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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1899-07-26

$50 Ladies Wrappers styles and patterns $225 $OO
100 shirt waists, well made and stylish beginning at IS
Ladies' Phe Pique skirts only left former price s. 5O-now It's
lOc Lawns and summer goods all reduced to O5
Zoc '" 20
3onch PercaleS IN desirable patterns for summer .2H
&c calico in order to reduce stock OS
Ladies Oxford shoes formerly $3.50 & $780, now I25
Is Ladies' hats that trimmed by mner you want one
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Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1899-07-26
Natterns.

Delineator, I5c Gloss of Fashion Magazine Ioc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10

A man is never fully conquered unit
his wife has succeeded in making hin
say before company that he likes K
push the baby wagon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
WORK IN THE ZINC MINES.
Operations Resumed Today After an
Idleness of Two Weeks.

Galena, Kan, July 10.-Operations in
the Missouri and Kansas zinc mining
district We're resumed today after an
idleness of two weeks. The shutdown
was for the purpose of working off the
surplus ore and to force the smeIter
combines to pay the schedule prices
made by the Missouri and Kansas Zinc
Miners association.
Operations will continue as long as
association prices are paid for ore. over
10000 labOrerS were thrown out of en-
ployment by the closing down of the
mines, but they will be benefited in the
outcome, as the struggle now on is
revision of labor troubles. The labor
ing men are merely spectators to the
battle between the smelter combine and
the cooperative association of the zinc
districts of Missouri and Kansas If the
labor will be better paid and given
steadier employment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
KANSAS news.
Barton County Going to Build a
a Great Lake
To Store Up Water During the
Winter For Irrigating.
24MILEs LONG, IA WIDE
Judge Cole Goes East to Com.
plete the Details.
Have All the Financial Backing
That Is Necessary.

Great Bend, July 10.-Judge Cole left
here Saturday night for the east to pro-
mulgate an irrigation scheme which the
people of this county have been working
on for some time. The purpose is to
make a lake in Barton county twenty
four miles long and fourteen wide and
store up enough water during the winter
to irrigate all that portion OF Kansas.
There is a basin near Great Bend that
can be converted into a lake without
much expense. A dam 200 feet long will
be necessary and a. ditch leading from
the Arkansas river to the basin will
have to be cleaned out.
An effort was made several years ago
to carry out this same scheme and a
ditch was built from the river to the
basin. But the projectors had to give it
up because a few farmers owning prop
erty in the basin refused to sell to the
company, and there was no way 10 &C
Quire the land under the law then exist
ing. At the last session Of the Kansas
legislature Judge Cole got bill through
that looked very harmless on its face.
1t provided that a corporation can con-
denim private property for irrigation
purposes. Now the new company being
formed will condemn the property which
the farmers refused to sell before and
will establish the lake.
THE project will be carried out at
once" said Judge Cole before leaving.
I've have all the financial backing nee
essary and am on my way east now
to complete the details of the scheme.
We hope to have the dam built and the
ditch repaired so that we can fill up the
lake next winter.
We will have to catch all OF the water
from the Arkansas during the winter
months, because the Colorado ditch
companies steal all of the river water in
the spring and summer. We will be
able to irrigate a large area of country.
With a sufficient water supply our lands
are as fertile as the valley of the Nile
and we believe that when we get our
lake and bitches built we will have the
garden spot Of the world"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
DROWNED AT OTTAWA.
Brother of Charles Cakes Tries to
Help Him and Has a Narrow
ESCAPE.

Ottawa, July 1O.-While swimming
a bayou to set a trammeI net, about
three miles west of here on the river,
Charles cakes, a single man, about %
-.ears of age, was drowned Sunday.
Cakes was a good swimmer, but when
about half way across the bayou he
cried for help and threw up his hands
and went under. His brother plunged
into the water and reached him as he
was going down for the third time.
Both men went under, but came to the
surface again. It was seen that the
assisting brother was having a strug-
gle. He tugged away, and finally had
to let go, and was with difficulty saved
by the other fishermen on the bank. A
boat was procured and the body of
Charles Cakes was recovered by the
use of graphing hooks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
ALL KILLED BUT ONE.
A Family of Seven Struck by a
Train.

Columbus, Ohio, July 10.-All but one
of the seven members of the family of
William Reinhard of this city, were kill
ed and the remaining one was badly in
ured by a Big Four passenger train
yesterday afternoon. The dead are:
William Reinhard, aged Al.
Rachael Reinhard, aged 40.
William Reinhard, aged IA
Arthur Reinhard, aged 9.
Karl Reinhard, aged Z.
Edward Reinhard, aged 5.
Injured: Clarence Reinhard, aged a.
collar bone broken.
The accident occurred at the Wood
ward avenue crossing of the Big Four
railroad. Mr.. and Mrs. Reinhard and
their five children were out for a drive
in a surrey. They arrived at the rail-
road crossing just as a west bound pas
senger train was due. An eye witness
of the accident said he saw the surrey
crossing the tracks and at the same in
slant it was struck by the train.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reinhard and Arthur
and Karl were killed outright. Edward
and William were so badly injured that
they died after being removed to a hos
pita1 Clarence sustained severe injur-
les, but it is believed he will recover.
The horse was literally ground to pieces.
The crossing has long been regarded
as a dangerous one view of incoming
trains being obscured by a high fence.
The train was running at a high speed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
KUHN TO QUIT THE CHAMPION.
Bale Waggener to Run the Atchison
Paper For Fusion. It is Said.

Kansas City, July 10.-An AtchisOn
man arrived in the city last night and
divulged a story to the effect that
Bale Waggener had promoted himself
from the insignificant position of gen
eral attorney of the Missouri Pacific
system to the editorship OF the Atchi-
son Daily Champion.
The deal whereby Waggener acquired
the ownership of the Champion was
contaminated at II o'clock Saturday
night, and hencefOrth and forever the
public must subscribe for the Champion
in order to find out Bales system of
running the fusion forces of Kansas. It
is admitted by the man who told the
story that there is politics in the deal.
He says Bale wants to be governor
or United States senator and that in or
der to bolster up the waning cause Of
reform, the success of which is essen
tial to his ambitions, it is necessary
for him to have an organ. His scheme
is to make the Champion the political
mOuthpiece of the fusion party of Kan
sas and in return for this it's editor-in-
chief is to have his ambition satiated.
Bale will probably use the Champion
to choke off the ambitions of rival fu-
sion statesmen. He can print stories
about them and hot ones, too.
For long time Waggener has practi-
cally owned the Champion owing to
money loaned the plant at various
times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.

IFrom the Omaha Bee.l
The decision of the Michigan supreme
court declaring demonstrations the
law enacted at the instance of Cover
nor Pingree authorizing the purchase
and operation of street railways by the
city of Detroit gives a black eye to the
movement for municipal ownership of
public necessities which was to have
had its crucial test IN the acquisition Of
the Detroit street railroads. But the
principle underlying the demand for
municipal ownership has as much vi
tality today as it had before the NIichi-
gan supreme court rendered its decision.
The popular current in favor of munich
pal ownership of light, heat and water
supply is irresistible, and while court
decisions may stem the tide its force is
bound to assert itseIf in all large popu-
lation centers. Instead of REFRESHING
popular sentiment in favor of munich
pal ownership the Michigan decision,
like the decision of the United States
supreme court on the validity of the in
come tax, will stimulate the supporters
Of the principle involved into greater
activity and finally will eliminate in
creating A distinctive issue on which
party lines will be drawn and political
campaigns will be fought pIedging the
victor to the enactment of legislation
and constitutional amendments, state
and national, that viii cure the defects
on which the decisions of the courts
are based.
Municipal ownership is one Of the ev-
buttons of the industrial changes that
have taken place within the last half
Of the nineteenth century in every civ
ihzed country on the globe. With the
enlarged necessities occasioned by the
new agencies of civilization there comes
a demand for their control by the peo-
pie acting through their agents in con-
troll of the municipal government The
colossal fortunes amassed by corpora
tions operating gas works, electric light
ing plants, waterworks and street rail-
ways and the methods pursued by them
ga securing valuable franchises evad-
ang taxation and manipulation of leg
tslative bodies, and the fact that many
Of the largest cities of the world have
successfully demonstrated its feasibili-
ty are an almost unanswerable argu-
Euent in its favor. How these franchised
corporations are to be supplanted and
their plants acquired is a problem with
which each community must wrestle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
JAYHAWKER Jors.

Governor Morrill, is said to be a very
sick man. He was taken to Hot Springs,
Ark, last week.
Abilene, salina and Minneapolis are
thinking of forming a trust to wipe out
En- pOria at base ball.
Joke from Ewing Herbert: The farmer
gets along all right as long as nothing
goes against the grain.
Forty-one witnesses were called in a
Jewell county divorce case. at a cost of
$500, and no divorce was granted either
Truthful crop report from the Sixth dis
trict; Farmers are having to dig half of
their potatoes to give the other half room
to grow.
The Hutchinson News giggles because a
woman editor VINO prints one OF the pest
weeklies in the state of Kansas remarked
editOrially last week: See our nice new
patent insides-"
Miss Anna Carlson has given up her
lease on the solomon Sentinel and VIII go
to Republic county to engage in newspe-
per work. Miss Carlson has given Solo
mon one of the best papers it has ever
had
The Concordia mill dam has been taken
out by the high water and distributed at
various points down the Republican and
kaw- The loss is 81, 600. Both the mill
and the electric light plant were run by
water power.
Fred Beeler, the Jewell county cattle
king, has just purchased pasture of g.
40 acres in Mitchell county It is en-
closed by 16 miles Of wire fence Mr.
Beeler paid $4,000. spot cash, for the
property and it is said he didn't have to
borrow a cent to do it.
A little girl at Enterprise closed her
evening. prayer the other night as fol-
care Of yourself too. If anything should
happen to you we wouldn't have anyone
to depend on but Mckinley, and he ism t
IDENTIFY wanted to be postmaster, but didn t
get the job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
TELLS A QUEER STORY.
Dying Man Tells of a Case of Hidden
Identity.

Yates Center, July 10.--A curious case
of hidden identity for an unself1sh pur-
pose. through 40 years of loneliness and
hardship, was revealed here by the
death of Leonard B. Blocker, aged 70
years
BECKER wandered to this county three
years ago, peddling few cheap articles
and, too old and weary to proceed farth-
er a kind-hearted farmer took him in
and cared for him until he died. To
the family which befriended him he
told the story of his life, reserving for
the grave the specific names of persons
and localities.
He stated that in 1851 he left a wife
and five children in Michigan and an
swered the first call for volunteers. The
fortunes of war were against him and
for months he lay a prisoner in Ander-
sonville prison. For some reason he
was led to believe that a certain other
batch of prisoners would soon be ex-
changed. Among them was dying
man and the two comrades exchanged
names and military designations The
soldier died and the death was reported
as that of Leonard B. Blocker and is so
recorded in the war department. The
real Blocker was released after a time,
rejoined his regiment and served until
the close of the war without cOmmuni-
eating with his family. Then he went
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
His $1,000 Would Buy Nothing.

TF'rOm the Boston Herald
1--WE slept under a shed with the
thermometer way below zero said the
tramp, "and I've gone two long days
with nothing to eat, but I'm telling you
straight that when once had $1,000 in
my pocket L was worse off than at any
other time can remember. I had just
been let out of the brideWell in Chi
cagO and was begging on the streets
and being turned down in every hand,
when I picked up a $1,000 bill on the
sidewalk. I thought it was a dollar,
and you bet made a hustle to get down
a side street. When 1 lodged into
doorway and made out that I was
thousand dollars ahead Of the game
the sweat started from every pore and
my knees knocked together. I was reg
ularly seasick for ten minutes, and my
heart thumped away until thought 1t
would break out.
'"That 8, 600 meant a heap for me, you
understand, but L was so excited that it
was two hours before could do any
planning. The first thing was to buy
a new suit of clothes and I entered a
store and picked them out. When 1
exhibited that $1,000 bill the clothier ran
to the door to call a policeman. l got
away by close squeeze, and then
realized the situation. Tramp that I
was, 1 couldn't get it changed at a bank
nor use it to make me more comfort BILE.
If it had been a ten I could have had
lodgings and a bed, but I'm telling you
that I walked the streets as hungry as
a shark, and slept at police stations and
Under the circumstances the bill
might as well have been a piece of
brown paper. tried all sorts of lodges
to get it busted, but it was no go. Every
time I showed it ran the risk of ar
rest. I offered a butcher 500 to get it
changed, but he refused to have any
thing to do with it. I'd have sold it
for half price and been glad to, but
there was no such thing as making a
deal. Finally, in despair, I went to one
of the newspaper offices and looked up
the advertisements for the week past.
The loser had advertised, and 1 went to
his office in a big building and gave up
the bill The reward was $50, but he
counted out $40 on top of that and
said:
. I wouldn't have believed there was
such honesty in the world You could
have kept the bill as well as not.
He took down my name and all that
and gave the affair away to the report
ers. They wrote me up as the Honest
Tramp and had my picture in the pa
pers, but you may guess I didn't en-
joy it over much. I had $50 in place Of
ST. 600 and as for my honesty, it was
all bosh. I returned the bill because
1 had to. and though I'm hungry and
dead broke and don't know where to
turn in for the night I'm not looking
for any more big finds. Something with
a figure q on the corner will Just about
fit my vest pocket"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10

There is one pleasant feature IN
visiting a cemetery: you don't see any
tombstones engraved Mai" or "Kath-
ryn."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
LIGHT PLANT FOB CUBA.
Wisconsin Men Take an Option on
Land at Matanzas.

Racine. Wis, July 1O.-Mathew Slush,
A w. Bishop and other officers of the
Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha Elec-
trio Railway company have, an option
for six months on $3.50, 900 worth of land
at Matanzas, Cuba. If they buy it they
will put up an electric lighting plant and
a warehouse large enough to hold the
produce of the surrounding country,
be built from Matanzas to the neigh
boring towns.
The present purpose of these gentle
men is to begin work on the plant within
four weeks.
The option. costing $1,000. runs six
months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
INsANELY JEALOUS.
John Long, of Argentine, Makes an
Effort to Kill His Wife and Her
ComDanion

Argentine, July 1O.-Frenzied with
jealousy, John Long, a track repairer
for the Santa Fe railway in Argentine,
stabbed his wife, Ollie Long, and her
friend Mat Thomas, about 9 o'clock
Saturday night, as the two were walk
ing down the street together. Long and
his wife have been parted for about two
years but when he saw her and Thomas
walking along the street together he
followed them. Mrs. Longs Swear old
son was with her and when he saw his
father he stopped. The father COM
manded him to return home, but the
child refused to obey.
Long met his wife and Thomas near
the corner of Second street and Metro
pOlitan avenue and followed them to
Third street. Here he picked up a huge
stone and hurled it at them. The stone
flew wild of it's mark, and drawing
knife, he rushed at the couple like a
mad man. Before they could protect
themselves he had slashed them with
the knife in several places. He first
attacked his wife and stabbed her in
the right shoulder and once in the
breast. Thomas Was severely cut in the
shoulder and his right hand was cut
almost off. When Long first rushed at
him with the knife he grabbed for it
Thomas threw up his hand to protect
himself and received the full force of
the blow across the back of his hand. A
severe cash about four inches long was
made. He then attempted to grab the
maddened husband, but received a Sc
we're knife thrust in the shoulder and on
the neck
At this juncture several people ap-
peared on the scene and Long ran
away, making good his escape. Mrs.
Long and Thomas were removed to
their boarding house near the corner of
First and Metropolitan, where Drs.
Cooper and Lewis attended them.
Both are seriously injured. but it is
thought not fatally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
STRIKE ON STAR MOUNTAIN
Gold TeIIurium Found on Chisholm
Property Indicates Deposit of
Great Richness.

Leadville, Colo, July 10.-Couriers ar
irving from Red Mountain district, %
miles from Leadville, confirm the morn
ing reports of a big gold tellurium strike
just made in the Chisholm property, at
Bromley. The property is located on
Star Mountain, and is known as the Lit
tie Alec group.
Assays brought to Leadville show
fifty ounces gold and fifty-six ounces
silver to the ton. The strike was made
after going in $50 feet on the vein, ten
feet of which shows teIlurium mineral
The ore is similar to that found in the
mines of Cripple Creek, and it is claim
ed that $4,000 per ton in outcropping
values are to be seen.
The news created intense excitement,
and, in spite of the lateness of the hour,
over 100 prOspectors from Twin Lakes
and Lea6ville started for that locality.
The reports are to the effect that enough
mineral is shown to prove the strike to
be an extraordinary one, although up to
this time but little development work
has been done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
Heir 70 a mILLToN.
Young Atchison Girl Said to Have
Immense Riches Awaiting Her
[From the Atchison Giobe.l

LFrom the Atchison Globel
w T. Fleming, who formerly owned
pied by F. NJ. Baker, at Third and Di-
vision streets, died July 1, at his home
In pennsylvania. Mr.. Fleming married
MISS kltt1e Everest, of Atchison, when
sne was IL years old, and their wedding
was one of the big social events of II
years ago. After three or four years,
they quarreled, and Fleming returned
10 MS fathers home in Philadelphia.
AFTER SIX or seven years, he married
again. They had one child, a daughter
which Mrs. A. S. Everest, the grand
mother, took, and has cared for ever
since Mrs Fleming married Ed Fair
neld, travelling man, soon after her
separation from Fleming, but did not
get along with him, and they separa-
Three or four years ago. after a long
absence with her mother and daughter
an Germany. where she attracted con-
siderable attention as a singer, she
married H. l. Magee, general superin-
tendent of the Wabash, but formerly
Of AtchisOn. She is now living in st
Louis Three doors away lives her
mother, Mrs Everest, with Marie FIem-
ing, who was 16 years old last May
and very pretty. The father of w T
FIemlng, who died in December, $685.
was a very wealthy man, leaving an
estate of six million dollars. In his
VIII, he tried to disinherit Marie Flem-
ing, but prominent PhiladeIDhia Ia Nv
yers now claim that Marie Fleming by
the death of her father, becomes heir
70 a million and a quarter dollars from
'the estate of David Fleming, her pa
ternal grandfather. A s. Everest
Marie Fleming's maternal grandfather,
left her $4,000 in government bonds.
When W. T. Fleming lived in Atchi-
son he was known as a rich young
man, and had nothing to do The
writer of this was his nearest neighbor
He was a good fellow. and gave many
eXtraVagant social entertainments, but
Guarreled with his wife within few
months. After the separation Mrs
David Fleming came to Atchison, and
was greatly admired by those who met
her. Marie Fleming was a puny child
and Mrs. A. S. Everest nursed her al
most night and day. The women folks
IN David F'leming's family have al
ways taken an interest in Marie Flem-
ing. Every year, Mrs Everest takes
the child east or south, and David
Flemlng's wife and daughters meet her.
but David Fleming, for some reason.
always had an intense prejudice against
the child. So had the father Marie
Fleming told the writer of this a few
weeks ago that her father had never
written to her. She has never seen him
since she can remember, as he left
Atchison when she was a sicxly baby
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
WIFE REFUSES.
She Won't Let Her Husband Bring
His "Clo's Back Home"

After being married for 80 years, r. T.
Shannon has asked Judge Hazen to re-
lease him from the bonds of matrimony.
He claims that his wife has chased him
away from home and he doesn't dare go
back
Mr.. Shannon belongs in Sterling, Col
orado. He says in his petition that his
wife and family of grown children live
there but that two years ago his wife
made it so uncomfortable for him that
he hitched up his team and set out for
east. landing in Topeka, where he has
since resided. He says he gave his farm
and all his property. except the one
team that carried him away, to his wife
and children. Mr.. Shannon further
claims that he has repeatedly written to
his wife, asking her to let him come
back, but she refuses. He has become
tired of being treated in this manner,
and he now sues for a divorce on the
ground that his wife deserted him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-10
TOOUsT NEWPORT SOCIETY
City Council Asked to Make Bailey's
Beach Public Place.

Newport, r. I, July 1O.-The Spouting
Rock Beach association, composed of
who summer here, can not, it is claimed,
longer have exclusive use of Bailey's
beach.
At a meeting of the city council Sat
urday night the city solicitor gave an
opinion that the beach was public prop
erty, and that the stone wall erected
across the end of Bellevue avenue by
the association to keep people off the
beach was a nuisance. He recommended
that steps be taken for the removal of
the wall. No action was taken. The
cottagers have spent a great deal of
money in the Improvement of the beach
and the erection of lighthouses.
"And now said the artist, eff I could
but picture her beautiful voice.
Wouldn't a half-tOne dog" asked his
intimate friend.-CIeveland Leader.