The Arbitrator from Parsons, Kansas • 1

THE ARBITRATOR THE ARBITRATOR M. BYRNE, Editor and Publisher. M. liYIiNK, IMitor 1 THE FARMERS AND LABORERS ADVOCATE. TEE BEST 1DYIRISIIG MEDIUM II TEE WM Published Every Friday.

THE BALLOT BOX IS THE SUPREME ARBITRATOR. Terms made known on application. Ho. 7. TERMS U' VVM YEAR.

PARSOHS, KANSAS, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 22, 18 86. Yol. 1. somo vile ruffian who is naturally evil minded, a law-breaker and a uilL FIRE! and all over the West.

They have yards all over Southern Kansas at Kansas City, Springfield, Topeka, In connection with the mines is a large store at which most of the miners do black-hearted hypocrite, who cloaks -J2L. HQJ-1L 0. M. Woodruff, DEALER IN General Merchandise. Johnsons and Central Avenues, PARSONS, KANSAS.

his nefarious purposes and designs under some specionsgarb. A Uriah their trading. The company arc now beep, with eys nplipted to heaven Its History? Popula erecting a large brick building in Veir and his hands in his neighbors pock Visit the enormous Insurance Companies' for mercantile purposes. It will be fifty tion and Resources. ets.

With malico in his heart unJ by one hundred and twenty feet, and will be completed in January. The 3JU J. X. CORNELIUS. V.

II. PORTER. CORNELIUS PORTER, Real Estate, rnsurance, Collecting: Loan Agents Opp. Masonic Temple. Central Avonue.

KANSAS. n' cted at Low Rates of Interest. do so by the nature of his business. "WEIR CITY BANK. This is a private banking establishment, established the first of April test.

It is the only bank in Weir City. It is composed of the firm of A. Cragin Son. These gentlemen are from Dubuque Iowa, and are investing their money here. The bank, in a few weeks, will occupy a fine, two-story brick, built for this purpose.

They loan money on real estate throughout Cherokee and Crawford counties. S. B. ABBOTT. Mr.

Abbott is the proprietor of the blue front bakery and restaurant. He is a young man of energy and affability and is well satisfied with the prospects of the town. His business includes that of dealer in fancy groceries and produce. The store is on Main Street. C.

W. HOAG CO. Druggists. They carry a full line of smelting works are supplied with coal from these mines. A.

B. Cockerill is the general manager in Weir. Principal Business Houses, Kail-roads, -AT lust in his countenance. Such a man would naturally argue that there is neither right nor wrong except as it may be made servicable to his party. That to employ tho scumot the guttlers and he outcasts of society in the dictations of violations of the whisky law is both excusable and commendable.

In the wild excitement of fanaticisms we know that people sometimes lose their heads. Those who havo read the history oi French revolution remember tho notorious part taken by the women of Paris, who LYLKS WOOD, Iilacksinitliing Ifepair Shop. West Johnroi; Avenue. Eetwceii 21st St. and 22nd St.

PARSONS, KANSAS. bir the best and have only nineteen more days to nUxy. You will finest clothing in th! land for popular medicines and a well selected stock of drugs. They are doing a large 30 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR. H.

C. Sourbeer. Notary Public, Real Estate, Loan Insurance. Office lloomS, Kiirr Ruildinj. PARSONS, KANSAS.

business, have been in Weir City four years, and in the county twelve years. You an it-k your friends wnd neighbor and they will inform you of this fact. KEITH PERRY COAL COMPANY. This company was formerly called the Bovard Dickson, and was purchased by the present management in February 188G. The officers are R.

II. Keith, president; John Perry, of Ft Scott, vice-president and general manager; and E. E. Riley, secretary. The general superintendent is David Mackie of Scammonville.

The company own two shafts and run twenty-four bee-hive ovens. They employ about 250 men and their average monthly pay roll amounts to about $10,000 on one half time. They ship their coal over the Ft. Scott Gulf road. The general offices are at Kansas City.

The company also own other mines at Scammonville, Deep Water and Rich Hill. The product of the mines at Weir City is 12,000 bushels of lump coal per day, 4,000 bushels of nut and 11,000 bushels of stack for the same time. In connection with the mines there is also a store of which W. T. Seaward is the general manager.

Mr. P. W. Kent is the agent of the company at Weir. The coke ovens of the company produce 1,500 bushels per day.

THE WEIK CITY ZINC WORKS. To those who have never seen how zinc is made a visit to these works is an interesting sight. The buildings were Weir City is so called from old Father Weir, an early settler in this section. Most of the land in this vicinity was originally purchased f'om the Government by ames F. Joy." It comprised a great portion of what is now Cherokee and Crawford counties.

Joy deeded it to the Gulf Railroad Company. The town of Wreir was laid out about tho time the Zinc Smelting Works were established. First one lot then another was sold, and the town grew with the expansion of the works. In 1873 agen-tlamen by the name of Thompson organized the Chicago Zinc and Mining Company. In order to obtain the large supplies of coal needed in the production of the metal, the buildings and furnaces were erected near the mines.

The company commenced operations in 1873 and for a time were successful. Meeting with difficulties, they shut down in 187G and Weir City was almost completely abandoned. In 1877 the works were again started and have been running almost constantly ever since. The original plat of the town contained ten acres. Four additions have since been added.

The Pittsburg town company have added one, the Oswego Coal Com FRED W. DAUTII, Watchmaker, Jeweler -AND- WM. Q. MATHEWS Pres. Fine work a Specialty.

PARSONS, KANS. Dr. Hoag is also a practicing physician of well known skill and ability. L. W.

BLAISDELL Carries on the business of insurance and real estate, has a large amount of property constantly on hand, and maintains a correspondence with all those wishing to settle in this portion ot tho state. He is a gentleman of large and varied information and very accommodating. Has resided here a long time. SMITH COCKRAN. These gentlemen are druggists.

Have a full line of drugs, holiday goods and notions. Deal in mixed paints. Their store is on Main street. J. MORGAN, JR.

Mr. Morgan is the postmaster at Weir GKO. YOUNG, Sccv. unsexed themselves for tho time being. With every great moyement you will find the designing demagogue, who is not content with tho ordinary proceedures of law Ho argues that to reform tho people it ia necessary to use the hired spy, the paid detective, tho unscrupulous sneak- Such fellows usually have a rudo awakening.

The people in a little while will listen io reason. Common sense will assert itself, and the unscrupulous instruments of a debased policy will bo left to fester in their own venom cr cast off as useless excrescenses. Wc look to see the people of Parsons and those of the great state of Kansas once more returning to their tight mind, to the old fashioned laws of honesty, to the eode ol JL' gospel of Christ, and to pracl and usual method for the pur City Cental Rooms, W. R. McMANIGAL, D.

D. S. First class Work a Specialty. KIMBALL BLOCK, PARSONS, KAS. BE FOll TH pany, one; Dickens, one; and I City, and carries on.

in connection with Dr. A. E. Scheble, HOMEOPATHIC J. II.

C. Gross, one. Weir City, at present, contains a population of about 2,500, and is divided Physician Surgeon to' into three wards. The present mayor the postoffice a stationary Etore and cigar stand. He has been in Kansas ten or eleven years.

His store is the resort of the young men of the town. SOL. BIALOZTOZKI, Clothing 'house and gent's' furnishing goodsl A compact and neat store. Car- Only One Dollar a Year These who approved our piinciples can best show how much they sympathize with us by sending us their Subscription. Brown's Block, Parsons, Kansas.

first erected by the Chicago Zinc and Mining Company, who sold them to L. D. Boon, one of their stockholders. He conveyed them to his son-in-law, Mr. Gross, who held and operated them for six years until his death.

They are now in the hands of his administrator, Mr. A. B. Cockerell. The plant at Weir City is valued at $75,000 in which is in D.

J. Knox Barney; Marshal, Joseph Morgan. Police Judge, D. N. Long; PAT flEEKIN, of reform and the inculcation hriety and ttfmpt.

In City Attorney, J. F. McDowell. The ries a full line of gent's underwear, hats, member of the City Council are. A.

C. Long, E. Coes, Peter Smith, D. W. Has been in business htaivy- caps, I5oot Shoe Maker Special Attention paid to repairing.

All work guaranteed to be done with neatness and dispatch. CENTRAL AVENUE, but veal uvuiwve uny lasting results or vr and a half. cluded 1G0 acres of land upon which the Marks, G. F. Hadd and Ben Weir.

The town is situated in the northeastern psft curing aoouT what tnev so Karnest. ii fr. buildings stand. In the works there ramp. in.

washed his hands ly desire. HQ i- i Xext door to thd new Cigar Factory. sink ana sac aow iu iu fe V. are also tQv of Cherokee county, About, tjfiies from the Crawford county an( five miles from the Missouri tate line. It i.3 siKToiinded by a fine farmiiig UioUriwi i watch tnem a ullic Sells at cut rates Parsons Marble Works.

Wa as he sat on cup ol J' 'in i ink anrl rftnrt Lilna fhroo hniWa allu Will DUlM Up a gC ana retort kilns, three boilers up a four brick good trade. The Eighteenth Legislative District. p-resentivo from this Legislative Dh- tnct cannot be over estimated. Dealers in all kinds of Marble and Gran TnE CHICAGO HOUSE. The proprietors of this hotel, Messrs.

ite. Cemetery work a specialty. Competition Invited. lhere are a number of burning CEMTRAL AVENUE, PARSONS, KS. and two engines with the machinery necessary to carry on the works.

The daily consumptions twenty-five tons of ore for wrhich 2,000 bushels of coal are required, producing 19,00 pounds of spelter. This want to see everybodv inspect their new ip-A-ILiILj They beat the world in prices. questions which will come up at To N. M. SARGEANT, Prop.

peka, at tho next meeting of the company employs 175 men and have an state Legislature to be settled, our and a delightful rolling country. Hills and valleys, with beautiful streams of water render this one of the most picturesque sections of the state. The Memphis, Kansas and Colorado railroad, which ran to Weir, was laid out from Cherryvale through Parsons to Messer and built in 1878 or '79. It was originally a narrow guage and intended to connect with the San Francisco R. R.

On its purchase by the Ft. Scott Gulf railroad the guage was made of the M. BYRNE, average pay roll of $8,000 a month. There city is also greatly interested in Hargiss Pace, keep a neat, comfortable house and set an excellent table. Strangers coming to Weir City usually make the Chicago House their headquarters.

Their rooms are comfortable and neat, and the proprietors accommodating. This is an excellent house to stop at; the charges are reasonable and the guests afforded every facility in the way of easy access to the business portion of the town from the location of the hotel. Attorney at Law Avenue. KANSAS Johnson PARSONS, several financial matters of importance, in which it is involved by the are five coke ovens attached to the works, which manufacture their own coke. The company procure all their ore from Galena, Webb City and Jop-lin.

A ready market is found for the Parsons, Kan. DAN STAUTER'S metal all over the United States. B. Hanel is the present superintendent, C. standard width and the track fromWier to Messer abandoned.

The present connection of Weir is by a spin which Unfair Distribution B. Beaty, foreman, and Nachtschatt, bookkeeper. extravagance of the present party in power. It is a time for us to lay aside all party differences and unite in a hearty support of W. H.

Utley for the position. Our fight is an aggressive one. We have no defense to make of our candidate, for wo think none is needed. He is sound on all these poiBts which are of importance to the laboring man and Eureka Tonsorial Parlors, Hot and Cold Baths. Best Brand of Cigars.

Opposite Post Office, PARSONS, KANSAS. OF C. B. WITMAN. Mr.

C. B. Witman is one of the lead ing merchants of Weir City. His busi ness is that of dealer in hardware, tinware and stoves. He is an example of his futnro conduct will tell whether taps the main line, but the probability is that it will soon be run through here to Scammonville.

The Pittsburg and Columbus railroad has been surveyed through Weir. It will enter the town from the north and run through the western part of the city. The Presbyterians, Catholics and Methodists have each a church here, and other churches have organizations. There are four departments for school purposes and a school population of about one hundred children. Among the secret societies The Evil Effects and the (Remedy.

the pluck and success of many who Weir City is a thorough mining town. In the evening the miners throng around the stores and converse in a half dozen different languages, according to the nationality to which they belong. The smoke of the furnaces ascend day and night in the air, and an appearance of thrift and hard work pervades the whole place. The great railroad systems of Kansas are all pointing in this direction to get at the inexhaustible supply of coal to be found here. Cherokee county is destined to be the great manufacturing centre of Kansas.

There is substantial wealth here and a strong prospect of growth. our confidence is well reposed or came West to make" a fortune. Origi J. J. McFEELY, Attorney at Law, Notary Public Office over HolmeslDrug Store, Corner Johnson and Central Avenue.

1 Parsons City Bank. Rcf. Commercial Bank. First National Bank. not.

Thi is all that can be expect ed of any man, and for ourselves, A new work by a new author, containing' an exposition of what con we firmly believe that our trust dilutes the grave defect in mdustralistn, what labor and capital has to will not be abused. Matters of detail will bo met and explained to having lodges here are the Masons, Odd suffer in consequence, and what tho writer deems to bo the only effectual mode of relief. The work is written so as to bo easily comprehended by the ordinary reader, at tho same time that it contains a treatment of existing evils just as they are, and not as many would mako them to bo. All caring to seo an improvement in present social conditions should read Fellows, A. O.

U. W. Knights of Labor, Independent Order of Red Men, and the G. A. R.

The Odd Fellows and A. O. the satisfaction of every one before the day of election. There is no doubt that thero exists about a bakers dozen of sore head Demo this book. Prices.

In cloth cover, post paid, per copy, S1.50. In paper Sam Laudcnsclilager, BOOT AND SHOE MARKET, PARSONS, KANSAS. Repairing done in first class Style. Invites ail his old friends to call and see him. police Spies.

Detective policemen are a legitimate U. W. have a fine hall for meeting pur cover, post paid, per copy, 5 cents. Address the author, W. V.

MARSHALL, Oswego, Kas. institution, and so far as their duty is poses. crats, who are united with tho What the author has tried to do, and he feels confident that he has succeeded in the discovery and exposure of crime re The inhabitants of Weir City are Tuckerites in trying to create a made up of a mixed population of Eng split the organization of tho lish, Scotch, Germans and Americans quires the exercise of ingenuity as spies or otherwise the people are content with it and have accepted it as one of the necessities of life. But the spy sys his object, has been to demonstrate the truth of the following propositions, viz: "That Unfair Distribution of Earnings" is the true aDd only cause of oyer production, industrial depression and "hard times." That, the primary agencies of unfair distribution are two: 1. Unfair taxation, exercised through the instrumentality of a false code.

2. Unfair exchange, exercised through the instrumentality of mononolv. The major part of the people are of course Americans. There is a numer That a proper remedy consists of the introduction of a fair system of taxation tem in our society should be limited to that use. Any such maneuver as that ous cultivated class who are fully the equal of the elite of any town of its size in the Union.

The majority are, how and the abolition of monopolies. That fair taxation, while constitutingof itself a remedial nieasure.will effectuate the of monopolies. lately exposed on the part of a police That what must follow is independent enterprise, free competition and the rapid ever, miners; hard-fisted sons of toil, nally from Ohio, when he first came here he was compelled to borrow five dollars to meet expenses, and is now doing well. He has been five years in Kansas. He opened up his present place of business in August, 1884, and carries on the only exclusive hardware establishment in town, comprising a complete line of cooking and heating stoves, and builders' hardware, of which he makes a specialty.

A tin shop is run in connection with the store where all kinds of job work is done, including roofing, spouting, The building in which the store is situated is on Main street, two doors west of the Odd Fellows' Hall. LONG-BELL LUMBER COMPANY. B. V. Bell is president of this company; R.

A. Long, treasurer, secretary and general manager; C. F. Franks, local manager. The company are the successors of J.

W. Lynn and commenced business here in December, 1885. They carry a general stock of lumber and building material to the amounntof 40,000, and supply the town and surrounding company. They have other branch establishments in the State. The local manager, Mr.

Franks, is popular and enterprising. DR. J. E. STRYKER.

As a surgeon and physician he is one of the leading citizens of the town, and in his medical capacity has few superiors in this part of the state- He is a gentleman of acknowledged skill. Dr, Stryker took his first course in medicine at Keokuk, Iowa, studied at the Jefferson University of Philadelphia in 1876 and who earn their wages by the sweat of INSURE Your detached dwellings, farm property and live stock. in the Kansas Farmers Fire Insnrance Co. of Abilene, Kansas. M.

BYRNE, Agent, Arbitrator Office. their brows, but are honest and indus trious in all their dealings. Weir pre advancement oi society io asuue oi uuresincieu progress anu prosperity. That a must be interested in change since no class is exempt from the dele teiious influences of present morbid conditions. The following is the list of subjects treated: CONTENTS: Preface.

INTRODUCTORY. Over-production, industrial depression and "hard sents many opportunities for the invest ment of capital, and has the advantage over other cities in having a steady in come from the mines. KANSAS TEXAS COAL COMPANY. CIIAI'TKK 1. Man's mission on earth Agencies or means Lacks and tendencies.

CHAPTER 11. Methods of wealth gett ng Earnings No contradition Why does man mistake and encroach? Erroneousness of man. Preponderant strength of man in the park should be dealt with in a way to show the general reprobatson of that kind of conduct. The man who pursues people, watching them in the hope to discover them in an unguarded moment in some act which they would not desire to have made public, and thereafter plays upon their apprehensions to extort money, is an infamous wretch who should not be upon the police force and should not even be permitted to enjoy a pension given for presumably honorable service. New York Morning Journal.

The above extract gives but a faint picture of the spy system. Detectives are, as a rule, elected on tho principle of "set a thief to catch a thief." In character and stand This company is one of the largest self-interest. Nature of remedies considered. Not designed to encroach. Fines operated here.

It is a duly organized D. STANLEY SON and penalties. The proper way. CHAPTER 111. Division of labor.

Powerlessness to discover values of earnings Money. Worths or values Capital. Amplification of wants. Balance be corporation of which B. F.

Hobart is Farmers and Laborers party in this county. There was a deliberate attempt to disrupt the party for tho purpose of electing Morton. This handful of disorganizcrs, we believe, will take the straight Tuckerito ticket Under the garb of friends they have tried to betray the party, but have so far failed. This election will be a test whether we are iblo to bring peace to our city and put down the gang of fanatnics who have kept us turmoil for tho past six months. We believe in equal and exact justice to all.

We do not believe in persecution or in ostracising one half Ci our citizens for the purpose of gratifying the hate -nd malice of the other half. It is for the interest of Parsons that a rebuke be given these men at tho polls. They cannot complain that we havo exposed them in strong and vigorous language for they havo been carrying on this same kind of warfare tor many months and are now getting a dose of their own medicine. Those two cur dogs, the editors of the Eclipse and Sun, havo barked and yelped until all decent men are disgusted with them. We do not believe that a majority of our voters approye of such conduct Let ns have harmony and we can do so by defeating the Tucker ticket.

WHOLESALE and RETAIL president; E. B. Loveland, vice-president; A. M. Longwell, secretary, and C.

H. Russel, auditor. The principal office is at North Springfield, Mo. The company has mines at Pittsburg, Litcb field and Weir City. It is also opening up a new mine at Hacket City, Ark.

At Weir City there are two shafts operated- in which are employed about 275 men -AND DEALERS IN- ing they are but uncaught rogues They are the curso of those despotic creatures who have no confidence tween capital and need 0f it- alhicious cause for hard times. CHAPTER IV. Competition. Reward with earnings. Supply and demand Over production.

Restricted competition. CHAPTER V. Monopoly, Jrresist.ablc divestment of properties and privileges. Obligatoriness of monopoly. Advantage sought.

CHAPTER VI. Wars and rumors of wars. Standpoint of hard times reform. Exactor's standpoint. Standpoint of revolt.

Finance of war. Regulating the currency. CHAPTER VII. Waste of human capabilities- CHAPTIOR VIII. Combinationsof capital, justifiable and unjustifiable.

CHAPTER XI. Common place fallacies. Born money-makers. Let us see aright. Whom does it hurt? Legitimate fortunes.

Labor combinations. Strikes an! revengeful violence. What thoy say. CHAPTER X. The remedy.

Tables. Who would pay the taxes? The method of leyy. Rate of tcx increase. Personal satisfactions. Incomes.

Money. Right of Taxation. Tariff. Labor and capital. Tax on liquors.

Who must lead. Book to be at News Depot, at Postoffice and at Qu.irles cigar store, Central Avenue. Miss Uattio Dalby, of Parsons, will act as agent for this work in this The average monthly pay roll amounts '77, and graduating at the Northwestern Medical College in Missouri. He prac to about $6,000, although the men are not now working" on full time. The in the people or regard for their (JUEENWAUE ticed his profession in Pittsburg, and removed to Weir City in 1885.

The rights. output of the mines is forty cars per day. -AND- That any set of individuals should This company has been in operation at doctor was formerly a resident of Craw employ the spy system upon the ford county nine years. He has a large Weir city since 1880. They own about 800 acres of land and the coal which is people of Parsons, argues a degrad GLASSWARE and extensive practice which is growing.

mined is considered the best in the state. He carries on a drug store in connection ed, debased condition of society, or It finds a ready market in Kansas City with his profession, beiirg compelled to the false and damnable leading of.