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The morning times., 1895-12-13
INQUIRY TO BE HAD.

II is understood that the terms Of the
resolution will be complied with and toe
Commissioners called upon Ia furnish some
Information which may prove I" be in
tcresting reading.
1Ec nitcu states Electric Lighting
Company has not been letting its terri
tory slip away without a fight. Notice
of an affidavit was served upon Mr. Lief
of the Potomac company day or two ago
To be used in the injunction suit brought
10y the United States company and the Com
nIissioners.
In this Frederick III. Chamberlain tells
what he saw " at Thirty-third and N streets.
Georgetown. on November p last, indi-
eating, he says, that the Potomac company
is no; taking sufficient precautions with
its wires TO protect llfe anu property
He says there was an excavation about
eight Inches deep leading under the side
walk at No. 1906 n street, IN which was
laid n comm on iron pipe aninch and Il half
in diameter This pipe was laid upon the
terra Gotta conduit containing the United
States Cornpany's wire. In the pipe was an
insulated wire inteaded to carry an cleo
tric current. Considering the kind of wire
aud other conditions. Mr.. Chamberlain says
he does not think the line was ssIeiy .2id.
The morning times., 1895-12-13
Recovered the slot Macb,pe

A penuy-in-the-slot machine. stolen from
Mounts dairy. Tenth and Massachusetts
avenue northwest, was found yesterday
morning directly in front OF the stable of
Mr.. John T. Hopkins, 1912 Ninth street.
Officer Van Horn was notified and the
machine sent to No. . station.
The morning times., 1895-12-13
FELL FROM "A CABLE CAR.
Mr.. Weaver Had Narrow Escape
.. from heath

Mr.. Samuel B. Weaver, a clerk in the
Pension Office. while on his way to work
Yesterday morning. fell from cable car
at Seventh street and Massa chuselts ave-
nue. northwest, and was badly cut about
the head.
He slid along the slippery street near
the track. and narrowly escaucd being
run over by the passing car. He was
picked up and carried into Adier's cloth
ing store and aftcrward removed to his
home. No. 1906 Tenth street northwest,
in No. ambulance.
The morning times., 1895-12-13
SECURED II JUST IN TIME
Potomac Light Co. Gwen Its
Permit to Extend.
NEARLY BLOCKED In SENATE

Mr. GailinSer Presented II Resoiu-
tiou Which Would Have Balked
the Project-Be Wants Overhead
Wire String.n2 stopped and Calls
for an Inquiry Oh the Mattc,.
The morning times., 1895-12-13
THREATENED By B0ssIsM
Carl Schurz Points Out the Dan
ger to the Republic.
EVIL OF THE SPOIhS SYSTEM

His Address Before the Civil Service
Reform League ut Metzerott Hall.
One Man Power the Thing America
Has to Fear-Proceedin of the
Assoc ciation.
The morning times., 1895-12-13

COLD IN THE HEAD. Catarrh.
ami Headache Immediately relieved by
Cspitoi Catarrh Cure. % cents.
0ov7 3n o-ex1
The morning times., 1895-12-13

Fho Chin have has 80 years prse-
lH6 DALI. ticnl experience in troat- 49,
Ing tho skin, facial blemishos and SSSsA
badness. "
Mrs. DR.. J. SemmeS, "
7O4 i4th Street N. w.
The morning times., 1895-12-13
RECITEs SOME FACTS.

II further relates that the Commissioners
have been granted the right to permit eX-
isting companies To extend their lines, and
that the evident intention of Congress Is to
prevent the erection of further overhead
wires in the District and placing all electric
wires underground.
II therefore cdIIs on the Commissioners to
report to the Senate the permits that have
been issued for overhead wires since
September 3, 1883, to whom granted,
and under what authority. Also whether
under the act Of 1891 permits have been
granted for placing any conduiis or sub
ways for electric wire which were not an
addition to or extension OF Il previously ey
isting law. II so. the names of the per
sons or corporations, and what work has
haa,.n done by them.
The resolution further provides that pend
Ia. tIIe report called for the District COM
inissioners are requested To issue no fur
ther permits for the erection of any over
head wires in the District, and IL such per,
mits have been ISSUED to revoke them. Also
that no further electric coDduits OF sBbways
in the District shall be built pending action
by CONGRESS.
The morning times., 1895-12-13

Il want to be the Joweler
rhocom into your m.nd
first.
The morning times., 1895-12-13

Beginning Monday NEXT The
store zysH be obcn until 9 p. m
The morning times., 1895-12-13

The Potomac Light and Power Company
was yesterday granted permit to connect
its wires with the lexington plant, recently
sold by District Commissioner Truesdei.
1t is not Improbable that the issuance OF
the permit yesterday Will turn out 10 he a
source of conside RI bic seit-coug III tnlatiUn 10
companies concerned, FOR while it wa being
made out at The District building steps
were being taken in Congress TO preven;
the further extension in the District of
the overhead wire system. II came up
through Il resolution presented by Senator
GaliingeF.
The resolution relates that by act of
July. 1883, the Commissioners were au-
thoriZcd To- permit ne additional telegraph,
telephone ar electric lighting or any other
wires 10 he erected an any of the streets
Ut avenues uf the city of Washington, and
by act OF March 9, 1899. directed them. nut
later than the expiration of the Fifty
first Congress, IT, authorize such existing
overheard wires Ia be placed under ground.
II also relates that a number OF coInpnoi
having overhead wires removed them and
placed them undcrerou that the report
OF the electric commission, appointed Octo-
Der, 1891, was still unactcd ON hy Con
or
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.

The republicans and populists
have the senate now and they must
take the consequences.-Chi Her:
aid.
Tom Reeds financial measure
looks like another one of those ''miser.
able makeshifts" for which the repub-
lican party is famous and infamous
ST. Louis Republic
Senator Allison told an important
truth to remember when he said that
the way to meet the expenses of a gov
eminent is out of its revenues. It is
certainly vGry hard to meet them out OF
the deficit inherited from the Harrison
administrations. Y. World.
Chairman Wilson's bill to repeal
the one-tenth of one cent pound diff
ferential duty on sugar imported from
Germany will force the repu blicans into
the open and maybe a close scrutiny
binds the leaders of that party to the
ansas City Times.
We protest against the disgrace
full methods of the irresponsible repub-
lican iibonainosies who seek at every
opportunity to serve their own party
by the most extravagant fabrication.
II1S L1CSG Ild1iS uduI u1ISrep rcSCH Gctt lOu
and the most hysterical fanfaronade,
by which they hope to submerge every
democratic man and democratic thing,
whether court, official, act or law, in
one foul pool of partisan filth and
fustian.-Louisville Courier ournal.
The contention of some Of the
more organic republican journals that
the prosperity of the country can be
secured and the treasury replenished
by the simple expedient of restoring
Mckinley duties lacks a basis of fact
and experience. There were too many
panics and long periods of hard times
under the high tariffs to sustain the
paradox of taxing a nation into pros
perity. Besides. the national revenues
fell off forty million dollars under the
| Mckinley tariff. as they would fall
now under increased duties It is not
forgotten, furthermore. that the treas
ury went rapidly from n handsome
| surplus to an impending deficit Under
the law which the people tw;ce COZ
demned.-N. /. Y GRID.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
NO SPECIAL INTERVENTION.
Secretary Gresham VIII Not Favor Amy of
the Hawaiian Condemned.

Secretary Gresham VIII Not Favor Any OF
the Hawaiian Condemned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. LIT is positive
ly denied at the state department that
Secretary Gresham has interviewed es-
pecially in the case of Maj. Seward,
one of the Americans under death sem
tence at Honolulu for treason, or that
he has addressed special message on
the subject to Minister Willis, to be
forwarded by the first steamer from
Vancouver.
No instructions have been sent to
Minister Willis since the telegram of
last Monday directing him to demand a
stay of the sentences of all Americans
under death sentence, and to forward
copies of the records of their trials
to Washington for examination by
this government. This order should
have reached Mr.. Willis by this date,
and if the sentences have not already
been carried out, which is doubtful, in
view of the fact that the trials of the
queen and remaining prisoners were
still in progress at last advices, it is
believed that his representations to
President Dole will be sufficient to Sc
cure a stay of further proceedings
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
AFTER THE TRUSTS.
Senator Leedy Calls for State Prosecution
OF the Big Combines.

Senator Leedy Calls for State Prosecution
OF the Big Combines.
TOPEKA, Kan, Feb. ia concurrent
resolution was introduced in the senate
this morning by Mr.. Leedy to compel
the enforcement of this law against
trusts. After reciting that trusts of
all kinds are operated in Kansas to
the detriment of the people, and that
no county attorney has get attempt
ed to enforce the antitrust law
now on the statute books, it calls upon
the governor and encouragement to
take immediate and effective steps
for the enforcement of the law, which
imposes the duty of prosecution upon
the encouragement where county at
torneys fail to act.
Senator Leedy names the sugar trust,
the Standard Oil Co., the coffee trust,
the soap trust, the cracker trust, the
starch trust, the match trust and sew
eral others in his resolution and de-
clares that they are operating in Kan
SaS
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
WOMEN IN COUNCIL.
Representatives of Various Orders Open
Their Congress in WASHINGTON.

Representatives of Various Orders Open
Their Congress in Washington.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-The formal
opening of the second triennial session
of the National Council of Women of
the United States began at the Metrop-
oils hotel to-day, Mrs. May Wright
Sewall, its president, in the chair.
The council is a representative body,
composed of delegates from all of the
twenty associations of women through
out the country. Among the asso-
Citations represented are the Woman
Suffragists, the w. c. T. o., the Uni
versa1 Peace union, the kindergarten
union, social, relief and missionary So
cieties, the Womadaughsis, the Women
Stenographers. the National Coun-
Gil of Jewish Women, the Amer
lean Administration society and
various local councils. Seated on the
platform and included among those in
the audience were Susan B. Anthony,
Frances E. Willard, Clara C. Hoffman,
Margaret Isabel Sands, ]. Ellen Eos
ter, Rachel Foster Avery and Harriet
TuDtOn.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
Indian Ideas of Haaes.

The Indians seem to have no well-de-
fined notion of a hell. They say to
their children: IF you are not brave
and good you will go after you die to
live with the spirits of bad people"
Among the Oregon Indians and those
of many other tribes it is understood
that the spirits of the dead go to the
land of the ''Old Woman Who Never
Dies, in the southwest The old woman
is the mother of all On going back to
her the Indians are reborn into the
world as infants A common notion
among the Indians is that the world is
shaped like a cup, and on this account
1t is not possible for anyone to climb
out of it and obtain an entrance into
the regions which belong to the gods.
Washington Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
CASHIER MISSING.
The Bank of Lexington Looted by One OF
Its Officials.

Its Officials.
RICHMOND, Va, Feb. LIT is now
quite certain that c. NJ. Figgatt. the
defaulting cashier of the Bank OF Lex
ington. stole about $50, 900 from that
institution-SS0, 900 of the capital stock
and nearly SIC, 900 belonging to depos-
itors. The developments show that his
steahngs covered twenty-five years and
depositors are angry with the directors
for having failed to detect what was
going on. The bank is left with only
Sc. 600 in cash.
Lexington is town of 1000 popula-
ton and is the county seat of Rock
bridge, thrifty farming community.
Business is almost paralyzed on ac-
count of the wreck of this financial
institution. The Virginia military in
stitute had SEQ. 900 on deposit and the
county treasurer kept his accounts
there. The town was filed Saturday
with depositOrs who came from the
country to discuss the situation, and
the feeling was bitter toward those re-
sponsible for the careless manner in
which the affairs of the bank were
conducted.
Figgatt had been a dissfpated man
One theory is that during the boom
days few years ago he invested
largely and lost money. He left note
saying he would not carry a cent away
with him, but it is considered certain
that he did, $4,000 deposited the day
before he left being gone
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
Minor State News.


The senate has passed the bill abol-
ishing the three days grace on notes,
drafts, etc.
The governor has appointed w. G.
Bird. of Kansas City, Kan. labor COM
missioner to succeed J. E. Todd.
Rev. DR.. Rogers, pastor of the First
Baptist church at Emporia, died sud-
denly the other day of heart failure.
Gov. Morrill, has signed the bill APP
propriating $780, for the purchase
of seed grain for the farmers of west
ern Kansas.
The governor has appointed James
w. Johnson, of Eureka. to be mem
Der of the state live stock commission.
The governor appointed Simeon NJ.
Fox, of Manhattan. adjutant general.
The nomination was Immediately con-
frmed by the senate.
The new Catholic cathedral at Leav-
enworth claims to have the finest pipe
organ in the west. It has just been
put in at a cost of IS, 900.
The body of P. v. Fagin, private of
the Sixth cavalry, was found the other
day at the bottom OF the Home coal
mine near Leavenworth. The man
had fallen $50 feet
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
TO MEET THE DEFICIENCY.

Senate Appropriations Committee Pro-
vides for Certificates of Indebtedness.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.-The full SEN
ate committee on appropriations to-day
decided to report an amendment to the
sundry civil appropriation bill for $780,
600, 900 of certificates of Indebtedness
of denominations of $50, to run for two
years and draw per cent. interest and
to be good only for supplying the
treasury deficiency
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
Good Advice

Anxious Mother-My son is troubled
with a weakness in one of his legs.
Doctor-How old is your son?
He is twenty-one years DID,
Perhaps the best way would be for
you to call on the girl and ask her to
sit on the other knee for a while. Or,
you might insist on their getting mar
ried, and then she would quit sitting
on his lap altogether, Texas Siftings
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
Archduke AIbrecht Dead,

VIENNA, Feb. 19.-Archduke Albrecht
died to-day at Arco, South Tyrol, of
congestion of the lungs He was in
his 18th year. He was the oldest son
of Archduke Charles, brother of the
grandfather of Emperor Francis Jo-
seph and Princess Henrietta, of Mas
sauWeilburg.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
Unconstitutional.

In late decision the supreme court
held that the law was unconstitutional
under which western Kansas counties
had been paying bounties for wolf and
rabbit scalps. The case was brought
by the Union Pacific to reserain the
collection of a bounty tax in Wallace
county.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
Editors on "A Jaunt.

The Kansas State Editorial associa-
ton, which recently left Emporia for
the south, numbered fifty-seven people
and included many ladies, wives and
daughters of the editors. The excur-
sionists go to New Orleans, stop
ping at Galveston, Houston and other
points of Importance and interest in
the southern states.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
Death Cheated the Bride.

DR.. H. w. Slower, formerly of En-
poria but later of Kaholza, Mo-, was to
have been married to young lady at
Emporia recently and everything was
ready for the wedding, but he failed to
arrive on the train on the appointed
day. Next day the news reached his
intended bride that his body had been
found frozen near Kahoka.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
ReYersed Itself.

The supreme court has recently over
ruled one of it's former decisions in re-
gard to tax titles. The late decision is
that 1.-The husband cannot obtain a
valid tax title to his wife's real estate
by the purchase thereof at a tax sale.'
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
Do Not Forget Kansas.

The Kansas society at Santa Anna,
Cal, has notified C. J. Brown, clerk of
the supreme court, that it will ship
three car loads of provisions to the suf-
ferers Of western Kansas. The society
is composed of thirty ex-Kansans.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21

Criticism of President Cleveland's
latest financial message and of the
policy which it outlines and represents
Is easy enough to those who are bound
to find fault with everything the adj
ADMINISTRATION does, ELt the calm bust
mess nina does not discover how, in the
absence of Legislative action, the pres
ddent could do otherwise than he Ia S
done and is doing for the preservation
of the nations credit. = Washington
star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
Anthony Confirmed.

The senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of George T. Anthony for state
superintendent of insurance, by vote
of 90 to IA. The investigating com.
mittee exonerated him from the
charges lately made.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
The Deadly RattIesnake.

John Bishop died at Atchison recent
ly from blood poisoning caused by the
bite of rattlesnake. He was 81 years
old. While in the employ of the Mis-
souri, Pacific in 1892, Bishop was bitten
on one of his legs by rattler. The
usual remedies were applied, but the
poison spread through his system, and
he had since been an invalid.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
Unfortunate Family.

In May, 1892, the residence of S. c.
Hutchinson, near Wellington, was de-
molished by cyclone. The house was
at once rebuilt and a short time ago it
was destroyed by fire. Most of the
household goods were saved and stored
in a barn on the premises, and the
other night the barn and contents were
wholly consumed by fire, supposed to
be of incendiary origin.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Asking a Pension.

The legislature has adopted a con.
current resolution calling upon the
Kansas delegation in congress to work
for a pension for D. w. Boutwell,. of
Butler county, who served the state as
a scout during the war. Boutwell, is
the man who carried dispatches from
Gen. Curtis to Gen. Pleasanton when
Gen. Price made his raid into Missouri.
Pleasanton acted upon the information
received and Price was driven back.
Boutwell's mission was a dangerous
one, and the legislature OF 1868 reward
ed him with 81 900 in cash.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
Angry Soldiers.

Leavenworth was somewhat excited
the other night over the attempt of
fifty soldiers from the fort to lynch a
saloonkeeper named Harry Smith and
a woman named Alma Vaughn. Smith
and the Vaughn woman narrowly es-
capped through rear door. Col. Haw-
kins. commandant of Fort Leaven-
worth, sent detail of men who round
ed up the attempted lynchers. The
soldiers alleged that Smith and the
Vaughn woman murdered a comrade
by hurting him down a coal shaft.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-02-21
An Earnest suffragist.

Senator Parker sprung a surprise on
the senate a few days ago by intro
cling a bill to grant the right of suf-
rage to certain women named in the
act The purpose of the bill, as stated
by its author, is to get the matter into
the courts when these persons attempt
to vote and let it be decided whether
the legislature can grant such a right
without a constitutional amendment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21
Excitement Over a Iynchiue.

TACOMA, Wash, Aug. 21.-The
lynching of the Wilson's, father and
son, at Ellensburg, and the arrest of
the ringleaders of the lynchers and
as many more as can be corralled, is
causing storm of excitement. The
preliminary examination OF those
arrested was held yesterday, af-
ter which the prisoners were
hurried to the jail under a strong
guard. The A. P. A. element will
make desperate efforts to have the sup
posed lynceers convicted, but friends
of the Imprisoned men are equally de-
termined, and as consequence troops
are guarding the county Jail expecting
an effort to release the imprisoned
men. A majority of the members OF
the military are reported to be in sym
pathy with the lynchers and, should
any attempt be made to release them,
it is not assured that it will be met
with much resistance.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-08-21
Foreign News.

LONDON, Aug. 21.-It is said that the
Prince OF Wales is likely to build a
yacht which will be a better boat than
the Britannia. The yacht, according
to the report, is to be built 10 1896 pre-
sumably because the Valkyrie III. and
the Defender will both be in British
waters next year when the Britannia
might be outclassed.
LONDON, Aug. 21.-Fhe London and
Northwestern Railway Co.'s new fast
train which left Euston station at eight
o'clock last evening arrived at Aber-
deem at 1853 o'clock this morning, hay.
ing covered the distance of $40 miles in
the shortest time on record-an average
of about mile minute.
BERLIN, Aug. 21.-A passenger
8 Gamer on the Rhine came into COLI
sion with string of barges in tow of e
tug near Mehrum to-day, sinking one
of the barges and drowning eight per-
sons.
LONDON, Aug. 21.-The Great North
ern Leger, of 1000 sovereigns for three.
year-olds, Leger course, one mile and
FIVE furlongs, was run at Stockton to-
day and won by Lord Zetland's Nj
ghean.