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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

Lew Shafer of Spearsville, a form
er Great Bender, was in the city
few days ago enroute to Kansas City
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

Mrs. Ed Wells Of the first ward
enjoyed a visit from her sister, Mrs.
Hattie Brennew, Of Oneida. Illinois
for a few days last week.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

Mrs. Ben Giles, Miss Alice Giles,
Mrs. Chas. Morrison and Mrs. Chas.
Allison visited in Ellinwood last Fri
day.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

A good farmer wants to rent a
farm either now or take possession
in the spring. Call at this office
for information. 1t.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

DR.. F. G. Smith has returned
from his Colorado trip. Mrs. Smith
and the little Smiths will stay a while
longer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

Mrs. Albert Allison was entertain
ing her father and mother, Mr.. and
Mrs. Mccormick, of Shattuck, Ok
lahoma the past week.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

Peter Bloom and Ed Smith were
Pawnee Rockers transacting busl-
ness here last Friday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

Mrs. Ida Bartel, who has ben WIS.,
iting with George Ludwig and fami-
ly on the south side has returned
to her home at Lincoln, Neb.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04
Many Fine Riders With Circus

Forty Of the worlds best riders will
be seen with Ringing Brothers
Worlds Greatest Show when it WIS.,
its this city. Chief among these are
the wonderful Bedini family of italy,
and their riding dog, "Ulo.' other
equestrians are the Clark Brothe.s
Of England, the Hobsons, Elsa st.
Lean Of France, the buttons, Miss
Stickney, John Agile, champion rough
rider of the world, and the wonder
full Les Bastines, French acrobatic
equestrians.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

For sale-one section fine wheat
and alfalfa land near Jetmore. Some
improvements. See NJ. ]. Compton.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

Eldridge York, one Of the substan-
tial farmers of the ives side was
in the city last Friday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

A brother of John Hognls is mere
from Pennsylvania visiting, and tax
ing in the sights.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed McGinty of near
Seward, visited Ellinwood friends
one day last week.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

Edward Kuhl Of Albert was in the
city Friday last.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

Miss, Emma Borders OF Kansas
City is visiting with ir. and MIS-
]. G. Slintz.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

Mr.. and Mrs. T. P. Fair and Ans
are home from their Colorado out.
ing. .
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04

Ed Planning and wife are taking
a trip east.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04
Methods Of Combating.

Rotation.-When the grower has to
deal with the greater wheat straw
worm alone, and can find it practi.
cable, the planting of the succeedin
crop on a part of the farm distant
from the infested stubble and stra,
will enable him to avoid damage from
this insect.
Destruction of stubble and straw
This is the surest and in many cas-.
es the most convenient way of con.
trolling the straw-worm and also the
1oint-worm. The stubble may be
burned or plowed under so deeply
and carefully that none will be
left sticking out to form passageways
for the adults when they come forth
the following spring. The straw may
be destroyed by fire or any other con
Venlent method. lnasmuch as the
joint-worm is known to inhabit grass.
es such as frequently grow in the
fencerows about the edges of the
wheat fields, and as our studies
would indicate that some individuals
Of the wheat straw-worm may have
a similar habit, it would be well to
burn off or otherwise destroy the
grasses along the fences before next
spring. II both Hessian fly and
straw-worm be present, the grower
has but to destroy stubble. straw,
and grass along fences and to prac-
tice late sowing to avoid serious in.
Jury from either Of these pests.
T. J. Headlee, Entomologist.
Manhattan, Kan, Aug. Is, 1908.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04
Admission tickets and numbered seats will be on sale
snow day. at the Hooper Drug Co. store exactly the
price charged in the regular ticker show grounds

Edith Bush has returned from a
visit with friends at Nekoma.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04
GREATER WHEAT sTRAw.woRM

OF the insects attacking the stems
Of growing wheat, aside from Hessian
fly and chineh-bug, only one appears
TO have done enough damage to at
tract attention, and that has been
the greater wheat straw-worm QsoSo-
ma grande Riley.) This insect has
this year appeared in considerable
numbers in many parts o. the kan
sas wheat belt and some OF or
correspondents nave expressed the
conviction that, in limited localities,
it has done as much injury as the
Hesian fly.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04
Occurrence.

We have taken it in abundance
in Sumner, Harvey, and Riley coun-
ties and have received it from cor
respondents in Pawnee and Russ
ell counties. 1t has doubtless been
at work in many other localities, but,
owing to the obscure nature Of its
work hac naSSad unnOticed
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04
Obscure Nature Of WORK.

OF course the results of this in
sect's work are not always OBSCURE.
Sometimes it so weakens the stems
that they break, a short distance be-
low the head and fall over. Ordinarily
as indicated by this years study, the
greater part of the damage appears il
blasted plants and in poorly filled or
empty heads, but as this condition ma.
also be the result of chinch-bug or
Hessian fly work, the grower fire.
quently attributes his loss to the
wrong cause.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1908-09-04
Habits and Life History.

were found just above or in the sec
ond and third joints above the
ground. The grower may determine
whether this insect is abundant in
his fields by splitting open the straw
and looking for the larvae inside.
What it will do this fall and winter.
The larva will remain where it is
until october when it will change
into a black pupa and remain thus
throughout the winter.
What it will do next spring.-About
next March, small, pitchy-black, wing
less, ant-like creatures, each about
one-eighth of an inch long, will emery
from the infested straw and stubble
and crawl if possible, to growing
wheat. where they will deposit eggs
in the embryo wheat heads. The tiny
grubs Matching therefrom will feed
and fatten on this highly nutritious
food, attain full-growth, transform ant
emerge about May as shining-black,
winged, ant-like insects, one-fourth an
inch or less long. This brood ap-
pears to be made up entirely of f.
males. They will deposit their eggs
within the straw, usually just above
the first exposed joint below the head.
The grubs that hatch from these egg;
will be the ones that will do the
midsummer dapaoe
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
DEAL WITH RUFF
FALLS THROUGH
Prosecution Announces That No Fur-
ther Negotiations VIII Be Held
with Former Political
Boss


BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 18.-lt was an
nounced late tonight that the graft pros
ecution had decided to discontinue all
negotiations with Abraham Ruef In the
matter of granting him immunity.
1t was further stated that on Monday
the prosecution would demand that Ruet
be put on trial before Judge Dunno on
one of the many charges of bribery for
which he has been indicted.
This determination of the prosecution
came at the end of several days fruitless
negotiations with Ruef.
1t is said that some time ago the prose-
cution promised Ruef partial immunity
in consideration of his taking the witness
stand and truthfully testifying in full to
all his transactions with public service
officials to b. tried on the charge of
bribery.
When the circuit court of appeals rem
dered its decision declaring void the in
dictments of extortion against former
Mayor Schimtz, to which Ruef had al
ready pleaded guilty, It is charged that
Ruef, realizing that the decision placed
him In an advantageous position, de
manded full immunity. This the prose
cution would not consent to grant and
there followed series of conferences in
which Ruef endeavored to secure better
terms
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
COMMISSION DECIDES "LoNG
AND SHORT HAULv DISPUTE

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Jan. ls-One of the
most importan. decisions rendered by the
interstate commerce commission for many
months was that handed down today by
Commissioner Clark in case of the Bo-
Ward Supply company against the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad and 9TH
of carriers The decision involves a dis
cussion of the commission's views respect
ing the long and short haul clause of the
interstate act, and in the course of the
opinion the commission states why 1t
cannot always approve of lower rate for
a shorter haul than for a longer one in
the same territory.
In the present case the complainant
ships rope cable from San Francisco to
Independence. Kas., on which it is charged
70 cents per 100 pounds, whereas the rate
on such rope cables from San Francisco
to Mississippi river common points and
Chicago common points is only 60 cents a
hundred pounds. The commission decided
that in the circumstances the rate was
not unjust nor prejudicial to the COM
plainant. In the course of the decision
the commission announced the following
important finding to shippers and car
riers throughout the country:
Erroneous application of an unlawful
rate is not evidence that a higher lawful
rate thereon is unreasonable.
"A rate to ona point that does not per-
NIT of disadvantageous competition from
a point beyond enjoying lower rate does
not create unreasonable prejudice as to
the one or give undue preference to the
other
1.-THE commission views with disfavor
the maintenance of a lower rate for a
longer haul than for shorter one in
cluded within the longer, and the cir
cumstances and conditions obtaining at
the more distant point which are relied
upon to Justify 1t must not only be clearly
shown to be substantially dissimilar from
those prevailing at the nearer point, but
also to clearly exercise potent or con-
trolling influence in making the lower
rate.
IF the influence Of competition between
points of production in commodities be-
tween carriers. and in rates prevailing at
the farther distant point, burt not at the
nearer one, controls the establishment OF
a lower rate to the former. 1t will consti-
tute such dissimilarlty of circumstances
as will justify the lower rate for the
longer haul.
Competition in commodities alone at
the nearer point will not make the cir
cumstances there substantially similar to
those at the farther point where the other
competitive influences and conditions also
prevail
"Dissiinilar circumstances, which JUS
tify under section a greater charge for a
shorter haul than for a longer haul. viii
also prevent such rate from constituting
an Illegal preference or advantage under
section 8.
Upon discovery that shipments have,
through mistake, been moved at an url-
lawful rate. thu carrier should forthwith
demand and the shipper forthwith pa.'
the difference between such unlawful rate
and the legal rate applicable thereto"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
40 BATTLE
FOR LIFE nv
BURNING MINE
COAL DIGGERS HAVE TERRIBLE
EXPERIENCE
Shaft Set on Fire by Exploson-La-
borers Struggle MadIy Through
Darkness to Find Safe
Exit
By Associated Press.


MONONGAHELA, Pa, Jan. 1S-Miracu-
lously escaping death by cremation or suf-
location or being blown to pieces by an
explosion, forty miners employed in the
Pittsburg mine of the Monongahela
River Consolidated Coal and Coke COM
pany made their way through the dark
headings for a distance of seven miles
and finally reached open air.
Without lights to guide them and given
up as dead, the men battled for five
hours with fire, and when they reached
the surface their faces were blackened,
clothes torn and all were severely bruised
from stumbling In their fight for safety.
Fortunately the mine contained very
little gas, or another mine disaster would
have been recorded In Western Pennsyl-
vania. The mine was fired some time
during the day by blowout shot, and
the fire was discovered at o'clock last
night by the forty men.
Momentarily expecting an explosion with
it's horrible consequences. the men started
panic stricken for the entrance at Care
leroi, several miles away. In their frenzy
they fell. but only to jump up again and
continue their mad rush for safety. The
experience was probably the most fright
ful body of coal miners has ever had.
When the men reached the surface at
2 a. m. today many Of them were Sob
bing like children.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
HARVESTER TRUST
IS FINED $12,5oo BY
JUDGE IN TOPEKA
Found Guilty on Forty-three Counts,
International Company Is Ordered
to Pay Large Sum for Vic.
Iating Laws

py Associat Press.
Topeka, Kas.. Jan. 1S-Judge Dana
in the Shawnee county district court here
today assessed a fine of $12,5OO against
the International Harvester company,
which the court found guilty on forty
three points of violating the Kansas anti
trust law.
The maximum fine is $1,000 count and
the minimum 800.
The criminal suit was filed a year ago
by Attorney General Coleman, who con-
tended that the harvester company was
being operated in Kansas In violation of
the antitrust laws
The specific charges were made by the
state that dealers in Topeka were com
PEELED to sign contract to handle no
other harvesting machinery save that
made by the International Harvester
company and the schedule of prices was
not to be violated. The company was
given q stay of execution for sixty days
to prepare case for the supreme court.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
u. S. SAILOR
KILLS MATE
IN FIGHTING
AMATEUR PUGlLlST SLAIN BY
OPPONENT
Fistic Bout Aboard the Training Ship
Cumberland at Newport Results
Fatally to One of the
Contestants
Iu Associated Press.

-3y Associated Press
NEWPORT, r. l.. Jan. 1S.-Follow-
ing a fist fight last Tuesday on board
the United States training ship Cum
berland at this port H. A. Hartnett,
aged 23, of Philadelphia. a naval ap-
prentice, died today d. M. Manning,
aged 20, of Middletown, also an ap-
prentice, is under arrest under a sem
try's charge, pending an investigation
into Hartnett's death.
Hartnett. who had been appointed
an acting master-at-arms, had trouble
with Manning. When the days duties
were over the boys put no gloves and
began a battle, which, by agreement,
was to go ten rounds. With a crowd
of 800 apprentices and seamen as wit
nesses the fight was a hard one from
the outset. In the eighth round Man
ming caught Hartnett on the jaw, send
ing the older boy to the deck. Hart
nett took the count of ten, and when
his seconds went to his side they found
him unconscious.
The usual first aid employed in such
emergencies failed to bring him to his
senses and he was removed to the sick
ward There every effort was made to
revive him, but without success. To-
day he died without having recovered
consciousness. Death was due to
blood clot on the brain.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
NERS ENTOWBED FOR MANY WEEKS IN NEVADA ARE RESCUED
CONSERVATIVES IN
FRANCE UNITE TO
COMBAT SOCIALISM
Increasing Strength of Workingmen's
Party Causes Alarm-Con-
mercial Parliament
Meets

BY Associated Press.
PARIS, Jan. 18.-Two significant events
marking the growing determination of the
conservative classes to resist the en-
croachments of revolutionary Socialism
were observed here today.
The first is the initial meeting of the
Commercial parliament"
The chief aim of this parliament is to
meet the Socialists on their own ground
by promoting joint action between mas
ters and men. The second event is the
appearance in Paris today of a weekly
paper called opinion, on the model of the
London Spectator.
The purpose of this publication is to
marshal conservative republican opinion
of all shades against the demands of
collectivism, such as premature aspira-
tions for disarmament, etc.
The prime movers are Paul Doumer,
former president of the chamber of depu-
ties; former Premier Ribol and Alexan
der Millerand, former minister of COM
merce.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
WOMAN WITNESS
FOR DRUCE, ACCUSED
Scotland Yard Detective Declares Her
Story Told on Stand Was Not
True-Others May Be
Arrested
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 1S.-The Druce case
promises to bring, in the spring, an after
math of sensational charges of perjury
against several persons who were con-
nected with the hearings.
A witness in the case who calls herself
Miss Robinson was brought into police
court today. The chief detective of Scot
land yard asserted that instead OF being
a spinster, the daughter of Virginia
planter, she was In reality the daughter
OF London policeman. On the stand
this woman testified that she had been
brought from America by Charles Dickens
to act as secretary to the duke of Port
land and T. c. Druce.
The inspector declares that Miss Rob-
inson spent her earlier years here and
that she married butcher with whom
she went to New Zealand. The prose-
cutor said he expected to prove that Miss
Robinson's entire story was a tissue of
falsehoods.
The prisoner was remanded.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
ASTERN

American bankers commission in Chi
cago favors the adoption of principal
clauses in the Fowler currency bill.
Banker John r. Walsh of Chicago is
found guilty of misapplying funds of the
bank. Dramatic scene witnessed In court
when jury returns it's verdict.
Senator Tillman makes an attack on
the liquor traffic, which, he says, is re-
sponsible for the majority of crimes
Ten persons are drowned in a day in
the east while skating.
Brownsons correspondence relating to
his resignation from the navy department
is to be made public through a report to
a congressional committee.
Interstate commerce commission makes
an important ruling regarding the short
and long hauls."
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
SHIPPERS AID
PROSECUTION
OFRAHROADS
ATTORNEY GENERAL TO HAVE
STRONG BACKING
PUBLIC DEMANDS FAIR TREAT.
MENT BY LINES
Prominent Organizations In State VIII
Unite to Correct Abuses and
Free Themselves from
Domination
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1s.-When
the state board of railroad commission
ers begins the investigation into Illegal
methods of the Southern Pacific, the
Santa Fe and Salt Lake railroads on
February IL it will be backed and
urged on by what is probably the
greatest combination of interested
shippers ever organized in a common
wealth to free the people from the
tyranny of railroad domination.
Lawyers representing shippers from
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacra-
mento, Stockton, Fresno, Bakersfield,
Visalia and every other important
shipping point will be ready to assist
Attorney General Webb to prove the
charges of rebating against the rail-
roads.
Prominent among the organizations
which are to unite to correct abuses is
the local California Traffic association,
which was the inspiration for the for-
nation of a similar organization in Los
Angeles under the leadership of W. A.
Joyce.
Shippers Aid Prosecution
On the lines of these two associa-
tions shippers in every important cen-
ter of the state will organize, and a
great central body will be effected to
to be brought by the attorney general
against the Southern Pacific and other
roads.
1t is because of the recent inaction
of Attorney General Webb that the
shippers are to unite and appear with
counsel before the railroad commission
in the investigation into the methods
of the railroads.
Evidence will be presented before
tho commission to the effect that the
Southern Pacific is operating in re-
straint of trade in exacting Its switch
ing charges. The company gets a
revenue of about $1,000,000 annually
out of that account, which the shippers
must pay
Under the procedure established by
Interstate Commerce Commissioners
Franklin K. Lane the defendant corr
poratipns are not allowed to hide be-
hind technlcalities, but must frankly
present their records and testify to
their methods
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
TiLLMAN'S PITCHF0RK
PUNCTURES WHISKY JUG
Senator from the South Makes Aa-
gressive Attack on the Liquor
Traffic, Which He Blames
for Crime
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The senate
committee on the judiciary today took
up the various prohibition measures
before 1t and heard Senator Tillman
on his bill regulating the Importation
of liquor into one state from another.
Mr.. Tillman admitted there was doubt
as to the right of congress to regulate
the receipt of liquor from outside the
states by individuals for their own
use. This he considered the only
doubtful event connected with the
question. He begged the committee
not to delay in reporting the bill.
Get it into the senate" he urged,
'and let the senate deal with it,
Asked to discuss the wisdom of the
measure he declined, saying that any
student of human affairs will tell you
that whisky is the most prominent
cause of crime and misery in this
country
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
PIunsIna Auto Kills Two

BALTIMORE, Md, Jan. 1S.-George
Billups. proprietor of Billups' hotel.
Park Heights and Heywards avenue,
and his wife were instantly Killed
early today by being thrown from an
automobile at Park Heights avenue
and the Pilmoc road entrance TO Druid
Hill park. Leo H. Shadd of Elkridge,
owner and driver of the machine, was
hurt internally, but not fatally.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
Shoe Company. Assigns
By Associated Press

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Jan. 1s.--The
lanes Donovan Shoe Manufacturing
company of Everett has made an as
signneLt The assets are placed at
100000 and thel liabilities at s1s0.0O0.
The factories of the company have an
annual output of between 100000 and
100000 pairs Of shoes.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
unlonIst candIdate wins

BY AssOuIdtau 7 IesS'
NEWTON ABBOTT. England. Jan. 1s.--
The Liberals today suffered a reverse
by the election of Capt. Morrison Bell,
the Unionist candidate for parliament IN
the Ashburton division of Devon. The
defeated Liberal candidate is c. r. Bux-
ton. The result was a surprise. Capt.
Morrison Bell polled 5l91 votes while Mr..
Buxton secured 1852
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
Victims Of Theater Fire Buried

BY
BOYERTOWN, Pa. Jan. 1S.-This was
another day of funerals resultant from
last Monday nights theater fire in which
173 persons lost their lives. sixty-five fu-
nerals took place and so great was the
demand for undert skers and hearses that
additional assistance and vehicles had to
be pressed into service from nelghbor-
ing places.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19

n MAHA, Neb., Jan. 1S.-William
Jennings Bryan will leave Lincoln
" tomorrow on an extended tour.
visiting Chicago. Covington. KY, Nash
VILE, Birmingham. Washington, D. c.,
Philadelphia. and several other cities.
He may also visit cities in Delaware,
New Jersey New York, Toronto and
Montreal.
Mr.. Bryan does not expect to return
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-19
KIDNAPPED BY CHINESE,
GIRL HELD IN SLAVERY
Frequently Sold by One Oriental to
Another, She Has Been Held
Captive for Seven
Years
BY Associated Press.

BY Assoclted Press.
PITTSBURG, Jan. B.-Blorence Living
ston IS years old, who was captured in
a raid on a house in the Chinese quarters
of this city, says she was kidnapped from
her parents in Cincinnati when 9 years
Old and had since been held by the Chi
nese as a slave, frequently passing from
one Chinese to another in different parts
of the country.
The girl says she finally forgot even
the name OF the street on which she
lived. She could tell the police noths
ing about her parents. She now speaks
Chinese fiuently.