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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30
COUNTY TICKET.
TRUSTS START WAR ON UNIONS.

The Pullman Car Company officials and the
International Harvester Comparative gigan-
tic trusts-have thrown down the gauntlet for
a great war on union labor. They have arbi
trariy locked out union labor from their shops.
These plants have been SHUT down for some
time, but have opened up again, and the men
have gone to work again, temporarily, at re-
duced wages and longer hours.
The Unions it is declared, were tricked into
a sense of false security by the trusts, which,
wear ago, granted them concessions, and then
labored through the entire year to weaken the
organizations, to win men away from their
unions, to load the shops with nonunion men
and to cause union men to fail to pay their
Dues. Them, believing that the unions had
been weakened, the trusts arbitrarily broke off
all relations, and now announce that labor "agi-
tators' must go; that no agreements with labor
will be made, and then Disseminated against
labor unions in re-employing help.
The shutdown on September I4th at the
Pullman, Piano. Mccormick and Deering
works is declared to have been part of gigan-
tic conspiracy of the trusts all over the United
States to crush union labor.
1t is said that $4,000 persons in Chicago
and Pullman are directly affected.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30
WANTS GOVERNMENT MONEY AND GOV
EMINENT TRANSPORTATION.

Hon. Thos. F. Watson said among Other
good things, in a recent speech at Nashville,
Tennessee
"What else? We say that the
government ought to create its own money,
and issue it upon equal terms to all people,
high and low, rich and poor The national
banks ought not to usurp that sovereign power
of government, to create money, because it
gives them power to expand and contract the
currency, run up or down prices, thus piccip
tating panics. That is good Jefersonan Dem
ocracy, isn't it? Cannot you follow us on it?
"What else2 We say that every nation that
ever existed and prospered owned its own
channels of trade, its own highways, its rivers
and its great national highways. We say that
every argument that will convince YOU that
corporations ought not to own the Mississippi
river, will convince you that they ought not to
own the Louisville & Nashville railroad.
"Those corporations have power to tax the
people more oppressively and exorbitantly than
the government itself They can tax the life
out of your business, out of your town. They
can destroy the cotton industry, the truckers
industry. They can build up an enormous CON-
bine like the Standard Oil Company by secret
rebates and determinations that make c0mpe-
tition impossible
"That is power too great for any private
person to exercise.
"Therefore, I'VE say, let the governmental the
exercise of the law of eminent domain, assess
those roads at fair price, pay for them in low
interest bonds, or by money which the govern
ment can create, if it likes, both or either, or
part of one and part of the other and then
operate the public roads for the benefit of the
public. (Cheers.)
"Statisties show that practically every railroad
in this country was built not Gy private capt.
tai, but by public combinations in lands, stocks
and bonds, and sometimes in money. And
statistics show that we pay for them over again
in freight, passenger rates every ten years. We
have been doing that now for more than gem 1
Grafton. Why shouldn't we, the next time we
paw for the railroads, have something to show
for it, and thus destroy these great builders OF
the trusts and combines, and equaize one of
these vast advantages for the tene6t of the
common people?"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30
War On Federation of Commercial interests

From Topeka State Journal.
The opponents of the Federation of Com
.nercial Interests are claiming that the freight
rates of which the federation complains are all
interstate rates, over which the state board of
railroad commissioners has no control.
! One of the things on which freight rates in
Kansas are entirely too high is wheat, and most
wheat in Kansas is shipped to Kansas City e.,
Kas. This business is not interstate business
by any means. The local rates on jobbers'
goods are certainly not interstate rates. Some
live stock is shipped to points out of the state
but much of it is entirely Kansas business.
One of the great grievances of live. stock men
is not excessive rates, however, so much as
poor service.
Now, as to whether fair and equitable rail-
road board could do anything to better these
conditions: 1t is quite likely that railroad
board that is controlled by the Rock Island
and other railroad interests could find plenty of
excuses tor not being able to edo anything"
but here is what the Iowa board of railroad
commissioners did few months ago. The
Iowa board has the power to establish just and
equitable rates. The cattle men of Iowa ship
their cattle to Chicago, making it interstate
business, over which the Iowa board of railroad
commissioners had no control AS in Kansas,
the cattle men complained of the poor service
given them. Cattle trains were side-racked
and run on such slow schedule that it required
many hours longer than ought to have been
necessary to get the cattle to Chicago, causing
the cattlemen great shrinkage and consequent
loss. The Iowa board of railroad commission
ers established rule requiring stock trains to
be run on certain schedule to Chicago in or
der 10 get stock to market quickly. The rail
roads laughed at the commission and pointed
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30
Tobacco War Up To Roosevelt.

Washington dispatch says that president
Roosevelt himself will now be Obliged to settle
the spirited controversy between the American
Tobacco Company and the independent opelat-
ors. From political standpoint, he is in the
,ositon of a man who will be damned if he
does and damned if he DOESN'T.
cit was the President who reopehed the case
On the protest of the American Tobacco COM
nanv after Assistant Secretary Armstrong had
twice decided to change the label, and 1t was
INV the Presidents own orders, given directly
70 Assistant Secretary Taylor, now the acting
secretary of the treasury, that last Saturdays
hearing was held No one expects Mr.. TAYLOR
70 render decision until he has first consulted
the President, so important is the political
nhase of the case in the present national cam
paign.
..The independent men who import tobacco
and manufacture cigars in this country desire
that the size of the label on imprted cigars be
reduced, as it is now so conspicuous as to give
,he so.called trust an undue advantage over
United States manufacturers. The American
Tobacco Company, on the other hand, holos
that to change the label would be an imposi-
ton on the public.
uThe union-labor element was injected by
the annearance at the hearing of Samuel Com
ners president of the American Federation of
Labor. who argued with considerable spirit in
favor of the contentious of the independents
The latter have insisted that their factories in
divided all of the union cigar-makers in the
country.
uThe President must decide between the
American Tobacco Company, who deal almost
exclusively in imported cigars, and the indie
nendent manufacturers and their men, who
represent goo, 900 men at work in American fac
tories Both sides have seized upon the polit-
ical feature of the case, and it is not stating it
too strongly to say that ooth are making open
that # will withhold important campaign con-
tr;but;ons from the Republicans and turn them
over TO the Democrats, while the other states
Nth considerable frankness that an adverse de-
c;s;on will ALLEVIATE from the Republican ticket
nearly 100000 votes. !"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30
Time
Table

TRAINS NORTH
20S Passenger, 1850 IN.
Except Sundays
2O4 80 4:12 a. m.
2O2 /" 800 p. m.
ZIG Local Freight, 4:l0 p. m,
Except Sundays
TRAINS SOUTH
2O3 Passenger, 1888 a. m.
201 1909 a. IN.
2O7 1850 p. m.
Except Sundays
215 Local Freight, 1870 a. IN.
Except Sundays
No. 20S makes connection at Ottawa
Tor Emporia, and Colorado points.
No POI runs through to Carlsbad, N.
NJ. making connection at Winfield for
points in Oklahoma and Texas.
No 203 runs to wellington, Kansas,
making connection at Winfield for points
in Oklahoma and Texas.
No. 202 makes connection at Ottawa
with through train for California.
Makes connection at Kansas City for all
points east and west.
c.. s. COLEMAN. Agent.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30
To Clean Crates Lined With
Asbestos.

When the asbestos OF gas-burning
CRATES becomes backened or disc olored,
sprinkle common salt over it, and light
asbestos, which soon becomes white
again. When the holes through which
the gas feeds the name become stopped
up, a fine hat-pin is the best thing to
use to clean them with. Round tooth
picks, while often used, are liable to
break off
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30
WORST WAR TO COME.

A dispatch from Honolulu says; "Melton
Prior, the British newspaper correspondent,
who arrived on the Pacific mail steamer Mon
eolia, from Yokohama, says he feels absolutely
certain that the war in the far East will lead to
European complications and to the most awful
war INF the worlds history"
And mark this prediction: The United
States will be mixed up in this war before it is
ended
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30
Twenty Days of Crime.
go Record Herald.

From the Chicago Record Herald
In the name of all the gods, what spectacle
is ths-a city with unlimited resources of pro-
lection in the grip OF the outlaw! Study the
record of twenty days of crime during the
month of September: Murdered by hold-up
men, i wounded by holdup men, Id robbed
by highwavmen, 70; burglaries, IS! Nor is
this all, for, in order to avoid notorety, many
have suffered in silence
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30
Personality
Conducted
Excursion
Over the Santa Fe
To st. Louis, October 9th.
Over the Santa Fe

Through chair car leaves Garnett at
800 p. III Oct. 9th, for the accommodate
ton of Garnett and Anderson county
people Rate tor round trip, Sc 90. Hotel
accommodations secured in advance, at
reasonable rates. Don't fail to Join this
party and have good time going as
we'll as at the tair.
Notify me not later than Oct End, so
ARRANGEMENTS can be made to accolnmo
date all Come, go with us, and YOU
will neither have to fight for seat or
stand up 1t will be a splendid oppor-
tunitv to visit the fair and enjoy the de-
lightful October weather.
Write. or call on L. S. Coleman
Agent at Garrett.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30
Letter List

Letters uncallcd for at the Garrett
postofiice:
Week ending Sept. % 1904.
Will Axel, Reynolds c Parrish, l. G.
White, Joe Heoder, J. l.. Ford, Mrs,
Chas. Ainswort.
w. s. BEMIs. Postmaster.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30

If you have money to loan
THE NATIONAL BANK OF
COMMERCE will pay a lib
eral interest on your deposit.
21-2 per cent, 3 per cent and
4 per cent depending upon
the time for which the deposit
IS made. Call and see them.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30
A GREAT NEW PARTY.

The Washington Post declares that the out
come of this campaign must be the formation
of great radical patty made up of all the recent
reform parties, and adds that either Watson Tor
BRYAN will be the leader of that party.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30

The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad
car and locomotive shops at Chicago have shut
down. The union boiler-makers in the shops
had made demands for higher wages few days
before the shut down came.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30

All diseases start in the bowels. Keep
them open or YOU will be sick. CAS-
CARETS act like nature. Keep liver
and bowels active without sickening,
gripping feeling. Six million people take
AMI recommend CASCARETS.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30

Ashland, Ohio, is the only town in the Unit
ed States which owns and operates lis own the
.,re or opera house. 1t is source of consid-
cradle revenue to the city.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30
SENATOR HOAR DEAD.

Senator George F. Hoar, senior senator from
Massachusetts, died this morning, at 1885, at
fer an illness of several weeks. He was Is
wears old
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30

The ca. which Gov. Bailey and his staff &C.
cupied on their trip to St. Louis was one Of the
best-decorated that ever left the city. Super
intendeut Childs, of the Reform school, cut the
roses and lilies used in the decorations, which
were estimated to be worth $50. The flowers
are the best that could be procured, and were
artstically arranged. Topeka Capital
William Jennings Bryan is grandfather, now.
His daughter, Mrs. William Homer Leavitt, is
the mother of little daughter.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30

Try HOICOmb'S Headache Pow
ders. They have cured others;
they will cure you.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30
OUR TICKET:
For President, THOS. E. WATSON.
For ice-President, T. H. TIBBLES.
STATE TICKET.


Governor. ...... OAVlD M. DAl-E
Lieuteuant-G Governor. ....... Ohm 3. PARKS
Justice of Supreme court. Us. H. ALLEN
Justice of Supreme court. M. B. NICHOLSON
Justice of Supreme court JOHN 7. LITTLE
Secretary of State .........J JOHN H. CURRAN
Auditor of State w. H. MCDONALD
State Treasurer THOMAS nj. DOLAN
Attorney-General.. N. w. WELLS
Supt Public Instruction. MARTIN R. HOWARD
Congressman at Large. ...... FRANK BRADY
Railroad Commissioner. F. H. CHASE
Railroad Commissioner. Nv. M. FERGUSON
Congressman, Second Dist. j. F. HUTcHINcs
State Senator. MANFORD SCHOONOvER
COUNTY TICKET.
Representative Isaac N. GREEN
Treasurer. ................W. ]. MCMURRAY
Clerk ...................' }. +. MOON
Sheriff Observation-Disclosures VIM. WYCOFF
Register of Deeds. 80. LAWRENCE FEUERBoRN
Probate Judge. .........J. 5. MCCARTNEY
Clerk of District Court. .......A A. J.. COPPAGE
County Attorney. .......C. w. WHrrTINToN
County Printer. ..............W w. y. CHAMPE |
County Commissioner, ed Dist. FRED BLUM
County Commissioner, sd Dist. j. F. RESELL
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30

EAT AT THE RED LIGHT
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1904-09-30
Cross?
Poor man! He can't help it.
It's his liver. He needs a
liver pill. Ayers Pills.
Want your rn0uStache or beard
beautiful brown or rich black? Use
|Buckingham'sD ye)

Scots. Of druggI,..orR. P. Hall g. Co., Nashua NH
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-01-06

7. N. Barrie has been So much
accustomed to praise for many
years past that he has probably
forgotten the very first critical ap-
probation he received. When he
was schoolboy at Dumfries he
contributed 10 a manuscript comic
journal got up BY his schoolmates
Of the academy and called the
Clown Young Barrie wrote a SER
les Of articles under the heading
"Recxolections of a Skoolmaster,
In which, with Artemus Ward spell
ling throughout, he thus introduced
himself to his readers: When
YOU reed the following artickles
/ think hear yoo exklain1, Who
Is this crate laterally genius appeer-
ing before our eyes and takin oui
harts BY storm. The juvenile ed
itor Of the Clown seems to have
been a person of discrimination,
for in bis Answers to Correspond
ents." dealing praise and blame
alike, to contributors, he says in re-
spouse to ]. b.: Your .Reckolec-
tions' are exceedingly well c, A.
posed. Many thanks for both No.
/ and No. 2. We shall be very
glad TO hear from you again soon.
Some Of these "Reckolections'
were reproduced in a local paper
ten years ago, on the occasion OF i
visit Mr., Barrie paid to his old
school. They showed how effect
lively the lad could reproduce a
conversation, and there is a certain
crude humor in process Of develop
ment to be traced in them.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-01-06
Condemned Work.

According to Truth, the Congre-
cation of the Index at Rome, re-
Gently examined its records Of con-
demnations. It discovered among
the works at which it pointed the
warning finger a volume By Gioac-
chino Pecci, bishop OF Pergtia,
who was Leo XIII. The late pope
IN 1874 published volume entitled
"Sul Sangue Sacratissimo della
Santa Vergine, containing a chap
ter that startled the previous popeY
and which the Index judged heret-
ical Bishop Pecci, on ascending
the ponti6cal throne and becoming
infalhble, did not think it worth his
while to notice this condemnation.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-01-06
He Lifted 100000 Pounds.

Gilman Lowe, a New York ath-
lete, lifted 100000 pounds in thir-
ty-four minutes and thirty-6ve sec
onds. Tie scale was SO arranged
as to bring the arm, leg and back
muscles into play. Each lift Of the
beam under which he stopped
raised 1000 pounds Of dead weight.
During the two months training
Mr.. Lowe lived on only one meal
daily. consisting Of three eggs, one
half loaf Of whole wheat bread ;
fruit. either oranges, grapes, apples
or bananas; cereals and nuts, and
one glass of milk after the meal !
also plent; of cooled distilled wa
Ter during the day.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-01-06

Worhnen at Homestead, Pa.
have a story TO lie effect that Mr..
Corey. the new president Of the
steel trust, began his industrial ca
Eeer pushing a wheelbarrow in
one Of Carnegie's steel works that
be did as much work as any two Of
the other men, thereby laying q
foundation for the advancement
which eliminated in his present
eninence, and that he was paid $I
z day for his unusual exertion. Mr.
Corey declares that this story Is not
strictly correct. Il was only I6
years Oh then" he says, "and
probably did less work than any
other employe similarly engaged.
1t is also a mistake that | started
IN at ST day. it was not as much
as that
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-01-06
A Champion Truant.

Berlin lays claim to the distinc-
ton Of having the champion tru-
ant of the world. He is a boy OF
10. Nothing could make him at
tend school. and it finally became
necessary to send him thither each
day in charge Of policeman. This
lasted for a week or so, and then
he began to run away from home
at night 50 that the policeman could
not find him in the morning. To
stop this practice he was locked up.
One night he jumped through the
window III the room where he was
confined and landed in the street,
thirty feet below, with his skull and
most Of his ribs broken.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-01-06


New York friends Of John w.
Gates and his son, Charles, are
inclined to think that the presence
Of these two at Saratoga has g
great deal to do with the reported
poker frenzy in that popular re-
sort. Young Charlie Gates-he is
not over go years old-is the son
OF his dad, a chip off the old block.
but he would have made a place
for himself in the world even if
he had not had John N. Gates
behind him. He is a member Of
the brokerage firm Of Harris,
Gates & Co., and his reputation
is that he is one Of the longest
headed young men in Wall street.
His individuality is much like his
fathers except that he has nore
fnesse that the old man. He is
fond Of golf and automobiling,
and, like his father, has a weak
ness for a friendly game Of poker.
The story IS that when the hands
are dealt Charlie is one Of the
few mea on earth that John w.
can't blue ont Of a jackpot. IF he
was not onto my curves, the
father is reported to have said at
one dme, I could win some Of his
money. But as it is, the boy
usually gets it all. I've made up
my mind there's no use wasting
valuable time on him. When he's
in / stay out"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-01-06

The school board Of London is
trying to educate the people in
hygiene, 1t his decided to open
twenty experimental classes and IL
these succeed more will be organ
lied. Already eighty head teachera
have applied to have these classes
started in their evening schools, bui
at present only twenty will b.
opened. The best lecturers havs
been elected for the classes. DIFF
ferent classes of schools in various
districts will be opened, sone
among the very poor, others in bet
ter-to-do working class neighbor-
hoods. Facn lecture is to be made
as practical and as elementary as
possible, and non-technical
graphic treatment Of the subject IS
enioincd. Even II the syllabus Be
not closely followed, the practical
work is in no case to be omitted.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-01-06
To War On AHiqhwatha.

An organization, TO be known as
che AnN-Hiawatha Club, has been
launched in Portsmouth, Va, for
The purpose Of suppressiiIg the ov-
erpopuaar twostep, "EiiaWatha. ="
Each member Of the club sweara
that he win not whistle, sing nor
dance to the tune Of the played-out
melody; tlat he will pay no visits
70 Young ladies who have the ear
enervating piece on their piano
racks. and he will leave a dance
ball or theater at the first strains ol
the piece from the orchestra.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-01-06

Writing headlines for a news
paper is something OF a fine art,
said Senator Dolliver to a report
er Of the Portland Oregonian late
Iy. "a good headline writer un-
questionably is a mighty valuable
man on a paper. A headline came
noar being my undoing once. On
the New England coast some
where is a rather dangerous reach
Of land marked on the charts as
Delivers Neck. A big storm
was raging along the coast once
just at the time | was having a
hot campaign in Iowa. The tenn
perance people are pretty strong
in that state, Well, on the morn
Ing Of election day I picked up a
paper and then jumped about A
feet straight up. A line clear
across the top Of the front page,
In bold, BLACK letters, read: Five
Schooners Gone Down at Dolli-
ver's Neck"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-01-06

Americans must not think that
they are in all departments at
the head Of electrical progress.
To say nothing Of Marconi's
achievements Italy is far III ad-
vance Of the United States in the
introduction Of electrical traction,
in place Of steam, upon long sec
tiOns Of important railway lines.
The line OF the Adriatic Company
between Lecco, on Lake Como.
and Sondrio, o. miles in length,
is operated by electricity, and pas
senger trains traverse it at the
rate Of more than 40 miles an
hour. "A different system is in
use on the line Of the Mediter-
ranean Company, from Milan to
Puerto Ceresio, on Lake Lugano,
AS miles, where a speed Of So
miles an hour is attained by trains
consisting OF a motor car and s.
passenger carriages.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-01-06

Tinkle-Oh, yes, the West is
wide-awake and full Of vim but
still, Western men are not what
they once were.
Wrinkle-NoS And what wers
they once?
TinkIe-BoYs.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1904-01-06

There is a washerwoman in
Paris that is in great trouble. Two
years ago she had a fight with her
husband, in the course Of which
50 much skin was taken from her
nose that some new had to be
grated on. Recently She made
the horrifying discovery that
fine coat Of hair was growing on
her new nose, and then learned
that the doctors at the hospital
who had treated her had used the
skin from a human scalp for graft
ing purposes. The poor washer
woman then went to the courts to
ask for a divorce, urging cruelty
as cause, because it was her hus-
bands brutality which took the
original skin from off her nose,
which resulted in the grating, the
hair and the ridicule Of her neigh
bors.