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The New West from Cimarron, Kansas • 3

The New West from Cimarron, Kansas • 3

Publication:
The New Westi
Location:
Cimarron, Kansas
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3
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Leicham, R. II. MITCHELL, EDITOR, Publish by ') MITCHELL WOOD. Cimarron. Foote Kansas- in Our druggist smiles pleasantly on each wagon load uf melloiis thatoomos into town.

H. McGarry leaves us for Dodge text week to take charge of the schools there which open on the 15th; inst. Wheat thrashed here' this week is of a quality to compare with any in the valley. Messcrs Cutler, Patterson and John son have turned from sowing their Wheat crop near Spearville. Mr.

Dennis, father-in-law of ye editor aud aland i gent of Lane county was in town wceic In the interest of his business he anticipates cou-hiderable iinigration thn tall. Mitchell's drugs are an excellent antidote tor bad melons. Mrs. Green and Ada Itrown have moved to Coopersburg. Ch irlty went with them.

At the crack ol tho sportsman's rifle the timid antelope skips gaily o'er the praieic. Our attorney banged his' shot-gun Zhake ven kooms die vcat. Bridge bond election to-morrow. Ole Ruswick talks of returning to the mountains. They havn't commenced building our depot as yet.

Wheat sowing has commenced with the ground in good condition. We found it unneccessary to wear our coats several days this wet-k. Bridge contractor Rcece was again in town looking after the bridge business. Seed wheat for Foote county arrived by way of the A. T.

S. 1) yesterday. One of us got thrown from fractious pony, resulting in a badly strain ed shoulder. Mr. J.

K. Henderson ia moved his family to Dodge City where he will soon engage in his work as firut assis tant iu the public schools. Mr. Decker one of ourcnttrprising grangers, having made arrangements to have his fall crop put in, has in company with his sister-in-law, Mrs. HARDWARE, QUEENSWARE, GROCERIES, FLOUR, FEED, Sells Ilardwaro and Groceries as cheap as the cheapest, and stoves cheaper than any body.

We canoe to stay; we want Entered at Cimarron as Second Class Matter August, 1st, 1879. Mr. Reece the gentleman who proposes to built the bridge across the river here spent Thursday with U9. Ha appears to he contractor of large cxperienci, having built several new bridges over thn river as wi lbu others. He has put the bridge over the river at Garfi eld in less than sixty days working about thirty-live number of teams, all ot which, except ing two or in iners li tiii.doy ed in the township.

He me ins to erect th luidge in sixty days and will employ from filteen to twenty-fivo nitfn and several teams, ho has assured some of our citizens that beside his toremen he will employ no man not living in Foote township unless he is unable to secure enough to carry on the work, so it appears that the buildiugot the bridge will give to our citizens just what they need this iail a chance to make some money tp carry them through the winter. Not less than six perhaps seven into a flock of one thousand blackbirds and killed one. Mr. Monroe of Kinslew came down this week and sold oit tho remaining your trade and we will not bo undersold we pay the very highest market price for bones. Laird, gone in a buggy to visit his relatives in Iowa.

Mr. Ole Ruswic has returned grom his prospective tour to the mountains and reports Leadvillo the livelest place on the cuiitiueut. Several wild horses, have leen broken to ride during List, week, some of ihem showed Kulllcient resist to throw their riders to the ground. Some ducks have appeared on the river but not in sufficient numi ers to draw much attention from the ports-men. Mcsers Henry Osterloh anl Wm, hundred dollars will be paid to them Don fail to give us a call.

C. F. LEICHAM, Cimarron, 'or labor. The announcement in our columns last weftk that the iumilv of Mr. Dtv rouin pruuauiy in a muuii tnuu stock ot the Eureka wiloon to satisfy a claim.

Mr. Solomon Holcomb who has been spend i the summer here left for his home in Medina, Ohio, yesterday evening. Juilgc Peacock was again in town this week on business. Shoup says at a nigh gucfts he had planted this summer 1,900,000 soft imi ile seed from whidi lie has now owing 0,000,000 young trees. Ho thinks a better reult would have been ol ine hai the seed been planted oou lifter they dropped from trees.

At a certain station on this rail road where wheat Is delivered to settlers by tho Railroad company quite a large number of persons hud ordered aud during the week it was to be at UUIUS, Ub WVSiTU UU'u tvu nsr. ivi rim 1 vmiiiilt iiui lc a. iiiiiu- McCIoskey, have gone west to look for employment in the herding iber of their friends in the way ot a nflnn 4i nt! Irf 4 1. A 3Ectrs StaSfittf -s8ttli surprise piuiy, nuu nivci iiipnij, light fantastic for several bid their genial hostesses good night and went away happy with the result of visit. I Cows that have been plotted jon xhe grass North of to.vh where once in awhile a drove of Texans cross, J.

M. REAG IN 1 LANS AS. have sickened and died; cows picket the depot the agent was beset about every ten minutes of each day with a round of questions of Say, rrheu will that wheat be what will the cost be? Scc. Being wearied and tongue 6d South of town on claims wnicii have not been crossed by Texans this year have remained healthy. Who says vegetables won't grow to sore he finally when tho day of arrival was defllnotcly known posted conspicuously in his office the following no yerieciiou ou ue inavuu giuuuu, ivi I fciui ask W.

E. Gap well where he rais Good horses aud conveyance! ever toady to hire. Stock boarded by tho 'uy or week. Prices Keasonnble; He also bus feud lor bale, aud COAL YARD; From which he will deliver Fne to any part of the city in 600tt lots, or tuoio at the lowuHt cash rates. 1-13 ed that fine melon he pulled the oilier lay, which measured thirty-two inch ea one way and thirty-six inches the tice.

Seed wheat will be here next Friday, cost 80 cents per bushel. For further information go toll 1. From the point west of town known as Pilot Knob, thy who have any poetry in their souls may on these trict. Mr. Howell, from Pawroe county has been in our county for several days makins some improvement on a timber claim which ha chviuj nbout twelve miles north of town.

He reports favorable for Pawnor. Several of the section nvn got "on a high" this week which resulted in thj discharge of some of them. Generally cpeakiug we hava a very orderly and industrious chns of Ivailroad men During he present monh evening ramblers may gaze upon the planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn rising early in morning Mercury mar be seen during thy early part of' the month and Venus during the latter part. O. M.

Wright according to appint-ment preached for us lust Sabbath morning mid eveniug. It very trrrit-ifying to see so much interot evu.ced in church going here as ind tciied by the large congregation which turned out to hear him. A party of buffalo hunters h'lt for the hunting grounds on the Northwest tho first of the week. A car load fruit and vegetables switched off here one day this week and left us some apples, grapes, tomatoes, The cosmopolitan proprietor of the Illinois House becoming Imbued the other day with a spirit of great benevolence toward the weary and thlrs ty emigrant, passed the hat around town and took up a collection with which ho improved the town well by the addition to its curbing of a substantial and commodious watering traugh. Vbther.

I A lively party consisting of two Tagon loads drove down to Wattr-nelon Island, a few evenings ago.look ng for melons result very satisfacto 7 Mr. V. Hall Mitchell has just lot he contract for cutting: his one hun. beautiful moonlight evenings witness rod aud sixty acres of meadow just 3ros the river and in sight of town. Our express office is now in full op firation and is highly appreciated by sceene that beauty of wbieh.

would enwrap the painter inecstacies of delight. On the north the landscape is marked as far us the eye can reach, both enst and west, by an undulating series of low bluffs, while away to the south almost in a parallel lino looms up a chain ot lofty ear.d hills, stand, ing out in bold grand uro against the Southern sky between these, embosomed in a valley these unbroken sur-foces of which contrasts strangely with tho surrounding configeration, winds the broad swift and muddy stream of the Arkansas, tho soft light of the moon painting its waters with nbright silver sheen. Jwr citizens. Now let us have a dc pot County attorney has been unwell a row days, but is now wealing his usual smile about the street. I Cool nights, which has been one of jour blessings aro being followed by eool days.

W. Cap well and lady entertained a FEED and SALE-STABLE, Cimarron Horse boarded by the day or week at reasonable prices. Yardattached to suble for the use Of Droveri and Stock men. 1 nail company from town ou last i.

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