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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

As HAS been predicted, the conveDs
ton of republican clubs which met in
Topeka last week followed out the
plans laid down by Bill Higgins when
be said that Kansas prohibition would
have to go it alone hereafter They
endorsed Harrison and Humphrey and
all their doings, and Reed and recipro-
city with all their vagaries; but they
forgot the prohibition question entirely.
Kansas republicans = and by that we
mean the party bosses and strikers. not
the hard working voters are perched
promiscuously on the fence on the pro-
hibition question, and are preparing to
jump into cold water if the Iowa cleo
ton goes dry" this fall, or into liquor
If she goes wet" In other words, il
Iowa republicans win this fall Kansas
republicans will take up the cudgeI
again in defense of Kansas prohibition;
if Iowa republicans lose = which they
viii, beyond doubt = Kansas repub-
licans will never again pretend to
champion the cause. Paste this in
your scrap book. and see. in after years,
if we are not eminently correct
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

THE Kansas City Star, ind ependent,
says there were ''20O'' delegates at the
republican league meeting in Topeka
last week. The Hutchinson News
says ''abOut 4O0," and Caraway says
''about 1OOO.' Our corpulent p. M.
must have taken on a terrible amount
of joint juice to cause him to see more
than double what Ralph Easley saw,
and Ralph saw just double the number
reporter saw. Boys ,''yOu hadn't ought
ter dew SO''.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03
from several months visit to friends
and relatives in Iowa.

from several months visit to friends
and relatives in Iowa.
Miss Louisa Reincake is visiting
friends in Great Bend this week.
Miss Mary Langford is reported
dangerous i'll from typhoid fever.
Mr.. John Long is in from Iowa on
business. He owns a farm in Clarence
township.
Several of the young folks of this
vicinity attended an ice cream supper at
]. F. Smiths last Tuesday.
Mrs Anna Parker, of Great Bend. is
visiting her parents Mr.. and Mrs. w.
B. Mitchell near this place.
Quite a number of our alliance
brethren attended the convention held
a Hoisington last Saturday.
Jonce Byers has rented the farm
where Carter Littleton lives, belonging
to Moses Bro, and will move there
after wheat sowing.
Charles Coss has returned home from
Coffeeville Kans., where he has been
for the last year. Charles teeth chat
tiers every other day regular.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

WHILE everyone knows that the en-
tire west is for free silver, the republi-
can league, in convention at Topeka
last week, did not dare pronounce in
favor of free silver. In fact, they did
not dare to do anything that they could
not crawfsh on if it becomes necessary.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

THE democrats of the 9th judicial
district, composed of Harvey and Reno
counties, met at Hutchinson on last
Saturday and placed in the field as
tEeir candidate for judge that simon
pure, unterrified, uncompromising dem
Ocrat, Hon. Chas. Bucher, of Newton.
May he 60 in and win.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

THE Ladies Magazine, published by
Reynolds Bros. of Newton, reaches our
table this week. 1t is a very neat
monthly, published exclusively in the
interests of Kansas ladies, and should
meet with merited success in that field.
Send 10 cents for a five months trial
subscription
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

Did the alliance or the people of
Great Bend put their money in the
college to the tune of about $40, ,OOOf
Do the people want an alliance pOliti-
cal institution? Is it just to impose it
upon them? Register.
How MUCH money did the great po-
litical mentor, his high muck-a-muck-
ship whose gangreenal apology for a
brain evolved the above paragraph put
into the college? Will he name the
sum? And did he get the money
handling real estate for some widow
woman? "Give facts" Caraway.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

A PROMINENT st. Louis merchant
was asked to name the author of the
following quotation, (from Shakes
peare): ''Be just and fear not; Let all
the ends thou aimest at be thy coun-
try's, thy Gods, and Truths" After
studying it carefully he said: ''It is
from the democratic PLATFORM
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

paper you will find that in the past We
have pretty accurately diagnosed polit-
ical situations, and when we now say
that the third party movement, as at
present founded and fathered will
never achieve national success we are
not afraid but that future results will
prove our prediction true.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

CONSISTENCY is a jewel" But it
is not popular for Kansas republican
editors to wear that kind of jewel"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03
HEIZER,

From "RemingtoD."
John w. Pasco is reported on the
sick list.
Geo. Woodburn is shipping his wheat
to the alliance exchange.
Miss Rata Bowerr has returned home
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

THE fire was kindled under the Bar
ton county political pot, at Hoisington.
last Saturday, and already the contents
begin to siZzle and simmer. Look out
for very bad-smelling steam that
will come out of the Register Office this
week, for Carraway will be quick tc
jump'in and stir up his favOrite dish.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

JUST imagine, democrats, what time
Gar Reed will have next winter trying
to catch the democratic speakers eye!
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

IT HAS leaked out that the Kansas
republicans are engineering scheme
to secure the services of Prof. Dryen-
to have the professor bring his ma
chimes to bear upon any alliance pic
mics that may be held, and by deluging
the crowd with rain break up the meet
in0S
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

Limit the number of your secrets
and you are pretty sure TO limit the
number of your troubles.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

Some of the people from the country
come TO town and tell that if certain
persons in their townships fail to get
the nomination for certain Office the
whole precinct will return to the old
party and fight the new organization.
If desire for office is the only motive
they have for working in the new party
their ideas of reform are very poor
Beacon.
UNFoRTUNATELY for the new party,
there are a few more men in it just like
the Beacon editor, who unwittingly
describes himself when he says: 'If a
desire for office is the only motive their
ideas of reform are very poor"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

Will the Beacon tell its readers why
the Maryland alliance men refused to
be involved in the third party move
ment? We don't think it will.-DEM-
OCRAT.
We don't know anything about it.
Beacon.
WONDERFUL ignorance! If you
''don't know anything about it'' We will
tell you: The Maryland alliance men
refused to be involved in the third party
movement because it has, in the Gin
cinnati platform, made as its prime
planks the sub-treasury and govern
ment ownership of railroads, and Mary
land alliance men are sufficiently en-
lightened to know that those planks will
never meet with the approval of the
general masses of people, and that
therefore the formation of third party
on those grounds cannot result success.
fully as national issue. Should you
wish to know more about it, consult
the telegraph news of any paper = ex-
cept the Beacon.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

The alliance movement will have
this to its credit: 1t has done much to
destroy the power which has kept the
republican party in power for twenty
five years through sentimentality and
a false claim to patriotism. For this
good we are thankful; but we regret
much that the continued good that or
ganization might be doing has been
cOunteracted by the members thereof
taking up government paternalism in
the suD-treasury scheme. and advocat-
ing centralization of power in the gov
ernment ownership of railroads plan
The DEMOCRAT editor is not prophe,
nor the son of prophet, but we believe
that if you will look up the files of this
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-03

If LEGISLATION is to be enacted af-
fecting the debtor class it strikes us
that it would be better to curtail the
number If such thing is possible, than
to offer special inducements for every.
body to join that class. We have never
regarded debts as blessings, and it is
hard for us to do so now. If it be pos
slble for every holder of real estate tC
borrow money at nominal rate Of in.
terest, all the old-time ideas of thrift
and economy will rapidly disappear
and we shall become nation of extrav'
agant and thriftless spectators, and
our end would be the inevitable bank
ruptcy which has followed similar cir
cumstances in other countries.-HOltOI
Signal.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31
A GLOOMY OUTLOOK.

HARD Times In the Soldier State-western
Kansas In Danger of Being Deserted by
It's HunSer-Stricken People-Mortgaged
Farms by Whole Townships Falling Into
the Hands Of Eastern Capitalists.
BELoIT, Kas., Jan. 27.-The people of
Western Kansas have never before in
the history of the State known such
fearful financial difficulties as at pres
ent. The scarcity of money or any thing
convertible into it is almost pitiful and
the business houses have all they can
do to keep alive. Following the
failure of the American National
Bank of Kansas City, four
banks of this county alone sus-
pended, one each at Cawker City,
Dows, Glen Elder and here. There
was no run made on any of them, but
the little deposit they carried with
their correspondent was their ruina-
ton.
All over the western third of the
State the cry of destitution grows loud
er and the Legislature has been made
suffering can be had when it is known
that twenty counties have already ap-
piled to the Railroad Commission ers
for assistance. In fact all the State
west of the Tooth meridian, excepting a
small district in the Arkansas Valley
where irrigation prevails, needs it.
The first appeal came from Rawlins
County, where, following the abundant
crops of 1889, came total failure last
year. Next came Thomas County and
then others, until the line of destitution
reached over all the land west of the
one hundredth meridian, and extended
from north to south. Every Grand Army
post over the State is being called ON,
the Farmers Alliances are taking in
supplies, the Legislature is appropriate
ing money, and yet but a small portion
of the suffering can be relieved. The sod
houses are almost all barren, and those
families where the father is not well,
or where there is no father to care for
the children, there is little hope for more
than bare subsistence.
Many hundred families are now living
on corn meal and warming themselves
by means of buffalo chips, or dried ma
nure, picked up on the plains They
have no money and their mortgages
are long past due. The mortgage com
panies are foreclosing scores of farms
daily, but to no good. They only re.
ceive pitiful bid and are forced to take
in the property. Hence in some coun-
ties there are whole townships owned
by Eastern parties who will never get
their cash out of their investment.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31
THE WORLDS FAIR.
The ENHANCEMENT of the worlds Fair
with the Fate of the Federal Elections
Bill-Southern Congressman Say it Arises
Solely from Business Considerations.

The ENHANCEMENT of the Worlds Fair
with the Fate of the Federal Elections
Bill-Southern Congressman Say it Arises
Solely from Business Considerations.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-The unex-
pected ENHANCEMENT of the fate of the
Chicago Worlds Fair with the fate of
the Elections bill has made a good deal
of impression on some of those who are
most Jealous in trying to pass the bill.
Southern members say that so far the
feeling in the South which has led to
the refusal of State Legislatures to
make appropriations for exhibits at
Chicago is due entirely to business con-
siderations.
'In my State" said Representative
McMillin, (Tenn.) 1--WE have just got
our finances into such shape that we
can meet the interest on our bonds and
pay current expenses as they fall due.
Now if the Legislature should make an
appropriation of $780, or 5000, 900 for
an exhibit at Chicago it would be con-
siderable strain on the State treas
ury and naturally the people would
only consent to it on condition
that the State would derive benefit from
the expenditure. Our people feel that
if the Force bill passes, state of af-
fairs must result that would render
vain any attempt they might make to
attract capital or immigration from the
North or from Europe. So instead of
throwing their money away in an ex-
hibit at Chicago they will keep it in the
treasury"
Representative Bynum, of Indiana,
referring to the action of the Southern
people, said that he was heartily in
sympathy with the Southern matter
and would, if member of Southern
delegation, vote against an appropria-
ton for the fair.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

WILSON HOWARD, member of the noto-
riohs Howard family of Harlan County,
KY, was lodged in Jail at San Francisco
on the Goth. He has killed eight men
and has just served term for robbing
stage in Calaveras County, Cal.
THE saloons in Owensboro, KY, were
closed last Sunday for the first time in
twenty years.
THE books of ex-Treasurer Woodruff,
of Arkansas, have been examined, and
they show shortage of $63,oOo.
SUPERINTENDENT WILSON, of the
American Oak Extract Company of De-
catur, Ala, was killed on the 26th. He
was standing near some machinery,
when his clothes were caught and he
was dragged in the machinery and torn
to pieces.
THE output of ore, lead and zinc, in
the Webb City, Carterville, Carthage,
Galena, Zincite and Oronogo districts OF
Missouri for the past week is valued at
sos, 9o7.7s.
SUEY YOUNG, the eighth wife of Brig
ham Young, is dead. There are seven
left, including Amelia Folsom, the
favorite.
SIXTY cases of smallpox are in the
pest-house at Houston, Texas, and while
trade has been paralyzed the fear is
groundless. To prove the efficiency OF
vaccination, not case has developed
where the patient was vaccinated within
ten to fifteen years, and these only had
varioloid form.
A JOINT resolution has been adopted
by the Indiana Legislature asking Con-
gress to suppress the dressed beef trust
and repeal the Mckinley bill.
Bob FORD, jesse James slayer, had
another shooting scrape in Walsenberg,
CAL, on the 23d, in which he was slightly
injured.
TIE miners of the United States have
just completed their plans for the great
est industrial battle ever inaugurated
in America. The conflict between the
miners and the mine owners for eight
hours will take place on the 1st of May,
and will involve $50, 900 men.
Mrs. MARY RUNANE, 100 years old,
died at Scranton, Penn, on the 23d.
She retained all her senses up to the
century mark, and then became blind.
She was born in Ireland. She leaves
five children, twenty-one grandchildren
and thirty great grandchildren.
THE village of Seaville, KY, was
almost totally destroyed by fire on the
esd.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31
RAlDING INDIANS.
A South Dakota Ranch Raided by a
Struggling Band of Indians, who were
Driven OF Leaving Bloody Trail.


Struggling Band of Indians, who were
Driven or Leaving Bloody Trail.
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 27.-A special
from Rapid City, Is. d. says: An ar
rival from Lower Spring Creek yester-
day brings the news of an attack made
by party of Indians upon the ranch
of Noah Newbanls, shortly after sun
down Saturday night. Newbanks, his
family and three men who are in his
employ had just finished their suppers
and were seated about the room, dis
cussing the affairs of the day when
without moments warning a crashing
of glass was heard followed by the re-
port of rife.
Seizing their arms Newbanks and his
men rushed out of the doors, only to
meet another volley from a party OF In
dians who had taken position about
fifteen yards from the house Fortu-
nately none of the whites were injured
by the fire. They Immediately returned
the fire and the indians retreated
across the Cheyenne. A vigilant look
out was kept at the ranch all night, but
the Indians did not return to the at
tack. Next morning the ground was
closely examined and in several places
the grass was found to be stained with
blood and from this it is thought some
of the Indians were wounded.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31

IHE statute providing for the admis-
sion OF women to medical examinations
at Oxford England. was rejected by
only four votes. This practically in
Sures its success in the future, and
'ne opposition will not be long
maintained. The number of women
Students in the healing art increases
almost daily, and their achievements in
,ne profession are constantly gaining in
usnlty and Importance. A large hos
PVal for women in London, lately
opened which is ministered to by wom-
en- only, is crowded to its fullest ca
paclty all the time.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31

METHOD is now on trial at the Swe-
ulsn meteorological Office at Stockholm
which seems likely to throw some light
on subject which hitherto has been
a'tended with some uncertainty, name
y the determination of the path taken
" storms. From the telegraphic
neaIher reports tables of the density of
VIC atmosphere have been constructed.
~nu other data have been collected
Inich have been embodied in special
.ndrts' These charts are found to give
a n.uch more reliable clews to the move
rS, 'en,s and origin of cyclones than the
Sl Ssudl method of comparison of the iso-
;aiS and isothems alone. The latest
tL'esugatlons show that storms move in
ors Ie direction of the warmest and damp
~ ar parallel to the lines of equal
r;snslty' leaving the rarer air to the
AollO
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31
Indian Decoratire Art.

When the Sioux go on the warpath,
in any thing like reasonable weather,
they exercise great economy in dress.
They paint their ponies with red and
black paint in crosses. They also wear
their hair loose and flowing and put a
liberal allowance of red and black paint
on their faces. Decorative art prevails
largely in their makeup. Bugs, rep
tiles and animals, as nearly as the
rudely artistic mind Of the Sioux can
contrive, are painted on their foreheads
and chins, while cross Of red and
black paint ado-ns each cheek.-Denver
Republican
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31

FRANCE has the largest national debt
OF any country in the world, yet its new
loan of 500, coo, 900 was subscribed sew
eral times over by its own citizens. The
amount of money in the banks Of
france is small in proportion to that
countrys population and wealth. It's
people, to degree unknown elsewhere,
hoard their savings but they are al
ways ready to lend them on the credit
OF the Government for low rate of in
terest. Hence France, when it gets into
monetary pinch, can usually find re-
LEI without going abroad for it.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31

REFERRING to the reports circulated
in the United States to the effect that
the British Government had not invited
the United States to be represented at
the Jamaica Exposition, it is explained
semi-oflicially that the British Govern
ment never sends formal invitations to
any country to be represented at any
exposition within the British dominions
unless such exposition is actually or
ganized BY the British Government.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31

ACCORDING to the figures OF experts
there are at least 1926, ,0SS, ,OSO railroad
ties In present use on the 161, ,297 miles
OF railway in the country, to supply the
wear and tear of which requires s5,217,-
GIG new ties annually which, with the
steady increase of railroad building,
must soon exceed 100, 900, 0O0-a gigan-
tic demand to be satisfied from the for
ests each year when one considers the
many other calls made upon them.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31

THE people of the United States do
well to deplore the unfortunate condi-
ton of the Semitic race in Russia; but
that their resolutions or remonstrances
will have any effect in changing Rus
sa's attitude toward her Jewish sub
lects is negatived by the recent an
nouncement that Russian journalist
has been banished to Siberia and his
property confiscated for simply an
nouncing the fact that the American
people We're concerned in the matter.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31

THE Indian trouble in South Dakota
seems to have been peacefully settled,
but it seems likely that the troops will
soon be called to another field of action.
Reports from Minnesota indicate tur-
bulent feeling among the Red Lake
Reservation Indians, who are using
their utmost endeavors to persuade their
red brethren of other tribes in that sec
ton of the country to join them and
clean out the settlers.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31

SPAIN seems to be less friendly to
,ecirrocity between the United States
and Cuba than was expected, but when
over this country gets ready to press the
natter seriously, Spain can undoubted-
" he induced to take reasonable view
of the situation.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31

THE Oatmeal Trust has gone the way
Of the salt, harvester, window-glass and
other combines" which collapsed in
their early or later stages. Apparently
The trusts are not proof against the
economic ills to which the ordinary bus
mess enterprises are heir.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31
Death of the Mayor of Chattanooga.
A Family Poisoned.

Lily White, colored, aged seventeen,
has been arrested at Louisville, KY, on
the charge of poisoning Peter Whitei
her father, his wife and his uncle and
aunt, Daniel Frazier and wife. Frazier
and wife died. Poison was placed ip
their coffee.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31

THE Pension Office, from the 1st of
January to the 18th, inclusive, issued
1887 pension certificates, the greater
portion of them being granted under
the Dependent Pension law. This is
said to be the largest number ever is
sued during like period.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31

THE outside world does not obtain as
much news just now from Chill as
Uould be desira BILE, but as that country
is in the political as well as physical
earthquake zone, the stories about the
nsurrection there are doubtless founded
m more or less fact
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31
VOLUME XII.

THE census figures show that during
tbe past ten years the blacks have in
creased only about half as fast as the
r-bites in Alabama, and there is reason
- believe that the same is true as to the
other Southern States.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31
Mrs. Davis III.

Mrs. jefferson Davis, who recently
went to New York to orevise proof-sheets
of her book now in press, ssThe Life of
jefferson Davis" was reported quite i'll
few days ago.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31
Assassination.

William Meacham. prominent citi-
zen of Troy, Tenn, was shot. perhaps
fatally, by some one unknown the other
evening. 1t was clearly case Of assas-
eination.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On the 22d Tom Leavis, a well-known
horseman, was tried in the United States
Court at Indianapolis, Ind, on the
charge of passing counterfeit money,
and was acquitted. The principal
prosecuting witness was at once sent
to Jail for perjury for discrepancy be-
tween his testimony at the trial and
that given before the grand jury.
EARLY on the morning of the Esd tie
tow-boat Silas P. Coe caught fire at Gin
cinnati from the explosion OF stern
light, and was burned to the water $
edge. The night watchman, Bush
Carney, was burned to crisp.
M. d. HAMILTON, ex-county clerk OF
San Diego County, CAL, whose accounts
were nearly S., 600 short when he turned
over the office to his successor on the
6rst Of January, has been arrested
md is now in jail His bondsmen are
.esponsiblc.