The Wichita Daily Eagle (Wichita, Kan.)
October 27, 1899

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it nil M ijMfl miiio I i no fiSU 111 I gfte michxiu ipajlij Wyfla gi-Maaj Htjmratjj, dobw"27. 1899 But Guthrie's Spirit Is Noth ing Daunted Thereat. PERIOD OF FESTIVITIES house for throwing a match Into the street. Company D of Panca City, although only two weeks organized, will, by the time encampment is over, be conducting themselves like veterans. Captain Rambo of Pawnee, is one of the best posted officers In the tactics on the ground and company B shows the benefit of its advantage in having him for captain. Extended to Wednesday Next -Parades Next Week. Guthrie, Oct. 26. A, continuance of 4ho rainy weather which played havoc with yesterday's and today's program of Guthrie's carnival, has caused the carnl al committee to extend the time orig inally allotted to the festivities until Wednesday of next week, closing that night with the grand queen's ball. Ow ing to the stress of weather conditions, at has been Impossible to hold any of the scheduled parades, but It 13 hoped that the weather will clear sufficiently to per mit of the grand military parade tomor row afternoon. On Saturday will be g'ven the carnival and traveling men's parade, and Saturday night the Karnival Krewo ball will be held. Monday will be en a horse show, the principal fea jra of which will be -the 125 blooded ani mals now gathered at the fair grounds r Saturday's and next week's races, -esday evening will occur the mer hants' big parade, with a repetition of rthe carnival parade, and on "Wednesday afternoon will occur the big feature of tha entire carnival the flower parade. The management of the Midway attrac tions has consented to the above re-arrangement of the program, so that all tho original and attractive features will retained next week for the amuse ment of the visitors. Special trains will lo run by tho Santa Fe Saturday and Wednesday and reduced rates will be In tfrce through tho extended period. ni I in D Tells the Eastern Reader of a Wonderful Land. BULLETIN FROM STILLWATER Killing WeevilBlackleg Kemedy Farm Boys' Coarse of Study. Guthrie, O. T., Oct. 20. The agricul tural experiment station at Stillwater has issued the following as "Press Bul letin No. 53:" Considerable complaint is received at the experiment station that the weevil is Injuring stored grain, particularly wheat. This can be stopped by the use of a liquid known as carbon bisulphide. As pur chased at the drug store, the liquid costs about twenty-five cents a pound, but can be purchased in quantities at about ten. cents tlus trantrtation. The liquid evaporates readily at ordinary tempera tures and the vapor being heavier than air, stinks and is death to all animal I post. me mat 'oreaines 11, aiLuuugu a. sjiij.ii amount taken into the lungs does np in jury. The gas is also (highly inflamma ble and therefore not even a lighted to bacco pipe or cigar should be brought into contact with it for fear that an ex plosion may result. To use .the gas the grain to be treated should be in reason ably tight bins. The gas will not pene trate more than about three feet In depth If used In wheat and It should therefore be Introduced into the central part of the bin by fastening a wire screen over the end of a pipe of sufficient Jength and forcing the pipe down and pouring the liquid into the pipe, when it may be with drawn and forced into another place. If the weevil is working on or near the top, the liquid may be poured onto the grain, and the bin covered with blank(Hs or canvass for about twenty-four hours when the gas wiH have nearly or quite all disappeared. The gas does not injure the grain for growing or milling purposes. RICHEST FARMING SECTION In the United States, Soon, If Spared the Drouth. Guthrle.'O. T., Oct. 26. The first of E. U. Smalley's letters on Oklahoma has ap peared. Smalley is a famous correspon dent and his letter is dated Enid, and ap pears as follows in the New York Even- TASTE OF REAL SOLDIER LIFE Jupiter PI living .Helps JIars Initiate the l$ojnt uthric. Guthrie, O. T., Oct. 25. At the Okla homa militia encampment company and battalion drills attract lots of visitors. G lard mount, -the critical feature for the t lller, excellent commissary service, p city of quinine and no kick on the quar termaster's department. Camp Barnes, "Lh its neatly lined-up white tents, sur r 1 nded and flooded by water, loked last Ji ght like a gigantic flleet of yachts or a nalf-a-dozen white squadrons aligned 1 r parade Everything and everybody ias literally soak.d and whole compan 3 wore dismissed and gent uptown to 1 "d beds. The officers' quarters were the 1. Tst of all, and it was enough to dis j 'tit the oldest campaigner to wade j und In the water knee-deep In search c f his bed and his blankets. Outside, the x in -imply pouted down, and many a x iw recruit and lately promoted soldier 1 )kod dolefully at the ruin of their new thes and swore softly at the reckless c'oments. Colonels Stone and Hoffman ml the company officers exerted them te'es to relieve the discomfort of the men, and Major Saker increased his hos j ital room and prepared for an increase of his sick list. This morning the weath er continued threatening, but the rain l'Td off until guard mount, at 11 o'clock. A provost guard scoured the city and rounded up a few "rookies" who had 1 li'ed to report for duty at roll call and n summary court-martial gave the delin quents a taste of discipline. All the com ranles were out for company drill, show lrg a marked improvement over previous t Torts, and the guard mount at 11 o'clock was pronounced by the Sranlsh-Amerl- in veterans present as pretty nearly the C'roct thing. This afternoon the whole r mment under command of Lieutenant (V-mM Hoffman, participated in battal 1 3i drill. There will be no parades until the weather Improves. ENCAMPMENT NOTES. Everybody likes Jim Warren and Dan JCrtuii. The kodak fiends are among the visi-t-ra. The Medford company is tho biggest ml, many say, the best In camp. Thf rain left two feet of water around l"i comissary and Improvised hosoUsl. The. raw men are finding out that it i a srience to know how to take care of nr-elf in camp. lmpany H, after cleaning up camp. ruing the college yell and tackling TrJo Sam's so-called beefsteak and find h g it equal to an algebra problem in tiUbhnesa, like true schoolboys, have be jTm to devise some way of getting the tt'r of it without too much exertion n their oart. The motto of company H is "In Front," a" 1 the hoys have been true to it, at the 1 Vs tent, at least. Company H boys are well pleased with t'ii regimental officers. Ciptain Jayne was officer of the day B e d tv leaving Lieutenant Greenald in c mmand of the company. Cnvanv II boys are, always in camp I fr 're taps. Our boys have heard that there is a Jh mlhouse. but have never seen it. Chaplain Ingram, as captain of cem p ii I, maintains the high standard he r ibbxhed in that capacity while among the volunteers. no unusual thing to see Major H nton on the company streets explaln to officers and men their duties. of the twenty-sK reported sick to the EU'-geon when it began to rain, all but two showed up at tho mess tent for Ercak'a-t Sirs- ant McGIlL an Id newspaper man f Shi w nee. has been of great assistance n cul.octmg the cams news. Thii is all the consolation a young re--nit recehed who told the colonel he wanted to go home: "Go back to your tent and cant crying. This rain is "just g ng you a littlo touch of the real t ins." Tha first sergeants are beginning to hao nours of extra duty up their sleeve? fir de.incuents. The parade .ground was in excelent con 3 t n this morning and there were two h-u-s of oojnna&y ddU. Tho cantata, two ga-pafcis oampanv i i- right 'oijdut Xaee" get t&e hoarse tajgh, Tm Shawne- band is a warm article. The boys are good fellows and they have taken the vicissitudes of camp Mfe in g I humor and without a murmur. It v Hi give Guthrie a chase for "yirst regi me nt band." The Shawnee company would be a credit to a regiment of regulars. Company B of Chandler, has it street dmrated wh bs-rers. It Is a ntoae! of r. atness i' 1 s -ry decorum and dfe- c p Siw. Captain Vest ssat mae i the gward All the Oklahoma towns situated with in thirty-eight miles of the Kansas bor der are locally known as "Strip-towns," because they lie within the boundries of the old Cherokee Btrip, which separated old Oklahoma from Kansas. The Strip was purchased by the government from the Cherokee Nation, and thrown open to the occupancy of homestead settlers at noon on September 17, OS93. Within twenty four hours every quarter section valuable for farmink bore the claim stakes of an actual settler. Towns sprang up here and there with marvelous rapidity, and the whole vast plain throbbed with human life. The new-comers improvised what sort of shelter they could, many living in tents, others bringing wagon loads of boards to erect rude shanties, and still others building huts of sod or scooping dugouts in the hillsides. The people were all poor, for If they had been well off they would have re mained in their old Lomes, and their on ly hope for tho future was that the land would yet yield good crops. It did not diappolnt them. Good crops have been raised year after year, until now these ad venturous pioneers live in comfortable houses, built of lumber brought by rail from Texas or Minnesota; drive to town in their own carriages, possess well-improved farms, and as a rule have a lit tle money In the bank. Nowhere else in all the far West has there been such a rapid accumulation of- wealth from agri culture, and the result Is a well-satisfied community, that Is constantly improving its conditions, and is already in the en joyment of all the essential comforts of life. If there are no crop failures from droukht, Oklahoma will soon become the richest farming state in the Union. From its geographical situation one Tvould say that a drought would be due here as of ten as once in five or six years, but this limit has already been passed, and as the territory has .so many other exceptional features itmay escape the chief scourge of Kansas, Nebraska, and the two"lako tas. j. The principal "Strip" towns are New kirk and Perry, on the Santa Fe Road, and Pond Creek and Enid, on "the Rock Island, and the largest of them Is Enid, which claims a population of 5,000. It makes a great showing of business in a multitude of little stores one or two stories high, some of them new structures of brick, and many the cheap wooden shanties of the first merchants. The settlers In the Cherokee Strip are greatly interested in what I3 called the free-home question. In opening the Strip Congress did not put the lands upon the same footing as other public lands. It applied ito Ithem the homestead law, with Its requirement of five years' occupancy before title Is given to the settler, but as the government had bought the lands Black-leg Is one of the most Important diseases among cattle In Oklahoma- The disease may assume a number of forms but usually is noticed as a local swell ing in either the front or hind limb. The swelling contains gas which causes a crackling sound when the hand Is passed over the swelling. The swelling Is at first' hot and painful, but after the gas 'begins to form, it is not sensitive and the skin becomes dry and parchment-like. The dlsoaso is common to young cattle and Is rapidly rfataV death generally oc curring from twelvo to thirty-six hours after the first symptoms are noticed. There Is no successful medical treatment for the disease. Vaccination Is now rec ognized as the most successful way to prevent the disease. The necessarj' appa ratus, which consists of a hypodermic syringe, a small porcelain mortar, glass rod and filter funnel can be,-, purchased, from any Instrument dealer for three or four dollars. With this apparatus any careful individual can do the work' suc cessfully. The experiment stafkfrr at Stillwater Is preparing to burnish a small amount of vaccine, with full instructions for using, to parties whq peed. or tnelr own use and who vjill, supply themselves with tho necessary instruments for doing the work. The Agricultural and MechaJiieal college at Stillwater, will give during the winter term a short course In agriculture and mechanics especially arranged for men who- work on the farms, and are unable to spare tho time for a college course. The course Is planned to furnish instruc tion In those subjects which will be of tht most practical value in the every day work on the farm. The work will consist of lectures In the forenoon and praotical work In the shops and labor atories In the afternoon. The subjects in clude diseases of livestock, farm water supply, budding and grafting, breeds of J from the Indians, the settlers fwere also livestock, crops for dklahoma, farm ma- required to relmbexse the Treasury by chlnery and equipment, farm dairying, Painff for iheir ,home farms from J1.25 troublesome Insects, farm accounts, laws 1 to i5 Per acro at e end of the fie aectlng farmers, stock feeding, etc. years' thf amount varying with the var Practlcal instruction will "be given in ious amounts that tho government had oarpntry. blacksmlthlng and running of Pala the Indian tribes. Before the five steam engines, veterinary surgery, and. i Jiears nad expired an enthusiastic move horticulture. The course begins January nientj was organized In the Strip to per 3, 1W0, and continues for ten weeks. The suade Congress to remit the payments total expense for board and room, etc I from tne settlers and place the land up will not be more than 540, and many! on ne same footing as the other public farmers and farmers boys shoul davall I land. This movement very naturally themselves of this opportunity to keep up I claimed the support of the territorial del with the advances that are being made egates in Congress, who once succeeded in the art of farming. In getting a bill through the House, which I failed In the Senate. The amount of mon- A farmers' Institute is an organization ey involved Is about $16,000,000. There Ls of farmers -which! holds meetings for the no opposition to this free-homo move purpose of exohanglng opinions on mat- ment In the territory, and all of the polls ters relating to farming. Institutes arc tlcians are very earnest In Its arvocacy. not successful In unprogresslve communi- J I hear none of the complaints in Okla ties and it ls noteworthy that those local- i homa about lack of money to do business Ities where Institutes are held are which used to be so common In the West usually prosperous. They are prosperous and South; the banks all have deposits for the reason that farmers who are largely in excess of their capital, and studious and Interested in their work their discount rate has declined from 2 usually succeed. The experiment station rer cent, a month to 1 per cent, a month, at Stillwater is anxious to help these Farm mortgages now bear 10 per cent. meetings. One or more sneakers will ho as a rule. The banks do not nay Interest on deposits except on large sums left on deposit for at least a year, and in such cases the rate Is only 2 per cent, per an num. Lenders now seek borrowers, and the old custom of exacting a commission in addition to a high rate of Interest has gone with other conditions of new set tlement. The free silver question as an active political Issue has become a mere reminiscence. Nobody talks about it, and no one would listen patiently if anybody were disposed to talk. It Is Impossible to keep any humbug about money alive in a community where a great majority of the voters have raised themselves from poverty to comfort and independence In a few years' time. 1 The politics of Oklahoma were brought In from Kansas. That state has alwavs abounded in politicians, and hundreds of of "Old Oklahoma" seem equally well adapted to this cereal The town of King fisher claims now to be the greatest pri mary wheat market in the United States, buying and shipping over one million bushels per .year. Kingfisher Ilea in the red-clay belt, but Kay County, which is in the brown soil Teglon of the Cherokee Strip, produced more wheat last year than any other county in the entire country, so that the question whether the brown prairie loam gr the red clay siol Is bet ter adapted for wheat Is still an open one. The claim of excellence as a stock coun try which is made for Oklahoma does not rest so much upon a luxurious growth of native grasses as upon the great yield of forage crops, such as Kaffir corn, sorg ghum, and alfalfa All farmers who keep stock raise fodder. The buffalo "grass which Is the common herbage of the pra iries, Is too short to yield much hay. A very rank, jcoarse grass, called Johnson grass, which came originally from Afri ca, and was introduced here from John son County, Texas, makes an excellent fodder, but tho Legislature, at the in stance of .former STexans, passed a bill making the raising of It a felony, be cause of its propensity to spread far and wide and occupy the cultivated fields. Some farmers Ikeep on raising It, how ever, In spite of the law, and it Is one of the most profitable crops-. Alfalfa ls much raised and produces two or three crops a year. On account pf the short winters and the abundance of nutritious cultivated forage crops, stock-raising Is a very attractive industry. Therei is very little of tho picturesque remaining in Oklahoma life. There are no cowboys with wide-brimmed hats and pistols strapped to their waists, and the men are much better judges of ploughs than of revolvers. The fsvomen wear the latest fashions, even to the felt hats with goosequllls stuck in them. In every town there are churches of nearly every denom ination, and life goes on In just as quiet and orderly a fashion a3 in Illinois or Iowa. Some peculiar social interest comes from the fact 'that In almost every town one meets people from nearly every state in the Union. No matter what state you yourself may come from, you are sure to find someone who formerly lived there. No sectional prejudices exist, and men and women from North and South, East and work together for tho upbuilding of this, the last of tho prairie states, and, as they all think, the best. 0 WW VT1 fP IS Is the Slogan of the Indian's Eastern Friends. 'FREE TRADE" THE CURE For the Infamies Practised Under Existing Laws, JOHN WILSON TELLS HIS STORY How He TFas Slujrged While Asleep and Robbed by Mike McDowell. Guthrie, O. T., Oct. 26. Further details of the assault and robbery of John Wil son by Mike McDowell at Enid are con tanied in yesterday's Enid Wave, which says: John Wilson and Mike McDow ell, two men engaged with tho track laying gang of the Tonkawa Rock Island branch, came into North Enid yesterday evening, October 24. Early in the night they walked tfver to' a vacant shack on the claim of Jim Hutton, adjoining the town on the northeast, and laid down outside the house to sleep and spend the night. Wilson fell asleep, but was soon awakened and found McDowell leaning over .him. He inquired, "Why don't you go to sleep?" "I don't feel just like it," answered "McDdwell. Wilson was soon asleep again, when McDowell struck him a fearful blow on the' head with a coup ling pin and repeated the blow several times, knocking Wilson unconscious. Mc Dowell then robbed the person of Wilson of $84.50 in gold, currency and silver and put out, leaving his ylctlm for dead. Wil son came to himself and when a train came In andi stopped opposite the house, ,which was clo3e to tho railroad, he man aged to groan and. otherwise make noise enough to attract the attention of the trainmen, who found him and gave the alarm to the people of the town. Wilson was carried to the house of Mr. Hutton where his frightful wounds were dressed by Dr. Armstrong. Wilson told his own story quite intelligently and says that no doubt McDowell meant to kill him for his money and no doubt thought lie was dead when he left him. The sheriff's posse are out afte.r McDowell and no doubt ho will soon be locked up. Wilson is In a precarious condition and may die from his Injuries. He says he first met McDowell in a tie camp in. Kentucky two years ago and did not tako him for a bad man. Guthrie, O. T., Oct 25. Slowly and, it is believed, surely, the sentimental friends of the Indian, which friends re side largely in the east, are getting ready to make a final onslaught on the calling of Indian traders. This is being brought about by' the incessant succession of scandal at Indian agencies in or near Oklahoma, The Indian trader has a licensed privilege and he does not al ways treat it fairly. If he does not, and. In the abuse of it, has the connivance of the agent, trouble, and from Washington, Is inevitable. The latest trouble is in the Osage na tion. It is brought on by an attack from Ransom Payne on Indian Agent Pollock. It is significant that the eastern news papers In discussing the charges against Pollock, dismiss them lightly and launch bodly into the question of traders. One New York paper, typical of the Indio manlac class, says: Charges have been filed with the secre tary of the interior against William J. Pollock, agent for the Osage Indians In Oklahoma, accusing him of conducting his agency In the Interest of the licensed traders on the reservation, as opposed to those of the Indians. He has been in of fice about two years, and the charges assert that during that time no restraint apparently has been placed upon the traders and their business cronies, the white cattlemen, who are seeking cheap pasturage on the Indian lands; so that now hundreds of thousands of acres of these lands have been fenced and white men's herds turned Into them. By way of showing how such things are managed, a single ilnstrative Instance Is cited in the charges. Ben Strike-Axe, an Osage educated at Carlisle school, ran into debt to a trader to the amount of about $1,100. His wife, who was hopeless ly ill, was induced to sign, jointly with him, a promissory note for this amount, and at her death soon afterwards the lease of a farm she owned fell thus Into Lthe trader's hands. A similar trick was played on Ben's father, who died about the same time. The trader meanwhile had been pressing Ben very hard, and had secured practically all the annuity money paid by the government to lilra and his family of five persons. The trader kept account of all these trans actions, never rendered a balance-sheet to the Indian, and contrived, by heavy Interest charges and the like, to prevent any considerable credit from going upon his books in Ben's favor. When it is re membered that an Indian rarely realizes his responsibility when he contracts a debt, and that, when he finds himself thus burdened and is annoyed by dun ning, he ls ready to slkn away leases or anything else which will purchase tern which nowj give most frequent causa for complaint. The number of traders who would take advantage of the opportunity would be too large to admit of success ful collusion, and each, would be more or less of a restraint upon the others, by his liability to complain In the hope of getting rid of a competitor who is doing business on a bad basis. The first nat ural result ,of free competition would be to give the Indians the lowest possible prices for their, goods, and thus, to edu cate them to some extent for trading judiciously after the reservation barriers had been thrown down. The fearfof many,good friends of the In dians lest free trade on the reservations should result in an increase of the illicit liquor traffic Is not welt founded. That increase is liable to occur quite as much under the existing system as under the one proposed. Very few of the general traders on a reservation will sell or giv an Indian liquor; the danger in this re spect lies with the "boot-leggers" and their class of smugglers. Morooer, the bonds exacted of traders under a free competition would be just as effective in restraining the liquor traffic as those exacted under the present system of polit ical monopoly. There would be the added advantage to the enemies of Indian whisky of having a self-oonstltuted de tective corps always within the circle of traders themselves. Hcjw little the pres ent system protects the Indian from the bottle was made evident on the Osage reservation only a few months ago, when only an accident, as it were, prevented the extension to one trading store there of the privilege of keeping alcohol in stock, ostensibly for use in "compounding med icinal readies." The use the Indian makes of alcohol for "medicinal" purposes is too well known to call for more than the mere suggestion. FORTUNE Continued from First Pass. M sent to each Institute if request is re ceived in sufficient time in advance so lha tanrangements can be made. Farmers who have not received the an nual report of the Agricultural Expert ment station should send for a copy at once. The report contains much of In terest and value to every farmer. ACCIDENTAL JHJNSH0T WOUND Proves Fatal to Willie Saunders, a YounjrMnn ornthrie. Guthrie. O. T., Oct 3S.-Willie Saunders, 17 years old, who ret-ides with his parents at 10S North Division street, and a com panion, were hunting yesterday, four miles northeast of this city, asid at 5 o'clock started for home. Tho pony whlch the boys were driving balked, and ith difficulty was persuaded to BLESSINGS ENJOYED BY ALVA Include Fine Kains and Hnjre Ship ments of Woods Countj' Products Alva, O. T., Oct. 26. Woods county was last night visited with a steady, soaking rain of over twelve hours, which puts this section in better shape for the wheat crop of 1000 than In any year since the opening In 1S93. While property in Alva Is cheap, compared with towns In the east part, wo are enjoying a healthy growth, not only in residence property, but the sale of farms to men of means from Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and Mis souri, who know a good thing when they see It The wheat shipments from Alva are as follows, since August 1: Cole Bros.. 450 cars; Crowall Bros., 475; teeorge II. Harbaugh, 423; P. C. Emberson, 400; Hunter Milling Co.. 375; Schaffer Co., 150; Mill Co., 200. Total, 2,470 cars. Be sides this, Emberson, Sheady Co. have shipped, and have on hand about 100 cars of broom corn. Hundreds of cattle and hogs have been shipped out and the Im mense amount of merchandise received over the Santa Fe for Alva Is beyond be lief. One firm alone will sell In ISM over $130,000 worth of goods. The brick block being erected by H. E. Noble and the Exchange bank fs one of the finest In the territory, being 50x150 feet two sto ries, with, pressed brick front Alva has no complaint to make, either about crops, rainfall or business matters. move j them who saw no prospect of getting of- along. During one of the balky spells young Saunders got out of the buggy to force the pony along by taking hold of the bridle. He attempted to regain the buggy from behind, and in so doing his shot gun, which was ih the bottom of the buggy, with the muzzle pointing toward him. was In some manner dis charged, the entire charge of No. S bird shot entering his left leg just above tho knee and ranging upwards, penetrating l rce San ta iS winning by a majority the groin. From the effects of the shot i near,v 'WQ s result both of the and the loss of blood, the youn man I ciS P750111 canvass he made and of died. ttie drtft f opinion away from froe sliver. The Popullts and Democrats combined H. 0, G. ROAD SAID TO BE SOLD CtLtt flsure Ul a majorit5' ,n the territory uywain wm sunwy snare tfte fate flee in their old homes flocked over the line Into the neighboring territory with the great rush to the Cherokee Strip Among them were many Populists, who secured for their peculiar notions an im mediate currency here. They fused with the Democrats In lSP-3 and defeated for re-election the popular Republican dele gate in Congress, Dennis Flynn. Mr. Flynn waited two years and made the to be the Santa Fe Is X'nderMood Iurcltner. Guthrie, O. T. Oct St-Mr. John I. Blair, a prominent politician of Bedford. Grant count. Is in the city. He said it Is understood that the H. O. G. railroad ha sold out to the Santa Fe and will go Into the possession of the latter on No vember .1 The h. O. G. will then con nect with tho northbound Santa Fe ralivt Cross, and with ifce soh fcound Rock Island train. It has met in Kansas aad will repidiy dis integrate as a political force. Oklohoma is a pretty good cotton coun try, lying, as it does, in the same lati tude as Tennessee, but there was not as much cotton raised this year as last from the fact that the farmers had ex perienced great dlfiJcalty in setting th crop picked. In fact many fields were n.n picked at all. and the farmers who thja Hist their cotton crops for the want f labor In the picking season'went back to i waeat ana GRADERS ON THE NEW ROAD South of Kiowa Money Ready for the First Twenty Miles of Track. Oklahoma City. O. T Oct. 23. A Kiowa, Kan., special to the Times-Journal says "Graders are strung along tht new road south of this ci'y in Oklahoma, They are mostly farmers w ho had donated work to the new project In addition to the work donated, considerable cash in bo nuses is due with the commencement of work. The projector, Mr. Cunningham, claims to have money to put down the track for the first twenty miles, after which bonds will bo sold to) complete the road in twenty-mile se-rjfcs into Okla homa City. The projected road ruas through a country rich in freights, as It is devoted largely lo the growing of wheat It believed that the MlssoSri Pacific i' backing the enterprise. Santos Or -Twri frfsh cases of the bubonic p ag.e fcae occurred here com this vMir vciha.a, t 1 a rfc T-. 1 J e aTJw oet- Tn r-ii- a" u Be tne staple market crop. The SLrLSf 5 -VStanr, u -a j gular yWd Is from Stteeu to twentv Twgier aod QUdra. tertw, I flve Vjshe r acr ajd 1 of the "ST.n" aj war a th. I..,. -f&iaSfSrT"--. Re.ies Kidne Bladder porary relief from the importunities of his creditor, it Is easy to understand how the shrewd traders on the Osage reser vation have succeeded in absorbing con trol of most of its best lands, which they let at their own figures to their friends among the cattlemen. It is said on good authority that the Indians are today paying often as high as 10 per cent a month for loans, and that it is customary, just before the an nuity cash payments occur, for the trad ers to make advances of money on an agreement that double the amount shall be returned when the Indians get their stipend. An effort was made by the trad ers on the Osage reservation, early In the present year, to procure legislation from congress advancing enough of the Indian's money directly from the treas ury to discharge a total of I430.54S due to them by the Indians. It was then shown that Individual traders carried on their books total debits ranging from more than $32,500 up to nearlS' 155.000; and that Individual Indians owed to various trad ers total amounts from $1 to about 15,00-). Although the Osage tribe is rated as the richest community in the world, meas ured by Its average wealth per capita, the Individual Indians are not millionaires or anything flke It; and such fredom to con tract debts would, if encouraged by di rect payments from their trust funds In the treasury, soon render them penniless. Whether the present charges result in the removal of Agent Pollock or not. It is hoped that they will bear fruit In call ing the attention of the authorities in Washington to this whole question of tradershlp, which must one day be taken up in earnest The energies of the friends of reform in Indian administration havo hitherto been focussed almost exclusively upon breaking down the reservation bar riers and making free men and clt'zens of the Indians; but this work of emancipa tion will necessarily be slow, and In the meantime, it would be well to establish free trade on all the reservations as. a preliminary to their opening. The only reason why trade with the Indians was ever hedged about with the present form alities was that in their almost childlike condition of helplessness, it wa desired to throw the srtong arm of the govern ment around the red men tor Uw't pro tection. Like many other benevolent -signs of the government this one has bean grossly perverted In Its execution. Instead of protecting the Indians from fraud and oppression. It has reaultJ. in a very large proportion of Instances, in simply reserving for a sisall group el money-seeking white raea a asoaoooly of opportunity to make a profit from In dian ignorance. The dean-haadod ers on the Iadtan reeerraaoa iake a pitiful showing of BunOrer beio ".he men who are there to get "all there Is in It" It is true that the regulattops mi the Indian office Isooa some r:tv se vere restriction upon the Indian tro.frs, but these are evaded or ignored, for the most part with impuatty. As long as tie prweat system resiain. ttcese s-SI eos- tinue to issue to thooe traders) wbo hav the most political fwB." and the bssiaat one of thezs te Interfered -Kith, a JK dozen sesators and roweseatattveas -ff! come down upon the ladlaa eSlee -Bilk a demand that the offevdsr shall e tot CHARGED WITHWHACKING UP" Sensational Suit to Oust the County Attorney of Woods County. Guthrie, O. T.,,Oct 2J. A special from Alva saja: Attorney General Harper S. Cunningham has taken a hand in tho county attorney fight of this fWoods) county and has filed a voluminous petition In the district court in which he seeks, in the name of the territory of Okla homa, to oust tho present Incumbent, Jesso J. Dunn, and alto to keep J. T. Wilson, who was the opponent of Mr. Dunn at the last election, from getting possession of the office. The attorney general recites in his petition the fact of the election, the award of the office to Mr. Dunn, and the contest by Mr. Wilson. Here the petition becomes sensational and the statement Is made that Dunn and Wl'son entered into a corrupt and fraudulent agreement for Wilson to dis miss his contest for the office, which 1 had Instituted before the district court, the two then to cut up the salary and perquisites between them. This, the peti tion avers, has been done; also that a bribe was paid by the conspirators to one John D. Carter, who ls characterized as a professional boodler, and who claimed to have great Influence with the judge of the district cour.t, and said ho was able to advise, dictate and dlreet the ac tion of the court and 'thus facilitate the scheme of Dunn and Wlteon in thus "whacking up." This, and much other matter. Is set forth in the petition, and It closes as follows: "That by reason of the fraud and corruption entered Into and practiced Jn reference to said office, ami by the giving and taking of a bribo to defeat the ends of Justice, the defendants, Jesse J. Dunn and K T. Wilson, have each forfeited any right to said office, and that the defendant. Jesse J. Dunn, bo ousted from snid office o fcounty at torney of Woods county, Oklahoma Ter ritory, and that said office of county at torney of Woods county, Oklahoma Ter ritory, be declared vacant and for such other relief as justice and equlay may demand in tha premises." WAS GOOD AT CATCHING ON A. A'. JPeasterKnowM tho Jtopcs Bet tor Than IIo Ever Kxpectcd To. Guthrie. O. T., Oct 26. A. N. Peaster of Oklahoma City had a most fortunate escape from what might have proved a fatal accident according to the Times Journal. Peaster is an employe in the Alton-Davis wholesale grocery building. Ho was on the third floor at the time the accident occurred. The olevator shaft had been loft open and the car wu at tho bottom. Peaster wont 40 pass tho open shaft, closely around which goods were stacked which had Just been un loaded from the elevator. As he passed the yawning shaft he took hold of a bar rel to steady himself, thinking It was filled; but Instead the barrel was empty and very light Peaster lost his balanco and fell backwards into the open shaft carrying tho empty barrel wih him. Other employes around the shaft who saw Peaster fall stood horror-stricken. expecting to hear in an Instant the dull. sickening thud of Poaster's body on the first floor, 36 feet below. They hoard, instead, the crash of the empty bar rel, when they Jumped tot he shaft and peered into it they saw Peaster grasp ing the ropes of the elevator of toe sec ond floor landing. As he fell backward into the shaft ho grasped wildly aboot him and clutched the ropos, stopptng himsolf. His hands were fearfully Ur cerated aod hi was bmlsbod from the contact with be timbers, but very thank ful that it was no worse. Admitting Cattle Into Oklahoma Guthrie. O. T.. Oct 36. The Ofcloboasa live stock sanitary board mot hore yes terday and passed aa orer permitting cattle to be brought Into th territory south of the federal quarantine law after November 1. OASTOHIiL. 'Efa tea: Half Mil" Track Paclns Itrord Bethlehem. Pa.. Oct -Tb wiKTs pacta record for a s!f-mlt tru-fc was beaten fles by Prince AiSrt here to day la to concluding rrnl of the Jeoa syrraata Pair association's fall setiB. Tbo weather m toe tfc trade fatrljr naai sad wltk eomasratrr eas Frfirse Atort paced tht first atfte im 1-4 psfcl I oat by DesMcracy. sad the third baa to UK fiat Marl seteg oa as aoeis at Uw jbrisb. la tk oooMf hoax rVtoes ,Afert brofc soon after the start and, Dem ocracy tostag idaJsoocosa. Marl asuf fel own way outlt to last quarter. a Prince Alert 2favd fa W second sad of income or alienated during the life time of the person erttltled to the in come. "Eleventh, twenty million dollars in se curities is to be set apart by his executors to be divided by them into four equal parts and held in trust one part each for the use of his children. Gertrude. Al fred and Gladys, the income thereof to be paid to each for life, and upon the death of the boaeflciary the principal of hi or her share to be paid to the issue o ,ch beneficiary in such proportions a, -ay be appointed by the will, and in rt-'iuSt of such appointment la equal Share to such issue, and, failing, then the principal of such share is to be paid to the survivors of the above named or their issue.- "Twelfth, the trustees of the several trust funds are authorised In their discre tion to sell or hold the securities beloay Ing to the testator at tho time of his death and to change investments, and are directed to Invest the trust funds arising therefrom in certain specified securities and classes of Investment, frith addition al authority to Invest in tho mortgaga bonds of any railroad approved for that purpose by all tho executors who may qualify. They are further directed to how securities in which trust funds may be invested, in their names as trustees for the parties, respectively, for whose bene fit the t-ust is created, keeping oach trust separate and distinct "Thirteenth, specific bequests are made as follows: William K. VanderbUt Jttfc 000; Chauncay M. Depew, Ed ward V. W. Itossiter. JW.0CO; John Hone. $M,COs); Rev Dr. David H. Greer. $M.ftX): Charles C. Clark. J25.000; Franklin AJIen. J&.000; Maud Gwynne Shepard. C-30: John Rutgers Leroy. $2,000; Charles F. Cox. Stfl&X); Edgar T. Chapman, son of Rev. E. T. Chapman, of Watervltft New York, JW.OflO; George R. Fearing. aj(); Rev. Dr. Wlllam S. Langford. JV0; George A, WarbHrton. .0J; Robert R. McBurney (dead). SW.0Q0; J. R. Halt maker, $KM5M. "Also the following annuitlas: Mrs, Wlllam Tumbull. $1.20); John T. ISarle. S1.S; Mr. Jeremiah Slmoason, ILMs: Mrs. Sarah Slmonson. JMrt; Mrs. Cornelia Llt tell. $300. Upon the death of enoh an nuitant the principal et apart tor swan annuity is added to the residuary estate. "Also provided that the Judgment af the executors shall be final la respect to any division of the estate made by thsia. and each executor and trustee is reJtav ed from responsibility for the acts or omissions of any other, and no bonds are required for them as security. "Fourteenth, a legacy of SMAJO) Is R- en to the Young Men's Christian associa tion of New York and tho ooslre ki op pressed that the income, so far as pran tlcabie, ho used for Christian work amstig railroad employes. "Also a bequest of 5346,000 Is given to tho rector, chuschwarden and vestryman of St. Bartholomew's church, to be kept la vested by them and the annual lacoasa applied to tie missionary work of the parish. "There is a further bentent of S!Mta for the erection of a building for church purposes hi said pariah, contlnceat naan Its not having been erected prior to In tstator's death, the surplus, if any, t be added to the bequest last shave, named. "Also the following bequssts: Yale Uni versity. $lt.02s: St. LAko's aaspUal, la New York City, $M.0Q9; Ut Domestic al Foreign Mtentonary Society of the Prot estant Episcopal ehoni. $ft.N: tnastec of the VanderbUt university, NasavlHa, Tenn.. MV the Redwood library at Newport, 10.C: the Newport. R, I., hos pital, $1A,000; thf Christian Home for In temperate Men in New York. JW.ftJsj tho Manhattan Working Glris' Society of the City of Xew York. $WW9; the Jsw York Bible and Common Prayar Book Society. JKM "Also the oxsoutors are directed to pay to the society of St. John aaavstty t" sum of $199, and a boquost of $HVC0i U made to the junt soclsty. "Also to tbo Protestant Bpteconai so ciety for Seaman In New York City. a. bequest of $10,030 Is glvn and Tumor's painting of th Orand Canal. Vaalce I given to toe Metropolitan Moaomn of Art New York City. "fifteenth. bequest of $1.(0) la given to each of the family servants who baire been In the employ In the house or sraMo of the testator for tvo years next aro cedtag bis death. Also the folio win r b. quests: John H Deapsey. Cham. A. Whlttaker, coachman. $1.OT0. Tony. s barber. $2.f: John Allen, his farmer. "Sixteenth, the gold medal voted y congress In W. at the cJa? of the crris war. to CorneHca VanderWIt, ats grand father. Is atvsn to his son Alfred, -tln the request that he leave U to Ms eleVaat son and so on down from tHest mm lo aUfsot son. "Seventeenth, atl the rest. rrils aaal remainder of the sotau. het4mg all fenced legacies and tne prlndn! oi aav n iI ties Is tthtm to the executors m treat to bold and Invest and ro-tovet aod act lect rents. Income and areens for tie i of bis aoo Alfred, and to pay to htm tile net tneoaso thereof as reosseed uottt be rcomen thirty, wfeon be la to name Soto Kwaoaston of one-naif of said estate to Income of tbe yuaseams'ef to be aald to blm as befors ntt! be becomes tMrty-ove, a hen he U to eome Into full nooeiwsoa thereof If be die tWore eaaaieg mo frristaetnn of any or al of wars mn mad leav ehlWrea aurrtvteg. tax joom trttrated son km U to t dtta4 tsb ennal 'Jfcirsa and hM in t for aw rbtdreo until they beom of ane. line in the event of ther v-ift(g ao ewfiart. Uvtas: at the time of A oasta ie oi tbeir eym before roming of ss. tbo testator's eon. Reefum C. Ywv5rr MJt in all reapoet f nmetrttAt'oa portion of sorb iwdusry estate. It In stand ia toe ate sn-i tm4 of A..' I, recerrtmr. tbo Income until at b tf r and the hate tbo nrtncHml sad brunt I :h anmwc mstil bo Is Obrty-ave rears i eg, wmm be ts to nt in OMceef of fbe rc In tbe eontosocy tbat A4f red mat nVstnaid me witboct taws b fore betas; cat la aoeoemma of n -fate ta ieettrs mvosbtars Gortrud and1 Obvtye are made ;eantnary Wfces la oqoni mmrea. tbotr ebftarea titter (He parent's mre ta ease tstaec d bniof tbat tame. "lrbts -mf.il. rfee essence; see ssrectert t? nay oat of tbe et all BtbericMf lesacy ami transfer tmxmt mssrem lei ai1 a? V4sr reavOme j.m. -rfjeH: 1 ..ldics at encc. 5 wbKe m-detag Is too liable to attract at- wures m 48 Hours an; URINARY DISCHARGES rsAfip- f vx i-ar it I MfTV 1 UC LT I wK1 J use ur feVkAAJVAvrAiVSWfVWV. tention often make overture to tbotr ew fe: low-traders itm the same reserraiJoc for a union of forces, stnec, if all are eqmdty letter from Roar culpable, ao one wis be In a poaicloa to Campion samsaartztanr 1 of in a&t. dnta.. woo r a length m 1-t. Tbo Mot are- -w i "t. of he f'nfoi Sues or of say vmas record or a anK-mslo track was M 1-2. wnseb was ostahWnW by Prtac Alar: st Atrwa, P-. on Sentem-r bet ref a. AfW VsatfecbtJt "s P0M WOatsiz MA -la Hanging 1 Too ftood for Them London. Oct t. Tho Ttmea nanCi. Admiral Hm-Vt v..-i kMMHee ate aaaesatod ex t in eeantber wftb ImIhw -.w a atnr r-rvd e-.ll es. (iVMi el... .t. T J-i w am 1 mwamfmw rf A en tbe reservation were throrsm ope to Hadnos Bay. wfcsca any t r -rr- J M all comers wan coM g4e abaooant bomSs qafasnax onqars aj nr s-. -ne r w tr9 HJ'f JTZutr r'' fo rthefr goi behavior, bosisefca cozisoft- two tsWK ssea mfw u ss t I tiaa would aooa rszuLtfs the oatiersi tie Anjfrtxce-.ii. 4 tilj Etg. by s-wser 13 1? a r. m

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S& fllicMia liTtj gag! frixlaxj Btramia ttotrja 27, 1899 8 Crawford Grand, E. L. Hartling, Manager. FRIDAY, OCT. 27. LINCOLN J. CARTER'S Thrilling and Romantic War Play, A Play That is Good for the North and South, East and "West. Startling in Its Realism! Novel in its Con struction! Picturesaue and True to Life in its Rendition! An Engine and Tender Running away from the Audience at the rate of CO miles an hour. THAT CAVALRY CHARGE! Seats on sale at Howe's jewelry store. Prices 23c, 33c. 50c, 73c. dtSS 3KsKj) 4K5 O I Crawford Grand S E. L. Martling, Manager. One Night, A L A ALA A m A A Story of the South by Augustus Thomas. All the original scenery, mechani cal and electrical effects. 0 &G&3 OSX3 S d3X3 O REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. For District Judge. .J. I. Balderston For Sheriff. G. W. Simmons For County Treasurer D. E. Boone For Connty Clerk J. M. Chain For Register of Deeds. .A. S. Marble For Surveyor R. H. Mnndevello For Coroner, H. McCollister For Commissioner First District. H. H. Edwards PLATFORM. The Republican party of Sedgwick county respectfully and briefly states its convic tions upon the questions of public interest. It has full confidence in the integrity, statesmanship and high purposes of "William McKinley, president of the United States. It is our be lief that his administration has added to the renown and stability of 'Republican insti tutions and forms of govern ment at home and abroad; that its influence marks the beginning of a new era in which humanity has been ad vanced to a higher plane, at home and in the nations of the world: that his adminis tration has restored national prosperity, and we agree with the words of the great Demo cratic New York World, "it is a good time in a good coun try;" that it has placed the country where of right it properly belongs the leader among the powers, of the world. That the administration of the affairs of this state, now in the hands of the Republi can party, with a citizen of our own county, the Hon. W. E. Stanley, as ctiief executive," is capable, clean, deserving of, and does, receive our most cordial endorsement. With intense satisfaction we commend the glorious rec ord made by our army and navy and the unexampled gallantry of General Funston and our Kansas volunteers in the Philippine campaign. It is our deliberate convic tion that when on that May morning a year ago Dewev sailed into Manila bay and won the greatest naval vic tory of modern times, the American flag was, in accord ance with the laws of every civilized nation, and in accord ance with the express desire, as it is written in the march of human events, of an over ruling Providence, rightly placed upon the Philippine Islands. That this right has been recognized by every civil ized power, ratified by the sen ate of this country by solemn treaty with the power recog nized by the world as the na tion owning the Philippines. That our right to be there and oppose armed insurrec tion is no longer a party ques tion; to uphold the govern ment so long as armed forces are opposing it in its efforts to establish a stable govern rnent there, is loyaltyf to op pose it is disloyality. We condemn and" denounce the unpatriotic and un-American utterances of all who are giv ing encouragement to the Fili pinos in their resistance to the American flag. Never yet AMUSEMENja rawford Grand E. L. Hartling, Hanager. ONE NIGHT. Tuesday, October 31. Richards Pringle's FAMOUS GEORGIA MINSTRELS Kf PROMINENT KINGS CfJ u" OF MINSTRELSY "u Seats on sale at Howe's jewelry srore. Prices, 25, So, 50 and 75c. OSXCKS $S 0K?- S John T. Nicholson And a Superb Company of Metropolitan Players... A M A Prices 25, 35, 50 and 75 cents. Seats on sale at Howe's Jewelry store. E---.?.. has the old flag retreated before any armed foe, and wherever raised there it must stay. The aggregation in this county known as the Fusion party is neither moved by, 101 in possession of, a con viction or moral principle. It has abandoned every issue which brought it into life save the greed for office, and it now seeks by having its platform of treason adopted by the people of this county to bring the fair name and fame of Sedgwick county into disrepute and to disgrace the name of the gallant soldier whiGh it bears. We are opposed to aggre gated capital, whether organ ized in the form of trusts, corporations or otherwise for the purpose of controlling the industrial aifairs of the people, and we demand of our party in this state and in the nation such legislation which will at all times be for the best interests of all the people. That it is our con viction that every great ques tion in which the people of this country have been inter ested has been in the past and will be in the future. j settled in the interest of the I people, by that genius of I justice and right which pre I vails in and which brought the Republican party into existence; that it has the ability and integrity to prop ,erly settle and adjust the relations of capital and labor 1 in the interest of the people. j Jxchnnjro Stables. j Exchange stables at Orlando and Still. I water. Make a specialty of carrying pas sengers between these points. Also do a j general livery business. Traveling men's I patronage solicited. j SH1VELY, VAN WYKE SHrCELY. Miss Downing's regular dancing classes will begin Saturday, October 2S. Chil dren's class from 2 to 4:30; adult class at i T.50, general dancing at 9 o'clock. 137-wed-fri-sat-3t I I .llrs.lVInslow's Soothing Syrup Una been used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES tha CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS. ALLAYS all PAIN. CUBES WIND COLIC and 1 tho best remedy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by druggists In every part of the world. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winsljw'j Soothing Syrup" and take no other kind. Twenty-live cents a bottle. One dollar pays for a double lower berth in sleeping car on the Rock Island O. and O. flyer, Wichita to Lincoln and Omaha. Leaving Wichita daily at 9 p. m., arrives Lincoln 7 a. m., Omaha 9 a. m. No change of cars. i Take the Frteco Una afternoon train for Texas. S:. Louis and all points east I Through elepeis and chair cara. RECEPTION TO THE 30th KANSAS REGIMENT, TOPEKA. NOV. For the above occasion the Great Rock Island has made a rate of one fare for the round trip. Wichita to Topeka and return. i Tickets on sale November 1 and 2. return Mmit November 4. E. DRAKE. D. P. A. FOR ST. LOUIS. TAKE THE MISSOURI PAC.TTrrn j "KANSAS AND NEBRASKA LIMITED Leaves Wichita at 2:18 p. m.. arriving at St. Louis next morning at 7:20. making direct connections with all lines east. No change of cars. Elegant service. City ticket office. 114 North Main street GUEDA SPRINGS Via the Groat Rock Is.'and Route. Three dollars and sixty cents (J3.e0 Wichita to Gueda Springs and return, in cluding transfer at Caldwell. Take the Rock Island train leaving Wichita at-7 o'clock a. m. Arrive in Gueda Springs at M:il a. m. Returning, leave Gueda Springs at 5:11 p. m. Arrive at Wichita at 9 o'clock p m. Tickets limited thirty days from date of sale. E. DRAKE D P A. E. W. THOMPSON. A. G. P. T. a.. Topeka. Kan. tJally Eagle delivered, 19c per week- (Continued from First Page.) the Democratic party 'has used so much, and which has aviled them so little. "The settled, unbroken policy of this government since its organization has been In favor of growth and development. Growth Is as much the law of national as it is the law of individual being, and in the work of progress along moral, edu cational, commercial and territorial lines, the Republican party pursues the time-honored policy of all parties, when it declares itself In favor rof expansion. We entexed upon the policy of expansion nearly a century ago under Jefferson, and the federal party went to pieces upon the rock of opposition to the policy of Jef ferson. In 1S03 the nation entered upon its policy of acquisition of new territory, and made the Louisiana purchase, which extended from the Mississippi river to the Pacific, and out of it have since been carved nearly one-third of the richest and most powerful states that have been clustered together under the shadow of the folds of our flag. Justifying this pur chase, Mr. Jefferson said: 'I know that the acquisition of Lou isiana has been disapproved by some from a candid apprehension that the en largtment of our territory would endan ger this union, but who can limit the ex tent to which the federative principle maj' operate eectively. These per sons inculcate a sanctimonious reverence for the customs of their ancestors; that whatever they did must "be done through all time; that reason is a false guide, and to advance under its counsel in their physical, moral or political condition is a perilous innovation.' "Sixteen years later, following out tht policy inaugurated by Jeerson, Florida was purchased of Spain. Texas was ac quired in 1S45, and during that year, Pres ident Polk, in his inaugural address, used the following language: 'In the earlier stages of our national existence opinion prevailed with some that our system of confederated states could not operate successfully over an extended territory, and serious objections have at dierent times been made to the enlargement of our boundaries. These objections were earnestly urged when we acquired Louisiana. Experience has shown that they were not well founded. As our population has expanded, the union has beei cemented and strength ened. As our boundaries have been en larged our federative system has ac quired additional strength and security. It may well bo doubted whether it would not be in greater danger of overthrow if our present population were confined to the comparative narrow limits of the original thirteen states, than it Is now that they. are sparsely settled over a more extended territory. It Is confidently be lieved that our system may be safely ex tended to the utmost bounds of our terri torial limits, and that as it shall be ex tended, the bonds of our union, so .far from being weakened, will become stronger.' "President Polk declared the same pol icy in his message to congress, as fol lows: 'The federal constitution was wisely adapted in its provisions to any expan sion of our limits and population. Our union is a confederation of inde pendent states whose policy is peace with each other and all the world. To enlarge its limits, is to extend the dominion of peace over additional territories and in creased millions. The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our government. Foreign powers should not look upon the annexation of Texas to the United States as the con quest of the nation seeking to extend her dominions by arms and violence, but as an acquisition of territory adding another member to our confederation, thereby di minishing the chances ofwar and opening to the people ever new and Increasing markets for their products.' "Democracy was larger then than it is (now, and had a wider and better policy. The policy inaugurated by Jeerson con tinued without interruption as the policy of the Democratic party up to 1859, when Stephen A. Douglas ,the then great leader of the Democratic party, In his discus sion with Lincoln, In answer to a ques tion propounded by Mr. Lincoln, defined his town and the Democratic po&ltion in the following eloquent language: 'He (Lincoln) asks me whether I am in favor of acquiring territory without re Igard to how It may! affect the union on the slavery question. I answer that, whenever it becomes necessary in our growth an dprogress to acquire more ter ritory, I am in favor of it. It is idle to tell me that we have territory enough. Our fathers supposed that we had enough when our territory extended to the Mississippi, but "a few years' growth and expansion satisfied them that wo needed more, and the Louisiana ter ritory from the west bank of the Mis sissippi to the British possessions, was acquired. Then we acquired Oregon, then California and New Mexico. We have enough now, but this is a young and growing nation. It swarms as of ion as a hive of bess, and as new swarms are turned out each year, there must be hives in which they can gather and make their honey. In less than fifteen years, if the same progress that has distin guished the country for the last fifteen years continues, every foot of vacant land ret ween this and the (Pacific ocean, owned by the Unitrd States, will be oc cupied. Will you not continue to morea.-e at the end of fifteen years as well as now I tell you, "increase and multiply and ex pand." is the law of this nation's ex igence. You cannot limit this great re public by mere boundary lines, saying: "Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther." An yone of you old gentlemen might as well say to a son twelve years old that he is big enough, and must not grow any larger, and in order to prevent his growth put a hoop around him to keep him to his present size What would be 5a S 5 2sis q ss?&rs Soft White Hands Luxu riant Ha Ir Produced by s4 The most effective sVn purifying and bea&n f ng soap in the world, m we-J as purest aad sweetest for toTct, bitn, and narserv. The oulyjirereauve of piraples, blackheads, red, rough, and oi'r skia,re3, rough hands vtth rchwp robx ind shapeless nails, drr, thin. -d falling hair, and simple baby bmihes, because the only preventive of the causa, viz, iaSommaticn and clogging of the roazs. soa pt-rhc r.TTxs n a oar p-rv. t. Mail zalli.it Sttiulfa! EkA. w.jj. y.7 f B 3BC R 3 C j-s b h aa Hk &K has &r VlBi1 fcf &8Bg3 H H M W U y'v'' The Absolutely Pure Made from Grape Cream of Tartar. Baking powders made from alum and other harsh, caustic acids are lower in price, but inferior in work and injurious to the stomach, ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. the result? Either the hoop must burst and be rent asunder, or the child must die. So it would be with this great na tion. With our natural Increase, growing with a rapidity unknown In any other part of the globe, with the tide of em igration thath is fleeing from despotism in the old world to seek refuge in our own. there is a constant torrent pouring into this country that reouires more land, more territory upon which to settle, and just as fast as our interests and our des- tiny require additional territory in the 1 "Henry Watterson of Louisville, whose north, in tho south, or on the islands of Democracy will not be questioned, en the ocean, I am for it,' 1 dorses the position of Governor Stone. "Ono year later, the Democratic party, j a"d puts himself In line with the broader rent in twain by the agitation of the j and higher Americanism. Mr. Watter slavery question, met in two separate son declares: conventions one under the leadership of 'Anti-exjansion is anti-Democracy. Douglas, the other under the leadership The Democratic party of Jefferson and of Breckinridge, and the Douglas Democ- j Jackson was ver the apostle of national racy in convention assembled adopted a expansion. "Manifest destiny" was its platform, one of the plankd of which was rallying cry. That idea is none the less as follows: IivlnS and vital today than it was fifty, 'Resolved, That the Democratic party j sixty, eighty years ago. Al Ithese new ter are in favor of the acquisition of the ritorial acquisitions are with us to stay. Island of Cuba, on such terms as shall They came to us unbidden. They were be honorable to ourselves and just tc j scnt to us by that mysterious power to Spain.' which we owe all that we are and all "The Breckinridge wing of Democracy j that we have. Who shall say it nay? He used almost the identical language, as is that does this-and the more surely if 'he Bhnwn hv thP. following extract from their i be a party leader pronounces his own platform: 'That the Democratic party are in favor of the acquisition' of the Island of Cuba, on such terms as shall be honora ble to ourselves and just to Spain, at the earliest practicable moment.' "It is very suggestive that while both of these wings of the Democratic party made -thS condition of acquiring the Island of Cuba one 'honorable to ourselves and just to Spain,' no reference was made to the consent of the inhabitants of the island "ThA .nntit resulting- In the defeat of both Douglas and Breckinridge marked the commencement of an uninterrupted line of Republican adcinlstration for nearly thirty years. The administration of Mr. Lincoln put on foot measures for the acquisition of Alaska, which, after his death, resulted In its purchase from Rus-l sia in 1SG7. President Grant was as pro nounced in his- vleTs regarding the ac- quisition of new territory as had been his lc a Ina our D irom "n illustrious predecessors. While he failed fouth' from to west, under the broil ito carry out his ambition in this respect, sun of the antipodes, stood with dc hls message to congress in 1S70 clearly de- term ned front to the foe there should a i i.i i,i tt i,i. be at home either Democratic or Repub- fined his position. He said: 0 t,i-. ic "can, contractlonlst or epanslonlst any "The acquisition of San Domingo is ,T j.,i... f line other than American citizenship, who an adherence to the Monroe doctrine; it tt. i should not pray for victory for those is a measure of national protection; it is J J it:,, brave sons of ours? No question of poll- asserting our just claim to a controlling it x,i i tics, or trimming of salld, no debating of Influence over the great commercial traf- .n i details, but Godspeed and triumph for the fie soon to flow from west to east by way ii. iv. ti -t i -k,,;! men on the firing line. That is the pol- of the Isthmus o Darien; It is to build o.o, o,T. If 1 fr. .irnlsh uul new marKets ior tne prouumi of our farms, shops and manuf aotories it is to make slavery Insupportable In Cuba and Porto Rico at once, and ultimately so in Brazil; it is to settle the unhappy con dition of Cuba and end an exterminat ing conflict; it is to provide honest means of paying our honest debts without over- .v. .1 i i- .,?Dv. lt taxing ine peoie, il u, xuw.. wv- izens with the necessaries of every-day mm w,c v.v j life at cheaper rates than ever before: A ,j j .i and it is, in fine a rapid stride toward the greatness which the Intelligence, in- ausiry ana enterprise m me u"";iio ut i the United States entitle this country to assume among nations.' "Along the line of territorial acquisi tion ne was no ess p"' favor than the dfetlnguished Democrats who had filled the office of president from j the very foundation of the government. "It is equally significant that In 1. the Democratic party In national conven- tlon boasted of their foreign policy re- j fiulting in the large acquisitions to which I have referred, and criticized the Repub- lican party for the results that nad at- the blue marched slde by sldertn fore,5n tended their administration of public af- j so the same flap to Mng dc fairs. The national Democratic conven-, Hverancc to opnressetl. and when tion adopted the following resolution in j RooseveU from the northland and 1SS: Wheeler from the southland, marchetl 'This country has never had" a -well rfde by sJde ,n tne sazn& cai flgfcUng defined and executed foreign policy save Jhe sanie batte to upho,d the honor o under Democratic administration. That the samQ flag t mada u? a, arger anJ as a result of this policy, we recall the beUer Americans, and burled forever In acquisition of Louisiana. California, and i thft b,ack Ma of oblMon the last veg of the adjacent Mexican territory by pur-, t1ge of gona. feeUnK ln tnig country chase, alone, and contrast these grand helweea the north and thfi MUth. awJ acquisitions of Democratic etatesmanship i nov. that the gtroa smm of MtafiOUri and with the purchase of Alaska, the sole GeorgU and Kentucky r adding their fruit of a Republican administration of j voiceg in uini,,,, .he administration !n nearly a quarter of a century.' ,tg i ln lh Orient. It gives a new "The same character of acts which were 1 ud larger 9ignincaace to American cIU then characterized as 'Democratic slates- unship, and ought to bring the Mush of manshlp.' are now designated by the J gbame to thoro Whose efforts would put Democratic critics as 'Republican viola- I oostacieg n tn way of the advancement tlons of the constitution.' I speak of the j of taJg gorerameat. or Impede Ha onward opposition to Republican progress and de- mgreh jn tne e cause of r gOTern velopmeat as Democratic opposition, be-; meai." cause it is the policy of that party as oca? xr vIt- i4$re and declared in their platforms. Many of the great i Democratic leaders of the country hold to the long line of Demooraslc precedents. and repudiate the efforts of the Little Americans marching under the name of tion's unbroken policy, ExGovrnor xa atone. k AUMouri, si, w a recoKaieu xickus ui jwuwMni iui;, i recently declared 'I want the war, now that we are n fortunately involved in it, concluded onlr when It can lve done to our credit. We are at war and wsen niy country Is at war I jam. for ny country, rteht or wrone. It would be moat unfortunate for us, and xreaXly lessen our inSuerce with the Asiatic nations, to end the war in euch a way s to leave the impression that we were worsted, or that whatever conoesski&c we made were extorted by force of arms. Thoroaa Jeffer son ooce said in a tetter to Monroe, that he looked forward with pleasure to a day when our federation of states would be rounded out with the addition of Cuba. I know of net higher authority on Ameri can statecraft and public poUcy than Thomas Jefferson. If he thought Cuba would be fitted for American statehood. I am satisfied. On a questler. of taJ kind. I do not care to look beyond the Sac or MrctlceUo. Z iellrre thsae Islands I should belong to the United States. The world moves, and no force on earth can stay its progress. We must live in the present, and be in touch with tne progress of the age. We must be a.n active, progressive and suggestive force. We must get in front of things, and di rect the course of events. It will do no good simply to stand and cry "halt," for the world will barely pause at our com mand. It will march on in snite of all I obstructions.' political damnation. The activities of the Atlantic are being gradually but certain- ly transferred to the Pacific. We are there already. Shall we seize upon the means of confirming our power which God has given us, or shall we let them go, and later on, at infinite cost, be oblig ed to fight to recover them? No party I ever threw itself across the pathway of its country's greatness and glory and j Iived to tell the tale, and no party ever j can or will, or ought.' "From the south, the Influence of the Atlanta Constitution is used to sustain the national policy and uphold the glory and honor of the flag, and illustrates that broad patriotism is not confined to the Republican party alone. I read: 'Who would be so craven as to give the poltroon advice that our men should retire under fire, bushwhacked in the rear by enemies either abroad or at home? is Possible that in the realization of I l"u 6'"- i.u.niuna.i, calls for. Thc constitu tion is an American paper, and has no bullets to fire into the backs of the men who are awaiting Aguinaldo's attack. This illustration completely defines our position in regard to the present phase of the Philippines question.' "The last three quotations I have made v.iiieii3 uiiu le.auuie journals tnrGe of th gtates whose du

zens generation ago were in armed re- t. slstance to the authority of this govern- m j Qf th; anfl one aU cans hall with infinite pleasure, that from this section of the country come these words of lofty patriotism. "It seems but yesterday when there came from one of thc Islands of thc sea the of an oppressed pcople strus&llne fQr ibertj NoJ JobIer act wag ever one nat,on than fhat formed the Un.ted State3 wh,n Us aolMm marched away 1q aWke Qff he manaces of Span. Sh oppre3S,on and bring beraUon to the Cubans And whQ the men who Jn othcr days wore the gray, and the men who 4 A 1 "If jf S I H b I fl 1 por Infants and Children, T, I OS Milt! I Oil HaVS AlW3YS BOUglll Bears tho 2 of CpVZjf REMSK3EB THI5- THAT THE sa:ta FE ROUTE RCX5 A TRAIN 5ROM WICHITA TO- Kansas Otr in 7 hour 3S minute Chicago in Sheen mtotitti St. Loula M hour 25 rsiasts CxneinnaU ia 2i houa p miautet Louisriae in ......14 hecw it ndnatei Arriving at CtaciaaaU and LocUria tu tor a nooon. Time to ail point east and xcatbt cor respondingly odds. Moat popur Kn; to !1 potaf PhJae L. R. BJILAXEr. Ast- FRISCO LI.V2 "TO SURSKA SPRTNCS. ARKAfSAS. Krearston ticket on ilc at alt time. Take a ssucb needed rst sad pead a ftr days zi this noted rtiton. JliJS far ttt raund uip. Good retumlcf siatty days fnea dote of asJe, B. F- DCNX. District Paaseaier Axest. UlUllLi But Now Plain Private ,Was son, Years in Disgrace- AT 54 HE HAS HOPtS To Cancel His Past in Service in the Philippines. "Washington. Oct. 26. "Wheni the Second Sergeant ln charge of r ecruits at Fort Myer, Va., called the reville on "Wednes day morning he dwelt momentarily on the last name in the list AVasson. From the rear rank on the etreme left, from the lips of an elderly man, but ono still straight and soldierly, came the clear an swer "Here." James Robert "Wasson, We3t Point grad uate, ex-United States engineer otllcer. and ex-United States paymaster. v,as answering his first roll call as a raw re cruit. It was hard to define just what -?as passing in "Wasson's mind while the Ser geant in the gray light of the Virginia morning was running through his loll call, t was "Wasson's first attendance at military duty in eighteen years. It was the first time that he had stood In ranks to answer his name In almost thirty j ears The last time that he had said 'Hero" was in the area of the old barrack at "West Point, when as a gray-chid cadet, standing side by side with his chum and classmate. Fredrick D. Grant he hd listened to the pattering call of names b the cadet First Sergeant. Ha had atteiid ed reville as an officer of en?inj-s in the United States army and later, atter res ignation from the sorvice o' t'lis country as an officer high in the se v!c of Japan, where he won meda s an 1 lion ir for bravery. Watson's next glimpse of tho service was as paymaster In the army of the United States, a position to which Tress-Ido-it Grant had appointed him ftfter 1 return from the far East. Then came I tomntation.thpn tht frill. nnrf W'ansnn wns cashiered from the service of his conn try Eighteen years of repentance and upright life followed and now at the age of 34, by special permission of the "War department and by special request of old time classmates and friends. Jameg Rob. ert "Wasson, one time Colonel, has enlist ed in the service as a private with the firmly expressed determination to w"o out by good service the one act which disgraced his past. It will take all of Private "Wagon's fortitude to stand without fllneVnc tt.e changes In his life which the change In hi. rank will entail. When Vai'"m w&s a paymaster his was the easy golm: life of a staff officer. Stationed more than nine-tenths f thc time hr h gre.tt clt'e h j reported for duty at 10 o'clock in the morning after a luxurious breakfast at one of his clubs. His cfllce hours wore over at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and, though short, were broken by an hour for with the other tnff officers. During "Wasson's career as a paymaster the troops were paid every sixty dnya.and the sum of his actual duties comprised possibly four or five short railroad trips, or at worst a few stage trlnv taking tip about Ave days of evory two months. He was "Jim," or "Wasson" to all his equals and supsrlors in rank, and "Major" to all his juniors He was an honored guest at army social affairs and he Jed the car man with tho General's daughter. Private Wasson. Third C&vairy. Fort Myer. Va., mets the Major of his rqoad ron. The Major and he walked nost to gether at West Point. They mar have been the most intimato friends. In the army it is possible that they may bare mesed together. Now. Private Wasoo looks at his Major, his right hand Ke to his cap In the salute which every In ferior must nay to his superior in rank. The salute is returned formally and Pri vate Weson and the MaJro have named each other as if they never met before or heard of each other. Private Wasson, ln attending stable call will groom his horse under the eye of a Second Lieutenant who was unborn when Wasson wore the shoulder straps of an engineer officer. It may be that tho stripling soldier meanly inclined. some day will speak harshly to the vet eran. By going bark Into the ranks for the express purpose of doing what he can to redeem his past. Wasson has shown that he Is one of the kind who will suf fer and make no sign. It Is possible that the man grooming his sted on Wasson's immediate right or left may be ronw veteran aoldier who at one time served under his coutnMnd There Private Wasson will not look in vain for sympathy and help. The otBcer-i will give him sympathy, too. but the !n exhortable law of the regular service has fixed a gulf between private and oOlcer over which there 4s no bridge. Private Wasson's club ltfe of former years, hia snort hours and his luxurio ltviag fw a staff offtocr must give place to a routine which Includes rising at f o'clock, breakfast of hash, cotfee and hard bread at 63. and drill and fatUrue work for the rest of the day. There will be wood sawing, rubbish raking-, and ditch digging tor Prirate Wasson, and It may be that wme of this work will be don by rritfc'r Waron in full ratue tt the w'n!ws hia Major's tnta-ic-, h-ze hi menial toll will be se v wnatn wl i -vKn in th dead yea's b canced or dined Tor olghteeo yearn Wasson's career to civil life has been store reproach. Ha has Mood much when, in certain place, the htart-T of hte wrong-dotes leaked m but the hardest struggle of his U is to ctne. H eq-sadron win ooi( go to the Pbtttp- ni I!, n&m and there, under the eyes of sres of his old arsay cfcusa. Private t jLfsoa hop to on th deld of bat' tW credit which Ttll restore bias to that place la man's nusk frees s court martial of W fellows owe deposed him. Just two month before the battle la which Custer and his asm were sUdn. a young; aian rede up to the te of I Jru tnat Ben J2 mis T. Hodgsoa of the Ser eiih CaKr. raised the Sao. n4 enter! Immediately after euicrtag say one Bst eciag ausbt hav bawd tMs; "Mfflrr. you her "Tea. HodgKMi. it's MJfter. but Fss Car ter now. and I wan; to euHmt." Two hours later recruH Cmrttr u ad ded to one. o( the troops t the Sreeisth Cavalry, fat the fletd areata hostile red. ridn. Carter, or rather Mtir. had aeea n rsmr nOeer. hot h had beau mHPTti to ilia rate Mi by a court antrriaL Hodgson h Vas Urn at Wet PofcsC and after wards Is the Mfrw, and through his Hmmcm the ex-lrr xa aSowed to -Kst- The saea in -b iimsod did tmt know Jstea. tor he eerved ta her rgUR4fK. The eahwr Joaew htm. mott vS them, aad aasae of thm apofee to hhm. 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If you also wih to send postage, en close 16c. Mention this Journal, as Adv. la inserted as our Contribution. chinco to prove that he wasn't altogether bad. and that his country might ytt Had some good in him. He proved a model trooper first, becaume he was trained soldier; and. second, because be had cut loose absolutely from the rum that had caused his troubles. When the command started for tha Rosebud country and beyond. Carter was assigned to Reno's detachment, as was Lieutenant Hodgson. Than there, canto that awful charge across a bit of epm sovsgos. Men fell at every hand. Hedg pojajpqs o fuotj joj )H.at&i)3 Xjimmo son was killed. The line broke temporar ily. One trooper reigned rn his bere and went back alon ta the face of the p it tar ing leaden rain. He Jumped from hs saddle and placed htet-arm under H pig eon's neck and made an attempt to rtieo him. A volley came from the brush and Carter staggared and fell. Twa West Pointers, officer and private, lay t lero dead together. 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