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THE MAYFIELD VOICE. LYMAN NAUGLE. At War with Class Legislation and Mal-administration. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR VOL. 2.

MAYFIELD, KANSAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1894. NO. 5, Burchfield is very sick. Grandpa Dr. practicing D.

medicine in our locality. E. Roberts is once more is suffering from the effects dry weather. Pasture is very Wheat of the short. are shelling corn for the Bishop farmers.

The crop is nothing extra this season. The concert at the opera house last Friday night was a grand home success. singers. Much praise the voices for any kind is due our of We an entertainment. We regret very "friend learn that our and worker, Geo.

Puckett, is has helping left, to convert we the but know that he heathen in other places. time of peace prepare for war." "In I want to say to all good us Populists not to feel discouraged. Let Or'ganize one of the best here People's at Belle party clubs in the the the the state Plaine and discuss the issues intelli- and questions of the reading day gently. circulate our newspapers and Bring good matter to thinking. Let each along, get find one man that he people can and stay with him till he Populist reason with converts him and we will have everything our own way in We promise excellent music at these meetings club.

Let us hear from the brethren in regard to this matter by our glee and let get to work. Belle Plaine, Perth. The farmers are wishing for rain. Kate Grove is seriously ill Mrs. with erysipelas.

Grant Skaggs is up from the Strip promenading our streets. Will Davis says there is no music so pleasing to his ear as a piano. W. W. McBeth, of Wellington, is trying to organize a writing class at Perth.

Ed Whaley says the fish caught out of Shoo-fly creek are far superior to any caught elsewhere. We noticed a young man who lives not very far from Perth on his way home from Caldwell last Monday with some household furniture. Look out. boys, and make ready for a charivari. Lee Harrison met with a very bad accident last week.

Wh'e driving a steeple a small piece of on struck him in the right eye, the injury being sufficient to render him totally blind in said eye. The Union and Lutheran Sunday schools have united their forces for a grand entertainment for musical little folks on Christmas eve. The of the program will be under the part management of Prof. O. H.

Atte- berry. Cleardale. Dora Vaughn is slowly improving. Miss Versa Brock is numbered with the sick. Grandma Carpenter is reported as very sick.

The meeting closed at Floravale Sunday night. E. Droz, of South Haven, was in our burg Saturday. Miss Sallie Sanders, of Odessa, is visiting relatives in Cleardale. Mrs.

T. H. Wrignt bought the farm recently owned by W. M. Wartick.

B. F. Rhodes, of Avon, talked to the congregation at this place Sunday night. The meeting closed at Rome Sunday night and Bro. Gressom returned to his home in Missouri.

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. W. Harris, on Thursday of last week, a boy of the usual weight. A All parties doing well.

Misses Versa Brock, Elsie Osborn, Sarah Wharton and Viola Tennant spent Sunday with Miss Mollie Wright. Messrs. and Mesdames W. 0. Rosecrans, A.

L. Hurst and J. T. Wartick spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.

H. B. Osborn. Bloody Shirt in Alabama, M. W.

Howard, the Populist congressman from Alabama, who is also the author of "If Christ Came to Congress," spoke to a large audience last night. Those who went, says the World, expecting to see and hear a wild-eyed orator, with heaving breast and foam-flecked nostrils, were most agreeably disappointed in the mild, frank, even sweet, appearance of M. W. Howard, the Populist congressman from Alabama, just elected by 4,000 majority and soon to take his seat as the youngest member of the house. He told, in the most sarcastic way, how tue Democratic party had alienated the affections of the plain white people of the south.

They promised us cotton at ten cents and wheat at $1. A year and a half after they got in cotton was five cents and wheat hall Al dollar. But how they did plead with us just before the last election! How they talked about the suusy south and the old ragged federate soldier coming home armless from the will'. and the old, old, Democratic party! But a man doesn't vote for sentiment when his children are barefooted and his pockets are empty. And the result is that the solid south is broken, thank God, and the south sends only ninety Democratic con- gressmen, and at least twenty of them will be ousted in contests.

The Populists will have at least twenty congressmen and I don't donbt that it will be nearer forty." "We carried the last two elections, but the Democrats have counted us out." "Why you kill 'em?" Inquired a hoarse voice in the rear of the room. "Because they're not prepared to die," "There replied are the quick- sixty-six witted counties speak- in Alabama, and sixteen of them are known as the "Black belt" because there are sixty five thousand voters in it and fifty thousand of them are negroes. We carried nearly every white county, because in the white As we had learned tricks in the counties there are honest, elections. previous election, we planned to keep them from cheating in the black counties. We urged the negroes in those counties not to result only 3,000 votes registeristered.

Then we thought we had teem, because we thought they would not dare roll up the count if the registration books gave them lie. But its mighty hard to beat an Alabama Democrat. In the sixteen black counties the Democrats had absolute charge of the election machinery, and they rolled up 48,000 majority for their candidates in the Black belt. "In Wilcox county the registration was less than 800, yet Wilcox gave the Democratic candidate for governor 6,000 majority. In one precinct, where we have the affidavits of five white men that the polling place was not even they gave 371 votes for the Democrat and one for us.

How generous they were to us! In Dallas county we managed to get the registration list after election and found that 2,300 voters were registered, yet Dallas gave the Democrats 6,000 majority. You may why we don't contest. The answer is simple. is no contest law in Here's Your Mule. The Star made a few wise remarks concerning the bond issue in its issue of Nov.

15, which the VOICE desires to notice. It said: "This may be the best the secretary of the treasury can do under existing laws. If it is, the laws need to be modified. A bond is nothing more nor less than a promissory note of the government, which bears interest. The treasury note, in general circulation, is the promissory note of the same government, which does not bear interest.

If the secretary of the treasury could issue this $50,000,000 in treasury (promissory) notes in denominations of $1.00 and upwards, redeemable in coin at the expiration. of ten years, without interest. thousands of people all over the country who would be glad to take them at par." For saying the same thing Populists are characterized (during campaigns) as cranks and hair-brained theorists, with wheels in their heads, who know no more about national finances than a heathen about the Sabbath; who are admonished by such men as the editor of the Star that they should "go back to their farms and their work shops and let men of brainslawyers, editors and bankers-statesmen, if you please--attend to these mighty matters of state." But listen to the farther prating of this new, "wild-eyed" Greenbacker: believe the greater part, if not all, of the bond indebtedness of the United States can be treated in the same manner." There is no question that every employe of the United States would gladly accept them in payment of their claims and they would pass current among all the people. As time passed they would get to be at a premium, be locked up and force gold into circulation. We don't know nor care whether these views are those advocated by any political partv.

We believe them to be practicable and that the adoption in of this theory would be a great help bringing about a satisfactory monetary system." The election being over, Republican editors now have possession of their souls and their time, common sense is allowed full play until another campaign comes. The VOICE has not published all the article. The Star thinks these notes should bear one-half of one per cent interest. Why any interst? Who would stop to compute one-half of one per cent interest on a dollar in currency for the length of time he would use it? It would be just as good without interest. However, we shall not dispute over that point.

If the editor of the Star will get his party to carry out his programme, we guarantee that there will be few Populists left to contend on that question. But there's the rub. He will find an unalterable objection among the banking fraternity of the east to issuing so much currency the same spirit that prevented the passage of the service pension bill (so admitted in correspondence by Major Morrill) and dozens of other good measures. About 90 per cent of his party will be lined up against it as in the past. Tuesday the trial of the case of the state of Kansas Vs.

Anderson Gray was commenced in the district court. This will prove to be one of the most notable legal contests ever tried in this county. The defendant, Anderson Gray is widely known, especially in the northwestern part of the county and in this city. For years he has been an extensive farmer in Eden township, owning large tracts of land, farming and raising stock on a large scale and employing many men. During his residence here he has had several suits in the courts which attracted very general attention and comment.

He now stands charged with murder in the first degree. On the 5th of May, 1894, one Thomas Patton was shot ard killed in the public highway near Gray's house. There seems to be no doubt that Thos. McDonald, who was working for Gray at the time and is indicted with him, fired the fatal shot. But McDonald swore at the preliminary hearing that he did so at the instigation of Gray.

The two defendants are being tried separately and Gray Was first placed on trial. The prosecution is being conducted by County Attorney C. J. Garver, assisted by Messrs. Elliott Woods who have been employed by private parties.

Gray is defended by Hon. W. E. Stanley, of Wichita, and Messrs. W.

W. Schwinn and James Lawrence of the Wellington bar. The legal talent on either side is such as to guarantee that all the evidence will be extracted from the witnesses and that every advantage given by the law will be utilized to its fullest extent. After the defendant's motion for a continuance had been overruled, the the selection of a jury was commenced Tuesday afternoon. A majority of the regular panel of jurors were disqualified by reason of having formed opinions of the guilt or innocence of the defendant from what they had heard or read about the case.

When the county attorney had found twelve men whom the state could "pass for cause," the panel was exhausted and as the defendant's attorneys had not examined them at all, Judge Burnett issued a venire for thirty-six talismen and adjourned court until Wednesday morning. The forenoon was consumed in further efforts to secure a jury. At noon each side had used two of their pre-emptory challenges. The state still has four and the defense ten challenges. It is not probable that a jury will be secured today.

Court adjourned Wednesday evening until after Thanksgiving. The Queen of Comedies, "Jane." The State vs. Anderson Gray. is to be presented at the opera house Friday nightis the most successful and funniest of the Frohman comedies yet presented. The amusem public of the east in all the principal cities, have done the proper thing in applauding this exceedingly funny will be recalled that it is of English origin, but is thoroughly American in spirit.

The lines which were received with favor during the extended run of the comedy in London would hardly strike American audiences with the same laughter provoking effects they produced in the murky theatrical atmosphere across the water, so Mr. William Gillette, the best of all adaptors, has "Americanized" the play. Now its humor is of the bright. laconic quality, and ludicrous situations follow each other in swift seqnence. Of course, the incidents of "Jane" are not taken from real life, and several of its situations have been utilized in other comedies, bus never, it is claimed, to such mirthful advantage.

The character of "Jane" is that of a calculating and shrewd English housemaid, who pretends to be her master's wife, so as to deceive the trustee of an estate conditionally paying money to the master in question. The cast is in every way a competent one, and includes among its members those who have made the play famous. The Moody Concert. Tuesday night, the people of ington listened to one of the grandest musical concerts ever heard in this city. Many have pronouuced it the finest quartette music ever rendered in their hearing here or elsewhere.

This is saying much to the credit of the famous Moody quartette, as the people of Wellington have been favored in the past with such world renowned quartettes as "The Eriel-Thomas," "The Swedish Quartette," etc. The harmony was perfect and held the I vast audience in breathless silence while the blend of the talented voices made melody unsurpassed. The quartette selections which seemed to capture the fancy of the audience most, were the jolly college songs, and the serious and sublime closing number, "Remember Now Thy Creator." At the rendition of the latter selection, the listeners were ready to pronounce the quartette the superior of all. As deserving of special mention as the quartette music, were the beautiful solos so admirably rendered by Messrs. Davis, McDowell and P.

W. Goldsbury. Never have soloists given more universal satisfactson before a Wellington audience. These young men established a reputation here for solo work whi hi no one save possibly Miss Yaw, could ever hope to command by past efforts. Every effort of the soloists, as well as of the tette, was loudly applauded and enthusiastically encored, and every time they reappeared with something more beautiful or entertaining.

Besides the musical program, no one has ever so well entertained a Wellington audience by comic impersonation as did R. S. Goldsbury. His first selection of a beginner's class in elocution brought down the house, and each effort of his met with a loud applause which could only be quelled by an encore. He was one of the funniest men we have ever seen.

He recited that old favorite of James Whitcomb Riley's writings, "That Old Sweetheart of Mine," in a manner never before heard in this city. His surcess as an impersonator is assured and his present reputation here nannot well be excelled. The entertainment that evening was played to a house crowded to its fullest capacity, and we believe not one of the hearers was in the least dissatisfied. The next attraction of the course will be given by the Levy Grand Concert Co. on December 11.

A Wedding. A Wedding. Wednesday last at 4:30 o'clock, Rev. J. W.

McLaughlin united in marriage Mr. E. C. Gifford and Miss Cloa Ferguson at the home of the bride on West Eighth street. The ceremony was very impressively rendered.

and was witnessed by the immediate relatives only of the contracting parties. The bride was the recipient of some very fine and useful presents which will be highly prized and among which was a very costly and beautiful banquet lamp sent to her from St. Louis by her brother, Elmer. The happy couple left over the 5:50 Santa Fe rain north for two week's trip after which they will occupy their home at Cleo Springs, O. T.

The groom, Mr. E. C. Gifford is a farmer and cattle raiser and is a very honest, estimable young man, with hosts of friends wherever he is known He is a graduate of Winfield and Emporia colleges. The bride needs no introduction: here.

Her enviable qualities have made her the friend of this entire community. She is a true lady in every respect. The Coal Find. There is now no doubt among those who have understandingly examined the prospects for coal on the M. Carriger farm near Corbin, that the coal is there.

We have had the pleasure of visiting this place and although we do not profess to be any judge of coal finds yet the substance removed by the drill looks much like coal. The company now drilling has reached the depth of 140 feet with 180 feet farther to drill before they strike the vein first found by Mr. Carriger himself. An expert has examined the indications for coal and pronounces them good, even better than those of many rich coal finds. The people of that neighborhood are joyful over present prospects, all seeming to be confident of success in their new venture.

If the tind proves profitable, the whole country will have cause to be jovful. F. A. Dinsmore was up from South Haven Tuesday looking after criminal cases he is defending. The prosecation seems to be having a troublesome time to get a charge that satisfies themselves against his client, Skinner, the alleged forger.

He says four several prosecutions have been commenced against his man and each one dismissed, and still Skinner is in jail awaiting a preliminary hearing on a charge of forgery. That soft, rich, glossy sheen. so much admired in hair, can be secured by the use of Ayer's Hair Vigor. All the assistance that nature requires to make the hair strong, beautiful and abundant, is supplied by this excellent preparation. County Sunday Schools.

We print below the program for the County Sunday School association to be held at the Presbyterian church in this city Thursday and Friday, Dec. 6 and 7. It is a fine program throughout and our citizens who attend will be highly entertained and instructed. THURSDAY EVENING. 7:30 Song Service.

Bible promises for Sunday-School workers. Everybody bring one. 8:00 Better use of the Bible. Papers ten minutes each. (a) In study of the lesson, Rev.

E. C. Jacka. (b) In personal conversation, Rev. B.

F. Pugh. (c) In family worship, Rev. A. Henderson.

(d) In teaching the lesson, Rev. J. F. Black. FRIDAY MORNING.

9:00 Opening Service. Prayer, Praise and Conference Acts 1, 4-6. Rev. E. J.

Brown, Pres. Co. Ass'n. Business. Appointment of committees.

(a) Enthusiasm, D. J. Downing (b) Sympathy, Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell. (c) Illustrations, G.

M. Shanton 11:00 Six Essentials of a Sundav-school J. F. Drake. 11:40 Efficient County Organization, W.

L. DeGroff. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. 2:00 Devotional Exercises, led by R. H.

Cozand. 2:30 The Teacher's Meeting, C. W. Eby. 3:00 Instrumenta' Music, H.

Vandenfamily. 3:10 Symposium on best primary methods, Mrs. Frank Ellis. 3:40 Question box. State Secretary.

4:00 Business. Reports and election of officers. FRIDAY EVENING. 7:30 Song service and Instrumental Music, Hiram, Fred and Myron Vandenburg, and Miss Nannie Barnett. 7:45 The Sunday-school a civilizing and enlightening power, W.

L. DeGroff. 8:10 Song. Clavonia Quartette, Fred Vandenburg, Frank and George Clay, and Orville Frantz. 8:15 Sunday-schools of China, Rev.

R. L. McNabb. An Election Tangle. A peculiar mistake occurred in canvassing the election returns of Dixon township.

Wilkes E. Bozman and James McClure were rival candidates for justice of the peace. Bozman received 84 votes to McClure's 79 and each man's vote was tallied correctly but when the election officers came to make out their certificates they reported Bozman's vote as 74. In vassing the returns the board of county commissioners, in order to catch any errors made by the election boards, wen back to the tally sheets. But singularly enough they made the same identical mistake on Bozman's vote that the election board did and called it 74.

Consequently when they came to check up by the election judges certificates the two ed. A certificate of election was issued to McClure, but the mistake was discovered and Mr. McClure voluntarily surrendered his certiflcate. Goes to Wichita. Wellington has lost one of her best citizens.

Mr. E. A. B'ack, who for several years was with J. J.

Augustine removed last Thursday to Wichita. Mr. Black's friends are not confined to Wellington. He has many acquaintances and a large number of intimate friends throughout the county. He is an honorable, upright member of society and a straight forward capable business man.

He and his estimable family will be missed in the various circles of Wellington. Mr. Black's brother (the father of Garfield Black) is pastor of South Lawrence Christian church in Wichita, and itis through his influence that he goes to Wichita. He is not certain as to his future ployment yet, but hopes to command something. The best wishes of all Wellington goes with Mr.

Black and his family, Arrests. Several young men and boys, who were implicated in the disturbance which led to the late fatal shooting by Webster have been arrested and warrants for several more have been issued. Warrants are out for the following persons: Frank Lyltle, Stark, Joe Brown, S. Heiser, R. Heiser, D.

Hardenbrook, Frank and Del Cousins, H. Brown and R. Brown, D. Mayfield. Jack Long, Walter Dick and Mack Tucker.

Anarchial Principles. Another editor came near taking his eternal flight from earth thei other day, because he expressed self too freely. T. J. Irwin, editor of the Pond Creek Leader, has, for some time, been advocating the removal of the county seats of county, O.

to Medford, and before the election he also upheld the Independent party of that district, contrary to the wishes of many. He was several times warned to desist or leave the town. He, however, continued, until the other night some one threw a bomb or some deadly explosive into his office, where he was sleeping, undoubtedly with the intention of killing him. Editor Irwin was badly stunned and lay unconscious for some time upon the floor. When he became conscious he saw the room in flames and his escape completely cut off.

He could reach neither a door nor a window. It seemed that he must burn. He is a powerful man. and summoning all his strength doubled by desperation, he picked up a heavy trunk and threw it through the wall of the frame building, and then quickly crawled out through the hole thus made. His office was a complete wreck.

Mr. Irwin is known to some of our citizens, and no matter what principles he advocated, his treatment was no better than an- archy. Morris Township's Tax. County Clerk Sadler is spending his nights correcting the tax levies of Morris township. As was stated in these columns recently W.

M. White. trustee of Morris township made mistake in levying township taxes this year making the levy thirteen instead of three mills. A special meeting of the board of commissioners was held last, Satutday and after Mr. White had explained to then how the error occurred, thev made an order abating ten mills of the tax upon Mr.

White's agreeing to pay the county clerk's charges, $20 00, for making the corrections necessary in the tax rolls. The thirteen mills levy made an average township tax of $7.00 upon each quarter section of land in the township. Two Million Votes. Two million votes cast for the People's party and righteousness! In view of the above facts, the battle is still on, until victory is won, "henceforth, now and forever." There will be a meeting of the People's party county central committee held at the VOICE office in Wellington, Saturday, Dec. 8, 1894, at 1:30 p.

m. Let every member be present to help adjust matters of the past campaign and to make preparations for a vigorous campaign for the next two years. The great vote our party received means something. The future is ours. A.

C. LAMBE, Pres. J. K. MOORE, Sec'y.

Surprised. Friday night about twenty members of the D. of H. lodge of the A.O.U.W. of this city took it upon themselves to surprise the Widow Pierce, one of their members living about five and a half miles southeast of the They drove out rather early in the evening and completely surprised the object of their plans.

They took out plenty of oysters with them and resolved the occasion into one of those old time oyster suppers, and a grand good time was spent until a late hour. Not until 3 or 4 o'clock this morning, did the party of visitors arrive again within the city. The Daseovery Saved His Life. Mr. G.

Caillouette, Druggist, Bea- versville, says: "To Dr. King's New Discovery I owe my life. Was taken with la grippe and tried all the physicians for miles about, but of no avail and was given up and told I could not live. Having Dr. King's New Discovery in my store I sent for a bottle and began its use, and from the first dose began to get better, and after using three bottles was up and around again.

It is worth its weight in gold. We won't keep store or house without it." Get a free trial at F. B. Snyder's drug store. Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

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Snyder. The numerous cures of rheumatism by the use of the old standard bloodpurifier, Ayer's Sarsaparilla. show conclusively that it is an effective remedy, if not indeed the specitic, for this most painful and persistent of maladies. What has cured otners will also cure you. Martin and Stupy the two men who stole articles from a racket store at Belle Plaine last spring, today guilty and were given each in the penitentiary..