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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-17

Austin, Texas. January 16.-Ahf1sI
torney General Mann Trice b IN
and says that he has nothing VI
present anent the letter writes 4
judges OF the court OF criminal ~
members OF the senate urging that IN
pointmont be turned down. but ~
confident II the senate will inveatrsi
official conduct II will not hesinh
dlcate him.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-17

Railroad bonds ................ 1,763.sl7 90
County bonus ................. S.syl,sls 81
terman't uniyerslty fund Estate
bonds) ...... .-............. S7s.sao 20
Blind asylum fund (state bonds) ILL., soy w
Deaf and dumb asylum fund
Estate bondsD ..-............. $1,000 v0
bonds, go. 80. 80. iu.7oo 90
Agricultural and Mechanical
college fund Estate bondsl... 2os. 900 90
Orphan asylum fund Estate
bonds) ........ 49,. ........ $500 20
Special loan tax fund, .......... 7s,&0g 80
Escheated estates fund.......... $40 20
Total amount Of bonds In
treasury ........ ......... .&S,T69, 400 o2
Recspitulation--
Cash ......... -. ........... s652.2i3 20
Bonds ... ................... S.I6?. AGO %
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-17
THE TnICE INCIDFST
Origin of the Trouble u.
Judges mud ~


pa''as' IeNas' January i'm
nounc'ment in the dispatches finn n
TINS morning that the mcmher !,
court OF criminal appeals had bssr, 4
against tho confirmation Of oov.,..
Persons denomination OF HIM w.. n
10 Do iirst assistant attorney sepsn
created n. wave OF comment .u,,.
citizens OF Dallas. This 4, ".
nome Chief Justice Hurt also "a.
Dallas, and almost every lawyer /, +.
and hundreds of laymcn have b,s, y
questions about the strained r.,,,i.,
tween Mr.. Trice and the court IN |,
Irice left for Austin Thursday pl,s
inumated to his friends before ls.,,,,
something OF interest wosld .os n
and said no meant to spend w.,
at tho capital. There is no doubt II
iriee Is persona non grata b he -
OF the court. The trouble betx.se
dates from last March. when a. h
corpus case of tho populist lsade
Nearby, who was sent 10 jail nv
Charles +. Cline for CONTEMPT a, Sam
heard before the fun court. Tia ~
attorney general warmly espouui
cause OF Judge Clint In that soo,,u
Nearby Was released, however. Jutr
defson delivering the opinion, Ia N,
loh' which was concurred In BY u
mHblbers. Judge Henderson attriAva
Wnions TO Trice. made durinx N
that were denied and repudlated /,
he rather causticaliy replied to n
Ion IN an Interview published Ia IN
papers, From that time Judge Hal
ana his associates have entsfsah
strong dislike for MIR. Trlce, who -
rocatod with similar feelings. th
good authority that Judge Hendsrvn
time ago wrote Governor Culbcrun
him not TO rcappoint Trice. The N
uecilned to aocede to the request ~
inc court. through Judge Hendeftn
cipally. began operations for ~
Irices appointment la the senaiA
friends began a counter demonstf1to
all parties are awaiting the zctIn 4
senate with considerable anxieiy.
part OF the governors recent meuir
oising the court and referring to tn
ion In the Cline case as "reyoluas
has. It is said, added fuel TO tho thra
made the governor almost as obnoz=5
tho court rs MIR. Trice is. Judgs NJ
went home to Georgetown this I'd
Neither Judge Hurt nor HendaM |
discuss the Trice matter.
Austin, Texas. January 1e.-AhF1s
torney General Mann Trice 70 IN
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-01-17

elected a lady 10 an office and she has thus
far proved very competent In the postal
department. Being courteous to degree
she has already made herself popular.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06
We claim the Authorship.

A few weeks ago the Star copied in
| the "Kausas Notes bit of poetry be
ginning, Into the COW lot, bright and
gay. the milk maid huStleS from day to
day." ETC.. and credited it to the Ere.
donia Citizen. The Topeka Mail made
a great roar, declaring that the Citizen
| Dad cribbed it form the Great Bend
DEMOCRAT which had used it intro
| ducing an article on the creamery.
The Mail went on at great rate. and
incidentally complimented the Great
Bend editor upon the excellence of the
verse. But the Great Bend editor said
not word: he just sawed wood. Now
comes the Burlington Republican with
a statement that explains the Great
Bend poets silence. 1t says: I'VE are
not absolutely sure, and do not wish
to accuse any one falsely, but probably
the reason the Great Bend editor is not
| making any roar is that he cribbed it
himself. If we are not greatly mis-
taken, Walt Mason wrote that bit OF
poetry and started it on the rounds six
or eight years ago, when he Was doing
Topics of the Times on the Nebraska
State Journal, and we believe we can
prove it by our files. It is not pleas
ant thing to say, but it is fact, that
some. yes many. of the newspaper
brethren in Kansas are very careless not
to say dishonest, about appropriating
the products of other minds. We have
little list of names of habituaI and
persistent offenders in that particular,
and sometimes long for the circulation
of great state paper so we could hold
them up to the scorn of just editors
who give credit to all productions not
their own."-kansas City Star.
The editor of the DEMOCRAT does
not lay claim to being a poetical genius;
and we have had so many of our little
squibs ''cribbed" by the would be smart
fellows of the eastern part OF the state
that we have become hardened to the
injustice. We desire, however, to say
to the editor of the Burlington Repub-
lican the bit of poetical sentiment
above referred to never appeared in
print in any form until we wrote tin
a spirit of qualification over the success
of the creamery business in Barton
county-and printed it in the DEMO
Graf on February 25th, 1897; and we
will make him, or anyone else, a
present of fine Jersey cow if they
| will show anything that it was printed
ir prior to that date. And further,
| if I'VE are not greatly mistaken
when the Burlington Republican man
prints his ''little list" land it bad
not ought to be so little either it will
contain the names of more of the east.
ern Kansas editors than those of the
short grass country.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

struc ton of minority for the aggran-
d1zement of a majority.
The party that now is responsible for
this unheard of condition IS establish
ing fearful precedent of disruption in
the very vitals of the republic, that
threatens its dishonor, if not its ruin,
on the first occasion when there is ex-
cuse for revolt on the part of the masses
against the classes. An idle house of
congress, waiting upon the will of a
single master to do the work that he
shall assign to them. and prohibit from
doing anything else. lettering in the
halls and corridors of congress ike
soldiers in camp or the retainers of a
royal court, is a spectacle that this re-
public was not designed to tolerate;
reproach upon self governing people
that no exigency can excuse.
When such a condition of servitude
is imposed upon hundreds of congress
men, the representative of 40, 900, 900
of people, for no other purpose than to
coerce the passage of a single measure,
through which rewards for partisan ser
vices are to be divided among the sup
porters of a political organization, 1.-THE
one man power" that controls such a
congress is more absolute and auto
cratic than the royal prerogative of any
king that rules in Christendom.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06
A little over two years ago the Great

A little over two years ago the Great
Bend Creamery started up at this point
having the first few days only a half
dozen or so patrons. Soon after start
ing it met with the misfortune of be
ing burned down, and had to be rebuilt
and new start virtually made. Today
it has list of eighty-three prtrons,
and takes in an average of 10, 900
pounds of milk a day at this point. 1t
will pay you town people to go down
some morning and see them handle
milk and cream.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06
Deal With Home Men,

1t is good plan in anything you
want to buy. but especially so when
buying nursery stock. l KNOW my
trees are all good, and you know / am
When in need of any kind of nursery
stock-Apple, Pear, Cherry. Plum,
Apricot. any kind of fruit trees or
shrubs, call and see my stock. This
is the kind of season to put out trees
and shrubbery; they will be sure to get
a good start. Call and see my stock.
Great Bend Nurseries.
G. Q. NEwCoMB. Prop.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

In KANSAS there are 81 ,3IS square
miles of land. There are 2,042, $40
acres in Kansas, and if the entire pop
ulation of the United States were
equally distributed over them the
people would hardly be in speaking
distance Of each other Kansas could
furnish every man, woman and child
in the United States with five,sixths of
an acre for d garden spot. Allowing
two square feet for each inhabitant.
the entire population of the state
might be assembled on sixty-nine
acres of ground. The entire popula.
ton of Kansas could have stood in
one of the Worlds fair buildings.
Butler, the largest county in Kansas,
has more square miles IN 1t than the
entire state of Rhode Island Holton
Signal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

WILL the Larned Optic please pub.
lish this, from Charley Scott of the
lola Register, for the benefit of Billy
Edwards:
"a few Kansas. fellows have been
elected to Office in Kansas, and hav-
ing sucked the lemon dry, are now
trying to interest our people in the
baldheaded Port Arthur boom at the
expense of Kansas. There are fifty
Kansas towns offering better induce
ments for the investment of capital
and energy. The fellows who are
booming Port Arthur should either
go there or take a large rectangular
tumb bic to themselves"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

How about it? Are We, or are we
not. to have 4th of July celebration
at Great Bend this year? Ellinwood,
Hoislngton. Ciafiin and Pawnee Rock
all would like TO join US in a grand
.'time-' Snail We prepare them en-
tertainment2
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

The title of the Mckinley bill was
worded: ITO reduce the revenue and
equalize duties on imports. and for
other purposes" The title of the
Dingley bill now pending is, ITO pro-
vide revenue for the government and
to encourage the industries of the
United States" No matter what the
people want, tariff will bring it. If
we have too much revenue, give us
more tariff. if We have not enough
revenue give us more tariff. Such is
the breath of republicanism which
blows hot and cold as required. 1t is
an Infamous swindle from beginning
to end; fraud to all but dupes.-
Norton Champion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

EUGENE SToTTs, in his. Santa Fe
Trail, expresses the normal condition
of most of the Kansas editorial frater-
nifty. and prescribes the medicine that
would bring relief, in the following
paragraph:
owe notice with great sorrow that
a number of Odr subscribers are in
arrears with their subscription. Of
course We don't need money. A news
paper is supposed to run on wind, in
fact it will. However we. are a little
short on several of the necessaries of
life, and long in confidence, besides we
did not promise to take confidence on
subscription. 1t was the other fell
lows. Our cry has been and shall be
for a 6fty-three cent dollar or
the equivalent, in anything from
coyote hides to fat fowls, or, in fact,
just any old thing"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

realization of its truthfulness. Every
move on the busy checker-board of
public offairs today points to the fact
that our people ARE aroused as they
never have been before, not even when
they fought fer freedom from the hated
British yoke of old.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06
WEBSTER

DANIEL WEBSTER once said:
''There is something on earth greater
than arbitrary. despotic power. The
whirlwind has lis power, the lightning
has its power; bu: t.ere is something
among men more capable of shaking
despotic power than the lightning,
the whiri-wind or the eartbquake-it
is the aroused and excited-indignation
of a great and intelligent people" !"
This sentiment is as true as gospel,
and before another year rolls round
the tariff tinkerers, the gold standard
jugglers and The great trust and COM
bine schemers will be brought to q
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

CONGRESSMAN Jerry Simpson has
taken several falls out of Speaker
Tom Reed during the past week or
two, and even the ribbed repub-
lican Wichita Eagle admits that Jerry
is right in his position, and the Gar
of the house wrong.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

The Topeka Journal says that the
Topeka G. A. r men admit Topeka
failed to get the 1897 g. A. r reunion
because the reunion last year was
turned into a republican meeting
Serves Topeka right
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

In Boston two failures, Pittsburg
one, In Chicago one, aggregating over
81 ,40O.O 600 fnr the four, was the
welcome which returning prosper
ity' received on May 1st.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

The question of the hour is: Which
will go the highest and do the most
damage, the Mississippi river or the
Dingley tariff bill?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06
USURPATION OF POWER,
A Writer in the Washington, D. O., Silver
Knight Sounds A Note of Warning.

NE MAN Power" !"
IA power as danger
Gus as any which
ever thr e a t e n e d
our civil govern
ment, the danger
Gus power of Sab
sol u t i S m" n o W
threatens the Unit
ed States, a n d
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

At LAST war is declared between
Greece and Turkey. The sympathy
and good wishes of every Christian
people are with Greece, and the
bloody Turk has not q friend in any
country fut his own.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

The fee and salary bill passed last
winter by the anti-repubIican legis-
lature will make saving to Kansas
of S54, 1000 year. on salaries of state
officers alone Is there a republican
paper in the county which will
acknowledge this fact?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

"A PECULIAR but sensible court
ship is in progress in Florence" says
the Bulletin: The mother believes
that a girl should be admired just as
she is, instead of as she appears when
arrayed in all the imaginable fuery
and artificial ornaments. The young
man in this case is allowed to call
only in the evening just after supper.
Instead of being shown into the par
lor, be is ushered into the kitchen,
where he is permitted TO watch bis
girl, dressed in working harness, do
the supper dishes
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

WILL WHITE made a great three
base hit with the gold-standard repub-
licans in the east by his "What's the
matter with Kansas" article. Will
yum please tell us "whats the mat
ter" with his town-Emporia-which
went free silver at the recent spring
election.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

GOVERNOR PNGREE on the spring
elections; ''There has been a reac-
ion in politics all over the country,
Iowa and Ohio, and other states and
cities that gave enormous republican
majorities last fall have elected off,
GERS this spring. I predicted after
the fall election that the republican
party would never win another vic,
tory fo1 the single gold standard, and
[ am today frmer than ever in nv
belief. There is a reaction in favor
of bimetalism which all parties will
be compelled to recognize"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

WE HAVE it from fin de seicle
authority that fashionable hugging
does not admit of squeeze below the
shoulders. Ii would seem TO us that
this would be as unsatisfactory as
eating soup with knitting needle.
The good old-fashioned mug of forty
years ago took In more territory and
was very satisfactory pastime, but if
the youngsters of t1day have improved
ON the old way, We have no right to
kick, but what little business we have
in that line will be conducted after
the old style.-Cherokee Sentinel.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

The legislature this winter has
developed two facts: First. that it
tnot safe TO send some Populists to
ise legislature; second, that it is never
hafe to send any Republicans. -Hia-
watha Democrat.
ALL OF which is eminently correct.
The natural sequence should follow,
that the best way for Kansas to do
hereafter is to send neither populIsts
nor republicans; but elect democrats,
who will neither corrupt nor be cor
ruDted.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

The Pittsburg Tribune, daily and
weekly, is no longer a republican
paper, but now espouses the cause of
free silver and other demands of the
people. It's editor, d G. Flint, has
been republican newspaper man for
years, at Girard and Pittsburg. He
says he ''changed7 his mind in politics
some time ago. Can the single gold
standard and high tariff press point US
to any silver papers now deserting the
cause?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-06

KANSAS is a drouthy state has
been said exactly 2,7SS. .333, 465, 900,
100000 times by her enemies, but
nevertheless she continues to do busi-
ness at the same old stand, and if
indications are not misleading she
will swell up with an overproduction
Of cereals again this year to feed the
"hungry hathens of the bloated east, !"
who have been so loud in defaming
our states fair NATURALIZATION
Express.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-26
TWO Hours in the Senate.

Washington, March 25.-The senate
spent two hours and 40 minutes in dis
cussing in secret session the pending
amendments to the arbitration treaty.
No special progress was made toward
the final result. Before taking up that
matter the question of acting on the
appointment of senators by governors
of states where the state legislatures
should have elected senators, came up
in the case of John A. Henderson, ap-
pointed by the governor of Florida to
fill the vacancy caused by the eXpira-
ton of the term of Senator Call on the
3rd of March.
Mr.. Hoar CRep., Mass.), as ranking
member of the committee on privileges
and elections (there being a vacancy
in the chairmanship), explained that he
had not called a meeting of that COM
mittee on account of the numerous va
cancies upon it; and that was the rea-
son why no action had been taken in
the matter of these appointments, and
he indicated mis- hope that very soon
the vacancies on all the standing COM
mittees would be filed.
Mr.. Henderson's credentials were re-
ferred to the committee on privileges
and elections. After the executive ses-
sion the bankruptcy bill was taken up
and read in full, and then Mr.. Selson
tRep., Mimi, offered a substitute for
it. which was also read in full The
reading Of the two bills occupied an
hour and 20 minutes and when it was
finished the senate, at APO, adjourned
until tomorrow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-26
1t Was Launched at Lincoln.
Neb., Yesterday.
SLIGHT ATTENDANCE
COMPOSED OF REPUBLICANS
WHO VOTED FOR BRYAN.
It Will Be Known as the Free Silver
Republicans of Nebraska-Ar-
engagements Made For Carrying on
Most Active Campaign.

Lincoln, Neb, March Pa new polit-
ical party was launched in Nebraska
today. being composed of members who
have heretofore affiliated with the Re-
publicans but last November voted for
William Jennings BRYAN for president
on the currency question alone.
The convention which met in Lin
coin this afternoon was not largely at
tended. No time was lost in getting
down 20 work. and the convention
closed with ratification speeches early
tonight. Charles Wooster, a member
of the lower house of the legislature,
was made chairman and advised the
retention Of the present name, Free
Silver Republicans of Nebraska. The
suggestion was adopted. Judge d. D.
Gregory of Omaha was made the Ne
braska member Of the national COM
mittee and a state organization was
effected by selecting Colonel L. C. Pace
of Lincoln as chairman and w. B.
Price os Lincoln secretary. Six con-
gressional district committeeman were
also selected and ARRANGEMENTS per-
fected for carrying on an active cam
paign. Contrary to expectations, Mr..
Bryan was not present.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-26
A Measure of Policy.

London, March 25.-In the house of
commons today Ri. Hon. George N.
Curzon, under foreign secretary, said
in reply to an inquiry on the subject,
that British and American merchant
men and vessels of the same class of
other nationalities consigned to agents
at ports in Crete, were liable to be
searched should they attempt to reach
their destinations. despite the blockade
of the island, and would also run the
risk Of being prevented from delivering
their cargoes, at the discretion of the
admirals commanding the foreign war
ships in Cretan waters.
The blockade, he said, was a measure
of policy. enforced with the consent of
the sovereign power. Mr.. CurZon also
said that Sir Philip Currie, British am
bassador at Constantinople, had been
instructed TO urge upon the representa-
tiYeS of the powers, as well as upon the
porte, the idea that the Withdrawal Of
the Turkish troops from Crete would
greatly facilitate the withdrawal of the
Greeks from the island.
a motion was made this evening on
behalf of the government that the edu
cational bill pass its third reading.
Mr.. Herbert Asquith, on behalf of
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, the OPP
position leader in the house, who is
suffering from influenza, moved the re-
lection of the bill.
After a debate that lasted for hours,
Mr.. Asauith's motion was defeated by
a vote of 331 to 131.