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"Successor to The Liberal Independent"
Vol. S. No. 34
Liberal, Seward County, Kansas, Friday, December 22, 1911
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and we are going to make a sacrifice at a time when you and the children
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Men's 10 50 overcuatsv 12.78
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LIBERAL, KANSAS
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The Best Crop
At this time of the year, per
haps more than any other, the
profitable business pf poultry
raising and dairying-is brought to
the attention of the people.
These industries have greatly
increased in this section of the
ountry. Mr. II. P. Gardner of
Swift & Co. was here this week
and says that their business west
of Pratt has increased about 75
per cent during the past two
years. The modern facilities for
handling cream and butter has
made it possible, for. the farmers
to make a Hying off from-a few
cows, and this is the way they
figure it. The average cow in
Kansas will give about 4,000 lbs.
ot milk a year, which will run an
average test of three and one-half
pounds of butter1 fat to the hun
dred pounds of milk. The average
price of butter fat year is about
20 cents per pound which will
make the milk revenue from a
single average cow run $28 a year,
which with the calf crop will
raise the revenue per cow to an
average of $40 per year. The
average cost of living is said to be
about $400 a year for the average
family. This would . make ten
cows support the family for a
year. Nothing has been said here
of the value of skimmed milk for
feeding hogs and calves. By pay
ing a little attention to feeding
and the' yield of , the cows, the
standard of the milk can be raised
and the revenue doubled. This
has been done in a number of
cases in this community, but the
cow that runs 8.000 per year, al
most has to be a thoroughbred.
The standard of dairy cattle will
be raised here as the industry
develops, and people begin to pay
more attention to this business.
There is right now an average of
$3f0 per week paid out here for
cream that is shipped, but it
should be $3,500. . .
Boy Sent to Reformatory
Monday morning a 17 year old
boy named Frank Casteel was
caught stealing goods from a
Rock Island box car. The boy
got in the car at Pratt and took!
his time in selecting the articles
be needed. He took a hat, over
coat, shoes and a duck coat, and
was caught ' here by Sid Long.
He was arranged by the county
attorney and pleaded guilty to the
charge of stealing from a' box car.
As this was bis first offense, Judge
Thompson gave the lad a sentence
to the State Reformatory at
Hutchinson, for not more than
seven years under the rules of the
institution. This boy is the first
Seward county prisoner to occupy
the new jail. He will probably
be taken to Hutchinson in a few
days.
At the basket ball game with
Texhoma last Saturday night Lib
eral won making a score 11:12.
Stickler Found Guilty
Joe N. Stickler was on trial
here last week charged with rais
ing a check from $25 to $125.
The case was hard fought and the
jury was out sometimo but finally
brought in a verdict of guilty of
forgery in the second degree.
The defendant was excused under
his bond of $1,000 until Monday,
when he was to appear here to be
sentenced. He failed to arrive
before court adjourned Tu slay
night and his bond was declared
forfeited. However if he appears
later for sentence it is probable
that suit will not be commenced
on the bond. As the case stands,
the jury having recommended
leniency, it is probable that the
sentence will be an indeterminate
one of from one to ten years.
Eidsons candies are freshest,
purest and best.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas.
Young on Dec. 19, 1011, a 10-
I pound boy. ...
Neeley on Labor '
"There is a law in the United
States,'' said George Neeley in his
speech Monday, "which prohibits
the importation of aliens under
contracts to labor. I was along
the Santa Fe the other day and
passed gang after gang of Mexi
cans working along the tracks for
$1.15 per day. If those men had
stayed in their own country that
same work would be done today
by our own laboring men and at
the rate of about $2 per day. If
I ana elected to Congress I will do
my best to clean up the district
United States Attorney's offices
and make them enforce this law
which prevents this outrage being
perpetrated upon the American
laboring man."
There is a world of truth in this
statement regarding the present
condition, and this law is so gen
erally violated that few people
ever knew that it was on the
Statute books. The fact that the
United States attorneys have
grown absolutely rotten under the
republican administration, was
shown to our people here, when it
was found that Leslie Leslie J.
Lyons, who is the United States
District attorney at Kansas City,
was also acting as attorney for the
fake Oregon Irrigation Land Co.,
which practically stole $3,500. or
more from the people of Seward
county. It was said by a Liberal
man this morning that he knew of
the Santa Fe maintaining a'bureau
at El Paso and also in Juarez, for
the sole i purpose of importing
Mexicans for track work on their
lines.
The republican party for the
face of the thing, maintains that
protective tariff is for the purpose
of protecting the laboring man.
If this republican administration
is so watchful of the welfare of
the laboring men of the country,
why has it permitted the whole
sale violation of this, law, which
has made it impossible for Ameri
cans to get work at a living wage?
These questions will probably
never be answered for there is no
answer to make. However, we
do believe that the decision or the
people in this matter will be re
pressed at the special election in
the Seventh District on January
9, 1912.
CITY LOST THE CASE
The $25 a Day License Not
Good
The case in the district court
this ' week which attracted the
attention of the buisness men of
the town was the case of the City
of .Liberal vs. B. S. Kungle, the
apple man, who refused to pay
the license fee of $25 a day to the
city for the privilege of selling
apples. It is said that the city
council was divided on the matter
and will probably settle the matter
so that the city will not be in fur
ther litigation over this ordinance.
In this case jury was waived by
both agreement, and statement of
facts was also agreed upon, and
the case was submitted to Judge
Thompson. In deciding the case,
he made this entry in the trial
.docket. "The Court finds that Or-,
dinance 111 is controlling in this
case, and that the tax of $3 there
in provided is just and reasonable.
That Ordinance 121 does not ap
ply to this transaction and in so far
as it attempts to do so, the penalty
bf $25.00 per day is unjust, un
reasonable, oppressive, and pro
hibitive of this class; of. business
and that the necessities of the city
do not require such revenue, and
therefore cannot be enforced
against this defendant. The de
fendant having tendered the $3.00
under Ordinance 111, is therefore
discharged, the City of Liberal to
pay the costs."
: In the case of C. E. Woods vs.
OVE. Nichols and- L. W. Parker,
the plaint-ilf was awarded damages
amounting to $027, and the - costs
in the cas ' were assessed to the
(Iflfendikits. Thhv'umn intr ancn
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rand the matter intolved Jwate
In Jones vs. Skidmore, the ver
dict was awarded to'thft defendant
and the costs were assessed to the
plaintiff in the case. -
In the case of ... McMullen vs.
Fraser, the jury brought in a ver
dict for the plaintiff, and gave
judgment against the defendant
for $M8H 32 and the costs of the
case were assessed to the defendant,
THOS. L HIGGINBOTHAM, M.D.
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