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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-10
Made No sfons.

$50 Giddibois fell into a fortune?"
'sYes, but he went right through it. !"
Detroit News.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-10
Sweet Sarcasm.

Esther-What do you think of my en-.
gagement ring, dear?
Eunice (sweetly) = 1t is beauty
and it fits just as though it were made
for you, love.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-10
A CONUNDRUM.

See, Jessie, Miss Houghton and Capt.
Ferrars are teaching Sister Alice to
ride a wheel!"
After a pause: Yes, but ma-why
does Sister Alice always fall off on Capt.
Ferrars' side pm. Y. Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-10
FairchiId Oftered a Good Place.

George 7. Fairchild, who was re-
Gently deposed from the presidency of
the state agricultural college at Man
haitian, has been rendered the presi-
dency of the West Virginia state uni
versity.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-10
A World at Stake.

Columbus took big chances when hs
illustrated the fact that the world war
round
"How sop
Suppose the egg had been a ba6
one ?''-Philadelphia Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-10
Baker Has Endorsed Leland.

dency OF the west Virginia state uni
versity.
Baker Has Endorsed Leland.
A Washington telegram said Senator
Baker had Endorsed Cyrus Leland for
pension agent at Topeka. The APP
pointment will create considerable dis
cussion throughout the state.
Minor State News.
Wichita will be made the western
terminus of the Frisco railroad.
So far this spring, be it recorded,
Kansas has not had single cyclone.
The Neodesha oil refinery is furnish
ing oil to surrounding towns as well
as to territory twice the area of Kan
SaS
There is female footpad in Leaven-
worth who is described as powerful
negress, who assaults and rObS unwary
pedestrians
Otis Dean, youth who two years
ago escaped from the Kansas reforma-
tory, is in Jail at Sedalia, Mo-, for
stealing horse.
There are 1S1 Congregational
churches in Kansas, with $4,000 mem
bers, 160 buildings and 81 self-support-
ing congregations.
The eX-Slave Pension association will
hold a state meetina at Ottawa June Is
| and II. Rev. Lena Mason, the colored
woman evangelist, will speak.
The county attorney of Bourbon
county decided that the new law to
assess notes and judgments does not
| take effect until March L. 1898.
C. r. Person, formerly banker of
Belle PLANE, committed suicide in a
Chicago hotel because he could not pay
| debt he owed friend in st. Louis.
| Sunfower camp team, of Topeka,
won first prize in the competitive drill
at Dubuque, Ia, at the meeting of the
head camp. Modern Woodmen of Amer
lea
The Encouragement has decided
that the textbook law applies to the
state university, state normal and state
agricultural college, the same as to the
common and high schools.
John L. Morgan, a former citizen of
Kansas, and until recently manager of
Mo-, committed suicide the other night
because of financial reverses.
| The high school alumni society of
Fort Scott, comprising 146 members,
was greatly agitated over whether
|
permitted at the annual banquet.
The Rock Island and Missouri Pacific
railroads have protested against the
increased assessment by the state
board The Missouri Pacific assess
ment was increased S665, 600 over last
year.
The populist committee of Leaven-
worth county has demanded that Gov.
Leedy remove the two democratic
members OF the Leavenworth police
commission and appoint populists in
| their place.
A. FL. Varble, of Hepler, aged 81,
who was arrested on complaint of his
granddaughter, aged IL. charged with
being the father of her child, settled
| the case by deciding the girl 12O acres
of Crawford county land.
A fire in the state prison at. Lansing
the other night destroyed s., 200 worth
of new uniforms for convicts-
/ There is an epidemic of hog cholera
| in Sedgwick county and hundreds OF
hogs are dying, the farmers being un.
| able to check the ravages of the
disease.
The city council at Hutchinson inn
posed an Occupation tax of $50 per
month on joints. and the temperance
folks are up in arms because of it
While bathing in the Saline river
near Lincoln George Repshire, aged
Is, was taken with cramps and
drowned. His father went to his res
cue and he, too, was drowned
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-10

A Washington telegram said Senator
Baker had Endorsed Cyrus Leland for
pension agent at Topeka. The APP
pointment will create considerable dis
cussion throughout the state.
The Redwood gazette., 1897-05-13
1T is BECAUSE

We have established reputation for absolutely fresh
goods especially in the line of fruits and table deca
cies and customers of superior article
And then the Prices always right
The Redwood gazette., 1897-05-13

and theirs whose sorrows is as
yours; their life so measured
that it ended in honor, and ev-
en- SO your sorrow. Difficult
indeed I know it is to persuade
you Of this, as you must be re-
minded of your loss by the
good fortune of others, and sor-
row is most keenly felt, not for
the loss Of that Of which one is
without much experience, but
of that of which one loses after
being accustomed to it. But
bear up in the hope of your
other children, who have them,
and you who are old consider
that the long period before was
SO much clear gain, that your
time of grief is but short while
the fame of your lost ones is
long, for the love of honor is
the only feeling that never
grows old, and as age advances
it is not the gain Of treasure,
as some assert, that can cheer
the heart, but only the enjoy
ment of honor"
Such were the golden words
of this the oldest Memorial day
address recorded. But it is a
pain to complete the story.
Soon after the city was crowd
ed by fugitives, the dreadful
plague came, and Pericles and
all his family died of it. De-
prived of his clear leadership,
the Athenians wasted their re-
sources, and at the end of a
long war we're thoroughly sub
jugated and put under the
sway of the Infamous "thirty
tyrants." Yet it is wonderful
what a clear idea this man, 430
B. c., had of what a republic
ought to be.
The Redwood gazette., 1897-05-13
FARMERS! READ!
Why the Austin Hail Insurance Co.
is the Safest,

The State Farmers Mutual Hail In
surance Co. of Waseca; The Minneso-
ia Mutual Hail Insurance Co. of Am
boy; The Grain Growers Mutual Hail
Insurance Association of Cottonwood;
and the Minnesota Farmers Hail In
surance Co. of Minneapolis paid losses
in 1896 amounting to $l6,92O.93 and
their combined expenses amounted to
$25, 5,0O588; or in other words, these
companies used $l.48 for expense to
$1.OO paid for losses.
This seems to be costly system of
insurance for the farmers when COM
pared with the Alliance Hail and Cy-
clone Mutual Insurance Company of
Austin, which paid losses in 1896
amounting to Sls,09065 or $l,169.72
more than these four companies COM
bined, and their expenses amounted to
but $l2,6l3.15.
In, the Austin Company it took but
% cents for expense to each $l.0O
paid for loss.
These figures are taken from the
annual reports, filed with the Insur-
ance Commissioner, and are authen7
tic:
| Alliance Hail s. Cyclone Mutual In
| Cn Df CT in
| cent. of it's income for expenses
and has cash on hand. ............S S66, ia. "a
| Minnesota Mutual Hail Insurance
! Co., Amboy, Mimi, used SO per
cent. of it's income fer expenses
| and has cash on hand 625.29
1 Minnesota Farmers Mutual Hail
| Insurance Co, Minneapolis Mimi,
! used 72 per cent. of its income
for expenses and has cash on hand 21.69
| State Farmers Mutual Hail Insur-
| ance Co., Waseca, Mimi, used IA
| per cent. of it's income and has
! cash on hand Observation-Disclosures. 22.3
Grain Growers Mutual Hail AS
! sociation, Cottonwood, Mimi,
| used 85 per cent of its income
| for expenses and has cash on hand 25.OO
| Protect yourselves against loss by
Hail by insuring crops in the old re-
liable Alliance Hail and Cyclone In
surance Co. of Austin, Minnesota
Wait for agents. SILT
The Redwood gazette., 1897-05-13

gest, greatest, strongest nation
in the world, and from the Mi
kado down to the poorest labor
er in the tea fields that isn't a
Japanese but is willing to con-
tribute what he can toward
bringing about that result,
though it may be two hundred
years in coming. For my part
/ can't help believing that they
will accomplish whatever they
really start out to do. And if
they once get the kind of foot
hold they need in these United
States s-they haven't got ityet-
we are going to have the big
gest fight with them we've ever
had with anybody. At present
they are so cocky over having
licked the Chinese that they
think they could whip any 9TH
er nation. But they are shrewd
enough to keep out of entangle-
ments of that sort until they
can raise revenues without
squeezing their own country
dry. That is what they want
in Hawaii, and they will get
Hawaii too without much de-
lay, if this Government doesn't
annex the islands and compel
the Mikado to keep his hands
off. am anxious about what
will happen when the Phila-
delphia and these two war
ships all reach there, because
the Japanese are going to put
up a bold front and demand the
last letter of their treaty rights,
and as much more as they
think they can get.
The Redwood gazette., 1897-05-13

There is some one in almost every
neighboorhood who is subject to attacks
of pain in the stomach or bilious collie.
Mr.. J. d. Kinney, Warren Center, Pa,
used to be troubled in that way. He
says: ''The attacks were marked by
terrible pains, diarhoea and fainting
spells. At such times l suffered ex-
ceedingly until began using Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, two or three doses of which
effected an immediate and lasting cure. +"
For sale by Estate of Otto Schmahl. At
The Redwood gazette., 1897-05-13
Herds Cattle and Horses.

On the fine grazing lands in West
line. Cattle herded for 20 cents per
month or $1.1O per season. Horses
herded for 60 cents per month or So per
season. Address Jos. McGeough, West
line P. 0. 38-6t
The Redwood gazette., 1897-05-13
Where Fishing Is Good.

Those looking for the best fishing
grounds are. reminded of Lake Tetonka
at Waterville, Redwood river at Red
wood Falls, and Madison Lake on the
Minneapolis & ST. Louis Railroad.
Wall-Eyed Pike, Bass and Crappies
are found in great abundance at both
of these lakes, which have not been
fished out to the extent of some of the
older and better known localities.
Excellent Hotel accommodations,
boats. bait, etc., on hand, and all
charges are very reasonable.
For further information, address
A. B. CUTS,
G. P. & T. A., M. & st. L. R. r.,
Minneapolis, MINI. 3S-St
The Redwood gazette., 1897-05-13
MEMORIAL DAY AT ATHENS.

when civilized nations first be-
gan to fix certain days for the
animal commemoration of the
acts of their dead heroes, but
so natural is the custom that
it must have risen among the
oldest nations. BY a rare COM
bination of circumstances how
ever, we have a verbatim re-
port of one Memorial day ad-
dress, delivered 1892 years ago
by the greatest man of his age.
We know, moreover, that, un-
like many so-called orations re-
ported in ancient history, this
one was delivered very nearly
as reported, for it was written
address, and the report comes
to us by Thucydides, an enemy
of the orator. The great war
of Sparta and her allies against
Athens and her allies had been
in progress year when the
Greeks who had fallen in the
first battles we're honored with
a magnificent funeral, and Per
icles, then ruler of Athens, made
the speech.
It is really wonderful to note
how much of it could be adopt
ed word for word in a Memorial
day address of to-day. He be-
gan by an eulogy of their an
cesto1s who had founded Ath-
ems, and of their successors
who had defended her against
Persia and made her free. He
then told why these brave
young men had died-to pre-
, serve that glorious liberty
; and thus continued:
"For we enjoy a form of gov
, ernment which does mot copy
the laws of our neighbors, but
we are ourselves rather a pat
tern to others than imitators OF
, them. In name, from it's not
being administrated for the
benefit Of the few, but of the
many, it is called a democracy,
: but with regard to it's laws all
enjoy equality as concerns pri-
, vate affairs, while with regard
to public rank each man, ac-
!, cording as he has reputation
! for anything, is preferred for
| public honors, not so much
7 from consideration of party as
Of merit. Nor, again, on the
ground of poverty, if he be able
TO do the State any service, is
he prevented by the obscurity
7 of his position"
This was not sarcasm. He
, really meant it. We are at
: liberty, however, to surmise
: that Pericles meant to set forth
: what the object of their govern
r ment was rather than what it
: really accomplished, for he
f goes on to relate how carefully
they observe the laws because
they are of their own choosing,
) how recreations are provided
r for all classes of men and
equally in their enjoyment,
: how the freedom of Athens is
) the envy of mankind, and is SO
highly regarded by Athenians
that every one would rather
; die fighting than lose it. In
; deed, if he spoke exact truth,
it is much to be feared that no
|, modern State is equal to it.
His closing paragraph might
: appropriately be recited to any
American audience on this Me
, mortal day of 1897. Itran thus:
"Wherefore to the parents of
Z these dead / will not offer con-
dolence so much as consolation,
, for they know that they lived
subject to misfortunes, but that
happy is their lot who
Z have gained the most
glorious death as these have,
The Redwood gazette., 1897-05-13
To Creditors,

All of my old accounts have been
turned over to collector for collection.
Parties owing me are invited to call at
my store and settle with him and save
the expense of calling on you and fore
ing collection. GEO. LECHNER.
The Redwood gazette., 1897-05-13

For the sugar beet and sheep rally at
Madison, Minn., May 18th, the M. Il
st, l.. r. r. will sell tickets from Red
wood to Madison at rate of one and one
third fare for the round trip. Tickets
on sale May 18th and 18th, good to re-
turn until May 10th.
The Redwood gazette., 1897-05-13

Good 8-room house for sale cheap, or
will trade for land. Apply to Stuart &
ChadderdOn. 5lt.f.
The Redwood gazette., 1897-05-13

Latest styles of Window Curtains, at
Bergen Bros. 36-3t
The Redwood gazette., 1897-05-13
Ask any Man,
Woman or Child,

Who is to trading at Lechners, what it is
that holds his customers and brings them from all
tions regardless of distance? There must be
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27
Successful Moonshine Raid.

Charles Alread, James B. Roberts, A. Davis, J. E. Webb and W. w. Yarber were arrested during a recent "moon- shine" raid in Pope county by posse headed by J. P. King, deputy internal revenue collector, and placed in the penitentiary at Little Rock, pending action by Federal authorities. Besides capturing the above moonshiners, the posse destroyed six illicit stills, with a total capacity of 400 gallons, and about 2000 gallons of mash and beer, located in the notorious moonshine district in the mountains north of Russellville. It IS claimed that it is dangerous for a law-abiding citizen to attempt to make his home in the section inhabited by this class of law-breakers, as they have been known to commit the highest crime in order to prevent the victim giving information against them.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Association of Pharmacists.

;. F. Dowdy, president of the Arlsan. sas Association of Pharmacists, an. nounces the following standing com. mittees for the ensuing year:
 Leglslation-W. l.. Dewoody, Pine Blur. | Bond, ST, and j. H. Brown, Little Rock.
 Trade lnterests-W. H. Skinner. Pocahontas. Springs
 fnarmac1pia-W. W. Kerr. Russellville. J. W Beidelman, Little Rock; Bordeaux Vance Monticello.
 fharmacy and Queries-J A Ginocchio. Lit Vie Rock: J. M. Sparks. Fort Smith: j. NJ. An derson. Pine Biur
 Memoershlp-R H. Lusby Little Rock: W IT. ocker, Fort Smith; F.. N Merriman, O. halliburton w. D. Hanna Little Rock
 Original Research and Investigation-.F. c. Schachleiter, J. A. Ginocchio, Little Rock: R. B. King, Helena; H. Weimer, Hot Springs; J. M. Anderson, Pine Blun
 pharmaceutical Display-E. F. Klein. NJ A. Elsele, Hot Springs; J. H. Mann, Pine Bluff: d. D. Airhart. Lonoke; A l.. Morgan, Camden
 PuollcatIons-J. B. Bond, Jr., J. A Jungkind J. F. Dowdy. Little Rock.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27
OUTLOOK IS GOOD.

Vice-PresideDt Warner, Of the Gould Sys-
 tenn, Reports An Increased Business.
 Vice-President Warner, of the Gould system, after trip of inspection over their lines in Arkansas, gives it as his opinion that the general outlook is bet ter than for several years. In recent interview, among other things. he said: "The condition of the corn crop along our lines is good, while the cotton crop along the Iron Mountain will be an average crop-in some districts above the average. I talked with the mer. chants, planters and others, and the universal opinion was that the crops were all that could be desired. The sawmills along the line of the Iron Mountain and St. Louis Southwestern are running under full orders, and the lumber business is improving generally. The increase of freight and passenger traffic is very satisfactory over year ago, and rates on both are we'll main. tained."
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27
SCHOOL ELECTIONS.
Each District Made Political Township By An Act of the Last Legislature.

Each District Made a Political Township
 By An Act of the Last Legislature.
 Attorney-General E. B. Trustworthy, in answer to letter of inquiry on the subject, gives the following interpreta- tation of the law defining legal voters at school elections:
 Prior to the act of 1897 no one could vote at annual school election unless he lived in that township; but the last legislature passed a law changing the qualifications of voters in school election. The law found on pages 76 and 57 of the acts of 1897 amends sections 7027 and 7o64 of Sandes X Hilis digest. and states that each school district for school elec- tions alone, shall be q political township, and that all male residents Of each school district over the age of 2i years, who have paid their poll tax and resided therein for 90 days, and within the state for one year, and in the county six months, shall have right to vote in the annual school election, provided no one has right to vote out of the county in which he lives. So far as this law is concerned 1t is plain and the intention of the legislature can- not be misunderstood. The only question left to be decided, is the law in conflict with the constitution of our stateg 1 think not. for the following reason
 Our supreme court, in the case of Stout vs. State, B Ark, 4l5, has decided that school election or the annual school meeting is not an election within the meaning of the law. It holds that school districts quasi corpora tions and that the citizens of the district are the incorporators. Viewing the matter in this light, the legislature would have a perfect right to say who should and who should not vote provided 1t did not come In conflict with the constitution The act Of 1897 makes each school district political township for tho purpose Of school elections only. and this | think the legislature had the power to do; if each school district for school purposes be . political township, it naturally follows under this law that each person otherwise qualified living in the same school district, though they may live in different political townships. can vote at the annual school election if they live in the county in which the district is located No one can vote in school election held out of the county in which he lives.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27
At Her Old Tricks.

Minnie Jones is in the Federal jail at Fort Smith, charged with introducing and selling liquor in the Indian Terri tory. She is CT of the notorious Bill Jones, now serving a sentence in the penitentiary, and it is not the first time she has looked through prison bars, although only 25 years old. About three years ago she was first arrested on the charge of grand larceny. For this crime she was never tried, and after staying in jail couple of months was turned loose. A few months later she was again lodged in jail for selling liquor in the Territory. At her trial she was convicted and sentenced to Is months in the penitentiary, from which she was released about four months
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27
GEN. STEPHEN WHEELER
A Prominent Arkansan Meets Death in
 An Accidental Manner.
Fell Beneath the Wheels of a Moving Pas senger Trsln-Prominent iu Public
 Life and An Honored Citizen.

Gen. Stephen Wheeler, one of tho best known citizens of Arkansas and a prominent republican leader, lost his life in an accidental manner while try ing to board a moving passenger train at Gainesville, Tex, on the night of July 20. Gen. Wheeler was en route to Ardmore, l. T., to attend to some busi- ness matters He was delayed at the depot purchasing a lunch. and before he was aware the train bega p Hing out. He ran to get aboard, cate.nng at the end of the chair car, when he missed his hold and fell under the trucks, which ran oyer and mashed his head, severing it from the body. The remains were taken in charge by the Knights of Honor and members of the Masonic fraternity, of which orders he was an nonored member, and forwarded to his home at Fort Smith, where the inter- ment took place.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27
Valuable Pearl Finds.

Much interest is being taken in the reports of the finding of valuable pearls in the Cache and Saline rivers, as well as in the lake near Bald Knob, which has been leased by Memphis parties. Chas. $. Stifft, of Little Rock, recently purchased one of these gems from a farmer for s250, who turned the pro- ceeds to good advantage by purchasing a span of mules, new wagon and other needed farm implements, while J. V. Zimmerman, another Little Rock jew eler, is authority for the statement that he has shipped to New York six pearls found in muscles taken out of the Cache river by an inmate of the Confe derate home, each valued at $100.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27
LrNCHlNG NEAR BISON.
Coiored Slayer Of a White Man Swung of
 Cotton Belt Railroad Bridge.

Coiored Slayer of a White Man Swung of
 Cotton Belt Railroad Bridge.
 PINE BLUFF, Aug 25.-News has just reached here of the capture and lynch. ing of one of the slayers of T. T. John. son, prominent white citizen, whose throat was cut from ear to ear at a ne- gro picnic near Kendall last Saturday. When the news of the murder became known posses were organized and a search instituted for the guilty parties. Late Monday afternoon deputy sheriffs captured two of the negroes, but one shortly afterward made his escape The officers then started toward Rison with their remaining prisoner, intend ing to lodge him in jail. When near Anderson the negro, whose name was Wiley Douglass, was taken from them by mob and swung off bridge on the Cotton Belt road. where his body was found dangling in the air the next morning Johnson had gone to the picnic and was endeavoring to induce some of the darkies to return to work at nearby sawmill, when a riot en. sued in which several negroes attacked him, with the above fatal result A man by the name of Henley was pain. fully cut during the row. but will re. cover