The Searchlight from Arkansas City, Kansas • 1

Plf iif "tT A RARM.SS:CITYi PER YEAR. ARKANSAS (TIT, KANSAS, 'Fill DAY, OCT. 121906. VOL. 2.

NO. 10. There is an effort being made to Getting Lonesome. Sheriff Wei felt is getting lone disorganize the Civic league by tion so that we are compelled to do so. A hint to the wise ought to be sufficient.

some these days up at the county jail, and has ample time to look The Joint Raid. Last Saturday night Officer C. after his political fences until after the election. There is not a II. Peek, undersheriff, and Thos.

criminal now in the Cowley county Barker, deputy constable under J. M. Backer, executed search and seizure warrants upon the places located at 217 South Summit Every once in awhile we are forced to ask ourselves the question, "Has the republican Cowley county central committee a chair-manor not?" If the committee has a chairman, he had better wake the committee up and do business from now until election day if he desires to make a show- ing in the county on the republican side. Traveler, Your fight on 1. Campbell and C.

M. Scott for postmaster practically killed 'the republican central committee and crippled to a bad string-halt the republican party in this city and the county. If the forecast doesn't look just right to you, it is a matter of your own choosing and the patient, although a very sick' one, Will probably be able to get to the polls and vote 'er straight. ot 20, block 81, known as Roch- ford's place, and in the basement vt. of the building immediately west of the Midland hotel.

Albeit statements to the effect that it is a political election affair. Is is also said that the editor of the Searchlight is a It is true that the writer is a democrat of the genuine old fashioned type, but we want to say now that we are not running a partisan newspaper, and if we are not supporting some candidate you think we ought to support, come and see us and we will readily tell you our reasons for not doing so, and we will give yon our reason for supporting each and every candidate that we are supporting. We are publishing a paper in the interests of temperance, good laws, law enforcement, the advocacy of good Christian citizenship, for the home, the church and the school against the saloon and its- attendant evils, and not playing around any political goose pond. Blanchard, better known as jail. Three inmates are confined there under sentences for violation of the liquor law, and were it not for these inmates the county jail would be without a prisoner.

This is the condition during a Cowley county joint war closing for five months. Look over the files of the daily papers of Arkansas City and you will find the police court fines for drunkenness have decreased much more than half. With this condition of affairs and the taxpayers with a gain to the tune of about 20j0()0, we would ask, does the Frenehy," was in possession at 217, together with several large bottles of genuine beer and whiskey, and Peek captured the layout. Blanchard gave bond for his appearance before Judge Walton next Tuesday at 9 o'clock- At the Midland place C. Lewis was Tried to Kill Attorney.

An attempt was made to.assassi-nate Judge M. Yoder, an attor-ney of Chepalis, by blow-ing his house up with dynimite on 1 he 10th inst. The dynamite tore a hole eight feet long and three feet wide in the floor along the side of the bedstead, where the judge and his wife were sleeping. The couple were thrown onto the floor. Although painfully bruised, neither received serious injury.

The judge was recently threatened because of his part' in a divorce case, We know of some people who seem to believe that lawyers should be shot because they practice their profession, and others who take the liberty of trying to blacken the futuie of any man who does not allow them to dictate what they do and when and how they should do it. There are certain fellows in Arkansas City who are paving the way for a job lot of exposures, and if they force it, they must be prepared to meet the consequences before the public. There are some of the dirtiest, dastardly, cowardly schemes being resorted to by certain enemies of Arkansas City who, under the guise of pretended friends to the city, are causing, and will continue to cause, discord, who belong to the same class as the dynamite bug, the assassin, the midnight marauder, thug and skunk. These fellows are known, and they are not altogether joint men, either, A joint man is a credit to the public pander of immorality and boodle, and all that we ask is that when they joint war look like pauperizing the taken in custody together with about two cases of beer No county? whiskey was found at this place Republican editors draw the We believe in the churches, we and when Tom Barker entered the color line in Oklahoma. The meet believe in preachers, we believe in place Lewis was engaged in break ing of the Third congressional district republican press association the beautiful gospel of love and ing bottles, supposed' to contain Nick Simion, a jointsst of Crawford county, is a candidate for register of deeds of that county on the republican ticket, so says the Kansas City Star.

Nick will probably be elected, as Crawford county is in about the condition with reference to jointists that Western Kansas was some yeai ago. A Missouri farmer lost a fine span of horses and found them in Western Kansas, and after taking his neighbors from his old home as witnesses and proved the peace, and good will toward men whiskey. He too was taken with of Oklahoma was held in Muscogee a short time ago, there being the goods before Judge Walton and trial set for the same day as on earth; but we do not believe in church aristocracy, church clan-ishness, church favoritism, church bigotry and church selfishness. Neither do we believe that our church is the only church on earth, and our preacher the only pebble on the beach, and neither do we jury decided against believe in constantly soft-soaping the preacher for an official position in the church. These things that of "Frenchy." There is some selling going on but it is little, and great care is taken to not have any quantity of either beer or whiskey on hand.

The joint men realize that they are licked, and some of them are only waiting to get loose from bonds for appearance before the next term of the district court to leave Arkansas City for good. The November term of the district court will virtually settle the joints and bawdy houses in Arkansas City for some time to come. do not count for much with us. a full attendance. After a banquet at the Turner hotel at noon the association got down to business.

Resolutions were passed providing for separate schools, separate coaches and waiting rooms for negroes, and protesting against the nomination of negroes to elective offices over the whites-Kansas is edging up to the same thing and for years has been leading worthy colored men up to the trough, but keeping the check rain sufficiently tight as io not allow them to drink. If the colored man will unite with the Civic league and try nonpartisan-ship, he would force a recognition of himself that would bring about results favorable to him attaining something, We, believe that God is no inspec tor of persons; that a woman are ready to throw the boom, shoot at or slug, that we be given just time enough to see the man behind K1 the gun, Some threats have recently been him. His explanation when interrogated was that the thieves had the majority. Governor E. W.

Hoch spoke in Highland hall Wednesday night to a large aud attentive audience. The governor explained to the voters the text book problem and the Raty suit, and changed the tune of a number of republicans who Wednesday were abusing him but who were sufficiently enlightened to begin to see that in state matters there are other and more important things than the mere question of joint revenue. We have not the time nor space this late in the week to take up the matter in detail. While out in Silverdale town-ship this week we talked with a number of voters and from what we learned O. S.

Gibson will carry that township by the largest majority ever recoided. Those who are acquainted with Mr. Gibson, irrespective of politics, are for him because of his honorable career. made against us and we are ad Last Tuesday night H. S.

Hines addressed a good sized audience at Silverdale school house and perfected an organization of the Civic league with thirteen members, composed of the leading farmers of that vicinity. A general good time was had after the speaking, vised to look out. The men who 'J 4 publicly advises shooting or thug ging are responsible for these things coming to pass, and we shall recognize, this measure and give fair warning now that should wearing a calico dress is as good as a woman with a bilk dress; that a poor man is as good as a rich man, and that all stand on an equality with God, if they have pure christian characters. -Walnut Eagle. W.

L. Cunningham is making a vigorous campaign for representative of the 55th district and is making votes wherever he goes. Cunningham is one of those sturdy young men who has forged to the front from obscurity to his present public position by honesty and his integrity. There will be a Civic league meeting at Maple City next Tuesday night. Speeches by several members.

H. S. Hines and Sol. L. Long will discuss the liquor question.

Everybody invited. Six inches of sleet and snow throughout the New England states at this time of the year, makes one think of Uncle Billy's goose-bone prediction of an early and a hard winter. and we have to say that while a greater number of those present were young men, we have failed to find a more attentive and well behaved assembly, old or young. For bargains in furniturethe best for the least to Williams' Furniture Co. Sec ond hand Goods wanted.

212 South Summit Street, Arkansas City, Kansas. The democratic and republican candidates for justice of the peace and constables of Arkansas City who were nominated recently are such threats be carried out, ever.v person encouraging it stands amenable to the law of the land. This rumor may all be for a pur going to make the race. So also are the socialists, -Tom Roland and Eugene Cooper are the socialist candidates, and are both good men. Robt.

R. Hamilton, candidate on the republican ticket for reelection as clerk of the district court, is one of Cowley's foremost young men and lias tilled the office to the satisfaction of all those who have had occasion to visit his office. He has at all times been both accommodating and pleasant, knowing no favorites politically or otherwise. pose, but whether it was intended as i bluff or is really a matter to be carried out, we shaft pursue the even tenor of our way and will be on hard to carry out any pledge or undertaking regardless of all such threats. We are overlooking at present a good many things and shall take no notice of them unless we are placed in posi E.

D. Bowen, of the Third ward, will leave in a few days for the coast. We regret to lose Mr. Bowen. He has always been among the foremost workers in law enforcement, and is a good citizen.

i Don't forget to register. Up to this time but six hundred are in good standing,.