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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08
CALL FOR DISTRICT CONVEN
TION

WELLINGTON, KAs., March 81, 81,
To the presidents of the Farmers AL
lance and Industrial Union of the It'll
congressional district:
In accordance with request of our
State President, Frank McGrath, claim
ing his request is in accord with a cali
made by President Polk on February
10th, 1891, to take the preliminary steps
to bring about delegate convention as
soon as practical of all the district ALI
ances, hereby announce Wednesday
at a. M, the 9Th of May, 1891, the day
and hour for the meeting of said con-
yention for this the 7th district, and in
the city of Great Bend. County presi-
dents will see that meetings are prompt
" called, if they have not been, and
delegates duly elected. The interest al
stake and objects of the call urgently
demand consideration, and are consid-
cred of great interest to the alliance at
large and the welfare of the country
The call Is made as per the old district
ing.
Delegates should come prepared for a
two days session. G. II. FISH,
President 7th congressional district.
a. \ MCCORMICK, Secretary.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

We are still of the opinion that sugar
will cost almost of much this summer
as it did last summer. The comblna-
tion between Spreckels and the Have
meyers is completed. The new organi-
cation is known as the West Coast
Sugar Refining company, and the ar
rangement is that the two local REIN
cries shall work alternately. When the
American refinery is shut down
Spreckels' establishment will be work
ing, and vice versa. The removal of the
duty on sugar the LIST had but little eff
feet on the prices listed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08
Organizing Their Employees.

The railroad companies are using
their money, right now, in organizing
their workmen into an order known, we
believe, as THE Railroad Employees Al
lance" It is based, we understand, on
platform opposing nearly everything
which the Farmers and Citizens Alli-
ances favor. The scarecrow is held up
that the legislation prop sed by the
Farmers Alliance will wreck the rail-
roads, turn many railroad men ont of
employment, and reduce the wages of
the remainder. The basis of the order
is purely a selfish one. and does not
contemplate at all the rights of a great
class who are being bled by railroad
corporations It is deplorable that any
large body of men, depending for days.
wages for living, should take a stand
against their fellow-laborers, and In the
interest of big corporations. What a
field for oducationl We shah deal fur
ther with this subject when we know
more about IT. Nonconformist
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

General Albert Pike died at Wash.
ingtOn April Bird, aged 81 years. He
was Sovereign Grand Commander Scot
fish rite A. +. 81 A. NJ. He was foI
many years the highest Masonic au-
thority in the world.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

Clark County Clipper: Now the re-
publican organs are talking about the
mistakes of Mr.. ingalls,, Before the
farmers took him by the nape of the
neck and dropped him outside the sen
ate walls, the same republican organs
never admitted the possibility of his
making a mistake. The republican
brethren are like Russian wolves; when
one of the pack comes to grief, the 9th
ers fall upon and tear him to pieces"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

1t is said that the Italians in the
vicinity of Pittsburg contemplated
capturing and sacking that city, in re-
venge for the New Orleans affair.
They had better go and drown them
selves. There would not be a macca-
roni eater left in this country in a
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

Thomas Garfield, of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, the only brother of the late
president, is slowly dying. He has an
attack of acute rheumatism, from which
his physicians say he cannot recover.
lie is 6S years of age and has lived the
life OF hard working farmer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

The sugar trust, In order to quiet the
people, promise them One-half of the
reduction which the removal of the
tariff ought to create. Its marbles to
chalk the people will not get more than
oua-fOurth
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

In settling with Italy for her four
citizens who we're killed at New Or
leans, the question arises, how much
are they WORTH Four thieves and
bandits who were forced to leave heme
TO escape the law, can't cost us very
FOuoh
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

Mt. Pleasant, Pa, had a little dis
turbance last week, and ten Poles and
Hungarians were killed and thirty five
wounded while they were marching to
destroy property. This IS bad coun-
try for foreign anarchists.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

y pretty good joke was unintentlon-
ally perpetrated by an artist at Wash
ington. A friend asked him what he
was doing, and he replied: lam max
ing life-siZe statuette of President
Harrison y
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

That two cents pound reduction in
the price of sugar has not materialized
in this section of the country. Take
the tariff off of refined sugar, and we
consumers will get the benefit, instead
of the reGners,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

The 50 silver certificate has been
eounterfeited, and only an expert, with
magnifying glass, can tell the good
from the bad bills. We will take them
on subscription to the INDEX, and take
our chances. Now is the time to SUBJ
scribe
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

ingalls, is determined to get into the
alliance. He has gone to farming, and
has written to Secretary Rusk to send
him a lot of potato seed and some choice
nnmnkin VINES
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08
$4,000 REWARD,

will pay the above reward for the arrest
and conviction of any person killing or unlaw-
fully handling any stock branded triangle II
~ belonging TO r. q. Hubbeli j. Co.. or for
Ezany information leading TO said arrest nd
conviction. JAS. A. LoCKARD, Manager
Lodi Barber county, snsas II
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

The Ohio State Alliance will be or.
Eanized April 16, and the New York
state Alliance April %. Both start of
with unusually large membership.
The fight against the alliance is
gradually but surely drifting 20 Wall
street and tbs east. The wires he7e
been pulled from that LEGALITY all the
time, but the contest is getting so earn
est that the sources of the opposition
are being uncovered. National Econo-
mist,
--fhe report of Secretary Stromberg.
OF the Minnesota Farmers Alliance,
shows that the organization is making
the same phenomenal growth as last
year. More than 11,OO0 members have
been enrolled since the election in No
vember and six or seven sub-alliances
are being organized weekly. The pres
emit number of lodges is 1915, with a
total membership of 80, 600.
The INDEX is prepared to print horse
bills on the shortest notice. Al
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08
The usuRY QUESTION.
The way to step Uspry is to Treat usure

The Way to Step Usu.;y is TO Treat Usurers
as Convicted Fe;ons.
As one who has, TO the best of his
ability, always advocated the cause of
! the borrower, ! ask space in your paper
! to give what know to be the status of
this interest and usurg question in the
! western part of Minnesota. We have
Z tried the present law, that forfeits both
principal and interest, and the only eff
+ feet it has had on the money question
has been to make bankers and money!
( loaners law-brealzers. No borrower has
reaped any benefit from it. On the con-
| trary, it makes al army of innocent
| purchasers, that are growing rich out
of the poor debt and usury burdened
borrower. Irresponsible parties loan
| money, sell the notes and mortgages
and tell the man who has been swindled
to ''sue and be id" Under this law,
1 have known farmers to pay 100 per
cent for money. l stand ready to prove
this assertion.
You ask these men why they do no.
repudiate such detestable contracts and
they tell you: why, had to do that
or worse, and if don't pay as l agreed
to l can never borrow again" Every
| against this unholy state of things is
blacklisted. A money shark in a neigh
boring town did me the honor to saw
that they would drive me out of the
country" for writing and talking
against their schemes.
Now, if our Legislature would give us
law that would lock up these agents
l don't care if it is for e-somebody
will be found who has the sand" to
prosecute them. But the old usury law
is dead letter, and we might Just as
well have no penalty as to have it.
While we have a law that the maxi
mum rate of interest shall be 10 per
cent, and two banks in this town tell
us openly that their rates are from 10 to
Is up, what viii we gain by reducing
the legal rate to per cent. and having
the penalty just what it is now?
These men who loan money claim to
be respectable people, and move in,good
society. Pass a law that will clothe
| some of them in the garb of old Grimes,
except that the stripes will be horizon
tai instead of running up and down."
and think it may have some tendency
to do this business son the sly" at least,
If not, ION the square"
A man said to me once: ST sold B
wagon for SIS. He has paid me in
interest $3.50, and he still. owes me for
the wagon $75."
Put such men in the states prison,
and, although others may be found to
do the same work, none of them will be
| disposed to brag about it.-Joh Lath-
rop, in St Paul (AIinn.) State.
John Sherman and his crowd of
plutocratic sympathizers seem to base
their expectation of future success
| upon the hope that the Farmers ALI
=. HoF
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

Italy found that her bluff would
not do any good, and now says
it was not intended as bluff.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

A lot OF cattle have been sold for
June delivery at Kansas City, at 81
cents. That is pretty good.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

Four thousand persons in Pennsyl-
Sania joined the alliance in one day.
last week.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

Italy is So deeply in debt that she
would scarcely sell at public auction for
enough to pay the mortgage.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

out the Intervention OF any man that lie
does not wish to have in it. The great
est benefit is the rate of interest Under
this bill the farmer can borrow all the
money that he can put up collateral for
at about one per cent per annum This
is the pinch of the shoe. Tha men who
make money by usury (the use of money!
do not like this bill Farmers, study
this matter in the light of money at as
low rate of interest as the national
bankers are getting Ruralist.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08
STRAY CATTTE.

STRAYED, from my premises 49,
on Big Mule creek. three coming
two-year-oids. One Is a heifer,
red, with line hack; two steers. sasannkG-
red. partly line back; all branded Win nalf
circle triang g crop of left ear. VIII pay 81
per head for locating. J. W. DEtiEBR.
Aft Deerhead, Barber county, KaS-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08
READ THE FIGURES.
The Enormous sum invested in Agricult

The Enormous sum Invested in Agriculture
The Lesson it Teaches.
In the United States, Europe, Canada
and Australia we find 209, 900, 600 peo-
pie depending upon agriculture for sup
port. In this pursuit there is invested
the enormous sum of $40, coo, O0O, 900.
The table below will give some idea of
the magnitude of the farming interests
of our country:
Farm products of the United
states O. 256, 624, 14l
Value of farming land ......... $500. 900, ooO
Value of agricultural interests. IS .56,6!6,l4l
Total taxable wealth.. 49,. A. Az, 90, 600
Real estate of cities and towns. l4Ool, 900 600
Railroads of the Un ted States . 100000 OOC
manufactures ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000, zoe, 00O
The lesson taught by these figures
should be carefully studied by every
man who would gain true idea of the
gravity of the reform problems now up
for solution, especially that embraced
In the money question.
When we reflect that the true func-
ton of money is to represent the value
of property in exchange" we discover
the Importance of this question to the
American people, II is found that all
the precious metals, as they are called.
in the country do not amount to one
third of the annual value of the hay
crop alone 1t cannot be questioned
that with this immense value of prod
ucts to be exchanged, speedy and inn
mense increase of circulating medium
should at once be furnished the people.
Pacific Union.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08
STRAKED.

From the ranch of w. B. Tyler, 49,
during the month of November.
yeariing steers branded S on right 49, IL
hip; yearling heifer branded 81 xHue,s,,nV..
on either hip; twO-year-oid steer bt aiIutd z
on left hip-dehorned with swallow fork in
each ear. Will pay Il per head for locating.
35m3s W. b. TYLER Aetna, Has.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-04-08

John Sherman and his crowd of
plutocratic sympathizers seem to base
their expectation of future success
upon the hope that the Farmers ALI
ance will die before 1892. Great man,
that Sherman! If the alliance will be
as true to itself aud the country as he
is to Wall street, it certainly will come
very far from turning up its toes. We
think somebody will be greatly disap-
pointed, and we shouldn't be surprised
if it should be the same John Sherman
Pacific Union.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-01-16

might best 4. the expense 81 transporter.
tion Of inmates to penal or charitable
Institutions, or it might pay into thd
state treasury monthly . 6xed sum Ia
part for their maintenance. The lat,
ter plan is believed. to b more equitas
ble.. At the same time it is suggested
as temporary expediency that thu
number Of. students admitted free Ia
the educational d institutions b limited
to certain number from each co;tiinisy,
to be designated b, county authority,
aud that additional students therefroui
be required to pay a tuition fee or let IL
be pad by the county Of the stndent.
All foreign students should 30 charged
tuition sufficient. to cover all expenses:
At any rate and by soma means make
the receipts and disbursements for the
year balance. 1t is your province t.
determine the method.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-01-16
Governor AIelIette's inaugural.

Governor Mellette in his inaugural
treats at considerable length the fin
ancial condition Of the state. We
CLEAN from 1t the following extract:
"The first and most important sub.
iect for your consideration ii the
public finances. no greater service
could be rendered the state by this
body than the adoption of a systematic,
comprehensive and efficient code Of
revenue laws, and rigidly restricting
current expenditures by adequate
penalties TO the revenues thus pro.
duced. Without such legislation
financial disaster is sure to overtake
the state toTthe irreparable injury Of
her credit. her institutions, and her
business interests. There is only one
safe policy for the state or the in.
dividual, and thst'is to liye within her
lineoms..
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-01-16
In Nebraska.

The law makers Of Nebraska in lex.
lature assembled are having hot con.
Test between the alliance men and the.
opposition for the supremacy. The
House amended thc joint rates, which
provides that the president Of the SEN.
ate should preside in joint session, aud
the senate attempted TO do 80. but,
Lieut.. Governor Msiklejobn refused 70,
entertain the matter snd reftsed to
entertain an appeal from bis ruling
The senate then went over to The
house and both the lieutenant gov.
ernor and the speaker attempted to
preside over the body. MeiklejohN.
having a better voice and and being.
more skilful parliamentarian sue
ceeded in Downing speaker. Elder.
After reading from the constitution
the duties Of the speaker he ordered
Elder to open and canvass the returns.
This the speaker refused T.. do. saying,
that he had leen served with notice
Of contest and. would not open the re-,
turns until the contest matters were.
disposed If. The wrangling continued
until finally an adjournment was
taken.
The next morning at tive o'clock the
alliance members took possession of tho
house and placed the speaker in tho
chair with o Gordon of assistant ser.
geant-at-arms around him. When
Lieut.. Gov. Meiklejchn appeared be.
was not allowed to take his seat, but
stood in front Of tho speaker ready to.
call the joint session to, order Il q
o'clock. The speaker Of the house
issued a order for the arrest Of the.
lieutenant governor on the charge Of
misconduct in Office and breach Of the.
peace. The lieutenant governor defied
the officer and was not taken into Gus
tody. Both sides had force Of SER,
seant-a.-arns within easy call, and
any attempt on either side to proceed
with the canvass Of the vote would
have precipitated a row. To AVOID this
committee from each party was sent
with statement of the case to the SUI
preme court to ascertain which officer
had constitutional right to preside.
At noon the supreme court issued 1,
wit Of mandamus directing the speak.
er Of the house to canvass the returns
When the sheriff, with Deputies and
.bailiffs Of the court applied at the door,
Of the house for admission. they were
refused, but they did not stand long on
ceremony, and battered the door down
and walked IN. They were met by
dozen doorkeepers and a hend.to-hand'
ensued. but the sheriff rapidly iald out
the doorkcepcrs and marched to the
speakers desk and served the writ.
after which recess was taken until
8 o'clock. The alliance members ask.
ed the advice Of Attorney-Genera
Lcesc and he advised them to obey ths
orders Of the supreme court. and in
the afternoon the canvass was made
which counted Boyd in.
Governor Thaysr declares hs will not
give up Ills Office to Boyd, on tho
ground that Boyd is not a citi-
zen Of the United States, and be-
has barrlcaded himself in the executive
office with the polics and company
Of militia on guard.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-01-16
$4,000 REWARD.

We will pay $4,000 reward for the.
arrest and conviction Of any person or
persons found guilty Of altering or de.
facing brands, and for stealing or uh.s'
lawfully killing any cattle or horses
belonging to us, sufficient to constitute
grand larceny; and $500. 90 reward for
the arrest and conviction Of any person
or persons found guilty Of stealing or
unlawfully killing any Of out cattle
not sufficient to constitute grand lar.
ceny. Axolo-AnERlcAx CArT1x Co..
BY J. ]. Cairnes. Mgr
KErs1osE G1f7.z Co..;
by n. a.. GODDARD, Mar.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-01-16
SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE.
Tie Record for Last Week.
Governor Mellettes Inaugural.

At the second days session ofthe leg.
islature the House completed its list
OF clerks and assistants. Dell Coy, OF
Hughes, was elected assistant clerk
against j. G. Adams, republican, BY a
vote Of 66 to SO, two republicans vot-
ing for Coy. Coy was eulogized as the
man to whom the state was indebted
for the gift of the state house. The
remainder of the offices were filled by
by democrat-indepcndents, as follows:
Henry Sepatz, Of Yankton, bill clerk;
Hart Barton, Of Bon Homme, ser.
gsant-at-arms; H. T volkmar, Of
Grant, engrossing clerk; Mr.. Wh,tta.
ker, Of Brown, assistant sergeant-at.
arms; H. l.. Comstock, of Isrookings
postmaster; s. F. Dow, of King bury
messenger; Nv. J. Thornby, of Custer
was the republican no,ninee; the vote
stood 63 to 6l.) James Oleson, OF
Union, watchman and janitor; Brad.
ley Towne. Of Redfield, and Charlie
Arnold, of Hughes. pages.
Upon resolution, the speaker ap.
pointed a committee of three to receive
bids from the daily papers Of the city
for printing the journal. McKeel. oi
Sanborn, republican; Waldron, Of
Clark, independent; and Peacock, ol
Douglas, independent; were appointed
After considerable discussion as tc
the economy and necessity for chap.
lain, a committee Of three was ap.
pointed to see what arrangements
could be made with the ministers oi
the city.
The senate met at 2 o'clock. Rules
were presented by unanimous agree.
ment Of the committee and were
adopted with only u few mino,
changes from last year. The senate
named committee on joint rules as
follows: Senator Sheafe. Of Codding'
ton; Jolley, of Union, and French. oi
Yankton. The salaries of officers were
fixed: The secretary at$5 per day
the first assistant at IS. the second al
S., the engrossing clerk at 81, the
sergeant-at-arms 81, the< assistant at
81, the postmaster and messenger al
81, the watchman and jan,tor at $3.50
the chaplain at s., and the pages at 81
The discussion resulting from fixing
tho salaries showed that the members
talked economical. After ballotina
For seats the senate adjourned.
The senatorial situation remains
practically unchanged.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-01-16

At the third day session of the leg.
islature nothing Of Importance was
done in the house, except to elect a
journal clerk, in which proceeding an
important break was made in the in
dependent ranks. S. b. Griffith. Of
Faulk, was nominated by the demo-
Gratis, and w. w. Eastman, of Beadle,
the independent defeated at the open.
ing session for chief clerk, was NOM
mated by Mr.. Converse, the we'll
known independent, who was talked
Of for speaker. The nomination. was
eagerly caught up by the republicans,
who saw a chance of disrnpting the
combine. Many Independents first
voted for Eastman, but after vote
was taken and il was seen that East
man had majority. enough changed
votes to elect Griffith. Whereupon
Converse rose to q question Of privi-
lege, and stated that in order to make
the defeat of the republican organiza-
tion Of the honse possible, he had voted
as he Thought for the best interests
OF the state with the independents.
Now that they had deserted his candi
date, he considered it personal insult.
LApplause from the republican side.]
Buchanan, the republican candidate
Tor speaker, then went over and con.
graduated MIR. Converse.
In the senate a resolution was Offer
ed admitting J. j. Fletcher, elected
from Stanley county, not in any dis.
trict, to the floor. It was referred.
Senator Wickhem introduced reso-
luton to the effect that the interests of
the state would be better subserved by
the presence and attention Of our Unit.
ed States senators and representatives
at the national capital At this time. II
was referred to the committee ON state
officers. A resolution by Senator
Washabaugh fixing February IA as the
time when the legislature shall adjourn
to 90 into effect as soon as passed by
both houses was referred to the com.
mittee on state officers. A resolution
was introduced by Senator Potter ask,
ingt senator's and representatives il
congress to use their influence for til.
enlargement and extension Of Fort
Meade. 1t was referred to the: commit
tec on military affairs. Senator Nc
Farlane introduced a resolution cailini
upon Congressman Pickler to exert hi
influence to have the Indian ofic
changed to the war department.. Sen
ator Preston introduceda bill provid
ing for the Australian ballot system
Senator ShAafs introduced q simila