The Valley Echo du lieu suivant : Cottonwood Falls, Kansas • 4

The Greenbackers ol this city raised ft LOCAL ITEMS. pole on Saturday measuring one hundred and twenty feet above ground. A streamer having the names ol Weaver and Chambers, also one with the motto Tho Valley Echo. ii. W.

McCAKDEIjL, Publisher COTTONWOOD, KANSAS. TERMS, IKn Ykar In Advanck. "Protection to Labor," and with the Stars and Stripes floating beneath them, makes a very attractive appearance, The Greenbackers bt this county are very enthusiastic and will no doufct elect their ticket. A Democratic poll was raised at Elm-dale on Saturday. Cottonwood can boast of the finest stone quarries In the state.

Mr B. Lantry, returned trom Colorado on Friday. The T. 8. F.

railroad is putting a new bridge oyer Fox creek, near this tiblCC Col. S. N. Wood is prepairing to move to this place-j build a bouse and open a loan oflice here, He has been county treasurer for four yi'Hrs. He tried hard to perpetuate the office in his famiy, mid run bis ton a bolter last fall, and spent his time and tnouey to beat J.

S. Shipman, the republican nominee, who was nominated as a recognition of that bolt. For Probate Judge, C. 0. Whitson is the nominee.

He is the present Probata Judge, eleoted on a bolting ticket two years ago. Moral: If you want Republican support next year, bolt this ticket this year. For Clerk ef the District Court, P. J. Norte ii.

He is the present incumbent; does not stay enough iu the office, but otherwise is a good officer. Rut sticks to the republican national bank notes. For Superintendent of School. J. G-Winnie, of Toledo township is the nominee.

Winnie is very unpopular at home. It is said that half of the re OUK NOMINEES. FOR COSUttfcSi Hon 1). P. Mitchell standa head and ahead of anything that ever represented Kansas in Congress, lijan i a mere pigmy.

We look to fee Mitchell get a rousing majority io Chase nmit and if the balance of the district 'vf ill do half as well as Chase he will be elected. ma the statk senate. Col. 11 C. Rate, in a farmer, near Marion Center, lie is a first chit far John Gannoti and a man bv the name of Jefferson got into a squabble last Thursday.

John gave one or two of his war whoops and went for him in a way that was anything but pie isant. He at once left, town, and the last that was heard of him he was at Elmdale representing himself as a representative of this paper. We would say to all that he is a professional dead beat nd is in no way connected with this office. A large timber ol people were in tow ou Saturday, mid our merchants seemed to be doing a tiig trade. A very pleasant and sociable dance mer, and well posted on all the invars of took dlace at the hous ol Tom yuinn, up on tbe bill, in (bis city, on Tuesday night "I last week die day.

Not only every Greenback er, ut every fanner ought to Tote for him. Y.J. Dates has had legislative eiperi-cune, and will make a good member. EOK A 1 If our paner a'ot a'l that expected this, the first fssue. we wish Our friends It you wimt jour county represented in the legislatuie by a man that you can publicans, of Toledo township, will not to bear in mind that we have labored nolnt to with oride vote lor S.

under various and Irving circumstances. Col. S. N. Wood is to well known to ifijuire any cxteuded notice He has been a member a brut a dozen times.

We moved into a new building not, halr finished and have been annved with car support hiui. Winnie is an old bolter, this of course commended him to the convention. For County Attorney. T. II.

Gresh am is the Republican candidate. He wood. Fred. Waelder and our postmoster got up at lour o'clock on last Wednesday morning ami went duck hunting. They bagged one duck and a sleepy rabbit.

penters working in the same room with us. And then beins without a 'chimney J.nows all the ropes, and will be worth lo.en new members. In Legislation, Wood has always worked for econ omy and to lighten the burdens of the is, as jet, a carpet bagger; wauts the office for what he can make out of it L. A. Loomis, of Mai field Green, J.

Last yesr he was a bolter, and stumped! A. Ilallotte, ol Cottonwood Falls, and to the house we were compelled to run our stoye pipe out the window, and tbaf window beinir in the eatt. every time the wind chanced in that direction the smoke poured info she room instead of out the pipe, so you may know -nr situation whs anything but a pleaennt one. So under the circumstances we think we are doing well to get out a paper nt a'l. the county for young Doolittle for county treasurer, against J.

S. Shipman. the S. Is'. of Toledo, were the first subscribers to the Echo.

Their names will be handed down to prosterity as immortal. juhtas much as possible. He is, Mid has always been, the poor man's friend. Every true GreeubacLer will rally to his support, besides many Republicans and Democrat will vote for Mm iu preference to a new and untried man. No man has done more for Chase county than Col.

S. N. Wood. FOR PKOBATK Jl'IKlE. Hon.

C. 0. Allen is the nominee, lie is one of the o'dest settlers in the votitity, and an earnest Oreenbacker, well qualified for the position will make a ood oBicer, and is entitled to every llrecnback vote in the county. FOR CLERK OT DISTRICT COl'RT. Mr.

Y. T. Cain, ol the Chicago Lumber Company, was in our citv on Tuesday lookiiig up a location lor a lumber and coal yard. Mr. Cain is well pleased ith our town and will locate here without a doubt.

Republican nominee. It is fair to state however, that he did it for money aud not from principle. We do not see what claims Gresham has on the Republican party much less ou tho people of Chase county. E. Stotts, of Elmdale, is the candidate for commissioner iu ihe 3d district.

Stotts is a straight Republican, loans money ut two per cent, a mouth and. is very tenacious about a base. The whole ticket will bo suowed under in November. DIt II CARTKU. It is prnernlly known that we have Dr.

Carffer in Chnpe countv. that he is the- son n' Jnde rVu'pr. o' the District o' Columbia. Rut it mny no be known that be rnnkR rmoncj the boit surppon in the UnPed Strifes "Wo env wbot wo An election was held in this city on Saturday lor tw councilmen. uuite a umber of candidates ere.

in the Held, but G. K. Ilagan and Iticbard Hoffman Warren Peck, of Cottonwood is a hard working, honest, me believe to bo true, (lint he 1H ost. surpeon in fliest'ite of Ksnsas. The was edi'rnted rihI piad''afed at hf.

Cleveland WefMcnl nnd SmoVnl CnVrtrn chanic, lie lias a good education, and i well qualified for the position. Should receive the vote of every true Green- rrul nfterwfinla a 'he f'nllrgo of rhv'i- backer. PL PER IN TEN DENT OF SCHOOLS. received i be highest number ol votes, and ol course were elected. Politics were not indulged in.

The lime Elder Mitchell publicly, in Cottonwood Falls, charged W. A. Morgan with lying and proved it on the spot, amidst variterous cheers of the larges1 political audience eycr ass mbled in the county. Rut little attention will be paid to Morgan's statements in the future. cisns and Surgeon" o' Xcw Vorl.

p'd what he does not know nbot surg ''v and the human svrrn i not wr'fi knowing. It has been said tha'bpinn take a ri'nn I'll to iecp Mod 'her i Has Doolittle withdrawn It looks so, as he was at Cottonwood the other day urging men to vete for Archie Miller. J. G. Winnie was doing the same thiug at Safford.

The fact is, Miller was nomiuutcd for this very purpose. A few Democrats, in Cottonwood Falls, have fused with Doolittle, and will vote for him, but other Democrats, and es him teg tlr io P-i-'n who" 't surgical rpernilons jvr'oiioed do ir' C. C. Myscr, of Toledo township, is ilie nominee. Mr.

Myser is one of the bt-xt, educators in Chase county is a farmer and very popular with those who know him. He has bucketed ou the Greenback armour, and is doing valiant work in the cause. He will carry his own township two to one, and will be elected. FOR COMMISSIONER, Wm. Channel, of Cottonwood town pd to jrn pst See Dr barter iid i1' he en toot relievo oui' can no done.

It is openly charged that a candidate now on the Republican ticket almost openly bought votes last fall. The giving ol money or oil er valuable things to influence a vote is a penitentiary oflenee. The taking of money Is no better. It had better not be repeated. At a meeting of the committee, con pecially thoso iu the couuty that can't be induced' to vote for Doolittle, are urcred to vote for Miiler.

which is half sisting ol F. ll.L. Sitler, U. a vote for Doolittle; but this is too thin. Miller does not staDd the ghost of a chance to go to the Legislature, and Democrats know it, and are not likely te be used to elect a man that stumped tbe county two years ago calling Republicans and Democrats corrupt and rotten to the core.

V. Upton, Joseph thaw and E. A. Ilildtbiimd, a site was selected in Ems- ship, is our candidate for Commissioner of the 3d District. Channel is a ir, iias been township trustee; it ono of our prudent saving men, and will make a good commissioner.

Our whole ticket is a good one, and fan all be elected if greenbackers do their whole duty from now till election day. lit's addition to Cottonwood to build a M. E. Church South, to cost not to ex Bazaar. Oct.

23, Editor Echo, I stt'ted at the agent of the 'No'th-wes'ern Insurance Cempuny Taylor, of Topeka. sta'ed to me, in Hid presence rf C.C.Watson, that J. 8. Dootittle had applied for aloan o' wanted it about the 1st October, in cae he did not sell his cattle beforr that time. I said it looVs as i lie vris short in his treasury business.

Mr. v-lor said Doolittle intimated as miicl 'o him. I told this to different ones in county. DoolPtle sold bis rt only borrowed $2,000. There is in my mind, a doubt but he was m'rg county money in vlolat'on of lav Td this was why he was so anxious to i ceed 3, CCO, work to be communed as soon as plans and specifications could be obtained.

Our vounsr friend Fred. Waelder, who clerks' in drug store Till REPUBLICAN TICKET. Mr. Ryan we all kuow. He is a mere leaves lor his home in Hannibal, Mo The other town was playcarded the other night with a vile slaudtr ou Col.

Wood printed in the oflice of the Leaden but Morgan has sunk himself so low in infamy in his attacks on Rev. D. P. Mitchell that no respectable man would now believe him under oath. on Saturday.

Fied, is a clever boy anj are sorry to loose him, yet we hope that wherever his lot may be thrown ho the office in his family. L. A. Loomis may meet with friends, and that prosper ity may ever attend him. Ex-Governor Robinson, the first governor that ever presided over the grand The Chase County Leader used to call Winnie a Poop decker." What an idea, to have a Poop decker to have charge of the schools of Chase county- pigmy beside that intellectual grand D.

P. Mitchell. Ryan has gone back on the platform before which he was elected, and is not entitled to any honest Republican vote. R. Crane, the Republican nominee for Senator, is a young baukcr of Marion Center, loans money at 1 1-2 per cent, a mouth, and ridicules the idea of any one but a banker discussing finance.

He is profane, as his epcecb accepting the nomination shows calling his opponents Sons of -hes," Aor Repreientati-e, J. S. Doolittle. VOT13 THE HOLE TICK I T. io true Creenbacker can afford to 1 oil any candidate on the Greenback tieV t.

We are builders of a new party, and is not as yet a fight between men In a fight for principle, we should in that case forget and sink all personal p'. indices for principle, and vote the ticket. young state of Kansas, was in our city last week hnd made an Interesting and tellii'g Greenback speech at the school houstt, on Monday night. The Governor is a good speaker and a line rcasoner, and if we had such a man as Governor Robinson as the chiet executive of Kansas to-tlay our state would be far Uetter off. Doolittle said, last fall, that it weuld not do to elect Shipman Couuty 'Picas, urer, because he, when asked if Ship-man was not honest, said Yes, as honest as a poor man can be".