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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
ROLLED HIM IN A BARREL
PEnfshmeat Pronounced Worse Than
LynchIng by One Who Suf-
fered Il.

There's something barbaric about
iynching, as most people viii agrees''
said the man with the broken nose.
"but can easily name two worse
things. One is rolling a man around
in barrel and the other is a coat of
tar and feathers, In my foolish young
days 1 arrived at town in southern In
diana to find the people excited over
several arrests for robbery. A family
named Black, consisting of man and
wife and a grown-up son, had been
caught and made to confess to many
thefts. Instead of putting them on
trial, the people had determined to ap-
ply tar and feathers and walk 'em out
Of town. 1 had no objections SO far
as the men were concerned, but when
it came to the woman I constituted
myself her champion and declared that
they must walk over my dead body first
For about five minutes 1 was hero.
Then about a dozen men grabbed me
and hustled me into foom, and after
the Blacks had been dispatched of &C
cordng to programme, l was brought
oIe for punishment. Plenty of tar and
feathers were left, but the crowd want
ed change, and it was decided that ]
got out and unheaded big cider bar
rel dropped me into it, and replaced
the head, and then all was ready.
Il was inclined 10 look upon the pro-
ceedings with contempt. I had never
been rolled in a barrel, and so had
no idea of the sensations. They first
kicked 1t along the wide unpaved streeE
and 1t had not rolled over more than
20 times when L was sick of my lob.
After they had enjoyed themselves for
a quarter of an hour 1 was praying
for death to hurry up. 1 dimly remem-
Der that after they got tired of the foot
ball work IN the street they rolled the
barrel up long Hill, and then let it go
kiting down. You talk of seasickness;
but there is no comparison. Aside
from the feeling of nausea, 1 was Jared,
jolted and bruised from head to heels,
and in one of the bumps had my nose
broken. I was unconscious when they
finally took me out, and for a week I
was little better than a dead man. 1t
was weeks and weeks before got the
revolving motion out of my head and
could walk straight, and to this day
can't see grindstone revolving with
out being affected by it. 1t would have
been far more merclful to hang me up
by the neck"
"But about the tar and feathers?"
was asked.
''Wel, met the old man Black about
two years later, and he still smelled OF
the tar. He told me that it took a
weeks work with soap and water to get
the stuff started, and that spots were
left which couldn't be got of, even
when rubbed with a brick. He didn't
feel the degradation SO much, but what
hurt his feelings was that he had been
obliged to put in more work on that tar
than in all his life before. He had tried
the barrel racket once, and he thought
it shade worse than tar, but he had no
words of sympathy with me. On the
contrary, he said if hadn't mixed in
the three of them would probably have
got of with ride on rail."-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
Dunkard Preacher In trouble.

Fixner, Dunkard minister, wa.
lodged in Jail here in default of 81.
bond, charged with incest The com
plant is made by Fixner's 13-year-ole
daughter, and he practically acknoyvI
edges his guilt.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21

Jefferson City, Mo-, July 1S.-Gov.
Stephens has pardoned Cy Beardon,
who came to the penitentiary in No
vember, 1855, from Greene county for
% years for killing Policeman T. j.
Palmore, of Springfield Judge Hub
bard, who tried the case, asked that
the pardon be granted, as Beardon had
served II years, being sufficiently pun
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21
Cattle Trust MAY Fail

Austin. Tex, July 1S.-The big Texas
cattle syndicate being formed for the
purpose of controlling the cattle
market in Texas is not sailing in
smooth water at present Rumors that
he organization of the syndicate
would be in violation of the Texas
antitrust law caused all the New
York capitalists to back off from the
,rOn0SitiOu
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21

Jefferson City, Mo-, July 1s.-The re-
publican congressional committee for
the Eighth district met here and decid-
ed to hold the convention to nominate
a candidate for congress to succeed
Richard p. Bland on August 4. at JEFF
ferson City. On the basis of represen-
tation adopted by the committee the
convention viii consist of 1S2 delegates
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21

Scion Detwiler, editor of Coming
Events at Enid, Ok, committed suicide
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21

Tin plate workers throughout the
country to the number of so, 600 resumed
work to-day, a satisfactory wage scale
having been agreed to.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-07-21

best.
VAST clouds of grasshoppers recently
alighted on wheat fields near Rolla,
n. D., from the Turtle mountain re-
gions.
A PLAGUE has appeared in Mississip-
pi in the form of myriads of grasshop-
pers, which were said to be devouring
crops by the acre.
THE Charlton plague, instead of dying
out, seems to be increasing in many
sections of Louisiana. The board of
health of Plaquemine, La, has quaran-
tined against all points infected with
the disease. The quarantine prevents
the taking in of any horses, cattle OF
fowls from suspected localities
Dr. GIBSON, Iowa state veterinarian.
visited the farmers around Dubuque
whose stock was supposed to have been
affected with rabies. He pronounced
the disease to be mad staggers, which
has symptoms closely resembling by
drophobia. 1t was caused by too heavy
grass feeding.
SENATOR JONES, of Arkansas, is ex
oected home from Europe September 1
The rumor that he would resign the
craftsmanship Of the democratic ma
rional committee is again denied.
LIGHTNING caused the destruction the
other day of half of the business por
ton of Frewsburg, n. Y. The village
| had no apparatus for fighting fire.
THE twentieth century committee of
the Illinois Methodist conference met
| in Decatur to devise ways and means
of raising part of the $40, O00, 600 for
the thank offering. The plan of action
in the conference will be on the line of
earnest appeals by the ministers and
many revivals viii he inagurated-
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17
Nanlpa.

\ new creamery, evaporating and
canning company building, twelve new
residences, three new store buildings,
the B. n. & o. railroad south completed;
the B. n. & o. north started and graded
seven miles; the enlargement of the
canal and development of the water
power belonging thereto started, all
during the present year, is surely fair
record. A 100000 beet sugar factory;
the railroad building north for the
coming year; with the completion OF
the irrigation system, with capacity to
water all the land around Nampa
already assured, makes the Nampa
citizen rejoice.
The good work will be continued
until Nampa is the gem city of a gem
stakeholder.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17
Theo. Buckles Life insurance Paid,

Monte B. Gwinn, general manager
for Idaho of the New York Life lnsur-
ance company, is spending the week in
Owyhee. On Wednesday he turned
over to o. D. Brumbaugh, administra-
tor of the estate of Theophile Buckle,
deceased, the company's check for
5000, in payment of the insurance upon
Buckles life. 1t will be remembered
that Mr.. BUCKLE was killed by accident
in the Trade Dollar mine some months
ago. The company was ready to make
payment at once after proof Of his
death had been made, but the policy
was made payable to the estate Of the
deceased, and the delay has been caused
by the tardiness in securing letters of
administration to designate the person
to whom the amount should be paid.
Mr. Brumbaugh, as administrator, will
pay the money over to Buckles mother
and sister in Denmark.
It is characteristic Of the New York
Life Insurance company that its
policies are all promptly paid, without
any discounts or drawbacks, and all
policy holders in Idaho find MIR. Gwinn
as the manager for the state, apleasant
man to do business with.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17
OF information.

OF information.
Among other acquaintances We can
not find one who will acknowledge sign
ing it at all 1t was reported on good
authority that some parties signed as
many as SO names at one time, also tina,
many kaff1rs signed it.
These are the grounds upon which
England began her action.
Well, it has gone SO far, God only
knows what may happen in the near
future. One thing sure it has already
been the ruination of thousands OF
happy homes. Out of the row Of eight
cottages we lived in was the last but
one Ia Burghers wife) to leave. The
children and 1 left Germiston a
week ago last Saturday to join the other
women and children Of our party who
left three days earlier, to come to a
beautiful little island town situated in
valley among hills, 81 miles from Port
Elizabeth. Joe's sister having an old
friend living here who invited her and
found accommodation for us next door.
A telegram Saturday evening told us
sisters husband was leaving that even
ing to join US, SO will be here tomorrow
morning. Joe is doing the same kind
of work so he may soon be here too.
Rumors in the papers this a. m. say
the fight has begun, but no official
news yet. You see the men feel safe
enough till the British agent is told to
leave, but the rush will be so great for
the limited railway accommodation that
all women and ,Gag lren leave or are
leaving as fay be possible. Trains for
the past (PortB weeks have been SO
owdedhhSssnen have had to take
what acco1 5ation they could get,
regardless The tickets they held,
"Women assl Children first" Cattle
trucks, open and closed, are used on
every train and filled with human
freight. The lower country is filling
up fast and all passenger boats are we'll
filed. We are anxiously waiting news
tomorrow. We will remain here board
ing in private families till the men get
here, and if the situation looks too
serious and likely to last long we will
all, no doubt, leave for England at
once.
Uitenhage is second Boise
City, cannot describe it better.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17

In country town not far from New
York an old-fashioned preacher had ex-
horted his flock one Sunday not to read
the Sunday newspapers. On the follow
ing Monday he was strolling through
the market place when he spied some
unusually fine asparagus. vegetable
of which he WAS almost gluttonously
fond, In the stall Of one of his parish
ioners.
"Mr. Smith," said the parson. II will
buy some Of your asparagus, il it is not
TOO dear"
Now. Smith was q confirmed reader
Of his Sunday newspaper. and the SER
man had not pleased him at oil. He de-
cided to play joke on his pastor. More
over. he had sold his asparagus already.
though he said not word about that
az am sorry. DOCTOR" said the crafty
Smith, "but / would not like to have II
on my conscience that sold such grass
us that" kxs
what is the matter with it?" ex.
claimed the preacher In surprise. Il
never saw finer"
"Oh. it's oil right that way" said
Smith. but. you see. picked it only
early this morning. 1t sprang up and
grew on Sunday."-N. Y. Tribuns- .
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17
SEEKING QUIET.
Ass. Billtops Knows Whore eAs
Would Like to Go TO spend
the Summer.

Ezra" said Mrs. Billtops, ARE sani-
tariums quiet?"
"Well, | guess, Elizabeth" said Mr..
Billtops, that that depends good deal
on the sanitarium; some are quiet and
some are not"
well. Ezra," said Mrs. Billtops, "if
you can find some quiet sanitarium
where can go this summer want to go
there instead Of to the seashore."
And this was all on account Of tho
children. The hour was $3.50 p. M, and
the smaller children had just gone to
bed after day Of unbroken and unfiag-
ging uproar and activity. The noise Of
q planning mill would have been as the
buzzing of lazy bees in summer gar
compared with the noise the
children had been making al day long.
The silence fell now. cool and grateful.
after the tnr1cil of the day, but the
reaction had left Mrs. Billtops little
limp.
ut isn't rest want, Ezra" said Mrs.
Billtops; 'it's quiet"
"I know 1t, Elizabeth" Mr.. BilItops
said; II know II, and I wouldn't object
10 . little quiet myself now and then
should like it II we could have quietin
the house after dinner; II could smoke
my cigar in peace and tranquility; bus
somehow the meal that makes me calm
ly happy seems to fill the children with
boisterousness and make them noiser
than at any other part Of the day. Am
7 RIGHT. Elizabeth"
"You are" said Mrs. Billtops, but
hear 1t all day long"
"I know It, Elizabeth; know IT,"
said Mr.. Billtops. and have never
heard you speak Of It before. l don't
see how you can possibly stand 1t, and
I'll look for some good quiet sanitsn-
um. sure"
And then they settled down on either
side Of the table and read. very COM
Portable, both. and both thankful In
their hearts for the children that had
been given to them, ond who were now
sleeping quietly.-N. Y. Sun.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Pearls are sometimes found In musssl
shells.
Indian bats measure six feet across
the wings.
The sun yields 100000 time. the Light
Of the moon.
A male child when born weighs one
sixth more than female.
There are 81 ports In the Island OF
Cuba, but only Is ara open to tho worlds
commerce.
The first post Office was opened in
Paris In i642. In England In 1881. In
America in ITO.
Even radishes are adulterated now in
Berlin. They are dipped into anilins
dye to make them look fresh and pink.
In Jewish marriages the woman is al
why's placed to the right Of her mate.
With every other nation OF the world
her place in the ceremony is to the
left.
Water colors by Dante Gabriel Ros-
setti brought these prices in London:
"Beata Beatrix," $525; "The Loving
Cup" s1,44o; Lady in Blue Dress"
ssss; Lady in White Dress" sl.6so;
venus verticordia," S1,47o.
A variation on the ordinary game OF
chess was recently played by four
young Hungarians. The board was .
billiard table marked off into the requi-
site number of squares, and the pieces
were represented by bottles of different
kinds of wine. according TO their i'm
portance. The king was represented by
a bottle Of champagne. Whsn one OF
the pieces was taken. it was drunk.
The players were also drunk in a very
short time, and the game was not fin-
ished.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17

The business men, from the Odd
Fellows Hall to below the postoffice,
have clubbed together and had several
tons of adobe scraped off the street,
and are having the street "graveled"
with quartz from the mill dump. 1t
will not be quite as fine, when done, as
the jasper paved boulevards of the New
Jerusalem, but it will make our street
golden, compared with its past con
dition. We use the word, golden, ad-
versedly, for every ton of quartz put on
carries dollars worth of the yellow
metal. Now if the county commits
sioners will only continue the work up
and down the road for few miles the
people will bless them.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17

Sig. Bodis, . well-known Italian
etatistician, has published tables show.
ing the order in which the countries OF
Europe are classed in decreasing series
according to their mean birth rate:
/, Russia, in Europe; 3. Hungary; 3,
Servia; 4, Roumanis; S. Austria; G, Ger
man empire; 7. Italy; 8. Spain; 0, Fin
land; 10. Portugal; IL. Holland; 12, Eng
land and Wales; 10. Scotland; IA,
Denmark; IS. Norway; 1e, BEL
GUM; II, Sweden; IS. Switzerland; /;
10, Greece; 20. France; 81, Ire
land. It will thus be observed that
Russia has the largest percentage Of
births and France and Ireland have the
saic.icst.--Mcdical Record.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17

Charles Sweeny, the big North Idaho
mine operator, has gotten grip on the
recent Marshall Lake mineral dis.
coveries, securing an option on the
first six claims located for $4,000. The
deepest hole on any of them Is only
fourteen feet below the surface, but il
the reports coming from them are not
greatly exaggerated this deal beats all Of
the Buffalo Hump propositions by long
odds. Marshall Lake district is south
of the Salmon, fifteen miles from
Florence, and supposed to be the
southern extension of the Hump min
eral zone.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17
Jordan Valley Hotel Changes Hands.

Mr.. David Shea, the we'll known stock
man residing south of South Mountain,
has purchased the Jordan Valley Hotel
from Mrs. B. G. Williams and will do
the honors of host in that famous
hostelry henceforth. That hotel, under
the management of the late William V.
Williams, and since his decease under
Mrs. Williams charge, has been most
delightful stopping place, and we have
no doubt that its we'll earned reputa'
ton will be fully maintained by Mr..
Shea and his family.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17
rorxot He Was q General.

One OF Funston's men writes that In
the latest engagement. near San Fer
nando the general went into battle at
the head OF his brigade. composed OF
Kansas, Montana and Utah troops.
When the fight started. however. Gen.
Funston forgot that he was in command
of brigade and. leaving his staff, order
iy. horse and all. he Joined the Kansas
boys on foot and personally gave them
orders as he led them to the charge.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17

Irwin Bissett, of Owyhee county,
came into Nampa the latter part of
last week. He added to his recent land
purchases in this vicinity the Phil
Getter place, consisting of 40 acres,
and situated west Of town. Mr.. Bissett
will remove his family to Nampa with
in the next two or three weeks and will
begin the work Of improving his land
at once.-Namps Leader.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17

The Schofleld Lumber company has
purchased 10000 acres Of white pine
lands in Latah county. Governor
Schofield's recent criticism of the laws
regulating the sale of Idaho timber
lands was all bluff. He went home
declaring that capitalists would not
invest, but he is one of the first Of the
big Wisconsin lumbermen on the
ground.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17

"A nSe,5y fight is on in the goldtR
rs, d c.n en- this state over sena rial
matters. Hepburn, the Spokar soli-
ticia- who registers otels
wheI he stops and
his chief liz Silver on'
John Taylor Nor 1urD4g
ansthenas at Shoup s up the
counties with Shoup in the guise
Of forest reserve agitators. Hepburn
rosrs through the press In condem-
nation of all forest reserves, in fact
curses them by the gods, the reason
being that Shoup has stolen march
on him and is seriously laying the
foundation to capture what is left of
the g. o. p. in this state for his own
private senatorial purposes.-Capital.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17

There is nothing so cheap as sneer,
nothing so easy as to misjudge good in
tention and ascribe wrong motives'
nothing so hard as to bridge over the
riffs made by hard words.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-11-17

An epidemic of smallpox is troubling
the city of Lewiston.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-15
wakine-Up Sounds.

"The days are so long now and sun.
rise has been put back SO far said a
city dweller, that you can't tell any
more when to get up by the light.
There is always a season in the year
when the time to get up is when it be-
gins to get light;' but now the sun is
well up at your getting-up time, and
its light affords no guide whatever.
But now there are sounds that serve
as indications of the hour, and the
right one comes by association to tell
us that OUT getting-up hour has come
with as much certainty as we know
it by the growing light. We begin I'M
consciously at first to be aware of the
traffic in the street, the Increasing num-
Der of milk wagons and bakers wag.
ons, and SO on, and this may be our
alarm clock Or it may be that it's the
ashman who tells us. He comes along
at the same hour, reaching this point
on his route with almost unvarying
certainty. We mark his coming by the
not unmusical clatter of the emptied
cans as he drops them back upon the
sidewalk, Sounds far distant at first, but
rapidly coming nearer. But whatever
it may be, we sooner or later discover
some sound that comes along about the
time we ought to get up, and pretty soon
we find ourselves waking regularly
with that sound in our ears.''-N. u
Sun.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-15
NOTES FOR THE APIARY.

The greatest hindrance to large honey
crops is letting the bees run short Of
stores in spring.
When the brood-chamber becomes so
full of bees that they are somewhat
crowded for room, additional space
should be added.
We cannot look for much surplus
honey if we allow the bees to swarm at
will, because excessive swarming will
be the rule with them.
A colony that is slow in building up
now may have defective queen or may
have none at all. An examination will
usually disclose the trouble.
Cross, singing bees are usually the
result of improper handling. Rough
treatment will not succeed, but will ir-
ritate the bees almost beyond redemp-
ton. In handling do not kill bee if
you can possibly avoid it.
No one can get aong without bee
smoker when working with bees; even
a specialist does not think of handling
bees without it. The smoker is indis-
pensable, and many fail to perform the
work necessary by being without one.
1t is a very erroneous idea that some
people have, that bees are always look
iEg around for some one to attack and
sting. Bees as rule do not venture an
attack on anyone or anything. They
simply defend, when attacked, in q
vicious manner, and only make a de-
Tense of their hives and stores.-Jour-
nal of Agriculture.