Bonner Springs Citizen du lieu suivant : Bonner Springs, Kansas • 1

rrfTTr BONIER SPEIIGS 0 VOLUME I. UOXXElt SPRINGS, WYANDOTTE COUXTT, KA, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1890. JCUMliKK 3. QUhNINE A CURE-ALL. Weather warm.

Schools closo to-day. Leavenworth limes: Kansas Is a great agricultural state. The inter mi ii ib Subscribe for the Citizen. Tho ex-prisoners of war association of southeast Kansas will hold their next meeting ut Coffey villa In September. F.

Rnifsnyder has commenced the erection of a flvo room houso in the part of town which ho will finish in a handsome manner. It will be a great credit to our growing town. One of tho most highly respected -and best known old-timers of Bonner Springs is N. B. Dilhorn.

lie has lately brushed up and refitted his office and residence on Commercial avenue. It is now a model of neatness and good taste. AVm. Shannon, lato trustee of Sherman township, Leavenworth county, spent a few hours in our town on James Baker has erected a neat fence around his new residence. Unusually warm AVednesday, followed by a shower of rain at night.

Dr. Jones, who recently moved here-from Iowa made the Citizen a pleasant call yesterday. J. Eitclilngliam lias euclosed Lis residence property in tho west part of town with a new fence. James D.

Waters and Mrs. Rose M. Smith were married In Kansas City, last week. Joy be with them. AVo want good correspondents to sond in neighborhood notes from all parts of tho county.

F. C. Stevens and Mr. Aronhalt called on thnJjTizisN yesterday, the former leaving an order for job printing. Miss Delia Chapman, who has been visiting her friend Miss Jessie Xixon, returned to her home in Illinois yesterday.

Major Grebe has out three-fourth of an acre of asparagus on which ho will doubtless realize a handsome profit next ear, M. D. Beardon has our thanks for a copy of The Sprig of Myrtle, a Knights of Pythias paper published by A. P. Riddle.

Wo have" a few more copies of the first issue of the Citizen which we will furnish free to anyone wishing to send them away. AVe have a full line of society emblem: and are prepared to do first closs job work in litis line neatly and promptly. Give us a call. The next meeting of the Farmers Alliance of Wyandotte County, will be held at Kansas City, Kansas, on Saturday, May 3 at 10 o'clock a. m.

Mrs. Hunt, of Kansas City, was in the city yesterday looking at some residence property with a view of buying a home and locating permanently. The ad. of C.L.David Co. appears on the 4th page of to-day's paper.

If you need anything in the grocery line you should not fail to give this firm a trial. A plan is on foot to establish a paper at Leavenworth in the interest of tho farmers alliance and otlr.r industrial movements in tho eastern counties of Kansas. J. A. Blackmail of this LOOALBIHEFS.

Tlcnlo pintles aro now In order. Chlldrens Day will soon bo here. Memorial day will Boon be at band. Sale bills printed on short nolioo at this office. A number of Kansas Cityans in our townSunday.

I. D. Wilson was baptized in the rlvor last Sunday by Elder D. M. Ward.

Spring hats nro in full bloom mid house-cleaning with all Its terrors is at hand. Are we going to celebrato the glorious Fourth in JJonncr Springs this year. Tbo Citizex is the paper for the people who wants the news. Sample copy free. The Mission S.

S. has purchased two dozen now singing books for the uso of scholars. Will Everett," who is wording in a restaurant in Arniourdale, was at Lome Sunday. Mrs. P.

D. Cook, who has been seriously ill for the past week or more, is now improving. The Northeastern Kansas Editorial Association meets in Ilolton on the afternoon of May 9. Elder I). M.

Ward occupied the pulpit at the Christian church last Sunday morning and evening. O. G. Nordburg will give music lessons on string and brass instruments. Fifteen lessons for See him.

The Sunday Schools will likely make arrangements next Sunday for the proper observance of Childrens Day. Will Lyen returned to Uonner Springs last Sunday morning and will work for the Saratoga Springs people. Rev. L. O.

Smith, tbo Baptist minister, preached at the brick school bouse last Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Eider Iioziman will fill his regular appointment at the church to-morrow night, also Sunday at 11 and Sunday night.

The Chautauqua Assembly meets at Ottawa June 17, next. It lias nino departments and oJ lecturers and instructors. It is said that sowing wild oats does -not entitle a man to join the Farmers Alliance. lie must be more of a farmer than that. C.

K. Johnson of this place, and W. Stotts, of Kansas City, made the Cit--jzkx a brief but call Sunday morning. Mrs. Eugene Gilbreath, of Kansas -City, was visiting her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. P. D. Cook, Wednesday -of this week If any of the Citizen's subscribers fail to get their paper, we hope they will notify this office of the omission we will supply the number. W.

Stotts and wife, of Kansas City, were visiting at this place last Sunday with Mrs. Stotts parents, C. K. Johnson and wife and other relatives. We are receiving new subscribers at the rate of four and five a day; new advertisements are constantly coming in and our job printing department has turned out a great deal of work in the past two weeks.

Meeting of Grand Lodgo Knights of Pythias, state of Kansas, at Topeka, May 20 to 23. Kate of one faro $1.44 for the round trip. Tickets sold May 19 to 22nd inclusive to be good for return passage including the 25th. Bead our advertisements over carefully and when you come to town to trade, patronize the men who advertise. A merchant who is not afraid of a nickel spent in advertising, will give you as liberal bargains as anyone can.

A wreck occurred on the Union Pacific at Bismarck Grove last Friday evening about 8 o'clock. A Rock Island special ran into a switch about half open. The engine and passenger coach were derailed and turned on their side, but no one was injured. It Is believed the switch was opened by malicious persons. One of the Bonner Springs institutions which is especially deserving of patronage is Kern's nursery, located 2jr miles northwest of the city.

Mr. Kern is a practical nurseryman, and been connected with some of the best nurseries in tha state. An examination of his trees reveals the fact that they are very uniform in color, size and style for each variety and hardy to a remarkable extent. Everything in the line of trees, shrubbery, vines, ttc, is kept in this nursery, and it is the experience of most planters that all stock purchased of Mr. Kern are sure and rapid growers, with proper care and attention.

The trees, shrubs and vines are all grown from the start under his personal supervision, and all with the least defect are thrown out, so that he keeps his stock up to the very highest all the time. Don't place orders with foreign nurseries when you can get just as good trees and shrubs at as Iowa pric right here at home. Wlirra Cliirlionm llHrk In Obtained ad lluw It I MnrkMad. Of tho thousands who say quinine is "good for every tiling," few are awar that its introduction into the pharmacopeia Is of comparatively recont data. Quinine is one of tho moat common ot hnmeopatbio drugs and is usod for all ailments.

It la an alkaloid obtained from tho cinchona bark, whoso wonderful properties as a tonlo bocamo known about 1(187. At that time the Countoss of Clnchon, Vk-o-Qiiocn of Peru, was very ill with a lingering fo-vet, and the boxl medical men of South Amorica wero In attendance and had almost despaired of tho Countess recovery. Ono day a washerwoman appeared at the palace gate and gave -the Count-ess' maid a bark which shn directed to bo given to her lulhti-es. Tho Countess rallied, and In a short tinio recovered. Tho strange baric Was then called elnch-ona bark, whose praises tho Vtcc-Qucon was always singing.

Quinine came Into general use in Europe about tho closo of tho seventeenth century, and for about ono hundred years tho Europeans woro dependent upon a few South American Slates for their supply, which was very meager, as Peru, liolivia and Ecuador, which woro tha chief producers, were continually wrangling with each other. Their squabbles prevented tho natives gathering cinchona bark, and often in a few weeks tho prlro of quinino would fluctuate several dollars a pound. Theso petty states monopolized tho trade in tho soverost manner, and tho poor bark-gatherers were compelled to sell their stuff for whatover the government choso to fjivo, and at present tho South American Slates levy a duty on all the lark exported. Tho Europeans soon becamo tired of this way of securing their supply and tho Dutch woro tho first, after years of experimenting, to succeed in breaking tho Mouth American monopoly. They found that tho trco would grow in tho East Indies.

The English Government, jealous ot their rival's success, sent out numerous expeditions to investigate tho whole subject and sco whothor or not tho trees could bo transplanted, and this was successfully dono after many trials in northern India. Although tho trees flourished where they had been transplanted tho Dutch encountered other obstaclos. It was found that tho bark ot the samo species of trees was of Very Irregular quality, and although it all looked aliko it often required achomlcal analysis to ascertain its value. Somo barks yield as high as thirteen per cent, alkaloids, upon which the value of cinchona dopends. Tho season for gathering tho bark bo-gins in August and lasts till October or Novombor, ancordln'f to tho weat.l or.

Aftor it is stripped from tho tt-oo it to bo thoroughly dried and than packed in coroonsof moUtencd cowhide or in bales of hoavy Hacking. Most of theso aro branded with trademarks. Some of these have attainod considerable reputation, and auy lark in the bales so named can bo rcliel upon. It is claimed that tlioro is a great deal of trickery used in tho trade, as inferior or worthless barks are sometimes skillfully mixed with good barks, and tho difference is so slight that all tho imports aro analyzed bo tore thoy aro accepted. During tho prevalence of la grippe In this city tho supply of quininttbecamo practically exhausted.

Most of tho stock was hold by a largo retail druggist, who sold all ho had for double tho normal price. Quinino is generally takon In two-grain capsules or in a powder with wator or whisky. Tho first way is pefor-ablo, as it does away with any disagreeable taste. Tho annual consumption of quinine in the United States is about 45,000,000 grains, and tbo trado hero and abroad Is almost entirely in tbo hands of a monopoly, whoso great factory is located in Mannheim Germany. Chicago Times.

SOME FAMOUS HOAXES. roeollar But Not Commendable Feature of American Humor. There Is one- foaturo of American humor entirely distinct from any characteristic of which I have hitherto-written, Hoaxing of the too crcdulousroad' ing public has been nowhere so success, fully practiced as in, this country, ltich-ard Adams Locke, a mild-mannered editor, soberly proclaimed, in tho summer of 1835, that Sir John llerschel, of astronomical fame, had mado astonishing discoveries at tho Capo of Good Hope with a new forty-two-thousand-powor magnifier of the moon. Locke was minutely scientific and attractively vivid In his descriptions of lunar formations of basaltio rock (covered with dark red flcwers), water, trees, plants, volcanoos, birds, auhnuls and life's higher orders. This narrative appeared in tho Now York Sun.

The subsequently published pamphlet is nowadays harder to grasp than at that poriod tho mountains and fountains of night's quoonly silver orb seemed to be. Since Locke's time newspaper Ananlascs have not been frequent. "Eli rerkins is grossly libelled when named with Chester Hull, the sensational journalistic fakir in San Francisco, Tho New York Herald's startling, bogus, half-column-head-lined story of the escaped menagerie at Central Park, and a Brazilian Monte Crlsto wedding, detailed with reportorial gravity and precision in the New York Times (about 1874), aro both classics of their simulative kind. Henry Clay Lu-kens, in Harper's Magazine. Electricity la Hie Kmrj.

There is a proposition before Congress to appropriate to pay the cost of experiments to test tho utility of electric motors as applied to the steering, lighting and ventilating of naval vessels; for pumping and hoisting and for handling marine ordnance and ammunition, and generally to testing the efficiency of electrical power as applied to marine architecture. These experiments are to be conducted under the direction and control of the Secretary of tho Kavy, who is authorized to detail officers and designate places and vessels for the work. American Analyst. In a church-yard, not far from Dawson, is a thorny rose bush which ests of tho farmer are tho interests of tho whole When bo prospers tho state prospers. when hia business larigiilshrsthowholoBlato suffers No set of men are more philanthropic than the editors of Kaunas.

None will do more from disinterested mo tives thun they, but in this case they are Hot dislntercvted. Eath and every editor in the state is vitally interested in tho prosperity of the fanners. For this reason every paper is friendly to tho alliance for the sole object of the allianeo is to better the condition of tho farmer. Bomotinics it makes mistakes, as all its members nro human, and when It df.es so thaJmlepeudeiil Kansas editor does not hesitnto to criticise.it. Hut in tho main tho Kansas editor is with the Kansas alliance.

The silver bill agreed on by tho caucus of the two branches of Congress provides for the purchase of 4,500,000 dunces of puro silver a month, as compared viith that of about 2,450.000 under tho present law at the avcrago priees of tho past twelvemonths, and to issue inpayment silver bullion treasury notes, tho notes to be redeemable in lawful money. But the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his own discretion, give silver bullion in exchange for the notes. Of course, the enactment of this measure would repeal the liland coinage law, which has been in operation since 1878. This is the Jones bill, with one or two more or less important amendments. If it should pass It would absorb all the silver produced in this country and some of the foreign product in addition.

The Morrill Pension bill lias just passed tho house, avul will become a law. Tho bill authorizes the secretary of tho interior to place on tho pension roll tho name of any officer or enlisted man of sixty years of age or over, or who shall herc.ifter reach that age, who served ninety days or more in the army, navy or marine corps of tho United State during tho war of tho rebellion and shall have received an honorable discharge therefrom, said pension to commence from the date ii tha application therefor and to continue during the term of life of said officer or enlisted man at the rate of 8 a mor.t'i. All persons who served ninety days or more in the military or naval service in the United States during the Into war of tho rebellion and who have been honorably discharged therefrom and who are now or may hereafter be sufl'ering from mental disability equal to the grade now established in tho pension office for the rating of $3 a month, upon duo proof of the fact, according to such rules and regulations as the secretary of the interior may provide, shall be placed upon tho list of invalid pensioners of the United States at the rato of $8 renn onth. It also provides for pension to tho widow of any soldier when sho shall arrive at the ago of 60 years, or when she shall bo without other means of support than her daily labor. Frank Warner has had a fence put up around his residence property on Allcutt Street.

Cod la The Constitution. Myron W. Itoed. I like somo things I see. The locomotive pulls me a hundred miles or more and then goes quietly into the round house says nothing.

The locomotive engineer comes down from tho cab, says nothing, goes home, does not wait for an ovation from the passengers whose lives depended on a turn of his wrist. God takes care of His universe. It is larger than I can think. It is beyond the frontiers of Daniel Webster's or Victor lingo's thought. What is it to Him whether His name is mentioned in the constitution of a country of a small planet? As it seems to me all that God cares for is that His principles are in force, His laws obeyed.

"Inasmuch a you have done it to one of the least of these you have done it uuto me;" that is a saying of Christ. Once in a while I find a man who suits me. He does not cara for recognition. All he cares for is power. He likes to see his thoughts take hold.

He stays back and sees the children of his mind and heart working. Now tho thing that pleases God, as I understand Him, is not worship, but service. Not bent knee, but active foot. I should rejoice to be pastor of a church every member of which was too busy on Sunday to attend church. You do fairly well as churches go; you do more than fairly well.

I5ut rfbw, this afternoon, instead of thinking what a poor sermon that was go out and visit someone poorer than you are. Take them some book that helped you, some thought that helped you. God does not care for his name in tho constitution. He does not rare for His name, He cares for tho power of II is love. 8.

F. Davidson called on the Citizkn Tuesday and left an order for Job printing. The County Alliance of this county met at the brick school houso in this city last Saturday. Rkmembhu that the Citizen job odlco is prepared to do first-class work at all times and at reasonable prices. Mrs.

It. J. Dohcrty has been visiting her mother Mrs. Pruitt, who Is very sick at her homo in Armstrong, for tho past few days. Andy Wilburn has Btruck a good job down in 'southeVn Missouri, and has arranged to have his family move thither as soon as possible.

Geo. J. Sehonhorsl, the brick-yard proprietor, has moved his family to this place and is occupying a cottage on Morse avenue in the north part of town. A. Ray made the Citizen a brief but pleasant call last Tuesday morning.

He has purchased property here and will make this his permanent home. R. J. Brawner has added a new 6 foot nickel show case to his store fix tures and put therein a largo line of pocket cutlery and other goods that he is selling at astonishingly low priees. Read the new advertisement of John AV.

McDaniel which appears in to day's paper. He has a large and wrell selected stock of dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes and groceries and sells as cheap as anyone in Bonner Springs or neighboring towns. The Odd Fellows at this place cele brated last Saturday night the 71st anniversary of their birth in America. Mr. Frank II.

Letton delivered the opening address which wa3 attentively listened to by all present. lie was followed by L. O. Smith, who made a very happy little talk. All present seemed well pleased with tho evening exercises.

The matter of establishing an alli ance store at Bonner Springs is under consideration in certain quarters. Thcro is one tiling however, that may give the farmers pause. Stoics on the alliance plan can be conducted onlyon a strictly cash basia. Tlioro is no margin for bad debts when prices arc made much below tho current retail rates. Pay as you go is the right rule anyway, even if you have to go slow.

C. G. Wado met with an accident last Friday night that kept him at home for a few days. Ho was returning from Kansas City on the night train and when arriving at tlio depot, it being quite dark, lie supposed the train had stopped and stepped oif side-ways, landing on his head and shoulders. It seems that the train had overreached and ran past the depot and in applying the air brakes it had steaded the train leading Mr.

AV. to suppose it had stopped. lie was considerably bruised up and does not care to indulge in any more acrobatic train riding. II. A.

Eborla known throughout Kansas as Dr. Eberlc, has made application before the supreme court for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that he is unlawfully restrained of his liberty by AA'illiam Cook, sheriil of Labette county. Eborle is now in jail at Oswego. An indictment was found against Eberlo in February last, but he was not arrested until April. lie was charged with attempting to defraud Samuel Tilton out of $270 by obtaining his name to a promissory note for that amount.

In the district court tho writ was denied and an appeal was then taken to the supreme court. AA'hat about the big real estate deal at Muncie? We hear little more about it, and about the construction of a great electric plant and the damming of the Kaw at that point. If talk was good capital to build upon, the sound ot the carpenters hammer would be heard even at Bonner, more incessantly than it is, and surely the Muncie bottoms would be booming. But talk is cheap. We hope however that the Muncie deal will go through.

As for Bouner Springs, the outlook is all right. Hundreds of lots have been sold, and there is as much life and elixir in the sparklingsprings, and the balmy breezes as ever. There is no place in Bonner Springs for Peck's Bad Boy. We Have enough of that kind here already. On Sunday morning there was a "scrap" between two 10 year old gamins nearly in front of the post office.

The crowd of spectators was numerous, as many of our good denizens were waiting for the arrival of the east mail and the spectacle of these two juvenile u)livans clawing, striking, and hurling "cuss" words ot one another, was a sin and a shame. After the battle." kid raged for a while with uncertain results, it took a triangular a brother of one of the principles having "sailed one time there was prospect of a general melee, and possibly there might have been, had not Dr. Downs interfered in the interest of peace and fair play. As it waa, the fight end-d without material damage to any of the participants. I nra now reeeivinglhe.liu'gest and best Hue of Ladies Dress Goods Ever brought to Bonner Springs.

Lawns, Challies, India Linens Henrietta Cloth, With Silk and Cotton Thread to match, mid a nice Jine.of Lace, Etc. GuitJdorw-Ihe Best Goods for the Least Money. F. H. DOWNS.

A. PETERSON, THE TAIL0B! DOES First Class Work at Reasonable Trices. pairing neatly done. Satis faction 'Guaranteed. Shop on Allcut street, near Uak.

Pmiacr Spring, Kant. BUY YOUR Ponfo ami Qhnoe cjuujo uiiu uiiuuaj Hats, Caps, Groceries and Notions OF J. W. McDaniel My prices arc as Iowks tho lowest and my goods first-class. The president approved the act for a bridge across the Mississippi fiver at South St.

Faul, Minn. Whortoa is having a cistorn dug at his residence on Xettleton avenue, an improvement that will greatly enhance the value of already desirable property. Senator Ingalls has intordueed a bill granting a pension of 8 a month to all persons who served in the late war not less than three months nor mor than a year; to those who served more than a year, and not exceeding 800 days, $8 a month, and those who served over 800 days, 1 cent per diem for each day's service. No person who is worth at tho time of filing his application shall be entitled to this servico pcesion. With the anti-trust bill passed the senate; good prospect for law to stop grain gambling; with the promise free coinage of silver and increase of tho circulating medium; with an Increase of pensions of about J10C ,000,000, with the Galveston harbor opened to our products; with cattle at i to $4 30, and hogs on the rise; with corn at 30 cents and wheat going up; with the country full of grain and slock in good health; with the fine rains and crop and fruit prospects, will some gentleman take the stand and tell what is tho matter? Isnt it about time to cease theso lamentations and braoe upV Pratt County Republi.ui.

A friend and admirer of Keely, the motor man, has this to say about tho mysterious alleged invention: "It costs nothing more, after the machinery is made, than the vibratory concordant impulse which associates it the polar stream. The twanging si a taut string, the agitation ot a timing fork, as associated with the reson.Ung condition of the sympathetic transmitter, is ail that is necessary to induce tho connecting link and to produce this costless motive As long as the transmitter is in sympathy vi ith the sympathetic current to the triune polar stream the action of the sympathetic instrument or engine continues." An era of better times than have ever been enjoyed is just beginning to make itself felt in Kansas. The lato advance in farm products has infused new life into all lines of business, especially among tha farmers. Tho advance in corn from ISto 23 cents is stimulating a liberal movement in that cereal and immense amount of it is. finding its way to market.

The acreage put to corn this year ill be larger than last, and much of it has already been planted. The growing wheat, never gave better promise at this period in the season than it does now. ISu with other small grains and grasses, while the rrospeet for an abundant fruit croj is believed fully equal to tho best the state ever had at the present time of the season. Taken all together, therefore, from tho agricultural point of view, there is everything to encourage and nothing to depress, Wichita Eagle. Tuesday.

Mr. Shannon, like most other staunch tillers of the soil In Leavenworth county, is taking hold of alliance work in good earnest. An editor who can read, write and argue politics and at tho same time be funny, scientific and historical at will; write to ploaso everybody, know every thing that is going on without asking or being told; always have something to say to everyone elseJive on wind and make more money than enemies for such a man a good opening will be madein a grave yard. AV asked a gentleman who ought to know "what is the prospect of a re-vival of the canning business at Bon ner springs tins summer? iiut we got no satisfactory answer. Since there are no signs to indicate failure of tho tomato crop this year, and the last years product of our factory was of such an excellent quality about the best in the Kansas City markc it would be too bad to let the woik-t stand idle this summer.

AVe hope to be able to report favorable of our canning works in the near future. A Topeka man answered an advertisement which offered a fine parlor suit upholstered in plush for $1. A furniture van was procured and driven i to the express office, when the man received tho notice of the furniture and a few minutes a box four by six inches was handed out containing a full suit of doll furniture. Some people never learn anything except by tasting the fruit. The Topeka man isn't "out" much money, buthe is "in" a whole wagon load of knowledge.

Parsons Sun. The resubmission's now propose to call on tho governor May 7, anil make a formal demand lor an extra session of the legislature. Tin: request will bo granted if Hudson consents. iiinporia Democrat. This question of nn extra session of the Legislature for tho purpose- of resubmitting the prohibitory amendment is nil foolishness in tho extreme.

Wo aro not opposed to having tho Whisky question resubmitted if majority of the people of the state so desire, although we aro strenuously opposed to the liquor traffic. But tin extra session of the Legislature would cost too much money, and besides, the Legislature will convene in about eight months and during that time a vote ill be taken for Representatives and the rcsubmision question can be argued at that time and the election of members based on this question. This is a Republican form of Government and declares the right of tho majority to rule and wc believe in treating with consideration and respect even those who want the question voted upon again. At tho time voted upon before it was not adopted by a majority of tho whole vote, and there are in Kansas now one hundred thousand more voters than hen prohibition was adopted, and our people, having seen the advantages and drawbacks to the law aro better able to judge as to whether they want it continued or abolished. It is not a question as to whether prohibition is religiously and morally right.

The question to be determined, is, whether or not the peoplo of this state want prohibition. We believe prohibition is right from a moral or religious stand point, but if a majority of the people declare against it, it is politically wrong. A great deal has been said by the Kansas press during the past winter against resubmission. But why? Will some one explain the cause? Are they afraid to trust he people to speak upon a subject that they are so much interested in, or are they so fanatical as to suppose tho peoplo cannot lie trusted lo speak wisely and safely upon this question? It is not a matter of partisan politics, as voters of both parties want tho question resubmitted. Froliibi-tionists need not object to another vote upon the question.

If a majority do not want prohibition it would not be just to paddle it upon them. place is talked of as editor. The attention of advertisers is called to tho fact that the Citizen is the very best advertising medium in tho Kaw Valley. Our already large circulation is rapidly increasing and tho paper goes into the homes of many of the wealthiest people in this most fertile of valleys. The spirit of improvement that is so prevalent here now is affecting even the railroads.

The Union Pacific people are repainting and renovating their depot. Thesoldity and convenience of the building coupled with tho handsome surroundings make this one of the most attractive stopping places on tho Union Pacific system. A meeting of short horn breeders of Western Missouri and Eastern Kansas as held at the Metropolitan hotel in Kansas City last Thursday. AV, A. Harris of Linwood" was made president; P.

D. Etue of Kansas City, secretary; AV. T. Clay of Plattsburg, treasurer; while the executive committee was made up of the president, the secretay and T. P.

Babst of Dover, AV. Z. Darr of Carrollton, and J. AV. Pickett of Lilly.

It wa3 determined to hold a public sale during the fall of 1390 or the spring of 1891. A farmers alliance has been organized at Loring, and two evangelists have opened meetings at the Stone school house. Sinve tho tenets of the alliance inculcate peace and love be tween the brethren, there is likely to be an era of better feeling at Loring. Winchester rifles may, under the cir cumstances, take a tumble in the Lori nir market, and madam Grundy instead of going about stirring up mischief, may be content to stay at home and Attend to her knitting, or in lieu of anything better, divert herself with chewing gum. Farmers who visit our town to trade and discuss politics should be careful how they hitch their teams near the railroad track.

Last Monday a team attached to a wagon, broke loose from its moorings at the cattle chute, and tore pellmell up Oak Street to the dismay of divers spectators and threatening destruction of the numerous kids of all sizes that throng the busy thorough-fare. When opposite the residence of Squire Doherty, the lady of the house intrepidly rushed out and brought the excited roadsters to a halt. P. D. Cook, one of the liest known citizens of this place, lias consented to act as agent for The Citizen this and adjoining counties.

Ho will receive subscriptions for tho parer at regular rates and furnish estimates on ad vertising and job work of all kinds. Mr. Cook expects to visit the far mers in the surrounding country and the citizens of our neighboring towns. Give him your sub-pcriptionand reeeivt the best local paper in the Kaw Valley. was planted in lsoo..