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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
Personal AND POLITICAL.


THE three hundredth anniversary of
Ihe birth of Oliver Cromwell, the lord
protector of the British commonwealth,
was celebrated in various parts of
Great Britain on the 25th.
IT was announced in Iowa political
circles on the Goth that Federal Judge
Caldwell, of Arkansas, judge of the
Eighth circuit, would soon retire on
account of failing health.
AN equestrian statue of Gen. Grant
vas unveiled with appropriate ceremo-
nies at Philadelphia on the 27th by
Miss Rosemary Sartoris, granddaugh-
ter of the dead hero in the presence of
President Mckinley, members of his
cabinet, representatives of foreign gov
ernments and large gathering of dis
tinguished citizens and guests of honor,
including Mrs. Grant, widow of the
general.
DR.. EMIL PREETORIUs, editor of the
st. Louis Westliche Post, stated on the
sSth that the guns of the German
American press are to be Systematically
directed against the governments pol
icy of expansion and will fight imperi-
Alism, militarism and jingoism in the
republican party. If the demands of
the German-Americans are not respect
ed they will form a new political party.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY issued a proc
lamation announcing that the new ex-
tradition treaty between the United
States and Mexico was now in force.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
ELIMINATION OF A SCANDAL.
Mrs. Sloane, Whose Husband Had Secured
q Divorce on the Charge of Adultery,
Weds Perry Belmont.

New York, April 3O.-Henry T.
Sloane, the well-known and wealthy
society man, yesterday received an alb
sOlute divorce from his wife, Jessie A.
Sloane. The name of the correspond
ent was kept secret. The custody of
the Sloane children-Jessie, Emily and
Eleanor-was given to Mr.. Sloane. He
was accorded the right to marry and
the defendant in the suit, it was stated,
should not lawfully marry again until
after the death of Mr.. Sloane. Mrs.
Sloane is deprived of the right to any
part in Mr.. Sloane's property. Perry
Belmont and Mrs. Sloane were married
last night at Greenwich, Conn. At Mr..
Belmont's request the new Mrs. Bel
mont conveyed her home at No. 9 East
Seventy-second street, the house that
had been recently given to her by Mr..
Sloane, and it's contents, to the State
Trust company, with instructions to
convey it back again to Mr.. Sloane.
The property is valued at S55O,OOO. If
he shall refuse to accept it, the trust
company is instructed to invest the
proceeds of the sale of the house for
the benefit of the two Sloane children.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
DIRECT VOTE NEEDED.
Under the Present System People Only vote
for Men to Represent Them Who In
stead Misrepresent Them.

Saloons are not operated by authority of o
prayer-meeting. hence a prayer meeting has no
power to close them. Saloons are licensed by
the will of the people expressed at the ballot
box and they must be closed in the same way.
If you don't want saloons say so at the ballot
box.-Iowa Commonwealth
Our esteemed contemporary is in err
ror. Saloons are licensed by the will
of the legislature expressed in legisla-
tion at the state house.
The will of the people does not L.
cense saloons because the people have
no say in the matter. They may will
to license them, but that will does not
grant a license. They may will not to
license them, but that will does not
withhold license
The will of the people" has about
as much to do with the matter as their
prayers. The people do not express
their will at the ballot box; that is not
what a ballot box is for under our
present system of government. All a
ballot box is for is to enable the peo-
pie to express their will on who shall
eat at the public pie counter. That is
the only question that is submitted to
the voters at the ballot box. That is
the only question ON which they are al
lowed to express an opinion. That is
the only thing the people are allowed
to decide.
If the editor of the Commonwealth
wants the people to express their viii
on the saloon question at the ballot
box and to close the saloons by their
action at the ballot box, he should
unite with the union reformers in an
effort to secure to the people that
power.--New Era.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
NO. 49,.
BEGINNING TO TREMBLE.
The Plutocrats Who Have Succeeded In
Organizing the Trusts Now Begin to
Apprehend Dangerous Results.

Says the Coming Nation: The Herald,
of Los Angeles, CAL, is another daily
which has of late become conspicuous
for its socialistic editorials. Gradually
there are a number of dailies in every
part of the country falling into line,
preaching more or less unadulterated
socialism, not because they wish to,
perhaps, but more SO because they are
forced to cater to the sentiments of the
people. The following is an extract
from recent leading article in the
Herald, which evinces intelligent un-
derstanding of the great issue con-
fronting the American people: ss
If the people mean to fight against the immi-
nent danger now munacing them it is obvious
that they must get together In union there il
strength United we stand, divided we fall"
Adages that have come down to us from our
forefathers tell us what to do. We must fight
combinations of wealth by combinations of peo-
pie. All the trusts and syndicates and the great
corporations that are now dominating business
are mere Intermediates. They stand between
the labor that produces wealth and the con-
sumner OF the product. sapping the energies OF
both. Bring the laborer and the consumer
within Misunderstanding distance. under intelligent
and effective cooperative management, and you
Will soon stop and then eliminate the poison
that now finds Judgement in the American body
polite. The gods help those who help them
selves, as the heather maxim pointedly puts it.
The more sagacious plutocrats are
beginning to fear the results of the
present Capitalization of wealth and
dishonest watering of trust stock. The
United States Investor sounds note of
warning as follows:
The outlook is distressing. We have gone OH
supremely unconscious of what We were doing
until we have evolved state of affairs from
which escape Is impossible without great hard
ship. An enormous number of waterlogged busi-
ness concerns, known as trusts have been set
afoat. In the smash that is bound to come the
certificates OF these organizations will sell at
their real value, which means an appalling loss
to investors. The end will be hastened by q
dimlnution in the consumptive power OF the
country, due to the dislocation of great horde
of employees whom the trusts have eiected from
positions previously occupied. We cannot i'm
agine much worse state of affairs.
Sounds quite natural, doesn't it? The
Coming Nation has been for the past
six years calling the attention of it's
readers to the fact that all this central
| lzation contains the seeds of it's own
destruction. Must be the editor of the
United States Investor has been read
ing stray copy of this paper.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
NEGRO SHOT DOWN.
John Benton, a Farm Hand Near Stephens
Station, Mo-, Killed for Wronging
Weak-Minded White Girl.

Columbia, Mo-, April 3O.-John Ben
ton, negro 40 years of age, employed
as farm hand by b. Castleman, of
Stephens station, six miles northeast
of Columbia, was shot and almost in
stantly killed by William Conklin.
When the negro dropped dying
in the road, Peter COnklin took
the pistol used by William, his
son, and fired at the negro,
but the shot missed him. He
died. however, in few moments. The
father and son came to Columbia imme-
diately after the shooting and gave
themselves up. William Conklin said
that he had killed the negro for wrong
ing his sister and the father verified
the statement of his son. The Conk-
Inns said that the negro had once been
employed on their farm, and while
there took advantage of the girl, wha
is weak-minded.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
CALLS BALLARD A LIAR.
County Attorney johnson, of Eureka, Kan,
Has Been Collecting Evidence Bearing
the New Murder Case.

Eureka. Kan, April 3O.-County At
torney johnson has secured what he
declares is conclusive evidence of the
falsity of Alvin Billiards. confession in
the New murder. Ballard claims that
Frank Allgood, Bill Turner and HIM
self committed the murder, and that
they went directly to Wichita, arriving
there ON Monday morning. Mr..
johnson says he has the state
ments of men who will swear
that Allgood spent the night of the
murder at their home. The poll books
Of the township in which Allgood re-
sided at the time, Mr.. Johnson says,
show that Allgood voted there on
the Tuesday after the murder, fully rs
miles from Wichita and many miles
from railroad. Mr.. johnson declares
that Mrs. New and DobbS, now in the
penitentiary, are the murderers Of
Joseph New.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
Mail Service Many Hours Quicker.

Kansas City, Mo-, April 3O.-Better
mail facilities between Kansas City and
the southwest, for which there has long
been a crying need, will become mat
ter of fact Sunday. By putting into
service new fast mail train the Mis-
souri,, Kansass& Texas railway will
make connection with the Missouri Pa
cific at Nevada, Mo-, SO that night mail
out of this city will reach Texas, Okla
homa and the Indian territory practi-
eally "a hours sooner than at present
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

A UNIQUE banking institution, to be
known as the Retailers national bank,
is about to open it's doors at Pittsburgh,
Pa, with 5000, 900 capital. The banking
authorities at Washington have ap-
proved the application for its organiza-
ton. The feature of the bank will be
collecting outstanding accounts of re-
tail merchants and discounting their
notes on such outstanding accounts.
Retail accounts have always proved an
annoyance to merchants, and many
bills have proved uncollectible. The
new bank is to collect the money, and
in some cases appraise the value of the
accounts and assume the risk.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS.
There Is an Almost Universal Demand for
Them and They Are Bound to Come
in the Near Future.

One of the prominent issues of the
hear future will be government postal
savings banks. Only those who are in
close touch with the people can form
any idea of the almost universal de-
mand that exists for institutions of
this character. They are bound to
come. When the people need and de-
mand thing they generally take the
necessary steps to get it.
Postal savings banks can be man
aged and utilized very closely along
the line of our mo tax" proposition
That is to say, the banks will lend
money to the people direct, on good
security and at low rate of interest;
and this interest, instead of concen-
trating in the hands of few million
aires and being used for the further
oppressment of the people, as under
our existing system, will be disbursed
as soon as collected in the payment of
government expenses. This will not
only lessen the burden of taxation, but
it will keep the peoples money in ac-
tive circulation and stimulate COM
merce and industry beyond anything
ever experienced in our previous his
tory. Then when a citizen pays his
interest for the use of the money he
has borrowed from she public, he will
have the satisfaction of knowing that
he is reducing his own taxes as well as
those of his neighbors and at the same
time carrying forward enterprises that
will furnish employment and comforts
for his fellow men.-Mississipp Valley
Democrat.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

ABOUT $50 members of the Illinois
veteran naval reserves expect to go to
the Paris exposition in 1900 in their
own vessel. sailed by crew composed
of members of the association. They
will make the trip by way of the great
lakes and the st. Lawrence river. They
intend to buy Il vessel of $50 tons and
use it during the coming summer for
training purposes on Lake Michigan.
They will sail their little craft up the
Seine to Paris and anchor in front of
the United States division.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
MANY THOUSANDS SHORT.
City Treasurer WiscOskie, of Argentine,
Kan, Who Used $4,000 of the City's
Funds, Fugitive from Justice.

Argentine, Kan, April 3O.-When the
Argentine council met last night, j. f.
Wiscoskie, city treasurer, sent in his
report. 1t showed that he was short
to the amount of SIG, 900, or about all
the money in the treasury, or supposed
to be in the treasury of Argentine. A
warrant for his arrest, charging him
with embezzlement, was sworn out and
placed in the hands of Deputy Marshal
Barrett. The deputy repaired to the
home of the treasurer, but found only
the distracted wife and children of the
embeZzler. He had fed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

PHYSICIANS connected with life in
surance companies will meet at Brus-
sells next September for an interna-
tional conference. This is the first
gathering of such officials that has
ever been held, and delegates from
America will be in attendance. 1t is
proposed to discuss the question of uni
versal formulas for the examination of
persons desiring to be insured. and it is
likely that some action will be taken to
secure uniformity of practice.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

DANIEL f. BREWER, a leading physi-
clan of Chicago, in lecture showed the
necessity of new code of criminal law
for Chicago. He said: THE percentage
of criminals has increased SO rapidly in
the United States that we now have
one habitual or hereditary criminal in
every thousand persons. Criminals
propagate and multiply unrestrained.
and unless we change our laws will
continue to increase until it is appall-
ing to contemplate the result. We
should have laws controlling marriages
so that degeneracy may be checked by
preventing the union of criminal dis
eased or lunatic couples"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

AS the American member of the in
ternational peace and arbitration COM
mittee, Mrs. May Wright Sewall is
sending out from indianapolis, Ind. a
plan for holding simultaneous peace
meetings throughout the world on May
Is. The meetings will indorse short
resolutions addressed to governments
and to the peace conference. and the
passage of these resolutions has to be
communicated before May Il to the
following address: ''Vradescomite,
Hnpua -
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

LEN FoY, a Chinaman, suffering from
leprosy, was found by the police tied
to the floor at No 104 West Thirty
third street, New York. the other day,
with a crowd of Cinnamon around him,
beating him with bamboo clubs. The
victim was undergoing treatment for
his disease by his countrymen. He was
sent to the Pell street house to die.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
Snow Failing In soutb Dakota.

Deadwood, S. D.. April 3O.-A howl
ing blizzard has been raging all through
the Black Hills for the past IL hour.
Six inches of snow have fallen here and
reports from farther north state that
the fall is heavier than in this immedi-
ate vicinity. ALI farm work is sus-
pended
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

at the Cook county Isolation hospital
at Chicago with a new treatment for
consumption and he thinks he has dis
covered means to penetrate and cure
diseased lung tissues. He says the
affected cells can be reached in a sim
liar way to that of the entrance of the
consumption germ.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

Two of the most remarkable statues
ever found have just been unearthed by
M. Georges Legrain, French Egyp-
tologist, from the ruins of the temple
at Karnak, on the Upper Nile, in
Egypt. One of these is in alabaster
and represents the great Theban god,
Ammon. This alabaster god is IS feet
high and was originally made from
one solid block of stone. The second
statue is one that was set up by King
Usertesen l., in honor of his father,
back in the days of Abraham. On the
lap of this effigy is slab, upon which
are carved inscriptions, proving the an
tiquity of the work.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

IT was reported that the largest cop
per ledges ever discovered in the north
west have been found in tho carbon
district north of Mount Rainier and so
miles east of Tacoma, Wash. The ore
was said to be similar in character to
that found in Montana.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
Old Man would Wed a Cb,,d.

Guthrie, Ok, April SEE. J. Bayles
is a love-sick suitor who is having
trouble finding anyone who will marry
him to Carrie Thomas, his 14-year-old
fiancee. Although the father of the
girl has given his consent to the match,
neither the probate judge of Logan or
Oklahoma county will issue license to
the couple. The man is gray and bent,
while the girl wears her dresses above
her shoetops. She weighs but s.
nOundS
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

JUDGE CLINT created "a stir at Dallas,
Tex, the other day by delivering
special charge to the grand jury on the
subject of carrying deadly weapons
and instructing the jury to indict the
prominent men of the city who make
a practice of carrying revolvers.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

HAVANA Is rapidly becoming Ameri-
canized. Instead of u bull fight the
other Sunday there was baseball
game and the interest waxed so warm
that close decision by the umpire in
the eighth inning almost precipitated
-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
CURRENT COMMENT.
GREAT BRITAIN is thinking of erect
ing statue to George Washington.

BY device discovered by f. A. Hum
mel, of st. Paul, Mimi, pictures can
now be sent over the wires in the same
way that message can be telegraphed.
The new device will be found valuable
for all pictures of news character.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
A Baby Drowned In q Bucket.

Vinita, l. T., April 30.-At Adair yes
terday morning a woman was seen run
ming up the street with the lifeless
body of her little baby, who, while she
was out of the house, fell into bucket
of water and was drowned.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
We hold it to be true that if a man

We hold it to be true that if man
who is engaged in useful labor for
eight or ten hours each day and can
not supply himself and family with
something more than the cheapest kind
of food and clothing. that man is some
where and in some manner being de-
frauded out of the greater portion of
his just earnings In a country where
the wealth produced amounts to from
$40 to s14 per capita each day, every
man should, and under proper ad-
justment of things would, be able to
keep his family in comfort-yes, in
luxury.-Living Issues.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03
imprisonment for Debt.

Seattle, Wash, April 30.-Advices
from Alaska state that the Dawson
judiciary are imprisoning people for
debt under the ancient English masters
and servants act. Six or eight debtors
are now In jail.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

A STATEMENT prepared by the war
department shows that 19S Americans
were killed in the Philippines from
February to April 90, and l i IL wound
ed, making "A total of 300.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

THE Texas Federation of Women's
clubs at their session at Galveston,
Tex, recently decided to enter the
crusade against the slaughter of birds
for decorative purposes.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

Gov. GEN. BROOKE is thinking about
issuing decree to prohibit raffies and
lotteries in Cuba. He has already
signed decree stopping cock fighting
and bull fights.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-05-03

All power exercised over nation
must have some beginning. 1t must
be either delegated or assumed. There
are no other sources. All delegated
power is trust and all assumed power
Is usurpation. Time does not alter the
nature or quality of either.-Thomas
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-06-25

remain firm and stationary, with So and
81 cents prevailing for club and blues,em,
which Is the average that has obtained
since last fall There Is a somewhat, weak
showing in Eastern markets. but IL is be-
ieved the falling or is merely temporary,
and that II VIII recover and remain strong
until the delivery of another crop begins
As 10 national conditions, preliminary
reports from all parts Of the country In
dscate a reduction OF about 10000 acres.
or Is per cent, in the area sown OF the
twenty states having le.ooo or more acres
In this product, six report an increase
amounting altogether to a4s.oOo acres and
fourteen decrease. aggregating 7ls0e0
acres. There is an indicated decrease OF
per cent In Wisconsin: per cent In
Minnesota; per cent. in Iowa: per cent.
In Nebraska: Per cent. In North Dakota,
and per cent. in Oregon. On the other
hand. there Is reported increase OF
per cent in South Dakota, and the : per
cent. in this state. In consequence OF the
partial failure in winter wheat. there has
been manifest disposition to largely in
crease the acreage OF spring wheat, but
the season has been 50 unfayorable that
in only few states does the spring wheat
acreage equal that OF last year
According to the government crop cir
cular for June. the average condition OF
spring wheat il slt as compared with
ICES June % las; year So at the CORE
spending date of 1891 and So the mean
or the June "a srages for the last thirteen
years, The condition in Minnesota CORE
spends with the msan OF the June aver
axes for the last fifteen years In South
Dakota IL is points above In Nebraska
above, and in North Dakota Iowa. Wash
ing'on and Oregon, :. s. s and II, respect
ively, below the aftsen-year average or
the average for such shorter term Of wears
as "a available for comparfson
The average condition o. winter wheat
is sss. as compared with oas q, the sams
date last year. rs June I. 1897. and 0<
the mean OF the June averages for the
last thirteen years. With the excsptfon
OF Oklahoma. there IS not a state or ter
rifcry reporting winter wheA, the eondi-
lion az which il not below the af,een-
year average. The number OF points aa-
tow the June avseage in the PRINCIPAL win
ter wheat states s as follows: California
L. ohio ard Texas. {. Tennessee ard Ore
gen. II; Pennsylvania. Is; Kentucky "a.
Maryland. Is; Virginia. IL. Missouri and
Washington. 70; Kansas. y: Indiana a.:
ilsiao'ss u. and Michigan. B.
Condition ny states.
TIE average condition Of Srowtn,
wheat June was "a follows.
Acreage
WINTER @esn Average