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Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1900-02-15
St. Louis Mo-, Globe Democrat:
Congressman SibleY. OF PeunsYl-

St. Louis Mo-, Globe Democrat:
congressman Sibley, OF Pennsyl-
|vania who had just formally
come over to the republicans,
was one of the ablest and most
ardent of the Bryanite chieftains
lin 1896. He made many speeches
for Bryan in that canvass, and
|has spoken often since then on
the Bryanite side in congress.
Events, however, have shown S1b-
ley that he was wrong, and he
has got out of his old companion
ship. One difference between
men like Sibley and Bourbons
like Bryan is that the Sibleys
learn something from experience
while the Bryans do not. Many
|other influential Bryanites will
follow SSibiey out of their party
before election
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1900-02-15

The managers OF the Minnesota
state prison at Saltwater, have fixed
the price of binding twine, to farm
ers or actual consumers only, for
the ensueing year, at 1oc for pure
|sisal and 12H cents for sisal and ma
Mia il mixed. As they are supposed
Ito furnish twine for about the actual
cost, it is probable that Dakota con-
|sumers will have to pay considerable
above these prices. Turuer County
raises cora, hank you
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1900-02-15

very cheap. The printing is re-
markably brilliant. for there is
nothing in the electricity which
in any way may blur or make in
distinct.
In a nutshell the process, as
applied to regulation modern
press; is this:
A sheet of zinc or carbon sur
rounds the cylinder of the press,
or lies fat in the case of a fiat
bed press. Into this zinc a posi-
tive current of electricity is Sent.
To the type. or the stereotype
plate a negative current is sent.
AS the paper passes over the lace
of the type current Of electrl-
city flows through it. Wher-
ever the paper touches the type
or the block for illustration or
whatever is to be printed, the i'm
preston is produced by this sub
tie. mysterious agent; lnkiess
printing is accomplished.
In addition to the saving in ex-
pense, all types, blocks and the
like are kept as clean and bright
as though new; no washing is
necessary; no injury is caused by
the electric current to the finest
type faces or the most dellcately
engraved plates; and the current
is preservative OF the blocks
and plates.
should say that, setting aside
the obvious economic advantages
of the system, this remarkable
revolution in one OF the great
arts of the age, there is hardly
anything concerning it to be
hailed with greater satisfaction
by those who print the magazines
and books and newspapers of
| America than the fact that every
drop Of ink, every drahm of ben
zine, every pot of lye, all oil and
c1ea MIN o- cloths and brushes are
to be driven out of the esta blish-
ments where they have SO long
held tyrauuous sway--driven out
by this marvellous electrical pro-
lcess.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1900-02-15

The editors Of the Brookings
Register announce that they have
become convinced that country
newspaper cannot be successfully
maintained at subscription price OF
one dollar per year, and have added
the other fifty cents. The same is
being done by newspapers in nearly
all portions OF the country.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1900-02-15

Judge Bookings, one Of Dakota's
early settlers, has recently arrived in
Sioux Falls from his home in Boston,
and expects to remain some time,
looking after his interests in that city.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1900-02-15

The Irene News says that Viborg
is soon to have another newspaper.
From this end Of the line, can not
see any occasion for such an addi-
ton to the business Of the town.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1900-02-15

The percentage OF farmer members
Of Modern Woodmen of America is
said to be larger than any other society
in The. world. The exact ratio between
thesnrbans and suburban membership
is IS per cent; respectively.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1900-02-15

al neutrality of the canal. The
opposition, which claims that the
treaty will have to be amended
before it can be ratified, say the
o.. s. gets the worst OF the deal
all around; that the treaty recog-
nizes the Clayton-Bulwer treaty
as still in existence, when
two American Secretaries
of state--- Frelinghuysen and
Blaiue---had officially taken the
e ound that England had abroga-
ted it when it took possession of
what is now known as British
Honduras; that the U. S. gets the
privilege of building the canal
and maintaining it while Eng
land and all the rest of the world
will share equally in its use either
in peace or war. Meanwhile the
senate committee on foreign rela-
tions has the treaty under consid-
Grafton. Its report will have a
tendency to straighten out the
doubts If il be unanimous, or to
increase them if it be divided.
Senator Butler, of N. c., who
is the official head of the popu-
lists. made a speech this week,
against the constitutionality of
the proposed suffrage amendment
to the constitution of that state.
in which he took issue with Sena-
tors Morgan. of Ala; McEuery.
of La, and Money, of Miss, vino
have recently made speeches
arguing in favor of the amend
ment. which is similar to one
that is in force in their state.
Mr.. Butler said the proposed
amendment, besides disfranchis-
ing many negroes. would disfran-
chise 10000 illlterate white
voters.
Pressure in the ranks of the
majority has brought about the
reporting of an amendment to
the finance bill, by the senate
finance committee. distinctly
averriug that the bill is not it,
tended to place any obstacle In
the way of securing 1nternatlon-
al bimetallism. if it can be
brought about by concurrent ac-
tion OF the leading commercial
nations of the world at a ratio
wn,ch shall insure permaneuce of
relative value between gold and
silver. So far as practical re-
suits are concerned the ameni-
ment is regarded as meaningless.
Judge William H. Taft, of
Ohio, who has given up life
position as y. S. circuit Judge to
become head of the new Philip
pine commission, is thought to
ha. e been told that he would be
placed at the head of the civil
government to be established
over the Philippines as early as
| it becomes practical to do so.
The new commission expects to
start for Manila within a month.
It's principal duties for sometime
after its arrival in the Philip
pines will be the setting up of
local civil governments in the
towns and provinces, to be in the
hands of the natives. Judge
Taft says he will not remain in
the Philippines more than two
years.
Representative GrosyenOr, of
lOhio, reminded Representative
Shaffroth, of Colo, who was ask.
ing why the administration did
not offer to mediate between the
English and the Beers. under the
Hague treaty, ratified this weel,
by the senate, that the treaty
was not effective until the ratif
cations of the treaty had been ex
changed by the powers.
| Senator Chandler stated that
Tin Difference to the wishes of sen
[ators to keep the finance bill be
fore the senate he would not cal
DIP the Quay case this, week, a
he had announced his intention
to do
The Iola register., 1900-04-27
POLITICAL ACRORAIS.

One by one the so-called principl es
of Democracy are being dropped by the
leaders. At one time in the history of
the party it had a confession of faith as
long as the discipline of the Presby-
terry. In those days it meant some
thing to be a Democrat. Then the tar
if was a tax and the consumer paid it,
and one had to believe it if he sub
scribed himself II am a Democrat.
During the fight on the Porto Rican
tariff bill the leadeas of the party in a
vain endeavor to embarrass the admin
tstration, completely summersaulted
and gravely asserted that to impose a
duty of Is per cent of our present tari II
on the imports from Porto Rico into this
country was to impose an export duty
on the products of our newly adopted
children, we were taxing them when
they were not able to stand taxation,
that the foreigner paid the tax. Their
sympathy for the storm-swept island
ers was very pathetic. Cords of de-
nunciatory speeches were sent TO the
government printer.
The Porto Ricans were beloved by
the Democrats. But when President
McKinley's message was read, recon-
mending that the surplus of revenue
that had been collected prior TO the en-
actment of the new tariff bill, about
81, 900, 900 be turned over to the starv-
ing people of the island, lot sympathet-
ic Democrats, Populists and mis- fits re-
corded themselves as opposed TO the re-
lief measure.
Hypocrisy, deceit sensationalism,
jingoism and cussedness seem to have
supplanted the old confession of faith,
so that to-day TO be a Democrat one
must be against the government, right
or wrong, The "W. j. b." brand of
Democrat is peculiar.
The Iola register., 1900-04-27
THE COHORTS IN THE HANDS
OF THE BOSSES.

On the third day of March there was
a notable meeting in Topeka. 1t was
a meeting peculiar even in the history
of Kansas politics, where almost any.
thing is to be expected
II was a meeting of a few assumed
leaders of the "triune forces" as they
call themselves, for the purpose OF
mapping out a campaign which Is 10
be fought on no principle and whose
only ultimate object is the division OF
spoils.
The three alleged parties represented
at this meeting were the Populist
party, the Democratic party and the
Free Silver Republican party. There
is. of course, no such thing in reality
as the Free Silver Republican party.
1t is figment of the Imagination. a
pretense kept up by half dozen indi.
viduals in Kansas for the purpose of
furthering their own political ends,
We believe there were three members
of this so-called party present at this
meeting or conference.-the other three
members of the party were absent for
some reason.
These self-constituted leaders of the
triune forces, after a deal of talk and
dickering. proceeded finally TO make
an agreement by the terms of which
offices of the state are to be divided.
The Populist part of the triune is to
get the nominations for governor,
lieutenant governor, auditor, attorney
general, state uperintendent, con-
gressman-at-large and one Judge of the
court of visitation.
The so-called Democratic part of the
triune is to have the nominees for as
sociate justice, secretary of state,
treasurer, solicitor and one judge of the
court of visitation.
The six men in the state who make
up the free silver Republican end of
the triune are TO name the men to run
for superintendent of insurance and
one judge of the court of visitation.
The Democratic part of the triune
was represented by a we'll known rail
road lawyer, who seems to have got
just what he went after, provided the
deal can be carried out. He has ar
ranged 1T so that he can control the
court of visitation, which, although at
present IL seems to be left by the
United States court in a condition of
inocuous desuetude, is the only tribunal
provided for regulating the railroads.
He has also provided for the naming
of the candidate for associate justice
part of whose business will be to pass
on cases in which railroads are inter-
ested, He will also name the man
who will be run by the triune forces
for secretary of state, the one among
the state officials who especially looks
after the charters of corporations.
The railroad attorney, Jim Orr, who
also represented his well known part
ner, Bailie Waggener, is to be con-
graduated on his astuteness. He out
generated the Pop end of the triune in
good shape, who in their ravenous de-
sire for the official loAves were resdV
The Iola register., 1900-04-27
HOW lola STRIKES GAS
Here is Fine Example for Ambitious
Towns to Follow in Striking
Gas Wells

Many towns over the State publish
hystericsl reports of the finding of
surface gas ut o depth of $50 feet or
the discovery of flow at the bottom
of hundreds of feet OF water which
can force few infiammabIe bubbles
10 the surface. The terms used in
describing are not professional, and
the facts stated and the claims made
are terribly wild and contradictory.
When the story is true and means
business, you will find ID stated
briefly, rs the following:
Wednesday noon the drill of the
Cement Company's outfit entered the
gas sand in the southeast edge of
own at depth of about $50 feet.
Operations were continued until five
feet Of the sand had been penetrated
when the force of the gas was so
strong as to kill the drills blows.
Within half an hour the we'll was
closed down, and capped, and seven
or eight millions more of gas are
bottled up for use on demand. The
company expects to drill the next
well on the Scott land south of the
creek and hopes to have five wells
ready for use by the time the Cement
plant Is ready for operations.
The Iola register., 1900-04-27

From the catapult of the Galens
Times: All the cats In the world
should be killed. Before cat dies
he sits on the back fence and howis
from 11:30 p. m. to 1880 q. M; after he
dies he is made into fiddle strings for
some galoot to saw ON from 1880 u. m.
to 11:30 p. m. Let's "let the old cat
die.U
"They'fe gettin' back to Kansas. /"
From 1890 to 1896 the population fell
off 81, 900, but In the three years last
past u gain was made of 81 ,261, nearly
half of which happened last year.
And this means that thousands of
returned wanderers will preach
against leaving the State to the
wavering
Hutchinson NeUs: The Demo-
cratic convention at Great Bend was
held in the Salvation Army barracks,
and one of the ominous signs which
the Democrats was,
"Where are you going? To heaven
or to hell ?" Subsequent develop
ments seem to have answered the
question for the party that met in
that hall on that occasion.
The Iola register., 1900-04-27
Room for Little Factories.

There seems to be a general impress
sion among lola people that because
nearly all of the developed gas terri
tory about lola has been secured by
the industries already located here,
the additions to lola factories must
cease. This does not follow at all and
the REGISTER has reason to believe
that score or more of smaller in
dustries, using but little gas and en-
ploying quite numbe OF hands will
be scattered about the suburbs dur
ing the next two or three years by
the aid and consent of the larger
gas owners, who in this way will re-
cover from the surface OF the land
some OF the money which they in
vested in the bottom of the land. For
instance where fuel is used merely to
generate steam power one we'll would
run hundred engines with ease for
years; these engines would furnish
free power to factories thus allowing
them to pros per; and the pay rolls of
the whole would be q desirable ad-
dition to Ioia's wad.
1t Is related by the Marion Record
that on Easter Sunday Rev. Mr..
Hestwood, pastor of the local Method
st church, asked the ladies to re-
move their hats. "Ordinarily,n SAYS
the Record, she would have succeed
ed, for Marion ladies, heaven bless
them are sweet and reasonable
creatures. But think of q man, q
mere man, asking woman to hide
her hat ON Easter Sunday-a new
Easter hat at that Preposterous |!
Ridiculous A bsurd Horrible |!
Only q few hats went off, and some
of these. like the Beers at Spion
Kopje, soon returned to their former
elevation"
The Iola register., 1900-04-27
Weeds a3d
Their GroWtb

weed will ruin lawn go quickly.
Watch it and remove every stock be-
fore it blooms and seeds. 1t belongs
to the Leontodon family and also
spreads from the roots The Canada
thistle ,one of the very worst in the
whole category and the hardest to
eradicate, is creeping in upon us.
Called Canada thistle because sup
posed to have been introduced from
Canada where it is found although it
abounds largely in France and Eng
land. During the Civil war it was
brought into the State of Maryland
and almost before farmers were aware
of 1t. 1t had spread so rapidly that
acrer of land worth otherwise from
$75 to 800 per acre were simply ruin
ed as 1t destroys grain and grass and
corn. Watch 1t. Come Herod on it
and destroy all the little thistles Of
every kind and sort and then you
will be sure to catch it.
The root clings to life with wonder
full persietency and can only be
killed in the ground by putting salt,
lots Of it, thereon. 1t has been said :,
and no doubt truthfully too, that you
can take piece OF root an inch or
two long and drag it around in the
hot sun by the weeks and then drop
it on the ground aud it will grow and
flourish like green bay tree. Watch
the sand burrs, they too spread rapid.
ly and ruin pastoric fields. 1t is
hardly necessary to call attention to
weeds 30 common as sunfiowers,
cookie burrs, horse weeds, the old rag
weed, 'Jamison weed and others too
multiferious to numerate and which
may be destroyed by cutting down
before they 60 to seed. Indeed the
State laws require this to be done by
the read side. Weeds in fields and
gardens are easily destroyed If after
every rain just as soon as it is dry
enough, you cultivate the soil and
thus destroy them just as they begin
to germinate. And since eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty, go too
eternal combat on the weeds is the
price of their destruction.
d. b. ID. SMRLTZER.
The Iola register., 1900-04-27
The Universities.

The latest catalogues OF the ten lead
ing American universities show their
respective registration figures as fol-
lows: Harvard. $3.50; Columbia. 3,72s:
Michigan. 3,346; Yale. 2,6ss; Pennsyl-
vania. 1851: Cornell, 2,645; Wisconsin,
2.025: Chicago. 1880; Princeton. 1884
and John Hopkins. 632. Harvard also
has the largest academic department
with 1897 men. Cornell leads in SCI
entifc students. with 1856. Columbia's
registration In medicine. graduate
schools and teachers courses is great
est. having 767. 3S3 and S56 students
respectively.
The Iola register., 1900-04-27
In District COurt.

Judge 5tillwell and Stsnographer
Shinn came up from the south We'd
nssday and opened an adjourned
session of court. The first mat
ter which came up was the petition of
}. b. GoshorB, late assignee of the
Record, that his bills be allowed. His
bills were $l26 for services as
assignee; $3l SO for additional
services; $2l.90 for costs in district
court. Some expert testimony was
introduced as to the probable value
of the service rendered and
the court allowed Mr.. Goshorn the
costs incurred and pay at the rate of
$3.335 per day for the 81 and q half
days he served.
Mr.. Fay, the man who resisted
Officer SHAPED and assaulted him one
night last month while undsr the in.
fiuence of liquor, pleaded guilty IT,
the charge Of assaulting an officer and
was sentenced to ten days in the
county jail and to pay the costs OF the
action.
The real reason of the holding of
the session was that the court might
confirm the report of the commits
sioners in the Beabout case, and this
was done this afternoon. Court then
adjourned and the Judge and his
man Friday departed in peace for
their homes on the afternoon train.
The Iola register., 1900-04-27
TO give up any lingering remnants OF

70 give up any lingering remnants or
principle.
In the past there has been q deal of talk
in Kansas about bossism. One of the
slogans of the Populist party in former
times was Down with the BOSSES"
Along in the early COS the orators at
picnics were wont to stir up the wild
indignation of their hearers by telling
them that the Republican party was
managed by bosses who met in hotel
lobbies and, utterly disregarding the
wishes of the masses, apportioned the
offices among themselves and their ia
vorites. They said that these bosses
regarded the masses simply as so many
dumb driven cattle, whose business
was to vote as the bosses dictated. "Be
ye men," yelled the Alliance orator,
land suffer such dishonor?" And the
auditors, rising as with one accord,
while the sportive winds blew through
their whiskers, answered, mot on
your life"
But never in the palmiest days of
Republicanism in Kansas was anything
attempted in the line of bossism that
compared with the bossism of the in
dividuals who gathered in conference
on the Sd of March. Some fell
lows may have tried to manipu-
late conventions in their own
interest or in the interest of their
friends, but never before in the
history of the state did half dozen
fellows get together and deliberately
assume to dictate the entire action of
two state conventions which are to be
held two or three months in the future.
The action of these dictators, if it
can be carried out, renders the state
conventions of the Populist and Demo-
cratic parties in Kansas entirely sup
erhuous and unnecessary. If they have
the right to say in advance what the
parties shall do about part of the nom
nations of course they have the right
to say what they shall do about the
balance.
What the fellows who make up the
rank and file of the Populist and Dem
ocratic parties will say to this high
handed exhibition of bossism is yet to
be seen. When the delegates have as
sembled at Ft. Scott, after some of
them have travelled three or four hun
dred miles, their bodies sore and their
necSs cramped from an effort to sleep
with their heads hung over the backs
of car seats, and are informed that half
dozen individuals have cotton to-
gether and assumed to say just what
the convention may do and what it may
not do they may take to it like dog
to bone, and then again they may
not.
When these men who have been de-
manding railroad legislation in sea-
son and out of season for the
last ten years, and ayowing that
the plain common people were ruined
if they didn't get it, learn that the lead
ing railroad lawyers of the state, who
have done more lobbying to prevent
railroad legislation, than any other
firm in the state, have dictated the
nominations that must be made and the
ones that must not be made by Pop
| ulist convention. they may be dumb.
The Iola register., 1900-04-27
Roads and civilization.

"If the roads of country are an
index TO the civilization of that coun-
try" says the Lancaster Is. C) Enter
prise, then this community is badly
in need of civilization, for the worst
two miles of public road we ever saw
are from here to the Mellow house.
1t is horrible piece of road and q
shame to any community"
The Iola register., 1900-04-27

Vienna has never had a cat show.
and, in fact, such a thing has never
been known in the empire. The Aus
tro-Hungarian Bird Raisers' associa-
ton has now taken the matter up and
is planning an exposition to be held
there in June. Many look upon the un-
dertaking as huge joke or as a strict
lv original idea.-Chicago Tribune
The Iola register., 1900-04-27
Justified.

After discovering that he has been
winding an. eight-day clock every
night for ten years. a man is justified
in taking day off for the purpose of
painting things crimson. - Chicago
Daily News.
The Iola register., 1900-04-27
D. B. D. SmoItzor

A Paper Read at the Last Regular
rieeting Of the Allies County Hor-
ticuIturaI Society