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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11

OF all the inmates of both institutions.
We look upon the past year as one
of prosperity, the general health of
the inmates having been good.
oar franks are especially due to
the w. CT. Z. of Platteville for
reading mAster delivered weekly to
us at their own expense, and also for
abundance of flowers on Mission day.
ii those thoughtful people could see
tie eagerness with which our patients
hasten to the mail box w.len the stage
passes aud the pleasure derived in ex-
amining the packages, as also in TIE
distribution of the flowers they would
feel amply rewarded for their kind
ness We also thank MIR Phillip
Miller Mrs Geo. T. Goble, Mrs. Ed.
Lowry. and Mrs. Al a. &eed of Lam
easter for magazine. pictures, etc.
There have bees >,l visitors regis
tered the past year We are always
pleased to see an interest taken by
line people and are ready at all reason
able times 10 crafty that interest by
showing the promises and arrange
ments and aients, and also ov
giving such Information as we cat.
aud We only object when such services
10 the visiting public interferes with
doing our duty to our charges.
Gentlemen, we again tender our
thanks for your courtesy toward US
and all employees, and your continued
interest in the comfort and welfare of
our unfortunate charges and we hnoe
that the reuairs and improvement
made during the past year will grea
" aid us in Keeping the institution IN
more pleasant condition for iaem
aud for us whose duty it is To look
after them All of which is respect
fully submitted.
JAMES ANDERSON.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11
September a.

James Anderson pay roll e252 o. sal
airy 500 freight IS % express 50 cts
filling t;'otn ~ stamps q insane
patient going to WauEeka g 25
weighing logs 20 cents medicine
tor sick horse % cents grinding
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11

We have 8 horses. 80 cows, "a
calves, IS yeariings, 10 two-year-olds
bull, IS old hogs, lis shotes, and 80
sheep. Hay 200 loads, corn 24O0 bu..
oats 5000 bu., rye 252 bu. Potatoes
we have raisedi9O0 bu., of which we have
700 bu. on hand. We have raised q
bu. beans, 125 bu. carrots. SO bu.
parsnips, 1875 bu. beets, so bu. kohl
rabi, so bu rutibaga. 200 Blu. tur-
nips, rs bu. sweet corn so blu. cucum-
bers, 200 bu. tomatoes, 80 bu. garden
peas, 40 Blu. string beans. 100 bu
onions, 800 bu. angel-wurzel, 3
loads of squash. several loads OF
pumpkins, 5000 head cabbage and
other vegetables sufficient for our
needs in both institutions. o
We have put up 500 OTIS. tomatoes.
2S5 OTIS. grapes. rs qts. blackberres.
l05 qts. gooseberries, 80 qts. rasp-
berries beside pickles and other
things in large quantities for our own
use. We have made 400 lbs. hard
soap and 10 hbls. soft soap; have
raised $50 chickens, 55 turkeys, %
ducks; gathered abodt 1900 dozen
eggs and rnade about 1850 lbs. butter.
The sewing department has made
and repaired garments. stockings.
bedding. etc. to amply fill the needs
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11
Complete Accord.

Mr.. Bloobumper-How is your love
affair with Miss Perkasie getting along,
Spatts?
Mr.. Spatts-There is complete accord
between US upon one point.
That's good"
y told her loved her better than
myself, and she replied that she did,
TON. Y. World.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11

Total mum Der OF weeks board furn-
ished. $3.50 81. The per capita cost
OF maintinance for each inmate per
week is $l.563
The expected receipts on account
OF patients who have friends or estate
of their own cannot be estimated, and
can by us only be credited as received
by deducting that amount from the
account of the state for the next year
The expected receipts from the
state are:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11
Tripping the Myriad Minded.

Shakespeare made mistake when
he said we rather bear those ills we
have than fly to others that we know
not Of"
Don't we?"
81 should say not. just look at the
divorced people who marry again. -
Chicago Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11
Al His Mercy.

Pease-I had an awful time at the
dentists.
Hubbard-Worse than you expected2
Pease-I should say so! He put some
of his confounded instruments in my
mouth so that l couldn't talk back,
and then he told me his wheel was bet
ter than mine D.; 49,.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11

OF these 90 there are l6 over 60
wears OF aye. The total number OF
weeks board furnished. 1928 2-7.
Expenditures were as follows:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11
Poor and Insane.

To The Honorable Board Of Supervisors
OF Grant County,:
The Trustees OF the Grant County
Insane Asylum aud Poor House beg
leave to present their annual report
ending September 80, 1897, Tor Your
due consideration.
The receipts of both institutions
are IS follows:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11
SUPERINTENDENT AND NATIONS
REPORT.

To the Board of Trustees Of me Grant
County Asp.s4m ana Poor HonSc
GENTLEMEN--
have the honor to submit herewith
my sixth annual report as Nape9in-
tendent OF the Asylum and Oterseer
of the Poor House ana County harm
for the fiscal year ending Sept. 80.
1897.
STATISTICS a. % health. cause ~
aeath aud sanitary conditions VIII
don't tless 10 treated Of in tho repors
of the visiting physician, DR.. F. NJ
Cronin'e who has gwen our patients
his skilled attention during the year
The movement of population in each
institution is "a follows:
L.AL.lIL ArLL.AL l,LIIn LOON Llrn.zs.1c
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11

1OtaI Sstl-lIdtSu $50 VI NSs 80 V-s'1~' .
We estimate the expenses OF both
ins t6tions for the coming year as
follows:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11

All of which is respectfully submitted
JOHN b. MAUEE.
Treas. Grant Co Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11

Geo Washburn dozen brooH.s. =
expenses of Mr. and Mrs Anderson at
--aeIng Conference at Madison 10 > /
v = scott attending Conference a.
= - Anderson paw roll $3.50 50 salary
40 stamps 20 freight 81 Il Eeeo-
&c. sub. newspaper - grinding
gal oysters 7Oc dinner ana
-3rse4ced 50 cts. 800 800 St5 @ /
Total .....................S 1913 10 /
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11
Total Tor both institutions. -.
We further would recommend for
,aa453 .,,anf in1orayements.
Total expenditures for both
institutions and permanent
1uprOVemeutS

The trustees, in presenting their
annual report for your due consider
atia beg leave to say that we have
cara ont the recommendations OF
liz. 3umittee Of charitable institu-
tioa~ anl have expended 5000 more
,it,a ae appropriations asked tor.
I'm ~te3,m dryer for the t4aH We
has- pat puili but wi3 hur. the
SAM .eNt year a. p"t oai az .nm-
men ATOM Richland Coants nav
ing built all asylum Of their own.
we have lost the eleven patients
from that county, which paid us
as9 ear the sum Of 81 1854 "A which
~ ta~ future Grant County will not
80. and we will be filed up with
6ss.ut County patients instead of
otaer county patients, which will
REFUGE our income from that source
ABOUT $1,000. After paying all ex-
penses of both places we find bal
ance on hand on the 1st day OF Octo-
Der. 1897, of $7,233.61, which will be
sufficient to run both places until we
get the state money due us in March
1898. We also wish to thank the
superintendent and matron for all
their courtesies shown US, and for
their untiring indulgence to make
the condition of those unfortunates
under their charge as comfortable as
possible. All Of which is respectfully
submitted.
J. j. S Sail4i Trustees.
w. 7. SCoTT,
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNTY
TREASURER.
To the Honorable Board of Trustees of
the AsyIus and Poor House of Grant
County. Wisconsin:
/ have the honor to report the tinan-
cial condition OF said institution for
the year ending Sept. 80, 1897.
RECEIPTS
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11

auIy ID
T NJ Cronir medical attendance yrs II 90
Cttscher " son hardware ........... 10
q Fischer Is Son niat5 .~e}itaing . - ~
Il MaeSse y S9a t15a3,s4 .......-..... - %
George p Gobei Coain and pullies : 20
drugs ana paints So - ......-....... Is 10
1ooleY MARKS brick, IA days work 81 80
J. " eDsr Shoes. ............... L -
lvev & Webb groceries $l3l 73 hats
y z" DRY goods So q shoes Sc 10
Go 4 Moore I heifer q5q pounds at
COW ZOO pounds at 81. -, - %
a. p. 90
Jos 9 Bennett medicines $tl 20 drugs
- ~. ...,....-+. .--.--s-..s...-t ~ ~
Patch s. WoodhouSe carpenter work
L Ait 81 Son for Creased beef lemons ~ IL
II w Buckbee plants ard seed 49,. %
Franklin McN eagh & Co groceries 32 50
Roundy PeCkham q Co chest tea II 30
Grimm Bros 3ls lbs butter at 10 7-S - IS
Rumble Spence My Co seats and
siabs.. .:.......... ................... IA o2
James Anderson salary 800 pay roll
s237 50 freight s2 80 grinding corn
q cents express 35 cents patient
gooseberries 81 40..........".,....... $40 20
w Granger sickel grinder ........ 5 90
William Laubs 50 OTIS strawberries 2 20
Geo Moore COW 1870 lbs at % go. 80 20
M Meyer II quarts gooseDerrtes. IS
Newspaper subscription Dubuque
t1eTdlu. W
g Kayler 80 quarts gooseberries.... 40
Mcdonald Morrison My Co tap. 10
flour. Observation-Disclosures. 500 "
Total .............................s 1909 Is
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-11-11

To N, honorable Board Of 7t3s',es Of
Grae Cmottg ASylum a"d lOOr
House
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-06
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Two companies of cavalry have been
sent to the Fort Hall Indian agency at
Eossfork, Ida. to quell the auti-school
riot there. The young bucks are
hostile to the girls going to school and
are backed up by the old squaws.
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL GARY has au.
thorized the announcement that all
mails leaving New Orleans, where vel.
low fever is raging, are thoroughly
fumigated.
The members of the monetary com.
mission are holding daily sessions at
Washington. laying ont the programme
FOR the work before them. They are
beginning to doubt their ability to re-
port by the time congress assemblies.
IMPORTATION was received at the
general land Office in Washington that
the survey of the Blackfeet Indian res
ervation in Montana was completed.
The reservation is now ready to be
thrown open to settlement as soon as
the reports can be prepared and ap-
proved by the interior department
The lands will be subject to entry un-
der the mining laws.
FIRE broke out in the central power
station of the Capital Traction Co. at
Washington the other night and in 80
minutes the magnificent six-story
structure was doomed. Loss. nearly
$500, 900.
SECRETARY WILSON. of the depart.
ment OF agriculture, in his annual re.
port will ask congress tn make an in.
crease in the appropriations for the
bureau of animal industry, the farm
ers' bulletins and the weather bureau
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY and party got
back To Washington on the 3Oth. The
president had hardly reached the white
house before Secretary Sherman ap-
peared and held brief consultation
with him, presumably in reference tc
the fall of the Spanish cabinet.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by the
post office department inviting persons
who heve new designs for caucelinP
postage stamps to submit them to the
committee recently appointed for the
purpose.
THE monthly statement of the gov.
ernment receipts and expenditures
during September. 1897, shows the re.
ceipts to have been S2l, ,9S3, O9S and the
expenditures SIS, $685. an excess OF
expenditures over receipts of S3. 435, ,s!7.
THERE is larger demand for male
stenograPhers and typewriters in the
departments at Washington than the
civil service commission has been able
To meet. The salaries range from 5000
To $1,000 per annum.
THE first meeting of the cabinet
since the return of President McKin.
ley TO Washington from his Massachu.
setts trip was held on the 1st. Foreign
affairs were principally discussed. The
Spanish crisis was thought to be
change for the better.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-06
Read Thia.

One of the developments Of the great
engineers strike in England, involv-
ing molders, boiler makers, finishers,
etc, is the published statement of the
Employers federation there. based on
the United States labor bureau re-
ports, to show that the wage-workers
in the same industry in America are
working the same hours on less wages
than those which the strikers are dis
satisfied with. The statement also
says that holidays are fewer and the
American workers turn out a larger
product than the English workers,
and consequently the English manu-
facturers declare that they cannot
compete with Americans. On this side
of the water the workers are told that
they need protection" against Euro
pean paupers- (Mass.) Dia
mODd
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-06
WHY SOCIALISM" ADVANCES

Those Who Do Not Believe That socialis m
Is Advancing Had Better Read This.
great many very excellent people
who neither read nor listen to any.
thing that they do not approve are
ignorantly shocked at the advance of
what they term ''socialistic" notions.
They cannot understand why in this
country the demand for government
ownership of railroads, gas and water
companies and the like should grow so
insistent.
Ex-Gov. Altgeld. in his remarkable
speech on Labor day, offered enlight-
eminent to the blind, if they will but
open their eyes. He said:
So long as there was competition our people
preferred TO let 1t regulate everything, but COM
petition is being entirely wiped out by pools
and trusts. and our people will be devoured By
vultures unless the government comes TO their
rescue.
Competition is dead-the "life of
trade" is killed--in hundreds of indus
tries. There is no competition in sup
plying gas to this city. II the enemies
OF rapid transit can succeed in defeat
ing the plan approved by the people
there will shortly be no real competi-
tion in the passenger traffic of New
York. And these and other monopo.
lies of the franchise-grabbers have
built upon bribery and continued
through corruption. AS Mr. Altgeld
declared:
The public is made to pay every form OF trib-
ute to these new masters, and is helpless The
question OF putting an end TO this wholesale
corruption. putting an end to the selling Of leg
islation. putting an end to the control Of gov
ernment by corporations is a question ths,
will determine the existence OF this republic.
Unless we can check it there is no hope for thi,
country.
The advance of so-called socialism is
due to the progress of real plutocracy.
Those who oppose the extension of
government into lines now left to pri.
vate enterprise waste their energy
when they strike at the effects of plu.
tocracy-that is, the socialistic tenden.
cies-and leave untouched the causes
OF those tendencies-the plutocracy
and Its instrument, boss rule.-N. Y.
World.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-06
GENERAL NEWS.

lT was reported from San Francisco
that the Chinese had found a means to
successfully evade the Chinese restric-
ton act by landing in the United States
on certificates issued in Macao, Por.
tuguese possession. The certificates
entitle them to land. according to an
opinion of the United States attorney.
general delivered in 1896.
The organization of the American
Mailing Co. has been accomplished, a
New York dispatch said, and the trans
fer to 1T Of over 20 of the largest malt
houses has been practically completed.
AT Kilbuck, o.. Frederick Penhar-
wood, the railway station agent, was
shot and killed while en- route home.
The murderer was supposed to be a
tramp, whom Penharwood had ordered
away during the day.
PARIS mountain, seven miles from
Greenville, 5. c.. was shaken by an
earthquake the other morning. The
guests of the hotel at the summit were
aroused by the rocking of the building.
A rRAIRIE fire ragged in Twelve Mile
Lake township, Emmett county, Ia.
and over II, 900 tons of hay were burned.
Several dwellings were also DESTROYED.
a SUMMARY of the yellow fever epi-
demic made in the office of the surgeon
general of the marine hospital service
at Washington gives total of 6se
cases and go deaths in the entire coun.
try up TO September 80.
JAMES L. DRUMMoND, a prominent
and wealthy citizen of st. Louis and
president of the Drummond Tobacco
Co, died on the Both His wealth.
aside from his tobacco plant, was esti.
mated at $1,000. 900.
DEEDS are recorded in the land books
of Mcdowell county. w. Va. for over
100000 acres of land when in fact the
county only contains 600, 900 acres. II
was believed that gigantic scheme OF
fraud was being perpetrated in large
eastern and western cities by panp
of swindlers.
FULLBLooDs at Tishomingo, |. r..
claim that they know where there are
immense deposits of virgin gold in the
Chickasaw country. The statement
has created intense excitement.
THE farm house of A. l.. Gordon nea,
Alma, Neb., was burned the other
night and three children perished ir
the flames.
TERRIBLE suffering was reported re.
Gently on the Skaguay and Dyea trail.
in consequence of winter winds
Storms have destroyed many golc
hunters provisions and some are left
with scarcely enough dry food foI
another meal and without money to re
turn home.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-06
More Anarchy.

1t has long, however. been my opin-
ion, and l have never shrunk from its
expression, that the germ of dissolu-
ton of the federal government is in
the constitution of the federal Judi
ciary; an irresponsible body, working
like gravity. by night and day, gain
ing little to-day and little to-mor-
row. and advancing its noiseless steu
like thief over the field of jurisdic.
ton. until all shall be usurped from
the states, and the government of all
be consolidated into one.-Thomas JET.
ferSOn in 1901
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-06
different. AS matter of fact there

different. As matter of fact there
are not SO many idle. or non-located.
unemployed miners. But in Kansas the
miners average only $50 days a year at
an average daily wage of less than 81
per day, or less than $500 a year. In
Ohio in 1896 there were IL. 22O persons
mining coal with the pick, an
average of Isl days in the wear
at sI.47 per day, which makes
an average monthly wage of
SIS. 46. In the United States the aver
age time worked during the year was
IFS days. The remedy is not a fewer
number of miners, but fewer mines.
The state of planlessness and indus
trial anarchy under which we live,
must produce chaos and confusion.
Under government ownership one
half the working mines would prob
ably be abandoned and all the miners
worked part time, each and every day,
in the residue, producing no more coal
than at present, but receiving double
the annual wage they now receive, al
though receiving the same daily wage.
Or they might work the same number
OF days as now, but receive double the
daily wage they now receive
Even "a coal man" should be able to
apprehend that this procedure would
not involve or necessitate "a rise in
price to the 20, O00, 900 consumers" nor
cause ''one-half of these men (miners)
to crowd into other channels of labor
And, as in the case of the coal min.
ing industry, SO, also, in all other in
dustries, government ownership, by
eliminating the factors interest and
profit, would double the wages of
employees without increasing the price
OF products to the consumers.
But, after all. so far as is concerned
the price of commodities to the con-
sumer, cheapness is not the principal
desideratum in a righteous economic
system. In the case of coal, under the
present system, the ruling prices
mean poorly paid and half starved
miners. In the golden era approach
ing, the well-being and comfort of the
miner will be the chief consideration
in affixing the price of coal. Then the
mine operator" who assumes the
ownership of the natural deposits of
fuel, would not live in brown stone
palaces, while the miner" who delves
the fuel from the bowels of the earth
lives life of semi-starvation and
wretchedness in a miserable board
Snanty. GEORGE c. WARD.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-06
NILES OPINION.
The General of the United States Army
interviewed.
HIS OBSERVATIONS ABROAD.
What the General Has Seen Does Not Indi-
cate That the Millennium Is at Hand
He Speaks Up for American
Citizens.

LONDON, Oct. Gen. Nelson A.
Miles, Mrs. Miles and aide-de-camp,
Capt. Maus, sailed for the United
States on the American line steamer ST.
Louis to-day, having been in Europe
since May on tour of military observa-
tion. The general has inspected every.
thing of military interest from the
armies of the great powers in field ac.
ton down to balloons and bicycles -
as he remarked. He has looked over
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-06
Voice of the Press

But one remedy. NationaIize the
coal fields of the country! Make them
the property of the nation, of the
American people. Operate the mines
for the peoples benefit-away with
the profit system in the coal mining
industry, Then the miners will be.
come men enjoying life worth living.
To-day they have been pressed down
below the lives of beasts. Their yerv
life is being crushed out of them
Brauers' Zeitung.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-06
AVENGED HIS SISTER.
Andrew McPherson's Head Blown on by
Load from q Shotgun

MONROE, Ala, Oct. 3-Andrew Nc.
Pherson was shot and instantly killed
at the home of Mrs. Viola Dowdy.
whose l5-year-old daughter he had alb
Quoted and seduced, as charged by
Charles Dowdy, the brother of the
girl. Mcpherson, while under bond
for trial on the charge, came to the
house of Mrs. Dowdy. cursed her. drew
a pistol and tried to force his wav in
to the house. Charles Dowdy then
shot him twice with a shotgun. one
charge entering his breast and the
second blowing off the top of his head.
Mcpherson had refused to marry the
girl.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-06
Debs to Visit Kansas.

TOPEKA. Kan, Oct. 3.-Eugene V.
Debs, in a letter to G.. c. Clemens, an
nounces that he will visit Kansas
about the last week of this month.
Clemens says Debs will stay in Kan
sas a week, possibly longer, and that
a number of speeches will be arranged
for to be made by the social democ-
racy leader during the last week of
the campaign.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-06
Wrote ArectIonata Notes.

During the session of the A. M. z.
conference of Kansas at Leavenworth
last week Rev. w. j. Tolliver, of Hia-
watha, was suspended for writing af-
fectionate letters to women of his flock.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-06
Wichita Fair a Grea. Success.

The state fair at Wichita last week
was great success, the exhibits being
especially creditable and the attend
ance far in excess of Expectations. w.
J. Bryan addressed a great crowd at
the fair grounds on Friday.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-06
Sunday Law Upheld.

Judge Myers, of the Leavenworth
district court, recently decided that the
Kansas law prohibiting work on Sun
day was constitutional The decision
was in the case of a barber who was ar
rested for keeping his place open on
Sunday.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-06
Celery and Onion Bad.

William Byrnes, near Belle Plaine,
has three acres planted to celery and
onions, which yielded him this season
$4,000 punches of celery and 700 bush
els of onions
Want the Odd Fellows Orphans Home.
Hutchinson, Topeka, Wichita, Ellis
worth, MCPHERSON and Salina are each
working for the new Odd Fellows Or
phans' home. The site will be selected
October .3.