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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-14
Robbed the Grave.

A startling incident of which Mr.. John
Oliver of Philadelphia was the subject,
is narrated by him as follows: 81 was in
a most dreadful condition My skin was
almost yellow. eyes sunken, tongue coat
ed, pain continually in back and sides. no
appetite-gradually growing weaker day
by day. Three physicians had given me
up. Fortunately a friend advised tryins,
Electric Btters;' and to my great Joy
and surprise the first bottle made de-
cided Improvement. / continued their use
for three weeks, and am now well man
I know they saved my life and robbed the
grave of another victim" No one should
fail to try them. Only so cts a bottle at
all drug stores.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-14
Through Tourist Cars to Kansas CITY

The action of the Northern Pacific
and Burlington railroads in establish
ing a twice-a-week tourist car line be-
tween Seattle and Kansas City is a step
in the right direction. 1t means that
it is now possible to get aboard a car
at any point in Washington, Idaho or
Montana along the main line of the
Northern Pacific and go through to
Kansas City without changes or de-
lays of any kind. Cars leave Anaconda
and Butte every Tuesday and Saturday
arriving at Lincoln, ST. Joseph and
Kansas City following Thursday and
Monday. Close connections are made
at Lincoln with solid vestibuled trains
for Omaha, Peoria, Chicago and St
Louis.
Berths can be reserved and tickets
secured at any Northern Pacific ticket
office, or by addressing Phil Daniels,
passenger agent. Butte, Mont.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-14
For Mutual Education.
rom the Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript.
Attention has already been called to the
valuable work which has been done by the
bureau of education in the establishment
of schools in Porto Rico. Now new de-
parture is to be taken, promising results
of great value General Eaton, director
of public instruction in this new Ameri-
can possession. has sent circulars urging
the public school teachers of Porto Rico
to visit the United States during the COM
ing summer vacati0n-from July / to Oct.
lin order to acquire a better knowledge
of American life and institutions. To
make this possible. it has been suggested
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-14
Dream of the Hobo.

From the Detroit Free Press.
I'D never go to sleep a'gin If I thort
Id have mother nightmare like that
sighed the weary hobo.
WAS it horrible?"
1.-THE horriblest l ever 7 dreamed | wor
a key of hard cider and wor a-worl1in."
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-14
Use for Wings.

From the Detroit Free Press.
She (snging softly)-Would that 1 had
the wings of a bird.
He-What earthly use would they be to
you, my dear?
Shell was just planning the trimming
for my Easter hat.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-14

Children deprived of fats
and mineral foods have
weak bones, Aabby flesh and
thin watery blood.
The milk of nursing
mothers, enfeebled by chron-
ic diseases, or long contin-
ued nursing, produces the
same results.
SCOTS Emulsion is cod
liver oil partly digested and
with the hypophosphites,
forms a fat food which acts
on the infant through the
mothers milk, giving rich
blood, strong nerves and
sound flesh and bones to both.
SOC. and $500, all druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New York.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-14

Gilmore and Leonard won't work to-
gether hereafter. The trouble is said
to be that the wives of the two COM
edians are upon unfriendly terms.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
ROYALTY AND TITLE.

George ". was prince of Wales for
over 81 years, but Alfred Edward has
passed that record.
In the king of Saxony's museum &C
Dresden there is q cherry stone upon
which, by the aid of microscope, more
than 100 faces can be distinguished.
The duchess of ST. Adams owns what
Is probably the most interesting col
lection of Victorian autographs in the
world. Besides the royal family and
the nobility represented, there are
words especially contributed by Ten
nyson, Browning, Gladstone, John
Bright and Chamberlain, and verse
written exclusively for the duchess by
the best-known verse-makers of the
day.
Queen Victoria always admired the
works of Dickens, and when the great
humorist was honored with an inter
view with her, her majesty, with that
fine tact and courtesy which have
marked all her life, handed him an au-
tographed copy of her Leaves from
the journal of Our Life in the High
lands" with a graceful reference to
herself as the ''humblest" of writers,
and Dickens as ''one of the geratest."
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
JOTTINGS ABROAD.

The empire of Morocco is the most
important state that is absolutely
without a newspaper.
The disproportien of the sexes is
still very great in Australia. In West
Australia there were only $4,000 wom-
en- in a population of 10000.
Prof. Lombroso declares that China
is the only country in the world that
has succeeded in avoiding the four
great social evils-feudaism, militar-
ism, sacerdotalism and capitalism
London's General Omnibus company
runs 1900 omnibuses, which carry 1907
100000 passengers year and run 3d.
600, 900 miles. It owns 1851 horses
and employs 5000 men. The annual
receipts are about S6,o0o,oO0.
Germany turns out a hundred new
picture postal cards a day, according
to the British consul at Frankfort, and
the yearly output is over 3o,ooo,o goo,
which are exported to all parts of the
world. Since the collecting mania be-
gan the increase N the number OF
postal cards handled by the German
post Office has been IL, oOO, 900 year.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Afro-American council, which
was in session at Chicago, favored ar
ranging for a state to be occupied by
colored people. Oklahoma and New
Mexico seemed to be in favor.
d. E. THOMPSON, of Lincoln, Neb.,
rendered Gov. Poynter the loan of $780,
900 required to bring the First Ne
braslza home from San Francisco. Gov.
Poynter accepted the offer.
Gov. SAVERS and all other state of
fcials of Texas, including legislators.
must give up their railroad passes in
accordance with. new state law that
goes into effect soon.
DR. r. C. WARNE, surgeon of the
First Nebraska, was arrested at Ma
Mia for villifying his colonel, Alfred
s. Frost.
A WASHINGTON dispatch stated that
the commissioner of Indian affairs has
decided to bar women from appoint
ments as superintendent of Indian
schools, owing to the industrial feature
in the schools and it being demon
strated that women were untitled for
work of that character.
DIVER WILLIAM WALDwIN was killed
near Tacoma, Wash, while irving to
reach the sunken British ship Ande-
lana, lying at the bottom of the har-
Dor with Is of the crew. He was 150
feet below the surface when the pump
ing gear broke
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
SOME FAMOUS LINeUIsTs.

Pico della Mirandola, learned 1tal-
ian of the fifteenth century, was elo-
quent in % languages, and NJ. Fulgencs
Fresnel was familiar with 20.
In the seventeenth century Nicholas
Schnid, a German peasant, translated
the Lords Prayer into as many Ian
guages as there are weeks in a year, and
in the next century Sir William Jones
could converse in 2S different tongues.
The fame of Elihu Burritt, the
learned blacksmith" who died some
20 years ago, is still fresh in memory.
Burritt mastered Latin, Greek and
French while plying his hammer ut the
forge, and he made as light Of translate
ing 1celandic sagas as OF shoeing q
horse.
OF men who have mastered between
ten and twenty languages the name
is legion" Chief among them are Pos
tel, French scholar, who was familiar
with Is tongues, and ]. J. Scaliger, an
other Frenchman, who spoke like na-
tive in IL strange tongues. Claude
Duret was master of IL languages, and
James Crichton, a Scotsman. could
dispute learnedly in a dozen.
1t is only a few months since DR..
Gottlieb Leitner, the most famous
linguistof this generation, died at Bonn,
in Germany. DR.. Leitner, who acted as
interpreter to the English army in the
Crimean war, could speak with equal
facility in no fewer than so languages,
and many of the more abstruse eastern
tongues he knew as intimately as his
native German.
Sir John Bowring knew every IAN
guage and dialect of Europe, and Solo
mon C. Malan, an English clergyman.
when boy of IS could preach in 13
languages, and in later years added to
his store such widely diverse tongues
as Arabic and Welsh, Syriac and Chi
nese, Japanese and Russian. His facil-
ity in mastering a new language was so
great that within a fortnight he learned
Armenian sufficiently well to be able
to preach in it, and a months study en-
abled him to preach in Georgian to .
native congregation in the cathedral OF
Kutais
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
INDUSTRY AND SCIENCE.

The first silkworms raised in the
west have been produced by Mark
Chiesa, an Italian, at Des Moines, Ia,
from eggs imported from Italy. From
ten siIk-moths he got 5000 eggs, and
of these 1000 Matched. It is his inten-
ton to produce silk on e large scale.
Compared with the enormous cap
ital of some of the English banks the
largest American institutions dwindle
into insignifcance. The National Pro-
vincial Bank OF England has SIS, ooo,-
600; Bank Of England, s75,ooo.ooo; Lon
don and Westminster bank. 7o,o0o, 0oos
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

BISHOP HoLsEY, of Texas, discussing
the solution of the race question at the
session of the Afro-American council
at Chicago. said: There is but one way
to solve this problem, and that is sepa-
ration and segregation. That is, the
negro race must occupy a state or
states and hold the territory to them
selves. To make this movement effect
i've, 1900, 900 voters should sign a petit
ton to congress to set apart sufficient
area of the public domain with proper
legislative restrictions by which state
or states may be erected which will be
distinctly negro states.''
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

G. HoYT and James FL. McNeely, In
dian commissioners, and Indian Agent
j. E. Edwards, of the Crow Indian
agency, have concluded a treaty with
the Grow Indians at the Crow agency
in Yellowstone county, Mont, whereby
the Indians have agreed to sell to the
government LOO, 900 acres of their
5000, OO0-acre tract at S1.5O per acre.
AS soon as congress ratifes the treaty
the land will be thrown open for set
Element. It is situated in the Yellow
stone valley and is the finest agricul-
tural and cattle-grazing land in the
west
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

THE first assistant postmaster gen
eral said the other day that rural free
delivery was now in operation in up
wards of 200 towns in the United
States. Every state has had trial of
it. In every instance the amount of
mail delivered has been greatly in
creased after the establishment of free
delivery. In nearly every instance it
has doubled; in most it has trebled, in
many quadrupled and in some quin-
tupled. Another feature of the sys-
tenn is that the cost of delivery to the
rural population is not more per piece
than it is to the urban population.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

The state department has received a
note from Ambassador Cambon to the
effect that an international congress
of public assistance and private benefi-
cence is to meet in Paris from July so
to August 6, 1900. The French govern
ment is to be officially represented, and
foreign governments are requested to
send delegates to the congress The
congress will comprise four sections:
o Childhood; (2) the sick, the infirm,
the incurables and aged; 80 the able
bodied poor, other relief than that of
assistance by furnishing work, general
questions; "a works Of assistance by
furnishing work.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

THE greatest steamship the world
has ever seen, the White Star liner
Oceanic, is preparing for her maiden
voyage from Liverpool to New York.
The vessel has three pole masts and
two enormous tunnels. If one of the
tunnels was placed horizontally on the
ground, tracks for two cars could be
built in it and the cars could run
through it at the same time. The
Oceanic is 7O4 feet long, IS feet ~
inches wide and 40 feet deep. Put
down in the street the Oceanic would
cover three ordinary city blocks.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

IN letter from Admiral Dewey to
the secretary Of the navy at Washing
ton, dated at Naples, August 5, the adj
miral gave his plans. He will arrive
in New York September 90 and be
ready for the big parade Saturday.
September 80.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

SENATOR W. A. HARRIS, of Kansas,
will present in the senate at the next
session a measure proposing three
amendments to the constitution of the
United States. First, making the pres
ident elective for six years; second,
making the terms of congressmen four
years instead of two: third, to elect the
United States senators by direct vote
of the people.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

BISHOP SAMUEL FALLows, of the COM
mittee on religious exercises of the
Chicago fall festival, stated at meet
ing of the general committee of the
festival that, if plans he had formed
were carried out, the worlds most
famous pulpit orators will preach in
Chicago on October S, when the festi-
val will close
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

WITHIN the borders of Oklahoma ter
ritory there is not a single poorhouse,
it is stated. There are no paupers in
Oklahoma, so that the territorial legis-
latures have had no occasion to make
provision for this class of unfortu-
mates.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
Think He Deserves a Pardon.

In 1894 Fuller Rhodes stole horse
In Sedgwicl> county and escaped to
North Dakota. Three years later he
wrote to the sheriff of Sedgwick coun-
ty, agreeing to come home and give
himself up for trial. The change in
Rhodes was made by conversion to re-
1igion. He came back and in 1898 was
sentenced to the penitentiary. The
prosecuting attorney and all of the
jurymen have signed petition for
Rhodes pardon.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

THE total number of yellow feve,
cases in Havana this year is SO, of which
IL proved fatal. This is considered q
remarka BILE record.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

REPORTS from southwest Russia said
the recent drought in that portion OF
the country had caused the utter loss
of the winter and spring wheat crop.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

In short time loaded vessels of 1850
tons capacity will be able to pass
through Canadian canals, with a depth
of IA feet, from Lake Superior to the
Atlantic. The Dominion has spent
upon it's ship canals $55, 000, 900, or $40
per capita.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
Leased 5000 Acres of Mineral Land.

An eastern syndicate has leased the
mineral privileges on about 5000 acres
of land near Solomon in the hills along
Sand creek. Oil and coal are indicated
along the creek, while 7o0-foot well
on the Red Bud ranch q few years ago
produced flow of gas that lasted for
weeks.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
Must BE Turned into the Treasury.

Gov. Stanley has INSTRUCTED Insur-
ance Superin tendent Church to compel
his two examiners to turn in all money
collected as fees for examining insur-
ance companies. The money collected
as fees from the companies for exam
nations will be turned into the state
treasury after this and the examiners
will be paid out of the contingent fund
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

a HAVANA paper said that the union
of the Latin races of the American con-
tinent is necessary in order to counter
poise the growing power of the United
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
The LINTON Pacific C1aIms II.

Hays City, Kan. Aug. GA ttorney
Sayre, representing the Union Pacific
railroad, is here in the interest of a
claim of 8, 900 acres of the Fort Hays
military reservation He says the fort
was located one year after the railroad
had fled its survey in the general land
Office.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
Apple Crop Will Be Light.

Reports at the Office Of the Kansas
State horticultural society indicate
that the apple crop will be about 1872
per cent. The total number of bear
ing trees in the state is Z, $50, 1853. South
ern Kansas was less injured by frost
than other sections. Eastern Kansas
suffered greatest, the crop in Doniphan
county being as low as five per cent.
Cowley county reports an unusually
heavy crop.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
Kansas Antitrust Delegates.

Gov. Stanley appointed the following
delegates to the antitrust meeting to
be held at Chicago September 16:
Congressman at-Large W. ]. Bailey; ]. K.
Cubbison OF Kansas City; George II. Buckman,
OF Winfield; w. A. White, of Emporia; John E.
Bessin. of Manhattan; G. E. Elliott, of yelling
ton; h. L. Pestana, of Russell
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
R,oo.s. Ngui In the State.

A new addition to the McGrew Mill
ing company's plant at Coffeyville
makes one solid building So4 feet long,
SO feet wide and five stories high 1t
is beyond doubt the biggest mill build
ing in Kansas.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

SURGEON GENERAL WYMAN, of the
marine hospital service. does not think
there is any reason for alarm in the
United States on account of the out
break of the bubonic plague in Portu-
GAL
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
More About Mr.. Green.

James L. Green, the Kansas boy
mentioned as having been killed in a
duel in Havana, lived in Labette coun-
ty. His experience as Cuban soldier
has been varied and several times he
has been reported killed. His sister.
Mrs. J. S. Smith, who resides at Che
topa, does not credit the story that he
is dead, having received a letter from
him only a few days ago dated at Man
tanzas. The fact that Mr.. Green has
a wife and child living near Oswego
and that he has never secured a divorce
may throw some light on the subject.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
E-ank Lames WIu STARE Thern.

Frank James, the noted Missouri ex-
bandit. has been engaged by the Wlch-
tia State Fair association to start Joe
Patchen and John r Gentry, two
famous race horses which viii appear
on the race course there next month
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
CURRENT COMMENT.

THE legislative council of Western
Australia has passed bill enfranchis
ing women.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
Stalking Land at Fort Hays.

There was much excitement be-
cause, in spite of orders from Washing
ton, 1000 acres of land on the Fort Hays
military reservation has been staked
for homesteads- The land office re-
fuses to file the claims.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
cash i'm the States Treasury.

There is 81, 176. 62S. 96 cash in the
Kansas state treasury. Of this sum
$6O3, O37.s. is in the permanent school
fund, SOL, 6O6. 10 in the annual school
fund-which will shortly be appor-
toned to the schools of the state-and
1886, $40. rs in the general revenue fund.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

THE board of health at Altoona, Pa,
has ordered all cats, dogs and pet
animals to be killed because they are
suspected of spreading smallpox in that
CITY.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
A CITY Attorney in Trouble.

Impeachment proceedings were COM
menced against o. NJ Seward. city at
tornev of Winfield. Seward was elected
by the temperance people and he is
charged with betraying his trust.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
To Connect Lawrence and Topeka,

". E. Winner, in addition to trans
forming the Lawrence street railway
into an electric line, proposes to get
hold of the Carbondale railroad and
connect Lawrence and Topeka by
means of this route with an electric
road.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
Walker May Be Innocent.

Great excitement was created at Ar
gentine when George Walker, a negro,
who is alleged to have assaulted Miss
Perkins, was captured and bro ught to
that city. A mob gathered and would
have hanged the negro had not the
sheriff secreted him. Now comes Ed
Cohn, Leavenworth commission man.
and certifies that Walker was working
for him in Leavenworth the day the
alleged assault took place.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

WI. Burns, an old soldier at Dex-
ter, Cowley county, was killed by the
city marshal recently. Burns was
drunk and was threatening to take the
marshal's life, it was alleged.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
Two Kansas Postmasters in Trouble.

Warrants were issued for the arrest
Of two Kansas postmasters on the
charge of embezzling government
funds. The postmasters are Capt
John 6. Ellis. of Quenemo. and Ireneus
G. Myers. of Mayetta- Ellis is accused
of being short over 5000 and Myers over
$500. Bondsmen paid the shortage in
each case
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
The State win Bring Suit.

State Treasurer Grimes has furnished
Attorney General GODDARD list of the
county. township. municipal and school
district bonds held in the state school
fund on which interest has defaulted.
They aggregate S213, T95. The attorney
general will begin suits to collect. The
legislature last winter provided him
with an extra assistant to attend SO
these cases. The following shows the
amount of defaulted bonds of various
kinds held in the school fund by coun-
ties:
Anderson. 5000; Barber, S., 200; Chautauqua.
&, $50; Cherokee, 1864; Cheyenne, $1,000; Conan
che, $500; Ellis, s., 200; F'inney $780, Ford,
81 250; Graham, S2Ss; Grant s. 900; Gray, S. 500;
Greeley, Sl2 200; Hamilton S.. 261 Harper So 200;
Haskell, $1,000: Hodgeman, S1.700; Kearny,
81 600: Lane, s., 400; Logan, 80, 900; Marion,
s12, 600; Mcpherson, 1852; Meade s., 7O0 Morris,
IS 200; Ness, 81, 1Oo Norton $500; Ottawa. $500;
Pawnee, S245; Phillips, $500; Pratt, 1850;
Rawlins 500; Riley, s1,1OO; Scott, S37,45O;
Seward IS, 800; Shawnee, $4,000; Sherman, $500:
Smith. 1915; Stanton, So, 200; Stevens. 81, 900:
Trego. 800; Wallace, 400; Washington, $500;
Wichita, So, 4OO Wyandotte, S. 400. Total, s213,-
7Q5
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25
VIII BE ExhIbited at Paris.

An agent OF the government mas ar
ranged with the Kansas City, Fort
Scott & Memphis railway to make up
part of the forestry exhibit of the
United States at Paris of features from
the two tree plantations near Farling-
ton, Crawford county. The plantations
of $40 and 500 acres near darlington are
the largest in the western country and
were started with the idea of demon
strating to the many farmers coming
to Kansas that the praries were good
for growing trees.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-25

Gov. Stanley received letter from
Col. Allen Buckner, of Baldwin, the
well-known civil war veteran, asking
that he might raise a regiment for
service in the Philippines