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Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-04-09
YoalSum Has a BAD Fire.

We take the following from the
Graphic regarding the fire Wednes-
day night, April l, in Yoakum
The most disastrous fire that
has ever visited Yoakum was wit
messed last night, three business
houses being pretty well destroyed,
together with q considerable
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-04-09

amount of their contents. Tho
fire originated in the rear Of Bur
kett's barber shop about ten e,clok
and had gained pretty good head
way before it was discovered. Geo,
Southwell r E Loving were the
first to see the flames and give the
alarm, to which the fire department
answered promptly, but before
water could be gotten on the build
ing thesfre had communicated to
j e Tucker q Co.'s grocery store.
A brisk north wind was blowing
and the flames soon in between tho
ceiling and roofs of the buildings
SO that the freboys worked consid-
cradle disadvantage. BY the time
the FIRE in the two buildings men
toned was under control the flames
had reached the two-story building
occupied by John CATERS saloon,
and like in the other buildings the
flames got up into the ceilind and
before it could be gotten at tho
ceiling and roof were pretty well
destroyed, as were the windows and
doors. Most Of Glaciers stock was
taken out of the building in o more
or less damaged condition, as were
the barber 6,St.,ras Of 2 z, -Barkett.
But little attempt wat<snade to get
fuckers stock out of the building,
the attention of the crowd being
mostly interested in the saloon.
AS a consequence Of the fire VIII
Green, son of L B Green, is lying
at his home suffering the excrucia-
ting pain of the amputation of his
left foot. In answer to the fire
alarm he rushed to the scene of
the conAagration, his fathers store
being in close proximity to the
flames. When he reached the rail
road crossing a rock train was be-
ing switched around, and in his
haste to get to the fire he attempted
to cross over between two of the
cars. When he got on top of the
|
coupling his foot slipped between
two Drawbacks, and at the same
moment the engine was signaled to
back up and Wills foot was caught
and mashed into jelly from his
ankle to his toes. Not only was it
mashed, but it was held there until
the train was backed some so yards
he screaming at the top Of his voice
for help. When assistance reached
him and he was released from his
awful predicament, hel begged by
ISLANDERS to kin him and get him
out Of his misery. When his shos
was taken off two of his toes anq
considerable flesh came off with it
He was taken home and put under
the influence opiates, and Drs.J Jones
and O'Brien amputated the injured
foot just above the ankle, and he is
resting as well as could be expected
When the fire broke out George
Southwell liberated all the horses
in his stable and they left with Il
rush. In little while one of the
best ones he had, Charley large
bay, staggered into the stable With
a large cash cut in his neck, He
had run into wire fence and cut
HIS juggular vein and the poor
beast fell down near his stall and
died in short time,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-04-09
FOR RENT.

An any price, the old K of P hall
next TO Muecke's.. store. Apply to
Chas Muccke, or address me at
Gonzales, Texas.
f. MAuRIN.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-04-09
A.C. KOEPKE, PROPRIETOR
Good work and polite attention.
Hair cutting 25c, Shave 15c, Shampoo 25c, seaoam 1oc
SINNER TEXAS
Tae Sinner Social and Literary
Society.

e. F. Ruhmann, manager OF the
Sinner Social and Literary Society,
informed us Friday that the bow
ling alley. will be completed in
a50T,t two week. vR M SlcUTndlish
has the contract. Nearly every
business man in town is member
of the society, Below we give the
names of the members.
We, the undersigned citizens of
Sinner, agree to pay the amount of
one dollar, as initiation fees to the
Sinner Social and Literary Society,
same to be used in buying such
literature, fixtures, etc, as may be
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-04-09
Cord Wood for Sale.

l have two or three hundred
cords of good seasoned live oak
wood for sale. Four miles from
Sinner, on the John Bennett place.
Call on me at the above named
place. A. Fl. HARNDEN.
Horse stealing seems to have be-
clme epidemic. Henry Kcether
had one stolen n ond " night. 1t
is almost weekly occurrence.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1896-04-09
Il. B. LE0NAsOl @. J, GRAY
yoGkum Sinner
LEONARD & GRAY,
Attorneys-at-La.w.

Will practice in all courts of the
State. Collections, Conveyancing,
Contracts, given special attention.
Money to IoaD--0n terms to suit
the borrower at low rate Of interest.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01
pIxerxiaed Earminp

The siren song of the sidewalk farm
er led the people into diversified farm
ing this season, which is a good thing,
for it has shown what fools they are
to continue the present system. In the
place Of a broad expanse of wheat
fields, which we are told had ruined
the farmers in years past, we have
beautiful celery plantations and ir-
rigated gardens, millions of cabbages,
thousands of acres of potatoes, and
corn and oats and barley in profusion.
And what waste it all is. / know one
Brown county farmer who has $500
bushels of onions. They lie rotting in
heaps on the ground-no market at any
price. In the whole list of farm prod
ucts only wheat and fax, the despised
crops, are salable. Cattle and hogs are
dropping in price every week and will
soon be on level with the other stuff
the farmer produces. But taxes, inter-
est, railway fares and freights and the
prices of kerosene, coal, nails, lumber
and other trust products are as high as
eyer.-Dakota Ruralist.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01
What 1t Means.

The result of the recent elections
Means down with humbug democ-
racy.
1t means that the bankers cannot run
the government.
1t means that Clevelandism cannot be
palmed off as Jeffersonianism.
1t means that the Monroe doctrine
must be enforced.
1t means that English bondocracy
cannot run this country.
1t means that toryism in the white
house is not popular.
1t means that this government can
make money, and will do it.
1t means that the people know when
they have had enough of bad thing.
1t means that death awaits any party
that deserts the masses for the classes.
1t means that party bondage is
broken, and that the people will here
after vote Independently.
1t means that political revolution
is coming in 1896, and that the peoples
cause will win.
1t means that the people will not
longer submit to dictator in the white
house.
1t means that the people do not want
the treasury of the United States turned
over to the Rothschilds.
1t means many things that the lead
ing men of the country should study
and understand, for the people are here
after to control.
1t means that there is public wrath in
store for party that defies the people
and robs the laboring and wealth pro-
ducing masses. Let all future admin
istrations take warning.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01
preference to the party which borruws
the platform of its adversary

preference to the party which borrcws
the platform of its adversary
There is strong probability of the
liveliest kind of row in the democratic
national convention, but we do not an
ticipate any bolt on the part of the
leaders. The leaders are for the most
part men who are drawing salaries and
their bread and butter depends to some
extent on the success of their party. In
other words since their salary depends
upon the success of their party, they
nave greater interest in that than they
do in the success of principle.
But this is not true of the rank and
ME OF the party. The success or fail
IRE OF the silver cause has much to do
with the income of every wage worker
and poducer, irrespective of party sue
cess. If the party succeeds and the
principle fails their loss is as heavy as
II both had failed. But if their party
failed and the cause of free silver was
won they would be benefited thereby.
The rank and file have begun to see
this and never before did party lines
rest so loosely on the people as they do
at the present time. In the meantime
the populists, while being ridiculed by
the gold-bugs, are steadily gaining
grounds and the peoples party will be
the only free silver party in the field
next year. If all free silver advocates
would flock to this there would be no
question as to its success in completely
dethroning goldbugism in this coun-
try.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01
THE ONLY REMEDY.
Enough Money to Enable the People to
Do a Cash Business.

u
Harry Tracy, in talk at Labor Hall
in Dallas, had this to say upon the
money question:
''If we had the free and unlimited
coinage of silver alone it would give
us no substantial relief; on the other
hand, it would produce the most blight
ing money panic the world has ever
witnessed. This is deducible from the
following facts: 1. The people of the
United States owe not less than $32,-
900, 100000, the interest on which can
not be less than 5 per cent per annum,
or $1,000, 100000 annually. 1t must be
paid every year out of the amount of
money in circulation, and it must go
into the hands of the creditor classes.
''The creditor classes are in a position
to withdraw from circulation that
amount of money in the shape of inter-
est. The result is, these creditors can
contract our volume of money to that
extent without calling in single loan.
This can be repeated each year if the
creditors decide to do so. The people
under our present system are powerless
to eXtricate themselves from this condi-
ton. We therefore see clearly that the
masses have been legiSlated into this
condition and are completely at the
mercy of the money power. They can
crush them whenever they desire to do
so. There can be no relief until the
laws that have produced present condi-
tions are changed.
Now let us see what would result
from stopping at the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. The peoples credit
ors would contract the volume of money
$1,6OO,OO0,000 inside of twelve months.
Where could we obtain a substitute? :?
The entire output of our silver mines
does not amount to more than SIS ,000,-
900 annually. If we coin this entire out
put 1t would take twenty years to re-
place the 81 600, ,000, 900 contracted in
one year. The important question Just
mere is how can we get along without
money for nineteen years? Besides our
population will increase 60 per cent dur
ing this time. These creditors can
throw the country into a continuous
panic under the free coinage of silver,
because they can in one year retire our
entire present volume and then absorb
the entire silver and gold output of all
the mines in the world five times as fast
as it is produced.
IF our people were out of debt and
the products of our mines furnished a
sufficient amount of money to enable
| our people at all times to transact their
| business for cash, there would be wis
! dom in the argument of our free silver
| friends, but as these conditions do moi
exist, the remedy offered is no remedy
at all. People may expatiate upon this
or that expedient until the heavens fall
but of one thing all may rest assured
and that is, until the national govern
ment furnishes the people a full lega
tender, non-interest bearing volume o
money, equal to the demands for it!
use in the transaction of business, theil
slavery will intensity until revolution
will close the CHASTITY scene in blood"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01
ROCKEFELLER,S MILLIONS.
Scientific Name Wanted for the Way
They Were Gathered.

They Were Gathered.
The following open letter to Prof
Laughlin, of the University of Chicago,
from Henry d. Lloyd, recently appeared
in the Chicago papers:
Prof. Laughlin, University of Chi
cago: You are reported in the press to
have said at public meeting Novem-
Der 5, in Kent hall, university of Chi
cago, to the students and others present,
that whatever might be charged against
one of the founders of the oil monopoly,
no one could say that he had accumu-
lated his millions in any way that in
terfered with the accumulations of
others.
In 1885 the supreme court of Ohio
found, as reported in volume 43 of the
Ohio State Reports, that the monopoly
had a freight contract with the Lake
Shore railroad, to keep the price down
for the favored customer, and up for the
other and the court said The inevi-
table tendency and effect of this con-
tract was to enable this company" to
ruin all other operators and drive them
out of the business and the court an
nulled the contract as unlawful With
the help of such unlawful contracts the
capital of the monopoly has increased
in thirty years from nothing to hum
dreds of millions of dollars.
''If this were not public matter, you
would not have discussed it at a public
meeting. Allow me, therefore, to ask a
question of YOU, as the head of one of
the most important departments of po-
litical economy in the country. If this
way of accumulating millions by the
help of unlawful contracts, to ruin all
other spectators, is not an interference
with the accumulation of others, what is
the scientific name for it, and for the
kind of political economy which COM
mends it for imitation to the young men
and women of the country"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01
.Felt the Pressure"

The Atlanta Constitution reports
that Cleveland performed an astonish-
ing feat of hand-shaking on his recent
visit to the city, and fully $4,000 peo-
pie "felt the pressure of his magnetic
touch.' 1t was this same hand with a
magnetic touch" that vetoed every
measure in behalf of labor while the
man was governor of New York 1t
was this man with magnetic
hand that sent troops into Chicago
in 1894, exceeding his powers under
the law, to protect the property of
tyrants like Pullman. This was the
man, too, with a magnetic hand,''
who assisted bond syndicate to help
themselves to ten millions of profits
in few weeks and saddling the people
with burden of debt, in the face of a
constitutional declaration that CON
gress shall coin money and regulate the
value thereof. Coming Nation.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01
Few Gold standard Men Are Honest.

A. K. Ward. secretary and treasurer
of barrel factory at Memphis, is one
of the fellows who had that sound
money" aggregation of gold-bugs to
meet in convention in that city and
declare against silver, the peoples
money. He is gone. Before he left
he forged notes and checks to the
amount of about 100000, secured
cash for them and is now safe in Hon
duras. Yet some people read and be-
lieve gold-bug papers and speakers.
Progressive Farmer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01
A BIT of Ein.nee.

First Tramp-All have in the world
is a counterfeit quarter.
Second Tramp-And all have is
plugged dime.
Both-Let's hold a monetary confer.
ence.-Detroit Free Press.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01

We are willing to wager a jug of
buttermilk that if the Democrats nomi-
nate good Western man" for Presi-
dent, that the money power will dec
crate him with Eastern trimmings.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01

The present attitude of the republi-
.an party reminds one of an amateur
rope walker at his first public exhibi-
tion-it is not sure Of it's success.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01
A PLUTOCRATIC LIE.
PROF. LAUGHLIN AGAIN TAKES
THE STAND.

Verify The Ok Knoweth HIS Masters
Crib" and the WHY Professor Stands
Up F1at-Footed and Lies for His
Master,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01

The only place a strike will succeed
permanently is at the ballot box.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01
"77" for GRIP.

Sold ~ Druggists. sent prepaid reccpf ef prcs.
&c for as-artef. ercept 90 o.. sire c1ly
DH ErsrsHESs fEnisrssd Revised NsiLEBrrsr
HrzrHRKrs'nED- CO.. ..tffk ia villa. 81. ss- rsrt
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01
Total .............. SIS, ,ooo. .oOO. 900

The population of the United States
is seventy millions, an average Of $3.50
for each man, woman and child in the
country. In the last analysis the people
will have these debts to pay. The Off
GERS of our overnment-national and
state, and of the corporations indebted,
are but the business managers of the
people in this matter. 1t is probable
that at least one-half of the entire
amount is due to creditors beyond the
ocean. The annual interest on this vast
sum, at per cent. would amount to
S720, 100000. To pay the interest due
the people of other nations would re-
quire gold export Of $360,0o0. 900 an
nually.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-01
Some Figures to File.

The following figures are compiled
from the official records and can be
relied upon as approximately correct.
They are rather under than above the
true debt statement. The figures are
given in round numbers, and show the
condition of this country and the hold
the shylocks have on us:
Our national debt ISIS ,750,000,00
The total Indebtedness of
the several states,
counties, etc., is. s....... 1,1s6,OOO,OOo
The bonded and stock
Indebtedness of rail
road corporations is... 6,636.000, 900
The mortgage indebted
ness of the people
on farms, ETC., is.... $500, 0,O0O, 900
That of street railways,
manufactures, ETC., is
about 5,UUU,VUV,OUv
Additional miscellane-
Gus indebtedness. s7s.ooO, 900
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-02
WHY THE TRAMP wEpr..

naiA NevHr WoeA.
A large crowd Of spectators, the ma
jority Of whom were women, wsre
standing in front Of show window on
Broadway one day, says New York
exchange, watching the movements of
. muscular young man, who was busly
engaged in demenstrating the uae1ul
qualities Of . new exercising appasasas.
While the eyes Of the crowd were
axed on the graceful bendings and
twistings of the exhibitor, there was .
sharp report, as though something
fragile had fallen upon the sidewalk.
The woman from whose hand the pack
age had fallen, and who was picture
Of respectability, stopped and picked
up the paper, which was dripping wet,
and, casting one despairing glance at
1t, dropped 1t quietly in the gutter and
hastened up Broadway, Is though she
had an important engagement which
demanded her immediate attention.
In the meantime the contents Of the
package had been spreading over the
sidewalk, and as the odor Of good old
rye insinuated itself into tho nostrils Of
the crowd . broad grin spread over the
faces of everyone except An old tramp.
who sat down on the edge Of tho gutter
and wept bitterly at the sad sight Of
such waste Of good material.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-02
wsmsa In Nu.=.

Americans who have exercised them
selves about the restricted freedom Of
persons living In Russia will naturally
be surprised to learn how much fres-
dom and power women enjoy In the
land Of the car. In some paxts of
Russia women are not only msmbcrs a
school boards, but also serve ~ princl.
pals Of workhouses and poor guardians.
For instance, in one small province lest
year there were forty-fve uosnea IN o..
fec ~ superintendents of WasEhuuaas,
ono hundred and twenty-five Is poor
law guardians, and two hundred ard
eighty-three a. members Of echoo2
boards In Finland the women do j
great part OF the work ths& in othar
countries il left to the men. Most oa
the Oldest and best orchards there
were planted and cared for by wolnsu,
and the author and pubiiaher Of IL
first Finnish work on pomology was >
woman. Throughout Finland women
are regularly engaged in agriculture
labor.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-02
Game Warden CLARK. assisted BY

Game Warden Clark, assisted by
Under Sheriff Adams. last SATURDAY.
seized about two hundred deer hides
found in the possession Of one j. C.
Chambers, who. 1t 10 claimed. has been
operating 10 the hide business down the
river. Chambers threatened to replevin
the hides. but up to date had not carried
his threat into execution. In the mean
time Mr.. Clark has shipped the hides Il
state authorities at Denver. and furthej
action In the case Of defendant. Cham|
bers, will be deferred until the district
court conyenes in the fall.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-02
Ban.i.s In Ru.....

In Russia the state bank advances
money at AZ per cent. a year on ali
kinds OF goods in amounts us high
~ two-thirds Of their value. It takes
money on deposit at ~ per cent A
little while ago, to nssist the grain
trade. the government bought largely
direct frog the producers aud will soon
bc the largest holder of rrain in the
country. It has nearly completed the
absorption Of private railroad lines.
hns acquired the monopoly of the man
ufncture of spirits and the control Of
the retail trade, is about to take the
wine and sugar trade into it's hands
and very likely the coal 'rade as we'll.
Chicago News.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-02

Since 1879 there have been nine cpl
denies Of dysentery in different parts Of
the country In which Chamberlain's .
Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
was used with perfect success. Dysen-
terry, when epidemic. is almost AS severe
and dangerous as Asiatic cholera. Here
tofOre the best efforts Of the most
skilled physicians have failed to check
its ravages, this remedy, however. has
cured the most malignant cases, both Of
children and adults. and under the most
trying conditions, which proves 1t to be
the best medicine in the world for bowel
complaints. For sale by Hay 4 Jo-
Hantgen.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-02
Advertise in THE HERALD.
Fine job work at The ueraH odice
Orders promptly filed.

My little boy, when two years Of age,
was taken very Ill with bloody lux. /
was advised to use Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and
luckily procured part Of bottle. I
carefully read the directions and gave 1t
accordingly. He wis very low. but
slowly and surely he begad to improve.
gradually recovered. and is now as stout
and strong n ever. feel sure it saved
his life. lneyer can praise the remedy
half Its worth. I am sorry every one In
the world does not know how good 1t 10,
~ / do.-Mrs. Lima 8. Hinton, Gra-
Evansville, Marion Co., Florida. For
sale by Hay 4 JOHanrgen.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-02
Number of Gallon. In the Ocean.

NOAUcf OF NatiOns In thG Oe68ns
The mathematicians figure on every
thing nowadays, from the number of
leaves In given extent of forest to the
probable number of molecules OF mat
ter that it takes to make up the uni
worse. One Of the most curious calc,i-
1ations which we have met with re-
Gently is one in which German profess
sor gives figures to show the number
OF gallons of water in the Pacific ocean.
He first consiess the average depth
and then the average length and
breadth, and then throws the whole
into square and the square into a
globe. He finds that this aqueous
globe would lie exactly 726 miles in di-
ameter. Next be considers ocean water
~ weighing 10 pounds to the gallon,
aid finds thnt this immense sphere.
were it a hollow metel globe, would
hold 20o.oOo. .oOo, 100000 Of gallons.
Those figures represent the number of
gallons of water now in the largest
division Of the earth's seas. 1t would
take that amount of water more than
100000 years to pour over the preci-
pice At Niagara!-St. Louis Republic.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-02
Notice of Dissolution.

The business heretofore conducted
under the firm name Of Ouimet 4 Hos
sack is this day dissolved BY .nutua
consent. Fred Ouimet will continue tht
business at the old stand.
Ali books and accounts have beer
placed in the hands Of L. B. Nov, wht
will collect all money and pay all &c
counts outstanding.
FRED OUnEr,
w. F. HOssACK.
The Meeker herald., 1896-05-02
NOtices

10 property owners, Town of Meeker;
You are hereby notified to $50 to the
cleaning up of all alleys adjoining your
property. BY order OF the town board
Of trustees. b. F. CLARK,
a25m2 Mafahal,