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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-07
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

J. D. Row was down from Larned
Tuesday.
The roads in the Walnut Valley
are said to be something fierce.
Otto Schueffler was up from Com
anche township on business Wednes-
day.
Richard Speck was In town Mon
day, leaving on Tuesday for the
Worlds Fair.
Misses Lizzie and Minnie Wedel
were Pawnee Rock visitors in Great
Bend Tuesday.
A. L. Miller and daughter Mrs.
Lucy Lutschg, returned from Denver
Tuesday evening.
Milt Simpson and wife, and son,
Fred, left on Tuesday for a weeks
visit to the big fair at St. Louis.
DIR. Smith and wife. and. Mr.. and
Mrs. Willis Bolinger composed party
enroute to St. Louis Sunday night.
There were sixty tickets sold to :he
Worlds Fair Tuesday and Wednes-
day on the Santa Fe from Great Bend.
Mrs. Windmill, mother of Chas.
Windmill, left Tuesday for Cincin-
natti, O., where she may spend the
winter.
w. H. Webb of Kansas City who
has been visiting Tobias McGill for
the past week returned to his home
Wednesday.
VIM. Rubart and wife, J. G. Slentz
and wife, and Miss Lilah Smith were
among the crowd leaving for ST.
Louis. Tuesday.
Mrs. Kellogg, who has been visit
her brother, c. F: Diffenbacher and
family, leaves Tuesday for her home
in Washington.
Will Amerine has bought the James
Moran farm, north of town. Mr..
Moran will likely visit his sisters in
The east for a while.
Roy Denote came in from Topeka
Tuesday morning. He is now work
ing permanently on the road for the
Gatlin Drug Co. of Topeka.
Great B end millers, it is said, find
only about forty per cent of the wheat
this year up to the standard for the
manufacture of -four.
Billy Gates, who travels for the
Salina Candy, Co. was the holder of
the lucky number which drew Orville
Weltmer's rubber tired buggy Tues
day night.
A telegram received by Seward
Moses Tuesday from Denver, gives
the informatio that Herman Strobe,
who was shot a few days ago, is
getting along hne.
T. H. Woolsey has resigned his
position at the Santa Fe andhas been
replaced by man of the name of
Rogers from Texas. Mr.. Woolsey
went to Scott City Tuesday to help
out until the food times are over.
Jacob Klein was in Tuesday from
Cheyenne township. He reports very
heavy rains in his vicinity and says
the farmers there have not been able
to do any sowing since last Wednes-
day.
Capt. Geo. c. Gray and wife re-
turned last Saturday from a visit to
Boston, Mass. They made the fastest
time on record, from Boston west,
but the Capt. says he got back into
happy Kansas none to quickly.
T. I. Fleischman, a northeast
Missouri miller, is in the city on
business. He says that the millers in
his country cannot compete with our
millers here and therefore there will
be little flour made there. A great
deal of Barton county -four is sold in
his vicinity.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-07

Chicago, Oct. Awhile playfuIIy
pointing revolver at the head of his
little three year old sister, Frederick
Bittle, aged seven, pulled the trigger
and shot the baby through the head,
today, killing it instantly. Tie boy
procured the pistol from the bureau
drawer. -,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-07
Worlds Fair Visitors.

Fine airy rooms in one of the most
beautiful portions of st. Louis.
Prices SOC, 75c and 81.
Mrs. I. NJ. FRANK
4442 Mcpherson Ave, St. Louis, Mo.
Refer to JUDGE E. c. COLE
Great Bend, Ks
(. Chas. Miller went down to Lawton
Ok, Tuesday night to look after some
town property he has there.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-07

Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. 4.-Judge Ker-
stem today granted change of venue
in the criminal prosecution growing
out of the Iroquois theater prosecu-
ton. The attorneys for defendants
presented affidavits. stating that there
being ten thousand people interested,
the defendants could not get fair
trial IN Chicago. Will Davis, man
ager; Thos. Noonan, stage manger:
and James Cummings, light man, are
the defendants.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-07

O'Bryan's Landing, Mo-, Oct. A.
Yesterday Charles Geitrell, in a fit- of
delirium, arose from bed of fever
ane securing gun, shot and killed
four people, then made his escape to
the woods. The persons killed are:
James Weaver, white man, of Mem
phis, Tenn, Will Anderson, Fred
Burt and Susie Williams, all colored.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-23

criminal suppl at the cuntain head?
That as fast as he re iced the num-
Der enterir~ upon criminal careers he
would profit by the saving # expense
for the detection. punishment and re-
straint of criminals?
If this would seem to a practical
business man to be a sound and eco
nomcal method why should it not ap-
peal with force to sOciey and the
state? Everybody knows that that is
what a practical business man would
do and the conclusion that the state
should pursue the same policy, even
from business or financial cOnsidera-
lions alone, is inevitable. An ounce
of prevention is still worth a pound
of cure and the cost is in proportion
to the quantity.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-23

never done anything, though they are
much more deserving of consideration
han the Indians within the boundaries
of the United States, and in greater
need.
All these things the interests of
Alaska demand at the hands of con-
gress, and, yet, the members of both
houses are SO ignorant of or indiffer
ent to the situation that it is doubtful
if anything can be accomplished at
this session. 1t is this state Of af
fairs, with full knowledge of the OBJ
legations Of the government and of the
facts that the resources of the country
will justify liberal expenditures in the
aid of development that induced the
senator from Minnesota to say some
thing on the floor of the senate that
will be remembered and which may
do more for Alaska than hours and
days of regular and dignified discus
sion
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-23
WORLDS FAIR AT ST. LOUIS, MO
MAY TO NOVEMBER.

Account of the Worlds Fair at St
Louis the O. r. q n. Co. announce the
following rates:
To St. Louis and return $50 o.
To Chicago and return .........$ 65 90
To Chicago and return from. ST
Louis ........ Ao-.o'
Returning via California and Port
land add $3.50 to above rates.
Children entitled to half rate, one
half of above rates.
Linn it-Ten days going with fina
limit of ninety days.
Selling dates: May 18th, 18th 18th
June 18th, 18th. 18th; July LIST, ID, Sd
August Sth. 9th. 10th. September 5th
9Th. 18th. October 3D. 4th. 5th.
Stopovers-StOpover will be allowed
in either direction within the limit.
These tickets are good going one
route and returning another.
For detailed information call on OIL
address r. BURNS,
General Agent.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-23
ODD FELLOW DEAD.
Peter Cullen, Inmate Of the Home
Died Yesterday.

At the Walla Walla hospital at
o'clock yesterday occurred the death of
Peter Cullen, an inmate Of the Odd
Fellows home. Deceased was a native
OF Ireland 40 years Of age. He had
come here from the East. He was re-
ceived at the hospital some time ago
for treatment and his death occurred
this city. The remains were taken to
Smiths undertaking parlors and pre-
pared for burial. The funeral will oc-
o'clock tomorrow, in charge of Trinity
lodge.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-23
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
w Err.

Tonight fair with light frost; Sunday
fair and warmer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-23
The May Pearson's.

The May PearsOn'S contains another
paper by Mr.. Henry George jr., in his
series of modern methods of Fl
nance"-The Shipbuilding Trust; an
account of Thomas Nast's first trip
abroad in the interests of his paper
Mast memoirs; a timely article on
Japan and Korea, by Mr. Colgate Ba :
ker; the story of Forsyth and the
Brady; and The Birth of Great Trees
by G. Clarke Nuttall, 3. S. The short
stories are-The Super and the Signs.
by +. f. Stearns; The Bitter Bit, by D.
f. Seton Carruthers; Breast of Light,
by Edward Stratton Holloway; The
Fight in Ghostly Hollow, in the King
and Queen of Smugglers series. by
HalliWell Sutcline, and Times Blum
der. by Chris Sewell-all Well illus
trated.
Pearsons Talks with Players this
month give chats with Grace George.
Jessie Busley, Eleanor Robson and
Ethel Barrymore. The article is Illus
trated with sketches from life. Home
Notes has a page on Basket-making.
the useful fashion articles and puzzle
columns
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-23
Brief Local News

Rev. J. r. Lamb will deliver an ad-
dress at the Salvation Army hall to-
night at 7:30.
Walla Walla hospital receiving medi-
cal treatment.
Mrs. Neoma Derth of Hair Way.
Oregon. is at the Walla Walla hospital
receiving treatment.
In the superior court today Henry
Schierman a native of Russia, was
granted his final naturalization papers.
vas received at the Walla Walla hos
)ital yesterday for medical treatment.
The transcript from the justice court
at Prescott in the case of the state OF
Washington VS.. Ollie Fisher, was filed
in the county clerks office today.
J. p Mullinix who suffered a severe
attack of heart trouble while visiting
his daughter, Mrs. Frank DAWN at the
Louvre hotel some time ago, is re-
ported to be no better.
In the superior court today Chris
Amend and Jacob Miller, two subjects
of warning Russia renowned their al
legiance to Gar Nicholas II and We're
granted their final naturalization pa
pers by Judge Brents. Eugene Aurr-
mad native of France was also grant
ed his final naturalization papers.
Ener Emerson. a Iaborer residing
one mile west Of the city, died this
morning. The deceased was "a years
old and left no relatives. He had been
a resident of the county for several
years The funeral will take place
Monday afternoon from Cookerly's
undertaking parlors.
Water mains instead of gas mains
were responsible for the accident to
the Winans dray outfit yesterday, Su-
perintendent II. NJ. Hunt of the gas
department of the Northwestern Ga
& Electric company declared this
morning. The gas company has
enough troubles of its own without
having others thrust upon it." Super
inteudent Hunt said. The gas COM
pany has laid no mains along the north
side of East Main street for over a
year and consequently the cave-in
could not be laid up to the company.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-23
PREVENTION CHEAPER THAN
PUNISHMENT.

Judge TuthnI, of Chicago. presid-
ing over the Juvenile court of that
city. in recent address gave 4 salts
fatory idea of the steps taken in Chi
cago to prevent crime by caring for
the children Of the street and protect
ing them from drifting into criminal
careers. He directed attention at the
outset to the enormous expense that
the state incurs for the punishment
of crime-for courts and juries ana
prosecutors jails, penitentiaries and
reformatories. police officers. and all
the machinery necessary to detect the
criminal and bring him to justice.
This is rendered necessary by the
fact that the state pays so little at
tention to the other end Of the propo-
so long as the state chooses to expend
its energies chiefly upon the punish
ment of crime rather than upon its
prevention there will be abundant
necessity for continuing and even en-
larging the expenditures now made
in the suppression of vice and in the
protection Of life and property from
the activities of the vicious.
The theory of prevention rather
than the punishment Of crime is such
sensible. practical, businesslike
proposition that it would seem to re-
Qure no demonstration. And yet. the
judge made an effective one by sup
posing a case. Suppose that a bust
ness man were given the contract tC
punish crime and restrain the crimi-
nal. How long would be it be before
he would discover, taking the matter
up on business principles, that it would
be money in his pocket to shut off the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-23

Stopover allowed in the state of Cali
fornia on the return trip.
For detailed irfOrma ton call on or
address r. BURNS.
General Agent.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-23
ARE THEY SINGER + ?

The morning paper asks. whats
the use of arguing the commission
question? Isn't everybody agreed that
it shall be adopted as the platform of
the republican party"
The Union has evidently seen a
great light since it was giving many
columns of its space to arguments
against a railway commission. Until
recently the most it would concede
was that an "advisory" commission
such as Oregon once had, would per
haps do no harm and the experiment
might be tried in Washington. Every
member of the last Legislature belong
ing to its faction Of the republican
party worked against the passage of
the commission bill to which they
were pledged by the party platform.
and there is no reason to believe that
they would consider a commission
plank in the party platform any more
binding this year than in 1902.
We know that the anti-McRride fac
ton of the party is not sincere in al
vocatfng commission and it can be
easily proven by the Union and other
republican organs that Governor Nc
Bride and his supporters are also at
tempting to deceive the people. Per-
hans hOth factions are justified in their
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-23

For the general conference of the
Cal May Sd. the O. r. e n. Co. will
sell excursion tickets as follows:
Via boat to San Francisco and
rail beyond or vice versa. $3.50
ways ...... ...... S4b.OO
Dates of sale-Via steamer April %
% and IS: via rail April 90 to 80, in
elusive; final limit June 30 inclusive
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-23
Music at the Fort.

At the garrison tomorrow afternoon
at 3:15 the Ninth Cavalry band will
render the following musical program:
March. "Legaspi" ....... c. s. Gungl
Overture. The Beautiful Galatea"..
......... Suppe
Selection, Grand Duchess. .Offenbach
Beyond the Gates of Paradise" King
Selection, The Sultan of Sulu' 49,.
$500. .... ..... .... Wathall
Star Spangled Banner."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-23
MANY WILL FISH.
Promise of Fine Weather Tomorrow
Will Send Sports Out in the
Country.

Observer NeWman'S promise of fair
and warmer weather for tomorrow will
send scores of WalIa WalIa fishermen
out for d days sport along the Walla
fact that both streams are high. Cool
nights and cloudy days have had the
effect of stopping the melting of snow
in the mountains and consequently
both streams are fairly clear today and
local fishermen expect fine sport to-
morrow with the Dolly Warden and
larger species of trout.
The determination of farmers along
the north fork of the Walla Walla to
prohibit fishing along the stream this
season has brought forth a strenuous
wall from local fishermen who look
upon the north fork as the best early
fishing grounds within reach of Walla
Walla, and the ultima tum issued has
spirit one fisherman today said it
was not so much for the protection of
young trout planted last summer that
farmers are SO eager to prohibit fish
ing along their lands as it is that they
want the stream for their own private
use If the farmers are so inclined
they can stop almost entirely fishing
along the creek and from the stand
taken it begins to look as if local
sportsmen will have to look elsewhere
| for their early sport.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-23

O. r. e. NJ. Co.
For Triennial COnclave, Knights
Templar, September to 9 and for the
Sovereign Grand Lodge l. o. 0. F..
Sc ptember 10 to 25. the o. r. & N. Co.
will sell excursion tickets to San
Francisco via steamer, $3.50; via rail
1920.
Dates of sale
Via steamer August q. % ard Sep
TENDER 1 and 9.
Via rail September 1, 2, 8, Is, Is and
II; limit October %.
For berth reservations call on or
address r. BURNS,
General Agent.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-10-20

Hon. Joel P. Heatwole of North
field "happened" to drop into ST..
Paul, last week. He took two
large rooms at the Ryan in order to
secure privacy. 1t occurred" to
twenty-five or thirty prominent
republicans of the third district to
arrive in St. Paul AT the same time
to "avoid' holding a conference
with him. He paid "friendly''
visit to Gov. Van SAINT. A detec-
tive was employed to shadow him
to see that he did not get run over
by the cars. We can't express the
happiness of our gladness that Joel
P. is "out of politics" If he can
create so much disturbance when he
is "out of politics" what in heavens
name would he do if he was Sin
politics."
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-10-20
Pill Pleasure.

If you ever took DeWitt's Little
Early Risers for biliousness or con-
stipation you know what pill pleasure
is. These famous little pills cleanse
the liver and rid the system of all bile
without producing unpleasant effects.
They do not grippe sicken or weaken
but pleasantly give tone and strength
to the tissues and organs of the
stomach, liver and bowels. Sold by
Hanson & Emerson.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-10-20
Mother

If your baby has even a slight
cough or cold, he needs immediate
attention. "Greene's Cough Cure"
pure, Safe, Sure,) if employed
promptly, will prevent Group, bron-
chitis, pneumonia or other forms of
throat or lung diseases which so easily
follow a, small beginning. This
marvellous medicine should be kept
as an emergency remedy. 1t is en-
phatically guaranteed. Buy it: pro-
tect the babies. ]. b. Perkins.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-10-20

services. If he has competition he
must pay him what he is worth or
the other fellow will get him.
Charity and gratitude sometimes
influence individuals in their deal
ings with their employees and their
fellow men. A trust has no
competitors to bid for the service
of its men and it is a cold blooded
creature. 1t has no heart. You
might as well expect seven year
old boy to pull down the Washing
ton monument with a cotton thread
as to expect sentiment of any kind
to influence the action of a trust.
Owing to the vast number of
men employed by trusts, their
financial ability to employ men of
the highest talent and the immense
amount of capital always at their
command, they are power in
politics, they can and do, exercise
a mighty influence in state and
national legislation. 1t is in their
power to exert this influence in a
manner beneficial or detrimental to
the interests of the general pub
lie. l do not, however, recall any
instances where the representatives
of a trust exerted themselves very
much in behalf of the public, but
l do remember cases where they
went to considerable trouble and
expense to secure Legislative action
favorable to their own interests.
But the greatest danger that
arises from the formation of trusts
is the destruction of individual en-
terprises. Owing to the tendency
for combination, which in this age
amounts almost to a mania, indie
pendent manufacturers and indie
pendent business establishments
are rapidly becoming a thing of
the past. They are being wiped
out of existence, and from being a
nation of business men each own
ing and operating his own business
we are fast being transformed into
a nation of wage workers. Instead
of people who work for our
selves we are changed into people
who work for others. Instead of
remaining a, nation of sovereign
citizens we are being transmogrifed
into a nation of agents, factors, and
servants. No one who reads the
signs of the times can come to any
other conclusion.
A government of the people
means a government of uncontrol-
led people, and when the many are
in the employment of the few and
dependent on their favor for a
livelihood the few are bound to rule
and the many are doomed to serve.
An individual or a: partnership
with a capital of $4,000 cannot
do business and live in competition
with a trust engaged in the same
line with capital of five million
and it is self evident proposition
that unless these stupendous COM
binations of capital are checked or
controlled in some manner in
dividual enterprise in this republic
will be a thing of the past, and
when that day comes, and it will,
unless prevented by wise states
manship, popular government will
cease to exist. The possibilities
are startling, but the probabilities
not SO alarming, for these matters
are still under the control of the
public. If the public loses this
control, it is the fault of the pub.
lie. If the people sell or give
away their birthright, they must be
satisfied with the pottage they get
for it.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-10-20
TRUSTS.
mo. 81

Benefits may be, and sometimes
are, derived from trusts; and evils
arise from their existence, and the
problem that confronts the nation
il to 50 regulate them az to retain
the benefits and eliminate the evils.
A trust generally derives large
profits from the business enter
prises under its control. Where
there are no profits there are no
trusts. 1t can, and sometimes does,
pay more to the producer for his
raw material than he would receive
if the trusts did not exist. 1t also
possesses the power, and often
exercises it, of reducing the price
paid to q point that makes the
producer a mere servant working
for his board and clothes, and it
does not allow him silken raiment
or sumptious viands either.
Again, owing to the magnitude
of its operations and the extent of
its profits it can, and sometimes
does, furnish wares to the consumer
at a less price than an individual
doing business on a smaller scale
could possibly do, but it can, and
often does, extort a price from the
consumer that robs him of his
substance and if he is not rescued
from its clutches by some legisla-
tive Samaritan, he will soon be
entirely, instead of half dead.
Many new industries have been
developed that would always, or at
least for long period of time have
remained undeveloped, but for the
fundamentally of trusts, and this
devslopement has materially in.
creased the opportunities of those
desiring work, on the other hand,
owing to their methods of combin-
ing numerous individual and
independent enterprises into single
concerns, thousands of men are
thrown out of employment, for the
larger the business the less number
of workers in proportion it takes
to run it. For example, ten indie
pendent concerns are engaged in
the manufacture of hammocks.
Each concern employs one hundred
workers to make, and four travelling
men to place theirs goods in the
hands of the dealers. The business
is trusted, instead of ten different
concerns, each doing business for
themselves and completing with
each other, there is but one. 1t
will not take thousand workers to
make and forty men to sell the
wares of single establishment,
even if the output exceeds that Of
the ten. Consolidation of enter.
prises means a marked decrease in
the number of employees. The man
who denies this principle of COM
bination and consolidation which.
in a remarkable degree, has
characterized the last few years,
lacks ordinary understanding.
A trust can afford to, and
sometimes does, pay its employees
higher wages than an individual
concern can afford to pay but being
in control of the particular line of
business in which it is engaged and
there being no competitors desiring
the service of its men, it can, and
generally does, reduce their re-
muneration to the lowest possible
living point. An individual en-.
gagged in business sometimes paws q
rnon snaro <hon L. =
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-10-20
One of Woman's WAYS.

A girl is always sure she is having a
good time when two men ask her to
60 out and she goes with the one she
doesn't want to go with to make the
other one mad.