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ness, thereby taking that much from

ness, thereby taking that much from
the sister who herself did the nursin;
and taking care of hedying man, anG
who was herself so near destitute,
with five young and helpless children,
that the neighbors took In provisions
to keep her from want. The records
also show that John f. Willis charged
500 for appraisers fees, swore to the
bill and got it allowed, when the facts
are that the appraisers were neighbors
and declined to charge for their seruic-
es. 1t was also shown by the
speaker that John F. Willis paid
a physician of Oskaloosa some
six or eight dollars for medical at
tendance, but, on plausible excuse,
got the doctor to receipt for $40,
then s,core to t,oe,sty dollars disbwse
ment, and got the bill allowed, charg-
ing $50 up to the estate and thus
swindling the widow and helpless
children (the eldest but nine or ten
years of age) out of that much more!
The sister brought suit, and Jeffer-
son county jury found verdict against
the unnatural brother, and that
verdict stands on the records. Then
the speaker showed how Mr.. Willis
got out of paying his honest obliga-
tons when the Grange store failed;
how he let his fellow endorsers pay the
bills, while he skulked around his wife's
skirts; how he made bogus transfer Of
his farm to a man without dollar In
the world, and how his stool pigeon in
turn decided the property over to Johns
wife that he might swindle his credit.
itors. All this and more the
speaker presented in powerful
language and it was plain to be seer
that the large audience of honest and
respectable people of all parties were
amazed that man should be put ur
for the highest office in the State, or
indeed, any Office at all. 1t is a scan.
dial and shame to the fair name OF
Kansas, and disgrace to any man
who would knowingly support such a
fellow.
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TIE CHARGES AGAINST WILLIS.

The readers of the REGISTER will
bear willing witness, we believe, that
1t has never been the practice of this
paper to make wanton and indiscrim-
mate attacks upon the personal char
acter of candidates upon opposition
tickets. So careful have we been
in this regard that we have many
times refrained from reprinting charge
es that appeared in other papers, even
when they appeared well founded,
lest there might be some mistake and
we thus do injury to an innocent man.
The editor of the REGISTER has suf.
fered too much himself from malicious
and untruthfnl assaults upon his mo-
tives or his character, to be willing to
inflict equal suffering upon another
by giving currency to charges that
might be unfounded in fact. We do
not make our political fights that
way.
When charges are made, however,
against a candidate which, if tue,
prove him to be unfit for the office TO
which he aspires, and when these
charges are sustained by indisputable
evidence, it becomes the duty of a
public journal to make note Of them
in order that the people may be fairly
warned. We therefore reprint in an
other place the report of a speech
made by Capt. J. B. Johnson last
week at Oskaloosa, in which he pre-
ferred charges, and proped them,
against J. f. Willis, the Peoples
candidate for Governor, which should
make it impossible for him to receive
the vote of any honest man. When
Mr.. Willis was first nominated, nu-
merous papers stated in a vague way
that he had been guilty of defrauding
his creditors and of treating his sister
shamefully but, in accordance with
our sual practice as above outlined,
the REGISTER made no mention of
the matter. Now, however, these
charges are made specific and are
backed by incontestible proof. Capt.
Johnson is an honorable man. He
made the speech we report in Mr..
Willis home town near which he
has lived for years. He proved his
charges by documentary evidence.
And the speech is reported in paper
whose editor we know, from personal
acquaintance, to be incapable of mis-
representation. We cannot but be-
lieve then that the charges made are
absolutely true. Read the speech
carefully. Consider well the nature
of the evidence. Then say whether it
would not be lasting disgrace to
seat this man in the hitherto unpol-
luted chair of the chief executive of
Kansas.
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squareDeal For Every Body.

To enable home and land-seekers to
visit the farming sections of Minneso-
ia, North Dakota, South Dakota, Mon
tana, the Great Northern railway line
will sell excursion tickets, with stop
over privileges, good for thirty days,
at one fare for the round trip, on April
%, May 20, September 9, September %
and October IA from st. Paul, Mime
apolis, Duluth and West Superior.
This will enable purchasers to see
the famous Park region of Minnesota,
the wonderful Red River valley, Dew
il's Lake, the Turtle mountain, and the
Mouse River regions of North Dakota,
the rich valleys of the Big Sioux and
James, in South Dakota, and the vast
fertile districts watered by the Mis-
souri,, Milk, Teton and Marias rivers,
in the great reservation in Montana,
no land grant restrictions or extra
costs in securing homesteads.
The Great Northern railway runs
three lines through the Red River val
ley, is the only line to the Turtle
mountains, has three lines in South
Dakota and runs the only solid through
trains of palace dining and sleeping
cars, modern day coaches and free
colonist sleepers to Fergus Falls, Moor
head Fargo. Grand Forks, Crookston,
DEVILS Lake, Minot, Glasgow, Chi
nook, Benton, Great Falls, Helena and
Butte, Montana. 1t is the only rail-
way in the west owning and operating
its entire superior equipment, and
its entire superior equipment, and
with solid roadway seventy-five pound
steel track, insures safety, comfort
and speed.
Your home agent can sell you excur-
sion tickets to over five hundred points
on the Great Northern railway line
Maps, guide books or information con-
corning travel or settlement along this
line, cheerfully furnished by any
agent of the company, or F. I. Whit
ney, Gen. p. and T. agt. G. N. Ry.,
st. Paul, Mimi.
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How Does This Suit.

Leave Kansas City 10 a. M, $40 p.
m, or s:45 p. m. and arrive in Chicago
7:25 a. m, $50 a. M, or 1l:55 a. m,
next day.
Santa Fe Route route runs three
through trains, Kansas City to Chi.
cago. Ten o'clock train carries free
chair cars and Pullman ,sleepers at
night. Train leaving at $40 is a solid
Pullman vestibule train with free chair
cars, dining cars, sleeping and library
caIs,-handsomesti in the world. The
one which goes out at S:45 is finely
equipped with sleepers, dinners and
chair chars. G.. T. Nicholson, G.. p. &
Il. A., A. It. & s. +. X. r., Topeka,
Kans. ]. J. Byrne, A. G. p. Il T. A.,
Chicago.
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A GROWING MAN,

Fit. Scott Monitor: If the people of
this Congressional District have any
doubt about being represented by a
growing man, let them read his re-
cord. He was born in Clark county,
Ohio, in 1886; was reared on a farm,
educated in the common schools, New
Carlisle Academy and Marietta col
lege; entered the army in 1861 as lieu
tenant Sixteenth Ohio battery, par
ticipated in the principal engagements
along the Mississippi river; was must
cred out in 1865; located on prairie
farm in Allen county, Kansas, in 1867,
on which he now resides; was elected
to Kansas House of Representatives
1S73-4-5; was speaker in 1875; was
elected to State Senate 1880, of which
he was made president pro tempore;
was elected to the Forty-eighth, For.
ty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses and
was reelected to the Fifty-first Con-
gress, receiving 24,632 votes against
IA 800 votes for John II. Burris, DEM
ocrat, and j, 355 votes for Delos Walker,
Union Labor candidate. Speaker Reed,
the sound Of whose name gives the
opposition chill, recognizing in Mr..
Funston man of merit and ability,
appointed him chairman of the COM
mittee on agriculture. This was a
compliment to Kansas, the Second
District and to Mr.. Funston distinc-
ton attained by few members.
1t will therefore be seen that Mr..
Funston has risen step by step to the
position he now occupies. 1t is no
accident. The people see and recog-
nize ability and merit wherever it
exists. He is strong, vigorous man,
mentally and physically. 1t is easy
for the opposition to find fault and
censure Mr.. Funston for what he has
not done. They ought to be just
enough to thank him for what he has
done. He has been the friend of Fort
Scott and Bourbon county. and we
have within our borders lasting mon
uments of his good will and kindly
offices. His character is above re-
preach and his private and public life
make worthy example for every
American citizen to follow.
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yanizati IL 30 happens that in these
,ombin;.,.>as between the Alliance
and the democracy that the candidate
FIR coui-:y attorney is named by the
Democracy or Resubmissionists. This
is the result in nearly every county
ccmbination. 1t will be found that
In at least two-thirds Of the counties
0: this State, the Alliance, the DEM
ocracy and the observation-disclosures are
giving their united support to an anti
prohibition candidate for county at
torney, as they have already combined
on an instrument o: the whisky power
for attorney general.
What greater advantage could the
whisky power hope to gain in one
campaign than the election of its at
torney general, and the election of its
prosecuting attorneys in one half or
two-thirds Of this State? To what
extent will the prohibitory laws be
enforced if its known enemies are
elected as county attorneys and they
are encouraged and sustained in their
hostility or indifference by the Attor-
ney General? Such a result would
mean the non-enforcement of the law,
or free whisky, in large part of the
State for two years. When this de-
moralized condition had been exper-
fenced for that length of time, the
State will be prepared for resub-
mission, and for the defeat Of pro-
hibition. The strength of the prohib-
itory policy of this State is in the
strict and honest enforcement of it.
Where it has been enforced its bene-
fits are most appreciated, and there it
is the strongest. Free whiskey will
not be endured. Thousands of good
citizens will sustain prohibition so
long as it can accomplish the banish-
ment of the saloon, with its con-
scienceless, unprincipled power; but
this large element will speedily re-
turn to the high license and strict reg
ulation of the traffic, when it is a
question between that and free
whisky. What longer steps could
the whisky power take toward the
final defeat of prohibition in Kansas
than to accomplish the notification of
our prohibitory laws during the next
two years? One step follows another.
When the first step is successfully
taken the second will follow naturally
and more easily.
We have briefly described the re-
suit without coloring, if the present
combination on Attorney General and
the county attorneys shall succeed.
We hope the Alliance grip will not
be strong enough to hold any tenn
perance farmer to this unholy work
and that the over-confident, slumber-
ing prohibitionists in this and every
other county will wake up to an ap-
probation of the situation before it is
too late.
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THE Washington correspondent of
The New Haven, Conn.,, Register,
makes the following fiattering ref
erence TO the member from the Second
district; which we are pleased to
quite a. showing what is thought of
Mr.: Funston by those who come in
daily contact with him in the Nation
al'Congress:
Should the republicans carry the
next House it rs not unlikely that
Funston, of Kansas, will be a can
didate for Speaker Mr.. Funston is
at present chairman of the House
committee on agriculture, and is re-
sponsible for important legislation i'm
the interests of the farmers. He
might receive the support of the
Farmers Alliance for that reason
should that;organization be disposed to
make deal with the Republicans.
The Alliance may hold the balance
OF power in the next House, and if the
Democrats do not offer them as good
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J. r. WILLIS RECORD.

OskdLoosa Independent; = : = Capt.
J. b. johnson delivered one of the
most forcible addresses ever given at
this place synopsis, even, of which
We cannot give at this time. Suffice it
to say now, that toward the close OF
his address he produced official papers
and matters of court record concerning
John +. Willis, nominee for Governor
of the so-called Peoples party
which showed that he was not only
unfit for such an exalted office, but
unworthy the esteem and respect of
his fellow citizens. 1t was shown that
when John Willis father died in 1873
he left forty acres of farm land and SO
worth of personal property; that John
had himself appointed administrator,
when there was none required by
law-and in that capacity beat the
other heirs, includinga widowed sis
ter, out of their just shares of the
estate; that he presented, swore to and
had allowed a bill of 500 for taking
care Of his father during his last SEX
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OSkdloosa Independent: To ask any
man to vote for Willis as against
Humphrey, in the name of reform and
purity in politics, will he to insult his
intelligence and his sense of honor.
No greater case of misplaced con-
fidence" is on record than that OF
some honest, well-meaning men who
have been led into the support OF
Willis in the belief that he is an
honest, upright, Woodworking farm
er, with the interests of the farmers
and laboring classes only at heart.
The scales viii be rudely pulled from
their eyes, and when they see his
character clearly they will not coun-
tenance his .candidacy-they cannot
and be consistent.
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IN presenting the name of Mr.. Ives
10 the Democratic State Convention
as candidate for Attorney General,
Mr.. S. f. Neeley said:
Prohibition Kellogg must be
downed. 1t will be great blow to
prohibition. Ives is a Simon pure
Democrat; has always been a Demo
crat; has always been anti-prohi-
bitionist and is solid for resubmission.
He had not sought the alliance NOM
ination but having been nominated
will catch the alliance vote, and the
slick thing for the Democrats to do is
to put him on the ticket.
How does that sort of recommends
ton suit the temperance men who are
asked by the Peoples party to vote
for Mr.. Ives?
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AT THE notorious meeting of county
presidents of the Alliance at Topeka,
n few months ago, at which the go
called Peoples party was organized,
the following resolution was adopted:
ResolUod:: That we will not support
for Office any member of our organi-
cation who will accept nomination
from either of the old parties, but will
consider such member a traitor to our
cause.
Here in Allen county two of the
Peoples nominees-Mr. Goshorn and
Mss Featheringill-have accepted a
nomination from one of the old parties,
and are therefore, according to the
above resolution, TRAITORS to our
cause''' What are the People going
to do about it?
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HAPPY HOLSTERS,

VIM. Timmons, postmaster of Ida
vile, Ind, writes: Electric Bitters
has done more for me than all other
medicines combined, for that bad feel
ing arising from kidney and liver
trouble" John Leslie, farmer and
stockman, same place says: "Find
Electric Bitters to be the best kidney
and liver medicine, made me feel like
a new man." ]. w. Gardner, hard
ware merchant, same town says:
'Electrict Bitters is just the thing for
man who is all run down and dod't
care whether he lives or dies; found
new strength, good appetite and felt
just like / had a new lease ON life.
Only SOC bottle at Evans drugstore.
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While at the capital we also
visited the State headquarters of the
Peoples party, and in conversation
with number of the leaders of that
party they all express their regrets
that they did not nominate Mr.. Rob-
inson-ChetOpd Democrat.
We started out to write a column of
comment on the above. But on reflec-
ton we don't believe it needs it; it has
q voice of its own for him that hath
ears and will hear.
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(Eirst published Oct. 3, lSO.1
In the district court Of Allen county, State OF
Kansas.
Sarah H Johnson, plaintiff
vs..
J. P. Davis and Lavina Da-
Wis, his wife, ct al, de-
PENDANTS.
The State of Kansas to j. p. Davis, Iavina
Davis and Timothy eastman, greeting:
You and each of you will take notice that YOU
have been sued in the district court OF Allen
county State of Kansas, and that you must ans
wer the petition in the above entitled action
which was filed in the said district court on the
ith day OF September A. ID. ls9O, on or before
the 18th day Of November, lss'J, or said petition
will be taken as true and judgment rendered
in said action against said defendants j. Z. Da-
hundred and iifty dollars with interest thereon
at the rate of twelve per cent per annum from
the first day o: March. 1859 and for costs of suit
aud a further Judgment against all the defend
ants in said action Tor the foreclosure OF GER
tain mortgageupon the following real estate to-
wit: The northwest quarter of the northwest
quarter of section "a and the east half of the
northeast quarter of the northeast quarter OF
section % all in township q range IL in the
county of Allen, State of Kansas, and adjudg-
ing that the plaintiff have first lien upon said
premises TO the amount OF which judgment VIII
be taken as aforesaid and ordering said prem
Uses to be- sold without appraisement and the
proceeds applied TO the payment of the sum due
plaintiff and costs of suit, and forever barring
and forclosing said defendants herein and each
OF them of and from all right, title, estate, ill.,
terest, property and equity OF redemption in or
to said premises or any part thereof
(se.l.l OTIS ID SWAN Emporia Atty. fbr PHI.
Attest: NJ P Jaeoby, Clark Dist. Court. 4ii6
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inducements as the Republicans they
might join hands with the latter.
Funston would make a good Speaker
He is an able parliamentarian and is
very popular, especially with the
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VS..
Mrs j. Q. Adams and George II
johnson, defendants.
BY virtue of an order of sale issued to me, out
OF said district court in the above entitled ac-
tion, will,
A. ID 1880, at two O'Clock p. m. Of said day, at
the front door of the court house In the city Of
lola, in the county Of Allen, in the State of Kan
sas, offer at public sale, and sell to the highest
and best bidder for cash in hand, all the follow
ing-described real estate, to-wit:
The southwest quarter Of section No. twenty
nine COY in township No. twenty-four (24) range
No. eighteen (ls) east of the 9th principal meri-
dian, lying and situate in the county OF Allen in
the State of Kansas.
The above described real estate is taken as the
property of said defendants, and is directed by
said order Of sale to be sold. and will be sold
without appraisement, to satisfy said order of
sale. l.. HOBART, Shfr. Of Allen county
GLEFD 4 GLFEp ATTORNEYS 444S
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PdoIa Times: No Congressman has
given more hours of weary labor and
indefatigable zeal to the interests of
Kansas and the west, than Mr.. Funs.
ton. He has iron his way back.
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Notice Of Final Settlement.
STATE OF KANSAS,

| In the Probate court in and for said county.
In the matter Of the estate Of e. III. Cbollettt
deceased.
Creditors and al other persons interested II
shall apply to the probate court, In and for said
county, sitting at the court house in lola, coun.
~ of Allen, State of Kansas, on the 18th day Of
October 4. ID. ls90 for full and final settlement
Of said estate. A. w Rowland, administers
tor Of the estate Of II Chollette deceased.
| Sent - lam
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Delinquent Tax Notice.

Notice is hereby given that so much of each
town lot, described in the annexed list, Is may
Monday in October, 1870, said day being October
q, $50. and succeeding days, be sold by me at
my Office in the City Of lola, at public auction
for the taxes and charges remaining unpaid for
the wear IssyD:
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BAPTIST ON SYCAMORE STREET.
ID Large brick northeast OF the public square.
Preaching every Sunday at IL O'Clock q. m. Z,
School at 9:45 9. m. Prayer meeting Wednes-
day evening p. m. Young peoples prayer
meeting every Sunday evening at $50. This no
at any OF these services. T.. II. y. Moore, Pas
tor.
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Sherif's Sale,

kf1rst puDl1shed sept. 70, lS.Dl.
In the District Court, Fourth Judicial District
sitting in and for Anderson county State Of
Kansas.
Aultman Miller & Co, q corr
poratiOn, plaintiff.
VS..
George W. Graham, defend
ant.
By virtue of an order of sale issued by the
clerk OF the fourth judicial district court i'm
and for Anderson county State of Kansas in the
above entitled cause and to me directed and de-
liyered / will on
TUESDAY, THE ITH DAY OF OCTOBER, A. D. 1890,
at O'Clock p. m. of said day, at the front
door of the court house in the city of lola, Al
len, county, Kansas, offer for sale and sell to
the highest bidder, for cash in hand, the follow
ing described property, to-wit; One Buckeye
Binder.
Said property has been duly attached as the
property of the above named defendant George
W Graham and will be sold to satisfy said or
der OF sale. l.. HOBART, sheriff of Allen Co.
Sheriff's Office, lola, Kansas Sept %, 1SD. 1874
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METHODIST EPISCOPAL.-CORNER OF
lNl Jefferson avenue and Broadway street.
Services every sabbath at III q. m and 80 p. m.
Class meeting Immediately after the morning
service. Sunday School at 9:45 q. m, Ira Pat
Wednesday evening at 80 p. m. strangers and
visitors in the city and all Others cordially invit-
ed to all these services. a. 5. Freed, Pastor.
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Ths valleys My 40. Of Rsd Mouse ,.1MsSsss
by the Great Northern RI. Line
Half rate excursions Sept9 Is, asC3 m,A
Sfs e lssc !, write write S e y L RI.
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REPUBLICAN, TICKET.

For Representative in Congress,
L. H. FUNSTON,
OF Allen county.
For Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court
ALBERT n. HORTON.
For Governor
LYMAN L. HUMPHREY.
For Lieutenant Governor
A. J. FELT.
For Secretary Of State
WILLIAM HIGGINS.
For Auditor Of State
GEORGE NJ. HOVEY.
For Treasurer Of State
S. G.. SLOWER.
For Attorney General
L. B. KELLOGG.
For Superintendent OF Instruction
GEORGE w. WINANS.
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D EFORMED DIVINE WORSHIP IN THE
N Christ Reformed Church at ii O'Clock o.
IA. on three Sundays Of every month, and every
Sunday School every Sabbath at 10 o clock q. m.
All are cordially invited to attend. j. x. skim
ner, Pastor.
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G.. A. X.

MCCOOK POST NUMBER FIFTY-ONF-
Meets the first Saturday on or before each FULL
moon at the q. A. X. Hall. Ali comrades in
good standing are invited to meet with the Post.
j. w. DELArLAISE, Z. T..
T. s. SLOWER Post Adj