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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09
Administrative Notice.

To all whom it may concern, but more especial
ly TO the Heirs OF law OF Jonathan j. Huitt de-
ceased, late OF Dickinson county, Kansas.
You are hereby notified that |, Eliza j. Huitt,
Administrative OF said deceased, did on the 10th
day of December y. ID. 1859 file petition in the
Probate Court Of Dickinson County, Kansas,
praying that | might be authorized and en-
powered TO sell the following described land T
the purpose of paying the debts and costs OF ad-
ministIatiOn OF said estate, tO-wit:
Commencing at the northeast corner of the
southeast quarter of the northeast quarter Of Sec
ton number thirteen (l3) in township number
thirteen Cl3)sCush of range number one ~ west
in Dickinson county, Kansas running west three
hundred and thirty (S30) feet; thence south 6O4
feet inches thence east $50 feet thence north 50
feet: thence east $50; thence north 554 Re and 6
inches to place of beginning. containing "a acres
more or less and said petition will be heard at the
office or the Probate Judge of said County, on the
18th day Of January A. ID, 1880. &C 10 O'clock q,
IN. of said day, at which time and place each OK
you and all others Interested are notified to be
present and show Cause if any you have why an
order Of sale as prayed for should not be granted
Dated this Sth day of January, \. ID. 1890.
2G-2 ELIZA j. HUITT Administrative.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09
The Democratic Policy.

One of the leading members of con-
gress on the democratic side was inter
viewed Saturday in Chicago on what
would be the probable policy of the dem
ocrats when the national house again
convened. With shrug he replied, ITO
oppose the republicans" Unconscious
ly he voiced the exact motto of his par
ty for the past thirty years. Its aim
has been in every instance one of oppo-
sition, not of aggression.
On every national question of policy
which has come before the United
States in more than three decades the
democratic party has been a party of
negation. Its aim has been not to lead
but to retard. At the beginning of the
war it entered on the career of obstruc-
tion which it has continued to the pres
ent day. The republican party pre-
vented the extension of slavery, created
and maintained the tariff system, pros
ecuted the war, established the national
banking scheme, brought about recon-
structiOn, preserved the faith of the
nation with its creditors, resumed spe-
Gle payments, and placed the credit of
the county higher than that of any
other power in the world. In every
one of these questions of public policy
the republicans encountered the resO-
Lutte, persistent aud implacable hostility
of the democratic party. The repub-
licans enacted the civil service law, and
have been repeatedly compelled to de-
fend it against the assaults of its dem
ocratic foes.
At no time during the past thirty
years has the democracy openly and
fairly presented scheme of affirmative
policy. On every issue which has arisen
in the country politics since the repeal
OF the Missouri Compromise the repub-
licans have taken the initiative. While
in power as we'll as out of power the
democracy has been merely the party
of opposition. 1t has, from the birth
of the republican party to the present
hour, been an organized negation, an
obstruction in the way of needed and
legitimate legislation, stumbling
block in the path of progress. To con-
tend, as many democrats do, that such
men as Benton, Douglas and Van
Buren,, who were leaders in the demOc-
racy when it stood for something which
was at least honest, courageous and ag-
gressive, would still cling to it if alive
today, is an insult to their memory
which every friend CT those statesmen
should Indignantly and vigorously re-
pei. The congressman who propose to
'oppose the republicans" in the legisla-
ton of the next four months will find
that they reckon without their host.
The majority in congress is strong
enough to allow the republican party to
shape its record to its taste, and the
prospects for a vigorous, able session
are good
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09
Pearl Points,

PEARL, Kas., Jan. Especial CORES
ondence.l-Xery little shipping is
done because of the scarcity of cars.
Mr.. Peter Anderson returned from
penVer, Colo, New Years dag.
The singing school at Dist. No. l0l is
progressing finely under the supervis-
ion of Prof. N. d. BetZ.
Exercises were held in the Swedish
church, New Years. night. Music,
recitatiOns and ETC., made the evening
pass quickly. AT the close of the exer-
ciSes bags filled with nuts and candy
we've di5triputed among the Children.
Miss Amanda Johnson is Ill at the
home of her uncle, Erich LiDds.
John Taylor made his weekly trip
to AileHe, Saturday,
x. Hefner has rented his farm and
will remove to Enterprise in the
spring.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

f4E governors of thirty states mel
at the Ebbitt House; Washington, re.
Gently, to take measures for u $. erso.
lion of monument to the signers Of
the declaration of independence and
the constitution ef tho United States.
The meeting adopted pill to lay be-
fore congress petitieniag that body to
erect structure In faiImount mark.
Philadelphia, to commemorate the sign
81 AZ Etcc declaration of independence
and the eenssitetsf4;
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THE Garden City Imprint Serves notice that A.
II. Burtis, OF that place, VIII be candidate for
state auditor. This is another case Of the great
Arkansas Valley against the northwest Perhaps
if We have had dozen candidates from the
northwest we can down him.-[Minneapolis
Messenger.
Exactly so, that has been the north
vests past policy. 1t is time that this
section was getting some sense ham,
mered into its head and that it prepare
for united action in its own behalf,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THE Evening News of Kansas City,
although not yet FIVE years old, recog-
nizes that this is an age of improvement.
1t has just moved into one of the hand
soonest newspaper buildings in the
west; building erected expressly for
it and combining all the conveniences
that time and experience can suggest
or money procure. In addition, new
Potter Perfecting press, with capaci-
ty of twenty-five thousand papers an
hour, has been added no its mechanical
outfit, enabling it to take front rank
among the established papers of the
country.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THE annual review of track laying in
the United States made by the Railway
Age places the total new mileage for
1889 at $3.50 miles. This is 1900
miles less than the work of 1883 and
$500 miles less than the speculative
development of the famous "boom"
year of 1887 Few long lines have been
built. Indeed, the construction has
been carried on by $40 different lines,
the average being only sixteen and one
half miles for each company. This
shows pretty c0nclusively that the wild
competitive building of previous years
has ceased, and that the extensions are
built to earn money and add to the
earning power of the systems to which
they belong,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THE State Journal is still muddled
on the nineteenth century's limit and
says ''the REFLECTOR is one year be-
hind the rest of the world because it
includes 1900 in the nineteenth GEN.
fury. We still insist that McLennan
get down his almanac and arithmetic
The year one of the christian era did
not end until December 81, l. The
first hundred years or the first century
did not end until 100 years had been
completed, or December 81, 100. The
nineteenth century will not end until
nineteen full centuries have been COM
pleted, or December 81, 1900 Any
schOol-boy knows all this, but Of course
the State Journal will not admit that ii
has made blunder.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

HE scarcity of cars for transporting
corn and wheat appears to extend east.
ward TO the Atlantic seaports. A dis
patch from Chicago says: 1.-THE ship
ments eastward from Chicago last week
were the largest On record, the total ton
mage being $500. In the corresponds
ing week of 1888 9 the total tonnage
was lOS, 6e4 and the last week in 1889
the total was 100, 1Ga tons. Last weeks
record breaking the total was the more
remarkable as legal holiday occurred
in the middle of the week. In spite of
the immense traffic, the railroads are
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

DEL VALENTINE, editor OF the Clay Center
Times and a possible representative from the
Fifth district to the f1fty-second congress- is in
the city-[Topeks Lance.
When we read that long Times edi-
itOrial a few weeks since in favor of re-
tanning the present incumbent We just
thought there was colored gentleman
under the stoop. Rustic yourself into
the arena, Bro. Valentine. ''Just az
good fish in the sea as have ever been
caught, "you know. Dickinson is open
to suggestions.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09
SHERlEE'S SALE.

Under AND BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER
| OF sale issued by the clerk of the District
Court Of Dickinson County. State Of Kansas, IN q
cause pending therein. wherein Thomas Kirby
Is PLAINTIFF and Alexander Kindness, James a.
ColeInan' anna n EOIetnah, EsgAL Y, FOREMAN
PENDANTS, 1 VIII, on 90
MONDAY, FEB. 10th, A. D. 1890,
at the front door OF the court house. In the city OF
Abilene, county OF Dickinson. State Of Kansas at
10o'clOck m. of said day sell TO the highest bid
to wit: go =
South half of section thirty three (3S), town
ship thirteen (I3) sonth of range one ~, east in
Dickinson county, state OF Kansas
The said real estate will be sold pursuant to
the judgment Of the in said cause reciJed In
said order Of sale.
Witness my hand this 18th day Of January, A ..
ID. 1890. d. W NALL
cost Sheriff of Dickinson county, kansas.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THE sender Of blizzard dispatches is
getting in bis work in western Kansas
again and columns of denials are fol
lowing his items about the country.
Such fake dispatches are impossible to
trace down or the senders would be
made to suffer. The Especial cores
pondent" has a big field for his mag
nation and manages to keep the read
ing world pretty well worked up.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

IT is estimated that the great south
ern herd of buffalo contained in 1870
at least 100000 animals, and the
northern herd about twice rs many. In
fifteen y ears all these majestic beasts
have been killed, and by methods the
epitome of meanness. The story is a
showing of which Americans should be
far from proud.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

FRANK HpRD, of Ohio, is alive
again. He dropped into the consomme
in 1884, and has been under the surface
so long that his democratic friends had
presumed that his political corpse had
gone under the dissectiRg knife, long
ago. But Free-Trade Frank has re
Gently been in Washington, visiting
the scenes of his former greatness.
The election of a democratic legislature
in Ohio has raised Robbery among the
spirits, and many of them have mater
ialized; Hurd among them. His ma
terialiYed form recently appeared in
the lobby OF tho house, and was heard
to utter: Cleveland will be Inc neat
nominee of the democratic party for tie
presidency. In his celebrated message,
he raised the only live issue now
before the people: and he jig en-
titled To consideration on that
account. We can elect hiR: too"
Those who have travelled and seen the
serfs of Europe; seen the mendicants
and beggars in the streets of free-trade
countries, and witnessed the nakedness
and squalor of the wives, daughters
and Other deEepaarts iron laborers in
free-trade countries; and wbQ have
seen our own wofkingmen well-clothed,
well-fed, and their children at school;
would ike nsthIng better than to again
defeat Cleveland, hoRipg that thereby
the democratic party might learn for
ever that it must become Amerieanized
before it can dominate this land.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THERE are eleven applicants from
Dickinson for certificates to instruct
teachers institutes. The annual teach
ers' institute, originally good idea, is
being wonderfully overworked and the
wire-pullers have such hold on it that
the Dickinson young men might as well
be careful of their dollar fees. A cut
and-dried programme repeated three
times during the summer at $3.50 per
term of one month, makes a valuable
addition to the city professors salary
and the field is SO well laid out and
covered that only a limited num-
Der of outsiders need apply. The in
stitute idea is good one and We find
no fault with it. Like everything else
it may, however, be abused, and that it
is being so will be realized some day in
Kansas.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

WEB. WILDER's little libellous
scheme didn't work. The distortion of
Mr.. Fuller's evidence seems likely to
prove a boomerang to Mr.. Wilder.
But Wilder has been desperate ever
since Burton exposed the righteousness
of the insurance commissioner last
winter. There is nothing so low OF
contemplate that he will not stOOp to
in order to have revenge.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

The Abilene REFLECTOR has swal-
lowed the Gazette, and did not have to
s1,p much either. Under G.. W. G.
Rohrer, saa later under Little Dick
Cover, the Gazette Nls one of the best
papers in the state, but Of late It has
been dull and weak. The REFLECTOR,
though. is a paper of which Abilene
mag well be proud.7[Wichita Journal.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

TIE commissioner of Agriculture of
Vermont is trying to make himself be-
lieve that the next few years will see
a movement of population from the
west back to the abandoned farms of
his own state. Not from Kansas; a
man who has resided in the Sanf1ower
Etate only goes back to the granite
hills aad Gqbblestone valleys of Yer.
mont when he tfassls b express on the
platform of baggage car.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09
PUBLICATION NOTICE,
Te Ella A. Taylor, Of parts unknown:

TIE Ella A. Taylor, Of parts unknown:
You are hereby notified that you have been
sued IN the district court OF Dickinson county.
state Of Kansas, by William o. Taylor, by his De-
titiOn filed In said court on the 9Th day of Jan
uary, 1880, In an action there pending, wherein
the said William o. Taylor is plaintiff and you,
Ella A. Taylor, are defendant, and that you must
answer said petition on or before the 24th day
OF February A. ID. 1870, or the same will be taken
az true and Judgment will be rendered in favor
OF said plaintiff and against you, divorcing the
said plaintiff from you.
WILLIAM o. TAYLOR, Plaintiff.
Attest, ". -. ANDERSON,
20-3 Clerk District C,0urt
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THERE are now fOrty-six, or, count
ing branches, fifty-seven agricultural
experiment stations in the United
States. To support these forty-six sta.
tions, the national and state appropria-
tons for the year reach about S720,000
and over so trained men are employed.
Among them they ought to discover
how to raise 2 big crop every year.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

WHAT has become Of Kansas state
editorial association? Almost every
week some one inquiries if there is not
such thing. There used to be and its
meetings when John A. Martin, Noble
Prentis, Eugene Ware, and the rest OF
the ''old crowd" were in the harness
were things to be remembered. Has it
passed entirely into decay?
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THE experimental age in beet-sugar
making has been passed. The gentle
men who are now eXpendiRg their
money in this business in Nebrasks
say that they can supply this entire
continent with sugar raised in the
Platte river valleF.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THE Kansas City Globe, speaking of
this paper, says, 1.-The REFLECTOR has
always been an excellent paper and
there IS every reason to believe that it
will now improve and be better than
ever, as it has the field to ITSELF"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THE German universities have, say 200 profess
sors, 100000 library books and other things in
proportion. And yet the average American talks
OF universities and education as though we had
gotten somewhere in the business. We have only
just begun.-[Topeka Capital.
But our professors have more letters
after their names and our books have
prettier covers. There where We are
ahead
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09
TIE pulling and hauling for officer.

IRE pulling and hauling for omcer-
ships which Is beginning in the state
G. \. r. circles is unseemly and is not
an honor to that organization. While
it is high praise for one to be chosen
from among the thousands of Kan
sas veterans for a position as officer, it
is not an homer to secure it by long
months of wire-pulling, and soldiers
themselves should be the first ones to
frown down such proceedings.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

EX-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND seems
to be on rather bad terms with the
New York Sun and has concluded not
to fsSSE that paper with his plans for
the future. ~ his plans in the past
have never amounted - nueh, the Sun
will probably be able to survive,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

DIR. TALMAGE is to be welcomed
home upon his arrival, about February
LIST, by great public meeting in the
Brooklyn Academy of Music, over
which the mayor will be asked to pre-
side. You can get his remarks on that
occasion from the syndicate immedi-
ately if YOU want them.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

&. C. NEWS: Among the Kansas
visitors at Washington yesterday were
NJ. o. Reddick, wife and child, st.
Marys; J. R. Hallowell, Wichita; j. r.
Burton, of Abilene, and Charles Mar
tin, of Salina. Martin assumed his
duties as assistant journal clerk of the
house yesterday.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

AS something that you might IN
expectedly want to know and otherwise
have no convenient means of finding
out, it would be well to make a mem
orandum of the fact that there are s.
332 grand army posts in the country,
with 361,779 members. Yet these
figures fall considerably short of the
actual number q sT4FYiY?rs of the late
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

A STATE railroad convention will be
held at Little Rock, Ark, next week
for the purpose of taking steps to in
duce the building of other railroads
than the Gould system into Arkansas.
A strong feeling is being developed
against the railroad magnate.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THE new year is gaining in popular
ity rapidly since it has been discovered
that there is no rhyme for ninety. The
nearest that has been come 10 it yet is
fine tea" which sounds too much like
hop tea to ever become allowable in a
prohibition state.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

CoRR19gYHAk TANNER has been invited
to speak before 4fs Butler club, of
Boston. This" says uqe Hutchinson
News. will go upon record as the EEst
time that ARyGne save the Corporal
himself was responsible for the open
ing of that gentlemanls moSih,p
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THE famous Blaine Gladstone discus
sion in the current North American
leaves one with the impression that each
has made an admirable argument from
his premiSes-but that each builds up
on different basis from the other.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

II is said that old man Bender is ia
prison In Ohio. Those Blenders must
have lives like cats; they have all been
killed several times ard Bow there are
more of them than there were sk fEst.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

HENRI WATTERsoN having said that
'sthe Kansas farmer now sits by his
corn fire and reads his mortgage" the
Globe-Democrat gets in a pat reply
when it notes that the farmer must
have paid his mortgage then, otherwise
it would not be in his possession so he
nOuld read If
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

The decrease Of the public debt fOr
the past six months aggregates $685.
$50 40, or over S131 900 per day. 1t
it is tsAaa speb figures, says level
headed exchange, that the country
learns how carefully the gG3sFHTssnt
Honey is handled by a republican az
administration,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

The most striking smile We have
seen lately was that Of the Kansas City
Star when it said that Topeka needed a
new daily about as much as ''phthisic'
needs another silent letter.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

IT is estimated that the annual saw
ing to the state of Kansas in the mat
ter of freight alone by shipping our
products to Galveston instead of to At
lantic seaports would amount to the
enormous SUN of S23, 100000.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

AGAIN it is rumored that the nat
ional house of representatives is look
ing to the Kansas prairies for chief
clerk. We know man well suited to
the position who could be induced to
accept 10y very little persuasion.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

GATH" in the Cincinnati Enquirer,
picks quarrel with Adam because our
far-off progenitor hadn't git up and
git" eLougu to find the gate out Of
Paradise without the aid of serpent
and a wrought iron sword.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

WEBB WILDER will find out before
he gets through with his funny Work III
connection with his pet insurance CON-
panies that even high and mighty Off
cials like himself must respect the pee
ple's rights.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THE Minneapolis Messenger says
that Congressman Anderson's name
was left off the committee on transpor-
tation by accident. John seems to have
great luck Oh getting accidentally
omitted -
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

The State Journal crawfshes on the
century" idea and in the guise of a
correspondent corrects itself. Now
that the cruel war is over, we will ad-
NIT that we don't care cent whether
the century ends at all or not.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THE REFLECTOR devOtes consider
able space today to the communication
OF Hon. J. Il. Burton regarding the in
suraace matter. Il viii well repay a
careful reading.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THE skeleton-in-every-closet saying
has cropped out again owing to the
death of James G. Blaine's brother who
had changed his name and lived In
comparative obscurity in the far north
WpGt
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

THE Egyptisn needle in New York
will last but fifty or sixty years longer
1t is hoped the Grant monument Will
be ready to take its place when 1t is
gone
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

FIVE state conventions take place
this week and they are all of associa-
tons in which farmers are. interested.
1t will be a relief to allow the political
gatherings rest while the men who
make the real wealth of Kansas have a
ob
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-09

DICKINSON county now has fifteen
Farmers Alliance organizations, all
fiourishipg and prosperous. The farm
ers have in their hands an immense
power if they will only unite sufficiently
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