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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-01-26
GuSiaY A. Roth Dead.

We received by mail Monday
morning the following notice:
Died Near bis home 6 miles
northeast of Ellinwood, by an &C
cident, on Sunday morning, Jan.
Dist, at about II o'clock, Gustav
Adolph Roth, aged Sc years, {
months and 3 days. Funera
from the residence Tuesday after.
noon, Jan. 80, at 1O'clock. Ser.
vices at the German Evangelical
church, Ellinwood.
We are unable to learn under
what circumstances Mr.. Roth met
his death.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-01-26
AN IDEAL POULTRY COUNTRY.
Everything Here is Favorable to Sue
CGSSiHI Poultry Raising.


The following article is from
the Kansas Agricultural Review
of a recent date:
The advantages of Western Kan
sas as poultry producing country
are equal if not greater than any
other sections of the State can
afford. The local demands can not
be expected to be as great as
farther east, but in proportion to
the population it appears to be
greater. The Denver markets
always quote good prices and yet
never seem to have a sufficient
supply of fresh poultry produce.
1t appears that considering the
Denver markets alone the propo-
sition would be a paying one.
Now as to advantage presented
for the, raising of the products to
be supplied to these markets:
The land9is open and fairly level
and a desirable location for the
chicken houses can be easily Sc
cured. The proper way is to
buiid the houses facing south on
land sloping in that direction.
Then the thought is brought
forth as to what this country gives
toward the immediate benefit Of
the chickens, The atmosphere is
wars and dry and when a rain
does come, the warm winds soon
remove all the i'll effects it may
give. Young chicks may be raised
through the tender age, with less
fear of fowl0 troubles, caused BY
dampneSs, than in the eastern
part of the State. Dry weather
is what growing chickens need
and in the western country this is
plentifullv supplied. Consider
able area for the youngsters torun
over is desirable, apd this can be
bought at a fairly cheap price.
The natural'green pasture food is
buffalo and prairie grass, both of
which contain a large supply of
nourishment. Alfalfa is and can
be raised so the winters supply
of green food is readily obtained.
Wheat, .Kafr-corn and barley are
standard feedsofor poultry and are
cheap and plentiful.
The insects are. so thick that in
the summer the poultry can almost
thrive without any grain being
furnished to- them.
Western Kansas is an excellent
place for raising turkeys. The
climate is good and the range fine.
The grass hcppers are a pest in
the wheat fields, and turkeys rang
Ing. over the fields will destroy
many Of these troublesome pests.
This would improve the country,
tire wheat, and necessarily the tur.
keys.
The poultry business appears tC
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-01-26
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

W. M. Zeiber, the Pawnee
Rock nurseryman, was transacting
business in Great Bend Monday.
Anthony Bobeck is not improv-
ing as fast as he would wish, but
his little girl has entirely re-
covered.
Carson Stark, of Stark Bros,
general merchandise dealers at
MacksvilIe was in the city Sun
day evening.
G. H. Ochs is putting upa fine
two story cut stone residence at
Olmitz, which will be the finest
house in the town.
The c. II. Ochs mercantile bust
ness at 0lmitz has been sold TO
Schneider Bros. the transfer to be
made Monday or Tuesday of this
week.
Will Brown drove down from
Galatia Saturday afternoon, and
remained until Sunday morning.
Mrs. Brown continues in poor
health.
Louis Wenke a prominent young
farmer living east of Ellinwood
suddenly lost bis mind Sunday
morning. We have not had any
of the particulars.
As was looked for, the mercury
business took q tumble in the
thermometers Saturday night. BY
Sunday evening it stood 16 above,
and reached the zero mark early
Monday morning.
County Clerk Ashpole this week
cancelled about $4,000 in Mo. P. r.
R. bonds. refunded by townships.
The county will save about $4,000
in the next two or three years by
the refunding proposition.
Some one mailed a letter from
Galatia, having more to say about
the catalogue house patrons, with
a request to please publish" but
as the writer failed in the main es-
sential-that OF attaching his sig
nature to the letter-his Obserya-
tiOns remain unpublished.
Justices of the peace should re-
member that we have on hand, at
the Democrat Printing House, a
supply of justices blanks which
they can get in any numbers, from
1 to 1000, cheaper than if they
send to Topeka or any other city
Tor them. We also have deeds,
mortgages, farm and town leases
and contracts, notes, constables
sale blanks etc.
At the Christian church this
city Rev. L. w. Bickart is con-
Quoting a series of meetings each
evening, and his sermons are ex-
ceptionally pleasing. The meet
ings will be continued all this
week, excepting Saturday even
insg. Special music is arranged,
and everybody is cordially invited
to attend. Every business man
in town should attend these meet
ingS-they will do you good.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-01-26
Bargains ia Real Estate.

If you contemplate buying land
this fall, see US, as we have good
wheat land in Pawnee, Edwards,
Hodgeman, Ford, Gray and Finney
county for sale. Prices right and
terms reasonable.
WooDs & RUssLE.
KinsIey, Kas.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-01-26
Ills EInd Unbalanced.

A jury of physicians, in the pro-
bate court Saturday evening, ex
amined Harry Thatcher's mental
condition, and it was their decision
that he should be sent to one Of
the state hospitals for treatment.
1t is believed and earnestly
hoped that proper treatment will
soon restore him to health again.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-01-26

be gradually spreading to Western
Kansas and row is the time for
the farmer interested in this work
to take advantage of his oppOr-
tunitieS.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-01-26
AIruihlul lass.

The census taker raped at the
door Of the lite farmhouse aud
opened his lorg hook 4 plump
girl of abount IS came to the door
and blinked at him stupidity, says
the Youths Companion.
Show many people live hereg'
he began.
Nobody lives here. We are
only staying through the hop sea
son."
How many Of you are there
here9''
I'm here. Fathers in The
woodshed, and Bill is--'
See here, girl. | want to
know how many inmates there arl
in this house. How many people
slept here last night9"
Nobody slept here, sir. l haC
the toothache dreadful and my
little brother had the stomach
ache, and the new hand that.
helping US, got sunburned so baC
on his back that he has blister
tie size OF eggs, and we all tool
on so that nobody slept a wink al
night long,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-01-26

LOST-0n the road N. E. of
town, near Frank Woods a 2xl0
inch jack screw. Finder return to
HemSer & Nuttleman's and get
reward.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-01-26
WHY They CONE
TOKANSAS now.
No Other Phase IS Valuable Land 50
Cheap as Here.
GREAT ARKANSAS VALLEY.

night that there was a decided in
crease in the passenger business to
the western part of Kansas. Mr..
Conroy, superintendent of disburs-
ements also said that he had not
known of so much traffic in the
department for years.
The reason the people are COM
ing to Kansas seems to be that the
fasteners have found out that
Kansas land is cheap and that it
pays more considering the invest
ment than does land in any section
Of the country.
This demand for land is mostly
in the valley of the Arkansas
river. The demand extends to
lands in the section of the territory
of New Mexico. but this is not as
strong as the demand for the lands
in western Kansas. The fact
that the Arkansas valley land will
produce sugar beets is one of the
things which is attracting the
attention of the people in the east.
We have received great many
letters from the people in the East
asking concerning the price of
lands and the value of the products
which the land will produce, said
Mr.. C0nnell. L would not at
tempt to say how many letters we
have received. but there are a
great many. Letters have been
sent out to the agents along the
road in the western part of the
state asking that they give the
price Of land within five miles of
the stations OF which they have
charge. This information should
be authentic. The idea is to GET
one oid. values and Che present
values. The people are asking
for this and We are trying to get
it for them"
Has The price of land advanced
as much as has been reported SO
far as you have heardE" was
asked.
Yes, I do not think there has
been an erroneous statement made
regarding the advancement in the
price of lands. | say this from
the information | have received
from the men who are connected
with the Santa Fe.
Il know this: We are running
special excursions twice a month
to the western part of the state and
we have had as many as three
sections on No. 5 which is the
train that goes into that section.
| think | am asfe in saying that
there are twice as many people
coming to Kansas, and they are
men with money, as have come tC
the state since the boom days.
am not well acquainted with the
previous history of the bushes,
in the state, but | draw my con
illusions from the reports which
have been made to me. | an
certain that the reports which
have been sent out about the de-
mand for the western Kansas lane
are responsible for the great de
mand for the land and you can bC
sure thot the Santa Fe is not do
ing anything which would create
counter effect. | honestly thinl
that lanu in the western part o
the state will increase three OF
four times more than the present
price. | would not be surprised t
see it 90 to 500 an acre.
1t is conditions such as | have
named which are drawing the
people to Kansas from the East.
Bert Fancher, Jr. weight tel
pounds. came to town Sunda,
evening at 80 with a printer
stick in his hand, yelling TO
copy to distract the foreman
and make the devil" walk turke,
fashion. Mother and baby doin,
fine, and Foreman Fancher Oh
duty as usual
u ~ - q, -
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-01-26

V. O. Mccullough of Route
one, Hudson, and }. N. Davis of
route three. cIiy.a are new Demo
Graf subscribers.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-01-26

M. J. Keenan, called Saturday
to renew his Democrat subscrip-
tion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-01-26

Victor Schneider, cashier of the
Olmitz State Bank, was a county
seat visitor Saturday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-01-26

Bert Fancher, Jr. weight ten
pounds. came to town Sunday
evening at 1870 with a printers
stick in his hand, yelling for
copy to distract the foreman
and make the devil" walk turkey
fashion, Mother and baby doing
fine, and Foreman Fancher on
duty as usual
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The License Fee Doubled.

Practically the first official act OF
the new excise board appointed by
Judge Ten Eyck was to raise the Ii
cense fee from $3.50 to $500. There
are 1,421 licensed saloons in this
city, so that if all are renewed the
city treasury will receive $710,5O0,
as against $780, $50 under the old
license fee. Whether all will be re-
newed or not is a question. Presum-
ably there will be some reduction in
the total number, but in Jersey City
where is was supposed that at least
200 saloons would go out of business
when the fee was raised to $500, the
reduction was only about fifty. And
these, tmust be observed, made APP
~plication as heretofore, but were de-
MED.
On the merits of the case, the new
Board of Excise has adopted the prop
err policy. The license fee in this city
has been too low in comparison with
the fees in other cities. The legisla-
ture declared to this effect when 1t
raised to 5000 the license fees in all
cities of over 10000 population.
Plainfield had a fee of $3.50 for n
number of years, and recently raised
1t to $1,000. Camden has a fee OF
| $500, Passaic 1901, East Orange
$500, Atlantic City and New Bruins
wick $3.50 each, and Jersey CITY
doubled its fee only a few weeks ago.
If it is worth from $3.50 to $1,OOO
to sell liquors in other cities in TINS
state, it is worth at least $500 for the
privilege of carrying on the am
in Newark. AS a purely business
proposition, this city is entitled to
quite as much as any other city, ana
the liquor dealers here can afford to
pay as much as those located in cities
that are not nearly so large and &c
not assure so much trade. 1t is nc
hardship to the liquor dealers in TINS
city to charge them what is charged
in a number of other cities In TINS
state.
With reference to political condl
lions in Newark, the action OF the
Board of Excise under the
bill" will intensity the feelings o.
many citizens against this statute
and II may be- made the excuse for I
vigorous campaign against the par
ties who will be held Responsible 10
the new liquor law. But public sen
timent all v e the state has peer
manifestly in favor of higher licens'
for several years past, and as
bishops law did not fully me-
that sentiment, it is not at al su,
prising that new excise poa :,
throughout the state have either a.
ready decided upon a $500 cen
fee or are likely to consider y az
nrovingly as soon as they are organ
lied for business. j. i
Furthermore. the mefease IS : :.
commended as A pollse fegeses'sH
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02

the bishops bill" or any other act
of similar import is retained on the
statute books, saloon keepers who
pay $500 for a years license to sell
will be careful not to forfeit both the
money and the license by disobeying
the law. Whether a higher license
reduces the total number of saloons
or not, it certainly, as shown by eX-
perience, induces a healthier respect
for the law and greater caution in OBJ
serving it. In raising the fee to $500
the new Excise Board has simply put
Newark on a par with other leading
cities of this state.-Newark News.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02
"THINK 1T OVER"

Col. Fordycc is giving the people
of this county something to think
about. A little inside history of the
way things are lone in the Legislature
Is interesting 10 the average citizen
who knows little about such things
and 1t is seldom that the people can
get a man who has been through the
mill to tell what took place.
When you go to one of your assem-
bIynien, whom YOU have elected to
r YOU, with Il bill that may have
some effect on one or another of the
corporations, why is it that you are
told that you had better see Dory
Strong about il first? Such Il thing
has happened between a taxpayer of
this county and one of Middlescx's
NoHtIibi hNhs
Why should a citizen be told to go
to Dory Strong? How is il that he
should he consulted any more than
any other man?
Think il oyer.
When n bill is introduced in the
legislature that is found, upon close
investigation, TO give some big con
cessiea NJ Evaporation, why is it
That Dory Strong becomes very active
down re NgHIop and insists that the
MiddleSes irfn vote in favor of the
measure, regardless of what the leg
islators think about ii themselves and
regardISfMf what efrect it will have
upon the people of the state? This
is whatpIlpry Strong is accused of do
ing, ana Oh ddSs moi darc to deny it.
Think FtAeA
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02
THinE
ONE ISSUE IN MIppLEsEx.

With the exception of having the
location slightly mixed, the following
editorial from the Hoboken Observer,
on the Hole in the Wall is to the
point, and shows how the situation
is viewed outside of the county:
One of the political issues down in
MiddleseX county is the ''hole in the
wall.f The aperture is not actually
a hole in a wall, but it looks like
one when viewed from either end.
Most persons who have gone down to
the seashore in carriages or automo-
biles have seen it.
Some weeks ago the new bridge be-
tween Perth and South Amboy was
completed and the road from Railway
to Long Branch is now shortened by
something like thirty miles.
But on the road from South Amboy
to Metuchen there is a dark, narrow
tunnel under the tracks of the Penn.
sylvania railroad, through which al
vehicles must pass unless their driy.
ers are willing to make a long detoul
thfohgh the woods over a rocky roat
that few know of.
This tunnel is full of mud ant
. 1
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02

FIRE ALARM X

23-Raritan Copper Works.
II and Lewis streets.
III Madison avenue Ind Paterson street.
2S-Market and First streets.
35-Smith and High streets.
37-State and smith streets.
49-Buckingham Ave. and Hartford st.
45-Commerce and Front streets.
II and Washington streets.
IS st. and buckingham ave.
66-Hayy avenue and Charles street.
57=State and Wayne streets.
62-Washington and First streets.
s3-New Brunswick aye. and Elm ST.
S4-Smith street and Watson avenue.
G5-Commerce and State streets.
72-Tront and Smith streets.
73-Water and Gordon streets.
74-Kearny avenuF and Gordon street.
S2-Smith and Herbert streets:
S3-Woodbridge 'fUad and Washington st.
H4-Lehigh avenue and Stanford street.
To send in an alarm, open the door OF
the box and pull dawn. the lever and let
go, once only. Stay at box until fremen
arrive.
SPECIAL CALLS.
] tap-Break in circuit. 2 taps-Drill
and fire alarm test. 3 taps-Fire out. b
taps-Police call. 12-Calls. for Lincoln
ton Hose. 14-Call for Mcclellan Engine
Company. 15-Call for Protection Hook
and Ladder. 16-Call for Eagle Hose
Company.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02

Let us hope that the water board
has at last hit upon a system to keep
the city supplied with good and
wholesome water. the kind thattgoes
not have the dark brown color dvery
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02

Senator Jackson and DR.. Crowther
are going to address a meeting at
Roosevelt tomorrow night. 1t might
be well for the people to ask these
gentlemen how they stand on equal
taxation that is the real thing; on
limited franchise: on the election of
United States senator's by the direct
vote of the people; OF an insurance
investigation that will investigate;
on Boss Strong as a lobbyist, and
some more of those issues in which
the people are interested. The tar
if, stand pat" and the glories of
the republican party are subjects that
have been worn out. Corporation
control of the state and of national
government are the more important
features of the campaign, with the
emphasis on bossism in MiddleseN
county.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02

THURSDAY, AUGUST 2.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02
NEW YORK HERALD WEATHER
FORECAST.

In the Middle States and New Eng
land today, partly cloudy weather
will prevail, with slight temperature
changes and fresh to light easterly
winds, followed by showers in the ex-
treme western and southwestern dis
tricts of this section. On Friday
partly cloudy weather will prevail,
with slightly higher temperature,
light easterly winds and showers in
this section, and on Saturday partly
cloudy to overcast. warmer weather.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02

when it rains the water PUSHES
through it in great volume. Middle
sex county has been trying to COM
pei the railroad company to widen
the tunnel and keep it in good condi-
ton and a law suit has been pending
in the courts for a good while.
The progress of the suit has been
considerably delayed by the position
of counsel. When the new board of
freeholders was sworn in it elected
Alan H. Strong as county solicitor.
Mr.. Strong had previously been en-
gagged as counsel for the railroad in
fighting the "hole in the wall" suit.
He has declined to give up his rail
road retainer, and the county has
been obliged to engage special IL
sci to fight its case.
Strong is one of the relatives of
Boss Theodore Strong and there is
considerable evaporation owe his
conduct. Local newspapers devote
columns to the discussion of the stu
ation.
Meantime it is not uncommon for
automobiles to get stuck in the tun-
mel and block whole lines of vehicles,
some going in one direction and some
another. Some days ago these vehi-
cles were lined up for a mile along
the road to Metuchen, waiting for the
teamsters to haul a big four cylinder
car out of the narrow passageway.
When the Camden and Amboy was
the leading railroad, not only of New
Jersey, but of the United States, i
had a spirit of improvement upon /
on one occasion, and abolished /
grade crossing at the spot and put it,
single track on an overhead bridge.
Years later South Amboy began tt
develop into a coal depot, and thu
railroad, now in the Pennsylvania
family, began adding switches. Tracl
after track was laid across the roat
on which the grade crossing had beer
abolished, until now there are a doz
en- of them, and from an overhead
bridge has developed a long, gloom!
tunnel, not wide enough for two
wagons to pass in it.
This condition has existed for fiji
teen or twenty years, but as the roat
through the tunnel had eve unit
now led to anywhere in particular, nj
one talked much about 1t.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02

Next week the glad message of
freedom from boss rule in Middlesex
county will be carried into South
Amboy, Woodbridge, Roosevelt and
South River. The people of those
places can live in anticipation of a
great treat in the near future.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02

Automobiles speeding on the
bridge should be stopped, that is II
We want any bridge left for use at
any future day.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02

American people abhor BOSSES. It
is against the principles of this gov
eminent for one man to have all the
say That is the reason Alexander
r. Fordyce, Jr., is received with SO
much enthusiasm. everywhere he
goes. He is fighting to rid MiddleseS
county of the bosses.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02

once in a while. The commissioners
assure us that the ground storage
plan is the right one. Such being
the case, no one will object to the
construction of twelve more wells at
once.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02

The campmeeting at SiclIlersville
has stirred the whole community
spiritually.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02

Prof. Tyler, of Amherst college,
said recently: "a man can live com
fortably without brains; no man ever
existed without a digestive system.
The dyspepsia has neither latin,
hope or charity" Day by day people
realize the Importance Of caring for
their digestion: realize the need OF
the use of a little corrective after
overeating. A corrective like Kodol
For Dyspepsia. 1t digest what you
eat. Sold by c.. A. Sexton.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02

BY beginning work on the "Y" at
Water street the Public Service give
notice that a better grade of cars will
soon be in operation here. The soon
er the better.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-02

You need a pill? Use DeWitt's
Little early Risers, the famous little
pills. DO not sicken or grippe, but re-
salts arc sure. Sold ~ G. A. Sext0ns
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