Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-03-22

and she was troubled to know how
to wash their clothing as they had
no change. She said they had not
had any sugar in the house since
November. The wood pile was a
small supply of poles about six
feet long, and an average about
the size of mans wrist.
These poles had to be picked up
out of the fringe of timber on Elk
horn river. A strong man might
have carried the wood pile in his
arms. Two of the children were
sick, and they had not a cent to
bay remedies nor any delicacies
such as may be needful in sick
ness.
Our second stop was at house
where tia sand drift on the plain
was like the deposit of sand fire.
quently seen in Missouri in creeks
and branches. This family was
not destitute, but the owner told
us of a family whose destitution
was too pitiable to be published.
Our third stop was at the house
of an aged man who lived in 81
shell of frame house, his son, a
youth, living with him. Some
grass, not hay, was sticking in the
cook stove, the only stove in the
house. They had no other fuel,
md we found nothing in the house
to eat. Corn and hay in a large
part of the country had been an
entire failure.
After our visit the condition Of
these families was happily changed.
In large part of the county the
needy were securing the country
for COW chips for fuel, and the
supply was said to be nearly ex-
hausted. That was the 21st of
January.
The condition of Boyd county,
Immediately north of Holt, and
,djoining South Dakota, was still
worse, except in the matter of fuel.
When they saw how complete
the failure of last years crop was
they disposed of much of what
they had at greatly reduced prices,
because they could not feed them.
thus chickens were sold in the
all at five cents apiece, and those
left are said to be so near starva.
ion that they are not fit to be
eaten.
A part of Knox county was in
like destitution, having been al
Indian reservation till within re-
cent years, and having been settled
by poor people, the succession o.
crop failures the last two years.
brought them to pinching want.
There are thirty-six counties in
Nebraska where the people would
have suffered greatly but for out
side help, without which many
must have died for want of food
tuel or clothing; and there are eight
other counties where there has
been urgent need of relief in 10.
calities. | have marked in large
red letters these counties on my
map of Nebraska which anyone
nay see at my house.
| returned from the northern
part of the state to Lincoln in time
to meet DR.. Klopsch of The Chris
tian Herald, who came from New
York to see the extent of the des
tuition in the west from drought
We remained at Lincoln several
days getting all the Information
possible, visited the Governor,
the legislature, (Which was in
SESSION. the State Relief Commits
sion, (by far the busiest place
saw in Lincoln, ministers of ex-
tensive acquaintal ce over the
State, legislators, editors and
others. DR.. Klopsch gave out
of the relief fund raised by The
Christian Herald $1,000 to the
State Relief Committee; $1,000 to
the Omaha World Herald; $1,000
to the Department Commander OF
the G. A. r. for the relief of vet.
erans of the State; $1,000 to Rev
Ir. Huntington, to be distributed
Dy four Presiding Elders in foul
districts. He also distributed 6
large sum through local agents.
relief committees, etc., over the
needy parts of the state, and
distributed from the fund raised