Great Bend Beacon du lieu suivant : Great Bend, Kansas • 1

TWICE Jk. WEEK VOL. XV. NO. 39.

GREAT BEND, KANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 11)02 WHOLE NO. 721 BACK FROM THE EAST THE MONROE DOCTRINE. NEW ELEVATOR MERGER WANTS U. S. TO SETTLE IT.

J. One A. Sterett Makes an Interesting Trip to Central Pennsylvania. Co-operative Associations to Form Big Company. John A.

Sterett returned the last of the week from a short visit in Central Municipal Ownership Pays. Over in England municipalities have been doing some figuring on municipal enterprises. The balance sheets are not calculated to please those who denounce municipal ownership of public utilities. Over there thpy go into the thing deeply. Street railways, baths, art galleries, water works, concerts, and an occasional laundry are run by city governments.

In six years Harlington. England, has made a net profit of and reduced the taxes at that. Binning- The Farmers' Co-operative Grain and Livestock association is to be the foundation of a new association to be known as the Farmers' Cooperative-Shipping association which will have a capital of $200,000 and which intends to own and control a line of grain elevators in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. A meetintr will be held at Lincoln. Venezuela Has Given Minister Bowen Power to Act as Mediator.

President Castro of Venezuela has clothed United States Minister Bowen with full powers to effect a settlement with Great Britain and Germany and Italy. Mr. Bowen simply awaits the consent of the state department to assume this task, assuming that the nations named are willing that he should undertake this work. It is believed that the critical phase of the Venezuelan situation is passed. Whether the consent of these governments can be obtained, will, it is believed depend entirely upon the ham is on the right side of the ledger 1 January 22 for the purpose of to the tune of after live advancing the movement in Nebraska.

Pennsylvania. He says he saw so much in a short time that it would be hard to tell what was the most interesting feature of his trip. The people in that country, Mr. Sterett says, are looking to the west as the place for young men, and the movement in this direction is growing. The farms in that country have been divided and parceled out among the members of the old families until the new generation find themselves very much crowded and there is no other course but for some of them to emigrate to a country where there is more room and broader opportunity.

One of the features which most impressed Mr. Sterett, was the operations of the Pennsylvania Central railroad, which passed through the town of Port Royal, where he was staying. Some years ago, the earnings of this road became so great The Farmers' (I rain Benedict, Neb. the Thayer, and at association of association at Shelby, years of effort. Balton has made Leeds Nottingham and Manchester 210,000.

You can't dodge the suinciencv ot any guarantee mat can figures or the logic. )e given for the faithful discharge bv Why Uncle Sam Is Taking An Interest in Venezuela's Quarrel. Within the last few days the British Empire and the German Empire have sent hostile fleets to the coasts of Venezuela, South America, for the avowed purpose of seizing the customs receipts of her ports in satisfaction of certain claims of indebtedness to English and German subjects. This hostile demontration has been resented by Venezuela and open hostilities have commenced. The question of the interest of the United States in the case has been often raised, says the Kansas farmer.

Reference is made in this connection to the "Monroe doctrine," as defining this country's position in the matter. It important, therefore, to understand just what this Monroe doctrine is. In his message to Congress December 2, 18-3, President Monroe declared, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained were' henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization 'by any European power; and that the United States would consider any attempt by the allied powers of Europe to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety, that with the existing colonies and dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and should not interfere, but that with the governments who have declared their 'resident Castro of any obligations nave signinea men intention or taKing stock in the new association and they will be the basis of (he movement in that state. James Bullcr, secretary of the Grain ie may assume as tne result ot Mr. jowen efforts.

Ihe allies feel that they must be assured against the consequences of another revolution and the repudiation by the president who may follow Castro of his under- akin gs. The effort to induce the United And the partial laiiure ot municipal ownership where it has been tried in this country counts for nothing. Here most experiments have been made among enemies. The politicians and the corporations asked only failure. They put rocks in the way, and they were overjoyed if dishonesty crept in and made an attempt to help the people abortive.

Everybody admits that it is a good thing for a city to own and operate a waterworks system. Why, of course! But why water and not light? Both are necessities. Is there any reason, outside of graft and selfishness, why Kansas Citv could not be belter and and Livestock association and the secretary of the new association has announced that the shipping association intends to merge the elevators owned by local co-operative associations with a capital The association expects to start with elevators in Kansas, 15 in Oklahoma and 10 in Nebraska. Among those in the list given in the State Journal are elevators at Ellinwood, Clallin. St.

John, Macks-ville, Timken and Rozel. States government to act as guarantor is is safe to say will not succeed and it is beginning to appear that there is likely to be a mixed commission ap pointed to receive all the Venezuelan that the state took a hand and a law was passed requiring all the net earnings above a six per cent dividend to be turned over to the commonwealth. The road was put in a peculiar position. If the surplus was allowed to accumulate, the state would get a large proportion of it. If the capital stock of the road was increased, so that they could keep the profits within the six per cent limit, the taxes would eat up another big amount.

So, tire road has disposed customs and setting apart a certain portion for the maintenance of the iczulan government and disburse the remainder among the powers until their obligations shall be met. France has now entered (he field as an active party in the trouble. The D. C. Luce returned last week from a trip through the eastern part of the Indian country.

1 Ie reports some fine prospects for home seekers in that region. He says the people clown there are wide awake, and will make a good thing of their investments. Mrs. Rowell came up from the terri independence and maintained it, and more cheaply served by owning its own street railway system? These things are coming. Their coming will be hastened by abuses and by the fact that they have been made successful in England, a country king-ricTdcn if you will, but undoubtedly well governed 'and progressive.

Kansas City World, French government has served notice upon Great Britain, Germany and Italy and by way of information has of the surplus by spending it for improvements. A four track road, finely built, and of the best material, extends from Pittsburg to the coast. Subways are being put in at the crossings, curves are being eliminated, better bridges built, and money spent also told Secretary Hay that any pro vision made for the settlement of the tory this week. She is badly afflicted with nervous prostration and it was i i i i ii vitn ciiiuctmy mat sne reacneu Home, She was accompanied by a physician Her daughter part ot the way home came with her. rr 1 1 I 1 claims against Venezuela must recognize the pre-eminence of French claims.

France received assurance from the other governments named that any arrangements made would provide for the security of French interests in Venezuelan customs. Aside from financial claims Germany expects some form of an apology from Venezuela for diplomatic insults which the foreign office says are more serious and more gross than those of which Great Britain whose independence we nave on great consideration and just principle acknowledged, we could not view with indifference any interposition for the purpose of oppression or controlling in any manner their destiny by any European power in anyJ6ther light than as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States, and that it is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of American continent without endangering our peace and happiness. This Monroe doctrine has been repeatedly reaffirmed by the United States. It caused the sudden withdrawal of French support of Maximilian whom Napoleon III. had placed on a throne in Mexico.

With the loss of French backing Maximilian soon lost both his throne and his life at the hands of the Mexicans. Baldness begins in youth, states a late work by Dr. Saboufaua, and increases, slowly or rapidly, up to the age of fifty. It is a contagious disease, due to a specific microbe that multiplies in the sebaceous or lubricating glands of the skin and produces also the skin affection known as seborrhea. It is aided by sanitary neglect, intellectual overwork, and lack of physical exercise-No means of restoring lost hair is yet known, and can only lessen or check the progress of the disease.

coi. j. ADernatny, a pioneer Kansan, and president of the Aber-nathy Furniture Company, of Kansas City, died luesday morning. Col Abernathy was one of the stockholders in a hundred ways for the betterment of the road's service. A bridge a mile and a quarter long across the Susquehanna at Ilarrisburg, recently built, arid was considered a good structure, was torn out and replaced with a stone bridge.

All along the line the company is buying small tracts of land and making them into flower gardens and parks. The time of an army of men is consumed in these employments, outside the regular transportation business of the road. The stock of the Penns)lvania Central returns a regular six per cent dividend and is in great demand among: investors. in the Citizens National Bank in this city. A Kansas City comedian who coulc perfectly imitate the bark of a dot GREAT BtKD MARKET scared a man so tnat lie jumped into a show case.

When the funny man 2c a pound, under test. 20 20 New Wheat Butter Eggs had finished paying for the dama he' felt funnier than ever. Possib ilities in Advertising. LESSON in AMERICAN HISTORY in PUZZLE There are possibilities in advertising any business. A shoe dealer told an advertising man this fall that his business was as much the result of advertising as anything he could claim, says the "Ad Art." This shoe dealer said he started in life as a 'r Around Hoisington.

Mr. Quincy Jessup and Miss Edith Boyd were married by Rev. Chapman at the home of the bride's parents, six miles southwest of town Wednesday evening. Only a few friends were present to witness the ceremony. Mr.

Jessup is one of the popular railroad men here and congratulations are showered upon him from every side. Thc meetings at the Christian church resulted in 57 persons being added to the church, which places the membership beyond the 200 mark. One fourth of the money has already been pledged for another great meeting to begin in the early part of next October. Either Charles Reign Sco-ville or II. II.

Northcut will probably be called for the meeting as Evangelists Hamilton and Boyd have engagements for all of 1903.Monday morning while F. F. Franklin was sitting in one of the rooms back of the Dispatch office, a bullet came crashing through the wall barely missing him. Some person standing on Main street had shot at a dog and missed it and the bullet sped on the above described journey. While practically no harm was done it came near ending seriously, and such work as shooting inside the city limits should be prohibited and guilty persons be made suffer for the offense.

Dispatch. Une ot tne later prominent occasions for the use of the Monroe doctrine came during President Cleveland's administration when England and Venezuela were apparently about to engage in hostilities or a dispute as to the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela. England was induced to arbitrate the disputed points and a settlement of a long-ystanding controversy was reached. Doubtless the Monroe doctrine is now about all there is between Venezuela and the forcible appropriation of her territory. There is no little uneasiness in many parts of the United States lest it may be necessary on the present occasion to back up the Monroe doctrine with our battle ships and bayonets.

Such fears are doubtless premature. There is no better place in this country for a young man to get into a paying business than in the region east of the Rocky Mountains. There are dozens of avenues open to the man who will attend to his work and who knows what he wants to accomplish. There have been more families who have risen from poverty to a good business, and who now occupy good homes in central Kansas during the last ten years, than anywhere else in America, except during cobbler, and he thought he was a pretty good cobbler. After he had been mending shoes for some time he came to the conclusion that he ought to do some advertising in a small way.

He decided he ought to get some bills. He saved a penny on every order he had and after he had enough saved he paid $1.50 for the bills and put them out. In a few months he thought he ought to try it again, so he saved pennies until he had enough to buy more bills, and distributed them. After that he saved two pennies for every dollar he made and put into bills. He found his business increasing so that his two per cent, would make more than he thought it wise to put into advertising by handbills, so he tried small newspaper spaces.

After a while he could use larger spaces, and then he came to the conclusion that he ought to have more to advertise than just cobbling, so he put in some shoes. He continues to increase his business, his advertising and his expenses. In fact he is becoming a prosperous citizen, and he believes it all came from feeling his way along the path to advertising success. This man says it is not merely that he advertised, but that he did good work and told people about it, which made his success so marked. the opening of new lands in Oklahoma.

he climate is as fine as Italy, and the water and health producing and protecting qualities of the country make it a fine place to live. G. B. Booker, of South Bend was in the city today, paying taxes and attending to other business. J.

A. Deckert, of Pawnee Rock, came up today to transact business in the Bend. W. O. Smith, of Hoisington was.

transacting business in the Bend today. Charles Sette, of Hoisington was ISRAEL PITXAM CAPTIRED BY TUB IXDIAXS. Find Ca.pt. Molanc. Israel Putnam was one of the intrepid colonial characters in the war between the French and English colonies, 1755-60.

He waa second in command of Rogers' rangers, an irregular command of New Hampshire troops, who harassed the French enemy. During the war he was captured by Cjpt. Moland, commanding a small force of French and Indians, and the Indians inflicted severe torture upon him, going so far as to tie him to a tree, around which was built a fire. He would have been burned to death but for the French officer, who did not approve of Indian methods, tnd rushed to his rescue just in time to save his life. Miss Mayme Connett is expected home from Lindsborg tonight to spend the Holiday vacation.

Miss Blanch Laraway of Ness City will accompany her. Miss Susie Roberts will also come in from Lindsborg The snow melted all through night. over today to pay taxes..