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The herald., 1898-01-25

The pioneers closed this division.
There were six carriages, one tallyho,
and the old. travel stained stage coach,
drawn by six horses, that at one time
ran between st. Joseph. Mo-, and Los
Angeles, all laden down with the heroes
of the days of 40. A pack train of burros
heavily laden and bearing on their packs
the inscription: Los Angeles, so years
ago," brought up the rear
Division Marshal F. H. Lowe and aides
headed the third division, band follow
ng, and then came the board of directors
VI the Merchants and Manufacturers
The herald., 1898-01-25

Mrs. and Miss Pauline Sweeney of
Oakland are spending the winter in this
city, the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
A. Durfee.
The herald., 1898-01-25
of the wagon advertising Dickey's S
Creme de Lis.
A KLONDIKE EXHIBIT

The fifth division was under the
charge of s. T. Alexander and aids,
Coomber's band leading the division.
Then came the display made by C. B..
Boothe & Co, of heavy machinery. The
first wagon showed oil-well machinery
the second, engines and boilers, and the
third, a pumping plant. Blanchard's s
music house also had three wagons in
line The first bore a very handsome
piano; the second, a good looking organ,
and the third bore a piano laid on it's
back, with its "innards' laid beside it
and ready to be operated upon by
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15
Fame of Kansas.

New YORK, July I1.--Speaking editorialy
the New York Mail and Express says: To
Kansas, whose crops and cyclones, whose
Leedys, Simpsons and Leases have been an un-
failing source of sustenance and amusement to
pampered world-to imperial Kansas also be-
longs the proud distinction of having given
visible form to the Utopia of poetry and ro-
nance The commonplace postoffice name of
this new Utopia is for the present withheld 1t
is enough to say that it is thriving town in
Marion county, Kansas, and that the walkirg G
on all roads leading to it is good There is not
an unemployed man in the place nor saloon
nor stray dog nor drunkard nor a person
who whistles. The girls don't chew gum,
there isn't cornet in the entire town, no cti-
zen is allowed tell about the thirlgs he saw at
the worlds fair and no peddlers are admitted.
1t is the women who have done it ALL They
secured political control of the borough when it
was a measly, good nothing sort of viii
lage, and from that time down to the present
hour the place has been on its. good behavior.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15
Jane and Her Grammar.

Little Jane bad been repeatedly rcproved for
doing violence to the moods and lenses of the
verb 'to be'a She would say, 81 be,' in
stead of 81 am and for time it seemed as if
no one could prevent it. Finally Aunt Kate
made rule not to answer en- incorrect question
until it was corrected.
One day, the two sat together, Aunt Kate
busy with embroidery and little Jane over her
dolls. Presently doll society became tedious,
and the child's attention was attracted to the
embroidery frame.
"Aunt Kate" she said, "please tell inc what
that is going to be?"
But Aunt Kate was counting and did not
answer.
Fatal word 'be''-it was her old enemy, and
to it alone could the child ascribe the silence
that followed.
"Aunt Kate, - she persisted, with an honest
attempt to correct her mistake, "please tell me
what this is going to amp"
Aunt Kate sat silently counting, though her
lip curled with amusement
Jane sighed, but made another patient effort.
f'Will you please tell me what this is going to
are?"
Aunt Kate counted on, perhaps by this time
actuated by wicked desire to know what
would come next
The little girl gathered her energies for one
last and great effort and said, "Aunt Kate,
what am that going to are?"-Alliance.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15
Nearly Completed.

The two colored battalicns at Camp Lcedy
are but I52 men short. There are 6S4 men on
the grounds and before tie week is over the
battalons will be complete.
large number of uniforms have been re-
ceived from the government, SO that in few
days there will not be soldier in camp without
a uniform. One battalion is already in uni
forms.
Major Bond Of the adjuta at generals Office
said that there are $50 men in Kansas City
alone who want to enlist, and there ere 40 or
SO in Topeka No arrangements will be
made until all the squads from over the
state come in. Then it is likely that Kansas.
City will be allowed to furnish another colored
company. Several of the members of the
Kansas City company now i'll camp were given
four days 'furlough this morning and they will
go home. e.--Topeka State Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15
NEWS NOTES.

Admiral Cervera is sick.
Neodesha is troubled with ''fre bugs"
A Spanish flag was burned at Larned, Satur-
day night,
The White River Indians, in Utah, are pre-
pairing for an outbreak.
Hobson and his fellow prisoners have been
liberated and brought home.
1t is thought that three of Cervera's ships,
sunk at Santiago, may be saved.
Private McAlister, of Mltonvale, died of
measles, at San Francisco, Saturday night.
Mrs. Almena Archer, of Kansas City, has
been admitted to practice in the courts of Mis-
souri,.
The Kansas City Journal wants scouting
party sent out to hunt for Barney Kelley be-
fore the war closes.
Kansas City business men are kicking the
express companies for trying to evade the pay
ment of the war tax.
The Pittsburg coal-lniners' strike is broken,
and the men have returned to work. They say
they were compelled to go to work, as their
families were suffering.
JAS Robinson, coal miner of Yale, Kas.,
was found in the market place of Kansas City
few days ago, in dying condition, due to
starvation. He was without money, and his
family is in destitute circumstances at Yale.
Parker Pillsbury, an old-tine abolitonist and
companion of Garrison, Rogers, Phillips and
other anti-slavery agitators, died, Monday, at
his home in Concord, New Hampshire. He
was born Sept. 22, 1909.
Attorney General Crane, of Texas, has sued
the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf railroad be-
caused the company removed its general offices
out of the state IN violation of the requirements.
He asks for a penalty of 5000, 900 damages,
besides an additional damage of $1,000 per
day following the filing of the suit
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15

THE difference between a bond and green
back is slight when it comes to question of en-
behind each. But the difference is great when
you come to compare the relative power for
good or evil that each possessed. The green
back circulates among the people, brings joy
and happiness to those who need employment,
stimulates industry, encourages the merchant
and destroys the power of the banker. The
bond circulates only in the vaults of the Roths-
childs, Belmont and Morgan, and they draw in
terest, and interest is a curse upon humanity.
The New Road, Denver, Colo
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15

There is an occasional rift in the clouds.
The supreme court of the United States has de-
cided that the progressive inheritance tax law
of Illinois is constitutional. The new war tax
law includes a national inheritance tax. No
tax is more just nor more needed than an in
heritance tax, particularly upon excessively
large inheritances. If no one was allowed to
inherit more than say one-half million, our
millonaires would disappear with this gener-
ation-a thing greatly to be desired.-The
Medical World, Philadelphia.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15

BEFORE you become profuse in your denun-
Citations of the Southern middle-of-the-
road Populists, stop and consider the treatment
these reformers have received at the hands of
the Southern Democracy. Southern Democ-
racy and Northern Republicanism is one and
the same thing. The idea of a Populist
fusing with the Republicans is enough to
give one the jim-jams. Well, that is just
the way the Southern Populist feels when asked
to pool issues with Democrats. For one,
our sympathies are all with the middle-of-the-
roaders.-Living Issues Salt Lake City.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15

WHAT would bonds be worth if they did not
bind anybody? The law and bill of sale were
the bonds that took from the chattel slave the
result of his labor and gave it to his master who
held the bond. The law and the parchment of
the government are the bonds that take the
results of the peoples labor and hand it over to
the bondholder. The holders of public bonds
are as much opposed to doing away with con-
'ditions by which they profit as were the mas
ters of chattel slaves. There is no difference
between the two, except i'll the method.-Ap-
peal to Reason, Girard, Kas.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15

THOSE clauses of the Bible which say that
the earth belongs to the Lord, and that land
shall not be sold forever, have been declared
unconstitutional, illegal and wholly against
public policy. The decision of the lower
court (God Almighty's) is therefore reversed.
-Pttsburg Kansan.
They have only to call to mind the fact that
the bible war written before John D. Rocky
baptist assumed control.-Living Issues.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15

THE Republican state platform of 1884
promised school book legislation. Three Re-
publican legislatures followed and no portion of
the promise was redeemed When the Popu-
list Legislature of 1897 moved in the matter al
most every Republican opposed the law.-Ex-
change.
Exactly! And in '86, they talked the same
way; but when the matter was introduced in
the Legislature, the book trust was on hand, and
the writer was told by representative of the
trust, cit only cost $1,000 to defeat it in the
Senate0
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15

THE new election law permits the filing of
nomination papers Immediately after the con-
vention adjourns, but this must be done forty
DAYS before election Soldiers are permitted
under the laws of Kansas to vote for all officers,
from those for the county up. The boys who
90 TO the PHILIPPINES cannot vote unless all
nominations are made and filed early enough
to allow time for preparing ballots, and then
about forty days to transmit them through the
mails The Populist state committee suggests
that all Populist nominations be made as early
as possible and not later than September 1, if it
is possible to avoid the delay.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15

THE ballot, however much it has been eulo-
gized, has been beated to earth by corruption,
and as weapon cannot be relied upon to exc
cute the will of the people while they are in in
dustrial bondage. Brains and books are the
most potent weapons for reform, and through
books there is a vast amount of work for brains
to do, mighty revolution in mems ideas and
motives to be accomplished before the COM
monweath OF man Is attained. Eugene V.
DebS.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15
THE EhRTH WAS MADE FOR ALL.

There's question now uprising
Deep affecting every hearth,
Sweeping Oh with speed surprising
'Tis the ownership of earth;
And the sage man of letters,
Gozing on the future years,
Sees the falling of the fetter,--
Sees the drying up of years.
Men are learning now the folly
Of the claim that man at birth
Is a tresspasser and wholly
Void of claim to Mother Earth.
Let no tyrant bind thy knowledge
In a cell so cramped and small;
Seek the truth at NATURES college
This fair earth was made for all.
Think ye that the god of nature,
When creation was at its birth,
Dreamed that there would rise creature
That would buy and sell the earth
Who should extort from his fellow
Grinding landlords tribute high,
Ere on earth the poor may pillow
Aching head and dropping eye?
Pause and ponder, friend and brother;
'Tis law of hellish birth
That one must from another
Buy right to dwell on earth.
But the mind of man is growing;
Soon the writing on the wall
To the tyrant will be showing
That the earth was made far all.
-Anony1nGns.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15

THE instructions from the war department
suggest that recruits under the second call be
examined at their homes before being sent to
mobilization points. Governor Leedy did that
very thing from the first and was roundly abus-
ed by Republican papers for not sending the
militia companies IN at once without examina-
ton. Governor Leedy can sta nd annoying
criticism as lor4g those in au thority recog-
nizs and and adopt his ideas.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15

AT last, the conscience of the country is be-
ing respected, and the government is taking
steps to go out of the saloon busness.-Law-
renee World.
The World, doubtless, refers to the efforts to
abolish the saloons in the capitol at Washing
ton. However, the government will not 90
out of the saloon business SO long as it receives
revenue from saloons all over the country.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15
Hot Stuff From a High Source.

Living Issues, Salt Lake City
For number of years the abuses of the land
have been heralded to the world, and the per-
petrators criticised only by little handful OF
insignificant weekly reform papers. But there
are signs of change in this direction. Once
in great while we find an editorial in great
metropolitan daily that actually calls people and
their acts by the right name. The following is
from the New York Journal
Last night long line of povertystricken
men stood mutely eloquent, from Astor Place
down to Flechmanns bakery, waiting for free
bread from the hands of generous man. The
story that might be told by those holow-eyed
and pinch faced men has pa-hos which would
melt stone.
Why is this increase of $50, 900 day for
bre ad in this city? Is it the war with Spain?
1t it were only. this men and women would dry
their tears, and set their'teeth and starve with
ont a murmur if it might bring liberty to
wronged people.
But it is the greed of men calling themselves
Americans that is grinding the poor to death
men who are rich and live sumptuously every
day-who, for the qualification of avarice or the
desire of power, are striking with the lash of
hunger those who are poor and needy
The fingers of the starving poor point at you,
Mr. Letter, of Chicago as the cause of mer
cless oppression The war is making prices
high enough without any outside help. Where
is your patriotism in these days? Benedict Ar
mold is a saint in comparison to man who, in
these days of war and want, will take advantage
of the poor to increase his own wealth.
Seventy five millions of people affected
by your gamblings in wheat. 1t is strange
and humliating confession to make. Lucky
for YOU that you are in America If you were
in the wilderness or in some jungle of Africa,
the natives would burn you at the stake.
AS nation, we are in sense responsible, for
the people are supposed to make the laws, and
they say you are within the letter of the law
Speculation may have uses, but Letter has prov
ed its abuses. The question of bread is the
problem of social peace and when you stand
between bread and hungry child, you or any
other man is an enemy TO the commonwealth no
matter if the claw" does approve of it.
To gain wealth by injustice or over the bodies
of starving men will bring ruin sooner or later.
Retribution will come surely, for gold ill-gotten
is stained in blood, and will besinear the poses
sor in the handling. The poor are Gods, and
woe betide the man who tramples upon the
weak
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15

IT SEEMS to us little inconsistent for the
United States to boast of its greatness on the
water and battlefield after it had advertised the
fact to the world that it does no. possess power
to even run its own finances. Living Issues,
Salt Lake City.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-07-15

A cow ate up the clothes belonging to some
bathers in the Solomon river, Monday. The
COW still lives.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-05
evening
Dispatches from Sampson, Shafter and
Dewey That Aroused the Nation.

Dispatches from Sampson, shafter and
Dewey That Aroused the Nation.
Associated Press Dispatch.
WASHINGTON. July 4.-The complete an
inhalation of the Spanish squadron at SAINT
iago and the capture Of the Spanish admiral,
Cervera, with 1900 prisoners; the demand by
General Shafter for the surrender of SAINT
iago by IL o'clock tomorrow noon on pain
of bombardment: word from Admiral Dew
ey that the Ladrone islands had been cap
tured, that Spanish gunboat had sur
rendered, that hundred or more Spanish
officers and men were taken and that our
first Philippine expedition had landed-this
is in part the thrilling record of such
Fourth Of July as has not been known since
the bells Of Independence Hall rang out the
tidings Of American freedom. 1t was a day
when one momentous event followed an
other in constant and rapid succession. each
hour bringing forth some new feature more
startling than what had gone before. The
climax came at o'clock when. amid the
widest cheering. which fairly shook the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-05

the move successfully, but he took that
chance and while great piles of naval
architecture now ground to pieces on the
rocks a few miles from where he started
tell the mournful story of his failure. there
are none who applaud his conduct more
sent his ships to destruction.
THE MARIA TERESA LED.
1t was about o'clock this morning when
the flagship Infanta Maria Teresa passed
under the wall of MORO Castle and steamed
out to sea. She was followed by the Cristo-
bal Colon, vizcaya and Oquendo. and last
by the torpedo boat destroyers Furor and
Pluton.
The lookouts of the American vessels.
which were lying five or ten miles off the
entrance to the harbor, sighted them imme-
diately. Most of the American cruisers
were at the usual Sunday morning quarters,
without thought of anything as surprising
as the Spanish fleet getting past the
sunken collier Merrimac, which they had
been deluded into believing effectually
blocked the exit.
There was great excitement at once and
very rapid action along the American lines.
The signal for full speed ahead was running
from bridge to engine room of every ship,
and the entire fleet commenced to move in
shore towards the Spanish, and the great
twelve and thirteen-inch guns of the battle
ships and the smaller batteries on the
other vessels fired shot after shot at the
long range.
AS the ships ran in towards the shore it
soon became evident that the Spaniards had
not come out to make an aggressive fight,
for they turned to the eastward as soon
as they had cleared the harbor
and started on their race for safe
ty, at the same time sending an
swering shots at the American ships as
fast as the men could load and fire the
guns. The Brooklyn. Massachusetts, Texas,
Oregon and Iowa were nearer the Spaniards
than any others of the American vessels,
but still most of them were too far away
to get an effective range. They crowded on
all steam, however. in preparation for the
chase, never stopping their fire for one
moment
GLoUcEsTER'S TERRIBLE WORK.
The Gloucester. a fast little yacht. that
cannot boast of any heavier battery than
several six-pounders and three-pounders,
was lying of Aguadores. three miles east
Of Morro. when the Spaniards came out. At
first she Joined in the attack upon a large
vessel and then held of some. Captain
Wainwright concluding to reserve his ef-
forts for the two torpedo boat destroyers in
the rear. The Gloucester steamed after
them when they appeared and chased them
to point fiye miles west OF Morro pouring
shot after shot into them all the time. Her
efforts bore abundant fruit for to her be-
longs the credit for the destruction OF both
Of the destroyers She fired 400 shots dur
ing the chase. and 1t was not long before
both destroyers were on fre and plainly
Continued on Seventh Pnge.l
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-05
DETAILS OF THE FIGHT.
Spaniards Fought Every Inch OF
Their Way After Leaving HarbOr.

spaniards Fought Every Inch of
Their Way After Leaving Harbor.
Copyright. 1885, by the Associated Press.)
OFF THE HARBOR OF SANTIAGO DE
CUBA, ten miles west of the entrance,
Sunday. July 8, p. M, by the Asso-
Antonio Jamaica, July 4, morning. via
Kingston, Jamaica, July 4. 4:45 a. m.-Ad-
miral Cervera's fleet, consisting of the ar
mored cruisers Cristobal Colon, Almirante
oquendo, Infanta Maria Teresa and Viz
caya and two torpedo beat destroyers, the
F'uror and the Pluton, which had been held
in the harbor of Santiago for six weeks
past by the combined squadrons of Rear
Admiral Sampson and Commodore Schley
lies to-day at the bottom of the Caribbean
sea, off the southern coast of Cuba. The
Spanish admiral is a prisoner of war on the
auxiliary gunboat Gloucester formerly
Mr.. ]. Pierpont Morgan's yacht Corsair)
and 1000 to 1900 other Spanish officers and
sailors all who escaped the frightfuI car
mage caused by the shells from the Amer
lean war ships. are also held as prisoners
of war by the United States navy. The
Spaniards, when they found they would be
permitted to live. adapted themselves COM
fortably to the situation, rolled their cigar
cites and began playing cards among them
selves. The American victory is complete.
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tainable at this time. the American vessels
were practically untouched and only one
man was killed. though the ships were SUBJ
Jected TO heavy fire of the Spaniards all
the time the battle lasted
Admiral Cervera made as gallant a rush
lot liberty and for the preservation of his
ships this morning as has ever occurred in
''e history Of naval warfare. In the face
ol overwhelming odds, with nothing before
iiin' out inevitable destruction or surrender
II ne remained any longer in the tran IN
men tne american fleet held him, he made
bold dash from the harbor at the time +ha
Americans least expected him to do so rr,,o
plucky spaniard fought everv inch ot -.
way even when his ship was ab,o,
sinking. but he failed to escane tbe So.
which was written on the muzzle Of aro,.,.
American gun trained on his vessels.
AWFUL HAVOC WROUGHT
The Americans saw Cervera the momen,
No left the harbor and commenced their
work Of destruction Immediately. For an
hour or two they followed the flying Span
'af0s 20 The westward along the shore line.
sending shot after shot into their blazing
huils' tearing great holes in their steel sides
ana covering their decks with the blood of
the killed and wounded.
AZ no time did the spaniards show any In
oieation that they intended to do otherwise
'AAh light 70 the last They showed no sig-