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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-01-10
Significant Western Opinion.

;. The extent to which opposition
to the tariff policy as enacted in
the proposed law that has passed
the House of Representatives has
pervaded the Western Republi-
cans is illustrated in the position
taken by the Chicago Inter Ocean
upon the subject. This paper
is one Of the most thorough
going in support of Republican
party measures in the nation,
yet this one has proved too
much for it. 1t says of the bill:
"The Senate must save the ma
ton from a policy which will
make the Philippines another
French Tonquin or Spanish Cuba
on our hands which by con.
demning the Filipinos to hopeless
poverty will continually incite
them to rebellion. boston
Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-01-10

An ARTEsIAN well near Meade,
Kansas, is only 15O feet deep
and throws water 20 feet into
the air. And this is in a section
of the state where a few years ago
it was thought no moisture could
be obtained.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-01-10
Light Brahmas For Sale.

Fifteen fine cockerels and thirty
pullets and syesrling hens, bred from
hens that scored 80 to 943, and cock
that scored 49,. Scored by Scbali-
barger. Must be sold soon.
JAMES KEPPLE, Great Bend, KS.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-01-10
Stockholders Meeting.

A meeting of the stockholders of the
Barton County Mill and Elevator Co
will be held at the Mill Office Tuesday
Jan. 81, 1902, at p. m.
F. M. RUSSELL. Sec
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-01-10
The Atheuiaus.

The AthonlanS.
The Athenian club met with Mrs
Grimes Monday afternoon with the fol-
lowing program:
Roll Call Current Events
Character Sketch of Robert Burns.
Mrs. Minnie Cole
Highland Mary. :. Miss Floy Gilmore
Bonnie Doom Miss Mabel Brinkman
The Influence of Poetry as an Edu-
cational Factor Mrs. Nellie Smith
Song s'Auld Lang Syne".
Mrs. Vida Morrison
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-01-10
THE GREAT WHEAT BELT.

.s'The wheat belt of the world
the richest bread producing sec
ton of the universe starts in
Barton county-the point where
the great Arkansas river makes
it's most northerly bend in Kan
sas-and follows that majesti-
cally irregular stream on its
course through the state,'' says
the Wichita Star. Give coun-
ties are traversed and everyone
is a magnificent wheat producer.
Barton raised this year $780,
|0Q9 bushels; Rice, $3.50, 34S;
Reno, 3,395,34 Sedgwick, 8
|OO4,617 and Sumner, 6,712, 102.
The total product of five coun-
ties is p, 912,419 bushels of the
finest wheat ever grown. No
country ever beat this showing.
At 60 cents a bushel, this years
crop of wheat was worth enough
to give each man, woman and
child in the territory over SOB.
Is it any wonder the banks are
overlooking with money? Paw
nee and Stafford counties, ada
cent territory on the west end Of
this belt, with smaller popula-
ton raised nearly 5000 worth of
wheatfo for every man, woman and
child in their respective counties.
One thousand dollars a year
isn't SO bad for a family of five"
Hon. CLAUDE DUvAL, of Hutch
inson, was in the city the latter
part of last week. He travels
for a wholesale hat house and
makes this territory twice year.
Having a few spare moments
while here, he called at the Echo
office and the editor is always
pleased to have him drop in.
Mr.. Duvalw will not be candidate
for congress in the big seventh
next year but any clean man
the opposition of the republicans
will nominate, will find him a
staunch supporter. There can be
mo hope of nominating a better
1standard bearer in the Congress
sional race than Mr.. Duval made
Hast year and both Populists and
democrats can feel proud if the
next congressional convention
selects a man.comprising as many
qualifications as Mr. Duval.
Though the odds were strongly
against him last year he made a
phenomenal race and the seventh
was the only district in which
the Fusionists made gains over
lninety-eight. City Echo.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-01-10
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

For the week ending Jan. s, 1902.
A H Dougan to Emil Huslig, ne II 90
ILL.,. -..-..- .......-.. SoOOO w
Phillip Schneider to John Schneider, n u
NV a 1-1s-14 1000 %
Phillip Schneider to Peter Schneider "a
NV u 1-16-14 1000 90
Ella Fits to John Gallon Or 31-1S-
d.. ............. aooo 90
r. johnson to o W Dawson NV "a 16 10
49,. &c % 90
Mary Snyder to W Dawson u 81
2o-1s ............. ................ s4') 90
Fred Zutavern to Fred Walker lot g. block
ia. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. II ! 90
John Brier to A P Newkirk sections %,
29and 81 2O-14 49,. ................. 10000 90
Hill to Clyde B johnson, lots 1-2 in
3O-19-12 80. $50 90
Eliza Gray to Chas Hrll NV or Alta -. 200O q
John w johnson to L Durand. lots 49,
14-15 block 80 Hoisington .............. $50 90
G Friedemann to Doroty Maus, block S
Lafferty add .... ... 600 Cd
L J Barker to Elizabeth Baxter lot 6 block
g.. 80. .......... 131 90
Nj E Church to NJ Church Ger Film
wood pit block Observation-Disclosures. ....... 800 CO
j G Friedman to Deroto Maus block
Lafferty add .............. ........... 800 CO
l. j Barker to Elizabeth Baxter lot blk
63-.- 139 OO
Fred Lee to Frank Kresties Sc Or II
17-15.. Observation-Disclosures 1900 90
Lizzie Curtis to L Barker Iot6 block
e.. ..............,....... ......... 100 90
B 81 Slower to Ida NJ Campbell lot blk
9, Clahin. Observation-Disclosures. SO CD
r b Meade to NJ Pearzon a lot blk
Sc ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1850 90
Clahin Town Co to W n Chattee lot Is
blk 9. clafin =. ......... 80 co
81 Jennison to III L Bertholf pit of block
4AvT Co add 81 so
G NJ Noble to Simeon Gano or o.
17-1a. a4oO GO
The age-herald., 1902-04-09
Thread Mills in the South.

Thread spinning has not yet secured a foothold in the South, although this section grows the sea island cotton that is elsewhere spun into thread. At present New England and New York are the thread makers of this country Georgia, South Carolina and Florida grow the cotton, and New England and New York spin it. The sea island crop is just about 100000 bales, of which amount Georgia produces 60,000 bales, Florida 30.0OO bales, and South Carolina the balance. Some Egyptian cotton is imported by the thread makers. but as rule they use Ameri- can long staple cotton. Some of 1t is fully three inches long,
 The tendency is to locate mills near the seat of production of the raw ma terial, and when the great earnings of the thread companies are taken into consideration it is plain that South Carolina and Georgia will not long permit New England and New York to monopolize thread spinning in this country. The Coates Company Is heav- fly over capitalized, and yet it's divi. dends range from 30 to 50 per cent. In 1900 its net profits were G2,427 ,000, or about twelve million dollars. The dividend in that year was 50 per cent, and that, too, on an extremely liberal capitalization. What the companies in New York and New England make is not made public, but their profits certainly can be judged from the profits of the Coates concern. Both Georgia and South Carolina should take hand in this business of spin ming their own long staple cotton into thread of the spool sort. There is no reason why they should not. There are hundred reasons why they should.
The age-herald., 1902-04-09
Two Cardinals.

Cardinal Martinelli was the celebrant at the pontifical mass at the Baltimore Cathedral last Sunday, and Cardinal Gib- bons was the preacher said a Catholic who attended the services.
 "The occasion was the celebration of Pope Leo's silver jubilee as the vicar of Jesus Christ. The ceremonies were inn posing and the music was the most beautiful, according to competent crit les, ever heard in Baltimore. The choir programme was as follows:
 Solemn march, Hamerik; Intermezzo, Mascagni; Kyrie (hird mass), Haydn; Gloria. Haydn; Haec Dies, Wiegand; Veni Sancte Spiritus, Frey Credo, Haydn; Laudate Dominum (offertory), Beetho- ven Sanctus, Haydn; Benedictus, Haydn; Agnus Dei, Haydn; Te Deum, Kahn; Hal leluiah, Beethoven.
 "I have seen dozens of cardinals in Rome, but I never saw as many as two outside of Rome until Sunday. The Catho- lie church is gaining ground rapidly in the United States. and in ten or fifteen years we will probably have half-dozen red hats here.''
The age-herald., 1902-04-09
Railroad Extensions.

"There is pretty good ground for stat ing that neither the Seaboard Air Line nor the Brunswick and Birmingham VIII reach this city this year, but before l9o4 I think that one or both of the lines named will be running trains along the Birmingham Belt Line" said man prominent in the engineering world.
 ''The fact Is I know that the Brunswick and Birmingham is bent on celebrating 1904 by blowing it's whistle here. Looking ahead to 1905, I think that this city will have four outlets to the Atlantic-the Southern, the Central of Georgia the Brunswick and Birmingham, which will probably be known as the Frisco System Brunswick division), and the Seaboard Air Line, which will probably be known as the Frisco System (savannah division).
 Have patience and the new outlets to the Atlantic will come and traffic agents will be more numerous than ever"
The age-herald., 1902-04-09

finds that staple prices as whole were slightly advanced.
 But a comparison with longer periods shows the great changes that have taken place. The price of live animals in Chicago has been nearly doubled since 1896. On April 1, 1896, beeves were sold in that market at 3.80 cents a pound; now they are worth 7.25 cents. Sheep were then sold at $50 cents; now they are sold at $40 cents. Hogs were then worth 3.75 cents; now they are worth 700 cents. This doubling of prices in Chi cago is felt in every part of the coun- try.
 Nor is it necessary to go back to 1896 to find increases in prices. A comparison of staple prices now with those of one year ago shows that sixty three have been advanced, twenty seven are lower, and sixteen are un- changed. Two-thirds are, in other words, higher, and these two-thirds in- clude nearly all food products. Coffee and sugar are about the only excep- tions, so far as food products are con cerned.
 The numerous strikes and the pre- vailing discontent are due to no small extent to the fact that wages have not been advanced as the cost of living has been, and the indications are that the gap will be widened this year rather than lessened. When the situa- tion is closely analysed it will be found we are suffering from an overdose of Dingleyism, and that labor is not get ting a fair share of the loot.
The age-herald., 1902-04-09
CONVENTION OR PRIMARY.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The state papers are beginning to part company on the proposition to have a straight primary for the purpose of nom- mating state officers. Those favoring a state primary are In the majority and are insisting upon the acceptance of their view by the state committee.
 The popularity of the state primary plan is due largely to .ne belief that it will purify politics to a considerable ex- tent. The idea is that conventions give an opportunity for trades and combina- tions, thus making it possible to defeat the men most competent and best quail flied to serve the people. And, shorn of frills and furbelows, there is some truth in that contention.
 The state primary advocates contend that conventions place too much power with delegations from the larger counties, but there is little reason in that conten- tion. If Jefferson has thirty delegates in the state convention the presumption is lat a majority of the voting population of Jefferson Is represented by the dele gation and that the candidates receiving those votes would have received practi- cally the same strength had the contest been left to q popular vote. -S.t
 The advocates of state primary should adhere to the proposition that a state primary is the best guarantee of freedom from trades and combinations. A slate may be made in convention, but noth- ing of the kind is possible in a general primary. That is why the general pri- mary plan has the indorsement of a vast majority of the newspapers and the men who want honest politics.
The age-herald., 1902-04-09
CRUELTY OF BRITISH.
General Dearey Complains That His
 Family Are Wandering on Veldt.

Brussels April S-The Boer bureau here has published a report which was sent last January by General Delarey to Mr. Kruger, and which is countersigned by Ignatius Ferreira, the acting states at torney.
 This report contains numerous stories of alleged British atrocities and is sup ported by affidavits. Besides the general accusations of placing women as screens around the British camps as result of which practice many women are said to have been killed, General Delarey gives specific instances with names and dates of the killing of wounded prisoners and women. He complains that owing to Lord Methuens persecution, his own wife with six children have been wandering on the veldt for the past year. General Dciarey complains also that his mother. aged S3 years was driven into Klerks- dorp, after her cattle had been stolen and her house burned
 Wander Nerve late mining commits sioner of the Rand, now fighting with De- larey, appends a further list of atroci- ties, committed on women and children to the report of General Ddlarey.
The age-herald., 1902-04-09
o heavensl die two months ago, and not forgotten yet?
 Hamlet.
Change Expected in Congress.

In a period of twenty-eight years fourteen Houses of Representatives have been elected, of which the Demo- crats have controlled eight, and the Republicans six. As a rule turn about" has been the practice of the voters. The American voter likes change not exactly for changes sake, but because party long in power makes mistakes, even if it does not become corrupt.
 Since 1894, however, the Republi- cans have controlled the House of Representatives term of power that had not been equalled since the ex- ceptional days of the civil war. We give the figures in detail:
The age-herald., 1902-04-09
Hardware.

Now that the hardware combine is about to go into effect, interest in the details of the hardware trade is becom- ing intense" said the manager of one of the Birmingham iobbing houses.
 ITO begin with, no young man can learn the hardware business in a hurry It takes a youth four years to learn the trade of machinist. It takes a drug clerk several years to graduate as pharma- cist. It takes a hardware employe about eight years to acquire a general run or stock.
 There are 47OO different classifications in the hardware business-I mean in the average jobbing house. A few Of the larger houses have a more diversihed classification. These classifications are sub-divided and the amount of informal tion about each classification and sub-di- vision is simply unthinkable to the out sider"
The age-herald., 1902-04-09
i've the figures in detail:

The Republican majority of 40 in the Fifty-seventh Congress certainly will be reversed both for changes sake. and because of petty grievances, and of the imperialistic policy of the administration, and of the trusts and the Dingley tariff. All feel that change is impending. and that the next House will be Democratic.
 The battle-ground by common con sent will be in the Middle West-in Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis co1sin, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and the two Dakotas. These States will be well canvassed, and both sides will concentrate there their spellbinders and their money. This fact will undoubtedly give the trust tariff issue prominence, for the middle West is full of anti-tariff feeling. The Republican party in the Mississippi valley is split by this issue, while the Democrats stand solidly in favor of a revenue tariff and stringent regulation of the trusts This issue alone prom ises to make the next House Demo- cratic, and as it is a growing issue it may put a Democrat in the White House.
The age-herald., 1902-04-09
CAN'T TAKE THE BOY.
Injunction Proceedings Begin Against
 w. H. Washington of Nashville.

Macon, Ga., April S.-Injunction pro- ceedings have been taken against w. H. Washington of Nashville, Tenn, to keep him from taking his 15-year-old son, Lamar Washington, away from Mrs. Valeria Lamar Harris of Macon. The son petitioned the ordinary to Make Mrs. Harris his guardian, and this was done, and MT. Washington returned home without the boy. The late Henry M. Lamar, who left an estate of half a million dollars or more, bequeathed $45,000 to Lamar Washington on condition that he should never be removed beyond the control of member of the Lamar family. It is claimed by Mrs. Harris that this provision was directed against W. H. Washington.
 Washington has been prominent in political life around Nashville, and once ran for Congress there.
The age-herald., 1902-04-09
Senate to Fight Sugar Feature
 of Cuban Reciprocity .

brethren who are tanning the wind fin favor of the election of Senators by the direct votes of the people of the respec- tive states could spend week or two in the House galleries they might modify their demands. Yet perhaps not. If is the fad, you know. to cry aloud for the election of Senators by the people" If has been a fad for a hundred and eieh- teen years, and Is likely to grow more noisy and less and less needed as the years roll on to the final destination of the present form of government, which is the ultimate meaning of this dear old movement-a projected reform" that is come now to be merely a thing of post cards. Have you sent your Senator your post-card?
 The Congressman-he, too, voted for the every mothers son of the House did the Congressman, be 1t said is in favor of making the Cuban twenty per cent sugar reciprocity bill a party measure, and forcing every Democrat to vote against it. He says it is the purpose of the three owners of the will of the House, rnmely, tine speaker and MT. Payne and MT. Dalzel, to advise their beet sugar trust members to vote against the bill, end rely upon 1t being passed by the aid of Democratic votes. That would enable the Republicans to claim that the bill was not party measure, and it would "save the bacon" of whosoever represnts "the great Saginaw valley Michigan. and Sugar City, Colorado. A clever scheme, in faith!
 The Congressman says the Texas dele gation stands as enc man against the bill, and he believes a large majority of other Democratic members of the House are coming around to the same view. Thus he hopes for party understanding to fight the bill. The pertinent question he propounds 10 his party colleagues Is this:
 Why depart in the one instance of raw Cuban sugar from our cardinal doctrine of tariff for revenue-why aid Dingley. ism in this manner?"
 So there you are!
 LUOIEN JULIEN WALKER.
The age-herald., 1902-04-09
PREPARED TO SECURE PEACE.
Sixto Lopez Says He Has Authority to
 Land In the Philippines.

Boston, Mass. April S-Sixto Lopez, who for some months lived in this city and claimed to represent Aguinaldo, has re- turned here from the far East and today in a interview said that he was prepared to return to the Philippines and secure final peace provided the United States gives some intimation to the Fiipinos, not necessarily of their immediate but of their ultimate status.
 Regarding the order preventing his re- turn to the Philippines Sixto Lopez said the American authorities did not object to his landing in Manila provided he took the oath of allegiance. ne refused, how ever, to take it because he did not be- lieve that any one had the right to in- terfere with his liberty of conscience.
The age-herald., 1902-04-09
SeIectinu State Committees.

The Mobile Herald favors primaries, but it does not see a way to an adop- tion of the full system. It says:
 In this connection we invite the atten- tion of the Birmingham Age-Herald to consideration of what will result from the adoption of the state primary system in the matter of government of the party. If there Is no state convention to select a state executive committee and to pass resolutions for the government of the par ty such as those adopted in 1892, it seems to us that the party will be very much at sea.
 A State committee is of course nec- essary. South Carolina, Arkansas and Mississippi hold ratifying conventions. These conventions sit as do the cleo toral colleges to record and ratify the peoples will. They then select a State committee, and adjourn. This could be done in Alabama, although it would be fussy, expensive and wholly illogical.
 When the people are permitted to regain their lost political rights they will select State comimttee them selves, instead of having one selected for them by middlemen, The Demo crats of each Senatorial district in the State will elect by ballot a mem Der of the new committee at the same time they vote for nominees. Such committee will receive it's commission directly from the people, and its au- thority will not be questioned. Instead of relaxing party discipline, the direct plan will increase it, because no Demo- crat can question with success the acts of a committee that comes direct ly from the people.
 As to a platform, it is one of the great American humbugs. A party is judged by it's acts, and its promises are not a measure of it's merits. Plat ferns are made as a rule to catch votes. They are deceptive, and, so far as they are controlling they are often harmful. They operate to take away party's courage and conscience, be- cause they are made before election when the votes of one class or another are wanted. There is nothing in th.s world that can be more readily spared than the American political platform. It Is the veriest humbug, and no other country has the like of 1t. It binds nobody. It may as well be abolished. The Legislature and Executive will next w.ater and in the following ra,iod mako the platform that the Oemo- cratic rarty will be judged by, and all the platrcrms that could ,e v-itten would not change this fact.
The age-herald., 1902-04-09
REID DECLINES INVITATION.
Cannot Accept the Hospitality Offered
 By Great Britain.

Washington, April S.-Whitelaw Reid, head of the special embassy to represent the United States at the coronation of King Edward VII, has declined the tender of the British gov ernment to become it's guest during the ceremony. The British government extends similar invitation to every one of the special ambassadors, under taking to provide them quarters and entertainment. q
 The difficulty lies in the fact that the invitation is limited to a six-day stay in London, while MT. Reid finds it desirable to be there a week at least preceding and a week following the ceremonies, so he has taken steps to lease a suitable house at his own ex- pense.
The age-herald., 1902-04-09
Not a Candidate.

q can state authortatively that Tom Hefin of Chambers county will not be candidate for Lieutenant Governor in the next Democratic convention, said prominent Democrat of Birmingham.
 Tn the first place, Helin would not op- pose Dr. Cunningham because of per sonal and private reasons In the next place, he does not want the office. Who ever started the rumor that Hefiin would run had lively imagination, but he was not familiar with the facts or the rela- tions of things political