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THE THOMASJOUNTlf CAT.
OFFICIAL COUNTY AND CITY PAPEB-
Iwued by Thomas County Publshing Co., at
Colby, Kunsas every Thursday of each week.
C. E. Kalb, . . Editor and Manager.
Joseph A. Gill, . . Associate Editor.
FINALPROOFS.
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for or payment arranged for in ad
vance. The charge for publication is
4.00. Parties having proof notices
running in the paper should notify
us at once in case- of mistake?
notice.
in
Newnpaper Laws-
1. Subscribers who do not Rive express no
tice to the contmry. are considered wisnln?
to continue their subscription.
2 If PiibFcnbers order the the discontinu
ance of their pei iod-cals, the publisher maj
continue to i-erd tliein until all arrearages nrc
P3 If Btibrcribers netfUct or refuse to tnke
ihelr periodical-, from the office to which they
are directed, thi-y are responsible until they
tunc settled their bills and orderthem dlfCdll-
4. If guhscnh r move to other places with
out informing the publishes, and tho paper
are sent to former directien, they are held
Teaponcible. . , , . , .
fi The courts have decided that refusing to
take periodicals from the olllce or removing
and Ica Injr tin in uncalled for, i- prima facia
evidence of intentional fraud.
6 If subscribers pay in advance they are
bound to frive notice to the publisher, at the
end c? their tirj", f they do not wish to con
tinue takinjr it: otherwise tho publisher is au
thorized to send itDii and tho subscribers will
bo responsible until an express notice, with
pa? mentor all nrrenrs. is sent to the publish-
7. The latent postal law decision I to tho
effect that publishers of newspapers can, un
der the law. .u rest any peson for f r.md v ho
lakes a paper and refuses to pav font. Under
this law it is a danjrerous trick for a man to
allow his subscription account to run on lrom
sfv months ton j fr and half unpaid, and
then tell the postmaster to mark it "refused,"
or send the editor a postal card to discontinue
the paper.
William Wilson has ben appointed
postmaster at Oakley.
Chicago is going far ahead of all
competitors in the matter of the loca
tion of the world's fair.
General Malione and his wife are
well balanced he weighs 105 pounds
and she tips the beam at 225.
There is considerable business to be
done at thi3 term of court, but Judge
Smith has the ability to turn it out at
a handsome rate.
The rumois that gruat destitution
exists in No rlh Dakota are exagger
ated. There arc probably H,000 fam
ilies needing help.
Kansas has plenty of rich news and
interesting topics without going into a
graveyard to resunect a Bender,
Quantrell, Ililman. etc.
A telegram from Osage City, Kas.,
saj's that llu Fiee Press, of that city,
Ua been sold. If that is the case, it
is no longer a -fiec pres.'
An old settler in Finney county
says that a failuiu in wop-s was never
known ntler a wet fall. That fixes
thin in thi iute for another
ear.
Theie aie ht:ll a number of men
who resemble Taseott but have not
been ai tested The detectives seem
to be gettinir negligent of their dutv.
Judgment h:is been obtained by
Senator .1 . G. Mohlcr against W. S.
Tait, editor of the Lincoln County
Beacon for libel. To get the money
is the next question.
Judge Smith on Tuesday went to
the polls and looked at the ballot
box but was not permitted to cast a
ballot. He was satisfied with seeing
his name ou the republican ticket
without an opponent
It is rumoied that Freddy Gebhardt
and Lillie Langtry have had a falling
out because the latter has become in
fatuated with a gentleman across the
water who lias a title longer than
Freddy's pocket book.
If Canada feels slighted at not be
ing invited to participate in the Pan
American mutter, she can alter the
matter by changing her political stat
us. When it comes to diplomacy and
international discussion, Canada is
not Canada but simply a slice of Eng
land. Montana republicans have captured
everything except the governorship.
The senate is a tie, with a republican
lieutenant governor to cast the decid
ing vote. The republican majority in
the house is s'ik. They get the su
preme enuii. and six out of eight dis
trict judges.
The sumuisionists in Kansas are
one-third liars, one-third political
tricksters, one-third anti-church fan
atics, and one-third rum guzzlers.
They form the only four-thirds dis
reputable party to which this lavish
nation ever gave the boon of liberty.
Topcka Capital.
Georse Francis Train, who is in the
Boston, Mass., jail on a charge of
debt, has written the governor of that
state that he (George) proposes to sue
the state for 100,000 for false im
nrisontnent George has had his own
way for a long time, but now the fate
seem to be against him.
The female clerks who have obtain
ed positions in the treasury departs
ment within four or five years are
mostly young woman who have just
passed through the normal schools
and have entered the government ser
vice through the civil service exami
nation test. They are a bright lot of
pung women.
The strength of a country is in its
"yeomanry." says Fiber and Fabric.
"Its brawny laborers, its bone and
muscle, Even the pitural resources are
of no vnlue liuli'ss.t Country has good,
healthy labor at command. This being
the case, it is but common sense to
protect that which is of the greatest
value to us. Whatever of protection
may be found necessary should be so
arranged as to protect our labor.-'
It is said on prettj- reliable author
ity that the Chicago & Alton the
pride of a certain coterie of capitalists
who have always had a commanding
voice in the making of rates and the
granting of territorial rights for other
vast systems becomes an integral
part of the Union Pacifie-Yanderbilt
chains of roads between the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans, and the great lakes
of the north and the Gulf of Mexieo
on the south.
The old soldiers at their recent re
union passed resolutions thanking,
among the U. S. senators from Kan
sas, Hon. E. J. Turner, congressman
from this district, for the support
they have extended to the old soldiers
in the way of obtaining pensions, etc.
The Tribune refused to publish the
resolutions which is a sharp indica
tion that that paper will not support
Mr. Turner should he be nominated
for a third term. That is the way the
Tribune loves the old soldiers.
The unmarried woman just at pres
ent is receiving a good deal of atten
tion. As a matter of fact the unmar
ried woman always has received a
good deal of attention if she was
young, pretty or attractive; but the
attention to which we now refer is
bestowed upon her regardless of those
attributes. Simply because she is un
married, and in a measure, therefore,
unproided for. a good many people
all over the civilized world are inter
esting themselves in her and her wel
fare.
Professor Snow, of the Kansas state
university, has received letters from a
number of different persons to whom
he sent chinch bugs killed by the
white fungus which makes its appear
ance in Kansas early in the season,for
the purpose of inoculating healthy"
bugs. In every case where the ex
periment was tried it proved success
ful and caused widespread devastation
among the pestiferons in&ects which
have proved such a curse to the Kan
sas farmers. There is some question
as to the power of the fungus to grow
with any strength in dry seasons, and
the feasibility of making Prof. Snow's
remedy for chinch bugs meet all cases
needs further verification. He has a
stock of fuugus spores keeping over
the winter that he may be prepared to
begin early next year. An official re
port, under the direction of the Kan
sas state board of agriculture, will
soon be issued and the farmers and
scientists of the country will be liber
ally supplied in order that the carry
ing on oi me experiment next year
may be as widespread and thorough
as possible. Kansas City Star.
TWO PAPERS FOB THK PRICE
OP
ONE.
A H'J.KNDlll OKKER.
Havingmade special arrangementb with
the publisher of the Topeka Weekly Cap
ital, a splendid 8 page family newspaper,
published at Topeka, and worthy of pat
ronage, we are enabled to offer the
Thomas Countv Cat and the Topeka
Weekly Capital, both one year, for $2 00.
Every Kansas man should have his
county paper for home news and a paper
from the capital of the state. Give this
combination a trial.
ANSWER THIS QUESTION.
Why do so many people we see around
us seem to prefer to suffer ami be made
miserable by indigestion, constipation,
dizziness, loss of appetite, coming up of
the food, yellow skin, when for 73 cents
we will sell them Shiloh's system Vital
izes guaranteed to cure them. Sold by
Ryder & Shanklin.
Go to Meglemre's
honest coal weights.
for
Don't fail to enquire at the Kock Island de-.
ETi.,?u mwai taking a trip fox business i
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular Correspondent.)
Washington, D. C. Nov. 1. 188.-Senator
Quay laughs good natoredly every time ho
beats of his being snubbed by the president,
and be has heard It quite often this week,
owing to the appointment of Mr. Field to be
postmaster at Philadelphia. If Mr. Quay's head
has any over-tender perturbances, they are
certainly too small to be seen by the naked
eye. Take this case of the Philadelphia post
mastership, for instance. When Mr. Field's
name was first proposed for the position by
Postmaster General Wannamaker, many
months ago. Senator Quay opposed the ap
poiftment, and it was at one "hung up" by
the president, and the appointment would
never have been made at all if Senator Quay
had not withdrawn his opposition. That is a
fair sample of all the cases in which the alleg
ed snubbing of Senator Quay have taken place.
He has not been snubbed; he is not disgrun
tled; lie is not sulking; he is not sore-headed,
and it la not at all probftbio that he will over
be so afflicted. Every story alleging any of.
those things, if traced to its origin, will be
found to have emanated from democratic
sources.
Secretory Noble ha? undoubtedly made 6omo
serious political mistakes since bo assumed
the management of his Interior department,
but his slashing attack this week upon tho
"cattle ring" which is trying to prevent the
opening of the Cherokee outlet to settlement,
deserves the approbation of the country, and
will be certain to receive it. He has written a
ery stroag letter to Gen. FaircblKI, chairman
of the commmission now negotiating with the
Chorokec Indians for tho purchase of thce
lands, in which he shows'the authority of the
government to acquire possession of these
iands, and notifies the "cattle barons" that
they must remove their property therefrom
on or before the first day of next June. This
will probably be surprising news to the "cat
tle ring! ' which has had its own way so long
that it had begun to think ith power greater
than tho government. AH taonoi; to Secretaiy
Noble for the decided and courageous stand
he has taken upon this important question.
More silly twaddle has been written about
the civil service law thau any one question
now before the people, and the latest is the
silliest of all. The worshipers of the present
law are arguing ia the editorial columns of
papers friendly to it, that any attack made
upon the present law by a republican, w ill be
a violation of tho national platform of the
party, because the national platform pledged
the party to reform tho civil service. As a
matter of fact, that pledge in the platform
furnishes the cry best of reasons for attack
ing the present law, if, as its opponents
openly charge, it is a failure and does not re
form the ch 11 service. There Is no sense in
trying to frighten tho men who oppose the
present law by such arguments, If the law
does not accomplish a good purpose, the
people should know it, and there is no better
way to obtain this knowledge than by an open
attack upon tho law upon tho floor of con
gress. If the law Is as beneficial as its friends
claim It to be, why should they not welcome
an opportunity to demonstrate that fact to
the country
Commissioner of Pensions Ituuru issued his
first orders concerning the methods of busi
ness in the pension office this week. Ono of
them provides that all claims involving largo
sums of monoy, shall, after being prepared
for adjudication, be sent to the desk of the
commissioner for his approval before the pen
sion certificate is issued. This.involves a big
lot of v ery hard work for General ltaum. Tho
commissioner also held a consultation with
Secretary Noble in relation to the re-rated em
ploy cs ot the oflice, but no conclusion was
reached.
Of tho thirtj-slx war eterans dismissed
from tho treasury department during tho last
administration, twenty have been reinstated,
and Assistant Secretary Batcheller says that
the others w ill bo put back as fast as v acancics
occur.
The civil serv ice commission has a pretty
fight on its hands now. It proposes to prose
cute the Old Dominion league, an association
of Virginia republicans, because it sent a cir
cular to Virginia ofliccholders Inviting them
to contribute to the campaign fund. Neither
the men who prepared and 6ont the circular,
nor thoso who receive the contributions are
office holders, but upon the letterheads on
which tho circulars were printed, are tho
names of three olhoc holders, who are officers
of the association. These will doubtless be the
ones selected by the civil service commission
for prosecution, that is, if the whole thing Is
not a biulf ou the part of the commission.
The latest "drop-a-nlckle-in-the-slot" ma
chine is now here ou exhibition. It feeds out
postal caidb and stamps, and its owner wants
the government to adopt it.
LEVANT LAURELS.
Lkvant. Kans.
SLEX LAST WEEK.
The bli77ard came down like a thousand of
brick,
Its' breathings were cakes of ice four inches
thick;
And its beard streamed far out, in a stiffness
that bent
With the swirl and the speed of the path-way
it went;
But the presence was felt of a conquered will,
And the heart of the fair Maiden stood stock
still;
While the slippery feet of this Damsel so fair,
Went sailing, yes, sailing, way high in tho air;
And down in the snow, "cold snow," she softly
sat.
Uernamo? Let's see? No; wo won't tell you
that.
Moral: This ought to be a warning to our
lady friend, but it won't.
Tuesday was a nice day "fdr Republicans."
We were out, and took ours straight as we
always do.
Our voters were out in force and voted
strong, but a more sociable and gentlemanly
crowd never gathered at tho polls.
Waxted: Someone io come to Levant and
help smoke up the surplus of election cigar.
No democrats need apply.
No school on Friday of last week, owing to
the very severe blizzard .that raged for the
greater part of the day.
Vintie Bixby Sundayed with his parents in
Levant. Vintie reports everything quiet (as
usual) over at Quick ville, and a largo enroll
ment in his school.
Loop and Tollman butchered an extraordi
nary fine beef for Mr. Frank O'Leary Satur
day last. The animal when dressed weighed a
trille over twelv e hundred. By the way, Mr-
O'Leary has some fine hogs too.
Mrs. Almlra Overman received from
j Chicago last week, one of the Chicago Seale
Co . elegant sewing machines, which is
patterned after the high arm Singer machine.
We understand the machine was a gift from
her son E. E. Overman of Phillipsburg. Kas.
CUfle Miles, with the assistance of C. N.
Jenne, has been busy for the past week doinsr'
come very good work on his bouse, and now
has it "a-la-mode." or. snuiras a bus: in a nwr.
and a d d eight snugger than any other
bugger.
Mrs
Atkinson, who is viaitiBC with her
daughter Mrs. John Barrey, received a tele
gram last Thursday from Aspen, Colo., stat
ing that her son who Is a resident of that
place, was not expected to live.' Mrs. Atkinson
left for Aspen, Friday last.
Work has commenced on the Hew school
build ing in the Dovdy district lire miles south
of town. Lumber, etc., for that purpose hav
ing arrived over the Rock Island yesterday.
Mr. C. N. Jenne has tho work in charge, and
promises to rush through, as it is wanted for
the winter term of school.
Rev. H. Kinley of the district northwest, is
to-day loading a car with his household foods,
stock, etc., for SaUna, Kans., where Mr. Kin
ley and familyexpect t locate, Mr. Kinley
having accepted a charge near that place Mr.
Kinley gave an old fashioned husking bee last
evening at which a very large number of
triends and neighbors were present, and a
most en joj able time is reported.
. "Lkvaxt."
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
The Inspector of Butcheries in
Paris reports that the consumption of
horse flesh has increased to an extra
ordinary extent.
t Kino; Humbert's palace in Rome,
tile Quirinal, contains 2,000 rooms,
only 125 of which arc occupied by the
King" mid his household.
'HheXorth China Herald says that
agents of the Panama canal made ar
rangements to kidnap 30,000 An
namese coolies to work at Panama, but
the enterprise failed.
Just before selling the furniture of
an old lady at Ryde, England, the
executor examined an ancient bureau
and, discovered a secret drawer, in
which were upward of 1,000 sovereigns,
closely packed.
The average time taken to put two
persons in telephonic communication
ih Glasgow is thirty-five seconds, in
Birmingham forty, in Liverpool thirty
two and in Dundee twenty. This was
ascertained from the results of ten
calls in each town.
A popular superstition in Naples
is that of offering a charm to a horse's
head or neck for the purpose of warding
off the evil eye. This usually consiste
of a piece of horn; but occasionally a
Madonna may be observed, and occa
sionally a small bag of sand fulfilling
the same purpose.
The Mexican woman who is
obliged to earn her own living has a
hard time of it. Seamstresses can not
earn more than fifty cents per day,
cigarette-makers from thirty-two to
thirty-eight cents, and match-makers
thirty to forty cents, and these are the
only employments that are open to
women in tho City of Mexico.
Prince Bismarek recently re
marked to a friend that in the course
of his long and eventful life he had
never met but one thing thnt really
mystified him. "I can not," he said,
"account for tho fact that a group oi
wax-figures never by any chance look
at an object "they are supposed to be
interested in, or at each other."
Queen Victoria has of late fallen
into the habit of taking little "cat
naps ' in ner ciiair, even wnen visitors
are present. At such times the royal
lady goes through the same routine
followed by the most humble of her
subjects. Her head falls a little for
ward, swaying slightly from side to
side; then she sits bolt upright, opens
her eyes wide, and assumes an appear
ance of great intelligence and alert
ness. Ellen Manning, a fashionable and
wealthy woman of Stapeley, England,
was recently arraigned on a charge of
having stolen sixty pounds of straw
fiom her neighbor, Mr. Hornby, the
famous cricketer. She pleaded not
guilty, but a boy employed by her
testified that the fodder running short
she had directed him to go at night to
the yards of various neighbors and
steal something for the cattle to eat,
and that when ho told her he had done
so she laughed. The case was ad
journed to give a chance for settle
ment. - Ex-Empress Victoria of Germany
and the Queen of Italy are said to be
the two cleverest and most highly edu
cated women in Europe. The ex-Empress
is a brilliant conversationalist,
but is not as witty as Queen Marghe
rita. The former, however, is pos
sessed of a knowledge of scientific sub
jects most remarkable for a woman.
She is able to converse learnedly with
such men as Virchow and Von Helm-
holz, and her comprehension of her
husband's case awakened wonder
among his physicians.
The increasing severity of the pass
port regulations will make it necessary
for all Americans going to Germany to
bring passports from America, and
that the personal descriptions, etc.,
therein shall be exact enough to satisfy
a Russian policeman in search of Nihil
ists. Passports must be stamped by a
German Ambassador at Paris, but the
passport regulations do not apply to
travolers by the common route from
Paris via Belgium to Berlin, but only
along direct routes on the Alsace-Lorraine
frontier.
Whoppers From Texas.
Near Sanderson. Tex., a hunter
came across a Iut.1 of ten deer; lie
killed nine and wounded tho remain
ing one.
Fur hunters in the southern pirt
of Pecos County, Tex., have killed
four hundred deer during the pi'St
hunting season (three months). lH
iroil Free Press.
Friend "What, Jobling. back
from the West so soon? Diln't you
meet wilhsuccesr" Jobling (nilh)
"Tis; but it wouldn't stop to
speak." Larpcr'a liuzar.
cue ouitan witnessed tne nrst
trip oi
the tiny locomotive and its one car on
the track laid for thorn outside the
walls of the capital. From such a
small beginning it 1$ hoped that in
time a Morocco rail war system mj
be developed, ll.uilrmUd WtcUf.
$12,000
Worth of
CLOIHING!
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OVERCOATS,1
Hats and Caps,
Boots and Shoes;
UNDERWEAR, ETC.,
To be
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AT ONCE.
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I am going to leave Colby and must
close all out in a short time. We will have
an
AUCTION!
ON
SATURDAY!
BETWEEN 1 AND 2 O'CLOCK.
Everything Goes !
Come and reap a harvest while you may.
Slump,? Clothier,
closed out
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