Medicine Lodge Cresset from Medicine Lodge, Kansas • Page 2

OPENED AT LAST. MISSTATEMENTS CORRECTED. THE CRESSET, First published September 1S93. PUBLICATION NOTICE. ruggists when the registration booths opened for business it soon became apparent that with the facilities provided ail could not be furnished with certificates, and then the boomers began to fear that the efforts to checkmate the "sooners" might deprive the prospec south'of Kiowa, was the objective point for about The Santa Fe ran two secions of ten coaches and flat cars I each loaded to the bumpers, and 300 others made the race on and behind fast horses.

The prize for the test of speed between horses and steam was i the choice business lots in Alva, and he horses won by 20 minutes. arry the finest stock of Ex-Senatou John li. Henderson, of Missouri, is back from Europe. He is deeply impressed with what he saw over there of crop failure and monetary conditious. The extent to which the foreign markets must draw upon the United States he thinks has not been estimated.

"If confidence comes back to our people," he said to the Washington correspondent Globe-Democrat, "and we get down to legitimate business once more, wheat will be selling at $1.25 a bushel before spring. Let the Senate repeal the silver purchasing clause, and in three months we will have the countries of Europe coming and begging us to go into an international agreement for free coinage. We have a great opportunity before us. But the first thing to do is to stop purchasing silver bullion and to get the money of the country out of people's stockings. If we move right there is such a period of prosperity just ahead as (the countryman hasn't known for twenty years." CIGARS and TOBACCO In the city.

Also an elegant line of PES The largest and freshest stock of Paints and Oils, Druggists -jh Sundries. MEDICINE the best- is This True heat drills, J)lbC HARROWS, and Plows Sold by NOBLE CASE. In the Wichita Daily Eagle of August 22nd, appeared the following short communication: Wichita, Aug. 21, Karj. To the Editor of the Eagle.

If the single gold standard Is the proper thine for this country to adopt it certainly would apply to any other nation as well; and If this be true Canada, under this plan. If adopted to-morrow, would be without a dollar. The Dominion has but two kinds of raouey, silver and paper, never having produced an ounce of gold and perhaps never will. There are thousands of people Hying in Canada to-day that have never seen a piece of cold money during their lives. W.

F. Gkem. The statement being so unreasonable and outrageously false our first impression was that there was some "catch" about it, and that may be the case and we have been unable to discover it; but the fact still remains that the aveaage reader will treat the com-muuicatiou as being offered in good faith, and whether a serious matter or ajoke.it should be treated candidly until its status is proven. We kBOW Mr. Green's statement to be absolutely false and without foundation but to make doubly certain, submitted the question to the editor of the Toronto (Canada) Mail.

Hon. C. W. Bunting, the answers as follows: The statement made in the encloeed clipping bears evidence of woeful ignorance on the part of the writer, in reply I can only briefly say, that: lit. The monetary sys'em of Canada is upon the gold basis.

2nd. That the ratio between the gold and limited tender BUver is 1 to 14.95. 3rd. That our stock of gold amounia to as against f2.J0,UuO iu silver and about in paper. The fact that the gold is not brought ox-teuslvcty into circulation is evidence of the strength of the moneta system obtaining.

Another point regarding Mr. Green's communfcation, not treated in Mr. JBuntig's Ittter, is his statement that the Dominion never "produced an fince of gold and perhaps never will." The fact is the Dominion of Canada produces over $1,000,000 per annum of gold, and has done so for years and years; and one of the best paying gold mines in the world is located in the province of tuebeck. The Wichita Eagle is largely to blame in this matter by giving publication without an accompanying statement. The signature of W.

F. Green gives the article no weight; but its appearance without comment in the Eagle does. The Eagle owes it to itself as a newspaper, not anything about its many readers, to make every endeavor to allow only true statements In its columns. This far the question is neither political or financial, but purely business. The Eagle may be for free-coinage of silver or for any financial legislation it sees fit, but should treat the subject as becomes the great daily of the south-west.

THE INDEX ON FINANCE. We clip a few financial thoughts from this week's Index just to show how unfounded, in either theory or fact, they are. The (iilli-julty in dealing with the Index and other free-coinage papers and individuals, is to get down to a serious consideration of their vaporings that are launched as ideas. The first thought from the Index we desire to call attention to is as follows: A clearing house certificate is nothing but Oat, and it is not government flat either, yet those who use It are the loudest howlers against Oat money. If a clearing house certificate is "fiat," then any promise to pay or do anything is "fiat." The difference between fiat and credit have been defined so often in these columns that even the Index should understand the difference between these words.

A clearing house certificate contains credit only. Suppose a subscriber owed the Index a dollar; the Index asked for it; subscriber said that he did not have the cash but would give an order for the amount on his neighbor; neighbor is seen and accepts the order but asks a few days time; Index man trades order to his boarding house keeper, and he to a bank or some other party, and finally order is paid by farmer upon whom it was drawn. At no time did it contain liat, but depended at ail times upon the credit of the man who Cist accepted it. The' next thought is: Nothinjr is money unless the stamps It as such, and anything is money when It does that, the gold maniacs to the the contrary iiotwlthstauding. This is a mistake.

Anything is money that custom and usage recognize as such. In the brjad sense of the word anything that is bartered or exchanged is money. Coon skins, shells, beads, slaves, have been money in the past, and history does not record that they were stamped. The earliest gold and silver money were mere chuncks of metal of certain si'es and weight; but it was found that dishonest people took advantage of the general public by shaving off some of the metal or by boring holes in it and filling some with cheaper metals; or by melting, introducing alloy and re-cast ing; so that finally nations were compelled to coin the pieces in order to in sure eight and liueness and the govern ment stamp was placed thereon as a guarantee of such weight and fineness. The next thought is: We should like to see some United States money without the stamp of the government on It, or some dollars, regardless of the ma terial of which they are made, that do not buy a dollar's worth ot sugar at its market value.

Here the Index boasts of a fact that is the pride of all advocates of honest money. Of course every dollar of United States money will "buy a dol lar's worth of sugar at its market value." True the language of the above item is somewhat ambiguous. but we take it for granted the editor means a dollar's worth of sugar at the market price. Hut why does eve-y dol lar of the United States have this pur chasing power? Simply because the government stands back of those dollars with an agreement direct or implied to redeem each one in gold. So far the government has beeu able to meet every demand and the faith of the people in its ability to so meet every future demand does the rest.

Above statement has been iterated and reiterated in every free-coinage paper, and has been answered and re-answered until its appearance is almost an eye-sore. The populist papers are just now howling about Chester I. Long, who came near getting Jerry Simpson's scalp down in the Seventh district last fall, having failed to meet S. M. Scott, the leud mouthed reformer in joint de bate.

Had Senator Dong refused as they accused him ot doing, he would have acted right and with commendable judgment, but he had no opportu nity of refu3iug or accepting. Mr. Long was Chicago and did not re ceive the invitation to be present until the day before the debate was to have occurred, and bad it been possible for him to have left Chicago by the first train he could not have reached Kansas in time for the meeting. Hie man who tried to draw Jerry Simpson into debate last f.tfl as Chester I. Long did, would hardly object to meeting such a wind-bag as Scott.

K. C. Gazette. To Margaret H. Simons, Alfred D.

Simons. Charles P. Daub, Peter D. Erne. You and each of you are hereby not i fled that you have been sued in the district court I or warcer county, ivansas.

in a suit wtierein Sarah A. Owens is plaintiff and you are sole defendants And that you must answer or otherwise plead to the petition of plain tiff, which is now on file in the othoe of the clerk of said court, on or before the 3rd day of November, IrtM, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment rendered against each of you as follow s. Against Simons and Alfred D. Simons for fHuu.OO with Interest of per cent, from and after August 1st? aud Hti.OU with interest at 10 per cent, from and after same dale due on a principal note of i HKIO.OO and on an Interest coupon, for S4O.U0 both given to plaintiff aud against all of you for the orelosuro of a mortgage executed by said Margaret B. Simons and Alfred D.

Simons to the same, to secure the psy incut of said note and said coupon to plaintiff, said mortgage being against land in Barber aud Ottawa counties, Kansas, described us follows, to-wit The north half of southeast quarter and southwest quarter of northeast quarter and southeast quarter of northwest quarter section fourteen (14) township eleveu (11) range five 5 west, in Ottawa Kant. Also the following described lands in Barber county, Kansas, to-wlt: Southeast quarter section five (5) township thirty-four (34 ran ire fourteen 14 northwest quarter section hirty-flve township thirty-two range fourteen 14, southwest quarter northwest quarter and west half of southwest quarter section one (1) and northwest quarter of northwest quarter section twelve (lil both in township thirty-three Gi3i range thirteen north half of southwest quarter and southwest quarter of southwest quarter section twenty-four S4) township thirty (Mi) range thirteen west of Htb principal meridian. And that said land will be sold without appraisement and the proceeds arising from said sale applied upon the amount found due on said note and coupon and that such mortgage will be adjudged to be the first and best lien on snid bind and that such sale will bar and exclude you aud each of you from all right, title, lien or interest of any kind to suid laud or sny part thereof. H. Hilus, Attest: IL.

8.1 Attorney for Plaintiff. ACQ. ScnmoT, Clerk of District Court. No. 2797.

First Published September 1, 1893. SH SKIFF'S SALE. Statk or Kansas. County of Barber, ss: William L. Uichards.

plaintiff, vs. J. C. Prather, Sophia L. Prather.

H. W. Lewis. F. C.

Huhbell F. C. ibbell and Mary W. Hubliell his wifo. and The International Loan and Trust Company, a corporation.

Uy virtue of an order of sale. Issued iut of the District Court, setting in and for snid Earlier county, Kansas, in the above entitled action, ami to me directed, I will on Monday-, the 2nd iuv or Octobku A. D. 1M, at ID o'cloc in the forenoon of Said ilay, at the front door of the court house -n said county, otter for sale at public aut-tli n. and Bell without appraisement, to he hivrl.

st and best bidder, for cash in band, tc said order of sale, all the right, title aud interest whatsoever of the above nanus! defi -hints, and each of them, and of ail persons t-i under them in and to the following tract, pieeo, and parcel, of land and ituatu in said county of Barber, state of Kansas, to-wit: The south half of the southeast 'ini ricr of Set-tion eleven (11) in township thin v-ihroe south range fourteen (Hi west of t.io titli principal meridian. Together with all and singular th- tenements, hereditaments and appurb tianoes hereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining. Given under my hand at my office ia the city of Medicine Lodge, in said county, this aotb day of August, 1H1. J. W.

DoIison. Sheriff. A. L. Noble, Attorney for Hamuli.

2703. First published September SHERIFF'S SALK. State of Kansas, County of Barber, ss: Frederick 3. Kaston. vs.

Missouri Valley Land Company, H. Howard Hopkins, Edwanl Kussell as receiver of the Missouri Valley Land Company, t'harles Elliott and Elliott, his wife. By virtue of an order of sale, issued out of the district court, sitting in and for said Barber county, in the state of in the above entitled action, and to me directed, I will on Monday, the 1th dat op OcTonrK. A. D.

lsttj, at 3 o'clock In the afternoon of said day, at the front door of the oourt bouse im said county, offer for sale at public auction and sell without appraisement to the highest and best bidder for cash In hand, to satisfy said order of sale, all the right, title and interest whatsoever of the above named defendants and each of them, and of all persons eiaiming under them, in and to the following described racts. pieces aud parcels of laud lying and situate in said county of Barber, state of KHtisas, to-wit: The northeast quarter of section nine township thirty-threo (33) south of range eleven (11) west of the fitb p. m. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining. Given under my hand at my office ia the city of Medicine Lodge, in said county, this 11th day of September.

1h3. J. W. Dobson, Hierlff. T.

A.Hcbd and K. A. Camkkon, Attorneys for Plaintiff. 231. First published Kopternber l-3.

sheriff's SALK. State or Kansas, Barber County, ss: A. L. Williston. vs.

MathiasS. Smith. Clara J.Smith, The Davidson investment Company and August Fast. By virtue of an order of sale, issued out of the district court, sitting in and for said Barber county, Kansas, in the above entitled action, and to me directed, I will on Monday, the IBth day or Octobeu. A.D.

181)3, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the front door of the court house in said county, offer for sale at public auction, and sell without appraisement, to the highest and best bidder, for ca.sh in hand, to satisfy said order of sale, all the right, itle and interest wnatsoever or the anove named aerendants and each of them, and of all persons claiming tinner tuera in and to me rouowing described tracts, pieces and parcels of land lying and situate in said county of Barber, stato of Kansas, to-wit: The east half of the southwest quarter and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section seventeen (17) and northwest quarter of northeast quarter of section twenty cin) all in township thirty-four CI4) sotunor range inirreea i west or ntn o. ni Together with all and singular the tenements. Iierid (laments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertain ing. Given under my band, at my office In the city of Medicine Lodire, iu said county, this l-th day or hoptember. iw.tf.

J. W. Donso-v. Sheriff. Chester I.

Lonii, Attorney for Plaintiff. 2411. First published September lsti'l. 8HKKIFF SSALK. Htatk or Kansas.

Barber County, ss: W. H. Lazelie. vs. John C.

Davis. Annie N. Davis. Lyman KeGeer and Mary DeOeer, his wife. Ily virtue of an order of sale, issued out of tne district court, sittinir in and tor said liar.

ber county, Kansas, it the above entitled ac tion, and to tne directed. 1 will on Monday, the pith day or October. A. 13, at 2 o'clock iu the afternoon of said day. at the front door of the court, house in said county, offer for sale a public auction and sen it uout appraisement, to tne niarnest aad best bidder, for cash in band, to satisfy said order of sale, all the right, title and interest whatsoever or he above nantfd defendants and each ot them, and of all persons claiming under them in and to the following deseribed tract, pieoe and parcel of laud lying and situ ate In said county of Barber, state of Kansas, to-wit: Lot forty-three (13) on Second Avenue, west, in Stolp's Additiou to the city of Medicine Lodge.

Kansas, except fifty (Mi) feet off the west, Bine ot sucn lot. Together with ail and singular the tene monts, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertain ing. Given under my band, at my office Iu the city or Medicine lOdire. in said county, this jun nay oi oepiemDer, J. W.

Dobson. Sheriff. A. L. Noble.

Attorney for Plaintiff. First published August 25, 1803. SHERIFF'S SALE. State or Kansas, County of Barber, ss: James Kinnear vs. Margaret L.

Carter, Edward Russell, receiver of the Missouri Valley Land company ta corporation) and W.J.Neiil. By virtue of an order of sale, issued out of tne district oourt, sitting in and for said Barber county, state of Kansas In the above entitled action, and to me directed. I will on Monday, the 25tii, day or Beitembek, A. D. 1SM3.

at 2 o'clock In the afternoon of said day, at tne I ron door or the oourt house in said county, offer for sale at public auction, and sell without appraisement, to the highest and best bidder, for cash in hand, to satisfy said order of sale, all the right, title end Interest whatsoever or the above named defendants, and each of them, and of all persons claiming under them in and to the following described tract, pieoe and parcel of land lying and situate in said oounty of Barber, to-wit: The southeast quarter of section twenty-seven (27) township thirty-three (XJi south of range fifteen 15 west of the 6ta p. Together with all and singular tho tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Given under my hand at my office ia the city of Medicine Lodge, in said county, this 21st day of August, IsW3. J. W.

Doh-on. tnenn. W. H. McCagce Attorney for Plaintiff.

DR. R. B. CURRIE, the Veterinary urgeon, MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS. Hospital Fekd ad Sale Hakn on SrwuQ Two Klocks east or Love LivEttr Bakn.

A 11 V(il. r.9 wW ..1 t.rnm cialty. lilg-jay and big head in cauie positively cured if animals are brought time. Land For Rent. 800 acres In tracts to suit for fall wheat.

Houses on the farm for eood tenants. Will furnish seed wheat if wanted. KiLWi l-ake. ike City, ias. The Long Coveted Lands Comprising the Cherokee Strip is Now a Thickly Populated Territory.

At 12 o'clock last Saturday Kansas and Oklahoma tipped up simultaneously and spilled a large per cent, of their population on to the Cherokee Strip. The event that thousands awaited with impatience occurred and the Cherokee Strip was a settled teiri-tory, and before the cloud of dust raised by the boomers bad settled the settlers had begun to thinkof statehood. The heaviest rush was from Arkansas City, Orlando and Hennessey. Everyone who went in after a piece of laud got It, but 75 per cent, of those who went after town lots were left. The plebian touched elbows with the plutocrat in the maddest rush ever witnessed.

There were many serious accidents, but the great wonder is that the fatalities were not greater. Men and women took risks which under other circumstances they could not be tempted to try for ten times the faucied gain. The Cherokee Strip, comprising acres, lies to the northwest corner of the Indian Territory. Its northern boundary is the southern line of Kansas, and its southern boundary parallels its northern line, giving it a width of fifty-seven miles and a length varying from 107 to 210 miles. The extent of the tract is not easily comprehended without comparison.

It is equal to the combined area of two Rhode Islands, Dele ware and Connecticut, with 167 square miles to spare. It became a part of Oklahoma Territory when the 1'resident issued his proclamation three weeks ago, and is now under its laws. It makes Oklahoma's square mile3, and raises that territory to the dignity of being larger than twelve different states of the Union. With the home-seekers who added themselves to Oklahoma's population last Saturday, that territory has good reason to demand admission to the sisterhood of states, which demand is now being pressed upon congress by Delegate Flynn. For nearly two centuries the Cherokee Indians have resisted the inarch of civilization westward.

As early as 1712 their land on the eastern coast was encroached upon by the whites and they began selling off their territory, retiring westward step by step uutil they became cornered in a comparatively small area finally allotted to them in the Indian Territory. Iu 1721 the Cher-okees dominated vast tracts of land in the east and southeast. In that year they ceded to South Carolina 1,679,000 acres. Since then they have disposed of by treaty at intervals of from five to twenty-live years no less than 87,1500,000 acres to North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Kansas and the United States. The Cherokee Indian is not much ot a business manager.

Out of all the transactions, exclusive of the Cherokee Strip, he received but For the Strip be received $3, but only after a hard light with the United States government. After Oklahoma was opened to settlement boomers began at once an agitation of the opening of the Cherokee Strip. The Cherokees and the cattle barons, who had rented the Strip for grazinz purposes, resisted the agitation, but the boomer carried his point and Uncle Sam bought the land and has now distributed it among his family. The prices set upon the various portions of the land make a very good index of its worth. The extreme eastern portion of the Strip will cost the settler $2.50 uer acre, the middle portion $1.50, and all west of that $1.

The extreme eastern part contains the most valuable laud. It is good, rich farming land. It is well watered and fairly well timbered. The middle division is fair land, but south of Lie Arkansas river there is a scarcity of water. The western division, in the main, is good for little but cattle-grazing.

It partakes of the character of the Texas Panhandle and southwestern Kansas, though some of it is very line and will prove productive. The Strip Is watered by the Arkansas and Cimarron rivers, several smaller htreaui3 and many creeks. The settlers will not lack transportation facilities. The Santa Fe has two lines through the country, one passing through directly south from Arkansas City and the other diagonally from Kiowa to the southwest corner. Between the Santa 1'Vs lines the Rock Island passes through from Caldwell, Kansas, in a north and south liue.

The country has hem divided into seven counties, Pand t. Each county has been provided by the government with county seat and by speculative town-siters with various prospective towns. The governor of Oklahoma has appointed the county officers, and the settlers will soon be provided with the politics: 1 and legal machinery necessary for government. From a barren waste, the resort of the fugitives from justice and rendezvous of desperadoes, where train robberies have been planned and executed, whence marauding parties have gone forth to raid banks, and the herds of cattle, the home of the Dal-tons, Starrs and numerous other gangs, the Strip will shortly be transformed iuto a populous, peaceful, ambitious, thrifty community. For a year the boomers have been gathering on the the borders of the Cherokee Strip waiting for the opening of the land to settlement.

Many were persons who failed to secure lands in Oklahoma. Others have been attracted by alluring circulars from professional boomer societies, who hoped thus to arouse the government to a sense of the necessity of opening the lands to settlement; while others, having lost their homes in the states through misfortune or calamity, moved to the Strip, knowing that it must soon be opened to settlement. The great crowds, however, did not begin to assemble until after the issuance of the President's message actually setting the opening hour. Rut when they did -come they came in greater numbers than was ever seen in any new land about to be given to the people. The crowds increased beyond the expectation of all concerned.

They thronged all the hotels and temporary lodging places and overflowed into the boomers' camps which had been established along the rivers and creeks near the borders. On September 11th the registration booths opened for business, and from then on the boomers found plenty to keep them busy in seeking the oppor-tunity to secure the certificates issued from them. These certificates were the tickets of admission into the Strip, and without a certificate no one could cross the border. If a person without a ticket escaped the vigilance of the guard lie would not be premitted to file preliminary papers on any claim. This plan was adopted by the general laud office as a means of checkmating the "sooner," the most troublesome of all I classes of boomers, the individual ho takes advantage of his fellows by entering the land before the appointed time.

The plan was at first hailed with delight by the honest boomera, but L. M. AXLINE, Editor. FRIDAY, SE1TEMBEU 22, 1893. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

For 8berlff, OLIVER C. IJOYD, of Kiowa. For Roister of Deeds. GEORGE C. SMITH, of Moore.

For Treasurer. DR. D. E. TED ROW, of Mingoaa.

For Clerk, A.M.IIOUCIIIX, of Medicine Lodge. For Coroner, DR. II. G. GOULD, of Medicine Lodge.

For Commissioner 1st District, JAMES A. MURRAY, of Valley. TOWNSHIP-TICKETS. Trustee Keese Clark. Clerk Lindley.

Treasurer C. D. Fair. EAOLC Truate Win. H.

Ball. 1erk John William. Treasurer. Andrew Olt. Justices, F.

M. Cackler. Free Kextoii. MEUK ISE Trustee Pa' Morris. Clerk Treasurer.

I. B.Chiipln. Justices It. W. Cameron.

O. C. Howe. Constables, Link Bailt y. J- B.

Gano COMMITTE MEETING- The members of thu republican central committee are requested to meet at the Chks-AET office In the city of Medicine Lodge on Saturday, September autb, for the purpose of organization and other important business. H. G. Gori.u, Chairman County Convention. The great skin game on the south of us ia now over.

Tub Eagle says if the rain maker had remained in the city 24 hours longer he might have left a hero. The Strip la now settled, so nr let everyone put forth his best Jort to elect the republican ticket. Ex-Govsrxoh G. W. Glick has been appointed pension agent for Kansas the same position be held under Cleveland's former administration.

The manner in which Ol. Boyd handled the big crowd in Kiowa last week demonstrates that be is tle man to elect to the office of sheriff this tall. Sol Mii.leh has beeu to the fair, and says in the chief "When you go to the fair avoid the "cafes' as you would the small pox or the ieople's Tarty." The approaching populist convention is not creating much interest. Most every one left in the county has settled down with the intention of yoling the republican ticket. The pension dropping policy appears to have been suspended, for the reasou, it is easy to understand, that elections are pending in certain states where the soldier vote is very large.

Oun Eagle township correspondent is an old schoolmate of Dr. Tedrow, the republican candidate for treasurer, Our correspondent knows him to be competent to till the office. Xeaicly one-half of the suspended banks have resumed, and most of the others are preparing to do so, which goes to show that their depositors had no reason for shutting them up. The republican senators would glad ly bring the silver matter to a vote at once, but they are hojielessly restrained by a democratic majority that is nothing if not procrastinating. Undoubtedly the national banks which have resumed are stronger than they were at any time in the past few vears.

and most of them are likely to regain all their old-time patronage. 1ST because Al. Ilouchin went to Alva to assist the settlers in making their filings is not sufficient cause to think he has thrown up the race for county clerk. He will return and make an active canvass. Theue will be no counties or towns in the Strip which will be named in honor of Hoke Smith.

The part ot the town usually designated as "Hell's half acre" may bear his name in mem ory of his registering booths. Alkeady there are inquiries being made for lands in IJarber county. Of ceurse there are nothing like as many at will made before spring. Barber county is all right, and will forge ahead from now on. Mark the prediction.

We hear many favorable comments on James A. Murray, the republican candidate for commissioner. It is pretty well settled that the tax-payers of the Drst district do not propose to repeat the mistake they made three years ago. The number of business failures is decreasing at a rate which proves that the conditions of trade are steadily improving and that proper action at Washington is the only thing needed to make the situation as good as it was before the trouble began. A lady run for a claim south of Caldwell Saturday.

In climbing over a barb wire fence her dress caught, and in the hurry and excitementTrer clothing was pulled off. A modest newspaper correspondent says it was easy enough to see that she was no gentleman. Wk hardly think there is any cause for the United States senators to be alarmed over a dynamite plot. Whenever they think there is a bomb-thrower near just turn I'effer loose with one of his speeches. There are some things, you know, which even a bomb-thrower will not lace.

The second section of the Uig Tour express No. 4, south-bound, crashed into the rear of the first section at 9:20 o'clock Monday night near Monteno, Illinois. Eight persons were killed outright, three were fatally injured and nearly a score were more or less severely injared. Citizens of Arkansas City held an Indignation meeting Monday night to protest against the killing of J. R.

Hill, of New Jersey, during the run Saturday by a soldier. Resolutions were passed demanding a thorough investigation of the killing and prompt punishment of the officers responsible therefor. Tint government officers have captured the man who stole $105,000 worth of gold from the mint at Philadelphia and $100,000 worth of the preciaus metal has been recovered. The name of the thief has not yet been disclosed. The man was an employe at the mint and used a common iron garden rake, which he inserted between the bars of the vault door and raked the coin out with it.

The eoverumeut will not lose anything. If you go to the Strip you will need a Wagon, Cart or Buggy. We handle the Best. We also carry Wagon Bows and Sheets. NOBLE CASE.

P. O. BOOK STORE. CI er a rc i Tne "Spnnlnli Maid" and "Cuban Hoy" 50 special tb-i. Lyceum iiotjuct, Couiihelor aud lioffmun House, 10c.

mym Star, DrummomlH and Iloot Jnrk, chewing. I ODaCCOS i OT North Carolina." "fircenhack," 'Cornell Mixture," "Lafa-I yclte Mixture," and "(lid Kip" smoking. tive settlers of the opportunity to enter the land. The facilities for registra tion were totally inadequate, and the boomers soon learned that the scheme was an outrage and a fraud. Great lines of people had stood in front -r the booths for four days In the sun, during which time an unpi cedeuted hot wave swept over the country, and hot winds blew as a blast r-a furnace mouth, adding to the miser ies of the waiting men and women.

Food was scarce, and so little water was to be obtained that it was valued at from 5c to 15c a glass. These hardships, heaped upon men already wearied and exhausted by waiting in line day and night, proved to be more than human nature could endure. Many were prostrated and some died. The prostrations, so far as reported, numbered over 100, and the deaths ten. In the midst of these deplorable conditions there was some bright spots.

The men, true to the American respect for women, gave up their places in the line to the suffering members of the weaker sex. At Arkansas City women were permitted to enter the booths in squads of hundreds without ever joining the liue. Good humor as a rule prevailed during the tiresome wait, and nothing of a disgraceful nature marred the occasion. Having secured their certificates, the boomers prepared for the lace. They tiained their horses to gallop over rough prairies, to swim rivers and climb steep declivities.

They practiced riding over rough stretches of land on bicycles, and practiced foot-racing over the same courses. Others less ambitious became ajprey to the gamblers, who infested the towns and camps, and who drove a thriviug business among the idlers. While the long wait for the opening was not altogether a continued round of uninterrupted pleasure, it will become one of the most memorable features in the boomers' pioneer experience. After the race was over and when the settler looked around to see where he was he was sore, very sore. The man who had taken up a homestead found himself located upon about as apparently undesirable a patch of land as could well be found in the whole breadth of Uncle Samuel's domain, excepting, perhaps, portious of the American Desert.

Some abondoned their claims and returned to the states, while others with true pioneer hardihood and nerve, settled down with a determina tion to bring the raw land into subju gation. Prairie fires had swept great tracts of land and left them black and uninviting. Other tracts had been cut clear of hay by men who have made a living, and some of thein fortunes gathering the prairie grass. What hay had been left by the fires and hay makers was parched to a crisp by the recent hot winds and matted on the ground by the same agency. The pros pect was a dreary one; prairie extending as far as the eye could reach, relieved by no signs of human life excepting those brought into the deso late waste by the settlers themselves Few of the homesteads were provided with natural water.

The lack of water will be the great obstacle in the way of homesteaders' comfort, and that of his flocks and beards. The season has been unusually dry even for this dry climate. Rut little rain has fallen for a full mouth and non? for the past two weeks. The creeks haverun dry and the Arkansas and Cimmaron rivers have nearly reach a condition of stag nation, so that what little water is ob tainable is of bad quality. There are very few springs in the Strip, and the digging of wells in the sandy soil i3 a long, arduous process They must be sunk at least 10! feet, and iu some places 150 feet before water Is found.

1 'ending the digging of wells or a fall of rain, the settlers will experience great difficulty, and in many cases actual suffering in providing water. Some will be obliged to haul it long distances from the rivers, and then it will be an insufficient amount of undesirable quality. Most of the settlers have taken with them to their chums an ample supply ot food, and no incon venience will be encountered on that score. Many a townsiter was also dis appoiuted when he found himself in possession of a much-coveted lot, while others got just what they were after At the government town site only the blocks had been surveyed, and it was impossible for a man to tell just where his lot was, even after he had got it. The fact that the lots were not surveved led to endless confusion, and numerous disputes for a given block happened.

The first buildings that went up on the lots were of canvass. They were tents erected by shopkeepers, who stocked them with their wares and were soon doing a driving business. THE STRIP FKOM KIOWA. The rush to the Strip from Kiowa Saturday was exciting. Kiowa has had her share of this boomer population.

The crowds for last week have been variously estimated at from 5,000 to 000. It is thought the number who rushed over the south line of IJarber county is not far from 15,000. A number of sooners slipped through Friday night but some were caught after a nine-mile chase. At 11:53 o'clock a restless son of Africa accidently discharged his gun. and the waiting crowd mistaking it for the signal rushed pellmell across a narrow gulch and scattered all over the plain which spread out as far as the eye can measure in a panorama of green.

The crowd bad got fairly under way before Capt. II. II. Ilardie, of the 3rd Cavalry, four minutes later, gave the official signal. The negro was captured and held until the last of the boomers had disappeared.

In the start Vernon Macy, a boomer from Kiowa county, was unhorsed and his shoulder dislocated. Another boomer was also seriously injured in a runaway. W. D. Mackey, of Kiowa, started on a race-horse for a choice claim five miles distant.

He was thrown from his borse and injured in the side, but he drove bis stake where he fell, capturing a fine claim adjoining Kansas. D. R. Streeter had his team harnessed to a plow on the line at the foot of Seventh street, and at the signal stuck the plow in the rich soil, proving his claim to a fine farm. He did not stop till he had encircled the land with a furrow, the first sod turned up in the new country.

Milt Hull, editor of the Kiowa Journal, started to Alva on the Santa Fe train, but fell off when seven miles out. His misfortune resulted in the location of a fine claim on the spot. The race was made in every conceiva ble manner foot, astride race horses, in carts, buggies, lumber wagons, stage coaches, taliyhos, bicycles and the Santa Fe train. One lady bravely rode the cow-catcher of the engine which pulled the first train into the Strip. county seat of County twenty miles AS I SAW IT- much has been written about the ening of the Cherokee Strip that it i.

ay seem to be a mine worked out and all the accounts I have seen seem to be written by correspondents who drew more oil their imaginations for their statements than from actual observation and personal experience. Some of the accounts are lurid enough in their style to suit the most sensational and yet so inacurate as to be absolutely worthless if the reader is seeking for actual information. But while a great many blood curdling incidents are narrated that never occurred, it is true that half the suffering entailed by this opening will never be told. The booth system may have been well intended but it was a foolish regulation in its inception and a bungling farce in its execution. It harrassed and hindered every honest man and woman who was really entitled to a claim or town lot in the promised land.

Instead of being a protection against soouerism it served to furnish certi ficates of character to dishonest invaders. It entailed untold hardships on the poor, the weak and guilless, while it afforded abundant opportunities for blackmail and boodle to unprincipled officials and their scoundrelly abettors During a part of two days I watched the booths of Orlando. I have never in the same length of time seen so much petty fraud and gouging of the unwary. Lines were formed supposed ly going toward the booths. Then some red-nosed minio i of the adminis tration would go out along the line and under his orders the weary and dusty throng would march and counter march, sometimes facing towards the booth, sometimes the other way.

Why they marched or why they turned about no body knew. While the crowd marched and counter marched and performed such military evolutions as Hoke's subaltern might happen to direct such persons as happened to have a stand in with the clerks and guards and a little extra change which they were willing to place where it would do the most good were quietly walking in the back way aud registering with pleasant dispatch. Among the victims of this sort of official buuco business was a poor old fellow wearing the insignia of the G. A. It.

and whose legs had proceeded him by several years to the grave. He had been waiting in the broiling sun, the fierce hot winds and stilling dust for two days, he said, and wa3 apparently no nearer the booth than at the beginning. He did not seem to understand the why in the case and probably doesn't yet. If the booth system was bad, the run was little better. The fellows who attempted to obey instructions of the officers in charge almost universally got left.

The honest citizen seemed to play the part of a sucker while the leading star parts were acted by the "sooner," the rascal and the bully. If a stranger who had not aud did jt expect to have any part in the transaction had happened along he would have pronounced the crowd the most colossal aggregation of lunatics he had ever seen. Twenty thousand persons, young, middle-itged and old, white, yellow, black and tan colored rushed madly away over the prairie, down steep bluffs and across deep ravines when a misstep would cost their lives or a broken limb, or rode on cow-catchers, hung on brake jammed on car platforms for the chance of getting a town lot in a town where there could not be over three hnndred lots at the outside of any considerable value. Nature also had it in for the wild-eyed settler. For weeks no rain hart fallen on the thirsty soil.

The water courses had degenerated to dry ravines aud stagnant cools. Water became an article of commerce and its possession an evidence of plutocracy. The dust laden winds abolished the color line except that the African had a slight advantage over the Caucasian in the matter of complexion. Dirt was the universal condition and a clean shirt was a badge of aristocracy and an unseemly attempt put on airs that was resented by the common populace with derision. At the towtislte of Terry the surface of the ground was noon worked into a dust as One as the best grade of pateut flour.

By Sunday Km the ceasless tramp of thousands had worked up the du-it to a depth of from two to three inches. A wind blowing at the rate of Ofty miles an hour lifted and scattered this until the air a hundred feet high was filled with billowy clouds which filled the lungs, mouths, ears, uo-es aud pores of the Life became a burden and the future had no terrors. The man or woman who snent Bun day in the new city of Perry might well have 1 exclaimed with Byron: "Melhinks I bsve lived in some olden time and this is hell." At the improvised restaurants on the ground dirt was the staple article ot diet, seasoned with occasional particles of food. The caterer bad an eye to business. He was not feeding the public as a matter of accommodation, or walling on his guests simply as a health-giving exercise, it re ad sold at 15 cents for a five cent loaf, eggs wont swiftly at three and four cents each, regardless ot sex or state of ripeness.

The eggs were all boiled and the purchaser took bis own risk. If a boiled pullet tumbled out of the broken shell Instead of the expected yolk and white, the purchaser made no roar. If he was foolish enough to do so the proprietor would express his surprise at the unreasonableness shown by some people and proceed to charge 25 cents for boiled spring chicken instead of the usual four cents for a straight egg. Under the circumstances It seems wonderful to me there were so few casualties and so few quarrels. Occasionally one would see a wrangle over the possession of a lot.

Some times the stronger of two claimants -would gather his rival claimant by the collar aad storm deck of his pants aad pitch him off bodily. One woman 1 saw who drove her competitor off with a hatchet. There were a few; pugilistic encounters, but such scraps were rare. As a rule women showed more fortitude than men. Some of them I saw sitting unpro tected In the blinding dust and burning sun.

but heard no complaint, while plenty of men could be found ready to give up the struggle. The situation was fuU of mingled comedy and tragedy. One man who had came TOO miles to get nothing, waited through the wind and dust of Sunday and on Monday, overcome with despondency, cut bis throat. Business in certain lines started off with a rush. Of these a beer sakton in a tent seemed to be doing the most thriving business.

It was rumored that the deputy marshals were about to puil the institution but the last I saw of them they were lined up in front of the board which served as a bar counter drinking to the health of the proprietor. The question will be asked what win be the outcome of the country about It and the town of Terry. This is hard to turner. The country Immediately about Perry looks rocky and broken. The town site of Perry is a handsome place for a town, but so far suffers from lack of water.

The well dug by the government has water salty aud bitter as the waters of "Marsh." with no means to sweeten it. If thin difficulty is overcome Perry will eventually settle down into a good, thriving town of people or there abouts. The whole Cherokee Strip has been over-etimattMl. It has proved and will yet prove an igntsfuiues to thousands, and only by patient toil and through countless hardships will it become filled with prosperous communities. Z.

A. McNeax, The Capitol's Washington correspondent says: "An interesting course of events is in process of development in the relation to Kansas politics. It is understood that Senator Martin is preparing a manifesto renouncing his fusion ideas, and allying himself again in firmer bonds than ever with the stalwart democrats, it is the general impression of those who claim to know anything about the situation of affairs, that Martin has come to realize that he has done the political balancing act as long as it is possible, and has concluded that to be a target for republicans, democrats and populists, all at the same time, and to get no recognition from the administration, is too much for any man's endurance. Something in the direction indicated may be ex pected very soon, as the breach is said to be something of a serious none of the populists in the house care to continue relations with the senator on the old lines. Both Simpson and Harris are candidates tor his seat if the populists can develop sufficient strength next time to control the senatorial election.

Simpson has confided to two or three men- bers of the house that he will not be a candidate again for representative, and this declaration is accepted as an an nouncement of his candidacy lor the senate." The luter-State Irrigation Conven tion that will meet in Salina, Kansas, September 28th, is attracting wide attention throughout the West, beven Western states will send delegates and addresses will be made by the most practical irrigators of the United States. Mr. T. B. Merry, of Los Ange- los, California, will address the conven tion on the results of irrigation in the West and the various methods employed in securing artificial water for irrigation; Frof.

Hay, the geologist. will discuss the water supply on the plains aud its utility for irrigation The duties of the general government to the Irrigation movement will be dis cussed by representatives from South Dakota, Texas and Nebraska. Every phase of the question will be discussed by practiced and experienced men. A permanent organization will be formed to push the movement in behalf of the settlers of the great West. Barber county should be well represented at this convention.

Everyone interested, either directly or indirectly, is invited to attend. Every board of trade should send a representative and every farmers' society should not fail to have a delegate at this convention. Every citizen in the West is directly interest ed in tins movement. Let this be a movement by the masses of the'people Special rates are given over all the railroads. For particulars address J.

L. Brlstow, Sec, Salina, Kansas. Ox the plate side of this week's In dex is the populist stock cut showing Uncle Sam looking upon the prices for silver and wheat for the past twenty years. Among the words used in con nectiou with the cut are the following: "Demonetize silver, and 50 cent silver will mean 50 cent wheat; this is because silver alone buys wheat and cotton in India and Russia." The wording is misleading and dishonest and not based upon fact. While it is true that silver is largely used in India and Russia, and in fact, all countries, including England, it is measured by gold every where.

The argument is really foolish as we have explained time and again, for the reason that every sane man, when he considers the rapid means of communication all over the world, knows that silver could not be worth $1.30 an ounce in India and Russia and only 65 to 75 cents in the United States, England, France, Germany and the other commercial nations. The fact is that the free coinage men and free traders are responsible for the low price of wheat to-day, by scaring capital and thus making it imposible for wheat buyers to secure capital to work with. Many large buyers have gone to the wall with thousands of bushels of wheat in their elevators, on which they could not borrow a cent. The world's supply of bread-stuffa and fodder is short, and as soon as the purchasing clause of the Sherman law is repealed and the free trade scare is oyer, wheat will go to 1.00 per bushel, or better, in Kansas. NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Forest fires are raging in South Dakota. It has been decided to close the world's fair on October 31st. The Lombard Investment company is in the bands of a receiver. There are 120 persons in the yellow fever camp near Brunswick, Georgia. The A.

O. V. W. society has undertaken to furnish seed wheat to farmers la western Kansas. Mrs.

James Wood, of Fort Soott, was burned to death while attempting to save her children from burning. In a fight between whites and blacks at Mc Dowell. two negroes were killed and a white man fatally shot. A syndicate of popullsta, headed by the tate officials are buying up newspapers in close counties in the state. A nioe-year-oki girl was outraged and choked to death by an unknown fiend near Hummeistown.

Wednesday. The family of Densoo ratten, containing six members, was totally exterminated near Washington. Indiana, Tuesday, by unknown assassins. They were after money. Two men representing themselves as con ductors, went through a train in the Cherokee Strip and collected 500 from passengers.

then jumped off the train. They were The trial of the criminal suit against Secretary of State Osborne, who is charging him with libeling Cy Leland April 15 by charging him with buying coal by the car as slack and selling it to the Doniphan county people at full price, began at Topeka Wednesday morning. A negro at Roanoak, W. Ya enticed an old lady 50 years old into a basement Wednesday, beat her into insensibility, and thea robbed ber of a pocketbook containing less than Ho was captured and lodge In Jail, and during the night was taken out by a mob Intent on lynching him, but the militia inferred and fired on the mob, ksliiug five and wounding as many more. A Katnral Query.

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