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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
BIRD AND BOY.
by A rEN-YEAR-oLD GIRL.


One morning was going to school,
And the air was pleasant and cool.
The perfume of blossoms filled the air,
And Nature was smiling everywhere
Far off to the south, what dye think |
heard?
1t was the song of sweet little bird
He was singing sogayly high up in tree
| thought he was singing his sweet song
to me;
And he was so happy as he sang his song,
thought he would stay there and sing
all day long.
Bang went a gun, and the bird fell dead.
| saw boy, and thus he said:
well well I've shot it I'll stuff it so
fat
And sell it to put on some ady's hat.
II guess will ellit-Ill sell this blue bird,
And get money for it." That's what
heard.
And thus, as 1t sang, this birdie Of blue
1t was shot by "a boy with money in view.
Boys and girls of my country, I'll say
something to you:
Boys, do not kill birds, though there S
money in view.
Girls, never hat which has bird on it,
Nor even wear the wing of bird on a
bonnet
Boys and girls, listen: DO all you can do
To stop the killing of birds with money
i'll view.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
MIR. RAMSEY AND HIS LETTER.

Mr.. Ramsey's open letter seems to have ere
ated quite sensation. The Eagle sometimes
called the Buzzard) had something to say, and
said it. The Kincaid Dispatch had something
to say, and said it. We have something to say.
If Mr.. Ramsey had received the appointment
he so earnestly sought, that open letter he pub
ished would never have been written, and the
Eagle and Dispatch would have been short on
editorial material.
Adam was driven out of Eden and Lot was
hauled out of Sodom. Ramsey walked out OF
the ''grand old party with head erect and eyes
flashing But why did he linger when all the
things he published were known to him before
the governor sat down on his appointment?
Ramsey knew Leland, Brown Co. years ago,
but he stayed on, hoping that something would
happen. Something did happen-it was the
unexpected. The unexpected is seldom agree
able.
Ramsey is maG-not because the party bosses
are corrupt to the core, but because he did not
get an appointment. If Mr.. Ramsey has dys-
pepsia, it is of the political kind, and as re-
former he will not amount to hill OF beans.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

LAST week, it was reported that the Philippine
war was about at an end that the Filipinos
were suing for peace, True, they submitted
proposition, but, of course, as was natural ,lthey
proposed terms favorable TO themselves. Cen
eral Otis pulled up like toad and refused to
recognize the Philippine congress. AS re-
suit, peace is out of the question on that prop
osition, and the war continues. 1t is now
claimed that the Filipinos have another prop
osition. We have, long since arrived at the
conclusion that it is useless to put confidence in
in the report of the daily papers. AS one SOL
der writes: "When we get home-if we ever
dove have many things to tell that we can
not tell now" The fact is, we know scarcely
anything about this unholy war. The papers
do not give the facts.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
HOW'S This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0.
We, the undersigned, have known +. j.
Cheney for the last 10 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by that firm.
West & Traux, Wholesale Druggists To-
Ledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marlin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucus
surfaces of the system. Testimonial
sent free. Price 75c. Halls family pills
are the best.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

that it is injuridg the ranchmen. We once had
the markets of the world; now we ar. restricted
to American trade only.
eff the administration" added Mr.. Newman,
chad come out boldly and allowed an open and
honest investigation of the meat scandals it
would have created the impression abroad that
this country was sincere in its effort to furnish
the best of meat to the domestic and foreign
consumer. AS it is, it will require years to
overcome the prejudice the administration un-
wise action has caused.
GA great revulsion OF feeling has taken place
in the West within the past few weeks. l at
tended semi-politica meeting of ranchmen and
farmers in southern Montana, and unless some
thing unforeseen takes place, the administration
attitude will imperil Mr.. McKnley's support
bv the Western states at the next national con-
vention.
"This does not indicate that the Republican
party is losing strength, but that the backbone
and sinew of the organization is disguised with
its present national leaders is all assured fact"
Dispatch in Kansas City Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
STANLEY AND TRUSTS.

Governor Stanley has been saying good deal
about trusts. He says he is opposed to trusts,
and that they must be "killed" Possibly
Governor Stanley is really opposed to trusts,
but he dare not do any fighting except with his
mouth. In his appointments he has done no.
thing to cripple trusts One of the biggest
trusts is the insurance trust, yet, he appointed
as insurance superintendent man who is doing
all in his power to overcome all the good that
was done by Webb McNall the only supern-
tendent who has ever tried to break the force
of this trust. Church is admitting all of the
companies which McNall shut out, as rapidly
as possible.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
First published May ). 1892. j
sIIEElFF'S SALE.
STATE OF KANSAS, a,
ANDERSON COUNTY.
Iohn II Moore. Plaintiff,

STATE ,spEss oT E ooTSTY IS.
John Ii. Moore Plaintiff.
VS..
George n DeWolf, Agnes De-
Wolf, his wife, The DcWolf
Manufacturing Co., Is corpora
ton, Kansas city furniture
Company, t. II. Riifee, man
ager; WiliamMurphy,C Charles
W. DeWolf, T. II, Rlfee, Will
liam VanVelson, Defendants. J
Ry virtue of an order OF sale to mo directed
and delivered issued out of the Fourth Jul
diciai District Court OF the State ~ Kansas,
sitting In and for Anderson county, in said
state, l will, on
MONDAY, THE 5rH DAY OF JUNE,
A. d. 1890 at 2 o'clock y. IN. OF said day, at
the Court House door In the city Of Garnett
in the county and state aforesaid, offer at
nubIic sale and sell to the highest bidder, for
cash in hand, all the right, title and Interest
of the above-namcd defendants In and to the
following described real property, to-wit
Lots two a. three 60. six B), seven C), ten
QO) and eleven QD, In block eleven QD, in
Chapman's addition TO the city of Garnett,
in Anderson county, Kansas.
Said property To be sold as the property Of
the above-namcd defendants.
Z. f. KEENEY Sherif.
BY A. =. FARRIs, Under Sheriff.
Sherin's office, Garnet, kas., May 2, 1Sg9.
KIRK & BRoNsTON,
Is Attorneys for Plaintiff
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

MRS GEORGE, who was tried on charge of
killing Saxton, Mrs. McKinley's brother, was
acquitted. She may have been guilty, but If she
was it would be hard to get Jury that would
convict her, under the circumstances. If she
did not kill him, it was not because she hadn't
sufficient provocation. In the death of Saxton,
the world is rid of vile libertine who, accord
ing to the testimony, has ruined many girls
and women, and caused them to commit suicide.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

There was splendin cartoon in recent num-
Der of Judge, one of the ''funny' papers OF New
York. The suggestion of the cartoon was that
New York city should own its street-car lines,
its water works its electric light and gas plants,
its docks and various other enterprises. Judge
is a Republican paper. We are glad to see So
cialism on the increase. It is growing rapidly,
and it will not be SO many years until we Will
see Socialism in practical operation
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

About nine-tenths of the poor, ignorant, mass
es lay awake nights from fear that something
might be done to stop millionaire making
They treinble at the awful thought of some
law being passed to put check to rich mems
ungodly gains, while they see their own chill
dren 90 to bed hungry. Living Issues, Salt
Lake City.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
PETITION TO SELL REAL ESTATE.

PETITION TO SELL REAL ESTATE.
On reading and filing the petition of ]
o. Osborn, administrator, praying for an
order to sell the following described real
estate, the property of said Elizabeth
Paul, deceased, for the payment of lega-
cies, the debts and expenses of admins
tration las follows, to-wit): The undi-
vided one-half interest in the northeast
"a, less 10 acres, in section twenty-three
(23), township twenty coy, of range
twenty coy, all in Monroe township,
Anderson county, Kansas.
1t is ordered that said petition come on
for final hearing on the 10Th day OF May,
A. d. 1899, at the hour of 10 O'Clock a.
M, at the Probate Court room in the
county aforesaid, the same day being
May term of said court, and that the
heirs-at-law, and all Others interested, OF
the tendency of said petition, the time
and place set for the hearing hereof land
that unless the contrary be made to APP
pear, an order will be granted for such
sale,) by publishing the same three weeks
in the Kansas Agitator, a weekly paper
published at Garrett, in said county
Given nnder my hand, and the seal OF
said court, at my office IN Garnctt, An
derson county aforesaid, this 25th day of
April, A. D. 1899
ED STEIN, Probate Judge.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

THE trusts don't seem to be much afraid OF
the present state administration They have
closed the wire-nal mills and the horse collar
factories at Lawrence; the linseed oil and
starch factories at Topeka, cut down the force
of the Hutchinson salt works, and stopped sew
era other enterprises in the state-and the end
&c nor
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

A SHORT time ago, the New York Voice and
the Weekly Witness were ranting expansion.
lists and imperiallsts They are not now, how
ever, but are as radical on the other side. Any
nerson whose vision is not so oDscured by the
almighty dollar that he cannot see the truth is
an anti-expansonist.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

CIV LELAND and few other Republican 'lead-
ers' want Jack Harris to run for congress again
next wear, but Curley Harrison, Jacks old man
ager has gone back on him. Without Curley'
lack will not make much OF hight. Curley
Harrison and some of his friends will start a
paper OF Ottawa.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

FIT SCOTT's water-works are worth not TO
exceed $175,o yet, there is mortgage on
record against the property for $500, 900. An
investigation will prove that majority OF the
corporations of this country are i'll the same
acknowledged or bonded Tor much more than
their actual value And the people must pay
interest on the fictitious value.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

GOVERNOR STANLEY says he was fool to
RIM for govenor Here is the remark he made
in his office last Saturday: eff had not been
a fool and left my business to become gov
ernor. I would now be making money every
day, instead Of losing it. "
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
Letter List.

John NJ. Alderman, |. G. Bcverlin Mrs.
X, Doll, Chas. A Green, Waiter A. Ian
ham, Miss Alta Lewis, John Mitchell,
Miss Ida Triggs.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

In the circuit court of appeals at St. Louis, a
decision was rendered finding that the Nation
al Lead Company is trust and cannot collect
debts in Missouri.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
Order of Publication.

THE STATE OF KANSAS, IS.
ANDERSON COUNTY.
In the Probate Court in and for said
county.
In the matter of the estate of Elizabeth
Paul
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

THE Western Union Telegraph company has
announced reduction in wages, and the oper-
ators threaten to strike.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

TT is said that the Twentieth Kansas boys
Mill leave Manila about the middle OF June.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

FRED FUNSTON has been made blgadi ;r-
general.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05
Meckison Of Ohio
Has Been Greatly Benefited by
Pe.ru-na.
Congressman D. Meekison Of Ohio, writes
the following letter to DR.. Hartman.

DR.. S. B. Hartman, Columbus. O.
DEAR SIR:-I have used several bot
ties Of Pe-ru-na and feel greatly bene-
fted thereby. 1 have been afflicted
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

There is not the slightest doubt that the
doctors do more harm than good in treating
Contagious Blood Poison; many victims OF
this loathsome disease would be much better
off to-day if they had never allowed them
selves to be dosed on mercury and potash, the
only remedies which the doctors ever give for
blood poison.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-05-05

is not yet.
Daily inter mountain., 1899-04-15
LEAVING BUTTE,

. The business interests of Butte and
Anaconda will sustain a severe loss in
the departure of Messrs M. B. Brownlee.
W. l.. Hose and f. f. Sargent from the
great banking houses which they estab-
lished and with which they have been
identified for nearly twenty years These
gentlemen opened a bank in Butte when
it took nerve as well as money to Go so,
for they came unheraded and unknown,
and without the support which usually
backs new banking institutions. But the
here for business. that they knew how
to conduct bank and that their char
aeters for conservatism and integrity
We're as sound as the government coin
which they passed over the counters.
Slowly but surely they made their way,
later identifying themselves with the
Anaconda people, and establishing con-
nections with Wells, Fargo & Co. To-
day their banks are known all over the
Union and, like the other great financial
concerns of Butte, they have a standing
second to that of no banks within the
nations limits. There has never been
any politics in the management OF the
Hoge- -Brownlee banks and no outside
speculation. They were bankers and
they did a banking business only. So
cially they have occupied enviable
places, and will be greatly missed on
their departure and followed by the
hearty God-speeds and good wishes of
the entire community. Fortune has
come to them as the result of their labors
time works wonders with bank over
drafts, promissory notes and mortgages
yet they will leave the state, we believe,
without an enemy to wish them i'll luck
and with bright prospects of further sue
cess and happiness in their future homes.
They will probably travel and invest
their means in the building of railroads
and other useful public enterprises To
Mr. DAILY, who succeeds them, and to
Messrs. j. V. Long and William M.
Thornton, the Inter Mountain wishes
4 equal success and an equal measure of
| public recognition and respect.
Daily inter mountain., 1899-04-15
LAYING FOR HIM.

You are through your labors, Dewey, in
the Asiatic seas,
And we wonder why you stay so long
away!
For our yells are all waiting to be !oos-
ened on the breeze,
And our cheers are all yearning to get
gay.
We are crazy to salute you,
With the small tin horn to toot you;
And we long to bid you welcome-yes, we
do.
Everybody is bewailins
That you do not get to sailing:
And a hundred thousand banquets wait
for you.
They are fa.tening the turkeys in the
East and in the West,
And the ducks are getting canvas on
their backs.
Oh, the terrapin grows stouter Where he
ought to wear vest,
And the chickens are preparing for the
ak.
Oh! we're anxious, George, to greet you
And We'll hustle down to meet you
With vociferacious cries of "How dye
do"
Everybody's sitting praying
That back home you'll get to straying,
And a hundred thousand banQuets wait
for you.
Baltimore American.
Daily inter mountain., 1899-04-15

censure should come only from honest
men. Let only those who are without
sin cast the stones. OF course, in
democratic convention this will mean
that the vote for the resolution will be
a very small one. but even a few honest
men can do a power of good in any con-
vention. The republican party and the
silver republican party has its black
sheep too Though the representa-
tives of the latter may have abandoned
their party for the sole purpose of insur-
ing the election of a free coinage senator,
the excuse lacks plausiblity, while for
the republicans who deserted there is
no excuse at all. Most of the latter, If
they sold out, are even worse than the
democrats, for the latter at least did
not abandon party lines, while the repub-
lican members did. Why they did they
should be given a chance to explain be-
fore the next republican state conven-
ton. Fortunately they are few in num-
Der compared with the democrats who
probably sold out. while as far as the
question of party responsibility for the
election is concerned it rests wholly
with the democracy In the republican
ranks what crime may have been COM
mitted was individual-in the demo-
cratic ranks it was party crime, for the
power to control the election rested solely
with the democracy
Still nothing justifies illegal methods
Of punishment, or a conviction without
trial, or a judgment without proof or a
hanging even in effigy.
Give the booders a square deal, but no
mercy.
Daily inter mountain., 1899-04-15
WAN1ED-A REST.

The morning democratic press contin-
ues to be filled with stuff and nonsense
about the affairs of the rival millionaires,
Hon. Marcus Daily and Hon. w. A. Clark.
Great Jehosephat! Have things come
to such a pass that IL this splendid and
intelligent community of 10000 people,
every man must be branded "Anaconda"
or ''W. A. Clarke Must every man sur
render his independence to one or the
other of those influences or be held up as
corruptionist? Can not the people of
Butte live and breathe and have their
being without toadying to either faction
of the democratic party or it's leaders?
WHY can we not give to two leading
citizens Of this state credit for what they
have accomplished, and censure either Or
both for their crimes, as the facts war
rant, without being accused of being the
enemies or the servitors Of either?
Their private business careers are the
nroper concern of nobody but themselves,
and we do not believe that either of tliem
desires his friends to keep up this tire
some yow-yow about their respective
merits. They are too big and broad
gauged to encourage such work on the
mart of an officious and intermeddling
press. Let us have an end to the malig-
nant gossip and three -black-crow stories
| which set this community by the ears
| seven days a week. Let us mine copper
| and silver and do business and mind our
own business and enjoy life and reform
| the city government.
Daily inter mountain., 1899-04-15

"Curiously enough all the newspaper
stories have given me credit for being an
artist in the preparation Of oyster stews,
but my experience with the bivalves is
limited. 1 always left that to John
Chamberiin, while he would not allow
any one but myself to attend to the dia-
mOnd backs.
Il can't begin to tell you how much Of
this ingredient or the exact quantity of
the other to put with the terrapin, but
l know how to blend them all in an in
st1nctive sort of way, and I've never yet
found the man who didn't admit that
my cooking was of the highest order.'-
Washington Post
Daily inter mountain., 1899-04-15
SHOOT THE ALARMISTS.

Let there be no fear as to the future or
Butte The great mines can't be moved.
The demand for copper will not diminish.
Wages will not be reduced. Nobody
wants to reduce them. Marcus DAILY
said they would be maintained while he
was in Butte and the indications are
that he will be here for the next ten
years What he said he meant on the
wages proposition. Properly considered,
high wages mean money in the pockets
Of mine owners.
Daily inter mountain., 1899-04-15
A PREMATURE CAMPAIGN.

1t is quite likely that Mr.. Bryan is
fighting his second presidential battle
almost two years too soon, and that by
the time the contest shall be begun in
reality the issues upon which he is fight
ing will have been forever settled It
is the firm belief Of the Inter Mountain
that long before the next presidential
election the government of Cuba will be
firmly and permanently established
under Cuban home rule: that the island
of Porto Rico will be enjoying a terri
torial form of government satisfactory
to its Inhabitants, and that a wise
scheme for the control of the Philip
pines embodying some system Of local
self-g government, which will meet every
lust demand of the native population
right essential to the protection of it's
business interests will be we'll under
way. BY that time, therefore, Mr.. Bryan
will have lost what now seems to be his
main issue There will probably be not
even an enlarged standing army for the
eminent gentleman to rail about, for it
is not the policy Of the republican party
to increase the military force beyond the
lust necessities Of the government, or
maintain the extra regiments after they
can safely be dispensed with. Thus it
| insist uron making free coinage at Is
| to / the paramount issue again, as we
hope he WILL and discard all the an
archistic nonsense which usually finds
a place in democratic party platforms.
he might as we'll retire now, before enter
ing upon a campaign which would surely
end in disaster to his hopes. His present
talk against expansion, like that Of the
Anaconda Standard and Butte Miner,
may serve to stir up some prejudice
against the republican party in the
minds Of those who lack confidence in
the power of the American people to
shape their own destiny and extend the
blessings of liberty to the people whom
an all-wise Providence has entrusted to
the care of this government; but the Big
Americans are not to be dissuaded from
their present purposes as to either the
liberty or commerce of the late Spanish
colonies and they will look only with
amused contempt upon the efforts of the
demoralized democracy to create discoro
at home and impair the American pres
tige abroad for the sake of a few offices
for that party which is always hungry
and always dry.
Daily inter mountain., 1899-04-15

lose no time in doing so, and that in the
meantime he instruct his newspaper, the
Butte Miner, to do so on his behalf His
friends ask this of him. His enemies as
sert that he will not comply with their
request. The Inter Mountain merely
seat he should lose not a moment in
denying the accusations against him.
Daily inter mountain., 1899-04-15
WATTERSON AS A COOK.

years ago. when I belonged to a CO.
terie of gay young cavaliers in New York
City" said Colonel Henry Watterson at
Ohamberln's, Il designed the dish now
generally known as lobster a la Newberg.
gave my idea to Charlie Delmonico, and
he saw it was carried to a successful
execution. John McCulloch was one of
us and to John is due the appearance of
broied live lobster in the east He had
caught onto that epicurean way of pre-
pairing it during his stay in California.
In after years l attained some fame az
a manipulation of certain dishes of ter
rapin, perhaps, being my masterpiece.
Daily inter mountain., 1899-04-15
MR., CLAEK'S OPPORTUNITY.

The friends of Mr.. Clark have. suggest
ed to him that instead of spending the
summer in Paris he come to Montana
and challenge his enemies to prove that
he ever spent a dollar for corrupt pur-
poses in the senatorial election. He has
not yet publicly denied the charge that
he bought his seat, and this newspaper