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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-09-27
"HABITATIoNs OF CRUELTY"

PLANTATIONS OF CRUELTY"
So horrible have been the details
of the revolving atrocities in the Con-
so Free State that they would be al
most incredible did the evidence of
returned missionaries not only con
drm, but emphasiEe. the telegra4-hed
ceports
Rev. DR.. Nassau. who has returned
to America after lorty-five years OF
missionary work on the Congo, adds
his testimony. in the American Jour.
nal-EXaminer, against the iniquity OF
King LeOpOld's administration. He
.ook home with him a grim reminder
Of the scenes of torture so frequent
~ enacted, in six rhinOceros hide
whips, with which native women
were beaten TO death by their white
masters. One instance of such brit
tality. which he describes as exactly.
pitiably true" Dr.. Nassau gives in
detail:
For some trivial faulSa certain
officer took dislike 10 one of his
wives. mere girl, and proceeded to
Wreak his vengeance upon her in
structed his black soldiers to seize
her and tie her TO a stake Then he
advanced bearing in his hand a stout
whip of hippOpOtamus hide, similar
to the ones 1 have brought home.
Raising the whip he brought the
cruel lash down on her unprotected
body, causing welta. The victim
+ writhod Wi.h agony. but her suffer-
iuss only added flame to the mans
lus. Tor tolCure. Again and again
he heavy lash swirled through the
air aud fell across her flesh, until she
vas cut in hundred places.
But even then she was not re-
leased. Night approached. and still
the girl hung to the stake in fright.
ful condition. Death did not come
then to ease her suffering, and so
through the night she remained in a
torment which words cannot describe.
In the morning the white officer sur
veyed his work, and finding that the
vital spark still fiickered family. he
ordered honey to be smeared over her
wounds, and she was left in the fierce
glare of the tropical sun
Soon the scent of the honey at
tracted myriads of insects. which set
tied on her in drOves. Ants swarmed
over her, pestiferous insects fought
for room on her body, while the sun
streamed down and the young woman
suffered worse thar death. When
the second night Cell, the officer tired
OF prolonging the ordeal. and seizsng
a whip he beat her 10 death ."--I.on-
ccn Christian.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-09-27
Working For the Tribe.

Portuguese South Africa furnishes
an excellent example of "conectiv-
ism as it works out in a primitive
society. Every year tho chiefs OF
the tribes send 4 band of their young
men to the Transvaal to earn the
hut-tax 9r the whole tribe. BY this
arrangement the majority OF the
tribe lives in ease, while small ror-
tlon OF their number work under
ground for perhaps niue months. at
the end of which time they rotlrn
home and surrender eighty or ninety
per cent Of their eaynings to Ga
.chie( Tor the uses. o. the tribe New
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-09-27
Woman Runs For Congress.

Fort Worth, Texas. (SpeciaD .-
Laura B. Payne, of Fort Worth, In
accepting the nomination on the So
cialist ticket for Congress in this
district, comes out strongly for gov
ernment ownership OF railroads and
goes a step farther than Mr.. Bryan
in advocating government ownership
of all packing houses. Miss Payne
Is the first woman to run for Con-
gress in Texas and says she viii push
he campaign vigorously.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-09-27
IS DEAD AND 100
HURT IN ATLANTA
Race Rioters Defy Troops and the
Fire Department.
A DOZEN MOBS RULED THE CITY.
Indignation Over Assaults on Thirteen
White Women by Negroes Causes
All-night Reign of Terror-10, 600
White Men Kill or Beat Every Color
ed Man Found on Streets.
REIGN OF TERROR.

~ negro suspected OF as
saulting a woman was taken
from the police and shot to
death in the streets.
The fire department turned
streams of water on the rioters
and the Mayor made an appeal
for order without effect.
The 16 negroes were slain in
different parts of the city, in
Guiding the business and fash
ionable sections.
Railroad and hotel property
was damaged in the search for
black men.
So many negroes have fled
the city that it is without ser
wants and colOred labor.
All citizens have been order
ed OFF the streets and 1000
militia are on guard.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-09-27
THEY THREATEN REVENGE.
Russian RcvOIutiOnists Sending Out
A Violent Manifesto.

st. Petersburg (By Cable) In re-
venge for the execution of Zenadie
Konoplianikovo, the assassin of Cen
eral Min, the Social Revolutionists
are sending broadcast a violent mani
festo directed against Emperor Nicho-
las and vowing to remove one after
another of ''the props of the coward
ly, murderous autocracy" The mani
festO is as follows
The die has been cast. One thing
remains: Annihilate mercilessIy all
enemies of the people. There must
be life for life. death for death. cent
for cent. With the Illuminating
memory of Konoplianikovo to guide
them. all true Russians must strike
terror to the hearts Of the execu-
toners
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-09-27
TIE NATIONAL GAME.

The Detroit Club has secured
pitcher Cicotte from the Des Moines
Club
White. of the Chicago Americans,
has pitched two one-hit games so far
this season.
The Cincinnati Club has asked for
transfers of outfelder Joe Kelley and
shortstop Tom Corcoran.
The New York merican Club pur-
chased for $2500 Joe Doyle. the star
pitcher of the Wheeling Club.
The Boston Americans lost ten
games on their home grounds to st.
Louis this season before they won
one.
Pitcher Clyde Goodwin, purchased
for the Boston Americans from Mil
waukee, will be turned over to Wash
ington.
Pitcher Steiger. Of the Jackson
Club. of the Southern Michigan
League, has been annexed by Detroit.
He has won trirty-two out of forty
games.
Manager Clarke. of Pittsburg. is
not likely to do much experimenting
this fall. He thinks he has one OF
the best clubs IN the country, and
Will keep it intact.
Pitcher Barger. of the Lancaster
Club. leading pitcher of the outlaw
Trl-State League. jumped to the New
York American Club at the solicita-
ton of catcher Jim Mcclure.
Davy Jones shows such speed on
the bases and clouts the. ball so hard
every time he comes East with the
Detroits that one wonders how the
Chicago Nationals came to part with
him
The recent work of pitcher Ed.
Walsh, of the Chicago Americans. is
the wonder of the season. He has
pitched almost perfect ball. Walsh.s
wonderful success is said to be due
to the fact that he has developed the
most effective spit ball IN the pro-
fession.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-09-27
HOvcrcd Over Deep Ditch.

Wabash. Ind. (SpeciaD D-Fifty-two
persons attached to an amusement
company, which has been exhibiting
at Fort Wayne. Ind, had a narrow
escape from death near Wabash yes
terday. The show people were in a
special car, which struck a derail and
fell over an embankment, being part
ly held in its perilous position over
the deep ditch by a telegraph pole.
In the scramble Co leave the car Is
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-09-27
Expelled From The Nobility.

Kursk, Russia (By Cable) At an
extraordinary meeting of the Mar.
shals of the Nobility it was decided
by a vote of 9S to 3 to eXpel from
the ranks of the nobility three mem
bers of the late parliament, includ-
ing Prince Peter DolgOroukeff, vice
president of the lower house, who
signed the Viborg manifesto.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-09-27
Abdul Hamid's Illness.

Paris (By Cable). - The Temps
says it learns from an absolutely
unquestionable source that the latest
consultations of medical advisers of
the Sultan of Turkey established the
fact that Abdul Hamid was suffering
from cancer of the kidney. This NAL
ady, the paper says, does not per-
nit of an operation being performed,
and is usually fatal within a year
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-09-27
Bank In Missouri Fails.

Washington tSpeciaD The Bates
National Bank of Butler, Mo, was
closed by the action of the board of
directors for the purpose of going
INTO liquidation. T. w. Butler has
been appointed receiver. So far as
the Comptroller of the Currency is
advised, no charges of wrong-doing
have been made.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-09-27
CITY OF Seattle Stranded.

Tacoma (SpeciaD The steamship
City of Seattle, en- route to Alaska.
went on the rocks at Trial Island
10 miles from Victoria. at o'clock
in a heavy fog. The steamer Saliva.
dor and two tugs have gone to her
assistance from Victoria and Port
Townsend. All passengers are re.
ported safe.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-09-27

Atlanta. Ga. (SpeciaD Modern
Atlanta has never witnessed such
scenes as have been a feature of an
entire day following the exciting in
cidents of Saturday night. A negro
was lynched on Marietta Street this
Sabbath afternoon.
The negro who was Iynched was
suspected of assaulting one OF the
whfte women Saturday. and was be
ing taken to Jail when he was TAX
en- from the officers by a dozen men
and shot to death in the street.
Militia have patrolled the streets.
while groups of citizens have stood
upon the corners discussing the sit
uation from their various stand
points. The number of dead at the
last report was 16, but may exceed
20. The injured are several times
that number. About a dozen women
are seriously hurt.
Dozen NIobs Attack Negroes.
The outbreak was against the ne
gro race, and was marked by all the
savagry which accompanies a racial
eruption. Russians massacreing Jews
in Odessa was not more cruel than
the Atlanta mob. Ordinarily the
ticular negro. and after Furnishing
him. washes its hands and becomes
respectable. But Saturday night the
mob was after all negroes because
they were negroes. Thirteen white
women have been attackd by negroes
at Atlanta in the last two months.
Four of these women were assaulted
Saturday evening. Only one OF these
n
lynched. The temper of the whites.
already strained. was snapped by the
four assaults Saturday. and the mob
reigned in Atlanta.
Some white man mounted a
box on Marietta Street, near the
postoffice. and, holding aloft a night
extra announcing the fourth assault
on white women" cried out: "Are
we Southern white men going tC
stand for this?" No; let's kill all
the negroes, so our women will be
safe" was shouted back, and the
mob was soon on.
Hurled From A Car.
Just then a trolley car appeared in
which were two negroes sitting be-
hind two white women. Look al
that" someone cried. In a twink
ling white men boarded the car and
threw the negroes into the midst OF
the mob, where one was cut to death
and the other fatally beaten.
The mob germ was evidently in
the atmosphere, for in less than 81
minutes after the initial outbreak
OH Marietta Street there came re
ports of mobs attacking negroes il
more than dozen sections of the
city. The stories were all the same
the whites would see Il negro anC
cry: There is one of the blacl
| fiends who assaults our women!
And in a few mintes the negro would
| be dead or beaten into insensibility
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-09-27

Because OF IN treatment of sailors
ia Portland, Me. United States navy
shi,s VIII cease visiting that harbor.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-08-31
NTULDROM NEWS.

There was a shower Of rain in this
vicinity Saturday.
Mr.. Coon preached to q good congre-
cation at Pleasant Home last Sunday.
Payson and Robinson began drilling
well for Carl Cutshaw in Brewster
Friday.
George O'Neal bought John Hor-
ney's warehouse in Brewster and has
moved it to his place, where he will
use it as a granary.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Jackson left for
Michigan about week ago, where
they will visit mid old time scenes
with friends and relatives
Mr.. Acker OF Shermanyille town
ship bought a fine span of horses OF
R A Smith last week for which he
paid $500 They were two and three
year-Old.
Harve Chambers is working in
Brewster at present
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford returned home
last Saturday from Monument, Kan,
where they have been the past three
weeks Mr. Clifford harvested a crop
OF small grain, which he had while
there
J. c. Beckner sold two loads Of hay
at Brewster last week
E r. Andrews is building a frame
building 16x24 feet, which he will use
for a granaTy and buggy shed
Henry Piper and family of Good
land, Mr. and Mrs Herman Upton
Of Burlington, Colo. Mrs. Z. McDan-
iel, T s. Mcdaniel and wife and John
Mcdaniel and wife, visited Mr.. and
Mrs @. a O'NeaI, Sunday.
Miss GOldie HOllenbeck will teach
the MuldrOw school and Mrs. Gurss
Will teach the Maple Grove school the
coming terms.
Rev Merritt died at his home in
Almena, Kan, the 18th Of August. Mr..
Merritt was an old man and was COM
PEELED to give up his ministry last
spring at this place on account OF
failing health.
The Rutherford threshing outfit are
threshing at John Listers at present,
having finished r. A Smiths and
BrittendalIs last week
S D. Coon sold his place Monday
to Mallory & Wheeler Of Brewster.
Mr.. Coon will move to GoOdland at
once and buy him a home.
J. D. Pool and his father, who re-
Gently came from Minnesota, Mr..
MOreland and ". BOwry went to Co
dorado last week and filed on govern
ment land
r. A. Smith sold all his cattle last
week, except four head Of milk cows.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-08-31
FIGHT I'm

Owners Of school land are much in
terested IN a recent decision Of the SUI
pTeme court. Many persons who
bought school land in the early days,
abandoned it, after making one or two
payments and later the same land
was re-sOld to other persons who set
tied on the land, made valuable i'm
prOvements and paid for it in full.
The court has just decided that the
fellow who took the land in the first
place, can recover IL and drive out the
present owner provided he can pro-
duce his original contract and re-
sumo payments on il. He viii also
have to pay for the improvements.
Some cheap schemers are said to be
already engaged in hunting up the
them a small sum for the contract
and then trying to sell them to the
Fightful owners for from $500 to $500
ito quiet title" to the land, which
from a standpoint OF reason and jus
tice, they already possess. The courts
decision may be right, legally, but, If
50, il seems to me that the second
purchaser and real owner has a clear
case Of damages against the state. The
state has no more right to sell pro-
perry twice or to sell land that is en-
numbered than a private Individual
People who have bought land that
viii be affected by this decision should
be on their guard and prepared to de-
fend themselves. Don't be in a hurry
TO turn your money over to some
shyster, but hang on like a bull dog
and fight There will probably be
another decision coming on this before
lOng.-WaKeeney Independent
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-08-31
INDEPENDENTS HELP DEMO
CRACY

The reports received at both the
democratic and republican headquar-
tiers agree that the movement for the
Independent thinking and action along
political lines in Kansas is more gen.
eraI than ever before in the states his
tory. It is admitted by republicans
leaders that the movement for indie
pendence this year will hurt their par
ty more than it will any other pOliti-
cal organization. The defeat Of the
square deal faction in the republican
state convention by the corporation
element, drove hundreds OF staunch
republicans to the support OF the
democratic candidates, who stand for
all that the square deal implies, and
who have the courage and ability TO
make good their campaign pledges
While the democrats are just as indie
pendent as the republicans, they are
satisfied with their party nominees,
and it is believed that the ticket will
poll the entire party strength The
republican managers COncede a loss Of
several thousand votes to the Harris
ticket. but claim that the republican
majority in the state is sufficient to
enable them to retain their control OF
the government, Notwithstanding the
loss Of the square deal contingent
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-08-31
Mr.. INGALLS, ON AMERICAN EX-
TRAVAGANCE.

President NJ. E ingalls, in his now
famous address to the Ohio bankers
said some things on extravaganza as
the American national vice that ought
had in the bankers convention In
the course Of his remarks he said:
Let me give you one instance
which IS familiar 10 you all 1t is
stated BY people who ought TO know
that in the United States there are
The average price Of these is estimat-
Cd at $4,000 Here, gentlemen is an
Investment. made in the last few years,
Of S4o0. 000, 00O-an enormous sum to
take out Of the earnings OF the COM
uzunity and put into a new pleasure
7 Tou add 10 this the cost Of Operat-
ing these machines, you will see as
wild a piece OF extravaganza probably,
IS the history OF the world furnishes
This IS only one example, but a large
one I don't think any country can
keep on for long that spends money
American nation The end must
Gene
or course. as a railroad president,
lFr ingalls, would be more impressed
bv the extrava-ance OF 100000 auto
mobiles chasing over the country than
persons not in that line OF business,
and IL may be said for automobiles
fhat they are a health-giving as vel
pieasure-giving form OF extrava-
4snce- But extravaganza is an Amert-
can vice and Il is not BY any means
csnfned to the Weather classes Of
reoDle. The American WOrkingman
u more apt to spend All his wages
lnzn any other W0rkingman in the
6rs6. and TO be harder hit conse-
szntsy when hard times fan upon
hen Il comes 70 s.wasteful and IL
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-08-31
KANSAS DEMOCRATIC TICKET

GovernOr-W. A Harris OF Law
renee
Lieutenant GoYernor-Hugh p.
Farreily OF Chanute-
Secretary OF State-Huch 9. ALL
born, Smith Center.
AuditOr-Wflliam Bowen AtchiSon-
Attorney General-DaYid Overmyer
OF Topeka
Treasurer-Patrick German Of Fort
Scott
Carney Of COncOrdia-
Associate Justices OF Supreme Court
sfx-year terms-D. n. Dale Of Wichi-
IA and A. n. Jackson Of Winfield
Associate Justices OF Supreme Court
short terms-W. S. Glass OF Mays
vile and Laurens HaWn Of Leaven-
worth
Members State Board Railroad
Commissioners Harry MCMILLAN OF
Minneapolis, James Humphrey Of
Junction City and c A Cooper OF
Lyons.
Superintendent Of Insurance.. ".
BOrphy Of Russell
Statae 2rinter-W. T. FEEDER Of
Great Bend
For Congressman Sixth District
John B. Rea Of MankatO.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-08-31
SURVEY KANSAS STREAMS.
Government Engineers VIII Report o
the Water Courses.

Government Engineers VIII Report on
the Water Courses.
The federal authorities will begin
work at once surveying the water
courses Of Kansas with a view to de-
termining the purity OF the state S
water supply. The survey will cost
about $4,000 and the work will be
done by NJ. D. Leighton, chief hydro
graDher Of the United States geological
survey at Washington.
The cost Of the survey is to be
borne equally by the government and
the state Of Kansas The arrange
ments were made with MT. Leighton
BY Governor HOch and Secretary
Crumbine Of the State Board Of
Health The government already has
its $500 ready for use and this
amount will be used at the beginning
of the survey. Governor HOch is d.
pending upon the legislature to ap-
prOpriate $500 for the project and
this will be used TO complete the
work
Governor HOch is in receipt Of a
blank agreement with the govern
ment. When he has signed this agree
ing that the state Of Kansas shall ap-
propriate $500 for the survey, Mr.
Leighton will begin work at once The
waters from the different streams IN
the state will be analysed by stud
ents in the chemical department at the
state university. From these analysis
will be determined the purity Of the
water from which the various towns
in the state get their supplies
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-08-31
A GRAND OLD STATE.

kansas iris are again Offering
kisses as an inducement to attract
men to help save the crops News
Item
I would that I were making hay
In Kansas.
One kisses gets as partial pay
In Kansas
What fun to reap all day the wheat
And then at eve reap kisses sweet!
A commonwealth with joys replete
Is Kansas.
I love to read about those joys
OF Kansas.
They live in clover, do the boys
In Kansas.
All day throughout the SunfOweT state
The golden corn they crib and crate
And then at night they OsCulate
In Kansas.
Louisville COurier-JOurnal.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-08-31
Big Horse Sale.

The undersigned Will sell at public
auction at his place, northeast 14-9-
40, four miles south and one mile west
OF GOOdland, sale to begin at 10
O'Clock a m, on Wednesday, Septem-
Der II, 1906, the following property:
Forty Head Of HOrses-These horses
are from three to eight years Of age,
all halter broke and many Of them
broke to drive and ride. Among this
stock is a matched pair Of roam mares;
one large black mare with colt by
side, viii weigh 1900 pounds; and
several fine bay matched teams and
good driving horses. In this sale
David Title viii offer eight head Of
COWS, four OF which are giving milk,
and eight twO-year-Old steers. also
one red yearling bull. three-fOurths
Red Pole Terms: One years time
viii be given purchaser, 10 per cent
interest bankable security; 3 per cent
on for cash Free lunch
AARON WELLS, Owner.
GEO BRADLEY, Auctioneer.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-08-31
BREWSTER w. c. T. Z.

What the Good People There Are Do
in for Temperance
August % the Brewster W Q. I. q.
me- at the home Of Mrs E W Al
bright and opened the meeting by
singing The Story That Never Grows
Old followed by reading Proverbs
%. 1875.
Roll call
Reading, Gospel Lights" by Mrs.
Calkins.
why William Dustin Became q
PrOhibitiOnist," by Mrs. Jacobs
why Are There No Dry Towns in
Idaho, Where Women Voter" by FL
nora Albright
Answer to these four questions by
Mrs Albright.
Discussion by the W. c. 7. Z.
Questions to be answered the second
Tuesday in September:
What states are prohibition states
Has the prohibition law been a nm
anciaI advantage to the. state Of
Maine2
What states have women suffrage
EpwOrth League meets promptly at
1880, topic for September 2, Chris
tan Testimony and Conversion"
Leader George Lund-
Preaching service by Brother Pierce
in the morning. Every one is vel
come and your presence will be ap-
DrpCiated.
The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-08-31

We Offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case OF Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known T.
J Cheney for the last IS years, and be-
Heve him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able 70 carry out any obligations made
by his firm
WALDnSG, Kn1IAlI & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Touedo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure IS taken inter
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and mucous surfaces OF the system
Testimonials sent free Price 75c per
bottle Sold by all druggists
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation-