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STATE NEWS.
teina ot Interest Gathered From All Parte
of tlie State.
The discoverer of the gigantic exticnt
sea turtle found near Fort Wallace, in
Western Kansas, first observed the large
bony shields projecting from a bluff near
Butte creek. They were carefully taken
out and brought to Philadelphia, where
the restoration was made. The fore
flippers alone were nearly five feet long,
while its expanse frcm the tipof one ex
tended flipper to another was about
seventeen feet The question may arise,
how did this sea-turtle become buried in
in a bluff in the state of Kansas? A nat
ural supposition would be that Kansas is
the bed of a former ocean, and so it is.
Ages ago, in what is called by geologists
the Cretaceous Period, that part of the
world was the bed of a great sea, in
which the great turtle swam, together
with other monsters of curious shape
and appearance. Gradually the crust of
earth was raised, the water fell back, or
became inclosed, and left the inhabitants
of the Cretaceous sea high and dry, to
be covered by the earth and preserved
for us to study ages afterwards. The
shores of this ancient ocean are easily
foun' and followed by geologists. Its
extent has been traced on our western
plains by the bleaching and disintegra
ting remains that have been found upon
and beneath the surface.
Abilene Gazette: A few weeks ago a
fine shepherd dog belonging to Mr. Dob
inB of Ridge township, was missing, and
the family supposed it was ki led or sto
len About two weeks afterwards, one
of the lamily was going past an old well
near the house, and hearing a faint bark
of a dog, looked down into the well and
behold, the dog was there. The well
was about fifty feet deep. They got a
.wash tub and tying a rope to each han
dle, let it down to the Dottom. Alter a
little coaxing the dog climbed into the
tub, laid down, and was brought to the
top without the least bit of trouble.
There was a live skunk in the well with
him, and it is eupposed that the dog was
chasing the animal, and that both ran in
to the open well, where they kept each
other company until found and his dog
ship rescued aftor a prison life of two
weeks. They took no pitv on the poor
skunk but "left him alone in his glory."
2fess City Times: Recently R. K. Mc
Conahey and J. J. Bloom, of the Pawnee,
got into an altercation and both parties
commenced firing. There was no one
else present but a sixteen year old boy,
who iestopping with McConahey, and
from all accounts he was too badly scared
to remember distinctly what happened.
Two or three sLots were fired by each
party, and when it was all over Mc
Oonabey found a bullet in his head and
a hole through his left wrist; the other
fellow had a new hole in his left ear.
Bloom who claims that McConahey stood
and fired till his weapon was emptied,
and then ran, went before Squire Par
kins and offered to give himself up. The
bquire came to town with him. Dr. Ve
nsrd was called in to dress McConahey '
wounds. He extracted the ball from the
head without difficulty, and pronounces
the wound not necessarily dangerous.
A disa'-tr&us prairie fire Btarted ten
miles southwest of Anthony, Harper
county, one night recently. Hay, grain,
stables, and corn fields were destroyed.
and miles of fence burned down, doing
many thousand dohars damage. It is
rumored that a young lad and a young
iaay oom are ourned so Dadly that their
lives are despaired of. The fire was
Btarted on some land the title of which
is in dispute, and was occupied by a man
and his wife in a tent Thev attemrted
to burn down the grass around their tent
lor sen-protection, and the fire got be
yond their control.
The state board of charities held a
meeting at the deaf and dumb institute,
at Olathe, last week, all members being
present. The accounts for October were
audited and the present buildings in
course of construction were thoroughly
inspected and estimates for work . done
were allowed to the contractors. Every
thing about the institute seemed to be
moving off in harmony and the board
expressed themselves highly pleased
with the new management
The county commissioners of Sumnei
county, will bring suit to recover the
value of 186,000 in bonds voted by the
county to the Cowley, Sumner, & it.
Smith railroad. The attorneys agree to
prosecute the suit for ten per cent of the
amount they recover from the railroad
company, andin case they do not recover
anything they pay all costs of the case.
The suit is based upon certain fraudulent
transactions of the railroad company.
Judge Martin, of Atchison,has decided
a case wherein thestate was plaintiff and
the saloonkeepers defendants. Th case
was brought by Attorney General Brad
ford against the saloon keepers of Atchi
son, charging them with maintaining a
public nuipance. The decision of Judge
Martin fully ustains the charge and
that part of the prohibitory law under
which it wa& brought.
A tramp who was beating his way in a
freight car, accidentally shot his travel
ing companion at Abilene the other day.
The ba.l struck him in the ear, cutting
through and making a severe flesh
wound about three inches long in the
sido of his head, and spending its force
on the floor, where he was lying at the
time.
Wm. Dunmire of Armourdale, was
awakened one night recently by some
parties pulling his pants from under his
pillow. He endeavored to get up but
was covered with a revolver by one of
the disguised parties and told to lay still.
The thieves took 100 in currency and a
fine silver watch and chain valued at
$40.
Geo. H. Bsrthard, Esq., of Bellefon
taine, Ohio, one of three men who be
came Eomewhat noted throughout the
country because of tbeir efforts to avenge
the death of Garfield by attempts upon
the life of his slayer, Charles Guiteau, is
visiting in Olathe.
The Leavenworth board of trade has
appointed a committee to present plans
at the next meeting far a new board o
trade building. The meeting alBO de
cidedto sink a well for natural gas. and a
committee was appointed to investigate
the probable coBt and location.
The state reform school to be erected
at Hutchinson, for which appropriations
to the amount of $60,000 were made by
the last legislatrue, will be a model in
stitution in every particular, the equal,
if not the superior of any like institution
in the country.
The postoffices at El Paso, Edwards
county, and at Grover, Ottawa county,
have been discontinued.
According to the Marion Record there
are four cases of small pox in Hillsboro,
in that county.
Pratt county is looking for the exten
sion of the A. T. & S. Pe .from Kingman
The Northwestern Kansas editorial as
sociation met at Kir win last week.
Wichita has just completed two new
schooLhouses cobUng $10,300 each.
New corn brings 30 cents per buBhel
at Eredonia.
AN UNEXPLORED BEGION.
A New Opening to Settlers GreeUy Cotm
ty, its Water Sourcef, Fertile Sull, and
Prospective Resources.
Your "Occasional," having recently
passed through a large region of compar
atively unexplored country, thinks your
readers might be interested in hearing
from that remote region,
GBEELET COUNTY.
This county borders on the state of
Colorado, and lies in the center of the
6tate north and south. It has practically
no Btreams, because the two water courses
have no running water in them.
LADDER CEHEK,
as it is on the maps, but Beaver, as it is
Have used Tongaline in facial neural
gia, neuralgia of the heart, and chronic
rheumatism; secured relief in each case,
and also in one most obstinate case,
where other remedies failed.
O. B. Psttfohn, M. D IndianayJ's, Ind.
spoken of by the few inhabitants of
Wichita county, runs through the north
east corner of Greeley into Wichita, and
has some pools of water, showing that
water rises and smks in it This fact I
learn from others ; but of the'other stream
I speak personally, having followed its
course for over twenty miles direct, and
crossed it at various other points to its
mouth, if a water course without water
can hive either a stream or a mouth.
Still it has a stream at imes, and empties
its water, if it has no mouth. That
stream is
THE WHITE WOHAX.
On the maps of the state board of ag
riculture it is called Poison creek why,
your correspondent will not tell, because
he does not know, but certain it is that
it is called the White Woman from its
source to its mouth, by the oldest in
habitants. It heads in Greeley and
ends near the centre of Scott county.
The reason for its name was thus
explained to us by John Sinn, an intelli
gent ranchero. near the east line of
Greelev. Several years ago a white
woman was murdered by Indians on its
banks, and afterwards the ''noble red"
who committed the murder, lost his
precious life, and his comrades disposed
of his remains with all the "pomp and
circumstance" of Indian barbarity by
cutting a hole in the soft magnesian rock
and placing the corpse in the cavity,
where it was found, with the long hair,
and scalp of the victim of Indian bar
barity. The gallant paleface who made
this discovery exhibited the disgusting
spectacle for a short period, Indian
scalp, hair and all but what disposition
was finally made of it we know not
OUK TRIP ASD COURSE.
We startedout in a two horse wagon,
from Lakin on the Santa Fe railroad,
facing a stronr, severe cold, northwest
wind. The first night out was as dreary
a one as we ever experienced in our
thirty years of pioneering from the east
ern limits of Kansas to its extreme west
ern border. We placed our wagon broad
Bide to the wind, and having some lum
ber on board, we set two pieces of boards
perpendicular, put the ends in the
ground, leaned them against the wagon
and sided tnem up with other boards,
and with ample bedding, defied the
howlings of the "pitiles3 storm" which
passed over us. The next morning was
quite cold, but the wind fell and the sun
soon shone out in all the genial warmth
which a Kansas November sun can give
when the high mountain storm turns to
the gentle zephyrs ftom the sunny
south. Near noon, we struck the White
Woman, (so to speak) and passed over
her shining sands some thirty feet in
width. On the heights north we discov
ered the first human habitations in a
trip of over forty miles, which we had
followed along a cattle trail northwester
ly. Here was presented the view of
half a dozen houses, with several others
farther east in a cluster, looking, in the
distance, like a ranch with its corrals
and outhouses, but this we ascertained
to be Leoti, the center of Wichita county.
But we were bound west, and wanted
"no city life in ours," and getting our
bearings by finding the section, town
ship and range from a Mr. Chaffiu
residing on the White Woman, we per
suaded him to accompany us, and aid us
in finding out where we were. Getting
the center line of Wichita county, we
followed westward, finding each of the
government corner Btones, except in a
single instance, to the geographical cen
ter of Greeley county. In this county
there are but a few inhabitants. Near
the center we found eight or nine hu
man habitations, but in nearly twenty
miles no human voice marred the mon
otony of the silence of the vast prairies
before and behind and all around us.
The night, however, was made hideouB
by the howlings, growlings and snap
pings of the coyote, which, though un
seen in the daytime, seemed to mul
tiply into scores as we "laid us down to
sleep."
A TOWN IK THE DISTANCE.
As we pursued our journey, one hold
ing a compass and driving the team, and
the other counting the revolutions of
the wagon wheel to compute distances,
(there were two of us,) our eyes caught
the glimpse of objects in the distance, but
what they were we could not 'discern.
As distance between us lessened, we dis
covered two fine carriages, and to our
surprise we were hailed by name, and
found they contained three gentlemen,
Messrs. Gerard, of Indiana, Campbell
and Vallandigham, of Harper, the latter
a Methodist minister, and with them
were five ladies, Misses Mary Campbell
and Laura Rodman, of Pennsylvania, and
Jude and Belle Graham, of Michigan,
and Mrs. Stokes, of Syracuse, Kansas.
They were out locating claims. They
started wells (a foot deep) for pre-emptions
and selected their timber claims,
and we promised to witness that they
were land owners, if not house-holders
independent "sovereign squatters." Just
before we left the cattle trail, we stopped
at a "forest" where a"round.up" had oc
curred, and loaded our wagon to the
brim with a fuel which Coronado "a ex
plorers called the bois de veche, and with
this queer but useful load, we fell in the
line of the fine carriages and beautiful
ladies, and w re soon on the grounds of
THE NEW TOWX COMPANY,
where we built our fire, cooked our slap
jacks and roasted our meat over the
coals. We found that Mr. Gerard and
others had erected one very comfortable,
half frame, half dug-out houer and three
sod houses, and were starting a town two
miles east of the center of Greeley. We
spent a very pleasant evening with this
merry, intelligent party, partook of an
evening lunch of cake and other good
things, and were never more happily
entertained. The next day we passed
westward to within sight of the Colorado
line. At the centre line of Greeley from
the north to south between the fortieth
and forty-first ranges we found a Mr.
Drake and his family, in a comfortable
house, and four other houses without in
habitants. Mr. Drake was the only man
who denied that he was a town. The
fact is, the. county has about as many
towns zb it has inhabitants.
GENERAL TOPOGRAPHY.
Thenraries of Greelev or much of
THE TVIIXIAMfeTOWN MURDEff.
The brothers, George and Morgan
Cockrell, were engaged in building a
stone fence for David Tenny, a farmer,
and Monday became dissatisfied with
the manner in which each was doing his
work. A quarrel arose between them
and a scuffle ensued resulting in George
although being the smallest man, getting
his brother down in such .a
position as to hold him there
until the latter promised not to create
further disturbance if he was released.
The promise was taken in good faith by
George and he dropped all hold on his
brother, permitting him to arise to his
feet Fatal act! No sooner had Morgan
been released than he grabbed a gun
from the hands of Mr. Hallet White and
emptied the contents of both barrels
them are generally rolling, never pbrupt8imultaneoaay into the body of his
nor steep, except in afewuiBtancesalong
the White Woman, sometimes stone
cropping out of the banks. In .many
parts long stretches ot plateau lay before
us. In fertility the soil is excellent.
WATER SUPPLIES.
Of the sour es of water man knowcth.
but little in this region. Near the Colo
rado line good water is obtained at a
place called Barrel Springs, which takes
its name from the fact that the govern
ment sunk barrels in the sands of the
White Woman, wherein the water rises
and furnishes ample supply. No other
natural springs are known at least to
your correspondent. In places, we
found pools, but we took the precaution
to carry a barrel of water with us at
each supply place and a very necessary
precaution we found it. Once we saw a
herd of wild horses in a low district, and
following their tracks found pretty good
surface water. But we propose to specu
late on that question in again referring
to
THE QUEER RIVER,
the White Woman. We said there was
no stream, and there is none perceptible
except at extremes of great raint; but
there is evidently a constantly running
supply beneath the Burface. The bed of
the stream is a coarse sand,very suit
able for masonry or plastering.
Six miles east of the east
ern Greeley line, Messre. John
Sinn and Chaflen each have
good water at thirteen feet, from wells
dug near the sandy bottom, but at its
very verge, they told us water could be
found at the depth of a barrel. The
same is true of a well of Mr. Charles
Sinn almost at the Greeley line. We
tried digging four miles west of the east
line of that county, and found sand out
of which we could squeeze moisture, but
it caved in too fast for success with no
means but a spade; our judgment is that
water will be generally found but a few
feet below the level of the bed of the
White Woman.
This strange stream drains the water
shed of a vast area of prairie on each
side for a distance of about sixty miles,
passing from near the Colorado line
through Greeley and Wichita counties
to the center of Scott, where its waters
both above and below the surface are
lost in a "basin" of about fifteen sections
of land marked on the map of the gov
ernment surveyors in the shape of a hu
man leg and foot. In all its length it has
but a few pools of standing water near its
sink hole or Dasin. In fact the basin is
but a series of sink holes. We have
driven through it where we found sink
holes large enough to swallow a horse.
In wet season, near the basin, the White
Woman channel, which is narrow and
deep, a rich sail, will swim a horse, but
it seldom remains up for twenty-lour
hours. While its waters are emptying
in these holes, a gurgling Eound of dash
ing, sinking waters can be heard at a
considerable distance.
a cowboy's story.
We were told that after a dashing rain
storm, a cowboy came rushing into the
E. K. ranche and declared that the water
was rushing down the White Woman in
a wall of water four to six feet hizh. He
was laughed at, but soon the rushing tor
rent came. The same stories we have
heard from other sources, and the de.
bris on its banks shows it has risen at
least twenty feet.
STONE.
We found no stone further west than
five miles from the east line of Greeley.
In that neighborhood we found ledges of
the flint lime variety, perhaps two feet
in thickness, very hard, but not easily
shaped for fine stone wall, though it
would be very useful for corrals, cellars,
etc. Underlying this, we found a ledge
from four to six feet in thickness, it
may be much thicker, as we had no
means of stripping it of soft magnesian
limestone, clearer and whiter than the
stone in the east wing of the capital at
Topeka; not so porous, but apparently
softer. Specimens of it se.m to harden
in the few days we have had it. We cut
it with axe in the ledge and sawed out
blocks of it with the common hand Baw
without dulling our tools.
PRAIRIE FIRES.
The last night of our encampment the
prairies were dense with smoke and
lurid with flame. We camped within
three-quarters of a mile of the north
bank of the White Woman, and
as far west as we could see
the smoke and flame were
visible, and, under a smart breeze from
the south, before midnight the lines of
fire lighted our camp, and were only
stopped at the sands of the river bed.
These consuming fires ran eastward from
the Arkansas to the White Woman, and
the second day thereafter a strong north
westerly wind drove it eastward to near
Garden City. The besom of destruction
took in an area ef more than fifty miles
east andVwest, and forty miles north and
south. The loss in winter pasture is
severe upon stock men, and the price of
hay at once ran up nearly 100 pe cent.
John Speeb
brother, causing death almost instantly,
the victim only saying "I am shot !"
The murderer then ran to his house,
and after chasing his family out of doors
proceeded on a run to the residence of
his brother-in-law, Mr. Ryer Garton.
Here his actions were so wild that he
was overpowered and tied hand and foot
to prevent his escape. Ascertaining the
facts of the tragedy, Mr. Garton sent for
the sheriff at Oskaloosa, who arrived
in a few hours and took charge of the
prisoner, conveying him to Odkaloosa
where he is now confined in ja'l. The
funeral of the murdered man took place
Tuesday, and was attended by nearly ev
erybody in the neighborhood, he being
highly respected by all.
The ex itement aroused in the neigh
borhood is still intense, but no violence
is anticipated, the people desiring to let
the law take its course.
At the time the murder occurred two
farmers in the vicinity who were out on
a day's hunt were present, and will ap
pear as witnesses in court against the
prisoner, assuring his "onviction.
The disposition of the murderer is of
such a nature that about five years ago
he attempted his father's life, with whom
he was disputing at the time. It is re
ported that the family are relatives of
Senator Cockrell, member of the United
States senate from Missouri.
In Boston a movement has been or
ganized for the enrollment of the Ro
man Catholic women nnder the school
suffrage act, "to counteract the move
ments of the bigoted men and strong
minded protestant women."
What arc the Visible Evidences of Pro
tective Vaccination?
We publish the following letter from
London on the subject of vaccination for
what it is worth. From our own obser
vations and reading we are decidedly
and unequivocally of the opinion that
vaccination is a wonderful improvement
over no vaccination. We are free to
admit that we believe that vaccination
has corrupted the blood of thousands
and that corruption has been transmitted
to generation after generation ; yet we
guess when the balance sheet is struck
it will be in favor of vaccination :
7 Albert Roads, Regent Park.1
London, Eng , November 4. J
To the Editor of tho Daily Commonwealth.
Sir: I infer from the insertion of Dr.
J. L Furber'a important personal testi
mony in a recent issue, just received, of
yonr ably conducted journal that you
think the time has come when a recon
sideration of the evidences upon which
compulsory vaccination is enjoined is
desirable in the interests of the public
health. .Nothing is more surprising
to those who have taken the trouble to
look into the medical evidence advanced
to sustain vaccination than the diversity
of opinion that prevails amongst author
ities on all sides of this vexed question
Senner, recognizing the potency of the
circulation of the blood, only punctured
the vaccine veins in one place and main
tained that a single pastule induced the
cow pox disease with sufficient consti
tutional disturbance to afford complete
immunity against small pox for life. His
modern disciples maintain, however,
that upon the number of pistules de
pends the extent of theprotection afford
ed, and that the small pox fatality is in
inverse proportion" to the nnmber and
perfection of the marks. The directors
of the various small pox hospitals in Lon
don have published ingeniously con
trived tables for the purpose of demon
strating this plausible theory. Unfortu
nately no two of these reports agree, and
Borne parily contradict others. Mr.
Wheeler, of Darlington, has tabulated
the reports of the metropolitan asylum
hospitals at Stockwell, Homerton,
Hampstead and Fulham, 1876 to 1880,
and finds that while the percentage of
cases of small pox with one mark was
24 65, and with two marks 27.46,
the pe csntage of cases without
marks was only 19.75, showing that Dr.
Seatons much extolled theory is purely
fanciful and illusory. And he further
shows that out of 148,470 cases treated in
the Metropolitan hospitals.no fewer than
4,T76 were cases with three or four vac
cine marks, while in the reports for
1870-1-2 there were no fewer than 1866
"good marks" small pox cases. Results
equally disappointing areBhownin o'her
countries. Dr. W. W. Welch, in the
"Philadelphia Health Report" for 1882
says: "it ib now iniiy estaDiisned that a-
typical vaccine scar is no proof ot tho
immunity of the individual from small
pox. We have admitted to the hospital
711 cases of small pox exhibiting typical
cicatries, of which 73 proved fatal;" and
a "public vaccinator" alluding to the
same subject in the British Med
ical Journal for July 10, 1880, says:
Marson's statistics fupon which the
present system is upheld) are obsolete
for our present results."
Again, in Germany it is not uncommon
to vaccinate with six, eight, ten and more
marks; and there is an accumulation of
evidence showing that these much vacci
nated individuals are as susceptible to
small pox as any other less punctured
brethren, xnese iacts receive connrma
tion by the testimony of "Another Public
Vaccinator" in the British Medical Jour
nal for December 9. "The statement,"
he says, "that the protection from small
pox depends on the area of the scars,
thouch supported by statistics, is a pure
fallacy, and has done more to make vac
cination a bugbear than all the outcry of
the anti-vaccinators. The order to cover
a child's arm with pustules is not
only inhuman, but it is use
les3. I believe an excessive
amount of inflammation as is caused by
a large area of pustules, does more to
damage the protective quality of the
vaccination than to improve it," and adds
the pertinent but ominous suggestion
"If a prize is given for proficiency in
vaccination, le; it be given to he vacci
nators who have the fewest number of
cases in which secondary miscmet nae
resulted, such as erysipelas, prolonged
snre arms, etc." May I venture to sug
gest that Bmall pox, like other zymotics,
is not me outcome ui mrtiuiuiouuy ui me
number or quality of vaccina pustules,
but in the lack of cleanliness, wholesome
food, ventilation and general hygiene.
and the sooner these misleading and ex
pensive medical dogmas are dissipated,
the better for the national health and
the national purse. Yours faithfully,
William Tkbb.
P. S. I have just learned from Dr.
Walz, state councillor, Frankfort, the
details of a terrible 'disaster, due to vacci
nation, in the Isle of Rugen, North Ger
many, which has created a profound
sensation. Upwards of 3Q0 children and
adults, operated upon by the public vac
cinator, have been infected with a dis
gusting eruptive disease affecting the
constitution. An official inquiry has
oeen ordered by the Prufeflian govern
ment, and all the public schools have
been closed. The vaccine lymph was
obtained from the Royal central Vaccine
iusuiuuuh, Diemn.
KANSAS QUARTER CENTEJCNTAX.
The surviving members of the Wyan
dotte constitutional convention, at their
meeting held at Wyandotte July 29th,
1884, adopted a resolution contecr'plating
a general meeting of the people of Kan
sas, to be held at the capital of the state
on the 29th of January, 1886, to celebrate
the quarter centennial cf the admission
of Kansas into the union cf states. A
committee was appointed, consisting of
Hon. J. C. Burnett, Major B. F. Simpson
and Col. John A. Martin, to invite the
co-operation of the State Historical soci
ety in making preparation for the same.
The committee has appointed a meeting
to be held in the rooms of the State His
torical society, at the capitol, next Tues
day evening, the 24th instant, at 7:30
o clock, to take steps towards prf para
tions for the celebration. Surviving
members of the constitutional conven
tion and the officers cf the State Histor
ical society, and others interested, are
invited to attend and take part in the
preparations.
The act of congress admitting Kansas
into the union, became a law on the 29th
of January, 1861, by the approval of
President Buchanan. The lapse of a
quarter of a century in the existence of
the Btate makes it exceedingly appro
priate that the approaching anniversary
should be fittingly noticed by the
people. The preparations shonld con
template proceedings calculated to draw
together-attendance from all portions of
the state. The legislature will probably
be in session at the time, and it will not
be difficult to secure one of the largest
winter gatherings ever held in Kansas.
KANSAS FAIOITNO.
OPENING-
GUNf
iHC
GUN!
OF THE-
M Campaign!
marshallTufford,
IN POSTOFFICE ROOJI, IN OPERA BLOCK.
We have taken our location here to stay, and to give Bar
gains and Satisfaction to Customers.
Staple and Fancy, in Endless Variety.
Suits that are cheap and suits that are elegant. Men's over
alls, Ladies' and Gents! Underwerr, etc.
A splendid stock. No better in the West.
Born and raised on a farm. Any
boy should thank God for being so for
tunate as to be born and raised on a
farm. There is no place on this green
earth so well adapted to perfectly de
velop mind, music and manhood, as a
farm; there a boy has the purest air, the
freshest and healthiest food, plenty of
unrestricted exeicise, the brightest sun
shine, and the soundest sleep; the very
conditions necessary for the highest de
velopment Nine-tenths of all the men
who have made their mark in any busi
ness, profession, or pursuit, have been
born and raised on a farm; this is not so
much because there is better blood on
the farm as because the surroundings of
farm life are better calculated to call out
what there is in a boy, and develop a
full grown, healthy, perfect, self-reliant
man.
There is a popular belief that potatoes
are more exhaustive of fertility than
other crops, especially corn, with which
they are most frequently compared. On
soils that are deficient in vegetable
matter, potatoes have the great disad?
vantage of not returning any Btraw and
other feed to keep up fertility. As they
exhaust the soil of potash they are in
jurious to sandy soil, which is generally
deficient in that mineral. But on heavy
land potatoes are a better crop to fit the
soil for subsequent sending than any
other. The greater amount of cultiva
tion which this crop requires in growing
and harvesting breaks down the lumps
and prepares it for anything that may
follow it.
There is much difference of opinion as
to whether or not manure should be
sheltered from the weather. An- eastern
farming paper talking on this Bubject,
says: Sun, wind, and rain certainly dam
age the exposed manure heaps, and is
sure that unlimited exposure to the
weather will prove highly injurious to
the quality of the manure. A leading
farmer paid some time ago, that he re
garded the complete exposure of the
manure heap through the winter, and
until it can be UBed in the spring,, to
damage it fifty per cent. In other words
one load of well-protected manure is
worth two of the exposed. This seems
almost incredible, but it may not be far
from the truth.
Beautiful lorm, superlative action and
a kind disposition are what constitutes
the value of family horses. It costs no
more to raise a high-priced horse than it
does a low-priced mongrel. The differ
ence in their relative value is more than
the cost of production. The more good
qualities concentrated in one family the
higher will raise the market price of the
produce of that family. If we can suc
ceed in breeding docility into our steeds,
a good, kind, fearless disposition, and the
absence of all vices that horse flesh is
heir to.the family couid ride after such a
model disposition without risk of life or
limb.
The sale of the Union Pacific lands in
Kansas last month amounted to' 104,663
acres as compared with about 17,000 for
September. Two large sales were made.
A sale of 36,000 acres in Graham county
was made to a syndicate of men from
this Etate and Illinois, including a promi
nent banker of Randolph county, Mo.
Another sale of 45,000 acres in Trego
county was made to a number of men of
Iowa.
Logan Freeman: Frank Wagoner, or
Mound township, will have 2,000 bushels
of potatoes from eight acres. This is one
of the surest crops in this part. He got
fifty-five bushels of potatoes from one
bushel and a peck of seed, after eating
from them all the summer.
A splendid lot of them, and no mistake.
Grloves and. Mittens.-
Immense stock of all kinds for both sexes.
TVR. WILCOX.)
HOMEOPATHIC PHYSIG1AH & SURGEON
Eaa permanently located In Wa-Eeeny.
Glassware and Queenswear.
whole crate of lamps, besides whole sets, fancy dishes, etc.
. Whole loads of Queensware, direct from the
Manufacturers.
G-ROCBRIES,
At wholesale and retail. California goods 25 cents a can.
oigla:r,s-
A big Variety, at 5 cents and 10 cents each.
TOBACCOS.
Smoking and chewing up toward two dozen varieties, and
plenty of Pipes and Oigaretes, Oonfectionaries and
Nuts in large assortment.
ST-A-TioisriEiery-
We are handling on. a Large Scale, and intend to Compete
with the trade .farther East.
Kerosene Oil
By the Barrel.
These are but an inkling of the nature
of the General Stock of goods
which we shall keep.
We want the people to know the bar
gains which we offer, or we would
not pay for this advertisement.
Chronic Diseases and Diseases of
Women and Children Specialties,
Medicine
an famished. Ho Drag Store Bill
Charge Reasonable.
49IirCliIiodo allklodfof Dental Work aj
seuonabla price.
H. R- WTLCOX.M.D.
Besides In oid senool bunding, northeast corner
of the Park.
ST FREE!
RELIABLE SELF-CORE
S A favorite prescription of oae otcM
most noted and successful specialists In tteU.a
(now retired) for the core of Mervmmtmllm
InplalnsealedenvetopejViM. PmnHWwUlUfc
AMrm DR. WARD & CO., LuMw . M
When you come we will receive
you cheerfully. It would be highly
improper for us to extend to you
this public invitation to call on us,
and then fail to treat you kindly.
Call, whether you want to make a
purchase or not.
Marshall & Word
IN POSTOPPIOE BUILDING,
Wa-Keeney, -
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