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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21
The War in Asia

YOKOHAMA, March 2O.-The peace
negotiations between China and Japan
have been opene ed at Shimonski. !
Lii Hung Chang, the Chinese envoys
who arrived off that port yesterday on q
Chinese steamer, has taken quarters
ashore.
the World from Toxic says: Lii Hung
Chang. the Chinese viceroy who arrived
at Shimonski yesterday as Oh inese envoy
in the peace negotiations, is confined ON
board his snip by illness. !
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21

Poor Lydia. Thompson, the burlesque
actress over whom our grandfathers used
to rave, was hurt in a New York elevated
railroad accident and taken to Bellevue
Hospital. This cannot be an advertising
dodge on the part OF the fair Lydia?
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21
The New York World says that Langtry

The New York World says that Langtry
is still beautiful but that she cannot act.
What's the use of her being an actress? She
is said to own $500, 900 worth of jewelry and
precious stones. Only the other day a
man named Terry asked her to accept
some trihing memento and she went
down to Tiffany's and picked out $4,000
ornament That's better than acting
isn't it? The World might have added
that Mrs. Langtry in addition to being
beautiful has penty of gall, but then that
scarcely comes within the scope OF dra-
matte criticism.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21

Why wouldn't it be good idea for the
Liquor Dealers Association of San Fran
cisco to get DR.. Spencer, the bacteriolo-
gist, to furnish daily pictures of the mini
ature dragons and icthyosauri found IN
the Spring Valley water. Certainly no
man would knowingly take into his sys-
tenn any water that contained such things
as shown by the illustrations published
in the Examiner of Tuesday.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21

The Washington Navel orange again
proved its supremacy at the Citrus Fair
held in Los Angeles during the present
month. 1t took all the premiums offered
whenever it came into competition with
any other variety, and in the contest for
the Chamber of Commerce gold medal, it
easily carried off all the honors. AS grown
in Southern California this choice variety
OF the citrus family sells for the highest
prices paid for oranges in the open mar
kets of the world, and it does this against
all other competition of the best Florida
and foreign grown varieties.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21

Louis A. Tracy of Hartford, Conn, took
no vacation for several years. The first
time he did go away his employers exam
ipod his books and found that he had en-
Jezzled $4,000. Isn't this pretty good
argument in favor of merchants and
bankers. and in fact all employers, oblig-
ing their clerks and bookkeepers to take
vacation every year, even though they
have to continue paying salaries?
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21

A lady yesterday sent in protest to the
city council against allowing boys to use
little wagons. known as coasters, on the
sidewalk The next petition in that line
will be from some gruff bachelor to stop
baby carriages from being perambulated
on the sidewalks and the heels OF people
who are ahead of these vehicles.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21
Timers in Mass-MeetinQ

POMEROY. o.. March 2).-At mass
meeting this afternoon 800 miners in the
Pomeroy district resolved to strike against
the proposed reduction of fourth of q
cent per bushel. They demand cents.
The strike is already in effect
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21
The Path of a Cyclone

COLUMBUS. Ca, March 20.-Heavy
winds passed over this city and Girardl
Ala, this morning. Three residences
were leveled OH the Alabama side. and the
Columbus Fertilizer Company's building
was partly unroofed.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21

Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby, keeper
of Queen Victoria s privy purse, is dying
o. heart disease. Probably his illness is
caused by excitement over the extrava-
yances of the queen.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21

A dispatch saws that 40 diamond cut
ters from Antwerp are coming to Amer
lea Let 'em come. If they can find dla-
monds enough to cut, it Will simply be an
evidence of our prosperity.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21
perished In the Planes

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, March 20.---Three
children of Charles Ross. laborer were.
locked in their home while the parents
went visiting. A lamp was left burning
and house caught fire. All the children
were burned to death.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21
Thew Are Desper.te Criminals

BUTTE. Neb., March 2O.-County Att
torney G. w. Lear has arrested two men,
named Hunt and Miller, charged with
lynching Mrs. Hilton, near Brocksburg;.
They are desperate criminals.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21

That widowers' and bachelors apart
ment house in San Francisco will doubt
less be very exclusive, but woman will in
vestlgate.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21
DECLINES AN OFFICE

Mary EI1en LeaBe DOCS moi want 10 be TIdyOr
of Wichita
WICHITA, Kan, March 20.-Mrs. Mary
Ellen Lease today declined the candidacy
for mayor of Wichita. The Citizens con-
vention nominated M. 7. Burrell, one of
the wealthiest men in the state.
To an Associated Press reporter Mrs.
board of charities to give to the Office of
mayor the attention which it deserves. ;,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21
A SPARK AND A WIND
A Prairie Fire Sweeps Over OkIahama
Territory

GUTHRIE, OF, March 2o.-During a
high wind spark from chimney set
fire to straw stack in Pawnee township,
and the fire communicated to the prairie
grass and the country for miles around
was devastated. A number of farmers lost
all their buildings, hay, grain and imples
ments and many head Of live stock.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21

great effort is being made throughout
Salvation Army circles this week in the
United States to raise 500, 0OO. the amount
due on The new Memorial building lately
erected in New York CITY
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21

The lynching of those Italians in Colo
RADIO was probably done by some persons
who had not yet learned that Waite, the
Through blood to the bride rein" man,
was no longer Governor, but had been
relegated to obscurity along with Simp-
son, Pennoyer and the other fellows who
have turned their skulls into bicycle
rinkS
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21

Preserve the soft-sounding, romantic
spanish names so characteristic of South
ern California. 1t means dollars as well
as sentiment. Nerdugo pass means a
whole lot more, when spoken in an East
ern state, than would the Head sman 5
pass. San Gabriel valley has an added
charm by reason of its pretty name, when
spoken of among those unfamiliar with
the language OF romance. Burbank will
never be as famous rs Santa Ana nor as
attractive to Eastern ears, though her
natural prosperity should far outceach it.
There ought to be enough pride IN local
traditions, enough esthetC sentiment in
even worldly-wise and intensely practi-
cal community to preserve the Spanish
nomenclature in Southern California; 1t
is one Of the charms of the place. Do not
destroy it.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21

The Valley Railway is now getting
down to business-that is If asking Tor
bids for supplies means anything.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21
A GIRLS CURIOSITY
A Twelve.Year- old in San Francisco TRIES t.
Kill Herself

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2o.-Hattie
Klein, a 12-year-old girl, wanted to see
what the next world was like, so she
turned on the gas in her room and lay
down to die. She was discovered in time
to be resuscitated, and today was exam
ined by the Insanity Commissioners. She
said she had discussed the future state
with her schoolmates and wanted to in
vestigate. She promised not to do it
again and will be sent to the Boys and
Girls Aid Society.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-21

In another column a taxpayer calls at
tention to the action of the City Council
giving MI. Metcalf the exclusive right
to take gravel from the bed of the Los An
geles river at the maximum figure of eight
cents load. The most charitable CON
struction that can be placed on the action
of the Council is to say that it was hasty
and i'll considered. Now, however, that
the attention of the city fathers is for
mally called to it, and the cnching
character of the contract exposed, it is to
be hoped that the Council will recede
from it as hastily as it was adopted.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17
COURT OF APPEALS.

Bill Introduced In the Kansas Legisla-
ture Providing for One.
TOPEKA, Kan, Jan 15.-Representa-
tive Gardenhire, at the instance of the
State Bar association, has introduced a
bill in the lower house providing for d
court of appeals. This bill provides
that the governor shall appoint five
suitable persons as judges. three to
hold their offices two years and two to
hold their Offices for four years. At
the general election in 'GS three per-
sons shall be elected to serve four
years, and at the general election in '9S
two persons shall be elected to serve
four years.
The court shall have exclusive iuris-
diction in appeals from all inferior
courts of record, except probate courts,
where the amount involved does not
exceed $4,000, exclusive of costs. The
court will not have jurisdiction in
criminal cases where the party is
charged with felony or in cases aris-
ing under the tax or revenue laws of
the state, in which the state or any
municipality is party or will be af-
fected thereby. The judges are to re-
ceive a salary of S3. 600 each.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17

fund, in bonds and land contracts, of
80, CSC, 993; an agricultural college fund
of $500, 927.35; state university fund
Of $40, ISL, and a state normal school
fund of 1921 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 Il 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 1928, OH. 12, as 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, 7Os, and chiefly by the
sale of district bonds, about $4,000. 600
of which have been paid and cancelled.
In these buildings are employed II, sSS
teachers. at "a cost of So. O60, 459. As year;
the total tax levied and collected for
common school purposes being So, $780,
9S6 Ii per annum. The total sum paid for
educational purposes for the past year
in the state being about S., 800, 600. In
1890 we had 4, 500 church organizations,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17
NEWS NOTES.
aires.

Citizens of Lake Charles, La, will
send car load of provisions to suffer-
ing Nebraskans.
The death of Prince Maha Vajirunhis,
crown prince Of Siam, at Bangkok, has
been announced.
Ice formed at Houston and other
Texas points recently, and the second
growth cotton has been killed
Joseph McGuire, third assistant chief
of the Kansas City, Mo-, fire depart
ment, is mysteriously missing.
The New Jersey republican caucus
nominated Gen. William Sewell for
senator, giving him Sc votes against II
for Murphy.
The Texas democratic caucus unani-
mously nominated Hon. Horace R.
Chiffon for United States senator. He
will be elected on Tuesday, January %.
Officials of the Burlington road and
Adams Express Co. have offered 81 600
reward for the capture of the Chilli
cothe, Ia, train robbers. Nothing new
has yet developed in the case.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17
Want Aid for Sugar Planters.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-The entire
Louisiana delegation in congress, sem
ators and representatives, appeared be-
fore the house appropriation commit
tee yesterday to urge that some pro-
vision be made for the recent losses
suffered by the sugar producers and
planters of that state by the repeal of
the bounty provided for in the McKin-
ley act. Arguments in favor of relief
were made by Representative Boatner
and Price and Senators Caffery and
blanchard
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17

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
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 a period of not more than
five years, and their sale forbidden at
a price less than 80 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 1868 the city or
Leavenworth. with its known wealth
and prestige as the metropolis of Kan
sas, found it difficult to sell $4,000 OF
its bonus TO erect a high school DuIld-
ing at this legal limit of discount.
''Yet, with ali 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 Il measure
Of prosperity, SO rapid an accumul a.
ton Of wealth and surrounding
physical comforts has never realized
from a 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
population, now we have 1.4O0. 600.
Then the total assessed valuation
of property was $24, IA, 563, now it is
1897, sol, 722. The total taxes of 1861
was only $40, $50. So, in 1893 it was 3d.
102, 1914. The entire wealth of the state
as shown by the United States census
reports was about 81, 800, 600, O0O 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 a 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.
''On 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 thar a 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
administra ton, known in the expert
ence of no other state, until we have
an interest-bearing common school
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17

for the insane at Topeka, $780,
37s; at Osawatomie, $780, asy-
lum for imbeciles, S2e,O78; sol
diers' orphans home, S49, 561; reform
school, S119. s63; penitentiary, $780,
700; state house. So, 600, 600; reformatory.
$50, 900; Industrial school for girls,
$40, 700; Grand Army home, $40, 600;
making a total of SO, 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 So, $50, 175, of
which but $500. 900 was derived from
state bonds not yet due and Sc, 372, IT'S
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 condeua-
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 have 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 it's 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.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17

state of Kansas. His appearance at
the stand to deliver his inaugural ad-
dress was the signal for applause, and
at 1910 o'clock he began to read from
manuscript as follows:
Fellow Citizens: third of CEN
fury has passed since Kansas entered
the sisterhood of states. It is an APP
propriate time to review its history and
to mark it's progress. I ask your in
diligence, therefore, while 1 briefly
compare it's status on the Goth of Janu-
ary, 1861, with the conditions which
now surround it.
The measure of dignity and strength
In statehood attained by a common
wealth will ever be found co-equal with
the measure of love and devotion borne
to it by it's citizens. The respect of
mankind for state can no more rise
above the respect of the state for itself,
Ghan can public respect for man rise
above his own self-respect. 1t may
we'll be said that the duty of 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 it's
great seal as an inspired prophecy. It
has indeed, climbed up to the stars
through difficulties In it's progress it
has met and mastered obstacles that
would have crushed and conquered a
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
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17

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. It's
chief city, on its eastern border, con-
tanned more than fifth of the
capital and productive industries of
the state. There existed neither pub
lie nor private credit wherewith to en-
ter upon new career of prosperity. A
state bond could not have been pl aced
at less than ruinous discount, if
at all, in any money market of the
country, and municipal credit was
thing unknown, outside of our own
boundaries State officers and en-
ployes, like those of cities and counties,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17
TOOK POSSESSION.

The New Kansas State Officers Take Hold
and Their Clerks Go to Work.
TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 15.-The new
state officers took possession of their
respective offices at noon yesterday
and their clerks have gone to work.
Some of the populists will linger for q
few days to help their successors learn
the routine. but by the first of next
week all will have departed. Gov.
Lewelling was not present when Gov.
Morrill, took possession. The office
keys and things were turned over by
Private Secretary Close. Gov. Lew
cling expects to return to Wichita to-
daV
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17
HOW'S ThisI

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligation made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo, o. Walding, Kinnan q Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price, 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills. &c.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17

MAEkEKET ITAtLDE5NEIE2S GEkOtS EtICH-
There is lots of money made in early
vegetables. Every body admits that the
very earliest vegetables are produced
from Salzer's Northern Grown seeds
Think of having radishes in fourteen
days; lettuce in twenty days; potatoes
in forty days; peas in forty-six days,
and splendid cabbage in fifty-fve days
from day of sowing seed,
IF YOU WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND IT
with 81 money order to the John A.
Salzer Seed company, Lacrosse, Wis,
you will get free thirty-five packages
earliest vegetable seeds and their great
seed catalogue, or for six cents postage
a package of FOURTEEN DAY PARIS RAD
ISL seed and their seed catalogue. Xxi
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17
VIII Move to Chicago.

TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 15.--George T.
Nicholson, general passenger agent of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
road Co., will move his headquarters
from Topeka to Chicago. W. J. Black,
assistant general passenger agent, will
have charge of the business west of the
Missouri river, with headquarters in
Topeka as now. There will be no other
changes in the Topeka Offices.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17
Actor Burg Insane.

New YORK, Jan. 15.-John Burg, the
song and dance man who has played in
almost every city in the United States,
has been committed to Bellvue hospital
in order that his mental condition may
be examined. He believes that he pos
sesses enormous wealth and is an init
mate associate of the Vanderbilts,
Goulds, Astors and other multi-million-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17
The true Lsxntlve Prineiple

OF the plants used in manufacturing the
manently beneficial effect on the human sys-
TEN, while the cheap vegetable extracts and
mineral solutions, usually sold as medicines.
are permanently injurious Being well in
formed, you will use the true remedy only.
Manufactured by California Fig Syrup Co.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17
MORRILL, SWORN IN.
He Is Indicted Into Office as Chief
Executive Of Kansas.
LIE DELIVERS A BRIEF ADDRESS.
The Governor Reviews the History OF Kan
sas Since She Entered the SisterhOod
OF States-Other State Of
ficers Sworn In.

TOPEKA, Kan, ian. 15:-Shortly after
noon yesterday, in the presence of host
of people from all parts of the state.
who crowded representative hall,
which was gaily decorated, Maj. E. n.
Morrill, was sworn in as governor of the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17

ADA-''Is Jack Rogers tallkative MANI
Helen-''I've been trying for two years tc
make him speak.i'-Lite.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17

WE think Piso IS Cure for Consumption is
the only medicine for Coughs.-JENNIK
PNCKARD, Springfield, Ills, Oct. l. 1894.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17

''BUT what earthly use is it to discover
the North Pole! can't see.'' ''It will save
future expeditions. "-Harper's Basar.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17

PEGGY-ssWas We hearin' that jeanne An
derson's gettin' mairret2'' Kirsty-''Stupit
creaturl Hoo is she able tae keep a manP'
Punch
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17

AGE begins on the day you begin to col
ceaI it.-Fliegende Batter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-01-17

CHECK Colds and Bronchitis with Hale's
Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pike s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute