The Daily Sentinel du lieu suivant : Garden City, Kansas • 4

GARDEN CItT. II jou wauUohiowanitMiii aliout Souftwest Kimsas ssul ycur adirBss ta WINDSOR HOTEL. Tree 5708 1843 5370 Store, 1 furniture, furnishing, novelty store, money loaners, wholesale flour, ice houses, parks, 2j stage lines, artistic painters, planing mills, Mt Southwest Tlttt E.A.BAGBY, President Bank of Western Kansas. ...12,926 As each entry represents a Quarter sec Seey Garden City Building ud Lean Asa'a me BUads To-day Where ft Few Tears Xgm was a re Spot of Prairie on -What waa Then Called the American Desert. BAGBY, STUBBS uric yarus, sione manuiaturers: 1: cigar factory, 1 There are eight lumber companies doing business in the city, whose stocks aggregate $70,000, and whose sales last year reached $425,000, a large portion of which was used in the country and surrounding towns.

There are also four coal dealers tion of land the above figures show that In this district there were taken for settlement last year 2,063,160 acres of government land or 3.231.5 square miles. Lugd Li Fhd d'J lb Citr. Is lis Only Uoraiaf paps; is Ssstal Rosas, ine lees collected by the receiver were: 82.122 43 who sold during the ame period $64,000 Tree Claims 25,680 00 PaoraicroBS worm. BANKS. Pre-emptions 10,740 00 GARDEN CITY, KANSAS.

From a Small Village Two Tears Ago Has Sprang a Vigorous Young City With a Population Large Enough to ZJ2 Enable her to Bank as a City of theSeoond Class. The city has three banking establish The Only Paper with the Despatches Special attention eivun to business of non-residents. Such as buying 118,542 43 The interest received on deferred payments on Osage lands was $8087.88. ments, one national and two State Banks with the assurance that there will be and selling real estats, lending money, paying taxes, care of property, etc DEISEM, two more national banks within a short The number of acres proved up during DEALER IV-- ALL ENQUIRIES HROMP1 LY ANSWERED. 44-ml time.

The paid up capital stock of those the year was 1,011,869.83 or 1581 -square In operation is $50,000 each. The denosits miles. COAI aggregate the depositors num- The total receipts of the office from all THE SENTINEL Der uu. xneir names are The First National, Finney County and Bank of West Progress Made Last Tear-Buildings Xreoted Which Cost Nearly Half a Million Dollars, and the Prospect is That More Will he Son This Tear. sources were $1,136,019.84.

RAILROADS. Canon City nl ern jvansas. Smithing Oialalwsys U4. on hand. lequoyah Hotel, ARRIVALS DtKISa THB TEAR.

Has done and is Southwest Kansas than any doing moreto buildup other agency. In order that the people mav have some At the present time Garden City has but one railroad, the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe, but it has bright prospects for more In the near future. A northeast Idea of the number of people who have been In Garden City during the past year, a few figures taken from the hotel regis Grand Central Hotel. and southwest line has been surveyed and Corner of Haln and Laurel Streets, ters will be The followine voted bonds by the county and township. Its projectors promise that it will bo here Figures DoITot Lie, and the Casual Observer can Bead for Himself What Has Been Done, Then Judge the Possibilities of the Future.

he Leading Hotel in Scott City ngures snow the number or arrivals at the houses named during the year 1886, Garden City. Kansas. It Fays Out More ftfaj Every in a few months. Several lines are reaching east and west through the counties ana are ine actual count: Kansas, Kooms nd meals first-class. and is This is the newest Hotel in the City, is elegantly furnished, north and south which will put out feed conducted in first class style.

P. A. SEXTON, Proprieto ers, and several of which are expected to reach this city within a year. It is on the For labor (all of it expended in Garden City) than any other business Proprietors. HICKMAN JOSEPH, line ol tne proiectea roads from Denver 11 Branches of Business Represented concern in tbe city.

to the South Atlantic and Gulf ports, and is too important a point to be neglected and Flourishing A End Office With Immense Business. T. H. Did ST, OXtk Buffalo 13,834 Metropolitan 5,898 Sequoyah 4,220 Valley 7,750 Kankakee 6,042 Carpenter 2,000 Barnard 2,600 Ohio 4,000 Occidental 3,800 Exchange 3,500 300 B. A.

Boby, Pres. I Jxo. A. SravBsis, Tk Pw. by them.

It is only about 150 miles from the newly discovered coal fields in Color J. H. COTTERAL. A. 6.

C. BIERER. MILTON BROWN. ado, and will be taken in by the North It is exnendin? more money and hard work every dav three times Bm of tarn Kan. east lines building down there.

In a few Vh arches. Societies and Schools The BROWN, BIERER COTTERAXi, years, when the county is more thickly over to advertise and build up Garden City and the wnele Southwest, Best Place In the West for IaTestmeat. than any other consent in this region, and will do more te build up the settlea ana developed as a farming county, there will be an abundance of railroads, UO)CCOFeiinCiteL (ICCCXSSOKS TO IflLTOJI BBOWS.) country than any other concern and the city will continue to keep its lead in the future as It has in the past as first Incorporated Aug. 7, 1885 Total 63,942 In addition to the hotels, there are many boarding hoases, where lists were not kept, and there were many who came here and boarded at restaur in southwest Kansas. Lav and Land Attorneys, Can Possibly Do.

WHAT WB NEED. Boi aa JC XJ. m. Land fflce Sulldlnfir. SufXkloBieolc ova stock KOLDxns uvixa axoeh ants, whose names would probably swell Garden City always has "always kept citt: the number to up with the procession" and is safe to pre POST OFF1CB.

A. Bsgby, of Bagby, Stubbs Ss Co, Loan diet that she always will. Her builders and business men have had the push, grit We know this, because we are making more effort and at tenfold greater a. ii i. i GARDEN CITT, KANSAS.

UtATT LOANS. Contests, Collections and Litigation a Specialty. ana Keal instate. Another pretty correct indicator of the ARDKX CITY. The City of Southwest Kansas," it situated on the north bank of the Arkansas, and is very close to the geograph-ical'centerof the county.

It is. on the line of the Atchison, Santa Fe Railroad, 418 miles'southwest of Kansas mileseast of the west line of the state In April, 1879, the Garden City Town Company made the first plat, on the business of a city, is the amount handled John A. Stevens, owner of Opera Honse and enterprise to turn the desert into gar dens and cultivated fields and to build and large part or town. by the postmaster, lhe following will show the work of this office for the year city which is the wonder and admiration of 1886: D. R.

Menke, Treasure at Finney county. J.J. Hunger, Begistei of Finney county. almost tne whole country. Who has not Number of letteis handled, 2,216,225, heard of Garden City? She is street and W.

D. Fulton, Sheriff Finney county. or on an average oi dally. neighborhooa taiK throughout the east. A.

H. AliLINSON, Land Attorney Loans and Real Estate. If you appreciate hard work and gen JN umber or pounds oi papers V7. B. Pace, of Pace, Itogers Doty, real But from a thriving retail center she is rapidly passing and must rapidly push received daily.

350 estate. south half of section 18, township 24, range 82, west of the sixth principal me Money orders issued, onward to be a manufacturing and whole A. H.Adkison, Cashier of Finnev County value a.5ia uine enterprise, snow it by your support. sale center. Already a number of whole Money orders paid, 5,280: value.

49,154 22 ridian. The land belonged to James It. and William D. Fulton, who deeded it to sale and manufacturing establishments Business Before tht U. S.

Land Office Promptly Attended to. Bank. I. R. Holmes, the great Santa Fe Railroad Agent.

Postal notes issued, value. 4,148 1 0 Postal notes paid, 18,396 62 are in operation, but we need others at once and far more extended. The field is rich and ready. The first live capitalists Number registered letters la J. M.

Dunn, Merchant and Capitalist. Investments Made for Capitalists. the town company, and embraced 820 acres. After this John A. Stevens platted thenortheast quarter, and C.

J. Jones the transit on tne ground will make the most money. For Rates of Siscriptii Advertising JN umber registered letters for Correspondence Solicited. Good list of caolce deeded lands. Caa satisfy the most We want flouring mills, oat meal mills, northwest quarter of the same section, in Garden 5,428 hominy mills, canning worn, broom ac scrupulous.

Office Roosa 2, Grant Block, Number registered letters at creasing the area to 640 acres. Since that tories, woolen mills, abattoirs, tanneries, wagon, buggy, implement and furniture Garden City, Kansas. Garden City 3,034 The office is now one of the third class, SEE OTHER COLUMNS. factories, sugar and syrup works, cream time a large number of other additions have been platted, so that at the present time the city covers nearly, if not quite, enes, cheese lactones, soap works, packin but with the opening of the next fiscal year, July 1, will be promoted to the C.A. Schneider, Manager of the great Chicago Lumber Co.

A. Dietz, the live Merchant of Garden City. L. P. Rogers, of Pace, Rogers Doty, Real Estate.

E.W. Morse, Attorney -at-law. C. M. Hatcher, Assistant Cashier, Bank of Western Kansas.

T. M. Dickey, Cashier of same bank. G. A.

McCartney, clerk BXSSWHKBB IX KA5SAS. works, paper mills, machine shops, pa J. D. GOLDSBY. SC.

WEBB. C. J. KNOX second class, ana by January 1888, the Subscribe for the paper, and advertise per box factories, tobacco factories, castor 1,800 acres. The Fulton brothers settled on the orig city will have the free postal delivery.

oil works, linseed oil works, starch works, bagging factories, iron works, etc, etc. WATEB WOBKS AND SEWERAGE. your business it. GOLSBY, WEBB fi KNOX, SUCCESSORS Te WOLFS SCOTT. We might enumerate in detail the reasons About the middle of last December, inal site In March 1878, and were followed a month later by John Stevens, who settled the quarter known as the Stevens' why such enterprises will be undertaken Garden City voted $40,000 in bonds for here, and why they will pay; but a little the construction of a system of water thought on the part of the reader will I J.

G. Smith, Assistant Cashier of the State addition, who was followed in time by C. save our time and space. For instance It Will Pav You. works and $5,000 for the construction of a trunk sewer.

The plans and specifications for the water works are about com National Bank, Wellington. EuEAl ESTATE EKCHAK. we can raise wheat, oats, corn, cane. wool. J.

Jones, who located on the northwest quarter, and afterward platted it as Jones' John Claypool, owner of Slaughter house, silk, flax, castor beans, cattle, hogs, vege pleted, and are being drawn by Mr. addition to the city. Wellington. CONNECTICUT. Nier.

of Kansas City. Mo. tables, broom corn, etc. We are within easy reach of inexhaustible coal fields and The pumping will consist oi two duplex all around us we have cheap and perma V. li.

Jftenke opened the first store in November, 1879, with a general merchan Joseph Morse, Opatalist, Western In Officbetween Postoffice and First National Bank. Correspondence Promptly Attended to. pumps, one oi which win be a high pres nent water power, easily obtained, which vestor, etc, KEKTTCKT. sure pump for fire purposes only. Two boilers will be provided, either of which would run the mills of the well we were about to say the United States.

Why not? dise stock, and the first hotel was opened by W. D. Fulton. The postofflce was established in the latter part of 1878. From will have ample capacity for running the O.

P. Summers, Tobacconist and Banker, works. These boilers will be so arranged Franklin. LAM that the water in one at rest will be kept DEEDED Every mile of irrigating ditch, at nominal expense, can be made to yield such a water power as, in the East, is worth thousands of dollars, without injuring the that time on until the spring of 1885, the growth of the town was very slow, but G. C.

Harris, Attorney-at-law, Franklin. Miss Lou Woodard, of Franklin. S. O. Harris, Capitalist, Kentucky.

warm by the heat of the other. This will enable steam to bo generated very quickly in case of fire, so that both boilers may New Drug 'Store, L. LIEBFRIED. from then on the immigration into South- availability of the water for purposes of irrigation. An inexhaustible sheet of water is tapped at an easy depth.

Our H. J. Booker, Merchant, Franklin; westKansas has been a steady and undimin be used. Near tbe pumping station, a stand pipe, twelve feet in diameter and Theo. Harris, President of Louisville ished stream of immense volume, and the railroad faculties will be of the beat, and Banking Louisville.

-well, we intend to have these things, J. M. M. Reynolds, Trader, Glasgow. 125 feet height, will be erected.

This will hold about 325,000 gallons of water. To supply the amount of water required for domestic use in Garden City, will not anyway. Larerest stock of drugs in the oity Come and see mj lamps. Al United States land office being located here, it at once became the distributing and outfitting point for about 10,000 square miles of territory, and its population com Town lots and Relinqnishments. For Sale By We offer no comment, except to tell Ik.

name of our oo kinds of fixtures. demand the constant use of the pumps. We nay more Uz to the county Treasurer than The Sentinel ExcurUon. This issue of the Sentinel will he re The stand pipe having been filled, the 01 other Bank In Finney eounty COMBINED, menced to increase with wonderful rapid engineer will bank his fires and the stand ty, until at the present time it is not less pipe will lurnian ample nre pressure. We pay interest on Certificates of DepoalU eaae to stay' and follow nothing- tart Bankinr.

We will be the people', bank if labor, care and fair dealing can make na audi. ceived by many hundred people who are not regular readers. To such we would say it Is sent to you to (rive you such in J. A. BABSLFT Oo.l should a fire break out during the night, until the engineer could get up steam.

Cliets. Dietz, BaaK OF WE8TEBN AXSAS. By this method the works will be econom than 4,000, being a city of the third class, and soon to rank In the second. The demand for buildings was so great during the year 1885, that time, material and men formation about our part of the country ically operated. About four miles of as we think you will appreciate.

Let WHOLESALE GROCER. water mams will be lata ana about liity Sherlock, Finney Kas. fire hydrants furnished for fire protection. each person who receives a copy take care of it, read it and pass it around. Should eould only be obtained for those of a temp Mitchell Woodward.

Two hose carts with a hooK-ana-iaaaer orary kind. Since that, however, those you contemplate coming west, come out Ctrner Mail aid Fnltoi Garden City, lana. wagon will also be provided. This will give excellent fire protection for territory nearly a mile square, which will Include and see for yourselves wnat advantages we have to offer. The Sentinel is preparing who came here to remain and reap the harvest of what they thought would be a temporary boom, seeing the permancy of We Offer some are bargains in farm to ran excursions to tnts city from a num- nearly all of Garden City that is built up and will give us as great security from Der oi eastern points at low rates within a few weeks, our Mr.

Content being in the the town and future greatness of South FRED W. WA8EM john s. Lian. fire as any city in the west. eastern states at this time making arrange west Kansas, have settled down for life Our trunK sewer wiu De aoout one ana ments for the same.

These arrangements property and Relinquishments. Lots in Sherlock and elsewhere on favorable terms. LEHR TTASEM, one-half miles long and will thoroughly drain Main street, Grant avenue and Eighth street. Connections will also be will be announced as soon as made. Should you not receive another paper soon, and wlsn further information, you can obtain GANNON BALL it by addressing this office.

and brought their families here. When people come to a country to remain, it Is natural they should do all in their power to make it as attractive, as possible. This has been done, is being done, and will be done In future in Garden City. From a straggling hamlet, in a few years it became a thriving village, and in less than two laid to accommodate every lot in front of which the sewer passes. Arrangements will be made for flushing the sewers from the city water mains so as to preserve the health of the citizens and keep the sewers STAGE AND U.

S. HAIL LIKE. An Arabian Quack. Daily from Garden City to SatflelA. Foster City, Spis in good order.

An Arabian "doctor" by the name ol Coronado and LeotL Proprietors ef the Livery, Feed aa Sale Susies at Foster City Finney County, Kansas. Fes-i-tf. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. years last past it has become a prosper Golam Ehader has been permitted to experiment on six of the inmates of the Institution for the Blind at Genoa, and Locate Settlers OTEUN1IENT LANDS. Attend to Final Poofs, CONTESTS, ETC.

Locate Soldiers POWER OF ATTORNEY. In September, 1884, Prof. R. S. Kill was employed to take charge of the city schools.

At that time the county was un ens city, it can now boast of quite a number of buildings which would be an henortoamuch larger place. Among these is a fine three story hotel built of stone, and containing over a hundred as the newspapers published reports oi in organized and no tax could be levied, consequently the expenses had to be defrayed For retail business to be found the West. Call on or address First National Bank! the wonderful effects of his treatment, the management of the institution has rooms; another hotel ol smaller propor- stated that while it is true that one of by subscription, mere was no scnooi house, and the Methodist and Congregational churches were used. There were tioms, out oi the same material; a brick the patients has shown a slight improve opera house three stories high, lighted by The Oldest Bank in Southwestern Kaaaaa. ment the other five hare so far not been gas, wnn a capacity ior seating luuu per only forty pupils at the first enrollment, but during the six months which followed, this was increased- to 140.

the county was organized soon after by J. a MCtlEY C0. Sherlock, Finney Kas. benefited by the Arabian oculist. His treatment consists In the application of Authorized Capital.

KANSAS. GARDEN CITT. sons, and which cost a fine two story stone building, used by the Masonic fraternity and Odd Fellows: three brick slocks used for business purpose, and many others too numerous to mention. proclamation of the governor. A county superintendent was elected and a new $200,000 50,000 0,000 a white powder, and he insists in all cases on the patient's declaration that Cash Capital, board of directors.

The following term his affliction had been pronounced Incurable. T. PotU Surplns and undivided profit The following will show the amount of building done in the city during the year ROYAL FAVORITES. three assistant teachers were employed, but bonds could not be voted until the county was a year old. and the churches loeci Arm and Stmvy Are De- At Montreal recently, a woman GrR A-TsTT STAN LEY ATTORNEY AT LAW.

Buffalo Hotel. $55,000 were again occupied. Pupils thronged in from every quarter and the teachers were rushed into the police station and ask Stevens' Opera House, 35,000 JACOB T. CARTER, Ylce President W. S.

BISH, Assistant Cashier. Grant CHA9. E. If ILES, President. C.

MERRIAM, Cashier. ed if any stray children had been found compelled to hold hall-day sessions, hear by the police, and was informed that Practice in all state and federal courts, and before U. S. Land Offices at ing one school in the forenoon and an other in the afternoon. As soon as it there were five in the different stations, Garden City, Kansas and Lamar, Colorado.

could be done bonds were voted and a 15,000 15,000 20,000 20,000 6,000 8,000 8,000 there were whereupon she exclaimed: "I have lost A General Banking Business Transacted. Coverdale Carter's Block, Public School Building, Arkansas River Bridge, Paul Jones' 15 B. A. Bagby'a 5 dwellings, In addition to the foregoing also built by contractors: seven! Where are the other two?" contract made, but long before the beautiful eight-room school building could be completed there were enough pupils in Satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. some sewing women nave no Know Garden City to fill it to overflowing.

At of housework. Very well. Let U. S. Land Office Block, Garden City, Kansas the opening of the fall term in 1886 the Room -tf.

them work for their board while they building would not accommodate the pu learn. They would have plenty of good Stevens A Thompson 12 JL X. Moulder, 22 houses, Dix Seeds, 9 houses, 6,000 Ira Kellum, 8 houses, 8,000 Hlllyer Green, 23 houses, 22,000 Finney Countjs Bank. food and a aed home. They would be pile; a new bill of seats was ordered; the higher departments were crowded into one room, and a new teacher placed in better off than they are now when their $2.50 or or $4 a week has to pay for the vacated room.

Booms were rented south of the R. R. and a new ward was Pat Hall, 4 houses, 63,000 J. S. Hall, 8 houses, 6.300 ameraUMd Brt Fa rati tea.

In a few years we shall hare every lucrative in the army and navyr filled by royalists and serenities. It is bad enough even at present; for the Duke of Edinburgh holds the Mediterranean command for live years, that being the "blue ribbon" of the naval bertha, and the Prince of Leiningen has the Sore command, another well-paid aid highly desirable appointment. The Duke of Cambridge holds several lu eraive posts, Prince Edward, of Saxe vTeimarhas the Irish command, and the Duke of Connanght has been lifted over the beads of dozens of senior officers, who hare served well and long to the Bombay command, one of the few great prizes of tbe service. Then webave Prince Louis of Battenberg and Prince Georgo of Wales both coming on in tbe same way, and there will soon be others. The whole system is intolerable to old officers, who find that Just as they are expecting to obtain some substantial recognition of their services a royal whipper-snapper' Jumps In and clutches the prize.

We hear a great deal about the jobbery ot tbe old Tories, but in reality things are op waai to toesl ia Ma OityPf oprtyJ organized on the south side. There is now an able corps of thirteen teachers doing excellent work, and the course their scanty food and fuel in wretched rooms, and nothing is left. Good housewives would willingly teach one unaccustomed to work if she would re of study is as cart fully graded as any school in the state of Kansas can boast. Take a look through main for wages after she could earn them. It seems to me this is the solution of the question for women who barely make a living at sewing.

The enrollment for the school year has reached six hundred and thirty-two, and new pupils coming in to be examined and classified almost every day. The board will be obliged to build at least two new GARDEN CITY, KANOAO. Capital Stock Paid Up $50,000. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. A J.

H0ISINST0N, Pres. P. 1ITT0N, Vice Pres. A E. ADKIS0N, SUotte.

in Boston QUb. An irate seeks aamlttanct buildings the coming summer to accom wens nmm modate the pupils who are now crowded to overflowing in every school-room ia to the editor's sanctum. "But I tell you. madam," protests the attendant, that the editor is to ill to talk to any the city. ones to-day." "Nerer mind, you let CHURCHES.

me in. Til do the The churches represented are the Con gregational, Methodist, Presbyterian Epis- r-ttA TtmthvAii ('hrUtlnn mil Baptist. With the exception of the Epis yy R. HOPKINS, Attorney at Lair. Witt smeOeeBs all kaOomiu.

Metropolitan Hotel. Railroad Street Opposite Bepet Kertk Bite Oardem City Kansas. copal and Baptist, all are provided with handsome church edifices, and are in a prosperous condition. As an evidence of This addition lies three blocks north of the railroad and contains the largest and best business houses and a majority of the finest residences in the city. Mam street cuts through the addition and business is rapidly centering about and beyond its magnificent Opera House Block.

Nine-tenths of the business houses contracted and to be immediately constructed are located in this vicinity. I. R. Holmes' palatial residence, to cost twenty thousand dollars is now in proof ss of erection on this addition anH a nnmber of other costlv dwellings will be built this season. This M.

M. Ormsby, 7 houses ,500 l.N. Erdman, 8 1,500 H. Ballow, 7 houses, 8,000 Besides those enumerated above there were at least 250 smaller buildings erected at a cost of $100,000, making a grand total $465,000 expended In building during she year 1886, and giving employment to lU carpenters. And the present year promises to far excel last.

Already preparations are being made, and as soon as the weather permits, parties are prepared to go to work on business buildings which will cost the owners $80,000, which will make a very respectable start for the year's work. xrsnrxss. Every branch of business is well represented here, and they are all reaping a good harvest from the investment made. The following will show the number: Wagon yards 7, livery stables hotels, (capacity 18; boarding houses, 18; blacksmith shops, sale stables (exclusive), meat markets, barber shops, lunch counters and confectionery, laun- dry (steam), laundries, transfer companies, harnessmakers, groceries, 13; drug stores, 13; architects, Job printing flees (exclusive), real estate offices If tailors, music store, dry goods, book store, law firms, physicians, dentists, billiard halls, photograph, clothing, gunsmith, papers, weekly, dailies, nurseries, grain and feed, feed stables, (exclusive), second hand store, hard-Wars and implements, seed store, restaurants, wholesale grocery, whole-sals drags, boot and shoe shops, boot and shoe stores, paint store, mil- liaery, banks, bakeries, grocery aid dry gods, abstract oflces, jewelry, t.I'-cce sad auction Est. Ctardun City, Opon Day and Night First Class.

yj W.SUTTON, Attorney at Law, addition contains the Public School Building, the permanent Court House F.U.JAT Proprietor Kansas LAUCK ORNER site, and three of the churches ef the city. lhe Bfouad is High and Perfestly Dramed, every bit as bad now as they were in tbe days of George so far as the gratification of the grabbing propensities of royalties is concerned, and in this respect one ministry is as mnch to blame as another; for nobody ever at tempts to curb the Queen's exuberant lore of providing for her relatives and connections at the expense of the conn try and to the great discomfiture ej her most deserving officers. London -3n FulasM, anrlng a recent term of court ohn Stripping was tri far- shooting a negro. When the jury went ont Strippling, who was under 'bend, became frightened lest be should be eonvicted, and so jumped on bis bene and fled. The verdict was "not font.

Some time after Strippling wrote note to the sheriff, saying that If be was acquitted it was all right; if be was eonvicted it made no difference, be bad the start T. WHfTELAW, Attorney at Lai prosperity it may be stated that one of them was dedicated a few weeks ago with out taking up a collection to apply on the debt, there being no encumbrance on the building. SOCIETIES. Nearly all the secret socilies are represented here. The Masonic fraternity and I.

O. O. F. having a hall of their own. There are also K.of A.

O. U. W. Good Templars, of K. of G.

A. R. and Carpenter and Joiners. The social societies are the Sequoyah, Dscotahs, W. C.

T. U. and the O. N. O.

U. 6. LAUD OPTICS. The Garden City land district was 'established In the fall of 1883, and the office was opened here at that time. Since then It has steadily Increased in Importance until it has become one of the most important in the country.

The filings for the yen 18S8 were as follows: DodceCUaw The main irrigating canal runs through it, thousands of shade trees grew along the streets, and every advantage is possessed to stake it by far the most valuable part of the city. For choice lots in this andjother choice locations ia Garden City eall en ATTORNEYS AT LAT7, CHARLES W. ATTORNEY AT LATTi REAL ESTATE AGENTS or address JOHN A. STEVENS ABDEN OITT, Garden City, Kansas. Special attention pve to all business eef ere UeTJ.

S. LaadeSee. We can suit any taste or purpose with a eheiee lecataon tie best tents..