The Lucas Journal from Lucas, Kansas • 1

11 The Lucas Journal (Entered at the Lucas Popstoffice every Friday as Second-class mail matter.) VOLUME LUCAS, RUSSELL COUNTY, KANSAS, FRIDAY SEPT. 28, 1906. NUMBER 6 WILL THE BOARD PLEASE EXPLAIN HAPPENINGS AT RUSSELL A Brief Summary of the Week's Events. these in terest bearing bonds also. You, the taxpayer, are interested in this as the burden falls upon your shoulders.

We merely call your attention to the facts in the case. If you sit still and get in trouble again you will have no one to blame but yourselves. There is time to investigate before court meets. Tins is not a political matter but one that interests every taxpaying citizen of Fair-view township regardless of his political sentiments. What Benefits are Derived by the New Issue? The first number of the lecture course will be a home talent play October 19th Fairport farmers report excellent corn in their vicinity and Big creek farmers are not slow in praising theirs.

Several of our prominent democrats went to Hays Saturday to hear Col Harris. They returned well satisfied. Uriah Terry was in from the ranch Tuesday for the first time since he had the misfortune to break a kg over two months ago. The A. O.

U. boys had degree work Monday night. The U. B. Conference is in ses sion here this week Many out town ministers are in town.

The city board of education has offered to sell the county the old school house for a jail building. D. W. McKeen will make a model probate judge. Eilis county candidates pledge themselves not to buy their election.

Several new houses are in Kansas republicans are sleek guys. They knew that when the state convention put up a platform that was a makeshift and an insult to the body of republican voters, there would be much dis sension. They also knew that when their railroad ticket was nominated, thousands of republican voters would be inclined to repudiate the same. It therfore became neccessary that unprin cipled men set to work with sub terfuge and dishonesty to corrall these independent voters and lead them back into the fold. Tom McNeal, editor of a mail or It seems that on May 19, 1906, the township bonds of Fairview township were refunded and we give herewith th status of the case: Thirty eight bonds were issued of $500 each, numbering from 1 to 38, due July 1, 1920; bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent.

The'cost of refunding these bonds was given in three warrants of $600. $1,410, $1,410, the last payable July 1, 1907, second on January 1907, and the first at any time when the funds are available. The bonds taken up were due January 1, 1928. (tight years longer than the new ones) and bore interest at the rate of 5 per cent, and in amounts of $1,000 each Here we wish to ask what benefit was derived by the 6hange? The only one we can see is that the board had the privilege of paying any or all of these bonds at any bond paying time, On the othor hand, by this action the territory now known Rain Wednesday morning. Farmers were sowing the first of the week.

The mill runs day and night and finds a ready market for its products. Weatherhead, the Lucas liveryman was in the city last Saturday. Hon. Joe Bristow came up from Salina on Wednesday morning's plug and returned on the afternoon train. He was one of the speakers for the M.

W. A. picnic. The rain spoiled the meeting The county commissioners were in session Tuesday to let the conti act for the jail and Sher iff's residence. There were but wo bids.

After srne deliberation the board rejected both bids. Jno. Bunker, one of the prosperous cattle man of East Wolf creek, and his daughter Jessie, one of Lincoln county's school teachers, passed through town Sunday on their way to Logan county where the latter has a homestead and the former considerable farm land. J. A Guntle failed to show up at Ihe meeting of the county board Tuesday.

Thos. Bunker was up from der advertising phamplet, was chosenchiefof conspirators. He has been preparing matter for this purpose of the rankest sort. Out rageous misrepresentations, dirty insinuations, articles calca-lated to appeal to the prejudice of voters and deliberate fairy tales course of construction in this city and several more are neeTied. The Woodmen may conclude to have their picnic Friday.

Ben Wood drove to Lucas last Tuesday on business. Come in arfd see our line of up-to-date millinery goods, street and dress hats, etc. We have a complete line of groceries, fruits, cold drinks, etc. Cowan Co. Our liberal offer of the Kansas City Weekly Star will not last always.

Better tak advantage of it while you can. Horace Wilcox has some fine Plymouth Rocks on exhibition at as Waldo township has escaped paying its pro rata of the bonded indebtedness of Fairview town ship. This we have taken the pains to look into and is the opinion of some of the best legal talent and not mere guess work. More than that a member of the township board of Waldo township told usthatheliad consulted legal authority with the same re Sylvan Grove. Don't forget to call for your ticket with each 50 cent purchase at Cowan Co's.

of his own making has been his work. The Topeka Capital was assigned the part of a cowardly back biting bush-whacker, to line up the dissatisfied republicans on a so-called "square deal platform, ostensibly to defeat one or two mysterious rascals on the ticket. The Capital has attempted the job and has raised the candidates high on a platform of decency (of it's own make)and headingabout has started for the Hoch cam with thousand of honest voters nibbling thebait. A party driven to theextemity of making such a campaign has something very much out of order on its inside. Service in public office is what the people want, not a display of political trickery during the campaign.

A stalwart record, for in tegrity and efficiency such as Senator Harris enjoys, should certainly appeal to every thinking man as a greater recomendation than the last two vears perfor mances, z2 the Hoch-railroad crowd. Jess Napier. Dorrance Wednesday to take in the Woodmen picnic but concluded not to stay. Wheat sown before the rain is looking well. The depot here has just recent ly been reshinerled.

That dispels the last hope of getting a new one here for some years yet W. G. Russell was at Luray on a road survey a few days ago. Since the recent rains we hear nothing about waterworks. C.

D. Lechner and men were out to finish the school houe in district 27, Monday. Silas McEntarfer will go to Rice county soon to spend a few months with relatives there. The band put in several evenings at practice this week for the The stork left an eight pound daughter at the home of Mr. and Mrs.W.

H. Williams this morning. I have s'ome pure bred Black Langshan pullets and cockerels for sale, also some pure bred Rhode Island Red cockerels. 34 1 Fant Fowler. sult.

There was no just cause for such a blunder (if blunder it is) for it is their duty to consult the county attorney wherever there is any cause for doubt. Again according to the amount it cost to refund these bonds where do we gain anything. Lay aside any thought you may have against the editor of this paper as re pards the motive of this article and lay the facts of the case before you. We are now on the verge of another division of the township, and while we believe the Luray people are entitled to the division yek what is to hinder them from beirg left outside the pale of We acknowledge a pleasant call from Wm. T.

Fox, of Hunter, this wTeek, he is one of the stalwarts. The Kansas City Weekly Star and The Journal both one year picnic today. for $1.