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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12
ALLIANCE MATTERS.

Pawnee Ro5k Leader: An Alliance
paper has been started in Stafford
called the Alliance Herald. 1t is edited
by Miss Annie Lindsey.
The Barber county alliance passed
resolutions to vote for no lawyer fol-
judge, and would support no one 70,
that position but farmer.
The Harper county Farmers alliance
at their convention nominated full
county ticket. Every nominee was re-
quired to state in convention that he
was an anti-Ingalls man.
A Lyndon letter: At a convention
of the farmers alliance and farmers mu-
tual benefit association of this, Usage
county, it was resolved by vote OF
fifty-six to nineteen to put full farm
er's ticket in the field this fall.
A st. Mary's item: This is Farmers
Alliance day here. An immense crowd
has gathered. Some put the number at
5000. Three bands give us lots of
music. At the fair grounds all is hustle
and activity. The procession is about
one mile long and not near all in it.
Atchison Champion: Supt. Calvin,
of the G. B.. leased to the Glen Ed er
Alliance Shipping association ground
whereon to erect an elevator to cost
from $4,000 to $4,000, and to have a
capacity of 10000 bushels. The ALI
ance of Palmer is negotiating for one
or both of the elevators there.
Special from Junction City: At a
meeting of the Geary county alliance
held in this city, it was decided to put
an alliance county ticket in the field
this fall. It was also decided to favor
putting an alliance state and congress
sional ticket out. Just what the pur-
pose of the farmers will be is not yet
made public.
The Barton county alliance has
adopted this: In view of the contin-
ued contraction OF the currency sincs
the present mortgage indebtedness was
incurred, by which money has been
made s,arcer and dearer. thereby rem
dering many unable. at the present
time, to meet their interest payments,
therefore by the members of the Bar
ton county farmers alliance be it re-
solved: That the Judge of our courts
be requested to continue all cases OF
foreclosure until after harvest.
Dispatch from Anthony: The con-
yeutlon of the Farmers alliance met
here to nominate a county ticket
Thirty niue alliances we're represented
by one hundred and one delegates.
Four candidates we're placed before the
convention for representative, and were
called on to define their views on
Ingalls, candidacy. Every one strongly
pledged against him, and the conven-
ton endorsed the speaker. The time
and place for holding the judicial con-
vention was fixed for Attlca July 18th.
Eack surveillance will send one dele
gate.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12
KANSAS RAILROADS.

Dispatch from Anthony: The first
passenger train on the Omaha, Hutch
inson & Gulf railroad has arrived. The
track is now completed to the territory
and regular trains will be running in
a few days.
Arkansas City Traveller: Railroad
officials inform us that the Frisco will
run all its trains from Winfield to this
city, soon, over the Santa Fe to the
new depot. Then they will 60 west
over their track along the canal.
Should this be done the Frisco track
will most likely be abandoned between
Arkansas City and Winfield.
The Financial Chronicle, reviewing
the recuperation OF the Atchison, says:
"In whatever way Atchison's affairs
are considered. therefore, improvement
is the chief and noteworthy feature.
To such a record the perfecting and
solidifying of the system through the
absorption of the st. Louis and San
Francisco comes as fitting close. The
advantages to accrue from this absorp-
ton may be briefly summarized as fol-
lows: GIT gives tho Atehison line
to st. Louis; (2)it gives it entire in
stead of only half control of the Attain
tic and Pacific: (3)it will allow OF the
Atlantic and Pacifc's traffic through
the building of branches and in other
ways; (4)it will allow the Atchison to
conduct business over the shortest, and
therefore the cheapest routes. especial
" in the case of Texas business-long
and circuitous routes having previously
been necessary in some cases; topt
will allow of saving in expenses
through a consolidation of manage
ment and Offices; SIT will give to the
Atchison the opportunity OF getting
its supply of railroad ties cheaply, there
being very good timber in the San
Francisco territory, which, as the land
is cleared for settlement, will furnish
full supply of ties; and, finally, the &C
QUESTION Of the San Francisco will re-
move the friction previously existing
between it and the Atchison. and
strengthen and increase the Atchison's
hold In tho southwest"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

JAMES NJ. RICE, a farmer living in
Indiana, is trying the experiment of rails
ing wild geese and ducks. He has a
half dozen of each, which he has on
ponds on his farm. They were caught
on the Kankakee River last fall, and he
keeps their wings clipped. They have
become quite tame, but it remains to be
seen whether they will become thor
oughly domesticated and breed. Two
wild ducks have been living on an adj
joining farm for three years, but have
never reared any young.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

A METEOR recently fell on the larger
of the two Comanche peaks. 1t came
on an incline of about forty-tive degrees
and struck the edge of the peak where
the boulders hung over the side of the
mountain. 1t came from the south Its
descent was very bright and rapid,
fairly illuminating the peak as it fell.
It knocked off large stones, which went
rolling down the mountain. The meteor
will weigh several tons. Fragments that
were brought in by those who went to
see it contain nuggets of what is be-
lieved to be gold. Many people went
from Granbury to see the meteor.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

IT is the custom in Russia for lay
men, the Emperor himself included, to
show their outward respect for the
church by kissing the hand of its minis
tiers. On one occasion it is related that
a village priest, receiving grand duke
at his church door, and having no ex-
perience of such exalted personages,
hesitated to offer him his hand; the
grand duke, getting impatient, exclaim-
ed, Stretch out your paw. you fool!
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

ACCORDING to the British National
Sea Fisheries Protection Association,
sea fisheries all over the world are suf-
fering from the reckless destruction of
immature fish. Communications have
been sent to all the European maritime
states and to the United States of
America suggesting a friendly confer
ence on the question, under the aus
pices of the society, with view to
united action
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12
STOCK AND FARM.

jamestown Quill: A st. Louis horse.
buyer did business here this week. He
purchased nine head and paid reasona.
BILE prices for all of them, paying $500
for one team, and $50 for one mare.
Coldwater Echo: The wheat crop in
Comanche county this year promises
to beat all former outputs of that
cereal. II will take something out of
the general run of disasters to prevent
this promise from being kept.
Clay Center Dispatch: An old farm
OF of this county remarked to us that
one Of the surest signs Of good crope
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

THERE is certain ceremony which
attends the death and burial of Bank
of England note. 1t is only three
DAYS after its canceling that it is car
ried to its last home in the Banknote
Library. Its first dark day of nothing
ness is spent in the inspectors Office,
where severe judges sit in judgment on
its virtue. During its second day, it
and its thirty or forty thousand fellows,
done up in parcels, are counted and
sorted; that is to say, each parcel is
dealt out like q pack OF cards, accord
ing to dates and denominations of value.
The third day, they are posted in iedg-
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

WHEN Thomas Carlyle was school
teacher he used the lash petty freely.
On one occasion, says an English mag
azine, the yells of the victim were
heard SO far in the street, with such an
appealing cry for mercy and help, that
a joiner rushed into the school with his
ak, and, handing this instrument to the
irate Carlyle, exclaimed: "Jist doo't
ootricht and no mince matters"
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

In one of the upper counties of Michi-
gan woman with one child was in
suited by O woman with seven children.
The one-child woman took her little
dear to Wisconsin, exposed him to the
whooping- cough. and then returned
and pushed him through the line fence.
The seven children now whoop,
yell, cough and kick, and the mother
says she had rather been struck by
lightning.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

WHEN the average man or woman
comes to be fitted with the first pair OF
glasses some curious discoveries are
made. Seven outof ten have stronger
sight in one eye than the other. In two
cases out of fveo one eye is out of line.
Nearly one-half the people are color
blind to some extent, and only one pair
of eyes out of every fifteen are sound Ia
every respect.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

An inquest recently held ia Calcutta
on the body of wealthy Hindoo dis
closed curious custom. The deceased
had suffered from malarial fever, and
after his death arsenic and mercury
were discovered in the stomach. A SER
want stated that an hour before the
death OF the deceased dose Of medi-
cine properly prescribed was admins
tered as stimulant. The coroner ex-
planned that this medicine contained
mercury. which along with other
poisonous drugs is given to patients
on the point of death. The jury re-
turned verdict of death from natural
causes-to wit, malarial fever.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

ers, which are kept as indexes 10 the paid
notes; and then, on the evening of
their last day in the upper regions of
light and air, they are carried down
with scant ceremony, in hugeibags, to
the Banknote Library.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

A STORY comes from Germany that
the scrofnlous affection under which
the Emperor suffers has broken out
with renewed yirulence. It IS said
that the leading medical authorities of
Germany give him but ten years OF
sanity OF life.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

IT is fine question of law and NOR
ais that the Pennsylvania oil producers
bring up to justify the pumping of their
oil wells on Sunday. A local justice in
the oil regions has fined man for oper-
ating well on the Sabbath, and the
ease is to be taken up to the higher
courts, on plea that if the oil wells
stand idle for day, the water, which
is the bane of every oil field, will flow
in and ruin them. For this reason the
oil people say their occupation is a
work of necessity, and is not Sabbath
Dissertation within the meaning of the
law. An authoritative utterance on this
point will interest the people of great
many occupations.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12
Bridge and Viaduc..

The Topeka city council have passed
two right Of way ordinances, giving
street railways the right to cross the
Kansas river bridge and also the sixth
street viaduct. The most inn ortant
provisions of the electric franchise are
IN relation to the bridge. The cars are
not to run more than three miles an
hour over the bridge. and they are not
to be moved by any power but horses
or mules till the new bridge is built.
The company is to pay one third OF
the cost OF reaooring the p esent bridge
and OF keeping it in repair generally.
Any other company to which the coun-
ell may grant franchise shall have
the right to run over the tracks of the
city railway. and use its trolley wire
from Second street to Gordon street;
the two lines are to be consolidated, as
far as their different guages will allow
for that distance: third rail will have
to be put down for the rapid transit.
The compensation any other company
using the Topeks City Railway co;npa-
ny's tracks shall pay to the latter may
be settled between them; if they can,
not agree the mayor and council are to
decide it. The name of the Rapid
Transit company is not mentioned in
the ordinance, at the wish Of the city
railway. The city railway must accept
the franchise within thirty days and
pay $500 to the city trea. urer. and
have the road equipped with electricity
within six months thereafter. The
company is to light Kansas avenue
With electricity from Tenth to Gordon.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12
SenuaI

AN.ambitious word-coiner says that
there is crying need of word ex-
pressing the opposite of sheight;" and
he suggests the word "lowt" or 'lowth. !"
But he runs himself to earth; for the
public Will be ""loath" to acceptihis sug-
roSfion
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

BOYS should be tested for color
blindness in school-before they 60 out
into Ife-so tn at they should not lose
the time required for working up to
positions on railroads or elsewhere IN
which ability to dstinguishscolcr is es-
conficl
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

A KINGSTON, N. Y, man left by will
life interest to his widow in a little
estate valued at $4,000, the property
after her death to be divided among
twelve heirs. There being a small
mortgage on this property, foreclosure
proceedings followed, and the costs of
court, lawyers fees, ETC., made the
judgment foot up s1,999. During her
life the widow will be entitled to the
interested the remaining dollar, at her
death two, of the heirs will receive 20
cents each, five of them will be
given cents each, four of them will be
entitled to cents each, and one will
receive the annual interest on % cents
during life.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12
COLBY,
KANSAS.

The Presbytery' of Oregon has de-
cided that all candidates !, for license
must quit the use of tobacco.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

A PARTY of young men were feasiing
at fashionable restaurant. During
the progress of their repast a we'll
known and still Woodworking mil
ionaire came in and seated himself at
the table next to them. He was
straight of figure, keen of eye, rugged
/. and vigorous. His order was q simple
soup, piece of beet, coffee and cigar.
He finished his dinner before the young
men had well started. As he went out
one of them said: "That's x. Cen
stitution of iron to work as he does"
But the simple dinner, an example of
the old mans mode of living-no one
apparently thought of that.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

NOTHING knits the world together
like the telegraph. 1t virtually puts the
merchants of Asia, Africa, Europe and
America in the same city, and enables
them to transact business with as much
facility. According to a recent official
return, the length of the telegraph
lines on the globe is at present 600, 900
miles, or twenty-six times its circum-
ference at the equator. The length of
wire is l, 6SS, $50 miles, or seventy times
the length of the equator. Europe has
telegraph lines measuring 232, go
miles; America, 176,264; Asia, SO, 1916;
Australia, 26,053, and Africa. 1878.
These are the land lines. There are, be:
sides. $50 submarine cables, of total
length of 2,7O1 nautical miles.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

THE most curious drawbridge in the
world is in st. Anne's Bay, Island of
Curacao, 1t is pontoon bridge, and
one of the pontoons is steamer built
in Camden, Me. It is scow forty feet
long, twelve wide, and seven deep.
There is a single shaft that runs clear
through the boat and has a screw pro-
peller on each end. The shaft is turned
by two steam engines. When the draw
is to be opened the captain of the steam
pontoon casts off the lines, gives toot
on the whistle and sets the propellers
awhirling, and thereupon half the
bridge swings around far enough to let
the coming ship pass through. Then the
wheel is reversed and the gap is closed.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-12

The attorney general has given his opinion,
at the request of the secretary of the interior,
that the act of October 2, 1888, approprlat.
ing $4,000 for investigating irrigation of
the arid region, virtually reserves from set
Element and entry all the arid regions of the
west: and that the department must refuse
such entry. The secretary suggests that II
congress does not fully concur In this it
should take the business in hand at once and
so modify it as it may deem the public IN
terests require.
And now comes positive assertion that
King Leopold, of Belgium, who personally
owns the African Congo Free State. has con-
cluded bargain to sell it to England for be-
tween forty and fifty million dollars. 1t has
an area of 10000 square miles and popu-
lation of 100000. The only remaining
obstruction to the bargain is said to be the
opposition of the United States to the abro-
CATION of the provision with which the worlds
great powers have declared that there shall
be absolute free trade in Congo for period
of twenty years.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-08-22
HEADQ'RS REPUBLICAN, STATE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE,


DETROIT, JULY IL, 1890.
A state convention OF the republicans OF
Michigan will be held at the Detroit rink,
Detroit beginning at ~ O'Clock noon, Wednes-
,day Aug ~ and continuing Thursday, Aug. ~,
1880, for the purpose OF nominating candidates
court to MI vacancy: also for the purpose OF
selecting chairman OF the state central com
mittee and two members thereof from each
congressional district, and the transaction OF
such other business as may properly come
before 10.
In accordance with a resolution adopted at
Grand Rapids, May TO- 1896 every county will be
entitled TO one delegate for each 500 OF the total
vote cast for governor at the last state election
November 1888 and one additional delegate
for every fraction amounting TO 300 but each
organized county will be entitled TO at least one
delegate. 49,
Under q resolution OF 1858 no delegate will be
entitled 10 q seat In the convention who does
not reside in the county he proposes TO repre-
sent.
The delegates from each congressional district
are requested TO meet in caucas at 10 O'Clock,
A. NJ, Wednesday, Aug. "a and select candidates
as follows, TO be presented TO the state conven
ton for confirmation; two members OF the state
central committee, one vice president, one
assistant secretary and one member for each OF
the committees on credentials resolution,
'permanent organization and order OF business.
In compliance with resolution adopted in
Detroit, June %, 1880, the secretary OF each
county convention, Is requested to forward 10
the secretary of the state central committee
(No. a. Grswbld St, Detroit) by the earliest
mail after the delegates 10 the state convention
are chosen, "a certified list of such delegates as
from their respective countless and also the
name and address of the chairman, secretary
and members of their county committee
GEORGE II HOPKINS Chairman.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-08-22
Lake Superior Transit Company.
The Great Duluth Route.

Intended sailings of steamers from De-
troit for Sault Ste Marie and other Lake
Superior Ports: Mondays, Thursdays, FRI
days, Saturdays, 1890 p. M, central time.
For Cleveland, Erie and Buffalo: Sun
days, Mondays, Wednesdays, Saturdays at
5 D. M central time, making railroad con-
nections for points east and south. Rail
connections at Duluth for st. Paul, Mime
apolis, Pacific Coast and points on Northern
Pacific and Great Northern X. Roads. and
the Lake Superior, ST. Paul and Union
Pacific Line. Baggage checked to destina-
ton. For tickets and other information,
apply to j. T. WHITING, Genl Agent.
Dock and office, SO West Atwater street,
between Grswold and Shelby streets, De
TRoIT, MICH.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-08-22
Teachers Examinations

FOK SHAW A6SEE co. FUN IocJ-yU
The schedule previously published is hereby
ceuntermanded, circumstances beyond the control
of the board OF examiners rendering such action
necessary.
Special Public Examinations. Bancroft High
School Room, Friday. Oct. %, 1899.
Regular Examination, Corunns, March and Z,
1890
Special Public Examination, Vernon High
School Room, Friday, March %.
Special Public Examination, Laingsburg High
School Room, Friday. April 25.
Regular Examination, Corunna, August and s,
SPECIAL Public Examination, 0wOsso High school
room, Friday, August 20.
First nd second grade certificates can be grant
ed only at the regular examinations.
20. COOPER, Chairman.
n. MCBRIDE, Secretary.
HUDSON SHELDON,
SuIAwAssxE c. BOARD OF SCHOOL EXAMINERS.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-08-22

males, troubled with so many weaknesses
peculiar to them, there is no equal to this
Tonic. Ask for it. DR., Cox's Balsam of Tar
and Wild Cherry, for Coughs and Colds and
all Bronchial troubles, is the Best on Earth
Try it and know for yourself; costs only 25c.
a bottle. For bilious difficulties, heahache,
and constipation, DR.. Cox's Little Mandrake
Liver Pills are invaluable. Ifyour children
have a coated tongue, bad breath, pain in the
stomach, restlessness at night, get box Of
his Worm Powders; they always cure.
DR.. Geneaux's Magnetic Oil cures all pain in ten
minutes, Try 10 for Neuralgia or Headache. For
sale by DIR. M. l.. BAGG g. co. Owosso
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-08-22

In buying Hoods Sarsaparila, for 1t |:
everywhere recognized as the standard
bullding-up medicine and blood purifier. II
has won its way TO the front by its own in
trinsic merit, and has the largest sale OF any
preparation of its kind. Any honest doc,
tor will confirm this statement. Any hon.
est druggist will confirm this statement. Ii
you decide to take Hoods Sarsaparilla dc
not be induced to buy anything else instead.
BE sure to get Hoods.
Henry III. Byram, late editor in chief OF
the Pittsburg acknowledgement who died
on Saturday of pneumonia, was Maine
man by birth and about As years of age.
He was prominent in the recent movement
to nominate Major Monteoth for Governor.
Some remarkable cures of deafness are
recorded of DR.. Thomas Eclectric Oil. New
or fails to cure earache.
Henry George. who has recently returned
from Australia, will address the Financial
Reform Club at Liverpool, August %, and
sail Immediately afterward for New York.
The proprietors of Ely's Cream Balm do
not claim it be cure-all, but a sure remedy
for catarrh, colds i'm the head and hay fever.
1t is not liquid or snuff. but is easily APP
piled into the nOstrils. 1t gives relief at
once.
Rider Haggard is said to look like the
Emperor of Germany. He has the blue
eyes and light brown hair and the general
physical appearance of the Kaiser.
Why continue the use of irritating pow
ders, snuffs or liquids. Elys Cream Balm,
pleasant of application and sure cure for
catarrh in the head. can be had for soc. 1t
is easily applied into the nOstrils, is safe
and pleasant, and is curing the most Obsti-
nate cases. 1t gives relief at once.
Hon. T.. II. Lyon, of South Haven, is
special agent of the genealogical department.
N. Y. Press:-The World replying to the
remark of the Press that sample duty on
tin plate will import great industry en-
plOying $4,000 people," intimates that this
will not benefit American labor. for the tin
plate workers will be imported. This is
the same old Democratic BourbOnism that
insists that we can't make linen that other
nations can make. 1t now charges that
American wOrkmen are not intelligent
enough to learn the tin plate making trade.
One skilled Welchman can teach it to a
hundred Americans, and we have never yet
seen the trade that Americans couldn't learn
and win at. American labor will get the
bulk of the benefit of the tin plate in
dustry's employment of labor.