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.-u-wt .sriwwiMWiUfcj) 'MiWMUMiJJi'Mi JWWIiWIPW M , n f-- ., Ws &&&' ''& W '" - - rnTmfsimmis&m 4 - - vrr - :T?5iiwa Js, i4Sa. " . i 1- "ir3 r '. , wa lti ,l,,.,,.,pg New Departure ' The Pioneer STILL ON DECK. Oct. 15th, I will display en my shelves a new and elegant stock of Clothing, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Underwear, Etc., Etc. r have selected my goods carefully to meet the demands of the people, aud can and .will sell at such prices that no one Need go cold m i s Of Course 1 still keep on hand the CHOICEST GROCERIES, Jiest Brands of FLOUR. Etc. The Old Pioneer ON TH1 CORNER, 31. DONELAN, Prop. i r 4, THE THOMAS COUNTYJAT. John A. Logan refused to accept the Republican nomination for Presi dent of the Senate. The Chicago & Rock Island Rail road Company are looking through the -a est for an opening through to Denver. Because there has been some ille gality in land business in some parts of the est Sparks charges all the set tlers with being dishonest by refus ing to grand laud patents. Commissioner Sparks is getting a great many newspaper noiices these times that are not on the over compli mentaiy order. The ucst almost unanimously votes Spaiks a crank. Missouri h.u 4.T41 miles of rail road in operation: Kansas has 4.102. Missouri, as a state, is sixty-four years old. Kansas is twenty-four Leav enworth Times. Congress convened last Monday. Carlisle was elected Speaker of the House, and Sherman President of the Senate. Sheiman is now vice-president and would become acting Presi dent should Cleveland die. Governor Mai tin has issued a pro clamation calling a special session of the legislature to convene on the 19th of January. Thomas county has one ax to grind hi the shape of detaching Sherman county from Shetidan and having it attached to Thomas. A &cw town site has been located on deeded land in the center of Sher man county, Kansas. "We are not in formed just who the projectors are, but hear it lumoied that parties in the employ of the B. & M. are interested. The new town is called Leonard. Oberlin Herald. The following is a land decision in 1884, the Central Pacific Railway be ing plaintiff and Wiggins et al, defen dants : A settler does not lose his right un der his pre-emption claim by a com mutation of a homestead entry, and he may therefore, if the proof is suf ficient include 160 acies in a home stead entrv. Copp's Land Laws, Vol. 2, P. 937. Tills is in diiect opposition to the decision of Spaiks. Which is correct, the new Commissioner or the old Sec retary of the interior? Commissioner Spaiks refuses to issue a land patent. Settleis who endure the haidships of frontier life to eain themselves homes, live in sod houses on diit floors, aud burn buf falo fuel, all for the sake of a farm and a home, aie lefused the title which has been piomised them, and aie liable to lose their land on mere technicalities. Of course the poor homesteader should be hv estigated, but nothing is said or done about one fourth of the entire public domain that has been given to the ra-lroad corpoiations, and the greater part il legally. The Attorney General has written the Sheridan county officials to stop the sale of Thomas count' school lands in Sheridan county. If they will not stop the sale at his request, he his notified County Attorney Por ter to stop the sale by legal means. The Injunction had been served before the Attorney's letter was received, and now beyond the possibility of a doubt, Thomas county school lands will be sold at Colby, by the Treasurer of Thomas county. The Attorney Ocnoral will probably notify the offi cials of Sheridan county to stop the sale of Sherman county land, as a pe tition signed by a large number of Sherman county men has been sent him. alleging fraud in the manner in wliich the land was brought into mar ket Every year, every Jocal paper gives from one hundred to five thousand dollars in free lines, for the sole beno fit of the vicinity in which it is locat ed. No other agency can or will do this. The local editor, in proportion to his means, does more for his town than any other ten men, and in all fairness, man with man, he ought to be supported, not because you may happen to dke or admire his writing, but because the local paper is the best investment a communit can make. It may not be brilliant, or crowded with great thoughts, .but financially, and yet on moral .questions, you will find the majority of the local papers on the right side of the question. To day the editors of the local papers do Jhe most work for the least money of BEAN Is on deck with the LaSt ISJpyelties in Hardware, WATQH For his adv. nejet week. f anyone upon the earth. Subscribe for and suppott by advertising in lo. cal papers, not for charit-, but as an investment. Western Empire. Kansas, at the date of the last re port of the railroad commissioners, had 4,102 miles of railroad traversing the state. Since that time no less than six new railroad charters have been filed, aggregating an additional milage of in the neighborhood of 3,000 to 3,300 miles, one of the new roads alone having, with its various brancfc es, nearly 2,400 miles, making over 7,0Q0 miles of railroad, including the roads in contemplation, against 930 miles in 1S70 and 3,351 miles in 18S0. The area of the state is 52,288,000 acres, having in 1870 38,802 farms, while in 1880 there were 138,561 farms under cultivation, an increase of 99,759 farms in ten years, and an inciease in railroads during the same period of 2,421 miles. Two miles east of this place there is a homeSftead, with quite a strip of breaking on it. The ground has never been cultivated since breaking, and. to-day, there is a fine stand of a far different variety from the native grass. The cattle on lange. w ill break for this strip of grass as soon as they are turned out on the morning. Tues day, a gentleman from Kentucky in passing oer this tract of land, stop ped and examined it caicfulty, and pronounced it blue grass. If his judgement is coirect. and we have no reason to doubt it, there will be a rad ical change in the pasturage of this country in the future. And not only this, but if blue grass is a product that will thrive in this country, there will be no limit to advance of real es tate. Wc hope our citizens will go and examine this piece of pasturage and satisfy themseh es as to its varie ty. Buffalo Paik Pioneer. The railroad news this week is of no little importance to this communi ty. The report which reaches us from the south is from a source of undoubted reliability. A load from Cleveland will be commenced at once and run north to Colby and Atwood. The right of way has been bought and the lines established. This will cat off the intentions of the B. & 31., if they ever had any, of running southwest The territory is already occupied and their country to the north threatened with an invasion from an unfriendly line, which plain ly necessitates the immediate exten tion of the branch west from Oberlin on the line as sun-eyed early in the fall. With the Kansas Pacific from the south and the 3Iissouri Pacific from fhc southeast and east, both headed towards this county, jj3 only recourse the B. & M. can have un less it desires to be burdened with a bankrupt road is to move west We do not believe, knowing the indomita ble energy of this road, that she will lay quiet and see her territory wrested from her grasp. Atwood and Raw lins county may rest quietly. She will have, unless all signs fail, more than one railroad within her borders in less than a. year. Atwood Demo crat J. R. COLBY, Notary :-: Public AU business In this line promptly attended. js&i Commissioners' Proceedings. Colbv, Thomas Co., pec. 4, 1885. County commissioner! mot pursuant to ad journment. Members present, Frank Pingreo, chairman, R. T. Homing and M. W. Witham, commis sioners, and James N. Fio, county clerk. Moved and seconded to reject petition of Samuel Lee Tor exposuro to sulo, etc., of school hind presented tit Inst meeting. Moed and carried that we approve petitions of C. A. Smith mid Samuel Leo for exjosiire to sale. The following bills were allowed us election expenses: I W Crumley, - - - - 2 CO Ira Jennings, - - - 200 BGurwell, - - - - 2 00 J W Ellsworth, - - - 4 jo W H Archer - - - - 2 00 AJGricn - - - - 4 to The following bonds lor townsnlp officers wereapproea: Josoph M Leal as treasurer of Morgan twp. W H Aroher as justico of the peaco of Ro vohl township. A B Richardson, justice of tho peacoof Bar ret township. John D Hughes as treasurer of Halo town ship. . J W Ellsw orth as justico of tho peace of Wendell tow nslup. Wm C II j don as justico of tho neaco of Hale township. Jnmos M Stewardson justice of the peace for Randall township. Wm H Summers us treasurer of Wendell township. M Clark, justico of the peace of Barret township. G A Bojd, constable of Barrett township B. Gurwell. clerk of Wendell township. II B Herring, cleiKof Barret township: Ira Jennings, trustee of Rundall tow nship. J Cl'assell, treasurer ot Hoohl township. I. W. Crumley, clerk of loolil township. Mocd und canied that contract for furnish ing coal for Thuiius county bo let to A. B. Jardiuo, to be Colorado coal, to be delierod at countj coal house in Colby, for which he is to rccch e $11 SO per ton in count warrants. County Attorney is instructed to draw eon tract, Dtc.oth lbh5. Mo ed and carried to adjourn until tho neit regular meeting in Junuary, 13. tltVMv PlNGUKE, Attest: James N. Fikl. ( h.urinun. County Olerk. N. J. ADAMS RED FRONT Furniture Store Keeps a full line of Bedsteads, Bed Springs. Matrcsses, Hocking Chairs, Kitchen Safes, Wash Stands and everything belongriuo to the Furniture Trade. Coffins, Caskets stnd Burial Robes ordered on short notice. No pains will be spared to accommodate the public. 23?"Bemembor tho Red Front. N. J. ADAMS, Prop. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION' No. 4135. Land Offico at Oberlin. Hans. , , t 'Dec. 4. 1SS5. Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has tiled notice of his intention to make final proof In support of his claim and that said proof will be nude before Pro bate Judge of Thomas Co.. Kan . at Colbv, Kaasas. on Jan.25, 18W5. i; n. Bates. D. S. Np. 1478, for the se qr sec 26, town 6 s, range 38 west. He names the following witnees to prove bis continuous residence ujon. and cultiva tion of. said laud, viz: Andrew Parker. R T Hemlng. .F W Ladd and G. A. Boyd, all of yuicKTiue, mansa. A. L. PATCHIK, Register. W G Porter. 404.VU0 . . , . Notice No. 4278. U. 8. Land Oflico, Oqcrlin. Knn November 12. 1883. Complaint having been entered at t!u office by JameHConaely against Trancis Collin or Francis Collas for abandoning his H ENo ll.Vd dated January 14. 1879. upon the sw qr section 22. townhip 8 nuth. range 31 w, in Thomas county, Kansas with a view to the cancellation of said entrv: con testant alleges that the said Francis Collins or Francis Collas did not build upon nor improve said tract siaoe making said entry up to June 14. 1880, nor since, or cultivate said land; the aid parties are hereby summoned to appear at this office on the 2!d day of January. IMG, at 10 o'clock a. m., to respond and furnish tes timony concerning aid alieped abandonment. A. L. Patchis, Bejnster. Keys & Emahixer. 4043dl0 Christmas Comes J. W, ALLEN & SONS. Are receiving their immense stock of Holiday Goods. Watch for their ad. next week. jmx y fcjTo old and young it brings goodcheei 1. t.mnjym t 4 H t - ENTRAL URUG OT0RE 3IAKES A SPECIALTY OF Pure Drugs and Medicines Everything in our line of the best obtainable. When you are in need of paints, oils, per fumes, stationery and all kinds of fancy no tions. Don't forget to give our house a call Dr. J. W. Weld, Manager. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION' No. 40 P. Lund Oflice at Oberlin. Ivans. Dcc'Jth, lV'S. Xotice i hereby p en that the following named settler ha died notice of his intention to make commutation proot in suportof hid claim nnd that said proof will bo n.adc Ncfcro Probate Judge, Thomas county. Knn-a,"at oiby. Kama, on Jnnimr) Std, 1PSG, iz: Wil lia n C Hydon, H E Xo 29B7, for tbe no qr sec. 17, tow n b houtn. ranve :10 vt est. He name the following witnesses to prrtre his continuous residence upon, and cultiva tion of taid land. iz?V. H. Kinircrt. S. J. Adams, Andrew Greep and R B Elliott, ull of IU1UJ, IYUIISHH. A. L. PATCHIN. Rojrfster 4045dl0. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION No 4044. Land Offico at Oberlin, Kans. Dec. 8. 1S85. Notice is hereby jriven that tho following named settler has filed notice of his inten tion to make final proof In support of bis claim and thut suid proof v, ill be mado before Probate Judge. Thomas county, Kaunas, at Colby, Kan., on Jan. 23d, ISsrt, Lc: Andrew Parker, J). S. No. 2012, for the nw qr section 35, town 6 h, range 36 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cnltUit- tion or said lanci, viz: a nates. F w Ladit, R T Hemlng and O A Boyd, all of Qulckville, Kansas. A. L.PATCIHN, Register. WO Porter. 4(H5dlO Notice No. 41S2. U. S. Land Office Oberlin, Kans. ..,.. .. ' Oct. 19, 1885. Complaint having been entored at this office by W M Morebead against Frank T Barber for abandoning hfs homestead entry No. 12865 datedOct. 16th, 1879. upon the so qr section I, township 6 south rango 34 west, in Thomas county, Kansas with a view tojt ho cancellation of said entry. The said parties are hereby nummnnH n appear at this office on the tr.th rimmrLm 18W, 10 o'clock a m, to respond and furnish lesumony concerning saui ftUeged abandon ment. Tcixr Scott, Receiver. Keys & Emahlzer. 40-4Jdl0 But Once a Year --"8 Vf x M. T. Rowland, Prop. Notice No. 4302. U. S. Lund OHIce Oberlin, Kans. Nov 17. IS1', Complaint having been entorrrt tit this fflc by F M Wisdom against Walter I-Jgij lor abandoning his Homestead tntry No. 2rto7, dated April U. 15, upon -c qr tec 9. t.wn 7 south, range 34 wist, in Thomas count), Kansa w ith a lew to the ciaicella- tion nf K11M fntr pnMtptitnnt ,llf frfi. K... he is not tin actual resident on the laud und no nou"e upon the frame. Tile cmiH nartiis fin heroin- aummnnrj . Rnnear 11 1 thU mliee on flu- nth flm. nfiinn 1&. at 10 o'clock a in, to respond and furnish lusuinuuy concerning aiu alleges tttmndon went. A LPatcui.s, Register. S S Vansickel. 40-tJdl0 Notice for Publication No 4030 Land Office at Oberlin, Kans. Dec. ft, US5 Notice Is hereby gh en thnt the following named settler has filed notice of his Intention to make final proof in support or his claim, und that said proof will Ik- made beforo Register and Receiver at Oberlin. Kans,.. en Jan. "B 1H86 lr: 8 W Pan-Nli DSNn lVai for th n .. kw? tnun ?lunitli mntrn m wnk He nnmes the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, naid land, iz: PatTumeyS C Passell. O H Strattan and James Wollen, all of Colby" Kansas. " . ,, A. L. PATcniN, Register. H E Wold. 4(MM1Q NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION No. 4045 Land Offico at Oberlin. Kans. Notice Is hereby ghen that the "following named settler has filed notice of his intont lon to make final proof in support of his claim and thnt said nronf u ill Kn ..Vi ,..,?'" bateJudge Thomas county, Kan., at Colby ScoDV&lUi& SVt' vlz: AlcxandS Scott, D. s. No. 2569, for tho sw qr section IS town 7 south. rango& west. . Ho names the ffil!nnriti nrt.MAAM his continuous residence upon and cuMv- WG Porter. A' L PATCHIN Beg "Si -! .3 I ? I Ail m tJEMI fi vi 1 -3C J "-In . rm HSBi 1 SI m J$2& ua j3al