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Cuts llliiorleal 4 IRTDIf ON 1 11 VVA31t.lL:Jinp 11 ir 1 it WASHINGTON, KANSAS, MAY 13. iqo4. THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR NUM 52 Don't Make your Farm Loans Until you Figure with O. Reitzel, office over Holloway's Hardware, STUBBS TO THE LEGISLATURE. A NEWSPAPER BI-CENTENN1AL.

A. S. ANDREWS, Pres. J. S.

A LSPA UGH, Cashier. Probably Will Be a Candidate for Speaker of the House. The Washington National Bank $100,000.00. Directors: E. H.

BoHner. J. 8. Alspacurh, Geo. H.

Thiele, L. A. Palmer, August Soller. J. 5.

Euans To Run Again. It is the unwritten rule when a county officer makes a goodjrecord in his first term as an officer ttjat he be given the nomination for a second term and that without a contest. Such is the case with J. S. Euana who was elected register of deeds two years ago by the Republicans.

Mr. Euans is an aspirant to succeed himself, and there are many reasons why he should be the nominee. He can be elected easily. He is competent and has proven that fact by the way the records have been kept in the office. He is loyal to the party and all bis friends are appreciative for all that has been doDe for him by them.

He is an old soldier and a' gentleman in every sense of the word. There is no question about his nomination andeleetion. All the Republicans want to know is, that he is a candidate, they.will do the rest. A. 8.

Andrews, J. A. Brown, County Exchanges AG recti leaf man is catching up "with pome of the blessing of married life. gets his own breakfast in tb morning white "his wife tweeps, and rn has to make he bed at night before retiring. Sheriff Correll arrested thrw cilrrits theotfir day forn attempt ioMmw the Missri Pacific safe at Washington Saturday Uhr.

They did rot succeed, but took 117 rrauies from th money drawer. Kansas City, Kansas, ruised her joint fine to $100 amonth. Tfce joints closed, The proprietors swearicg that they would never re-open until the fines were lowered, but some of 'em did. Ed. Hoi-h is a genuine reformer.

He wishes to abolish the habit of wearing black when there a death in the Your Business Solicited, AAAAAAVWAAAAAAAWVVVyASA Lawrence, May 7. W. R. Stubbs has made formal announcement of his candidacy for membership in the legislature from the Forty-first district in this county for this fall's election. Mr.

Stubbs probably will be a canlidate for speaker of that body. He probably will have no opposition for nomination or election here. Topeka, May 7. W. R.

Stubbs, who formally announced to-day his candidacy for the legislature, served in the house in the session of 1903 and on account of his efficiency and determined fight on the waste of public money by the machine that controlled the house, he has been slated for re election by his neighbors in Douglas county ever since. It was Stubb's first experience in legislation, and the methods of the politicians shocked him. He was a member of the committee of ways and. means, and thereby saw all the grafts go through, but he was powerless to prevent them. He only could voice his imagination.

It was this record that brought him into his first prominence, and when he appealed to the people to find a new governor, they responded. His personal acquaintance in the state numbered less probably than 300 men, but the people had confidence in him and after a campaign of twenty-five days he had accomplished a remarkable revolution. His cry was "turn out the political highwaymen," and at the primaries the people broke down machine methods everywhere. In this contest Stubbs was fought hard by the machine. Stubbs may be speaker of the house if he will accept the office.

If he prefers to operate on the floor he will be chairman of the committee of ways and means. family. Linn Digest. Theio is no lack for good men who Early Kansas Lynching. In his Potter Kansas.

Mr. Remsberg gives the following account of an early-day Atchison tragedy: "In 1SC3 were a good many outlaws around Atchison who claimed that they were patriots, and'that every man, who owned good hoises or cattle was a rebel. In May of that year four men appeared at the home of a man named Kelsey, near Pardee, and horribly tortl ured Mrs. Kelsey and her son. Kelsey had gone to Leavenworth with a lot of cattle; the outlaws believed he had returned with the proceeds of the cattle sale, and that the money was concealed about the house; they tortured the woman acd boy to force" them to tell where the money was concealed.

This outrage greatly incensed the people, and Bill and Porter Sterlings, who lived are ccming before the people asking for It would be really funny, were it not at the same time disgusting, to see the way the Democratic leaders and the Populist (so-called) leaders of this state, as well, trying to fix up a job whereby they may divert the old-time Populist vote to the aid of the Democratic party. Gentlemen, the voters who made up the voting strength of the Populist party are about the nerviest bunch of voters we ever hd any experience with. They know, every one of them, why they vote as they do and no bunch of political wire pullers can ever lead them by the noso to do their bidding. They may have had a few wiid-eyed notions sprinkled into some of their "declarations of principles" in the days gone by, but very few of the individuals who made up the "movement" that 9 wept Kansas like a cyclone need specify instructions as to how they shall cast their voter in the coming national election. office.

No one need.complam that there A. li. Foote A Candidate, We know of no better man for the office of clerk of the court than the one who is now holding the office, Mr. A. H.

Foote. He is serving his first term, and while the office is not a very paying one, he is willing to give his time to the affairs and dcties of the office another two years. Mr. Foote is too well and favorably known here to need any introduction fromthis or any other newspaper, he is an old resident of the county and for the first time is holding a county office. He might properly be called is only one available man and opportun ity to; choose.

Mr. VV. VVertenberger of'Washington has announced himself one of the war horses of the party, serving in all the campaigns in at Seventh and Q. streets, in Atchison, the county for years. He is intensely Two Hundred Years Have Elapsed Since the News Letter First Appeared.

The bicentennial anniversay of the establishment of the first American newspaper, the Boston News Letter, draws attention to the wonderful advance made in the course of 200 years in the art which has done incomparably more for the diffusion of intelligence than any other- agency. The Boston News Letter was first issued in the week of April 17-24, 1704, by John Campbell, postmaster of Boston. It was printed some times on a single foolcap sheet, and frequently on a half sheet, with two columns on each side. Foreign news occupied three fourths of the paper, and the domestic news, which would fill probably a half column of, the Ledger, occupied the remainder of the space. There were no advertisements and no marriage notices, and only one or two deaths were noticed at a time.

The art of newspaper reporting in the United States originated with the News Letter. When, six pirates were executed near Boston, in 1704, the ex hortation to the malefactors and the prayers of the officiating clergyman while the pirates were on the scaffold were near as could be taken in the great crowd." Tne report filled nearly half, of the paper, and the unnamed reporter may be regarded as the pioneer in his useful craft. It is not quite accurate to say that the News Lstter was the first newspaper printed in America. It was preceded by a publication called Publick Occurrences, a small quarto sheet with one page blank, issued in Boston on September 25, 1690. The editor was too aggressively Democratic for the times, and his sheet was suppressed by the governor on the day of its birth for indulging in "reflections of a very high nature." In 1719 the News Letter found a rival in the Boston Gazette; "but with its name changed to the Massachusetts Gazette and Boston News Letter, it grew to be the chief organ of British rule in America down to the evacuation of Boston." It is a far cry to 1704, with its one liiliputian sheet recording th simple a of early colonial days New England.

In no sphere of enterprise is the contrast between the present and the past more, striking than in rthe development of the newspaper. In 1900 there were 18,229 newspapers and periodicals published in the United States. The value of the newspaper product in the census year was estimated to be nearly 176 million dollars. The total number of wage-earners employed in the industry in that year was 94,604. The aggregate report cirulation of newspapers and periodicals in 1900 reached the enormous and periodicals in 114, 299, 334.

The first daily newspaper published in the United States was the American Daily Advertiser, issued in Philadephia in 1784. At that time there were only forty-three newspapers published in the country. In 1870 the number of periodicals of all classes published in the United States was 5, S74. They had increased threefold in 1900. Philadelphia Ledger.

loyal to his friends, the party and to his duty. He has proven to be an -efficient officer, and there is, and should be, no opposition to his re-nomination. His, election will be as certain as his nomination, and it will come as a just reward for his services'as aiprivate in the ranks and as an officer. He has friends by the hundreds who are glad to know he is asking for a second term and the party as a candidate for the office of sheriff of Washington county. He is too well known to need an introduction to the of; the county.

He served for a uumber of years a deputy sheriff 'under Mr. Landen and is acquainted with the duties of the office and its He a staunch fearless Republican, well known in the councils of his party, and is good campaigner. -If nominated he could be easily elected and as an officer would give the people cf the county no cause for complaint. Last Friday oe Parker was taken to the hospital at Clay Center and on Monday of this week one of his legs was taken off above the knee. He had suffered for years with an ecze-metic disease of the foot and leg.

For several weeks proceeding the operation he had been confined, to his bed. At last report he was doing as -well as could be hoped for. Friday evening E. A. Hopfer ileft for his new home at Versali3 Missouri.

He had live inXfnn for a number-of years and had done much toward the building up of the town. We are sorry to see him go but extend to him our best wishes for success in his new field. Senator Peffer's WorK, What a faculty the ex-Populist lead will grant his request. ers have shown for getting down to work when the people voteel to retire them to Freeborn For Re-nominaticn. pi ivaio inc.

iiiic ui tucui noun au The Republican this week takes more useful employment than Senator pleasure in announcing that County At torney, A. J. Freeborn, will ask for a re- Peffer who, for some years, has been in nomination at the hand3 of the party Washington, engaged at the task of in dexing and classifying the acts of Con he repsents, for the office he now holds and has so ably and honestly filled in gress from the beginning. A recent Washington dispatch, said of Senator past year nr more. ts prosecuting 'A Peffer and his work: "Ex-Senator Peffer will" have ready attorney he has had experiences with others who have held the same po ana Daniel Mooney and Ben Brewer, of the Pardee werearrested for the crime.

Mrs. Kelsey identified them, and they hired John to defend them; Mooney gave the lawyer-a deed to his farm, and the Sterlings gave him a bill of sale for a lot of cattle at Liviug Springs ranch, in Nebraska. The Sterlings "'teamed'' around town, and were a tough lot. One bright morning Asa Barnes, who still lives near Potter, and 100 of his neighbors rode into Atchison, and announced that they intended to try the four men in a citizens' court. Ingalls was told to keep away, and he did it.

The Barnes party took charge of the court house, and gave the four men a fair trial, and found them guilty. As Barnes appeared on the cot rt house nad said it had been decided to leave the fate of the men with the crowd that had assembled; those in favor of, hanging would please go north, and those in favor of turning the prisoners over to the civil authorities would please go south. The north won, and the prisoners were informed that they would be hanged in half an hour. The wives of the condemned men were present and 'carried on' in the most terrible manner. A wagon was driven up, and Asa Barnes and George Fairchild climed in with the prisoners, the armed guard and crowd falling in behind.

Out near the present tow factory was a big elm tree, a favorite camping ground. Here arrangements for the hanging: were made. Mr. Ingalls was in the crowd, and made an appeal for the men. It was agreea to respite the Sterlings a few -days, but Moody and Brewer ere hanged.

The Sterlings were hanged by the same mob the following for presentation to the short session of sition, he has prosecuted some persons who have felt the heavy hand of the law, That is not all, either they have already made up their mind3 about it. The bosses and fixers are counting on what they are going to do with the Populist vote in this 'state this fall. They are counting in vain. They are simply an aggregation of shop-worn, knock-kneed, discredited generals, settlers and camp followers without an army to sustain them. They are a bunch of self-constituted officers without privates to command they are "all in." The Republicans who voted for Harrison in 18S8, and who later went into the People's Party, are all "back home" and going to vote for Roosevelt this year.

The Democrats who voted fdr Cleveland that same year will this year swallow any bivjf dose the Democratic party will fix upic them no, not all, a big bunch of them, too, have grown tired of the vacilitating and senile do-nothingness of the Democratic party, a'nd they too will vote for Roosevelt! 'and American pro-gressiveness. But the idea of. controlling the vote of the men who came from the Republican party into the Populist party, at the coming election, in the interest of any candidate the Democrats can possibly name is the silliest rot. They have already expressed themselves on that proposition at the last election. The forty-two thousand majority given for Bailey came not from recruits from Democratic party tbey were the old time Populists returning to their, first love the Republican party.

Thatarmy will be augmented at the coming election until the majority for Roosevelt and Hoch in Kansas will reach the 100,000 mark. It is not a case of riding the band wagon, either. The old-time. Pop-ulist votes his convictions, whether they suit bosses or not and that's what they are going to do this fall. The avalanche is coming, the old political fixers had better get out of the way they are going to be engulfed if they don't.

Con and they and their friends may not for him, but he has only done his -sworn duty, in doing so, has won the respect of the masses of the people of the-coun ty. lis election two years ago was somewhat experimental, from the fact Barnes Chief. Mrs. Ida Wolverton and son visited her parents south of Washington last Thursday returning home Friday. County Treasurer M.

Duston and wife of Washington spent last Monday night on the farm near Afton. Addie White went to Washington Sunday to stay with her grandparents. that he was not an old experienced law a sv a 1 yer, but nis conduct or tne anairs or tne office bive proven that the people made no mistake when they elected him. He is an able lawyer, a diligent student, a fearless prosecutor who brings cases into court with oniy the b6st chances of an excellent campaigner and a vounsr man who stands high in the councils of the party and he will be the nominee 'and be re-elected by an in Congress the 'ready reference' to all congressional legislation. He had hoped to have his work finished in time for presentation to the Congress which has just completed its work; but an early adjournment made this impossible.

The work on which Senator Peffer has been engaged is a most apt one. It is a classification of the proceedings of Congress from the beginning, intended to facilitate the work of legislators or historians. In recent Congresses eongres-sional indexes have been compiled, but these only partially cover the broad field undertaken by the ex-Senator from Kansas. For the last few months Senator Peffer has worked under difficulties, because. of the weak condition of his eyes.

He has been faithful to his task, and has wended his way daily to the congressional library. "Mr. Peffer retired from the Senate in 1897. Under a resolution Adopted by the Senate, 55,000 was appropriated to finish the work. A supplementary resolution was passed, and before this appropriation is exhausted the work will be brought down to date.

It is believed that Congress will continue the work which Mr. Peffer has inaugurated. The ex-Senator from Kansas is 73 years old. He seldom is seen on the street, going direct from the library building to his daughter's home in R. streer." Topeka Herald.

creased majority over two years agou Lashbraok For Re-election. There will be no opposition to the ean- didacy of L. 8. Lashbrook for nomina The war between Sheriff Correll and his deputy, John Fagan goes merrily on. Haddam Clipper.

The many friends of Mrs. F. M. Brick will be plesed to learn that she withstood the most trying ordeal of a most delicate surgical operation at the Sister's hospital at Concordia last Thursday. Latest accounts reports the patent making gratifying progress and her many friends will unite with the Clipper in wishing her a speedy return home in health and strength.

Last week we recieved a short account of the death of Mrs. Chas. Snath, of Salt Lake City, Utah. Mrs. Smith is a former resident of Haddam.

She will be remembered by older residents here as Miss Elisabeth Irene Fuller. Miss Bertha Myers of Washington, spent Sunday with her parents at Clara. Mesdames Anna Corbett and Etta Swan were shopping in Washington Saturdav afternoon. tion as a candidate to succeed himself There are Democrats who seem to think John G. Carlisle of New York, who was secretary of the treasury during the Cleveland administration, has written a very able article, from his point of view, on the bond issue during the Cleveland' administration.

His conclusions arf. cordia Kansan. as superintendent for public instruction. He is a first termer and is in keeping that Mr. Fagan will be a stronger can Referring to the fool statements in an with the precedent to get another nomination at the hands of his party without alleged interview sent out from Wash- didate before the people than Sheriff Correll, therefore Mr.

Fagan has had all kinds of encouragement to make the race for the nomination. That does not argue that Sheaiff Correll has no ington last week in which Senator Bur- Yu craz9 Parted, the panics having to make a fight for it. Two years ago Mr. Lashbrook announced his candidacy and entered the race against a strong opponent and made an honor we Kuvernment nad to issue bonds to keep the parity up between gold and Treasury notes and silver certificates were redeemed in gold and the gold reserve was exhausted or reduced below the mark where it was of friends, for he has, and they are of the kind who will make a desperate fight to land the nomination for him. He has all the advantage in the contest, for following the rule that a county and bocd3 were sold to get more gold.

officer shculd have a second nomination, ton was made to abuse President Roosevelt, the Topeka Herald says: "Senator Burton's closest friends say that the interview referred to above was a rank fake, written by a correspontent who desired to make the senator ridiculous. The interviewer also made Burton say that he had no hope of a reversal of his case by the higher court, while those who know say he has not the slightest doubt of it. It would seem as though a man who ha3 suffered as much as Senator Burton might be spared such malicious treatment at this ir uarjisle'3 views are correct, he has made a horrible slam on Bryan and his followers. Tuke the other view of Hanover Democrat. Mrs.

Fulton and daughter Gertrude spent Friday night at Washington. Ada Culp spent Saturday and Sunday with home folks and friends at The Divorce Evil. Gf the twelve cases on the docket in the Republic county district court one-half are divorce suits. Tne divorce evil is becoming so common that it is attract the matter, and state it a3 the Republi- able fight and won a fair contest for the nomination. He also made a clean and manly race for the election and won a victory he may well be proud of He entered on the duties of his office about a year ago and has made an excellent officer.

He is among the leading educators of the county and has been for years. His long residence in the county as a teacher has made him acquaintances that are helpful to him, and he will have no trouble in gettirg the nomination and being elected. Mr. Lashbrook also has a clear political record, and in time when it took courage to be a Republican, he was found in the front cans ao, was the tariff tinkering that he is looked upon as one who should win without a fight. This paper has no hand in the contest, we do not think either could be elected, no matter which is nominated, but we are 'honest enough to say that for a Democrat Mr.

Correll has made a reasonably good officer, and so far as we know his deputy has done his part also. first shook the confidence of the people, and then followed the snrf th ing the attention of both the press and the pulpit. A Kansas City minister has been looking over the court record and kept up till after Major McKinley was stage of the game as the Washington correspondent gave reports that these records tell a dark elected. Kevenues fell off to such an alarming extent that there was no Since the Democrats could not sue-: money tne treasury to do business nn tale. In Jackson county, Missouri, the number of divorces granted for the year 1903 was 1075 while' the marriage licenses issued for the same period were ceed in getting Senator Harris into the acd of course gold reserve was ex- race for governor, tney nave turned tne democrats their attention to Judge Dale of Wich- want to make the appology for the bond ita, and it was thought he would accept is3ue tfaey will be met, on one hand by only 3076.

These figures indicate that at least one marriage out of three has ranks of the fighters proclaiming the principles of the party and helped to organize the Republicans of the party into leagues in every part of the county. the Bryan Democrats and on the other proven a failure. In speaking of this the nomination. But he is a by the" Republicans. The machinists on the Santa Fe railroad have refused to accept their places in the shops.

The company gave them till a certain time to go back to work, and if they did not report for duty by the prescribed time, it would be considered by the company that they did not want their places back again, and the company would get other men. None of the strikers responded to the call when the whistle blew so they are permanently out of work. The strike was ordered because the company discharged some union men. Thousands of men are idle again, not because there is no work for them, but because they have taken up the grievance of some of their fellow associates. We may not understand the trouble, but it looks to us that it is none of the union's business who the company hires or discharges.

club that may knock quite hard before evil the minister above alluded says that he has looked in vain for a silver lining to the heavy cloud that hangs over so the convention is held. He is a strong E. H. Bordnef, candidate for county treasurer is how out in the country and looking after, his candidacy. He has been busily engaged with some work about his home and has not taken time to look after politics.

Speaking of his candidacy, we wish to correct an error we made in his write up two weeks ago. in which we stated that he had a good soldier record. He did not give us that information, we were led astray from another source. He was not in the rebellion and does not wish to let it be understood that he would try to make a campaign on an old soldier record when he was not an old soldier. ciety.

He also reports that the state statistics of Missouri afford less solace to the optimist than those of the county. His comments as well as the facts A. H. Montgomery of Cloud county, died last week aged 78 years. He was a tanner by trade and was associated with Jesse Grant in the tanning business.

Jesse rant was the father of U. S. Grant, the general and president of the United States. Mr. Montgomery and the tanner boy were of about the same age.

and worked together for soma time in the same tannery. Hearst man and says he will not accept The Clay Center Times seems to ap-the nomination for governor of. Kansas preciate the of John Malabv of if Hearst is not the nominee for the Haddam township ag a candidate "for Democrats president. Mr. Dale county commissioner and copied the may as well hang up, his fiddle, Hearst notice given Mr.

Malaby by this paper will not be the Democratic nominee for Mr. Malaby was for a number of years president. The nominee will come from a resident of Clay county and wa at New-York and he will spaH his name one time a member of the legislature Parker. from that countr. gathered from other sources certainly present a sad commentary on the existing condition of our laws and our society.

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