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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-01-20

EVERYWHERE'S NEW
South Bethlehem, Pa.-Great
excitement here when eyes in pic
ture of Madonna seemed to
move, What's the matter with S.
Bethlehem?
Golconda, Ill.-Julius Kings
ley, Bay City, Ill, dubbed to
death by Andrew Goolsby after
quarrel. Assailant arrested.
Oklahoma City.-Kate Ber-
nard, well-known prison investi-
gator, has called marriage strike
and insists that every woman re-
main single until assured a home.
New York. - European and
local detectives searching for
members of international gang of
thieves said to have stolen
$1,115,OOO in gold bars.
New York.-Mrs. Rose Pastor
Stokes urging rent payers strike
if families of striking garment
workers are dispOssessed.
Hunter, N. Y.-Gilbert Green.
aged trapper, known in CatskiIls
as Rip Van Wrinkle, whose body
was found in coffin, buried today.
Admission, Ala.-Lone bandit
rifed mail car of Southern Rail
way passenger train near River
side, Ala. Escaped with valuable
papers.
Paris.-M. BRAND, minister of
justice, has not yet accepted
speakship offer.
New York.-Anthony ]. Drex-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10
NEW PENSION SYSTEM.

The new system of paying all pen
sions on the federal pension rolls d.
rect from Washington instead of thru
the eighteen pension agencies, which
will be abolished on January 81, is
now being inaugurated by the bureau
Checks are beig sent to 100000 pen.
sioners in the section heretofore COW
cred by agencies, says the Larned
Chtonoscope.
Special efforts are being made to
make banks and pensioners understand
the new pension check system. Fol-
the first time in history the pension
ers will be paid without the formality
of vouchers, the checks serving the
same purpose by requirement of in.
dorsement by the pensioners in the
presence of two witnesses.
The government will save a lot OF
money through this plan in that eigh-
teen expensive agencies have been
abolished and the work is all done
direct in Washington. Then under
the old voucher system the pensioner
had to sign the voucher and then
wait for the check with the voucher
attached, the latter to be torn of
and held until time for the next pay
ment, while the check could be cash.
ed. All that pOnderous and formal
work required a lot of time and cost
good many thousand dollars. The
government is getting rid Of it now.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10
FORMERLY OF BARTON.

The two sisters, Mrs. Sarah ].
johnson and Miss Mary Scott, whose
recent death in st. Louis within a
feew hours of each other and their
eccentric amnner of living has been
the cause of considerable notoriety in
the newspapers since, were former
residents of the Claflin neighborhood,
according to an article in last weeks
Claflin Clarion.
Although they died in want, refus-
ing to have al physician called, or
even to be taken to a charity hospi-
tai, a search of their rooms after
their death revealed the fact that
they had almost $4,000 in cash on
their persons, and bank books and
papers showed that they had good
bank deposits and owned other prop
erty. Although living in the same
room, each had separate beds and
separate household furniture, and
each paid her own bills, refusing to
even eat at the same table. A part
of the Clarion article is as follows:
Mrs. Johnson and Miss Scott we're
well known here. They used to own
a half section of land just east of
town which was farmed for them by
J. H. Weltmer. They sold the farm
about three years ago to Tom Moran
for $4,000. They were known to be
very close with their money and when
their wheat was being hauled to mar
ket they would sit in the grain office
and watch every load weighed to see
that they were not cheated. The last
time they were out here they re-
turned to st. Louis with a little over
$4,000.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10

Not long since long time friend
Of the editor passed to the great be,
yond. He was a farmer, a good man
and a good father. He never rgot
along well. 1t kept him hustling
with all his might to keep the inter
est paid on the mortgage, to pay his
taxes and to maintain his children
until they were able to make their
own way. This failure to get along ,
was not because he didn't work. He
worked with his hands as hard as
any strong man could. His wife work.
ed too. They we're typical Of a class
of people who simply fail to make
Roadway. The man knew his weak.
ness. He knew not why, but that
mattered little. But he simply could
not overcome those things which kept
him fighting off foreclosure on the
quarter section.
Years ago he took life insurance in
sufficient amount to cover the mort
gage. Two weeks after his death
the insurance was paid and the wido,
cancelled the mortgage. The home
was saved and the widow, thankful
that in all their financial failure,
they have been able to pay the pre-
miums. So, two or three small child.
rem and the mother are now sure Of
their home. They will hold to it, too.
The foresight of the father accom-
plished little for him except the salts.
faction that his family would have a
home free from debt when he passed
away. The mother and family can
make living and have home, a her
itage after all that gives comfort and
satisfaction.
This is not a life insurance adver-
tisement. 1t presents true situa-
ton, and should cause many men to
think. and think hard. 1t is my judg-
ment that this otherwise unfortunate
man displayed the judgment Of
sage. His act was wisdom. Think 1t
over and determine for yourself
whether or not you could use some
life insurance to the advantage of
those you leave behind.-Kansas
Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10

but there is no sense IN our bearing
the burden. Better a thousand times
spend at least 200 million dollars on
Of the go or more millions that w
annually spend now on our STANDING
army and navy, in public improve
ments; in building highways; in con-
serving our water power; in saving
the waters that fall at their sources.
and utilizing them in turning the semi
arid districts into a fruitful land Of
happy homes and abundant haryests;
in buying anG building railroads for
the use Of the people; in Furnishing
remunerative and useful employment
for those who are suffering from en-
forced idleness.-Tom McNeal. in
Mail & Breeze.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10


Republican papers are makint
great capital out Of the fact tina
Presidentelect Wilson happened t,
ask Whats his politics?" when jim
Orr was urging upon him the desira
bility of appointing F. D. Coburn o.
Kansas as secretary of agriculture
to replace "Tama Jim" Wilson. The
question is gleefully quoted as indi
eating that the next president will
make political qualification the first
consideration in making his cabinet
appointments. While this would be
only in line with what Republican
presidents have done for many years
past, it is contrary to what even vii.
sons enemies expect of him, and his
friends have perfect confidence that
when his cabinet is made up il will
be found that peanut politics have
cut but little figure in the appoint
ments. The question asked Orr was
a perfectly natural one in view Of
the fact that Coburn's appointment
was being urged by leading men OF
all parties, and Gov. Wilson was only
human in wanting to know the poll
tics of man who could command
such widespread political backing.
How many Kansans are there, by
the way, who know Coburn's politics
Mighty few, and this paper confesses
to being with the majority in igno-
rance. And the people of the state
don t care to know. Coburn has put
in practically his whole life boostir
for Kansas, and the state can't spare
him to go to Washington to learn a
new job. He is needed in his own
state to round out the publicity-agent
work he has carried on so many
years. What the nation needs at the
head of its agricultural department
is an agricultural scientist and expert
sIIch &C President Uafaro NJ 1ho An
ricultural College. If the voice of the
people of the state could be heard,
1t would undoubtedly be emphatic in
command that Coburn retain the har-
ness he has so long and so ably worn
and practically unanimous in request
of Gov. Wilson to name Waters as
the Kansas member of his cabinet
Larned Tiller and Toiler.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10
EXIT THE "coRNER."

Decisions of the supreme court Of
the United States are popularity sup
posed to be not only final but effec-
tive. If this supposition is correct,
the fascination and profitable past
time Of "cornering the market" in
any given commodity should soon be-
come thing Of the past, since there
is no chance Of gaining any extended
day of grace by appealing from the
verdict of the tribunal that has the
last word in the matter. The SUI
preme court has just decided that the
so-ealled Patton cotton corner was
a violation of the Sherman law, in
that it was a conspiracy to restrain
trade. The supreme court acquired
Jurisdiction because the oFfenses al
legged were committed in connection
with interstate commerce transac-
t,ols.
The average layman, probably.
long ago reached the conclusion at
which the learned justices have lust
officially arrived. He has had the
general understanding that corners"
was one of the very things which
the Sherman law was designed to pro.
hibit, notwithstanding the bland con.
tention of the defendants in this par
ticular case that men who manipu.
lated corner did not restrain trade
in the slightest degree. II the de.
cision eliminates the fraudulent fea.
lures of speculative trading and con-
fines 1t to legitimate transactions it
will receive a large measure Of popu-
lar approval. There is a distinct
place in modern industrial operations
for speculation OF the proper sort,
but the criminal gambling which
characterizes much of the speculative
dealing does not come within the
pale of industrial morals. Especially
reprehensible from the moral view
point Of the average man is the ac-
QUESTION of monopoly Of any given
commodity that necessarily results in
mulcting the users of that commod-
ity. Nothing more inexcusable could
be conceived than a monopoly on a
necessity Of life for the undeserved
enrichment Of the successful manip-
ulator. At any rate, the supreme
court seems to have taken this view
in sustaining a law which embodied
it in its inhibitions.-Kansas City
Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10
CUT OUT FAST DRIVING.

At a meeting of the city council
this week it was decided by the
members that the speed limit as re-
CARDS autos should in the future be
strictly enforced. The speed limit
for the city streets is 10 miles an
hour and it was ordered that a num-
Der of signs bearing this information
be painted and posted on the out
skirts Of the city, so that aUtoists en-
tering should know what the limit is
and govern themselves accordingly. II
is claimed by many Of the auto driv-
ers that the limit is altogether too
low, but as the officers have been IN
structed to see that the ordinance is
strictly enforced, they viii probably
have to adapt themselves to the rul-
ing or pay a visit to the police court.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10
PARTICULAR THIEVES.

Hoisington seems to have some
sneak thieves that are rather partic-
ular about their eating, according to
an article in the Dispatch of last
week. Some thieves entered the
smoke house of ]. X. Abel at that
place last Thursday night and appro-
priated therefrom a shoulder and twp
sides of a hog, but probably didn't
care for ham, for they left that and
the shoulder was found in the road
the next morning, the thieves vel
IDENTIFY not caring for that kind OF
meat either. Well acknowledge that
well cured bacon is mighty good eat.
ing, but if they should be caught get
ting it that way, the chances are
that it would be rather expensive
eating for them or their heirs.
Besides having a sneak thief, Hois.
ington also had bold, bad hold-up
man last week. E. ]. Thomas, a son
of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Thomas, of thai
city, was held up and relieved of his
money Sunday night. He was lucky to
be close to broke, for one silver dol
lar was all the fellow got for his
work. The Dispatch states that hold
ups are getting altogether too FIRE.
quent over in that country, and that
some one is going to wake up in the
hospital or the hereafter If the prac'
tee isn't stopped.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10
KANSAS WEALTH.

Possibly few people know that the
agricultural products of Kansas each
year exceed in value the entire gold
output of the entire world, but such
is the case. This startling fact is tht
best evidence that Kansas is the rich
est country on earth. And when il
is considered that the agricultural
wealth Of Kansas is still comparative
ly in its infancy, the ultimate wealth
of our great state will tax the imagi-
nation of the most optimistic. The
gold production of the world last
year Appropriated $465, OOO,O 900. In thu
United States it amounted to s91 ,6S5,
100, compared to $50 100000 in 1911.
California led with SIS, 5SS, 1856, COlora.
do was second with s1S,791,71O, Alas.
ka third with s17,39S,S46, Nevada
fourth with s13,SS1, $50, and South Da
kota fifth with $7,795,6SO. OF the
worlds production the ransvaal and
Rhodesia made a gain of about s2O,-
100000 and Canada gained nearly 49,
100000. The United States, Mexico
and Australia lost about $4,000, 900
and in the rest of the world the pro-
duction was about what it was last
ar.-Hutchinson Gazette.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10
MARksr REPORT.

Kansas City Stock Yards, Jan.
Finished beef steers worked a lit
tie lower last week and feeders and
stock cattle gained a little, butcher
grades about steady. The
run of cattle, here today is $1,000
head, and the same general tendency
IN the market rules today. Wher-
ever steers are a little too good to
80 back into feed lots there is weak
Aess, but below the line where feeder
buyers begin to look at them there
Is strength. The last day of August
an Illinois buyer purchased some feed
.ers here at $3.50, which he sold in
Chicago two weeks ago at 1855.
Feeding steers similar to those would
cost. $3.50 today, which shows how
smuch the gap between the two class
IS has closed up since last fall. It
Is not very far to repetition Of the
character Of the cattle market of two
years ago, when feeders and fat steers
sold right together. Dealers general
" believe there will be good runs Of
cattle this month, but after that, If
ne belief of some tradesmen that
uRs will be lighter be true, fat steers
may draw away from. the feeders
again. Sixty loads of guarantees ar
rived today, largely meal fed steers,
which sold shade under a week
.ago+l The Gatewood steers brought
s7.25 to $7.45 today, against $3.50 to
s7.55 last Monday, and $40 Thurs
day, Other meal fed steers sold at
1926 to $7.25.. Bulk of native COWS
bring $500 to $6.25, heifers $500 to
500, best yeals $1,000.
Hogs oVer-ran the estimate today,
the count footing up over 1900 head.
The market was strong to higher,
top s7.45, blk $7.2O to $40. A gen.
eral storm today will probably ham
per shipping operations, and runs of
III kinds of stock later this week will
be reduced on account of it, hence,
some strength may come as a result
also.
Sheep and lambs ruled strong last
week, except for some weakness Fri
day and sales are steady today. Ewes
sold at $500 early today, lambs are
worth up to $3.50, wethers $3.50, year
lings $7.35. Shipments from native
feed lots do not threaten the mar
ket at any point. Colorado shippers
from the San Luis Valley will be
kings of the local market for the next
two or three weeks, and it looks like
they will land on a good spot.
]. A. RICKART,
Market Correspondent.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10


Claflin has a young wrestler yho
promises to make good at the game
with a little more practice and fight
now can more than hold his own with
all corners from this part Of the coun
try. He is julius Ref, Jr.. and In a
match at Claflin last Saturday night
with E. H. Stagner, a professional
wrestler from EIDorado, he succeed.
ed IN winning his match in straight
falls, the first fall in eight miputes
and eight seconds, and the second ia
forty-one minutes and thirty seconds.
Ref is husky youngster Weighing
about 175 pounds and is the kind q
a fellow who refuses to get excited,
but takes his time about It and when
the other fellow gets tired out, goes
in and gets the money.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10
WANTS AN INDUSTRIAL COMMITS,
fA SION.

Washington, Jan. 6.-Senatcr Bris-
tow. Of Kansas, presented to the sen,
ate today a proposal for an industrial.
committee Of seven members to take
over the work Of the bureau OF cor
porations and exercise control over
all persons. firms or corporations do
ing an interstate business with gross
receipts Of more than 5000 900 per
year.
Explaining the bill to the senate,
he said that It proposed to create a
body similar to the interstate Gem
merce commission to have the same
power over Industrial concerns that
the latter exercises over Transports
ton companies.
The purpose is to protect the peo-
pie with some degree Of promptness
from the extortionate practices OF
powerful corporations without de.
stroying the businesses they reprf
sent" he said.
He declared that the proposed con
mission and the powers given to ]
would not interfere with big bushes
operations, If such operations an
along honest and creditable lines. He
declared that the Standard Oil and
Tobacco trust cases had demonstrat.
ed that the courts were ineffective
FOR the supervision Of bug business.
Senator Bristow's bill would give
to the industrial committee power to
investigate the financial condition,
business operations and management
Of all big interstate commerce con-
Germs.
The commission would in no way
be similar to the commission on in.
dustrial relations recently authorized
BY congress to investigate general
conditions in the industrial world.
The bill provides for seven COM
missioners at yearly salary Of si2.- 4,
900 each, secretary and other Off.
GERS.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10
MORE FARMERS INSTITUTES.

1t is not our own selfish interest Il
which we must look in the future
There is no man but wants his boy
and girl to be better and do better
than he has been and done and, Il
for no other reason than the benefits
which he would bring to his children
the farmers institutes would be worth
many times his cost. Only a few OF
our children at best can attend Ag-
riguitural College and equip them
selves for the gigantic struggle BY
which they must be trained or fail.
If they could attend the Agricultural
College, and complete its course Of
study and training they would be
able to enter life's conflict with
more knowledge. more skill and more
ability gained in four short years
tnan we have at the end Of a long
lifetime.
If they cannot attend the college
they remain handicapped by being
compelled to learn by hard knocks
in the rough and tumble school OF
the world. A young man or woman
can get more of knowledge, of ability
and of training in a college course
OF four years than he can possibly
get in ten years Of active life. Since
most Of our young people cannot at
tend the Agricultural College let us
do the best We can for them and
bring the Agricultural College to
them in the farmers institute, and
let us not be content with only one
institute a year.
Let us have the institute to be the
sponsor of the corn club, the pure
bred sire club, the domestic science
club and work the year around.
In farmers institute not long
since the statement wasmade that
it was ridiculous to assume that a
farm hand could save enough of his
wages to set him up on a rented
farm in such shape that he could
reasonably expect by the time he had
reached 80 to be able to buy and
equip a farm of his own. We have
been thinking much about this state
ment recently and hope to have
something to say at length in the
near future. For the present, how
ever, we propose to leave this state
ment: 1t is far more possible for the
farm hand to acquire the condition
stated than it is for him as a clerk
to become the owner of a IL or Is
thousand dollar stock of goods by the
time he reaches 35 years. The as
in the farmers institute
argument was that if the farm hand
went to town and could engage him
self in labor at 50 to $3.50 per day
he could, by the time he had reached
IS years, own business equal in
value to the !one-man farm. Will you
take the time to recall, if you can,
the prosperity which has surrounded
hose of your acquaintance who hav,
left the farm and gone to towns as
with those who stuck to
The farm? If you will but take the
time to do this, the answer 20 the
premises will have been reached.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10

Roy Lopez, Of the Pawnee Rock
neighborhood, has Just finished up a
job of corn shocking that shows he is
some corn shucker and entitled to re-
cognition among the fellows who are
posing as record breakers. He put
in thirty-four days at the Job in the
st. John neighborhood, working on an
average nine hours day, and in the
thirty-four days time bought in to
the crib 1910 bushels, or an Average
each day Of about s5 bushels. The
greatest amount he shocked in one
day was 1876 bushels. That's hitting
the thrOw-bOard with regularity, al
right. H. "A
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10

| am not opposed to a reasonable
amount Of military training and dis
cipline for the youth Of this country.
It is not a bad thing to make the
American youth fit physically and
morally to fight II necessary. l would
not be opposed to making military
drill part Of the school curriculum.
| am opposed, however, to setting
aside part Of the young men and
simply making professional fighters
out Of them.
The fathers Of this republic beliey-
e. that great standing armies were
inconsistent with and dangerous to a
democracy and they were right. We
are rich as compared with any other
nation. We are able to bear a great
er military burden than any Of them,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10

Peter Billen, who for some weeks
past has been visiting with his daugh
ter. Mrs. Pete Wenke and family, Of
Logan township, returned to his hone
In Oklahoma City last Friday. Mr..
Billen was formerly a resident o. the
claflin neighborhood, moving to Ok
lahoma about 10 years ago and has
resided near Oklahoma City since
that time. With his son-in-law, he
was in Great Bend on a short visit
one day last week, the first time he
had been in the city for twenty-six
years, and he expressed himself as
being greatly surprised at the growth
and the appearance Of the town and
thinks 1t has improved wonderfully
since his last visit.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10

Mrs. Paul Andreae and daughter
came up from Hudson the first Of
the week for a visit with Mrs. An
dreae's father, Charles Ruscoe, ant
family Of northeast Of town, and
other relatives and friends here and
at Ellinvood.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10
LARNED SCHOOLS REOPEN

The Larned schools, which have
been closed for the past two weeks,
opened again last Monday, as it is
thought that all danger Of the di-
sease spreading is now past. Only
four cases were reported in the city,
although there were several more in
the. Immediate vicinity. and all those
VINO are sick are getting along nicely
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10
WEATHER REPORT

Following is record Of meterolog-
cal observations taken by the under
signed as a cooperative observer of
the Weather Bureau of the U. S. De-
partment of Agriculture during the
week ending January 8, 1913, at
Great Bend, Kansas.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1913-01-10

Miss Julia Daley returned last Sat
rday from holiday visit with friends
in Colorado, stopping in Kinsley On
her way home for a short VISIT WITT
friends at that place.