The Liberal Leader from Liberal, Kansas • 1

Y.vV i. -12 I. NO. 2. LIBERAL, KANSxVS, HIUIIST) AY, MAY 3, 1888.

VOL. 1. nit'rchants are ordering new goods The Liberal Leader. T' or 13 every day, that eveiy freight train riu gs from eight to fifteen rnr loads A WtT vwn, pmroour.sMUoouasiwe.K.HQ i a- ilufd yr TlmmdhT.l wit kans.tw, No, Man's Lund and (-he ItLINMXU JKALOl'SY. jcortoit iy Cloudi of Mm (not counting lum In T.

1. 1 11 1 EDITED AM) BXn nou nave ueeu wesson hu ber) and tha, our pe.iple can still not getjhinr goqd.1 fast enough. LAMUFJtT WILLSTAKOT, motit CDV1UU8 rmM whlcb hav AT MUKMAL, HKWAKM 0,, KAN. And )ls Kail(r Through This county ifl ivijiurkably well set-ihI, considering that the first settler Itta of Subscription nuu me pwHpect a uountiiui crop, On py. one surer every day, From al MlltMIUIII lover tho state come equally oheering came here only three years ago.

And this barren wastu- where rain never falls and where crops are un- reports and it la evident that this year is to be one pf plenty through Tln'Sinall HikMH" The llonj Ajt Ah It Int. IJig. IJ Twld la A Very i'lwimiut Way. The pdjtor of tho Horton Hpad-ght yjsiUtd our town last Sunday a nown had Ptpre rain during the last THIS SPACE IS KENEltYED FOR ST1NE MOORE, Dealers In HEAVY AND SHELF WARF, ETC, Kansas Near Second, THE out the Sunflower state. Meudo, Gray, Garfield, Finney, Has-kell, Seward, HteyenR, Grant Kearney, Hamilton, Stanton, and Morton.

Also a paii 6f Grunt, Wichita, Scott, Lane, Nm Rush, Iarton, Rice, McPhersup, Marjn and Phase conn-ties are within the boundaries named. Within the boundaries of this territory pre eight hundred and sixteen congressional townships or very near ly nineteen inillion acres of laud that for boanty and fertility is not surpassed anywhere pn earth. Through this xpnnse of territory flow the cLiar waters of the Great and Little Arkansas, the Cimarron and the Ninnesoah rivers with their thousands of tributary creeks "and rivulets, la whose waters shaded by forest twos, innumerable herds and flocks slake their thirst Through green pastures, and by rich farms covered with growing crops, promis ten days, than even the most discon This was all that was needed to tented farmer oared alimit, Pr was Oldest Paper In Liberal. insure a flood of immigration, Bnch needed, and this county oHainod at as Kausag Las neyer before seen, and the last Stato Fair tho First Prize for the best display of agricultural products of all counties organized it is a dead certainty that the country for 100 miles about Liberal will get more than its share of the new comers. RAILROAD TIME TABLE.

cmoAdfV Kansas Nebraska fcv. (Bock Inland Bond.) sinco 1875. Our realestate men say, that not a day passes without enquiries pouring week ago and after spending day and a bf in Liberal, hastened Loino, filled with envy and jealousy, raging mad, because he could not obtain a 1,000 lot and woefully sorry that fate had led him to gaze at a town which he recognized at onco was destined to take the shine off of Horton and eclipse it as a city of magnitude and importance, like as an elephant over shadows -a mouse. Let us Organize, Liberal ought to be organized as a in regarding our town and county, Vn Iran P. M.

city or the third class at the earliest 07; Aupommoafllkm 0:30 F. M. 8nd ik a 80Urce satisfaction I to speak so flatteringly find yet so TBAiNs depart. truthfully of the situation jo general, possible moment. The grading of the principal streets and the building of sidewalks, should be done in a uni ing a beautiful harvest, and by busy Jfo.

OR. Acwniodtlan 5:80 A. M. I Our town booming with a big cities and happy villages, many in When he arrived at home ho cooled 24. KS.

Oft Exprew 12:25 P.M. Iger boom than ever and persona of form and systematic manner. Tb8 number, these waters flow on forever down for work and then he tod in a very pleasant way gpme very big houses ought to be numbered, and on their journey to the sea. Within a L. MULLEN, very good judgment too, assert that a population of 20,000 souls, is not an improbability.

Twenty-thousand there are various other improvements ics. Here is what he snvs: these boundaries and wher? sixteen years ago the buffalo sleek and fat eoded Fhjch. r'pqnir-e $6. attention 'Having lit-tee with attentive ear souk! doubtless seems like a wild idea, and carp (jf ft rpgnlfttdy instituted grazed iq peace until the huge bulls but truly we have ainplopreoodentin THE TOPEKA REAL ESTATE M. J- CROJHOHC, MANAGER.

On Avet, Wear Second 8t Do a general real estatejbusmeas. (a Jiaye soma rexy choice bargains in city lots Write us (or ov call and see us, city government Wifhjn a few days on the confines of vast hords scented Wichita i)n which to base such a es this town will one month old, and to the wijd, jt4 pwtirely Jju gfnrjio descriptions of the flew toin of Liberal, in the us recounted by profenion-a hcisuiers, ira-oc Satnrday took onr depiyttnre tq view that wonder. the enemy, when thousands of these timate. Who was there under the hea- great monsters in mass thundered as there are more than enough people here to give us tho requisite num I vens, evea among the most sanguine down, valley and across swelling We arrived there Sundny afternoon, and, HAULEHBECK fi WHITE, fS' HHINGLKS, DOOtt! Wichitaian, who dreamed four years ber of inhabitant, there is nothing in prairie, hotly pursued by savage huntsmen to-day dwell morp tnan 8 ago that' that city would grow to the size sml importance which it has meeting with several old friends, were very hospitably entertained and passed onr short stay very pleasantly. But we must the way of an early organization.

If any one has a suggestion to make in this matter let him dq so. The col half million of people. T'hese peo say we were not greatly impressed with pie have their splendidly improved BLINDS, MOULDINGS One has only to take a map of the the future of the new town, nor did we be umns of The Leadeh are always open to receive communications from our come indued with the ctazy idea of the 1 southwest fthd examine carefully the present boomer, of the town. The cold, I location of Liberal with reference, to farms, their cities, an illiages, are supplied with, actoiM, smal and great; and s(ocks pf- merchandise, and fruits of every cjime with whjch RTC. ETC, Priori as low the lowest.

A liber! share of your putroojige so- citizens qu- all questions relating to the interest of Ihxal, its availability as a wholesale trading hard facta iu the cae ate these: Liberal will be for six months, or possibly one year, ieited. Office and yard oa 2nd tit, I point 'tor 'the country.around it, to the terminus of the Rock Island road. the markets of these cities and, yil tfflst'ot jyansfls Ave I understand; that Liberl for a distance The company is putting in at that place, a si stall round house, a depot and freight linges ai-P supplied tell own story of the prosperity of the people LIBERAL, KAN I of thirty-five miles north, one Jbuudred When you want anything in Dry J. 1L Rouoe, of Cimarron, took a depot, all frame. Tb town company.

and twenty -five mil weBt and more to this snnty lad. look at onr town to-day wiih a view composed of Are officer of tha toad, own than one miles seraph of it Clothing Boots, Shoes and Millinery, don't of locating here. The thousand pf school hffliaes C40 acres of land. This is the company's will have absolutely ho competition. churches and colleges with which interest in Liberal entire.

As long as Liberal is the end of the line, it will be the W. S. Allen, superintendent of the fail to call on the Palace Dry Goods No competition readerj do you nn this land is dotted tell the stramjer C. K. N.

has been promoted derstand what that mea.ps? do you supply depot for a territory of country ex IBUtLAlM. ttrhey4t in language that will not be misnn tending south through "No Man's Land" realize that it covers otfep fifteen to the position of General Superin derstood that the inhabitants pf this into ihji "Panhandle" i'f Teiis, This is tendent. Poods, Contests, Mortga and thousand sgii'are mile of the richest the only and sole support of the town. God favored land are in the front ranks of the conquering host pf this A.s8ignnjtM8 drawn with cure. I soil the world, and that every The supply trade in every other direction nan.

Mr: Wiley' Blakeman and J. J. pound of sugar, every package of is cut off by Dodjje City, Garden City and century, who are winning victories Feghtly, of Wichita, arrived in the tea and oaffeo, every pound of nails, Meade Center, The country around Libs city on Wednesday, They are on a for and advanped civlli zatign. Wichita Eac.lEj formerly of Fargo Springs, now on St Comer Third and Washington Ave. I bav the largest stock in this county and ili guarrantee prices as low as the Yours respectfully, G.

W. Mitchell. eral is worthless and thinly settled, Tb-ing the country for a radius of forty mile- prospecting tour. in short every thing which the west does not produce and which is consumed in' tliat 15,000 square miles, And it is this country of which around Liberal, there is not an average of 1 Liberal, next to Wichita! is to become one person ta the seotion, while "No Frank Young, a Wichita in Man's LandJ' lying only a few miles south. vestor, who was here several weeks the most important city.

GEO, s-smith; I i 'f DEALER IS I Drugs atxd Pruggist Sunflries, must oome 'from; 'Liberal, "Why it throws feto the shade the -advantage of every town which was ever started is an uninhabited and barren waste, Tak ago, returned yesterday with an eye ing the country as a whole, it is the most to business, The Bank of Wral, God-forsaken region we ever visited. It in the state, and: what it will be tea Pajnta, Oils and Glass. is productive of nothing but sand hills. One of the best evidences of the years from to-day no one can predict Mr. C.

Clark, the ((raveling cor tarantulas, and cactus. It is a treeless igaw and Stationarj-, faith in our town that isis ip high Each day see's an influx of laboring respondent of the leaded, had inves plain, devoid of vegetation, a sandy un quarters is the fact that the Town men, business men arid speculators productive wapte, a desert drear, without ted some of his sweat-of-the-brow KANSAS. Company which is composed princi NEW. STORE If SI earned dollars in Liberal real estate 1 and the latter are already' realizing on the big bonanza they have struck pally of Rock Island officials, is put the smallest oasis to break the monotonous sameness, a district where rain never falls and where crops are unknown, where soil He recently sold papery that cost ting so much money into its bank and are buying freely and in many him $83 for $250. is a lie, and the land an abortion upon na building on the corner-' or Fourth St tuie, where the sun doe? not shine with its cases doubling the price fls as the papers are made out, all know and Kansas Ave.

Our-traveling correspondent and accustomed briliancy, a country abandon It is by long odds the finest struc t. CAIN TONSORJAL.ARTIST. Kansas tJor.iJrd Street. ed of God and despised by men, The town agent returned yesterday from a trip ing that six months fom to-day, five figure prices will be for lots in ture yet planned, so lib 06 "we know. GROCERIES, FLOUR AND FEED.

Wholesale and Retail CHI1AP AS THE CHEAPEST. LEADERS IX LOW ALBEE EIlIIOHr east and reports that the wheat all as laid out consists of one hundred and twenty acres of ground laying north of the right-of-way, It was originally laid with to be built in the eityi Mr, L. A. the Choicest business location. along the line of the Kock Island is UberaK Kansas.

Ball, Asst Supt. of Construction pf There is no use arguing the mat looking well for the time of year. Kansas avenue as the main business street, ter, anyone of the least penetration buildings for the C. K. N.

will have general oversight of its erection and Second, Third and Fourth streets as cross business streets, The lots on Kansas Mr. E. W. Sandison sold over one and judgment must know that in CITX TRANSFER EXPRESS hundred lots during 'the last two Liberal Is the safest to be found in Kansas The No. i)5E, days.

He will leave here to-morrow and Messrs. Grace Griffiths, the Chicago Contractors who built the shops at Horton, the depot and offices avenue were sold at one thousand and twelve hundred, dollars, and on the others at three and four hundred. A syndicate has bought up property on Washington avenue, turned the lots so as to front on the noon but will return nest week. JD.QC8 general 'transferring. Moving I act tflat not one out of fifty visitors ifijafes and heavy -iiynght ft specialty.

I leaves place without' investing if at lopeka and who are putting up Oscar Bischoff, the Topeka capi the railroad buildings, here have the they have the money to use, is suffi- F. HIATT, Prop. street and propose to make that the busi ness street, A a result all business prop contract ciently conclusive proof of this. 1. talist, is erecting a large store building here, Work on the same was commenced this rnorhing.

erty in the town has been brought to a But what we want is not so much It will be of briok and stone, three stand still. Investors ere holding their Btories high, and the ground dimen prices stiff, but they are making no sales, speculators, as men who will come in and embark in business and erect substantial buildings which will be sions wjll be 50x97 feet the front The idea of pitying from twelve hundred to JOHN KQSfl CO, Chapman Chamberlain are the being on Kansas avenue. It is pro two thousand dollars for a twenty-five oot a credit to a town such fc Libral will lo.t in a raw prairie without any other in P9sed to divide the ground floor iuto dieation of a coming town than a lot of proprietors of the neatest restaurant in town. The room looks bright and cheerful and the establishment is well patronized, two rooms, one to be occupied by LUMBER, HARDWARE AND tents and a few miserable chanties, with the bank and the other to, be a large be in one year from to-day Solid merchants, who will carry big enough stocks of goods to render the city nothing except mark on a plat to indi cate where the center of the town will be storeroom which ia not Vet rented. GENERAL BUILDlJfG MATER- famous for the size and weight of its comev and in town with no prospect Capi Vermillion, of Iowa, and his The second" floor vU he out up into for the use ol our lawyers mercantile establishments.

We re before it except that there may possibly JAL Kansas south of Railroad. brother, of Wichita, eame in yester be a man in the who is a little doctors, dentists, etA and the third peat, that for years to come, Liberal day are looking- over- their in craxier than yon are, is simply absurd, will increase steadily in size and im liiberal a v. Kansas. Lots in Liberal are as high now as they vestments and making more purchases. -They have made some are in Horton, while the town hag not one portance, but now is the time to get in on the ground floor and the one's hundreth the backing of Horton, iwr will it ever have half the population we now very profitable turns sinoe the Captain waa here the last time, who are shrewd enough to take ad Subscribe For THE LIBERAL LEADER, 'The Oldest and largest.

Paper in Liberal $1,5,0 PER YEAR. We do, all kinds of job work -with neatness, and dispatch have. The prosperity of Liberal depend vantage of the opportunity will reap J. 31. JVAjREfij upon a wild, crazy sort of a boom and is floor will probably be used either as lodge rooms or- public hall although that has not yet been fully decided upon.

The basement will be of stone and finished with hard wood. It will contain several large office rooms. The building will cost, when completed, upwards of $35,000 and would be a credit to any city in Kansas. A a golden harvest class of speculation that we for one are H. Putman, editor of the Hansford (Texas) Herald, favored us with a call this tolls us that afraid of." Iflans -and -Specifications furnished Southwestern Kansas, mi 1 4 We need not waste time and space on.

application. I nRTfl RrH iTHW nOTtrua U'hn hi AtA in contradicting these statemeuts. 1 ALLANS AS. I'stoppedto tbjnk.of the extent of ter- Liberal is the nearest supply point for his town, and that we may expect a big trade from there. Hansford is a growing young town 65 miles south i I si for every one here knows them to be untrue.

But for the benefit of the thousands of people, of this and other ntory and importance of southwes tern Kanaas. Jt is generally be lieved the mam line of the of us. states, who contemplate coming here, J. M. IlXDLEX.

Atchison, Topcka Santa Fe rail and Who may not know the facts, we WATCH MAKES AXD JRWHLIjB. will state that Liberal has hot only MU Bopalit warrtijje4 to gire gtiBtot road in western Kansas rtlna well to the sonth line qfihe state. Yet it is never-theJess kue that west of the T. A. Vaughn, is one of the pioneer merchants of Liberal, He moved from Fargo Springs early the backing of the great Rock Lsland Company but 'that hu.udivd.sof capi P.

B. traveling corregpon-. dent of the Wichita Eagle, was a welcome visitor to our sanctum yes? terday. Mr. Dilday brought a few thousand copies oi last Sunday's Eagle heref with another write up of our town.

When newspapers of the standing and importance of the Eagle take so much interest in our placp, it is clea proof, that Liberal is con enough to be here from tho start and east, line if Butler and Cowley coun talists are interested in our town, ties and south qf, Great Bend, there We will state further Hhht the natu is doing such a large business that he and his four are kept well enough employed from morning are.no less thirty counties. nu auyantages 01 tuis 1 town are bound to make it an important wholesale joint Several wholesale IKeal The, two above, named and Jlan-ey, Sedgwick. Sumner, Reno, Kingman, LUmilAJj, KANSAS Barber, Pratt, Stafford, till night Mr, HUghn is aow putting up a store tyiiilding 120 feet into ylii-li will mov in a ftnv sidered ty competent judges to bo a I houses are now located 1 Property. BongHt, Sold tnd Eichatg Pawueo, Ei1wartL, Kiowa, Com i'1'u ana a I to come. a.

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