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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-18
Senate Committees.


President Daniels. of the senate, an
nounced the following standing com
mittees on the 18th:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., chairman: billiard
OBryan, Cook, Baldwin. Leeds, Carpenter,
Brown. Thatcher.
Ways and means-Rodgers. chairman: Dunn
BAUD. King, Forney, Landis Parker. McTag
CART
Elections-Leedy, chairman; Bowling. Shear
er. Smith, Scott
Federal relations-Dillard chairman; Hell.
mick, Reed, Williamson. Metcalf
Observation-Disclosures chairman; Sem
Reilly, Leedy, Helm, Jumper, Sterne. Danner
Robbins.
Assessment and taxation-Senn. chairman
True, Armstrong, Willcockson. Morgan.
Fees and salaries-Taylor,c chairman; Jumper
Lands, Baker. Willcockson.
Municipal NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. chairman
Forney, Leeds, Householder, Price, McTag.
CART, Carpenter.
True, Cook. Parker.
State affairs-Helm, chairman; Tayl Smith
Williamson, Thacher.
District observation-disclosures. chairman:
Leeds, DenniSon, billiard. Reed, Rodgers, Car
penter, Brown, Williamson.
Engrossed bills-Forney, chairman; Cook
Helm, Danner, O'Bryan.
Enrolled NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. smith, sem
Carpenter, Scott.
Agriculture-King. chairman; Armstrong
Shearer. Robbins, McTaggart. Cook Leeds
Brown and WilcocksOn.
Temperance-MOrgan, chairman; Baldwin
Helmick, Taylor, Williamson
Penal and charitable institutions-Arm-
strong, chairman; Reed, Reilly, Metcalf, Nc
Taggart
Manufactures and industrial pursuits-Reil-
", chairman; Bowling, Forney, McTaggart
Sterne
Mine and mining-Reed, chairman; Jumper
Householder. Baker, Morgan.
Banking and inSurance-Baldwin, chairman;
Lands, Leedy, Sterne, Price.
Printing-Cook. chairman; Landis House
holder, Scott, Parker.
Education and educational institutions
Lands, chairman; Dumbauld, Baldwin, King
Danner.
Public buildings - Dumbauld. chairman;
Helm, Leedy, Sem. Rodgers.
Cities of first claSs-Thacher. chairman;
billiard, DenniSon, Price, Taylor, Forney
Sterne.
Cities of second and third class-Shearer
chairman billiard, Scott, Price, WillcocksOn
Reilly. Baldwin.
Roads and bridges-Smith. chairman; Taylor
Helmick, banner. Scott.
County seats and county lineS-True, chair
man: Dennison, Jumper. Brown. Morgan.
Military affairs and claimS-Helmick, chair
man: Rodgers, Bowling, Robbins. Metcalf-
Public health and immigratiOn-Metcalf,
chairman; Armstrong, True, DUmbauid, Nc
TaggarE
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CliDpinEs.

The New York Tribune fears that
the offense of perjury has become SO
common and so venial that conscience
less men have no fear of being pun
ished for it, and prosecuting officers &C
count it too trivial for notice. What is
worse, perhaps, the deliberate purjur-
er is not made to feel the force of the
public scorn and contempt he SO richly
merits.
Rev. NJ. Hamilton, of Bradshaw,
Neb., had to be absent from his pulpit
the other Sunday. His wife took his
place and gave great satisfaction to the
congregation.
A tramp upon reading that it is the
fashionable fad in New York and Bos-
ton to go without ones breakfast re-
marked that ''the fashionable fad with
his class for some time was to go with
out breakfast, dinner and supper"
Gen. Naring Escabado has offered
bis service to President Diaz in case of
war with Guatemala, saying he is
ready to serve in any capacity, leaving
the command to younger generals.
The year 1887 was the banner year in
railroad construction, 1900 miles OF
track being laid. This year only 1913
miles were built, the lowest credited
70 any previous year since 1875.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-18

were issued for the construc-
ton of schoolhouses under the
authority of the statutes, bearing
interest at the rate of 10 per cent. per
annum for period of not more than
five years, and their sale forbidden at
a price less than so cents on the dollar.
Many could not place their bonds at all
under this 20 per cent. limit of dis
count. Even as late as 1S6s the city of
Leavenworth. with its known wealth
and prestige as the metropolis of Kan
sas, found it difficult to sell $4,000 of
its bonds to erect a high school build
ing at this legal limit of discount
''Since that date the state has had a
strange, almost weird history and ex-
perience. Prosperity and adversely
have followed each other in quick sue
cession- We have had whitening
droughts and devastating insects;
Blooms of prosperity and phenomenal
speculation, followed by 'boomerangs'
of adversely and stagnation. We have
touched the keystone in the arch of
hope and sat upon the mudsill
at the base of despair. But from
the worst or all of these we
have suffered far less than from
the virus of unrest, discomfort and dis
loyalty injected into our blood by the
hand of an evil genius, to poison manly
courage and self-reliant energy at the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-18

fountain of its source. We have been
tempted to dispise the methods and
look with contempt upon the legitimate
fruits of honest industry and individual
enterprise; to lean upon the govern
ment and demand from it that which
can alone be obtained through personal
industry and rigid economy. The les
son taught in the framing of our nom
paternal government that: "A people
governed least is governed best" seems
to have remained unlearned still.
"Yet, with all this, the fact remains,
that Kansas has moved steadily on its
course up to the stars 1t is safe to
say as a truth that so large a measure
of prosperity, so rapid an accumul a.
ton of wealth and surrounding
physical comforts has never realized
from like investment of money and
labor, in the history of human en-
deavor, as has been accomplished here
in Kansas since her admission into the
union. Then we had scarcely 100, ZOO
population, now we have 1,400, 600.
Then the total assessed valuation
of property was s24, 744, 563, now it is
$685.. sol. 722. The total taxes of 1861
was only $40, 1886. So, in 1898 it was 3d.
1O2, 794. The entire wealth of the state
as shown by the United States census
reports was about 81, 500, 10000 The
center of population was at the east
boundary line of Douglas county; now
it is at the west line of Dickinson
county. Then there was not line of
operated railroad within the state; now
we have s,9Os miles, only Illinois and
Pennsylvania of all the states exceed
ing this in mileage.
ION these lines of transcontinental
and lateral railways have sprung up
more than 100 centers of population
and business, cities, the least of which
contain more than thousand people,
and in the aggregate 3s1, 173, domiciled
in thrift and comfort, with churches,
school houses, court houses, water and
light plants, not equalled in towns of
like populations in any of the original
states of this union. More than two
thirds of these cities have increased in
population during the past year, not
withstanding the existing depression.
The national land endowment of our
educational institutions has been man
aged by wise legislation and prudent
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-18

at 1910 o'clock he began to read from
manuscript as follows:
Fellow Citizens: A third of a CEN
fury has passed since Kansas entered
the sisterhood of states. 1t is an APP
propriate time to review its history and
to mark its progress. l ask your in
diligence, therefore, while / briefly
compare its status on the 29th of Janu-
airy, 1861, with the conditions which
now surround it.
The measure of dignity and strength
in statehood attained by common
wealth will ever be found co-equal with
the measure of love and devotion borne
to it by its citizens. The respect of
mankind for a state can no more rise
above the respect of the state for itself,
than can public respect for a man rise
above his own self-respect. 1t may
well be said that the duty of a man to
defend and protect the good name of his
family can only be second to his duty
to defend and protect the good name
of his state.
1.-THE life and experience of Kansas
has fairly verified the legend upon its
great seal as an inspired prophecy. 1t
has indeed, climbed up to the stars
through difficulties In its progress it
has met and mastered obstacles that
would have crushed and conquered
less forceful and selfreliant civilization.
Faithful to its divine purpose, Kansas
put more volunteer soldiers in the
union army than it had male citizens
of military age; and no stronger proof
of their devotion to the old flag and
their bravery on the field of battle
could be given than the simple fact
that the rate of mortality of the Kan
sas soldiers was greater than that of
any other state. At the close of that
great struggle it found its industries
decimated; it had neither agri-
culture, trade or commerce. Its
chief city, on its eastern border, con-
tanned more than a fifth of the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-18

administration, known in the expert
ence of no other state, until we have
an interest-bearing common school
fund, in bonds and land contracts, of
1866, 993; an agricultural college fund
of $500, 927.3 IS; a state university fund
of $40, 73l, and state normal school
fund of S137,2l1. The state university
has received added endowment, by be-
quest, of greater sum than that from
the government, but which is not in
cluded in the aggregate amount of in
terest-bearing funds, making a grand
total of all funds, sacred to education,
of $40, 467, $50; the annual income from
which, at per cent, amounts to the
sum of S62s, OIL. 10, as a current fund to
aid in the problem of education.
There have been constructed 9,OsS
public school houses, at an aggregate
cost of SO, 7O3, EOS, and chiefly by the
sale of district bonds, about $4,000, 900
of which have been paid and cancelled.
In these buildings are employed 11,sss
teachers, at a cost of s., O6O, 459 As a year;
the total tax levied and collected for
common school purposes being So, $780,
CSC. IL per annum. The total sum paid for
educational purposes for the past year
in the state being about S., 900. In
1890 we had 4, $50 church organizations,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-18

The investment OF the permanent school
fund OF the state is a matter Of grave public
concern. and IL should be guarded very care
fully. There are about 100000 in this fund.
Several hundred thousand dollars OF this
money are reinvested every year. Too much
care cannot be taken in the quality OF the Sc
curities purchased. The safety Of the fund is
OF the highest importance, and should be pro-
tected more sacredly than even the funds in
the state treasury.
During the boom period, In Kansas, while
values we're inflated, large amounts Of bonds Of
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-18

Northumberland. Secretary of State.
capital and productive industries of
the state. There existed neither pub
lie nor private credit wherewith to en-
ter upon a new career of prosperity. A
state bond could not have been placed
at less than a ruinous discount, if
at all, in any money market of the
country, and municipal credit was a
thing unknown, outside of our own
boundaries. State officers and en-
ployes, like those of cities and counties,
were paid in promises to pay. Orders
were drawn on an empty treasury,
which, under the provisions of the law,
could be presented to the treasurer,
and when by him Endorsed mot paid
for want of funds, bore interest at the
rate of per cent. per annum until
paid The Understanding scrip was
sold upon the street at discount from
its face value of 10 to 20 per cent, al
though provided for by current levy
and practically sure of being paid
within a year. School district bonds
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r. -.
Attorney-GenersL Supt Public Instruction
with 1854 buildings valued at S7,447,-
500.
There have been expended for state
buildings the following sums, nearly
all of which have been paid for from
current levies in cash: State univer-
sity, $500, 900; agricultural college,
$50, $50; state normal school, 1927, S75;
school for the blind, SIS, 449, school for
the deaf and dumb, S144, $50; asylum
for the insane at Topeka, $685.
37s; at Osawatomie, $500, 900; asy-
lum for imbeciles, S29,O7s SOL
diers' orphans home, $40, SOL; Ioform
school, S119,s63; penitentiary, $685.
700; state house, s., 900, 900; reformatory,
$50, 900; industrial school for girls,
$40, 700; Grand Army home, $4,000;
making a total of Sc, 152, 2s4, to which
add state expenditure of S779,s91 in
construction of university, normal
and agricultural college buildings, and
we have a grand total of Sc, 9S2, 175, of
which but $780, was derived from
state bonds not yet due and 1872, 175
paid from the pockets of the people for
the permanent and lasting use of the
generations to follow US.
There can be no more complete
refutation, no more emphatic condem-
nation of the organized and persistent
assaults upon the fair fame, good name
and business credit of the people of
Kansas than is found in the simple re-
cital of facts Ihave given in your hear
ing. In the light of this record of phe-
nomenal progress let every lover of the
state, every one with faith in its future,
gather comfort and courage"
THE STATE OFFICERS SWORN IN.
Having concluded his address, the
new governor and the other state Off
GERS were sworn in by Chief Justice
Horton.
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MORRILL's MESSAGE.
His First Communication to the
Kansas Legislature.
The Wonderful Progress of the State Since
Its Admission Iato the Union-What
the State Needs at
Present.

TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 15.-Gov. Morrill,
sent his message to the Kansas legisla-
ture to-day, which is as follows:
To the Senate and House of Representatives Of
the State OF Kansas:
1 think it may not be deemed inappropriate
to say to you that while appreciate the high
honor conferred upon me by the people of
Kansas in selecting me as the chief executive
Of the state for the coming two years, am not
unmindful Of the grave responsibilities that
will devolve upon me, and should
hardly have courage to undertake them
did l not feel that in every honest
effort I may make to give to the people
Of the state good government shall have your
hearty and undivided support third Of a
century has passed since Kansas was admitted
into the union, and you meet in this session
under conditions strikingly in contrast with
those that presented themselves to the first
state legislature Of Kansas. There has been q
wonderful increase in wealth and population, a
wholly changed condition Of things demand
ing an entirely different consideration of
affairs. You will pardon me IL l remind you
that weighty responsibilities rest on you, and
upon your action will largely depend the sue
cess OF the present administration.
1 am not aware that there is any demand
from the people for a radical change in the
laws. but they do ask for relief from excessive
taxation; that the expenses of the state shall
be reduced to the lowest possible point con-
sistent with wise and economical admins
tration of the state government Owing to the
financial panic, through which the country has
passed during the last years. in some respects
the severest that has ever been known. and
the partial failure OF crops for the same period,
there has been a serious depression in values
and a decreased demand for labor which rem
ders our burdens far more oppressive than
they would be in years OF prosperity. 1t
should be "A source Of hearty cong ratulation to
all that Kansas has passed through the terri
bic crisis with so few failures, and so little to
discourage citizens.
While legislative enactments are important
in opening the channels OF trade. in stimulating
industries. in protecting the individual in his
life and property and his right to pursue hap
piness according to his own judgment, there
are laws of trade which will control business
and which cannot be repealed by any statute
OF any legislative body. The waters of the
river, obeying the law of gravitatiOn, will
flow to the sea. and while the building of dams
or putting in distractions may retard the cur
rent, il will not change its course, nor can it
stop its flow. Wise legislation would provide
for the removal OF the driftwood and snags in
order to accelerate the current. So industry
and economy wisely directed will always find
their reward in a measure, regardless of what
human laws may decree. Still it is a recog
nized fact that legislation may disturb and re-
strict trade.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-18
GOV. MORRILL,.
The New Executive of Kansas In
augurated.
Interesting Ceremonies in the Capitol at
TOpeka-A Large Crowd IN Attend
ance-The Inaugural Address
State Onlcers Sworn In.

Topeka, Kan, Jan. l5.-Shortly after
noon yesterday, in the presence of a host
of people from all parts of the state,
which was gaily decorated, Maj. Z. n.
Morrill, was sworn in as governor of the
state of Kansas His appearance at
the stand to deliver his inaugural ad-
dress was the signal for applause, and
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-18

The British steamer Rowan has foun-
dered in the Bay of Biscay. One of
her boats containing six men alive and
two dead has been picked up. The
other boat, which was launched with
seven men, including the first officer,
has been lost
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-12

adjusted by non-partisan measure,
u REIMBURSEMENT of party lines seems
inevitable, for it is an issue that will
not down at any mans bidding.
Now, now, Mr.. Tribune! Last
fall just after election the Pops,
John Lind and all silver lunatics
were killed and buried forever.
But now, even the Minneapolis
Tribune has found out that the
silver issue twill not down at
any mans bidding
Well, lot the Minneapolis Tri-
bune keep right on, in the name
Of Cleveland, Rothschild l. Co.,
to drive all the John Linds and
other reform cranks out of the
party. The fact is, that the
gold-bug organs OF the 6. .. P.,.
have already driven out, or
relegated to the rear, the ablest
mer of the party, and hence they
have to rely ON a democratic
President to save the country.
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If any Of our subscribers do not
receive the paper please let us
know. 1t is quite a job to mail
1900 copies for tenderfoots. In
a little while we will have the pro-
cess down to system, and then
there will be no trouble.
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DR.. G. NJ. Stanton, the great Mag.
netic Healer, is located, for a short
stay at the Lake Ripley House, Litch-
field, MINI. All persons suffering
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lie does not use drugs or medicine of
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he, solicits those cases that have been
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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-12

Did you read the valuable let
ter Of Mrs. Stamford on butter
making in last week g issue of
Willmar Tribune? Ofconrse you
did. Now aren't the suggestions
in that letter worth more than a
dollar to you? OF course, of
course, hear every farmers wife
say. Now Willmar Tribune was
started to bring out just such
excellent home talents as Mrs.
Stamford and other able writer's
for the Tribune possess. The
editor knew beforehand that
there were able writer's on all
subjects belonging to q newspa-
per in Kandiyohi county who
would gladly contribute if given
a chance in the right kind of a
paper. From the contents of
Wi|lmar Tribune it is evident
that we have not overestimated
the intellectual ability of Kandi-
.yohi county I,iterati. The edi-
tor invites contributions from
anybody who has anything OF in
terest to offer. He does not ask
whether you are a republican,
democrat, prohibitionist or pop
ulist, nor whether you are a Luth.
cram, Catholic, Methodist. or he.
long toany other sect or religion,
but simply that you contribute
something that tends to the ma
ter1al, moral and intellectual ele.
walton Of mankind in general
and kandiyohi county in parti.
cu|ar: To such heavyweights az
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right and Others the editor is o.
course ever SO much obliged, and
hopes they will not be weary il
we'll doing.
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President OF the State Farmers
Alliance, Hon. G: T. Vermilya,, OF
Dover, Olmstead Co., writes us
as follows:
''The WillmarT Tribune is before
me, bright, newsy and clean, just
what every county should have.
Let every Alliance man take hold
and make this paper a success. -
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SOME BARGAINS.

| will sell at cost:
Owens No. 4 Seed Cleaners,
Tiger Shoe Drills, Evens Lever
Harrows, Keller's Boss Har-
rows, Monitor Breakers and
Stubble Flows, Two Horse Guilt.
vators; also many other nipple.
ments, which must be closed out,
as have gone out OF business.
Respectfully,
4. H. SPERRY.
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We have met some who want
the Tribune but haven't got the
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say send in your names. You
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tons to all rules, and so there
are to our rule Of payment in
advance. But the observance of
our rule OF payment in advance
or within a reasonable time is
necessary to enable us to publish
it at 81 90 per year.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-12

The Great Republican gold bug
organ, the Minneapolis Tribune,
emits the following sickly grunt
through the Farmers Tribune,
ON the Oregon Senatorial out
come:
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90. Nomarter how long sick; go and
see him. He gives q guarantee to
cure all cases accepted for treatment.
Dozens of testimonials. Write for
particulars. Address, DR.. c.. NJ.
Stan ton, Litchtield, MINI.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-12

HILBERT'S STOLENSWEETS.
Finest perfume ever manufac-
tured. Fragrant, Delightful,
Lasting. Try it. Sold only by
Carlson Bros. & Frost.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-12
NOTICE..

There will be a meeting of the
stockholders of the Scandal
Dairy Associat ton, in Willmar,
on Saturday, March 9th, at one
O'Clock p. H., for settling up the
business of last year and electing
officers for this year.
COMMITTEE.
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ity required. for the subsistence
Of man in his world. Money
that is good in the United States
will be good elsewhere at any
time, as it can. be converted with.
out loss or at. small charge into
commodities or any other mon
ey required: [-Moorhead Daily
News.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-12

l have aquantity of Minnesota
grown seed corn, Dent variety,
which matured in 80 days in
1894. It yielded so bushels
shelled corn to the acre; is tested
and guaranteed to grow.
.. A. H, SPERRY.