Pratt County Press from Iuka, Kansas • 3

LEGAL NOTICE. WHOLESALE I T.4. To The Republican Elector of Iuka Township, Pratt County, Hans. iJraUCcuntiiPvcs Tfe Cotton in Pratt. L.

II. Naron came from Mississippi, lie is one of the old plant- of Kansas. of Pbatt. To the ratt County. Kansas: A special the District Court in rra of that state Because he was a The undersigned request the Re- and for Pratt in the 9th Judicial JDif trlnt, is herein to meet at Iuka union man ms property io iuo vumu r.f Tula.

Townshin in said county, at 10 o'eloek A. on the 18th day of October. 1879. for the dispatch of 840,000.00 was confiscated elur-, uy, Sept. ing the war Ho went back henoet USir" The First Business House of Stone or Brick in Hutchinson Winslow Allbrigiit, Wholesale tvnei XLetnil Druggists, HUTCHINSON, KANSAS.

or euen ousmess as snail lawiully eome co Our Scout's Report. Don't forget the concert. Iuka need a milliner and dress maker. A harness shop is a needed in 8titution. lore it.

The County Clerk shall at once proceed the war cioseei, ana uunng uu repuu- of clecting one member ran hi Rtrnfinn of MlSSlSSlODl lUe c. to draw a jury of twelve men, and for this purpose it no jury box has been provided of the County Central committee, and three members of the Township shall notify the Township Trustees to at raised cotton and made money But when the old originals came in once send in the names of qualified electors Committee, and for the transaction to power Mr. Narcn found the cli as r- oy law to be cone. It is further ordered that all capes nend nf nnv ntVior business tending to the T. F.

LEIMG1I Pioneer Grocery UrmMiilcr the convention oL inp in the Die triet Cotrt of Reno County SI nrcrnniTiiit.inn and success of the Re Saturday. irura me touiiiy oi i-ratt ue stonco trans mate rather warm for one of his political complexion, so he came to the free land of Sunnv Kansas. As the mltted to the clerk of the District court of Win. Yro is an ad the County of Jfratt. and that the Sheriff of Bfno county turn over to the Sheriff of family had always been used to mak CHEAP CHEAP publican party.

Let every Bepubli can Elector rally to the front. C. B. A damson E. L.

Maxwell J. D. Sherwood S. W. Taylor dition the Uajrtiesviile postoffice building.

Fratt county any prisoners he have In FAMILY R.ECII'ES Compounded with the utmost care. agents for the only genuia 13. A. Fahnestock, ing their own cotton goods, they put cusiouy iroiii Bam "ratt county. Docket your cases for the Dis out a patch of cotton last It is further ordered that you make due publication of this order as required by gy'Lorrillard's Tobacco, 55 cents per lb.

Arbuckle's Coffee, 5 lbs. for 00. J. C. Atkinson trict Court or.

October lath. thinking probably they could supply jaw. J. B. MeConnell Witness mv hand at chambers, at Who will start a tin and stove the want.

The balls are now open and ready to pick. Mr. Karon says store This i.s a fine opening. Groat Bend, Kansas, September 11th 1879. Judge Oth Judicial District, Kansas The oldest Grocery House in Hutchinson.

Best Goods. Lowest Prices. Bargains. Short Profits. Quick Sales.

No trouble to show Goods. Call on us. it is of good fiber and will yielc as S. W. has started the D.

D. Willard J. A. Stine William Parker A. II.

Mvers E. M. Koberds a JfS fc-j 43 3 II if 9 iMsa 1 4 many pounds as the average crop KOTIC'E FOR PUBLICATION. docs in the cotton growing districts John Iledriek L. C.

Thompson Daniel rortnell E. deters F. W. Anderson Jas. 2eely Wm.

Daily A. S. Thomson G. A. Bowman B.

T. Lane Wm. J. Allman J. S.

Filbeck A. S. Bateman of the south. He is now figuring on a gin. Next year we expect to take W.

J. Bowman Land Office at Larked, 8'iptember 1879. ball ruling. IJc is after lumber to put up a business house. Why can't we have a lumber yard in Pratt Every day some one is hunting for a few boards.

One ye-ir from now we will be on th-- line of two railroads and this will be an old settled country. our friends out to see jNaron's cot JiinCK STORE, Main Street, Near the Depot, HutcMnsoxi, lis. Notice hereby srivon that the following nameu settler tins fiied notice of his inten ton plantation. John S. Carter A.

Diuiick Jos. Hertwick Geo. Filbeck tion to make final proof in support of his claim, and secure final entrv thereof at the A warrant is in the hands of expiration of thirty days from the date of mis nonce, viz: James Struble. Declara JB3yAU kinds of Mixed Paints at Low Prices. ftgy We pay no rent nor clerk hire, own our own building and as a consequence sell goods closer than any house that has these items to add to the price of its goods.

the Sheriff for C. P. Leslie's arrest; one of the charges, being bribery. tory Sfatomor.t No. 281, for the S.

W. 1-4, Thos. Goodwin I. A. Homey J.

H. Kinff is off for a four Kc. S3. Tp. 20 8..

II. IS and names the following as his witnesf es, viz Eupene Ellis and Charles E. Dnnn, of Tratt County. J.Frank M. G.

Barney Geo. W. Stewart A. P. Stephenson 'THE STOKE DRUG STORE Ji-ansas, C.

A. JHobbis, lieglster. weeks trip on the Santa Fe railroad He will take in Dodge and Wichita, A Pratt county has no jeweler S. W. Dunn J.

G. Hickman KOTiri: ron publication. HUTCHINSON, KANSAS. Chas. A.

Taylor Florian Leber J. W. Siddorn M. C. Davis J.

W. Stewart photographer, insurance agent, sewing machine airent or music dealer. Land Office ax LAened. Kb, Beptombor 9th, 1879. J.

B. King O. L. Peak Notice is hereby fdven that the following Uncle Robert 'Ihoinpson says Florian Leber Jr named Fct'lcr has filed notice of tis inten W. 11.

Bosse tion to make final proof in support of his Eli S. Neill a friend of his will soon be here to build some six or seven cottages to claim, end secure final entry thereof at the expiration of thirty days from the date of M. Cheney Robt. Anderson W. J.

Davis Geo. II. Barker John A. Vestal rent. Lewis J.

Adams this notice, viz Abraham H. Myers, Declaratory Btatemcnt No. 303, for the N. W. Sec.

34, Tp. 26 8., R. 13 and names the following as his witnesses, viz Esla Squire Baker HARDY RAFF BROTHERS, Dealers ix Agriculture! Implements, That man Quinn was up from the Lodge, this week, just to shake hands with the bovs and to see his A D. Stephenson and Eugene Ellis, of Pratt Co Kansas. 0 5w C.

A. Morbis. Rpgintor. A "Wise Idea. We will now soon know whether the Press libeled Mr.

Leslie dnring the campaign by charging him ith bribery. The parties who are ing the case say that so far as are concerned they have no prestnt disposition to prosecute any resident ot the county, although they have abundant evidence against several, for they believe that Leslie instigated all the crookedness of the campaign. If however, local issues are to be dragged through the courts, as some of the parties loudly threat en, criminal prosecutions will be commenced against every guilty man in the county, where the evidence secured is sufficient to convict. We understand that a warrant has been, or soon will be sworn in Barbour County for Mr. Leslie's bene lit, and he will have a chance to tell what he knows about corrupting, or offering to c-irrupt the voters of that county.

That is he will have such an opportunity when justice is satisfied in Pratt county. family. Thos. Goodwin and fcvcral others HUTCHINSON, KiSSAS. The school meeting on Satur mm arc attending court at Newten.

They are vitnestea in the Benlhusen cattle day will probably recommend that NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Land Offio at Larned, Ks. 1 September 12th, 1879. Notice Is hereby friven that the foilowlns a proposition be submitted to vote $500. 00 school bonds, in the Iuka Healing ease.

named settler has filed notice of his inten Samuel Tavlor reports .580 School District, for the tmrnose of THE bushels of wheat raised on Sec. 21. 3 a Tn. 27, 11 18. lie asks if any oth -Dealers in- tion to make final proof iu support of his claim, and secure final entry thereof at the expiration of thirty days from the date of this notice, viz Iredell A.

Horney, Homestead Application No. S893, for the Northeast quarter. Section 8, Township 26 Range 13 and namos the following as purchasing the church and finishing it complete for school purposes. The building was put up mostly by subscription, but fabout $225.00 is ci' Section in the county can beat it. If some enterprising man would Only Exclusive Agricultural House in the City.

Jigtnts for Hie ye due Prof. Axline on the lumber. put up a stnaH building and open his witnesses, viz Samuel W. Dunn and Seneca W. Taylor, of Pratt county, Ks.

clean we regulate barber shop in 6 5w c. a. Morris, Eegister, DEEliE PLOWS, He now agrees, for the purpose ot having a good school here, to make jr liiUlIiiSlPp i this place he could make money. a deed of the property to the school Laws and Law Hook. Charlie Tayior has employed attorneys to brirgsuit against llobbs To illustrate the kind of a we have for sheriff, we will tell and others for maliciously arresting.

Wc understand that the volume of Laws, him during the late unpleasantness authorized by the last Legislature to he compiled by Mr. Dassler, are printed and you confidentially that his wife sent him out to find some chickens to start 3 ata J. I. We hoar that W. II.

aslow and HARROWS A-D CULTIVATORS, WEIR PLOWS, Cultivators. CACE AND GILPiN SULKEY PLOWS, UTILITY JIARROWS, being bound. As soon as the contract with 1 KJ the State, which takes 3,000 copies, is com Miss. Lucinda. Uateman were mar in the poultry business.

He went to Hutchinson and bought six nice hens, and on his way home coaxed Judge ried a day or two ago. If the report pleted, they will be cn sale by The Common wealth office at Topeka, Kansas. It is ex. pected that this will be early in October. HARDWARE, QUEEN3WARE, GLASSVVArEDRUGS is correct somebody rorgot the 1 rcss.

Hanan to let him have a The book numbers lloo pages, and those And now comes the lazy Indian Summer (lavs when the court house who have seen it say it is a good job. As it is arranged according to the wish of the The next morning seven bipeds crowed a chorus, and Mrs. Mc stood Sam- MILE URA joint Judiciary Committee of the two hous lval up in the coiner and told A full stock of everythintr neek'J in a reneral store which we are es of the last Legislature, it will undoubtedly be satisfactory to the bar of the State what she thor.ght of men, generally, AA'D HARRISON FARM WA CWS Orders for the Statutes should be sent (with ing at small margin. Give us a call and we will strive to please you. 4 2-6m LAMOREUX TENNERY, Hayncsxille, Ks and of a great big overgrown rooster the price.

5.00) to F. Baker Sons, MILBURN like lnm in particular, bucn gross Topeka, Kansas. Orders will be entered as ignorance being snllicient grounds for a divorce. Sam. compromised the received, and the book be forwarded by express in the order in which the cash is re e.ived or they will be sent by express C.

trustees on receipt ot the balance due. If we vcte 500. 00 we can pay for the property, finish it np stairs and down, seat both rooms nicely, and have a school house worth more than a thousand dollars Of course all denominations can hold services, as usual, and the congregation can have seats a luxury not now furnished. If the proposition is submitted the ladies have a right to vote and we hope to see every lady in the district at the polls. Remember the meeting on Saturday.

Geo. Stewart boasts of an eight and oee-half pound girl, born on the morning ot the 17th inst. Sweeter music never came from angel harps than that with which we were serenaded on Tuesday evening. The unceremonious musicians are unknown to us. People should remember that a newspaper office is the place to take the news not the place for four hundred men to go daily to learn the news.

We are working fifteen hours a day and cant spare the time to tell every caller what will appear in the next paper. AND COURTLAND SPRING WAGONS, And last, but not least, the Tlio CITY MILL o. I), if such a request is made when the case with a new bonnet and a prom isc thai he'd Lever chew tobacco. order is sent. WALTER A.

WOOD The Commonwealth also hns a book in STERLING, KANSAS, POUTEK IIULING, Proprietors. orcds. and will issue a tew days, tur tiie. John Gobin invented and had author, Mr. H.

who is in the United State.sCircr.it court under A. S. Thomas. I SELF-BINDING HARVESTER, The best in the world. made the most practical land roller we have yet seen.

Three oak logs Clerk of said court. It is called "Page's Index to Judgements in the United States District and Circuit Courts for This mill has recently been refitted with much new machinery, A new Engine and Loil er, and all the late improvements required in the manufacture of good Flour. We will do hetter work than any water mill. Give us a trial. Porteu IIi i.isg.

14-tf The City Mills. about fcve feet long and a good etou, oak frame are the principal parts and is an index of the names of all parties gaint whom unsatisfied judgements arc of Two logs work in the frame, like the old double roller; bat some three feet W1ISX IX THE CITY PLEASE GIVE opart between inside ends. The US A ALL. record in those courts, substantially bound and so arranged that jndgements rendered at future terms of court can be inserted under their proper letters, which will be furnished after each term of court at small cost to the persons buying the book. This is a third roller is devised to the center of the frame behind, and rolls the rats crawl out of their holes and bask theii well ted bodies in the hazy sunlight.

A meeting of all persons interested in a school and school house ir. Iuka will be held at the church on rext Saturday, immediately after the comci.tion. A Mr. Paris, who married Mr. Green's sis'er, recently located in Pratt.

We suppose they will have a little Pans-Green in the house by next potato time. Mr. Updegraff, living north of Iuka, was with old John Drown at Ossawattomic. We mean to get him in a corner some rainy Sunday and shoot questions at him all day. The unty Attorney is punching up the doctors who are practicing without licensees.

He is doing this in compliance with instructions from the State Board of Examiners. Sheriffs McAvoy arid Calhoun took in one of our settlers and handed him over to the Harvey county authorities, under the charge of complicity in the Benthusen cattle case. Where is the boot and shoe maker with the vim and wealth to build a small house and open a shop Two hundred and sixty eight votes were east at the polls in Iuka, and no shoe 8nop in the place. Now is the time for mechanics, merchants and men tose land usually left between the rollers work winch is believed to be almost indis The beauty of the machine is that it will turn short without danger of pensable to lawyers and those who furnish abstracts of title, judgements, etc- When it is stated that there are near 3,000 persons HOU RAFF BROTHERS wrenching the frame. We believe i who have unsatisfied judgements against them in the United States courts for Kan is not patented.

Dealer in DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, MEDICINES, ROOTAND SHOES Etc Etc In fact everything usually-tarried in a fiia class country store, respectfully invites the trade of Haynesville and vicinity. sas, it will be seen that there is a necessity J. W. Ellis Son The Press and either of the following publications, cash in advance Kansas Farmer, year $3.00 for such a work. This book will also be furnished by F.

Baker Sons, Topeka, for General Purcell and Leslie had a fight ItEAX. ESTATE AGENTS H4 00, the cash to accompany the oruer, ana on the South Ninnescah on last Satur lilSU FFOKT' DRUGS, GROCERIES HARDWARE We will keep a Full Supply of goods in our line and Sell as Low as Any House in the Valley. Corrie salesman for DEY1ER BLACKBURN, fc 6 mo: 1.50 s. Il'IiA, PRATT be sent by mail, postage paid, or by express day. From appearances the battle Will show those wishing "locations the u.

Sample saeeis or mis oook win furnished to anv address on application to best was long and stubborn. Leslie was 1 A. .1.1 t. i i 6.00 3.00 1.50 2.75 Capital, daily, 1 year, 6 months, 3 months, weekly, 1 year, F. P.

Baker Sons, loiieka, ivansas. -AND- ieii on iue ueiu wun a oroKen 'eg and other injuries, from the effects of which he died during the night. Such were the reports on Sunday evening INDIA! TRUSTSLAND American Young Folks, year, 2.40 This offer is for present subrcribets GEO. P. BROWN, anu Monday morning.

we In the County. I eing constantly engaged Surveying and Locating got at the bottom facts, and learned as well as new ones. 4-tf BLACKSMITH, I am permanently located in llaynesvillj and will constantly keep in'stock a good article of ALL KINDS OF-GOOJS In my line. I own my own building, have no clerk hire to pay and can therefore sell at cheap rates. that Bnstow's cattle, Purcell" and HYM.SVI1.LK.

PRATT KAKS. Leslie, were the combatants at cost for the next They are icquainted with all the JILI LA AIDS 30 days. MAXWELL, Iuka. John Gobin has about forty wagon loads oi pie-melons. He Is prepared to do all kinds of work known Drue's, Medicines, Paints, Oils cure a location in the county seat of says xurs.

uoom pacts tneni away And can make Better Selections Than any other parties. They make Homestead and and Glass as cheap as can be sold the best county in Kansas. iio. to the trade in a worKiuannite umu-ncr and at cheap rates. i'lioiuu 1 t- the ground will securcagooel paying yJ pie at Dickey Drugstore, Hutchinson tory poor Be Wholesale and Retail Dealers in South side of the square in new two-: building, Haynesville, Kansas.

location. Satisfaction guaranteed in every case, sure to give me a call. Timber Culture Complete Series of A. S. Barnes Go's School Books at Dickev's Entries and PRE-EMPTIONS Dry-Goods, Hardware and 2-tf Drug Store, Hutchinson.

KOLMERS' FILIXUN I Thanking my patrons for past favors at their AURICl'LTl'BAL IMI'LEMtSTS, LAND OFFICE in IUKA Money to Loan. would respecttully ask tnem io continue with me. GEO. P. BKOWS, 42-3m Haynesville, Ks.

Give Me at Least a Trial Respectfully, Wm Ward. Tt will enter 2 Money to loan on improved farms Sterling. Kansas. before the UJVITED STATES in Homestead and Trust lauds tor a LAA'D OFFICE at EARNED term of 5 years at 10 per cent in and make no charse unless sue HUTCHINSON terest, in Stafford and Pratt counties. cessful.

tf J. W. SIDDORN. CHARLES L. WARD, Painter! They understand the Land Business TIIOIIOUG1ILY- Near R.

R. Depot. Job "Work. Sule bills, posters, programmes, thc And the laws and decisions governing snipes, circulars, letter heads, note- 4--3m Haynesville. Ks hutchinsoim; LUMBER COMPANY.

By its organization the price of Lumber has been Reduced Thirty per cent. settling on United fotates Lands. Will do all kinds of Parties wishing any information about the LAND 1USINKSS. heads, bill heads, envelopes, business cards, calling cards and all kinds of M. L.

BROWN, Proprietor. Can obtain it by calling at their office. job work neatly printed at the Pkess Correspondence solicited in rclatiou to The person that borrowed the editor's oveicoat will a warm favor by returning it. The loss cauHOB a cold shudder to creep along our spine, and froeze the very marrow in our bones. II.

N. Nicol, Geo. P. Brown, Jr.s. Richardson and C.

S. Chafiin passed south, on Tuesday morning, going to the staked plains of Texas to hunt bufialo. Of course the boys will jerk a hunk for the printer. -From early dawn till twinkling starlight the bloated bond-holders hammer wooden balls around the croquet grounds. Draugh poquir or ecving oup arc both better equally as refined and require less muscle.

Our Township Trustees were required by Jodge Peters' order to re-port names for the jury box. As the Trustee for Iuka Township was the only one qualified, the jury diawn is necessarily wholly from said Township. Twelve better men would be hard to find. Two years and a half ago Pratt county commenced settling. Despite the dry summer it now has 2,500 inhabitants and more coming daily.

One year hence two railroads will truck it used while iresh, but it allowed to "work" they acquire ascid and "you cant tell the sauce or pies from the real genuine old-fashioned elown-east apple, pies." If Mrs. Gobin isn't run down for information by every woman in Pratt county we will miss our guess. A man giving his age at seventy-five is Wking over the county for a claim that just su'ts him. People who have never been west joke about old folks coming out to grow up with the country; they cant realize that a vast unsettled country can grow iuto civilization, and become an old settled country in from one to two years. Rosan says they" will soon make the fur fly in Iuka.

All the trouble that this county is subject to comes from the little ring in Hutchinson. When Mr. Rosan starts the fight he will eee fur flying where he least expects. Lute Axline writes from Medicine Lodge that our Pratt county boys who are working there had a regular 4th of July celebration on the reception of the news declaring Iuka the county seat. The Great Bend papers published our election returns correctly.

Bully for Great Bend. Job Umce. ansas lands, and all enquiries, accom House, Sign and Ornamental PAINTING Regular exchange mill. Will grind at all panied with stamp promptly answered. J.

W. ELLIN fc KOJV. times. Hour, iucai ana au kihus of Mill Stuff constantly on hand for sale or exchange. Bowman Richardson, Dealers in Promptly and satisfactorily.

Will contract The stock is now complete and For Sale at Bottom Prices. OFFICERS or werk by the day. Chas. L. Waho.

Iuka. cGuaraHtce all grades of flour just as Wholesale and Ketail Dealers in S. GEORGE President. II. GREGG Tr, Dry-Goods, Groceries, Drugs, Boots, Shoes, J.

Ingersoll, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in LumbeR, J. E. R. represented, i iie Mm nas recently been overhauled, a patent purifier and other machinery added, TAYLOR Secrfiranr HAYBfENVILLE, i UANS. Dry-Goods, DIRECTORS: And will now do as good, if not better work LATH, DOORS, SASH, 3EORGE, than can be done by any mill in the Arkansas Valley, 33-3m GREGG, 'AS.

ST. JOHJf, H. RATF, WILCOX. Wo have just opened up a bran new stock Ks. Hutchinson, Chas Chaffin isentitled to the SIIIXULKS, BUNDS, MOVLO.

IX US AN D' BUILUISU PAPEB. J. E. Wood, Agent, oi cverytmngin our line and would respyctfulljr intite the pec-of Haynesville ribbon for tie finest corn wo have VAViVE fc BAKHEB. Give us i Tr And surrounding country to give us a share 1, It Well, Cistern and Cellar Diggers, LARNED, KANSAS.

cross the county and every quaitcr ecction of land will be taken, and IUKA, PBATT KANSAS. Will dig Wells, Cisterns or cellars and seen this fummer. His crop was on second breaking, and although the yield is light, only twenty-five bushels to the acre, it is number one in every respect. Drop in the office and a sample. Barbour county is moving for Hutch inson Lumber Company JAMES ST JOI1N.

Fcople of Pratt county especially invited rices as low as the lowest. New building west side square. IWWJIAX A- 4 2-3m IT aynesville, Kansas our population will number ten thouS' and, at least. a soldiers' reunion. We glean from the Cresset.

contract to wall or cement the same, reference we refer to any of our work. We 1 t( lasttr and lay brick or stone. to call. Uood roads trom fratt county. We always carry a large stock.

Dry Lumber a pecialty. 25- Mana-er..