The Kansas Prohibitionist from Columbus, Kansas • 3

Shall the whisky, beer and cigar bills of detectives and lawyers be allowed by the commissioners of Cherok de county? BANKERS, COLUMBUS KANSAS ESTABLISHED 1874. Money always on hand to loan on good security. Deposits Received. Drafts bought and sold. Government, county, township, school and city bonds purchased.

No outside business or speculations. Preaching at the Presbyterian church both morning and evening next Sabbath by the pastor. Haseltine 'Timberlake are in the field with a full line of Heating Stoves at prices to suit the trade. Call on them. The PROHIBITIONIST has a and increasing circulation in Cherokee County and is an excellent advertising medinm.

Haseltine and riske have purchased the stock of Baggies, Wagons of S. B. 'Throop Co. and offer them at bed rock prices. The stock of Baggies and Wagons and Hardware bolonging to the late firm of S.

B. Throop Co. has been sold to Haseltine Timberlake and is now sale at their hardware store at low prices regardless of cost. We will cry public sales in city or country, at reasonable rates, and on short notice Best of reterence. Call and see us.

the red front north of Opera House. W. H. Pierce Co. Columbus Kas.

FEED! campbell clark keep a full line of teed in connection with their grocery stock. $600 at 7 per cent interest, with commission on first mortgage. Money had immediately. Bennett. Perkins Bennett.

ladies especially go into ecstacies over Parker's Hair Balsam, writes Mr. J. H. Decke, druggist of Findlay Ohio. They say it is the most elegant dressing they ever used.

Stops falling hair, restores color and promotes growth. Women are every where using and recommending Parker's Tonic because they have learned from experience that it speedily overcomes despondency, indigestion, pain or weakness in the back orkidneys and other troubles yeculiar to the sex. If R. H. Lawton is alive, then the attending physicians at Cincinnati, and the Pinkerton detective at that place are downright frauds.

We hope the truth will be ascertained. Lawton escaped, from Columbus, by fraud and connivance and he may have died in the same way. Rev. J. M.

Huntsinger, the "children's preacher," will hold an illustrated temperanue service at Pleasant View school house in Spring Valley township, on Sunday. Oct. 17. On Tuesday evening, Out. 19, he will also hold a similar meeting at the school house in Nentral in- the same township.

All are invited. To the Board of County Commissioners, 1 will defend the county of Cherokee against the suit of the court house contractor for $12.000 and agree to defeat him if you will pay my expenses; and I will not include beer or cigars or drinks with Webb, Hallowell and Stockslager in said expenses. Truly, M. V. B.

Bennett. 12 1886. The county commissioners pay no atter- tion to the tax-payers. A suit has been brought against the county by the court house contractor and rumor is that the understanding is to get judgment against the county as punishment because the commissioners were enjoined. Van Bennett offers to defend the county and guarantee the defeat of the contractor's claim of $12,000 damages.

if the commissioners will pay his to the Federal court. This is all he expenses will charge. And were he county attorney it would not cost the county a nickel. Shall the county be robbed of $12.000 or not? Shall the ring fasten this outrage upon the county through the negligence or willfulness of the county commissioners. The commissioners are against Bennett because they know their schemes will be exposed, and the money of the people will not be paid out for bser and cigars for attorneys and detectives.

night at the residence of the bride, 7:30 o'clock, Mr. Ross M. Wilo liams of Clark Co. and Mrs. Lemina J.

Smith, by A. M. Reynolds. Rev. F.

A. Archibald D. D. of Cincinnati, Ohio, will deliver a lecture on "The Perils of Literature' on Friday evening, 15th at the M. E.

church. This is a free lecture and all are cordially invited. A. Boston, of Newtonia, and Miss Mary A. Laizure, of Salamance township were united in marriage on Sunday.

Oct. 10 at residence bride's parents, by Rev. H. W. Chaffee of this city.

Keep it before the people that Swanson and Russell and Robeson are the men that appropriated the people's money to pay for beer, cigars and drinks for detective and lawyers. When the wicked rule the people are robbed. Cherokee county had about $15.000 in the treasury at the commencement of this year, so we were informed, but it is filtered away on additional attorneys, detectives and trips to Greenville Ohio and beer and cigars and the people have to foot the bill. Are not the people tired? Quartersy meeting on Sunday next, at M. E.

church. Rev. M. E. Bram- hall of Baxter Springs will preach at 11 a.

after which the sacrament of the Lord's supper will be adininistered. Love Feast at 3 p. In. Rev. A.

G. Robb, the presiding elder wiil preach at 7:30 p. m. The cost to the county tor the last year for criminal prosecutions will reach nearly ten thousand dollars. This indebtedness was created by the commissioners without any reason or necessity.

The real scoundrels who blew up the vault and set fire to the records have not been caught. Keep it before the people that the county commissioners have paid out from one to three thousand dollars to a detective to shadow juries and work up the cases in blowing up the vault and not a single man has been found indicted or informed against except Lawton. and a prominent lawyer and citizen of Columbus said the detective was given pointers and ought to have indicted the guilty did not, and that the detective had not caught the guilty ones, and yet the county has been fleeced out from one to three thousand dollars for the detective. If the people elect Van Bennett. they know that the county will not be run in debt by the commissioners ten thousand dollars to conyict one man and if any lawyers are to be employed her will do it out of his salary and not send abroad for them.

The lawyers of this county were as capable of prosecuting as the attorney General. C. O. Stockslager convicted all whom he tried withont the assistance of the attorney general. But the county commissioners wanted to expend the surplus money of the tax-payers and they hired attorneys and detectives and paid.

their cigar and beer bills, as well as hotel and wash bilis. The commissioners told C. 0. Stocksla- ger that they agreed to pay McFarland's expenses, and his whisky and cigars were paid for as a part of the same. Thus this high handed outrage is perpetrated upon the people.

This is simply robbery, The whisky and beer and cigar bill of a detective is not legitimate or legal expenses. Do the tux-payers suppose that Van Bennett would haye permitted them to allow it? And if they did it against his protest he would enjoin the payment. Cherokee county is not obliged to pay for Beer for McFarland, Webb, Stockslager and HalloWell. Stockslager says it is a lie as to him and tried to get the account reconsidered. In response to the numerous inquiries, the probate judge furnishes the following facts in relation to the sale of intoxicating liquers in Labette county: There are 24 drug stores in the county.

Of that number, 16 have permits to sell intoxicating liquors. Of the eight which have no permits, two have not applied, one discontinued the sule of liquors and as to the other fiye, permits have been either revoked or withheld. Permite were also refused to a large number of persons who would have opened drug stores and gone into the business if they could have procured permits to sell liquors. The sales of intoxicating liqors made by the druggists having permits, as shown by the returns made by them to the probate judge for the months of June, July and August, are 40 per cent. less than the sales made during the corresponding months of 1885.

The total number of applications filed with the probate judge during the month of August was 3,025. The population of the county is about 30,000, thus making the sales during the month one to about each ten persons of the tire population of the county. -Chetopa Advance. While visiting the yearly meeting of the old Fashioned Friends of on Tuesday night Wis met Mr. Nathan Cook of West Grove Pa.

(near Philadelphia) He stated that he was with E. K. Hobson at Black Water Junction, 11 miles from Ux bridge. Canada, on July 3d 1886, when Dr. Hobson met Harry Lawton.

He says he was traveling with Dr. Hobson. That while waiting for the train at the Junction: he saw two men earnestly talking and watching him. When he looked squarely at them they turned away, but were soon gazing at him. Mr.

Cook went into car and was joined by Dr. Hobson, who immediately said. pointing to the two men that is Lawton of Columbas Kau. when Lawton wheeled on his heel. and entered another train though evidently intending to enter the car where Hobson and Cook were seated.

Mr. Cook has been at Columbus several times and although he did not know. him he thinks that Lawton and companion my have taken him for a detective. Mr. Cook firmly believes from all the circumstances that the man whom they saw was R.

H. Lawton. Mr. Cook is a very intelligent man of about 60 years of age and feels very sanguine that Lawton was the man whom they saw, judging from all the manouvers. On returning from Quakervale, we met county attorney Stockslager who was enronte to procure Mr.

Cook's affidavit. We give the facts as recited by Mr. Cook. in presence of C. W.

Harvey and others. Too much cannot be said in favor of the good faith and honesty of both Dr. Hobson and Mr. Cook, Still they may be mistaken. GALENA, Oct.

10, 1886. ED. Prohibitionist: I see in the Short Creek Republican that L. C. Weldy accused Cy Harvey of lying when he stated that there were tifty drunken men in Galena on September 18.

Mr. Harvey did not lie. There were that many if not more, and Mr. L. C.

Weidy knows it too. 1 have been talking with one of the. sisters of the I. 0. G.

T. lodge of this city and she tells me thit the ladies (y Harvey ref rred to, will not deny telling Cy Harvey that there were fifty drunk men in Galena on September 18, Now Mr. Weldy would not have cared it Mr. Harvey had said that there were fifty drunk men in the back alleys in Galena on September 18. Mr.

Weldy is like the old woman who told her boys if they wanted to play marbles on Sunday to go in the back yard, and one of the boys wanted to know it was'nt Sunday in the back yard. TIBBS. L. C. Weldy puts the words the street' and -I saw 50 men drunk" in the statement made by C.

W. Harvey abont the drunkenness in Galena, and then howls abont its falsehood. When if he had confessed himself to what C. W. Harvey did say "that a lady delegation of the W.

C. T. U. informed him that $50 men were drunk in Galena on the 1Sth of Sept," there would haye been no canse for his charges. At this time C.

W. Hurvey was in Jewel and never told any man that he saw any body drunk. If the situation of the republican party in Cherokee Co. demands ten articles per week all based on Weldy's own statements, directed against C. W.

Harvey it indicates that the republicans now believe that the prohibition ticket is almost elected in Cherokee Co. Will Judge Richardson please explain how it is that Sam Smith, after having been convicted of selling whisky illegally, and after appealing to him for a permit and denying it, now has a permit from him. What induced the good judge to thus favor Sam Smith? We do not blame Sam Smith for wanting a permit, but it discounts all our calculation in guessing even how Sam got his permit. Has ram got A letter from George that was written shortly after the fine suggesting that a permit would help Sam out? We do not know anything abont it, but are feeling around. Yon cant answer this by saying Van Bennett published the Copperhead.

Its that permit we are asking abont. Keep it before the people that the cost of criminal prosecutions for the last year to the people has been from 5 to 10 thousand dollars and one man connected with the forgery cases has been convicted and the prosecuting evidence came out of Bennett, Lewis Bennett's safe, and was known by many six months before Gayigan was arrested, A deteetive was paid 8 dollars a day and expenses and the result. after costing the county from 5 to 10 thousand dollars, is the conviction of the least guilty man of the whole outfit. Gavigan was made the scape goat and the county robbed. M.

M. Propst at Hallowell, Oct. 9th, 1886, of Typhoid fever, aged 25 years. Mr. Propst was one of our most successful teachers.

He was born in Vermillion connty Indiana, had been a member of the M. E. church for 6 years and leayes a wife and one child. He was an estimable citizen a square temperance man and will be missed in the community. Funeral was held on Sunday last at Hallowell.

Wanted! Wanted! A man and wife without children to work fann. Good house and water. For terms. inquire at the office of the Kansis PROEIRIBITIONIST. Columbus, K.as.

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D. New York, says: -I am convinced that Prof. Darby's Prophylactic Fluid is a most valnable disinfectant." Not Satisfied. The enemies of Van Bennett are circulating the story that, asked a man to vote for him, and the reply was I can not, for if you are elected yon will prosecute me." To which it is reported that Bennett said "I promise to not pros cute you if you will vote for me." Now if this is true the name of the man should be given. that would settle it.

Bennett never said such a thing or made such a promise and the inan or woman who repeats it. states a deliberate falsehood. Publication Notice. OF KANSAS, ss. CHEROKEE COUNTY, M.

E. Killmer, Plaintiff'. VS. Charles E. Killmer, Defendant.

In the District cont of Cherokee county, Kansas. To charles E. Killmer, defendant Yon are hereby notifierl that you have been sued in the above named court by E. Killmer; that the plaintiff has tiled her petition on the 3d day of September. 1886.

in the district court of Cherokee countyKansas, praying for a divorce, on the grounds of abandonment and cruelty, and hat she may have the care and custody of the children of said marriage. That unless you answer said petition 011 or before 'the 22d day of November, 1886. judgment will be taken against you divorcing her. and for other and further relief, as the court may think proper. Dated this 8th day of October, 1886.

M. V. B. BENNETT, Atty. for Plaintif'.

Attest: J. A. WHITCRAFT, clerk of the Dist. court. Farmers' and Laborers' Convention.

The Farmers and Laborers' convention met on Saturday. Elected L. J. Douglass chairman and W. E.

Tarkington as secretary. 'The committee on order of business recommended a full ticket and a divorce from the old parties and report was adopted. The committee on resolutions presented three resolutions: 'The first was about as follows: "Resolved. That we are in favor of all wise and legal measures for the suppression of the liquor traffic." This occasioned a lively discussion, but on the assurance of Frank McDowell that it did not mean anything it was passed by a vote of 50 to 35. 'The miners generally voted no and the farmers aye.

The two other resolutions were for reduction of salaries and an arraignment and condemnation of all who are responsible for the special court house law and its enforcement. These two were passed unanimous. ly. The following ticket was nominated: For representative of the 26th distrtet E. T.

Macy, a very clever citizen of Lola township. For representative in the 27th district. Thomas Barrett was nominated after the withdrawal of the name of H. S. Hiner.

W. M. Horner, of Sheridan, was nominated for district clerk after the names of Jas. McDonald and J. H.

Hamilton were stricken from the list of nominees because they were old party candi-: dates. W. E. Turkington was nominated for probate judge. The liveliest fight was on county attorney.

The vote stood as follows: G. Webb 41; Van Bennett 27: J. F. McDowell 2, and Payton York 2. Miss Short was nominated unanimously for county superintendent, on the ground that she was a most competent woman, and not a politician and a candidato for a nonpolitical office.

The convention was composed of about 100 delegates. At times it was stormy, but it became settled enough to give us a tourth county ticket in the field. From what we can judge the delegates will vote about as they please. The following is a list of letters in the P. at Kansas, titcalled for, at close of work ending pt.

29th, P. r. Slackle, acting P. M. Brown.

F. Barnes, G. M. Carr. N.

C. Davis. Dr. Davis. Clara A.

Gee. Alice Horney, Samuel Jackson. Jerry Jenkins, B. F. Kennaly John Mexton.

M. L. Murphy. Katy Nickles, Clara Oliver, D. W.

Pickett, W. T. Prinsley Hi ury Scott, Emira Sheets, J. C. Sheets, F.

Snyder, Wm. L. Smith, Murtie Smith. Maria Sigler, Anna Thomas, R. A.

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No Democrat Ought to be Elected. A democratic county officer refuses to furnish a certified copy of the detective's itemized bill allowed by the commissioners in which the county is made to pay for beer and cigars. On the 13th of this month Van Bennett in presence of Jones of Baxter Springs tendered to the deputy county clerk three dollars an I demanded a certifed copy of McFarland's bill against the county and the deputy said he could not And it. Bennett replied that three snch bills could not be lost unless purposely lost. Election Tickets.

Our prohibition friends will ser.d us the names of the candidates for towrship officers. Township candidates who want their names printed on tickets should see us before we get out county tickets. The tickets will be very long this year and will require great care, H. L. SIMMONS.

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