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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-09

ASSESSMENTS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY.
Stations, 10 times amount to insure.
Horses, six months old and over list S12 end S1S.
3rd S25. 4th $685. Ponies $40. Colts IS.
Neat Cattle six months and over, LIST grade So End
81. 3rd SIS. Work cattle $50. Feeding cattle 81.
Mules and Asses, six months old and over, same az
horses. Jacks same Stations.
Sheep. six months old and over 80 cts,
Hogs, six months old and over, per 100 lbs so cts,
Goats six months old and over.......3o cts
Farm Implements Wagons, Pleasure Carriages of
every description, One third present value.
Gold Watches 500 90
on'eI "stch s. 10
Plate and JeHelry Judgment of assessor.
i0uo roFls.- -.----..---.-- SlOO. %
Other Musical Instruments $40 co
All Interest on Bonds of the United States;
All Bonds q Int. on Bonds of any State, Co.,
District Municipality; All other Bonds not
exempt from taxation Stocks in any Co. or
Corporation: Shares in National Banks
Moneys: Average amount of Merchants
Stock for preceding year: Average amount
OF Merchants Moneys and Credits for pre-
ceeding year: Average of Manufacturers Mon
eys and Credits tor preceding year: Shares
in any Vessel or Boat: Tax Sale Certificates:
Judgments, Notes, Mortgages. Actual value 80 so
Aggregate value of all other Personal Property,
Judgment of assessor.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-09
OFFICINL DIRECTORY.

COUNTY OFFICERS.
Treasurer Dick Bosse
Clerk r Typer,
Attorney Hotchkisa
Sheriff Geo Spencer
Clerk of Court X A Charles
Register G Strothman
Probate Judge II Brewer
Supt of Schools Mckinney
Surveyor Sid A Newcomb
81 r Strothman
Commissioners w Bruce
(CL Moses
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-09

To PLACE an umbrella in rack in
dicates that it will shortly change own
ers; if a cotton one be substituted for
a silk, it means that Exchange is no
robbery" A man getting all the rain
drop from the points of the umbrella,
which he holds over lady, signifies
courtship, but when man keeps the
lions share of the article, giving the
lady the raindrops, it denotes marriage.
To carry an umbrella under the arm at
an angle implies that the individual fol-
lowing will loose an eye, while to hold
it just high enough to injure passers'
eyes and mems hats signifies II am a
woman" Lastly, the loan of an
umbrella is synonymous with an act of
egregious folly.-Ladies Home Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-09
Loans. Loans. Loans

Loans, Loans, Loans.
I want to place $4,000 on first
class Farm Loans, before Oct. LIST, at
lowest rates of interest. No delay.
A. j. BuURfAND.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-09

CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor A. Laidlaw
Clerk A Charles
Treasurer o Richards
Marshal Dick Ewalt
Surveyor A Newcombe
COUNC1LMEN.
John Langham Moses
N. Cossman Hannum
VIM Kelley w. W. Culver
WI Coles Myron Gilmore
Postmaster Morgan Caraway.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-09
LODGE DIRECTORY.
Masonic.

Masonic
St Omer Colnmandery No. IA, X. T., meets at
Masonic hail. Fair block, the first and third Tues
days of each month.
E. r Moses, E. G..
E.W .Waynant, Rec
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-09

Mt Nebo Chapter No. Sc, r. A. M, meets at
Masonic hall the first and third Fridays of each
month r. c. Bailey, II. P.
J. Geo. Brinkman Sec.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-09

Ripans Tabules cure tae blues.
Ripans Tabules for torpid liver.
Rir3Rs Eahaat re9lysRepsia.a
Ripaffs Tabdles cure biii66sness.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-09

Great Bend Lodge No. Is, A. F. & A. NJ, meets at
Masonic hall the second and fourth Fridays of each
month. EW Waynant, w. M.
j. Geo. Brinkman. Sec.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-03-09
ORCHARD TREES,

WANTED-Good girl for general
homework, in small family. Call
at this Office
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31

THE weather bureau of Columbus
has sent out the following as the con-
dition of crops in the Northern district
of the State for week ending August
26th:
Light showers occurred on the Goth,
but were not sufficient to break the
drouth, but benefited vegetation in
some localities. Generally corn on up.
land and clay soil and late potatoes are
too far advanced to be benefited by
rain now. Buckwheat is very back
ward and thin. Pastures are dried up
and hay is being fed to stock. Stock
water is becoming scarce, and springs
are drying up. Gardens are beyond
help as rule. Tomatoes are ripening
prematurely and rotting. Threshing
is nearing completion. Wheat con-
tinues TO thresh out we'll and oats are
turning out much better than at first
expected. Glover hulling is in progress,
large clover yielding fairly well, but
small clover has been total failure.
Flowing is being retarded by the
drouth, but considerable has been
done, Notwithstanding the adverse cir
cumstances. Fruit is very scarce and is
being made more so by the hot, dry
weather. Peaches are ripening small
and are of inferior quality. Grapes
are beginning to turn; some rot being
reported. Pears are beginning to rip
en-, but the crop will be very light.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31
ANTITRUST BILL.

Senator White OF California Has q Drag
net to Catch Them All.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-Mr. White
of California has introduced in the sem
ate bill that is intended to carry into
effect the declaration of the Democratic
platform against trusts and combines.
The Sherman antitrust law of July,
1890, Mr.. White looks upon as a sieve,
in which it is impossible to hold water,
and in his bill he proposes q dragnet
that has its meshes so closely drawn
that not even the little fish. much less
the greater and more dangerous, can
get through. His bill repeals the Sher-
man antitrust act Of 1890 in toto, and
substitutes another, somewhat lengthy,
but defining exactly what are trusts,
and how monopolies many be consid-
cred and discovered by law officers.
1t sets forth that monopoly shall be
defined to mean two or three persons
engaged in or interested in the same
kind of general business for the pur-
pose of suppressing competition, rails
ing prices or charges for the transport
alton of persons or property; or limit
ing, decreasing or controlling produc-
tion. Such monopoly is declared to
be illegal, and it is made the duty of
the United States court to issue injunc.
tions, upon sufficient complaint, and to
perpetuate such injunctions if the facts
SO warrant,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31

and climbed poles or perched them
selves upon wagons that were stationed
close TO the ropes of the inelosure. As
far away as the mines aud electricity
buildings anxious sight-seers filed the
balconies above the arches and the up
per windows commanding view of
the termiual-station plaza. 1t was a
generously appreciative crowd and
each difficult or picturesque movement
by the cadets was applauded from
every side.
Over in the plaisance the concessio-
naries discovered to their Joy that the
Illinois visitors came to spend money
and see every show along the avenue
of shows. They swarmed into the
menagerIe until the doors had to be
guarded to prevent blockade, they
drank coffee and tea, rode the eamels,
looked at the strange dances, hung
their legs on the donkeys' backs. made
fun OF the Africans, marveled at the
Chinese orchestra and took things in
generally. From Lady Aberdeen ,s
Irish village to the encampment at the
far end all the box offices reported the
biggest days business of the EXPOSE
ton.
AS for estimating numbers, there
might have been $1,000, or, so far as
the bewildered eye could Judge, a full
100000, watching the fireworks in
the evening. Some persons said there
were 100000 In sight of the exploding
pyrotechnies. This was not large es-
innate. Along the beach by the large
building the crowd was larger than it
was on the Fourth of July. On the
Fourth of July the multitude was held
we'll back from the water by stout
ropes. Thursday evening all the dis
plays were on floats on the water and
the spectators ventured to the very
ripple of breakers. Fifty boys pulled
off their shoes and stockings and waded
out where they could get elbow room.
AS the thousands crowded in about s
o'clock, coming from both directions.
the mass of people repeatedly surged
uneasily and the men in front were
several times crowded into the water.
The bombs which were thrown up
burst into the golden rain and sparks
of all colors. Men in boats lighted the
Roman and Greek fires and set them
floating on the waves. Drifting foun-
bdIus duu WuloI utNliSt UdICcIlSS VI
bombs and novel wheel devices fixed
one after another, and at intervals the
set pieces at the end of the peristyle
reused the great crowd to cheers. The
Lincoln monument and the old flag
were applauded. but the loudest shout
arose when the Illinois building show
ed in a fiery outline, sixty by forty
feet in size. The climax was the CO.
lumbar bouquet,as imultaneous flight
of 900 rockets.
Friday was colored peoples day. Ex-
ercises were in Festival Hall, 2:30 p. M; ;
Grafton by the Hon. Frederick Doug
lass, followed by concert and recita-
tiOns.
The boom has struck the fair at last,
and visitors are now fiocking to Chica-
90 in immense numbers.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31

Hon. d. D. DONOVAN was the only
congressman from Ohio who voted for
the free coinage of silver on Monday.
No doubt our congressman voted the
sentiments of a majority of his constit-
uents, as fully three-fifths of the peo-
pie of this district favor free silver.
Mr.. Donovan voted for the repeal OF
the Sherman silver purchasing act.
The first vote was taken on Bland's
amendment to the Wilson bill, provid.
ing for free coinage. The vote stood
1913, for, and 225 against.
Then vote was taken on ratio OF
II to l, which stood 100 to 240.
Another vote for ratio of Is to ]
stood 1902 to 239.
The vote for ratio of 10 to /, stood
105 to 237.
The final vote for ratio of 20 to ]
stood 119 to 222.
The Wilson Bill providing for the
repeal of the Sherman act passed the
house by rate of 299 to 119.
These votes do not signify the deatf
blow to silver, as many believe. Sill
yer will still be used as money, and W.
believe on parity with gold.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31
The DEMOCRATIC NORTH
WEST FROM NOW UNTIL DECEM-
BER 1sT FOR Csc. ASK YOUR
NEIGHBoR TO SUBSCRIBE.

ONE of the silliest statements made
by Republicans is, that the present de-
plorable condition of the country is
caused by fear that the Democratic
administration will NEEDLE with the
tariff. In this you must answer fool
according to his folly. But, let US in
quire of these fellows, how it comes
that half of the civilized countries are
in the same condition this country is {
Certainly our threatened tariff med
ding has nothing to do with their
financial furry. Of course not, Meth
er has it anything to do with the con-
dition of things in this country.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31

THE senate on Monday made a final
disposition of the question whether a
governor has the power to appoint q
senator when the legislature failed to
elect one. By vote of 80 to 20 it de-
cided that Lee Mantle is not entitled
to the vacant seat from Montana, and
by the same vote also decided the SINH
lar case of John B. Allen, claiming q
seat from Washington. The recent
resignation of the appointee from
Wyoming saved the senate the neces-
slty of passing upon that case also.
The two elected claimants are Repub-
licans and the one resigned is Demo-
crat. The senate now stands: Demo
Gratis "A, Republicans 3S, Popuhsts 8,
and three vacant seats that cannot be
filled until the representative legisla'
lures meet and elect, the chances being
that the seats will not be filled by the
present legislatures.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31
OHIO NEWS NOTES.

There were but five deaths from dipb
liberia throughout Ohio during the week
ending Aug. %. .tt.
Gus Weissenborn, Springfield (O)
butcher, died from the effects Of chloro-
form while being operated on for hernia.
Three farmer boys on bicycles near Day
ton, O., were held up by three highway
men with pistols, who rode away on the
stolen wheels.
Domestic discord caused Frank Teach of
near Springfield, o., to desert his bride Of
a year. ..s..
Peter Balling was perhaps fatally in
jured while blasting near Brownstown, o.
Carelessness
Frank Patterson and Ella Critics, 10,
eloped from New Philadelphia, o., and
were married at Steubenville.
A pocketbook, said to have belonged to
Allen Wilson, and ring said to have be-
longed to Lon Keys, the persons recently
murdered at Yellow Springs, O., were
found among the possessions Of man
named Whaley, who is suspected Of COM
miting the murder.
At crossing between Lexington and
West Alexander O., buggy containing
Mrs. Will Hapner and her two daughters,
II and 3, was struck by train. Mrs. Hap
ner and the eldest daughter were instantly
killed, and the other child seriously in
jured The baking of the horse caused
the catastrophe.
The venerable Mr.. Henry Watterson, for
12 years city librarian at Chillicothe, o.,
died at his home, at the age of 80 years.
A son of Walter Ondus, living at
Schumm, o., while playing in the grain
elevator got into the bin-loading car, and
the suction drew him into the spout, where
he suffocated before he could be gotten
out.
Thieves entered the residence of Harvey
M. Rife, editor of The Union Herald, at
Circleville, O., and stole a gold watch
valued at SIS, and diamond ring valued
at $75. The thieves overlooked $50 in cur
rency that was in the same drawer with
the jewelry.
Benjamin Laughery, an old man living
at Sunbury, near Delaware, O., committed
suicide because a woman with nine chill
dren refused to marry him.
Andrew Schultz, an inmate of the War
rem county CO., infrmary, was killed by
the marshal of that institution Saturday
night in self-defense. Schultz, having at
tackled the marshal with knife, was
knocked down three times with club and
suffered injuries which later caused his
death No blame is attached to the
marshal.
Henry s. Butler, his wife and aunt trav-
cling in wagon, camped near Cambridge,
o. During the absence of Butler, George
McManaway and William Banard, a
farmer and miner. while drunk assaulted
Mrs. Butler. When he hitched up to
leave they followed, cutting his harness.
| Butler drew revolver and shot McMan-
away in the shoulder. Butler surrendered.
| The two men will be arrested.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31
Signs of Good Cheer.

From many quarters comes news
that manufacturing establishments, af-
ter a brief season Of rest, are again re-
suming operations either fully or In
part. For the last day or two these re-
ports have outnumbered the reports OF
the stoppsges Of work. 1t is probable
that this will continue to be the case
and the resumption of work will go on
if 1t becomes apparent that Congress
will promptly remove the chief cause
Of the lack OF confidence in the stablli-
ty of the nations currency.
There has been much rash misrepre-
sentation by advocates of protection Of
the reason of suspension of work, and
their cause will suffer for it in the end.
Fear of tariff reform has had little to
do with it. Fear of a depreciation OF
the currency has had much. But the
two causes have not produced all the
suspensions.
This Is the season when mills and
factories of all kinds are often closed
for a time, even In ordinarily good
years when no disaster impends or is
apprehended. They are closed for re-
pairs, or because the market is over
stocked, or for other sufficient reasons.
It is the dull season and the season
when workers can best afford to be idle.
One would infer from reading the Re-
publican organs, If he had no other in
formation on the subject, that such a
thing as the stopping of work in fac
tory, mill or mine was something un-
known before this summer. But the
operators in Fall River, Lowell and
Pittsburgh know better. So do the
editors and politicians who are now as
signing false cause for the dullness
in the labor market. =
1t is true that many large industries
have been temporarily Interrupted
by the currency famine. But the cur
rency famine is not result of expected
tariff reform. This famine will pass.
No currency is being destroyed. The
aggregate in the country is increasing
daily. That which is hid and unpro-
ductive will appear again to be invest
ed and earn interest when the alarm
concerning the stability of its value
and the security of its ordinary depos-
itories is past.
Doubtless there will be caution on
the part of those who are the special
beneticiaries of the tariff bounty. The
era of reckless and spendthrift manu-
featuring, which depends for profits on
extortion rather than on legitimate de-
mand, is over. But neither the Gov
ernment nor the people will be worse
off on that account.
The indications are favorable to an
early return of prosperity on sound
basis. The prophets of evil are like.
ly to be confounded. Manufacturers
will not long retain from business and
money-making simply to enable dis.
credited politicians to make a point.
The people will have work enough and
good wages for their work, and will be
relieved Of a burden of unnecessary
taxation that now rests upon them
N. Y. World. tr.-
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31
Ii FAILED.
This Attempt to Conceal Evidence of a
Foul Murder.


COLUMBUS, o., Aug. 26.-The burn
ing of man in strawstack south of
this city Thursday night, supposed to be
a tramp, has developed to be shock.
ing murder.
The body was burned beyond recog-
milton, and it was Coroner Herbst's
theory that the man was tramp, and
that he had crawled, in an intoxicated
condition, into the stack to sleep, and
set the stack on fire while trying to
light his pipe.
Friday morning the body was identi-
fled by William Shepherd, a travelling
salesman for the Franklin Buggy com
pany, living at 1921 East Rich street,
as that of his son Frank, 81, who left
home for walk and never returned.
1t is believed he was murdered for
what money he had and his body
burned in the stack. His skull was
crushed.
Young Shepherd graduated at the
state university last June and was to
enter Yale next month.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31
The DEMOCRATIC NORTH
WEST FROM NOW UNTIL DECEM>
Der 1sT FOR 25C. ASK YoUE
NEIGHBoR TO SUBSCRIBE.

"Despise not the day ofsmall things" !"
as the tiny pill (taken from vial of
DIR. Pierce's pleasant Purgative Pellets)
said to the 300-pound man, suffering
from indigestion. AS q gentle, thorough
laxative, these Pellets resemble Nature
more closely in their action than any
thing before discovered. Business and
professional men, whose habits are Sc.
dentry, need something of this kind to
ward off sick headache, ,biliousness and
dyspepsia, but which will not strain
and rack the digestive organs as did
the d-fashioned pills. 25 cents per
vial, at all druggists.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31


AN ingenious scheme in the shape of
hammered down" nickel 3-centpieces
which are passed for silver dimes has
Just been discovered at Columbus.
Thousands of the defaced coin bear
ing in their battered condition a
close resemblance to the color, weight,
and size of the silver 10-cent pieces,
have been passed in the market and to
newsboys and saloon-keepers, and the
authorities are now after the regulators
of the fraud, who make 10 cents on the
dollar by a little labor. OF course the
inscriptions on the Scent pieces are
aimed to be oblitrated by the hammer
ing process.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31
A PEST SHIP TURNED ABRIFT.

One Hundred and Three Deaths from
Cholera on the Carlos.
VALPARAISO, Aug. pa dispatch
from The Heralds correspondent in
Rio Janeiro, Brazil shows that the
steamer Carlos is on the Atlantic
ocean, bound for no port, filled with
persons infected with cholera, and hav-
ing a record of 103 deaths on her voy-
age across the ocean. The dispatch
says the steamer Carlos arrived at Rio
Janeiro, from Grand Island Cannles,
and that the 1903 persons on board Of
her died from cholera on the way over.
She was refused permission to land or
even to put her crew and passengers in
quarantine. She was escorted out of
the harbor by the warship Republic,
and ordered not to land at any Brazilian
mort.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31
THE WILSON BILL.

Synopsis of the Measure Which Repealed
the Sherman Act.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-The Wilson
bill, which passed the house, provides
for the repeal of that portion of the act
of July IA, 1890, which authorizes the
purchase of silver bullion by the secre-
tary of the treasury; that this act shall
not impair, or in any manner affect the
legal tender quality of the standard sill
yer dollars heretofore coined, and it is
declared that the United States shall
maintain the parity of the two metals,
gold and silver, at the established rati q
or such other ratio as shall be estab.
lished by law.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31
UNDER CONTROL.
The Epidemic of Smallpox at Muncie, Inc
No Capse For Alarm al,

The Epidemic of Smallpox at Muncie, Ind
No Cause For Alarm. '- VI
MUNc1E, Ind, Aug. 29.-There were
no new cases of smallpox in Muncie
Monday, and the prospects are brighter
The following card issued is self-ex
planatory.
There is on cause for alarm concerning
smallpox in Muncie. The disease is moi
spreading and the cases which are in an
outlying suburb are all rigidly quaran-
tined. Other cities need have no fear oi
any infection from Muncie. The authori
ties here have the disease thoroughly undel
control. There is no case at Daleville as
reported. HUGH A. CowING,
Secretary County Board of Health
ARTHUR w. BRADY, Mayor.
FRANK G. JACKSON,
City Health Officer.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31

FALL Is not far off and winter is not
far behind it. People who are depend
ing on salaried positions for a liveli-
hood will do we'll to economize little
and treasure up something for that
proverbial "rainy day." which is sure
to come. Nothing seems certain with
business in the condition that is now
and unless bright side turns up soon
there will be few who have steady en-
ployment for the next six months.
Save accordingly, while you can.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31

Mr.. P. E. STUDEBAKER, Of the Stu
debaker Wagon works, South Bend,
says, Business depressions and re-
verses are bound to come periodically
no matter what the basis or volume OF
our money is, nor does 1t matter what
party is in power, as the true cause is
oveItradinga gand overextension ofcredit,
No man was ever financially panic
stricken II he was out of debt"
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31
NoLaw For Such Cases.

COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 29.-State Food
Commissioner McNeal is informed of a
new method of selling adulterated
goods. Aug. 8 four men with wagon
sold and delivered groceries to farmers
at Fort Recovery to the amount of
So, 100, and at prices SO low that if they
were not stolen. they must be base
adulterations. The latter must be the
fact. The commissioner is powerless
to prosecute in such case.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-08-31

SEPTEMBER 18th, 18th, 18th, 14th
and 18th have been set apart by the
commissioners to be observed as Old
Soldiers Days at the Worlds Fair.
The commissioners desire all surviv-
ing soldiers, of whatever war, north,
south, east or west, to meet in a grand
encampment to promote closer rela-
tions with each other and for the best
interests of the entire country.