Lane Co. Gazette from California, Kansas • 3

COUNTY JOTTINGS. LANE COUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Thursday by V. H. LEE, Proprietor.

TERMS (IN ADVANCE). One copy, one year $1.50 One copy, six months, 75 One copy, three months, 40 IS THE Lou. A. Fisher COLLYER and CALIFORNIA, dealer in Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, TIME Fire Guards. The meeting held at Deighton Saturday to consider the best plan of protection against fires was about as largely attended as wai the election at this place, but those present evidently meant business.

The settlers on the south side of the Walnut appointed last Monday as the day to commence work on fire guards. They will start at the Walnut about eight miles west of this place and run south about the same distance and thence east to the county line. Now if the settlers north of the Walnut will take up this work and carry it on we will be well guarded against prairie fires. Several persons have already signified their willingness to assist and there are probably many others who will be ready to help. The work should be done immediately before winter sets in and prevents.

TO COME Groceries TO Hardware, Feed, Flour, Corn and Meal, Stoves, Tinware, AND A FULL ASSORTMENT OF OTHER GOODS. Goods Sold a Low as they can be Bought at the Railroad. Advertising Rates: One column one year $75.00 One-half column one year 40.00 One-fourth column one year OO Bnslness and professional cards 5-00 Special Offer. Foi $1.50, in advance, we will send the Gazette until January 1st, 1882. We wish to send the Gazette to every family in the county and make this offer to those who think they cannot afford to take a paper.

Parties outside of the county who wish to take advantage of this offer must send fifteen cents additional for postage. WATSON BROTHERS, DEALERS IN BOOTS and SHOES, Wa-Keoney, Kansas. The Gazette will be sent to any address until Jan'y 1st, 1881, for twenty-five cents. LANE COUNTY. Wheeler W.

H. Fusow, Join A. Nsuor Probate Judge. County AtS'y. FUSON 1SELSOX, ATTORNEYS AT LAW.

Real Estate and Qot eminent Land Agents. Oihck-Franklin Street, Wa-Keeney. Kan. Mr. Editor: Since the springs are almost all dry here, we think it a misnomer to say wAlln Spring Drops," and have therefore substituted the above.

Since our arrival here, the first and most common inquiry from every new acquaintance is, "Western Kansas is completely dried up, is it?" Our answer has been invariably the same, "Not as dry in Lane county as here!" and the answer is the truth. I never saw such a scarcity of water anywhere else in my life, and never saw less wholesome water for stock, and the well water is much of it, so far as tested by me, not much better. This fall is an exception, however. Usually water is plentiful and of a better quality, especially in the streams when flowing. Pasture is quite inferior and most cattle-1 have seen are in poor fix to enter upon a long and dreary winter.

The total absence of buffalo grass is fatal to winter grazing in this part of Kansas. Corn sells for 25 cents per bushel in the field, many fields not making more than half a crop. Potatoes aie scarce and most other vegetables also. Fruit of all kinds has been very abundant this year. Winter apples command only 25 and 30 cents per bushel, choice fruit.

Since coming here we purchased a wagon load of apples, not keepers, at 12 cents per bushel, as fine fruit for drying purposes as any housekeeper could wish. Dried apples can be bought in small lots of farmers for $1.25 per bushel. If any Lane county boys feel inclined to make a profitable trip to this part of the State and back to Great Bend or some point of the K. P. Div.

of U. P. road, they can do so by carrying back a wagon load of dried fruit. Steers, calves, yearlings and two-year-olds sell high Heifers, calves, yearlings and two-year olds, can be bought at reasonable rates. The cattle are of good grade generally, some are fine.

Thoroughbred stock at fair prices. Milk cows sell at from $20 to $30. This is a blue limestone country, reminds me very much of some parts of Kentucky. Soil is rich and productive and is a magnificent fruit country. The surface is quite undulating.

We have not seen here, or on the way hither, a county more fasci nating than our own delightful Lane. Her abundant pan water, rich soil, fine pastures and perfect climate are OF Bros Personal. Mr. G. C.

Scott, the blacksmith, returned from Barton county last week where he has been looking after some crops. He raised about 80 bushels of potatoes, a fine mess of which he left at this office. A. Fisher, of Collyer, came down last week and run things two or three days while Mr. Byrnes took a vacation.

Mr. Lou. Harbaugh and a couple of cousins have returned to Lane county and are making more improvements on their claims. Mr. Alex McKee, another Lane county man, arrived yesterday.

He cane to Cimarron on an excursion train and says the cars were loaded with land seekers, quite a number of whom will explore this region. Mr. Cyrus Corning, of Ness county, made us a visit yesterday. Now that the Times and Pioneer of that county have consolidated Mr. Corning contemplates starting another paper to be called Tie Advance.

Mr. Cal Reed, of Rolling Prairie, dropped in this morning to see us. His four or five months residence in Denver has not corrupted his morals any that we can notice. 8. J.

Obbobic. 8am. A. Smith OSBORM A. SMITH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW and General Land Agents.

All kinds of U. S. Land Office business promptly attended to before tbe Land Office here or at Washington City. Officb Oyer Watson Bros. Shoe and Jewelry Store, opposite Bank, Wa-Keeney Kansas, and in Ness City, Ness County, Kansas.

The weather prophets predict a cold and severe winter. Let everybody be prepared for it. I.ocater. M. Page, one mile north of this place, will be found ready at all times to locate settlers on government land.

Choice AT Clai COLLYER, CALIFORNIA HOUSE. E. J. BELL, Proprietor. CALIFORNIA, KANSAS.

Only 25 Cents. GOOD BEDS PROVIDED. Give Him a Call. STILL OPEN TO Dealers In Rev. W.

A. Watson will hold services next Sabbath at 1 1 o'clock at the residence of Mr. Wilson, one-half mile south of Utica P. O. in Nest county.

Those who wish to get leave of absence from their claims can get their papers made out at Ness City by Sam A. Smith without going to Wa-Keeney. For Sale A choice timber claim with five acresofbreaki.ig on it and near the center of the county is offered for sale cheap. Inquire at this office for further paiticulars. Watson at Wa-Keeney, keep Relief for the Frontier.

SETTLEMENT. Dry Goods9 Subscribe for the Lane County Gazette S1.50 per Year. Editor Gazette: Since thinking over the subject of relief for the frontier we thought to agitate the matter a little through your columns. We believe that God has placed within GROCERIES, our reach the means with which to ADVERTISE -IN THE Hardware, FOR induce greater rainfall, providing to grasp it we agree, as has been before stated, that the U. S.

government would advance ours as well as its own interest to a far greater degree by appropriating means to assist us in building up this great and noble country rather than expending so much in no where surpassed. We are receiving the Gazette regularly and consider it more interesting than the Inter- Ocean which has also followed us hither. By the courtesy Lane County Gazette DRUGS FULL, Inconnocllon with the Gazette office will be found a good of Mr. J. Dow, P.

M. at Almota, we have received several packages of mail forwarded. Wordsworth. BOOTS SHOES, Job Office. How It Pay to Take a Paper.

AND the largest assortment of boots and shoes in Western Kansas, and are the only firm that carry a complete line of these goods. Their prices are always the lowest. Sheep. Mr. Chas.

Wolf has recently purchased about 300 more sheep which makes his herd the largest in the county. Several other parties are talking of going into the wool growing business which has thus far proved an eminent success in this country. ATSON BROTHERS, dealers in BOOTS and SHOES, Wa-Keenev, Kansas. Preaching. Rev.

W. A. Watson will conduct religious services at this place one week from next Sunday, Nov. 21st, at 11 o'clock a. m.

If the weather permits the meeting will be held in the school house, if not, at the residence of W. H. Lee, one-half mile west of town. FLOUR, FEED, CORN, MEAL, A complete outfit or type, paper and material. Prices low Satisfaction guaranteed.

Reliable Some papers are not much account as to appearance, but I never took one that didn't pay me, in some way, more than I paid for it. One time an old friend started a little paper away down in southern Georgia, and sent it to me, and I subscribed just to encourage him, and so after awhile it published a notice that an adminis Are selling goods at business now before tbe public. Yon can make money faster at work BEST for us than at anything else. Cant. tal not required.

We will start you. 12 a day and unwards made at exploring the polar regions, draining river beds, Poor men who came here with nothing but their teams to depend on should have remuneration for their labor at home as at present not enough prairie is broke on which to raise sufficient food for family and team. We advocate that congress pay each person who takes land under the three acts homestead, preemption and timber filing say $2.00 per acre for breaking on his own land. The idea has been advanced to pay so much per acre for breaking on government lands. Such an act, in our mind, would result in certain parties owning teams who have no possessions here to come in, do the breaking, get their money and leave tht country, while the actual settler would get but a small amount of the breaking to uo, and soon in place of a rich mat of buffalo grass, which is nourishing to our stock and beautiful to look upon our country would be covered with thistles and weeds of various other kinds.

If each person on taking out papers on land was compelled pay besides entry fee a BEDIEOCK PRICES. home by the industrious. Men, women, boys and girls wanted everywhere to work for us. Now is the time. You can deyote your whole time to the work, or only your spare moments.

No other business will pay you nearly as well. No one willing to work can fail to make enormous pay by engaging at once, Costly Outfit and terms free. A great opportunity for making money easily and honorably. Address uin A Ausrusta, Maine. CONCERNING E.

L. ROBERTS, Three bushels of rice corn will pay for the Gazette one year. Almost any one can spare that amount and not miss it and then you will not Lane AT be obliged to borrow your neighbor's trator had an order to sell several lots of land at public outcry, and one of the lots was in my county. So I inquired about the lot, and wrote to my friend to attend the sale and run it to fifty dollars. He did so, and bid off the lot for me at tnirty dollars, and I sold it in a month to the man it joined for a hundred, and so I made sixty-eight dollars clear by taking that paper.

My father told me that when he was a young man he aw a notice in a paper that a school teacher was wanted away off in a distant county, and he went there and got the situation, and a little girl was sent to him, and after awhile she gtew up mighty sweet and pretty, and he fell in love with her and married her. Now, if he hadn't taken that paper, what do you reckon would have become of paper to get the news. Bring on your corn and have your name placed on our subscription book. b. Mccormick, Dealer In Flour, Meat, Coffees, Teas, Sugars, Spices, and a full line of Family Groceries.

He also hae a good stock of HARDWARE- COLL.YER County Snow. The first snow storm of the season occurred Tuesday. It rained 1 price for breaking it would deprive many a poor man from getting a home. Each person on being com SELLS AND considerable Monday night and about sun rise Tuesday morning the snow began to fall and continued all day. The ground is now thoroughly wet, wheat is in splendid condition, and if things don't boom next spring it won't be the fault of nature.

COAL at BOTTOM Prices. me? Wouldn't I be some other feller, or may be not at all? Bill Ark, pensated for breaking on his own land would take a deeper interest in it than if it were not his own. We think advisable to enter into organizations and procure the services of some good congressman to work for us the coming winter. If such an act should be granted us it would be well to appoint committees to investigate the work, keep up a fire guard around the county, draw on the treasurer and pay all expenses. O.

T. Smith. He also has a good stock off A large assortment or Ferry's SEND FOR THE Garde LUMBER Grand Larceny. About the 19th of October a steer belonging to J. Wheatcroft was stolen from the herd of Mr.

Drake in Ness county and taken to Cheyenne Grove in this county and butchered. Two boys named YV icker were arrested on a warrant issued by Justice Worthington. The preliminary examination was concluded last Saturday and resulted in the boys being committed to jail to await trial for grand larceny The Cincinnati Gazette remarks: "Gen. Garfield must be a child of fortune. Never were so many political honors piled on one man's head in this republic.

He is now representative in the house till next March, senator elect, and, by the people's voice, president elect. If, under ur constitution, anything more could be added probably it would drop on him." Me. Lane Comity Seeds which will be sold at the lowest market rates i Gen. Hancock is reported seriously ill. It is said that the campaign broke in upon his well known habits of regularity and systematic work, and he is prostrated.

so kept on band. Call and Examine his'Stock. Waterloo. Kansas. Only SI.

SO per Year..