Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-11-03

yearly and comprises twenty-four per
sons.
Atlanta, Ga, has an ordinance pro-
hibiting vehicles from passing places
of worship at a rapid rate of speed on
| Sundays.
Postal authorities have decided that
mail matter need not be delivered a,
houses where vicious dogs are kept un.
chained.
Africa's 200, ,OOO, 900 people constitute
one-seventh of the entire human race
and one-sixth of the pagan population
tof the globe is found in the Dark
Continent.
The new North German Lloyd
steamship, Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse,
arrived at Plymouth from New York
on October 6, in the record time OF
| five days, fifteen hours and ten min
utes. :,
The Advance of Chicago is on the
Sultan of Turkeys blacklist, and is
not permitted to reach some of its sub.
scribers in Turkey, one of whom has
not received single copy of his paper
for eighteen months.
Queen Victoria owns a dress manu-
factured entirely of spiders webs. 1t
was present from the late Empress
of Brazil, who had it specially pre-.
pared in her palace by twenty native
silk workers..
T. r. Carksadon has challenged
Mark Hanna to a joint debate, and
offers to pay 800 to the widows and
orphans of the slaughtered Pennsyl-
vania miners for each joint debate.
Marcus Aurelius has not yet re-
sponded.
The United States has 7O, ,OOO, 900 pop
ulation, Europe has $50, ,OO0, 900: But
the United States postoffice handles
about as much mail matter as all
Europe put together. In 1895 the
United States railway mail handled
0,777, ,S75, ,040 pieces. Mulhall gives
the number of pieces in all Europe as
9,237 ,0oo, 600 in 1888.
Theodore Roosevelt. Assistant Sec.
retary of the Navy, has approved OF
the plan to establish three stations
along the Yukon River, one at St
| Michaels, another about midway OF
the length, and third at headwaters
The stations will be garrisoned by
| twenty mariHes each, the forces to be
under marine officers and accompanied
by naval surgeons.
Russia is the only civilized country
in the world where tramps are official
ly recognized and protected by the
government. 1t is especially the case
with the tramps of the province OF
Pensa, where they are organized into
guilds, and start out each spring to
beg Systematically in the other parts
of the empire. They succeeded sc
well that on their return in the au.
tumu it is said that they are able tc
pass the winter in ease and idleness.
Gen. Renon B1anco, the new cap
tain-genera1 of Cuba, announced tina,
he will act with great energy against
the insurgents and will employ ali
political means to restore equality OF
treatment in the various sections OF
the community. He adds that he has
the greatest desire to end the horrors
of war and to establish peace by the
system which he adopted in 1879
Heavy rains for the last two weeks
have already increased the number OF
sick soldiers. The death-rate among
the il1-fed, shoeless army of Spain
forced to operate, drenched to the Skin
b. day, and exposed to deadly miasms
rising from the swamps at night, i.
appalling. The hospitals are cram
med, also the sugar warehouses, which
have been improvised into sick wards
Over 1000 confirmed invalids hav,
been shipped from Spain during tn,
last week.
Did you ever think that Englant
has a sort of a referendum? When tn,
government fails to command a ma jor
lity of the house of commons the prim,
minister and cabinet resign, par1ia
ment is dissolved, and the question o.
Questions at issue are referred to tn,
people in the new elections. As a con
sequence, England is making NOR,
progress toward government by tn,
people, and justice toward the masses
than we are. They already have gov
ernment telegraph. government saw
lings banks, ETC., and we, too, woult
have them without further delay if VIZ
had any way to get the expression Of
the voters on these questions. Why
can't we have way?
We have had many "booble'' cong
resses, ''boodle" legislatures and
"boodle'' city councils that shoult
have been dissolved. But no; we cleo
a man for certain term, and all tn.
legal powers in the country can't ge
him out until his term expires.
Here is where the imperative man
date comes in. 1t gives the people tn,
power to recall any public officer a
any time in the following way: An,
constituent may at any time, draw nj
a document demanding the remova
tof said officer When this docuo,er