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A GOOD STORY.
A Correspondent Tells How Colony
of Beaver Built Dam on
Which Men Worked
and Failed.

Editor of the Graphic:
The Daily GRAPHIC of late date
had "A Good Beaver Story which
brings to my memory an equally
good beaver story, which | will re-
late.
Lying between the Scull plantation
NOW the Culpepper place. and Horse
Shoe Lake, on the north side OF the
Arkansas River, is large extent of
territory, which in 1874, was a Wild
erness with here and there u venture
some pioneer, who broke the brush
on the margin OF the two large cy-
press brakes, which We're separated
by table OF fine land which was
above the great overflow of 1874,
and which were connected by n
bayou known iii 1917 as Docage
Bayou, carrying water from three to
six feet deep from theupper and larg-
est TO the lower cypress. After the
subsistence Of the great inundation
of 1914 it was learned that large
number OF cattle was found on this
table of land. The writer, with Mr..
Abraham Dardenne, ST., and MIR.
ambrose Hudgens, searching for
more cutie known to be somewhere
in the overflow, made the circuit OF
the cypress, thickly studded with as
| fine cypress timber as the world af-
folded, and finding ii had one outlet
only, the bayou named above. In
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within day or two and the great
est concern is manifested as TO the
outcome. Should it recommend the
assembly to assert it's rights it viii
certainly cause a renewal of the old
warfare and if an amicable settle
ment is not reached before the
assembly adionrns the matter will
be taken to the civil courts, for the
seminary directors have shown their
intention OF contesting To the bitter
end what they consider unjust en-
eroaehments on their rights. Just
what action will be taken by the
other scminaries is uncertain, but it
is believed they will all welcome
chance to strike a blow at the
ultra-conservatives in the assembly.
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The Worlds Fair Tests
showed no baking powdeS
SO pure or so great In ieav-
ening power as tire Royal
CLOSED.
The European Restaurant shuts Down
For the Summer.

This morning the European
Restaurant, under the management
and control of Messrs. Sandy Reeves
and Jack o. kieff. in the James Build
ing on Main street. closed down for
the summer. Mr.. Reeves says, how
ever, that the closing is only ten.ne
rary and that the restaurant will
be reopened in the fall. The Europ-
can Hotel will also be kept open and
conducted as heretofore.
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IN A GOOD CAUSE
Corbett Plays Ball and Rides a
Bike.

Hor SPRINGS, May 21.-The base
ball game between James j. Cor
belts team and local club and the
bicycle races at Wilmington Park
this afternoon for the benefit OF the
sherman cyclone sufferers, waslarge-
ly attended and a handsomes sum was
realized. Corbett's team, in which
he played short-stop, defeated the
locals by a score Of 7 to 5. In the
bicycle races there were eightentries,
several OF whom were from dis
lance and all good riders. Corbett
ran second.
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TO BE CROWNED AS RULER OF
ALL THE RUssIAs.
Nearly All the Different Nationali-
ties of the World Repre-
sented Including the
United States.

Moscow, May 22.-Now that the
curtain has been rnng up on the
great spectacular exhibition at
tending the coronation, the chief
actors, namely: the Emperor and the
great cast OF royalties. siIili,assa=
doris and other dignataries here to
support the young Monarch on the
occasion OF his public debut as the
ruler OF all the Rnssias-each one is
gracefully performing thepart assign
ed him and the big spectacle is be-
ing unrolled, while the populace
looks on and applauds. Now that
the state procession has come and
gone everyone is looking forward
to the coronation. But there is no
need to anticipate Tor the pleasures
aud wonders OF the hour are enough
10 suffice. In the public squares and
in the streets the throngs of pleasure
seekers of all nationalties are gorg-
ing themselves on the fenst of
splendors spread out before them.
The cheers OF the people greeted the
Emperor and Empress on their way
TO he cathedral to attend mass this
moring and the whole scene was one
OF indescribable enthusiasm. Their
Majesties We're escorted by a SQUAD
ron OF the Emperor's Hussars
Gnards, while in their train rode a
cavaleade OF dignataries including
not few of the visiting royalties.
Thls.afternoon the scene of magnifi-
cence and display was transferred
to the Alexadrinsky Palaee and for
the next two days the chief features
OF the coronation program will be
enacted within the throne room of
that historic pile where all the
foreign ambassadors will present to
the Emperor and Empress the for
nal congratulations of their respec-
tive s0vereighs. Among the first to
be accorded the privilege are III
Hung Chang, for the Chinese En-
peror; Compile de Mentebeiio, rep
rcsenting France; General McCook,
on behalf OF President Cleveland;
Price Henry of Prussia, for Emperor
Williams, and the Duke OF Con-
naught, representing Queen Vic
toria.
This morning the embassy
travesed the principal streets of the
ancient capital riding in the two
gorgeous carriages of state brought
from Paris and which In magnifi-
cence are close second to the car
riage in which her imperial highness
the Empress rode yesterday on the
occasion OF the state entry. The
great ball which the Count de Monte
bello will give next week will un-
doubtedly eclipse in brilliancy every
thing in connection with the fetes,
excepting, ofcourse, the coronation
itself. General and Mrs MeCnok,
Admiral Salfridge, Commander
Rogers, Captain Scriven and Am
hassador and Mrs. Breckenridge
composed the party making head
quarters in the little house in the
Rojdestvenka temporarily sery-
ing as the home OF the
American legation. Among the
prominent Americans whose names
appear ON the register OF the lega-
tion are Joseph Pulitzer, Mrs. John
A Logan, Richard Harding Davis
and Mrs Mutall, of New York.
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Notice.

To the Farmers, Gardeners, orchardsts and
Vintagers of Jefferson County
Permit me to trouble you to
furnish this bureau with such pro-
ducts Of good sample as you may
have, for which / will pay Il liberal
sum. Many articles now ON baud
need renewing. particularly desire
not to let the season pass without
renewal. Please do me the favor OF
calling at the Exposition and confer
with me. Yours truly,
j. w. BoCAGE
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THE LAST DEMOCRATIC
STATE TICKET IN
KENTUCKY.
Secretary Carlisle Refutes the
Story that He Scratched
Hardin.

Since the election last November
the report has been industriausly
circulated in Kentucky that Score
tary Carlisle did not vote the Demo-
cratic State ticket at that election,
says the Courier-Journal. Gather
ing holiness from Mr.. Carllsle's
silence, this charge was presently
enlarged into an assertion that
Mr.. Carlisle voted the Republican
State ticket.
Mr.. Carlisle would give no state
ment to the press as to the truth or
falsity of these reports, declining to
discuss them, or to voluntarily take
any public motto of unealled-for at
tempts to put his Democracy on
trial. But he has not hesitated to
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finish Of the cornation fetes.

Iinlsh OF the c0rnation fetes.
The carriage in which rode the
representatives OF the United States
was a gorgeous affair OF the style OF
the last century and drawn by six
magnificent horses from the imperial
stables. In it We're seated General
McCook, representing President
Cleveland, Rear Admiral Selfridge
and Ambassador Breckenridge. The
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million people. Tie military ar
rangements were under the super
vision of his imperial highness the
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandra
witch, who has a marvellous capacity
for attending to details.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20
NO. a..
Dinner to Hanna,

NFW YORK, Nov. Io.-A luncheon in honor
OF Mark A. Hanna was given in the banquet
hall in the Equitable building to-day. The
host was Isaac NJ. Seligman of the house Of j.
& w. Seligman and the guests included num-
Der of the most prominent business men and
financiers in the city. More than thirty guests
sat at the tables. Besides Mr.. Hanna and Mr.
Seligman the following were present Ex-
Mayor Abram S. Hewitt Carl Schurz, Seth
Low, Edward N Gibbs, A. G. Paine, ]. Har-
rson Rhodes, John A. Stewart, Gen. Horace
Porter, Cornelius N. Bliss, Solomon Leob
Jacob Schif Theodore Roosevelt, William
Barbour, Edward F. Poor, David l.. Einstein,
Gen. Louis Fitzgerald, Edward Lauterback,
George Coppel, Edwin Einstein, James Nc
Creery, B. Fulton Cutting, D. o. Mills, Chas.
Stewart Smith, J. Edward Simmons, Edward
King, David M. Leggett, James S. Speyer,
Edward D. Adams, J. Kennedy Tod and Hen
ry H. Jefferson Seligman.
When the time for speaking came, Isaac M.
Seligman addressed the company briefly on the
situation which led to the gathering. He cs-
peeially emphasized the necessity for joint ac-
ton in the future by the Republicans and gold
Democrats upon current matters. He then
called upon Mr.. Hanna, who spoke at unusual
length for him. Mr.. Hanna said that he felt
that he was addressing an important body of
New York bankers, and he spoke of the gen
eral work of the campaign-the present organ
zation of the Republican party, and also of
the gold Democratic party, which he under
stood would remain in the field to further the
good work so auspeciously begun. Mr.. Hanna
said, also that the new administration would
begin its work without any pledges, and Who'll
ly untrammeled in the selection of cabinet
stateme Mt which was heartily applauded. Mr..
Hanna said that he hoped they would be able
to enlist good citizens in the cause represented
by the national banner.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20
Call for Conference Jan. IL. 1897.

We here and now call a conference of all
friends Of the Initiative and Referendum of
state ownership and operation of railroads,
wagon roads, water ways, irrigation works, tel
egraph and telephone lines of municipal OWL
ership of all street car lines, market houses
water-works, gas and electric light and all other
public utilities, government banks Of deposit
and loans 10 the people at cost, and especially
all who believe in pure fiat, full legal tender pa
per money, issued by the general government
alone, as provided in the Constitution of the
United States and do away with all metals as a
unit for the dollar, whose commodity 1uctu-
ations are continually disarranging financial af-
fairs, destroying business, and exposing all
producers to the peculations of the pirates of
Wall and Lombard Streets which can be reme-
died, and practically carried out by the Non-in-
terest bearing Bond bill plan to meet us in the
parlors of Lindell Hotel in the city of St.
Louis, Mo-, on January, I2, 1897, then and
there to take action as wisdom shall dictate that
will best conserve to the propagation of these
principles and the final triumph of the people
over corporate greed of all kinds, and usury,
the most insatiate monster of all monopolies
]. S. CoXEY.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20
ARTHUR SEWALL'S SON.

After Mr. SeVall was nominated by the Dem
ocrats for vice president, one of his trends
tells correspondent, it was Harold's intention
to take no part in the campaign, as he thought
# was not in good taste but it is said that MI
Manlev told Young Sewall that he must speak
for the party in the Maine campaign or 1t would
olive certain Republicans the opportunity they
w,re lookinelfor TO sneer and say he was son OF
his father and not sincere in his conversion to
Republicanism Thcreupon, Harold made
number of speeches in Maine, but alter That
drew the line, and said he should moi go out
side of the state, and took no further active
part in the campaign. 1t is only tair to say
that this course of the young man met with the
apptoval of all fair minded Republicans and
Democrats.
IT is said tha Harold wishes for position IN
the Diplomatic service or in the state deplrt-
ment He is a young man of ability and "t
studious habits, and is much liked by those
know him best He is lawyer by profession, +,
and is in love with political life. It's general
lv believed he has already been promised po-
sition by the incoming administration aud VIII
be we'll provided for at an early date
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20
Knnsas al Right.

Topeka. KAs, Nov. l2.-Thc fact hat Kan
sas went Popuist at the recent election docs not
seem to have the effect of frightening capital
awav from the state as was predicted by the Re
publican press. Within the last two days Bank
Commissioner Breidenflal las received three
letters from Eastern capitalists wLo are seeking
investments in this state
An Indiana man wanted TO purchase an i'll
terest in some good Kansas bank and asked to
be placed in correspondence with some bank
which would be likely to sell part OF all OF It's
stock.
New York man wants to start bank in a
good Kansas town and asks which are the best
centers to establish banking business.
Another New York man asks some questions
about Kansas and intmates that he will shortly
invest considerable capital here.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20

The present banking system is a bnnco game
If YOU 90 hungry charge it to over-produc-
ton.
Malicious slanderers don't have to go to hell.
They are finished already.
If is about time for Grover to come out with
his soul-stir,inq war message.
No cause is weak that is right. God and
one man are majority.
We are still waiting for that wave OF NC
Kinley prosperity to strike u.s.
Bonds for the absorbeTs and bullets tor the
producers is the policy of plutocratic govern
ment.
"You take care of the pennies" Some
kind-hearted putocrat will take care OF the
dollars for you.
The righteous thief, the sinceie hypoorte
and the truthful liar all shouted for Mcknley-
and got him.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20
Pay Your Subscription Bills Promptly.

An old time newspaper man says: "No
sensible man should or ever does get angry be-
cause a man duns him for his money. dun
is not an impeachment of subscribers in
tegrity, but is simply all outpouring of a pub
lishers necessities. For instance, II 900 men
owe a man from ST to $40; he has to dun them
i'll order to pay his expenses Instead Of get
ting angry and stopping his paper because the
publisher asks what is due, the subscriber
should thank the editor for waiting SO patient.
ly and pay up like man. American Drug
gst
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20
PECULIAR KANSAS.
Kansas

Kansas
First in Abolition.
First in Prohibition
First in Woman Suffrage.
FIRST in Popus'n.
FIRST in ewr9lhng that involves discussion
"a o.it,tion. Kansans are natural born the
oriss and the greatest theorists Oh earth'
They mr. n-vr be sleek, fat, contented and
commonplace IKE the people of other common
we ,Iths Ka,sa5 always wants to "discuss."
II is the breath Of life to our peope.-Top k'
State Juuru'l.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20
Strange News From Canton.


been visiting Major Mckinley and talking will
him about trusts and corporations. 81 found,
says Mr.. Pingree, "that he knows as well a
anybody that they are rotten to the core. HI
recognizes that they are one of the creates
evils in this country, and knows that something
has got to be done. He's all right The fur
ther information is given that it was Major Nc
Kinley who wrote the antitrust plank of tn
Republican platform of 1892. "They ma,
talk all they want to about Mark Hanna bein!
president" added Mr., Pngree, "but they'll
find that William Mckinley is going to be pres
ident himself"
All this would be cheering if Governor Pin
gree could be relied on to read Major Nc
Kiney's mind and to estimate at their wortl
Major McKinleys words. The Major as a pol
itcan has acquired the habit Of agreeing will
the adversary while he is i'll the way with him
and of seeming 10 ocquiesce in the views of Ell
thusiastic persons who do he talking. Gov
ernor Pingree is not noted for taciturnity, ant
lie is honorably known as a detester of rapa
cous wealth Is it not quite thinkable tha
when trusts ana corporations Welc DSlHS uS
clared rotten to the core it was he and not the
presdent-elect who spoke :? What though
Major Mckinley did write the antitrust plank
in 1902 He was as good silver man ther
as Governor Pingree himself, yet he changed
his mind.
1t helps to reduce to almost nothing the value
of this surprising report from Canton that Gov.
ernor Pingree should preface it with the state
mcnt which follows
If ever candidate realized that he owes his
election to the people and not the gang, the
the Major is that man.
If the trusts and corporations that are ''rot-
ten to the core are included i'll 'the gang,
what would have become of Major Mckinley
without them 1t is true that millions of the
people believed they were doing their patriotic
duty when they voted ior the Republican can
diclate, but it is also true as to forbid dispute
that every trust and corporation Ill the United
States which takes corrupting hand III poll
tics worked with frantic and constituencies ell
erpv for McKinley's election, and that he could
not have been elected without them.
1t may be that as president the Major will
disappoint the natural expectation of reward of
,c trusts and corporations, Enthroned Ill the
White House and clolhvd with power, ambition
NAV come to him to do what is right even at
the cost of consistency and the forgetting OF
service. Major Mckinley is not stickler for
consistency, as his course on the money ques-
tou exemplihes, and he has lived long enough
TO know that the trusts and corporations sup
norted him for their own and not his sake. 1t
is possible, therefore, just barely possible, that
President Mckinley will decline to be the serv-
ant Of the money power which has made him
Cleveland's successor. But there are not many
piuprees about. The governor-elect of Mich
ean is singularly sanqune man.-New York
Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20

Democrats had charge of the s,uv, rnment for
nearly four years, and they played the people
false grossly and brutally false. There is no
virtue in them. We arc done with rhem now
and forever, and also with any man who seeks
to lead the people hereafter unde anything that
NAV bear the name or have the smrch Of the
word Democrat on it.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20

Tim Hosmer, of Poplar Bluffs, Mo-, has is
s,,ed call for a convention to be held i'll in ST.
Louis, February 22, 1887, to organize a new
party
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20

1t is probably idle to go back now and renew
the causes which led to defeat, but the chiefest
among them all was the brutal stupidity OF the
gold-bue nominee for vice-presidcnt III declin-
ing to retire from the national ticket supported
by those forces declaring for reform. 1t may
not be altogether correct to assert that tins STU
pidty is the sole cause of defeat, but it is cer-
tain that many people who favor reform could
not be persuaded to believe i'll the sincerity OF
such a man as Arthur Sewall, and we have no
hesitation i'll saying thot WE'RE RIGHT. We
have asserted before that he was put on the
ticket by the schemeis to defeat it, and we say
so now The object for which he was put up
has been accomplished
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20

The announcement now comes That Mr. Bry-
an declares he will continue to fight the bate
of reform. 1t is well, perhaps, that lie will do
so. He is an able leader, and ii may no that
none can now be found to equal him But
great events can be evolved within tie next
four years and speaking now lol the Peoples
party of North Carolina, and We believe for The
nation, we take the liberty OF serving notice on
Mr.. Rrvan that If lie desires to head tic reform
forces Of the Peoples party in Ike next fight,
he must do so under SOME OTHER NAME THAN
THAT or DEMOCRAT. That name his become
a reproach and stencil among thc nople, and
it will not be supported any more 10" not here
after.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20

The expense Of presidential election is
enormous This is the first campaign in which
documents were carried Oh franks. Forty mil
1;or of these documents were carried on con-
oressioual franks alone. The cost to the gov
ernment in postage for the entire campaign is
So 900, 900 The Australian ballot system calls
for a greater number Of officials than heretofore
at the booths The cost in the recent election
averaged about dollar Per vote. In New
Work il is one dollar and thirty -four cents.
Thus the cost to the entire country would be
about $14 900, 900 adding TO this the postal
exnensc we have in the two items alone $I6,-
100000. If all illegal uses OF money to lnilu-
ence votes, injury to business, and loss OF time
were estimated i'll dollars it could safely be put
at $Ioo, ,ooo, 900.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20

ENLIST for four-years' campaign.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20
LITTLE HOWLS

From ,he Newsboys Calamity Iowler Portland Ores"ii
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20

Another cause of the defeat was the failure OF
of the party represented by the Chicago con
vention to support the Bryan ticket, If that
party had given two-thirds as many votes TO
Bryan as it gave TO Cleveland four years ago,
BRYAN would have heen elected. While large
party may be said to have favored what Bryan
stood for, the "bossing' and subsidized element
of the party proved TO be strong enough to di-
vide it's strength, and thus let the party stand
ing for trusts, monopolies, >tc., get another
four years lease OH this country
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-11-20
GARNETT, KANSAS, NOVEMBER 20, 1896.
IL Must I've suder Another Banner

We clip the following from Chairman But
lers paper, the Caucasian, of Raleigh, N. c..
While the known results of the election are
not yet official, they sufficiently clear tor us
to understand that Bryan is defeated With
this defeat there comes regrets of dsappolnt-
ments of an almost bitter character Dreams
of pnrc American government and hopes OF
better times ana conditions are nullihed and
crushed, temporarilE, at least But the cause OF
the people is not dead. 1t is cause that cam
not die.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-03-18
Season 90.
Third official score, Gilmore Rod
and Gun Club. Medal awarded to
DIR. Smith.

Rev. Jas. Thomas will hold mass
at Glenn's Ferry next Sunday, the
22d, at 1890 a. m.
The District of Columbia has
elected solid free silver delegation
of six to the Democrasic National
Convention. That Washington city
Democrats are friends of silver is a
surprise to some, but it shows that
the silver sentiment in the Chicago
convention will be stronger than
many at this time believe.
The Avalanche gently suggests
to the Idaho Mining Exchange that
the publication of exaggerated state
ments concerning the Boise gold
belt will strengthen neither the
standing Of the exchange nor of the
mines. The exchange put forth a
statement that the Checkmate mine
carried eight inches of $4,000 ore
and three feet that milled 800.
The Avalanche points out that a
tunnel run for a distance of ten feet
on such vein would produce $40,
400 worth of ore, yet the mine has
Just been sold for $6000l The ex-
changes bureau Of publicity should
revise some of its figures.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-03-18
WEDNESDAY, March Is, 1896.

Eli Perkins at the auditorium to-
poorrow night