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Y- 1 ABILENE REFLECTOR. THE OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER. Best Advertising Medium. FRANK A. SM ALLEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW Abiltn, ABILENE, DICKINSON COUNTY, KANSAS, APRIL 19, 1888. VOL. Y. NO. 84. (UstzAyL $o-L " 'UKUHIllHHi I. i We want all the O0B FAB "WIS OJL2nT Q-ZET, At as Favorable a Rate of Interest as can be obtained elsewhere. &3T"Call on us before you make your Loan.3 The Abilene Mortgage Co. Offing im-stairs over Citizens Bank. Abileue i3 fast coming to th& front as the most important city in the State. Xo Democrat has ever complimented Mr. Allen G. Thurman upon the very excellent speech which he made in the Ohio tallv-sheet forgery cases. Yu will wager our new .spring neck tie that if the anti-prohibitionists of this District succeed in side-tracking Albert Griffin on the Wichita switch, no prohibitionists will go to Chi cago from the Fifth District. The national bureau of agriculture reports the coudition of wheat through out the nation as slightly lower than in recent years. Kansas and Tennessee head the list with a condition of 07 per cent. Ohio stands at 5S. It is frigid weather when Kansas duos not come to the front somewhere. Capt. J. II. Johnson received more votes for governor at the League meet ing in Topeka than any other man. Mr. Johnson is one of the ablest and truest Republicans in the State. There is a strong and growing sentiment that ho would be a safe man to lead the state caniphigs - in this presidcriti.rS year. His speech on the fair grounds in this city, four years ago, did more to expose that huge impostor, G. W. Glick, than any other speech of the campaign. There will be no opposition among the Eepublicans of Dickinson county to John A. Anderson for Congress, un less it comes from the uncertain editor of the Chronicle, of this city. lie is the only man in this county, as far as we know, who has editorially spoken anything against Mr. Anderson for the past two years; and unless he shall de cide to take another somersault be tween now and the day of the primaiy elections, Mr. Anderson will receive the unanimous support of the Repub licans of this county. We hardly think that Mr. Anderson has selected the editor of the Chronicle as his especial champion. Our Congressman has too much political sagacity for that. Twenty-two years have elapsed since the full amount of war taxation ceased to be necessary. Half of that time Republicans have controlled legislation and half of that time Democrats. In the eleven years during which the Re publicans controlled, they reduced tax ation $362,504,563. Rut in eleven years during which the Democrats con trolled they have reduced taxation only $6,36S,925. The Republicans have done work, while the Democrats were talking. Times have changed in Missouri since President Cleveland saw Gt to suspend District-Attorney Benton for undue zeal in addressing political meet ings. That, by the way, was on Octo ber 26, 1SS6, and Benton was rein stated on November 17. Xow it is an nounced that "every Democratic office holder within 300 miles (of St. Louis) willb on hand" at the Democratic National convention. And we venture the prediction that not a single mother's son of them will be suspended for pernicious activity. Senator Chandler, of New Hamp shire, has introduced a bill into the senate requiring those states which have failed to pay their respective shares of the direct tax levied by the government in 1861, to forthwith pay it into the United States treasury. The states which still owe a balance of the tax, are the ten Southern states whose representatives have been on a Btriksfor the past week. The same states were on a strike in 1861, while the remaining states were loyally meet ing their obligations to the govern ment. They are ; Alabama, $506,793. 09; Arkansas, S107,1S4.S2 ; Florida, 872,756.41 ; Georgia, $466,384.44 ; Miss issippi, $299,760.01; North Carolina, $198,742.06; Tennessee, $277,493.52; Texas, $174,265.16 ; Virginia, $288,662 .93; South. Carolina, 3141,174.31. Washington territory owes a balance otS4,487.17 ; Utah, $26,982; and Colo rado, $719.87. M IiO AN! iJch Mnh 15 M -IT ' -w - The House of Representatives spent $5,000 on Saturday in discussing a $700 appropriation bill. Hon. J. R. Burton has accepted an invitation to address the Alumni As sociation of Franklin College, Indiana, in June next. Tiie gubernatorial race seems to be a kind of free-for-all affair, and nobody cares to bet on the other fellow. It is surpassingly strange how many clergymen," "business men" and "farmers," who are declaring against prohibition, the ordinary Democrat canfiud. If the Democrats thought James G. Blaine would be an easy man to defeat next November, they wouldn't circu late a 3emi-weekly lie about the state of his health. We see and hear little from the Dem ocratic side of tho house regarding their probable nominee for governor. Have they accepted the inevitable to early in the fight, aud concluded to let tlfe Republicans have a walk-over? .JTho money wasted by a few South ern Democrats of the blouse of Repre sentatives in filibustering against the consideration of tho "Direct Tax" bill had much better been devoted to the liquidation of the ten defaulting States' honest obligations to the government. The maltsters and breweis of Chicago Cincinnati, New York aud Milwaukee went on a strike Thursday at 4 p. m. The proprietors are predicting a beer famine. What an unmixed blessing it would be if the strikers should never return and no "scabs" could be fonnd to take their places. , The Republicans af the Ohio legisla ture have passed a bill making it an offense for saloons to keep open on Sun day. The Democrats are trying to whip themselves into the belief that this legislation which is calculated to better the morals of the cemmunity, will in some way drive votes away from the Republicans into the Democratic camp. One of the most unpardonable sins of Mr. Cleveland's administration is tht deposit of some $60,000,000 of the pub lic money in national banks, without interest. This vast sum is used as private banking capital upon which the people the real owners are required to pay interest. Thus it is the rich be come richer; the poor poorer. Mc Pherson Freeman. There is no reason so far as the Re flector has been able to learn, why Mr. Albert Griffiu should not be sent to Chicago as a delegate from the Fifth District. It is true that some of hi enemies, and some persons who have their pets which they desire to send from this District, are very anxious to side-track Mr. Griffin, and while pie tending to be friends of Mr. Griffin, they are trying to shove him off oato the Wichita convention where he stands no possible chance to be select ed as a delegate at large. Mr. Griffiu cm be a delegate from this District if the people want him to go. That lit cannot be a delegate at large is ven probable from the drift of public seuti- ment turougnout the fetale, aud no one knows this better than the men who are trying to force Mr. Griffin to appeal to the Wichita convention in stead of to the Clay Center convention for his credentials. As we have in a former issue of our paper stated, the men who are tryiug to force Mr. Griffin on the Wichita convention are anti- prohibitionists; they care nothing about the cause of prohibition, and never did care anything about it. In fact, the majority of them are known to be rank anti-prohibitionists, and their purpose is to defeat .Mr. Griffin, and refu:e him -a seat in the Chicago convention. Every Republican in the Fifth District who desires Mr. Griffin to go to Chicago should see that bis del egates at Clay Center are instructed to vote for Mr. Griffin as a delegate from the Fifth District. This is the only J way to get Mr. Griffin to Chicago. Tke Dead-Lock in the House. The country should not fail to take account of the facts which are really involved in the dead-lock over the di rect t3x bill, and of the motives which obviously govern those who have chosen this method of resisting the measure in question. At the beginning of the war in 1S61, the Government had neither monev nor credit, owintr to the ineffi- cent and dishonest way in which its a fairs had been conducted by aDemocrat ic administration. An army had to be organized and equipped to protect the public property and defend the nation al life; and the only way to meet the emergency was that of calling upon the loyal States to supply the necessary funds. So a direct tax was levied up on all the States, apportioned according to population, and the loyal States paid it, in whole or in part, thus enabling the Government to put soldiers into the field and carry on the war until other means of raising money were devised and applied. The proposition now is to refund to the several States the amount of the tax thus paid. There can be no doubt about the fairness and justice of such a form of restitution. The money wa3 a godsend to the Gov ernment at a time of extreme peril, and it was expended entirely for general war purposes. In furnishing it. the loyal States simply put so much cash into an empty Federal Treasury; and now that said treasury is full to over flowing, they have a right to ask that the funds which they then advanced be returned. to them. Under ordinary circumstances, no objection would be made to a proposi tion so manifestly reasonable and cor rect. But the fact that the money was used to promote the union cause in spires immediate hostility on the part of the Southern Congressmen; and when we add to this the face that the loyal States only are to reap the benefit in the case, we have the whole expla nation of the effort which is being made to defeat the bill. It is conceded that the surplus should be reduced,and here is an excellent opportunity to dis pose of about $18,000,000 of it in a per fectly constitutional and legitimate way, and at the same time to do an act of pronounced national justice and gratitude. In a certain sense the tmount represented by this tax is a debt which the Government owes to the States, as much as if it had issued its bonds in token of such an obliga tion: and the idea of refunding money so collected does not imply either a gift or a discrimination. The States are entitled to what the bill provides if not in a technically legal respect, then certainly in point of moral propriety. The fact that the States which were in rebellion will receive nothing, only sig nifies that they paid nothing, and there fore have no claim in the premises. It is their misfortune that they are so sit uated, but it is a misfortune for which they are themselves responsible, and which does not in any degree affect the real i oint at issue. The States that paid the tax deserve the proposed re funding; and the plan adopted to em barrass and prevent the passage of the oill goes to show very plainly that the war is still remembered, and that the utmocratic heart still cherishes a feel ing of bitterness against those who contributed in any way to the over throw of the Southern Confederacy. Globe-Democrat. A Washington dispatch to the Jour nal reports an ex-Congressman as say ing: "The deadlock is broken, and it is a sad day for the Democratic party all over this country. It means a gain of at least twentv Northern districts tor the Republican party at the next congtesional election. The Democra cy of the North has proven itself today, as it has ever been, subservient to the South. It is simply a tool in the hands of the partisan, although it is greater far than its manipulator. It is but a rej etition of the ancient aute-bellum history, when the South handled and manipulated the Northern Democracy to its own ends. It must have been with a sickening feel ng of helplessness and subserviency that the Democrats of the Northern States went down and crawled at the feet of the petty minor ity last night and today. Rut it is the old story of the Southern brigadiers. rhey can't be resisted and they must be obeyed. The bill is deader than a cffin nail. The White House sent down its bribe last night tc the filibus ters. It was a promise to veto this bill if they would carry it over to De cember and then allow its passage un obstructed. That was the promise sent down that dropped harmony in great chunks in among the brethren. It will make no difference to Mr. Cleve land then. He will have been elected for another four years or he will have been defeated. Yes, the bill is dead in-any event." We acknowledge the receipt ot the Fifth Annual ReDort of the Board of Et. R. Commissioners. It is a well ar ranged volume of nearly 500 page3 and contains a.vast amount of information tegarding the railways of the State. It is accomDanied bv a new railroad map which dhows all lines built up t date. "Ihe Democratic Party." There is a historic Democratic party and an actual Democratic party. The twain are not one. They are as dis tinct each from the ottyer as the epoch of Buchanan from thepoch of Cleve land. The former exists only as a body of history concerning our political life in the past. To find what it was we must examine the historic records that have come down from a former period of our political life, the conditions of which were not the conditions of this period. Gazette. For genuine, true and sincere repent ance commend us to the foregoing arti cle clipped from the columns of our contemporary of last Saturday. When the Democrats themselves begin to be ashamed of the "historic Democratic party" there is hope for the future of the Republic. The Republicans have been endeavoring for a quarter of a century to educate the people of this country up to the fact that the Demo cratic party was a mere reminiscence of the past ; that its whole career for forty years has been an obstruction to the advancement of modern civiliza tion ; that it has always been on the w ong side of every great political issue which has been before the American people ; that it has been controlled by men who are not in sympathy with a true Republican form of government ; that its leaders were incompetent and unworthy to manage the affairs of a nation of 60,000,000 of freemen ; in short, that the Democratic party ought to "exist only as a body of history con cerning our political life in the past." There is not one single position which that party has taken since 1861 upon any disputed issue in the admin istration of this government, which it has not been compelled to recede from and finally adopt the views of the Re publican party on the question. The abolition of slavery ; the right of the nation to protect itself against a seced ing State ; the prosecution of the war ; the issuing of a national currency ; the reconstruction measures ; the adoption of the XIV and XV amendments to the U. S. constitution; the resumption of specie payments ; protection and en couragement to American industries ; civil servicere form; payment of pensions to disabled Union soldiers ; tho aboli tion and control of tjjfe liquor traffic; the right of every 'Citizen to cast his vote and have it counted all of these issues, as can be learned by all who "examine the historic records," were first sternly opposed by that party which ought to "exist only as a body of his tory," and the same "historic records" show that the position taken by the Republicans upon each of these issues has been adopted by the people and be come the settled policy of the nation. It is therefore not surprising that a young man who takes pains to "ex amine the historic records that have come down from a former period of our political life" should desire to cut loose from a party which furnishes such an uubroken record of political blunders. The young men of the nation whose political opinions are formed from an "examination of the historic records that have come down from a former period of our political life," and not from prejudice, will all arrive at the iu evitable conclusion that there is noth ing in the fundamental organization of the Democratic party worthy of preser vation, and that the old hulk should be cast aside to "exist only as a body of history concerning our political life in the past." The Dependent Pension Bill is dead as far as this Congress is concerned. Washington (Dem.) Post. This pension bill which the organ of the administration at Washington says "is dead as far as this Congress is con cerned" was prepared by a committee appointed by the National Encamp ment of the G. A. R. It is reasonable in all its terms. It appeals for support to the heart of every patriot in-Ameri-ca. It is an act of justice to those who have come to want by reason of misfortune during the war while in the service of their country. It is a bill which no man who is grateful for the preservation of the republic by the Union army could conscientiously op pose. It was expected of Mr. Cleve land, who has never lost an occasion to snub the Union soldiers, that if this 1, M 1 r. both houses of Con - bill should pass gress there was danger that the Presi dent would veto it; but it was hardly expected that the Democratic House Of r Representatives had so far lost all sense of gratitude toward the Union soldier that it would again refuse this act of justice, and of necessity in many instances, to aid the unfortunate sol diers of the late war, their widows and orphans who are now dependent upon charity for support. The above, from the administration organ, is a public an nouncement to every veteran, that this Democratic Congress does not intend to aHow any pension bills to pass this session, except private and individual ones which may have some influence upon the re-election of the members of that body. If we are not mistaken,the. soMier of the late war will remember, during the coming political campaign, the base act of ingratitude on the part K of Mr. Cleveland and this Democratic congrew. Legal Hotice. To Hiram Xnble, of the State ot Xew York: Yon are hereby notified tht you haYe been ued by D. G. Smith (assignee of B. A. Bird) by his petition filed in the district court or Dlekin connty. In the state ot Kansas, filed March 22d. 188?, wherein he praysjudgiuent against yon for the rum of one hundred and sixteen dollar, with interest at 12 per cent, per annum rrom the 29th day of April, 1886. upon a note and mortgage by you made to the order of E. A. Bird, and asigried for a valuable consideration to D O. Smith who praysjudgment for foreclosure of said mort-rago and for the ale of lot four (4) and fire (5) in block twenty (20), in Abilene preper, of Dickin son county, State ot Kansas, and that the pro ceeds of said sale be applied to the payment of said note and Interest and cot therein, and that you be forever barrel and foreclosed from all in terest in said land, and that the sale of said lots be made by uppralsement. You will further take notice that yon must an swer said petition on or before the 17th day of Mr, 183S, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered according to the prayer thereof, as above recited. D. G. SMITH, Plaintiff. R. N. SMITH, Attorney. 32-6C notice to Contractors. The trustees of the county high school will re ceive sealed proposals at the office of W. U. Roe, Abilene, Kansas, until May 14, 1588, at noon, for inc erccuon anu completion 01 a county nign school building, for Dickinson county, to be located at Chapman, Kansas, in said county. Plans and specifications Can be seen at the offlceofthe hardware store of Dnnlavy&Koe, Abilene, Kansas . All proposals must be accompanied by a cer tified check for not less than two hundred dollars which sum will be forfeited to Dickinson county in case the bidder whose bid is accepted fails within two days thereafter to enter into contract and to give satisfactory bond for the performance thereof and the additional bond for the protection of laborers as specified by law. Bids must be securely sealed and marked on oatside: "Bids for the erection of county high school building for Dickinson county, Kansas. Bids will be opened at 1 o'clock p. m , Mnday, May 14, 13 8 No bids will be considered unless the bidder be present. The board reserve the right to reject any and all bids." By order of Board, 33-4t W. H. ROE, Setfy. ASSIGNEE'S NOTICE. STATE OF KANSAS, 1 Dickinson County. J S3 In the matter of the assignment of C. F Dewar & Co. Creditors and others Interested are hereby no tified that on Tuesday, the first day or May, A. D. 1888. and for two consecutive days thereafter. at the office of the Clerk of the District Court in the City of Abilene in said County from 9 o'clock, a. m., until 5 o'clock, p. m of each day. I will attend and proceed publicly to adjust and allow demands against, the estate and effects or the above naineu assignors in my hands. 22-3m C. C. BITTING. Jr., Assignee. ADMINISTEATOR'S NOTICE. In the Probate Court within and for the county of Dickinson, State of Kansas. In the matter of the estate of Michael Dowling-, deceased. To Jain Kean, Daniel Dowlinsr, Mary Mirtin and Eliza Kelly, and the unknown heirs at law of William Dowling, deceased, and T. B. Bweer, E. M. Sheldon, and all others Interested in the estate of said Michael Dowling, deceased. YOU and each of you are hereby notified that the undersigned. Administrator of said es tate, did, on the fourtn day of April, 1883, We In said 'ourt his petition praying for an order to sell the following described real ectate, Pltuatod In the county of Dickinson, Statu of Kansas, to-wlt: All ot section number thirty-three (33), In township fourteen (14) south, ct range one (1) east or the Mxth principal meridian, and all the ln'eretof thesjud estate therein, for the pnr pose or paying the debts owing by thesiid Mich ael Dowling, deceased, and the costs of the ad ministration or tho said estate. Said petition has been set for hearing at the office of the Pro bate Court, in the court house at the city of Abi lene, In said connty and State, on the thirtieth dnyof ApriL,A..D. 18SS, atJO o'clock a m , at which time yon are required to appear, and show canse. It any there be, why the prayer of said pe titlon shonld not be granted. UEXRY LITTS, Administrator of the estate of Michael Dowling, deceased. Stambauod, Hciro & Dewbt, Attorneys. 33-2 Administrators' Sale. STATE OF KANSAS, l Dlckinson County. f" In the matter of tte estate of Michael Forney, de ceased. The following described real estate of the said deceased, situated in Dickinson county, Kansas, will Ie sold at public auction at the front door of tho conrt bouseat .Abilene In said county, on Fri day the 20th daj of April, A. D. 1888, at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, the west half or the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter ot section eigh teen (181 In township (i.3), south of range two (2), east in Dickinson county, Kansas, there being twenty (20) acres Of said land. Said real estate will be sold for cash In hand. Willuh Messinoer, Administrator. SHERIFF'S SALE. UXDEK AND BY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF t-ale issued by the clerk of the District Court ot Dickinson county, State of Kansas, in a cjnsc pending therein, wherein I. S. llallam F. L. larker, partners as liallam Parker, are plaintiffs, and William J. Russell, Sallle F. Kus-ell, Hlland Southwortn and John P. Agnew, arc defendants. I will, on Monday, May 14th, A. D , 1888. at the front door of the conrt hou?e, in the city of Abilene, county of Dickinson, State of Kansas, at 10 o'clock, a. m. of said day sell to the highest b'.dder for cash, the following described real estate to-wit: Lots No. four and five (4 and A), in block ten (10). In Kuney & Hodge's addition to the city of Abilene In Dickinson connty. State of Kansas. Subject to a mortgage Hen of $800 with Interest at the rate of 12 per cent per annum rroai May lit, 1887. The said r-al estate wlllbe sold pursuant to the Judgment of the court In said cause recited In said order of sale. , Witness my hand this llth day or April, A. D 18S.S P. W.NMLL, 33-3t Sheriff or Dickinson coanty, Kansas. Buy kalsomine at Gleissner's. A choice lot of German Millett at J. W. Jenks'. "When Baby wu sick, ire gar her Caatorla, When she iru Child, sho tried for Caatoria, When she became Hiss, she el an 5 to CaatorU, When the had Children, the jt them Caatoifa, Go to J. W. Jenks' for German mil let. J 270-2tw29-tf John M. Gleissner has been appoint ed sole agent for the celebrated Heath & Milligan mixed.paint. This is one nfthpbfst established paints in the 1 market, and we congratulate him on 1 being so fortunate. d295-3 W33-2 ; b ! Atwood Colony-? Best Farming Lanes ',a the great Garden bectlon" Colorado the South Platte Valley. IO.OOO acres. Easy terms, rm n.ij ..lr.t. TT1tTifMI ltmtf The olace for prrsperous homes uroDS sure, uiwi w"i"" "?"? .... perou ILSOS Write, enclo?- inir atamD. to WILSOS & FKA5CE, Atwood, Logan Connty, Colorado. Buy Heath & Milligan's at Gleissner's Colorado tourist3 round trip excur sion tickets will be sold over the Union Pacific railroad to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo for $21.75, good for 30 days going and the same returning. Extreme limit, 90 days from date of sale. Utah tourists excursion tickets to Ogden, and Sak Lake City and return, pood same as above, for $47.50. Also round trip tickets on sale for Wyoming. Idaho, xenow stone auouai rain Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Butte, Helena and Melrose in Montana, Port land, Oregon, and-many other points in the West. For further information call, on or address W. N. Hzndbicks, U. P. Agent at Abilfne. mim Cryftr PHcWi -Cit. ESTABLISHED 1870. ABILENE BANK: -A-Toilene, ZECa-n sag. Lebold, Fishek BJLisrisziisra- business Done in all Its Branches. MORTGAGES Negotiated on Farm Property at 8, 7 a&d 8 pet cent, with reasonable commission. Also, money on fams witkots ooiv mission. STEAMSHIP TICKETS At all times; for sale at Lowest Bates. FOREIGN EXCHANGE Furnished on all the principal cities of the world. BOHSTDS BOUGHT andD SOLD Special attention given to business 01 Farmers and Stockmen. Personal liability not limited, as is the case with IncorooratedBanks. pshaw Furniture d Carp u luiTSwB YrL?32!'Ki 55 fyJy1) j. r y.yv f s v ctV'hbAEl Undertaker We are giving especial attention to this department; carry ttia Urgtat 4 finest line of UNDERTAKERS' SULTLIES in the city, and art preyarrf ta attend to this business in all its branches. LOWEST PRICES - Corner Fourth JOARDMAHGO. THE ONLY EXCLUSIVE CARRIAGE AND IMPLEMENT HOUSE IN DICKINSON C00NTY. OUR SM Of IMPLEMENTS IS COMPLETg i The same old Reliable Lines, W OioVvvN. ceve, V.se oce e cfcA WWWOTBLW uA Teco.vtfe, roavvoXe. ewVuvao. The Cassidy Sulky Plow! Everyone knows the Glidden barb wire i the best, and we can sell it as low as inferior wires. In carriages we cannot be beaten. Come and see and be Convinced That we can sell carriages, buggies, phaetons and carts cheaper than anyone. F. H. B0ARDMAN & CO. aw-5 & Co., Proprietorial 89a and Broadway. A&tr . BTS."TaL" CW&CfK Opera, Boute Block. w iS)b t "i'itPj'i " .! 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