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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

THE equinoctial storm was hum
mer in the north and west, but III
Kansas our Italian climate was dis
turhed only by cold winds, the result
of proximity to colder country. In
this connection 1t occurs to us that if
tie high tariff republicans of Kansas
woRla step "Chinese WalP' building
tie keep cheap and nasty goods out of
this eenntfs, and turn their attention
Itp providing wind brakes to ward off
tbs Dakota hfiEzards and Texas hot
winds, that much more would be ac
eoIhrlishea for the good of the state.
Kansas is all right primarily. but nn-
fortunately we are sandwiched be-
tween two weather breeders. which
keeps as guessing a-%inter and a sum
mer. II we can only fence against
Dakota bligZfrds and Texas hot winds
and appropriate the waters of Colo
radios mountain streams for irrigation
purposes and boycott Missouri fire
water sometimes mistakenly used for
irrigation purposes) we may be happy
yet.--Newton Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL Services every Sun
~ day morning and evening Sunday School 81
$50 a m Young peoples meeting Sunday even
ings; Prayer meeting Thursday evenings
j c. HALL. Pastor
PRESBYTERIAN Services every Sabbath at a
am and $50 p. N. Sunday school st S.55 a ID.
Teachers meeting every Tuesday evening
Prayer meeting Thursday evening.
W II HILLS. Pastor.
(tONGREG ATIONAL Services every Sabbath Al
- IO.45 and 1850. Sunday school at 11.s5. 1oung
peoples meeting Sunday evening, prayer meeting
Thursday evening
EPISCOPAL Services at German NJ E church
IL 2d and 4th Sunday in each month, uorning
and evening, the usual hours Sunday School
every Sunday at $50 a m
REV. WM- RICHMOND, Rector
q ERMAN II. &. Broadway Preaching every
- Sunday except I'd and 18th of each month. At
II a m Sunday School every Sunday at $50 a ID
Prayer meeting and singing exercises every Wed
nesday TO H c. WOENER, Pastor
CHRISTIAN Services in the wilmer building,
~ opposite school house every two weeks, st II a.
IN and 7:30 p IN. Sunday school At $50 a
CATHOLIC Services second. fourth and 9Th
Sunday School AT 10 every Sunday
GERMAN EVANGELICAL (UNITEDl. Ser
vices every weeks. Sunday schoo. every
Sunday. Conformation studies every Wednesday
and Saturday al p N al new church southeast
REV H KUPFERNAGEL- Pastor
BAPTIST Services every Sunday ST II l. N and
- p. m Prayer meeting Thursday night Sun
isy School 10 n m Covenant meeting, p m
Saturday before the fTss Sunday. 81 G. A E hall
z " ARMSTRONG pas1"r
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29
Notice of Final Settlement.

B RaS, State o0 of Kansas IS.
In the Probate Court in and for said
County
Deceased
Creditors and other persons interested in the
aforesaid Estate are hereby notified that 1 shall
apply to the Probate Court. in and for said County,
SITTING at the Court House, in Great Bend County
# Barton, stale of Kansas, tn 2OIh day of April
a ID 1894 for full and final settlement OF said
NARY A FORD. Administering of the
Estate of Henry j. Ford, deceased
March Goth. a ID. 1894. Ii
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29
Notice For Publication.
Land Omce at Dodge City. Kans

Land Omce at Dodge City. Kans.,
February 26 1894
NOTICE is hereby given that The following
AIMED settler has Fl notice of his intention
make lal proof suppurt of his claim, and that
said proof will be made before the Probate Judge
of Barton County. kansas, at Great Bend, Kansas
April 18th 1894 viz:
Daniel A. A her, for the n. E, = If Section "a,
in Township %, 5 nth of Range IA West.
He names the foli' wing witnesses 10 prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation of said
land, viz P. Ayers, j. Hurbert. Henry
~ Ter nd j. e " gathers, all of Great Bend kans-
500 JNO. L. LEE, X gister.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

IT IS pitiful story, that story OF
how a wicked little schoolgirl led a
poor, innocent Congressman of AZ years
astraY, and kept him astray for ten
years, and made him do all sort of silly
and wicked things against bis will.
1t would be hard to find mere pitiable
object than Willie Breckenridge ad-
hitting. with painful embarrassment,
that he was seduced into villainy and
coaxed and frightened into false
promises 10y horrid young girl st.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

SINCE woman suffrage was adopted
in Wyoming divorce cases have increas-
ed in the state 80 per cent.--Omaha
Bee. 1t is too bad that such Is the
case. Politics makes bitter enemies
among men, and at the best sdegrad-
ing. Itcommences to look as if politics
was paramount to everything else, and
only few years are between home and
hades.-Burlingto Independent.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29
Notice For Publication.

Land Office at Dodge City, Kansas,
March 23rl. 1894.
NOTICE is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice OF his intention To
make final proof in support of his claim. and that
such proof will be In de before the Clerk OF the
District Court of Barton County, Kansas. at Great
Bind. Kansas. May II. 1894, viz:
Thomas j. GIrwoOd, Homestead Entry No 1854,
for the n. w y of Section 20, Township 10 South
Range IL West.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon and cultivation OF said
land, viz
j. A. Stanley of State Center kans., Fritz Wit
emberg and Joseph Croft Of Alliance, Kans., and
Alex Jones of CIatiin, kans.
10 JNO L LEE, Register.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

and others interested in the East India
and China trade, the London Cham
bers OF Commerce has represented to
, the government the urgent necessity
for the reassembling o f the inter
national monetary conference, with a
view to finding some remedy for the
heavy fall and violent fluctuations in
silver, which are represented as caus-
ing grave injury to eastern trade.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

''IF David b. Hill is in favor of pro-
lection what is he doing in the demo-
cratic party?" aptly inquiries the
Wichita Beacon. Dave is not doing
much of anything-only proving that
the democrats made no mistake when
they sat down on him and his Fam
many followers IN the last natfshal
convention.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

remain in Topeka during the session of
the next legislature. Kansas has been
nurt more by fool laws than by cyclones
or billiards or drouths or grasshoppers-
Every body knows or ought to know,
of the Creator, is all right.-Le Roy
Reporter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

SIXTEEN New York election inspect
ors were, on the 9th. fined and SEN
fenced to the county Jail and state
pentertiary. Possible New L rk poll
tics may be purified to some extent-in
course of time.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

WHAT lovely" man Hon. NJ. w.
Cobun is in the eyes of the Barton
county republicans the moment he
comes out as an anti-fusionist and
insults the democrats who so earnestly
worked to secure him all the honors to
which he has attained! It is truly
wonderful. We would not be surprised
to see the HoisingtOn Dispatch come
out for Hon NJ. w. Cobun for congress
or something.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

THE Judge of the district court at
Denver. Colo. has decided the bone of
contention in the Denver muddie. in ia
vor of Coy. Waite; that is, that he had
g right to remove ;hs old board of
police commissioners.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

THE president recognized the Ger
man press of the state by appointing
Herman VonLangen, publisher of the
Topeka Telephone, to be register of
the Topeka land Office. The friends of
MIR. VonLangen in Barton county will
be glad to hear of this appointment.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

Some low-down political york is
being resorted to in this county. II
will only act as boomerang to those
who are doing the dirty work. Heis-
ngton Dispatch.
WHY don't you expose it, Ira? If
the republican papers of Barton county
had, in the past, sat down on the low
down political work" that has been
done in that party, the party would be
in better shape in the county today.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

FUNsToE's fog horn is now slienced,
so far making any more discordaHt
noise in the o s. House of represent
atives is concerned. Congressman
Moore, the democrat who was fairly
elected, is seated in Funston's stead.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

Our Lakin township democrat gave
Hon. NJ. w. Cobun 'hot stuff" in last
weeks DEMOCRAT and his letter is
widely commented upon as being right
to the point. Whether there is ever
fusion between the democrats and pop
ulists of Kansas or not, land We do
not think there will beg, Mr.. Cobun was
certainly not called upon to air his
sense of Humiliation" upon receiving
the voluntary endorsement of Barto n
county democrats.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

Come in and order the SUNDAY
P.'st-Dispatch 1t and the DEMOCRAT
fer 81 IS a year-sS 80 worth OF
good reading tor so cents nD the dol
lar-haif price.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

THE windmill and reservoir is the
lord of creation in this section at
PRESENT. is creating a veritable
Garden, of Eden along the upper Ar
kansas.-GardenC City Sentinel.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

PRENDERGAST. the murderer of
Mayor Harrison of Chicago, did not
hang. as be- should have done On the
23d If ever there was tardy justice
this case of it,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

AN EASTERN outfit wants 20 ship
1000 babies into Kansas. You may
bring your jewels and precious stones
from the Orient to Kansas, your purple
and fine linen, your frankincense and
myrrh, your mahogany and marble
but babies-why they grow wild in
Kansas and without CIVILIZATIONS; just
spring up around the doors of the farm
houses and in the yards. of city homes
like grass in spring. Kansas Is the
babies own eountry.-Kans. City Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

The reports, even in republican
papers, of the various political ''boomsS
and of the actions of politicians look
ing after their interests" is disgusting.
Is the republican party party of wire
pullers? Is the only way to politica
preferment through braZen schemingp
-McCracken Enterprise.
THAT is just about the size of it,
friend Newton. When good men like
yourself eventually find out that is all
there is to Kansas republicanism of the
present. day they will pull loose from the
scheming party and lend their efforts
to breaking up its brazen wire pulling.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

kipau< Tahuies prnlong life.
Ripans Tsb11les for torpid liver.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

THE Kansas immigration company,
which has filed its charter with the
Secretary of State. ought to make
arrangements with the fool killer to
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Worlds Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.

Get your dinner at the Silver
Nom. Rest aurant.J J. Herm =
Proprietor.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29

G. a. a.
Pap Thomas Post No 81, meets every first and
third Saturday evenings, at G. A r. Hail.
N NIckeEsOn, P. C.
Nj. b. Fftts, Agt.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29
Children Cry for
Pitchers CaStoFia.

Frcsu-e t's lr4 seI veis ~. on. w ,-re-Ieresd
ufsctuEer> UIdiiisrys Gus feeling has
TAT the unsafe by the
In years hTs AID clones the AeTroor iosS
wheel. vltls the To-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29
Z. of 2.

&. of p
Woodland Lodge No. 81, meets every THURSDAY
evening" at their Castle HAli, over FaTInt rs ana
Merchants Bank NJ Caraway, C u
Henry Born, b. OF Il & ).
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29
Select Kniuhts. a. o. u. " .

haoguIIions.-
Meet at X. p. hall any Tu-spay night that
victim be captured.
VIII E Carr, Master MOgul-
Geo Crummack. QullidrIver.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-03-29
Odd Fellows.
a. O. Cd. ~.

a. o. q. W.
Great Bend Lodge. No Is7, meets at K Of
naIl, every Tuesday evening All VISITING
brothers cordially invited to attend.
W. E. Carr, NJ W.
Geo. CTummack, Rec
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-11-16

NEWSPAPER advertising is fast takino
ing the place of any kind of advertis-
ing among progressive merchants.
Tins Is reasonable when a person re-
meets little. 1t is poor paper
indeed that has not thousand read
ers. 10 those it goes fifty-two times a
year. II 1t be weekly paper. Tt is
taken into the home. 1t is read and
re-read by every member of the house
hold-and the neighbo:s too. who
drop IN to just look at the miserable
sheet. Otherwise it is with a hand
Dill. Usually the hand bills are hand
ed out on the streets, left on the porch
or stuck IN behind the door knob. If
d. man takes one on the street he GEN
orally glances at it to see what it is
ana throws 1T away. The ones left on
Che porches and behind the door knobs
are generally lost. Advertisements in
puonc places and on fences are never
read. Not so with advertisements in
hewspapers-they are read more gen
eraiiy now than ever. Advertising
wrltihg has become profession in the
large cities and advertisement are gen
orally the best written part of the pa
per. This has stimulated the public
TO read advertisements.-Ex.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-11-16
More Public Lands.

AS result of a decision Of the sec
rotary of the interior several thousand
acres of land in Chehalis county
which for the past six years has been
held by the Northern Pacific Railroad
company as indemnity, have been
thrown open to entry, and people are
making the most of the opportunity
and securing homestead and timber
claims, However, the big mill com
panies have men in the field to take
advantage of the richly timbered
acres. During and previous to the
year 1888 there were about sixty an
plicants for this land, both timber and
homesteads, but these We're suspended
by the land office at Seattle PENDING
the appeal of the railroad company
for possession of the tracts as indem-
nifty lands. The commissioner of the
general land office decided against the
railroad company and now the Secre
tary of the interior has affirmed the
decision of the commissioner. Several
OF these original applicants have left
the country and their prior rights
will stand should they return. while
II not, the land is open to entry. the
same as other portions of the public
domain.-Palladium.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-11-16

FRUIT growing in Washington is a
matter that interests all alike and in
its development is one of the leading
factors that is going to obviate the
lil-eflects of low-priced wheat. The
state board of horticulture has sue
ceeded i'll organizing branch societies
in the principal producing localities
throughout the state, and through
these expects to develop the industry
Systematically and profitably. Re-
ports from these various societies have
been gathered by the board retstive to
the yield and prospects of Che present
season, and from these an estimate of
the value of the output is made at So
100000, considerable increase over
1898, Notwithstanding the fact that
low prices have ruled generally. In
the eastern part of the state the en-
tire fruit ceop was large Prunes
were agood crop in the prune districts
and berries and all small fruits Weld
ed well on the Son Id Walla Walla.
Whitman, Yakima and Clarke coun-
ties have sent large consignments to
the eastern markets and fair prices
are being paid in the Sound markets
for fruit we'll put up. The board adj
vlses the planting of an increased
average OF winter apples, and judging
from visit to the various commission
houses, there is plenty of room for i'm
provement in this direction, provided
growers will produce a superior quality
of fruit. While there is plethora of I
apples offering in the market at this
time, it is a noticeable fact that in |
desirable grades there is a marked
scarcity and that choice apples are
commanding a good premium. The
superiority of Washington fruit over
from other portions of |
the coast IS also noticeable, and the
recommendations of the board will, if |
lntelllgently acted upon, prove of great |
value to producers, dealers and con-
alike.-WesL Coast Trade.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-11-16
POpulism and the Republic.

The astonishingly large vote cast by
the Populists in Georgia has alarmed
a good many people who forget the
history of the rise and fall of politi-
cal and economic heresies in this
country. 1t is true that the danger of
populism is not to be moderated, and
1T is on the whole, better to be too
much than too little afraid of it. But
populism is merely a new symptom of
an old trouble. Perhaps it is the most
serious SYMPTOM that has yet appeared.
Populism is the expression of the dis
content of the unthrifty. 1t does not
matter what it demands, whether free
coinage, or paper money, or govern
ment loans to the farmers on their
crops, or government ownership of
railroads, the cause of populism is the
feeling of those VINO have little money
that the government ought to help
them to more. This feeling has been
intensified and emhittered by certain
acts of the federal government W ich
have seemed to the discontented to
evince an undue care for those already
rich. The chief cause of populism,
in It's present phase, has been trusts
and monopolies. The republican
party is populist party in Kansas,
and the democratic party is populist
Georgia. The republicans help the
protested populist in Alabama, while
the democrats do the same in the
Northwest. Some day, perhaps, the
two parties will divide on the cur
rency question, but that day has not
yet arrived. Populism does not en-
danger the existence of the republic,
but in it are the potentialities of OBJ
structed progress, of commercial dis
aster, OF individual distress and ruin.
The sooner and more thoroughly it is
met and enlightened, In whatever
form it appears, the better for every
man who lives by his own industry.
for the country and for civilization
itself.-Ex.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-11-16
Against the Debtor.

Robert Montgomery sends the fol-
lowing communication to the Sumner
Herald:
"There is law on the statute books
of the state of Washington on which
is severely felt by our debtor class of
citizens in these times of financial de-
preston. / refer to sec. $40, Hills
Code. By reference to sec. 6l2 1t
will be seen that the mortgage on a
piece of property is not exhausted by
the sale of the mortgaged property,
but any balance not satisfied may be
held as lien against the mortgagor
on any other property he may possess
or any property he may acquire in the
future.
GAS an example as to the way this
law works injury to an individual;
Let us suppose that in prosperous
times A has lend B $4,000 and taken
a mortgage on piece OF property val
ued at $4,000. The financial de-
preston comes on and is unable to
meet the interest due on the mort
gage. A forecloses; sale is made of
the property and as there is absolute
ly no market for it A is the only bid
der; he buys it in at$5 900, and retains
a claim-a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS B for
the balance of his mortgage, viz: T5,-
600, and costs, amounting to perhaps
$4,000.
"The law seems to have been enacted
in territorial days expressly for the
sharper to take advantage of the nee
essities and distresses of the honest
settler who desires to secure home
for himself and family. He expends
his small capital for homestead, but
bOrrows money to prove his property,
little dreaming that he is binding him
self hand and foot for all time to
come.
"There are hundred honest farm
ers all over the fair state in this hope
less condition, their homes gone, and
a surplus debt hanging over their
heads, despelling all hope for the flu
ture."
This law operates against the honest
debtor, and should be changed. The
money loaners always demand security
several times in excess of the money
loaned, and this deficiency judgment
law is an injustice aud should be re-
pealed.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-11-16
What an ''Inch of rain means.

Few people can form a definite idea
OF what is involved in the EXPRESSION
IAN inch of rain" 1t may aid much
to follow this curious calculation !.
An acre is equal to 6,272,640 square
inches; an inch deep of water on this
area Will be as many cubic inches Of
water, which, at 227 to the gallon, is
22,OOO gallons. This immense ouan-
tlty OF water will weigh 100000
pounds, or 100 tons. One-hundredth
OF an inch (O.OD alone is equal to one
ton OF water to the acre.-Republic.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-11-16
Coming to Washington.

Moses Folsom, immigration agent of
the Great Northern, in an interview
with a Post-Intelligencer reporter.
says: at surprises one to know how
many people there are who are talking
or coming west, and if all should
come who want to come, we would be
bringing good many train loads of
settlers into Washington. Our work
is almost altogether done with indivi
duals, people who are in earnest in
their desire to make new homes for
for themselves in this new country.
and L need not say that we are making
every effort to induce these people to
make change
Il am now giving my entire person
al attention to this state. and more
particularly to the matter of fruit
growing. Washington fruit is nearer
to the mouths. of 100000 of people
than is that of California, and it is a
better fruit, for it has the great adj
vantage of frosts, which seem to be so
necessary to the perfect favoring and
aroma of deciduous fruits. The pre-
vallihg hard times throughout the
country have, OF course, affected very
seriously the immigration business.
but with the easing up of money mat
tiers, which will certainly come some
time' but how soon we can't tell, we
expect to have all we can do in hand
ling settlers for the west, and particu-
larly for Washington"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-11-16
The Mason County Journal.
!. c ANGLE, Editor and Proprietor
City & County Official Paper.

NOTICE TO PRINTERs.-The JOURNAL
has extra material and machinery for
sale, to fit out first-class news paper
or job office, or both, consisting of
Hand, jobber, and proof press, paper
cutter; a big lot of body type, display
and job fonts in cases, furniture, leads,
slugs, cutter, racks, stones-in fact
material to fit out good plant. For
sale cheap and on good terms.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-11-16

E. Cross Post No. 80, GAR.
Meets inI. o. o. z. hall first and tI.iri Saturday
i s.itH VI eacA month. Comrades are cordially
r. DUNBAR, n ! Ar1I.>
Adjutant Con,randa.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-11-16

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Most Perfect Made.