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paid no, That is not the kind of re-1 light plant for five days, city shall The vernal equinox has very cold feet. form they wanted. entitled to run the same and The (1. A. It.

contemplate celebrating the anivcrsary of the birth of the order April th. that pays them go through a lively exercise at least. Jielow is the statement from Ifater and Electric Co. of their expense, not including the 20 thousand dollars in pay the expenses therefor from rents. Keep Your Powder Dry.

The "compromise" in no way In the city election you want to watch for lightening striking the nnder brush. In case company fails to run the Another sad i-ase comes from Lindsborg, of a child mother, the effects the question of the election Tl vilnntnd Ills Tinta. City Water works. plant six months, the old Water of citv officials The fact that 1 victim of an old man named Ogren, Statement of Western Witter and Electric Company, as to expenditures In constriiotion nnd improvmunt to be made now in jaii. ieporio arc irue works plant shall revert to the city and the said ordinance and contract shall be void.

the parents are also culpable in not keeping their daughter from $19,713 50 Pipe 20 Freight on same 3,833 29 Labor and materiaKEutri- ken extension) 71t 07 Stand pipe Freight on same 404 64 Lead and yarn and freight on Hame Hydrants and valve, J4.709.75 5,114 39 1,472 84 1,159 93 The generous mantle of snow of Wednesday will deter our farmers from going into banana raising extensively but it 25 bushels of wheat to the acre. Cook Well Company. 1,431 54 Repatns, and freight on same 2,136 13 Stand Pipe foundation 00 Rusk Kalk, 2 wells 1,317 32 modifications in the ordinance in favor of the citv, mav be at this time conceded be right, does not bind men the. Water and Electric Company may elect. They may do as they have in the past, when some of these identical modifications were asked of the council, some of the council sarcastically remarked: "We don't have to." If these same men are elected we have no promise they would not do just the same again.

Remember a compromise with the Water Company has no binding effect on on the council Elect men who will see that the ordinance is so changed that the city will be Real estate bought 41)0 00 Extension of Electric Light Plant 834 88 Labor laying pipe 90 Labor not on pay roll 1,420 00 Foundry bill material tit in M' Phera.n 87 200 free connections, part now in 2,100 00 Organization, bonds Trustee's, fees Co 330 75 Telegrams S9 37 A Card. In as much as my name has been brought out as a candidate for Justice of the Peace, I cannot "Play" Politician, but will be thankful for the support of my friends, and if elected I will cun-scenciously and honestly administer the office, to the best of my ability. J. F. Hill Interest for money advanced 3, 9 4 00 Electric Light Plant interest to 4-2-91 17.2W) CO Total $64,992 04 And the following yet to provl'le lor 3 blocks of pipe estimated 81,000 00 2 wells 1,800 00 Attys fees Discount on bonds (75,000) 7000 00 The above statement was com Gets There Just the Same.

Bro. llartsock supplemented Vims appeal to the Board to have piled by Mr. Amos Wilson from 6: The city shall have right to purchase within two years from date of promulgation of amended ordinance. 7: The Western Water and El-ectrict company shall pay all at-torny fees contracted in recent suit between the city and said company, not to exceed $500. selection of mayor for the ensuming term shall be conceded to the party offering this com-, profnise.

acceptance or rejection of these articles of compromise shall be made and ran mitt ed to P. Williams before the 30th of March 1891. Respectfully submitted. Eli P. Williams, Chm.

Geo. P. Hall, Secy. The Hydra-Headed Hydrant. One of fables nf ancient mythology relates the Herculean task of killing the hydra, a monster with many heads and the ability to grow on a new one as fast as one was cut off.

There is no record that the hydra got out an injunc. tion to compel the hero to surrender, or that "the mirror was held up to nature'' so effectively thai, the hydra had the short stop colic, in fact was awful sick, but the hero, whose name wasn't Kii took the last scalp from the many headed hydra, and has been preserved in the archives of medical jurisprudence, none genuine if not blown in the hot tie. As an infant city we are by a prodigious task: that if hn ing.low the Hydra-headed Hydrant. This sap-green cast jron 40 dollars a head monster has already, and in still liable bob up altogether too numerously. It is Episcopal Easier Service.

There will be caster service at the Congregation Church Sunday March 29 conducted by Rev. P. W. Cowiiill. a guard sleep where in case of the books and bills cf the company and is an absolutely accurate state ed with previousness.

Coinander Welch nqnests all Comrades of the G. A. R. to be at the Post Saturday night. The only politics in the coming spirited content will be; Are you wet or dry? Mr.

T. J. Smith proposed the plan for the Compromise Committee. "Todd the Tailor" has a superb line of gents suiting-. Go and get suited.

The IJabtist church recieved five persons; the Presbyterian twenty-three, the fruits of the recent revival. The E. church 1ms been so deeply engaged with it? revival it had no time to prepare for the usual Easter service. If there are any candidates for city officer who squirt tobacco juice on the pavements they better quit, the women are going to vote April 7th. Van Sicklo has the grip pretty bad, he sent in orders for five cars of sugar to the house last week and was rustling up another.

Mr. Goodhohn has the ability, and the people have the confidence in his integrity to faithfully act as Ileeiever for the 2 ml National. Nature has been doing all she can this week to prove we ought not to pay one third of the revenues of the city for water. Mr. Walker is lame, except in his ability to bo active duty as constable, nnd his friends expect to elect hinr Mr, Goodholm is reeiever for 2nd National Bank.

A choice that isharalded hy all and suitable one. Mrs, Vansickle has proved an receptable official on the School Board, in fact we never hear any ment as shown by them. The thi Friends and members of church are cordial iv invited. Statement reveals the fact that by some means the cost has been ex-orbitant to the company and as a result the basis of culculation is distorted, We give two instances "Problems of To Day" which need, prisoners could be rescued. A county horse was so generously advertised by Vim that it brought an exhuberant price.

Now we have succeeded in advising the county not to add a crematory to its already diversified pursuits; a crematory would knock the county coffin business galley-west. Vim is not an official doing the county work for five cents on the dollar, but manages to enliven the gloom of official life rather joyously. The only vexed question at this time is: which shall be entitled to the official use of the coun show relatively much less cost. "The experience of Randolph, in Cat taraugtis County, New York, tells the story lor ail. A private company wanted to put water-works, and the low est bid which they could be induced to make was $28,000, and that was tin der condition that the town subscribe' for stock.

The charge for water was to A nil Wafer Works Muss Conveiisioii. There will be a mass meeting of citizens off. red to present water works, ordinance at the court room on Monday evening March 30 at 7:30 to place in nomination, officers to be elected at coming city election April 7th, and such other buisnessas may come before it. Ladies are especially invited. J.

Cowgeli. Pres. G. P. Hall Secv.

School IJeporf. Report of Excelsior school, district No. 03, for the month ending March, 13 1891. Number of pupils enrolled 38 Average daily attendance 32, Names of those not absent nor tardy. Hetty Baker, I'enson, Lotty Durland, Caroline Ilailings, Ota, Cora, and Clarance DeFord.

Names of others not be $10 for a household, with additional charges for extra faucets, closets, etc inj proportion. Randolph finally built or its own woik tor a total cost ot ty hair-banger, Bud Morris Charley Webster. 81), and with a chaoge of $4 for each household, instead of 10, is making profit. bvervdodv is delighted with the experiment, (iowanda, in the same Total cost $20,209 8. The has about 1,200 population, and had a similar experience, as Fredonia and if the opportunity is extended, likely lo multiply and replenish faster than tl.e people can pay taxes.

It i.eeds public attention. The ordinance passed by the water works council provides that on petition to the council the water mains may- be The Olive Branch and Dagger. On Wednesday evening there was a called meeting of the anti-water people, and representatives from the company came and presented their side in good faith, retired and the "antis" discussed absent, Carrie' and George Raker, Dora extended and at every 300 feet the city Cox, Stella Spittler, Jesse, and, Elmer shall pay for a hydrant the sum of 40 dollars, ai.d for everv hydrant so fur Mock. Nanes of visitors, Mr. Spittler 0.

Raker, Mr. and Mrs. Durland. their proposition dispassionately; appointed a committee from each wajd to meet on Thursday evening nished. Now with a sufficient number of councilmen who have financial interests in the hydrunt, with a very- Misses Durland, and Schriner, Stanley to further discuss the merits of Durland, Edd Heckethom, George Cox.

Hattik IIkckkthgkx, Teacher. Dunkirk in Chatiqua County, while the neighboring city of Jamestown tried the privste corporation to its sorrow." "Bay City, Michigan, put in a plant in October 1886 and supplied lights for $42 each year, hereas it had been paying a private company $100 per year." (Lewiston, Maine, owns its plant and with the use of water power ha reduced the cost to $51.10 per year, the'plant for 100 arc lights cost $14,501) the cost of construction was $450 per running mile." The above figures indicate our Company lias paid dearly for its whistle and to figure a per cent on the full cost price as repiesented by the Company' figures' is carrying out Josh's idea that ''Aggers du dance" little petitioning he may be made to give down a generous yield of city cr. am to its owners, perhaps at the expense FAULT FINRI.MJ. Never employ yourself to discover of some taxpayer who cannot afford the same. The meeting resolved to issue a call for a mass convention at the court house on Monday evening.

This act w.n interperet-ed by some as being in bad taste: or talking compromise and vet the faults of others, look to your own Yon had better find out one of your cream. Now with a council that likes pure city cream, what is to hinder planting hydrants thicker than stumps in an Ohio ''clearing''? To illustrate: Ther is now pending before the coun own faults than ten of your neighbors. When a thing does not suit you think planing to elect their own council cil the petition of Messers Clark and The "antis" acted in good faith and the object was to select men who they beileve will lully carry of some pleasant quality in it. There is nothing ho bad as it might be. When ever yon catch yourself in a fault finding remarks says some approving one in the same breath and you will soon be cured.

Since the best of us have too many infirmities to answer for we ought not to be too severe upon those out the promise of the compromise, for of what use would it be to of other-; therefour if our fellow men waste time to talk of the compromise and make no provision for enforcing it. Vim hopes such a complaints respecting the ladies of the Board. There can be no harm done in electing men for councilmen who will give the city an ordinance the courts will not pronounce a fraud, one that will protect every citizens interest alike. The Inman Independent is a new exchange from Inman and seems to start out with encourg-patronage. We trust it may prove a lucrative investment for the proprietors and a good investment for the thrifty town.

The busint ss nien meetings continue evidence good results. Mr. Lancaster, Besgrove, Bohb, Lincoln, and others are the best of leaders and the grace of religion continues to be bestowed upon waiting hearts. After April the first, the post olllce will close at seven oclock. The evening mails pome as follows: Santa Fefr Missouri Pacific 5:20: Hock Island G.

Mail will be distributed by 6:30 if trains are on time. Many of the young converts are disappointed over the removal of Rev. Ebright to Winfield, for perhaps there is no stronger tie than that of pastor and his children in the Gospel, but they are reconciled when they remember he is appointed to as good a charge as the is in trouble we ought to help him regardless of what produced it. When the absent are Bpoken of some will speak gold of them, some silver, 'some iron, some lead, ami rae always speak dirt; for they hava a attractiou Compromisc Articles. Committee Room March 25, '91.

To the Western Electric Companv. Gentlemen: At a Committee meeting composed of 22 citizens, five from each ward, and Mayor Hamilton; Eli P. Williams as chairman' G. P. Hall as secretary Instructions were made by said Committee to transmit to you the following proposition as a basis of compromise with you respecting the dispute arising "from ditfterenecs of opinion respecting the contract for water and light furnished by you to city of Mcpherson, Kansas, and in behalf of the city and its interests submit the following for your acceptance or rejection, lt.

Ordinance No. 1S2 shall be Eyman, asking for water. To furnish it as required by the blood-sucking ordinance the city must pay for 3 hydrants and 120 dollars, and then the Company get the pay from the families If the College petitions for water, it will take 5 hydrants and 200 dollars of city money. The Rock Island stock yard 1 hydrant, 40 dollars from the city. If somebody out in the Cornstalk Addition wants water and has no hired girl to draw it, he can petition, get the water, and the city foot the bill as booh as the health of the company will permit it to clap down a dozen or more of the beautiful green hydrants (They are painted this fiarcas'ic color to remind the taxpayer it is not half as green as it the hydrant look 8.) If there is a man wants his cow watered out toward Conway a petition from Iter will bring down a shower of hydrants, before Eli could head her toward Jonses.

There is no limit in the greed of this ordinance; there is no protection tothe city. We ar? not complaining of the gentlemen for planting them, it is asking the city to pay for them yet deriving toward what is evil and think it shows penetration in them. As a cat watch ing for mice does not look up though an elephant goes by, so they are so buisy fair and honorable body of men will be placed in nomination, that if there be a thorough desire to. effect a compromise they will be accepted by all and the contest ended. This done and the Water Co.

will avoid a prolonged and expensive legal struggle, the city will be protected in its rjghts and continence restored, -Amity and good will prevail. An honorable compromise that will give the city its rights and do justice by the Company is the ultamatum ot a settle- mousing for defects that thelet excellences pass them unnoticed. What a world of gossip would be prevented if it were nly remembered that the person who tells you the faults of others, intends to tell of your faults. That man has but an ill life of it who feeds himself on the faults and fralities of other people. XV.

ment that would bury tne aagger of private defamation and public amended as detailed in copy of Speaker Elder said on the floor danger under the olive branch of harmony and unity. district affords, and further the of the house, in speaking of the state printers steal: "This is an organized raid on the treasury by these two men (Snow and Baker) new pastor is fresh from the field JOE HOOKER CAMr of. V. Attention: Persuant to request I no inadequate benefit from them, is all we complain of. If they want to plant them from Taris to Patagonia we per-sume no one will object.

Plant one the corner of each lot in Bass' Lake; give Fat Ann one, to play with for a doll, let Fred Jackson have one to see if he legalize it: put one on the ccunty hair-banger: set them up for mile posts, on the Santa Fe: rnn them fot road super same in possession of Eli P. Williams containing in substanee the following modifications, changes and additions. 2: The water and electric plant shall not be bonded to exceed fifty thousand dollars. 3: The rental of hydrants shall be reduced $1000 so the city shall where Rev Shawhan held one of hereby call a special meeting of Joe his most suesessiul revivals and 1s and if 'ou fiance men pass this an earnest christian gentlemen. bill a11 1 have t0 God vou." Hooker No.l43, to be held at A.

O. U. W. Hall, Saturday night for the purpose of voting on nnd mustering new applicants The alliance men passed the bill visors lend them to the Inman Iudepen- Sudden Death. Henrv Fulton son of Rev.

Ful- for membership. (.. F. II. Potter Captain The man who probably was mak.

pay you $3500 per year instead of dent to work their paper off with let members of the rouncil who admire ton died very suddenly at his a or thousand a year, is now- $4500. 4: Hydrant? here- them usejthem for watch charms; make shall not 'Du Fibers Dance. I 1 n.lA,. tnfTnA an1 VM11 home on Thursday. This is the to be permitted to make 50 thous-last rhild of Kev.

Fulton and tlieUnde in a single year. Great is re-blow conies with overporing fouree form! This is what Josh Whitcomb after be placed nearer than liou. 1 do anything on earth with them, but feet apart. dont eicct a OUncil that will try and case of failure of the com- make us pav 40 piece forthenu asked. We give some compar ative ones below which indicates by reason of it coming so sudden.

I The senate tried to reduce the Universal sympathy is extended. fees 33 per cent, but the house if the "Aggers" do not somebody pany to run water work and an..