Ness City Sentinel from Ness City, Kansas • 5

The SENTINEL. -Miner Bros, will make your loan. -Allen has the flnet potatoes in SAVE AD EXPENSE I hi. Fresh kraut just received at Allen's. Wanted.

A timber claim. Miner Urns. Apples only 75 cents per bushel at Allen's. Land sold and traded by II. S.

Hill Co. Sila3 W. Porter attended court at Scott City, this week. In looking for holiday goods don't forget to call on Allen. Miner as usual, have plenty of money for farm loans.

DANS 1 xxtt o-iirxTiiKra- t-i 1 11 CITY, ITTHIK JLJ JLJJL IN- 11 Li h)L AND OTHER LINES w-0 AT KELLOGG'S, Sufficient to ii I tow and they are cheap. Geo. C. Brownell went to Horace, on legal business, last Wednesday. -You can buy apples of Allen cheaper than from nny one.

Only 75 cents per bushel. -Mr. and Mrs. A. C.

Dyer have moved into their new residence on North Iowa avenue. As I wish to close out my stock of millinery goods, I am now offering them at cost. Lizzie Bkowm. W. II.

Dann.of WaKeeney, is in the city, settling up the assigned hardware business of W. II. A. T. Dunn.

J. M. Morrow, who has been visiting relatives and friends in Creston, Iowa, returned to the city, last Thurs day. Geo. W.

Moore and Sarah Jane Diering, were licensed by Judge Nich olson, this week, to go through life in a pair. We call attention to the change in the ad of Kellogg, the clothier, this week. It is short and to the point Read it. Do not buy your Christmas presents until you have seen the largest and finest line in the county at Bryant's drug store. Aithur Curme, the court stenographer for this district, is in the city, this week, making a transcript of the case of the W.

railroad company vs. L. E. Knowles et al. The Presbyterians had a social at the residence of G.

L. Burton, on Iowa avenue last Thursday evening. A large crowd of nice people was present and the affair was very enjoyable. If you desire to read The Sentinel and the Kansas City Weekly Times, we will furnish both to you one year for $2.15 iu advance. Two great papers published in two great cities for S2.15.

Owing to the scarcity of money most loan companies have had to discontinue business in this section. We are pleased to note the fact, however, that Miner Bros, are well supplied with funds direct from the lenders and are closing all loans with their usual promptness. They organized a literary society at school house No. Center township, two miles east of the city, Friday night of last week, with Luke Pembleton as president and Mrs. Kerl as secretary.

They debated the following question last night: Resolved that curiosity will lead a man fartner than necessity will drive him. The Ness City Sentinel says that Charley Lobdell, the Dighton attorney has "gone wrong." After borrowing a'l the money he could in western Kansas towns of his friends he has skipped for parts unknown, leaving his wife and child behind, as well as his creditors. This is the same sweet scented individual who attempted to fleece Scott county out of a railroad attorney fee. Scott County Herald. It was current rumor on our streets since election that Geu.

Thomas, special agent for the General Land Oflice, had committed suicide; the report we find has had general circulation through this district. Many pathetic little stories were being woven in reference to it, and no telling where the matter would have ended had not General Thomas put in his appearance at WaKeeney, and grasped the hands of many friends in his usual good health and spirits. WaKeeney Republican. Spidlo Contest Ua.se. J.

B. Spiple's case contesting the seat of R. L. McCracken to the oflice of county commissioner of the second district came up last Thursday before Probate Judge Nicholson and" his two associates, Messrs. Barry and Kelson.

it. Ibach was attorney for Mr. Spidle and Deputy County Attorney Thomas Berry was attorney for Mr. McCracken. The lirst move made was to count the votes.

They found a mistake of two in favor of Spidle in High-point township, which were thrown out, and a mistake of thirteen in Franklin in favor of McCracken. After the record was corrected Spidle had a ma jority ot tour. They then proceeded to take testimony, the important witnesses being John Engle, trustee of Franklin township, and Mrs. Barber, county clerk, the two the custodians of the ballots from the time they were counted until the present. The evidence elicited from Mr.

Engle showed that every thing was regular on his part, and that the same caution in regard to the elec tion was observed by him as in the past, and as is usually observed by trustees. Mrs. Barber stated that when the ballots were delivered to her according to law, she locked them in a drawer in her office, and in day time kept the key in her pocket and at night locked the key in the county safe; but as soon as the contest was commenced she observed extraordinary caution by keeping the ballots locked iu the safe. The envelope, in which the ballots were sealed was somewhat torn and mussed, and the defence tried to bring evidence to show that the returns had been tampered with, but the evidence taken does not prove any such attempt. The only evidence in when we went to press showing the least irregularity was mat at one lime tne ballots were iu the News olllce, which is the next room to the county clerk's oflice.

This was in the day time when several were present. Taking the evidence now in there is not the slightest doubt about the election of Mr. Spidle. The count of the vote shows it, and the regularity of all the election proceedings, and especially the care of the ballots 'after they were counted, show it. While The Sentinel takes neither side and will not even attempt to mould public opinion one way or the other, yet it is confident that if the contestant were any other man besides J.

B. Spidle, he would have bis seat, before this time. The attorneys are both working dilligently, but witness after witness only show that there is no evidence for cither of The People's Local Paper. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1888. K.

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ill p.in lltifhlnn Hi'ott Uly. 5 p. in J.tniU fl p. iii Crowby p. ill KAHTWAtlTI.

Cnwliy n.m lent i Kcott n.m DlKlitnn p. in li--lciville. 1 1 p. in Latrl p. in Ni-mh Cltylv.

I I p. in Haino p. in AlcvHiiilcr p. in Knh 'on. p.

in Cireat iteiui. p. in First National I Sunk. The First National liank is not ashamed to advertise its paid up capital, which is double that of any other bank in the city. Holiday goods at Bryant's.

Decorated chamber sets at Allen's. Get your farm loans of Ii. H. Hill Co. Jellies, mince meat and apple but-t er at Allen's.

Forty head of Rood feeding steers for sale by J. (i. Green Hague make farm loans at lowest rates of interest. J. W.

Itiyant's holiday oods are all new and not goods carried over for a year or two. Wanted: To trade Ness county land for billiard and pool tables and fixtures. Address Alfalfa Club, Ness City, Kansas. Mrs. L.

G. Talmage, south-east of the city, who lias been suffering with the rheumatism for the past month, is recovering slowly. Allen will have on sale, next week, the linest uncolored Japan tea, and will present the purchaser of one pound, an elegant tea pot. We will have an elegant assortment of New Year cards in about a week, suitable for a present to a relative or friend. If you want anything of the kind, call early.

The Kansas City Weekly Times is one of the largest and best papers pub lished in the west, being twelve pages every issue. The Weekly Times and Thk Sentinel, can both be had for $2.15 in advance. The Ness City Skntinet, sarcastically asks what has become of the Rush county-seat light? The ring lias prob ably stolen it, as they are trying to steal everything else in the county. McCracken Enterprise. Miss Cora I'rilliman, who has been clerking in Robinson Cole's store, in this city, for the past year, returned to ber home iu IiluiTton, last Thurs-iav, where she expects to remain Miss Prilliman's many friends here will jbe sorry to lose her pleasant company.

The New York Weekly World is the largest weekly newspaper published on the continent. Every issue contains a complete novel or a high grade. Con seqnently every yearly subscriber to the World will get b'l complete novels The circulation for the World for 18SX will be one hundred million copies. You can get The Sentinel and the World one year for 52.5 iu advance, or six months for $1.15. We are in receipt of the First Annual Report and Course of Study of the Ness City public schools, one of the neatest printed and most tastefully arranged pamphlets of the kind that has ever come under our notice.

Messrs. McDowell Weisell, of The Sentinel of that city, are the printers and lire deserving of much credit for the workmanship displayed on the report. Great Hend Democrat. Mrs. W.

D. Napier, who lives northeast of this city, in seven days, ending last Saturday, from two cows, manufactured 18 pounds of good solid butter. This is one and two-seventh pounds per day for each cow. If Ness county had a Mrs. Napier on every quarter section we could manufacture pounds of butter per week, which at twenty cents per pound would amount to per day, per week, or per year.

This would pay our grocery bills. The United Brethren church will hold quarterly meeting in the Hayward building to-day and to-morrow, to which all are cordially invited, as follows: First service will be on Saturday at 2 o'clock p. m. Sermon by the Elder followed by business meeting. (Secoml service Saturday night.

Sermon by the Elder. Third service Sunday morning at II) o'clock; general praise meeting followed by sermon and Sacramental services. Fourth service fcuuday evening at 7:30 o'clock Sermon. Our Presiding Elder, C. U.

Mc-Kee, will be with us. W. A. Raiidabaugh was at Sterling this week, and while there learned as much as passible about the sugar making business, lie had an interview with l'rof. E.

11. Cowgill, state sugar inspector, who is inspecting the woiks at Sterling. The professor informed him that the sugar business had been demonstrated in the past year to be a financial success and be recommends the investment of capital in the business. It requires one-fourth ton of coal to work up one ton of Biigar, but the Topeka works this year used but one-sixteenth ton of coal to the ton of cane and used the dried pulp for the balance of the fuel. There is no doubt but that the near future will show us that the fuel CHn all be gotten in the pulp alone, l'rof.

Cowgill is using bis influence to have the legislature pass an act to allow municipalities the right to vote bonds to erect sugar mills. He is assisted in his work by James II. McCracken, of Medicine Lodge; IC. K. Ilubbell, of Scott City; A.

J. White-hair, of Jerome, (Jove county; A. Myers, of Centralia, Nemeha county; Maxwell Phillips, of Asaria, Saline county; O. It. Hamilton, of Meade Center, mul many others.

i them. I case that seems to have no evidence except what one can spe, by looking at the ballots and the result. The judges are competent and we believe they will do the case justice. Sugar Will Meeting. A call was made for a sugar mill meeting, and hist Wednesday evening a fair assemblage of our citizens met in the opura house.

L. E. Knowles was elected chairman and .1. K. Barnd, secretary.

Sam G. Sheaffer explained the object of the meeting, and closed with an aigument supported by newspaper articles and statistics to prove that a sugar mill in this city would not only he a great benefit to our people but that it would be a paying investment for capital. Then followed a long discussion about the buying of machinery and whether it would be legal and right to vote bonds to build a mill. The discussion was entered into by N. C.

Merrill, Ross Calhoun, C. K. Clarkson, V. A. Iljiudabaugh, H.

K. Ralston, W. A. Ogtlen, R. A.

Thompson. The discussion developed the fact that our people have not been asleep to their interests in the past, but they have been investigating by reading and by correspondence ith sugar mills in the different stales, in Kansas and New Jersey in particular. Mr. Raudabaugh said that Prof. Cowgill, an article in regard to whom appeared iii this paper last week, was working dilligently to have a law passed by the state legislature this winter under which municipalities could vote bonds for the erection of sugar factories.

He read quite a list of prominent men who were working with the professor. The meeting voted unanimously in favor of voting bonds sufficient to erect a plant in this county. The meeting then appointed a committee of two, C. E. Clarkson and Sam.

G. Sheaffer, to investigate the matter of manufacturing sugar from sorghum and to report at a future meeting to be called. A committee of five, N. C. Merrill, It.

A. Thompson, C. L. Rogers F. C.

Borthwick and Ross Calhoun, was appointed on ways and means to induce capital to take he enterprise in hand and to report as soon as practical. ine meeting then took an agricultural turn, and Col. Holt of Rush Center was called upon for some remarks in regard to subsoiling. He made some very interesting remarks on deep plowing, and interested the people present to the extent that a committee of three, M. M.

Tnllis, S. B. Merrill and P. S. Dimick, was appointed to try the experiment of different depths of plowing next year, and to report their experiments to the newspapers.

The meeting was a very fruitful one, and will no doubt lead to others. Col. Holt says he will attend anv meeting we may hold to discuss subsoiling. NonchiUanta. Lay in your coal.

J. C. Hopper has commenced house keeping. J. II.

Honeywell went to Ness City Saturday. Carpenter and Austin spent Tuesday at Ness City. A. M. Ililligos has made final proof on his claim.

L. Odom went to Hutchinson the first of the week. There has been no preaching at the M. E. church for some time.

Our editor and several friends devoured a very fat turkey last Thursday. Nonchalanta is again talking of putting down a prospect hole for salt or coal. Let the good work go on. Mrs. L.

Odom, Miss Maud, Hyde and Frank arrived home last Wednesday from Rushville, Indiana, wiiere they have been visiting for the last month. G. II. Dodge, of Olathe, Kansas, who has been here the last week, left Thursday with a drove of horses for home, lie was accompanied by J. M.

Allen and George Carpenter. H. 0. Notsoti and wife took a drive to Harold lust. II w.

er Eli Borton thinks our town is doomed 10 dcniniiion. So was Brother Borton in his race for county attorney. J. L. Case left last week for SanFran-cisco, California, where he will spend the winter with his parents.

Rumor says he will bring home wife when the roses bloom again. Punch. Ho l'or Washington Territory. I have made arrangements for special emigrant tourist's car on the T. S.

F. R. to leave Ness City as soon as tickets are sold for full fnre to Portland, Oregon, for $.15. Car will probably start about January l.or sooner if sufficient number of tickets me sold. For further information address G.

Kinney, Ness City, Kansas. ii. IL 11 Li ii Allen has iust owned a srilendid line of queensware and glassware. Wm. Gulick returned from T.nrne.l last Tuesday, where he had been visit ing his parents.

J. Tbaeh was at Scott Citv at tending the district court which con vened there last Monday. and see me. ladies, if von want a good bargain in millinery goods at cost. LlZZIK BltOWN.

Mrs. C. R. Flemino left. Wednes day, for Lane countv to visit, l.er nnr- enls a few days.

Her father is very SICK. The finest lino of holiday goods ever brought to Ness City will be on exhibition at J. W. Bryant's drugstore next Monday. All members of the Woman's Re lief Corps are requested to be present at.

me regular meeting, this Saturuav afternoon. Otlieers for the coming year win Lie elected, aim other important business transacted. Mr. and Mrs. N.

R. Klanse had born unto them, last Wednesday, a iweive pound noy. i he sentinel of fers its congratulations to the happy parents upon the advent of this healthy aim ronust young gentleman. The Sentinel has made arrange ments to club with the New York Weekly World and Kansas City Weekly limes. The Sentinel and World for $2 25; Tun Sentinel and Times lor S2.15.

All subscriptions payable in auvance. We have received, through the courtesy of McDowell Weisell, of the Mess I it Sentinel, the course of study or me rvess city schools. It was nub lished by The Sentinel and reflects oreat credit on the job department of mat otnee. County Herald. lou can cet the New York Weekly World one year, containing 52 complete novels, and The Sentinel one year, containing 52 sermons from Dr.

Talmage, two mighty trood news papers, both for S2.25 in advance. The novels and sermons alone are worth the price of subscription. At a regular meetinir of Ness Citv lodge No. 25(1 A. O.

U. W. the following umcris ere eiecteii: x. u. Allen, waster Workman; Willis Stanley.

Fore man; M. M. Tullis. Overseer; R. G.

Weisell, Recorder; C. E. Bice, Financier; C. E. Clarkson, Receiver; Wm.

Martin, Geo. S. Redd, (). uiihii 1. II j.

I. JVUOeig, Trustee; J. U. Ibach, representative to uraua Jjouge. A bold robbery was committed at Ransom, twelve miles north of this city, last Jtuesday morning.

Hugh Harper, a young man about eighteen years of age, rode into Ransom in the morning and purchased a 'M-calihre re volver. He then stepped into Turner's store aim asked change for a bill 1'1 I i neii i urner opened me money drawer, young Harper drew i revol ver and demanded the contents of the drawer. Turner was too slow about delivering over to suit the vounir tree he cocked the revolver and pointed it at turner's head, making us request a demand. Turner handed over the money amounting to about fr.l, which young Harper took, mounted ins noise and slatted toward this citv they pursued him with a team and buggy, and telegraphed the marshal here, but he passed through or around the city before the telegram reached the marshal. He evaded bis pursuers and has not been heard from since.

Young Harper is a regular Jesse James. Later: On Thursday evening about o'clock, young Harper came to this city and remained more than an hour, having his horse fed at Harmon's livery stable and purchased an overcoat at Bice Hunt's. Sheriff Houston was made acquainted with the facts, and learning that the young man had gone south, organized a posse, consisting of himself, Z. K. Johnson, D.

O. Harmon and George Hunt, and started in pursuit. They came up with him at the South Fork, about three miles south of the city. Harper was descending the bank of the creek when he first saw his pursuers, the sheriff having a gray horse, being easily seen, and he tired two shots at them, one of the bullets passing over the sheriff's horse's neck. The sheriff's party returned the lire ith two shots, and Harper then continued south, no one having been hurt.

The pursuit continued to Harold, twelve miles south of the city, where Harper stopped at the livery stable, not dismounting, however, and the pursuing party came upon him He started away again, and they told him to stop, and he not obeying their commands they tired at him, Houston shooting once and Johnson twice. One of the shots, supposed to be Johnson's llrst shot, struck the boy in the left leg just below the knee, breaking one of the bones. This so weakened him and frightened his horse that he could not remain in the saddle and fell to the ground, breaking the other bone in his leg. Sheriff Houston then arrested him. lie was brought to the Central house, in this city, where his wound was dressed by Dis.

Scott Venard. He is now resting there quietly telling the people all about the race and capture. This young man, who is but seventeen years old, instead of eighteen as reported above, has either more nerve than anybody or less sense than anybody, and one look at bis bright eye will soon convince you that he is us bright and sharp as he is nervy. He assigns no reason for his actions, leaving the people to think that it is naturally In him and that he is only following his inclinations. The above mwm Of Almost Anybody.

H. R. LINVILLE, Manager. STATE BANK OF MESS CITY. CAPITAL $100,000.

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