Mills & Smith Real Estate Advertiser from Topeka, Kansas • 1

MILUjS ITH' USINES8 IS BUSINESS, GO IN AND NO. 8. VOL. II. TOPEKA KANSAS, JUNE, 18G9.

CIRCULATION, TWENTY THOUSAND COPIES. T. 33. MILLS B. M.

SMITH, Editors. MORE INQUIRIES ABOUT KAN well as disastrous to our business to KINGSTON, SITAWNEE COUNTY, KANSAS. do otherwise; if you should buy upon our we should, be THE ADVERTISER .18 PUBLISHED MONTHLY, AND DEVOTED STRICTLY TO THE INTERESTS OF. THEIR CUSTOMERS, We would call the attention of We never tire in writing about and it would seem that TOPEKA. ri-om the Hamilton (Ohio) Telegraph.

Mr. Editor At this time when so many are seeking homes in the Far West, it may not be amis to call the attention of those pro papers are also issued from the same offices. It has seven churches, a graded school, a Female Seminary, under the auspices of the Episcopal Church. Washburn College (late Lincoln) is located here and in a flourishing condition. It has two very careful in making the selection and then, if it did not prove to be as Eastern people will never weary of TOPEKA AND THE VERDIGRIS VALLEY.

The valley of the Verdigris, in this State, and the Indian Territory, furnishes one' of the most important agricultural section we are favored with west of the Mississippi. Branches of this stream have their origin in Lyon, Greenwood and our citizens and strangers to the new town of Kingston, just laid out upon the bank of the good as represented, we should fee maKing inquiry aDoui our growing and prosperous young btate. Jiast posing to emigrate, to the claims of under obligations to you to lelieve you of your purchase without BY MILLS SMITH, Cor. fitli st. niul Kansas Avenue, Topeka, the Capital of the State of steam saw mills, steam flouring mill and two breweries, four or five ern'people have got the notion that west of the Mississippi somewhere charge.

Kansas, as a place of residence, TOPEKA, KANSAS Hence, as we incur some of the hotels, four lumber yards, a large Woodson counties, and in the responsibilities in your choice, about twelve miles south of Topeka and directly on the line of the and Santa Fe Railroad. This is no mere paper town, but isin a situation which is destined to be of great importance to the valley of the Wakarusa, as it is located on the railroad and also on the great traveled road to and steam foundry, and quite a number southern portion of Wilson county of wholesale and retail dry-goods they unite, forming from this noint is a young commonwealth, now in its formation period, that is; grandly marching forward to a career and destiny Unequaled by the 0 older Most people, in leaving an old and densely peopled county like Butler county, propose to themselves the bettering of their condition, chiefly Kansas Official Directory and book morally at least, we desire youto.be explicit in your enquiries so that we may understand each other perfect' stores, hardware-stores, etc, by buying cheaper lands or town btates that we have cheap lands, unsurpassed for their richness and together with a plentiful sprinkling Iy well. property, and expect to pay the ot doctors, lawyers and preachers. fertility, a climate healthy and salu penalty heretofore incident to through Osage county, at the point Supposed man does not know what he wants or how he wants, it A gas company is being formed and new counties loss of schools church privileges, and railroad fa He had better find out trom some soon the city will be lit up with gas, brious, and free from the miasmatic diseases incident to the settlement of most hew countries, a teeming where they cross that stream, and will certainly be the depot for all the produce of that region. It will There are also three banks, said to cilities but the emigrant to.

lo one who does Suppose he finds fault with the country, and everything and everybody in before peka will not be subject to these be doing a large business. The people are enterprising and intelligent soil, short winters, an energetic and Vigorous people in short- all the elements needed to build up a civil deprivations, as he will find schools. be a point of much importance to the neighboring- farmers, as it will save them a vast expense and delay and very attentive to strangers, he has been here twenty four hours, colleges, churches and railroads a and before he has been hero long ization that shall be as superior to in marketing their produce. The ready in successful operation, and The climate is healthy and salubrious, and the roads over the prai UNITED STATES SENATORS. C.

Pouieroy, K. U. Roes. 1 CONGRESSMAN. Sidney Clarke.

STATE OFFICERS. James M. Harvey, Governor, C. V. Etkridge, Lieut.

Governor. Thomas Moonlight, See. of Slate. Addison Danford, Attorney General. P.

McViear, Snpt. of Public Instruction, George Graham, Treamrer. A Thoman, Auditor. 8. 8.

Prouty, Halt Printer. SUPREME COURT OFFICERS. 1 KainuelA. Kingman, Chief Justice. Jucob Snfford, Associate Justice.

D. M. Valentine, Associate Justice, E. B. Fowlerj Vlerk.

E. V. Bank Heporler. 1 John S. Brown, Marshal.

tho Eastern States, as our soil is enough to inform himself about the quite equal to the present and pros ries are delightful to travel on situation of the town is most lovely nestled in the edge of the woods, upon the banks of a beautiful stream pective wants ot the people of confluence a stream as large as the Neosho, and which necessarily expands in its course to its mouth. The Neosho empties into the Ar-kansasabout four miles below Fort Gibson, and the Verdigris empties into the Arkansas about one mile above jthe junction of the Neosho and Arkansas. The Verdigris Valley, from the point where its several branches unite in Wilson county to its mouth at the Arkansas, is about two hundred and fifty miles in length. On both sides of the stream the bottom lands are from one to three miles in width, and are as rich in productive qualities as any land under the sun. The upland prairies are good and furnish superior advantages for stock growing.

The climate is mild in winter. Stock generally provide for themselves during the winter months as well as in summer. It is the best section for stock growing that our country affords. The richer and our climate purer. And they are right.

''From the inquiries Town lots are still within the reach of men with small means mechan Topeka is beautifully located on both sides of the Kaw or Kansas country, people or circumstances He had better "go farther and fare worse Or go baek and come again. In conclusion we say actual cases suggest these remarks. abounding in ush ot every kind, ics are in great demand and at re with abundanco of natural river, sixty-seven miles west of the constantly made, we infer that though their ideas are somewhat crude, and, to themselves, yet their general im munerative wages. In conclusion trees (thus saving years of prepara btate line, the Onion Pacihc Kai Western Real Estate Register. tion in beautifying the homestead) road running through it on the I would earnestly recommend all who are seeking a home in the Far it is the beau ideal of a place to north bank of the The Atchi pression is correct.

Kansas is just the nlace thev "lonsr have souarht INSURANCE. West, to visit Topeka before locat make a home all that can be desired. son, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad O. r. ing elsewhere.

The railroad company intend to put crosses the Kaw river at this point This is an important subject for the farmer, merchant, mechanic and up a line passenger and freight house and mourned because they found it A man that can't live here, grow up with the country, (get rich in an hour or year, we do not aver,) and runs in a southwardly direction DISTRICT COURT JUDGES. A MYSTERY. at the town. Arrangements are about through the city. The principal That men will fill our cities, starve being made to erect a first class householder, and, from that importance, it becomes necessary for all persons contemplating to avail them Eart of the town lies on the south ank of the river, and the ground P.

Lowe, Joel Goodin, James Humphreys, William R. Bmwn. H. W. Ide, Nathan Price, John T.

Morton, Owen A. Buseett, themselves, and what is to be more hotel at the town by the fall, and ultimately become independent, ought to starve. regretted, their families, when and the railroad company advertise rises in an easy grade till it obtains an elevation of twenty or thirty stream is heavily fringed with the Dlentv and independence, hand in A friend in Albion, desires selves of its benefits, to examine well the different companies presenting themselves for their considera for, and oner superior inducements hand, stand eager on the threshold usual varieties of timber indigenous explicit answers to the following to.any person who will start a good feet, when it is spread out into of Kansas, to welcome them. to this latitude, and water powers questions: boarding house for the road hands, wide rolling prairie, admirably The savinss of a couple ot months are aDundant. "What are the general peculiari thus presenting two important ele adapted to building purposes, and tion.

We offer a list 'of companies which wo represent, an'd urge them upon the notice of the community, confident that no person can offer The resources of so valuable a ties of your climate; the length and would buy a good sized farm ments towards the advancement of it would seem as if nature had dc severity of your winter, tho type of On every side here, may be seen the material interests of the place, signed it as a site for a great in those who, a fewyears ago.penniless, J.H.Watson, Barzillai Gray, Judge Criminal Court, Leavenworth county. U. JUDG ES. gamuel F. Miller, Presiding Judge.

Mark V. Delahay, Associate Judge, U. S. DIST. COURT Mark W.

Deluhny, Judge. A. S. Thomas, Clerk, Samuel A. Attorney.

Charles C. Whiting, Jfmntd. IN BANKRUPTCr. Hiram GlrUwold, llcgister your prevailing diseases a uei, wood or coal or both If coal, what greater inducements as regards soundness and equitability of terms land city. When the btate ot Kan sas was admitted into the Union struck the rich soil of Kansas, and made it yield to them thus speedily, Preparations are being made for the erection of a neat Baptist church building, and the brick are now in process of manufacture for kind What is the cost of living to the insured, or a larger hearted Topeka was made us Uapital, and as a town of any importance, is less compared with our btate r.i- Prices an independence.

Surrounded by liberality in the adjustment of losses. section cannot long remain undeveloped in this progressive age of ours. Already have venturesome and enterprising settlers trespassed upon these lands now owned by the Osages and Cherokees, and made important settlements. In Wilson and Montgomery counties alone there are in this valley thousands of thrifty settlers and nearly a score of towns. ot certain staple articles ot food and In the tire department, we have thatpurpose.

are also than ten years old, and yet it is pending, to have an iron bridge, of claimed to have a population of clothing Whore does your lumber come from and price Prices and herds of fat cattle, with the ground even now ready for the seed, they are living reproaches to every man in the United States who hath The Home, of New Ilavon the Hartford, of Hartford the Under 100. feet span, thrown across the Wakarusa at the crossing of the facilities for boarding for man and writers, of New York the City Fire eight thousand and there is no Juestion but that her population has oubled within the two last years and the present activity in building wife Rents of stores, offices and hdalth, and pleads poverty. of Hartford, and the Homo, of New public highwa', thus making it one Upon the relinquishment ot the title UNITED STATES OFFICERS. II. W.

Farnswortb, Topekn, Poet Mutter. U. E. Botes, Junction City, Assessor, T. M.

James, Topeka, Assistant Assessor. ()co. T. Anthonv. Leavenworth, Collector.

If the millions now living in des York. ot the most important points on that dwellings 1. Our climato is mild, though titution and misery, and rearing Iii the life depnrtmentwe prusent railroad. liing, a gentlemen is unprecedented in her history. In to these lands by the Indians, which must Soon inevitably transpire, the valley will grow with marvelous children in damp basements, or lugli for your choice, The Mutual Ueneht from Ohio who has purchased con.

a recent visit, I satisfied myself little subject to sudden extremes, High winds are quite prevalent, W. C. Kilpatrick, Tupcka, Assistant Collector Ira Smith. neka Keaister Lund attics, would come to our free prai siderahle property in and around Life ot JNew Jersey and, the ac Joel Huntiion. Toneka, llmircr Land ORice, rapidity.

Fortunate will that city from actual count, that there were from two to three hundred buildings though as many windy days are ex-t ries, they might soon hold up their cident department, The Travelers, Topeka, but who is in no wise pecu penenced in Detroit or Chicago dur heads among men, and give to their SHAWNEE COUNTY" OFFICERS of Hartford two of the most relia. niarily interested in the town spoken in process of construction, and not be that enjoys tho advantages of having deposited in its lap the rich and extensive productions of this ing the year as in Kansas, and it is' children other inheritance than ble companies their respective withstanding all this activity in A. Miller, of, has generously agreed to donate $G00 toward the building of the poverty, and contempt for their atactotten remarked by old settlers. spheres, in the United btates. business, the demand tor houses is E.

CarriKer, Commimiouer', wealthy valley. that the high winds are not as pre U. W. Spencer, parents. Whilst onthesubjectot insurance, in excess of the supply.

As a con bridge. Sherman Bodwell, Sheriff. Ihe railroad is the agent that valent as during the early settlenien In other countries, millions are we would urge upon the attention of sequence, real estate is rapidly ad Tins is a most excellent opening will unite this valley to some fortu- daily slaving their lives away upon of the State, twelve and fifteen years the community the necessity of sup vancing in price, both in Topeka for making a proiitabio investment, and not their own one year of nate commercial emporium. Among ago. porting tneir nome agencies, and and we would urge upon our cus P.

I. Bonebrcak, Clerk. 11. Beman, Treasurer. Lewis Hsnback, Probate Judge.

W. I. Thompson, Register oj Dmls. A. Ashbnugh.

Coroner Thomas Ryan, Attorney. Hiram McArthur, Clerk District Court, James B. M'hitaker. Surveyor. 2.

Our winters are short. Sleigh their field rent would buy a good an tne railroad projects that have been and are being devised in this and the surrounding country. Emigrants from the older States, are rapidly buying up and improving .1. 1 i. 1 1 i i not being carried away by traveling agents of companies which, though tomers particularly, and the public generally, to hasten to avail them in is a rare occurrence and never sized farm here, with soil no more State, we know of none that con lasts but a few days in Lawrence, to be compared to the worn out land they may be equally good, are cer selves of the fine opportunity here templates penetrating the Verdigris iuo ueuuwiui jvuw liver uuuuuis, and tho upland prairies are by no 1).

J. Evans, Sii)tsriuttndiHt Public Instruction, of Europe, than gold-bearing quartz tainly no better that those offered In southern Kansas sleighs are never used, and stock last winter kept in to sandstone. Oswego (Kansas) Valley. No city in the State is as by the local agents already estab presented. All desired information will be cheerfully given to any person, upon application at this means neglected.

good condition without any feeding, Register. iavoraoiy situated lor making this lished; and, further, that while al It may be asked, is the growth 3. In the new settlements' where Our local agencies are doing their office. ot Toneka healthy and will it con valley its tributary as Topeka. Let a railroad start at Burlingame and OUR ROADS.

utmost to advance the material in people live in dugouts" and get water from the branch," being too proceed southward, making in its tinue I answor, I think it will, and for the following reasons in the A WORD TO REAL ESTATE Kansas roads are the admiration terests of our city and the public PURCHASERS. lazy to dig wells, the chills and of all new comers. Each farmer generally, certainly the sentiment march a town at tho Marias des Cygnes crossing, and strike the first place, it is the Capital of the light fevers are sometimes: unpleas has a highway equally as good as ought to be mutual one. Our patrons will no doubt be btate, and more or less importance ant visitors. But there being no Neosho Valley at Ottumwa go down the Neosho to Burlington, and obliged to us for a few suggestions, which if they were observed more, pools of standing water and no mi will always cluster around it simply because it is the Capital and fur LEAVENWORTH TO TOPEKA those constructed at great expense in ether States.

A few hours after ordinary rain, traveling is easy and at this point leave the JNeosho and asma arising, there can be tew conn TOPEKA CITY OFFICERS. 0, K. HolliJuy, O. 0. Wiluiartk, Clerk.

O. F. Merriani, Treamrer, Joel Huntoon, Engineer, 0. F. Reed, Manual.

C. Collins, Deputy Marshal. A. L. Williams, Attorney.

Hay Assessor, COIINCILMiiM. Pint Ward T. Mills, (1. A. Rigdun.

Second H'di E. (I. Mean, John Branner. Third Ward E. Bodwell, C.

M. Seely. BOARD OP KUUCATIOK. Pint Ward 3. Ellinwood, E.

B. Williams. WardC. W.Jewell, V. Brockway.

Third Ward John Uuthrie, i. A. llnnlield. Len. Smith, Lucien Scott and might be of great mutual benefit to ther, it has no competing towns strike out through Woodson county, tries healthier than Kansas.

Sleep, Caldwell, three of the railroad kings them and ourselves too. pleasant. This is undoubtedly owing to the remarkably excellent sub and at Belmont, near the centre of nature's sweet restorer," is always When vou innuire of us for infor of Leavenworth, says the Topeka this county, one of branches of the assured, as in the warmeBt weather nearer than thirty-five or forty miles. Secondly: it is surrounded by as good on agricultural country as surrounds Hamilton. Tho Kaw soil which we possess A rich, mation about land for sale by us, or for general information about the Verdigris will be reached.

Jfrom Daily btate Kecord or the loth were in town yesterday making ar- the nights are cool and refreshing. this point down to the mouth of the 4. Kansas is a prairie porous marl, it acts like a great sponge. The superabundant rain is received and retained by it, and country, you will please make your I rangements to have a preliminary bottoms are quite equal to the Mi Verdigris, the road can follow its questions as definite as possible, so I survey ot the ltailroad trom JLeav consequently timber is scarce, though along the rivers and creeks ami bottoms, and the uplands are held in solution to be again given valley, passing through Coyville, the county seat of Woodson, Col enworth to Topeka made at onoe. that we may know exactly what kind of information you desire there is always plenty to be found back to vegetation by the means of I They are fully impressod with the importance of this road, and say for present purposes and if people capillary attraction.

many general questions on these fax, New Albany, Clifton, and other towns already begun and springing up. Bonds to aid in would only plant timber or husband This it is. which, added to our subjects may lie asked and answered, superior to our uplands, and larger crops of wheat, oats, barley and potatoes can be raised upon them than upon our uplands, and at much less expense. Topeka has already two railroads one reaching west to Denver, to which point it will truly that the business men of the two centers will make money by what we have, there would be plenty warm surface soil, starts vegetation TO PURCHASERS. and neither party feel satisfied that for all practical purposes, and Your done alteution it iuvilcj to our he or his subject is well understood ahead rapidly in spring, and sustains it during the warmth of sum building this road may be obtained of the counties of Coffey, Woodson, Wilson and Montgomery, and addi building it, because of the saving there will in freight and passage enough to provide for a dense settle by the other party, Descriptive and Price LUt of Ileal Estate herein, which comprises large mer.

If you are only looking at the between the two points. They were merit of the State. In southern Kansas timber ia more plentiful than tional aid mar be obtained in the country, making your visit "here accompanied by Gen. Wright, for- Our enterprising fclloW-tOWnS- slmnn nf Osnrrn lunrls. amount of desirable property of all in other portions of the state, mer Superintendent bf the Pacific merely a pleasure trip or prospect man, F.

W. Giles, has taken I guch a road would not only make kind and grades. We offer far sale soon be finished another in process of construction reaching to Atchison in the northeast and towards Emporia and Sante Fe in the far southwest. Further, it is undoubtedly underlaid with coal which only 5. Coal, of the bituminous variety, Railroad, and at present Chief En ing tour, but desire information about the countrv.

let us know it at he trouble to obtain torus the lol- the entire Verdigris Valley solely exists in 'limitless quantities in over (wo million (2,000,000) acres of gineer of the Missouri river bridge, owing Btausiics xnumuer oi uions i tributary to Topeka. but it would southern Kansas, and has been once and we shall the better know at Leavenworth. They all express sold by our dealers during the als0 make a nortiou of the Neosho how to inform you and the better found in paying quantities elsewhere in tho State Within the themselves as certain that the bndge present season, 979. Number of Vallev within our reach and control. needs developing to furnish cheap fuel for manufacturing and domes know how to interest you.

nt -irr 1.1 will be built in a short time. land in the finest portion of Kansas, upon the lilue, Republican and Kansas rivers, and on the line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, the Central Pacific Railroad, and the Smoky Hill Route', wagons soia, zio. are mucn The trade from those sections would If you "Want to buy any kind of We learn from the same paper tic uses, as is proved by the tact obliged to our friend for his kind that the Topeka Bridge Company that numerous veins of coal are to next two years our system of roads will be completed so as to -insure coal for fuel at cheap figures. Hard wood usually sells at from t5 to ness. No tact could have a more be immense and would of itself build up a city.

Shall not Topeka have it Let our public-spirited citizens real estate, state the kind, whether city, improved or unimproved, farm have closed a contract for the con be found within two miles of the gnificant bearing upon tho ques struction of a substructure for and ia other part of the State. They are rich and various in quality, sustain tion of our material development, land improved or unimproved, the size tract you desire and for what $6. 50 per cord. new bridge across the Kaw at that, city, and are more or less worked at the present time. Vast deposits of coal are also found a few miles consider this matter and work it up.

Commonwealth. represents at least five hundred 6. Living ought to. be cheap here, ing varied productions. If you want purpose adapted, grain, stock, or point on the sue of the present pon new farms opened in the county.

It as at the present writing one quart grain and stock farm both combined toon outfit, to be completed by the There are certain facts which iows conclusively that the growth hrst ot October. whether well or moderately improv of strawberries will buy two bushels of potatoes but the strawberries conclusively indicate what the future of the city is not fictitious, not of a southwest of Topeka, and the railroad now building passes through it. Stone for building is also plenty and cheap, as are also the materi ed, and if yeur capital is limited, mushroom character, but reliable, will be cheaper in a few days, and So dcenlv implanted in the breast state the amount of money you are and supported by the rapid advance the potatoes perhaps higher during able to invest in a farm or land, and als for making-brick. Lumber can ment and cultivation of the country. of the people of Kansas is the love of the beautiful and useful, that the year.

Republican Journal. of Topeka is to be. It is a subject of every-day inquiry will this city continue its growth as rapidly in the future as in the past Our answer has always been yes for the simple reason that the country in be had for about the same price as also the terms that will suit your circumstances. here. So much for the elements Good Ijsteeest.

fhe Wabaun The figures above given may look large, but they were obtained by a gentleman whose word, is entirely beyond question, and may be im- may be Our paper will give you the size scarcely is there a house built, no matter how humble, hut we find fruit and ornamental trees, and that go to make up the answer to the question propounded above. I see County Herald gives the fol- of the tracts, description and price, im-1 tha region round about is falling up owmg as showing the profits of which is designed to give too an eave vour intelligent readers to vines planted around, which renders timber, prairie or grass lands, corn and wheat aoil, or pasturage for sheep and stock, we ean furnish you with choice cannot fail to suit, and at prices that will challenge competition with similar property ia this or other Slates. We represent interests too responsible to desire to deceive any one and we are fully satisfied that BO better invest-j nieuti fur those desiring to locate can anywhere be fonnd, than thoe presented ia our State. Our climate is healthy, our population intelligent enterprising. Before you purchase clxewhere, come direct to Topeka and visit our lauds, or see description and price.

HILLS it SMITH. upon. LUommon-1 as rapidly and improving as last as stock raising in Kansas Harlow piicmy renea wealth. draw their own conclusions in the it pleasant and cheerful, and in time will perfect its loveliness. shell purchased a cow in 1859 for idea of what we have for sale, ic.

And yet the paper does not give descriptions of all that we have for sale nor the terms. tne city, mat iact aione kuowb mat the onward strides which the city is now making cannot be the result of a forced growth. Commonwealth. When we see such, we point with $40. lie has sold of the increase J500 worth, and has twenty head A Good Fabmer.

To show how farming pays in Kansas, we will A word to its present status and am done. Its population is vari pleasure to that spot knowing that Hence you will see, the object of state that Mr. John Metsker, of doors, there is a genial soul within eft, including the old cow. He has ost, in ten years, ten calves. Add The Topeka Real Estate Ad and a mind that has cultivation, and these suggestions is, that you may ously estimated at from six to eight thousand.

One wing of the Capitol building is op and under roof, and will be finished and ready for vertiser, published by Mills Ic more conveniently and satisfactorily that onlv wants urmortnnitv to add to this the value of the butter and and you hate a per for wutain we lmormauon you oesire luster to society. Uommon wealth. Clinton, in this county, yesterday sold to R. 8,. Griffith, of this city, his crop of oats for 18G8, amounting to 2,500 bushels.

Last year he told to the same firm 2,000 bushels. In addition to this, he raised the $10 that could not be' realized ami get wiiu win suit you lite uesi occupancy next winter. It is a magnificent structure of magnesian Smith, at Topeka, haj now reached No. 7 of its second volume. It publishes valuable statistics in regard td our State, and swells the column of immifrration.

Mills Smith are in any other way. There will be an abundance of i is our onject to please our cus tomers by showing and selling if imestone, and when the whole The track on the K. K. is now laid Af T. it S.

F. the county plums, aud everything of the kindlhis year. Kan Ten wagon loads of immigrants structure is completed will be sec in 18C0, 3,000 bushels of corn, and we can, what will exactly suit them, Mr. Mets-1 extensive and responsible Real Es they can suited. It our in ond to none in the Union, unless it in 18C8, 1,000 bushels, from Iowa, passed through the city sas cant be, beat tor wild lruit, and in time we think we can say the be the Capitol at Washington.

To ker expects to double these figures terest as well as yours to sell you thtkt vKifll will 1-onAat, line, and men are at worK on the road in Osage county. The 'company means business. State Record. esteraay, lor, bhawnee county, itill they come. Times Conser tate Agents, and we are glad to record their great success.

Leavenworth Times and Conservative. same in regard to cultivated fruit of all kinds. peka has two daily papers which are well sustained. Two weekly this year. Kansas soil is a pret good investment.

Rep. Journ I to yon and it would be unwise as vative..