Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-23
NUMBER 4.
WASHINGTON LETTER.


stated that the postmaster of New York
had refused to permit number of
Italian newspapers to be circulated and
had returned them to the italian pub
fishers, with statement that entry into
the United States was forbidden, Post
master Van Cott said yesterday that the
statement was true, but did not apply
to Italian newspapers alone, but also to
newspapers published in other foreign
countries. The reason that the papers
We're returned, said the postmaster,
was because they contained lottery
advertisements.
In view of anticipated trouble among
the boomers, many of whom are armed,
now surrounding the tract of land in
the Ashland district in northern Wis
consin, Secretary Noble yesterday sus-
pended the order opening the lands to
homestead settlement. This action
was taken by the secretary after con-
ference with Commissioner Carter, who
represented that bloodshed was immi-
hChS IL bnO o1QCk Was dllONSu W LAKE
effect today. Commissioner Carter said
yesterday that no date for the opening
of the tract had been determined upon,
and that it was not probable that the
order would be reissued for weeks.
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Advices from Rome are to the effect
that Mr.. Blalne's letter has caused
some disappointment ia political circles
at the Italian capital, it being char
acterized as vague and inconclusive,
insisting merely on the status quo.n
The question naturally arises: How
would the letter have been regarded if
he had insisted upon nothing? The
very fact that it consistently maintains
the position originally taken by the
secretary makes its alleged vagueness
and inconclusiveness impossible.
What the dispatch probably means is
that the communication of Mr.. Blaine
is disappointing in that he does not re-
cede from what he had said before, or
rather does not accede to the Italian
demands.
Eight columns of the Baltimore
Manufacturers Record for the current
week. (April 1Sth) are occupied by Sup
erintendent Porter, of the United
States Census, on the wonderful pro-
gress of the south and the intrinsic
merits of southern investments. He
shows by comparative statistics that
the mineral developement of that Sec
ton and its increase of manufactures
during the last decade have been of
such magnitude and Importance as to
| seriously attract the attention of the
world" In no part of the country is
there a more satisfactory showing of in
dustrial advancement. Compared with
the situation even in 1885, this advance
ment is wonderful, with that of 1870 it
is amasing, with the condition of things
at the close of devastating war it
reads like tale of magic and suggests
| a miracle
The example of Ex-senator Ingalls, is
commended to the professional politi-
clans of this country. His wings have
grown weary in their flight. his soul is
wrenched by the base ingratitude of his
kind; his heart-beats are like the tolling
given up public life and taken to farm
ing. Assisted by two able bodied
Africans, he is cultivating thirty-acre
patch of potatoes near his Atchison
| home. All that he wants now is a
mortgage. Can it be that Mr.. ingalls,
cherishes the hope of winning back the
affections of the embattled farmers
who so recently overthrew him? By
this assumption for bucolic simplicity
of life is he endeavoring simultaneously
to recruit his energies and his political
boom? These are interesting queries,
but the eminent potato planter declines
to answer them.
1t is not known for certain whether
Secretary Blaine has any sinister de-
signs against the Italian government or
not. but the reckless way in which he
runs UP telegraph tolls would suggest a
scheme to bankrupt King Humbert's
treasury. Wednesday, with the sang
froid of a space writer, the secretary
piled in on Marquis Imperiali a
special of about 2! 800 words, which
the Marquis, of course, had to cable to
Rudini. AT the regular rates of the
cable company the treasurer of the
Italian government would have TO go
4 down in his yault for the sum of
s937.5 This is pretty stiff price 70
pay for a message telling Minister
Rudini that there is no green in the
governmental eye Of the United States
If Rudini continues his controversy
with the United States, running up
big bill of expenses with the telegraph
company, he may find himself in an
embarrassing position He is not reap
ing any TOP much honor from his tilt