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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
TELLS OF CUBAN'S NEEDS.
A Havana Editor Says the Citizens Need
More Capital, Peace and Security
and Less Noisy Politics.
The Sufragio Uni =
Havana, Aug. 10.
verSal saws:

Havana, Aug. 15.-The Sufragio Uni
versal says:
Cuba needs less noisy politics which foment
bad feeling. and less striving after the chimera
of premature liberty republic means a gov
ernment by the people, but what sort of gov
eminent can be expected of people 10 per cent.
of whom cannot read: a study of all the Latin
American communities, which, though free, al
ternate between the extremes of anarchy and
despotiSm. being merely the playthings OF fac
lions and demagogues shows that the real de-
fectS are lack OF education and their not hav-
own freedom.
Our former rulers were incapable of good
government. What the island now needs is
capital, peace and security All these would be
assured under American rule. Our people IN
accustomed TO nobility, do not recognize it, but
when the Americans shall have left the islands,
as is unfortunately possible, the Cubans will
recognize their ingratitude and injustice toward
the nation which directed their first steps to-
ward freedom.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Mr.. Croker Takes 1t Back.

New York. Aug. 15.-In an interview
just after his return from Europe,
Richard Croker, the Tammany leader.
said he was wrong when he made the
statement last spring that the United
States should not give up the Philip
pines. Mr.. Croker comes back q
thorough anti-expansionlst. He says
we were wrong ia the first place
to give $50, 600. 900 for the islands. Mr..
Croker also paid a tribute to w. J.
Bryan as leader.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

THE third assistant postmaster gen
eral, Mr.. Madden, has decided on a
plan for the registration of all mail
matter by letter carriers at the door in
the residence sections of cities havin g
the free delivery system. The same
idea is to be extended to the rural free
delivery service as soon as the plans
are perfected. An extension of the
plan to the business districts of cities
IN the discretion of postmasters is also
contemplated.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

ASSISTANT SECRETARY VANDERBILT re-
Gently had occasion to visit several di-
visions in the auditing department at
Washington and found the clerks read
ing newspapers or talking in groups.
He decided that the chiefs and assist
ant chiefs OF these divisions were re-
sponsible for this general state of idle
ness and reduced their salaries. He
thought that these officials should have
their clerks under better regulations
as regards their duties, especially as the
auditors office is nearly two years be
hind in its work.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

THE prairie dogs in the Texas pan.
handle are being rapidly exterminated
by means of new device for catching
them, which has been adopted by all
the ranchmen and farmers of that sec
ton. On one large range over IL. OOC
prairie dogs were captured and killed
last week by this trap. 1t is placed
over the animals mound and makes it
a prisoner when it energies from the
hole. This pest has been destroying,
it was said, over so per cent. of the
growing crops and grass in that sec.
ton annually.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

THE state department has received
from the Italian authorities copy OF
the complete report made by the Mar
quis Romano, secretary of the Italian
embassy at Washington, on his person
al investigation of the recent lynching
of five Italians at Tallulah, La The
report presents the affair in serious
light. AS a whole, the Italian author
sities view the matter of the lynching
as one of unusual atrocity and without
any mitigating circumstances There
is no effort made in the report to OBJ
scure the fact that Charles Difata, one
of the Italians, made the first offensive
overture.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

THE Wool and Cotton Reporter fig
ures that between January and July
the new trusts represented on a paper
a capitalization of $3.50, 783, 1888, OF
which 81 ,62S, 7O6, 900 was preferred and
SIS, 742, ORG, 4S3 was common stock. In
the opinion of the same journal the
preferred stock includes everything of
tangible value, and it is forced to the
conclusion that two-thirds of the trust
capitalization is water pure and
simple'
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

GOVERNMENT officials have effected
an agreement with the Crow Indians
to purchase 1000. 1000 acres of their
lands in Montana. This will become a
treaty when ratified by congress.
SOLOMON QUINTER shot and instantly
killed his wife and her paramour, Ed
ward Kitzmiller. at Reading, Pa. The
husband found the couple together.
THE New York Times stated that
there was likely to be a champagne
trust with capital of $40, 600, 900.
FIRE destroyed the grand stand OF
the baseball club at Louisville, KY.
DAVID MCDADE, one of the best
known aeronauts in the country.
jumped from burning balloon half
mile in the air in the presence of 1000
people at Binghamton, n. Y. He
landed in the river, escaping with a
few bruises and several burns. The
balloon, which was los feet high. was
destroyed.
DURING a storm at Richfield, Wis,
Mrs. Freede, the wife of a farmer. was
killed by flying limb and the hired
man was blown from a load of hay and
died shortly after.
A FLASH of lightning killed George
81. Barber at Plattsburg. n. Y.
ADvICEs received at Port Washing
ton, Wash, stated that the whaling
feet had met with complete failure in
their attempt to catch the 1eviathans
of the deep.
THE census of Cuba is ordered to be
completed by July 1 next.
Mrs. RICHARD COULToN, wife of a
farmer near Chandlerville, Ill, swept
up two pounds of giant powder which
had fallen from a shelf and threw il
into fire in the yard Her ten-year
old son was fatally burned and Mrs
Coulton was reported in a critical con
dition.
THOMAS MARTINS home at Marion
Va, was burned the other night and
Martin and his three children. aged s
II and Is years, persisted.
A TERRIBLE food swept over the sub
prefecture of War Chow. China, and L,
$50 houses were destroyed and thou
sands of poor people rendered homeless
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

SINCE their supply of tobacco was cut
down the convicts in the Iowa state
penitentiary have been sullen and hard
to manage and some 800 of them have
refused to work. Chicago physicians
interviewed on the subject say the ac-
ton of the prison authorities is unwise;
that tobacco in moderate quantity does
no harm and its quoting effects make
prisoners as well as soldiers more
amenable to discipline and less dis
posed to mischief.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Ct. Jobn pennies the Char-e

Bauff. \. ". T, Aug. 15.-Lieuten-
ant Commander St John. of her maj
esty's ship Peacock. is here and can
scarcely contain himself with indigna-
ton on account of his reputed criticism
of Gen. Otis and the Filipino campaign.
American papers to hand containing
the reported interviews at Victoria
have made the commander furious
He denies the correctness of the inter
views and has, through his attorneys.
demanded to be set right.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

THE British government, it was re-
ported, has contracted with a lumber
company of Orange, Tex. for 500, 600, GOO
feet of yellow pine. This amount of
lumber would be the greatest order in
the history of the world. 1t would
take all the mills in southeast Texas a
year to turn that much out and it
would require nearly 500 good-sized
steamships to carry it across the ocean.
1t would mean a great boom in yellow
pine lumber prices.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

SEVERAL members of the Peoria Oh. }
Y. NJ. c. A. object to allowing the col
ored members the privilege of the bath
room in connection with the associa-
ton building. No color line is drawn
by the management of the Y. NJ. c. A.
and the other day when several young
business men and clerks entered the
bath room it was to find it occupied by
negroes. They Immediately fled a
protest at the office, and demanded
that their names be erased from the
roll
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

A Boston electrician has made the
prediction that within seven years
glass will be the material employed in
making all underground pipes. He
says that in that time. electrolytic ac-
ton on iron piping will have proved SO
injurious as to necessitate the using of
tubes composed of some substance
(which electric currents cannot corrode.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
IN the house of commons at London
the secretary for India, in introducing
the budget, said that after careful con-
SideratiOn the government had deliber-
ately concluded that a gold standard
was required in the interests of India
and that they would not be deferred
from prosecuting this policy by all the
means in their power merely because
the next phase in the advancement
was coincident with abnorm al or tenn
porary failure of the rain.
THE queens speech was read to the
British lords and commoners on the 9th
and parliament was then prorogued-
The speech said that the institution
of a permanent tribunal of arbitration
could not fail to diminish the frequency
of war. The trouble in South Africa was
noticed and negotiations for settling it
were in progress, it was said. The
mona batement of the plague in India
was also mentioned.
THERE is an admission in army cir
cles at Washington that the remainder
of the 35, 600 volunteers, or provisional
army, will be called for within a few
weeks This would mean the enlist
ment of 20 additional regiments and the
appointment by the president of up
ward of 1, 900 more army officers.
ACCORDING to Hong Kong advices an
agreement has been reached between
Great Britain and the Chinese govern
ment that the United States shall have
an exclusive settlement at Hankow.
GEN. OTIS cabled on the 10th that
some letters were captured by the Amer
leans in the Philippines from high in
surgent authority which exhorted the
Filipinos to hold out a little longer;
that European recognition would be
granted August 81, and that the pres
ent United States administration would
be Overthrown.
GEN. CARLOS GARCIA, of Cuba, was
engaged at Washington on the 18th in
the presentation to army officials of
plans for the organization of a Cuban
militia. He had a long conference
with Gen. Miles.
II AM for Mr.. Bryan for president.
have always been for him and expect
| to remain so. | think there is not a
| shadow of doubt about his nomin alton
| by the next democratic national con-
! vention." This statement was made
| by eX-Gov. William j. Stone at St.
| Louis when he was asked if he was
| preparing to forsalze Bryan and take
up Rear Admiral Schley candidate
for the democratic presidential nomi-
| ton.
| EX-CONGREsSMAN JERRY SIMPSON, of
| Kansas, addressed thousands of people
| at the Old Salem Chautauqua at SPRING
| field, Ill, the other afternoon, his sub
| ject being TRUSTS
LILLIAN LEWIS, the actress, died at
| Pennington, Mimi, of consumption.
AMERICAN troops in the Philippines
occupied San Mateo on the 18th, havin g
| three soldiers killed and Is wounded.
| The Filipino rebels made attacks on
San Luis and on Gringua. The Amer
lean loss was slight.
MAITRE LABoRI, the counsel for
| Dreyfus-the captain in the French
army who is charged with selling
French military secrets to a foreign
| government-was shot while on his
way to his residence at Rennes. The
physicians said NJ. Labor would die
from his wounds. The assassins es-
capped.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

E.. B. EVANS, of Des Moines, recently
returned from a trip through northern
Iowa and reported a discovery of about
20, 600 acres of land to which title has
never been made. They belong to 10
one at present, but are being farmed
by owners of adjoining property. A
good share of the land is in the swamp
country and results from a discrepancy
between government and county sur
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Chicago Wants a Visit from Diaz.

Chicago. Aug. 15.-The special com
mittee to convey the invitation &c
President Diaz, of Mexico, to attend
the autumn festival and the laying OF
the cornerstone of the new government
building in Chicago left last night for
the City of Mexico. The formal invita-
ton is inciosed in handsome mahog-
any case made of wood from the doors
of the old post Office building. This
case is lined with white silk. On the
initial page are the flags Of the United
States and Mexico crossed.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

SANTA TERESA, the Mexican woman
who has long been revered as saint
by the natives of Chihuahua and
Sonora, and who is believed to possess
the power of healing the sick by the
laying on of hands, is said to be more
or less responsible for the present out
break among the Yaqui Indians in
8 Mexico
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

James Grimes, wealthy retired
farmer of Berne. Kan, left St Joseph,
Mo-, for home August and has not
been heard from since. He had s., 900
in currency and $500 in notes with him.
He is IS years old.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

RAILROAD men express the belief that
before very long all of the prominent
railroads of the land will have adopted
the pension scheme recently taken up
by the Pennsylvania system and now
being worked out, in which employees
are to be pensioned when 20 years old.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
CURRENT COMMENT.
KANSAS.

An 1s-year-old girl, named Lucy
Havens, who lives in Laporte county,
Ind, weighs 500 pounds.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co., illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
tive principles of plants known to be
incidentally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. It
is the one perfect strengthening laxa-
tive, cleansing the system effectually,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
TO overcome habitual constipation per-
manently. Its perfect freedom from
every Objectionable quality and sub
stance, and its acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from SIENNA and
other aromatic plants, by a method
known to the CALIFORNIA Ere SYRUP
Co. only. In order to get its beneficial
effects and to avoid limitations, please
remember the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
aAN FRAFcIsco GAL
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW YORK. n. Y
For sale ~ all DrugEists--Price SOC. per bottle
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
only Remalning sister OF Mrs. LINCOLN.

Springfield, Ill, Aug. 15.-Mrs-
Francis ]. Wallace, the only remaining
sister of Mrs Abraham Lincoln, died
here to-day aged 50 years.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

ritOry, 90.
A STREET car ran off the Prairie street
bridge at Merrill, Wis, on the 18th
ropping into the river 90 feet below.
The car was completely wrecked. Sew
eral persons were more or less INJURED.
THE Smeltermen' S union at Denver,
Col, voted almost unanimously to con-
tinue its strike until the American
Smelling and Refining company agreed
to pay the wages awarded by the state
board of arbitration.
THE business men of Cleveland. O.,
held meeting on the 9th to protest
against the boycott and to subscribe
money for maintaining law and order
during the street car strike.
Ivy CRABTREE. the girl who killed
her brother in an attempt to poison
her family at Carmi. Ill, threw herself
upon the mercy of the court and was
sentenced to the penitentiary for IS
years
BILL. WILSON, colored, who was in
| Jail at Port Gibson, Miss, on charge
of attempted assault. was hanged by
mob on the Jail gallows. the execution
taking place so quietly that none of the
| officials knew what was going on.
Echo BROWN, colored. was shot and
killed the other night and Edgar and
Edward Barr severely logged by a
gang of armed men at Amite City. La.
The negroes were charged with numer-
Gus crimes
DELLA, the 13-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Edmond Lynn, living three miles
south of Benton, H., was killed by
| lightning a day or two ago while
standing under an apple tree
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-14


Chicago Herald: IT tell you
what 1 Herd a Fine compliment fer
YOU" NAV says to paw the other mite.
as that so?" paw asst, tryln' to Look
like II He diden't care. who Done it,"
Mrs. Bassett." NAV says.
She's young and Bewtiful, and Paw
He Seemed to gro about three inches
taller when He herd She Sed Sumthing
nice about Him. But He Purtended
that He Went rite on reedin' the pa
pert. He was waItIn' fer NAV to tell
Him some more about II. So NAV she
DIden't say nothin' fer a mint, and
paw says:
well. 1 Dunno How II is. But Don't
Zeal moren about Twenty these Dals,
and Wun OF the Boys Down to the Of
fes Told me day Before yesterday 1
looked yunger every Time He Seen me.
Was Mrs. Bassett Over to-day?"
YES" NAV says II tell you 1t was a
nofful nice thing She sed about you"
Paw He gave his mustash Twist
and rocked as Hard as He could fer a
while, and Then he says:
81 spose we OF to go over and See
them some mite, ottent we. Bassett
he's n Blame nice Teller. nlwals liked
bnssett They ain't no foolishness
about Him. He's the kind Of people I'd
ruther sociate with. He can talk Sentz.
She amt no fool neither. Like most OF
The women on this Streat."
Then He got UP and went Out on the
porch and Stuck His Chest away out in
Space and whIsseled "Jist One Curl. ="
So after while He come Back and
says to NAV:
How Did she git to Talking about
"oh." nav says, "sHe Happened to
See your fotograft in the parler."
Then paw says:
ibid you ever notus How much gem
eral Miles Looks like me. only He's old
er and Has a younlform on?"
~ never Thot Of It." nav says. "All
Of them Generals Looks alike to me ex-
cept Dewey. Cess } could tell His
picture nearly ennywhare now"
Paw waited Good while and Looked
Like II He wanted NAV TO Talk. But
she DIdent. So he Asst:
We'll. what Did She say about me,
ennyway?"
flrecrackers with the Boys on the
fourth" NAV says. and She thot It
Was so nice that an old man like you
was Interested in Helpin' the children
to enjoy Themselves"
Then paw He gives kick Mt the pIpp
what was playin' around his LaIgB and
Hit His nee Rginst the corner OF the
chare, and neerly Tainted.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-14
ARE TRAITORS

To Their Country = Captain Dyer
LasheS the "Aunties'
BOSTON, July 13.-Captain Dyer. who
commanded the Baltimore under Ad-
miral Dewey at Manila, and who recent
ly said in an interview that the anti
imperiallsts should be put down. was
shown to-day an open letter written to
him by Erving wInslow, of the Anh-Im-
periallst League.
In this letter Mr.. WInslow declares
the majority Of the people of the Uni
ted States are resolved to put down the
martial spirit which has been recently
let loose" and which threatens civil
rights at home and peace and Justice
abroad"
Mr., Winslow refers to the army and
navy as "a class OF servants primarily
needed by a republic as police force.
Captain Dyer's comments upon the
writer OF the letter were forceful rather
than delicate.
"He ought to be denounced as trail
tor to his country" declared the cap
II have nothing to say to fellow Of
his stripe. Any one who will deliberately
oppose the work OF the army and navy
OF his country is as low, In my estima-
ton, as though he were to deliberately
take up arms against his country, and
should be taken In hand at once.
1.-THE American soldiers are enduring
enough perils and hardships in the Phil
ippInes without being decried and de-
nounced by a few Boston cranks, who
have taken It into their heads that the
administration Is carrying on the cam
paign for the fun Of the thing.
81 am tired OF this rot about lmper-
iallsm. The men who oppose the &C.
ton OF the government in tho present
crisis are Of too little consequence to be
noticed"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-14

leees arrested the decline News IN re.
gard 20 the spring wheat crop caused
considerable apprehension among tne
shorts. Some sections OF the northwest
reported an excess OF rain, others to2
much heat. while North DakOto' reported
grasshoppeFB doing considerable dam
age IN the wheat fields. This started q
general buying movement. and the high-
est price OF the day resulted. Septem-
Der touched Tl6T41tc, and held for some
time about that figure. The absence
for demand for cash wheat became a
decidedly weakening feature IN the SIT
uation IN the afternoon. Berlin az
vices were to the eject that Russia
was offering rye and barley heaVlly toI
fail shipment, and as this was contrary
10 previous Russian advices the news
was rather dIscouragtng 10 holders
and started liquidation. which became
heavy toward the close. September
gradually declined to 73h 973Sc, but
rallied on covering to 7sl5c, which was
the closing price. ..,..., ,.x
cars. compared with s. cars the year be-
fore Chicago receipts were 81 cars.
Aggregate western primary receipts
amounted to $4,000 bushels, compared
with l75, 1000 bushels year ago. sea-
board cleafaneeS or WHEAT 1Al4 AS0A
were equal TO 773,000 bushels.
Corn was moderately active ana weak:
following closely the fluctuations OF
wheat. There was free selling by ele-
vator interests and scattered realizing.
weather was favorable, and the receipts
continued large. Local receipts were
6f1 cars. September ranged from &c 70
S4kc, and closed %64tc net lower a. &c.
oats were firm and higher early, a
good cash demand sustaining prices
Later the market weakened somewhat
IN sympathy with wheat Crop reports
were favorable. Local receipts were II
cars, September ranged from 20Me to
2OX 620Ic, and closed hc lower az
20isc.
Provisions were active and Irregular:
The market advanced early ON good
general demand. owing TO moderate hog
receipts and higher yard prices. Later
a heavy realizing movement carried the
prices steadily downward. The close
was steady az slight decline; September
pork 2Ikc lower at 50 20; September lard
PIC lower at IS 45 and September Fibs
Sc lower at IS 90.
Estimated receipts Tomorrow:
Wheat, 80 cars; corn, $50 cars oats
225 cars: hogs, 10000 head.
The leading futures ranged as kouoR1:
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-14
Santiago Quarantined.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA. July ~
General Leonard Wood, in command Of
the department Of Santiago issued gen.
eral order No. "a to-day. establishing
absolute quarantine. All oficers Of the
government and employees are forbid
den to enter the city with the excep-
tion Of those belonging to the depart
ment Major Carr and Surgeons Men
doza and NuneZ are detailed to take
charge of the fever patients in the city.
which Is placed under strict regula-
tons. Other officers will have charge
OF the yellow fever hospital on the is
land. The mayor is directed to close
oil American hotels and saloons, TO for
bid other liquor dealers TO sell intoHl-
cants and To arrest all intoxicated
Americans or loIterers in saloons. The
principal hotels and saloons are deslg-
mated by name.