
KANSAS HERD WAR.
Two Cowboys Shot Dead and Left for the
Euzzards to Feast Upon.

Two Cowboys Shot Dead and Left for the
Buzzards to Feast Upon.
A report has just reached Coffeyville,
Kan, OF q double murder in the Cherokee
strip, a few miles south of CsdarvaIe. In
yestlgation proves it to bs another chapter
in the war which is being waged on the
men who bring foreign cattle into the state.
When the Krump & Carney herd was
driven from Cedarvale to the ranch in the
strip several of the cowboys who were with
the herd tainted the people Of Cedarvale
with being accomplices to the murder of
Gibson and Frazier, and it was with the
greatest difficulty that trouble was pre-
vented. After the herd had been placed
on the ranch two of the boys we're missed
and it was supposed that they had
taken their money and gone off to some
town and INDUCED IN a spree. The other
evening rs three of the men belonging to
the camp were going along the road to-
ward Cedurvale their attention was ut
tracted to some buzzaIds Love.ing over q
spot near by in tie high g,ass a;h t!ey
made an investig ton. Her. they found
that the tw' missing men had been shot
rom ith I'D AID lett to rot in the grass.
b II ttdi $ " le 'ying fac, do wn and their
pockets had cen Il d. Part of their
c'"lhlng 'ns also t,kel. The fact that
ralb W 8 committed on the bodies and
a so IL the body OF Frazier leads many
peep e t. b i;eve that t. ele is a concerted
ny m ut on the part Of outlaws to use
tn trouble o:er c4ttle as a shell for
tn II nefdrious work, aud thus throw the
b'ane o 1.-THE people of the county who are
opposing tie introduction of cattle.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
NAvIGATES THE CLOUDS.
Prot. ~Campben's Air Ship Makes a Success
full Trial Trip,

Prot. Campben's Air Ship Makes a Success
full Trial Trip.
Without telling any ono what he was 60
ing to do Prof. Campbell went up in his
air ship at Buffalo. At first the ship went
straight up until it had reached an altitude
of about 5000 feet, when it began to move
southwark. In a short time it sheered
around to the southeast, and then turned
directly round and proceeded to the north
east into the eye of the wind. Presently
the ship began to lower, and at 6 p. m.
gently landed on o farm in Cheekotwaga.
A man was driving o horse along the road
at the time, and the horse became fright.
ened at the unusual sight and ran away.
Campbell thus describes his trip:
1t was the most successful ascension I
ever made and the easiest landing. At
Ais p. m. I left the ground and when at
the height of 5000 feet 1 began to work
the forward propeller, sending the ship
ahead. After sailing in this direction
awhile l worked the rear propeller, turn
ing the ship about. 1t was not until
nearly 6 o'clock that I began to work the
under propellers to bring the ship to earth
again. This they did successfully and
without wasting a bit of gas. I picked
out a nice grassy field, and when near the
surface threw out the anchor and hung on.
The ship was kept close to the ground and
the landing was the easiest imaginable. I
let out the gas on reaching the ground, and
John Nicolai, Of $50 Puffer street, Buffalo,
came Il nv assistance"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
LARGE FLOUR OUTPUT.
Tho Product Very Henvy and Likoly
10 Heayter.

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The Product Very Heavy and Likoly to
DO Heavier.
The flour output last week was the heav-
lest since May, says the Miller. The az
CRATE production of fifteen mills was 80, 100
barrels-averaging G,5l5 barrels daily
against 1890 the week before, 112, $40
barrels for the corresponding time in 1885
md $4,000 barrels in 1888. Almost every
body has more or less orders ahead, and
wherever the mills are in shape to run,
they are placed in service. Two more are
in operation on the platform than a week
ago, adding $500 barrels capacity to the
activity list. The number running yester-
day was seventeen, and they were produc-
ing at the rate of about 20. 900 blrrels per
twenty-four hours. These figures are to
be materially added to next week by sew
eral of the very largest mills being got
under full headway. The water power is
ample, but when the additional capacity
is running next. week, there will probably
be no water going to waste. No steam is
now being used. The -four market CON
tinues strong, but it is less active than for
two weeks past.
With 80 many of the mills drawing on
the river for their power, the water hns
shown a tendency during the past few
days Co go down, and flush boards were
yesterday put on the dam. The west side
canal register shows thirteen feet Of
water, and a few of the mills that have not
lowered their races are a trife short Of
power. Those that have lowered thei,
races and water wheels, however, feel {
most appreciable benefit.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
Japan and Corea.

Advices from Japan by the steamer
Batavia say that great interest was mani
tested in Japan at the first election under
the new constitution, which occurred July
1. The returns show that 80 government,
SO opposition, 1S Independent and 2
doubtful candidates were elected.
The Queen Dowager of Corea, died
July 4, aged 50. As she had resigned dur
ing the minority of the present king,
royal mourning was ordered, which compels
tie whole nation to wear mourning three
years. and largely increased taxation to pay
her funeral expenses.
The Official Gazette says twenty-three
new cases and five deaths from cholera
occurred at Nagasaki July 2 and 8. Alto
gether there have been seventeen deaths.
A dispatch from Corea reports that
while five Turkish soldiers were drawing
water they were fallen upon by a band Of
Christians, who were lying in ambush, and
| all were killed.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
cHARRED AND SPEECHES..

Horrible Death of a South Carolina Wo-
One Of the most horrible crimes or
recorl is reported from Collector county,
South Carolina. The crime was CON-
m:tted on Mary's island, AT un%frequented
spot in the county mentioned. Paddy
Grant lived there with his wife Phoebe, and
another woman, supposed to be too iuti-
mate with Grant, frequently visited his
wife. Wednesday last Grant informed the
relations Of bis wife that she bad been
severely hurt tho week before by the ex-
p%losion of o kerosene lamp and was in a
bad condition.
The relatives found her burned from her
knees in front only, terribly charred and
speechless. She died when an attempt was
made to +, move her. No traces of oil
could be found on the floor or no traces of
| burning below the kEees of the woman.
These aud contradictory statements caused
the arrett Of Grant, but he escaped from
his guards. Having been run to earth
again, he requested permission to return
to his LON for a short while. Almost i'm
mediately the report of n gun was heard.
and it was found that he placed the muz'
re of his musket against his stomach and
exploded it, blowing a hole clear through
himself. 1t is thought kerosene was poured
ever his wlfe's body by himself and the
other woman, and that she was then set or
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
National Banks.

Tie senate committe on finance has or
dered afavornble report on the bill to reg
ulate national bank circulation il the fol.
lowing form;
BE it enacted, That the compulsory require
ments of deposits of Unite | States bonds with
the treasury Of the United States by national
hunks is hereby limited to 5 1000 OF bonds TO,
each and every national bank.
Provided, that the voluntary withdrawal OF
bonds for the requirement. OF national bank
notes shall not exceed the sum of So, 900, COO in
any one month without the approval OF the
secretary OF the treasury.
And further provi ed, that this act snail not
apply to the deposits of bonds which may be re-
CURED by the secretary of the treasury to Sc.
cure deposit of public money In national banks.
That upon any deposit already or hereafter
made of any United States bonds bearing in
terest in the maner required by law, any
national banking nssociution shall be entitled
10 receive from the comptroller of the currency
circulating notes of diherent denominations in
blank, registered and counte:signei Us pro-
vided by law, not exceeding in the whole
the par value OF tho bonds deposited;
Provided, that at no time shall the total
amount OF such notes issued to any such us.
sociation exceed the amount at such time act
uaily paid up Of its capital stock.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25

Having too many wives" is the charge
on which Alexander Vashon is locked up
at Seattle, Wash. Vashon is o French
Canadian, 3G years old, aud in the last six
years has welded four women. Miss Lizzie
Stock, of Wnhpeton, S. D., was his first
victim. He deserted her o year after mar
rage and married Lizzie Chisholm, of
Minneapolis. He lived with her a couple
Of years and then fell in love with Miss
Vanhorn, of Pennington, S. D., and mar
ried her. He took her to Minneapolis and
deserted her, and next turned up at Butte,
Mont, under the name of Alexande,
Matchant, where he induced Miss Clara
Carroll to join her fortunes with his. He
was arrested on the complaint of Miss
C~hissholm's father, and his chances OF
spending a term of years in the Walla
Walla penitentiary are looked upon as ex-
ceptionally good.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
TIN IN CALIFORNIA.
Some Rich Mines Near San JacintO, s.
HernardinO County.

Some Rich Mines Near San Jacinto, San
Be~rnardino County.
From present indications California will
have q new industry, rivaIling in import
anes even the taking of gold from the
bowels Of the earth. The new industry is
the mining at great profit of tin ore near
San J~acinto, San Bornardino county.
Twenty seven years ago tin deposits were
found III this neighborhood, but the value
of the discoveries did Lot seem to be mp
preciated. Negotiations have just been
concluded whereby thu San Jacinto tin
mines will pass into the hands of an Eng
fish syndicate with large experience in the
treatment of these ores. These men, who
own the tin mines near Swansea, Wales,
pronounce the Ca'ifornia ores as rich as
the Welsh ores they have been operating
with fair profit. The formation of the
county where the the mines are situated is
similar to that where the best tin mines
exist. n
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
A WAsHoUT CAUSED 1T.

Fatal Accident on tho Rock Island Road, In
Colorado.
The accident to the east bound train on
Rock Island road near Lyman; Colo, was
caused by the washing away Of two spans
of a bridge, a mile and q half from thai
place. It is thought the washout was the
res ult of a cloudburst or waterspout. The
engine, baggage car, day coach and chair
car won't iuto the chasm and we're badly
wrecked. The sleeper remained on the
track. Twelve or fifteen people were more
or less seriously injured, and Engineer
Mccormick was killed. Among the in
jured we're Miss Annie Patterson, Of
Mankato, arms bruised. and Fl. II. Boggs,
of Lincoln, Ncb., head slightly bruised
Engineer Mccormick has not yet b:en
fou d, but his body is probably under the
engine.
Later particulars OF the train wreck neal
Lyman, Col, received at the general Offices
of the Rock Island, gives the list of in
jured as follows:
WILLIAM WAKoN, Pueblo.
X. W. woodland, Kansas City.
j. M. THOMPSON, Buena Vista.
Miss NINA PATTERSON, Mnnkato, Nina.
Il. H. BoGGs, Lincoln, Neb.
JOHN YATES, Riley, Kan. 81
The crew on the Inflated train oil es-
capped with only a Few slight bruises, with
the exception of Engineer Mccormick,
who was instantly killed. The damage to
the company vi be heavy.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
THE TABLES R N
Kansas omcers Enjoined From Interior
ing with an Original Package Dealer.

Kansas Ohlcers Enjoined From Interfsf-
ing with an Original Package Dealer.
Application was made to Judge Foster,
Of the United States Circuit court, by Geo.
Hemsley, . Manhattan original package
dealer, for an injunction restraining DIS
trict Judge Spillman, the county attorney
and sheriff Of Riley county, Kansas, from
carrying forward certain injunction pro-
ceediDgs begun against him under the
nuisance clause of the statutes, and he
asks that they be- en]oined from further
prosecuting them. Hemsley was srfessted
for q violation of the prohibitory law, A2d
was released by Judge Foster on q writ OF
habeas corpus, after which he was rear
rested under the nufsHncs act, tried md,
found guilty. Judge Spillman appeared In
his own behalf. In delivering biz opinion
Judge Foster said that the theory tost the
original package question could be
solved by the nuisance act was
neither good law nor common
sense. Upon that theory tho sale
of dressed beef, tobacco, o!eomargarine,
etc., could be stopped by local authorities
proceeding to declare them nuisances. As
10 euJOtnluR d btuto CouIl ny hAoOoA0s Jus
the Judge was not clear as to the right or
power 10 do it. He said that the enjoininR
Of q state court by a federal court was a
step he was not prepar d to take. He
therefore refused the application so far
it affected Judge Spillman, but granted a
temporary injunction restraining the
county attorney and the sheriff from taking
anyfurther steps.
This is the first time the question of en-
joining a state court has come squarely be-
fore any court. In all the applications
made heretofore it has been sought to Q
join only the ministerial officers, OF the
court, the county attorney and the sheriff
The states counsel maintalns the posi-.
ton that the effect of the injunction is t.
stop the machinery of the court, andthere'
fore it is an enjolning of the court itself
b cause the court acts only through It
C~fictrs.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
Mysterious Find at st. Louis,

The hand aud arm Of a woman found in
the river at st. Louis would seem to indi-
cate that a ghastly crime had been COM
mitted. 1t is not likely that the members
came under the dissecting knife of the
medical student, for the colleges are closed
during thu summer mouths, and, even
were they not, dissection is not lone in
warm weather. The fact that the arm is
we'll formed and the fingers slender and
tapering would lead to the conclusion that
they were severed from the body of a
woman who was known in the upper walks
of life. The appearance of the hand and
arm showed they had not been in the water
over forty-eight hours.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
Leaped with His Handcufs IN

Nose johnson was arrested by the Chi
cago police o few days ago on a charge of
highway robbery committed in Jackson
vile. A policeman was sent to bring him
back for trial. On the return trip the
prisoner asked for a drink of water when
near Bath. aud the officer, thinking him
securely handcuffed, turned to get it for
him. As soon as his back was turned the
desperate prisoner made a jump through
the window, aud before the train could be
stopped had disappeared in the darkness.
The officer searched all the balance of the
night, unsuccessfully, and returned home
the following morning alone.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
Resolve Apainst Sunday work.

Five hundred members of the Brother
hood of Railroad Firemen assembled in a
union meeting at Allyn hall, Hartford,
Conn, Sunday morning, to discuss mat
ters relating to their business. This ses-
sion was with closed doors. After the
morning business meeting, the delegates
marched in q body to Central hall, where
dinner was served. Grand Secretary
Bristol, of Bridgeport, after the morning
session. told the newspaper men that q set
of resolutions were adopted, among other
things pledRing the members to do all in
their power to prevent trainmen from
working on Sunday.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
Kansas Farmers Greatly Alarmed

Reliable advices from Kansas indicate
On alarming condition Of the corn CT p.
Its condition grows worse day by day. Hot
winds blow day by day, causing great dam
age in these sections of the state, which
have had no rain. In some sections the
farmers have about given up hopes of har-
vesting any crops at all. At best not moro
than half of the state is even fairly we'll
In many sections the farmers
are marketing their hogs, fearing they will
have no corn to feed them.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
THE WOES OF FARMERS
NORTH DAKOTA FARMERS in A
SAD PLIGHT.

At Present In the Clutches Of an Elevator
Trust-Growers Will Have to Dispose Of
Their Crops at Prices the Buyer Chooses
to Offer.
It will be q startling piece Of news to the
wheat growers of North Dakota to find out
on the eve OF harvest that no elevator 10
the state will store grain this year. The
radical change in the handling Of the crop
has been kept as secret as possible. 1t
was determined upon, it is said, soon after
the law wal passed this year which makes
all public elevators and warehouses pay IN
ANIMAL license of So SO per 1000 bushel
capacity. Nine.teuths of the crop of the
state has. been heretofore bought by the
elevator companies upon Duluth and Min
neapolis quotations. A farmer could store
his grain in these elevators for fifteen days
for nothing and keep 1t in store as long as
he desired to pay d small fee therefor.
Now the elevators will refuse this on the
ground that they are not public elevators,
and the farmer, who is mortgaged to the
ears, will this year be compelled to sell his
crop at whatrvar price the company chooses
to allow him. In most cases this will leave
him penniless for the winter.
The law was supposed to be o reason
able one, ond was in the nature of q tax not
SO easy to evade, as the old tax law had
| proved, but the companies, in order to
evade it, will resort to this sweeping
change, which will bring unexpected mis-
cry on most of the wheat growers of this
state, u class CT men having from so to
$40 acres in grain, which represents n!
they nave in the world, and which now
promises the first actual return for theii
labors in three years. BY the plan of fore
ing private buyers out Of the small stations
and agreeing upon d prics the principal
elevators of the state will have, as in the
past, absolute control of the enormous
crop now out. This crop will be SO large
that the RAILROAD commissioner have
stated that all the railroads combined can.
not furnish cars to move it one tenth q!
fur as required. If the elevators decline t.
store it the confusion and dismay that vii
result will be something unprecedented.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
A Hero Burned To Denth,

The Commercial hotel, On old-time Den.
yer structure, burned near the union depot
at an early hour Sunday morning. The
loss was not large owing to the WORKOUT
character of the improvements. About
forty persons came near being suffocated
and seven were carrie out Of the burning
building in an insensible condition. Johr
johnson, having carried out a number O.
people, mostly women, lost his life tinalI,
IN attempting another rescue.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25
Eirelnen Endorse tho Bill.

Five hundred members of tho Brother.
hood of Railroad Firemen held q meeting
Sunday, at which FIRST Vice Grand Nor.
rissey, of Gabsburg, ILL.,, presided. Reso.
lutlons were adopted favoripg the passage
of the bill pending in congress requiring
railroads to use automatic brakes and
couplings IN freight trains. The resolu.
ton also pledged the members to do all in
their powerto prevent trainmen from work.
ing Sundays.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-07-25

spent in saltiilo, the capital. The deaths
there from smallpox averaged 400 people q
month for the last three months. When q
person dies OF the disease, the body is
placed on a board and carted away on the
heads of men to the Lurial ground. The
face is exposed, and the winds passing
over the body Of the dead carry the pesti.
lence to all quarters Of the city and sur
rounding country,