The True Citizen from Lawrence, Kansas • 1

THE TRUE CfflZEN, VOLUME 1. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1886. NUMBER 5 THE TRUE CITIZEN. He was a good prohibitionist and we have got out two copies of this paper since. If that man ever comes into our office again we shall inform him that our time is worth 25 cents an hour and demand payment in advance.

The letter written to the Kansas City Journal in regard to Branscombe should receive due consideration. When it is generally known that a carpenter in this city by the name of Melvelle wrote it and it is said by authority for personal spite, the matter will take a sudden disinterest. Again, when a man of Melville's reputation undertakes to kill Branscombe, the third party and the democratic party, he will find he, is but a "small fry." and the people will become utterly disgusted. It is said the plead with the malicious Writer to not have the article printed and that the Writer had coaxed and done some "stiff lying" to the old man in order to perpetuate the outrage. It is an unprincipled and malicious attack and respectable people of all parties condemn the writer of the article as assuming more than a man in his position can carry through.

There are others who declare they will now show up to the world the motives that have prompted this notority-seeker to send out such a report. Old man Taylor is a man over 70 years old and easily imposed upon. When a man stoops so low as to interfere and misrepresent family affairs he should be treated With contempt and when Melville attempts to break up the prohibition party by such debasing and idiotic efforts the sooner he Will realize that prohibition practiced personally would be a better ob-' ject. When this great man applies his influence in such a Way as to distroy and tetotally anihilate the democratic party he Will find a difficulty too numerous to mention and the smallest knot hole in obscurity Will receive him Without scratching the ragged edges. OUR FREE COLUMN.

Under this heading we will publish notices for thrtte wanting positions tr help, two Weeks free of charge, the same not to occupy over three lines. Paid locals also inserted. WANTED. To purchase a second-hand Encyclopedia. Call or address H.

this office. Officer Burt is making it hot for the thieves and thugs who have plied their games in the city. The next play announced for the opera house is Mestayer's "We, Us Co." Investigate it. The surveyors on the Atchison Lawrence railroad are working near town. It is the general impression that the democrats will elect several on their ticket this fall.

B. F. Hollister has been promoted to yard master at the Santa Fe depot. His many friends are very much elated over it. Hon.

John P. St. John will address the people of Lawrence and vicinity on Monday Oct. 25th. at 8 oclock P.

M. 'Remember the prohibition picnic at Siegel to-morrow. A large number will go from Lawrence and a good time is expected. It is the duty of every prohibition worker to solicit subscriptions for this paper. Prohibition literature should be sustained and kept up and a small help from everyone will do it.

The shoe thieves mentioned at another place were arrainged before judge Howard last Saturday and plead guilty. They were fined $25. for each offense and in default of payment were committed to jail. We suppose there will be no trouble to get evidence to prosecute the Moak Bros, for selling beer at the fair grounds. There are some people inclined to the belief that the matter will be dropped.

Will the people allow it About twenty converts have been made by the Salvation army. They have not yet captured the notorious Branscombe Kansas City rareporter. "Bless God" will be re-echoed all over the city when they do. Let the work proceed. Say, you old Kasper Ulrick and Doctor Neuman How do you like it Are you willing to keep on selling and being fined while other fellows sell more than you do and are not molested You poor old devils have to suffer simply because you have no political influence and the officers keep up appearances of good faith by getting such fellows as you into trouble.

If you have as much sand now as you had when you commenced to sell liquor you would see that others equally as guilty are served the same way. A little daughter of John El-dridge died last Saturday and was buried Sunday; Her death was caused by that dreaded disease diphtheria which is so often fatal to children. A little brother is lying very low with the same affliction and Mrs. Eldridge is also confined to her bed by sickness. Little Pauline will be sadly missed by many to whom she was a favorite, It is indeed sad that we are compelled to part with those whom we love so dear, but in obedience to Him who gives we can but trust that our hearts will again beat with joy when we meet again in a better land, where there is sorrow no more.

The parents grief is shared by many friends who deeply sympathize with them in this their affliction. Some time ago Kasper Ulrick was convicted of selling liquor and fined $500,00 and a lien to secure the fine was taken on the house in which he made the sale. This far it is right Kasper is a poor, ignorant Dutchman and knows no other way of making his living, he having spent what might have been a useful life in selling liquor and now when old age disables him he finds a blank before him. The fine has not been paid and recency proceedings were begun to collect the same which is also proper but not probable. Now as anilliistration of injustice we mention the fact that John old liquor scavenger who lives in his three story house surrounded With all the luxuries of life and a good bank ac-ount, is allowed to continue to manufacture and sell his beer as though it was his duty.

Walruff has money and money will do anything. It will separate the most intimate friends; it will assassinate; it Will make beer; it Will acquit the most bloodthirsty; it Will rob the poor and steal the dead. Furthermore it Will prosecute old Kasper and permit old John Walruff to double his crimes. We insist on the prosecution of every person engaged in the sale of liquor contrary to law, but We do not think it justice to commence on such men as Kasper and allow a dozen of other able bodied men to continue. Take them all and treat therri according to their crimes.

H. S. Tamper, the democratic candidate for clerk of the district court was a good nomination and gives strength to the ticket. He is a very competent young man with an excellent reputation, a graduate of the state university and of the Ann Arbor Law school. He has been city attorney of Lawrence for the past five years, is well posted on legal matters and exceptionally, well posted on all matters of a legal nature, which is a qualification necessary for a man who assumes the.

office of clerk of the district court. He will poll a big vote all over the county and will be especially supported by the bar throughout the county. If elected he will make an efficient officer. Last Thursday three men arrived in the city and began making a tour' of the shoe stores. While at Menger's store suspicion was aroused against them and the police notified.

"Brock" took to their trail and was joined by Prentice and Ellis who arrested one of them while the other two had seen the officers and started on a run across the railroad bridge and were pursued by the officers who fired several shots which failed to stop them. At the north end of the bridge they came into contact with Ward Harmon, who asked them what was up and was satisfied without a word when they reached for their pops. Brock pursued them and by the asistance of a horse soon overtook them and made their capture without trouble They gave as their names John Allen, of Fort Scott, Jim Blake, of Centralia, 111., and F. W. Fowler, of Kansas City.

The shoes were recovered which they had stolen from Menger and R. D.Mason's One of the parties made a confession. P. Neither of them belonged to the Knights of Labor. "Leavenworth has two hundred saloons." How many children go supperless to bed; how many wives want the necessaries of life; how many mothers are weeping over their ruined boys, how many homes desolated; how many noble intellects destroyed that these gates of hell may be fed? Innocence, virtue, home, happiness all, swept and blackened as with a firy blast.

Could you go with me, dear reader, in my canvassing rounds through the beautiful city of Concordia, and witness the poverty and hear the sorrow of broken hearted women, made so by this infernal traffic, you will feel I don't dare tell you how I feel when I see such things. It is women and helpless children who suffer most. God pity them: would that those who plead to license these fountains of infamy could be compelled to hear their cries day and night' until they repeated "two hundred saloons in Leavenworth," and can you vote for Martin, or Moonlight or Wilson; can you, to perpetuate these bitter cries; do you realize what you're doing? In the name of all that is good and pure. and lovely, I beseech to think. Concordia Reformer.

Several days ago a gentleman stepped into this office while we were very busy and began to make many inquiries in regard to the paper. He said he had been a prohibitionist from the cradle up and was very much pleased to know that Lawrence had a paper of that kind. He gave us much good advice in regard as to how the paper should be managed and encouraged us very much, especially when he said he was not a subscriber yet and accidentally re marked that he had just been the recipient of quite a sum of money. We were much pleased to ascertain the latter fact and agreed with him in every thing he said and really insinuated that he was a great man and at some time the people would find it out because we said he was like truth crushed to the earth he would certainly rise. We flattered him all that consistency would admit of and looked upon him with pride and anticipation, asked him about his business wished him much success and guaranteed him a tenfold increase.

Finally our command of language became exhausted and after a few moments of silence he happened to remember that he had come up street to subscribe for a paper and that he must go on up to the office as he wanted his subscription to commence with the next paper. Friends, what did we do? We did not wilt and we still live. H. G. Mcllravy took a business trip up in Minnesota last week.

Miss Newby made a capital speech, and cha rmed her auditors with the elegance of her manner and the logic of her speech. Ex. Sickness prevails to a great extent on the north side. Some families have several confined to their beds. Eidemiller, the ice man has a large force of men employed loading cars with ice which seems to be in great demand by other towns.

Shut up the liquor shops and you kill a greater monster than Saint George did when he slew the dragon. The Atchison. Topeka Santa Fe is the first of Kansas railroads to accept the grain rates fixed by the railroad commissioners in. their recommendation of Aug. 12.

During the Prohibition convention of Nebraska a call was made for all the "Boys in Blue" to rise to their feet, when 69 rose amid a round of applause. Leo Steinberg of the Steinberg Bros, popular clothing house left for the East yesterday to purchase an immense stock which they say will knock them all on low prices. The best way to build up a town is to enforce the law and give it the reputation of being a law-abiding place, where people will not hesitate to locate. Talk about regulating the liquor traffic; you might as well talk about regulating the cholera or the smallpox. You must overthrow it; you must root it out aud destroy it forever.

Adam Braik, who has been head miller at Bowersock's mill met with a serious accident yesterday by falling some fourteen feet into a water chute and alighting across an iron rod which injured him about the small ot the back. Dr. May was called and assisted the wounded man and states that the injury is not necessarially fatal. We have received the Phillips-burg Dispatch a new paper at Phil-lipsburg. It starts out with a good advertising patronage and will no doubt be successful.

It is well edited and printed. The democratic nominees for county offices are probate judge, Chas. Chadwick; county attorney, J. S. Emery; clerk of the district court, H.

S. Tremper; superintendent of public instruction, W. H. Sears. We are pleased to learn our friend J.

R. Leonard, of the Irving Leader, is doing a good business. He is getting up a splendid paper which no doubt the people of that town appreciate. Jack is a good boy and will make many friends wherever he is. Success to him.

The Reformer is a new temperance paper started at Concordia and will fire prohibition bombs at the people of that county who are sadly in need of a reform. "Hit em hard." That is what they tell us. Make them pay you for it too. We stopped'into the shoe store of S. Olsen on Warren street one day last week and found him very busy.

He has a fine line of boots and shoes and sells them as cheap as they can be got anywhere. Mr. Olsen is a steady, sober and perfect gentleman and should have a good patronage. Go and see him. Look out for the mud slingers! The political shysters are beginning to get in their dirty work.

When men leave the field of argument, and drop party-issues, to aspire a man's private character, it is sure proof of a bad cause. When truth won't serve their purposes, they are on the money side. Attorney General Bradford says "Prohibition in Kansas is a success, and that the saloon will soon become a thing of the past." Attorney General Bradford is a bare-faced prevaricator. The saloon still exists in several towns in Kansas, notably Leavenworth, Atchison and Dodge. And the saloons will contine to exist unless there is a change in the political parties in this state.

Dodge City Times. Patti Rosa succeeded in drawing but a fair sized audience notwithstanding she is a favorite with many. The fact is the people have been humbugged so many times by "rotton" troupes that they don't care to patronize a good one when it does come which is very seldom indeed. There are now thirteen Prohibition Party papers in Kansas. Politics in this country seems more than ever tending toward a maze of prohibitition parties, labor parties, liquor parties, and a half dozen other would-be parties, each founded on a single idea.

A true young woman's ambitions stretch beyond the ball-room and the milliners establishment. She wisely strives to make her life grand in womanly virtue and by her example inspire others to secure the same priceless crown of womanhood. This is the woman that commands worlds not temporary bnt permanently.In her, friends recognize a rich store of practical good sense, and a beautiful harmony about her character that at once inspires sincere respect which soon warm into love. Rev. L.

E. Rudisell, of Topeka a leading minister in the M. E. church has assumed his. adhesion to the prohibition party.

He has got new light in regard to the perfidy of the republican leaders on the subject of prohibition. So have hundreds of others, all over the state. Men who think more of prohibition, than they do of the g. 0. p.

(great on promises) are breaking loose from it, and allying themselves with the men and women who are fighting for principles, rather than sports. We earnestly desire that our friends patronize those that advertise in this paper We ask it as a matter of business and justice. There are parties who oppose this paper because of its temperance views. There are others who absolutely refuse to patronize it because the paper works in the interest of the poor laboring class. If a business firm wants your patronage they will advertise in your paper for it; if they only want the aristocratic trade they will not assist your paper and it will be better for you to go some place else.

Remember this and when you trade with a merchant who don't advertise in this paper ask him why he dont. A Kansas City paper speaks very bad of the way Lawrence fails to patronize the opera house here and thinks there must be something wrong in the management. It is true Zozo and other snide and vulgar companies that have played here recently have failed to be greeted by but slim audiences. There are several other companies of the same nature that will appear soon whose audiences will be made up of the Variety" theatre-goes. All respectable people should find out before hand the reputation of a company before they invest in tickets.

Lawrence people have been so often deceived and compelled to submit to obscenity that they are getting to be very particular about attending the opera house entertainments. The Prohibition Club met last Thursday night at the north side M. E. church. After prayer by Rev.

Osborne and singing, the minutes of the previous meeting were read by the secretary. B. F. Smith, S. Olsen and Mr.

Whitcome were made members. A motion was made to amend the constitution so as to admit ladies without an initiation fee. Speeches were made by Revs. A. J.

Warren and A. M. Richardson, C. H. Langston and others, and after singing "A Better Day is Coming" the club adjourned to meet at the Christian church on the south side two weeks from that time.

A reporter called on Mr. Melville last Thursday morning for information as to the fact whether he was the writer of the Branscombe article in the Kansas City Journal. We were not compelled to ask a direct question to ascertain the fact and after being asked whether we were an attorney for Branscombe and informing him that we were only seeking information, the man became excited and thought we ought to treat hint fair and not take advantage. In fact he became very much agitated forgetting that he should give us the same gentlemanly treatment we had extended him. Geo- Hunt, proprietor of one of the largest dry goods stores in the city will advertise in this paper next week.

Patronize him. You will find his store a good place to do your trading. We are informed that the local editor of the Tribune wrote the Branscombe article in the K. C. Journal but we would just as soon I have it the other way.

Remember We do all kinds of job printing at the cheapest rates. Mrs. Simeon Jones of North side returned last Wednesday from a visit to Arkansas. Knights of Labor buy your coal of Irwin Haley. Jas.

A. Bakera north side section forman has a very bad affliction of ereysipelas in his left hand. The cheapest place in the city to buy boots and shoes is at Henry Fuels, opposite Pierson's Mills. W. J.

Fowler, the north side jeweler is having a rush of work. Try him when you need repairing. If you Want money on your house and lot or farm. Call and see Bell Co. before going elsewhere.

Bell have recieved a lot of eastern money to be placed in this and adjoining counties at better rates than heretofore. Rev. J. W. Alderman of Burlington, Iowa, who at one time was pastor of the M.

E. church is visiting in the city. Try Will and ohn's Leader cigar, the best 5 stinker in the city. For sale py Williamson Abranz' cigar store. Why would it not be a good idea to organize a prohibtion club whose object it would be to enforce the prohibitory law.

We have been much encouraged during the past week by new subscribers coming and old ones paying up. Notice the new advertisement of Irwin Haley. They are both accommodating and will come as near treating you well as any firm in the city. A Topeka colored man bought whiskey at the same drug store twenry times in one day for scientific purposes. A grandson of N.

N. Brown rode into a wire fence Thursday evening and received several bad flesh wounds, The horse was also terribly lacerated. New subscriptions are coming into this office every day and our list is gradually increasing. As it is there is no better advertising medium in the city. We publish each week iooo papers which are all distributed and enter the household of people where no other newspaper of the city reaches.

If you want an honest paper, honestly and liberally must you support it. Papers cannot be run on wind alone. Saturday morning the streets were thronged with members of the state malitia returning from unction City. A certain drug store in this city made 13 sales of liquor in one day to one man. That man must have had a serious affliction.

Dr. A. L. Holloway, of Wabash, is visiting Dr. J.

A. Hollaway near the city. He is a prominent third party man and reports the cause in a very flourishing condition in that state. N. H.

Boyd, editor of the Logan Freeman is a labor candidate for representative of his county and if he succeeds in getting there he' will do his county proud. E. A. Haslett a conductor on the Central Branch railroad, his wife visited over Sunday with his father J. B.

Haslett of the Laclede House. For Sale or Exchange. 160 acres of improved land in Iowa for Kansas property. Call on S. D.

Cubberley or at this office. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Lysle Saxon, of New Orleans; Pheobe Cousins, of St. Louis, Susie F. Newman, "The Mormon Woman's Friend," Lincoln, Clara B.

Colby, editor of "WomaVs Tribune," Beatrice, are some of the women who are to be present and to take part in the "Woman's Convention" to be held in Leavenworth, Oct. 4 and $. The Chicago, Kansas Nebraska Railroad company the Rock Island has purchased 280 acres of land in Brown county, fifty miles west of St. twelve miles south of Hiawatha, the county seat of Brown county, on which the company will establish a new town. It is to be called Horton, after Judge Albert H.

Horton, chief justice of the supreme court at WANTED A good solicitor. Address this office. WANTED A person well acquainted in the city to take charge of a good paying busi- fc ness. Enclose a stamp for particulars and. address this office.

WANTED partner with $200. to take the management of a good paying business. Address this office. WANTED-r-A position as copyist, by a young lady. A splendid penman.

Address this office. WANTED Parties having stocks of merchandise for sale or exchange to address Rogers Wyandotte, Kan. We want $200,000 in merchandise for immediate exchange. No delay in making satisfactory transfers. Cash paid for goods.

Money in small and large amounts to loan on city or farm property in Kansas, Missouri or Nebraska. If you want money on lonij or short time call on us. Rogers Co, Real Estate, Loan and Mercantile Brokers, Wyandotte, Kan. FOR SALE. One second-hand parlor heating stove.

Used but a short time and will be sold cheap. Enquire at this office. FOR SALE. A cyclone Washer, the best machine out, will be sold at a bargain. Enquire at this office.

FOR SALE A 1 story frame house, 4 rooms and porch, cellar, well, large and small fruits, new fence, half acre lot, cor Lyons and Vermont N. Lawrence. Only $500. Call on or address, Vm. Abbott.

FO SA Pekin ducks and eggs. J-Jersey cow, fresh, and one fresh this month. -Jersey cow, fresh soon, Pigs from $2.00 up, nice ones. 30 acres bottom land, I mile from city. II.

S. Fillmore. Green lawn fruit and stock place, Breeder of Jersey cattle, Berkshire, and Poland-China swine. Lawrence, Kansas. FOR One half of a house, three rooms, on Locust street.

Call at this office. FOR RENT. A nice tenement- for small family, in a delightful location. Enquire at 512 Tenn. St.

FOR Exchange. THE SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS BUSINESS agency have to exchange for merchandise, horses, mules, living stock or Kansas City real estate, residence property, equities, land in tracts from 80 acres to 1,000 acres located in southeastern Kansas; mostly improved farms; correspondence promptly answered. Address A. P. COGSWELL SON, Eureka, Green-wood county, Kas.

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