The Gate City Journal and Arkansas City Enquirer du lieu suivant : Arkansas City, Kansas • 1

A 4 VOL. IV. ARKANSAS CITY, COWLEY KANSAS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1901. NO. 5.

JOINT SMASHED AT WINFIELD. E. Smith reports the arrival of THE REQUEST ANSWERED. a new daughter at his house. FARHERS Mayor Hess Replies to tbe Request of the Ministers.

A number of the ministers of this and STOCKffEN. city called on Mayor Frank J. Hess C. A. Welch has leased the Tlodge photograph gallery, over the postofflce and has taken charge.

The Democrat says that Judge Knowlton Is a candidate for re-election as "probate judge." Wonder what Cottingham is doing all this while? last Weduesday and presented a written request asking him to close the joints of this city. The request was signed by Revs. W. T. Moflltt, Chas.

C. Woods and W. A. Youngman. Mr, Hess asked them to secure the signatures of all the ministers of the We Have just received a large car load of American Hog Fencing.

This is without any exception the best Hog Fence on the market and by buying in car load lots we can sell it as cheap as competitors sell inferior goods. Don't fail to see this fencing before buying. city and that he would publish his re ply to it later. The names of Revs. M.

Lee Sorey and Ralph Ward were afterward ad-dt'd. On Tuesday of this week Mayor Hess made public his reply which is as follows: Arkansas City, Feb. 12. ToW. T.

MofflU, Charles O. Woods. W. A. Youngman, huo borey una ua pu vai Gentlemen: I have before me Gilbert Sturtz, AT THE S1PFS HARDWARE STORE.

your rtquest, which reads as follows: "The ministers of Arkansas City request that you close the joints in the city aud remove the occasion of saloon The Citizens Form a Hatchet Brigade aud Proceed to Demolish a Joint. The whiskey war seems to be on at Winfield. Several meetings had been held by the temperance people and the results usually were resolutions and an ultimatum to the jolntlsts. Tuesday morning a barrel ol whiskey containing about 20 gallons was demolished at the Santa Fe depot. The perpetrators of this job are not known but it is thought Mike Hahn and Joe Moncrelf did It.

Later one of the Schmidt boys, who run the joint north of the St. James botel, attacked Ilahn and beat him badly. Weduesday a mass meeting was held at the United Brethren church aud i was there decided to demolish the Schmidt joint. Clubs, hatchets, re-volyers aud missies of all kinds were procured and the mob marched ou the joint with the result that a first-class job of smashing was done. Several were hurt in the melee, but none seriously.

Miss May Denny was hit in the mouth with flyincr glass and Clias. Schmidt was hurt pretty badly-by a stroke from a club. That night numerous threats were made on both sides and in the evening a big mass meeting was held at the opera house. When the crowd from this was dis-missed a gang of thugs and joint sympathizers met them aud tights of all kinds occurred. Sometime during the night the beautiful stained glass windows of the United Brethren church were demolished and the edifice is badly damaged In many wavs.

All day yesterday fights of all kinds were occurring in all quarters. Mayor Albright ordered a special detail of police and the firemen camped last night at' the city building. The joints are closed and the-Law and Order league have demanded that 11 fixtures aud goods be immediately moved out of town. The St. Charles hotel which has been purchased by C.

W. Hodge, is being refitted and refurnished, and will be among the best hotels in this part of the state. "Failing to find relief from the grip with old methods, I took Dr. Miles' Pain Pills, Nervine and Nerve and Liver Pills and was permanently cured." Gust Egan, Jackson, Mich. It is said that all the joints in Arkansas are closed and from all outward appearance this is true.

But drinkables are being purchased In the city nevertheless. This crusade will have to arrange to take in the boot-legger some way. J. II. Montague, representing the Arkansas Valley Telephone company, the independent line which was granted a franchise here, was In the city this week looking over the ground preparatory to beginning work.

The material is on the way here and work will comiueece upon its arrival. The appointment of A. L. Redden, of Topeka, as assistant attorney general for Shawnee couuty, mav be the forerunner of a series of demands for such appointments all over the state. Mr.

Redden is one of the n-iost efficient prosecuting attorneys in the stato aud if the people of Topeka will furnish him tvidenoe of vthe violation of the prohibit! Dn law he will test the law to its extent. While in the City 5tDp at Tl II raiding by the citixeus," aud signed by yourselves. You stated to me that you represent no committee, no organization, no church aud no faction, therefore the petition must be taken as being your individual request. To close the Joints is as much In your power, and as much your duty, as mine. I am the people's servant.

The question of the method to be pursued in suppressing the sale of liquor was the issue when I was elected. The overwhelming majority of the votes cast at that election was in favor of the policy we have adopted. I have no sympathv for the law. We havesDent tens of thousands of es Ho I lie New Oil uiiui The Best RoomsThe Best Heals, Under New Hanagement--Re-furnished Throughout Heals 25c. Rooms 25c and 50c.

C. W. HODGE. dollars In Arkansas City and Cowley county trying to enforce this law, ana instead of lessening the sale of liquor and curtailing crime, we find the sale of liquors nd intoxicants Increased, gZ more persons in tue tramc and crime increased. I will, while I am mayor, carry out the nolicv of the majority, as indi cated at the election at which I was chosen mayor.

Unequalled! Dnequailed! for Purity, Flavor and Strength Minnie Joe Passmore, living near Arkansas City, has sued her husband. D. Passmore. for divorce, and in her allegations she makes some severe Yours respectfully. Frank J.

Hess, Mayor. HT f'9 Especiallv for The ten-year-old swn of Levi Leaf charges. She says he used to call her LIGHT BREAD. names, later beat her and finally has been very sick for the past week, but is now much improved. drove her from home.

She says she had twn children by a former husband, one of whom, a boy, was abused The New Era Milling Two fires occurred in the city Wed Men's Mass Meeting. There will be a Men.s Mass meeting held at the Methodist church In this city Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock for the purpose of organizing a Law In-forcement league. The organization will be modeled after the style of the Topeka league aud will work for the enforcement of the prohibitory law. AH interested are requested to attend. By Order Com.

nesday night. The first al aim was shamefully and finally drlyen fiom ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS. sent In about 6 o'clock at E. Kirkpat- home by her present husband. She rick's furniture store.

It probably says her husband is worth $20,000 and she wants her share of it. Her for caught from a match accidentally thrown into some lace curtains The omething New hV timelv use of chemical fire extin gulshers checked the fire before it be came very serious. About $1,000 Among the victims of the grip epidemic now so prevalent, F. Coyle is now recovering at Canton 0., by the use of Dr. Miles' Nervine and Pills worth of goods were damaged or destroyed, which were covered by insur ance.

The other fire occurred afoout 9:30 la the house occupied by Jennie MALT BREAKFAST FOOD. Good. Try it. SHREDED WHOLE WHEAT. Fresh.

CREAH OF WHEAT. VITOS. These goods are all fresh and just the thing for Always on hand at G. W.VAUGHAN. Grocery Co.

Berry Burns, at the corner 1st street and Fifth avenue. Nearly -all the furniture and contents were destroyed and her loss is estimated at $1,500 with less For the Lowest Prices Visit Hay Co DRUGS. MEDICINES, PERFUMES, TOILET ARTICLES, STATIONERY ETC. ETC. W.

E. Wilcox, Cashier Howard Ross, President. than one-third covered by insurance. Cattlemen Win. The people of Southwest' Kansas do not seem to have made a mistake in sending Tom Noftger to represent them in the senate.

In the ways and means committee he has succeeding in Increasing the allowance for the resGriotions The Home National Bank. Carefully Compounded. 10s So. Summit St. Phone I S3.

mer name was Buchanan and she wants that restored. Courier. MARRIAGE LICENSES. NAME AGE T. U.

McCrary, Altamont, 30 Frances E. Syres, Winfield, 24 R. II. Ilanna, Rock, 19 Pearl Walck, Akron, 19 J. S.

Seimears, Winfield, 29 Mabel Spitler, 19 Leslie W. Scott, New Salem, 22 Myra D. Corley, Winfield, 22 John Tousley, Townsend, 22 Anna Ilockeubury, Arkansas City 15 Harry Smith, Wilmot, 21 MaudTeter, 18 There was a. fire at Winfield last Saturday. That seems to be one of the social functions at that shrine of literature and art and politics.

The people were attracted, along In the afternoon, by the sound of a dinner bell ringing in a frantic and disconnected way, and the rumor soon spread that it was a tire alarm. Pretty soon an old, delapidated farm team attach ed to a dray, started for the dity building after the hose cart, and the driver made a very commendable effort to get the Idea into the mind and heart of those horses that he was actually in a hurry. It was entirely a new proposition to them. But this team reached the hose cart first, and by the sacred right of discovery, together with an old and time honored custom, earned its dollar. They then started to find the fire, and at every few feet the dray gathered new passengers until they soon had a good load of the anxious public.

Rumor again got in Its work and the fire was found over Live Stock Sanitary commission from CAPITAL $125,000. SUltPLUS AD PROFITS 17,500 $4,000 to $10,000. Tins amount was secured only after a hard fight in the -DIRECTORS- B. committee in which Senator Noftz- A. MAXEY HOW AUD ROSS, ger specially distinguished himself.

The Increased appropriation was de H. W. EARLOUGHKR. J. AV.

IRONS, manded by the cattlemen of the state and will enable the commission to be The Palace Drug Store, of more effectual service than In the 413 So. Summit St. LOOK. JO Loaves Bread 25:, Llun and all pkge. Coffee a (or 25c.

2 Cans best Corn i5c. 2 Bales of Hay 25c. Horseshoe Tobacco 40c. per lb Dried Peaches lb Cresent Flonr 85c, All other Goods sold ust as cheap IIIGIIEST PRICES Produce. Candy Kitchen, Allnf my Candles are Fresii aud Home Made.

I als3 handle nice ORANGES, LEMONS AND SALTKD PEANUTS. Turkisli Cream Candy a Specialty J. R. GRAY, 113 80. SunmltPt.

THE Enquirer FOR Fine Job PRINTING. Prices are Right. B. F. iMcLean LUMBER Of all kinds.

Lime, Plaster, Hair, Sash Doors, Blinds. Just Received! Car of Oak, South of Dye's Carriage Works. PHONE 77. lestaurant, 117 Summit St. Webb Gilbert Pros, Meals, Lunches 301 SOUTH (SUMMIT STREET.

EVERYTHING IN OUR LINE. CALL AND SEE US. BEHRENS CO. past. Attempts Suicide.

Wednesday afternoon between 3 and 4 o'clock, Winnie Harden, he 15 year old daughter of- Tinsley Harden, a Santa Fe section foreman, attempted suicide by shooting herself. Two shots were fired but only the last one took effect. The bullet entered at the right temple and taking a downward course lodged at the base of the brain. The revolver was a 38-callbre, belonging to the father. The girl was alive last evening, but small hopes were entertained of recovery.

GrO TO" J. B. Lynn's store. Rumor is one of the grand functionaries at these fire carnivals. The old dray finally got there, but not until after the neigh T.

B. OLDROYD -FOH- FURNITURE OR ALL KINDS. Undertaking a Specialty. T. B.

OLDROYD, Licensed Embalmer. and Short Orders at all Hours. Fish, Oysters and Game in Seastn. We always have all the Delicacies and Luxuries of the Season Call and see us. Thecaubeof the terrible act Is a bors and some members of the fire department had put out the young love affair.

The girl had been going with a young man named Charley Lewis, but. they had not been together for some time. fite by the. use of chemicals. Wlnfleld'8 enterprise and its fire pro vision don't match..