The Evening Courier du lieu suivant : Independence, Kansas • Page 1

ill 1 VT ii PRICE TV 0 CENTS INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS. TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1679. VOLUME 4. NO. 207.

I 7 OU NO EME NT ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS. si" Price of announcement TUB WIS iOLLAItS. No attention will he paid to announertnent unlet accompanied by ie CAS 11, Atchison, commencing on the 10th and concluding on the 15th of next month. There will be two sessions a day, which will be held in the Kansas Avenue M. B.

Church. About seventy-five delegates from Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, are expected to be present. This will be the first meeting of the board ever held west of the Missouri River. Wc are requested to announce Jo.seph T. Tonkinson largest for many years.

It will result, according to predictions, from the carpet of snow that has covered the ground during the most of the present winter. We hope the predictions may prove true. William and Z. T. Underwood, and A.

W. Henderson were before U. S. Commissioner Scott, charged with having on or about December 1, 1878, stolen in the Indian Territory three mules and two ponies. The case was continued to the 21st and the U.

S. Attorney notified. Bail was fixed at $1 000. each. an independent candidate for the ffice of City Marshal.

Wc are requested to announce O. MINER "4 I ,18 a candidate for the office of City Vlarshal. i We are requested to announce MITdHELL "Col. Dan Grass, State Senator from Montgomery County, returned yesterday to his home in Independence. Col.

Grass has nothing to answer for, yi his action this winter, which will not meet the approval of his constituents His course ou the temperance issue, which has been brought up in many different ways, has been con sistent and" honorable. He has is a candidate for the office of City subject to the choice of the people. Mr. W. N.

Certain, so long and favorably known in connection with the Pioneer Marble Works, met with quite a severe accident on last Saturday evening. Mr. Certain had recently connected himself in the employ of Jno. J. Plant, Lightning Bod dealers of this city, and had started lor Independence from Elk City.

When about a mile this side of Elk City, and becoming somewhat chilled by the cold, thought. to leap from the wagon and take exercise while the team was walking slow, but as he sprang from the wagon his foot caught in the lines in such a way as to throw his leg into the wheel, breaking both bones just above the ankle joint. Mr Plant was with him and assisted him to get back upon the wagou again, when he was conveyed to his home. Dr. R.

B. Southard, of Elk City, set the broken limb and Mr. Certain is now doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances. Mr. Certain is one of the promising young men of our county, and has hosts of friends, both in this city and out of it who will be pained to hear of his accident, and whose hearty sympathy and well wishes for his speedy recovery he will have during the weeks he must be confined to his room on account of it.

We are requested to announce R. M. NEILSON, worked honestly for the interest of The following are among the principal cases that have been up for trial since the opening of this term of court: State of Kansas vs R. A. Jones, plead jiot guilty.

State vs. J. Love, charged with burglary, plead guilty. State vs. J.

Craiger and J. Ward, charge burglary, Ward discharged and Craiger found guilty. State vs. G. Summers, charge of burglary, found not guilty.

J. S. Davis plead not guilty to the charge of burglary against him as a candidate for the office of City i Marshal. We are authorized to announce D. BIOKFORD as a candidate for the oflico of the district he has represented at two sessions of the Legislature, and for the whole State geuerally.

There has been no one more regular at roll call." Friday's Commonwealth. We have also seen many other notices in our State exchanges complimentary to the Colonel, particularly ou the temperance question. The Colonel has We are authorized to announce B. F. Fl-KrOI-IKR as a candidate for the office of received the highest euconiums of M.

D. LONG'S the press all over the State. GREAT In the walking match Rowell fin ished his 500 miles Saturday night and was declared the champion. Enuis made 475 miles and Hari-man 450. The gate money was $51,000.

Of this the two latter get one-third each. Even O'Lcary, who jumped the track several days ago, gets $1,000. EASTERN Rowell came off'victorous in the pedestrian match at Gilmore's Garden, and now when he returns to England with that belt he will be the biggest man in the realm and the British lion will roar louder than the Britinh people throw their hats higher than they did over Beaconsfield's diplomatic achievements. Dr. J.

J. Wolfe may be found at the Main Street Hotel. His specialty is chronic diseases, in the treatment of which he is prouounc-a success. He respectfully refers to II. C.

Bates. The National Greenback State Committee of Maine had a meeting last week, when the question of uniting with the Democrats on a State ticket was brought up and discussed. It was finally voted to put in the field a straight ticket and run it. No coalition in Maine. A Washington special to the New York Herald says a report, founded on good authority is to the effect that the Greenbaekers in Washington are plauning to raise a campaign fund to defray the expenses of a vigorous canvass of the west and south in favor of their doctrines, and that they are endeavoring to secure the services of prominent men as speakers.

It is said that ex Governor Brown, of Tennessee, has engaged himself in this work among others. LOTtunG ouse will be Opened for htisin-int in a very t-hort time. The ftock will cnsint of th newest and most fashionable ready made clothing for MEN, BOYS AND YOUTHS. One door South of HuIPh Bank. Pennsylvania Avenue, Independence, Kanpa.

Every Western Family Savs BROWN'S VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS are a sure cure for Si-h Headache Liver Hum. I.on'. They are p- 'red rH'l i 1 f- mp n1 gout -e-t 'IV in imi' -tr 'l 11 no others. Rev. Scoville delivered a fine lecture at the temperance meeting last night.

It is now believed by many farm- The next annual session of the Did yon sow your cabbage seed yesterday Executivi' of the Woman's 'crs that the harvest next season Mission Society will be held at' will be an abundant one, if not the.