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The Daily Irrigator from Garden City, Kansas • 1

The Daily Irrigator from Garden City, Kansas • 1

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i WEEKLY EDITION VOL. NO. 15 DAILY EDITION-VOL. NOl 26 GARDEN CITY, KANSAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5. 1886.

TEN CENTS PER WEEK SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Eld. H. C. Cassell departed this morn DAILY IRRIGATOR.

0 ing for the east jUIuI Miss Nannie Stamper returned from her 1M 1 claim last night. Wliat Industry wai Do. The examplo of Mr. Miles G. Lee is a Gilmore, the Santa Fe Trail man, was good one for the emulation of capable industrious farmers.

He came to his in town last night. OIF Rev D. Myers is up from Meade Center present residence in Sherlock township, two years ago, but with fifty dollars in money, and without a team and farm im to-day on a land case. Lewis Curley will start a butcher shop DEALERS IN plements or anything else but household utensils and willing hands and heart, and on Grant avenue in a few days. Mr.

and Mrs. A. C. MeKeever returned at once made a dugout house, sunk a well and started to farming as best he could, working for neighbors until he got a start; this morning from their Pueblo trip. Mrs.

M. E. Clute took the morning train am for Dodge on a short visit to friends. and to-day he has a fine span of mules, eight head of horses and five head of cattle, after losing 14 head by the blizzard last winter. He raised 25 acres of oats, mm Chas.

Ecker, of Centralia, HL, is a new acquisition to the force of clerks at the Economy. yielding about 60 bushels to the acre, several acres of millet almost as high as his head, yielding over three tons to the CoL Stotts returned last night from a visit to friends in Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Manitou. acre an acre of potatoes a superior field of sorghum, making his own molasses, and melons that would astonish his old Pensylvania neighbors, as well as a great Shingles, Boors, Blinds, lomfflngs, Building Paper, The flats near the river are literally alive with campers now and still they variety of "garden sass," including all come in in droves. kinds of vines. Mr.

Lee lived in a Pensylvania mining Dr. Sabine was called to Hartland last and manufacturing region, and was a POSTS.IETC. MEIFY AILIL night on a consultation case with a phy wis skillful mechanic, always commanding good wages and always industrious, but his whole earnings were comsunied in Bemeraber that ire Sell for support of a large family, and yet with all this the superior advantages of the virgin soil of Kansas has enabled him to sician of that place. A car load of apples were shipped in from the east yesterday and disposed of rapidly ai 1.60 per barrel. G.

M. Magill of the Lamar Leader stopped off at the Metropolis last night on his way home from Cimarron. B. Wenton. one of Dightoa's real estate men, camo doni oa tho hack last night and took the train for Si.

Louirf. gother around him the stock and crops which we have enumerated. Bein a soldier, he had less than two years to reside upon his homestead to acquire a title, and today he is the happy possessor of a clear title to a farm so valuable and so beautifully situated AS LOW AS ANY FIRM IN WESTERN KANSAS. A. SCHNEIDER, Manager, Tho platform at the depot has assumed their: old time appearance, being piled high with household goods from one end to the other.

that he would laugh at a man who should offer him $2,000 for his Kansas possessions. Although Mr. Lee is a man advancing in years, he has this year broken GARDEN CITY. KANSAS Opposite Santa Fe Depot, with his span of mules and his own hands over 75 acres of prarie. Around his barn yard can be seen over 200 turkeys and regular morning service.

8 p. in. regular even Barbers. Business and Professional Cards. ing service.

Service every alternate, bunday. chickens, but in this and many other de Pravfir meet.inz. Wednesday evenmar 8 p. m. Church, northwest corner Fulton and 8th streets partments Mrs.

Lee comes in for her part TVTETIIODIST. Rev. Paul Jones, pastor. 9:30 Physicians and Surgeons. in the struggle to make a home.

IVi a. in. Sunday School. 11 a. m.

regular morn He has faith in Kansas farming and if S. PARSON'S Barber Shop, opposite Buf-h: falo Hotel, Grant Avenue, Garden city, Kansas. Bath Rooms in connection. METROPOLITAN Barber Shop and Bath Rooms, J. J.

Arnold, Proprietor. Main second door south or Finney County Bank. Clean towls; keen razors and flrat-class workmen, From private sources wo learn that the whole city of Dodge will turn out at the, opening of our Exposition. This is th proper caper. Come up and get ao- quainted with your neighbors.

Tho preliminary trial of W. C. McClure for shooting T. D. Brackett at Lakin Saturday night was held thero yesterday resulting in his beiag held over to the district court in bonds of $500.

The first side show arrived last night ing services. 8 p. m. resrular evening services. 3 p.

m. class meeting. Services every Sunday. mi. i a ne goes nacK east, it win oe to nave Dr.

FRANK DULIN, Physician and Surgeon Nig ht and day calls promptly attended. Office West Fulon street, first door west Finney Co. Bank, Garden City, Kansas. "good time" with his old neighbors and guarantee satisfaction. army comrades, ana to ten tnem oi tno Physician and Surgeon, SABINE, M.

rrayer meenus iuuruiiys ki i. ui. iuuug Folk's meeting Tuesdays at 8 p. m. Church, eorner 8th and Chestnut.

UNITED BRETITEREN. Rev. A. J. Cummins, pastor.

Church in process of construction on Stn street. No services until Sept. 1, 18SQ. EPISCOPAL. Servicos of St.

Thomas', at Masonic Hall, at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. evory gnnday, Rev.

J. M. Bates, Pastor. urace at residence, beauties of Kansas, and then return to xx Garden City, Kansas, on Eighth street. Transfer 1.1 ue.

his valuable western homestead. Culti' vator. HS, LOWRANCE, M. Physician and Surgeon, Garden City. Kansas.

Will attend calls promptly, day or night. Office in corner room concrete building rear of Finney County Bank. is trying to make arrangement to play on ARANTHAM'S Star Transfer Line. Prepared Vj to do all kinds of Hauling any place in the taty Work done promptly, carefully and at reasonable prices. TYRTAN LODGE No.

246 and m. meet on Wednesday evening of each he grounds during Exposition week month on or before the full moon and Where is the Desert? (Denver Tribunr) The "Great American Desert" might two weoka thereafter. They claim to give a first class acrobatic entertainment, and call themselves the Attorneys and Ileal Estate Agents. well say with reference to western im DIRECTORY. FINKEY COTJXTY.

Goshem Specialty Company. migration that if it be given an inch it will take an ell. It is an old story, often told, Tl dwelling house north the rink and hat the settlers in Kansas cind Nebraska WILLIAM T. PAN KEY, LAND, LAW and COLLECTION ATTORNEY GabdenCity, Kansas. "Collections made promptly on liberal terras.

Contests will receive prompt attention. he only one left on Main street between gradually invaded the desert in thoir westward march, until at last crops were grown W.II.HAH.N, II. P. MYTON, Sect'y. W.M.

EASTERN STAR TYRIAN CHAPTER TJ.D. Meets in Masonic hall. Garden City, 1st and 3rd Friday nights of each month. Mary W. Smith, W.

M. Win. H. Uahn, Sec'y. 1.

0. 0. F. N. F.

Weeks, N. James Huffman, V. S. J. Mun-Mggeer, W.

Meyers D. P. 5iM- Mickey, permanent secretary. Meets every Thursday evehing at 8 p. ui.

at Odd Fellows ball, Main street. A. 0. U. W.

J. II. Stevens, master workman; Milton'Brown, foreman. Meets every Friday at 8 p. at G.

R. hall, on Main St. where once it was believed that agncul- ure was an impossibility. Representative C. J.Jones.

Probate Judge W.Gregory. Geo. H. Do Waters, Clerk A Burtis. Attorney W.

R. Hopkins. Clerk District Court. E. G.

Bates. Register of Deeds J. J. Munger. Sup't of Public Instruction Albert Hurst.

Sheriff W. D.Fulton. Coroner Dr, II, S. Lowrance. Surveyor J.

S. Humphrey. tB.F. Smith. Commissioners Wight.

Pine and the river has been turned around with the end to the street and a glass front put in, making a store room. Robt. Cloud will occupy it with his notion store in a short time. But men who have heard this story over A ABBOTT LOWRANCE, Attorney sat Law, Garden City, Kansas, Will pratice in all the courts of the state. Careful attention given to collections.

Correspondence solicited. and over again, and who have laughed at the idea of calling the "plains a desert, i i nave arawn a oounaary ior mo aniDio and. and they have said and confidently KNIGnTS OF The marshal to-day is having a good believed that beyond that lino agriculture J. H. Waterman.

DISTRICT COTBT Meets on the second Monday in April and Octo SUTTON MORSE, Attorneys at. Law, Garden City, Kansas. Will practice in all courts In the state, and respond promptly to all calls by telegraph or letter. HILL 'fc LAUCK, Abstractors. Room 10, U.

S. Land Office Building. The most complete set of Abstracts in Finney county, City Lodge No. 08. R.

M. Morton, C. W. H. Meyers.

K. of R. S. Meets every could not They have generally ob of street cleaning done, and none too Tuesday evening. hl 'n "Vain street.

soon ior tno accumulation oi dirt, and drawn that line at about two-thirds of the way from Missouri river to the western boundary of Kansas, and tney nave stead CHEAP COLUMN. ARLOW. Attornev-at-Law and Loan rubbish in tho gutters was booming not only an eye soro. but a gennino nuisance. The streets now, however, present a neat, fastly refused to admit that crops could 11 li.

Agent. Office, over Larned's hardware store. be raised in uoioraao witnout irrigation. Immigration still came westward. One rim appearance.

Advertisements under the head of "Wanted," "For Sale," -For Rent," "Lost," "Found." one-half cent per word, each insertion. No charges less than 25c. man removed to what was considered the utmost verge of the arable land. Ho There was an unusual rush of land ber of each year. Judge, lbth judicial district, J.C.Strang, GARDEN CITY TOWNSHIP.

II. Morrison. N. M. Carter.

Clerk C. Deals. Justice of the Peace fcVffiX: SgJJ. Road Overseer B. Adams.

CITY OK GARDEN CITY. Mayor. C. G. Larned Attorney E.

Gibson. Olcxlc. "YY I3 fucks on Treasurer C. A. Deitz.

Marshal L. C. Hopkins. Health H. S.

Lowrance. A. H. Adkinson. I J.

S. Humphrey. Councilmen L.C. Reed. G.

W. Kicker. IE. L. Wirt.

Irri raised a crop, and some new immigrant, seeing what was done, reasoned that, al- WANTEDr-Everybody to take the Daily gator at 10c per week. LP. HUDSON, Attorney at Law and Loan i Broker, Garden City, Kansas. Contests a specialty. Havins? had eight years practice before Local and Offices and the Department.

I am prepared to guarantee satisfaction in all casos. Office: Rooms 1, 2 and 3, Land office block EJ. PYLE, Real Estate Loan and Insurance i Agent. School, Railroad and Deeded Lands Town lots and City property for sale. Office over Larned's store.

seekers at tho government office this morning. "When the doors were optnod the hough the desert might not Se far away, FOR SALE Nice, large thread case, suitable for storing blanks. tf Irrigator Office. it would be saf 3 to go at least one mile farther west. Thus, inch by inch, as it were, immigration has come westward.

Last year it crossed into Colorado, and waiting crowd rushed in like a Mock of sherp, crowding and pushing to such an extent that Register Niles threatened to WANTED An energetic man to co-operate with us in contests and in selling lauds. We furn ish lata and you furnish witnesses and show Hotels and Restaurants. urn them all out and make them come our people are oeconnng iamuiar wixn me lands and divide profits. Apply at once before fall rush. O.

Hays Land Office, 15, Marble Block, Gardeu City, Kansas. tf in in a more orderly manner. fact that the eastern part of Weld and Arapahoe counties fanning is successful SCHOOL DISTRICT, NO. 1. METROPOLITAN HOTEL; north of Depot, Garden City, Mr3.

E. Chestnut, Pro- Director without irrigation! pnetress. uood tables, goM beds ana reasonable Treasurer J. WtCCKS. A.

Stevens. G. Dates. An enjoyable affair took place last even mi.Ari5UAnm.Mf.-Six gentlemen and one But the halting place does not appear rates. Clerk lady wanted." Two rooms to rent in center of ing at the residence of Mr.

and Mrs. S. to bo reached. After Akron was settled it town. Bon Ion Restaurant.

Teitelbaum it being the celebration of the was to the west of that lo FjLINOIS H0ESE, St. John Clink, Prop'rs. Last hotel south of the track. First-class accommodations and reasonable charges. WANTED.

have cash customers for five. United States Land Office, (GaTden City District.) C. F. M. Niles, Register.

THhTi ViAnan vol I good, cheap quarter sections of deeded lands. cality there was a high ridge, and that only up to that ridge the rainfall was great enough to insure the raising of crops. rite us giving description and lowest price. anniversary of their weddhig. A great many guests were present and all had a verv enjoyable time.

After a Fplendid CARPENTER, Restaurant, South Main and lodging, 25 cents, as Street. Meals Office. Jones' marble block, corner Main O. Hays Garble Block, Garden City, Kansas. ood as there is on the road.

Headquarters for Alas for th theories of those who havo believed that the desert had at last been and seekers. Street and Grant Avenne. Counties in Land District: nodgeman, Finney, Hamilton, Morton, Stevens, Seward. Made, Ford and Clark. WANTED Everybody to get their job work 1 1.

ll. supper, differrent games were indulged in and the company broke up at a late hour. reached, the adventurous immigrants have ii uone ai me irrigator omce. iiest outnt in JDruss. the city.

Lest line of stationery. climbed the ride and are coming down on this side. Akron is about eighty miles TJOR SALE Old papers, at the Ihhigator office Churches and Societies. BAPTIST. Rev.

H. M. Carr, pastor. The DkWATER3, Drugs and Notions. for 25 cents per hundred.

Gi oW oldest drug house in Garden City. Those Bridges. The bridge just finished over the first east of the meridian on wnicn JJenver is situated. It is hard to realize that crops a. m.

regular morning service, bp.ia. reg can be grown there without irrigation north ditch is very goxl as far as it goes MITCHELL MITCHELL. Parlor Drug Store Practicing Physicians. All calls attended to, day or night. but it is now the belief of some of the in habitants on that town tnat irrigation is but it don't go far enough by about twenty-four feet.

As it stands now it only ex unnecessary on the high lands back of -Wholesale Miscellaneous. Fort Morgan. Jb ort Morgan is less than tends twelve feet on each tide of the street ular evening service. Services every second and fourth bunday in eaeh month. Sunday School in conjunction with P.

at 3 p. m. every Sunday. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening. Meets at C.

P. church, southeast corner Laurel -and 6th streets. GUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. J.

R.Lowrance, pastor. 11 a m. regular morning 8 p. m. regular evening services.

3 p. m. Sunday school. Cervices every first and third Sunday in each month. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 8 p.

in. Church southwest corner Laurel and 6th streets. HHRISTI AN. No pastor. Regular commun- fifty miles east of this meridian.

If the Corner Main and Fulton Streets. 1 arable land nas been to within car track when it should have been at least twenty-four feet. Besides there is fiftv miles of Denver, what, we may well Garden City, Kansas. ask, has become of the HENRY KIRSCHNER. Boots and Shoes made to order.

Repairing done. Give him a call. Opposite F. Finnup's store. DC.

McGSE, dealer La Hardware and Imple- ments, corner Main and Chestnut streets. Special bargains now. GARDEN CITY NURSERY, by W. E. Dab-ney.

North Main street. Day Home Grown trees if you want to be successful. RlCHFIETiD AND MOBTON COTJTT. For C. G.

Lamed Vy ion service each Sunday at 3 p. m. Prayer meeting. 8 p. Sunday school with Cengre- i all information regarding these points call on CoL Henry, at Grant Stanley's office, Hardware Implements no railing on it and unless it be remedied there will be some frightful accident to chronicle during Exposition week.

But small' favors, etc Now let two good substantial bridges be put in at the second ditch and the road graded up to the track and it will then be at least moderately safe to drive to the Exposition grounds afterdark. room in II. S. land office building. gationalists.

Meets at Congregational church, corner Fulton and 8th. BRESBYTERIAN. Rev. D.Kingery, pastor. 945 a.

m. Sunday School. 11 a. regular morning Service. 8 p.

m. regular evening services. Service every alternate Sunday at the Jeweler, fl DICKINSON, the -postofflce Heaaoiiarters Tor low III beats the whole outfit on good goods and Gibson, Dentist, office over Larned's pnees. skiiuully done, Congregational Unuren. hardware' West rooms.

Open day 1 CSONGREQ ATION AH-i-Kev. Homer Thall. i taker. Full line of goods at lowest prices. 0p43tor.

a. m. Sunday School. a. and 23 1.

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1886-1886