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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-01-27


deep out ef tie was of The otheF By
taking ALASKA Pine Gaegh syrap. Sold
at Aliens Drug Store.
Some women could spend some time
pro6tably learning.eew dress a t6wi.
instead of putting in so macaa time on
sbe prolem of hoy 10 dress themselves.
TIE Great Bend Marble Works are
ready 80 fdrpfsh you anything in the
line of aopaments. Tombstones. etc.
See ]. a. Bland. Salesman se'
Ssthi4g will Timber aP the faiRts of
a ordsty old eeehe9or 50 aaiek as the
belief on bis PaEt that some handsome
yoaBg womag is making eyes st him.
The Majestic Is the Best staye on
earth. If yoa do not believe it lets as
put one in yesr house On TRIAL.
GRBA9 BRsp IMPLEMENTS Ga.
Mrs. Bertha TaseE, wife CT 0e eoen
ty clerk of 1e9e coenty. accompanied
by her daughter Vernfe. came ep op a
visit 10 T. b. Stradely ana wife. last
week.
A smooth na9msaS fake artist had
good luck FISHING for suckers on t6e
streets last SataEdas. Ef6e mach efd7
he pay the city for license TO rob the
peoples
Joe Walter. ef Stafford coauty. vas
in the city Monday, leaving that
evening fer Topeka we're he has a
contest on for a seat in the State
legislature.
All is not gold that gIitters. Some>
times its copper. That is what it is
said about the big, Dawson and Ham
mum gold mine in Colorado has turned
out to be-copper.
Away up in the north edge of the
county the boys of the Palacky Cornet
Band still keep their organization
intact aud are becoming noted for
their good music.
!. CD. Montgomery, of Logan town
ship, Was county seat visitor last Fri
day, aud made his annual call on the
DEMOCRAT. Charley is enjoying good
health this winter
Time for city candidates to an
nounce themselves. Come TO the front
gentlemen. An announcement in the
DEMOCRAT will let ALL the people
know of your candidacy
job Cone Billiel is trying to Guido
the Job of bible fame by having car
bunckles on the back of his neck. He
has entertained dozen more or less
dur ing the past two weeks
This being the last Friday In the
month it is the regular. date for the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-01-27

I'D tt VIII run street cars.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-16
ENGLISH VIEW.

NEW YORK, Dec 31-The Tribune's
London cable says: Philippine dis
turbances are not regarded as serious
by Englishmen who have practical
knowledge of the island. Mr.. Sawyer,
an engineer who was in the Philippines
fourteen years and in the consular ser
vice there, scouts the idea that the
Americans will need a large military
force, or that they will have any per-
manent trouble in governing the ma
tives He is confident that a native
army, with American officers can be
organized in a short time for main
tenance of order.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-16
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
]. @. WOOD.

AT LAW AND NOTARY
Public. Office: Corner King and
Bethel Streets.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-16
LYLE A. DICKEY.

ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY
Public. King and Bethel Streets.
Telephone SOC. P. 0. Box 1856
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-16
THE TREATY.

The treaty of peace between Spain
and the United States was transmitted
by the President on Thursday, the 5th
inst to the Senate for ratification. Its
text was known, but the document was
accompanied by interesting documents
relating to the relations Of American
officials and army and navy officers
with AguinaldO and other Filipino
leaders. Senator Hoar, who opposes
the ratification of the treaty presented
a resolution to the Senate at once, call
ing upon the President to cOmmuni-
| cate his instructions to our peace COM
| misSiOners and the reports made by
them either TO the Department Of State
or TO himself. Senator Davis, one Of
| the peace commissioners, desired TO
have the resolution referred to the
committee on foreign relations, but
this was opposed by Hoar, who ac-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-16
GOVERNOR GAGE.

Henry T. Gage, the new Governor of
California, assumed Office on January
4th, his predecessor, James Budd, be-
ing elected today attorney of the
Board of Harbor Commissioners in
place of TREY l. Ford, the new attor
new general.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-16

Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, who
is under indictment for the misuse Of
State funds, has secured the endorse
ment of 102 of the 164 Republican men,
bers of the Legislature. but still re-
Quires nineteen votes in order to be
reelected
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-09
FOOLS AND WISE MEN.

Not all the fools are dead. And even
in that city Of surprising collective wis
dom which borders on our own, there still
survive those who, despite all human ex-
perience, proceed on the theory that
something is to be had for nothing in
commercial transaction. Whatever may
be in a name, or may not, one judiciously
chosen may always be made available as
bait to catch gudgeons
The association Of the name of a great
American philosopher with the recently
defunct enterprise which in New York
had guaranteed $40 per cent to its in
vestors certainly did not operate to
draw away confid;ng mortality from with
in its spell. The homely wisdom of Poor
! Richard, which above all things incul-
Gates the lessons of prudence and fru-
gality, must inevitably have suggested
itself to the more lettered and thoughtful
Of the patrons of the Franklin syndicate
And, just so, the benign justice Of ar
bitration in the dispensation Of CONNER
ciaF profits must have wrought upon the
fancy of those who entrusted their saw
ings to the custody Of the Arbitrage in
stitution of Minneapolis
Here in st. Paul we are and always
have been notable for the lack of that
sublime trustfuness on which the New
York and Minneapolis undertakings have
thriven. Thanks to the hopeless preoc-
cupation Of our local police force 1t is
still possible for the virtuous man Of
bucolic antecedents to come among us
and find his faith in the rectitude of
newly found friends to be rudely shocked
and his possessions dissipated as a re-
suit. But with us, If the event is not the
outcome of a newly devised tape game.
or Of the seductive Establishments Of poll
Icy shops, it usually proceeds from the
more impressive operations of the hold
up artist, or of some other of the in
genious discoveries to which we are in
debted to the glorious era Of Red Crit
fin and a reformed police force
Human sympathy is not always equally
distributed. 1t is not difficult to extend
much OF commiseration to the class of
investors who, in st. Paul, from time to
| time, attest the truth of the old adage
that the fool and his money soon part.
But to those thrifty mortals who coniure
with the name of Franklin or cast their
bread on the delusive waters of arbitra-
! ton. always having in their minds the
| humdrum limitations Of the usury law.
| 1t is hard to extend any feeling save one
of gratifed contempt. Such as they rare
Iy deserve the Intervention Of criminal
! authority in their behalf. They are most
| ly criminals themselves In their inmost
hearts. A few of them no doubt are de-
ceived through the operations of some
other impulse than that of cupidity; but
| as class they represent the mere para
sites of industrial life. An uncaught
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-09
BUSINESS is ACTIVE
OPENED, WITH TRADE IN SAT-
ISFACTORY SHAPE
AS BRADsTREETs SEES IT

Final Month Opened as AuspfciousIy
as Have the Previous Months of
a Memorable Year in Trade
Strength of Wheat This Week "a
Reflection Largely of Decreased
Receipts at the Northwest.
NEW YORK, Dec. S.-Bradsjreets to-
morrow viii say:
The last month of the year has opened
auspiciously. finding trade and industry
generally well employed, demand treading
closely upon trade, and even passing sup
ply, labor troubles averted in some in
stances by widespread advances in wages
CT small importance except in one or two
cities, and with the general level of values
OF staples at the highest point reached
for eight years past. Holiday demand
has opened well, and collections from re-
tail trades, therefore, show some improve
ment
The strength CT cereals, notably wheat,
this week, is a reflection largely of de-
creased receipts at the Northwest. In
creases in November this year were not
as large either in this country or abroad
as they were one year ago, and to this ex-
tent the outlook is less bearish, and, ow-
ing to the smaller words production this
year, hopes of we'll maintained prices
have not been abandoned. Cotton has
lost most of the notable strength display
ed In past weeks, owing chiefly to a por-
ton of the speculative element becoming
tired and selling freely on slightly in
creased receipts. Toward the close some
strength was noticeable on improved for
eign buying, and the net change for the
week IS not serious.
After year of unprecedented a tivity
and advancing prices. iron and steel are
quiet. with few significant changes, part
ly because the season of the year does
not favor new work, and partly, also, ow-
ing to the fact that producers are very
generally sold up to the middle of next
year. Prices show no marked change,
plates and sheets being relatively weak
est among the finished products, while
bars are strong.
Wheat, including -four, shipments for
the week aggregate 5,133,331 bushels,
against 1893. 100 bushels last week $685.
bushels in the corresponding week of
1888, 6,266, 159 bushels in 1897 4,222,7 bush
els in 1896 and 245S, 1923 bushels in 1895
Since July l this SEASON the exports of
wheat aggregate 94,310, 227 bushels, against
1o3 1894 bushels last year and 11i,234, 79S
bushels in Useless. Corn expor,s for the
week aggregate 5,S13,699 bushels, against
ala bushels last week, ASSESS bush
els in this week year ago, 3125,554 bush
els in 1897, 3,511, 26S bushels in 1896 and
E,3s1, 1S4 bushels in 1885. Since July this
season, corn receipts aggregate 100, 4SS, 7O1
bushels, against SO, 925, 2S5 bushels during
the same period year ago and 67,251, sos
bushels in 1S97-9S
Business failures in the United S ates
for the, week number 220 as compared
with III last week '2S7 in this week a
year ago. 292 in 1897, 3S1 in 1886 and 313
in 1895. Business failures in the Donin-
ion of Canada for the week number 81,
as compared with Is last week, 20 in tn
week a year ago, % in 1897, AZ in 1896 and
50 in 1895 -
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-09

productive forces of the country been so
largely covered by contracts at this date
insurlng employment and profit far into
the coming year. This results not from
any mere speculative excitement but
from actual demands for consumption,
running far beyond the producing capac-
lty heretofore and pushing 1t to remark
able expansion. The increase in foreign
trade has been insignificant, compared
with the Increase of $24, 900 900 in pay
ments through clearing houses For the
week the payments have been 2O3 per
cent larger than last year and 1871 per
cent larger than 1892. Prices of pig iron
are strongly maintained, though extraor-
binary efforts promise increase over a,
quarter In production capacity within a
year, because the entire output of most
furnaces for the first and in part Of the
last half of next year has been sold in
advance
Demand for cars and other railway
equipment is enormous, and also for
shipping, both lake and ocean. Tin ia
weak at 27112 cents, and copper declined
10 lO1& cents. but lead and spelter are
stronger. Hides are again stronger at
Chicago, although receipts Of cattle at tina
Tour chief Western markets in eleven
months have been 3 per cent larger than
IN the previous year, as the demand for
consumption in manufacture has evident
~ increased much more. Thus Western
production of boots and shoes has gained
more than the Eastern, yet shipments
from Boston for the year have been 372.-
600 cases. or 9.3 per cent more than last
year, and 9S7 900 cases. or 27.8 per cent
more than in 1892 when cattle receipts
We're f.S per cent less than this year.
Wool has advanced further, with
much speculative buying, though most
manufacturers nave supplied wants for
the present and are less disposed to pur-
chase at prices now, averaging higher
than at any time since June Is, 1891"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-09
PAPER UP ANOTHER CENT.
Advance in Prices on Fine Print Pa
pers Yesterday.

The paper famine is becoming more
severe locally Another advance of a cent
a pound on fiat, the finer grades Of paper,
fiat, book, bond and ledger papers, was
announced yesterday, and even at the
prices fixed, the guaranty of the delivery
of the goods is very indefinite.
One publication In the Twin Cities is
reported to have been compelled to come
out on what is known as railroad man
ila. instead of yellow print, for it's last
issue, this making the proprietor of the
paper experience a severe confusion of
the aesthetic verities, every time he looks
back over his files.
Paper dealers say that with the good
times following the first OF the now dying
year the demand for paper. especially of
the better grades, was unusually large.
and for this reason the supply of the raw
material was found to be depleted early
in the season. By the time the paper
makers had arranged for the additional
supply of spruce. Eastwood, etc, needed
the drouth came in and seriously affected
at once the possible output of water
power mills. and. where steam was used
as an auxiliary rover. the necessary ex-
pense Of the paper manufacture was in
creased.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-09
TELL NOREEN FAIRY TALES
SEVEN CORNERS COPPER
THEIR CGNFIDANTE
But the officer VIII Probably Bring
Them Into Police Headquarters
Hereafter Unless They Can Make
the Talk Strong Enough.

Shortly after 1 o'clock this morning S.
]. Agnew, storekeeper for the Pioneer
Press company, living In Flat No. 4,
Forepaugh block, Seven corners, notified
the officers of the central station that he
had captured a man who had made an
attempt to force entrance to the room of
his sister. in Flat No. 10, of the Fore
paugh block. He said his sister had call
ed to him that someone was trying to
get in, and, on rushing down stairs, had
found a man leaving the building.
officer Noreen was on the Seven cor
ners' beat last night, and, as Mr.. Agnew
reached the bottom of the stairs with his
man, the .officer appeared The man was
turned over, but after some conversation
carried on in Swedish between the sus-
pect and the officer the latter announced
his belief that THE man had lost his way,
and stated that he would see that he
found 1t again.
Mr.. AgneW was not entirely satisfied
and, after thinking the situation over
somewhat, decided to go to the central
station. He informed the captain of the
occurrence, and an officer was sent back
to Seven corners with him, under orders
to send Officer NOreen to headquarters
with his man. Both appeared later and
the stranger was Intercepted concern
ing his reasons for wandering about the
second floor Of the Forepaugh block after
midnight.
The man was about twenty-five years
of age, and through an interpreter said
he had come from Minneapolis and had
lost his way. He offered no explanation
for his adventure in the block. He was
locked up on the charge Of lettering after
midnight.
Mr.. Agnew stated that the man had
tried the doors of Flat 10, and had been
heard prying about other apartments.
When he heard noises from the inside OF
Flat Is he started down stairs at once.
1t was only a few days since Noreen
let two men go who were acting sus-
piciously enough to attract his attention,
hut they convinced him that they were
on a legitimate errand. Later 1t turned
out that a blacksmith shop in the vicin-
ity had been robbed an box of nails
taken.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-09
WAS HARD TO LET GO
REPUBLICAN OFFICEHOLDERS
SEEMED TO FEEL SUCCESSORS
HAD AFFRONTED THEM
SEALER R0GNAs ASSAULTED
Discharged Employees of the State
Grain Inspection Department
Waylay Il Recent AppOintee in u
Lonely Place In the Milwaukee
Yards In South MinneapOIis-PO-
lice Have to Watch the Yards.

Some sage remarked of the tenacty Of
officeholders that few die and none re-
signed, but now in Minnesota it has come
TO pass that the Republican gang have
lett SO accustomed to look upon their Of
fetal places as vested rights that they
view as an interloper, fit prey for assault,
any appointee who is named to succeed
one of the old gang which was SO long
in power
one OF the appoiltees in the grain in
spection department in Minneapol $, since
the advent of the present chief grain
inspector, was Ole Rognas, formerly a
resident of Martin county, and an ex-
perfenced hand in the grain business.
When Rognas, among others, was appoint
ed there were displaced two former en-
ployes, Coleman and Smith by name. and
these two waylaid Rognas one day at
the sealer's shanty in what is known as
the middle Milwaukee yard, in South
Minneapolis. between Eighth street and
Franklin avenue and Seventeenth avenue
south and Cedar avenue.
These yar6s cover several acres in South
Minneapolis, where the streets which
would natu. ally cross have not been open
ed, and while there are always city po-
lice officers in the southwesterly end Of
the yards. the comparatively busy cross
ing Of Cedar and Franklin avenues, they
are pretty generally occupied during the
day, and the freight yards especially are
a lonely place, particularly that section
where the grain inspectors have their
shanty
1t was in this place that Coleman and
Smith found Rognas, and, according to
his story, threatened to lick him. In the
ARRAY his face was cut and his clothes
torn somewhat, but he managed to escape
and report the incident at the office of
Chief Inspector Knatvold, who told him
TO return to work, and if he was again
molested protection would be on hand.
Smith afterwards made a statement to
Mr.. Knatvold about the affair." placing it
in a less serious light, and attributing
the affair in measure to alcohol Cole
man was not so frank. Rognas, how
ever, has not since teen molested, and the
city police and railroad watchmen kept
close watch of the yards for a time
The Lake Crystal Union opines that
Eustis would be an easier mark for Gov.
Lind than he was before.
Can the Taylors Falls Journal refer
to it's own district when it says: m n
nesota has been struggling along with
half congressman less than it was en-
titled to under the apportionment. 1t
should have had more of other patronage,
TO make up for the deficiency, or better
men in some Of the districts.'
A rumor that Congressman Heatwole,
who has held the exalted position of chair
man of the committee on ventilation and
acoustics in the house. will be promoted
t.. the craftsmanship of the committee on
printing" is given publicity by the Glen
coe Enterprise.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-09

scamp is always a menace to society;
but the lessons which he leaves in his
wake may be either distressing or in
structive. The arbitrage. operators in
Minneapolis have afforded wealth of i'm
struction to those who have eyes to see
or ears to hear; and even If they are
never brought to the bar of justice the
world will not be very much worse off;
for their victims they will seek, and
seeking. find. among those who would re-
main at once respectable and prosperous
white they prey upon productive society.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-09
GRAND
A Boom That Never Fails.
PHILADELPHIA Record

Philadelphia Record
A legitimately evolved advertising boom
never falls. Many other booms are found
ed upon speculation, and their results
ere frequently unsatisfactory, not 20 say
disastrous to the Spectator. The wide
awake business man knows that money
invested In clever advertisements brings
sure and steady profits to the investor
But he must constantly invent new ideas
and present these to probable patrons in
the most convincing manner possible A
we'll constructed advertisement is bone
fetal to the intending purchaser and to
the merchant. for it tells one that Just
what he wishes to buy the other has 10
soil
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-09
DIED AT URBANA.
Miss Josephine Rhodes, for Several
Years a Resident Here.

Word was received in st. Paul yester-
Gay of the death of Miss Josephine w
Rhodes. which occurred at Urbana, O.,
Nov. II. Miss Rhodes for number OF
years made her home in st. Paul with
her sister, Mrs. A. /. Peters, wife of A.
L. Peters, Northwestern agent OF the
Peters Cartridge company. in this city.
Miss Rhodes and Mrs. Peters left St
Paul six weeks ago 10 spend the winter in
the East. Miss Rhodes was taken i'll at
the home Of. Ter cousin, Mrs Thomas
Heen, of UrbaDa, two weeks ago. The
remains were inferred ct UTbana
Miss Rhodes had two sisters, Mrs. \. L.
Peters. OF st. Paul, and Ms. Charles e.
Blancke, of Philadelphia, and two broth
ers, c. H. Rhodes, of Lancaster, Pa, and
Cyrus H Rhodes. Of Chicago
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-09
UNFAIR TO THE CITY.

The disposition, or attempted DISPOSE
outlined in the action of the board OF
aldermen at the last meeting of that
body, ought not to be passed without com
ment. 1t seemed necessary to the pur-
pose of the aldermen that they should in
ject matter of personal and official feel
ing into the matter which was entirely
foreign to it. Whatever Dr. Ohage may
or may not have said there is no resi-
see that in the transaction of all forms
of city business the consideration of poll
ties enters more or less freely. 1t is not
necessary to believe that it entered into
this matter to any extent whatever. But
If It had. and if the statements wrongly
imputed to the doctor were made, there
is still enough in the past of such trans
actions to suggest the possibility of such
influence operating as he had reference to-
We are now, according to certain alder
men, to have our garbage disposed of
through the contract system at less than
the figures suggested by the head of the
health department. That is we'll, if 1t Is
SO. But We gravely doubt If the event
VIII prove the prophecy to be correct.
"hether 1t does or not, the fact remains
that the best and most intelligent method
Of disposing Of the garbage is to turn the
entire subject over to the health depart
ment
There is not householder in st. Paul
that will not be found to have a griev-
anee against the garbage contractors.
Their work has never been done as it
should have been done. Few household
ers Oh this city but have bill for the re-
moval Of garbage to meet each success
sive spring. The garbage collector is
never welcome guest at any home. un-
less the demands of the situation are i'm
perative. How far this will go to explafn
the rarity Of his visits we will not in
qu1re. But the plan of the board of
aldermen if carried out is certain m be
all the more ineffective, according as the
plds which they look forward to with so
much expectation are dictated by the de-
sire to get below the figures outlined bv
the health department.
The contract system itself is an evil
thing In the doing of public work of any
kind, when a department Of the govern
ment stands ready to undertake the work
directly as in this case. It should be
dispensed with whenever the opportunity
OFFERS. 1t should be dispensed with In
this particular case, both on the score of
the public health and of the economical
and Intelligent expenditure of the city's
money.