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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15
CONVENTION TALK.
The Men Who Will Place In Nomination
the Candidates at st. Louis.

The Men Who Will Place In Nomination
the Candidates at st. Louis.
WASHINGTON, May s.-Henry Cabot
Lodge, of Massachusetts,, will be
awarded the honor of placing Reed in
nomination at st. Louis. The Maine
man will be seconded by Mr.. C. E Lit
tlefield, one of the delegates-at-large
from Maine, and he will proba bly, pick
up far western man and perhaps a
southern man to help out in the Sec
ondary oratory. Gen. d. B. Hender
son, of Iowa, at present chairman Of
the judiciary committee of the house,
will put Allison in nomination. 1t is
probable that Wright Quincy, of Texas.
will be selected as one of Allison's sec.
onders- Chauncey NJ. Depew, of New
York, will nominate Morton, and Sen.
ator Foraker will do the chief oratoric.
al hOpOrS for Mckinley
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

A WRITER in the Philadelphia Press
makes the suggestion that the repub-
lican national convention could not do
a wiser or more popular thing than to
put the postal savings bank into its
platform. He presents cogent argu-
ments in behalf of such a system and
cites its successful operation in other
countries. 1T is a mystery" says this
writer, "that the United States, claim
ing to be the most progressive of ma
tions, stands almost alone among civ
ilized countries in refusing to its people
the great blessing of a place for saw
ings, accessible and secure"
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

A MOVABLE observatory has been
equipped and an astronomical expedi-
ton planned which will be the most i'm.
portant of the century. Percival Low
ell, of Boston, and DR.. See, Of Chicago,
will be the two principal scientific
workers. Their operations will begin
in July from the observatory to be
erected on the lofty plateau near the
city of Mexico, and will probably be
continued in 1898 somewhere down in
Peru. Mr.. Lowell will study the
planet of Mars in a systematic way
that has seldom been pursued and DR..
See will search the southern heavens
for double stars.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

: The death of Col. North, the nitrate
king" at London has removed from
the world of finance a remarkable
figure. Utterly devoid of education
AMI unable to put two sentences to-
gether without violating grammatical
rules, he yet doomed clearly and dis
tinctly above men who added to their
power as financiers the mental gifts
which gave them q place among the
leaders Of thought Col. North was a
man upon whom the tickle goddess
bestowed her smiles with unusual Law
ishness and everything he took in
hand seemed to prosper.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15
THE GRADUATED TAX.
BY Making Large Holdings Improbable 1t
Will Automatically Limit Land Owner

BY Making Large Holdings Improbable 1t
Will Automatically Limit Land Owner
ship.
John Clark Ridpath, the great his
torian, in the course of an article in
the April Arena, says:
"As the case now stands, man I'M
der the law and constitution may buy
and hold in fee simple ten feet of
ground, ten acres, or ten square miles,
just as he will Aye, more; he may
buy hundred square miles, thou
sand, a hundred thousand, the whole
Mississippi valley! He can buy it and
hold it against all intending occupants.
He can ward off the human race COM
ing on for occupation, and can put
mankind into the attitude of an invad-
ing force trenching upon his rights
He can build stone wall 500 feet high
Rocky mountains around the Missis-
sippi valley, with its 1000, 900, 900 of Gull
tivatable acres, and can defy entrance
into the domain by any human being
other than himself and those to whom
he comedies the privilege! He can put
out 10, OOO, 900 placards around the con-
fines of his estate bearing the usual in
scription. No trespassing on these
grounds and he can enforce the right
under the constitution and the law,
and the persuasive energy of the Cat
ling guns.
"'Mark what the principle of un-
out as it's result The principle was
l. u, -, =
we'll purchase, occupy, and hold ten
rods or ten acres of ground. He might
we'll own a farm and fence it and put
up his painted sign of No trespassing
on these grounds Civilization con-
cedes him such a privilege. The law
comedies it, and right, reason and
human experience concede it. But
how about a mans owning the Missis-
sippi valley? 1t is as manifest as can
be that no man has such a moral right
or ever can have it under. the sun.
Such suggestions right is an absurd
ity per Sc. The notion that one man
or many men in combination may by
possessing the earth make all other
men their slaves or tenants-at-will is
as illogical as it is inhuman. Such a
right conceded to the Individual, or to
the corporation, or to anybody or or
ganic power as against the original
rights of man to possess the ground
and to use it as the source of his SUBJ
sistence, is preposterous and, we must
say, damnable."
Mr.. Ridpath's ideas are eminently
Just and righteous. But-preposterous
and d>amnable as the ownership of the
earth, by select few, may be in the
ory-in reality, we have already pro-
crossed far, yes, very far, in that di-
rection.
AS an illustration of the vast extent
to which we have permitted the mo-
nopolization of land to be put in prac-
tice the following table presents some
startling figures, showing the lands
owned by the firm of Miller & Lux,
the we'll known cattle kings. These
figures were given under oath last Sep
TENDER by Henry Miller, one of the
owners of the land. Read the table
and study it carefully:
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THE great electric locomotives MS,

THE great electric locomotives used
in the Belt Line tunnel at Baltimore,
Nd, are powerful engines, and the
quickness with which they can be
started is astonishing. Their speed,
too. is great They have made 81 miles
an hour on an up grade, which is equal
to 70 or so on the level. They expect
to pull a 4OO-ton passenger train at the
rate of As miles an hour. The advan-
tage of electricity over steam as motive
power is not only in its steadiness.
The smoke from the steam engines
makes dirt and poisons the air of large
cities. The sparks are very-dangerous
and the noise disagreeable.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

A DISPATCH from Washington stated
that Gen. Wheaton, of the department
of Colorado, had issued orders urging
every commander to stimulate athletic
exercises among enlisted men. Orders
had been issued setting apart one day
in each month as a field day, upon
which sports, games and military OF
athletic contests were to be encour
aged. With a view to uniformity in
the contests it was proposed to create
the grades of athlete and expert
athlete"
THE boiler of the large towboat
Harry Brown exploded IS miles below
Vicksburg, Miss, on the 18th and the
vessel sank in less than a minute
Eleven persons, all white, were prob
ably lost. Three bodies were recov
cred. 1t was valued at $50, 600 and
was not insured.
THE wife of Fritz Heinsnit, living on
= farm near Fowler, Ind, recently
gave birth to six healthy, we'll devel.
oped babies, three boys and three girls
HALF a million dollars worth of mill.
ing property and lumber went up in
flames at Ashland. Wis, on the 10th.
1t is presumed that a spark from some
employees pipe started the fire. Three
men were burned in the fire and their
bodies afterward recovered. A fourth
man was also thought to have been
burned.
AN explosion caused from gas accu.
mulating ia the produce house of A. ".
Thomas & Co., Peoria. Ill, completely
wrecked the building and injured four
persons.
A REPORT of the board of education
OF the Methodist church to the general
conference at Cleveland, O., stated
that since 1873 the sum of S6O3, 900 had
been loaned to- INDECENT students to
complete their education for the
church and that only $50, GOO had been
returned. The statement was received
with amazement
A FIGHT between negroes and Hun
garians at Keystone, W. Va, on the
sth resulted in two negroes and one
| Hungarian being killed. Two others
were also injured.
The New York grand jury has found
indictments against James B. Duke
and nine directors of the American
Tobacco Co, charging them with con.
Quoting monopoly in the paper cigar.
cite trade.
AT Elkhart, Ind. burglars entered
the home of David Simonton, an aged
and wealthy man, and after subduiup
Simonton and his wife by striking
them. secured 81 Onn in gold and othc;
valuahleS
Il
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

The statement is made that the
wheel craze is depressing many. lines
of industry, such as horseshoeing. boot
and shoe repairing, the livery business,
etc. Also that it is interfering con-
siderably with the sale of cigars and
cigarettes, the dispensing of beer and
other liquid refreshments, and the
vending of ice cream. All of these
varied employments are said to be un-
favorably affected because of the wide
spread use of bicycles
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

The commissioner of patents, John
S. Seymour, recently transmitted to
congress a report of the operations of
the patent office for the calendar year
1895. During the year there were 3d.
145 applications for patents and 21,99s
patents granted. The number Of
patents which expired was 10, a45 OF
the patents issued 1e. 949 were to citi-
zens of the United States and 2,049
to citizens of foreign countries. :
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

THE French excavators at Delphi,
Greece. have unearthed a life-size
bronze statue of bearded man, the
largest yet discovered. The date of
the work is 500 B. c. The statue is
holding the bride of a horse and por-
tions of the horses figure have also
been found.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

INSTEAD of presenting medals to the
soldiers who especially distinguished
themselves in the late war with China,
the japanese government has pur-
chased 1s, 900 watches, at So. so each, in
Switzerland, which will be given to
the brave fellows
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HANGED BY HIS NEIGHBoR<
Farmer Williams suffers From q Grimm
Assault Cpon Hia uauGhfer.

Farmer W1lliams Suffers From q Criminal
Assault Upon His Daughter.
Birmingham, Ala. May11-Near East
mans mills last evening. Reddon H.
Williams, a prominent white farmer,
was lynched by a mob OF forty white
men. Williams was arrested on Thurs
day on the charge of making a criminal
assault upon his 1f-year old daughter.
At the preliminary hearing yesterday
the evidence Indicated his guilt and
he was held to the grand jury and or
dered committed 10 Jail. Last even
ing while Deputy McCracken was tax
ing Williams to jail at Eutaw. he was
met by a mob near Easiman's Mills
and the prisoner taken from him
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

MRS. II. LASTLY and her daughter
Clara started from Spokane, Wash.
recently to walk to New York. They
live on a farm near Spokane and kops
to make enough money in the venture
to lift the mortgage.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15
SEALING VESSELS GIVEN UP
Supposed to Have Gone Down With Fort
Men In He'll Isle Straits.

St. Johns, N. F., May 1.-Two sealing
vessels belonging to Bonnie Bay are
supposed to have been lost in the straits
OF Belle Isle. The crews OF the vessels
aggregate in number forty men.
This port is again blockaded with ice
and the Allen Line steamer Coreau
with mails and passengers. Is outside
waiting for the ice to break.
The steamer Calumet has reached
Petty harbor and there are 50 sailing
vessels at Trepassy all waiting for the
coast to clear.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15
A Negro Hanged at a Depot.

FULTON. KY. May Zone of the
three negroes implicated in the cut
ting of City Marshal Walker here
Saturday was caught by the telegraph
operator at Arlington, yesterday, and
shot just above the left lung in resist.
ing arrest The negro was brought
here, when mob, which had gathered
at the depot, hanged him.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

DURING the recent municipal election
contest at New Orleans, nearly 14,0Oc
fraudulently registered names were
stricken from the polling lists.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

ACCORDING to the census of 1890
there were in all 90, 61s, a07 members of
churches in the United States. The
statistics for 1895, however, according
to Mr.. Carroll in the Forum, show that
this aggregate has in five years been
increased to 2i,646, 5s4, q gain of 4.O2S,-
277. In the same period there has been q
gain of 23,075 churches and 81, GAG min
listers. 1t is estimated that it requires
an annual expenditure of not less than
$50, 0c0, 600 to run the churches in the
United States, all of which is raised by
voluntary contributions The present
value of church property is estimated
by Mr.. Carroll at $500. 600, 600.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15
CURRENT COMMENT.

THERE were 10000 American horses
shipped to Germany last year.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

The Railway Age, after careful
survey of the field, thinks that the
number of miles of new track thai
will be laid in 1896 will be between {, OOt
and 1000
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

Shall the peoples party 60 for
ward or shall it retrograde, in order &c
quiet the nerves of few leaders"
who arc troubled with '.ismsT'-Mis-
souri, World
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pie

The iron. grasp of scrofula has nc
mercy upon its victims. This demon
of the blood is often not satisfied with
causing dreadful sores, but racks the
body with the pains of rheumatism
until Hoods Sarsaparilla cures.
"Nearly four years ago l became af.
fiicted with scrofula and rheumatism
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

The growing belief among scientists
that the successful navigation of the
air is only question of time leads a
writer in the North American Review
to discussion of the influence which
balloons and air ships of various kinds
are likely in future to have upon war.
He winds mp by saying that we may
look forward to shorter wars in the
future, and, since the conflict of the air
ships will be the decisive factor of q
battle, the relative Importance of large
armies and navics will be diminished.
To be without air ships would be GER
tain defeat to a nation in war, even
II her antagonist was small nation.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

A STORY is going the rounds that ex
Congressman Harter, who committed
suicide at Canton, O., few month";
ago. was a member of a suicide club.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

TennesSee DemOcrats Tor Free Silver.
NASHVILLE, Tenn; May S.-The larg
est democratic state convention ever
held in Tennessee has met and ad
journed. 1t was a free silver conven
ton from start to finish. Fully $500
delegates and visitors were in attend
ance. The platform contains a
strong free silver plank, as follows.
I'VE demand a restoration of the
money of the consultation by law pro
viding for the free and unlimited coin
age of both gold and silver as full
legal tender money at the ratio of 81
teen to one, regardless of the action Of
any other nation" :Ex-Gov. Robert L.
Taylor was nominated for governor by
acclamation
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15
EXPERIMENTS WITH X RAYS.

Prof. Blake Shows a Lawrence Audience
How to Take Shadowgraphs..
LAWRENCE, Kan, May 12.-During
Prot. L. !. Blake's lecture upon the X
rays Yesterday evening, he passed a
current of 500, 900 volts of electricity
through the bodies of himself and as
sistant, emitting X rays from a Crooks
tube held in the hand of the latter. A
successful shadowgraph was taken of
a colored mans foot, locating bullet
that he had been carrying for three
months. Another shadowgraph was
made of the hand of Pauline Level.
ling, daughter of eX-Gov. Lewelling.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

TEE late shah of Persia had IS grand
daughters in the family of his eldest
aon alone
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15
WI ,ad G

Running sores broke out on my thighs.
Pieces of bone came out and an operation
was contemplated. 1 had rheumatism in
my legs, drawn up out of shape. l lost ap-
petite, could not sleep. l was a perfect
wreck. I continued to grow worse and
finally gave up the doctors treatment to
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15

THE faith healing messiah business
appears TO have died a natural death.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-05-15
damnable curse. It is the graduated

Imagine. if you please, a tax levied
by each county of state, in addition
to the ordinary land tax, upon all the
land within its limits, graded in some.
what the following style:
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empted, let us see how the plan would
work. We will assume that land is as
sessed at Se5 an acre, without improve
ments. This is the result:
Acres Value. Tax. Acre.
Farmer. 64Os 16.Ooos 1870 1877
Spectator $500 $4,000 1000 1922
Plurocrat.. 100000 5000, 900 100000 1.OO0
Lux, Har-
vey coun-
ty, Ore .4eO0 900 los, 100000 54.o75 600 I2s75s
So that, in Harvey county, Ore,
Miller and Lux would have to pay
$12. s71a per acre tax, if they wished to
hold possession of their princely do
main. But in order to work out this
result it would be necessary to add
the cumulative feature to the graded
tax, thus constituting what is known
as the graduated-cumulativ tax. The
cumulative feature simply provides
that when any individual or corpora
ton owns more than one tract of land
in any taxing district County, for in
stance), each tract shall pay the rate
of tax that is applicable to the aggre-
gate value of all the tracts in such tax
AhS uioGIlC@ dOW "OulU lduu
monopoly hold out in the face of dis
eliminating tax like that? The st.
Louis convention should adopt a land
plank worded something like this:
The land, including all the material
sources of wealth, is the heritage Of
the people, and should not be monop-
olized for speculative purposes, but inc
dividual occupancy and actual use
should be prerequisite to legal claim
of title to land. Alien ownership of
land should be prohibited and lands
now held by railroad and other cor
porations, in excess of their actual
needs, and all lands now owned bv
aliens should be reclaimed by the gov
eminent for actual settlers only. We
believe that the land question can be
most easily solved by the adoption by
the several states of graded state and
county land tax. similar to the system
now in force in New Zealand. with n
increased rate upon lands held by non.
occupying landowners.
This. of itself. would form as strong
an issue as will the silver question.
Seventy-fve per cent of the Amer.
lean people are landless and homeless
and, to them, the land question is a
burning issue" GEORGE C. WARD
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Young Giri's suicide.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 9.-Rens
Donley, the pretty 16-year-old daughter
of Harry Donley, tinsmith, living at
4O1 Locust street. committed suicide
last evening by taking strychnine.
SIZE left no letters to explain her
course, nor did she leave any word for
anyone. The poison was taken at
rooming house kept by colored
woman named Goodyear.
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Addition.

11tsOI tst18tIOIOIidI IOVJsOOV
Less than $4,000 ordinary tax only.
Simply using this table as an illus
tration and assuming that all lands
are valued at their cash value and all
residence and farm improvements ex
empted, let us see how the plan would
work. We will assume that land is as
sessed at SIS an acre, without improve
ments. This is the result:
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Women, Children and Horses Burned
BERLIN, May s.-The riding school
attached to the university of Heidel
berg was burned last night and two
women, two children and 81 horses
were burned to death.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-03-07
French Steamer Ran Into Her IN
New York Harbor.
DENSE FOG WAS PREVAILING
The steamer New York, Inward Bound,
Ran Aground on the West Bank
Of the Channel.

New York, Feb. 29.-The Atlas line
steamer Ailsa was run down at 2:30
o'clock today by a French line steam
er, supposed to be the Bourgogne, while
anchored in the channel off Fort Ham
ilton. The steamer which struck the
Ailsa pulled away from the vessel and
disappeared in the mist. The AilSa car
ried crew of 40 men and there were II
passengers on board, three Of whom
were women. All escaped without in
jury, owing to the prompt arrival of
a large tug belonging to the Merritt
Wrecking Company.
The Ailsa left her pier In this city at
noon bound for Kingston, Jamaica.
She was heavily laden with freight.
A dense fog prevailed in the bay and
Captain J. w. Morris, as a precautiOn
against disaster, decided to anchor his
vessel until the fog lifted. He came to
a standstilI about half a mile Off Fort
Hamilton shore. The passengers just
finished dinner when the crash came.
The big black hull of the French liner
suddenly doomed up in the mist and
struck the anchored ship about 40 feet
from the bow on the port side. The
passengers and crew, Captain Morris
decided that he would try to beach his
vessel, which commenced TO fill rapid
ly. While he was preparing to do so
the rescuing tug came in answer to the
Ailsa's whistles of distress and took off
the passengers and crew. who had
taken refuge in the rigging.
Ten minutes after the last person had
left the injured vessel and 20 minutes
after the collision the Ailsa sank.
Only her smokestack and spars are now
visible.
Some Of the passengers were landed at
Fort Hamilton and returned to this
city via Brooklyn, while the remainder
came to New York on the tug and were
| landed at the barge office.
The Ailsa was an iron vessel OF 200
| tons, and was the crack steamer OF the
line.