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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-05
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS.

GROVER CLEVELAND, it is said, will write
book about himself.
lola is to have brick factory with ca
pacity of $4,000 daily.
THE railroad lobby seems to have captured
the Oklahoma legislature.
THE Topeka Capital says McKinley,s naug-
uration will cost S. 200, 900.
SENATOR HARRIS has appointed w. H. Sears
of Lawrence, his private secretary.
THE Mulanphy Savings Bank, of St. Louis,
has closed it's doors. Liabilities, $500, 900.
INGALLS, is to "write up'' the Corbett Ftz-
simmons fight for the New York Journal.
THE Pennsylvania Steel Co. has reduced the
wages of its employees 10 per cent.
BRYAN has been criticised by Ingalls,, and i'll
his description of Bryan, ingalls, describes him
self.
SENATOR DUBOIS warns the senators that the
gold senators may expect opposition from the
silver senators.
THE Suffragists of Topeka propose to take
hand in city politics and SO will run three wo-
men for Council.
THE old clothing firm of Wiloughby, Hill
& Co., of Chicago, has gone to the wall. Ii
bilities, $2oo,ooo
THE mayor of New York says that city has
no work for the unemployed and they must
look elsewhere for work Poor old New York!
LOUISIANA has a. 1000 destitute. The state
made SOS 900 appropriation and it was nearly
all expended in freight charges.
WEyLER, the Spanish murderer of Cuban
patriots, has resigned because he is displeased
with his governments action i'll releasing all
American prisoner
GROVER CLEVELAND and his friend E. c.
Benedict will visit Cuba soon-will go in Mr..
Benedicts private yacht. Well bet cookie the
Spaniards won't modest them.
CONSERVATISM on every phase of the Cuban
question except the rights of American citizens.
They must and shall be protected" are Major
McKinley's words.
HUGH CAMERON, the Kansas hermit, has
lust performed the feat of walking from Topeka
to St. Louis. He is on his way to Washington.
Mr.. Cameron is one of the old settlers of the
state, and is quite aged.
CoxEY may be crank, but he has evolved
the best plan that has yet been Thought out"
70 relieve the unemployed of this nation. If
Won have never investigated his plan, call at
this Office and get copy of pamphlet issued
bv him, entitled ''Coxey's Cause and Cure"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-05

Judge Stein united in marriage, Tuesday
afternoon, Frank Erase and Miss Bessie Chast
of Allen county
A car Of the finest Seed Oats in the coun-
ty for sale by Stewart, The Leader.
The infant child of Bert Baird and wit.
died, Tuesday afternoon. The bereaved par
ents have the sympathy of all.
Rev. Volmar will preach his farewt II
mon next Sunday.
100 900, boz. Eggs wanted by Stewart The
Leader.
The city council ordered that Chas. Linden
smith be released from the county Jail.
Best sugar in the county at IS pounds FIR
100 at Stewards The Leader.
Mrs. Henry Carlyle, formerly of Greeley,
but now of Cripple Creek, Colo, died last week,
leaving husband and two children, who hav.
the sincere sympathy of hosts of Anderson coun.
ty friends. Mrs. Carlyle was a resident of All
derson county for a great many years.
Sheriff Keeney went to lola, last week aod
brought George Thomas here to be brought
before Court the 18th.
L. w. Stillwill has purchased the Hargrave
property on 5th avenue.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-05
OpULENT NEW YORK.

Comptroller Roberts, of the state Of New
York, gives some very interesting statistics in
his report to tie legislature, and from which
we quote.
In New York are some striking contrasts
money kings and beggars, taxes and extrava-
gance. The BradleyMartin ball, it IS said,
cost $3oo, 900. 1t was an ELUSIVE display OF
wealth and foolishness. The public charities
of New York, according to Comptroller Rob-
the enormous sum of $5,SSS, 1885, and the in
crease for ten years has averaged almost ST.
900, 900 per annum.
Charities have grown with the millionaire,
and taxes have grown with charities Dis
plays from different standpoints. Charities are
another display of millionaires, only it
is temporarily concealed as fostering sore un-
der the rich garments of the Bradley-Martin
fools, but becomes very apparent to the tax
payer of small means and limited Opportunities.
AS conditions are now, the number of paupers
must constantly increase, and the gains of the
millionaire must constantly increase the gulf,
continually widening until the millionaire and
the pauper are swallowed up in universal col
lapse.
No nation has ever survived the great ex-
tremes of New York conditions
We have taken no account of private chart
ties. nor is unrsleved want included. If data
could be obtained, no doubt the facts would be
appalling. 1t is matter of record that there
were 81 900 evictions of families in New York
City last year. 1t was reported lately that
aso, 900 people in New York were Oh the verge
of starvation We may here find vast army
of people not known to public charity, but who
have fallen into that ever-deepening gulf of an
earthly bell, where Death is a white winged
angel, having lost his terrors in greater and
more terrible calamity.
Going back to the taxpayer, we find that
taxes in New York state, for state purposes, was
over IN per cent, and total expenditures
amounted to almost $2S, 200, 900. The state
guard costs almost 81 10000 The guard is
for the Cannaile when the collapse comes.
One more item Population gained 2S per
cent. taxes Io3 per cent New York-the
wealthest state in the Union, the largest num-
Der of paupers, the biggest tax bills and the
largest number OF criminals. Poor old New
York fair out On the surface, but rotten at
the core We are glad we do not live in New
York.-glad we have no millionaires and glad
we havet no Bradley Marting. New York may
raise millionaires, but Kansas raises men and
women. Birds of leather flock together.
We prefer our present company.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-05

Charter and is now publishing it at IS Turk
street, San Francisco, Calf The New Charter
is the official organ of the Socialist Labor par
ty. Wilkins has lost none of his vim, and
strikes as hard at wrong as he ever did. We
earnestly hope he will succeed in his new VEN
ture
NORTH CAROLINA has produced model states
man in the person of Senator Hyatt, who, when
approached with corrupt offer, did not go cry
ing to the legislature for bill to protect him,
but squared away and hit the would-be briber.
This not only means, but is, business. What is
needed by the average legislator is combina-
ton of defensive virtue and aggressive muscle.
To say the government should own the rail-
roads is only another way of saying the people
should own the railroads. We must get more
used to the idea that, in this country, the peo-
pie and the government are the same thing.
When we do that we will have greater conf
dence in the people than the FLUTES are now
teaching. Pittsburg Kansan.
LAST Sunday morning, while Congressman
Peters was on his way to church, he saw bull
ly abusing llttle BOY. HIS aroused Tue Non-
CHEESEMAN'S ire, and he jumped out of his car
rage and proceeded to "punch' the bully, af-
ter which he got into his carriage and went on
to church. Congressman Peters is small,
fragle-looking man, but he has plenty of cour-
age.
The Republican party of Kansas through its
Legislators and press. declares that the people
are not to be trusted with the initiating and
voting for or against laws, and yet it was old
Abe Lincoln who said: "This is government
of the people, by the people, and for the peo-
ple.' Measured by the modern standard Abe
wasn't much of Republican. -Pitsburg Kan
san.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat, leading Re-
publican organ of the Missippi valley, has no
use for silver or information bimetaisr, it says:
Praise for Lyman ]. Gage is all right. He de-
serves it. But it is not right to insinuate, as
some papers and people do, that his appoint
ment "saves the gold standard. The gold STAN
dard was saved by the vote which elected Will
liam Mckinley and defeated William ]. Bryan.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-05

ENGLAND buys of the world S75o,ooo,ooo
worth more of products than she sells. She
pays for them with the interest on the money
she loans. It is to her interest to have the
products cheap and the money dear, and all the
international monetary conferences that can lie
held from now until doomsday will not secure
her departure from the single gold Standard
Star and Kansar, Independence
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-03-05
Seed Potatoes.

A carload of orthern Ohio and Six Weeks
early Potatoes just received by Stewart, Tie
Leader.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
USEFUL LIFE ENDED.
Tragic Death Of Editor Met ullagh,
of the Globe-Democrat.
He Fell rs Feet from the second-stoFy
Window Of His Apartments, Dash
ing His Brains Out-Brief Re-
view Of His Lifc.

ST.. LOUIS, Jan. 2-Joseph B. McCnl.
lagh, editor of the Globe Democrat, was
found dead on the pavement in the
rear Of his residence, No. 1887 West
Pine boulevard, at $3.50 o'clock Thursday
morning. He had evidently jumped
from the window of his bedroom on
the third floor of the house, sometime
between midnight and day break. and
dashed his brains out on the stone flag.
ging of the yard. He had been con-
fined to his room since November
10 with acute asthma, complicated
with nervous depression, as a result of
his arduous labors in the recent cleo.
ton.
The theory of suicide is not accepted
by all of Mr.. McCullagh's friends. 1t
is believed by many that he had one of
his attacks OF asthma during the night,
and in his struggle for breath he threw
ND the window to obtain air, and in
his weakened condition tottered and
fell out.
Joseph 3. McCullagh was born In Dublin, Ire.
land in November, 1872 and when but II years
Of age came to this country on u sailing ship,
working lor MS pasShgo peiore tnc milsL
Arriving In New York In 1853 he was appren-
ticed to learn the printing business in the Of
fee Of the Freeman's Journal. Five years
later. in 1855 he came to St Louis and entered
the office of the Christian Advocate as . re-
porter In 1859 he began work as reporter
on the Missouri Democrat When the war
broke out he acted rs correspondent for
the Cincinnati Commercial and this work
gained him q great reputation. Later
ha nntn arr for
that paper In 1868 he became editor of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, and subsequently, In 1870.
went to Chicago and took charge Of the Repub-
lican, Of that city The great fire Of the fol-
lowing year swept the Republican out of ex-
istence and Mr. McCullagh assumed editorial
management OF the Missouri Democrat, at St.
Louis The paper later on consolidated with
the Globe and Mr.. McCullagh continued in
charge Of the Globe-Democrat from that time
to the present. He never married.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
| WILL OPPOSE CONFIRMATION.

Silver Senators VIII Protest Against the
displacement Of Bryan Men.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The silver sen.
ators have been considering among
themselves during the Christmas recess
the question OF the attitude they shall
assume on nominations to Office made
In place of silver men who were re-.
moved because of their alleged partici.
patton in the recent campaign, and
have decided with practical unanimity
to oppose confirmation. Just how
many nominations there are of this
character no one seems to know or to
have taken the trouble to determine,
but the matter has been placed largely
in the hands of Senator Jones, of Ar
kansas, because he is both a silver ad-
vocate and chairman of the national
democratic committee
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
DIVORCE COMPLICATIONS.
Nearly n Hundred Cases at Wichita Not
Closed because of Unpaid Costs.

Nearly n Hundred Cases at Wichita Not
Closed because of Unpaid Costs.
WICHITA, Kan, Jan. 2.-Investign-
ton of the records of the district court
has shown that nearly hundred di-
vorce suits are still pending in which
parties had supposed that divorces had
been granted. Attorneys are accused
of retaining costs which, under rule
of the court. must be turned over be-
fore the DEGREES can be entered upon.
Rumors of these irregularities have
reached some of the persons now living
in distant cities, and the clerk has re-
ceived letters from one woman in Chi.
cago and another in Cincinnati, stating
that they supposed their divorces had
been granted and that they had again
married.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
M'KlNLEY IN EARNEST.

Tho President. Elect Said to Favor Early
Action In Behalf of International BIZ
metallism.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Congressman
Mondell, of Wyoming, who arrived yes.
terday direct from Canton, where he
interviewed the president-elect, said:
maj. Mckinley is in earnest on the
subject OF an international agreement.
He is in accord with the spirit of Sem
ator Wolcott's resolution and believes
that action should be taken at once.
He is in favor of calling the conference
in the early spring. He says it is idle
to talk of postponing action until after
the tariff is disposed of, because il any.
thing is to be accomplished the pre-
liminary steps will have to be taken
at once"
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
PRESIDENTIAL POST OFFICES.
President Cleveland VIII Name Forty.
Eight New Postmaster at Once.

President Cleveland WIN Name Forty.
Eight New Postmaster at Once.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3L-In the list OF
the 4S fourth.class post Offices which
will be: some presidential offices to-
morrow the west fares very well.
Kansas has two In the list, Indian ter.
ritory one, Arkansas one, Missouri one,
Texas one, Utah one, Minnesota five,
Illinois three. Indiana two and Ohio
three. The others are scattered among
the southern and eastern states. 1t is
the intention of President Cleveland
and Postmaster-General Wilson to
name these 4s postmasters at once,
and to have the appointments ready
for the senate Immediately after tho
holiday recess. To prevent food OF
applicants the department has been
keeping the list of offices secret, the in
tentiou being to let the nomination Of
postmaster in each case be the first
notice of the Office having become
by reason of its increased receipts 9
presidential one This programme
would enable the president to escape
much of the Importantly and worry
from gold democrats anxious to get
berths reasonably certain to last for
period of four years. Among the vest
ern offices which President Cleveland
will have the privilege of appointing
postmasters for four-year terms begin
ming Friday, or as soon thereafter as
they are nominated and confirmed,
with the salary of each, are: Fort
Riley, Kan, $1,000; Lebanon, Kan,
81, 100; Cassville, Mo-, $1,000; Wynne-
wood, l. T., $1,000; Dexter, Ia, $1,000;
Humiston, Ia, $1,000; Sutherland, Ia,
81 600
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
PennsylyanIn Miners strike.

SHARON, Pa, Dec 3l.-A long strike
among the Mercer county coal miners
is imminent. The miners demanded a
raise of five cents per ton increase, and
upon the refusal of the operators to
grant it they quit work. The miners,
about $50, in the Black Diamond and
Trout mines came out first, followed
by 400 employees of the Grove City
mine and 200 in the Westerman, Filler
& Co. mines. The trouble was caused
by the increase in wages granted in
the Pittsburgh district.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
Iowa Teachers In n Wreck.

DIES MONIES, Ia, Jan. "A passeu-
ger train on the Keokuk G. Western
southbound was wrecked yesterday
morning two miles south of Norwalk,
injuring several passengers and per.
haps one fatally. 1t was heavy train,
loaded with teachers going home from
the state association. The ground un-
der the tracks was softened by rain SO
the rails spread. One coach and baggage
car were turned upside down and others
tipped over.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
THE BILL PREPARED.

Measure Providing for an International
timetable Conference Ready for the Re-
publican Caucus.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The repub-
lican committee appointed to draft a
measure providing for an International
conference to secure the establishment
of bimetallism was in session for two
hours yesterday, and when it adjourned
had agreed upon bill to be presented
TO the republican caucus which will be
held soon after the assembling of con-
gress next Tuesday. The bill agreed
upon is brief, and merely confers up.
on the president the right to appoint
delegates ITO any conference which
may be called which has for it's object
the establishment of bimetallism.
1t does not distribute the selection of
delegates as did the legislation of the
Fifty.Third congress between the pres
ident and the two houses Of congress,
and, more over, leaves the number to
be selected entirely to the discretion
of the president Senator Wolcott gave
the committee full account Of his
conference with Mr. Mckinley, from
which he had just returned, reassuring
them Of M McKinley's hearty interest
in the committees proceedings and his
earnest desire to do all in his power to
-. - ,.,-s, So, -
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07

DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 2.-Mayor
Hazen s. Pingree left for Lansing this
morning to take the oath of office and
assume his duties as governor of Michi-
gan. He was accompanied by his fam
lily and dozen friends. At the sta
ton he called for 1,OOO-mile ticket,
which should be good for himself and
family. 1t was sold to him. The trip
was unostentatious, as was the brief
inaugural ceremony at Lansing.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07

CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-The official can
vass of the vote of Maryland for presi-
dent November was completed to-
day. The total vote in the different
states was Is, sss, 76e. Mckinley, repub-
lican, received 7,1Ol, iO1; Bryan, demo-
crat, G,47O,656; Palmer, gold stand
ard, 135,056; lowering, prohibitionist,
100. 500; Bentley, national, 1892;
Matcbette, socialist, 80. McKin.
ley's plurality is 630,742 and his ma
jority over all SIG, S99
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
War Among Tammany Leaders.

New YORK, Dec. aL-The long con.
tinued strife between the Tammany
factions, led by County Clerk Henry
Purroy and John c. Sheehan, chairman
of the Tammany executive committee,
broke out into open war yesterday.
when Purroy and his followers an
nounced their bolt from Tammany.
Both Sheehan and Purroy gave out
statements which were bitter in their
PERSONAL ties toward each other.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
Last Reception the Most Brilliant.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 1.-The closing
New Years reception of the present
administration was the most brilliant
of Mr.. Cleveland's whole eight years
in office. Seven thousand persons
stood shivering outside the white house
yesterday for periods varying from one
to six hours. But patience had its re-
ward in every case, for the president
and Mrs Cleveland shook hands with
every one OF them,
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
ANNUAL SEED DISTRIBUTION.

Secretary Morton Anxious to Have the
Task on His Hands Earlier This Year.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2-The annual
seed distribution will take place earlier
than ever this year, for Secretary Nor
ton is determined to get bad job of
his hands as quickly as possible. He
has furnished every congressman with
a sackful of pretty colored labels, and
all they have to do is to stamp their
names on the labels and address them.
1t would take go big railroad freight
cars to carry the seed the government
will give away this year, at cost Of
$4,000. Some of the congressman
who took the most trouble last year in
sending out seeds to their constituents
were defeated for reelection.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
Autonomy Formally Ratified.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-The Spanish
minister at Washington was yesterday
informed by a cablegram from Madrid
that the queen regent had signed the
decree inaugurating government re-
forms in Porto Rico. They are es-
pecially significant at this time, be-
cause of the avowal of Spain that they
will be extended to Cuba when the
island is pacified,
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
TRAIN RosBER CAUGHT.
John Kennedy, Supposed Leader of tn,
Blue Cut Gang, In the Tolls.

John Kennedy, Supposed Leader of the
Blue Cut Gang, In the Tolls.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Jan. 2.-John
Kennedy, who is supposed to be the
leader of the band of robbers that
stopped the Chicago & Alton passenger
train in Blue cut on December 90. and
after breaking the train into three sec.
tions, robbed the express car safe of u
large sum of money, is locked in cell
at the county Jail. He is charged with
robbery in the first degree which, in
Missouri, is an unbailable offense.
Kennedy was arrested by w. s. Cain,
special detective of the Chicago & AL.
ton railroad, and the county marshal,
who found him at the corner of Eighth
and Main streets Kennedy had just
eaten his breakfast and had sauntered
slowly down the street when the off.
GERS nabbed him. On his person were
found several torn bills, supposed to be
a part of the money taken from the ex-
press car on the night of the robbery.
1t is not far cry from Kennedy's
home in Crack-er-Neck to the old
rendezvous of the James boys, who
first reduced train robbing to an exact
science and made the Blue cut famous.
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
MASKED MEN MAKE A uAuL.
They Held Up Station Ma ster In New Jer-
sey and Secured $4,000.

sey and Secured $4,000.
CAMDEN, N. j., Dec. 31.-Two men,
one of whom was masked. armed with
pistols, entered the Gloucester City
station of the Reading road about six
o'clock last evening, and, under threats
Of instant death, compelled Thomas
Randolph, the station master, to open
the safe. They secured $4,000, and,
leaping into carriage standing near
the platform, drove of. Randolph says
he recognized the masked man as
George Lufkins, a former conductor Of
the road. Officers were sent out in diff.
ferent directions, but failed to find the
robbers
The Flagstaff sun-democrat. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1896-1897, 1897-01-07
An Informer Beaten to Death.

VANCEBURG, KY, Dec. 3L-Sam May.
suspected of violation Of the revenue
laws, enticed Washington Smith to q
secluded coverlet one mile from the
Ohio river last night. He then accused
Smith of informing on him, struck him
down with a stone, and, assisted by
his brothers, Hentz and Hiram, beat
Smith to death with clubs and stones.
Sam May was arrested and posse il
in pursuit of the other two brothers
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s?i,9i0.3ao gu. of ABOUT ,s,.2oo,OoJ In the whole
year were In those two months, and of the trad
ing class a2I 1891 S8i out OF about Sl0S, 50 900 In
the whole year. The ratio OF defaulted liabil-
tiles to clearing house exchanges was eiS7 per
81 900, against "a IS last year. and Sa35 in 1898
The average Of defaulted liabilities per firm in
business was sis0.57, against sii5 last year and
e29O.6 in 1904
The year closes with an epidemic OF failures,
mainly ct the west and in banks, loan and trust
companies or concerns dependent on them.
The action Of clearing houses in various places
indicates no want Of confidence. and several
banks which have failed will be enabled 10 pay
in full, but disclosures OF unsoundness in o
few widely known institutions. in the abnor-
NAL state Of popular feeling. after IN exciting
contest on the monetary issue, has caused dis
trust and suspicion where it is frequently un-
deserved There has been no monetary pres
sure to cause trouble. nor have important
western products declined in value. There
has evidently been too liberal assistance given
by some fduciary concerns to speculative
operations. No drain on eastern funds has re-
suited since the first alarm at two large fall
ures, and the money then sent has all returned.