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THOMAS COUNTY CAT.
tIT PURRS FOR THOMAS COUNT' )
Drxx & Worcester, Eds and Props.
$1.50 Por Year.
Where no special time is agreed upon,
all advertisements inserted until
forbid
CAT-CHINCS.
Jiuflalo grass at present is king.
Andrew Jordines P. O. address is
Streator.
Thomas county is 36 miles long and
IJO milo wide.
We luiVnt heard any talk of a skat
ing link in Colby as yet.
Some living water in the Saline, but
occupied :y cattle men at present.
Herds of wild horses are still seen in
the western portion of the county.
The cominjuimner will about com
plete the settTemimt of the county.
Mis Anna Colby teaches the district
school and is giving good satisfaction.
As we traveled over the county last
week, we noticed many stacks of hay,
mostly on the South Sappa.
Antoincs Spath, and Dr. Bretz can
boa-t ot frame houses, but many more
will be erected this spring and summer.
Mr. J. II. Colby, one of the first set
tlers of Thomas County, we are sorry
to learn is at present afflicted with
rheumatism.
We want news items from all parts of
tli" county. Will those interested in
the welf.ue of a good county paper
pleae contribute.
We call attention in another place to
C. 0. Reynold's ad. We hope to see
Mr. Reynolds locate in Thomas coun
ty before many weeks.
Wallace Miller's, near Colby is a good
place to btop, and headquarters for the
mail can icia and for the newcomers.
He will ti eat you well.
.1 ime- Fleming near Scio has GOO
bead of -heep which whittled well.
W- WouilcoeK and son-in-l.iw near this
place nve engaged in boring wells.
We aie indebted to C.W.McGonigal,
dcimty .surveyor of Decatur county,
for l.ivoi s. As Mc. has been a faber
pusher, lie knows how if is himself.
MeEhoy and Siinpaon of Oberliu are
doing a land ollice business in the way
ot m iking out pipers and attending to
enna'-t-, and laud business generally.
A good many antelope yet in the
ciiuutv. bi't tbes'e:'dv march of civili
zation will drive the fleet footed dai
sies" fifty miles west the coming sea
son. .Jacob Thomas, of McOook, Xeb., has
selected land in Thomas count . Mr.
Thomas is enthusiastic in his praise ot
Thomas county. He goes to return
with his family.
Last week a hack load of land hunt
eis stalled ior this county. When
i oil call" was made, it was found that
they ueieall udscddi"rs, audall G- A.
U. men except one.
Frank Lord is a good guide, not
afraid of tht cold, and is a good judge
of flat tobacco. Frank stops at the
Barber Dio.'s ranch e, not far from
Cumberland, F. S. See postmaster.
J. K. McCoun, with Lewis G.Paiker,
in Oberhn, informs us he inteuds to lo
cate in Thomas county this spring.
Mr. McCoun is an attorney, and will
pay particular attention to land mat
ters Mr. .stewartsou, postmaster at Leti
tia, has a largo ranche (two sections),
stocked with cattle, sheep and horses.
Mr. S. never turns a hungry man
away. His wife serves excellent
meals.
William Eeed, Letitia postoffice, is
one of the first settlers of the county.
He has two ranches and two hundred
head of thrifty cattle, besides other
stock. He is a man of energy and in
fluence. You can atari at the northeast corner
of the county and travel to tue new
town site and only cross one draw the
entire distance, being very smooth and
level. The entile county is the same
character.
The postmaster at Streator, we are in
formed, never failed to raise com since
lie settled in Thomas county. He is an
old settler and live- on the divide south
.-iclc of the Dog, and has a line well
S'J feci deep.
Oberliu is full of liv urroh mts and
Dus:ms men. Ilt-r urofe - 1 men
;uv amorg t.ie best in the West. A big
business b..jm b goinj to stiiko Ober
hn this season if we are any jude of
such matters.
Wm. W. Armstrong, who lives in the
northeast cjuner or the county, and
whose po-toili -e is Ilawkeye. is one of
the lustier- if Tin mas county. He
tt.ed in '4, and is cluck full of vim
Oa t nipviterprise.
SnSSit? oF- Arcicr'd, Otterbourne Post
liali an' hour, aiui'00 place to stop to refresh
la-to with brow n -nan His wife is an excel
be flavored with eltfosr tempting biscuit and
boiled in it if liked.- t fct , aijy.,ny p--
n .T"" rcuer w,n se yu a
leisurely'eTi Sored r keeP3 tobaccos, flour
do not let that be the & and nuts.
THOMAS
Vol.1. No. i.
Let the friends of Thomas county
send the Cat to their acquaintances,
and to parties who wish to gain infor
mation about the county.
Send the Cat to your friends, who
are looking for rich, sn ooth govern
ment land, in a healthy, bracing cli
mate. The center of the county is
only 20 miles from a railroad.
J. 11. McGonigal, mail agent on the
Solomon Branch ot the E. P., has lo
cated a ranche in this county, and will
bring in a thousand head of sheep in
the spiing. Mc. is a valuable acquisi
tion to nny community
The trade of Northern Thomas coun
ty mostly goes 'to Oberlin, and will so
continue until Colby opens for busi
ness and offers inducements to trade,
which she will shortly do. Oberlin
merchants are enterprising.
Mr. Mills, one of the proprietors of
the new town site, is preparing to
build . His five car? of lumber will be
hauled from the railroad, a distance of
twenty miles, as soon as it can be done.
Mr. Mills' postoffice is Colby.
A. B. Kneudsen and A. Christianson
are thrifty and intelligent Danes, loca
ted near Cumberland. Mr. Christian
son, when we passed his ranche, was
scattering hay to about 250 head of cat
tle, which were in good condition.
Our young friends, Charles Coover
and Almond Vincent are engaged in,
boring wells, and they intend to can
vas for the sale of windmills this sea
son. They can be found two miles
east of the new town site, on the Dog.
We may expect a large number of
land seekers here from the Eastern
and Central portions of the State, as
soon as the weather gets settled and
congenial. Ottawa and Mitchell
counties will contribute a good s'z.ed
colony. j
Mai tin William's well is only 17 feet
deep, lie lives on the Prarie Dog.
William Heed's well which is on high
ground is 110 feet. Charley Coover's
well is (if! fee second bottom of Dojr.
rienry of running water on. South Sap
pa. Geo. W. Keys, formerly of Ottawa
conntv is engaged in the land business
in Oberlin. "We would as soon trust
George as anyone we know, with land
biisine-s he being careful and exact in
fcu eh matters. He has a live partner
who is not. afraid to rustle and locate
parties.
Henry Kneudsen lat year raised 120
bushels of onions, 200 bushels of pota
toes and all kinds of garden stuff. He
has 75 bushels of potatoes for sale this
spring. Lives near Cumberland. It is
fair to say that the garden and onion
patch was irreg.ited twiee by the use of
a wind mill.
C. D. Hubbard, near Cumberland
postoffice, has an extensive creamery,
selling laige quantities of butter. He
sells to D. W. Bruce, near Scio, Raw
lins county, at 20 cents a pound. Mr.
Bruce, formerly of Ottawa county, has
a small grocery store at that point.
We are informed by a parry who
knows that Canon City, Col., coal can
be obtained at the railroad for five dol
lars a ton by the car, and six dollars
a ton at the coal yards, and common
lumber from $20 to 82S. All kinds of
supplies can be obtaiued at the railroad,
the nearest point being 20 miles.
In leavingOherlin, where the land
office is located, for Thomas county,
your first days' drhe will bring you to
ITay Gibbs', on the South Sappa, where
yon will be nrovided with food and
shelter for man and beast, Gibbs is one
of the old settk is. and his better half
is an excellent cook.
While the papers are filled with
news of Oklahoma, nothing is said of
the steady and rapid growth of the ex
treme west. Right here in Thomas
county there is more smooth, beautiful
land in a body than can be found in
the entire Indian Nation. .We are not
subject to the"agei" here either.
loti'i Novo n ,ii Bohemian, lives on
the divide north of the Dog. His well
is ('$ fee, de.p. Plenty of smooth va
cant government land here, covered
with the luxuriant ami nutritious buf
falo grass. John at present lives in
Diller, Jefferson county, Xeb., and is
preparing to locate a colony of his peo
ple in this county.
We call the attention of the railroad
authorities to the importance ot send
ing an agent to monument. The set
tlement of the county this summer
wi!I be rapid, a gre.it many will desire
to read; the county by mil via Monu
ment, it being the nearest point to the
canter of the county and the canter of
settlement. A great many settlers ask
that an agent be sent to Monument.
COUNTy
COLBY, THOMAS COUNTY,
R. M. Goucher, the popular jeweler j
of Minneapolis, Kan., was the first to
enroll his name on the Cat's subserin-
tion list. By the way, we have quite a
list at Minneapolis, and hope we may
be the means of locating c number of
those who are on our list on the broad
and beautiful praries of Thomas? county.
When a man goes to a new country
to look for land, it is essentially neces
sary for him to haye accurate informa
tion. The seeker after land, by apply
ing to such men as J. E. Vancleve. Bs- j
settville. Fav Gibbs. Scio. or F. S. Se
I
Cumkn-land, he can be suited. Thes.V
gentlemeu have compasses, and have !
an accurate knowledge of the country.
Miss 3ary E. Hay is teaching school
near Otterbourne, on the South Sappa,
She is oiie of the first settlers and high
ly snokfen of by all her neighbors.
Miss Hy is zealous in all efforts to pro
mote fihe moral and intellectual ad
vancement of the settlement. Siie,
with cithers, have organized a lyceuni
and a'Sabbath School.
"Wo had the pleasure of meeting "W
D. Street, editor of the Kenneth Senti
nel., Sheridan county, at Oberlin. The
Sentinel is one of the newsiest papers
in Western Kansas. Billy, we extend
to you our velvet paw, and we also
want you to understand that the cutrt
the mast head is not our photograph,
Beloit Gazette to the contrary noi
withstanding. 'Colby receives mail twice a week
from Monument Tuesdays and Fri
days. The mail leaves Colbv in tfie
morning, reaches Monument on the R.
R. by noon, and returns to Colby the
same evening. This is good enough as
far as it goes; but it should be a daily
mail. The mail from Oberlin should
also be increased to. a daily. '1 he mail
facilities of the county must be in
creased. Hon. C.E. Chandler is Receiver and
Hon. A. L. Patchin is Register at the
Oberlin land office. These gentlemen
are courteous and accommodating and
are ro uv an1 ,:":cr to ex "nd to tt-
land seeker every facility notineom-
patible with their dutvj as officers of
the government. There is every indi-
cation of there being a great demand
for government land thi; season .
Last week the fall ot fmow at Topeka
j during Sunday and Morday was about
Alif frit tt ivliiln )inrn in 'Plinm-ic rwmf.v
' , ,, . , ,
it was only three inches, showing a
drier and mildei climate. The snow
Tlisappered in a few days, leaving the
grass bare for grazing. Cattle can be
wintered through on the native grass,
but it does not show good judgment to
undertake to do so. Feed should !.
provided for the storms. In our trave.o
over the county no dad stock was seen.
1 or the past two or three weeks no (
little talk has been indulged in b sev-1
nf.il ir$7iSTie r ltic nif' in vmrl rl i f
Thomas county, Kansas, which is about
200 miles west of here. On last Thurs-
uuyeeuui&uuj wuwi euiiui oi inib
paper, J. B. McGonigal, and some oth- i
ers of Beloit, left for that county, and
at the same time shipped material from
this place for a newspaper, which is
now on the grourd, and the first issue
of the "Thomas County Cat" will ap
pear next week, with D. M. Dunn and
E. P. Worcester as editors and publish
ers. The partie j from here have an in
terest in a new town site just laid out
on the Prairie Dog creek. The rush of
people to that country, it is said is un
precedented. 'Che name of the town is
Colby. Parties from Oberlin are also
interested. The place where our peo
ple have located is near the center of
the county, ar d is 20 miles from the K.
P. lailroad. The laud is smooth and
beautiful, and in a lew years it will be
as good a county as any of its eastern
neighbors. Minneapolis Messenger.
A .Letter From Mr. Irwin.
Colby, Thomas Co., Kan., Jan. 13. "S."i.
Mr. E. I. Worcester. Minneapolis.
Kansas.
Dkak Si::. In answer to your inqui--ies:
The population of tiic couuty is
about loO. Th:e has been a great
rnrx I'.Jnis tatun jliis frill mill u'infnr.
....., ....... ....-.. V... - ,
so that when they get here in the spring
it will be more than doubled. There
are no streams of water, exeept in the
north p:trt of
t-l,r -nrmnt",- in Hl,n
v.. v.u.....j , ... w..rr..
creek, a id that Is all taken. Plenty of
good wj ter i obtaiued by digging from
iO to 14) feet There is no town in the
county, but there will probably be one j
laid out. in the spring, near th center j the total appropriated uy tue uerao
of the county. Stock of all kinds do eratic Forty-eighth congress to S26.O0O,
well, but have to be watered at a well, j OCo-as asainst $18,000,000 voted by the
There is plenty of government land in ! Forty-seventh congress, Republican,
fc.rnrhiniinpr.nrr.iif titR mnntv.iaiul which called rtit cei.suie aH
....v. n.. ...... r rf-.
and some in the north and east part.
Homesteads can be had within two
mile i of the center of the couuty. Any j
CAT,
KANSAS, MARCH 12, 1885.
other information desired, freely given,
Yours Respectfully,
r. W. Irwix. P. M.
Since the above was written a town
site has been located 2 miles north of
Colby postoffice, on the Prairie Dog,
and the name proposed for the new
town is Comjy. Water can be obtained
on the netv town site at a depth of 30
feet. More definite information can be
obtained by addressing Mr. Mills, at
Colby. It is estimated that there are now
about 200 settlers in this county and
more coming. In fact, before winter
- e"5ct1 - t,,c strearu of land hunters be-
:U1 lo now towartis Lhoinas county.
boiit half the lands of this conntv are
still open for settlement.
We have received the initial number
ot the Thomas County Cat, D. M.
Dunn, proprieto-, and E. P. Worces
ter, editor and publisher. Messrs.
Dunn and Worcester are too well
known here to require an extended no
tice of their peculiar fitness to conduct
such a journal as Kansas people de
mand. That the enterprise will be a fi
nancial success, we have not the slight
est doubt. Thomas county is a portion
of our magnificent western area and the
rush to that point rivals the story of the
eaily days in the history of Kansas.
We are perfectly familiar with the re
gion under discussion, and know from
personal observation it ranks with the
best pastoral portions of the State. Its
prairies ::ie long level stretches of ex
cellent grass, the famous "Sesteria
dactyloides" or Buffalo predominating.
The title of the paperwhich our friends
have, inaugurated, while perhaps it
lacks euphony, is expressive and char
acteristic of a western journal. The
Cat is published at Colby, on the beau
tiful Prairie Dog one of our historical
streams in Indian traditions, and is
destined to become a great cattle and
sheep center, the two prominent indus
tries of Kansas. We ay success to the
Thomas Cat. and its mewing will soon
be heard as lively as its namesake on a
back shed in Minneapolis. Minneapo
lis Reuubliean.
THOMAS COUNTS".
An unorganized county, lying in the
northwestern portion of the State. It
' 10S cqm-distant from the State of Ne
braska on the north and Colorado on
the west, Rawlins county intervening
in the first instance, and Sherman in
I the latter,
, c
Rawlins bounds it on the
north, Sheridan on the cast, St. John
and Gove on the south' and Sherman
on the west. It ha-, an aiea of 1,0S0
square miles, and had a population in
liSSO of 101 people.
The nearest railroad point is at Mon
ument, St. John county, a station on
the Union Pacilic Railway (Kansas Di
vision), distant from the south line but
three miles,
TI fim.r;ii auP,-lcl, ; ., tiv-roii-
ing prairie, bluffs occurring occasion
ally on the banks of streams.
There is bus little timoer in the coun-
tv n fexv trees l)cig n,et with on the
ni:irris of the creeks. The countv is
well supplied with water-courses, and
is in consequence a valuable country
for grazing purposes. But little atten
tion has been paid to agriculture, the
inhabitants devoting themselves almostJ
exclusively in stock-raising, cattle and
sheep predominating.
The North and South Forks of Sappa
creek run northeast across the north
western partion, being apart from each
other but a distance of six miles. Prai
rie Dog creek has its source in the west-1
euitral portion, and has a northeast
v Vise The North and South Forks of
the Solomon river have their sources in
the southwestern portion, the former
flowing northeast, and the latter east.
The South Forte of Saline river also has
its source in the southwestern corner,
and flows along the southern line in an
easterly direction. There are several
other streams tributary to ihe above.
; The postoflices are Colbv, Cumber
' land, Letitia, Otterbourn, Quickvillc,
' and Streator.
1 About one-half of the government
land of tl county is -wti,-d. Xearh
J .',11 of the laud i- .'j it to Jioi.ie-' .i .
pre-empt inn .! tmiu. r culture L'i.
! i ui Paw Si" liailwav (Kansas Division.
, , ,. ...,
Thereis a5so hl the Cs)mitv :iS0
acres of indemnity school l.-u.d. asiie
from the regular ltith and :i'Jtli sections.
1 he river and harbor bill has passed. I
The amount tlii session, together vth
the appropriation for rivers and har
bors during the last session, runs up
over the country. Democratic promis
es of economy do not tally with Deiuo-
eratic practices.
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'Shiloh" ever written by Gen. Grant,
his official report being very brief, for
reasons which he recounts. The paper
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is richly illustrated. The Confederate
side of the battle will be told in an ar
ticle on "Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston
and the Shiloh Campaign," written by
his son, and in "Notes of Confederate
Staff-Officers at Shiloh." In the March
number will appear the story of the
fight between
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