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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

ANOTHER blessing of annexation
has just been officially uncovered. The
sugar industry in the U. s. is doomed,
if Porto Rico, Cuba, and the Philip
pines are allowed to send us their sugar
free of duty. The same grade of sugar
that costs 81 cents pound to produce
in the U. S. costs but 2 cents a pound
TO produce in those islands. This will
be hard nut for the next Congress to
crack.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12
State News.

The Topeka Capital will be the next
official state paper.
A Leavenworth man died and left a
will leaving his wife one dollar, and
willing all his property to his nurse.
Andrew jackson Arnold, late post
master of Topeka and one of that
city's most prominent citizens died
March 29th.
S. c. Younkin of Topeka was arrest
ed and must stand trial on thu charge
of bigamy. Younkin had one wife,
but had false ceremony performed
with another woman.
The Travellers insurance company
of Hartford has been admitted to do
business in the state. This is an
other company which was barred
from the state by McNsll.
S. L. Wilson Of Atwood Kansas
fell from small sail boat In Sabine
Pass Tex, last week. and was drown
ed. A reward of $50 was offered for
the recovery of his body, but 1t was
not found.
II. B. Macke, a noted swindler, who
has achieved almost national repu-
tatlon by his daring operations in
Ohio, New Mexico and Kansas, broke
Jail at Holton March 27. He was as.
sisted in his escape by Frank Win.
nerick, who was awaiting trial fol
burglary. Neither of the men have
been captured.
D. E. Richards prominent furni
ture dealer of Newton planned te
burn his store for the insurance ano
offered a clerk $65 and bed room
set to do the deed for him. The clerl
informed on him, and he confessed
his whole plan, which was to burr
the store and charge the crime to
former partner.
Henry Sanderson, young maj
OF Mayetta, attempted 10 shoe
MAZDA Fletcher by whom he hae
been rejected, and instead fatal,
wounded her aunt Mrs. Iohr
Fletcher. Sanderson was arrested
and taken to Holton to escape
threatened lynching, but in tn.
night mob of men from Mayett,
took him from his guard at Holtol
and hanged him. He was executed
Ijust at the time that Mrs. Fletcher
his victim, expired. Mrs. Fletche,
had been married but two months
Hutchinson is tired of the stat
reformatory. and wants to get ri
of it. It gives the town the name
of being tough. The main draw
back Is not the inmates, but tn,
friends of the inmates who NOV
here to be near them.
j Herbert and Willis Simpson. tw.
BARRIERS of Wichita, and Mr.. an,
Mrs. B. L. Matthews of Rice count.
were arrested and placed in Jail q
Wichita recently. They are charges
with theft and counterfeiting, an
also with being implicated in th
murder of Joseph New of Eurekt
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12
NO. 46.
What Collins Said
on Being Sentenced.

on Being Sentenced.
John Collins was sentenced to death
by Judge Hazen ct Topeka Monday.
When asked If he had anything to say
be- fore sentence was pasesd upon him,
Collins said:
81 do not come here as q criminal.
but come here as an innocent man.
protesting against the commission of
great injustice. submit, In the first
place, that l am the victim of series
OF circumstances, or strange coinci-
dents, somewhat remarkable, perhaps,
but not unusual. Tho history Of cir
cumstantial evidence will show many
stranger cases than this of innocent
men being punished for crimes they
never committed.
"In the second place, am also the
victim of a morbid public sentiment.
Your honor knows as well as do the
stand that has been taken against me
by the newspapers of this community.
Newspapers are mighty moulders of
public sentiment. and juriss and some
times courts are Influenced by them.
1 need not discuss the sentence you are
about to pronounce.
"In the next place, am at this time
as firmly as ever of the opinion that I
should have had new trial; that did
not have fair trial In this case. Ibe-
lieve now, as I have always believed
that the evidence In this case does not
justify the verdict which was returned
against me.
"In the third place, know that 1 am
not guilty of the offense charged a.
gainst me.
Il have very little to say about the
first two of these propositions. But I
submit that no man should be convict
ed Of any crime or any alleged crime
upon circumstantial evidence when the
principal witnesses against him are no.
torious breakers of the law, and when
the evidence against him has been pre-
pared by a man who Is known to be an
unmitigated liar and unworthy of be.
lief. But as to my being innocent, I
know that I am innocent; know that
did not kill my father. never con.
spired with johnson Jordan or any
other person to have him killed. Ihad
no reason to desire his death, and did
not desire his death. I wish, If it were
possible, that he might come back here
today from beyond the grave, and be
before you, so that you might learn
from him that 1 am not guilty. I
would. If it would avail anything, call
upon Almighty God to read my heart
today and show you that am an in.
nocent man.
"But standing here as do have no
fear concerning my past, my present or
my future. We have not given up the
fight by a long sight. do not feel
that shall be in the penitentiary very
long. 1 feel that there will come q day
when all the mystery of this case will
be cleared away; when it win be known
who killed James s. Collins, and that
had no hand In that crime; when the
guilty man will be brought to justice;
when the constancy Of my mother and
sister will be rewarded, and when your
honor shall feel that when you passed
sentence upon John Collins you did q
great injustice; for, as am to be judg-
ed by Almighty God, swear I am an
innocent man."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

DEWEY and Merritt are reported
as saying that the only thing to be
done in the Philippines by the
United States is to hang on
and restore order. "To have left the
island after the Spanish authority
was destroyed would have been to
have left the city of Manila to be
looted and burned and the European
inhabitants to be murdered by a mob
of half naked savages."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

A horse whose master made loud
pretenses of religious devotion was
standing hungry and unblanketed
one cold winter day in front of q
church while his master was inside
attending class meeting and fairly
raising the roof with his fervent
petitions. Whereupon the horse
shiveringly remarked as he bit a
splinter from the post: Loo king at
this from the standpoint Of q horse
should say that If the man who
owns me would mix more blankets
and oats with his prayers they
would go considerably higher than
they do at present. t."-Ex.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

ALL insurance companies have
withdrawn from Arkansas because OF
the antitrust law of that state which
prohibits pooling OF rates. 1t is
grand bluff for the purpose of warn
ing other states not to prevent this
robbery. The people of that state
should now adopt cooperative or
state insuran ce. Now is the time.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

IT is now about time for the honor
contest to begin over the Philippine
invasion. Those have gained the
most real honor who have done the
least to subject those struggling pa
triots.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

II the embalmed beef commission
can succeed in proving that white is
black and black is white and both are
neither, it may be able to save Mr..
Alger.-Better Wuy.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12
J. F. HANEY.
LET EVERY LAND OWNER HELP.

Kansas has been settled for a long
time, but its timbered covered area is
not increasing very rapidly. To
readers of the papers it must seem
that there are more persons writing
about the desirability of increasing
the timbered area than there are per.
sons planting trees and tree seed.
There are so few planting, because
every one wishes to reap the results
of his labor at once. They cannot
afford to wait few years. If this
spring and every spring, land owners
would all plant an acre to trees,
Kansas would improve in beauty,
climate conditions, and prosperity, to
such an extent that a Kansan return
ing to his state fifteen or twenty
years hence would scarcely recognize
it.
Another reason, aside from selfish
ness and impatience, Why so little
planting is done, is inexperience.
Very few know how easy 1t is to
raise large supply of forest trees,
such as box elder, soft maple, ash
walnut, pecan, oak, catalpa, honey
locust, and many others. It will
cake but an earnest trial, properly
made, to convince most farmers that
they can raise trees as we'll as cor n.
To start forestry plantation by
buying the trees is too expensive;
but to start one by raising the trees
costs only a little more than the
work. Seeds of many kinds may
be obtained from trees that grow
naturally along the streams. OF
other kinds the seeds may be pur-
chased of seed supply houses.
Addresses of such firms will be
furnished by the Horticultural De-
partment of the Kansas State
Agricultural College, or the Depart
ment, if requested at the proper
season, will often be able to gather
and ship seeds of some kinds such
as are mentioned above, excepting
pecans, for the cost of the labor.
For box elders and soft naples th'
seeds should be gathered in July O
as soon as ripe, and planted immed
lately in loose, moist soil, covered
very lightly, not more than one hal
inch deep. Four feet apart is
good distance for rows. They vii
come up at once; If too thick, the.
can be thinned, but more and bette
trees will be obtained by resetting il
similar rows, placing the trees foo
apart. In three or four years, wit
carful:cultivation. they will be resd
for the plantation.
Most seeds should be gathered il
the fall and stored in moist sand til
spring. If they are surrounded b,
hard shell, as walnuts and hone.
locust seeds. it is essential that the,
be placed where they will stay mois
and be exposed to the freezing AM
thawing of the winter. Plant ii
spring as soon as the ground viii
work well. letting the size OF the see
govern the depth of covering. Wal
nuts and hutternuts and pecani
should be covered two or three inche
deep. If the ground is not needle
for other purposes, these can b
planted where they are to remain
but most trees should be grown
nursery rows for few years.
With the work and attention on
gives to potato CROP he can in
few years raise trees in vast number
and of sufficient size tor q plantatio
of many acres. Let every land owne
help to cover q proper portion {
Kansas with useful trees. largely fl
his own good and for the good
those thst are to follow.
i O. p. HAsrLE
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

Guy ANDERSON, of Troy, Kansas,
the Is year old boy who made oath
that Cy Leland induced him to vote,
died suddenly less than a week after
the testimony was given. Some
suspicion prevails. Dead boys do
not repeat tales.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

THERE was not a citizen of Kansas
asking for the discharge cf McNall
and the head officers of the state in
stitutions. They were not turned out
because of incompetency, but sim
ply in order to fill their places with
personal political friends.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

Agirl may say she is surprised when
she receives proposal, but down in
her heart she is wondering what in the
world made him wait so long.-Ex
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

The people want the proof of Nc
Nails perfdy, Mr.. Stanley. It is
only their due that tho matter be
shown up now, and if you don't do it,
you will find that you cannot deceive
them with any equine act year from
next fall.-Bel lleUilLe Freeman.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

ANY doctor can easily gain the life
long friendship of a woman: Just
let him advise her to go away for her
health.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

IT is said that when a woman's son
marries, she never fully forgives him
until he has had trouble with his
wife and comes back to her for COM
fort.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

LIFE is made up of four letters
Three fourths of it is ''lie" and one
half is 'if."-Ex.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

HE statement that married women
live longer than their husbands is es-
pecially true of widows.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

WE are usually most confident con-
corning that about which we know
the least.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

GOVERNMENT ownership is the only
avenue of escape from the oppression
of the trusts.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

ABOUT the only advantage married
man has is that his wife can't sue him
for breach of promise.-Ex.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

IT is but natural that the investlga-
tion of spoiled beef should expose
corruption.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12

HE fool is ever first to laugh at
others folly.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12
What is GOOds

w Mtbb - UOONb
"What is the real gOod?"
Is asked in musing mood,
"Order," said the law court;
knowledge" said the school,
TRUTH" said the wise man;
PLEASURE" said the fool;
"l.ove," said the maiden;
Beauty" said the page;
Freedom" said the dreamer;
"HOme," said the sage;
Fame" said the soldier;l
Equity" the seer.
Spake my heart full sadly;
1.-The answer is not here.
Then within my bosom,
Softly this l heard;
Each heart holds the secret;
kindness is the word"
JOHN BOYLE REILLY.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12
MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2 1899

A firm believer in home rule-a
woman.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12
VOL. XVIII.

'1f all the poems l that have written
Were piled together in pile,
And with candle they were litten,
You could see the blaze mile.
But all the gold have gitten
For all the poems have wrote
Would not hurt the feeblest kitten,
If poured molten down its throat"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-12
PERCY J. PARRoTT.
ALFALFA VS. MILLET FOR MILK.


Mr.. G. Carlson, a patron of the
Manhattan Creamery, milks three
COWS. Up to the goth. of February
he had been feeding these cows one
ton of alfalfa every 80 days, and
had been sending to the creamery
an average of 81 lbs. of milk per
day, besides what was needed at
home for the use of large family 3,
AT this time, which was during the
severe cold weather of February =,
his milk was testing 4.6 per cent
and butter fat was worth 17c a
pound. We will estimate the skim
milk at the low price of Is c per 100
lb. For 80 days this would amount
to $14.34 or $4.94 per cow per
month.
Having a chance to sell alfalfa at
good price Mr.. Carlson thought
he would feed millet. He tried it
for two weeks with the result that
his COWS gave an average of 42a lb.
of Al per cent milk, besides what
was needed at home. Had millet
been fed a month instead of two
weeks the average would doubtless
have been lower, but taking the fig
ures at the above rate for 30 days,
the income from the three COWS
would be $1,000 or an average of
1888 per cow per month. Granting
that the cows received no more mil
let than alfalfa, the results show
that the latter is worth $4.24 more
per ton than mlllet for milch COWS.
D. II. OTIs.
Any one VINO mas mad poor sale
for his strawberries because of glutted
markets may find it quite profitable to
retard the ripening of bis crop for a
week. If the plants are under good
manure mulch, This may be easily &C
complished by retaining the mulch
ing till it becomes necessary to re-
move it that bees may assist in pollin
ating the blossoms. Such treatment
is not applicable to early varitiees al
it causes them to ripen with the later
varieties, giving no advantages.
BULLETIN ON COLD STORAGE.
| The State Agricultural College a
Manhattan, Kansas is receiving man,
requests for information on the subjec
of cold storage for keeping fruits. A
many of the fruit growers alread,
know, the college has been experiment
ing along this line for some time, ant
has obtained some very definite results
This information is soon to be distrib
uted in the form of bulletin on tn,
subject, "Cold Storage for Fruit.
This is the first bulletin to be issu et
in the UDited States on this lmportan
subject and will be widely read. Sent
your request TO the Horticultural De
partment of the college and obtain ,
copy
SOW ALFALFA
i Every Kansas farmer who has fet
alfalfa recognizes it as good feed
but great many have not as yet be
gun to realize its full value, and do no
know what they are losing by not hav
ing it as ..one of their main feeds
The results from giving alfalfa TO dair.
cows and fattening steers as part o
the feed compares very favorably wit
those from such expensive feeds as oil
meal, cotton seed meal, and bran, AM
in fact takes the place of those feed
| in the ration. The Kansas Experi
) ment Station is demonstrating ais
that alfalfa is an invaluable hog feed
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-08
SHERIFF'S SALE.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT. THIRD
judicial district of the state of Utah,
county of Salt Lake. +. r. Crandan,
plaintiff. vs.. Mary Z. Jensen and Lars
Jensen, detendants.-Io be sold at sheriff 5
sale, at the west front door of the county
court house. in the city of Salt Lake
county of Salt Lake, state of Utah, on the
nth day of July. a. d. 1899. at Il clock
noon OF said day. the real estate described
as follows. to-wit: That certain piece or
parcel of land situated in Salt Lake City,
county of Salt Lake and state of Utah,
bounded and described as follows to-wit:
CONNIE nc ng al point ffty-nine and two
tenthS (5y2 rods south and fifty-two
(52) rods east from the northwest corner
OF the southeast quarter Is Z. ~ of sec
ton thirty-two (321, township one u south
OF range one % east, Salt Lake meridian
and running thence east forty-eight (iS)
rods: thence south seventy-one and six
tenths C7l.6) rods; thence west forty
eight t4S) rods; thence north thirty-four
and eight-tenths (3.S rods: thence
west two 90 RODS; thence northwesterly
along water ditch to point due west
from the place of beginning; thence east
to the point of commencement, and all
water rights thereunto belonging.
Purchase price payable in lawful money
of the United States.
JOHN F. HOWELLS.
Sheriff of Salt Lake County. State of
Utah.
BY A. G. DYER. Deputy Sheriff
Dated at Salt Lake City, Utah. this 23rd
day of June. a. ID. 1899.
J. NJ. Thomas, Attorney for the Plain
tiff
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-08
Improved Weather Conditions Sends
Wheat Down In Chicago.

Chicago July r. September wheat
opened &c below yesterdays closing price.
influenced at the start largely by i'm
proved weather conditions. Foreign mar
kets were weak and lower and domestic
receipts were too heavy for the demand
The total primary market receipts were
S3S,OUO bushels. against $4,000 the year be-
fore, and London cabled that the supply
there was in excess of demand. Argen-
tine shipments for the week were 1,2l6.OO0
bushels, against 1.O0S,00 bushels the week
previous while local receipts were sew
enty-one cars, against twenty-three
year ago, and northwestern receipts foot
ed up 424 cars, compared with forty-three
last year. All this was meat for the bears
and September went as low 1850.
Bradstreets report of 900 bushels de-
crease in the worlds visible supply and
Duluths estimate of an increase in stocks
there for the week of 10000 bushels
helped the market a trifle. but the pres
sure of immediate supplies was more
effective upon speculative sentiment than
prospective scarcity, and September
wound up with 1850 bid, against 14Ac
yesterday.
Provisions were steady after opening a
shade lower than yesterdays close. Hog
receipts continued heavy. but the excel
lent demand for spot goods prevented
snort selling and maintained prices. Pork
and ribs closed unchanged. Lard declined
2isc.
'he leading futures ranged as follows:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-08
Ogden Briefs.

Reese Howell returned yesterday
from an eastern trip.
At the police station yesterday one
lone drunk was discharged
Mrs. w. \. Middleton and daughter
left yesterday for a stay of a month
in California.
Hon. John Henry Smith stopped over
few hours in Ogden yesterday, he be-
ing en- route to Malad Ida.
Mrs. Sid Badcon and Miss Annette
Burkett, the latter of Salt Lake, left
yesterday for visit on the coast
\ party of high school boys and girls
and their friends had picnic and out
ing yesterday at the Hot Springs.
The Weber county Sunday schools
Will conduct an excursion TO Saltair
over the Rio Grande Western July 20.
George II. Matson has purchased the
old Novelty theatre property on Tween
ty-fifth street, and will remodel the
same into a laundry.
Lou Beckman received a bad cut on
the hand yesterday, while slicing lard
The flesh was literally cut from one
side of one of his fingers.
The Ogden baseball boys left yester
day morning for Pocatello. where thew
play the local nine today and tomor-
row. Monday they are scheduled for
game WIN the BlackfOOtS.
Mrs. j. H. Mcmillan and younger
children left yesterday afternoon for a
visit of month in California. Her
bert r. Macmillan accompanied them
as far as Austin, New, where he goes
on business.
j. X Arsby. the great controller of
coast salmon canneries, was in Ogden a
few hours yesterday, then Went on
down to Salt Lake. He also represents
the seed house of Madgeburg, Ger
many, which deals in beet seed.
Next Monday in the county school
district there will be an election to Sc
lect one school trustee for the term OF
three years. Any vacancies in the
boards of trustees which have occurred
since last election will also be filed.
David H. Harris and Peery Herrick. |
two Ogden boys now Iaboring in mis-
sion work in Germany, are travelling to-
yether. a card from Mr.. Harris re- |
eeived at The Herald office yesterday |
states that both are well and are get |
ing along well with their work.