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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

WHILE Jerry Simpson is whetting his
trenchant blade for the scalp of John
Sherman, whom he pronounces the
"arch enemy of the human race" Mrs.
woman, who is greatly esteemed by all
of her neighbors, is cooking for gang
of threshers who are cleaning up 600
acre tract of wheat, which her husband
owns near Medicine Lodge, Kansas. =
X. c., Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30
GALATIA.

From "Auanias."
Gaiatia has a new blacksmith.
Mrs. Ida Barrows was quite sick dur
ing the past week.
The festival at Pleasant Dale, Friday
evening was a decided success.
Mrs. Luce is being treated for a can
Ger on the hand by Russell physician
A large number of pleasure seekers
picniced in Mr.. Hampers grove, Satur-
day.
DR.. .Wickerham, of Chase, is visiting
friends and looking after his landed
interests.
Mr.. Jaques has started an orphans
home here; the same being a branch
from his Lacrosse home
George Houchins has opened up a
barber shop. George can do work to
please the most fastideous.
There was a dance at Mr.. Wilkinson s
Friday evening. The dancers were
many and all enjoyed themselves.
A large number of new granaries, III
| which to store up the large wheat crop
now being threshed, are being built.
The order of knights of reciprocity
seems to have fallen into innocuou:
desuetude. Of the dead nothing i'll.
A number of men who came in from
| the western counties to harvest have
rented farms and will move their fami
lies here.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

IA little time ago the DEMOCRAT
had columns ON resubmission, and now
it is prohibition accompanied by vague
hints of samebody wanting Office. D
Associate Editor in the Beacon.
o, FANNIE, Fannie! How you do
stretch the truth! The idea of stating
that the DEMOCRAT is advocating pro-
hibitiOn! Now don't you feel just a
little bit foolish when you come to
GLOW to Become a Delegate," or ''The
Mysteries of the Hoisington Conven'
tion.n
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30
A Great Object Lesson.

The American people have had
three months of free sugar." says the
Presidents home organ, land they
have revelled in it; the result has been
a great increase in the consumption of
sugar and corresponding increase %
the comfort of the people"
1t has come to pass that pretty much
all the boasting of the friends of the
Mckinley bill is now confined to the
removal of tax on sugar and to the
reciprocity provision for free trade.
The hundreds of increased duties-that
characteristic feature of the law-they
rarely mention.
The people do indeed ''revel'' in
untaxed sugar. And they have not
failed to observe that the reduction In
price corresponds very closely to the
reduction in the duty. Even the duflest
have learned that the tariff was tax.
The people would also be glad to
''revel'' in untaxed clothing, food: fuel
and shelter. Reasoning from free sugar
| they learn that untaxing necessaFies
cheapens them and leads to increased
consumption and "a corresponding in
crease to the comfort of the people"
Three months of free sugar" have
proved valuable object-lesson in the
campaign of education.-New York
| W,,rId
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

THE cultivation of inherent talent
should be encouraged at all times when
that talent is designed to improve and
elevate mankind. A talent for ora
tory, for painting or for music may be
born in a person but lie dormant and
worthless until develoved through the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

SOME people think that the reason
we have So few poets i'll Kansas is be
cause we eat SO much ''Side meat
Until the doctors agree on the relative
brain power of hog and haddOck, We
shall be true to bacon. In point oi
fact, it takes loafers for poets. Vict
uals are subordinate consideration
Kansas Magazine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

AN ENTERPRIsING Nebraska man
says, that he will take to the Exposition
a crowd of $4,000 school children from
Omaha and vicinity. He proposes to
have each carload in charge of a teach
er, and he has already begun negOtia-
tions with the railroads for special rates
and special trains.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

In 1874 the grasshopper invaded
Kansas soil and demanding that his
rights be recognized swept everything
before him. In 1890 it was the clod-
hopper demanding justice struck the g.
O. p. between wind and water scatter.
ing it to such an extent that it will not
again be together till Hades is raked
with find comb.-ElDorado Advo-
cate
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

The Lawrence Record says, there is
more liquor sold and drank in Kansas
to-day than at any time since the pass
age of the amendment. Deny it, who
ever dare!'' We do not dare to deny
it! The business end of the republican
party has prohibition in its platform
but we have been unable to discover it
any other place.-Topeka Advocate.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

Two BANKS went under in Kansas
City, Kansas, last week. What is the
matter with them, that they cannot
survive the wave of prosperity that the
republican press states is sweeping over
Kansas from Coolidge TO the kaws
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30
farmers Of Ohio, who have an oppor-
tunity to deal with the author of the
iniquitOus Mckinley Bill.

A. M. THOMAS, who lives just across
the Georgia state line, in Gadsden
county, Florida, IS years old and is the
father of thirty-two children, all of
whom are salive. Mr.. Thomas wife
is three years younger than himself.
Fifteen years ago they were married.
Twenty months later they found
themselves the parents of four beauti-
full children. With almost unvarying
regularity ever since the family has
been increased by the addition, some
times of triplets, until the number has
reached thirty-two. Mr.. Thomas and
his wife are thrifty, happy and a con-
tented couple and their thirty-two little
ones are as fine set of children as one
may often SEEK.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

KNIGHTS of reciprocity are orgnizing
in many of the towns in this state.
Hutchinson. Sterling, Nickerson, Lyons
and Stafford are the last to be heard
from. One gentleman made the re-
mark to us, when an organization was
talked of here that it was money max
ing scheme. Thousands of people in
Kansas are being gulled every week.
Ills sad to think how many fools there
are in Kansas. No wonder that S. r.
Peters, one of the first members of the
organization, refused to run for Office
again. His mind is becoming weaken
ed.--Mt. Hope Mentor.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

The Topeka beer combine has dis
solved and beer now costs only 25 cents
a bottle. The three-for-a-dollar scheme
is a thing of the past. AT least 80 the
Topeka Journal says, and as republi-
can organ it ought to be posted on pro-
hibitiOn matters.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

If THE "prOtectiOn" delusiOn still
fingers i'm any degree among the farm
ers of the United States this testimony
ought to destroy it. They pay on their
implements five to ten per cent. more
than the same implements are sold for
to farmers abroad whose products are
marketed in competition with ours
The duties are, therefore, simply dis.
elimination against American farmers
for the benefit of manufacturers who
do not need it, and with the incidental
advantage of from five to ten per cent
In favor of the American farmers for.
eign competitor in his own line. We
commend the facts especially to the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30
HOISINGTON,

HOISINGTON.
From the Dispatch.
Corn is tasseling out and some is in
silk.
w. c. Farley left Monday morning
for Lawn Ridge, Missouri, to join his
family.
N. B. Scrogin has purchased fine
piano which will add to the attractions
of his home.
There we're three additions to the
Christian church last Sunday; two by
letter and one by baptism.
H. ]. Clifford has purchased a thresh-
ing machine from Cooke & Wildgen and
expects to do big run of work this
fall.
DR.. Peck reports the arrival of a fine
ten pound daughter at the residence OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. IN. Bicknell on
Monday night.
Miss Jennie Rice has returned from a
two years stay in Massachusetts,,
during which time she graduated at one
of the prominent Conservatives OF
mnsic.
An abundance of toads is said to be
a sign of good crop year. We never
saw so many of the little creatures as
are to be seen at present. There are
millions of them.
The Sedgwick Paragraph says thai
thousands of bushels of grapes will &C
to waste in that section of country thi:
fall unless some new market is obtain
ed. Hoisington could make use of {
few bushels.
Charley Cothran, late of this city, i.
again in trouble. On Friday night las
he stole good saddle and bride from
a man named Goodhart, living eighteer
miles northeast of town. Deputy
Sheriff Tom Mallory started after tn,
thief Monday morning, went to Gen
eseo, drove across to Kanapolis ant
got track of his man; then went t.
Salina put the sheriff on the track ant
returned home Monday night. Charlie,
was captured Tuesday morning an,
may have to go to the pen as tn
stolen property is valued at $50. Ton
: went up and brought his prisoner dow
} Wednesday evening.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

sas to be thankful for the overthrow of
the &. o. p, last fall, by the alliance?
Cause why: Since last falls little un.
pleasantness (?) there have been about
three times as many pensions granted
to old soldiers in Kansas than for the
same length of time in any former
years. And why? Simply and only
because the managers of the g. o. p.
realize that Kansas has been. by the
just uprising of her people, placed in
the column of doubtful states, and it is
hoped that by the scattering of pension
money freely throughout the state the
old settlers who last fall flew the track
will be brought back to trot in the same
old harness. And some of them will,
no doubt The old soldiers who think
only of their own present needs, who
believe that politics is but a system of
spoils gathering and its publication
but an Ingalls, kind of dream. will prob
ably be induced to stand by the delap-
idated hulk of the <. o. p. and be fooled
once more with false promises aud a
little tariff wrung gold. But the men
who love their country for their
country's good, who hope to see their
children given better showing to
battle with poverty, through more
equitable laws and greater equality
of classes, will be slow to sell them
selves back to the party of fat fryers
and Reed bulldOzers. Kansas soldiers
are entitled to every dollar of pension
they are receiving, and should have
received the same long ago, without
having had to wait until the party in
power was scared out Of its boots and
forced to do something to make show
ing Of complying with its many prom
ises.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

WILL THE republican party of Bar
ton county this year endorse the prohib-
itory law and its workings in Kansas in
their platform? We know the people s
party will not. and it is quite probable
the democratic party will not.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

We suggest that the prohibitionists
had better nominate Bro. Stoke for
county treasurer and the glory of the
canvass will cancel the bill and leave
the editor largely in debt to the CEN
trail Associate Editor, !"
in the Beacon.
BEG PARDON, Fan. but we can not
permit you to boom us for Office in that
style. If we see any more of that sort
Of thing we shall be tempted to sue you
for defamation of character. Your
plans of running campaign at some
one elses expense may be perfectly sat-
isfactory to you; but no honorable man,
or woman either, for that matter. can
afford to be connected with such a
scheme. We feel it our duty to warn
you that "the glory of the canvass you
made last fall and two years before did
not 'cancel your bills'' nor pay your
taxes, nor the interest on money bor-
rowed. You may not see it that way,
but other people do.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30
NEIGHBORHOOD HAPPENINGS.
MLINWOOD.


From the Advocate.
L. w. Bay and wife, of Vegas. New
Mexico, are in this city visiting friends
and relatives.
Messrs. George and Henry Klein and
Sam Hartman left Monday morning fol
a trip to Oklahoma.
"Farmer" GLENN threshed his rye
crop yesterday. 1t yielded him forty.
five bushels from an acre and a half Of
ground.
Peaches are getting plentiful. A
number of parties across the river are
selling them for twenty-five cents e
bushel.
w. D. Wilkinson has severed hi:
connection with DR.. Dunn's drug store
and is now running an engine for Gu:
Schrepel.
Ex-Com. No. SO order 1901, for the
prevention and punishment of cattle
stealing and house burning will meet Al
X, July zo at g p. m. E. M. secretary
VIM. Marquardt, an old gentleman
who has for a number of years resided
with his wife in the south part of town
died last Saturday and was buried OF
Monday.
Carl Hallman, father of VIM. Hall
man, well known to our readers, die(
at the latter's residence yesterday, a
the age of 81 years. The deceased ha!
resided in this county for number O
years, and was respected by all wht
knew him.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30
Its ALI In the Location.

When, in the Iowa State conventio9s
Senator Lawson of Sioux City advocat-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

CITIZENS of Great Bend will notice,
elsewhere in these columns, the
announcement of the Great Bend
Water Supply Co. The company will
Immediately put down six deep wells,
four inches in diameter, and supply as
good water as can be had in any deep
well in the city. No surface water
will be furnished for domestic use.
improvements are being also made in
the pumping facilities, and by read
justment of their rates for water SER
vice, and the small cost attached to
putting it in, the company hopes to
THE following method ofiresuscitat-
ing any person who may be struck by
lightning may be the means of saving
some lives. 1t was given us by Rev. j
r. Burchfiel, who has known of its
being tried effectively. The remedy is
simple and can always be used. 1t is te
bury the person struck by lightning, in
wet earth or if more convenient, in
water, covering him entirely except his
face. After remaining in the we
earth or water several hours. the effects
of the stroke is generally counteracted
This plan has been used by the cowboy.
and Indians for years, and in case Ol
such accident should be at once tried
Anthony Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

In AN old copy of the Kansas Maya
zine, published in 1872, will be found
the following: ''There are now
8,432,6 ,671 Americans who wear at least
one diamond. We get the figures from
the jewelry bureau, Washington. Be-
fore the war, the number was less than
half million. These persons wear
diamonds because they are ''obleeged''
to do it. Just as harlots paint their
faces. 1t is not matter of taste or
caprice. Get rich on shoddy contracts,
by selling your vote in the legislature,
or in the United States senate, or by
swindling and cheating in any way,
and you will have diamonds-on your
sleeves, fingers, bosoms. You may
think that you wouldn't but you would
God finds this the easiest way to spot
rascals."
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-30

IT is QUIETLY whispered in certain
localities in this city that the selfstyled
epublicans-who, by the way, have
been ranning Edwards county politics
for the past ten or twelve years, until
last fall-think seriously of inaugural
ing move whereby they may be able
to fuse with the peoples party. The
authenticity of this report might be
questioned, but, should it prove true,
The Graphic predicts that were such
ideas carried into execution, these self
styled republicans, born leaders, anti
democrats, O-God- anything -to-stand-in-
with-the-"ring." will be the sickest lot
of mortals the Creator ever let inhale
the pure, bracing air of the Sunflower
state.-Kinsley Graphic.
Evening journal., 1891-02-06
INSANE HospI1AL CONTACTS.


The Trustees Of the state Institution De-
eide 10 Petition the Eegislature For An
Appropriation.
At the quarterly meeting Of the trus-
tees OF the Delaware State Insane Haspi-
tal yesterday afternoon, Dr. Richardson y
report as superintendent % the institn-
tion. was read, It was as follows
Number Of inmates. 1859; white males.
75 white females. 57 colored males, 2a
c0lored females. ~ Five males and two
females we're admitted during the month
For board and treatment during the past
month tlS7 dG was received Tor the sale
oS material 81 % was realized, making
the total receipts S192 IS.
Alfred p Robinson. Esq presented
resolution 70 ask the Legislature for gn
appropriation TO provide for the paw
ment % the sum Of S., 600 for the bald
ings and sppurtenance conveyed to the
trustees by the SUSSEX county Trustees of
the Poor The resolution was adopted
and on motion, A r. Robinson. Ese
Nathaniel Williams. Lewis THOMPSON
pr J + Wilson, Dr. Hiram Burton and
ZsbuloD Hopkins were appointed q com
mittee 10 represent the trustees before
the General Assembly, and secure, If
possible, the desired appropriation
A resolution, presented by DR. J r
Wilson. inviting the governor, secretary
OF state and the members of tine Veneral
Assembly 70 visit and inspect the hos
pital on Friday, March G, was adopted
A number OF bills FOR supplies 20 the
hospital were read and allowed The
following contracts were awarded Bread
J. q Kuause, New Castle; shoes, s NJ
Reynolds 4 Co, Middletown. NUT
ton John A. Hopkins, Wilmington
beef Wells Brothers, Wilmington; dry
goods, s. NJ Reynolds & Co, Middle
town; crockerY Lewis Row, Whining
ton groceries, w e Frank, Whining
ton; drugs. N. B Danforth. Wilmington
The contract prices do net vary mater
tally with those Of the last quarter After
some routine business Of minor nature
had been transacted the trustees ad-
iOurned.
Evening journal., 1891-02-06
The COTTON CASE.

Tbs case sgainst Franklin BENJAMIN
Cotton Is almost perfect There IS
scarcely shadow Of sus ,,icion that be
viii not 90 to jail, II the case is pressed
Cotton himself. appears clipper and
careless but his attorney knows only too
well that the hope Of securing his acquit
tai lies in working the same scheme that
was worked IN the United States Court
BY partisan jury Of Republicans.
II the trial can be put of tin May
there viii be chance to summon q Re-
publican jury There is no more need
for the witness. Mclaughlin, than there
was for the Guardian Angel Pierce 1t
viii be impossible to prove that Cotton
did not turn away voters from the polls
because they did not intend to vote TO
suit his ideas Of justice and patriotism.
he has acknowledged that much him
self and pleads that it was "a
mistake Of Judgment merely. He can
not do otherwise than admit thst it was
"a mistake Of judgment concocted and
sg7eed upon beforehand, because lie bad
Evening journal., 1891-02-06

As one Of the results OF the crusade
the New YOrk Herald has made in the
interest Of the people against the Mutual
Savings and Distribution Fund Associa-
tion. Deputy Superintendent shannon
and Examiner Koran say Of it,
Il 10 business cond acted by plausible
and not over scrupulous men for the pur
pose Of plucking q large class of persons
that always abound and who are al ways
looking TO get something for nothing
business 10 which neither the banking
department nor the state should give
1-edit. and which ought TO be discontinue
and the association dissolved
The principle on which this and SINH
lar societies. are formed Is that the large
proportion Of lapses will pay enormous
profit 10 those who remain as members
y is thus that they make something for
Nothing or conrse the many lose that
the few may gain. II that were not
true then tho society conld not promise
anything whatever. not even legal inter
ssl. because Il does not earn anything
Hence IL Is a fraud on the public, by
watch tho only sure gamers are the pro-
mc.6rs
Evening journal., 1891-02-06

the plan arranged and the false duplI.
Gates at hard ready to shoE that the
papers Of naturalized citizens were not
regular He was prepared not to e con
viuced that those papers we're regular
and to maintain that the holders were
not entitled to votes tin after the cleo
tion.
After the election, however. Cotton
admitted that he was In error.
Cotton holds seat In the City Council
on be slender tenure OF a suspicious
freehold conveyed TO him, after bis elee-
tion, by Guardian Angel Pierce. That
fact alone, shows that he is not scrupu.
,ous.
IL Is in harmony with his conduct at
the polls in November with his escape
from Indictment by the Republican
grand jury in the United States Court,
with his efforts to delay trial in Il e
superior Court, by the absence Of
material witnesses" Pierce and Nc
Lsughlin, and with the curious swearing
that DR.. Shortlidge has done to assist In
saving him
Evening journal., 1891-02-06
NEWSPAPER OPINION.
The New ImmIgrntIon.

Plt.sburs Disp atch.
Immigration statistics exhibit marked
charge. IL is significant that the total
immi grafton last year was 49l eco, against
426 7l2 in 1889, but the imm grants fIom
hose countries from which, Ia former
times, we drew most largely, now show
marked falling ofe Tho immigration
from Ireland Is reduced $500
from Scotland, 1000. from England
and Wales, 40 000 Germany. Denmark
and France each show slight increase
sut tue greatest increase Is from Italy,
from which countr, the immigration has
grown from 90 GOO ia 1899 TO 90 492 in
1890; aud from Bohemia, Hungary,
Austria, Poland and Russia with an in
crease of 5 900 to 10000 IN
each nationality. Thus there
has appeared large addition to
our population Of races. utterly foreign
20 our institutions. ignorant of our
language and much more so of our laws .
peculiarly liable TO the depredations OF
the INSCRIPTIONS, and consequently pro
duciive OF q greater proportion Of pauper-
ism The race question is considered 10
the South a grave one because OF the
colored people there; but TO an impartial
mind, the ability OF the colored people TO
gain comprehension Of the duties Of
citizenship will compare favorably with
the same ability among the Poles, Itsl-
ians and Stays. whom We are now re
ceiving by the tens Of thousands
The Organs Protested. Court Decided
NewHork Timts
There Is something rather diyertiug ID
the calm and matter Of fact way III
which the Supreme Court has assumed
jurisdiction In the Sayward case 80 far as
70 grant leave to file a petition for
writ of prohibition to prevent the Alaska
Court from executing It's decree. after
the organs OF the administration had
been protesting that it could not with
propriety do anything Of the sort.
Evening journal., 1891-02-06
POLICE .NEws.

Officer Updyke arrested n man who
was acting suspiciously in the Salvation
Army beadqusrter last evening. He was
taken to the City Hall where il was
found be was respectable young man
and he was discharged.
Chief Of Police Swigeett returned
from Norfolk, Va, at 8 o'clock last even
ing, where he had gone to arrest the sus
pected murderers Of Officer Shultz
telegram came TO this city de
scFibipg the men very minutely.
The description answered that Of
the men who murdered the officer. but
when the chief arrived there the men
were able to prove an alibi and thus
another promising clue was shattered
The general impression is that the men
are those who were seen at Landenburg
the morning after the murder.