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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
KU-KLUX TACTICS.
TIE NEGROES ARE BEING DRIVEN OUT OF
OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

Ell RENO, O. T., June 29-Commiss-
ioner j. NJ. Bishop, of Cleveland county,
where the whites are determined no
negroes shall locate, was seen by a
WORLD correspondent in regard to the
race war. He said: "When Oklahoma
was opened to settlement there was a
large immigration of negroes that
located on claims, principally timber.
They began clearing small places for
cotton and tobacco and have been
quite successful in their efforts to earn a
livelihood. The white portion of the
county is principally made up of
citizens from Texas, and the influx of
negroes is about to wrest from them the
political control of the county. 1t has
SO incensed the whites that they have
commenced the old Ku-klux methods
of driving the black settlers out. From
ten to fifteen men, under cover of
night, wait upon negro settler and
warn him that he is not wanted and
give him notice to leave upon pain of
death. 1t has the desired effect. The
negro is in such fear of assassination
that he will not volunteer any informa-
ton that will apprehend the Ku-kluxers
They are leaving the county by the
score, abandoning their claims and the
fruit of their labor"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28

Question. Do you recollect about
John Walthall being killed?
| Answer. Yes, sir; | do.
Question. Tell us what you know
about that, and who did it.
Answer. 1t was done on Monday
night, along in complaining time. |
do not know exactly what night or what
day of the month it was.
Question. Was it last complaining
time?
Answer. Yes, sir; they all came to
my house first, and knocked the doors
down, and came in and hollered to me
to kindle up light. got up to kindle
up a light, but before l could get to the
Fireplace they knocked both doors
down and came in with pistols and
guns, and drawed them on each side of
me. One had one right at my head.
They. struck me above the eye with a
pistol; the scar is here yet. They
asked me if l was John Walthall. L
said, "No, sir" They said, "Where is
he?" / said, up to the other house, -
which was about fifty yards off. They
said had to 60 with them up there.
One had hold of my arm, one had hold
of my clothes, and another had hold OF
my shirt. We went up there. John
| NaitIdll, WIeu Ne HeaTu tHeHu kHOCk-
ing the doors down at my house,
raised up plank, went under the
house, aiming to get out at the back end
of the house, but he got under the
house and got fastened there. They
ran around the house and knocked bis
: doors down, went in there, jerked his
wife out of bed and beat, and knocked
and stamped her about on the floor
and beat her over the head with guns
and pistols. There is great scar Oh
the back of her head half as big as the
palm of my hand. She was scared; she
did not know he had got out of bed
until they came there; she did not know
where he was. They had a great bis
| light and were looking about il
:. the house; they jerked up plank
and happened to get glimpse of biz
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28

shirt, or something white. They ran
out into the garden and ierked up a
plank there, and one of them had a
little rifle and ran it down close to him
and shot him through the small part of
the back. After they shot him they
pulled him out and hit him three
hundred ticks, and made her hug him
and then they beat them both; they
beat their heads together; they beat
them with great big stick and with
their fists.
Question. Did they beat them while
he was standing up or lying down?
| Answer. He was just sitting up.
They shot him and then dragged him
out from under the house. They
would stand on each side of him, and
one of them would knock him nearly
over and the man on the other side
would knock him back.
| Question. What did they knock him
with?
Answer With their fists and with
sticks.
Question. That was out of doors.
! Answer. Yes, sir; right at the hind
end of the house.
Question How had his wife got out
there?
Answer. They made her take light
and carry it out there; and then some
of them held the light and made her
hug him, and then they beat them
both. They had great bic light out
there; you could see to pick up pin
out there.
Question. Did they leave them both
there.
Answer. Yes, sir; they beat them
both there, knocked, and kicked, and
stamped them about just as long as they
wanted to, and then went off and left
them there
| Question. Was anybody else in the
| house but John Walthall and his wife?
! Answer. No, sir; they were just
newly married and lived off by
themselves.
John Walthall died the next
day about shutdown.
x x x
1t may be said that these are
records of dark period now long
gone by. Here is an extract from
the New York WORLD, a Demo-
cratic newspaper, of June goth
last. We reproduce it, headlines
and all:
KU-KLUN TACTICS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
REPUBLICAN, COUNTY CONVENTION.

Notice is hereby given that Convention of
the Republican Party, of the County of Wood,
In the state Of Wisconsin ba VIII be held at the
said County on the 29th day of July, A. ID. 1892.
ut one o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose
of electing Delegates to represent Wood
County at the Republican State Convention, to
be held ut the city of Milwaukee on the 18th
day of August, A. d. 1892, and also to elect 4
delegates to represent Wood County at the
Republican Congressional Convention, for the
Sth District Of Wisconsin, to be held at the city
OF Green Bay, Brown County, State of Wisconsin
on the md day OF Sept, A. d. 1892, and also for
the Transaction Of any other business that the
Convention may deem proper to consider.
The several Towns, Wards and Villages in
Wood County will be entitled to the following
Auhurudnle Town ] MarHhfeld Town
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
-S@WAR DECLARED!2S~
No Quarters for HIGH PRICES. Down
With Them.

War everything but Fair Honest Straightforward cent the
dollar values We have just received stock OF Clothing
and Shoes Ladies and Gents Furnishing Goods Notions
Goods Tnware &c, prices that regular values
half in two Our Motto is
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28

These general propositions being
admitted we propose to furnish a
few examples of the methods
employed by the Democratic party
in casting and counting the
popular vote wherever it has
unchecked license. Some years
ago a committee was appointed by
the House Of Representatives to
examine into the conduct OF
Southern elections.
Judge Poland, who was chair
man Of this committee, in
rendering his report, which was
very voluminous, said; "In many
parts of the South bodies of armed
men have created such reign o
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
DIRECTORS:

We solicit any business connected with
banking, and promise prompt and
careful attention to every interest
entrusted to us.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29

"TheIe was queer old fellow in a COM
pany that played special engagement
with in London" said an actor. He was
a dignified person-one of the palmy day
men-long hair and all that-and he was
cast for the Friar in Romeo and Juliet
He got on well enough until he came to
one of the speeches that rhyme, and Pm
blessed if he didn't so right on rhyming
through all the rest of that scene. He
never hesitated for a word either When
he had a speech with me afterward, he
stopped in the middle of it and began to
look over the audience. / gave him his
lines in a whisper and he began to be
trou bled with most tremendous cough
that didn't deceive anybody. A night or
two afterward he was in about the same
state and made pretty bad break in one
place. fed him his lines, though, and he
got through after n fashion.
LAS we went off he caught me by the
hand and with tears in his eyes told me
was one of the right sort and that he
would never forget my Kindness 'Ah, sir,
you don't know what am laboring under
just at present. said he. l thought it was
about a pint of gin, but l didn't say so.
'Ah, SIR he went on, my poor sister died
today l told him was very sorry and
advised him to stay out of the cast for a
few nights. Later one of the women, as
she was going to her dressing room, said
to another, Isn't it really too bad about
poor old BIS brother! What about
himY said the other. Died this after
noon. New York Sun.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
A Reporter and Burglar.

Richard Harding Davis, whose interest
in life must have diminished considerably
since he took to writing fiction and gave
up good, noble reporting, thought that he
would like to capture a lot of Philadelphia
burglars. Mr.. Davis was then reporting
for Philadelphia paper. He disguised
himself burglar, and lived with the
gang for two or three weeks. All were ar
rested and some of them are still in Jail. a
great actor was evidently lost to the world
in Richard Harding Davis. He has few of
the burglars instincts, and doesn't look
like a burglar. but he played the part so
well that when one of the swindlers whom
he had met in the course of his criminal
experience called at his fathers house and
beheld Davis arrayed in fine linen he
gaZed at Davis in admiration, and Ehis-
pered his earnest congratulations. think
ing that Davis had introduced himself into
the house butler with an eye TO future
rascalities.
The mans idea in calling was to swindle
the servants of the house in some way
Davis acquaintance with the crook of
course made the undertaking failure
Davis gained the confidence of the bur
glars by representing himself as burglar
from New York who wanted to keep quiet
and out of Eyrnes' way for a little while
New York World.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
His Dog Retrieved the Bomb.

A rather reckless Biddeford man, with
no respect for law or gospel, is said to have
devised a scheme for catching trout by the
wholesale, which did not work as well as
he thought.
He thought that bomb exploded in the
brook would bring all the fish in it to the
surface, so that he would only have to
pick them up. He provided himself with
a bomb powerful enough to blast schooner
out of water and went to local brook in
which there were said to be lots of trout.
He fixed the fuse ignited it and threw the
bomb into the broSk
As he did so hisdog jumped in after it,
seized it in his mouth, got back to shore
and started after his master, who was leg
ging it across the field as fast as he could
in the realization of his danger. The man
had the good LUCK to get over good bit of
territory, and n moment later, hearing an
explosion, he locke around to see his dog
going sky ward. Lewiston Journal
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
Headdressing Among the Romans.

The ancient Romans were most simple
in their attire, and so continued for a long
period, but after time fashion came to
reign supreme among them, just as it does
with us today.
In the early Roman days the women, fol-
lowing eastern traditions, were seldom
seen abroad, and when they did go out
wore their faces yelled, but as richness
and luxury increased the household labors
were delegated to slaves, and dress and
show became the chief object of ambition.
The simplicity of their home life and the
numb Der of bakers and cook shops enabled
even the poorer classes to spend much of
their time in the streets. market places
and at the public games.
1t is noticeable that this day the poorest
Roman woman, no matter how coarse her
garments, will invariably have her hair
neat, plated and deliberately coiled and
fastened with snowy beaded pins-which
care of her bountiful tresses she derives di
rectly from her ancestress of ancient times
for the ancients spent more time in the
elaborate dressing of the hair than ir any
other adornment.-Spare Moments.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
Lost Music.

The little clavichord of past times needs
that present day pianist should put his
to it in order to hear it. Its delicate,
miniature gradations of tone would be lost
indeed on a modern audience. Yet Bach's
forty eight preludes and fugucs were writ
ten for it. Were they intended for single
hearer7 String quartets still hold their
own, but the day is not far distant when
they, too, must disappear from public life
before the myriad headed audiences of the
immediate future. They will retire into
private circles and become again what
they were originally intended to be-cham-
Der music. Some day-may it be distant
ones--they may be revived by the curious
in those things as specimens Of a charm
ing but obsolete form Of art.-Nineteenth
Century.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
The readers of the ARGUS viii be pleased

The readers of the ARGUS VIII be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able TO cure
in ell its stages. and that is catarrh.
Halls C4tsrrh Cure is the only positive
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Catar-h being u constitutional disease, re-
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Catsrrh Cure is taken interCally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroying
the foundation Of the disease. and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing
its work. The proprietors have SD much
faith in it's curative powers. that they
offer one hundred dollars for any case
that il fails to cure. Send for list of ties
timoniais. Address,
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Sold By druggists. 75C
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
Some .sSmart" Books.

Perhaps the most delightfully."- smart
book of travels ever written was "Eoethen"
There is such subtlety and alacrity in the
accent of egotism which runs through it,
that it is impossible to be Disguised with
it. But then that accent is unmistakable,
though all the more attractive, for not
being too glaring, too prominent. Another
extremely smart and brilliantly smart
book was Mr.. Mallock's own New Re
public but no one would ever have
thought of artributing to that book any
high fastidiousness of taste or modesty of
temper. The characteristic accent of the
book is a;; exalted self confidence-an Ella
ton or satirical penetration. In still
more emphatic sense, Gibbons writing is
all smart, though of course it is much
more than smart.-London Spectator.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29

THE DAILY ARGUS DELIVERED AT YOU
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
A Clever Rem ark.

a clever bon mot has recently been cred
tied to Mr.. W. S. Gilbert. At literary
gathering the conversation turned upon
the income of bishops and their benevolen,
work. "Ah," said Mr.. Gilbert, sit is easy
enough for bishops to be good on salaries
of $4,000 a year, but we have to be good
for nothing, and" looking round with
merry twinkle in his eye, some of US are"
London Tit Bits
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29

Every Democrat should see that his
name is on the register, although if he
is not registered he may vote on affidavit
as heretofore. Remember that the polls
open at Z o'clock in the morning, and
close at o'clock in the afternoon.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
A Very Strong Hint

Gus De Smith arrived a little late at 4
sociable given by Mrs. Dey Street, When
he arrived he sought her presence, and
having found her said:
II beg Thousand pardons for coming 70
late"
my dear sir" replied the lady. ''yoo can
never come too late"
Gus thinks this il a hint to stay away
sltogether-Texa. Siftings
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29

Mrs. M E. Busselle, 81 Park street.
Newark. N. j.. says: After having
used DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup in my fam
lily with most gratifying results. pro-
aounce it the friend Of all N .thers
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
For sale.

A first class dairy. complete with 90
COWS, for sale or easy terms. Milk
wagon-good trade. Apply to W. G. this
office.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29

A lady calling at our house consulted
her watch, which was very small 1t be-
ing present to her, some of the family de
sired to see it. Little Flora, four years
old, looked at it and exclaimed, "Oh. it's
young, isn't it?"-Youth's Companion
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-10-29
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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-29
FARM AND GARDEN.

WHEREVER the conditions are favor
able for the rotting of silage, there it
is quite possible for the silO lining to
rot also if the lining be of wood.
THE large head lice are the most de-
structive on little chicks of any kind,
and it is quite probable that the only
way to destroy these is with grease.
WHEN the horses have finished the
heavy work of the season the best
mode of curing sore feet is to take off
their shoes and turn them on the pas
ture.
KEEP the new canes of raspberries
and blacbberries cut back if they have
made heavy growth, which will induce
them to throw out laterals, become
stocl1y and produce better fruit next
season.
The best place for coop contain
ing hen with brood of chicks is on
the asparagus patch. The chicks dill
gently search the stalks and destroy
the asparagus beetle, which damages
the plants in some localities.
SALT is recommended as an excellent
fertilizer around the trunks of ounce
trees. The salt promotes the growth
of the trees, increases the size and
quality of the fruit, and also destroys
worms or maggots in the soil
S. T. SCOTT, of New York, saws he
has tried all ways of applying paris
green to potatoes, and has settled on
using it with wheat middlings and ap-
plying with a sieve. If fine ashes are
mixed IN part it does just as we'll
THE root knot is a disease especially
prevalent among the peach, walnut.
chestnut and some other trees. This
fact should be borne in mind when Sc
lecting trees for transplanting: reject
those that have knots on their roots.
IT Is best not to cut young trees
back in the fail, but perform the work
in the spring. If cut back now the
trees will require another pruning in
the spring should any protion of the
trees be winter killed, which is liable
to hapDen every season
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-29
HARNESS CLOSETS.

Suggestions Which, If Carried Out, Would
Save Many Dollars.
We do not know who wrote the fol-
lowing, but we know it holds a good
deal of truth and some suggestions
that, carried out, would save many a
dollar now spent for harness. 1.-The
regulation horse stable generally con-
tains parallel row of stalls, back of
which is partition of outer. wall, to
which are attached pegs for harnesses,
halters, blankets, etc. A little shelf
above may hold curry combs, brushes
and few bottles of lotion. The har-
nesses frequently drop to the floor and
are trampled on by the horses, or even
If they are securely fastened to the pegs
the leather catches all the flying dirt,
which gives them a dingy appearance
They are also exposed to the corrosive
ammonial gases. Why not keep them
suspended in tight closets, as we do our
wearing apparel Such closets can be
made to utilize space which would
otherwise be unoccupied, and not in
the least interfere with the convenience
of the stable. There are at least two
vacant corners in nearly every stable,
in which the closets may be placed.
Measure from the corner each way on
the wall about five feet. At each ter
minal point strike a plumb line from
ceiling to floor, marking it plainly so
that boards can be accurately matched
to it. Tack TO the floor a Square-ede-ed
cleat, running from the line on one
wall to that on the other. Measure the
desired width of a door in the center of
the cleat ana set in two light uprights,
reaching from the floor to the ceiling,
using matched lumber. Saw it in
lengths to reach from door casing to out
side corners, saving the farther ends
beveling to fit neatly against the staIl
wall. Above the door full length
boards can continue to the ceiling, and,
with door hung, the closet is nearly
complete. All that remains is to fasten
the pegs or wooden hooks to the wall
inside, whereon are to be hung the har-
nesses. The whole is a simple job,
which any farmer with a saw and ham
mer can do in half day."