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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-23
CITIZENS CITY CONVENTION.

AS per call, the convention met In
the court room Monday evening. and
organized by the election of /. N.
Woodward as chairman and Ed. F.
Winterburg secretary.
D. c. Luce, Ed. S. Marx and c. F.
Diffenbacher were appointed commit
tee on credentials. Credentials from
the four wards were presented. passed
upon by the committee and report
adopted.
Motion made and carried that candi-
dates be named before the convention,
before balloting. On motion first
ballot to be an informal one.
For City Marshal, R. T. Ewalt. P.
Cooprider and M. M. Meek were
placed in nomination. Mr.. Cooprider
withdrew his name. saying he would be
candidate before the republican con-
vention. Informal ballot-Ewalt ~,
Meek "a. Cooprider I.
First formal ballot Ewalt SO.
Meek IL. Cooprider I. r. T. Ewalt
nominated.
On motion the rules were suspended
and Frank Brown was nominated for
City Clerk.
For City Attorney. Jas. w. Clarke.
F. v. Russell and VIM. Osmond were
pls ced in nomination. Mr.. Clarke's
name withdrawn. Informal ballot
Osmond 4o3, Russell z23.
First formal ballot ot-Osmond 81,
Russell 1o. Osmond nominated.
For City Assessor. D. J. Newton,
Edwin Tyler. R. c. Bailey. 1. N.
Woodward and Theo. Dahm were
placed in nomination. Newton, Tyler
and Dahm withdrawn. Informal ballot
Woodward 224, Bailey 4e2.
First Formal-Bailey 81, Woodward
IS. R. c. Bailey nominated for
assessor.
For Street Commissioner, E. A.
Swift, A. ]. Street, ]. T. Airheart.
Tom Gilmore. and E. Price were
placed in nomination. Informal
ballot--Swift 16, Street IS, Airhart 7,
Gilmore 1o. and Price IS.
First Formal-Swift s. Street I3,
Alrheart q, Price rs, Gilmore IS,
Sowards z.
Second Formal-Swift I, Street II,
Airheart 4, Price Is, Gilmore 48.
Tom Gilmore nominated for Street
Commissioner.
The following central committee was
elected for the ensuing year: w. F.
Honnen Ist ward. r. A. Ewalt I'd,
E. S. Marx sd. 1. N. Woodward 4th.
Each ward then announced the
following
WARD NOMINEES:
FIRST WARD--For Council, long
term. Bert Barnett; short term. John
Durkin. For School board, w. F.
Honnen.
SECOND WARD--For Council. A. H.
Shaeffer. School board, F. M.
Russell.
THIRD WARD-For Council, D. c.
Luse. School board, DR.. H. E.
Lindas.
FOURTH WARD--For Council, H. L.
Shore. School board, W. R. Bunting.
Upon motion the convention
adjourned.
1. N. WOODWARD, Chairman,
ED. F. WINTERBURG, Secretary.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-23
CITIZENS TICKET.

For City Marshsl-R T. EWALT
For City Clerk-FRANK E. BROWN
For City Attorney-WM. OSMOND-
For ASSESSOR. c. BAILEY
For Street COmmissioner-THONASG GILMORE.
WARD CANDIDATES
WARD FOR COUNCIL. FOR SCHOOL BoARD.
First: BERT BARNETT W. 2. HONNEN
long term
JOHN DURKIS, short term.
Second: A. H SCHAEFFER FM RUSSEIL
Third: D. c. LUSE. II. 6. LINDAS.
Fourth: H. L. SHORE. W r BUNTING.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-23

Mrs EiiZ tbeth Vancil. wife of T.
Vancil, died on Friday March 10Th, at
the age of 81 years. one month and 81
days. of cancer. She has had long
and painful struggle, but the Death
Angel at last touched the weary body
and raIe ased the spirit from human
suffering. Mrs Vancil was among the
earlier settlers of Barton county, and
leaves a host Of fric nds to sVmpsth;ze
with the bereaved family. Besides the
husband and two sons, Charles and
Reuben, aad two daughters, Mrs.
Alice Brining OF E.ljn Eood, and
Mrs. Maud B,ilev of this city, survive
ber. A sister. Mrs. Lucinda Den6eld.
of Salins, was present during the last
month or more of Mrs Vancil's illness
Funeral services were conducted at the
81. +. church, at 8 p. M, Sunday
the l6 tn.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-23
THE "JOsHER" JOsHED.

| t1i0 QUIET ulSuU. he WouU UIleTo
to have some fun. Being some
what of a josher himself, he did
not want, "The Mysterious Trio"
to have the credit for making all
the fun. He, like most of the
audience, arrived early, and dur
ing the half hour of waiting for
the curtain to go up, Frank
amused himself and a circle of
acquaintances near him by MAX
ing witty remarks about an
immense, feather be-plumed,
ribbon bo-decked and regular
stunning hat which sat upon the
head of one of Great Bends
school mans directly in front of
him.
81 wish was not such a dumpy,
sawed off," said Frank. eff /
was 'steen feet taller l conld then
see over it," and he wiggled
about in his seat, tried to see
around the obstruction from
every side. 'These opera house
seats, ought to be movable, then
a fellow could slide to one side or
the other and see a little of the
STAGE" he commented. But the
feathers on that hat never hut-
tered. Then a string of comments
dropped out, such as: wonder
how much a big hat like that
cost?'' "Do you get onto the
curves of that largest plume?''
''Say the thing must be fourteen
feet across" finally remarking:
eff I just had such a hat as that
I'd rent it out for a billboard. :"
Then the curtain went up, and
the young lady reached two
nervy little hands up to that
hat, removed half a dozen stick
pins, and lifting the hat grace
fully from her well shaped and
neatly frizzled head, turned
around and addressing Frank
said: "Well, Mister, if you would
like to wear this hat a while you
can do SO; I have no use for it
while the performance is going
on"
Say, "did you notice it?"
Frank joshed no more. Hesettled
down in his seat as though one
of the Harvey eating house
biscuits had hit him, and he
would like to be off in some
quiet "Dell'' where the eyes of
his friends could pierce him nit.
! The DDMOCRAT is the official
paper for Barton county, and all
official county Matter that the
law requires printed will be found
in it, such as the commissioners
proceedings, road notices, state
ments of the treasurer, tax lists
and election proclamations all
legal notices as are paid for by
the county. Such legal notices as
sheriff sales, summons by publica-
tion, probate court notices, ETC.,
are not paid by the county and
are not required to be printed
in the official county paper. They
are often placed in such papers
as the attorneys and the officers
having them in chage designate.
We publish the list of real estate
transfers at our own expense,
and shall also establish a depart
ment OF illegal Notices in which
will be made known such other
facts of legal nature as are of
Importance to the public in the
future. Our aim is to make the
DEMOCRAT an important item in
tevery household in the county
WHY does peddler come to
your place? To do you goods
To help the neighborhood? To
save you money? To give yor
something? To pay your schoo
teacher or pay your minister
Observation-Disclosures
I Doctors !
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-23
A New Drought Resisting Crop.

The Kansas Experiment Station ha s
raised soy beans for the past II years,
having 40 acres planted in this crop in
1899. They find the soy bean to stan
the drought as we'll as sorghum or
Kafir-corn, it is not touched by chinch
bugs. the grain is a richer feed than
linseed meal and the plant enriches
the soil on which it is grown. Every
farmer who reads this paper should
pie Mt few acres this spring. Write
to-day to the Kansas Experiment
Station, Manhattan, Kansas, for
Bulletin No. 90 which gives full
Information in regard to planting,
GUILTY. ating, harvesting and feeding
soy beans. This bulletin is sent free
to all residents of Kansas who will
write for it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-23

The last few days of registration the
books will be at Hornbeck's g under the
Tribune off %, and open until 10
O'Clock in the evening. Do not neglect
to register.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-23


To work the roads or to feed
your stock? To put money in
your pocket? Because you sent
for him or her? Not much.
Every peddler comes to your
door to make money off you. If
you doubt this, tell the next one
| that comes, you have no money.
viii not sign anything nor allow
a thing left on your place that
you do not pay for on the spot.
See how quickly he will sweetly
say "good dayr'-Paola Spirit.
Mr.. PRPENoE, who owns the
majority of the stock of the
Topeka Capital company. says
the paper will be continued on
the lines laid down by Mr.
Sheldon, as a religious daily,
Major Joe Hudson, who has a
contract to edit the Capital for a
series of years at a salary of
$5, a year, says he will not
have it that way; says he could
no more edit a religious daily
than he could edit a populist or
democratic daily. The Major is
at least candid in admitting that
a moral, straightforward, plain
speaking daily cannot be a
republican daily. And in this
admission he leaves the inference
that such a daily paper is too
much like democracy or populism
for his black republican code of
morals. There is indeed pretty
row going on in the Daily Capital
office.
THROUGH the courtesy Of VIM.
FL. Barnes secretary of the State
Horticultural Societyo of Kansas
we have received a copy of the
proceedings of the 33d annual
meeting, held at Topeka in
December last. Any one desiring
to refer to it will find it at this
fofice. The report credits Barton
county with having bearing fruit
trees to the number of S4,O40,
and young trees not yet bearing
81, ,O12.
THIS city is too large, has too
bright a future before it, TO be
forever experimenting with this
or that fad which shifting public
opinion may apparently demand.
A policy was outlined last year,
and public affairs have been con-
Quoted upon those lines in such a
manner as to bring tangible
results. Let us elect public Of
ficers this spring who will be a
help to the furtherence of the
good work, not a hindrance.
ELSEWHERE in this issue will
be found the citizens, non-par-
tisan city ticket which will be
before the voters of Great Bend
for election April Sd. The
DEMOCRAT can endorse each and
every one of the gentlemen there
on named, as being amply well
QUALIFIED to fill the positions they
are named for. They are all
representative men, and men
who can be trusted to carefully
look after the material as we'll as
moral interests of the city.
John Davis, of Junction City, shas
recently gone blind No one, not a
member Of his family, regrets this
more than does tha editor of the Spirit.
Mr.. Davis has made most deservin g
record in Kansas as an editor and bis
record in Washington as Congressman
from the Fifth District was clean
one. He followed the right as he saw
the right in everything. from the stand
point Of a thirdparty man VINO was
among he first of Greenbackers and
the last OF Populists. a sincere sd
vocate, a hard worker aud a true
gentleman dropped out of the actiYt
army of ref Jrmers when MF. Davis
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-03-23

EIitcr Carr. OF Hoisington, was / I
Great Bend Saturday.
The age-herald., 1900-08-19
IN HOTEL LOBBHES AND ELSEWHERE.

Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for this day, Sunday, August 19, 1900:
 Ask favors in the evening""
 Thou wilt have favorable year for thy business, and it will increase; those in employ will get promoted
 "A child born on this day will he very successful in employ, and will be clever and fortunate"
 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for Mon day, August 20 1900:
 Keep quiet and run no risks
 Thou hast shocking birthday, and wilt get to law and quarrel, and suffer sickness and disappointment. Keep thy business well in hand, and run no risks in any way"
 "A child born on this day will be quick and clever, but will not turn it's talents to the best account; it will be fiery in tenn per, and unfortunate. If a female in much danger of disgrace and an unhappy mar riage."
 Bake bread; brew strong drink hire maid servants; go a-fishing."
 
 MT. E. D. Williams has done great serv- ice for Birmingham by organizing a most excellent company for light opera and sue cessfully conducting it through several weeks of summer weather at Lakeview. Guided by practical energy and clear headedness, and intelligent appreciation of music and conception of the more refined public taste, MT. Williams has not only succeeded in this local amusement under taking, but has made sure and safe the way for permanent summer opera in Bir- y,oi, ,oJ,o a will 6p- mand opera at Lakeview throughout the warm weather, and MT. Williams will be in position to do even better than he has done this year. Yet 1t would be difficult to conceive how he could more thoroughly
The age-herald., 1900-08-19

but 54,Ss7. Here is scheme, friends and fellow citizens, that keeps Vermont steady in the Republican faith. when even Mas sachusetts and Iowa wobble, and keeps the vote down to the views of the boards of civil authority in the several townships. Our own Black Belt has been mapping when 1t let so simple and perfect a plan go un- utilized. All hail to the Vermont plan
 Boards of civil authority in this section might be very arbitrary, but so long as they have Vermont as a packer all would be well, for none of the spelbinders and editors who train under Mark Hanna and William Mckinley are denouncing the Yer mont plan The comprehensiveness and sub lime simplicity, not to say audAcity of the plan comments it, and rush toward 1t may be expected. Vermont has blazed the way, and Dixie will step along lightly to her ballot box minuet.
The age-herald., 1900-08-19
In Camp at East Lake.

tented city was yesterday established at East Lake, where the Third Regiment of the National Guard went into camp for a weeks stay and drill and study. The Second Regiment will take its place next Saturday.
 Much has been done toward making the annual encampment of these regiments pleasant and profitable. Under the super vision of Colonel Tom O, Smith, the beau- tiful park has been put in excellent condi- ton; tents have been put up, and good floors placed in them, water has been sup piled, and the drainage looked after. All is in good shape at the camp.
 It is customary to consider these encamp- ments as annual frolics, but they are much more than that-they are schools of in struction, especially to the new recruit, who has never seen service in the field. He gets a foretaste of army life in these regimentaI encampments, and he becomes accustomed to drills and movements of regimental pro- portions. They are well worth all they cost and the State cannot afford to dis- pense with them.
The age-herald., 1900-08-19
Chief mulIin Before City Council.

The acquittal of Chief Mullin by vote of 12 to relieves a competent official from all charges of malfeasance, and the people of this town will rejoice over the verdict, for Chief Mullin is an official who cannot well be spared from the care of the prop erty against one of it's most dangerous en- emies. Fire is a good servant, says the proverb, but a dangerous master, and Chief Mullin has long been engaged in re- ducing the dangers to minimum.
 The verdict of the City Council does not, however, render less important the need of a better system of handling and ae- counting for public property. The charges against Chief Mullin sprang from slipshod methods of handling public property; and If the recent trial ends in the establishment of more thorough methods in this respect, much will have been gained beyond the vindication of a capable and popular of ficer
The age-herald., 1900-08-19
Still Another Plan,

The esteemed Memphis Commercial-Ap- peal has been delving in distant soil, and has unearthed another plan whereby suf- frage reform may be constitutionally ac- compllshed. We say constitutionally ad- visedly, for surely anything that time has sanctioned in Vermont would be sustained by the United States supreme court as it is a present constituted. This plan should be known as the Vermont plan in contra distinction of the heredity plan of Louis- ana or the trickery plan of Mississippi.
 In Vermont no registration is required; all "those who have not obtained the appreciation of the board of civil authority of the town in which they reside" are ex- cluded from the ballot box. How feasible especially in the south! How undemocratic and autocratic, so to speak, too! How simple. And of course, being a law of Yer mont, how constitutional!
 The beautiful manner in which the Yer mont plan operates Is shown by a compar- ison of the two States that are like two cherries on single stem, New Hampshire and Vermont. Each has two representatives in Congress. The population of each is about $50 900; and yet in 1898 New Hamp- shire cast 2,4S3 votes. while Vermont cast
The age-herald., 1900-08-19
BY IUCIEN JULIEN WALKER

Seekers after the god of gold create the dreamers and workers in art for love of art make the world worth inhabiting The man of multiplied millions never allowed himself six holidays; but all his piled up gold were not worth an hour of a dream CTS life. Yet the dreamer is the greatest creator of material as well as spiritual wealth. It does not follow that the man who tolls for his daily bread shall not be a dreamer and singer. Burns was a plowman. Whitman was a printer. Dis raeli was a novelist. Carnegie sings love ditties and dances the Highland fling. Car dnal Newman wrote poetry Gladstone read even Humphrey Ward. Balfour is pianist. Roseberry revels in Shelley and Keats.
 That man who doesn't sing, love to hear the singing of others, and he who doesn't dream, or is not fond of dreams from sources without himself-who can't enjoy holiday and love to hear the hirds singing in wood and field-such men cum Der the earth in delving in muckheaps for diamonds.
 50 nall to the singers, the dreamerS, the poets! They make the earth beautiful. So hail to singer Robert Loveman, coming over the dawn-kissed hills with his Book of Verses and his heart of song and love and life and light!
 When song-brd thoughts within his heart Make melody sublime,
 The Poet snares them by his art Into a cage of rhyme. And there the captive fancies beat Their wings against the bars,
 The music, soft and low and sweet
 Ascending to the stars.
 Yet evermore they long to be
 Back where the surges roll,
 Untamed, unfettered, wild and free,
 Within the Poets soul
 That is exquisite. It is a sort of key of melody to unlock the poets greater stores: and assuredly he is rich in all that is worthy to be called riches Of his wealth he gives us goodly share, and thus he en-
The age-herald., 1900-08-19

please pleasure-seekers than he pleased them during the delightful weeks closed last night.
 lH general terms, the public is afraid of hastily and ill-organized amateur theatrical performances, and justly so perhaps; for of all forms of refined torture the average amateur stage-player is master of the most torturing. To witness any honest young person who may not be equipped for the stage struggling, stammering, and halting through scenes not understood or compre- hended is enough to make one physically very uncomfortable and mentally very un- happy.
 On the contrary, there is more of real en- joyment to be had of one act cleverly per- formed by amateur young women, es- pecially, than by observing a week of merely ordinary professional playing. And this clever amateur acting is just what MT. Williams provided in abundance at Lakeview. The old lover of the play, grown weary of half lifetime of playgoing, found truly delightful entertainment at Lakeview. It was more than simply clever: it was most excellent and most admirable. Every evening 1t greatly pleased those who saw and heard; and the passing of the play from Lakeview will be regretted by the thousands of women and men who have been so agreeaby entertained there this summer. Dear little Yum Yum, and Oli- vette, Katsha Poobah, Koko, and all the rest-they all of them will be missed!
 Under your heading Tn Hotel Lobbies and Elsewhere in today's Herald, writes Hon. Cecil Browne, under date of Tallade- ga, Aug. r, "I was surprised to find a statement attributed to Mir. Mardis Wood to the effect that I was a candidate for nomination for Congress in the Fourth Dis trict in 1894. when MT. Wood was nomin-
The age-herald., 1900-08-19
THE KAIsER'S CHINESE TROOPS

From the London Leader.
 The German authorities are gaining their first experience of preparing an expedition for lover the sea-
 The military force they are getting ready for authorization to China will number about 15,000 of all arms.
 The soldiers are clad in an improved khaki clcth but of still more hideous color than our own. The color is plum colored; ; the shoulder straps are white, on which appear the regimental number in red. The ample sun hat is of dark green, with plum colored badge. The buttons are covered with yellow leather.
 The commander of this foreign division is Major General Von Lessel.
 It is interesting to note the accoutre- ments of the troops. The rifle is the Mau- ser of the newest pattern-viz, 1898. It is a weapon far superior to that in the hands of the Boers.
 The barrel and woodwork are so narrow at the breech end that it is hard to believe that there is a magazine inside deep enough to hold the clip with five cartridges If, otherwise, then the German gunsmiths have produced weapon of superb light ness and finished appearance, apart from its shooting qualities.
 Most noteworthy however, in the fight ing equipment of the German foreign serv- ice soldier is the length of the new bayo- net. It is over two and one-half feet long.
 Then putties as leg coverings are dis carded. It is good that in order to face the Chinese winter, Fritz has obtained a pair of substantial well soled yellow leath- CT knee boots.
 Observe, too, that his water bottle is suspended by a swivel catch from a ring at the base of the valise. What an ad- vantage to our method of a water bottle strapped under belt and behind bayonet frog, where it cannot be moved when Tommy Atkins lies on his face under close rifle fire! The artillery are accompanied with howitzers. They are much clumsier weapons than our own 6-inchers They are intended to breach the walls of Pekin city, where at the base they run to fifty feet thickness.
The age-herald., 1900-08-19

ated I cannot see how Mr. Wood could have made such mistake, and think you must have msquoted him.
 "I was not a candidate in 1884, and by this statement I do not mean simply that my name did not go before the convention, but that I was at no time a candidate nor a probable candidate for that nomination."
 MT. Brownes inference that Mr Wood was misquoted, inadvertently or otherwise is erroneous.
 The Hon. Walter Melville Drennen Mayor of Birmingham, has been appointed chairman of the national committee of Elks, named for the purpose of selecting some one of the American cities in which shall be builded the proposed National Hall of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States; and the Mayor will proceed to the east to preside over the committees first meeting. This honor to Mayor Drennen is another striking proof of the high place Birmingham holds in the councils of the great order of Elks; an- other Birmingham man, Hon. B. M. Allen, being the retiring Grand Exalted Ruler Mir. Drennen deserves the honor, and therefore the Elks have made a wise selection. He is remarkably successful young man, and will bring to the exercise of his new duties that sound and practical business knowl- edge which is so essential to the success of every practical undertaking. The Mayor of Birmingham will give the committee over which he presides good ad- vice. The members will no doubt give heed
 IIl ndreds of Birmingham folk left town yesterday to spend Sunday in the country, Blount Springs, St. Clair Springs, and Sulphur Springs, DeKalb being the prin- cipal points of attraction.
 Richard F. Johnston is spending Sunday with his family at Cooks Spring.