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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05

"'And can't you get hold of any
cash?'
mot easily
Then there is not any money in
the country?'
"'Well, l guess that's about the size
of it.
I took the $4.65 and went to town
and redeemed the rifle. Then we re-
sumed our journey to Chetopa, La
bette county, where We started for
when we left Indiana. Here / found
a money order for $25 and was in
clover. [ wagoned about the country a
while, and finally went back 10 Labetts .
county, where | took up a claim. In
1880 l turned the farm over &, ,.,v
father and moved to Chetopa."
Mr.. Breidenthal was emnloved
in the real estate office of
j. b. Cook, and afterwa, d
became a partner in the business
In 1894 they incorporated loan com.
pany. He was i'll this business and
prospered moderately well, adevotine
all his spare time. energies and means
to promulgating the reform ideas
which he always championed. In 1896
he left Chetopa to help Mr.. Hoffman in
the Topolobampo enterprise In 1892
he was made chairman of the popu.
list state committee. 1t was here that
his abilities as political organizer
first attracted general attention. He
managed the campaign with marvellous
energy and good judgment. In 1884,
energy and good Judgment. He man
aged the campaign again in 1894, bur
owing to the absence of fusion with
the democrats Lewelling was defeated
state chairman, and it was largely by
his knowledge of the state and its peo.
pie, that the state was carried for Bry
an and the fusion state ticket. He re
signed the Craftsmanship voluntarily ir
1897.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05

An Usage county banker wrote: "A
the time you made that order we owed
100000 to outside banks and we had
contemplated increasing it to $125,OOO
We succeeded in cutting it down to $50,
900 before the panic, and even when an
immediate demand was served on us
for this amount it kept us sweating
blood for day or two whether we
could keep af1oat or not. If We had
had $4,000 or even 100000, outstand.
ing our bank would not be here TODAY
to tell the story. You saved our life
The banker who boasted that he
had been in business twenty years and
had never failed yet, sent word: ''Tell
Breidenthal he taught me more about
banking during the first ninety days he
was in office than / learned in twenty
years"
This incident did much to inspire
the confidence of the Kansas bankers
in Mr.. Breidenthal and that confidence
has grown and deepened every wear
since. He has weeded out wild cat
and irresponsible banking institutions
and placed the state and private banks
OF Kansas on such an absolute safe
basis that they are preferable to the
national banks as safe repositories of
the peoples money. A comparison of
the deposits in the two classes of banks
in Kansas will bear out this statement.
Mr.. Breidenthal has been strict dis
ciplinarian but the bankers see now
that it has been for their own good.
They have no complaint to make as to
the way they are treated
Often he has found bank the con-
dftion of whose affairs justify him in
closing its doors. But he has said:
Make weekly reports to me, showing
steady Improvement of your condi-
ton, and if they are sufficiently en-
couraging, my Office will permit you to
continue" Only once has bank been
closed after being allowed this period
of grace.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05

Every rooster not intended especially
Tor breeding should be killed or sold as
soon as large enough to eat Not over
one good rooster should be kept on any
farm, and that one cooped and mated
with not to exceed ten hens, the eggs
from those hens to be kept expressly
for Matching. The other hens should
be kept especially for eggs for market
or table use, and no rooster should he
allowed among them. On the ordinary
farms about one-tenth OF the fowls are
roosters, which Is about nine times as
many az necessary.-Farm and Fire
sidas
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05

Sibley county Minnesota. NAV have
performed no memorable achievements
before or since. but it has claim to
distinction by reason of being the
birthplace OF John w. BreidenthaI.
1t happened June %, 1857. Soon after
the war the Breidenthals moved to q
farm not many miles from Terre
Haute, Ind. 1t was here that he re-
ceived most of the meager schooling
allotted him. He quit school on
his 18th day in order to hustle for
himself.
In 1877, when he was twenty wears
gfc =. 1hn Breidenthal came to Kansas
n - IndiaIi to find home for him.
self and the others of the family. He
came in company with John Howard. a
neighbor. Their capital stock consist.
ed OF two horses, mule and a shot
gun. At Lamar, Mo-, Breidenthal sold
his gun, powder horn and shot pouch
for 81, which was sufficient to last
them until they reached Erie, in Neo-
sho county. Their first employment
was given them by old ESQUIRE
Williams, who agreed to pay s1250 per
thousand for making fence posts on
his timber land. In telling of his ex-
Perience of those early days Mr.. Brei-
denthal says:
In few days we had made S4.65.
and old Squire Williams appeared on
the scene and wanted to pay us off and
quit. L protested, saying we had a con-
tract with him. But he persisted, saw
ing that he had the cash to paw for
what we had done, but could not raise
$3.50.
but you said the other day that
there was plenty of money in the coun-
try for men who were willing to work.
Yes, ! know l did,
Now you say You can't raise
$3.50
Yes
You own this land?'
Yes
And horses and stock and other
property
Yes
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05

Napoleon Objected TO BEING Watched
One of the Talks With Napoleon"
nuoted from DR.. D'Meara's diary in
The Century records Napoleon's indig-
nation at being, as he considered it.,
spied upon while living ~ G.
II understand" said he chat an
officer is placed here to report about
me and to see two or three times in
the "a hours and that they are talking
of making him go into my chamber
to see me II / did not come out. ANY
person., said he then, with consider
able agitation, who endeavors to
force his way into my apartment will
be corpse the moment he meters it.
II he ever eats bread or meat after
ward. am not Napoleon. This 1 am
determined on.
II know that / will be killed after
ward, as what can one do against a
camp? But what of that? For I have
faced death many time Besides l
am convinced that this governor, this
chief OF jailers. has been sent out on
purpose to poison me or put me to
death some way or another or under
some pretext by Lord Castlereagh.
II have seen," continued he, rus.
slams, Prussians, Arabs. Cossacks. Tar.
tars. Spaniards, Persians Turks
(here he enumerated a great many
more), "and never in my life before
did / behold SO I'LL favored and forbid.
ing countenance or SO down and
horrid look. He carries crime i'm
printed on his countenance. Oh porte
ie crime emprint sur son visage.) He
IS man, to pudge from his physilo
ognomy. that one would select for the
committal of any atrocious crime and
az such has been selected out by your
ministers, suppose, on purpose te
lmnke hway with Ne."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05
Re.ourceful cb,naman.

|, Speaking ofChinamen "saad prom.
INERT voung phisfcfan of New Orleans
"a Htif1e incident occurred in nv prac.
tlce the other night that Is a good IL
iustration of their peculiar resource
fulness. I was summoned. at a late
horr. to attend the wife of well-to-
do Chinese storekeeper who had been
taken with sudden and severe tem-
orrhage. IT was a case that required
prompt treatment and I asked the
husband whether he could get me
some warm water-'ouick.' His face
was perfectly stolid and impassive. SO
it was impossible to tell whether he
appreciated the situation; but he said
yes promptly enough. and shuffed
out OF the room. Now. I wonder
what that Chinamam understands bv
the word quick I said to mvself.
and ait lie next moment I heard him
working a pump in the back ward
This was discouraging. for I lonew
perfect1v we'll there was no fire in the
house at such an hour. and mentally
calculated how long it would take him
TO start the stove to going ana to get
water at least tepid. But I did nv
man an injustice. I'm less t6me than If
takes me to tell it. he had returned to
the kitchen with a small nail half full
and. picking up a hot fiarttron from q
shelf where it had been deposited
when he au1t work litfle while be
fnre. he dropped IT into the water
Their he repeated the operation with
two nr three others. each iron sizzling
as it went IN. and in not TO exceed 3
mfntfte he had the steaming pail at
the bedside. The patient pulled
through all right. but wonder how
MANY American husbands would have
displayed that much presence of mind
in an emergency"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05
Automatic Alarm Tr.n.m,..er

The fire alarm telegraph Of the fire
department in New York recently in
stalled "a new transmitter. costing S..
300. Tt will be used for sending ont
fire alarms and will operate automat-
icallly. Uuder the old system there
were three different instruments, re-
quirfng three operators. The new in
strument needs only one operator and
win do the work Of three instruments
Chief Of Fire Alarm Telegraph Black
well saws that it Is the finest instru-
ment of its kind in the world.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05
wANrEp[A GRANDMAMMA.

A little three-year-old Iaddie who had
gone with his papa and mamma from
an eastern to a western home. sadly
missed his grandmamma. and one day
his mother, who had been too busy to
give usual attention to the small man,
saw him make a hole In the ground
and put an old daguerrotype of his
grandmamma therein. 'why, what are
you doing. baby?" she asked. IT
fought" he said, with a quivering lip
and q world OF pent-up loneliness in
his voice as he tried to explain, maybe
II ! planted It anozzer granama'd
Grows"-9eleote9
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05

Missionaries who arrived a. H.
kong from the province of Hnnan ,.;s.
reports of terrible suffering and -. go
IONS endured there. In escaping, one
oI rnem' according to the Chicago Rec
oru correspondent, was carried 400
nales m coffin, the Chinese, out of
.ne veneraflon for the dead, not insist
fng on a close scrutiny.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05
BEEF FOR TOMMY ATKINS.
British Government Orders 1000 n.r.
reis from the Swift Packing Co.

reis from the Swift Packing Co.
queen Vic always has her hands full
When it isn't an Indian mutiny, or an
Ashanti rebellion, it is trouble in the
Transvaal or in some of her island
possessions. And now comes tbe
Chinese muddle. But your Uncle John
Bull has been in the fighting game a
long time, and he is onto all the moves
He knows how to discipline his army
how to general it, how to equip it
and, most important of all, he knows
how to feed it. An order has been
recently placed with Swift and Com.
pany, the well known American pack
ers, for 1000 barrels of their Extra
Prime Mess Beef, for immediate shin.
ment to Hong Kong, and soon the
"bloomin' Britishers will be smack.
ing their lips over this PRODUCES
pure. clean, and wholesome, as we in
America can testify.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05

Judge Eugene s. Elliott, Of Milwau-
kee, welf-known as the originator OF
the American Whist Club. win play
no more except for an occasional So
cfal game. He has decided that his
days for match games are over.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05

The tension produced by affairs in
China will not be relieved until it Is
known definitely whether Queen An in
her flight struck an Doom Paul or an
Axuinaldo pace.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05
HOSTILE DIvINIrIEs

First Chinaman-Kwan, the great
god Of war, has commanded US to de-
stroy the foreign devils.
Second Chinaman-And they claim
that their god desires them to subdue
China in the interests Of religion.
First Chinaman-Say, why couldn't
we let the gods fight it out themselves?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05

Lord Kitchener IS Freemason of
Mgn degree land holds the office Of l,;s. :.
slacs grand master Of Egypt and The
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05

The rich man who has nothing to
do and the poor man who can get mo-
thfns - % ere bokh - BE pitieds
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-05

A baker says that the dough is the
knead of the hour.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-15
TWELVE TO FORTY MILLIONS.
Wall street Estimates of the Value of
Huntington's Estate.

NEW YORK, Aug 1.-THE Press to-mor-
estimated Mr.. Huntington's wealth at sl2,-
100000 to $40 ,00O He had been at times
the largest borrower I'm the money center.
and in 1894 was so involved that rumors
were current that his failure was threat
ened. But in the last six years he had re-
duced his obligations. and the wave of
prosperity that swept over the country
three years ago enabled him to sell many
of the securities that he had been CARRYING
with borrowed money.
Probably the best informed man on Mr..
Huntington's affairs is Russell Sage. the
streets biggest money lender. Mr. Sage
said some significant things about his deal
ings with Mr.. Huntington yesterday. In
referring 10 Henry Clews's estimate that
Mr.. Huntington was worth s400000o0 he
said You can cut that in half. | regard
so 100000 as a liberal estimate Mr. Sage
continued. My dealings with him were
enormous. and l have had intimate knowl-
edge of Mr.. Huntingtons affairs. had his
or seven years he reduced his loans by half.
and in the last twelve years his business
affairs had been adjusted so that they are
in fine shape now. There is nothing 10 dis
turb the business situation through Mr..
Hmtingtons death. Mr.. Huntingdon s
debts 10 me have been discharged In a
most honorable manner. lie was . strong
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-15
CHINA MUST PAY INDEMNITY.
For Every American Killed Their,
Must he Heavy Recompense.

WASHINGTON, Aug. IA high govern
ment official said to-day that the indem-
nifty which the United States would demand
Tor every American citizen killed or MANNED
10y the Chinese during the present trouble
would be sufficient comfortably to support
their families for the remainder of their
lives. This government does not want
province. town. village or a single square
foot of Chinese territory as indemnity
said the official who is close to the Presi-
dent. There is but one indemnity whicn
they can give our people and that is
monetary indemnity TO the families Of their
American victims. For every one Of thesc
China must pay a sufficient sum to keeI
their families from want during their lives
This government will exact assurances OF
a satisfactory character that such a stat,
Of affairs as now exists i'm China shall not
again occur. The nature OF these assurances
will be determined later. The collection of
indemnity may prove difficult and It may be
decided. although so far the proposition has
not been considered. 10 station warships in
the harbors of the principal cities and Of
ficials within these cities 10 watch the
revenues and protect the interests of the
'h'cu o'ateS, IL neeu pe' ny taxing cnarse
OF such revenues and reserving some por-
tion of them 10 apply 10 the indemnity
I'm addition 10 requiring assurances OF
restoration of order and the strictest pre-
cautions TO prevent a similar state of af
fairs in the future a small body OF troop.
may be necessary TO protect the officials
stationed at these ports. IL this plan should
he adopted the different governments
doubtless will cooperate. Efforts will be
made. OF course. to trace the responsibility
of the recent outbreak. but IL will be diff
ficult task. as there will be little disposition
among the Chinese TO tell the truth especi-
ally when 1t would implicate one of their
number. The Chinese cannot be punished
unfortunately for the atrocities. but
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-15
j. j. INGALLS, VERY ILL
FORMER KANSAS SENATOR THOUGHT
TO BE FATALLY STRICKEN.
Has Been Suffering with n Throat
Affection for Over Year, and
Is Now in New Mexico.

ATCHISON, Kan, Aug. H.-Ex-Unite
States Senator John j. Ingalls,, who is in
Las Vegas. n. NJ, for his health. is sink
ing rapidly and his son Sheffield to-day
started for the bedside or his father A
telegram from Mrs. ingalls, received here
to-day announced the serious condition of
Mr.. ingalls,, who has been in the Southwest
for over year for a throat difficulty. 1t
has been believed here for three months
that he was fatally i'll.
Ellsworth ingalls,. the eldest son. who is
at Sioux Falls, S. D., has been notified and
will start Immediately for New Mexico
Ralph Ingalls, another son, is now serving
in the Philippines as commissary OF Kan
sas regiment.
Ex-senator ingalls, has suffered from
throat trouble since March, 1899. when on
the advice of physicians, he gave up his
work at Washington and returned to Atchi-
son with his family. He placed himself un-
der the care of a specialist but grew no
better and was advised to go South. He
travelled through Arizona and New Mexico.
Two months ago he prepared to return
home Physicians were consulted and ad-
vised him not 10 leave Las Vegas soon
thereafter Mrs ingalls, joined her husband
and has remained constantly at his side
Ex-senator Ingalls's second daughter, Mrs.
Robert Porter Shck, died at Reading, Pa,
shortly after Mr.. ingalls, went South and
he was then too sick TO attend the funeral
A dispatch from East Las Vegas, n. NJ,
says: Ex-senator ingalls, has decided to
return to Atchison soon after the arrival
of his sons, now en- route here. He says
he feels able to travel. although he is very
thin and weak"
John James ingalls, was born at Middle
ton Essex county Massachusetts, Dec %
iSS3: was graduated at Williams College
Williamstown. Mass. In 1855 and received
the degree of LII. ID. in 1854: admitted to the
bar I'm 1851; removed 10 Kansas In October,
1855; a delegate 10 the Wyandotte constitu-
tional convention in 1883: secretary of the
territorial council i'm 1860; secretary of the
state Senate in 1851; member of the state
Senate of Kansas from Atchison county
in 1862: major. lieutenant colonel and Judge
advocate Kansas volunteers In 1856:
elected TO the United States Senate as a
Republican to succeed s. c. Pomeroy Re-
publican: took his seat March l. 1873 and
was twice reelected His term OF service
expired March }. 1891. Since his retirement
he has written largely for periodicals and
has been a notable hgure on the lecture
platform.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-15

the military situation near Peking, but not
a word came nor did Admiral Remey send
anything on the situation. The last from
General Chaffee came from Ho-Si-Wu. and.
according TO calculations, he must now be
very near Peking. The officials are taking
into account that an advance to Peking
leaves much still TO be accomplished. 1t
was stated to-day by official who has
lived at Peking that nothing shor; of the
heaviest artillery could make any impress
sion on the walls OF the imperial city.
The walls are fifty feet high and wide
enough on top for two coaches to pass
abreast. From an offensive standpoint the
walls afford opportunity for planting guns.
while from a defensive standpoint they
could not he preached except by the use
OF very heavy projectiles.
Although the situation admits of the
prospect of an assault on Peking. yet gov
ernment officials were decidedly more hope
ful to-day that solution of the Chinese
problem would be found without recourse
TO such heroic measures. The improved
feeling Is based largely on the belief that
China. realizing that the sacred capital is
about to be besieged by the armies of the
world. will yield everything and that the
of the allies.
The attitude of the United States concern
ing the landing of British troops at Shang-
hal has been made known to the foreign
governments through their representatives
here. This has had the effect of practi-
cally eliminating the United States from
the question. Neither the French nor the
German government is disposed to accept
calmly the landing or the British troops,
and II is understood that strong representa-
tions from France and Germany are now
being made at London. AS summed up by
a well informed diplomat these are that for
every British marine landed at Shanghai
France and Germany would also land ma
rine. 1t is felt, moreover, that the issue
involved relates not only TO Shanghai, but
virtually to the control of the entire Yang
Tse-Kiang valley, known as the paradise of
China.
Foreign governments have manifested
desire also TO learn the views of the United
States concerning the instructions of Rus
STA to her minister at Peking. NJ. De Giers.
In response to inquiries here it has been
made known that this government looks
| upon the course of Russia as substantially
| the same as that of the United States and
| that the powers are, therefore, acting I'm
| substantial unanimity.
The fact that the Chinese government
has not yet replied to the American note
| of Aug. s. makes II seem questionable
whether she intends TO do so. Even allow
| ing for delays in transmission. there has
been abundant time for reply to be trans
mitted, and its absence is causing some re-
marks in the State Department 1t is re-
| garded as quite possible that both the Adee
note of Aug. and the subsequent reply of
the State Department to the Chinese edict
announcing the appointment of Ii Hung
| Chang as peace envoy. may be now hung
up in Shanghai, through fear on the part
| of Ii Hung Chang as TO his own fate If
such documents are forwarded to the i'm
4 perial household.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-15
IN POVERTY HILL DISTRICT.
where Huntington Was Born and
His BoyhOOd Days.

The boyhood of Coils p. Huntington
was spent in Harwinton. Litchfeld county
Connecticut. where he was born, In an old
fashioned. dilapidated house in the Poverty
Hill district. The old house has been un-
occupied for years. and is now I'm the
last stages of decay. His mother was a
hard-working Christian woman. but his
father was man in whose makeup ambi-
tion had no part. He was a tinker, and
travelled about the country mending UNI
breilas and sharpening razors. The income
of the elder Huntington was far too mea-
ger TO supply the wants of hfs large fam
lily. and when Coils was ten years of
age his parents separated. Mrs. Hunting
ton made her home with friends and the
children were placed with families I'm the
town. Coils made his home with the fam
lily OF Orson Barber. Mrs. Barber was
an unusually intelligent woman. and TO
her training as Mr.. Huntington in the
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