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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-14

Tuesday the Kansas Southern
Oil company struck oil in their well
No. on the Whelchel lease. The
first sand was struck at,a depth of
775 feet but it. was thought better to
go down to the second sand. This
was found at depth of $50 feet.
The showing in the second sand was
thought to be good enough to be
shot. The well was shot Wednesday
and the officers of the company are
well pleased with the showing made
by the WELL. The well is good for at
least twenty five barrels.
This makes five wells that this
company has in this vicinity, and with
two more under contract, the com
pany will soon have fine string OF
wells.-Elk City Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-14
Parker Visits Headquarters.

New York, Oct. 23.-Judge Parker
made his first visit to the National
Democratic Headquarters today,
surprising all the managers. Mr..
Parker was in the building and had
started for the street, but finding him
self near the committee rooms, in
spected them. He chatted pleasant
ly with Chairman Tom Taggart and
others for some time.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-14

The meetings at the Methodist
church are being well attended and
appreciated. Miss Corbin, a deacon
ess of national reputation, will speak
tonight. Everybody should go to
hear her.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-14
MARKET Is
VERY STEADY
December Closes Same as Yes.'
terday, May Loses a Little
CORN IS DOWN A TRIFLE

Grain and Stock Markets furnished
daily by special wire to the A. NJ.
Commission Co.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-14

Wichita. Kas., Oct. 7.-Carrie Ma
ton was found guilty of the destruc-
ton of city and county property in
the court here today, and was fined
one hundred and fifty dollars and
sentenced to thirty days in Jail. Myra
McHenry and Mrs. Lucy Wilhoit
were fined one hundred and fifty dol
lars each and Lydia Muntz was fined
fifty dollars. They all appealed and
gave bond. Judge Alexsn nder in pro-
nouncing sentence said: "Bloodshed
will follow these crusades if you peo-
IS
pie go unpunished."
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-14

Mrs. L. Seeber went to the Worlds
Fair Thursday morning. She was
accompanied by her son Frank and
wife.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-14

Washington, D. c., Oct. 10-R. J.
Whine was today appointed postmas-
ter general to succeed General Payne
deceased. The new postmaster gen.
eral is an old newspaper man and
has been first assistant postmaster
general. The appointment probably
means that Secretary Cortelyou, who
has been promised the place, will not
get it until the first of the year OF
next spring in case the election re.
suits fayorably to Roosevelt. Whine
is credited with causing the recent
postal investigations.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-14

Kansas City, Oct. S.-Manager
Evans, of the Standard Oil Company's
big four million dollars Sugar Creek
Refinery said this morning that they
were expecting any minute the ar
rival of the first thirty thousand bar
rels of water that was being pumped
through the one hundred and sixteen
miles pipe line from the Kansas and
Oklahoma territory oil fields to the.
test line. The pumping started
several days ago. The refinery IS
one of the largest in the world. 1t is
now practically read to begin work
Eventually forty thousand barrels, 1t
is said will be used, and seventeen
hundred men will be employed.
Within the past seven months the
Standard has quietly spent nearly a.
million dollars in making preparation
to handle the product of Kansas.
Kansas City, NO., Oct. 1.-THE
coroners inquest which was held last
night over. twenty seven of the Mis-
souri, Pacific wreck victims, was re-
sumed at Warrensburg, this morn
ing at eight O'Clock, the jury having
been insession until nearly midnight.
At Sedaiia, where two of the forty-four
of the injured victims taken to the
hospital have died from the injuries
they sustained, coroner's inquest
has also started, besides an official
investigation by the Missouri Pacific
railway officials.
Twenty-four of the forty-four un-
Ifortunates still remain in the Sedalis
Hospital, being too badly injured to
lbe removed. Az least two of these
lare expected to die at any moment.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-14

Notice-If you want your corn
husked and stalks chopped, get Frank
Gardener and his shredder.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-14

A. D. Fair went to Hutchinson
Thursday morning.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-14
Great Bend Market.
GRAIN AND FEED

GRAIN AND FEED
Great Bend grain buyers are offer
the following today:
Wheat, No. 3 ........ 35c over test
Corn. ....... SOC
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-14
F.: BIG FIRE IN K; C.
United Zinc and Chemical Company
Suffers $4,000 Loss.

Kansas City, Mo-; Oct. 13.-The
United Zinc and Chemical company's
plant in this city suffered fifty thou
sand dollar loss today by fire in the
sulphuric acid and arc departments.
The fire is supposed to have started
by some chemical process.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-10-14
CHICAGO WHEAT
CHICAGO CORN
; CHICAGO Cash WHEAT.

O. SOFT --------..-.----..--.- 10 to Ia
o. Hard --..-....-- ......... IL to / II
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
Brain Food Nonsense.

Another ridiculous food fad has
been branded by the most compe-
tent authorities. They have dis
covered the silly notion that one
kind of food is needed for brain
another for muscle, and still an
other for bones. A correct diet
will not only nourish a particular
part of the body, but will sustain
every other part. Yet, however
good your food may be, its nutri-
ment is destroyed by indigestion
or dyspepsia. You must prepare
for their appearance or prevent
their coming by taking regular
doses of Green's August Flower,
the favorite medicine of the
healthy millions. A few doses
aids digestion, stimulates the liver
to healthy action, purifes the
blood and makes you feel buoyant
and vigorous. You can get DR.,
Green's reliable remedies at D. A.
Memberships.
Get Green's Special Almanac.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
Mary Anderson Sinas Again.

"Let me sing once more at the
Peoples palace" said Nine. de Ma
varro. On the night Of June 24 she
had her wish, and the same Mary
Anderson we used to know twenty
years ago sang TO 1000 people, so
that the poor lads and lasses of the
teeming east end may have sweet
ness and light by the furtherance of
the club settlements.
She wore no wreath of roses; only
a simple gown of pure white, and
her hair just simply done-itS own
ornament.
Once during the evening she real
ly ceased to be Mary Anderson.
That was when she ''read' the muir,
der scene in "AIacbeth." She was
both characters. She introduced
the reading by sitting in a very
large chair and quietly telling the
audience about her enthusiasm for
Shakespeare - strikingly nc".
thing for an actress to do.-Londor
Express.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
D|e
Lets
You
'DO"11


Insurance cannot prevent
fire, but 1t can and does pre-
vent the ruin and suffering
that would ensue without It.
It lets you down easy-sns'
tains you until you get anoth-
er foothold.
I represent a score of the
oldest and best fire insurance
companies In the land, and
am giving very low rates just
now. TIE probability Is that
they will not be SO much lon
ger. Better take out suffici,
ent insurance without delay.
As every Company now
charges exactly the same rates
why not have your property
insured with a company that
Is we'll known In this City and
one you know has and will
pay all Its losses promptly?
Here Is my list and everybody
knows that there are no better
companies on earth.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
The Stomach is the Man.

A weak stomach weakens the
man, because it cannot transform
the food he eats into nourish-
ment. Health and strength can
not be restored to any sick man
or weak woman without first re-
storing health and strength to the
stomach. A weak stomach cannot
digest enough food to feed the
tissues and revive the tired and
run down limbs and organs of the
body. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure di-
gests what you eat, cleanses and
strengthens the glands and mem
branes of the stomach, and cures
indigestion, dyspepsia and all
stomach troubles. Sold by Opera
House Drug Store.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
A Bale of Cotton.

Or IS bushels of corn to the acre,
without the use of an ounce of
fertilizer is not an unusual yield
from lands in the famous Missis-
sippi and Yazoo river valleys,
traversed by the Illinois Central
1ailroad-the great trunk line to
the South. Farmers desiring per-
feet climate, best soil, sure crops
and steady markets would do well
to locate homes now, for prices
are rapidly advancing in this ia
vored country. Send for free
illustrated literature and letters
from farmers who have gone
South to stay, and who are per-
fectly satisfied to remain. B. A.
Eichter, Pass. and Land Agent,
Illinois Central railroad, GIT Bes-
semer building, Pittsburg, Pa.
7,26,tf
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
What's In a Name?

Everything is in the name when
it comes to Witch Hazel Salve,
E. G. Dewitt & company of Chi
cago, discovered some years ago
how to make a salve from Witch
Hazel that is a specific for Piles.
For blind, bleeding, itching and
protruding piles. eczema, cuts,
burns, bruises and all skin dis
eases, DeWitt's Salve has no
equal. This has given rise to nu-
merous worthless counterfeits.
Ask for Dewitt 's-the genuine.
Sold by Opera House Drug Store.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
Beocars on Wheels.

In the Transvaal may now be
seen many beggars who disdain to
walk and travel over the country on
excellent bicycles.
A Belgian writing from the
Transvaal to a friend in Brussels
says:
ga certain proof that we are civ
ilized here is the fact that our beg
gars ride on bicycles. l often see
them alight from their wheels, which
are of high grade, and ask for
aims in the coolest possible manner.
The other day a strong, healthy,
good looking young woman about
twenty years of age got off her BIZ
cycle as was passing by and asked
me for some money, telling me that
her parents were very poor and had
fourteen children, whom they found
it very difficult to support"
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15

September 13 and q, SIS round
trip homeseeker's tickets to all
points in Oklahoma and Indian
Territories, and many points in
Arkansas, Kansas and Texas ;
tickets first-class and good 81 days
from date of sale.
September 20 and October 4 and
1S, one-way second-class colonist
tickets, from st. Louis to Okla
homa and Indian Territory points,
So; to many points in Texas and
New Mexico at CORRESPONDENCE
low rates. The one-way colonist
tickets herein referred to are ten
dered only to parties of two or
more travelling together.
Write at once for full partic-
ulars, descriptive literature, etc..
to D. H. MALONEY, General
Agent, 415 Park building, Pitts
burg, Pa. S,3O-tf
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
The Lesson Applied.

A little girl who made frequent
use of the word "guess" was one
day reproved for it by her teacher,
who said:
Don't say guess Mary; say
presume"
A few days later one of Mary's
friends coming up to her remarked
81 think your cape is very pretty,
and my mother wants your mother
to lend her the pattern, because
she is going to make me one like it. :"
"My mother has no pattern" was
the prompt reply. "She cut it by
presume. "-Philadelrhia Ledger.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
$15OO--READ--$15.0O
$15-HOMESEEKERS, READ-$15
Grand Opportunity for the Home
seeker and Tourist to the Worlds
Fair to Visit the Great Southwest.

August 9th and 23rd and Sep
TENDER 18th and 9th, the Frisco
system will sell round trip SPE-
CIAL 21-day excursion tickets to
all points in Oklahoma and Indian
Territories, Arkansas, and many
points in Kansas and Texas, at the
extremely low rate of $15 from ST..
Louis. These rates are in addi-
ton to the regular homeseekers'
tickets on sale the first and third
Tuesdays of each month.
Here is an excellent opportunity
to visit the GREAT SOUTHWEST.
Write at once for descriptive lit
erature and full particulars.
D. H. MALONELY, Gen. Agt.
415 Park Building, Pittsburg, Pa.
8,26,tf
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
HoMEsEEKERs!
MORE SPECIAL RATES
via

FRISCO SYSTEM,
THE HOMESEEKER'S LINE TO
ALL POINTS IN
THE GREAT SOUTHWEST.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
MANcHURIAN HOUSES.
In Four Respects Practically They Are
All Alike.

In Four Respects Practically They Are
All Alike.
From the dwelling of the rich
banker to the hut of the savage,
SAYS the author of ''The Long White
Mountain" all houses in Manchu-
ria are alike in four respects so far
rs circumstances will admit. First,
all face the south, because that Is
the quarter from which good inHu-
ences come, and it has the incidental
advantage of keeping the cruel
north wind at the back. Secondly,
Manchurian houses are all one sto-
ried. Thirdly, the front OF the
house is filled with movable window
frames, with lattice pancs of paper,
not glass. As the summer advances
the paper can be torn away and the
house ventilated, and then when
winter returns the paper is very In
expensive to replace. Fourthly,
built up against tic wall there is a
k'ang runrin5 The length .. Tie in
terror and communicating between
room and room.
The k'ang is a platform about
two and a half feet high ard live
feet broad, made of brick. Inside IL
a fue carried four or five times up
and down the whole length of the
k'ang. At one end is boiler, IN
which the family dinner is cooked.
Outside in the yard is a chimney
FEN or twelve feet high, which Gre
ates draft through the fue. Thus
all the smoke and heat of the kitch-
en- fire pass backward and forward
through the k'ang, warns it thor
oughly and finally emerges through
the chimney. The top of the k'arg
is covered with mating made OF
strips of bamboo or the rind of the
tall millet.
The convenience and economy of
the k'ang are marvellous. Through
out the day it serves as place on
which 70 sit H.. meal
times it is L., Lining roo:H. The
food is served on small ta'rics a
foo .rotri which tie iaIu",
squat
In tie evening the beds are I'LL
rolled, aHi it forms the general
/ sleeping place. In the cold weather,
with the thermometer below zero
outside and below freezing point
even within, a nice warm kang
makes a most agreeable bed on
which to sleep.
1t is wonderful how little fuel is
required to heat it. A boy lights a
wisp of straw and stuffs it in a hole
at the foot of the k'ang. 1t seems
impossible so insignificant d fire can
affect the great mass of brickwork.
But in about half an hour IA gentle
glow pervades the top of the k'ang,
and all night long 1t remains de-
lightfully warm.
If in ignorance we ever ordered
more fuel for the k'ang, we only
made it insutferably hot. Occasion
ally in inns we found Hangs so
scorching by reason of several
series of dinners having been cooked
or because our beds were too near
| the boiler that We were compelled
to sleep on the floor or on tables or
else to lay a quantity of straw un'
der our bedding to mitigate the
heat.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
A Promising Oil Country.

The Creek, Usage and Cherokee
nations in Indian Territory are
receiving wide recognition as a
promising oil country, and capital
and development have so far
brought handsome results. The
oil is of superior quality; the ter
ritory is reached directly by the
Frisco system, who issues free of
charge, a booklet, giving full data
concerning the country and its
possibilities. Mailed to any ad-
dress upon request to Sidney Van
Dusen, 706 Park building, Pitts
burg. Pa. 4.l-tf
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
Neatly Expressed.

W. S. Gilbert on one occasion.
when a well known actor could 10;
be heard by his audience, said. "Nn
one admires Mr.. Y. more than ! do.
but l always feel that | am taki''
a liberty in overhearing what
says."-Chicaco News.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
State of Ohio
City of Toledo,
Lucas County.

Lucas county.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath
that he is senior partner of the
firm Of F. j. Cheney & company,
doing business in the City of To-
ledo, County and State afore-
said, and that said firm will pay
the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of
Catarrh that cannot be cured by
the use Of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and sub
scribed in my presence, this 9th
day of December, AID, 1886.
Iseal A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally and acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Send for testimonials
free.
FL. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-15
ANNOUNCEMENTS OF

Reduced Fares Authorized via
Baltimore q Ohio Railroad,
Summer Season 1904.
San Francisco, CAL
Sovereign Grand Lodge, l. o. o.
F. September 1926. One fare
for the round trip to Chicago
or st. Louis added to fares ten
dered therefrom Chicago $50,
st. Louis $47.50). Dates Of sale
to be announced later.
For additional information con
corning rates, routes, time OF
trains, etc., call on or address tick
ct agents Baltimore & Ohio rail
road.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-10
Copyright, 1905, by William Thorp)
The Man who Made Japan.
From the London World.

FROM the LONDON WOrIu.
1t is to the Marquis Ito that Japan
owes in very great measure the posi-
ton she now holds in the world. But
for him she might be to-day a second
China; but for him she would assured
ly not be the rival of Russia, the chosen
ally of England.
He belongs by birth to what we
should call the lower middle class, and
has therefore had neither wealth nor
influential connections to give him a
helping hand. None the less, at an
age when in England he would have
been counted boy he was already
"a Minister Plenipotentiary arranging
terms of peace with the great powers
of Europe. For he had the good luck
In very early days-it was a pure piece
OF Iuck-to attract the attention of the
old Emperor KOmei Yenno, who was
so stuck by his extraordinary ability
and all-round cleverness that he took
his education into his own hands and
set to work to train him for a political
career.
In 1857 the old Emperor died, but
his successor, Moutsouhito, had Just
as high an opinion of Ito as his father
had had, and as soon as he had power
in his hands made him Governor Of
Hiogo. year later he made him Fl
nance Minister, and from that day to
this Ito has practically ruled Japan.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-10
the present war with the Japanese.
Treated Chinese Too Mildly.

The objection was that he treated
the Chinese too mildly; that he was
mot strong enough for the work eX-
pected of him." He was not so mild
as Chicagoff, but Chicagoff calmly dis
regarded his instructions to "slay and
spare not" said nothing. and went
ahead with his military task. AS he
accomplished that perfectly, nothing
was said about his disobedience. Or
loft, on the other hand, insisted ON ar
guing the matter. Instead of simply
ignoring the distasteful instructions,
he wrote dispatches criticising them
and advocating a more lenient policy
towards the peaceful inhabitants.
Consequently, he came into conflict
with Gen. Grodekoff, and, being the
weaker, went to the wall.
The fifth column. directed by Ad
miral Alexieff and Gen. Linievitch,
advanced from Port Arthur north
ward, capturing the treaty port of
Newchwang, thereby raising a crop of
troubles with England and other Pow
ers took Mukden, and went on north
ward to Hardin, only to arrive "a day
after the fair" On the way, however,
Admiral Alexieff had the satisfaction
of infiicting heavy punishment on the
Chinese-innocent and guilty alike.
Never Had u Chance.
Throughout the whole OF this brief
but by no means little war, the Chi
nese never had a chance. They out
numbered the Russians, and in sew
eral battles they were able to put well
equipped troops into the field, armed
with Mausers and Krupp field guns.
But the men were unframed and I'M
disciplined and the generals were
hopelessly incompetent. Against them
was ranged the very flower of the
Russian army-Chicagoff's Kubanski
Cossacks, Rennenkampf's picked ST.
berian regiments and Orloff's Trans
Baikal troops, all of them men used
from infancy to a life of adventure
and hardship.
1t was the most one-sided war of
modern times, not even excepting the
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-10

hammered of the five divisions.
Ch1cagom won two pitched battles
with very slight loss and succeeded
in all his operations without commit
ting any excuses. There were no
massacres in his part of the country.
and the peaceful inhabitants were al
lowed to pursue their daily avocations
unframed. His Cossacks did not once
get out of hand. THAT was a truly
wonderful circumstance" said a Rus
sian officer, who has seen much fight
ing in Central Asia, but it is ex-
planned by the fact that only a Co.'S
sack officer can keep Cossacks in
check-and very few Cossack officers
wish to do So"
FladivOstOI's Governor.
At the time of the outbreak Gen.
Chicagoff was Governor of Vladivo-
stok, a position which he still holds.
He is described by an English trav-
eler in Manchuria, who knows him
Wen, as "a tine-mannered, kindly dis
posltloned, supplemented soldier.
dealing justly in Russian fashion
amongst heterogeneous mob of ma
tionalities."
Gen. Orloff invaded Manchuria from
the west with a strong army collected
in the Trans Baikal territory. He had
more lighting to do than any other
general He won two battle against
1900 Chinese troops and a mixed army
OF 1000 Chinese and Mongolians, and
then had to fight continually for three
days and nights while he was forcing
his way through the passes of the
Khingan mountains. During all that
period his soldiers could barely spare
time to eat or to bind up their wounds,
but as soon as they emerged from the
mountains they marched ZIG miles IN
eleven days and finished up by routing
10000 we'll equipped Chinese and Mon
gols at the Battle of Ongum, with the
loss of only eight killed and eighteen
wounded.
1t was great work, and may be
ranked among the outstanding feats
of modern warfare; but Gen. Orloff
did not profit by it. The authorities
practically relegated him to oblivion,
and he is not likely to be heard of in