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M. M. MUHDOCK, Editor.
WICHITA. THUItSDAY, DEO. 21, 1870.
Sensible ml Patriotic.
Senator Edmunds said in lIs speech
in the Senate on Tuesday, that if Con
gress could not agree, it did not fol
low that tho wise and patriotic men
of tho country would think they must
fall back on Ihcir muskets to settle the
dispute, and that ho did not believe
the good sense of the Nation was go
ing to allow any resort to anna to de
termine which of the two candidates,
Hayes or Tilden, should appoint post
masters and sign commissions during
the nest four years.
The Twenty-Second Joint Rule.
If there had been any real doubt
about tho abolition of tho twenty-second
joint rule in Congress, Friday's
vote Jn the Senate would have settled
it. By the overwhelming roto of 50
to -1 a vote most astonishing in view
of tho issues involved the Senate on
Friday upheld the view that the old
twenty-second joint rule no longer ex
isted. The vote almost obliterated all
parly lines, Democrats and Republi
cans alike joining to produce this re
sult. Too Big & Dose.
The moro the Oregon fraud is dis
cussed the moro odious it becomes.
Even tho Memphis Appeal, one of the
most extreme of the journals of the
cxircmc southern school, is disgusted
with the sneak-thief attempt to steal
the ouo electoral vote needed to elect
Tilden, and says : "The Democrats
would scorn to elect Tilden by the one
vote of Oregon, a State which unques
tionably voted for Hayes. It would
bo a monstrous outrage if by fraud or
a mistaken idea or duty, Oregon
should be made to cast one vote
against Hayes in defiance of a majority
of the pcoplo of the State."
Giant cs Impeachment.
When the Associated Press inter
viewer mentioned "impeachment to
tho President, he quietly smiled and
said that he couldn' advise the Demo
cratic House to impeach him, as there
might bo some unpleasant evidence
offered for the defense. An the Con
federate House is evidently of the
sajio opinion.
"None of Thst in Thcir'n."
According to the Inter-Ocea?i,s
Washington correspondent the west
ern Democrats arc highly indignant
at the suggestion of a compromise by
which Tilden shall be President and
Wheeler Vice President. They de
clare that they will sooner concur in
the election of Hayes and Wheeler
than consent to the sacrifice of Hend
ricks. Hares Speaks at Last.
Governor Hayes has becu very reti
cent since the election, during the can
vass of the vole. On tho 12th inst.,hc
for the first time expressed his views,
and the lo friends, in a private way,
ho said : '! have studied tho matter
very carefully in all its phases and
bearings, and have obtained the opin
ions of the best constitutional lawyers
of the country, and I am fully settled
in the opinion that lam honestly elect
ed President of the United States, and
I fully expect to be inaugurated as
such." The statement was made
with such thoughtful emphasis, and
showed that, the conclusion had been
-fully ai rived at. and was based upon
honest and conclusive investigation
aud reasoning. Coming, as this docs,
after so long a study of the mattcr.and
as the first an only announcement of his
opinion, it carries with it much
weight, and doubly assures his already
confident friends both as to the result
and the fulure of the country, and
particularly the south.
The Ice Plays Havoc at St. Louie.
The ice gorged in the Mississippi,
opposite St Louis, on tho 12th, doing
much damage to shipping. The fol
lowing "steamboats arc reported sunk,
by the ice : Fanny Keener, Southern
Belle, Jennie Belle, Centennial, Alex
Mitchell, Minnesota, Bayard, Daven
port, War Eagle, Golden Eaglc,Jennic
Baldwin, Lake Superior, Andy John
Ben, Bock Island, Bob Boy, North
western, Red Wing, Minneapolis.
Most of theso boats were packets be
longing to the Northern, Northwest
ern and Keokuk Hues.
llido flin Sick.
There was one pretty badly worsted
Democrat in Washington the other
day. He was blustering about, de
claring that the House would not al
low Hayes to bo elected if Tilden were
not, but would prefer to have tho
President of tho Senate fill the office.
An Illinois Republican Congressman
quietly remarked that the Illinois Leg
islature will be In session at that tims
and if ncccseary will elect U. S. Grant
to succeed Senator Logan, whose term
expires March 3d, in order that the
Senate might make him Prcsidcutiro
tern. The bare possibility of such an
event made tho Democrat shudder.
Keturning Reason.
The Philadelphia Times, which is a
rank Tilden paper, can't 6walIow the
Oregon swindle. It says that "Gov.
Grovcr's statement in vindication of
his refusal to commission the ineligi
ble Hayes elector, is plausible special
pleading, but smacks too much of
fraud to be palatable lo the fair-minded
people of this country. The law
certainly never contemplated that such
legal trickery as Gov. Grover has
practiced in Oregon should defeat the
popular will in any election, much less
iu the choice of a President. If com
mon honesty has any voicoiu Congress
it will be manfully corrected."
Justice Miller on Tilden.
A Washington special reports the
following as the opinion of Justice
Miller, of tho Supremo Court of the
United States, expressed in an inter
view with a correspondent :
"L think that his past career indi
cates that ho (Tilden) would resort to
nnyiuing to carry ins pouu uuu unuui
his ambition. lie has becu educated
in a political school in which it is
taught as a cardinal doctrine that
every thing is fair in politics as in
war."
"That is rather a severe opinion for
you to express, Judge."
"I think not. I simply mean that
Governor Tilden is an Orthodox Dem
ocrat, and that he, therefore, thinks
that the end to be attained will justify
any means that mav be taken to attain
it."
Escobcdo, who shot Maxiiuilian.has
had that service gracefully performed
upon himself by Seuor Diaz, another
Mexican 'G eneral.
The New York Herald 'says that
Senator Ingalls is the dilletantc scholar
of the Seuatc.
Occasionally tho New York Tribune
has an article that is almost equal to
tho old time, ringing ones of Horaco
Greeley. Hero is a portion of one in
tho issue of December 8th :
When that counting takes placo tho
President of tho Senate will, in the
languago of tho constitution, "open
all the certificates," but ho will not
open any unnecessary and worthless
pieces of'wasto paper. If ho has any
doubt which is the certificate from a
State, he will probably act upon tho
opinion of tho Senate. Debate, during
this proceeding, is not in order. If
tho House, or some members of it, or
some members of both Houses, choose
to go out, they can do so. Counting
is a purely clerical function in this
case. Any page can perforin it as
well as auy Senator. It consists, in
adding up two columns, of figures
which the President of the Senate has
announced. Tho responsible duty is
ended when the President, having de
termined which are "the certificates"
from the several States, has opened
them. No formal announcemcut of
the result is required by tho constitu
tion. That supreme law simply states
that the person having received a ma
jority of tho voles "shall be President."
Ail mo power oi iiic iiiiuuu ouuus
Government will bo employed, if nec
essary, to inaugurate that person and
maintain him in the exercise of Exec
utive functions. An attempt to set
up any other person as President will
not bo made, because it would bo re
bellion. Senator Ingalls' Resolution.
The following is the joint resolution
introduced in the Senate on the first
day of its session, by Senator Ingalls,
of'this Stale, providing for a Conven
tion to revise aud amend tho Consti
tution of the United States:
"A joint resolution, recommending a
Convention lo revise and amend the
the Constitution of tho United
States:
Whereas, Article five of the Con
stitution empowers Congress to call a
Convention for proposing amendments
lo the Constitution, on application of
the Legislatures of tho several States,
aud.
WiiKitnAS, It is apparent that there
arc important defects in the system of
J'cocral Uovcrmrnt, wnicii rentier tnc
situation of the United States at this
time delicate and critical, calling for
an exertion of the combined virtue
aud wisdom of all tho people ; there
fore, bo it
Jicsolved, 1. In the opinion of Con
gress a Convention of delegates from
the several States should be held for
the sole and express purpose of revis
ing th Constitution of tho United
States and reporting snch alterations
and amendments, in the nature of an
entire instruments, as shall, when rati
fied, as provided in said ailiclc 5, ren
der the Federal Constitution adequate
to the preservation aud support ot the
Union.
2. That in tho opinion of Congress
each State should be represented in
such Convention by as many delegates
as it is entitled Senators and Rcprc
ecntatives in Congress, two of said
delegates to bo chosen by the legisla
ture thereof, and one to be elected
from each congiessional district there
of, at such time and place as the Leg
islature may presciibe. and that no
person holding any office of profit,
trust or honor, under any State or the
United States, should be eligible as a
a delegate to said Convention.
3. That in the opinion of Congress
said Convention should bo he held at
Columbus, State of Ohio, on the sec
ond Monday in May ,1877, and without
unnecessary interruption till its delib
erations are concluded.
4. That in the opinion of Congress
the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court should be the presiding officer
of said Convention, and that each del
egate should receive compensation at
tho rate of $"20 per day, with mileage
at the rate ot twenty cents per mile
noccstarily traveled going to aud from
tho place of meeting, and that all ex
penses of said Convention be defrayed
by the Treasury of the United State.
5. That, in the opinion of Congiess
the icvised and amended Constitution
should bo reported to the President
ol the United Saatcs on the adjourn
ment of the Convention, and that it
should theroupon immediately be sub
mitted by the President to a Conven
tion of delegates, ch sen in each State
by the people thereof, under recom
mendation of the Legislature, for its
assent aud ratification.
G. That it is recommended to the
Legislatures of the several States of
the Union to applv to Convention as
aforesaid, as provided in article 5, in
the Constitution.'
What the Herald Thinks.
ThcXcwYoik Herald's Washing
ton dispatch, of the 11th says there is
no danger of a popular tumult during
tho count oFthe vote, for the Senate
has the right to close the galleries, and
it so ordered in the count of 1801. "In
my opinion," say? the correspondent
referred to, "Hiijes is elected. That
is what the President believes, and
Republicans are going to inaugurate
him if he proves on tho 14th of Febru
ary to havo 185 volca." They say:
"Tho southern committees will not
he able to show any cause why this
should not be done. As to what the
Democrats can do about it, what can
they do ? Wc mean lo move only by
constitutional and legal methods. It
is all fudge about General Grant hold
ing over. lie- tloirt waut to hold over,
but lie means to put Jlaves in the
White House, and then his dutv will
bo done. There is going to bo no oc
casion for the Democrats stirring up
revolts anywhere, aud if they did so,
they would put themselves in the
wrong. As to tlio next elections thev
will take care of themselves. If Haves
is satisfactorily President tho countrj
will bo content, it hois not, then the
Democrats will have their chance, and
thev will make the most of it."
"These," says the correspondent,
"aio tho views" frankly expressed by
the Republican managers, and thcicis
reason to believe thev mean what they
saw"
Retirement of Senator Conkling.
I think I am safe iu announcing that
the caicer of Roscoe Conkling in pub
lic life draws to a close. Ill-health
will probably be the excuse for giving
up his career as a Senator, but it is
known by his friende that Mr. Conk
ling feels keenly the hampered posi
tion which he is put in by Ins meager
salary as a Senator. After paying
necessary expenses, clerk hire and
postage he has less than $3,000 a year
about as much, ho says, as ho could
make in two weeks as a lawyer. Ho
wishes to rc-cnler the profession, and
to add to his personal possessions.
Were it not that there is a Democratic
Governor to appoint a Senator in his
plate, he would probably resign at
once. But he may wait until the close
of his term, in order to give the Re
publicans a chance to rccovc the State
of New Yoik. At any rate, Mr. Conk
ling docs not expect to remain very
long in public life. Washington Cor.
New York Graphic.
Facing the MuBic.
Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, is known
as an able man. He has now proved
that he is a bravo one. Ho has laid
iconoclastic hands on what many
Americans havo come to regard with
fcclingb akin to those of the Fcjcc for
his fetish. He has actually proposed
that Congress shall take tho necessary
preliminary slops towards calling a
convention to amend and revi6o tho
constitution aim submit its results in
the form of a now instrument. In oth
er .words, he asks for a national conven
tion to provulo a new constitution.
New York Graphic.
This Means Business.
To the Editor of the Inter-Ocean.
Chicago, III., Dec. 12, 1876.
There are 250,000 members of the
Grand Army of tho Republic. At
230,000 of them arc Republicans and
old and tried vctcrau soldiers. If tho
President of the United States wants
a drilled army to clean out tho blath
crskiting Camcrous, Robinsons and
Grahams of the country, let him crook
his finger and say, "Boys, this way for
a minute I" They will show those
fellows tho difference between talking
and "business." Yours, G. A. R,
From the Walnut Valley Times.
The United States Senatcrehip.
We havo never been slow to express
preferences for men to fill the impor
tant positions of honor and trustin the
gift of tho people, in advance of tho
action of Legislatures and conventions.
It has rather been our policy to come
cut in advance and advocato the claims
of those men who, in our judgment,
are best canablo of filling our high of
fices. In doing this we are enabled to J
bring out an expression of the people
with whom wo associate and como in
contact, aud also to sccuro the active
support of those who would otherwise
remain silent. We go on the principle
that in supporting men for office, it is
always better to come out and take a
bold stand, rather than wait and seo
what others are going to do. If a
thing is worth having.it is worth fight
ing lor.
Our readers arc well aware that the
next State Legislature will be called
upon to elect a United States Senator
iu placo of James M. Harvey, whose
term of office expires next March.
Senator Harvey is a candidate for re
election. A dozen prominent men have
been mentioned in connection with this
position, aud at least half a dozen will
bo actual candidates before the Legis
lature. We have not a word to say de
rogatory to the character of any of
thein. Senator Harvey is an honorable
honest aud capable man aud makes a
good Senator, and if re-elected will
make a faithful officer. But the office
of Senator is a prize lo bo won; to
which, under our form of government
all men havo a right to become com
petitors. Senator Harvey has been
honored above all men of our State.
Twice Governor, and now Senator, his
most devoted friends cannot claim that
ho ha3 not been fully repaid for his dis
tinguished services to the party and to
tlio State.
Taking tho broad grounds that the
very best man in the State ought to be
selected for this high and honorrblo
position, wc arc perfectly free to say
that in our best judgment Col. P. B.
I'lumb, of Emporia, is that man ; and
in making this assertion wo arc ready
and willing to give our icasons for it.
In the first place. Col. Plumb has the
ability, energy anil courage to make a
Uuite'd States Senator who would be
an honor to the State and a credit to
that learned aud dignified body. Com
ing to Kansas in 1857, nearly twenty
years ago, a young man, full of life,cn
crgy and hope for the welfare of the
then Territority of Kansas, ho has
from that hour to this devoted much
of his time to the development of our
commonwealth. Like the majority of
us, he came here a poor man. or
years he devoted himself to the up
building of Emporia aud the "Great
Southwest." A law or and an editor,
he was always burdened with work for
which he received but little pay. Al
ways ready and williug, his services
wero iu constant demand by the peo
ple with whom he was identified. Kan
sas having been admitted as a State,he
was one of the first to advocaco those
measures which have proven so benefi
cial to our people. AVith but few coun
ties organized, with no railroad com
munication whatever, ho was the first
to take active mcasuics to secure to
Kansas her splendid system of rail
roads which has contributed so much
to the development of our material re
sources. His master mind whether
exercised iu the State Legislature, or
ia political conventions, was always iu
the advance. Our State constitution,
and laws,our magnificent public school
system, our public iiistitutions.'aml the
whole fabric of our State government,
bears the impress of his superior in
tellect. And to him,as much as to any
other man in the State, are tho people
of Kansas indebted for the splendid
political and commercial standing that
our State so proudly holds to-day.
Entering the army in 18G2, as Cap
tain of company C, nth Kansas Cav
alry, he came otit in 1835, iu command
of his regiment, with all the honors of
a brave and popular soldier.
When tho war closed ho was still a
poor man. Returning to Emporia, he
turned his attention to the practice of
his proicsion. reeling assured that
our oung State was on tho high road
to prosperity, he felt justified in turn
ing his attention to his own private af
fair, and while at no time neglecting
the interests of the people with whom
he lived, his attention was moro espe
cially devoted to his own private af
fairs". Successful in everything clc,hc
was of course not long iu accumulat
ing a large amount of property. Ten
years of close application to business
has made him a comparatively rich
man.
But the people of this portion of the
State, at least, arc not willing that his
splendid abilities should be circum
scribed by an enforced routine of busi
ness. Three years ago they insisted
that he should be a candidate for the
Senate; aud only a few months ago he
could havo been almost unanimously
nominated for Congress from this dis
trict ; while to day ho has tho almost
solid support of this entire district for
the United Stales Senate, not consider
ing the many friends and supporters
that ho has all over tlio State.
Laying aside the just claims of the
Southwest to this honorable position
at this time, wc certainly think the
next Legislature can perform no more
honorable act than to concede to this
Congressional District the next Sena
tor, and they can certainly feel justified
in endorsing the candidate who is so
unanimously supported at home.
When we consider that lor tlio past
sixteen years, or ever since our btate
was organized, all the Senators, all the
Governors, all the Congressmen with
barely one execptiou and all the im
portant State officers, have been uni
lormly selected from tho extreme
northern and eastern portions of our
State, aud that at no time iu our histo
ry has this portion ol ivansas been hon
ored with any important otlicc. save
the one exception of Congressman for
two years. And when wc further con
sider that this portion of the State is
comparatively new, and needs the di
rect and constant services of a man in
the National Legislature who thor
oughly understands our wants, and
who has the ability to obtain such leg
islation for us as will place us on an
equal footing with iho older settled
counties, wc think we ought to secure
from tho State at large that respectful
consideration which the importance of
the situation demands.
Having personally known Col. Plumb
for the past seventeen years, and hav
ing faith in his honesty, integrity, aud
ability to faithfully" represent this
State in tho United States Senate, and
knowing full well that ho will sccuro
tho almost unanimous support of the
members of the Legislature from this
Congressional District, and believing
him to be the choice of tho whole pco
plo of the "great Soufhwest," for that
position, we are fully prepared to cuter
upon a vigorous campaign to secure
his election.
Feeling assured that the people of
the 28th Senatorial District will justi
fy us iu this course, we know full well
that wo but carry out their wishes
when we announce that we propose to
uso all honorable means to secure the
clectiou of Col. Plumb to the Senate.
Being first responsible to the people
of our own Senatorial District: second
to thp pcoplo of the entire State for
our action in the premises ; aud being
under no obligations whatever to any
of the candidates iu tho field, wc feci
fully justified iu thus taking a bold po
sition on this all-important question,
believing that when the final vote is ta
ken, and tho result ascertained, our
candidate will bo "counted in" by a
handsome majority.
A Terrible Explosion.
About 5 o'clock in the afternoon of
the 10th, a wagon load of glycerine,
containing some 600 pounds of the flu
id, exploded with terrible lorcc, about
three-fourths of a mile from Petrolia,
Pennsylvania, tearing the wagon aud
horses to shreds aud instantly killing
Samuel Smith, superintendent of Rob
ert's Torpedo Company, and Mr.IIum-
phreys.of Pittsburg. The bodies were
blown to atoms, and, with the excep
tion of a portion of an arm, foot, and
some pieces of charred flesh have not
been found. The men were unloading
the wagon and it is supposed one of
them slipped and dropped a can. Tho
magazine, located twenty-five yards
from the scene of tho disaster, and
containing upwards of 1,000 pounds,
escaped injury.
Kansas.
A-colony of colored citizens from
Tcnuessce have lately settled in La
bette county, some fifteen miles from
Coffeyville.
Davies Wilson, formerly of Manhat
tan, and a member of the Legislature
from Riley county in 1862, is residing
at Cincinnati, Ohio.
"That there has been a largo immi
gration into this section of the coun
try," says the Hays City Sentinel, "is
shown by the large number ot acres
entered in the United States land of
fice for this laud district."
Tho board ol directors of the State
charitable institutions were in session
at tho Asylum last week. They fouud
every thing in order and seemed well
satisfied with tho way things are car
ried on.
A house was set on firo at Wyan
dotte, containing a lady one hundred
years old, and two children aged fivo
and seven years respectively. The
live year old" trj iug to burn a cat was
the cause. They had all been locked
in, and barely escaped.
Several men were in Neosho Falls
last week who wanted to buy property
but they find that property has gone
up from seventy-live to one hundred
per cent, during the last three months
and that there are no more great bar
gains to be had, but that people who
hold property ask very near all it is
worth.
The Junction City Union learns
that the wheat goes into winter quar
ters in splendid condition this fall iu
Davis county. The amount sown is
one hundred per cent, more than ever
before. The method of (hilling iu the
wheat from east to west forms little
valleys for the snow to lodge in, aud
the roots arc thus kept moist a long
lime.
"On the 2d of this month," says tho
Wilson Ctfunty Citizen, a little son of
Mr. D. Ccllmycr, of Cedar township,
fell into a tiu'palo of hot water and
was so severely scalded that ho died
tho day following. The little fellow's
body was terribly burned, and he suf
feicd intense ago'uy. It is only about
ten months sinco a nineteen year old
son of Mr. Bcllmyer met his death by
the accidental discharge of a shot gun.
Charles Johnson, a Swede, twenty
eight years old, was drowned iu tno
Cottonwood, near Emporia, last week.
Responsible parties make a gener
ous oiler to any ono who will erect a
mill at Pcabody. For particulars ad
dress the Gazette.
The Arkansas City lVaveler says
good hard wood brings $6 per cord in
Sunnier county. It will bo $10 when
the cutting of wood in the Indian Ter
ritory is stopped.
Pcabody Gazette: Dipthcria still
prevails in this vicinity. The 6chool
board of this placo has ordered all
scholars that arc exposed lo, or that
arc afflicted with the above disease, to
be expelled from school at ouce.
Junction City Tribune: The post
office building at Wakefield, owned by
W. P. Gates, was burned to the
ground last Saturday morning. Part
of tho genearl stock of goods which it
cautaiucd, and nart of the mail matter
were saved. No insurance. Fire sup
posed to have originated from a de
fective Hue.
Iola Register : Last Monday Mr.
Mungcr sold a Poland-China pig,three
and a half mouths old, for fifteen dol
lars. Tho Arkansas City Traveler of the
13th says: "Ten thousand bushels of
wheat left this place yesterday morn
ing for Wichita. Henry Prudcu had
seventy bushels on his wagon.
There is much talk of the establish
ment of a house of correction by the
coming Legislature. A needed" insti
tution. The ice crop on tho pond at Law
rence will bo shipped, as soon as cut,
to Kansas City. A sufficient force
will be employed to furnish fifty car
loads a day.
John Spccr has served notice on
Governor Robinson ot his purpose to
contest his seat in the State Senate.
He charges illegal votes by college
students and a corrupt use of money.
Colonel Vcalo is finishing a fine
three-story block on Kausas avenue,
Topcka, which is to be furnished with
offices for the Government buildings
when built, and which will adjoin it.
At present it will bo a hotel the
"Planters' House."
A suit pending befoie tho Supreme
Court of the United States, wherein
the St. Louis, Lawrence and Western,
better known as the Pleasant Hill and
Carbondale railway company is plaint
iff, is watched with much interest in
Douglas county, as it involves ovir
$200,000 in bonds voted by that county
to the road.
Great Bend Inland: Mr. G. C. Kin
caid reports the south side prosper
ous, and wheat crops looking well. He
says there is more than half .13 much
more ground sown this year than last,
aud the township is improving in set
tlements. Burlingamc Chronicle: The Bur
lingamc checo factory made 100,000
pounds of cheese during the past sea
son, valued at about $11,000. Most of
this money was paid to the farmers
around Burlingamc. See what manu
factories will do.
It is said that Osago county is soon
to have another siege at the county
scat business.
Patton Uamrod has been appointed
treasurer of Rice county Jn place ot
the defaulting one.
A three year old child of Mr. Free
man, of Maple Grove, Allen county,
was burned to death last week.
Rice County Gazette : The prelimi
nary trial of cx-troasurcr Lawrcnco
has been held. No testimony was of
fered iu defense, and he was held to
bail in the sum of $15,000,iu dofault of
which ho was re-committed.
Emporia News: Tuesday evening
a traveling jeweler arrived at the
Windsor House, and his trunk, con
taining $400 worth of jewelry, was
left outside. When he went to" havo
it taken in it was gone. It was found
the next morning in Schmiddliug's
pasture, broken open, aud the contents
gone. It is thought that two men,
whoso names arc not known, commit
ted the robbery.
Eureka Herald: Tho Wilson county
pcoplo arc fairly at work aud they
havo made arrangements to build a
railroad from Frcdonia to Chauutc.
It is very probable they will bo suc
cessful and it is time that the people
of this county wero getting ready to
extend the road this way.
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HARGIS, IMBODEN & CO.,
Have opened at J. G. Dunscomb's
Grocery, Dry Goods and Boot
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al Coal Office to tho
one at tho
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t -
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MARSH,
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AVENUE, EAST OF DEPOT,
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ICAJsTS-A-S.- C
r
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Jewelry, Drags, Hardware, Boots & Shoes"
5s
THREE jLEADINGr JTRMSW
yi ,A; i Jt.
J. H. AJLEY,
-Dealer in
BOOTS Sc SSOES,, , '
BLA.TS&; CJL3PS.
Leather and Findings!
in
Goods Sold at Lowest cash price and warranted
to gite Satisfaction.
Eeywood's Standard thick Boots,
Constantly on hand . Warranted for six month
102 DOUGLAS AVENUE.
GEO. G. MATTHEWS &. CO.,
JEWELERS& DRUGGISTS.
Sell at Kansas City Prices. ,
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CLOCKS,
JEWELRY,
1 f DIAMONDS.
Silver Plated Ware and'Spectaclea,
IP-A-HETTS,.
OILS,
(3-Ii.A.SS,
Lubricating Oil, Pure Wines, Whitley, Lrandy
and Segan.
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Clocks or Watches, wc ill sell to you as low as
can get buy the same Goods any where, 4-
St. Louis Hardware Store.'
HOTJOK BIROS.,
rroprietct.
Dealers in
HARDWARE, STOVES,
AGRICULTTRAL
IMPLEMENTS.
SPECIALTIES.
CENTENNIAL STOVES,
JOHN DEEP. GANG & SULKY PLOWS.
(GARDEN CITY PLOWS,
ADNANCE AND GARDEN CITY
WALKING AND RIDING
CULTIVATORS.
Browns orn Planters,
Old Reliable Buckeye Reapers and Mowers.
Original Haines' Header, Eldwanl Harvester
for two or three Hinders, Buckeye and
Uoosier Grain Drills and the
CELEBRATED STUDEBAKER WAGOXS I
a, S3T AU prices adjusted on a gold basis. Xbt-
intj cui yet veivtv iiui.
' 98 DOUGLAS AYENUE.
WOODMAN'S
COLUMN:
s
'? DK VOTED
MoneyftLand and Commerce.
fTv..i J
MONEY-
The First Artinsas Valley JIank has always on
hand money to loan in any amount on approved
real estate securities, in the counties ot Sedg
wick, Sumner, Butler, Cowley and Harvey.
Bujs and sells eastern exchange, accepts ap
proved deposits, but does not solicit foreign col
lections, as the magnitude or our home collec
tion department excludes ability to give them
perfect attention.
LASH).
This department embraces, in the counties
above named, the largest body of flrst-class farm
in" lands owned or controlled br anv indlvidunl
or corporation, outside of railroad grants, in the
state ol Ivansas, ana are soiu lower, anuon as
reasonable terms of cash or credit as any in the
State. Wit. C. WOOIWAN' & SOS.
No. S3 jlam Street, Wichita, Kansas.
COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT
This department is fully defined by the follow
ing: GREETINGMoney, if you desire
it Read.
A penny sived Is three-pence earned.
This good, old, true maxim appeal with pecu
liar force to an honest, industrious people, who
hare left the embarrassment of old associations,
to find a happy home in this region of beautiful
sunshine, pnre health and b"Untiful harvests. A
home here is indeed worthy the laborer's toil and
secured with small means by well-dirtcted in
dustry and frugality. It is not the two-pence
nor the three-pence earned; but the one penny
saved - that makes 6nre thu glorious inheritance .
Of what we herein propose to speak, we do
know full well, qnalifled by years of mduMrions
experience in the most acute scathing cauldron or
eastern commercial strife, we have frit compe
tent to appreciate the requlremc ts of an intelli
gent people v ho, coming to this beantilul land,
burning the bridue behind them, have grasped
tneir own ueatiny planted nere tneirownng
trec andheie will cat its fruits and repose in its
shadows.
Confiding in the wisdom, prudence and energy
oi Bucn a people, we nave constructed, at large
expense, a store-room so vast and complete In
elegance and appointment, as to hare been termed
by some of small and narrow faith, "a wild chi
mera." Its appointments are specific its pur
poses, a common good devoted to a fair ami
equitable dry goods business, founded on the
modern principle of square dealings and just
values.
To this end with extraordinary care, under the
most favored circumstances, we have purchased
from the largest and best jobbing houses of the
world, as well as of the best and most approved
mnuf icturers of the country, an abundant stock
of the most desirable makes and fabrics, of staple
and fancy goods, embracing the new shades and
tints in ures.gottds, running Into every depart
ment of stock, with all the new and Interesting
novelties of the reason, for each and every de
partment, consistent, in onr Judgment, with the
wants and requirements of our people.
Our respective departments are
PRINTS,
DRESS-GOODS,
FLANNELS,
DOMESTICS,
NOTIONS,
HOSIERY,
TRIMMINGS,
LACE AND EMBROIDERY,
CLOAKS AND SHAWLS,
FURNISHING GOODS,
HATS AND CAPS,
Ladies and Gentleman's Boots & Shoes
Men's and Boys' Clothing;, Carpets,
Window Tapestry, etc., etc.
These goods are bought for immediate sales, as
it is our future pnrpose to give good attention to
our Commercial Department Ourstock will ev
er be new, fresh and changing with the tide of
fashion, and sold as low a any legitimate retail
bouse on the coniinent. Jobbing orders filled at
equitable discounts to those ho would save the
pence
We cordially cstend every citizen and visitor
an Invitation to call in upon us and examine for
themselves. Respectlullyyours,
Wit. C. tt OODMAN & SON,
33-3m JIMata Streer, Wichita, Kansas,
Notice.
TnKAStmsB's Ottick, (
Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kan, Nov 41, 1SJCJ
'Public notice Is hereby given that the follow
ing described tracts of land end town lots situat
ed In Sedgwick county. State of Kansas, wero
sold on the 5th and subsequent days of May, 1;74.
icr ine ueunqucni taxes aau cnarges lor ja,anu
that the same will be subject to dredon and alter
May 5, ISTt, nnle-is previously redeemed
. The' amounts set opposite each tract and lots
are the taxes, charges and Interest computed to
last day ol redemption.
liate of Sale Description Arc fp liny A'nl
May 1J, 1S71 neqrseqr ! 23 Iw S.V.24
ncqrnwqr 11 2$ Iw 1G W
13 U-I00 acres off
east side lot No 3H SS lw H CO
ehrneqrneqr 2U 23 lw Kill
ncqrneqrseqr 32 23 lw S2 S3
I acre oiu of necor
- ... nerofawqr 31 1 lw 14 8$
- ncqrneqrseqr 1 ) 2e M 88
20 a out of ne corner
of nw qr 4 C9 2e Til 73
2 acres out of ne cor-
, ner lot No 2 12 29 ia il 85
' -" 23, acres ont ol ne
corner of sw qr of
neqr.t nw q" of so
qr A loti 2 & 3, less
tl Paso town site 1 2D 2e 01 13
10 acres out of ne cor-
ncrsw qrofneqr 13 2D 2o ID 57
2D a out of ne corner
shfseqr 23 2D 2o 23 0C
nenrseqr 13 23 Je 92 31
lot So. 1 sec 22 & lot
- - No. Ifec27t sw ur
sw qr 23 23 le CMC
se qr 3 23 le 17J M
2U a out of nc cor ot
ehtswqr 13 23 le "i CtJ
10 a out of nc cor of
lot No 4 10 2S la II 23
neqrnoql seqr 20 23 le U 22
10 a out or ne cor of
lot No 1 a S 1 11B
nwqr,nwqr 2d 23 le 21. 5i
shfneqr D 26 le 25
eeqr 23 20 le a 4.1
sw qr IC 2U le 1st 1C
ehineqr 31 26 lc 571
whXnwqr 31 JS le i.llG
se qr nw qr 32 31 le 3. 03
nwqrnwqr B 27 le 01
ehfneqrilotsl.27 27 lc 3i 10
,'; acre ia sw qr of se
qrornwqr 111 27 lo 133
IK ainehfofswqr
ofieqrnwqr 1G 27 le VJO
rSJJaine.'Jbw: V 1G 27 le MM 6".
ne U ne i ne ' 17 27 le 33 JD
1 alnsp.rtswqr 21 27 le 30
ne qr nw qr nw qr 23 27 lc W S3
2 a nut of ne part of
middle prt of north
pirt or lots 1A2 2D 27 le J S3
s hf s hf se qr 7 27 2o H 77
neqrsoqr 31 27 le tST U)
se qr 22 27 lw SI Hi
neqr S3 27 lw 11121
se qr 20 23 lw 117 80
chriwqr O.! 23 lw toU-l
40 a out of ne cor of
whrofwhr 2 23 2e il 33
, ne qr s w qr it 23 .e -J CO
nw qr 20 J3 2 41 S3
nw qr 21 23 2o lw 07
W hi swqr 31 23 2c 7- 'M
scqrswqr & sw qr
seqr 33 23 2o Of .
ebtncqr 11 -G - 4. 33
no qr 31 21. lw s 2G
ne qr 23 IG 2,x 150 CS
eeqr 23 23 Ik 117 83
ne qr D 25 le 1..I 4
sw qr 3 23 le 133 14
n ht sW qr O 23 le GG 04
nw qr 23 r, le 137 SO
s hf se qr 3 2G 2w 3 j.1
0 a out of nc cor of
so qr 1 :& 'lw 43 40
sw qr 13 23 -w 'JO 57
IlWqr 4 2D lW 7D01
neqr 3 2D lw CD 57
te qr 13 2D 2W D eo
seqr 14 29 3W Gl 50
nc qr 23 13 3w Gl 59
CITV OP WICHITA.
Date oj Sale' Street Addition "Se Ami
May 5, ls74 IS2xl:t, n ironungon
Dougas Av. ase-seil in
name or II W Black S339 m
r Market 1-9 21133
IjI ID DO
Toreta Mead's G7 II 32
CD &S7
"1 72 D
73 O II
Main Citr 70 Mil
2 acre commencing at
cor of Douglas ave and
Waco sts in K I aler
man's addition running
n to a ltoint 30 feet n ol
First st thence W to Iho ,
Arkansas river Jfi 31
May 13, ls71 Church City 4 20 Uf
33 2 20
42 1 U2
Main City; 7D 110 HI
DS 2W 43
100 274 27
102 271 27
104 27127
Court 42 3 72
Market 13 3! S4
50 5 32
53 5 32
63 33 SI
a 34 54
M 12 43
SO 1 1 17
100 2 a
IU) 2 M
1GI 2 C3
1'2 5 79
Lawrence 2. 4 70
Topeka Mead's 13 G 34
Douglay - Criffenatein 41 liO
Main ' City 81 110 '.
121 1- 70
122 3D (J
Court D3 31.2
Xth Market or thlsliolra 73 2 U
73 2 43
2 43
11 1 M
1C 1 IS
Lawrence 43 1 73
47 4 73
Xorlh Lawrence lol 3 62
l'i7 1 C3
Wichita. Waterman s 2 4 A
30 feet off lot G C91 73
Lawrence Mead's 20 4 70
GO ID 12
62 81 17
Douglas 2 02 G3
Fourth Hilton's i 4 73
Lawrence Knglbh's 13 .: 11
1 373
Kmporia 43 G Co
Water city I'D 5 30
Ii!I 5 30
Topeka Hilton's 3 2 95
Central 21 4 10
Firth English -s 14 7 33
', G3D
13 G 3D
3) 6 !)
. 'Wichita city IS 3 23
Waco 1 3 20
Waterman's 55 2 85
... .
f TOWN OF EL PASO
nuckne? 72 14 40
Market 7 C 22
3 25 22
L. S. W60!K0CK,
31-lt . Treasurer of Sedgwick County.
Treasurer's Notice of Saleof School Lands.
TucAsciiEn'3 Ornrr,
Wichita, Kansas, November 20, InG J
Xoticc is hereby-given that I will on Wednes
day theCddayot January A D l377,at my oillce,
offer Tor sale and tell to the highes. bidder in le-
?:al subdivisions, lhe following describe 1 school
and situated in Mdgwick county, State of Kan
sjs, to-wit:
AH of section 3G, town
range 3 west,
Xe U of ne if.
appraised at $3 00 peracre. f
Jir .'I of ne ..
3 G
se.Uot aeH
Sw ,'., ofnc ,'.f ...
N'e Ji of nw Ji ....
X Afofnw ,'....
be H otnwii
bw i of nw i...
Ne Wofse ......
Svr!i of se )i.. ..
Se Korsejf ,
Sw U of se A. ...
Ne qr of swqr....
wqrofswqr....
Seqrof swqr
3 W
3 0O
3 00
300
CO
3 OO
3 00
3 CO
3 OO
300
3 0O
SOD
300
bwqrofswqr 3 OJ
Improvements on the northeast quarter valued
at 31.13.
Improvements on the northwest quarter valued
at 8312 50.
Improvements on the east half of thp southwest
quarter viued at Slul.
Improvement' on the westhalf of the contheast
quarter vameunl s-1. M.
Bids for the above described land m.ij be made
Deiwccn me nouns 01 10 o'ciiiC.". a m una 3 1 m.
on said day of tale.
L. '. WOODCOCK,
31-1 Couuty Treasurer.
Ei:s:luiion Notice.
Notice isherebr inven that the co-rartnerihtn
ofM.J Cleveland X Co', is this day Lolved by
mutual consent Mr. L. V. Cadien selling her
interest 10 manes t nncner,oi uocaxoru, Illinois,
and herearter the Arm will be M J I levelaml
fancher Tho"e owing tbe;o!d firm wdl call at
the Office ami pay All past debts will be paid
by the old firm. J M. Cleveland.
37-3 L. V Cadkx
Teachers Examination.
There will be an examination of teachers of
Sedgwick county, held at the school bou;e, in
Wichita oa Saturday, the 23d day of December,
coming, at 9 o'clock a. rn.
M. II Hiiro:,
37-2t CountySuperintendent
Notice.
There will be a meetings of the Stockholders of
me icnua ioan ami Dunning association at tne
Occidental Hotel 0.1 the 22nd dav of January 1377,
at 7 o'clock, p m., for the purpose ol consider
ing what action may be necessary to collect un
paid subscriptions of stock and to provide for the
payment of its debts.
J C FKAKCi:, President.
E. G. Wright, Secretary 53 3t
Taken Up.
On October 15th, 1S76, two sheep by Phil'Ip I
Yergler, about one mile south of the LI Paso jl
bridge west side ot river W-31 I
Cristadoro's Hair Dye.
Cristador'sIlairDyels the safest and best. It
n,l inilintnn..inl. rfmIi..... .f... .... m...w.t
shades of Muck or Ilrown ; does not stain the
sKin, anu is easily applied. 11 is a standard pre
pa ration, and a favorite upon every well appoint
ed toilet for Lady, or Gentleman Sold br Drug
gists. J CKlaTADOKO, Kew'York. '
1 O. Box, 1533. J3-t .
U. S. Marshal's Sale of Personal
Property,
By virtue ol an execution issued onto-'' the L ir- t
cuicivunorme united states of Anurias, for
ne iiisinct 01 nanja, and to me directed and
delivered. I hue levied on ami luti-'i all the.
right, title and Interest of L. G ScbeeUof.inand f
iw me niuon iug property, 10 wu 1
One stock or groceries, consisting of teas,
sugars, coffees, canned good3, wooden v."are, etc
VI hlch I thai! ex nose for sale at titihl.f vptidni. i
as the law directs, on Wednesday, the 1 day of
.miliary, is,,,ai 100 ciocs a m., at ue i.rcen '
t ront Store, on Dongla avenue, in Hit- city of!
Wichita, county ofstdgwick, state of Kansas 1
Aecemuer :aj, ia,o.
CHA11LE3 II iIILLEn,
United states Marshal.
lly CHAItLES B. .IOXKS, Deputy 3-
Printincj Office For Sale.
it wiuuint uiuui lur it cuuiiirj newspaper aim
Job printing estaMuhntent will beaohlut u bar-
rutin nn sinn ft-a - u .a I a .. !. . 1
K MAVnntnta nlft t... .. .. .
. ..v..v. f t ;r 110 1 1( lit, ur .'cuaucu IOT
ll AS! (hi III a (HlrtT A.uFn I I. - . H
For part.cal.1r3 aJtiress,
ir. W. LEYTIS, Wichita. Xktuuaa.
November 1, 17';. 32-tr
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