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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

THE president has appointed Laurits
s. Swenson, of Minnesota, United
States minister to Denmark.
ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER BEST, of the
general land office, who represented
the interior department at the ma
tional irrigation congress. at Lincoln,
Neb., said that the work of the con-
vention will bear fruit in coming legis-
lation, and that congress will be asked
to pass an amendment to the Carey
law, giving states larger control over
their arid lands by enabling them to
pledge these lands as security for their
reclamation.
CoMMIssARY GENERAL SULLIVAN has
made his annual report to the secre
tary of war. The expenditures for the
year amounted to 49, 1885, 2O9 of which
81, 972, 702 was for the subsistence of
the army and the balance for the set
Element of claims and other purposes
THE bureau of statistics has issued
the table showing the exports and i'm
ports for August, the first full month
under the new tariff law. These
figures show for that month the 1arg-
est export of domestic merchandise of
any August in the history of the gov
eminent. The exports were $40, AGO.,
SO4, against GOO, OOS, 3oI IOf august, 1880.
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS EVANS has
issued the following order: Here
after no attorney shall be permitted to
examine the reports of examining sur
geons in any pension claim except up
on the personal order of the commits
sioner or one of the deputy commits
sioners of this bureau" The object of
this order is to stop the growing Gus
tom of searching these reports to find
material for working up new claims,
largely on the basis of ratings that
have not been allowed.
THE president and Mrs. Mckinley
gave a reception at the white house
the other night to the foreign guests
of the international committee of the
Brotherhood of st. Andrew. Invited
to meet the guests were many persons
prominent in the social, religious and
scientific circles of Washington.
THE comptroller of the currency has
called for the condition of the national
banks at the close of business Octo-
Der 5.
THE post Office department at Wash
ington has adopted policy of general
extension of the money order system.
Complaints have been constantly filed
by business houses that their CORE
spondents at villages are unable to
send money orders because their post
offices have no such facilities.
SECRETARY WILSON, of the agricul-
tural department, is making arrange
ments to organize the work of pur-
chasing foreign seed for distribution
by the department.
THE annual report of Surgeon Gen
eral Sternbern states that the health
of the army has been excellent during
1896. The total plumber of men ex-
amined for enlistment during the cal
endar year was 1869, of whom 1864
were accepted, 5,44S were rejected on
primary examination and 557 subse,
nuently declined enlistment.
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O1YTNOUS.
FLoRETTE,


 Omens.-" Julia, you did not accept MT. Fitz-Jones?" T was afraid to; he proposed to me on bargain day. ."-Chi- cago Record.
 The Judge-"Didn't tell you the last time that you were here that I wanted to see your face in this court no more?'' Weary Watkins-"You did, yeronner, and that Is exactly wot I tole the cop.'' Indianapolis Journal.
 "I wonder" said the fair r-haired maid, Eff there will be any more love when woman is the acknowledged peer of man in intellect?" What" asked the rheumatic bachelor, "has love got to do with intellect t?"-Cincinnati En- quirer
 Husband-"Dearest Mathilde, I have made up my mind to grant all your wishes You shall go to the mountains six weeks, you shall have a new dress, and the parlor shall be supplied with new rococo furniture" Wife-"Oh, Charles! What have you been doing?" -Fliegende Blaetter.
 "Mercy!" cried MT. Barker at the restaurant. Waiter, is this Neufchatel cheese?" "Yes, sir,'' said the waiter. "Well, I must say it tastes like very old chatel cheese. Bring me some cottage cheese instead, and be sure it is made of some cottage since the original Queen Anne period. "--Harper's Bazar.
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NOT PRIVIEEG ED,

The stockbroker was the only man to go to prison, and they do say it was the luckiest day of his life when he went there, The sugar men were clear ed, and yesterday the newspaper men
 were acquitted of contempt of the I senate Sugar Investigating committee.
 In the case of John s. Shriver, the cor respondent of the New York Mail and
 Express, Judge Bradley based his de- cision on two points; first, that the witness had not been legally summon ed, and second that the question asked him was not pertinent. And the judge
 also had something interesting to say concerning privileged communications. The contention of the defence that
 communications to newspaper men are
 privileged as a class, the same as are communications under circumstances
 to priests, lawyers and physicians, the
 court refused to sustain. The court held, however, that to ask the witness
 the name of his informant was not a
 pertinent question. The common law,
 Judge Bradley said, held confidential
 communications between husband and wife to be privileged, as were also con- fessions to a spiritual adviser, and
 some States, by statute, had included in
 this class lawyers and physicians. Only
 one State, to the knowledge of the
 court, had gone so far as to include
 newspaper editors, reporters and cor
 respondents in the privileged class. In the absence of express legislation by
 congress to support this view,he should decline to entertain it himself.
 That Mir Shriver did right in not be-
 traying his informant, even if the com-
 munication was not privileged will be generally admitted. The evidence was that the correspondent had been told
 by a Congressman that the Congress-
 man had been told by wire manufac- turer that the wire manufacturer had
 overheard in the Arlington Hotel a cOnVerSat10n between Ceftaln partleS
 which led him to certain conclusions.
 The correspondent sent what he had heard to his paper. He was called be-
 fore the senate committee and asked to divulge the source of his information. This he declined to do on the ground
 that he had promised not to betray his informant and that to do so would tend
 to degrade him and destroy his use fulness as a newspaper correspondent.
 It would, and doubtless he would have
 gone to jail rather than tell. But all's
 well that ends we'll He is all right, the
 sugar men are all right, and the price
 of Sugar stock is all right for those who bought it early.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-19
SHOOTING FLYING FISH.

Novel Sport Carried on in Southern
 Waters.
 The visitor to the island of Santa Cat aiina, or he who goes out on the launch- es from Long Beach or San Pedro, is always entertained by the remarkable flights of fiying-fish, which in these waters attain a length of eighteen inch es and a weight of two pounds Alarmed by the boat or steamer, they dash out of the water by vigorous movement of the screwlike tail and dash away in leadlong flight, skimming over the waves like birds, presenting SC remarkable an appearance that the tourist, who has never seen so extraor- donary performance takes them for birds. The flying-fish is not flying but it has four very winglike fins which serve 1t a similar purpose; that is, it hurls itself out of the water by the aid of it's tail, and then using the four winglike fins as parachutes goes soar ing away, covering a distance of an eighth of mile; when the inertia falls the tall of the fish drops, and the mo- ment 1t strikes the water 1t begins vii olent twisting, which sends the fish into the air again, and by repeating this the fish is enabled to cover the long dis tance. The wings or fins are not Tapped, the only motion being a tre- ulous one tnparted to them when the
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TnE NvESrIGArloy NEEDED

We have already had one investiga- tlon' The newspapers that didn't get the fat advertisement have been inves- tigated. There is call for the investi- gation of "the city engineer or other employees of the city" and there is also call for the Investigation of the con- tractors who are constructing the sub structure of the Grand avenue bridge. But the investigation that appears to be most needed just now is an investi- gation of the new city charter Those who made it should be called up and asked what they meant to say in it., and then there should be inquiry to discover what they succeeded In saying. And then the whole business should be submitted" to the corporation counsel for his opinion. After his opinion has been given we should go ahead and spend all the money we can borrow, being especially careful to accept none but the highest bids. Thus shall Greater New Haven become more glorious and wisdom be justified of her Young Republican children.
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N.INHION NOTES.
For Wear Before the Mirror.

A dressing sacque that is very pretty and really not very expensive is shown herewith, It was made of bands of tucked pale blue batiste and white lace insertion, the batiste a little wider than the lace, Down each side of the front ran full cascade of batlste edged with lace, and the basque was a ruffle of batiste edged on both sides with lace, The sleeves were made on the same plan as the body and were draped and edged with wide batiste ruffies and lace. On each shoulder was a large bow of pale blue satin ribbon and the collar was made of double batiste frills edged with lace.
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THE LONDON CATTERY.

A home for lost and starving cats has been in existence in London for a year. Two thousand four hundred and fifty cats have been received, and the entire sum of money needed for carrying on the work has been collected through ed the institution does not in any sense try to give a permanent home to home less felnes, and all those stray kittens that are not reclaimed or taken into homes are, after a time, sent to the lethal chamber. Stray cats are sent for without any charge, but those peo pie who can afford to are desired to pay small sum for the task. An addition al fee is welcomed for the expense of conveying the creatures to the lethal chamber The whole plan is to save the lost cat from the torment of drag ging a precarious existence about the city alleys and streets, where it's half starved frenzy often makes it danger ous to the public. The plan of taking up the animals also stops their increase and the "cattery," as it is called, af- lords a safe and pleasant home for those pets which wander away from their owners The scenes of meeting between anxious children and missing pets are daily occurrences in the home for the lost felines. Visitors are vel come at the place every day except Sunday from Il to z o'clock. Cats are taken in any hour of the day or night. and the woman who presides over the establishment frequently spends whole nights ministering to her wounded and sick charges, binding up their wounds, bruises etc.
 We congratulate the cats, but perhaps a home for some of the lost and starv- ing children of London would be as use ful as the "cattery.'
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A JOB FOR 700 TURKEYS.

Turned Loose in An Orchard to Save
 It from Invading Grasshoppers.
 w. R. Birmingham of Oakland a few years ago purchased a large tract of land in the river bottom below Pollasky and has since put out over 18,000 fruit trees. There was a small orchard on the place when he purchased it, and these older trees are in full bearing, while peach trees but three and four years old have borne large crops. The soil Is deep silt, and very fertile. MT. Birmingham put in a large gasoline engine and pumps water from the San Josquin River to irrigate with. The orchard presents very thrifty appear ance, and all the trees that are old enough are loaded with fruit.
 Last Thursday an army of grass hoppers came down from the hills to the southeast and invaded one corner of the orchard. They were too young to fly much and could only hop and crawl, but they had voraclous ap- petite and within a. few hours had eaten every leaf from every tree over an area of five acres.
 There was in the garden tract nearly everything in the vegetable line, but tie hoppers showed no preference what ever, eating everything clean as they went Squash vines that were very thrifty, each of which covered a space of perhaps six feet square. were eaten off clean. Strawberries were eaten with out cream, and every berry and vege- tabel in the garden went to fatten grasshoppers. And there were millions upon millions of hoppers and hoppers. They are not of the seventeen year variety either, but just common every day foothill grasshoppers with a moun- tain appetite. As their wings are not large enough to enable them to in dulge the disposition so prevalent in both man and animal to hurry on to other localities in search of greener or better pastures, they just hop and crawl upon the trees and vines, and | eat, and eat, and eat. It does seem as
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| Among the costumes taken from the city by fashionable women who are hurrying to northern resorts are some very daring color combinations. One of these had a skirt of blue cloth with looped braiding up all the seams and lined with changeable gray and blue silk that was like milky opal in ef- feet This skirt was really an overskirt
 hung on a black satin skirt, which in it's turn was lined with black taffeta,
 the blue skirt being carefully lifted to keep the lining from soiling. The bod ice was stunning belted-in blouse, fas- tening under one great button at the shoulder and from this button to the belt it gaped open enough to show the opal lining and the out-puffing of a black satin under blouse. At the shoul- ders were cap sleeves of blue, wrinkled black satin sleeves beneath belonging to the blouse. The blouse was elaborately frogged in black, it's belt was twisted black satin.
 The hat worn was stunning poke of black satin with a single outstanding black single plume and a great bow of | bright green ribbon. A black satin,
 Russian blouse coat was belted very loosely, the belt falling in front well
 below the waist line, and lined with
 bright green Git is quite fad to have
 coats and hat agree) may be worn or | not. If not the little blue blouse serves as coat. When it is removed the stun | ming black blouse shows beneath The belt that confined the blue blouse serves when the blue blouse is removed as part
 of the black. You see, it would not do to have too many belts,
 | FLORETTE
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tail is twisted in the water. As the boat glides along these fish dart from the water and go soaring away on eith- CT side, and it is then that the sports man, sitting in the bow, has an oppor- tunlty for some novel sport.
 The fish move like some quail, very low, not more than two feet from the surface, and are not the easy shots one might imagine They move rapidly and appear to rise and fall over the waves and go sweeping away in graceful curves. Sometimes four or five are in the air at the same time, and the good shot can bring them down to the right and left. All that is needed to carry out the idea of quail shooting would be to have dog, but there is a sea dog that tlushes this attractive game, the agile tuna, previously described in these columns. The fiying-fish is its legiti- mate prey, and big schools come sweep ing in from the deep sea, driving the schools of flying fish before them, chas- ing them into the air, six eight, ten feet, giving marvellous exhibitions of lofty tumbling. At such times the flying fishes are crazed with terror, and leave the water by scores and hundreds They fly into boats, out upon the dry beaches, strike boatmen who happen to be in the way of their headlong flight and present most attractive appear ance to those who have never seen a flock of ocean flyers in the air with fish six or seven feet long pursuing in a se- ries of leaps or jumps. Sometimes the tuna chases the flyer along just below the surface, catching it as it drops-a cloud of foam alone telling the story Santa Catalina
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It Is Now Part of Minneapolis and Is
 Worth Many Fortunes.

u IS NOW Fart or MlnneapOHS dIu IS
 Worth Many Fortunes.
 At one of the most interesting games of poker ever played in Minneapolis,
 Nicollet Island was put in the jackpot
 by man who thought he understood the game, but found there were others who understood it better.
 Fiftyfive years ago Pierre Bottineau took up claim on spot where St.
 Paul now stands. A year later he trad
 ed 1t for a horse and cow which he drove away into the wilderness, never
 dreaming that the land he had almost
 given away would in few years be the site of great city. For small sum he purchased a large portion of what is now the business partsof Minne-
 apolis and put up log cabin on little
 mound in the center of Nicollet Island Half a dozen of the old settlers, Bot tineau among them had little poker club. One evening the stakes kept growing larger and larger, until every jackpot contained small fortune. MT.
 Bottineau had been losing heavily, but at last was dealt a hand upon which he hoped to regain his losses and win something beside. He was given four queens, and drawing one card, secured
 an ace, leaving four kings as the only hand by which he could be beaten He thought he saw one of the players dis card a king, and he considered his ingly. Soon all but Bottineau and the
 man opposite him dropped their cards hand invincible, and played it accord | and retired to watch the game. The | table was heaped with money and the personal belongings of the two men. The fiickering light of the candle shone dimly on the flushed faces as they watched each other warily out of the corners of their eyes. All of Botti- neau's possessions lay on the table, and | it was his bet. He looked at his hand carefully, and then said that all he had | left was Nicollet Island, which he would bet against $2o0 The bet was called, and Bottineau laid down his | four queens with a smile of triumph. Amid dead silence his opponent laid
 on the table, face up, four kings and a | tray. It was so still you could have heard them breathe Then Bottineau called for writing materials and made
 out a deed to the island. From that | day he never touched card or coun- tenanced gambling in any form.
 After drifting around the country he went to Red Lake Falls and took up a claim and remained there until the l time of his death. He was employed as
 a guide and scout, and was one of the
 principal members of the Sibley expedi- 1 tion. He knew every foot of the North | west country haVine traVersnd If aIar | since he was ten years old, when he
 guided Lord Selkirk's colonists from old Fort Garry. When he died the last of old-time Canadian voyagers and guides,
 who were such an important factor in
 the upbuilding of the Northwest, | passed away.-Minneapolis Tribune.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-19
 ADVERTISING RATES,

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent Word each in- sertion Five Gents Word for full week (seven tmes)
 Display Advertisements. per inch, one Tn, Tn, sertion, $1.20; each subsequent insertion: 4O cents; one week, $3.20; one month, Slo; one year, $40.
 Obituary Notices. in prose or verse;, 10 cents per line. Notices of Births Mar Local Notices 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own immediate business (all matter to be nnob1ectionablel. and their contracts do not Include Wants. To Let. For Sale. etc.
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It Is reported that society is about to has become so plebian and partly be- cause it involves so much exertion and rough contact with the world. The bicycle can get along without Society better than Society can get along with out the bicycle.
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The modest and helpful hen is at last attracting some of the attention due her. Michigan egg shippers claim that more money is paid for eggs in that State every year than is paid for wheat
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An Unwilling Witness.-"Bill was a little tough, guess, when he was full, g said the witness, but he was all right when he was sober"
 "H'm,' said the Prosecuting Attor- ney, who knew both Bill and the wit ness. When was he sober?'
 "W'y-w'y-when he was sick. k.''-Cin- cinnati EnQuireT.
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acetophenondipheni zine is the brief and lucid name confer red by an Italian chemist upon new compound he has discovered.
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A number of kind people in Detroit for the children who, without such a school would be compelled ito spend the greater part of their vacation in the streets" Children are better off in the streets during vacation than they would be in vacation school.
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The cotton growers of the South have been asked to send delegates, selected by the several governors of the cotton growing States, to convention to be held in Galveston, Texas, August 2. The convention is to be held in pursu- ance of a resolution passed by the leg islature of Texas last March, and is designed to take measures to discour- age speculators iii futures" who offer for sale flctitutous cotton or contracts to deliver cotton at future time at lower prices than the actual prices then prevailing.
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Severe penalties are henceforth to be Imposed by the French government up- on all persons found keeping pigeons without license, the object being to prohibit the promiscuous flying about of pigeons in the employ of foreigners or of governments which may some day be hostile. The government is also about to prohibit the importation of foreign-born pigeons into France even when merely destined for pie pigeons
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THECARRINGTON PUBLISHING co.
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CTY. To CENTS WEEK, ACCENTS A MONTH, 8 FOR FIX MONTHS. SS A YEAR. IHE SAME TERMS EMAIL.
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The bicyclists of New York are pleas ed with the prospect that special car for them is to be run on the elevated roads. It will be fitted up for the par Itcular accommodation of wheelmen and wheelwomen, having a row of seats on one side, while the other side of the car is occupied with a double flor twenty-five wheels The scheme is to charge fifteen cents as the regu- lar trip fare, which of course includes none but bicyclists to occupy the car.
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As an experiment MT. Birmingham mixed with quart of middlings and a quart of bran one pound of arsenic and
 AN ISLAND IN THE JACKPOT.
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THOSE COOL
 FROCKINGS.

White Goods counters crowded with 'em. Here's four thousand yards of the likeliest stuffs. Big turn over makes prices very tiny.
 5000 Yds. Check Nainsook, SC yard 800 !" Hair Cord Stripe Dimity 7c yd 5000 :" Corded Pique, 7c yd 500 |" :. 1aKc yd India Linons at &c.,, 1oc., I2Mc., I5c yd Victoria Lawns, roc., IaAc., Isc., 2oc q All-Linen Crash Suitings, r5c yd
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A remarkable engineering feat was recently performed in California, in providing bulwark for a great dam being built to impound water for San Francisco. By a single blast section of a mountain was torn offand hurled bodily into a gorge below. Two months were required in preparation for the blast. In tunnels cut into the moun- tain of rock great stores of black pow der were placed, while deposits of giant powder were located under the mass to be moved. The black powder ig- mites slower than the giant powder
 and the effect, when electricity was applied to both at once, was first to lift up the mass and then to push it over the edge of the gorge. A mass of rock measuring 4OOx60 feet, and weighing an estimated 150,000 tons, was thrown ex- actly as the engineers had planned.