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BAETOS COUNTY BEIOCiiT.- VOLUME II. GREAT BEND, KANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1887. NUMBER 4.1 i KANSAS NEWS. Articles of incorporation were yes terday filed in the office of the secreta ry of the state by the "St. Louis. Wichita, Hays City & Southwestern Railway company." The object of this corporation is to build, equip and oper ate a standard guage railroad from railroad connection with St. Louis, Missouri and Wichita Kansas, through the, counties of Sedgwick, Reno, Staf ford, Ric, Barton, Rush, Ellis, Roks, Philips, Graham, Norton and .Decatur, in the state of Kansas, to railroad connections in the state of Nebraska. Hays. City is named as the principal - place of transacting the business of the company, which is organized for a term of ninety-nine years and with a capi tal stock of S2.000.000 in $20,000 $100 shares. There are fifteen members of the board of directors, as follows: W. Warden, Aust Corbin and Isa Wil liamson, Pennsylvania; H. J. Roetzel ' and E. L. Chapman, of Barton coun ty, Kansas; A. C. Sanderson, of Rooks county; John Bissell, of Phillips; W. R. Hill, of Graham; L. K. Pratt, of Norton, and A. Patchen, of Decatur county Kansas. Topeka Commonwealth The Rock Island road will have its branch from St. Joseph - to Topeka completed and in operation in about two weeks. At what western point . the Rock Island will stop building its 'extension isa question which no one ojtside the managers of the road can answer, but it is now generally believ ed that it will build through to the Pacific coast. It is known that the comj an y has purchased more steel rails than will be used in the construction of the road along lines already survey ed, and this fact rather gives color to the report that a Pacific coast exten sion is under consideration, if it has not b en practically decided upon. Atchison Globe. At Wilsey on February 3rd., the three mouths' old child of John Gill was burned to death and the mother, in attempting: to rescue it, had her clothes set on fire and barely escaped the same terrible fate. The mother had left the child in the tent at Ston aker's camp on Six Mile crek, four teen miles from her to go to a spring tor water. During her absence some ctraw burning near the tent set the canvas on fire. After the teut had been totally consumed the body otlLe infant was found burned to a crisp. In conversation with Col. James Morrow, of Lyous, while at McPher Bon, Col. Fisher imparted the information that as soon as the Hutch inson line was completed from MePhur son, the attention of the Rock Island managers will be turned to building a line from McPjierson to Great Bend via Lyons. We don't know what our neighbors in Sterling may think of the project. Lyons Democrat. A fine vein of Tennessee granite has been opened a half mile n rth of town. It is indeed beautiful, susceptible of as high a polish as our best imported gran ite, and being found in practically in exhaustible quantities, will prove a bonanza to our city and county. Yates Center Democrat. The report that Orth Stein had kill ed a telepraph operator named How ard Stone at Price's Station, in U ah, proved to be incorrect. The murder er's name is Steen, a youth of only nineteen years. Stone, the murdered tn an, formerly' resided in Woodson county Kansas. The Leavenworth Times having said that "Chautauqui is the banner cotton county of Kansas," the Cherryvale Torch replies: "The Times evidently is not acquainted with Captain Mc Taggart's cotton farm in Montgomery county." In Labette county the county print ing has been divided between two pa- Eers, each of which is to reteive one alf of legal rates for the delinquent tax list and other advertising. The state historical society has receiv a photograph of Major General Phil lip St. George, who commanded in Kansas during the trouble in 1856. He is now living at Detroit. A four pound German carp and several smaller onas were recently caught in Cow creek, in Rice county. Kansas, where these fish have iived when turned loose to run wild. A 20 inch vein of coal has been dis covered at Admire City, Osage county. It is said to be inexhaustible. The mine will be opened immediately. JSalina Republican. Buffalo meat is selling in this city at fifteen cents a pound. Just ten years ago, it could be bought for two and a half cents per pound. Dodne. City Globe. J The State Legislature will be called upon to pass a bill providing for the payment of a royalty on all sugar man ufactured from caue in Kansas. The waterworks bonds of Junction City, $50,000 in amount, when sold realized $53,200. Good credit One of the old time scenes of Dodge City was enacted last Saturday night. It was a regular round up by deputy sheriffs and the consequences were nearly fatal to one of our policemen, Jas. Begley. It was a general display of firearms and brutal attacks on peo ple who happened to come in their way. No opposition was offered them and they captuied the town. Two of the policemen handed in their resignations on the following Monday and Mr. Fred Singer had the entire work to do until some more men were appointed. War rants were issued for the arrest of the gang who did the vrork but they had skipped out for pastures new. They have the best wishes of the citizens that they will like their new location well enough to stay. Dodge City Dem ocrat. The Union Prospecting Coal & Min ing company of Little River, Rice countv, Kansas, was charted yesterday with a capital f 1,000,000, . and the followiug officers: H. T. Smith, pres ident; H. J. Harvey, vice-president; A. M. Smith, treasurer; E. Z. Smith, secretary. The purpose of this com pany i3 to prospect for coal, until there is a certainty one way or theo- ther, either coal or no coal. Mr. U. 15. Smith will be elected general manager, and operations will be begun at uce, about four miles northwest of Little River, on either Mr. Harvey's or H. T. Smith's farm. Lyons Democrat. While a masquerade ball was in progress at Freeprt, a small town a few miles west of Wellington Kan., in Harper county, a paper head dress worn by Miss Cora Roulder caught fire from a bracket lamp near which she was standing. . She immediately pulled the cap from her head and threw it upon the floor, but while endeavor ing to tramp it under her foot, her dress, which was also trimmed in paper, caught fire, and she was burned to death in the presence of one hundred pauic stricken people. Senator J. W. White has again suc ceeded in convicting one of those who circulated the slander concerning his connection with the Rice county safe robbery some years ago. Last week in the District Court, a verdict of guil ty was brought in against W. J. Ful ler, formerly of Lyons, but now of Jetmore. and the jury awarded Sena tor White S20,000iamages. A bill has been introduced into the legislature to compel Lawrence to pay the 8100,000 university bonds as sumed by the state, on the ground that the law assuming them was unconstitutional. Newton is to build a four story hotel to cost 818,000. The library of the Kansas penitenti ary contains 6,000 volumes. Th Rock Island will be running trains into Topeka next week. The biggest boom ever known in Kansas is just beginning to swell. Jacob O. Rey, aged 75 years, one of the oldest residents of Phillips county, died last week. The sorghum syrup works at Sterl ing appear to have been operated successfully the past season, The endeavor of Senator Fair's son to make Congressman Page take a drink at the point of a pistol has awa kened wide spread interest. It adds another feature to the already compli cated problem of official etiquette in Washington. The question arises, how far has a congressman the right to disobey the commands of a rich sen ator's son? Young Fair desired to treat Mr. Page, and 'being the offspring j of one of the wealthiest members of the ; senate, was entitled to more consider- i ation than he received. Fair, however, wits not without the means of enforc ing his princely orders. He carries a revolver, and knows when to use it in vindication of his defied preroga tive. It is pleasant to see the sons of millionaire senators rising thus boldly to a practical recognition of their her editary privileges. When a congress man so far forgets himself as to snub the hilarious son of the Silver King he is evidently blind to the niceities of modern plutocratic etiquette. iveta York World. nlu u yi 3B2R,H1XjI.A.2ST1' AUTHORS. LLl DC CO LLl LU "O wad some pow'r the giftiegie ns To we oursela as ithers see us! It wad frae many a blunder free us And foolish notion ; What airs In dress an' gait wad lea'e ua And er'o devotion." There were tour crows sat on the gro und Carrot colored, brindle, white and brown; Said one old crow unto his mates: "Keeney is getting away with the baggage of late!" Said the old white crow, with solemn mien. In the most solemn manner ever was seen: "Something must be done, or sure as you're born We'll have to eat shucks, Instead of corn!" The wise old crow then crooked bis jaw And slowly scratching his beak with his claw. Said, "Surely, something has got to bo done For Keeney he is a son of a gun!" Then they all looked as wise as wise could be And the wise old crow looked the wis est of three, As he said in a voice so solemn and low, "We'll go out and compel people to buy, you know" Then they all joined In A loud refrain For they had. (in their minds,) Downed Keeney again. "There was a man in our town, And he was wondrous wise ; He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes." Moeal. Don't be a brats ble bush. "Seest thou a man diligent in busi ness, be shall stand before kings, be shall cot stand before mean men." "Eut, mousie, thou art no thy lane, In pr Ting, foresight may be Tain : The best laid schemes o' micean'men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us naught but grief an' pain For proniid'd joy." "He who by the plow would thrive Himself must either bold or drive.' JO O O m m CO ATTORNEYS. There i in Fort Scott an extensive saw-mill, built for the purpose and constantly employed in sawing up pine logs brought in from Missouri, Arkan sas and Texas. The wheat prospect on the Kansas frontier is better now than it is in the fertile country between Atchison and Clifton which was thecaselast year at this season. Dodge City had another blaze on the 22d inst., the Hotel ofDe Van being the building involved. The fire was soon extinquished by the fire de partment. There is a project on foot at St. John ts sell the public square at that place for 835,000 and apply this a mount to the liquidation of the coun ty debt. A new roller process flour 'ng mill was started at Blue Rapids last week, with a capacity of 150 barrels per day. Barlow, McGrew & Co., proprietors. The Lane county inhabitants are kicking because the county line com mittee took six tiers of townships off of Lane county to establish Buffalo. In Southern Kansas farmers demand 35 cents for corn, but 30 cents is the price usually paid, as the retail price brings but from 35 to 40 cents. Anderson county school ma'ams have organized a female immigration socie ty for thepurp- se of locatinir a female collexe on No Mao's Laud. A mail route has been ordered to be established at once between Topeka and Fort Scott, on the Kansas, Ne braska & Dakota railroad. Jewell county raised about 150.000 bushel of corn last vear, which was n. ore than was raised in any county of its size in the state. William Beichle, of Sumraerville, Ottawa county, committed suicide last week. - Disappointment in love the cause. Anthany, Harper county, has sub scribed for eight electric lights for light;ng the city at a annual cost of $17,000. Nine druggists of Topeka pleaded guilty to violation of the prohibitory law and were sentenced on Tuesday. The Hutchinson ATsays that over $1,200,000 worth of improvements will be made in that city during 1887. Hiram Neversweat from San Anto nio: "I met a Kansas man yesterday a prominent prohibition republican from the interior and had a long talk with him in the 'House of Lords,' a saloon that justly boasts bigger glasses of beer than any other house in town, and the least foam in the glass. In reply to a query concerning the politi cal situation at home, he swallowed a schooner of lager and said: The situ ation is lovely. We have closed the accursed rum holes in every town ex cept Leavenworth, and that is on our list. In six months there will not be a groggery in the state, please, t he Lord.' I asked him why be, a man who liked his beer so well, was so opposed to saloons, and, after calling for and empt ying another immense schooner, he replied: 'Well, you see, lama poli tician by profession. I live on what I am able to make of politics. There fore I am compelled to 6taud in with the prohibitionists who dictate the pol icy of my party. At first I did this for policy's sake; in other words I was a hypocrite. But gradually I became a prohibitionist in earnest, and now I am one of the fore-most, adherents of the doctrine.' I asked him if he drank while he was at home, and, ordering another schooner and drinksng it at two draughts, he said: Yes, I am sor ry to siy I do. I try to keep it a se cret, but when lam found out I affect great penitence, attend religious serv ices and temperance meetings, and am soon forgiven.' Do you,' I said, 'think; this game will last long? After or dering afresh schooner, he said: 'Can didly, I don't think it will. It will last until the old set of politicians die off w'.th drug store whisky, and then a man who expects to get office must be a prohibitionist in practice as well as by profession. For when the wo men get to voting (as they will in less than two years) they will not give a man a chance whose breaths smel's of whiskey.' 'Do you,' I inquired, expect to be re elected to the office you now occupy?' 'Yes said, he ordering more beer, 'I do.' The luck of Cliff Baker for State printer has given me courage to make the race. I But I must be going, or I'll be to d d drunk to get to ray hotel. Good-bye I would h:ve accorapained him, but he was so drunk that I was ashamed to be seen in his company. I could not help regarding it as a funny cir cum stance that I had met a prominent Kansas prohibitionist who made such hog of himself that a rum fiend was ashamed to be seen on tho street with him.' (hic.) Atchison Globe. Among the stories told at the New England dinner in New York last week was the annexed: There was an old preacher once who told some boys of the Bible lesson he was to read in the morning. The boys, finding the p ace, glued together the connecting pages. The next morning he read on the bottom of one page: When Noah was 120 years old he took unto him self a wife, who was then turning the page 140 cubits long, 40 cubits wide, built of gopher wood and covered with pitch inside and out!' He was natur ally puzzled at this. He read it again, verified it, and then said. 'My friends, this is the first time I ever rad this in the Bible, but I accept it as evidence of the assertion that we are fearfully made. Ex. WE WA LAP We want to buy 10,000 acres of land in Barton, Stafford, Rush and Ness counties as soon as pos sibl for cash in hand. Call at once at the law office of Sam J. Day, Great Bend, Eas. B. O. PRICE & CO. J. V. BRIRIKFilAR! Ct CO., BANKER TILEO. C. COLE. ELRICK C COL County Attorney COLE BROTHERS , ATTORNEYS AT LAW Office In Court House. "Counsel in German by Theo. C Cole. MAKER & OSMOND, ATTORNEYS-ATVLAW. Rooms 4 and 5 in Allen's Elcd,- GREAT BEND - KAIL SAM. J. DAY Attorney at Law . UflLLtiER BLOCK, Great Bend, : : : Kansas a. t. EWALT. Kotary. J. U. SE1XEXT ! EWALT & BEMENT, : Attorneys at Law, Heal Estate i and Loan Agents! i Collecting a Specialty, Rent Property and Pay Taxes C. F. DIFFENBACHER, D. A. SANTA. immrdi i sakta, Attorneys at Latnr Office in Allen-Hubbard Block, rooms 9 and 11. PHYSICIANS. F. LIGHTF00T. Physician & SurgeoiL Headquarters at Allen's Drag Store S. J. SHAW.r.1. D. t OFFICE IN- .A lien's 331oclc, GREAT BEND. KAN. L Y. M0K5HCK, IL D., Physician & Surgeon. Office rer Dodg A Co.' Hardware Bbor Northwest Corner Square, FBT5IBUUD WUW. ,i HEADQUABTERS AT ? Burson & Shaws Drug Store ESTABLISHED IN 1874. does -a. general bajsticcstgr bttsihstess. $500,000 to Loan. 1 iLim Ml On long time, with the privilege ot paying at any time. BOOH 8 A?-LEHU23AD3L0CE: W. IKE. IRELAETD. Groceries, Glassware,Queensware t,. etc- A LARGE STOCK OF PURE GOODS AT LOW PRICES! Four Doors South of Opera Block, Great Bend. STOV ROBINSON & STERKETT, DEALERS IX mm I Hardware and Implements. MATTB A SPECIALTY OP Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Ware, 2IAIN STBEETa SOUTH OF LELAKD HOTEL HOTELS AND RESTAURANT. Teres Reasonable. 'Good Sairpl Rooms. EAST BIDS Or SQUABS, ! Great Bend - - -Kansas. VAIIEY HOUSE, Near the Depot. Best aocommod&tlqpfl ta. the city for the monoy. Transient, SLfiO per. day. Day board per week, V0O. A jrooe' feed stable attached. IV. XZ. IIOLMEa Proprietor. J. TKOIIXETT, Bestaurant and Confectionery, day boarS and lodging. Fine cigars and tobaooo, can dies, etc., always on hand. All kinds ot drinks. In, their season. Ogsters in mrmrf style. . Forest Arenas, first door west of toe Foet offios. A. H. BAKER Real estate. Loan and Insurance HOISINGTON, KAN. SAUL TTEEELE&j ' "Wagon -:- Maker AND RBPAIRliR. F. M. HODGE'S OLD STAND, Williams Ave. , GREAT BEND. GHAS. BET213, DEALER IK GROCERIES, PBtmSIOHS AHD P30DUCE. A new and splendid lin$ of goods which I am eelling at ' tho very lowest figures. When you need any- thin in his line cive him a call. First door north pf KobinKJtt & Stetf ettV hardware ttexe. -