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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-01
A MOVING WALL OF Water.

Reno, Nevada May 3O.-The
most disastrous flood that has &C.
Cured in Nevada for many years,
occurred in Golconda, a small
town about 200 miles from here.
1t was caused by the breaking OF
the large dam in Pole. creek
canyon, three miles above the
sheep shearing corral of the
Golconda Cattle company. Five
men were drowned, and several
are badly injured.
When the dam broke an i'm
mense volume of water poured
down the canyon, carrying every
thing before it. When it struck
the sheep shearing corral, there
we're a number of men at work,
and all OF these were carried
away with the food. Not a build.
ing or fence of the Golconda Cat.
tie company was left standing.
The track Of the Southern Pacific
railroad was under mined a mile
west of the town, and ali trains
are eight to twelve hours late.
The dead are: Three Mexican
sheep shearers, a Chinese cook
and an Indian boy. All were EN-.
ployed by the Golconda Cattle
company.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-01
RESERVATIONS 81 d, u a.

Every year | notice the ranks
of the old soldiers growing thin
ner; every year more of the old
familiar faces are missed from the
professions; and the number of
mounds that are adorned with Old
Glory increases. But the memory
of their brave deeds and priva-
tions are with us always.
When | die | would like my
tombstone inscribed: He did
the best he knew how, according
to his opportunities"
| have observed, 'however, that
the best Opportunities" are
oftener made than come by
chance.
1t is not always the most-pleas-
ant experiences that develop
in the shade of the old apple
tree" / tackled them once when
they were too green.
80
| have learned the address in
the other world of the boy who
died from eating green apples. 1t
is: IS | 2 Green"
May be if | had Will Miller's
gift of CAB I'd be ward politi.
clan or a patient medicine faker.
A friend asks: What is
denatured alcoholic" To the best
of my information is the kind
that costs Is cents a horn, which
is dehorned and sold for Is cents
a gallon.
The time of the year has ar
rived when the room in the
foolish house is vacant that ought
to be occupied by the crank who
rocks the boat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-01
A new PORT OF ENTRY.
Port Arthur, Texas to be Made Such by
Act Of Congress.

Washington, Nav 30.-The
decision of the house committee
to favorably recommend a bill
making Port Arthur, Teaxs, a
port of entry, is o. the utmost i'm
portance to Kansas City and the
Great Southwest, as it will practi-
cally give that territory a direct
outlet to the sea. This PROPOSE
ton has been before congress for
a number of years, and it looks
now as though it would be ac-
complished this session.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-01
STORY OF THE
INVESTIGATION.
Some Of the Things the Commission
Is Said TO Have Found.
Can Such Be POSSIBLE a?

Washington, May 3O.-The
popular clamor for the whole
truth concerning the discoveries
by Commissioner Neill's investi-
cation of the packing industries
is becoming widespread. The
public demands the whole truth in
this matter.
There are some allegations
backed up, it is said, by afidavits
that lard is manufactured from
hogs which die with cholera.
The sanitary conditions in the
packing houses are revolving.
Meat refused by Europeans is
sold in America.
Oil from carcasses of hogs dy-
ing in sickness willie being ship
ped is used in making sardine oil.
Bubbly creek, into which offal
is dumped, is skinned for the
grease which rises on it.
Cattle suffering lumpy jaw are
butchered. There is no inspec-
tion for trichinosis in hogs sold in
this country.
Animals butchered for European
trade are inspected. Meat in
which trichinae are dead and
disintegrated is sold. Where the
germ is found alive in ham the
meat is boiled before selling, and
not always thoroughly.
The packing houses employ
many suffering from tuberculosis,
unclean and careless, who spit up
on the meat, walk over it and drag
it about fil:hy floors. No attempt
is made to observe the sanitary
measures of clean slaughter
houses, but the meat is doctored
with bOrax and other dangerous
chemicals after having SPOILED.
Dangerous chemicals are put on
smoked" meats. A chemist is
employed in one concern to per-
feet process for deodorizing de-
cayed hams.
SO-called ported chicken" is
composed of bob veal and not
chicken meat.
Canned roast beef is made from
the porous parts of old cows, so
emaciated that many are hauled
to the slaughter houses in carts.
Sausages are dyed with chemi-
Gals and preserved with embalm
ing fluid. Leaf lard" exploited
for its purity, contains 20 per
cent of cottonseed oil.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-01
Pioneer Defeats Sanda0o.

Pioneer and Sandago played ball
last Saturday on the latter's ball
ground. The first inning resulted in
FIVE minutes playing ball and twenty
FIVE minutes chewing the rag. The
next five innings were just like it only
more janghng, the "dagoes" disput.
Ing the umpire's decision every time
he called a strike on them that they
didn't strike at. Their manager also
undertook to umpire and play short
at the same time. In the seventh
Pioneer got tired Of hearing their
clatter and picked up their bats and
went home. The score at that time
was to 0 in favor OF Pioneer.
The feature Of the game was Mil
ler's batting and Rice's pitching, the
locals getting only one hit in the six
innings. Miller knocked the ball
over the left field fence twice out of
three times at the bat.
Batteries-Pioneer, Rice and Mil.
Ter; Sandago-Care and Hueitt.
Sworn to by the umpire, NJ. N.
Strobe.
Pretty near time for the annual
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-01
Bank President Arrested.


Birmingham. Ala, May 3d.
Gordon Dubose, president of the
First National Bank Of. Ensley,
was yesterday arrested, charged
with the embezzlement of $40, 900
of the funds of the bank. He
was placed under $4,000 bonds.
He refused to make a statement
A Missouri paper says they will
soon have three U. S. Senator's
two regular elected, and on.t Bur,
toni in Jail. !. Ia - :. !. :. -.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-01
RenO's Sheriff too Quick.

Hutchinson, Kansas, May 3d.
The shooting of AL. Olson by
Sheriff Hooper yesterday morning
seems to have been a case of an
officer getting in his gun play too
RAPIDLY. Olson had no gun, when
shot, and asserts that he had no
intention of issaulting the officer.
The trouble seems to have been
principally over a woman.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-01
The largest Civil Bill.

Washington, May 3O.-The
Sundry civil bill reported to con-
gress yesterday was the largest
ever called for. 1t calls for the
appropriation of nearly s95, OOO,-
600, S25, 400, 991 being for the
Panama Canal. S23, OOO,O OOis for
the improvement of the Missis.
sippi river.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-01
Strike Ends In Illinois.

Chicago, Ills, May 3O.-The
Illinois coal operators have decid.
ed to yield to the demand Of the
miners and adopt the scale Of
1903. The question of settlement
is declared to be a matter of de.
tail, and mining will be resumed
next week by the Illinois union
men.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-06-01

"Twenty-three, " in slang par
lance, means skiddoo-s kedadle-
vamouse-get a move on you
hike! 1t originated in Genesis
v, being the 2Sd verse, where
Adam got his walking papers out
of Eden.
The Newtown bee., 1906-08-10

The following letter Ii only ono Of
many thousands which arc on file in
the Pinkham Office. and 60 to prove
beyond question that Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound must be a
remedy Of great merit, otherwise it
could not produce such marvellous
results among sick and ailing women.
Dear Mr.. Pinkham:-
'About nine months ago I was q great SUI
fersr with female trouble, which caused mo
severe pain, extreme nervousness and fire.
quent headaches, from which the doctor
failed to relieve me: tried Lydia T. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and within .
short time felt better, and after taking i've
bottles Of it was entirely cured. I therefore
heartily recommend your Compound ~ q
splendid female tonic. It makes the monthly
periods regular and without pain; and what
q blessing 1t II to find such Q remedy after 20
many doctors fail to help you. am pleased
to recommend it to all suffering women
Mrs. Sara Wilson, 81 East Sd Street, Cincin-
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If you have suppressed or painful
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-Lydia r. Pinkham,S Vegetable Com
pound.
The Newtown bee., 1906-08-10
THE END OF THE WORLD

of troubles that robbed e. FL. Wolfe of
Bear Grove, Ia, Of all usefulness, came
when he began taking Electric Bitters.
He writes: 1.-TWO years ago kidney
trouble caused me great suffering,
which would never have survived had
I. not taken Electric Bitters. They
also cured me of General Debility"
Sure cure for all stomach, liver and
kidney complaints, blood diseases, head
ache, dizziness and weakness or bodily
decline. Price SOC. Guaranteed by
b. III. Beers s. Co., Newtown; Belts
s. Belts, Sandy Hook; P. J. Gar
vim, Bethel; w. n. Noble, New Milford;
e. J. Buckingham, Huntington; Allen
Joyce, Roxbury Station; G. W. Hurl-
burt B Co., Roxbury: J. NJ. Sullivan,
Redding Ridge; Connery Bros, George.
town; w. B. Hawley, Sherman; H0nan
s Soule, Gaylordsville; Smith Bros,
Cornwall Bridge, Edwin 81. Beardsley,
New Preston; George e. Frink, Falls
Village; E. S. Fairchild & Son,
Nichols, drug stores.
The Newtown bee., 1906-08-10

Bulkeley SO quickly become leading
favOriteS in Washington?
1t is not alone because they are men
Of ability, it is in large part because
they are warm-hearted men who make
strong and lasting friendships.
When Senator Brandegee walks into
the senate retiring rooms "Hello
Frank" can be heard from every side,
indicating intimate acQuaintanceShipj
friendly fraternity of feeling which,
never exists without good reason.
Senators Buckley and Brandegee
are thoroughly democratic and COM
panionable-their senatorial associ-
ates all like and trust them. They
have much influence in Washington
because they deserve to have it-they
are next" to all the leading mem of
the nation.
One Of the most prosperous wei kly
papers In New England is THE N wv
Town BEE, edited by Allison P. Sn th,
formerly one of the staff OF the Sp] hg-
field Republican.
There are three NTH brothers and
they are all hustlers.
The Smiths bought THE BEE when
it had circulation of only about 400
copies and was a paper OF no conse-
quence.
They have given it the biggest cir
culation of any weekly paper In the
state and they have done it not alone
but by getting next" to all the peo-
pie in the section of the state in which
they chiefly operate. !.
No citizen Of Connecticut flows SO
many Of the people of Litcl bed and
Fairfield counties as Allison toSmith
knows. He Is acquainted - them
all, has visited them in their homes,
has dined with them and In many
ways has proved that he is their friend
He Is personally acquainted with their
uncles, their cousins and their AuntS.
He knows their family history, has
knowledge of their joys and their sor-
rows and never fails to do the right
thing at the right time and in the
right way.
He has built up valuable >newspa-
per property by energy, industry and
untiring attention to details but vast
~ more valuable than the monetary
success are the friendships chat can
not be bought, sold or traded Off
friendships that are the most precious
asset mortal man can have In this
world below the skies.
These newspaper Smiths are bright
business men but the loyalty and gen.
their friendships is their
chief characteristic. They are next
to the people-all the people and the
place they hold in thD affections of the
people is that which Is never attained
except by those W lose sincerity of
and purpoS, has been keenly
tested and never fo4nd wanting.
"Getting next" il the easiest hard
thing and the hardest easy thing in
The world to do. No man who is not
honestly sincere and sincerely hoa4est
The Newtown bee., 1906-08-10
0ALyEsT0Ns SEA WALL

makes life now as safe in that city as
on the higher uplands. e. w. Goodloe,
who resides on Dutton street,in Waco,
Tex, needs no sea wall for safety. He
writes: II have used DR. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption the past
five years and it keeps me we'll and
safe. Before that time had cough
which for years had been growing
worse. Now it's gone" Cures chronic
coughs, la grippe, Group, whooping
cough and prevents pneumonia. Pleas
ant to take. Every" bottle guaran-
teed at eR. FL. Beers & Co., New
town; Belts 8 Belts, Sandy Hook;
2. ]. Garvin, Bethel; w. N: Noble,
New Milford; e. J. buckingham,
Huntington; Allen Joyce, Roxbury
Station; G.. w. Hurlburt s. Co., ROx-
bury; J. NJ. Sullivan, BEDDING Ridge;
Connery Bros, Georgetown; w. b.
Hawley, Sherman; .Honan s. Soule,
Gaylordsville; Smith Bros, Cornwall
Bridge, Edwin II. BeardSley, New
Preston, George e. Frink, Falls
Village; e. s. Fairchild & Son, Nichols,
drug stores. Price SOC and 81. Trial
bottle free.
The Newtown bee., 1906-08-10

There is nothing so pleasant as that
bright, cheerful, Representations
world feeling when you sit down to
your breakfast. There is nothing SO
conductive to good work and good re-
suits. The healthy man with a
healthy mind and body is better fel-
low, better workman, q better citi-
zen than man or woman who is hand
icapped by some disability, however
slight. A slight disorder Of the stom-
ach will derange your body, your
thoughts and your disposition. Get
away from the morbidness and the
blues. Keep your stomach In tune and
both your brain and body will respond.
Little indiscretiOns of Overeating can
be easily corrected and you will be sur
priSed to see how much better man you
are. Try little Kodol For Dyspepsia
after your meals. Sold by all drug
RiStS.
The Newtown bee., 1906-08-10
SIBERIAN,
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Rev e. p. Herrick arrived in town
from Cuba, last week Monday.
The missionary meeting was held at
the Herrick cottage on Tuesday.
The sale and concert on the evening
of August was we'll attended and q
success In every way. The sum Of go
was realized.
Mr. and Mrs Ira Wildman, Mr. and
Mrs George Merrick and Miss Grace
Knox, all of Danbury, were guests of
Mr. and Mrs W. B. Hungerford, last
Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Ruth Rogers had three lady
friends with her at church, last Sun
day; also Mrs Woodruff had q stranger
with her.
Mr. and Mrs Elliott Roswell have both
been in poor health for long time but
are better now, SO that they could at
tend church last Sunday for the first
time In year.
Mr. and Mrs o. w. Hoyt of Board
man visited friends in the First district
Some people from Quaker Hill at
tended the Sherman church, last Sun
While the ladies in the Evans cot
of them alighted to gather Wild flowers
and by some means the horse became
frightened, ran away, and demolished
one wheel and threw himself, but no
one was injured.
Miss Nellie Wanzer has been spend
ing few weeks with Mrs G. A. Barnes.
DR. Smith is again with his family to
enjoy country life.
Rev and Mrs R. FL. Baker from New
Jersey are boarding with Mrs Wood.
ruff.
Mr. Tiebout was in town from Satur-
day till Wednesday of this week.
| A play entitled "A Good Dinner
Bidstrup's barn by the young people OF
Coburn. Dan Bidstrup took the part
of the leading lady and performed the
act we'll. After the play q dance was
enjoyed by the young people.
| Rev w. 81. Wilson's vacation has
now begun.
The Newtown bee., 1906-08-10
FAIRFIELD.

Miss Clara King and William Mich
OILS have gone to New York, where
they meet Mrs Nichols and take trip
up into the hills of old Massachusetts,
where they will spend q week or ten
days.
Mr. and Mrs q. G. Wells entertained
friends from Wilton, Sunday.
William Hull has lost q valuable
horse with some, unknown disease
which is prevalent in that section.
Mail Carrier G. @. Wells has q horse
afflicted with the same disease.
Howard Whitaker of Newark, N. J.,
has been spending q week with his
father.
Mr. and Mrs Charles Jackson of
Hawleyville we're guests over Sunday
Of Mrs Jackson's parents, Mr. and Mrs
F. e. Crosby.
The Newtown bee., 1906-08-10
A MYSTERY SOLVED.

"How to keep off periodic at: @cks of
biliousness and habitual constipation
was mystery that DR. Kings New
Life Pills solved for me-" writes John
N. Pleasant.of Magnolia, Ind. The only
pills that are guaranteed to give per-
feet satisfaction to everybody or money
refunded. Only Csc at r. Fl. Beers &
Co., Newtown; Belts & Belts, Sandy
Hook; P. j. Garvin, Bethel; w. N.
Noble, New Milford; E. ]. Bucking-
ham, Huntington; Allen Joyce, Rox-
bury Station; G. w. Hurlburt & Co.,
Roxbury; Connery Bros, Georgetown;
J. M. Sullivan, Redding Ridge; W. B.
Hawley, Sherman; Honan s. Soule,
Gaylordsville; Smith Bros, Cornwall
Bridge, Edwin II. Beardsley, New
Preston; George e. Frink, Falls
Village; E. S. Fairchild & Son, Nichols,
drug stores.
The Newtown bee., 1906-08-10
"OETTINO NEXT"
A GENEROUS Tribute FROM THE PEN
OF EDITOR CHARLES WHITTLESEY
PICKETT OF THE NEW HAVEN LEAD
ER.

The Washington Post says that
when Senator Crane came to Washing
ton he began the work OF becoming in
fluential as follows:
.'Step No. making the acquain-
tance-real, not nominal-of his fel-
low senators, learning their life
stories and sharing their heart secrets,
for no man has ever possessed in high
er degree the faculty Of getting next"
to his fellow-men. lodge" he said
his colleague had served more THAN
dozen years, ST we are going to do
anything for Massachusetts you had
better begin getting acquainted with
the members Of the Senate!" The
senior senator laughed aloud, but took
no offense. He tells the story on him.
self and on his colleague as fairly H.
Illustrative of the character of both.'
"Getting next" is q mighty good
thing for all men to do. 1t Is human,
and it is right living, too.
Friends are the best assets In the
word.
Friendship, true friendship, can only
be found to bloom in the soil OF no
pie and self-sacrificing heart; there it
has perennial summer, q reverend
ing season of felicity and joy to its
happy possess0r, casting thousand
rays Of love and hope and peace to all
around.
No one can be happy without a
friend, and no one can know what
friends he has until he is unhappy.
The first law of friendship Is SINGER
ity and he who violates this law will
soon find himself destitute of what he
so erringly seeks to gain, for the de-
ceitful heart of such an one will soon
betray itself, and feel the contempt
due to insincerity.
Senator Crane, If we are not mistak-
en- in our estimate of him, is not sim:
ply man eliminating friendship as a
means to a selfish end.
He is not big physically, but he has
big, warm heart. He is social by ma
ture and his motives are unimpeach-
able and selfish.
Why have Senators Brandegee and
The Newtown bee., 1906-08-10

snow is white or that the rose is beau
full, or that the perfume of the violet
is delicate; it is just as unnecessary
for me to tell you that the life of our
Brother Taylor was grand and good
life, having spent it in the service of
his Master for over 81 years, preaching
the great truths of Christ and him
crucifed, comforting the sorrow stric>
ken, cheering the disheartened, help.
ing the unfortunate, doing Christ's
work to the best of his ability, as near
ly like as He would have done it Him.
self, as he knew how. He was for
over 40 years an ordained minister,
had served this church here in Sandy
Hook for three times, spending the full
time allowed for the conference each
time, in which he endeared himself to
everyone in the place. With Brother
Ahrens, I can say, that his presence
with his interesting manner, atten-
tive attitude, was great help to me
as 1 preached my first sermon here. !
shall always carry the remembrance
that it was he who pronounced the
benediction at my first service and his
words of encouragement were q great
help and stimulant to me. loved to
stop and see him, If only for a few
minutes and always felt that 1 had
truly been with one Of Gods elect.
While tits hard for friends and family
to part with their loved ones, 1 can
not help but think of Brother Taylor,
as ripened fruit. You know If we
pick fruit from the branch before it is
ripe, it leaves wound, but when you
pick fruit that is ripe, nature has
healed the spot where it breaks and
the wound is not there. So it is with
Brother Taylor; by his godly life, he
has left no memories behind which
are bitter; there are no memories,
which his loved ones could have
changed. All the memories left be-
hind him are good and pleasant to
think about. By his many years of
service, never ceasing them, until his
health forced him to, he was as it
were, fruit ripe for the Masters
plucking. We all know that he has
gone to his just reward, to receive
that crown spoken of and adds one to
that host of friends, waiting to greet
us on the other shore.'
The burial was in the Berkshire
cemetery.
The Newtown bee., 1906-08-10

uated from Trinity College, Oxford.
He has been writing since early in the
nineties, Notwithstanding and sail
ing being the pleasures of his holidays.
Mr. Mason's new novel, Running Wa
ter" character study and tale of ad.
venture, the scenes set chiefly in the
Alps, begins serial publication in the
August Century.
The Newtown bee., 1906-08-10
EBEReoULD.

EBER,eoULD.
Eber Gould, who had been in poo1
health for several months, passed
away quite suddenly at his home,
Wednesday, July Is, aged Is years
The funeral was largely attended from
his late home, Saturday afternoon al
2 O'Clock, Rev Mr. Beckwith of the
Flat Rock Methodist church off1ciat.
ing. The burial was in the Cemetery
near the Baptist church. The bear.
ers were nephews of Mr. Gould's, Fred
erick Jennings, Jesse Wheeler, Elmer
Buckley and Mr. Lockwood. There
was a number of handsome floral trt-
buteS. Mr. Gould is survived by his
wife and one daughter, Mrs Edgar G.
jennings. Mr. Gould had represented
the town in the Legislature and for q
number Of years was first selectman
and held many other town offices. He
was widely known throughout this
section Of country. He viii be missed
by very large circle of friends.
Miss Adele Ruman is visiting her
father in New York.
Mrs Maurer and son returned to
Great Darlington, last week.
II. W. Osborne unloaded a car of
oats at Stepney, last week.
A party Of young ladies. including
Misses Marilla Rockwell, Lucy San
ford, Florence Candee, May Mallette
and Grace Williams, are spending a
week at II. w. Osborne's cottage at
Fairfield Beach. Mrs William Sanford
and Miss Abby Sanford are chaperon.
ing the party.
Mr. and Mrs Arthur Sherwood spent
in Redding.
Mr. and Mrs John Fitch of Weston
spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs John
2. Mellen.
Miss lone Chivers of Guilford is Wis
iting Mrs John 2. Mellen.
Mr. and Mrs Arthur Hall we're at G..
f. Parrack's, Sunday.
Mrs Springer and Miss Jennie
Springer and Vincent Springer of
Brooklyn are spending week at Peter
Harriet E Klein, infant daughter
Of Mr. and Mrs Abram Klein of Wood
bury, died at their home SUNDAY, Au-
gust s, aged two months and Is days.
The body of the little one was brought
here on Monday, where the funeral
took place from the home Of Mr. and
Mrs George Klein, the grandparents,
IN Tuesday afternoons lat O'Clock, Rev
Mr. Sheffield of Tashua officiating.
The burial was in the Tasbua ceme-
terry. The bearers were George, Fred.
srick, David and Charles Klein, Mr.
and Mrs Klein wish, through the
columns of THE BEE, to thank the
friends here for their kindness at the
time of the fu neral.