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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-03-12
REFORM MOVEMENTS.

In Connecticut Oo,O0o people have
signed the pledge.
The pope has been requested to
take, stops to stop gambling at Monte
Carlo.
THE anti-race track organization of
New Jersey routed the gamblers of
that state in the late election.
LORD ROBERTS rays he has under
his command in india $4,000 British
soldiers pledged to total abstinence.
TIE Indians of the Omaha reserva-
ton, 1t is stated, have put aside 81, 900
from their pasture money" to be used
in temperance work.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-03-12
JOINT STATEMENT
0F AUDITOR AND TREASURER,
OF ELKO COUNTY.
For the Quarter Ending Dec. 1
1894.
County Of FfEElEoDN' Exc. ss.s.
AUDITORS OFFICE.

To the Honorable Board of Comfy Commis-
ssioners OF Elko County, Nevada.
GENTLEMEN: We herewith submit our Omar.
telly Report of the Finances Of the County
for the quarter ending Dec 81, 1893
Respectfully submitted:
GEO. II .NEIGS,
Auditor,
M. HI. MILLER,
Treasurev.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-03-12

IN troubled water you can scarce see
your face, or see it very little till the
water be quiet and stand still SO, in
troubled times you can see little truth;
when times are quiet and settled, then
truth appears.-Seldcn.
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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08
Hits Them All.

The Rev. Henderson, of yelling
ton, delivered the memorial sermon
at that city, and its character was
such as to arouse considerable COM
ment. Being a republican, his listen
ers of that faith were well pleased
when he talked Of anarchy; but when
he spoke Of unjust economic laws, the
populists seemed content.
But upon the whole, the speech left
the audience somewhat puzzled. None
were fully satisfied, and many were
vexed. 1t illustrates the average in
terest of voters. Had the speaker
taken either political side Of his sub
ject and blamed wholly one party
while lauding the other to the skies,
the house would have understood it,
and one portion would have been in.
dignant, while the other would have
applauded.
There can be no ideal government
until men are willing to hear all sides
If a party goes to an extreme, it Ger.
tainly should be attacked; and nc
better service can be done any party
than for q bold. brave speaker Il
point out its dangerous tendencies.
There is truth in what Rev. Hen
dersOn presented. In some instance!
he exaggerates the evils, but thar
they exist In even mild degree il
sufficient to warrant his action. But
the real force Of his article lies in til,
fact that no party is held wholly re
spOnsible and no party is wholly ex
empt from responsibility. = Topeka
Daily Press. a
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08
Ashton.

A good rain would be acceptable,
although corn is not suffering, oats
are looking very well. The sod whea t
will be the best this year
Johny Archer, Geo. Jones and wife
and Miss frankie Miles of ArgOnia
were visiting in this neighborhOOd
last week.
DR.. ]. +. Jones and family Of Well
ingtOA were visiting his uncle, Jos.
HOllingsworth last week, and in CON-
pany with Mr.. and Mrs. HOllingSwOrth
drove to Ponca.
Qnite a number from this vicinity
went to Geuda Springs Decoration
day, and they say the singing and
speaking was grand. Judge Beekman
OF Arkansas City was orator Of the
day.
More whips disappeared ar church
Sunday night.
Weinyite the people of the surround
ing country to come here to church,
and while they are in the house Of
worship parties are out side stealing
their whips, that will get old after a
while and then they will go to cutting
harness or taking the taps off of the
vehicles, the Bible says there is a
time for everything anu We think it
is time that this kind of work was
stopped.
ChaS. Hagg came very near being
killed last Sunday while at Mr.. MasOn'S
he was riding a colt and it reared up
and fell backward.
Miss Blanch and Bessie and Master
Johnny Titus are visiting their grand
parents.
Grandfather Dorsey of Geuda Spring
was at church at Ashton Sunday.
Rev Hancher preached two splendid
sermons Saturday evening and Sunday
morning, and Rev. Turner gave one of
his SoulStiring sermons Sunday eve.
Preaching next Saturday evening
and Sunday morning and evening by
Rev. Cross, Rev. FOrncrOOk is also
expected.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08
"Purge the Party"

Editor VOICE.
WELLINGTON, KAN, June of the
writer Of Purge the Party" failed to
conceal his identity, as the Register
claims, and, parrOt-like, repeated by
the Monitor Press, the failure was not
more ignominiOus than that of Massey
in getting his write-up into the Regis
ter as an editorial. II the writer's
head is sore and bleeding, it was made
so by sand-baggers like Massey and
some others Of those who were writ
ten up; and their bOasting of their
work is as disreputable as that of a
highwayman would be, for their
methods Of work were as diShonOra-
Bile.
1t is a poor way Of testing ones
bravery-by charging him, in a paper,
with cowardice. The methods fOT
testing ones courage are so well
known that any explanation would
be superhuOus. II the author OF
"Purge the Party" is so well known
he can be found by the aggrieved par
ties and proper test of courage bC
made. The writer OF the article il
the VOICE personally branded, before
jury, one Of the parties referred u
as "a purged scoundrel," denounced
second one as "a dirty slanderer," anC
a third one as "a consummate liar,
with the only result to learn tina
they were all christians; and whel
they were smitten on one cheek, the.
would turn the other.
In speaking of bravery, would i
not be brave thing in the RegiSte
and MOnitOT-PreSS to publish "Purg
the Party" and let their subscriber
Judge for themselves of its interest
If the five or six creatures in Well
ingtOn and the one at Oxford will &c
together and resolve that they ar
slanderers and traducers Of charaC
ter, and that the author Of "Purg
the Party" is an honest and honorabl
man, aud then publish this resOlu
tion, they can have rest; but unles
this is done, every man in Sumne
county shall know them and thei
rascality before snow falls.
A SUBSCRIBER.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08
Truth and Trouble.

1t makes a great difference whose
OK is being gored. Ex-senator ]. W.
FOrney, and other narrow-minded,
hide-bound partisans at Belle Plaine,
Kan, got terrible wrathy recently
when Rev. Botkin denounced the ar
rest and conviction of COxey as trivial
and internal, yet they said not a word
in disapproval Of the Presbyterian
minister. who in his morning sermon
the Sunday before denounced the Cox
eyltes as "a lot Of brainless tramps." "
BOtkin told the truth. The other man
uttered a SANDER and unmitigated
falsehOOd. 1t has been established
beyond question that the Coxeyites
are intelligent, sober, industrious,
orderly, peaceable American citizens
1t is the truth that makes a servilt
tool Of plutOcracy howl. And truth
will Nedford Mascot.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08
COrbin.

There is some wheat left for the
harvester.
Rev. ]. A. Beltz, of Mulvane, was
in town Monday.
DR.. Wilhoite went to Wellington
Monday on business.
MIS-. Chauncey Hayes, of Caldwell,
was quite sick Sunday.
Lafayette Wood, of Caldwell, has
rented a dwelling back to COrbln
DR.. Smith, dentist, at DR.. Wilhoite's
drug store, Saturday, June 9.
The "Strippers" arerOlling in, ready
to help save the Kansas wheat crop.
Mike Lyon was called to his home
in the Strip on account Of his wife'S
sickness.
Miller Smith was up from the Strip
Saturday, and reports fine rains on
the Salt Fork.
Rev. A. S. Henderson had better
keep shy of Belle Plaine, as we see
from his sermon that he is not Col.
Forney man.
If the charges in the Commoner con-
cerning Long are true, he and "Breck"
would make a dandy team; and the
better class, as some inSinuate, will
be voting for Jerry this fall.
Which is the wOrst-tO attend an
evening social or play Methodist bill
liarus ny the hour in the heat Of the
day? One o. our ministers denounces
SOcials, but is an enthusiastic billiard
player.
Some OF urrcpu5 5lican friends think
thatif John Sherman's record, as pub
lished by Mrs. Marion Todd, is true
they have been following a bad leader
Most repL blicanS are honest, but mis-
led, and Il time is coming when the!
will think for themselves.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08

Rev. ]. w. Mclaughlin, by invita-
tion, preached his sermon last Sunday
on "Usury From Bible Standpoint" /"
at Shiloh church, east Of Mulvane.
He had house filled to overhowing,
and was prevailed upon to stay for
evening meeting. He gave his hear
erS many new Bible points, which
were surprising to a large number and
well received. Many we're present
from Sedgwick county, and urged him
to come to Derby and deliver che SER
mon. He will, perhaps, make an ap-
pOintment there on the third Sunday.
There are many glorious ideas in the
Bible that have been latent for many
years under the stress Of fierce COM
petitive system, and in these latter
days they are coming out.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08
Destructive Storm.

Tuesday afternoon about four
clock terrible clOud-burSt struck the
country about four miles south OF
Oxford. 1t was about three mile in
width and five in length. Hail fell to
the depth Of three inches and in size
from cherry to goose egg. Every
farmer in the district, running about
three and one half miles west and one
and half east of Oxford line, suffer
ed seriously and many of them total
loss of crops. 1t has been impossible
to secure anything like reliable details
this week, nor can anything like a
reasonable guess be made Of the fnan-
cial loss. Wednesday morning Wm.
Krotz, who lives in the heart Of the
district, picked up a. pail full Of the
hailstOnes and brought them to town.
One measured six inches in circumfer-
ence and weighed q ounces, and they
were all about of size. Hogs and
chickens were killed, glass broken,
buggy-tOps perforated, wheat, oats,
corn and fruit destroyed, and many
of the people left with absolutely
nothing, especially the tenant farmers
They have sympathy Of our people
who will do anything they can to assist
them.-O1Jord Register.
Judge Chapman called on the VOIcT
the first of the week, and gave u'
names of some of the heaviest losers
in this storm, He lost 10 acres o.
wheat on his home place. Others are
as follows: Mr.. Huffman, had all hi
growing crops destroyed, including
fruit.
Geo. Patton had 400 acres Of wheat
beaten to the ground, and Messrs
Krutz, and Schmidt, Lashley, Prather
Wright, Lucus and Worst, lost from
40 to $50 acres each of wheat besides
oats, corn, gardens, and fruit.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08

DON'T make any one principle a
hobby. Silver is an important issue
greenbacks are a greater issue; land
is the foundation Of all industrial
questions; naturalization is a glori-
Gus hope; and the conversion Of hui
manity to christian principles would
prepare the way for the solution OF
all social problems; but we must work
as we preach; and there are thous.
and vital questions that must be
solved by legislation before the mil.
lenium. Don't shoot all your ammu.
milton at one bird.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08
VOL. ".
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
Belle PIaine.

Corn is growing rapidly.
Where are the rainmakers?
Harvesting is the order Of the day.
Miss Bertha Wiley has new piano.
Stephen COrnwell is in the Strip
looking for location.
Alex Knott shipped car load OF
hogs to Kansas City Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hatfield visited
relatives in Winfield Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry ElmerS were in
Wellington Oh business Saturday.
The wheat is frosted worse in this
vicinity than people thought it was.
Belle Plaine is to have another doc
tor and druggist in the near future.
Elmer Cornwell took load Os new
potatoes to Wellington the last Of the
week.
The Star ladies had a cream and
cake social at Mrs. Mary Downs last
Friday night,
Miss Carrie Bishop visited her father
Saturday. She returned to school in
Oxford Sunday.
There will be a basket meeting held
in the grove south Of town the 5th'
Lords day in Ju'y.
William Hitchcock came down from
ElDOradO and visited his parents Sun
day and Monday.
Mrs. Henry Ferguson is recovering
rapidly under the care of DR.. Wallace,
Of Wellington.
Every one should attend the lecture
given by Elder BrOadus. He certainly
hewS to the line.
Miss Fannie Mckinley, of Udall
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. c. W.
Hatfield Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mr.. Ed FOltz, George Day, Milt Dull
and True Richardson were looking
after their interests in Rock Falls the
first of the week.
Last week was the week Of picnic:
and parties, and space will not per
nit me to give the name of each ont
and tell the particulars.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08
NO. 42.
Whited Sepulehers.

The preacher prayed In woful tone.
for the thief In the felOn's cell
And told Of his punishment here ON earth,
And his endless days In hell:
But the thief that sat In the best front pew,
That he might be seen and heard
Ot the shylock thief OF the helpless poor
The priest uttered never word.
And he told Of the harlot steep,d H. sin,
And the rumSellers awful doom;
And said II they didn't cease 10 Increase
Hell would run short Of room;
But the pirates that have stolen the earth,
And their brothers blood have she'd
The parson smiled as he winked at them,
And never word he said.
Lord. help the preacher. and help the church
When morning sun shall rise,
And cast the veil taat has hidden the sham
Away from the peoples eyes.
And the big thief then. In the best front pew
And the man with the blOOd-stained hand,
Shall stand alone In the daylight clear.
In the sight Of all the land.
Omaha Commonwealth
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08

SPEAKER REEDS conversion to sill
yer is evidently scheme to lead west
ern populists back into republican
ranks by running Reed for president.
Even though he be thoroughly devoted
to silver, that is not the only issue on
which the western people have joined
the new party. We have had enough
of eastern corporation jumping jacks.
The demand Of this period is men
who represent the interests OF the
common people.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08

In speaking Of the Decoration day
address at Medford, the Journal says:
"Mr. BOtkin eulOgized the great lead
els of the armies, but said they could
not nave attained greatness had it
not been for the common soldier, who
he thought was entitled to as much
praise as his general, in Drawing the
brunt OF battle, and said If he had his
way, every man who served his coun-
try in the hour Of peri! should have 3
p,nsiUn."
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08


"HEY, Rube.'
HURRAH for the hayseeds
THE debtor is the man who needs
help.
\ PRIVATE monopoly is u public|
robber.
HONESTY should always carry al
club for raScallty.
COP makes genuine men-false ones
make themselves.
WHERE we work with pleasure, wd
never grow tired.
IT is the police who are told to keep
off the grass in Colorado.
HOPE is the dream of those who ard
awake.-T'erdS SVtingS.
GROVER is wondering II the fishing
is good in the birthstone lake.
1T does not pay to be so meek and
lowly that people step on you.
DEMo-PUBLICAN hypocrisy will tan.
gle its toes in the alfalfa next fall.
The trouble with "bOrn leaders" III
that born followers are growing scarce
KEEP of the hayseeds Grea.
punches of grass from little hayseed
grow.
RESTORE theland to the people wh
will use ii to produce food and buill
homes.
If women are not allowed to y0t
they should not be held responsible
TO the laws.
1t begins to look as though Goveron
Waite might need stills for his wad
ing performance.
Every ''labOr-saving" inyentio|
under our present system, is a labol
starving invention.
The Blackwell 0. T. Lion has me
its Sampson in the long haired edito|
OF the Times Record.
THE haySeeds will raise a crop q
grass IN Washington that is hard
enough to be walked on by the con
mon people.
THE Wichita Eagle is evidently tr,
ing to prove that Christ originate
the republican party. 1t says: "H|
lived and only talked"
Now is the time for Christ to com
to Chicago. The militia is alread
called out, and could kill God an
humanity with the same cannon.
Out Of nearly 800 criminals in tt
Kansas penitentiary, there are onI
fourteen women. There are som
points Of inequality between the sexe
which society does not wish to 81
leveled.-Sfate Ledger.
"GIvE US this day our daily bread
is the prayer of the laborer !, 'Lort
we glorify Thee for thy munidcer
care over us, and for bestowing tl.
abundance Of thy riches upon u.s.
the way the millionoire idIer patro
lies God.
| CONTENTED men do not requi
guards. He'll will be guarded 1
deputy devils, regular devils, poll
devils and the commander-in-chief 4
devils; but there will be no guards
heaven. Men must be forced to st;
in hell, but they are glad to rema
in the land Of brOtherly love.
1t is pity to spoil white paper
recording the proceedings of the 50
congress. History should record
in three line paragraph on the ma
gin OF the page describing the da
days Of this period, ,f-saying:
. +At this time congress was in sessi
1 but its proceedings being unimportant We
not preserved,
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08
POLITICS AND ECCLESIASTICS.
Forerunners Of the Coming Kingdom O
Heaven on Earth.

FOrsrunners Of the Coming Kingdom Of
Heaven on Earth.
A brave preacher, Rev. j. D. Bot
kin, of WellingtOn.-Gdrnett AgitdtOr.
The Wichita Eagle pronOunces Bot
kin blatant demagOgue and hypo-
critic, and Christ a theorlst.
The Western Methodist appears to
think that Bro. BOtkin has comprO-
missed the Lord and disgraced the
pulpit.
The Hutchinson Gazette says BOtkin
is too pOpulistic to suit old party lead
ers-and, by the way, he don't appear
to care whether he pleaSes them or
not.
Hurrah for Rev. BOtkln. He
preached the truth at Belle Plaine,
and the hypOcrites hurried out of the
church like chintz-bugs out Of burn
ing wheat.-Barber County Inder.
The church must either 60 back on
the gospel Of Christ, and reach out
with the hand Of peace and salvation
to the poor and downtrUdden, or they
must permit, without complaint, the
money-changers to again set up their
tables in the sacred temple. At pres
ent the church, as a whole, is only for
the rich.-COmmOner.
Rev. MyrOn W. Reed, of Denver,
made some rather pointed remarks
about the coming Of Christ's kingdom
on earth, in connection with the PAN
demOnium now reigning in this coun-
try of plentitude and starvation last
Sunday, and about half his audience
got up and left the church. Brother
BOtkin has plenty of company. It's
coming. Speak out, preachers.
Rev. BOtkin will address the GAR.
at a city in Oklahoma to-day. And
some hot headed republicans say it is
disgrace to the order. Some OF the
lower instinct of humanity have got
ten it into their unbalanced craniums
that no one except republican should
be allowed to address soldiers gath
ering. They forget that large pOr-
tiOn of the G. A. R. is of pOpu!istic
belief.-MediciEe Lodge Inder,
The thoughtful minister is pro-
gressive man. He will awaken the
church, and when the moral forces Of
the nation see the truth on social
problems as it is, the end will not be
far of. We present herewith two
more evidences that the church is
awakening-Rev. J. X. Miller, of Law
renee, who is conceded to be the finest
pulpit orator in the Kansas confer
ence, and Rev. ]. d. BOtkin, of Well
ington, who has been for years a
leader in the Southwest Kansas con-
ference. e.-JferSOnian.
The Rice county Eagle republishes
the press dispatch in regard to Rev
j, D. BOtkin'S lecture, and says
REV. Botkin is one Of the strongest
and best speakers in the state-a reg
ular stem-winder, and a man that car
be tied to every secular day in the
week, as we'll as Sunday. Such scenes
as took place in Belle Plaine are re-
membered in the tlfties by all the
older men. And history gives an &C
count Of how Christ, when on earth
in similar place, so maddened the
same class that they sought to xii
Him. and finally accomplished theil
purpose. Hurrah for Bro. Botkin
) Wish we had more ministers like him
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-08
A SUBSCRIBER

"RIGHT after the war;" said Put
nam county, Indiana, farmer to a
friend Of the One-HOss, II took 100
bushels Of wheat to the railroad sta
station, and received for it $3.50. !
paid $40 for Studebaker wagon, $40
for taxes, and took home 800. Last
year my son, who is operating the
farm, took 100 bushels Of wheat to
the same station. got $50 for it, paid
it all for taxes on the farm, got no
wagon (nOw selling for s6Ol, and took
no money home" The reader can see
what glorious thing it is to have an
"honest dollar" Kick the old parties
out!-COming Nation.