Lane Co. Gazette du lieu suivant : California, Kansas • 3

The Barbed Wire Decision. XOTICE. Lou. A. Fisher We, the undersigned, citizens of Lane county, taking into consideration that th Legislature is now in session and feeling that it is to the interests of Lane county that we be represented there, desire that there ISJTHK 1 mm ojuurjcssia, The United States Circuit Court at Chicago has rendered its decision in the suits that hare been pending for more than four years, broughf by the Washburn Moen Manufacturing Company, against other manufactur.

ers of barbed wire. Washburn, Moen, Llwood are a sharp firm of genuine Yankees, doing business at LANIECOUNTY GAZETTE. Published every Thursday by W. H. TERM 3 MM ADVANCE).

One copy, on year, $1.60 One copy, six months Oue copy, three months, 40 Advertising Rates: One colemn one yoer $75.00 ('-half column one year 49.00 One-fourth oolumn one year J5.00 Bttstnoes aurl professional card 6.00 "MB- its 'LLBLJl- Kvirv citizen of Lane county should attd tht meeting to be held at thit place next Tuesday. TIME a meeting called to consider the matter. We therefore ask that a meeting be called for that purpose at Gould City on Tuesday, the 18th at 12 o'clock m. E. J.

Bell, Irvin Baum, C. J. Taylor, C. J. Warren, A.

Ukelden, John Logan, W. H. Lee, G. H. Harder, M.

Page, J. B. McCoskrie, J. Mi Waggoner, Jackson Kf.efer, W. H.

Bedford, John Keffer, Jas. Byrnes, W. I. Allen, Chas- Hasty, L. F.

Baum. HAPPY HABiS. TO COME DEALER IN Dry Good Boots Groceries, Hardware, Feed, Flour, Cora and Meal, Stoves, Tioware, And'a full Assortment of other Goods. GoocSs Sold as Low rs tUey can be 2euht tit tSie TO Kansas has exactly the same population at South Carehna, etch State having 995,000 inhabitants. Several of our citizens were caught out in the storm Saturday but we be lieve none of them Iroe to death.

LANE COUNTY. orcester, Mass. A few years ago after barbed wire came in-to general use, these chaps conceived the brilliant idea of buying up all patents granted to barbed ire inventors, aud thus monopolize the enormous business that was growing up. Having plenty of money, they hunted up the various patentees, and for a mere song possessed themselves of the most gigantic rr-onopoiy of modem times. They then employed fifteen of the most eminent lawyers of the country tnd brought suits to prohibit the man uiacture of any description of barbed zoire, by any one beside themselves.

It is needless to add that they have wen the suits under our monstrous patent laws, and are now in possession of the le right to control the manufacture of all of the various kinds of barb wire in the United States. They have thus managed under cur patent laws to grasp and control absolutely one of the greatest industries of the country. They can dictate terms to all manufacturers, hunt them down, fix their own tariff, and put as many millions in their own pockets as they choose to. When they get through this extortion from manufacturers and dealers, they can organize a grar.d army of spies to hunt up and tax every farmer who has a barbed wire fence on his premises. These shrewd Yankees do not claim to have invented the baib or anything else that is useful or valuable.

They have only invented this grand and sublime grab, that will put millions in their poefcets that they have never earned. Exchange. Wheeler AC" Sffk W. IT. Furore.

Johk A. Prolate Judga. County Att'y. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Goal Estate and Gov A. arumout Agent.

OPIUM gtemklia o.reet, Wa-Keocej. Kan. Since the prohibition amendment hat come' in force, Jamaica ginger has become quite a saleable article. Tun cattle men are doin their best to keep stock out of the settlements but a few will drift in occasionally. Locater.

M. Page, one mile north of this place, will be found ready at all timrs to locate settlers on government land ITiie Grainfield Republican, which was enlarged to a six column quarto some time ago, has been reduced to its former size. 8. J. Qbbosk.

Sax. A. OF ja Vi9 OSWU ft SJI1TH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW and Ger.ernl Lied Ageut. All kind of U. S.

Land Office bttaineae promptly attended to before the Land OlHcn here or ui WashlBjrtoa Ciiy. Over Bros'. Shoe and Jewelry Store, opposite Bank, Wa-Kecney, and lu City, Ncei Count, iiiiueas. AT Great chance SB make monor. TV'e at 'u a paraon in er- town to tnhscrioitone for t'h lur'nt- II II III ch eancst Ii.h? ninotr.iinft hnltf Dnbllratlon the world.

Anvnn ollyer, Claims It is hardly probable that there is a man in Kansas who is thoroughly acquainted wit'u the capabilites of the state. He must be a learned man who is. Kansas has not advertised herself foi nothing, and there is not another state in the union which has as good a foundation upon which to advertise. It is true that Kansas has no gold or silver mines to attract hordes of treasure brokers, but she posseeses that which is worth more than the mineral of Colorado and California put together. Every man who conies to Kansas can amass a competency and own his home, while it is not one man in a thousand who rushes to the mines who ever gets out of them more than enough to save himself frou starving.

In the first place the soil of Kansas is phenomenally rich, as is attested by the wonderful yields of all kinds of grain, cereals, fruits 2nd garden products In the second, the plains and valleys offer inducements for stock-raising not offered by any other state. In the third, she ha coal underlying every acre of her coil, and there is, consequently, no danger of there ever being a fuel famine; apart from that, the coal supply tends to give an impetus to ail kinds of manufacturing. In the fourth, her streams and rivers afford water powers which are simply magnificent aud which are at this moment grinding hundreds of thousands of besheli of corn and wheat and turn the wheels of hundreds of ffctories. The water power of Kansas is worth millions of dollars to us. In the fifth, our educational system guarantees to every child who cornea here the elements of knowledge which assist in making ci gocii citizens.

There ecores of other advantages for Kansas which we could enrmerate, but it net necessary. Even if there were no others, those narccd should be and are sufficient to rtiract the best class of immigration. Howard Courant. A. P.

BftSEDET, presented the Gazette editor. with a jack rabbit the other day for wkich he will be held in grateful remembrance, Thi Topcka daily Capital has been enlarged recently and gives much more news than formerly. We are glad to see this evidence of prosperity. watsox DEALERS 12 BOOTS AND SHOES, Wu-Kceney. Kansas.

can become a pnccoful a-ent. six elegant work of rt given free to eabacribers. The prica Is tfo low that everybody nbfcribes One agent reports taking HO pubperibers in a day, A lady ftont report making over SU0 clar profit iu leu iuy'. All who engage make money fast. You tan devote sll your time lo the butduet, or o.iiy your fparotlme.

You need not be away from homo over nlht. You can do it as well as Othera, dinclkMaa aud term? Tree. Elegant aud expensive Outfit froc. If yon want profitable work beud us your address at once. It col nothing to try the bneiuees.

No one who en-Ragea fails to make Kreat pay. Addrcsa QSMSMH Siuto for Atuiue. Dealers in STII.L OPEN TO Saow as a Fertilizer. -S -jtf Vv HE -3 SETTLEMENT. Wi; can take subscriptions for the Toledo Blade, one of the best papers published fn the United States, at a very low price in connection with the Gazette.

GKOCEP.IES, Subscribe for tbe Lame jCounty Gazette, S1.50 per'Year. 0 ADVEUTISE -or TKB- Lana County Gazette. Party. r. and Mrs.

G. V. Schcnk, of Heighten, entertained a number cf friends last evening, and wc are informed the occasion was a very pleasant one. rdware9 FOR DKUGS Incomtectfoii wfrti Cuzette olQce wall be found a good Von Sale. A choice timber claim with tive acres of breaking on and nenr the center of the county is offered fcr sals cheep.

Inquire at this office for further paiticulars. El Job ce. BOOTS AND SHOES, It is a frequent remark that "snow is the poor man's manure." Now that the sarth is covered with this white mantle our readers, at least some of them, may want to know why and how snow is a fertilizer. Ammonia is an element which aids in vigorous plant growth. By the decomposition of vegetable substance, and the putrefaction of animal matter, a large amount of ammonie is thrown off and is absorbed by the atmosphere.

Amxonia is known by some as hartshorn, and by others as aqua ammonia. Hut when in the air it is in the form of gas, combined with ether gases. Cold rains cr snow absorb this gas from the air, and carry it to the earth. Warm rains- of the cummer season have not so strong an affinity for ammonia, or in otner words do not absorb it, hence a much smaller proportion 01 it is carried to the earth in summer. It dos much more good if the snow falls when the gtound is not frozen, as it is at once absorbed by the earth.

This is why farmers calculate on good crops when there are heavy falls of snow late in the spring when the sell is loose and mellow. But if the ammonia is gathered even at this season by the falling snow, it is retained till it thaws, when it is taken up by the soil, at a much greater loss, however. This is why snow is called the poor man's friend. This is as gocd an explanarion as an unscientific man can give. Register.

A novel method for taking up and putting ofl passengers, without the Owing to the continued cold weath-tr'Bedford, the blacksmith has not been able to do anything towards building his new shop. He is ready at all times to do work, however. -AND A cosnptet oaf fit oT tjp, paper nad Laierinl. Prices low. Satisfaction guaranteed.

FLOUR, FETD, CORN, MEAL, Tl businee now before the Mel t. The fight for the county seat of Ness county still grows hotter. On New Year's day Mr. Ross Calhoun was arrested, charged with having committed bribery in the June I tor up than at acy thing elee. Capt- Axa sailing goods at 11 iJ we rtart yon.

fa cay and upward made at home by the Indnstrion. Sfen, women, boye andkir'? wRiued everywhere to work for ns. Now Is ibe ttme. You can deTote yoor whole time to the work. orly yonr spare momenta.

Ko other bustnaea will pay you nearly as trail. No one Willi io.rkcan full to ahe enor-'Ua pay by engaging once, Cottly Outfit aud term free. A great opportunity for making money oaeily and honorably. Addxcse Taca Aucusta. Males.

BED ROCK PRICES. Astrologers and soothsayers should be of good courage tins year, if there be any premonitory virtue in the curious combination cf numbers that mr.y be evolved from the date cf 1081. Not only does it read the same back, ward and forward, which only occurs every 116 years, but the magic number nine is interwoven in it in a remarkable way. The sura of all four 's the same as the first two, 18, which added together cr divided by 2 give 9. Multiply the" whole by 9 and the product, 16,929, contain two nines, while the sum ol the digits 19 27, or three nines, or, added, one 9.

Place the iS under the 8x and add; the anus is 99 subtract, and the remainder is 63 or 7 times 9. Almost innumerable similar combinations may be formed, convincing the mathematician that the mythical Mother Ship-ton coald not have hit upon a more remarkable date than this for the threatened smash-up of things in CONCERNING b. Mccormick, Dler la JLaee Flour, Meat, Coffees, Sugars, Teas, Spices, aivd a full line of eIXYER Cosiaiy stopping of trains, is proposed by M. Harenz, of Paris, and a railway of that section is preparing to put the proposition to a practical test. A waiting car is provided at every station, into which the passengers gather before the arrival of the train.

As Groceries. Family 63-LLS-- WATXOX ROT EI US, DEALERS 12C BOOTS AND SHOES, Wa-Keonev. Kansas. Watson at Wa-Keeney, keep the largest assortment of boots and shoe in Western Kansas, and are the only firm that carry a complete line of these goods. Tfieir prices ere always the lowest.

i i The supreme court of the State decides that where an unorganized county is attached to an organized county, and the same has become organized into a municipal township, that tax levies for school and other purposes caa be levied and that the jurisdiction of countr officers over the attached territory is as complete as over any other part of the organized county. Tjie weather atiU continues to be the principal topic of conversation. The bluzsrd of last Saturday was certainly first-class in every respect. All day long it snowed and blowed making it very disagreeable if not positively unsafe for a man to be out on the prairies. At thit writing toe weather is a little more moderate but there is no tclliug what old Probabili ties may have in store for us by AND the train passes the station, the rear car, which contains only passeagers for such station, is cut loose and side COAL'at BOTTOM Price3.

Be ftlto luii a food stock of HARDWARE. tracked, while the waiting car at the depot is gathered up by a simple de When a man wants to enlist in the army of China his courage is subjected to a very unusual test. The recruiting officer places the candidate in a chair and proceeds to extract a tooth, and the conduct of the patient under this ordeal is said to decide the question as to his fitness for the military service ot the Empire. If he howls and jumps up and down, he is pronounced unfit but if he smiles and exhibits generally a feeling of satisfaction, he secures a permanent place in the ranks. vice aud is coupled on, to act as rear Ce aieo has a good stock oCj coach of the train to the next station, where the same cutiing-off and grab- A lug aflaorfcacat of Ferry SEND rOR THE bing-on process takes place, the mo G-arde tion of the train being but slightly checked at each point.

LUMBER Lane Const? Gazette. Seeds All the prisoners for debt in Scotland were released at midnight of New Year's Eve, in pursuance of an act passed at the last session of A man at Whitestown, believes that the air is pure at the heightof 1 hnndred feet, and he has obtained permission to run a pipe to the top of a village church steeple in order to pump a supply into bis house. which will be sold at the loweet raarket raaacf alto kept on hand. Oaljr per Year. Waterloo.

CiU JIAUIS IIS STKE. Kansas-.