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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-04-29

j., but moved to Easton several months
ago. He is a married man, has several
children. but rumor has for year past
connected his name with that of Mrs.
Blackwell. the widow of physician for
merly residing in Madison, n. J. Car
penter visited her on Friday night. leav-
ing soon after supper. A few hours later
the woman's body was found with bull
let hole in her right temple and revolver
by her side. evidently placed there to
create the impression the woman had
committed suicide. Suspicion at once
fell on Carpenter and his arrest followed
When Warden Walton went to his cell
this morning he found Carpenter lying
in pool of blood on the floor of his cell,
with his throat cut from ear to ear. BY
his side was a razor which he had bor-
rowed from Patrick Morgan, a fellow pris-
oner. on the plea he wanted to shave
himself. Morgan. who occupied the
same cell, says as soon ds Carpenter OBJ
tanned the razor he turned to him and
said: 81 am innocent of the murder of
Mrs. Blackwell and 1 want you to tell
everybody l said so.'
Then he drew the razor across his throat
and fell. An examination of his wounds
showed none of the arteries to have been
severed, but he has lost so much blood
that his recovery is doubtful.
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Search was made for Eckert. the journey
man. and it seemed to be a hopeless
search. Finally Detective Greer found
him at barbershop on Houston street.
New York, where for long time he had
been shaving from twenty to thirty Me-
tropoltan policemen. Fricke was found
in Philadelphia. His mind soon after
became unhinged from fright and it be-
came necessary to send him to the de-
partment of the Philadelphia hospital.
After he had been sent here it was found
that the superintendent in the ward in
which he was lodged was Alphonse Gu
taieI, sr., father of the accused murderer
and Fricke was hastily transferred to an
other ward. After Cutaier's arrest several
attempts were made to extort a confes-
sion from him and he related a number
of detailed stories of the crime. naming
Logue as the perpetrator, but eventually
on April 18th he told the true story.
He said that when the woman signfied
her intention of returning to New York
she was intoxicated and he induced her
to wait until he could accompany her to
the station. He took her up stairs and
made her get into bed with her clothes.
Then, he says, TO prevent her getting
away before he could go with her he
bound her hand and foot.
This was at Z O'Clock in the evening.
Four hours later he found her lying en-
her face with her head under the bolster
-smothered to death in an evident at
tempt to break her bonds. The ne xt day
he buried the body under the kitchen
floor. He admitted having taken her
jewels, but denied any knowledge OF the
$1,000 bonds which she was said to have
in her bosom.
The original story told by Logue was
borne out in every detail by the investi-
cations of the coroner and the detective.
but they further found Cutaier had for
years been leading a crooked career. His
story of the woman being accidentally
smothered is generally discredted.
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A Laramie Concern in Trouble

SALT LAKE, Utah, April pa spe-
cial to the Herald from Cheyenne, Wyo.,
says; The Trabig Commercial Company
of Laramie has made an assignment to E.
Crumrine. Liabilities $780, 900; assets
nominally 100000. The direct cause of
the failure was disastrous fire month
ago by which the firm lost $70,CO).
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AFTER FOUR YEARS
A Man Wanted for Murder in Kentucky
Arrested

PERRY, o. T., April 2s.-Officers here
arrested James Dupont, alias Jake Black,
in the Usage Nation for murder COM
mitted near Lexington, KY. in 1890.
BLACK was courting Dennis Lang IS
daughter and went home with her from
church one might. Lang objected to
Blacks attentions to his daughter and
met the couple at the gate. A quarrel
took place and Black shot and killed
Lang. He escaped and came west. set
ting in the Usage country, where he mar
ried and has become quite wealthy. A
large reward was offered for his arrest.
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TO CHEAT THE GALLOWS
An Accused Woman Slayer Cuts His Throat
In lail

EASTON. Pa. April 2s.-Samuel G. Car
penter OF this city, accused of the murder
OF Mrs. Ray Blackwell OF Phillisburg. n.
j.. cut his throat is the cell occupied by
him and is now lying at the point of
death.
Carpenter. who is about AZ years OF age,
was formerly postmaster at Asbury, N.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23

IT should be source of encourage
ment and qualification to the members
of the peoples party that such men as
Ex-Governor Larabee of Iowa ex-Sen-
ator Trumbull of Illinois and Labor
commissioner Carol d. Wright, who
constituted the brains of the republi-
can party in former years, have come
out in the support of the teachings and
doctrines enunciated in the Omaha
platform. With the support of these
eminent writers and thinkers, what
care we tor the mouthings of the small
''subsequentlies" who now manage the
republican party. You may search the
ranks Of the republican party from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and from the
Lakes to the Gulf, and you will not
find the peer of Trumbull in judgment,
Intelligence and craftsmanship. For
any republican of this day to belittle
Trumbull reminds us of the proverbial
kid who insists that 'the old man is a
crank and don't know nothing"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23

GOVERNOR MORRILL, in his message
sings over that old ditty again about
how the populists destroyed the credit
of Kansas and advises legislation to
induce money lenders and mortgage
companies TO come into the state. He
would like to make it appear as though
they all left the state as quick as the
populiSts came into power, when the
fact is there are as many
as ever. Perhaps they don't do
as much business as in days
of yore but that is because they own
nearly everything they can get hold
of already. We think the mortgage
companies have inducements" enough
as 1t is without enlarglng favors.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23

THE unbiased reader when he COM
pares the messages of Gov. Morrill, and
ex Governor l.ewelling, can plainly
see after what pattern each IS cut.
dwellings, message is an appeal fer
economy in state affairs and justice
and mercy to the debtor class:it abounds
in advanced ideas and ideal statesman
ship and is commendable instrument
WHICH should be well considered by ev-
cry honest legislator. Morrill's mes
sage sounds the voice of corporate
power and is special appeal for the
creditor class. 1t advises laws by
which the money power may fasten its
clutches so firmly that the victim can
never escape and is q very able docu-
ment in the advocacy or a compulsory
system of debt slavery. Yet there are
some who, through mere partisan fancy,
VIII say that Morrill's message sur
passes dwellings. Morril's message
is patriotic cne---in a horn.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23

SENATOR JONES, of Arkansas, wants
to introduce currency bill as a COM
promise. The bill provides for 500
million q per cent bonds, the retire
ment of the greenbacks and the in
crease to 100 per cent of par value of
bonds Of the amount national banks
may get, the reduction Of the charge
for bank notes to of one per cent per
year, and the unlimited coinage of sill
yer, the depositor of silver bullion to
receive the market price therefor, the
difference to be charged as seigniorage.
The silver to be the product of this
country and sold for London prices
1t is an obnoxious measure and no sill
YER man can afford to accept
such a compromise. 1t is strictly an
anti-silver measure and would only
be another fat take for the banks and
bond spectators.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23
d therefore is visionary. {

THOSE fellows in this vicinity who
are so loud in their condemnation of
Ex-Governor Lewelling for committing
Clay SHARKS sentence should reflect a
moment before they are too harsh in
their criticism. Nearly everyone in the
neighborboOd knew L. L. Sparks was
in Topeka for number of weeks try
ing to obtain the release of his son
yet no one even so much as endeavored
to get up remOnStrance and send 1t 10
the gOVern9r. we are free to say that
we do not approve of dwellings action
in this respect but we would not be SO
unjust as to charge him with bribery.
1t must be remembered that Mr.. Lew
elling heard but one side, and that be-
Ing the case, it is not improbable that
sympathy had q great deal to do with
his action. At any rate no Que took
any interest until it was all over, when
suddenly 1t came 20 their minds that
LewelIing received Doodle.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23

ton act will probably be completed by
the supreme court deciding that all
that is necessary to elect a republican
state printer is to get Lieutenant Gov
ernor Troutman to say that he is legal
ly elected.
Redemption No. is the greatest
step in the way of redemption that has
ever been attempted By human or di
vine power. and only shows that as
redeemer the Almighty isn't in it with
Lieutenant Governor Troutman 1t is
substantially as follows: On Friday in
the senate. the order of business being
the correction and approval of the
journal, Senator Scott said he did not
see the proceedings of the joint session
in the journal and as it was customary
to have those proceedings published in
the journal of each house, he sent to
the secretary's desk mass of stuff and
moved that it be inserted in the journ-
| al. This however did not meet the APP
proval of majority of the senators,
who held that only the proceedings Of
! the senate should be inserted in. the
| journal, and matters that took place in
the House, or in the Copeland hotel or
some livery stable in the city, need not
be included in the journal. Senator
Scott, however thought it was not nee
essary TO have the consent of the senate
but that the Divine Troutman had ON
nipOtent power to define what did and
what did not belong in the journal.
"Jame the Great" however, proftting
by Tuesdays experience, did not feel
safe to exercise this power. and left the
matter to the senate to do as they saw
fit about the matter. In the pre4onged
discussion that took place upon the
question, it was asserted that the leu
tenant governor had the und0ubted
tight TO adjourn the senate at his OPP
ton. Talk about Gar Reed!" why he
isn't in it with james the First" of
Kansas.
Another redemption act that we
overlooked III the governors message
consists of the following reduction Of
expenditures and economy in eXpendi-
lures of state moneys:
Appropriation for completion of state
house, $1,000 600; appropriation for
Chickamauguan monument, So 800, be
sides many other similar instances.
Just how this reduction business works,
but 1t we are not able to state. but it
is in some miraculous manner, that
only the redeemers can understand aud
we must only remember, that with
the Almighty all things are possible. :"
The above are but few items of the
'redeeming business" which will give
the reader some idea Of how fast the
redeemers are doing their work, and
readers of the INDEX will no doubt
hail with JOY the glad tIdings OF the
total redemption of the great State of
Kansas by the second Monday of Jan
uary, 1897. But in the name of all that
is great and grand, good and holy, at
the end Of two years who is going TO re-
deem the redeemers? VIII the Great
Redeemer tackle the job?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23
IMPERIALISM.

Governor Altgeld, in his late mes
sage, makes this statement.
IF the president can, at his pleas
ure, in the first instance, send troops
into any city, town or hamlet under
pretense OF enforcing some law, his
Judgment being the sole criterion,
there can be no difference whatever in
TINS respect between the powers of the
president and those of Emperor Will.
Siam or the Car of Russia"
The Kansas City Times, replying
to and deprecating this statement,
says:
1.-The president has not attempted to
exercise any authority not vested in
him by law. and the present executive
is not likely to-"
Many of the very best legal authori-
ties in the country differ from the
Times upon this proposition: but so
far as the consequences are concerned,
we do not see that this is a question
worth disputing about. So long as the
authority to send troops into any part
OF the country under the pretense of en-
forcing some law, is exercised, we do
not see that it is as much a question
whether that authority is exercised in
accordance with law or in defiance of
law, as it is what the consequences will
he to the liberties of the American peo-
pie. The main question is, are we
ready for the recognition as ar imperi-
al government? and not whether such
government is established by law or in
defiance of law. The liberties of the
colonists were invaded by law under
George III, and our fathers took I'D
arms TO free themselves from such le-
gal invasion. What are we that laws
subversive Of human liberty should be
any more sacred in orr sight than they
were in theirs?-ropeka Advocate.
The above is correct and sensible
view of the whole situation. 1t should
not be SO mnch question whether law
does exist or whether it does not exist
for doing thus and so. as it should be
whether it is right and Just. The mat
Ter referred to by Governor Aitgeld in
his message, is only one instance where
in human rights have been trampled
under foot by men of station; many
acts of our public servants, quite as
abusive are occurring every day and it
stands the people in hand 10 caii q
halt. If, through the unpatriotic and
un-American methods of our public
servants, these outrages have been
enacted into law. the thing for the
people to do is to unmake such infa-
nous law by the ballot-the highest
authority OF the land. Because soma
thing is law is no evidence that it is
right, and being wrong, everyone has
a duty to perform. That duty is to en-
ter protest at the proper time and
place before our republic shall have
been transformed from a democratic
form Of governments into monarchy
Units worst form.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23
HON. coMFoRTs bal suMMER


While others to the ocean go.
Or on the mountains roam,
And struggle with the crowds, 6aow
Enough 10 stay 1T homo.
While others toss upon q cot
Or in a buggy bed,
And starve and swelter when it b9s-.-
AT homo I'm way ahead.
No bowl and pitcher with rub
Ofyeliow soap can beat
Ny clean and spacious bathing tub
Within my home so sweet.
Instead OF tipping walters
Just tip my chair OF ease,
And have at home full supply
OF any thing please.
Instead of dressing Cor show
And at a sad expense,
At home in negligee 1 go
With comfort, Q, immense.
Instead of being forced to pay
The value OF the earth.
For nothing 1 at home can stay
And get my moneys worth.
Instead OF being snubbed and tn own
In some strange attic, hot;
/, IN house that 5 all my own,
Can choose the coolest spot.
But don't suppose never take
A little time for fun;
Hike the ocean aud the lake
And morntains-every one.
Isimply wait until the sty-
Lish season has its close,
Because a man as wise as
Takes comfort where he goes.
H. c. Dodge, In GoodalPs Sun.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23

TIE Kansas City Star advises SEN
ator Vest to reconstruct his currency
bill on the following lines.
Provide for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver, and give the secre-
tdry of the treasury full authority
TO issue irredeemable paper money
whenever the government wants to
build a ship, or buy an island, pay lis
employees, or erect custom house.
That would be a simpler plan and
it would lead to exactly the same re-
suits"
But that would be populism.-State
journal.
and therefore is visionary. O.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23

humorous story IS told OF the Queens
so5ourn az Biarritz TIE Queen. during
one of her wal,s, met a nursen1aid and a
baby Her Majesty stopped and made some
pleasant speech about the baby, whereupon
thu nursemaid- English wcman-yras SO
overwhelmed with awe and confusion that
she turned aud fled, leaving the baby with
the Queen, who had TO send her gentleman
ln-syaiting in hot pursuit. When tie maid
had been induced to return the Queen asked
her 60 whom the baby belonged. s.3r. n. :.
replied the nurse, naming the English doc
tor IN Biarritz. .sThen tel Dr. NJ. that /
think he has q very pretty baby,n said the
Queen,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23

j. j. BARNES, late chairman of the
peoples party OF this congressional dis
tnct was appointed as one Of the d.
rectors of the penitentlary, by Level
ling before his retirement. The ap-
pointment is a good one as Barnes is a
faithful servant in whatever capacity
or position he is found.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23

THE republican caucus finally select.
ed State Senator Lucien Baker, Mon
day for y. s. senator. The anti Burton
faction centered on dark horse and
Baker was the lucky man. Baker is &
lawyer of Leavenworth, gold stand
ard man and rabid partisan. lie
VIII go to the senate and draw his sal
airy and nothing farther will be hearc
of him. Baker is the fellow that Sen
ator Lands foOred in the state senate
two years ago.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23
PASTE-BRUSH Adopts.
Tho Box-Melzing Girls Of New
York and Their Work.
an ui-paId business In Which Many
Thousands OF Women Are Engaged
Pasteboard. GILT, spangIes, Old
Gowns and Pretty Faces.

Yearly and during all seasons some hun
dreds OF men and many thousands of girls
are employed in the paper box factories Of
Ae% York. Working women IN this trade,
says the New York Star, are not as well
paid as those engaged in the more delicate
work OF making artificial flowers, embroid-
cry and the like, nor as those in the more
laborious trades. The boxmaker's wora
calls for less skill than the former, and Less
Of both strength ana skill than some OF the
latter Most branches of box-making can
be learned in = few weeks. The materials
are light and the tools simple. The result
is that wages are sometimes as low as 81 a
seek, aDa seldom above g or So The
E7=oiTess arc employed st piece work. The
men, whose Fvages are bester, work by the
week. sfeI and boys ran tbe machines and
pTels3re tae material fer the finishing
torches gwen By the girls.
On entering box factory one is BOWL
derad hy multitude Of shapes and colors
There are boxes, big and little, ID cylinders,
IN TAI eaiiae forms, nj long, narrow
blocls. aad II dozen other shapes to be
OILY isa ed ~ learned geo.netrical terms.
Gay eoesess papers III reaHas, ia strips, In
rin1ons and in confused clippings, lie abous
everywhere. Great machines at one end Of
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23
an Old Yarn Rcvamped.

a party of four Sacramento anglers went
up the river the other day to catch some
fish. They agreed that whenever one
should land a fish each Of the others should
pay him quarter. One OF the quartet was
especially uniecky in his piscatoriaI vent
ure, and was soon out OF pocket * 25 and
down TO his last quarter. lie wanted 10
break up the compact, but the others
wouldn't let him. Just then he stole one
Of the fishes caught by another Of the PAR
ty, slipped it upon his hook and into the
water. He soon landed it with a great deal
OF splutter and noise. and received six blta.
When the Others were not looking he rs
placed it on his hook and again went
through the act Of landing fish He man
aged TO work the dodge until he had not
only got back his s4.25, but broke the rest
Is thc crowd.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23
Qnoen Victoria.s Rincs.

It is said that the three rings which
Queen Victoria prizes the most highly are:
First Of all her wedding ring, which she
has never taken off, then small emerald
ring, with d tiny diamond in the center,
which the Prince Cousort gave her at the
age OF sixteen; and an emerald serpent,
which he gave her as an engagement ring
For many years after the Prince Consort's
death her Majesty slept with these rings on
her fingers. only taking them IF to wash her
hands, as the water would, of course, spoil
the enamel.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23

SUMMED up and boiled down, Gov.
MoTrIll's message is as follows: More
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS$
for the rich and poverty and starvation
for the poor. Eastern capitalists have
their man in the Kansas gubernatorial
chair.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23

WE ought to be thankful that the
own-trodden capitalists are getting
hearing from our charitable and phil
anthroplc governor. a few more re-
publican administrations and the line
between master and servant Will be
drawn.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23
THE republican party is i'll power
but times are as hard as ever.

CORPORATE power upheld and back
ed by arbitrary and corrupt courts is
what is driving the people frnm their
homes to starve and freeze on the high
ways and byways.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23
Tho swaying Of chinlnevs.

Observations upon the sway Of tall chin.
aeys during high winds show that one 115
N height and four feet ia total diameter q.
the top waved twenty inches during
heavy gale, and another 164 feet high. but
with a six and one-haIf feet diameter Of
fue, moved through an arc OF only six an6
one-half inches
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-23
Entirely Too Tn.Ius,rio,,s

'sYou say youwer discharged from your
former place for being too industriousr -
''Yes, maam.'' That's very strange.
What did you do2'' II went down to tbl
cellar one day and busted tie old wine bot,
Mohave County miner., 1895-08-17
Gold in the Graue.

Sheriff Scott and Dr. Craig returned from their visit to the gray, of the old miner, Beaufort, near Navajo Station, who WAS supposed to nave been mur. dered. lu their ex4ninA AIion of the body they failed to fnd any appearance that would indicate he h,I been mnr. dered. But in turning ths body, they We're surprised to he .r the chinkins of metal. and np,n bringing the body to the su lace the bottom of the grave vas covered wilh s2) goli pieces. in all S260 which had evidently oesn sewed in bis cio hing, and at the tins of hi, in. termen, by the citizen ,iaque-t. h d been overlooked, in truth absD the b dy was hrst f,urd. it v.s in sn'h state of de. composition that close scrutiny was im possib!e.-St J1hrs Herald.
Mohave County miner., 1895-08-17

..Iy hoy ~as taksp wnh disease re. --mbinp bloody Aux The fret thing I though, of WAS Chamhe,lsin's C,,ic, Cholera and Diauhoea Rsmedy. Two doses of il settled lhe matter ord cured him s1n'd and well. 1 heartily recon. n,rnd ,his remedy lo all peIrous suffer iax from Ike complaint. 1 viii An. sser any inquiries regarding it wht D st'mp is Inclosed. refer to county official az to my reiia >iiiiy Wm. Roach, J. F.. Prim,oy, Campbell Co, Tenn. For sale by II II WATKINS,
 ...... Druggist.
Mohave County miner., 1895-08-17

An apology to J. H McClintock, in the Phenix Gazette of several days ago, calls our attention to several items pub. lished editorially in the MINER, during our ,senee two weeks ago. The items in no way voiced the sentiments of the editor of this paper. We have known J. H. McClintick as newspaper man for many years and consider him far and away above the average newspaper writers and an all round gentleman. J. NJ. Burnett, the other Gazette editor referred to is a gentleman and writer of good ability. In justice to Messrs. McClintock and Burnett we make this late apology.