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The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02
LOCAL and PERSONAL.

The river is falling again.
Did You get fooled yesterday
Swiss Bell Ringers Monday night.
Senator Douglass was up from Alma
Monday
Harry SHIRLEY visited Little Rock first
of the week.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

A portion of the wall in the southeast
corner of the cemetery caved in Mon
day, caused by the heavy rains during
the previous week.
The Eureka Crystal Ice company is
thinking of entering into competitor
with the local plant for some of the
Van Buren, ice trade.
Harry Wood left Sunday for St.
Louis to receive his samples and in
structions from the shoe firm he will
represent on the road.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

Palestine Drops best known remedy for the
cure of Dyspepsia, Indigestion. Chronic Con-
stipation, Flatulence. Collie and all stomach,
bowel and liver diseases Being specific for
these II is sure cure for La Grippe
For sale at DR.. Johnsons Drug Store.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

Palestine sarsaparIIIa is absolutely true and
Suenahle for the cure of all blood taints, such as
o,, and syphilis, and specific in cancer
S ~ affections, Tumons, Pimplcs, Chronic
Oaarrh. etc. Price, si.Ol
for sale at DR.. Johusons Drug Store.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

Trains 30 and 81 run daily except Sunday. bal
ance run daily.
Pullman sleepers and reclining chair cars on
all points.
For full information call upon or address
II. HANKEY. Tiki. Agt
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

Golden Medical Discovery for sale at
JOHN O'KANE' S DRUG STORE.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

Educate Your Bowels With Cascareta.
Candy Cathartc cure constipation forever.
Zoe. 25c II c. G C fail, druggists refund money.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

To Cure Constipation Forever.
rake Cascarets Candy Cathartic l0c or 2bc
II c. c. C. fail TO cure druggists refund money
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
II c. c. c. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your life Away.

To quit tobacco easily and forever be mag
netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
BAG, the wonder-worlzer, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, soc or 81. Cure guaran-
teed Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

Educate Your Bowels with Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
lOc, 25c. II G.. @. fail, druggists refund money,
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02
Making Room.

In order to make room for our inn
mense stock of furniture which we
purchased recently we will SELL
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

FRISCO LINE" (sT. L. & s.F)
GOING NORTH.
No, 2. Express 345 g. m.
No. 4. - l07 p. m.
No. g. 81 Louis Limited 400 p. IN.
No 40. Local Freight $50 a. m.
GOING SOUTH.
No. ]. Express 1870 a. m.
No. 8. 225 p. m.
No. 5. Texas Limited 1872 a. m
NO SO. Local Freight 7:0S D. M
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02
No-To- BAG Tor Fifty Cents.

Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. SOC, 81. All druggists
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

What more do you want than
Recreation, one of the best maya
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Press all for 81 25 per year2
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

Hood Pills and Hoods Sarsaparilla
for sale at JNo. O'KANE s DRUG STORE.
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

Seekers After Gold know they may be dis
appointed, but seekers after health take Hood i
Sarsaparilla with the utmost confidence that 1
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Hoods Pills are the only pills to take with
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The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1898-04-02

hecreaulOn, one OF the best maya
zines on ont door sports, and THE
Press - all for 81 25 per Year,
The Republican county central com
mittee met in Van Buren, Saturday and
set the day for holding the Republican
county convention as April %.
You will need strawberry tickets this
year and we are prepared to print them
for you in the best style at reasonable
prices. Leave your orders now
Sam Jones uses language in the
pulpit that if used on the street in the
presence of the same ladies who listen
to it in church would cause fight.
J. V. Parker, of Crocker, Mo. Is
filling the position of Night Operator
johnson at the Union depot while the
latter is doing relief work at Monett.
Gov. Jones appointed the right man
for the right place when he selected
W. D. Mathews secretary of the
Arkansas Omaha exposition committee.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23

WE picked up a daily the other day which
contained the following 'scare" heading:
"Amercans pouring IN. Havana is rapidly as
sumimg the appearance Of city of the Unit
ed States Of America. steady procession of
horses, mules and wagons through the streets.
Business men and saloonkeepers are in the ad-
vance, You can rest assured that the saloon
keepers will "get in early, before the rush."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23
Pungent Paragraphs.

From the Pittsburg Kansan.
In free government there are no rulers.
The right to choose rulers is not liberty.
Capitalism and Republicanism are the same
thing.
The natural wages of each man is the value
which he by his labor creates. ~
Sef-governnent is only possible under efec-
tive voting and direct legislation.
Give men an opportunity to work for them
selves, and they will surely take care of them
selves.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23

THE administration called cut $50, 900 men
to whip the Spaniards. 1t took less than 5o,-,
900 to do the job but $50, 900 are still in the
field. What for, in the name of God? Why
this immense Amy after the terms of peace are
settled? Do they think that they will be need
ed to police our new Possessions and hold in
subjecton our conquered provinces? If it
takes four times many men to hold the new
ly-scquired territory as it did to whip Spain,
the game is not worth the candle. But we are
told that the army will be greatly reduced until
it consists of ouly hundred thousand mer.
and hereafter that will be the size of our regu-
lar standing army. When we were compare
lively veal, and had some reason to fear for-
eign uatlons, We got along very nicely tsttn AZ
army of $4,000 men, but now that we have be;
come SO great and powerful that no nation on
earth darcs attack us, we require an army four
times as large. Why do we need military
force approximating in size the standing armies
of European despotsms2 We will never have
another war, and if we do it will be fought on
water, and not land. Besides, in all our
past history we have relied on our volunteer
soldiery. They have never failed to do our
fighting, and they did 1t well. At Lexington
and Concord, at Bunker Hill, Saratoga and
Yorktown, they met the pride of English chiv-
airy and gave good account of themselves.
At New Orleans, undsciplined volunteers COW
cred the field in front of them with nultitudes
of dead Englshmen. On the bloody field of
Bucna Vista our volunteers gained magnificent
victory, although outnumbered five to one, and
afterwards they carried the starry flag in
triumph to the halls of the Montezumas. On
a hundred Southern battehelds the citizen SOL
diers of both the North aud South contended
with equal courage and gave an object lesson
to the world In va,or. But they are afraid to
rely on the volunteers any louger-they must
have regular machine, carefully trained to
kill. They will not be expected to kill Span
iards or Frenchmeu, Englishmen or Dutchmen,
but only American citizens. They will enforce
the DEGREES of corrupt courts They will tnur-
der striking operators, They will besat the beck
and call of the coal barous, the railroads and
the protected robbers. American volunteers
cannot be trusted to hold down their brethren
while putocracy picks their pockets, ,and there
fore we need a standing army of 900 men
10 do the dirty work of the highly favored
classes s.-Nonconformist.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23
TOUGH ON THE REPUBLICANS.

The Kansas City Journal is mighty hard on
ito party when it says there are applicants for
places OH the board of pardons under Stanley
who would let out any one whose friends would
set up the drinks. There are others whose
price would be S5 1870, while others would be
higher. The Journal adds that out of the lot it
will be very difficult to select board which
will not be open to suspicion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23
Direct Legislation by the People.

Chicago Record.
reason commonly urged against the extern
sion of the use of the referendum in legislation
is that the people do not take enough interest
i'll specific propositions submitted to iisG..se lss
casting OF large vote upon them. 1t is point
ed out that in elections where propositions are
to be voted on as we'll as candidates. great
many fail to vote on the proposition at ALL
Doubtless 1t is true that specific propositions
of legislation will not draw out such large
vote as the personality of candidates. But that
Is not necessarily good argument against the
referendum. Much of the interest that is made
to center around the personality OF candidates
is not of the kind that promotes good govern
ment. There are in the First ward, for instance.
hundreds of voters who will 60 to the polls and
cast ballots for "Bathhouse" Coughln because
ne is good fellow" who would not take the
trouble to vote on matter of legislation of the
greatest significance for the state or The city.
The personality of popular candidates leads
voters to support for Office men who do not cor
rectly represent their sentiments on matters Of
policy 1t is inconceN able that nIaiority Of
iu,
who are largely workingmen, would vote to
pass whatever sort Of franchise ordinance Yer
kes might submit to them. Yet they will vote
to return Alderman Powers to the council
knowing that he will use both his vote and his
influence i'll that body to secure for Mr.. Yerkes
precisely what Mr.. Yerkes wants. Mr.. Powers
has ways of attracting to his support voters
whose intelligence does not approve of the
measures which he helps to pass.
The referendum may bring to the polls
smaller vote, but it will bring out a more intel
ligent expression of public sentiment, which is
supposed to be the object of elections. 1t
would be better if questions OF public policy
could be settled on their merits, with less r..
gard to the personality of she men who chance
to stand for opposing views.
Sometimes the votes upon propositions of
great interest to community are larger even
than those cast for candidates, as witness manv
OF the elections dealing with county-seat loca-
tions in the western states. Usually, though.
it must be admitted, this is not the case. How
ever, the results show that questions submitted
to popular vote are very rarely decided wrong
because of lack of interest Where the major.
lty OF tina vote cast on the proposition deter
mines the result, designing persons almost never
have been able to sway the popular verdict in a
way that was contrary to the public interest
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23

OCCASIONALLY we hear De.nocIat talking
against the initiative and referendum. they
fall to give good reason for their opposition
to it, however. The fact is, the initiative and
referendum is democratic. 1t means govern
meut by the people-nothing less. Mr.. Demo
crat, think this over.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
What the Special Session May Accomplish.

Topeka State Journal
The special session of the Legislature prom
ises to be record breaker in the direction OF
Governor Lecdy retires from Office, January 9,
at "high noon" The regular session will be-
gin at noon on the following day, January 10.
Bills to abolish numerous Offices are already
in course OF preparation.
Among the Offices which the Popullsts are
likely to take away from the Republicans is the
membership of the state livestock sanitary
commission. A measure to abolish the board,
which has three members, will be presented,
and it will provide for the re-establishment OF
the office of state veterinarian
Auohrr bill will abolish the state board OF
pardons, while another will repeal the metro
politan police Jaw
1t is proposed to abolish the Office OF state
labor commissioner, and consolidate the depart.
inent with the state board of agriculture, add
ing the work to that of Secretary F. D. Coburn.
Representative c. W. Fairchild will present
concurrent resolution calling for all amend
WSNl 10 tic CONSTITUTION PlOViuluS Ioi tilS 0iCN-
ton OF the state printer by direct vote of the
people. This proposition will be voted upon
at the next general election, and Mr. Farchild
thinks it is popular idea, and believes that the
legislature will adopt it. Ratification of the
proposition by the people at an election would
be necessary before it would become effective.
Mr. Farchild thinks the printer should be
elected by the people and paid a reasonable sal
ary, aud that the printing plant should be own
ed by the state, and that the state should print
its own school looks instead of creating, as he
says, "a monopoly OF that business in the
hands of private individuals"
Justice S H. Allen, of the supreme court,
Attorney General Boyle and exChef Justice
David Martin will constitute the third house,
and they will pass upon the legality of all bills
presented in either house for passage. They
are now in charge of the railroad bill, and are
being assisted by Representative Farchild and
General r. c. Bradshaw, of this city.
The railroad bill is the most i'm
portant, but no man will get the credit for it's
passage. 1t will be caucus measure and the
caucus will bind both bodies, although the rail-
road bill will likely be prepared under the di-
rection of committees chosen from both the
senate and the house.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23

The old soldier has at last been recognized
by the incoming Republican administrations
Frank Grimes has appointed one as guard in
the treasurer's office. His duties are to sit up
all night and acar. off fellows who want some of
the states money for nothing
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23

JACK HARRIS says he is willing to resign the
Ottawa postinastership if the Republican boss
es will guarantee him a good state JOB He
wants to actively enter into politics, and he
thinks he can do 80 better as state officer than
a. postnaxter at Ottawa.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23

Why should justice OF the supreme court
be retired on salary7 Are the duties of his
Office any more laborious than that of any other
Officer No. 1t is simply justice outraged and
premium offered to keep up shoddy aristocracy
and there is no sense or reason in such eXtrava-
giant expenditure Of the public money.-Paola
Times
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23

A good deal has been said about Stanley a)ol-
isai1g the state board of pardons He won't do
do H. RI. must keep the thing alive in order
to satisfy as many as possible Of the army Of
piace-h -hunteas that are calling on him every day
and demanding something.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23

Bill. PEPPERELL, secretary of the Democratic
state committee, said In Topeka Saturday, that
his committee didn't spend cent in the last
campaign; that the Populists paid all the bills.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23

COLONEL. WATTERsoN says that the country
must either 60 forward or backward. Will the
Colonel please do little more pushing aud less
hollering?-St. Louis Republic.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23

The makers of pottery and earthenware have
formed trust.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23
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THOUGH DEAD, SHE SPEAKETH.

Government by Injunction" in which peace
able professions are forbidden to march, and "gOv=
ernn1ent by massacre" whereby sheriff shoots
unarmed marching miners, are all so many surg
ical operations, lifting the scales from the eyes of
the poor and rich alike, and ping up proof that
politicians and money makers between tflemwant
what we have been fond of calling ''tf1e land OF
the free and the home of the brave" "=-Frances E.
Willard
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23

THE Ac1rAToR wishes its readers Merry
Christmas.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-12-23

The instances in which such persons have been
able to influence legislative body to take the
wrong course a-e numerous.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
THE MORALES TRAGEDY.
Killing of Shepard by a MexI=
 can Laborer

Further peFticuiafs of the killing
 yesterday morning at Sonoits, station
 on the New Mexico and Arizona railroad
 between Nogales and Fairbank, when
 E. 4. Shepard was stabbed by Luls Chavez. Shepard was employed by tho railroad company as foreman. Chavez had worked for Shepard little more than day, then quit and de- manded his money. Shepard, in com- pliance with the rules of the company paid Chavez 75 per cent of the amount due, and gave him time check for tn q balance. Chavez not satisfied, thIeat- ened to kIli Shepard if he did not geb all the money due him, SIPS.
 Shepard was in his car and Chavez attempted to get in. Shepard tried to keep him out, when Chavez drew large knife from under his sarape and plunged it into Shepard's left side, just below the nipple. After being stabbed, Shepard got on a hand car with some of his men, and started for Crittenden, the nearest telegraph station, from where he could send for medical assistance. Four or five Mex jeans, friends of Chavez, stopped the car and cGmpeled the dying man to go the other way. AS soon as the tele= garph office was reached, word was sent to Nogales, and the army surgeon at Fort Huachuca was sent for. The Cor Oner's inquest was held, at Nogales and a verdict of murder returned, in with the above facts.- Prespector.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
4 Sunday Blaze

The most disastrous fire in the history of Yuma broke out last Sunday after noon about 2:3o o'clock and for a time it looked as though the entire buiness portion of the town was doomed to des- truction. The fire started from an un- known cause in the Vienna bakery.
 The principal losers are Gondolfo & Sanguinette, on buildings and mschin- cry $2,500; Visnna bakery, stock and tools, S1O0, Will 6 Marcello, jeweIty and confectionery, $500; c. D. Baker, store building and shoe shop, $500; jack punne, building and saloon fxturess $2, 300; John Stoffela, damage to build ing and stock, S1,S00; P. B. Hodgess meat market stock and fixtures $1,0O0; L. J. F. Jaeger, damage to stock and fixtures, $500; Joe Gum damage to to restaurant supplies and 6xtures5 $500, T. T. Newman lunch counter, $lOOs Manual Moliua, barber chop fixtures $1OO; David BaIsz, meat market, dam age to stock and fixtures, $50; 0. V. Meaden, damage to saloon stock ard fixtures $500, o. H. Willis, damages to confectionery stock, $i00. The only ones fortunate enough to have insur- ance were c. D. Baker, $250, and Jack Dunne SlO0.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
WHAT HE SAW.
4 COckSWain Tells What He Passed
 Through In the Var.

The coxswain to Rear Admiral Monti- jo, who was in the battle of Manila bay
 is confined to his bed now in Manila
 from the effects of having his leg ampu-
 tated to the two American officers who visited him, he gave the following ac- count of what he saw in that battle:
 May the Virgin prevent my ever witnessing. such scenes as looked upon on the morning of that terrible first of
 May. Then that accursed second ship of your fighting column (Baltimore) came abreast of our line. One of her big shells shells struck right abaft our sheet anchor, on the port side. penetrat- ing the forecastle, where it exploded, l killing twelve men and horribly wound ing many others. Another struck the galley, sending a perfect rain of broken iron and red hor coals into our broadsidc guns crews, leaving a dozen men well tering in their blood in the gangway Another tore our steam engine away, wounding many men, while the ship re- mained m otionless for half hour Another exploded right over the ammu milton room, which had to be flooded to keep it from blowing up, as cartridges wee already beginning to explode. The most horrible of all these horrors was when one of the your large projectiles entered the wardroom which was reek- ing with blood and filled with the cries of the wounded. It destroyed every liv- ing thing and started fire which could not be controlled, and in a few moments we were compelled to stink the Cristina in shoal water before her magazines and shell rooms exploded, as she was on fire fore and aft and our only safety lay in abondoning her. AsI hauled down the admiral's flag, by his express order, I turned and found him standing along side of me. the tears streaming down his face, looking sadly at his burning ship and mangled men. He turned and said to his chef ol staff, Captain Ca dars, Terrible terrible. terrible!'
 "As he turned to get into the boat rapid fire shell struck Captain Cadars in the chest, literally blowing him to pieces and strewing the gangway with his dismember body. ran forward to assist a shipmate, when I was hurled violently to the deck, and knew no more until the next morning, when I found myself cripple for life, lying in the hospital at Cavite Good-day, scnors, and many thanks for your kindly hos and shall be pleased to return it if you honor me with a call. ."-Ex- change.
The St. Johns herald., 1898-12-24
FAILURE OF A PEND.
An Attempt to Convert Grocery
 Store Into a Slaughter House.

Last Sunday evening. about eight o'clock, when everythiny was quiet, and few people were out of doors, the little Chinese grocery store on Railroad avenue, in Nogales, over the doore of which hangs sign reading, "Quong Lee Lung & Co.," was entered by a Mexican who, apparently wanted to purchase some groceries; but whosS real purpose was to make mince meat out of Quong Lee Lung. The instant that the representative of the Flowery Kingdom turned his head, the would-be butcher declared his intention of convet- ing the grocery concern iuto slaughter house by slashing' Quong Lee Lung over the head with a hatchet or an ax.
 After the brute had pounded the poor Chinaman into unconsciousness, he proceeded to gut the place, securing about $1O0 The Chinaman. when dis covered, was horrible sight, but he was alive. Dr. Purdy was called whe dressed the victims wounds, and Vidit man found him on the road to re- covery.
 Quong Lee Lang told the Border Vib- cite that he could recognize the man who handled the hatchet should he see him again.